This was the weekend of deliveries. First to arrive was my new Tough Traveler backpack. It's royal blue with black trim and it's so much bigger than I was expecting. That will certainly come in handy when I fly to Europe in the fall. I'll have plenty of room to pack at least 2 days worth of clothes if my baggage gets lost in transit.

My new living ( Read more... )

The fandoms as relationships meme is going around and, since I've never played, I thought I might jump on that bandwagon.

The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.

If you'd asked me two years ago, I would have said Supernatural, but now I'm going to have to go with Star Wars. I fell hard ( Read more... )

As you may have noticed, lately I've really been struggling on the creative juices front. After my break-up with Star Wars, I have yet to really settle on a new fandom obsession. To that end, in the vain hopes that I may be inspired, I've signed up for the latest round of
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A couple of exchanges went live yesterday, so now that I've had time to read them, I figured I'd share my favorites.

Hurt Comfort Exchange

I actually participated in this one! I can't show you mine yet because the authors are still a secret, but I got a really swell gift.

All Similar Sorrow - Gwen struggles during an anniversary. Peter can relate. ( ( Read more... )

Woe, it sure has been a while. I keep telling myself I'll get on here and write, but then I never do. Last week I managed to eek out my story for the Hurt/Comfort exchange, but in general I've been terribly unmotivated when it comes to fandom for the last couple of months. Still I've got some ideas for metas I've been kicking around. Send my some ( Read more... )

April was a singularly unproductive month. I only managed one story. One. I mean, yeah, I was busy with conferences and Passover, but I just was not feeling the creativity. Anyhow, here's wonderwall:

Peanut Butter and Marshmallows
Umbrella Academy
Stuck in the apocalypse, Five reads about Vanya leaving him sandwiches.

Way back in March, there were like ( Read more... )

I was just reading some post on Tumblr about the necessity of rotating your mental crops and accepting that sometimes your creativity goes fallow. A nice thought, but, man, being fallow sucks. I've got a story for the hurt/comfort exchange due at the start of May and I've got nothing ( Read more... )

So, you may have heard the new Star Wars teaser is out. I want to be more excited about it than I am.

Growing up, I was not a Star Wars fan. I'd seen the OT, we had a bootlegged copy of the Ewok Adventure my dad recorded off tv and the free Return of the Jedi glasses from Pizza Hut, but I wasn't a fan. I watched the movies when they were on, but ( Read more... )

In the interests of being a bit more consistent with my posting, I've decided to try to post more than once or twice a week. Unfortunately, there's not really much going on in my life worth posting about. Instead, today I'm going to rant about my biggest fanfic pet peeve: the lack of basic research ( Read more... )

After spending the weekend obsessively listening to the Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse soundtrack my head is filled with ideas. Someone, please stop me from making a Bei Fong ladies tribute vid to Jaden Smith's "Way Up" or a Luke Skywalker one to Lil Wayne & Ty Dolla $ign's "Scared of the Dark." Baring that, please someone give me practical advice ( Read more... )