Here I Am

I got my assignment for the ante_up_losers Fanworks Exchange and realized I should go write my Dear Creator letter that just had a placeholder. I figured I've read enough fic in this world that maybe it's time to try my hand at it. Also, since I'm trying to complete the 75,000 words this year, I figure having projects with deadlines might help me along with that.   Love some of the prompts I saw on the Dear Creator letter for my recipient so that's good.

I also got my picture for picfor1000 and excited to write that.  Just need to pic my fandom - what am I feeling everyone?  Ideas? 

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I went to see Star Wars again with my sister the other day and I still quite enjoy it. That is all I shall say in case people still haven't seen it. Even when we went the other day the theater was still packed.

I also finished Making a Murderer on Netflix because my co-worker kept yelling at me to watch it since I love the Serial podcast. I really shouldn't have watched it because it just made me angry about some of the crap that went down.

( thoughts on Making a Murderer - spoilers? )

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Oscar nominations are out and I've seen four of the eight already:  Martian (loved), Spotlight (good but depressing as hell), Mad Max (I was so confused - I had never seen any of the other Mad Max movies and my friend insisted I see and Tom Hardy, so sure...but I spent the first half of the movie going "what is going on?"), and the Big Short (I had read the book and the movie does a good job of sort of breaking down the whole thing - it's just depressing because nothing has changed).

I still need to see The Revenant, Room, Brooklyn and Bridge of Spies. 

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Finally caught back up on Arrow - I forced myself to do it before I could watch the crossover Flash episode so I wouldn't be confused...so I'm caught up on both of those now.  Still behind on Empire and Gotham.   And just waiting (impatiently) for Walking Dead to return.

Currently in my Netflix/Amazon streaming I've been rewatching Stargate Atlantis with the goal to actually make it through the end of season four and five, which I had never finished.  And then I plan to move onto Supernatural.  Last episode I saw was the premiere of Season Eight.   Considering how much I used to love that show, it's kinda sad that I can't always muster up the urge to go back.  But I'm hoping once I do, I'll get sucked in and get through it.  Last time around I had stopped watching at start of season six and then finally decided before season eight to try to get caught up...ended up zipping through the episodes.

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Okay, back to work to get done.  Feeling very sore from my workout this morning and contemplating what to do for lunch because I didn't bring anything and this way leads to madness.  I might just run to Whole Foods and grab something.

Title: The Crash
Author: Tommygirl/storydivagirl
Rating: PG
Written For: Crossover challenge on request of Alias/Lost--Weiss MUST be a main character
A/N: This was much more difficult to write than I expected and it's very open-ended because the ideas started to flow...so there may be sequels someday. Much love to my girl Steph for the beta work and the promise that it's not bad at all. Feedback always appreciated.

( Alias meets Lost in a very painful way. )

Title: The Big Bad Wolf...
Author: Tommygirl/tommygirl
Rating: R
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Sam and Dean saved the girl and now Sam's jealous of the girl.
Written For: This was written for the supernatural picture prompt challenge based on this picture.
A/N: Much love to roniabirk and Steph who worked with me to make this readable and hopefully enjoyable. If anything is still wrong, don't blame them, but rather Sam Winchester, who was giving me trouble throughout the writing of this story. It's schmoop with a jealous Sam because, well, I love those two things. So enjoy and feedback is always appreciated!

( Me writing Wincest porn nearly caused Steph to go into shock! Look what this fandom has done to me. I used to be pure...er... )

Title: The Long Way Home
Author: Tommygirl/storydivagirl
Rating: PG
Written For: the Alias Ficathon for lisek16, who wanted Sydney/Vaughn with a meeting, a story, a good cup of coffee
Warnings: Spoilers through series finale
A/N: Much love to iamentheos for the beta! Sorry for the delay and I hope this fits the bill...my muse went in a different direction than I originally planned. Feedback always appreciated.

( to the story... )

Have spent a large portion of my morning working on the WIP piece. I'm doing pretty damn good these past two days! Woo-hoo. Now the idea is to keep up the pace so that I can get through this damn story. You see, I'm at the part in New Journey where things are starting to be revealed in the plot and Maria has to deal with what's going to happen. So it's an important scene and I just hope I'm doing it justice.

But yesterday after suffering for the first hour, I decided to just go with the flow and worry about everything else in the revision process. That seems to be working much better for me. And I'm kicking some butt.

Now let me keep it up. I asked my fellow pals at wip_a_team for good mojo and they obliged. So yeah. Fingers crossed for me.

I've also decided to wait until I finish A New Journey in its entirety before posting another chapter. This way the remaining chapters will go up at once and I can do any necessary revision to the early chapters at the same time. But y'all will have it to read (chickpea!!!) by the end of July!

Also, is it sad that I made myself a progress spreadsheet today for the wip_it_good challenge? I used one for April Fool's day challenge and it seemed to work and keep me on track - I'm hoping the same works here.

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In other news, I'm addicted to Dr. Who. I'm only up to episode four, but it sucked me right in. Oh, evilness! So who knows where I can find some good icons? And then some good fic? Help a Tommy out here, people.

I'm caught up on my Queer As Folk and Entourage as well. I love Entourage so much. Hug it out, bitches! It's the best. As for QAF, the characters are all pissing me off this season so I don't get as excited about it...and I don't like the way people were treating Hunter. Bastards. But Brian is still the hottest man alive. So hot. Gah.

I tivo'd the first two parts of Into the West but haven't had a chance to watch them yet. I wonder how I lived before I had a Tivo. I probably watched a lot less television because I'm so lazy when it comes to taping most things. But I love my Tivo. And I love that it knows me so well and records things that it thinks I'll like because of who's in it.

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I'm going to head off for now. I want to get more writing done before my class tonight. I'm hoping to make a lot of progress on the WIP as quickly as possible because I have a few ficathon deadlines for July too. And while those are only required 1000 word stories...I'm a verbose sort of writer. My stories are usually not that short.

Have a great day, y'all!

Ciao.