Sh! It's a secret! And a pimp post!
I am sooo excited! I joined pilots_presents and I'm in my first online Secret Santa exchange! I apparently haven't written anything not comment!fic since August, which explains the wandery mind and daydreaminess lately. I think I'll start writing today, which should work nicely with the 2 nights of almost no sleep because of this cold and the general crazy-making that work has been - I feel full to the brim with creative energy. Or is that just restless anxiety? Either way, there's a story brewing for someone!
Since I haven't properly pimped ANY of my latest pursuits online, let me do that now. I got bitten by the icon bug and I'm currently in 2 weekly contest comms, iconic_lee and karastillness. Whether I'm good enough to be competitive or not, I'm enjoying fiddling with the tools in Gimp (free image editor FTW!) and making neat little icons. I also have some seasonal icon/image work to do for saholidayflash, which will also eventually involve prompting and a ficathon! When will I have time for all of this, you ask? No idea! But it will be fun to try to squeeze it all in! Oh, and I sort of volunteered to restart the rewatches over at no_takebacks, so there's also that. :)
And to top it all off, I also just joined a new literary comm, themoonsphere, where we'll be doing a more open format of reading group - no deadlines, no set book, just posts to comment on for a few titles.
On top of all of this largely Battlestar Galactica online diversion, I also lurk at castlebeckett because Heaven forbid I 'ship one couple at a time. And, he really IS ruggedly handsome!
Which reminds me, apropos of nothing but 'shipping, I went YouTube surfing the other day for a kind of weird reason. I had been a big X Files fan (and Scully and Mulder 'shipper), starting at season 2 but around seasons 4 and 5 especially, only to feel completely betrayed by the first movie's almost-kiss-psych which honestly sent me away forever. I'm sure there was more to it than just a psyched out almost-kiss (like a new boyfriend at the time who didn't like the show - I married him anyway), but nevertheless, I never went back. And I cut myself off from all updates on the show, which means I only recently heard mention that Mulder and Scully ended up together (I had a vague notion of some cute little kid that Scully returned with that might have been his, but that was all), so yeah, I went searching for fan vids and scenes. And I kinda' fell right back into my Scully and Mulder love... Cannot even GO there... Ugh. Tell Alice I cannot follow her down the rabbit hole. Please.
[Silly aside: When I worked at Barnes & Noble, we used to imagine the casting of B&N: Warwick: The Motion Picture. Gillian Anderson played me. :) I still stand by that casting for any life-story movie that might get made about me. There's nothing to tell, really, but a girl can dream and be ready, in case.]
Rambling post that rambles is rambly! I'm going to call out sick (stupid fall cold!) and try to feel better by drowning in the internet.
Since I haven't properly pimped ANY of my latest pursuits online, let me do that now. I got bitten by the icon bug and I'm currently in 2 weekly contest comms, iconic_lee and karastillness. Whether I'm good enough to be competitive or not, I'm enjoying fiddling with the tools in Gimp (free image editor FTW!) and making neat little icons. I also have some seasonal icon/image work to do for saholidayflash, which will also eventually involve prompting and a ficathon! When will I have time for all of this, you ask? No idea! But it will be fun to try to squeeze it all in! Oh, and I sort of volunteered to restart the rewatches over at no_takebacks, so there's also that. :)
And to top it all off, I also just joined a new literary comm, themoonsphere, where we'll be doing a more open format of reading group - no deadlines, no set book, just posts to comment on for a few titles.
On top of all of this largely Battlestar Galactica online diversion, I also lurk at castlebeckett because Heaven forbid I 'ship one couple at a time. And, he really IS ruggedly handsome!
Which reminds me, apropos of nothing but 'shipping, I went YouTube surfing the other day for a kind of weird reason. I had been a big X Files fan (and Scully and Mulder 'shipper), starting at season 2 but around seasons 4 and 5 especially, only to feel completely betrayed by the first movie's almost-kiss-psych which honestly sent me away forever. I'm sure there was more to it than just a psyched out almost-kiss (like a new boyfriend at the time who didn't like the show - I married him anyway), but nevertheless, I never went back. And I cut myself off from all updates on the show, which means I only recently heard mention that Mulder and Scully ended up together (I had a vague notion of some cute little kid that Scully returned with that might have been his, but that was all), so yeah, I went searching for fan vids and scenes. And I kinda' fell right back into my Scully and Mulder love... Cannot even GO there... Ugh. Tell Alice I cannot follow her down the rabbit hole. Please.
[Silly aside: When I worked at Barnes & Noble, we used to imagine the casting of B&N: Warwick: The Motion Picture. Gillian Anderson played me. :) I still stand by that casting for any life-story movie that might get made about me. There's nothing to tell, really, but a girl can dream and be ready, in case.]
Rambling post that rambles is rambly! I'm going to call out sick (stupid fall cold!) and try to feel better by drowning in the internet.