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auburnnothenna @ 6:47pm: consternation
::stares at fic::

Why the effing hell does Rodney turn mean as a rabid rattlesnake every time I try to write this sex scene?

What is wrong with him?

What is wrong with me?

::headdesk::

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azurehart @ 11:41am: Sorrow...
For those killed or wounded in the attack at Ft. Hood, a moment of silence.

elmyraemilie @ 8:06pm: Classic!
I've been doing a lot of reading lately. Friend Nate lent me a couple books by his yoga teacher, and I've been sipping those down--there's a lot to digest, so they're not suitable for gulping. Of course, there's Michael Chabon; not the new collection of essays, but a reread of The Yiddish Policemen's Union, which I love, all except one part, where I think, "Man, you really, really needed some deus ex machina there, didn't you?" It's more lovely for its flaw, though, at least in my eyes.

Also on the list is Charles de Lint's Widdershins. It's an engaging book, a grim fairy tale set among the malls and cutesy tourist towns of our century. I'm reading it with a certain awe, though, for the man's ability to maintain a plot over more than 500 pages, including more than a dozen characters who are primary to the action. It's kind of astounding.

Last but certainly not least, I've been reading some Classic CSI slash. I made that designation up; Classic CSI is CSI with the team intact, before the thing with Sara got so far out of hand. Greg, Nicky, Catherine, Sara, Brass, Bobby, Doc Robbins, Wendy, SuperDave, Archie, Mandy...and of course, Grissom. My favorites at the CSI Forensics archive are by Evan Nicholas and Eleanor Lavish--they're not the only spectacularly good writers on that site, though, and it's been fun finding my way back to my favorites.

Not much to report in other news. Yoga continues apace--we're working legs this week, and baby let me tell you, mine are definitely feeling like they've been worked. I missed NCIS this week because I was doing laundry--the schedule is off because Spouse is going out of town this weekend, and he needed the washer tonight so he can pack tomorrow. I have fiendish plans for my weekend on my own. I think I'll clean a little bit, return a blouse that lost a fastener the first time I washed it, and do some holiday shopping. Maybe watch a DVD or two.

What can I say? It's life in the fast lane.

aikonamika, posting in porn_battle @ 5:41pm: Prompts W-Z, Crossovers, RPF
( Prompts W-Z, Crossovers, RPF )

aikonamika, posting in porn_battle @ 5:38pm: Prompts Q-V
( Prompts Q-V )

aikonamika, posting in porn_battle @ 5:34pm: Prompts K-P
( Prompt K-P )

aikonamika, posting in porn_battle @ 5:33pm: Prompts E-J
( Prompts E-J )

aikonamika, posting in porn_battle @ 5:11pm: Prompts 0-9, Symbols, A-D
Welcome to Round Nine of Porn Battle! This will run until midnight EST on November 11th. Please remember to post the prompt as the subject title of your post, and if the story exceeds the length of one post, make the second as a reply to the first part. Happy porning!

( Prompts 0-9, Symbols, A-D )

auburnnothenna @ 11:48am: yuletide! and meandering
Currently ahemming the pilot of White Collar. If this turns out to be my next fandom, I predict the local Starbucks will get used to me showing up to use their faster wifi.

Contemplating the Yuletide sign ups. I can do a thousand words in a day. Of course, not a thousand words that finish a story, but we'll ignore that niggling little inconvenience. few has written me a how to sign up post here; if you're a newbie like me, take a gander.

I think I'll have the first draft of the sga secret santa story done by the weekend. I broke 10,000 words last night and have thrown out all the parts that aren't from John's pov, so it's on the down hill slide. No more action to speak of, just two emotional denouements and the sex scene. Hope no one thinks I'm bashing Mitchell or Keller in this, because I most certainly don't mean to do that. I see it as a no fault situation, with no one meaning to hurt anyone ele.

Circling back to Yuletide, I mean to take my time making my decisions before I officially sign up. No use piling on in the first few hours and breaking it, after all.

...

Poking around the internets, I found the kind of diabetic socks my dad likes and ordered him some. Gah. 70+ bucks for socks! For that they ought to do their own laundry. But they'll make Dad and his feet happy and more comfortable.


***

Huh. Do not like the Starbucks on the other side of town, but this one is pretty handy and much quieter. And the brownies are tasty.

Hell and damnation, I've succumbed!

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jlsigman, posting in porn_battle @ 5:05am: PROMPTING IS NOW CLOSED!
Thank y'all so much for all the great prompts!

Now I need to finish putting them in order, then I'll send them over to be posted.

See you soon!

auburnnothenna @ 11:22pm: SG peeU
Whenever I think I might possibly someday subject my brain cells to SGU, I run across something that snaps me back to sanity.

( annoying show is annoying )

SGA secret santa story is cooking along. I'm averaging something like 2300 words a day on it. Half way done. It's invigorating to work on things I'll be able to post. Once it is done, I'll go back to part four of GT&T and try to finish it before the end of the year, maybe fit in something from the Green Sea 'verse and then the Criminal Minds apocafic. And then get back to the original novel I started last January.

Hi, I'm Auburn and I'm a deadline addict. But it has to be outside deadlines. The ones I set for myself -- like finishing the novel? -- have no force. It takes anxiety to motivate me.

Only ten or so days until SGA Big Bang goes live. Apparently there was a sign up to pick a day to post a teaser, but I must have been out of town (or just out of my mind) because I missed it at the time. I'm really, really looking forward to the artwork for my story, anyway. ::cross fingers:: 

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azurehart @ 6:29pm: I kill cars - part 3
Just shoot me now and get it over with!

Okay last weekend my front left brake locked up.  Dad replaced it for me Wednesday.  Drove it Thursday and Friday with no problems.  

Well this afternoon I went to drive it to the next town, I got about 10 blocks away, and it happened again.  By the time I got turned around and back home there was smoke coming out from around the wheel, and the acrid smell of burned brakes was overpowering.

Once again, we're down to one usable car between the three of us.

jlsigman, posting in porn_battle @ 5:22am: PUT YOUR PROMPTS HERE, PLEASE!
(updated 10:28am: some fandoms don't need entire names)
(Updated 5:35am Nov 2: Sorry, me + muscle relaxants = x_x)

Couple of things to read before you post:

1) PLEASE spell out your fandom completely and characters correctly. There's a very good chance I won't know them.

2) PLEASE use proper capitalization and number notation (roman numerals for the most part).

Things that don't conform to the above will make me cranky, and you will likely end up with your prompts ignored.

I will stop taking prompts after I wake up Wednesday November 4th, which is usually 5:30am-ish EDT. Then they'll be sorted and posted by the other co-mod for you to write on.

Thanks!

auburnnothenna @ 6:01pm: So tempting, so crazy, 'cause I love me the end of the world: apocabigbang!
Ten thousand word minimum, any fandom, not due until February, apocafic! 

Apocabigbang

Also, all you great writers reading this (why are you reading this and not writing me fic?) should check it out.

I wanna sign up so much. I love apocafic, pro and fan, like a burning, burning, burning thing.

But would anyone want to read a Criminal Minds apocafic? I have a genuinely cool idea that isn't supernatural, isn't zombies, and isn't nuclear war (though it might escalate) for the collapse of civilization.

Peoples! Talk me down from signing up for this! (Or egg me on, because you realize now that there is no way for your life to be complete without a Criminal Minds apocafic.)

BTW - home, internets, I missed you. Though I really wish my dad had been feeling better before I had to leave.
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jlsigman, posting in porn_battle @ 5:53am: HEY YOU! YES, YOU!!
Starting November 1st, the next round of Porn Battles will start. Once again we will ask for your prompts to be thrown out there for smutty minds to snap up and churn out porny gems for everyone's enjoyment.

SO start writing those prompts out, find a few from previous battles that you want to see written and throw them up.

Remember, all prompts in the top comment slot so they'll be found. If you think of some after you've posted, then post again. There's nothing that says you can only post once. In fact, we'll love you more if you post more.

azurehart @ 6:32am: I kill cars - part 2
Some of you may remember me posting about my car woes a few weeks ago.  Well it's gotten much worse since then.

First of course was my car.  That was on a Monday I went to go to work, and my car wouldn't stop dieseling.  Turns out that was a short in the starter. 

On Wednesday, when I went to borrow my Mother's car, it did the same thing. Then on Friday when I borrowed my Dad's car the shift stuck, and I couldn't get it in reverse.

By then Mom's car is back from the shop, running fine, so I use it to go shopping in the next town with no problems, but by Tuesday when Mom tried to drive it it was acting up again so back to the shop it went.

Dad had replaced the starter in mine so it was drivable, but last Friday when he borrowed my car the front left brake dropped and got stuck, which makes it undrivable until fixed again.

Yesterday picked Mom's car back up from the shop after they fixed the computer problem only to realize that the transmission has gone out.  It's still drivable as long as you don't want to go above 25 miles an hour.

It has seriously been a stressful few weeks when it comes to driving anywhere.

elmyraemilie @ 8:06pm: Hey.
Watching NCIS. Hi, Gibbs! And is it me, or is McGee getting hotter and hotter--catching up to Tony in the physical hotness category? It's a rerun, but hey, still a good episode--"Deliverance."

In yoga class tonight, I made it into plow pose. Another milestone gained, or maybe regained.

On All Recipes, they have a feature that allows users to comment on the recipes. I like this; it's useful to see that six out of ten people thought the recipe needed more salt, or whatever. But I have to say that when a user comments, "I didn't like this recipe. I didn't have a can of stewed tomatoes, so I used tomato sauce, and my family doesn't like green pepper so I put in some zucchini instead of that. There were too many beans in it, and I left out one can of white beans and put in a can of corn to take up the room the beans left, and I ran out of chili powder so I just put in some jalapenos to spice it up. We won't be using this recipe again," I long to shout--"But you didn't MAKE the stupid recipe! How do you know if you like it or not????"

Other than that, nothing much going on. How's with you?

auburnnothenna @ 5:20pm: I disturb myself
Thing One.

Hard at work on the Secret Santa story and what am I writing?

( coerced consent or dubcon? possibly triggering )
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