no more bright lights, no more big city

[tsuki_no_bara]

o my flist, i had a day. not a bad day - altho i was in a charming fucking mood this morning :| - but a day. my cousin got married yesterday, which was fun and the ceremony was lovely and it's always nice to see family members i like but never see, but i didn't get home until midnight and then i couldn't sleep, and i had to get up two hours

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[bleodswean]

I would love to do this for you. Tell me where you are archived so I can see if we have any fandom commonalities. Yes, sometimes you just need THIS. And it's okay.

[bleodswean]

Oh, and there's this -

[tsuki_no_bara]

baby bat! ^"^ lookit those ears! i just want to rub its fuzzy little head. i've seen the hedge before but it never hurts to see it again.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i have no idea where our fannish interests converge. i'm kind of half-assedly on ao3 (i'm tsukinobara there as i am everywhere) (except tumblr) but all my fanfics are here.

(my first love was and still is original fic, and if you're curious the sticky post is here.)

[dear_tiger]

\o/ Hi! Not having a fun day, huh? Hey, don't be sad about this lack of response thing. I choose to blame S9 for scaring off half the fandom. I have so many f-listers who'd normally watch BB, comment and rec like it was the fandom Olympics, and this year half of them don't even know it's happening

[tsuki_no_bara]

it was such a day! without actively being a bad day. altho i got to see some nice lightning on the bus home, and lightning makes me happy. we only got like fifteen minutes of thunderstorm, tho.

how sad if the show is what's turning people off bigbang. i don't even watch it any more! and i didn't think you did either! and we're still, er, banging.... *sigh* jeremy carver has a lot to answer for, if so.

also, this is the loveliest, most thorough comment. (altho it took me a minute to remember when i wrote about someone's food fighting back.... and it wasn't even that long ago. >.< ) i already knew you appreciated the historical settings and all the research *sympathetic fist-bump of research* and the hedgehog jokes are ALL YOUR FAULT. and i've had this window open for HOURS because i don't know how else to respond. except oh thank god not all of my characters come across the same way, because seriously, i worry that i'm just writing the same couple of people over and over, just with different names. (and also, i loved

[dear_tiger]

Haha, god forbid, I don't watch it anymore either. IDK, that's who I'm blaming for such a drop in BB following this year. It drops every year, but whoa there!

Your food fights back probably without you even noticing. It probably has its own underground Food Resistance Group, where it probably wears berets and smokes a lot and fiddles with homemade radios. I bet it fights back in your BB too! (Which I started reading today \o/ and it's fabulous but no one has been food-attacked yet.) Also, I'm gonna ask Dad for more untranslatable hedgehog jokes to traumatize you with :D And you definitely don't write the same characters over and over again, nope :D And I love Aimee Godwin Rainaut from that short story, just saying, she's one of those characters that grabs you and doesn't let you go and somehow gets under your skin, even though all she did was write a letter.

[tsuki_no_bara]

dear tiger's dad:

thanks in advance for the untranslatable hedgehog jokes. this means i now have to find a place for them in next year's bigbang. >.<

i'm now picturing my eggs and cheese and spaghetti having secret food resistance group meetings in the middle of the night. (sadly the spaghetti sauce hasn't been seen in a couple years, but they could really use its help.) there's no resisting food in the parisbang, mostly because there are almost no scenes involving actual eating. which, considering the story is set in PARIS, is kind of an oversight. there's some well-behaved pastry, tho.

aimee as a nine-year-old was in my 2011 nanonovel, and she also made an appearance as an adult living in occupied france, when she tells a couple of german soldiers to get the hell off her property. (they do. she has a hunting rifle and she's not afraid to use it.)

[dorinda]

The most adorable snake I know is the late, great Julius, the albino Burmese python. She got internet-famous for the video of her escaping:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxc_55ur-J4

But I recommend her other videos as well:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Qe5eircWIBB7IL0eqjFKg

Julius investigates the washing machine and emerges wearing a pair of her owner's underwear! Julius meets a zucchini! Julius reluctantly gets in the bathtub! She was a really lovely snek.

[tsuki_no_bara]

holy shit that is a big snake. O.O i think i've seen the vid of her in the tub - or at least A vid of a giant-ass lemony snake in the tub - and for all her terrifying size, she's really very cute. she looks kind of cuddly, even. i'll have to check out the rest of her vids!

[charisstoma]

The Black Violin. It's haunting. By the end of the story you need him to have found the violinist but he never will and that was your cunning evil plot, to leave us with that same desperate wanting as the main character.

[tsuki_no_bara]

holy crap, that's an old one. but how much do i love that it made such an impression on you? (a lot. that's how much. :D )

so every year there's 24-hour comics day, in which you get twenty-four hours to write and draw a comic of twenty-four pages. it's like nano in that you can do research and other prep beforehand, but you have to start writing and drawing from scratch at the start of the challenge. i have an anthology from i think 2004, and in the intro to one of the comics, the editor refers to the guy who wrote and drew it, and who i guess had never done such a thing before, as the kind of person who gets on a concert stage, plays the most perfect piece of music ever, and then walks off the stage forever. and that's where i got the idea.

[tsuki_no_bara]

that is the happiest dog ever, seriously. I love that your in-laws' cat likes it too. probably cuts down on the shedding.