Uffish Thought

( January: Star Wars, Leverage, Goblin Emperor, Vorkosigan, Chalion )
( February: Yuri on Ice, Rivers of London, Fantastic Beasts, Hannibal )
( March: Yuri on Ice, Voltron )
( April: Star Wars, Yuri on Ice, Voltron )
( May: MCU, The Mummy, Witcher, Yuri on Ice, Ouran, Queen's Thief )
( June: MCU, Six of Crows )
( July: Goblin Emperor, Wizard of Oz, original, Teen Wolf )
( August: Hannibal, Naruto, Leverage )
( September: Mythbusters, Lord Peter, Books of the Raksura, Captive Prince, Murderbot )
( October: Leverage, Dragon Age, Kingsman, Magnificent Seven )
( November: Stranger Things, Hobbit, Walking Dead )
( December: Goblin Emperor, Temeraire, Yuletide )

Yuletide! \o! Whoo, assignments! I finally posted my Yuletide letter, and I matched on something that I'm excited about, and I'm about to start doing canon review. Right now it feels like we have so long, though I'm sure the delusion will quickly fade.

Other fannish things:

1) A dude named Derek Wolf is STILL on backorder at the call center where I work. Poor Derek Hale, doomed to never catch a break. Maybe he should have used a better alias.

I am also constantly amused by things like:
-people who live in Waverly, IA
-massage clients who happen to be named Clint
-callers who are named Watson

2) Missed two anniversaries in October: my 9 year LJ-versary, and my 12 year fandom anniversary. Unlike many people, I can actually date it to a specific night: the premiere of Dark Angel on October 3, 2000. I wandered in on the last bit, involving two very pretty people smoking up the screen in leather and a wheelchair respectively, whilst wandering around a dystopian cityscape and kicking ass (all things I am still easy for, btw), and went online to track down a recap of the episode.

I found the recap, and screencaps, and transcripts, and then a forum, and started talking to people who had no idea I was 13 and therefore treated me as the adult I could write like, and then fanfic and friends and Firefly and LJ and the continuing adventures of everything.

Good times.

3) For my reference more than anything, the trope meme ficlets I wrote back in late September, one of which turned into a full story:
(Avengers) Clint/Coulson telepathy not!fic for ignipes
(B13) Damien/Leito secretly-a-virgin speculation for inmyriadbits
(Avengers) All Elbows for neery, Clint/Coulson 'forced to share a bed'

4) Pretty sure I've read all the Clint/Coulson fic at this point. Like, ALL of it. Even the bad stuff. I'm so desperate for decent fic that I've started re-reading my own stories, which is a course of action that can only end in tears, and I've started to lose perspective on what is good, which is making my writing stagnate. Time to step away for a bit. Or try, anyway.

Yuletide review: just the ticket!

*collapses in puddle*

So, I have not been around in a while! Hi! But I have good reasons:

1) Got A Massage Job!
Just started this week, and I'm still working part-time at the old job because my stamina is way down from where it was when I graduated, so I'm giving my poor hands (and abs and quads) time to readjust rather than injuring myself by jumping in full time. I like it so far - it's a commercial massage place, so there's simply not time to be personal and detailed like you can with private work, and I always sucked at the time limits (50 minutes is BARELY enough time to get shit done, for reals, 90 minute sessions are vastly superior), but my coworkers are all very nice so far and Austin-y, so there's plenty of full-sleeve tattoos and spiked hair and such under the uniforms.

2) Started Watching Teen Wolf
I hate you all. Yes, you know who you are. *glares* I finished S1, then stopped so that Lindsey could catch up and we're going to start S2 tomorrow...just in time for the finale. *sigh* But, hey, hiatus fic! I'm in love with Stiles (and Dylan O'Brien, holy shit that kid's face is magical), and have Thoughts About Derek that don't really align with fanon but I'm gonna hold off posting about them until I catch up because I could be wrong. Allison is adorable, Scott is a potato, and I'm less fond of Lydia and Jackson than most of fandom, but still pretty darn fond.

3) Computer Broke
Blue screen of death, couldn't boot into Windows, thankfully managed to boot with a Linux CD and recover everything but had to reinstall Windows. *sigh* I still don't know what happened, but my computer's just past age 3, so it's time to start paranoid backing up shenanigans, apparently. Yay.

3) ALL the Plot Bunnies
In the last couple weeks, I have outlined a multi-part Clint-joins-SHIELD fic (yes, another one, shut up) and wrote most of the first and third parts of that, figured out how to revamp my Natasha-meets-Clint-via-timeloop-shenanigans plot after it got jossed by the movie, and got bitten by a rabid Avengers/Teen Wolf plot bunny because apparently my reaction to low levels of common sense in a canon now is "needs more Coulson". None of which helps me with the ten-odd *other* WIPs on my desktop, but.... Eventually I'll finish something again.