| So happy American Thanksgiving everyone. And to the non-American's reading this I still hope you have a good day.
At this point I should probably go and see if I need to help cooking...boo. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| So, apparently 'Water's of Mars' snook up me and it's airing...today...on one side of the pond or another at this point. I've also been putting off watching TSJA so far this year (not sure why just...savoring and extending the time before I have seen it I guess). I did the same thing with CoE and finally watched it what a month after it aired? And that was a show that aired in a week.
In any case, apparently there's new DW to be had soon and...it's reminding me that I just don't care that much anymore. I think I need to rewatch the show, or at least get back into vidding it or something because right now I'm feeling towards these last few specials the way I did for the end of Harry Potter, that no matter what the story is coming up it's just there and I'm not *really* looking forward to it.
This, I'm sure is a consequence of *knowing* I'm going to stop when Moffat takes over. If I was at all looking forward to season 5 then I'd be more excited to see what the special would do with DT's last episodes and how things would be going forward. But there *is no* going forward aspect to me, it's about the coming of the END. And these are already in epilogue stage, about how Ten goes when every other story line pretty much left in JE (some don't have to be permanently ended but all of them could be considered over (as far as DW goes)).
Granted I've been steadily dropping out of love with the show ever since JE always at least partly for those same reasons, but having this year to say goodbye to Ten/DT/RTD and Co means that I can measure my drop in interest with each special. Not necessarily because the specials haven't been great (although I haven't been crazy about either it must be said) but because instead of JE being the finale for me and DW when my love for the show, though confused was still pretty high, I've been downshifting as the year has passed.
I'm not sure which would have been more depressing in the end. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So back to normal around here, snagging a meme from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) haro
Name a fandom and I'll tell you three pairings I love, two pairings I consider shipping, and one pairing I hate. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| So self, happy 500th post. :)
And well, not a lot of you had preferences on what I would talk about for my 500th post, so, for those who did here it is.
For fletcherism ( thoughts on Harry Potter: )
For anti_social_ite( thoughts on Kitty/Robert: )
Plus a little other babble
Yep, that about used up my typing skills for the day. The last couple days my right hand has been really swollen up and I have no idea why. It’s getting better but typing’s a bit difficult with a hand and a half basically. This has been a bad time to happen (not that there ever a great time) as I was already behind on NaNo. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back to being able to type more and I can try to catch up...some of the amount I’m behind. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Since my next post will be my 500th lj post I've been trying to think of something special to do for it, having not come up with anything great I'm going to do the following:
Name me a fandom/character/ship/hobby that I'm interested it and in the big 500th post I'll talk about why I'm interested in them.
Side note: NaNoWriMo, not quite 10,000 words yet so as of yesterday I ended up just a shade over two days behind. Not insurmountable but not great. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I FINISHED MY BIGBANGHOOD STORY. Finally.
Stories are supposed to be all done this weekend and I've still got a lot of editing to do (and my beta reader) but the important thing is IT'S DONE. Now if I end up being only 3,000 or so words short on my NaNo story (which I can now give more focus to) I might have to be like...um here's some random stuff about Guy of Gisborne, but I DID write it during November.
Final (pre editing) word count: 43,950 and that took me months to do. Now, I wasn't just writing for the sake of writing either so we'll see what that bodes for NaNo all told. | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| So, so far today I have written a bit over 2,000 words...of BBH fic, not NaNo. Seriously, this BBH fic keeps proving to be longer and longer. However I really am I think finally down to the last couple scenes (well, that and going through the 18,000 words I have after that to make sure I haven't caused any contradictions by writing out of order). Can't decide if I'm going to write them today, or back-burner it until tomorrow and do some NaNo writing.
Also, I went and got a haircut, super exciting I know. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Well, I haven't hit my goal any day so far, but until today I wasn't more than a few hundred words behind. But today I only wrote a little this morning and just couldn't find it again later. Then there was the baseball game (and phooey, now no more baseball for...4-5 months depending on if spring training counts). And now I think I'd rather watch BSG: The Plan than write which'll cover most of the rest of the night.
I have also continued to make progress on the BBH fic and I think I may meet the deadline (though I may be on the later end depending on how long betaing takes once I finally finish but since we've already been exchanging sections that's at least underway too).
I'll have to pick up the pace again tomorrow but I really don't feel focused enough tonight.
Current NaNo word count: 4,787 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| -Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
-I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
-Update your journal with the answers to the questions
-Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions (I'll also answer more, if asked)
rabid1st asked me questions and here are my answers
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| Well, I didn't really expect to be on par for today, in fact I expect to be behind for a while, between baseball and bigbanghood still taking time, NaNo...can wait. However accomplishments for the day include
-Having set my mind to it after Nov. technically started it counts, that before I wrote word one I completely scrapped my initial idea for a new one and was thinking about it as I was falling asleep last night.
-Defining character names and ages for the first section of the story.
-Deciding to keep a yWriter file for this and figuring out how that works (more or less) Note for anyone interested, it seems like an awesome program, but one problem is it doesn't have an in line spell/grammar check. Now if you're being literal with NaNo rules that maybe that's okay but for me it's not like typos take that long to fix as I'm going and I'd really like to not discover them randomly later. Although on the flip side not have to look at word underlining basically every single character name might be a plus.
-~300 words of BBH fic plus BBH chat this afternoon
-Discovering that starting your main character off doing futuristic skydiving is a good way to get the excitement going for the story.
-1,135 NaNo words, which isn't to be sneezed at. Not great, not on par, but not bad. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Okay, so I'm STILL not done with my bugbanghood fic and NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. I was supposed to have the BBH fic done weeks ago but it hasn't happened obviously. To try and put a good spin on it it'll keep me from focusing too hard on my NaNo story too early and going crazy too soon. Not much of a positive spin, but maybe with too much writing I want to do I'll make more time for it.
Chances of that are small, but one can hope.
If anyone wants to be NaNo writing buddies I'm under the same name over there. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| shinyopals was talking yesterday about how to successfully convert someone to Doctor Who and it got me thinking about a few things. Like how I would like to be converted to a new show, and how to convert other people. And the difference between where I think one should start watching a show and episodes that really pulled me in.
For now we’ll just do Doctor Who, but I might decide to do some more later.
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| | I really need to kick start the muses, so feel free to give me prompts and I'll write some drabbles/short fics for them. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| Well I'm still kind of smarting over the last couple baseball games but here's some happy things.
1) FUNKY MEME:
the SUPER POWER meme !
2) New SJA soon! Yay, I love that show (even though I still kind of miss Maria, but the show hasn't totally forgotten her so it's okay (ish)).
3) Hey, with no longer spending so much of my time on baseball (not that I won't watch any of the games now that my boys are out but I won't watch as much) maybe I can actually get some good muses going, finishing my BBH fic is priority, but I'm starting to miss vidding too.
3.5) I also may take the time to catch up on my TV shows that I'm way behind on; about the only things I've been keeping up with are sitcoms and not even all of them (HIMYM, TBBT, Office, and I added Community (quite good) are the only ones I've kept on top of). And I've got a lot of shows I mean to get back to or try out.
Stupid foggy brain making it hard to add more to this list. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So a few thoughts on the baseball playoffs so far:
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I should probably go find me a Rockies icon if the playoffs go much longer for them. My Sheridan icon is only really loosely appropriate (he's a baseball fan, and in one of the tie in books he's supposedly from Colorado so it's vaguely fitting right?) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| So as of yesterday the Rockies are officially in the playoffs, but it's not just that, they could still manage to win the division too which would be awesome even if it wouldn't make a huge difference.
Hurray baseball even if you do keep me from writing most evenings. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Because I adore memes and this one is floating around, I'm grabbing it.
Ask me a fandom, and I'll tell you...
OTP:
Runner-up:
Honorable mention(s):
Crack pairing(s):
Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't: | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
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