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OMG INTERNET HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII[Poll #1763596]

WHAT HAVE I MISSED? Link me to your important posts/new stories/cool things that happened/pictures of starfish! I'mma go play on

elrhiarhodan's Promptfest VI and watch The Glee Project.

YAY SUMMER

I'MMA TELL YOU A STORY.

It is a short story about a tall lass. (Me!)

( my terrible horrible no good very bad week )used and possibly trying to flirt with you, please be nice to him? He's somebody's family, and they're probably worried about him.

My plans to spend this summer writing and being part of fandom again have failed to materialize. And I think that's what actually making me feel down. It's like all my cool friends went to summer camp without me.

But. Yeah. Anyway. That is what is going on in the life of me.

Moving sucks. BUT! The new house is lovely. All big furniture items are moved, the dogs have explored every nook and cranny of the new place, and we've met...four different neighbors! Who are all v. friendly. I think my dad's making a Guy Friend with one of the neighbors. THEY DRANK BEER ON THE PORCH TOGETHER. IT WAS ADORABLE.
My Crazy Uncle has decided that my mom's offer of the entire basement as an apartment basically rent-free is not generous enough, because the washer and dryer have to be down there and he cannot handle that. So he's in a hotel now. Somewhere. Or possible he's donated all of his belongings to a Goodwill and gone back to being homeless, which was his back-up plan. *headdesk*
No internet at new house yet. Will be even more out of touch the next week or so. SO SORRY!

Question for flist:

Working on a XMFC beach-aftermath fic, but I am historically/geographically stupid. What possible options are there for the team getting off the beach? What hospitals would they be close to? Would said hospitals have helicopters? Are there Canonical Facts about what transpired?

I'm going to see the movie again later today with my mom and hopefully Little Sister, who I bribed with an explanation about how the Xavier/Magneto divide was based on the different ideologies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She's been a King fan since she was a toddler. She used to sit everyone down and recite facts about Marfin Lufer King. (I miss her speech impediment.)
Back to writing. Half an hour before the movie, then will be spending the rest of the day packing up shit at the old house and hauling it to the new place.

HOW ARE YOU GUYS? GIVE ME UPDATES!

Current Location: PANERA, BITCHES

1. Someone wrote an extra story for me in the [Poll #1757588]AND FINALLY: THE AUCTION! It closes...today? Sometime? GET YOUR LAST BIDS IN! Here's the c/p'd info about my thread/the whole shebang: there is a charity auction! I'm offering a fic! I forgot to put minimum word count on there, so: I've only written one charity fic that fit under 2k before (and that was one thousand cranes, which I think was an okay exception). Most end up over 5k. You can check out my writing for: chatities tag to see the kind of work I do for this sort of set-up.

Here's all of the deets from my thread:

User Name:

hoosierbitch
Email: whoisyourb [at] gmail [dot] com
LJ Examples of your work: All of my fics, and fics written just for charities.
Fandoms you'll write: White Collar, Glee, Merlin, Star Trek (Reboot), Sky High, Friday Night Lights, Leverage, Doctor Who.
Pairings you'll write: List and further explanation at my Five Acts post here. I'm willing to stretch myself when it comes to charity fics, though, so if you want something that's not on the list, just shoot me an email or PM! :-)
Starting Bid: $5.

If anyone else wants to volunteer some talents or bid on some awesome stuff: here's the fic post, crafts/postcards, art. Here's the intro post with info about places to donate, and here's the FAQ. If anyone else is offering, please feel free to link and promote your threads in the comments here!

Job is going well! I went out and bought better shoes after that first horrible day, and the last two days were much less painful (not painless, but better). Worked 11 hours yesterday, five of them walking. I'mma gonna be so fucking fit if I survive this! Next week I'll be working 9-hour days instead of 11, so I'll have my mornings back to write. THANK GOD, because there are so many fics I need to write! *is happy*

I've got Saturday off to spend in a cafe, and then Sunday hopefully I'll be canvassing Pride--where a good canvasser can apparently make, like, lots of money. Maybe $150-200 for one day's work.

WHITE COLLAR FIC REC:

Night Sins, from the

wcpairings community! It was written for my prompt:

Rough-angsty-trust-issues sex. Neal/Peter. Maybe fallout from the last episode, maybe Neal slips up somewhere else - Peter's pushed over the edge and fucks Neal. Hard. Maybe up against a wall. With spit for lube. And lots of dirty talk.

This is the author's summary: When he discovers a side-project of Neal’s, Peter unleashes his anger…and a whole lot more.
Warning: Dubcon.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT IT IS INDEED ROUGH, ANGSTY, TENSE, AND SEXY AS HELL, Y'ALL.

REEEEAD IIIIIIT.

Dear The Job Interview I Just Had,

You were awkward. Why did we spend so long talking about cats? I'm a dog person.

...maybe that's why it was awkward. Also, hypothetical questions about how I would answer questions that I don't know the answers to because I haven't been through training are mean. And you can tell your scribbly-therapist's-notepad that I said that. Only don't, because I want this job. Even if it's only a couple of evenings a couple of weeks each month. I NEEDS MAH MONEYS SO I CAN GO TO SCHOOL.

Also--I don't put a lot of stock in handshakes. But. Yours was really limp. And I stood up when you left the table. Is that...is that weird? Chivalrous? Something only dudes are supposed to do? I am a reasonably butch woman, does that make it okay? It did kind of make it so I loomed over you, though, because I am tall and you were short. Nice lasting impression, y/y?

LOVE,
HB

*sigh*

Dear Crazy Uncle,

No. No, I will not go car shopping with you this weekend. Not just because I don't know anything about cars, not because I think that buying a car right now is a stupid financial decision (it is), not because I'm homophobic and want to avoid physical contact with you (really? REALLY?), but because the last time I went car shopping with you I almost died.

(He claimed to know how to drive a stick shift. HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STICK SHIFT. Me and my sister were in the back seat, the car salesman was in the passenger seat. The whole test drive was a blur of near-misses, loud screeching noises, the salesman's awkward laugh, Crazy Uncle shouting THEY DID NOT USED TO BE LIKE THIS, and my sister and I clutching on to each other for dear life. It was like being on a roller coaster. A roller coaster going the wrong way down a one-way street.)

LOVE,
YOUR NIECE

IN THE GOOD NEWS FRONT: GUESS WHO HAS A HOUSE? THIS GUY's parents! My folks have purchased a house! Assuming their loan comes through. Which means we've got about a month to pack up the house that we've been in for two years. I'm the only person in my family who's not a serious packrat (...books don't count). So I'll be spending the next month carting around boxes will all of my brother's old lego collections, my sister's old shoes and purses (from before she turned into a dumpster-diving-anarchist-vegan-hipster), my dad's papers and class notes from the last thirty years, and my mother's collection of HEY THIS BOX OF THINGS IS ONLY A DOLLAR MAN AUCTIONS SURE ARE FUN purchases.

I'm going to finish my freakishly salty frittata and drown my sorrows in porn. Or Diet Pepsi. Or both.

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So, my uncle's here!

Ahaha.

I laugh because it's actually not funny at all.

( cut for my uncle being crazy and suicidal all over everyone in the restaurant last night. )

Holy shit.

I have officially finished my first year of graduate school.

*happy dance*

I owe a big thank you to everyone who's helped me get through this bitch of a year intact - especially

photoash,

elrhiarhodan,

rabidchild67,

afiawri, and

coffeethyme4me. Thank you for being such generous, loving, and supportive friends. I am lucky to have you.

I'll be driving back to St. Louis tomorrow, and then heading back up here to finish packing/moving out next week. My folks are leaving town to go to my brother's graduation (WOO BRO!!), so I'll be spending the weekend applying for jobs, walking the dogs (including the adorable new corgi who randomly showed up at our house one day), and OH YEAH BABYSITTING MY CRAZY UNCLE.

*headdesk*

It's like a bad horror movie. He's baaaaaack!

I anticipate spending a lot of time hiding out at the Panera. Writing porn.

Like a boss.

BRING IT, SUMMER!

I woke up this morning and was excited for the day. :D :D :D :D :D

That marks the first time that I've gotten out of bed without having to force myself in WEEKS. Thank you, antidepressants! \o/ And thanks to my mother, who offered to drive three hours to have dinner with me. We're going to just wait until I drive home for Spring Break, but the fact that she wanted to, and that it was an option if I really needed it, helped to alleviate some of the stress.

Romeo & Juliet starts tomorrow, and even though I'm less prepared than I'd like to be, I'm not UNprepared. Given the givens, I'm gonna try not to beat myself up over that too much.

And as a final thank you to all of you: HAVE SOME PORN! This is part of what is turning into a RIDICULOUSLY PORNTACULAR body!swap fic for

rabidchild67. I don't know when I'm going to have time to finish it, so here's a bit to tide you over!

Information that is necessary for reading this snippet out of context: HANDWAVY PLOT HAPPENS AND NEAL AND EL SWITCH BODIES.

AND THEN SEX.

\o/

( Pooooooooooooooooooooooorn! )
Also, MY TULIPS ARE BLOOMING! IT IS NOT UNLIKE A METAPHOR.

( You can call me Flower if you want to... )

Thank you all so much for your support. Seriously - I cannot say enough how much I appreciate it. ♥

( Shakespeare and Chicago! Cut for excessive rambliness. Ramblyness? I like tacos. )

waltzmatildah is running a fundraiser on her LJ to raise money for relief efforts in Australia. The flooding there has been devastating and far-reaching, and fandom has a great history of being able to come together as a community when things like this happen to raise money for good charities.

The way this fundraiser works is that writers offer fics for the folks who offer to donate the most money to different charities (Queensland Government Flood Relief Appeal and the RSPCA Flood Appeal have been promoted all over the place as good places to donate).

I'm offering one fic for each of the two highest bidders. Here's the thread with all of my details. (Not, to, like, twist arms or anything, but keep in mind that I'm going to have a lot less time to write this semester, and that these two stories will definitely get written. So if there's anything you're dying to read, this is probably the best way to ensure that it'll get written before the summer!)

Here's a complete list of all the authors/fandoms on offer! If you have money, consider making a bid! If you're a writer, consider making an offer! If you have neither money nor the inclination to write, consider signal-boosting! If you don't want to do any of those things...you should eat a mango. They're delicious.

Also, I can't even tell you how much I hate html right now. That picture did not want to go to there.

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