eyes closed, head first, can't lose

So my life's been pretty crazy lately--I'm working a full-time job at a call center (it's all incoming calls, mostly pretending to be a receptionist and scheduling appointments and taking messages). It's about as good as a call center job can be, but it still makes my brain sad. On top of that I'm working a part time job two-three nights a week--that one's actually making outbound "Gimme money?" calls, but it's working at a theatre that I love, with really nice coworkers and a lovely bossman.

Then I went to Canada for basically an entire week, because I want ivorysilk to gay-Canadian-marry me so that I can move to Toronto and live in the basement with her bunnies. (We took a prom picture at Niagara, right under their perpetual rainbow, and it's actually engagement-card-announcement-level beautiful. Soon I shall turn her gay for me (that's totes possible, don't squish my dreams) and then steal her bunnies. Although soon I will not want to kidnap her bunnies quite as badly, because...

I'MMA GETTIN' A DOOOOOOOOOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*dance*

I'm picking him up later today from the Humane Society. He's some sort of scruffy minieature Schnauzer mix. He's 15 pounds of scruffy hair and snuggles. He was dropped off at a shelter in Kansas, which ran out of room, and so they sent him over to Minneapolis, where he climbed into my lap and started napping. They don't know anything about him. Except that at some point in his life someone named him Bowzer. That is not going to remain his name. No. Nu-uh. Not happening.

[The vast majority of these suggestions are from alfadorcat]

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Now I'm off to Walmart to buy a crate, and clean my car out, and maybe use one of my IHOP GroupOns while I wait for thrift stores to open up, cause I need curtain rods and a king-sized bedsheet and any/all dog toys I can find. (I already have really cute water/food bowls.)

I'll post more soon (about the dog, and about my awesome roommates, and about my weird lease, and my on-hold dating life, and going back to Temple regularly). For now: a cool shower so I stop feeling like a melting children's toy, shopping, eating, DOG! :D

A) Anyone know of any places where I can find/download/watch Season 1 of Arrow for free?
B) I really want to fall in love with Homestuck and Teen Wolf. I really do. Anyone have links to, like, manifestos or primers or some "THIS IS WHY OUR CANON IS AWESOME" posts?
C) Recommendations for movies with love triangles/threesome movies with happypoly endings? Googling "happy ending threesome" has gotten me a lot of awesome porn, but not so much scripted narrative...

D) Real life is going pretty swell. Following up some good leads for fall housing in cool neighborhoods, trying not to procrastinate writing cover letters for jobs I actually want, and dating/seeing/whatever-terminology-the-kids-are-using-these-days an awesome lady. :-) We have done dates. \o/

Thanks in advance advance for any help with the recs!

I'M IN NEW YOOOOOOOORK!

I am out of TinyTown FOREVER! BWAHAHAHA! And now, thanks to her ridiculously kind gift of frequent flyer miles, I am in NY with the lovely elrhiarhodan, who has a beautiful house, comfortable beds, lots of outlets, delicious olives, and a generous heart. It's like fandom heaven. Later today we pick up the Taskmaster (I'm making up monikers now; it's a thing) ivorysilk, who's had a heck of a time getting here (but really, what else did we expect from Canadians? ). Later today we'll be joined by the caravan of the pear-vodka-bearing rabidchild67, the editor-in-chief jrosemary, and the ninja masquerading as doctorfangeek. On Sunday we'll be joined by monkeyonthelam, who I have yet to meet, and is thus moniker-less. Although "moniker-less monkey" sounds pretty cool...

I hope that I have html'd everyone's names correctly and won't accidentally delete the whole thing again. /o\

Things I hope to do this weekend:

• eat more of those olives, DAMN
• get final betas entered and post chapter 4 of dyslexia!fic, then finish the next part and send it out
• write hcbingo crossover
• start/plan wcpairings fic
• and then probably some porn, because really, the people who've friended me over this past year probably think I'm some studious kid!fic author whose only kink is insecurity. it's wrong to mislead them.
• respond to comments, so i will be less of a terrible person
• apply for two more jobs (apparently, moving to a new city requires money. what's up with that, minneapolis?)

Lovelovelovelovelove to all of you who can't be here in person. Hopefully we'll be able to do another open-meetup soon so that whoever wants to come can grab/share hotel rooms, and we can all porn hang out together. ♥

List o' Awesome:
1) arsenicjade has written a piece in my fledgling Avengers dyslexia!verse, and it is FABULOUS. I'm also working on a sequel (with AJ's encouragment and assistance, because we are writing braintwins) and her contribution is really inspiring. "Things Ain't So Lonely Anymore"
2) The wonderful fatum_sts has translated my Merlin fic To Command the Sea (the King of Camelot Remix) into CHINESE! How cool is that??? (My fic is a remix of mariana_oconnor's lovely fic, which can be found here.) You can read the new translation here! :-)
3) I saw National Theatre Live's re-broadcast of Frankenstein (with Cumberbatch as Frankenstein and Miller as the Creature) last week, and it was breathtaking. The physicality work was astounding. My jaw literally dropped. I'll be seeing it again in a few weeks, when they're going to show it with the leads in the opposite roles. So. Excited.
4) Summer Camp One is over! I'm working sporadically over the next few weeks, prepping for the course I'll be teaching and the show I'm directing, and bouncing around to different theatres in the area to meet people. I think it'll be nerve-wracking and boring in turn (because meeting cool people is scary, and also I am crap with unstructured time). I hope to do more hiking. B/c of DESERT.

Right. ONTO THE FIC:

Title: Mending
Fandom: White Collar
Series: Sneakers and Sheriff Badges. This is the fourth part, but can be read as a stand-alone!
Rating: PG-13
Content Advisory: Allusions to neglect and abuse.
Notes: This was written for the Whump-a-Palooza fest on whitecollarhc.
Thanks: I had two wonderful betas for this fic: neontiger55 and embroiderama! All remaining mistakes are my fault. Also, a special shout-out to ivorysilk, who's pretty much the entire reason that this is a 'verse, and not just that-kidfic-I-wrote-that-one-time.
Summary: Neal breaks his arm.

( “Never mind,” Neal says, more of his head disappearing around the door, until he’s just a fluff of hair backlit by the Batman nightlight in the hall. “Go back to sleep. I didn’t mean to wake you up.” )