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anniesj wrote this gorgeous, amazing, heart-breaking Sirius/Remus fic that made me cry at work. Read it here.
I'm currently compulsively reading my way through musesfool's RL/SB recs list, which is awesome. Very helpful to someone who is new to the pairing....
I've never had an OTP before, but I really do love this pairing....
I'm eating a varied box of gorgeous, delicious heirloom tomatoes from the Union Square greenmarket. I love that place.
My landlord is stupid. He won't replace the air conditioner that came with the apartment, because he claims it works. Yeah, if you count working to be blowing the fuse every five minutes and adding an extra $200/month to my electrical bill, without actually even cooling the room. You can have it on full blast and the room is still around 100 degrees in summer, making it pretty much unlivable. How many roommates have left because of the heat ....?
I think I'm going to replace it myself, because in the end I'll save on the electrical bill. But I'll have to pay to have it installed and everything too, because it's in the wall and I have no clue how to do that. And I can't do it now because I want to have spending money in Vegas....
Landlord also won't fix the ceiling fan, which is stupid. He says that they don't cover it, and that I must've installed it. Um, the damn thing is so ancient and creaky that I'm certain it was installed before I was born. Whatever. It's only a stiflingly hot NYC summer... who needs a ceiling fan?
So this weekend I'm going to have the lock changed (again) so that they can't show up without me knowing, and then bring the cats back. (My dad said that they're fine, but also that Lucifer keeps breaking out of the basement and running upstairs, so obviously he's bored out of his mind. My poor baby.)
They did fix the ceiling, which is good. And I found a roommate, also good--he's moving in tomorrow. (It's going to be weird living with a guy, but he is vegan). He's staying almost a year--yay!
I haven't been reading Buffyverse fic. I'm at the point now where my instant reaction is to recoil at even the mention of it. I'm just so not into that universe anymore at all, and I so hate what Mutant Enemy did to it. I was a fan of soulless Spike, not of soulled Spike, and yet I spent ages watching miserably this character who replaced/destroyed the character I loved. The idea of doing that for even one second longer is pretty horrifying. Sorry.
Here's an idea, though. I'm feeling guilty about ignoring fanfic writers who might want their recent work archived on my site. If you're one of those people who I've archived before, could you possibly send me a list (with links) to your recent finished-ready-to-be-archived work that might fit All About Spike? I find that quite a few writers have a hesitancy to promote themselves this way, but believe me, this will make it much easier on me. Otherwise I worry and panic and think "I've missed so much that she's written lately; there's no way I'll ever catch up, so why even bother?" Whereas if you just list it for me, I can catch up easily and not feel like I'm missing something.
ck594us did this, and notice, I read and archived her recent work very quickly.
Of course, if it's a pain to do this, don't bother. But if you're wishing your stuff was archived at AAS, this would make it happen much more quickly.
I think I'm probably going to stick to reading Spike fic from authors I've read and archived before, or else stuff that's hugely highly recommended. I'm not going to just randomly pick up a Spike fic and start reading it anymore. I'd like to; I really enjoyed running my website. But I'm just so not interested in the topic at all.
And this damn Harry Potter fanfic keeps calling me....
And just to clarify for the millionth time, I'm not going to shut All About Spike down. Not for years and years and years, if ever. It's an archive, it should be there for people to read and reference, even if I'm not updating it anymore.
I'm currently compulsively reading my way through musesfool's RL/SB recs list, which is awesome. Very helpful to someone who is new to the pairing....
I've never had an OTP before, but I really do love this pairing....
I'm eating a varied box of gorgeous, delicious heirloom tomatoes from the Union Square greenmarket. I love that place.
My landlord is stupid. He won't replace the air conditioner that came with the apartment, because he claims it works. Yeah, if you count working to be blowing the fuse every five minutes and adding an extra $200/month to my electrical bill, without actually even cooling the room. You can have it on full blast and the room is still around 100 degrees in summer, making it pretty much unlivable. How many roommates have left because of the heat ....?
I think I'm going to replace it myself, because in the end I'll save on the electrical bill. But I'll have to pay to have it installed and everything too, because it's in the wall and I have no clue how to do that. And I can't do it now because I want to have spending money in Vegas....
Landlord also won't fix the ceiling fan, which is stupid. He says that they don't cover it, and that I must've installed it. Um, the damn thing is so ancient and creaky that I'm certain it was installed before I was born. Whatever. It's only a stiflingly hot NYC summer... who needs a ceiling fan?
So this weekend I'm going to have the lock changed (again) so that they can't show up without me knowing, and then bring the cats back. (My dad said that they're fine, but also that Lucifer keeps breaking out of the basement and running upstairs, so obviously he's bored out of his mind. My poor baby.)
They did fix the ceiling, which is good. And I found a roommate, also good--he's moving in tomorrow. (It's going to be weird living with a guy, but he is vegan). He's staying almost a year--yay!
I haven't been reading Buffyverse fic. I'm at the point now where my instant reaction is to recoil at even the mention of it. I'm just so not into that universe anymore at all, and I so hate what Mutant Enemy did to it. I was a fan of soulless Spike, not of soulled Spike, and yet I spent ages watching miserably this character who replaced/destroyed the character I loved. The idea of doing that for even one second longer is pretty horrifying. Sorry.
Here's an idea, though. I'm feeling guilty about ignoring fanfic writers who might want their recent work archived on my site. If you're one of those people who I've archived before, could you possibly send me a list (with links) to your recent finished-ready-to-be-archived work that might fit All About Spike? I find that quite a few writers have a hesitancy to promote themselves this way, but believe me, this will make it much easier on me. Otherwise I worry and panic and think "I've missed so much that she's written lately; there's no way I'll ever catch up, so why even bother?" Whereas if you just list it for me, I can catch up easily and not feel like I'm missing something.
ck594us did this, and notice, I read and archived her recent work very quickly.
Of course, if it's a pain to do this, don't bother. But if you're wishing your stuff was archived at AAS, this would make it happen much more quickly.
I think I'm probably going to stick to reading Spike fic from authors I've read and archived before, or else stuff that's hugely highly recommended. I'm not going to just randomly pick up a Spike fic and start reading it anymore. I'd like to; I really enjoyed running my website. But I'm just so not interested in the topic at all.
And this damn Harry Potter fanfic keeps calling me....
And just to clarify for the millionth time, I'm not going to shut All About Spike down. Not for years and years and years, if ever. It's an archive, it should be there for people to read and reference, even if I'm not updating it anymore.