Maledicte

• I am at the airport! (I think this is the second entry I've ever typed while at the Albuquerque airport? Probably this is the only airport I regularly fly in or out of that has free wifi.) I am on my way to Los Angeles to visit my grandparents for the last 4 days before school starts. They bought me a plane ticket ,as I am the only grandchild allowed to visit without parental supervision, who was I to say no? I am looking forward to the ocean and the beach and the sun and In-n-Out. Priorities. I have them straight. I brought my bikini and I am determined to wear it even if I am not quite the weight I would like to be when I wear it.

• As I mentioned above, school starts on Monday. I am a little nervous. Mostly because (ack, shit) I haven't got all my books yet. (Fuck, shit.) Normally thing would happen in the time between "orientation" and classes starting. I will be in California for this period of time. I will email my mom and see if I can use her card to order the big ones and get them there with free 2-day shipping from Amazon. (Thank god I signed up for Amazon Student.) I am sort of excited though. I mean, school. Writing. Getting my goddamned degree.

• So, I finished the X:Men: First Class fic that was due mid August. (It has not been posted yet, as it will be done anonymously, so I'll say more about that when I can.) But then I signed up to pitch hit for that exchange, so I'm writing another one. On top of my xmenbigbang fic (which I am so behind on) and the Star Trek fic I still need to finish. Anyway, it's sort of exciting that I actually finished a fic. chezvous beta'd it last minute, and she really liked it, so that was encouraging. Hopefully the second one will be good too.

• The footage from the strip club in X-Men: First Class hit the internet yesterday, featuring, yes, Erik in drag. It's fabulous. Plus, fans were given yet another reason to ship them: "You've never looked more beautiful, darling." (/happy sigh) I am super excited to be getting my hands on the DVD with all the special features and all that. Desperately need it. Unfortunately, I don't think it comes out before my rough draft for xmenbigbang is due, so if I want to watch the movie again while writing, I will have to watch the version I downloaded. Which is missing scenes and various lines in scenes. It's a little bit vexing.

ETA: If you haven't seen the deleted strip club scene, here it is minus all the fancy music. It's fucking fantastic. Watch it.

• eraofhogwarts reopened recently, and school will be starting for our characters too. If you ever thought of possibly applying for a character, definitely do it now. We especially need a Sirius and a James--though I will warn you, you would be stepping into the shoes of other players who sort of fucked up those characters' relationships with everyone, so you would have a lot of work to do, but hopefully it wouldn't be too tedious. Pretty much everything you need to know about the RP can be found in the community's profile, so. Come join the fun!

• New contacts arrived! Sometimes I don't realize just how badly I need new contacts until I change them out and everything gets just a little bit clearer. Also, I am glad they arrived before I had to fly off to L.A. It would have sucked to have to do this trip without being able to see well.

• My car has been sort of intermittently turning on the "check engine" light. My dad has looked it over though, and he thinks it's a fuel injector issue, that there's grit in the tank that is getting into the injector system. So I have this stuff that I put in with the gas and it does usually seem to get better after that. It came on when I was only a few miles from the airport this morning, and it freaked me out. I have a bottle of the stuff to put in when I get back, though, so here's hoping it won't be a problem. My dad assures me that the car is not likely to immediately explode whenever the light comes on (thank god), so I am working on changing my assumptions. I really really need it to not be a big problem though, as I don't think I have the funds to solve a big problem at the moment. (/fingers crossed)

I don't think I have anything else to update about. Hopefully I will update more often once life starts happening again.

[This icon is ironic because I can't actually drink caffeine even when I am tired. That's what over-dosing will do to you.]

• I am home from NYC. I had a lovely time! I would talk about it more, but most of the people I'd be talking about it for, I actually saw and talked to in person, and thus they don't really need to have a run down. As for the rest of you... Well, suffice to say I had a lovely time and I do miss my city (just less so in the summer).

• While I was in NYC, I saw Cowboys & Aliens which was sort of awesome. I think my favorite part is that the movie is a serious movie, despite it's comical premise. Everyone took it seriously in the writing, acting, directing, everything. And when I get home, I am actually going to read that article in EW about the movie (because it only came out two and a half weeks ago and I still haven't read it) and probably fangirl Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford quietly in my room for a bit.

• I am currently working on two X-Men: First Class fics. One is for an exchange and is due tomorrow (and is about half done) and the other is for xmenbigbang and thus not due for a while, but I am still sort of behind. It's sort of exciting. I haven't really wrote fic in a while. Once I turn in the one tomorrow, I will substitute the Star Trek fic that I really need to finish into the line up. Good times.

• My dad discovered chocolate ice cream made with coconut milk and with no dairy at Trader Joe's, and it's kind of amazeballs. No seriously. If there's a TJ near you, and they have this stuff, definitely try it even if you don't have to shun dairy because your digestion works just fine. This stuff may be dangerous for my weight-loss plan.

• School starts at the very end of August. I got all the classes I talked about in my last post. Luckily, my two writing classes are only one day a week, so it's not actually as full as it looks. On the other hand, I do start at 8am every day of the week, so that sort of sucks for me.

• I have decided that I want to start horse back riding again, so I've found a place to do it and I am going to give them a call today and start setting that up. I need to get some equipment (I grew out of my boots years ago, and I doubt I'll still fit into my pants) but other than that, I think I actually have everything I need for it already. I'm hoping the quote I got from another woman at the barn is accurate, because it's a super reasonable price for lessons, even if I can only go once a week. Anyway, I am super excited, and my mom said that she can probably chip in a little, so that will help with the costs.

• I have finally gotten my hands on: GRRM's A Dance With Dragons, blackholly's Red Glove, and Melissa Marr's Darkest Mercy, the last of which I've only been waiting for my library to get for, I don't know, at least 6 months. I am going home today with 14 books in two bags. All told, not the biggest library haul I've ever gone home with.

• Last night I had a dream where I met Tom Hardy. I think I said hi to him. I also met, and converse with, another celebrity, but I am totally blanking on who it was now. Which is a shame. It was someone hot, so it would be nice to remember who. (At least for the lulz, and at most so that I could do a bit of daydreaming.)

That's all I can think of for right now. I'm going to try to update this thing a bit more, though.

• Had my don rag this morning. I spent most of it trying not to throw up. When it was over, I raced into the bathroom and stayed there for a bit taking really deep breaths. We'll just say this: my future at St. John's is uncertain. (Which, ugh, was expected.)

• Came home. Then made my dad take me out for ice cream at Baskin Robbins. Just 'cause.

• Watched Life As We Know It. Which was better than expected, and adorable, and the "giant crisis" wasn't what I expected, and way better. So. I recommend it to people who like RomComs, Katherine Heigle and/or Timothy Olypant and/or Josh Lucas.

• I made Dutch Cocoa cookies! You know, these. Guys. These things are delicious. Seriously delicious. Recipe is here. I accounted for high altitude, though that might have caused my cookies to end up flatter than intended, and my dough wasn't as dense as I was expecting. I do recommend putting the dough in the fridge over night and not just for an hour. It softens (and gets stickier) as it's warms. Mine spread out a lot, too. I might also recommend putting more than usual space between each cookie to account for that.

• While thinking about what I'd do if I had to take a year off from SJC (or a semester if I decide to apply somewhere else instead of taking a whole year off), I started considering yacht crews? Idk. But I came across this site (and then went and found this one, this one and this one) which place crew on yachts around the world, and that... seems really interesting (not to mention the travel and the good salary). Does anyone know anyone who does this? Does anyone know anything more about this than what I've been able to read on those sites? Tell me everything!

• Am writing stupid amounts of fanfic, but not my trekreversebang fic, which is the one I actually need to be working on. (Esposito/Conrad/Ryan fic has hit 2k words. And I added to my Kirk/Spock smut. And also added to my Narnia AU.)

• Am all caught up on The Borgias and The Game of Thrones (as of last night—just in time for new episodes on Sunday). I keep having flail-y moments over them. For The Borgias I keep getting excited over history things, or how sexy it is. For The Game of Thrones I keep getting all emotional over characters that I remember liking, or how it's reminding me how much I really liked those books okay? Daenerys, guys. She's kind of a sexy goddess. And this is giving little hints at just how awesome she becomes. If I lived in that world, I totes would have been killed for being a Targaryen supporter. (Or maybe not, as they were kind of terrible people by the time they were deposed. Hm.)

• Ahem.

• Oh yeah. I had the first dream in a really long time that he was in. Technically it was two dreams, as I woke up, and then had a totally different dream about him. We were together in the dream. He apologized for being an ass and not talking to me til now and then grabbed me and kissed me. Waking up was the hardest thing I've had to do in a while.

That's it. I don't care if I used a Borgias icon last time, I'm using one again. This show, guys. This show.

• Tonight was the best Chanukah in whiles. :) :) :)

• Granma sent me a KitchenAid stand mixer. I totally thought my grandparents were sending me a hand mixer, because I misheard over the phone. BUT GUYS. IT'S PURPLE. And AMAZING. It's funny, when I was unpacking it with my dad, I actually said, "I... can't even..." And he sort of laughed and said, "Describe how happy you are?" To which I could only laugh and sort of go, "Yes!" I have wanted one of these for YEARS. And now I have one! And I totally promise to stop baking from boxed mixes. (Except for the cake mix I bought today. Can't just waste it, after all.) I want to make blueberry muffins (because we have a giant bag of frozen blueberries in the freezer, and I hate them in my smoothies, so they don't get used, thus muffins) but I have no sour cream. And my preferred recipe calls for sour cream. Tomorrow or Thursday. Or this weekend. Yes.

• My dad got me a book. (This is awesome because I love books. I am a geeky, geeky child.) It's a writing book. (This is awesome because... it's kind of the first time my dad's gotten me anything that acknowledges my desire to write. It's not that he doesn't get it and support it—he totally does—but this is the first thing that's been like, "Let me give something to you, writer-daughter.") My dad got me a book on dialogue in the intro of which the author explains why Platonic dialogues are the best learning device of fiction ever and that's why he's going to use that method to teach about dialogue. GUYS. THIS WAS THE BEST PRESENT EVER. I read the intro aloud to him and at the end he goes, "So... this was a good book to get you, yes?" My dad is adorable. I might have teared up a little.

• Also, my dad loves me because he went and downloaded last night's Hawaii Five-0 for me today. I thought I was going to have to wait until tomorrow to get it, but he got it for me! My dad is so good to me, guys.

• Speaking of Hawaii Five-0, I have been watching/listening to this Hawaii Five-0 fanvid on repeat for at least an hour. Why is this show so gay. (Note: Not complaining. Make it more gay, writers, I dare you.)

• And speaking of the gay of this show, I'm totally going to be writing fic for the holidays. I didn't sign up for Yuletide or anything because I defaulted one year and now they won't let me sign up again that shit scares me, but I want to write fic to make the Yuletide gay (as it were) so I will be bringing you some Kirk/Spock goodness and also Steve/Danny goodness at the very least. If I can manage to get my ass really in gear, there might also be some Arthur/Merlin and some Joan/Arthur—oh man, remember that Covert Affairs fic I was writing?—but who knows. (Oh, also will be writing something for a HP gift exchange. Should be interesting.) SO MUCH FIC, SO LITTLE TIME.

• That being said: I know I have friends who are into these fandoms, so, uh, leave me prompts. I need inspiration if I am going to write all these fics.

I have only just now noticed that a lot of fanfiction seems to be follow a very particular format:

"Let's explain the circumstances under which we're going to have sex.

Sex. Sometimes a lot of it.

The end."

This seems particularly odd to me, perhaps because I have actually written fanfiction, and yup, that was pretty much the format.

Title: In The Mornings After
Author: Sky
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2863
Fandom: The Night the Fireflies Danced
Pairing: Kaden/Cade, Kiran/Kaden. Graphic sex scenes contained herein.
Warning: The aforementioned sex scenes are of a homosexual nature. Read: SLASH. Do not flame me for it. Also, INCEST. Do not flame me for this either. I will get annoyed because I warned you.
Author's Note: You didn't recognize the above fandom and pairings because they are from ravenpirate's novel. It has not been published. In fact, it is still in stages of heavy revision, and she's not entirely sure what she's going to do with it yet. This was written for her because I promised... almost a year ago now. (If you recognized the fandom and pairings, it just means you know what I'm talking about and your not special, or you're Megan, and you are.) Basically... this is a fanfiction for my friend.

( In The Mornings After )