Digital Eclipse

FIRST! Meme from kijikun.
Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is futile."

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
  
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
  
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

( My questions )

Next news. I still don't have my hands on Reborn. I am so close to throwing a hissy fit over that, oi. My comic book store absolutely sucks at stocking things. And I mean sucks. They keep selling out the day they get it in, and now they're not getting any more. I'm going to have to trawl around for it. HMPH.

Finally. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMFG stormseye drew me fanart homg homg homg! Dragons! Steve! Tony! THREADSCARS. You have no idea how happy this makes me. No, really, you don't. It's love and win and so many levels of shiny I could scream and did squee. ♥ Everyone go tell her how amazing she is!

(headdesk headdesk headdesk) I was all prepared to flail over Supernatural and then I got One Of Those Calls. Dear Person: I e-mailed you a link, person. So why did you write it down and then Google it? And wrote it down wrong, no less.

To make it worse, someone brought in doughnuts and the smell is making me feel kind of ill. Didn't we already do the icky "puking up your guts" part of this cold, body? (sighs) One of those days. I can feel it building.
( okay, SPN s5e1 SPOILERS )
In fic... I wrote. D: Man did I write. 2000 words. Normally I struggle to ooze out 500 in a day. @-@ I'll probably have to re-do the porn, but IDK. I always have trouble with perspective there, and I don't even have McCaffrey to guide me, since she was fond of fade-outs. I'm starting to see why. Porn is hard! I will persevere! Somehow. (eyes it)

And of course Mom is bugging me to see what I'm doing, because "DRAGONS". This means that an extra special non-explicit version will be passing by via the internet soon lol. I love my mother, but... yeah, no. Some things you just do not share with Mommy, no matter how open-minded she is. Though letting my dad see it might be fun, if only to have him curl up into a ball of horror and denial. (Still bitter? Me? Nah.)

Hopefully the rough draft will be done soon. (hums happily) Why can't I write like this more often? I am not looking forward to when this goes away.

ETA: Edited non-pornographic version shipped off to Mommy! @-@ She's probably going to kill me when she sees where it leaves off. It's her own fault for wanting it naonaonaonaonao.

Happy Tuesday!

I will be doing a Pet Post as soon as I get my grubbies on pictures of said pets. I have 8 out of 9 dogs, but one of them is being elusive. Huffle. I'll get a photo of him yet! (determined face)

In the meantime, whining about Tony. (eyes him) Why is he not cooperating? This is supposed to be a simple, three-scene fic! Now we're half way through scene four and I have no idea what he thinks he's doing. He was supposed to be having smutty, dragon-enhanced sex by now! Instead he's thinking of finding a stand-in? No. No no no. What gives, Tony-cakes? You like S'teve. You like him lots and lots. Is this about that Ista thing I'm refusing to write? Nuh-uh, we're skipping the boring parts, I told you that. But— oh no, that's R'hody's spot. And that would be another fic all it's own. Can't you be satisfied with what I'm giving you?

Of course you can't. *sigh*

DEAR TONY: PLOT GOES THIS WAY. ←

*sigh* 10k and counting... (mutter)

Today, I ramble. (Shut up, I know I do it every post, so :P) I ramble because... Tony is distressingly stable. wtf.
( allow me to explainate )

Posting is clearly getting to be habitual. I had this open and was typing before I remembered that it's July now lol.

Note to self: THIS is an excellent source of crack fuel for future writing. Especially note the section Reptillian Agenda. "'I am not a creature from an alien world', says Hillary". Doesn't that just scream for fanfic? Or possibly it's just Skrulls.

In other news, I love talking to my mother. Yes, 90% of it is sane, but then she randomly mentions something in one of my stories and things come together amazingly. How did I forget the Ruatha subplot? Unfortunately, this is probably going to result in a sort-of redemption for the Mastersmith. (facepalm) Did not plan that, but it totally makes sense. I didn't create a Dr. Cid, so someone needs to fill in, and Stark fits the bill. Sort of. Except for the whole "god riding around in his head" thing, and Pern really can't reproduce that sort of crazy anyway. I consider this a good thing.

Waitwaitwait... I forgot about the Basch-Noah thing. Can I even do that? I don't think I can... but mistaken identity plots are so much fun!

... (notes this for later consideration)

The S'teve becomes a Weyrleader thing will have to be shelved for another fic right now. He has waaaay too much going on for the sort of politics that would be needed. Plus, I need to think of people for him to displace. The only currently identified Weyrleaders I have are L'eon & Rinoa (Ista) and F'ury & Maria (Fort). J'mes and Lily might still be in at Benden; I really don't know how their arc is going or where it went. There's wiggle room, but I'm actually trying not to let the relationship stuff take over the plot. (I'll give you all a few minutes to stop gaping.)

Separating out S'teve gives me at least seven potential stories in this 'verse. Gods know how many I'll write, since some can be combined pretty seamlessly and a couple are pretty obvious excuses for porn lol. Larsa is an impatient little monkey though.; (eye roll) And I'm pretty sure T'ony managed to sleep with half of my named cast, including S'ora of all riders. o-O; He definitely takes advantage of helping out with the rejected riders after a mating flight, and Rinnamoth just seems to like snuggling. S'teve needs to hurry up with his plotline before I have to label them both something derogatory in my notes.

Also, I need (NEED, there is not enough emphasis for this) to find a comic book store around here somewhere TODAY. This is non-negotiable and I am fully willing to bite someone in order to make it come to pass. :| Not sure if I'll actually read it (what if they get it wrong?! D:), but at least I'll have it, right? Wow, here goes my disposable income for the next few millennia. ^^;; I should be more upset about that.

ETA: Tony insisted that SR Beta Version be four drabbles rather than three. And now I'm depressed. ._.; I think I prefer Pern!Tony. He has less creative ways to not-really-suicide.

First off! Yep, the layout changed, but it's not staying changed forever. I switched it to green for several reasons. Yes, I know: profile change. Woohoo, big statement. :| But actually this is mostly for me. It's so that I remember to be grateful for what I have, and as a reminder to keep my eye on things. I get distracted sometimes, we all know. Yes, I'm participating as well as I can to help. No, I'm not going to bombard my flist with it for once lol. Quixotic will be back once this is done. (crosses heart) I love my layout too much to ditch it easily.

I have a plot bunny nibbling me. It's been nibbling me since I put together my list of characters in the Pern thing. :x I am resisting temptation to write it. Really, really I am. But it's haaaaaard *whinewhinewhine*.

This is going to make me sound crazy... When I settled on some of the characters, they kind of wrote their own backstory. That's about the only way I can describe it. I didn't actually mean to think "hey, I wonder what his/her deep dark past is all about". They're meant to be minor characters for now—many of them are just names in a crowd. But the characters poked over my shoulder and said "hey, what about between times" and "don't you know my father's Mastersmith?" and now my brain hurts.

It is not fair for these things to poke me right now. D:

For the record, current series involved include: Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XII, Good Omens, FAKE, Harry Potter, the Avengers, SPN RPF & Gundam Wing. (breathes)

Wow, just dealt with the WEIRDEST OF WEIRD ERRORS at work. (shakes fist at Embarq) Stop blocking us! We're a school here!

ETA: Bugger. I might have to give in and admit that what I want to do with a fic isn't working. I hate it when that happens. ;~;

(kicks herself) This is precisely why I should have gotten into comics ages ago. Why did it take me this long to figure out why the terrorists in the first Iron Man movie were named "Ten Rings"? If that isn't a set up for the Mandarin to appear in movie 2, IDK what is. (This is, by the way, based mostly on a suspicion that vaguely middle eastern terrorists are considered a more acceptable target than the Chinese.) If I'm wrong, I will offer myself up to RDJ as a sex slave.

Please, please, please let me be wrong.

You have no idea how strong the urge to tvTrope is right now. D:

My poor, dear beta is in need of help. She wants another fic from me. (eyes lyakahime warily) Okay, so I already got five hundred words in on it, but really! Does that seem like the request of a sane person? Course, I got another 2000 written in the Pern thing. ¬¬;; 500 of it doesn't count though, since it's prologue-thingy and pretty much skippable. (pokes it) A little too doomsday, but that's what Lyaka and her various implements of torture editing are for.

In that vein, I'm almost done! I... kind of meant to have it done with the last scene, but then I realized "bugger—other plotlines to tie up!" I blame Riku, of course. And possibly Cloud, though his story line is... different. I'm kind of falling in love with my dragons though. :D Seriously. I'm through the Impression moments (which should tell you how close I am to finishing this puppy kitty dragonet) and just trying to figure out how to wrap it all up. Endings are hard?

I wanted to post a quote, but I can't find anything that doesn't give away secrets. :( So here: Star Trek fic quote instead.

Sometimes it felt like ninety percent of work on the Enterprise consisted of babysitting the captain and getting out of the way when things started to explode. The other ten percent was evenly divided between pulling someone's fat from the fire or throwing in their own. WiP Star Trek 09

ETA: I meant to add this in. Gods know why I didn't. Anywhoo, last night I woke up in an absolute panic. I remember it being absolutely imperative that I remember the word "succinctly". I had to scribble it down on a pad of paper before I could go back to bed.

Psychic moment, message from my subconscious, or Just Plain Weird?

I wrote! \o/

Okay, so I'm still slowly oozing along with the writing thing, but at least it's flowing. That's better than usual by a long shot. I also figured out my characters for he most part. Of course, now they're all hitting me over the head with their own side stories (NO, LARSA. BAD. You're still young and squishy for gods sakes stop), but I can deal with that. :D Now if I can just get the other bunnies to leave me alone...

But! I just realized I need two more characters. 18 eggs. -.-;; I'm probably not going to mention everyone by name, but this definitely has other stories nibbling at me. Being able to drop background characters by name would be fun, and I don't want to use OCs because they would be horribly out of place in the mish-mesh of transposed characters.

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pretend my flist pays attention to me (lol) and ask for characters. They need to be male (I'm sorry, but only gold riders are female, and there's only 5 max golds per Weyr) and theoretically capable of being aged down to 13-14 years old. There must be two of them, and I'd really rather have them come as a set. These are the series I've already mined for characters (not all of them are dragonriders btw), so you know what's been done.

Kingdom Hearts
Final Fantasy XII
Avengers
FAKE
Harry Potter
Gundam Wing
Supernatural

Also, very very important... OMG KITTEN IN THE OFFICE. (flail) Marlyn brought it in an dit's got to be only about 3 days old. The umbilical cord is still attached! She found the poor thing in her yard; she thinks the feral Momcat that was living in her garage moved the litter and lost it. D: So she's taking care of the baby, and that means bringing it to work.

So. Much. Squee. I ♥ my job.

Updating for the sake of it as work ooooooozes along lol. In other words, I'm bored out of my gourd. I should get some writing done today. I really, really should. >.> Though I think I figured out what I'm going to name Sora's dragon, so that's a start. \o/ I woke up saying it. No, I really don't know where it came from, though I still need to google it to make sure it's not something I subconsciously picked up from somewhere. (The method of choosing is kind of suspicious, after all.) Roxas is still up in the air—I want a symmetry there (for many reasons), but I'm not sure how horribly cliché that would be. I was thinking of an (xyz)th/(zyx)th sort of thing. Opinions?

I need a KH-pern icon. No, I really don't know why.

I think having my Mom visit got my brain rolling on dragons again. She and I both love them, so of course it came up. (Plus, I'd just finished reading the Hurog Duology and fell pretty much in love with Oreg, plus another dragon-related but kind of disappointing novel. Then she read the Joust series, because I had it, and then I had to pimp Termeraire and... Yeah. Anyways. There were a lot of dragons on our brains.)

I have to finish with the kitties first (insert determined face here) I'm on the last bloody scene. Why is it so hard to finish? DX

I just realized that I have 3.3 scenes left to write in this thing! Huzzah! This means about six or seven days to first-draft completion. This also means that I have a pretty good chance of hitting the 20k mark—assuming my beta doesn't feed too much to the grammar monster in the polishing process. Even if she does, less can be more. (Example: "RUN!" versus "USE YOUR LEGS IN AN EXTREMELY EXHAUSTING FASHION IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE AN ESCAPE FROM THIS UNHAPPY AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS LOCATION!")

On the downside, I'm still running 500 words behind because I didn't get my usual writing time last night. :\ But yay almost done with first draft? Oh well, that's what an hour hiding out at Burger King is for this evening after work. 500 words now, 500 words then... I'll catch up. Happy happy.

Today's spoiler: I played with a thesaurus. Which is a type of dinosaur, obviously. :D

He'd been right. The Hatching Grounds were huge. Bigger than the Great Hall of Ista Hold—bigger than the harbor of Ista Hold. There must have been room for every dragon and person in the Weyr. The roof was so high that it vanished into shadow, even though glowbaskets lined the walls every few feet, filling the place with their clear white light.WiP KH-Pern

ETA: Also? Subway sounds good right now. o.o Or possibly Wendey's. Mrmble.

ETA2: I was right. Subway is good right now. NOM.

ETA3: I have been informed by my beta to remove "enormous". This just shows exactly how valuable she is, to be pro-actively catching my goofs. (squishes her)