no_tags, catchup, and a meme
So, like I said, I did no_tags! Days and days ago, but I just couldn't get it together to get it posted here. I wrote Waiting For The Opportune Moment, which is a story about The Like being space pirates in love, and in return I received shade which is the most adorable bb!Ryan&Spencer gen story on earth. There are puppies! And fierce!protective!Spencer! And teenage bff-ness! All of my favorite things! There are also a whole awful lot of other fantastic submissions this year, I was blown away.
Sad things: RyanJ leaving Empires! My sorrow, it is immense. Also my financial aid file in my transfer application is causing me no end of stress, it just keeps not working out and it's not even my fault, most of the time, it's just bad luck upon bad luck, until it starts to feel like the universe is trying to tell me I should just give up on the college thing altogether. I won't, and third time will be the charm, fingers crossed, but it is frustrating. I miss Eli.
Happy things!: JJAMZ are making a music video! It is going to involve a convertible! Sandra Bullock is in a movie with an Oscar nom! My birthday is coming up! I didn't lose my job last week! I am at my mom's for the weekend, cooking delicious meal upon delicious meal--my inner foodie is becoming more prominent in my old age! There is nothing actually wrong with my life right now but worry, so I just need to work on compartmentalization and I can eliminate the 'sad things' list entirely! Except for RyanJ leaving Empires. It's hard to block that out. Why, Empires???
And akire_yta did a meme! She wrote about seven topics, and then in the comments, I asked to be given seven topics to write about as well! Mine are below the cut. If you want to play, ask and I'll give you seven topics to write about, too.
Favourite instrument to watch other people play
Drums, drums, hands down drums. I am pretty sure this surprises nobody who has ever gone to a show with me.
If you were stranded on a desert island with three bandom people, who would you want and why?
Hmmmm, that's a tricky one, since my favorites tend to be ridiculous people who would be of little use on a desert island. I'll go with Ryan J, I think, because he is strong and can, um, lift things? At least, I assume so--look at his ARMS:
And then, hmmm, none of our bandom peeps seem all that outdoorsy, do they? I bet Suarez could be pretty resourceful in making our limited food tasty, though, so I'd take him, and maybe, um, Frank? He's a smoker, right? I bet he'd have a lighter with him. So yeah. RyanJ, Alex Suarez and Frank Iero would be my desert island companions. It would be hilarious.
And what five CDs would you want stuck in the soundsystem that miraculously washes up onto your desert island with you?
1). Blondie, Parallel Lines
2). Camera Obscura, Underachievers Please Try Harder
3). The White Stripes, Elephant
4). The soundtrack to Elizabethtown, because soundtracks are like ready made mix cds, and this one has a whole bunch of my current favorite songs. It's also from my favorite romcom of all time.
5). And finally, Slaid Cleaves, Broke Down, which is and will always be my comfort blanket album, and is the reason I can't stand to hear people say they hate all country ever, or even, "all country besides Johnny Cash," which I have heard a fair amount, probably because I know an unreasonable number of pretentious douchebags.
Tell me about your favourite poem
(this was a dangerous question to ask. I knew I'd be all kinds of chatty about it, and it totally came true.)
Oh, that's a tough one. See there are a few that are just always going to be my favorites, on the top tier of my mind forever, like Dora Sigerson Shorter's "The Gypsy Road," which appeals to all my wanderlust, or pretty much anything at all by Emily Bronte, who changed my life when I was a melodramatic teenager, and then there are the poems I'm all crazy excited about right now, like things by Sherman Alexie, things by Philip Larkin, that I get all bouncy and overshare-ey about.
I guess my favorite, as in, the one that I feel like I need in my life the most, though, would have to be Housman, XVI from More Poems. It's not a happy poem, so much as it's a bracing, encouraging one. Houseman says, "To-day I shall be strong, / No more shall yield to wrong," and I feel stronger, too. He talks about the beauty of the day, the sun and the sky, and I see it like I'm on the ferry I took to school in the morning growing up. As the sun goes down in the poem, as the day grows "remorseful," it appeases the parts of me that never want to be that possitive, without ever losing the idea that things can get better.
I have all kinds of thoughts about Houseman, bur I don't think it takes much analysis at all to see why this poem is in one of his collections that were only published posthumously. While it doesn't go into the details of his personal life like many of the others published in this collection. I think this one must have been private, perhaps, because he felt about it similarly to the way I do.
Or maybe I'm just projecting onto him. I have been known to do that with my favorites.
Favourite part of girls :)
I ...have no idea how to answer that question. Like, I do not even know what it means. Like, physically? Because I'm not really one for singling out individual body parts, I enjoy people as a harmonious whole, you know? Or something that sounds less ridiculous.
If you could have any X-Men style superpower, what would you want?
My first instinct, since X-Men was mentioned, was to say 'fire, like Pyro,' because he is my favorite character and I love him a lot. You can't do too much that's non-destructive with fire, really, though, and I am all about purging and moving beyond anger these days, so that's out.
I think I'd most like to breathe under water, actually. I almost said flying, but then I'd get all nervous about being seen, etc, and I love swimming like crazy, and it seems like it's be almost like being able to fly, breathing under water, but quieter.
Favourite colour.
Historically, blue, but when it comes right down to it, I always gravitate towards the multi-colored, to all bright colors, all dark colors, things that sparkle, tythings with patterns and textures--I am all over the place, and if I have the chance, I never choose just one color at all.
In the near future, I need to do a fic dump onto ao3, I've been lazy about posting there, just as I've been lazy about posting here. Most of you see me too much all over twitter anyway, but to lj-only people, I've missed you! Tell me about your life!
Sad things: RyanJ leaving Empires! My sorrow, it is immense. Also my financial aid file in my transfer application is causing me no end of stress, it just keeps not working out and it's not even my fault, most of the time, it's just bad luck upon bad luck, until it starts to feel like the universe is trying to tell me I should just give up on the college thing altogether. I won't, and third time will be the charm, fingers crossed, but it is frustrating. I miss Eli.
Happy things!: JJAMZ are making a music video! It is going to involve a convertible! Sandra Bullock is in a movie with an Oscar nom! My birthday is coming up! I didn't lose my job last week! I am at my mom's for the weekend, cooking delicious meal upon delicious meal--my inner foodie is becoming more prominent in my old age! There is nothing actually wrong with my life right now but worry, so I just need to work on compartmentalization and I can eliminate the 'sad things' list entirely! Except for RyanJ leaving Empires. It's hard to block that out. Why, Empires???
And akire_yta did a meme! She wrote about seven topics, and then in the comments, I asked to be given seven topics to write about as well! Mine are below the cut. If you want to play, ask and I'll give you seven topics to write about, too.
Favourite instrument to watch other people play
Drums, drums, hands down drums. I am pretty sure this surprises nobody who has ever gone to a show with me.
If you were stranded on a desert island with three bandom people, who would you want and why?
Hmmmm, that's a tricky one, since my favorites tend to be ridiculous people who would be of little use on a desert island. I'll go with Ryan J, I think, because he is strong and can, um, lift things? At least, I assume so--look at his ARMS:
And then, hmmm, none of our bandom peeps seem all that outdoorsy, do they? I bet Suarez could be pretty resourceful in making our limited food tasty, though, so I'd take him, and maybe, um, Frank? He's a smoker, right? I bet he'd have a lighter with him. So yeah. RyanJ, Alex Suarez and Frank Iero would be my desert island companions. It would be hilarious.
And what five CDs would you want stuck in the soundsystem that miraculously washes up onto your desert island with you?
1). Blondie, Parallel Lines
2). Camera Obscura, Underachievers Please Try Harder
3). The White Stripes, Elephant
4). The soundtrack to Elizabethtown, because soundtracks are like ready made mix cds, and this one has a whole bunch of my current favorite songs. It's also from my favorite romcom of all time.
5). And finally, Slaid Cleaves, Broke Down, which is and will always be my comfort blanket album, and is the reason I can't stand to hear people say they hate all country ever, or even, "all country besides Johnny Cash," which I have heard a fair amount, probably because I know an unreasonable number of pretentious douchebags.
Tell me about your favourite poem
(this was a dangerous question to ask. I knew I'd be all kinds of chatty about it, and it totally came true.)
Oh, that's a tough one. See there are a few that are just always going to be my favorites, on the top tier of my mind forever, like Dora Sigerson Shorter's "The Gypsy Road," which appeals to all my wanderlust, or pretty much anything at all by Emily Bronte, who changed my life when I was a melodramatic teenager, and then there are the poems I'm all crazy excited about right now, like things by Sherman Alexie, things by Philip Larkin, that I get all bouncy and overshare-ey about.
I guess my favorite, as in, the one that I feel like I need in my life the most, though, would have to be Housman, XVI from More Poems. It's not a happy poem, so much as it's a bracing, encouraging one. Houseman says, "To-day I shall be strong, / No more shall yield to wrong," and I feel stronger, too. He talks about the beauty of the day, the sun and the sky, and I see it like I'm on the ferry I took to school in the morning growing up. As the sun goes down in the poem, as the day grows "remorseful," it appeases the parts of me that never want to be that possitive, without ever losing the idea that things can get better.
I have all kinds of thoughts about Houseman, bur I don't think it takes much analysis at all to see why this poem is in one of his collections that were only published posthumously. While it doesn't go into the details of his personal life like many of the others published in this collection. I think this one must have been private, perhaps, because he felt about it similarly to the way I do.
Or maybe I'm just projecting onto him. I have been known to do that with my favorites.
Favourite part of girls :)
I ...have no idea how to answer that question. Like, I do not even know what it means. Like, physically? Because I'm not really one for singling out individual body parts, I enjoy people as a harmonious whole, you know? Or something that sounds less ridiculous.
If you could have any X-Men style superpower, what would you want?
My first instinct, since X-Men was mentioned, was to say 'fire, like Pyro,' because he is my favorite character and I love him a lot. You can't do too much that's non-destructive with fire, really, though, and I am all about purging and moving beyond anger these days, so that's out.
I think I'd most like to breathe under water, actually. I almost said flying, but then I'd get all nervous about being seen, etc, and I love swimming like crazy, and it seems like it's be almost like being able to fly, breathing under water, but quieter.
Favourite colour.
Historically, blue, but when it comes right down to it, I always gravitate towards the multi-colored, to all bright colors, all dark colors, things that sparkle, tythings with patterns and textures--I am all over the place, and if I have the chance, I never choose just one color at all.
In the near future, I need to do a fic dump onto ao3, I've been lazy about posting there, just as I've been lazy about posting here. Most of you see me too much all over twitter anyway, but to lj-only people, I've missed you! Tell me about your life!