Here I Am

Just wanted to let everyone know that Ante Up: Losers Fanwork Exchange is open for sign-ups again for another year. I had so much fun with this challenge last year and I was gifted with the most awesome Losers/Stargate Atlantis crossover fic.

Losers fandom can always use more fanworks, so if you love the movies or comics, I recommend checking it out.


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A real entry will come at some point, but just some quick linking...

romanticalgirl has introduced the Sex Is Fun challenge - multifandom.

I've seen this posted by a few people, but in case you missed it, I recommend checking out the article, Ten Rules for Writing Fiction, from authors. As many have already pointed out, there is never one definitive answer outside of "write, write, write," but I'm always intrigued by the processes that other writers go through. And it's always so fascinating how what works for one writer is completely negated by another writer as a "rule." This article from NPR is another one based around published authors. Again, I find it fascinating. Though, in all my years of reading about writing from published authors, the one that seems the most right-on for me is Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott.

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My last post included an alphabet drabble offer. Give it a go.

But I couldn't not share these pictures with my fellow Generation Kill pals. If you've seen them, go look again. Because it's a photo gallery of 26 pictures of Alexander Skarsgard from Generation Kill. Most of them are him shirtless, but there are a few ass shots as well. But the one that got me was the close up of him shirtless with this really hot smile and smoldering eyes. Or maybe the one where it looks like he's pretending to be an airplane. Or all of them. Have I mentioned the shirtless?

Anyone good with icon making willing to use these pictures to make some? Alas, I'm the most horrific graphic artist ever to walk the planet.

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Two other links I thought were cool and worth sharing (though non-fandom)

--Like the fist of an angry god - Deep in the outer realms of our solar system, well over a billion kilometers away, something bizarre happened at Saturn’s F ring.

Go look at the pictures. It's fascinating! I need a Sheldon Cooper to bond with this over.

--Over at the SFWA, Patricia Wrede answered a lot of questions on Fantasy World Building that could be handy to the writers on my friends list. Fanfiction or otherwise, maybe it'll spark something. I know, personally, right now I'm grasping at straws to get my muse going again.

So I started watching Criminal Minds season one and now almost done the first season. I love Reid. He's adorable. My sister told me that while her type of boy!crush (especially in characters) are the damaaged guy, mine is the nerdy boys. Definitely true. I'm not sure why I didn't watch this show when it first came out, except that I was living in the demon house at the time because I tend to me a crime drama addict.

I also spent a large portion of my weekend doing Soduku puzzles. I bought a book awhile ago, but picked it up yesterday morning and have been doing puzzles out the wazoo. I'm more of a crossword puzzle girl as language is definitely easier for me than numbers, but still very addictive.

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A little pimpage:

1. moviefanfiction - an archive for all fanfiction related to any and all movies. So if you wrote a movie fandom for yuletide, for example, go ahead and crosspost. We would love for it to be an all-encompassing sort of archive for movie fic.

2. oldschoolfic - originally started as a ficathon, but now open to any fic for tv shows that are no longer on the air.

3. comment_fic - I haven't had a chance to play over there myself, but it seems like a lot of fun.

4. Porn Battle VII - go check out the prompts and play.

finally...



SUPERNATURAL RANDOM FRIENDING MEME

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Feel free to still comment to the meme in my last post. I have jury duty on Tuesday and I'll figure I'll do them in a notebook while I wait around.

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The fabulous scarlett_o and poisontaster are taking it over this year, so if Nano seems like too much, you can set a daily word limit (at least 100 words) and play.

I'm attempting to come up with some writing responses for Day 3 of the drabble-a-thon, but currently am quite ecstatic because I think I figured out how to deal with one of the things that bothered me about my apocalyptothon first draft. So I want to fix that up and get it off to beta as soon as possible, while the ideas are still fresh. I was struggling with this one particular element to the story and while I was meditating today it just hit me.

Thank goodness for that as I need time to get it back from beta and I want to post it before I move next week (and ohmygod, I move next week into my own house! Yikes.)

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I highly recommend Joel Osteen's weekly podcasts to people, even if you're not Christian. he's everything that religion *should* be, very positive and hopeful, never judgemental or talking about how evil people are. And I don't know if it's just me, but I swear, sometimes, it's like he's talking directly to me. Like his topic will resonate so much and I just walk away from the podcast with a much better perspective on life (and, for me, God).

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What do I have to do in order for Annie to leave on All My Children? Just when I think she couldn't annoy me more, she finds new ways to irk me. And I admit, that my great love of Greenlee will always biased me against certain characters, but she's just so irritating. She doesn't have one redeemable trait. How is that even possible?

So I read that Vanessa Marcil is again in talks with GH. And I think that would be awesome, especially if Jagger sticks around because think of the fun that could be had. Or if they pair her up with Jason because they had such potential last time around. And yes, the character of Brenda (like Greenlee) is another one of those characters that I adore beyond reason.

Anything new on One Life to Live worth tuning in? I'm still mad about how they killed off Nash. Nash/Jess and Nash/Tess were the only pairing(s) I enjoyed.

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Lots of pimpage!!!

( Onto the pimpage... )

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Anyone know where I can find some great Phelps/Lochte icons? I've come across icons of each boy separately, but I'd love a few of them together. Please, help me feed my obsession a bit more.

So since the amazing oxoniensis is running the Porn Battle this week AND I got caught up in the fun that is packing/cleaning for my upcoming move. I've decided to postpone the Week of Drabble-a-Thons until next week. Themes will be the same, just a week later.

So that means, you guys have until this friday to leave prompts for the five days of drabble-a-thons.

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Now I'm off to collapse. It's been a very long day and I think I swallowed way too much dust.

Ciao darlings.

So I can't stop staring at this picture of Jared taken by vorpalblades. He is so adorable. Just adorable. Can he come to Philadelphia?

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medie is hosting an impromptu multifandom drabble meme. Go play. I'm hoping to if I can get past my own writing laze of a block.

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Apparently, the whole slash vs. het & gen debate is alive and well. ladybug218 has opened up her journal for discussion of the topic (no flaming!) because she's as flummoxed as I am by the whole thing.

I'll never understand what's so horrible about het. I love the slash for a lot of pairings...but I also love the het. For me, it's all about character chemistry. And I get that we're all different and that different things ping for each of us...so why does it matter so much to some people that what works for one person is a het couple? Why is het so frowned upon by some people?

I guess it goes back to my belief that bad writing is bad writing. Slash writers aren't automatically better because they write slash and vice versa. You either are capable of writing a good story or you're not, and genre designation won't change that.

Happy Birthday kalena_henden!!!

I hope you have a fabulous day!

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I tivo'd Transformers over the weekend when it was on Cinemax. I own the dvd, but still recorded it like the lunatic I am. I love that movie. It's awesome. And they are filming the second one here in Philadelphia and there is a chance (right now very small) that I might be able to get on the set thanks to my volunteer work with the film office.

But let's just focus on the movie. Sam is so adorable. And it has Josh Duhamel all scruffy. And then there is Bumblebee! And Optimus Prime!!!

Good stuff.

Is there any good fanfiction? Anyone want to point me in some direction?

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Speaking of recs, I really need to catch up on a lot of my reading before Steph and anyone who likes polyfandomrecs kills me. I have a few recs saved, but since my battle with pneumonia, I haven't really read/written/recced anything. I have tons of stuff bookmarked, but just haven't had time to go back and/or felt like it.

I hope this fandom ennui passes. There is no real reason for it on my part. I have the most awesome friends list that enables me to avoid almost all the wanking and drama. I'm surrounded by brilliant and creative people...I think I'm just slightly burnt out for no real reason (which might be why I haven't watched SPN yet).

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Once again, I shall pimp oldschoolfic. Lots of fandoms that deserve some love. Come play. Or pass the info onto those who want to play!

Hey guys! It's the last chance to vote in the poll/leave comments for fandoms to be included in the Old School Ficathon. Head over to oldschoolfic and made your voice known. especially if you'll join me in nominating Veritas the Quest and Party of Five! I want fic!

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Also, they are taking prompts for the next round of smallfandomfest. Again, Veritas and Party of Five are LOVE, my friends.

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Now I must get back to finishing up the most monotonous project EVER. Damn bus schedules to Hades.