The Adventures of a Girl and Her Dragon

And yet, thanks to someone making this awesome vid for Sisabet, I feel like I got a gift too!

Friday the 13th: the series vid to Elvis Presley's "Kissin' Cousins". I feel the need to mainline the first two seasons of F13 now. ♥

Edit: ALSO, this Mulan vid for some_stars, which reminded me that Mulan was not awesome just because she learned to kick ass, but because she was stubborn and clever and THE ARROW SCENE IS NEVER NOT GOING TO MAKE ME SQUEE, OKAY? Oh Disney, why can't more of your heroines be like Mulan?

I rang in the new year by playing WoW with my sister* and writing ridiculously self-indulgent, schmooptastic shipperfic that no one but me will ever see. I don't even feel guilty about writing ridiculously self-indulgent schmooptastic shipperfic that no one but me will ever see, and in fact, I keep reading back over it and purring at it.

Speaking of things that make me purr, on the RP front the Shadowrunner/Barricade showdown is rapidly devolving into violence porn**. ♥ XD I kind of approve of this start to the year. And by "kind of" I mean "so damn much". ♥

I think I need to consider swapping out some of my icons, if only because I don't have one I really want to use as my default right now. Hmmmm.

So far, the closest thing to a resolution I have is "write the damn character profiles for Rattrap and Airazor so you can bring them into the game, dumbass." (Yes, their apps have been approved, I'm just not happy enough to post them for everyone to look at. Because I have standards. Or something.) My other resolution may be "do not give into the temptation to app Sharpshot." Because really, the last thing this game needs is a pink Ranger. >_>

Speaking of the RP, we could still use players. *stares meaningfully at you all* Grown-ass players. As opposed to irritating fanbrats.

FAILED at the Hundred Hat Project Two: Acrylic Boogaloo, with a final total of only 75 hats. Stay tuned for me to launch into the Hundred Hat Project Three: Revenge of the Stitch as soon as I get my knitting mojo back.

MAI DRUNKPOSTING. LET ME SHOW YOU IT.


*We started out with SRS QUESTING and ended up hunting birds for their eggs so we could make eggnog.

**This thread may yet need a warning; Cade's player and I be enjoying ourselves a bit too much.

This post by anatsuno indicates that LJ may be retroactively deleting comments made by deleted journals. This is the sort of thing to hit commentfic communities hard, not to mention anyone who's had lengthy convos with people who later deleted their journals. OTOH, it seems that "deleted comment" is only showing up in S1 styles, so for the moment at least these comments should (hopefully) be available for backing up.

I now feel like I can't delete my LJs, because I don't really want to gut every conversation, off the cuff roleplay, and commentfic I ever engaged in over there.

Baaaaaybeee bear.

So, uh, where the hell is the H.G./Myka slash? Because you can't tell me there isn't any.

And realized the ratio of women to men in the regular recurring characters is 2:1, and that's without H. G. Wells. (I don't know how often H.G. will show up in S2; I hope she is frequent and spectacular.)

In related news, I need a Claudia icon or five.

From cracked.com's 6 Sex Myths as Explained by Science:

( #5: Chicks Dig the Car )

For the record, this is the car that accompanied the article. HELLS YES it's the car. (Even if that car is not a Maserati. And speaking of Ferrari's, how was I not aware that Ferrari is also in the business of building lightcycles? My inner TRON fangirl just geekgasmed.)

Edit of "it's not that I want to be RICH, it's just that I want to be able to rub up against this any time the mood strikes":

MY FIRST EVER NANO WIN BABIES! DAMN RIGHT I'M GOING TO BE INSUFFERABLE!

(Actually, I'm going to fall down exhausted. And then I'm going to realize how little story is actually contained in all those words and cry for a bit. But for now...)

*victory lap*

...except, apparently, the Dragon Quest characters.

(Really, you bastards, I need less than 3k words and you bail on me NOW?)

No, instead of the characters I NEEEEED, I have Autobots, Maximals, MaxiBots, Winchesters, and Knight Industries vehicles. My brain, dammit.

Edit: And as I just tweeted, I just finished watching the entirety of Dorkness Rising and now want fic where the Autobots (and/or Maximals) play D&D. I feel someone should love me enough to write this. (Beast Era Silverbolt would play a paladin, y/y?)

I spent the entire morning at work tweeting excerpts from Claws, which is currently free for Kindle, and which everyone should read so you can mock it with me.

MAI TWEETS I SHO U DEM

I am so glad this book was free. XD http://amzn.com/k/2NEIWV2RZ9H4K

LOLing forever. Guys, your dicks will curl up and die. warning for human mutilation and bad writing. http://amzn.com/k/12IBW0KB46H1N

if i were the military I would totally test my supercat drugs via civilian catfood company http://amzn.com/k/3LP71S6O6N4NZ

this is the first bit of interaction that's seemed genuine. 34% of the way in. http://amzn.com/k/1HF5FA0KPDRO5 (Note: It is also pretty much the ONLY bit of interaction that has seemed genuine. I think it was an accident.)

God bless Amazon for giving newb writers a way to share their stilted dialog with the world http://amzn.com/k/KNKS0OUALWBY

I'm still trying to figure out why this testing wasn't done in a government lab http://amzn.com/k/XXORGOLF09JB

should not be sobbing with laughter as heroine is saved from evil cats of evil, AND YET... http://amzn.com/k/3T94A1VQ5TPYE

since when does nip come in brown pellets? Also, way to expose youself to an unknown substance http://amzn.com/k/21MYM1DBLHYDM

mysterious lurking men, a bait trail to her house...YA THINK MAYBE FOUL PLAY IS INVOLVED? http://amzn.com/k/1T1XSC1IWE1OR

because when I'm spending the night with a man I don't plan to boff, I roam his house in a sexy robe http://amzn.com/k/20BODTWX1VPYU

THANK GOD YOU EXPLAINED HOW SHE MANAGED TO MAKE HOT CHOCOLATE FROM A POWDER MIX http://amzn.com/k/1I4475682UYS0

I have engaged in spontaneous RP that was better thought out and better written. I'm just sayin'. http://amzn.com/k/29N8AOH2XYH8C (Note: I am really sad the entire scene can't be tweeted, because OMG, it just kept getting worse.)

Originally posted by kylecassidy at post

So today I wander into work and see a large Toys R Us box sitting behind the counter (for lo, I do not trust UPS to successfully find my house, as there are no street signs).

Bossman: How are you today?

DK: *busily opening box* I am here...and so is my Toys R Us box!

Bossman: What's in the box, GI Joes?

DK: *having just revealed shiny new Black Dragon and Sky Striker* Yes! How did you know?

Bossman: Well, it's you, and it's a box from Toys R Us. It had to be GI Joes or Transformers.

DK: ...Ironhide should be here tomorrow.

Because I am caught up on The Walking Dead and must now wait for new episodes like the rest of you. :(

This is...odd for me, as my cure for melancholy is usually "play something ear-bleeding at extremely high volume until my blood boils the sad out". (This is why I blame my tinnitus directly on my depression.) It is not, "sing off-key along with Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins."

...the worst part of this is that now my NaNo is fighting a losing battle against my desire to write ALL THE WESTERN AUs. *facepalm* My brain is all full of horses and stetsons.

Edit: On the up side, cowboys = somewhat more compatible with NaNo than giant robots, so there's that. No, Silverbolt, you cannot be a Texas Ranger, STFU.