a walking study in demonology
earlier i was chatting with my bigbang artist on gchat - and she is COMPLETELY ADORABLE, seriously - and i had a moment when I FORGOT WHAT HAPPENED IN MY OWN FIC. oh my god, my flist, i am a GIANT DOOFUS.
my lovely artist: you wrote [plot point] and i don't normally like it, but i did!
me: but there's none of that in this fic...
her: wait, do i have the right fic?
me: *lightbulb dawns* no, wait, you're right, there is. [babble about wrong plot point]
her: i meant this other scene.
me: OH MY GOD I AM AN IDIOT AND FORGOT MY OWN STORY.
her: *laugh*
so yeah, i forgot my own fic. you may commence pointing and laughing at any time.
it is cold and rainy and expected to be so for the rest of the week, and i am now cheered immensely by my own moronity. also so far i really like my artist and she's all excited and i'm all excited. so there's that.
up inspired floating house - the national geographic channel attached three hundred weather balloons to a little house and let it go. and it flew. as far as i can tell there were no cranky old men, boy scouts, or talking dogs involved, but the pictures are pretty fantastic.
crotalus_atrox asked me some questions:
1. You are now a character on Leverage. :D Who are you and what do you do?
i probably spend entire episodes mooning around after hardison and eliot.... :D i don't know if i could sustain a persona for a con for an extended length of time, but i can lie with a straight face given some prep time and might be useful for short periods of distraction or info-gathering or something. as long as i didn't have to hit anyone or hotwire anything. ooh, i could plant an explosive charge. i'd like being able to blow shit up.
2. The SPN boys are back with no angels and no angst! WOO! What monster are they hunting?
a golem! or a scary-ass japanese demon or a ghost. something that can't be dispelled by holy water and latin, anyway. i'd like to see them encounter a squonk or, like, an actual alligator in a sewer, or the bell witch [1] or her regional sisters, or a spring-heeled jack, or some other distinctly american folklore monster or urban legend, because i really miss the backwoods americana flavor of some of the motw's in the early seasons.
3. What are you craving right this second?
lunch. also i need to pee.
4. What show that was canceled before its time would you bring back if you could?
TERRIERS. or the black donnellys, because at least terriers got to finish out its season before it was canceled, whereas the last couple episodes of tbd never even aired on tv. or firefly. more firefly would've been really cool. and it was so badly served by fox, it should've gotten another life on another network.
5. Monkeys: cute, funny, or creepy?
sometimes cute, occasionally funny, only creepy if they're dead and stuffed.
[1] i'm sure her story has variations all over the us, but the one i knew when i was little and lived in tennessee is that you shut yourself in the bathroom, face the mirror, close your eyes, say "i hate the bell witch" five times, and open your eyes, and you're supposed to see a woman with a bloody knife standing behind you in the mirror. i've never actually done it and don't know anyone who has - i remember being at a friend's slumber party and all of us were too scared.
my lovely artist: you wrote [plot point] and i don't normally like it, but i did!
me: but there's none of that in this fic...
her: wait, do i have the right fic?
me: *lightbulb dawns* no, wait, you're right, there is. [babble about wrong plot point]
her: i meant this other scene.
me: OH MY GOD I AM AN IDIOT AND FORGOT MY OWN STORY.
her: *laugh*
so yeah, i forgot my own fic. you may commence pointing and laughing at any time.
it is cold and rainy and expected to be so for the rest of the week, and i am now cheered immensely by my own moronity. also so far i really like my artist and she's all excited and i'm all excited. so there's that.
up inspired floating house - the national geographic channel attached three hundred weather balloons to a little house and let it go. and it flew. as far as i can tell there were no cranky old men, boy scouts, or talking dogs involved, but the pictures are pretty fantastic.
crotalus_atrox asked me some questions:
1. You are now a character on Leverage. :D Who are you and what do you do?
i probably spend entire episodes mooning around after hardison and eliot.... :D i don't know if i could sustain a persona for a con for an extended length of time, but i can lie with a straight face given some prep time and might be useful for short periods of distraction or info-gathering or something. as long as i didn't have to hit anyone or hotwire anything. ooh, i could plant an explosive charge. i'd like being able to blow shit up.
2. The SPN boys are back with no angels and no angst! WOO! What monster are they hunting?
a golem! or a scary-ass japanese demon or a ghost. something that can't be dispelled by holy water and latin, anyway. i'd like to see them encounter a squonk or, like, an actual alligator in a sewer, or the bell witch [1] or her regional sisters, or a spring-heeled jack, or some other distinctly american folklore monster or urban legend, because i really miss the backwoods americana flavor of some of the motw's in the early seasons.
3. What are you craving right this second?
lunch. also i need to pee.
4. What show that was canceled before its time would you bring back if you could?
TERRIERS. or the black donnellys, because at least terriers got to finish out its season before it was canceled, whereas the last couple episodes of tbd never even aired on tv. or firefly. more firefly would've been really cool. and it was so badly served by fox, it should've gotten another life on another network.
5. Monkeys: cute, funny, or creepy?
sometimes cute, occasionally funny, only creepy if they're dead and stuffed.
[1] i'm sure her story has variations all over the us, but the one i knew when i was little and lived in tennessee is that you shut yourself in the bathroom, face the mirror, close your eyes, say "i hate the bell witch" five times, and open your eyes, and you're supposed to see a woman with a bloody knife standing behind you in the mirror. i've never actually done it and don't know anyone who has - i remember being at a friend's slumber party and all of us were too scared.