masquerade!

GOD FINALLY. This was suppose to happen on the 15th! But instead, I sit on 40k for six or seven days idek and THEN write 10,000 words in two days and I, I don't know. I just don't know.

This story is so not over but jeez. At least I officially won NaNo, anyway. Second time EVAR, yes!

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

Title: At Once Our Time Devour
Characters: Reborn, Colonnello
Summary: When you don't have a lot of time left, it's funny what matters and what doesn't anymore.
Notes: Adult! Set pre-curse, I guess. I'm a manga-only girl, so this isn't going to square with the Arcobaleno stuff that's coming down the anime pipeline. Smut, swearing, Colonnello and Reborn being asses to each other, 1706 words. Dedicated to wolfy_chan, whose smoking hot Reborn and Colonnello art that inspired this.

( Colonnello blinked once at the news, and then said, 'Bet you're going to miss fucking, huh?' It was a refreshing change from the wide-eyed looks of sympathy mingled with relief at not being the one chosen, so when he pulled his gun on Colonnello, Reborn didn't bother shooting to kill. )

We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

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Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts.

What do you usually do to Celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

So, today Trina wanted me to share with her some of my favourite music videos from when I was a kid. The first one I thought of was Too Funky by George Michael.

I played it for her and she asked me, then, why it was a favourite. I sat there awkwardly for a while, not quite able to explain it. My favourite was the model in the metal bikini suit thing. Embedding was disallowed. I still love this vid. After, I showed her Jeremy and Black Hole Sun. Then I showed her Schism, which she thought was cool, and Thunderkiss '65, which led to a very short viewing of Beavis and Butthead so she could understand the context in which I first saw the video.

Listening to Too Funky also makes me want to write porn again.



What are your favourite music vids?


Also, I snuck over to fanficrants today for one reason and another and was struck but the plethora of crap. I mean...most of my rants consist of "use the right word, plz" and "get a beta before I spork my eyes" and stuff like that. Though, I don't usually make posts about it. I just think it. REALLY HARD. I get rants about subtle bigotry/misogyny/etc within fics, but for other things, sometimes I just want to say stfu and read something else. I mean...isn't this what google chat is for? Bitching to your friends about stupid shit you've read but are too polite to comment on, and in that fashion, in public?

Putting the post up early tonight/today because I'm ten minutes from face-planting into my pillows. So, who's added the llamas to their stories? I know there's got to be one of you, even if it was just a dream sequence. Come on, you can tell me. *grins*

Jenn

It's Friday. Those of you who are off today, sprint for the 40k mark. Those who aren't... try and slap in another 2k into your word counts. We can do this.

Jenn

What I'm really enjoying about AO3 is that so far, the quality of work is great. I like clicking on a link and getting an awesome fic! THIS IS ENJOYABLE TO ME.

Also, hello, hello, I am your friendly Junjou Romantica and Hellboy (movie-verse) tag wrangler. UHM. I have no idea, okay, I blame renay okay. If you would like to know what fandoms need wranglers, see this list!. :3

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

Today I'm going to try and sprint to the 50k mark. Story's no where near done, but yeah. I'm at 32695. That's not bad with midterms and starting to study for finals.

Post is up. Let's get busy.

Jenn

*sneaks on in class and looks around* Post is up, have at kids.

Jenn

*drags my carcass back in* Just got back from Stafford, Tx. I will never do that again! Never ever ever! But enough of my woes. We've got 14 days left, including today to get to our goals.

Give me about an hour to recover and I'm joining in the mad typing.

Jenn

New day is dawning and there's music playing in the background. Let's boogie on down with our bad selves and write like there's no tomorrow.

I got my Yuletide assignment. \0/ and also OMFHDSJKDHSDSHDS

I AM EXCITED

Unfortunately, I didn't get any NaNoWriMo writing done yesterday. This is what happens! I'll have to write double as much today! I WAS SUPPOSE TO HIT 50K, DAMN IT.

The Archive of Our Own is in Open Beta! Learn more about it here. I'm Nan over there but I've yet to upload anything. I am keeping standards here, which means that I'm only uploading crap I'm actually proud of. There, uh, there really isn't that much that I like! D: I must fix this!

There was something else I wanted to talk about but, uh. Memory, memory.

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

I wanted to share how I've felt God's presence in my life recently. I posted before about some of the crap that my family is going through right now, and for the most part, I've been having a pretty hard time with it all. A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling really discouraged because I'm single and with all the stuff happening with my Dad and family in general, I've been wishing I had someone to talk to when I get frustrated or just need a hug and someone to whine to (and to possibly fix a couple of minor issues with my car since it got put aside when my Dad got sick and couldn't do it himself).

As a result, I found myself missing my ex-boyfriend (who I dated earlier this year and haven't spoken to since June), even though he treated me like dirt and if I was still with him now would probably be making things a whole lot worse for me at the moment. So I began hating myself for missing his presence and entertaining the fact of calling him up or something because I have no logical reason to want him back in my life in any shape or form. I was frustrated with my family situation, my current single-ness, and to top it off, the month long novel writing challenge I started at the beginning of this month was not even fun for me, like it should have been.

Around this time I had started reading Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul, and the stories at the beginning were not making me feel much better about things. Then I came across a story about a woman whose baby wasn't making white blood cells properly and how she was getting frustrated because she had been praying and nothing was happening. It wasn't until one night she felt the urge to reread the story of Abraham and Isaac and realized that she wasn't fully submitting to God, and she mentally sacrificed her baby as Abraham had done with Isaac, and on the next doctor visit, her baby had made a major improvement. After reading that story I realized I was getting frustrated for the wrong reasons, and that if I just sit back and let God take care of it, someone will come along, and everything will be all right in the end, and I've been feeling much better about things the last couple of weeks. :)

It's Sunday... Just 15 more days left in NaNoWriMo. So where are all of you lovely people at today?

It's Saturday, bright and early too. I vote that we all go back to bed and sleep for a few more hours. No? Oh well, on to the writing. Post is up, let's get down with our bad selves.

Jenn

So, Ryan and I went to couples group at our local church's pastor's house. It was a success! Ryan and I are the only unmarried couple there, but it is a great time. :) I can't wait for next week. We're really trying to get on a good track and stay involved in the church. This has been an enlightening experience.

Do any of you go to any sort of groups with your church?

Happy Friday the 13th. I say we throw a movie marathon tonight. Who's with me? *grins* Post is up and there's writing to be done.

Jenn

We ended up with a grand total of 57 fics across 41 fandoms (five of which were crossovers). Thank you so much to everyone involved for participating in this round's Porn Battle!

( The fics! )

Alright kiddies, we're pumped. We're motivated. We've got at least one person in our group who's hit the 50k mark. So, you know what this means? It means that the rest of us have got to get trucking along, myself included.

Our goal for today? Collectively, that is. 10,000 words added to our numbers. That means you. *points* Write 2,000. You. *points to someone else* Another 2,000. Come on, at least 5 of us can make this.

Who's with me?