I was all confused when
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I didn't want to keep forgetting to post this:

Top 5 Songs - November 2011

6. A Violent Yet Flammable World - Au Revoir Simone
This is less me choosing this song than the iPod playing it A LOT and me enjoying the ride.

5. Meet Me by the River's Edge - Gaslight Anthem ( Read more... )

You guys, you guys, with everything I read, I only love Bucky Barnes more. I do not know how this is possible, but it's what happening. I wish I could articulate better why, but he's just... awesome. Angsty and rash and a little hilarious and did I mention the ( spoiler )

As I've been watching Community, I've been reading the AV Club write-ups, and I almost hurt myself laughing at this line in the comments: "I guess cartoon bandits are not positive cereal role models." Therefore, "cartoon bandits are not positive cereal role models" is my new LJ name ( Read more... )

So yesterday afternoon at around 2:30 I went to the new independent coffee shop up the block. It is staffed by hipster dudes in wool watch caps and is owned by the same people who own this dog rehab place. Those of you now writing a barista!Jensen and dog therapist!Jared AU may now thank me ( Read more... )

I see people are doing their year-end writing round-ups, and I am like, "but there is still a week left! I could certainly finish something else before the year ends!" I am currently at 72 stories for the year - I would love to make it to 75 if at all possible ( Read more... )

I have edited my spn_summergen story per beta suggestions and it has grown yet again. I am always amused at writing advice that assumes you need to cut a third of the story out, because I am generally adding stuff, and yeah, sometimes it can be as much as a third of the word count, if I need a new section or if I was especially, uh, sparse in my descriptions ( Read more... )

I just wrote the opening sentence of my new! hopefully workable! spn_summergen idea, and was struck once again by how weird writing is. How you start out with nothing but a cool idea in your head, and (if you're lucky) you end up with a story you can share with other people ( Read more... )

Thank you to the people who said nice things about me in the Valentine's game*twirls ( Read more... )

So I am on vacation, and the plan is to bake cookies, finish off the Christmas shopping, and write. Like Malcolm Reynolds, what I plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar, but after all manner of unseemly shenanigans earlier, I am planning to take a shower and get to cookie-making ( Read more... )