Tremendulent!

Hullo!

1. Mood took a dip this week. Most likely due to the usual monthly reasons, as well as lingering 'stuff'. It's so much fun bouncing between feeling sad and feeling angry. Then back to sad, then back to angry. Then to okay and then to happy. Then back to angry. Grr. It sounds worse than it is, let me just say. I'm doing all the right things and stuff will get better. I'm just in this weird period of potential flux and loneliness.

2. I went to a beginner's swing dancing class on Tuesday! It was really fun! And I gotta say, the best dancer was hands down this older gent. I swear, he was a natural-born leader. I didn't know the steps and yet I knew where to go every time I got partnered with him. It was incredible. I definitely think I'll go again.

3. Well, work has managed to piss me off. I mean, REALLY PISS ME OFF. I can't remember being this angry with my boss. It's a good thing he's away today and tomorrow otherwise I don't think I'd be able to hold my tongue. I came this close to writing him an email outlining my grievances, but am holding off. UGH.

4. I'm off to a concert tomorrow night that I think is going to be mostly opera; which could be interesting in all manner of ways. On Saturday to the pub to watch Wales v Italy (rugby). My ex-husband is in town this weekend and would like to get together for a catch-up. I probably will, but I think some of that anger I mentioned earlier may find it's way into the conversation. Which may not actually be a bad thing. We shall see...

5. I posted a frickin' chapter of my poor WIP! It's been TWO YEARS, but I DID IT!. If anyone is interested in reading a Black Sails fic featuring the tiniest little rowboat of a ship, Abigail Ashe and Billy Bones (seriously, they shared 15 seconds of screen time and didn't actually speak to each other), it's this way: a tide of hope

I hope everyone is having a good week! Happy Thursday! ♥

For redbrunja - repeated romantic dynamics in your shipper history.

I shall list them!

1. Respect between the two romantic leads for their respective capabilities. They may not like each other or be attracted to each other at first, but they darn well appreciate how hard they work.

2. Snark. Give me some fun dialogue and I'm a happy Seren.

3. Equal footing. I always try to make sure that if one person has one kind of advantage over the other, the other person has another type of advantage. For example - with my Primeval pairing of Jess and Becker - Becker may be a serious badass of a soldier and can take out a man 40 different ways with a teaspoon, Jess can run rings around his computer skills. I like a level playing field amongst the characters.

4. I like tall guys and petite ladies. I can't help it. I'm a rather petite lady and le husband is 6", so there's a thing there.

5. Jenny Crusie once mentioned that in Moonstruck the two leads are utterly wrecked by each other in a fantastic way. I like that. I like the leads to have to throw out all previous preconceptions about love, people and themselves and just have to go with it.

6. They need to learn from each other. They hold each other up and NEVER bring each other down EVER.

7. Oh, heck - THEY HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER. There was a post going around tumblr about how some pairings are all 'Oh, we will defeat this evil together because we are MEANT TO BE', but would they enjoy sitting down and watching a bad sci-fi movie together and going grocery shopping? I like my pairings to enjoy grocery shopping together. I fully expect them to bicker over whether or not to get ice cream or cake or pie and end up with all three.

I think that's the lot. :D

I feel very much like Garfield today and just want to crawl under my duvet until someone bakes me some lasagna. *flump* Head. Hurrrts.

They're putting this whole 'managed desktop' on to our computers (so they can see what we're up to, basically) and it's 'supposed' to only take 30 minutes.

TRY FOUR HOURS.

They started while I was covering the reception desk, then it went into my lunch hour, then for TWO FURTHER HOURS AFTER THAT. It wasn't like I had any, you know, work to be getting on with.

So I wrote some original stuff by hand into my notebook. So there. :P

Ooh, I made a collage!

It doesn't have a proper title, but the working title is The Baker and the Bounty Hunter and I'm just sort of going with the flow on this one. It's popped into my head more fully-formed than anything else, so we'll see!

How is everyone? Who votes we cancel the rest of the week and watch Karl Urban movies and eat chocolate and Italian food?

It was a long week. Not due to anything bad, just due to it being a long week.

I've been writing a wee bit every day. Belle and Rumpelstiltskin are currently eyeing each other over a continental breakfast somewhere in mid-Illinois. I'm honestly not kidding. :D

Meme! This is a good one.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.

Friday!!! Woooo! ♥

Why, yes, I'm watching the rugby. That James Hook is kind of dreamy. Plus he still has his neck! Oh, but Scotland just intercepted. Come on, boys!

Anyway!

Eyes are 'three steps worse', so new glasses are in order, but the frames I chose are very cute and that makes me happy.

I found this meme and as I'm going through stuff, it's fairly appropriate.

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

( Yellow Card! )

Happy Saturday!

Tuesday! It's my good news day. Well, not really, but I like that song.

I've discovered Bejeweled. Not good. Wow. I forgot how much of a time suck those games can be. (Oh, Alchemy. I got really, really good at you)

Another Meme! 'Cause those writing juices need to get flowing.

Pick one of my icons, and I will write you a line of fic based on it. One request per requester.

Three Line Stories:

Leave me a prompt (or two), a pairing and/or a fandom and I will write you a three line fic.

I'll warn you, I'm in a fluffy, sexy kind of writing mood. ♥

So! I'm compiling fics to rec over at het_reccers and I'm noticing a couple of things about the fics that I enjoy. For example, I tend to like odd pairings and very long stories. A lot of the fics I've saved are chaptered and quite epic. This got me to thinking about my own writing and stories.

I was considering my writing goals for this year and I've finally settled on them. I'm not going to focus too much on word count as I still don't know where I'm going to end up in the next few months. Instead, I'm focusing on research and original fic. Yep. You heard me. I'd like to write more original stuff and so I'm afraid the TCG 'verse is going to be around for a while. I'm also going to try to be more selective about stuff I write, take more time with the ideas, and do some bloody research.

You know how sometimes you read something and just go: "Wow. That was so intelligent. Everything fit together so well." Well, that's what I'm aiming for.

I think. This is of course, liable to change if the wind blows in a certain direction, so we'll see.

Anyway!

Poll Time!

I'd just like to know people's preferences in regards to length and ratings of fic. If there is a type I've forgotten or you'd like to explain your preferences, feel free to comment!

Thank you!

[Poll #1665336]

1. McCoy/Chapel is DONE! Woo!

2. Christmas cake was eaten earlier today. It was gorgeous beyond belief actually.

3. Presents have all been purchased!

4. Fem!Mycroft is devious and amazing.

5. I watched 300 last night which I had never seen before. Its only redeeming feature was the way Michael Fassbender leapt and bounded all over the place in his skimpy little shorts. My goodness gracious, he certainly can lunge, can't he?

Have a lovely evening everyone!

There is a lot of snow out there. It's well above my ankles. (Cue telling this to my husband and him saying, 'Yeah, but your ankles are really short.' Grrr. Bite me, Mr. Six-Foot-Tall person. It's still really deep. :P)

So, I'm going home before the trains stop or something predictable like that.

And this is good because it means I can work on my Yuletide story. I have two little sections left and then I'm done. Did I read correctly? We can upload and then edit even after the 20th Dec?

I'm also still on a massive Rupert Graves kick. He's really all sorts of lovely. Feel free to leave comments saying how adorable he is in this post, if you'd like. :D

Happy TGIF!

ETA: BTW, I left a prompt over at the Sherlock Kink Meme and I think I want to write it myself. Is it silly to fill one's own prompt?