eyes closed, head first, can't lose

Hi folks! Uh, obviously, it's been a long time since I've been on LJ. Tumblr ate my life. But! I am back for a bit (and then hopefully more, to post random thoughts and also fics, because I miss my LJ peeps).

I want to signal boost fandomaid's latest campaign to raise money after the earthquake in Nepal. They're doing a 'Buy It Now' round to get things moving quickly. Those of you who are creators of things (fic, art, crafts, food, podfic, other things too probably) can offer whatever you feel comfortable with. Those of you who have some money to give can make donations to a relevant charity of your choice AND receive awesome things. If you are neither of those things, you can still signal boost!




My thread is here, and I'm offering two fics in various fandoms (including White Collar). There are a lot of other offers already there--come look at all the awesomeness!

( I have achieved the Grad Student Holy Grail. )

*falls over with happy*

OKAY RIGHT BUT IMPORTANT THINGS:

1) For the first time I'm actually going to GO somewhere for my Spring Break! To an exotic, foreign land! (Canada.) WOOOO!!!
2) DID Y'ALL KNOW MATT BOMER DID AN ELVIS THEMED PHOTOSHOOT FOR GQ ITALIA? HE SINGS AND IS GORGEOUS.
3) Ivorysilk makes my angsty heart happy. Lovely post-Checkmate fic that I got to beta, it's wonderful, you should read it.
4) fandom_helps.


This is an auction to benefit Planned Parenthood. You can go and offer handmade items, fics, vids, pics, misc (pretty much anything), and on the 14th other folks will bid on them. All of the money goes to Planned Parenthood. It's a great way to get some wonderful personalized gifts for yourself/others, and it's a way to help raise money for a cause you support even if you're someone (like me!) who can't afford to give very much on their own. You can find my thread, where I'm offering a fic with a 2k word minimum, here. 

The auction's on DW, but you can offer/bid with an openid (there's a tutorial on the comm if you don't know how to do that). Posting offers ends on the 13th, bidding starts on the 14th, and ends on the 21st. 

I know there are a shit-ton of talented people on my flist, and on y'alls flists--so think about what you can offer, what you can afford, or even if you can help to signal boost this so that the information gets to more people. ♥

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Update on how Being Not Depressed is not the same as Being Depressed:

Some of my study/coping/life habits that have served me well in the past are clashing with Not Being Depressed. So--you know how if you feel cruddy the majority of the time, that whenever you DON'T feel cruddy, you desperately try to get as much done as you possibly can? If you only have thirty minutes in the day where the idea of sending emails to people doesn't make your stomach clench, then you need to jump on those thirty minutes and use them as best you can. Unfortunately, now that I actually have a consistently higher amount of energy, it's hard to get over the instinct to get ALL OF THE THINGS DONE ASAP.

So I have energy (WHICH IS SO COOL), but I don't know how to...how to have energy and not feel like I have to take immediate advantage of it. Because after working for a couple of hours, I should probably let myself take a break without my inner Jewish mother going OMG YOU LAZY SLACKER YOU SHOULD BE WORKING. I think this is exacerbated by the fact that I'm working on a lot of long-term projects that I can't actually Git Done right away.

It's not a big deal, and I'm poking around it to figure it out, it's just something I'm thinking thinky thoughts about.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING: Where are the fics where Matt Bomer/Neal climbs Joe Manganiello/Ben like a tree? I got hot and bothered just watching them BE NEAR EACH OTHER. My size differential kink just went bonkers. So. PORN?

In case y'all had not heard: the weather in the Midwest has been fucking batshit. Tornadoes destroyed the town of Joplin, MO, and killed over a hundred people. They have also swept through many other Midwestern cities (including my current home base of St. Louis, MO). We picked up our third dog when he wandered into a coworker's yard the day after the tornadoes hit the airport. They couldn't keep him, so now we have an adorable corgi (his fun party trick: he can imitate police sirens with startling accuracy).

BUT ANYWAY SO: there is a charity auction! I'm offering a fic! Uh, 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:


I think this auction could use someone to make some graphics (a banner and an icon, maybe)--if anyone here has the know-how and some spare time, I think they might appreciate it. I know I'd use them! 

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! 

Title: Metamorphosis
Author: hoosierbitch 
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: White Collar
Pairing: Elizabeth/Neal/Peter
Word Count: 9,000
Notes: I started writing this for the lovely rabidchild67 back in January when she won a bid for the Queensland Flood Auction. It started out as smut, but grew into something that was also about relationships and gender roles. I hope you like your fic!
Thanks: rabidchild67 did an amazing, thorough, insightful beta read for me. Any remaining mistakes are all my own!

Summary: Neal and Elizabeth switch bodies. Then things get complicated.

( There was a burst of light. )

( 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.