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I did a "This is what I have to do" email for Aster but never really made a list for myself. It's been muddling around in my head, getting me all shivery when I can't remember what I need to be working on (because the answer is always SOMETHING, after all).

This week:
-Finish up TBBT (Missy finally gets some say in her life) story
-Start (START!) the Sherlock (BBC) (Harry has a long talk with her brother) story

After:
-Map out Where Were They story for MarvelBang
-Consider mapping out Felicity and Diggle are awesome moments for DCBang
...rewatch finale to see if there's anything I can mine toward this end
-Start writing

intoabar story (Felicity from Arrow & Todd from SGA)

Oops! I know there is something else there but now I can't remember what it is!

Crossposts: http://lar-laughs.livejournal.com/489426.html

I've completed my first of three stories for

queer_fest! Hooray!

Title: Initiation Into This Life (or: 5 times Clint told the truth and one time she didn't)
Fandom: Marvel movie!verse
Pairing/Characters: main: Clint Barton (female), Natasha Romanoff - secondary: Nick Fury, Phil Coulson
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 5202
Prompt: Everyone else thinks Clint is a guy. Clint doesn’t really bother correcting them. for

queer_fest
Warnings: hints at Clint’s less-than-happy beginnings

Author's Note: I saw this prompt and wanted to write it. I started writing and found myself in a darkness, wondering that I'd ever considered it. I asked

hufflepuffsneak what she thought of the story so far and she liked it. Without the quiet encouragement, I would never have finished this.

Summary: Clint Barton has the Black Widow in the cross-hairs of her bow but stays her impulse as she realizes that this woman has seen things, in this first meeting, that not even the people who know her best have ever realized. I was told you were one thing, yet I see you are completely another.

Here at AO3

Part of this story was inspired by this art by Lettie (from Tumblr)

Crossposts: http://lar-laughs.livejournal.com/489021.html

Okay, guys, I need some input!

The first two pieces of jewelry have been finished! I'd like to know 1) if you like it, 2) if you'd buy something like this and 3) if you look at it and think, "I like that but...". Are we headed in the right direction?

Both of these pieces are a sort of Inspired By jewelry. Not something that the characters themselves would wear but something that should make the wearer feel as if they're wearing something that has to do with their favorite character. But, at the same time, it shouldn't make them feel like a geek for wearing it.

I feel like I should point that these pictures are from my camera and haven't been professionally set up, at all. When they are put on to Beth's Etsy site, she will take professional pictures (one of her other talents) so they will look much better than these!

( Hawkeye )

( Black Widow )

Beth is working on a Thor's Hammer necklace and a Batman bracelet. I've been tasked with coming up with a star for the Captain America bracelet and the appropriate beads for the Hulk bracelet. If I can figure out how to make the DNA strand/toxin symbol in my mind for Hulk, I think I can make it into a necklace, too.

I'm trying to come up with something for Darcy (something to do with a taser, I think) and Jane (stars? or the idea of a starry sky?). I've been staring at the SHIELD symbol but that may be a little harder to make than I thought it would be when I first thought of it. I'm also trying to make the Widow's Bite into something decorative.

Crossposts: http://lar-laughs.livejournal.com/488843.html

The object of this challenge was to get a random word from the dictionary. When I saw my word, I realized I had the beginning of a story that would work well for the word. The first couple of hundred words of this had been sitting on my computer for awhile and I decided I needed to get it out and finish it.

Title: First Kiss
Fandom: Avengers MCU
Your Word: Contrite
Word Count: 2546
Rating: Teen
Pairings: Darcy/Steve
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/etc): slight spoilers for Iron Man 3
Summary: Darcy likes Steve. Steve seems to like Darcy. So why is it so hard to get a kiss?

( ...a dating manual on how to go about dating an Avenger would have been nice... )

Crossposts: http://lar-laughs.livejournal.com/488170.html

It's Friday! Hooray! This won't be a relaxing weekend but at least it's a weekend! Coworker and I have discussing "geeky" jewelry and we decided I needed to have some to wear at the Denver con plus we needed to have business cards printed up if people asked me about it. One of the things in going to try to do is do some wire wrapping/weaving to make a Hawkeye target in purples and silver, like the comic. Anyone have any ideas for some Black Widow themed jewelry?

trillingstar let me know that I'VE BEEN RECCED on

crack_van for Innovation is Our Middle Name (SGA AU)!!! The little Secret Santa story that WOULDN'T END and ended up being 23000 words! They thought the mystery was well carried out and the world building was good!!! *tears up a little*

How in the world did Laura Ingall Wilder do it? Our power was out ALL NIGHT yesterday and I tried, first, to read by flashlight and then to read by candlelight and both were giving me a headache. So I just went to bed. 9:30pm! Can you believe it?

For

marvel_bang, I've decided to do my "where are the other Avengers during Iron Man 3" story idea that sort of segues with the "how did Natasha get that necklace" idea. I also finally read the first Hawkeye comic book (the first four? plus a Young Avengers) and I have Clint feels! Lots of Clint ideas and inspirations. PLUS, Coworker thinks she has a really cool idea for an arrow necklace!!! I will take pictures when/if she gets it done.

I haven't heard back from the school district on the librarian job. It's only been about a week and a half and, let's be serious, it is a government entity so it's not like they'll move on this quickly. Still... I REALLY WANT THIS JOB! I've been working through some of the things I want to tell them in the interview. Like, for instance, I can read upside down at the same speed that most everyone else can read normal. That sounds like a great talent for an elementary school librarian to have, right? RIGHT?

I'm reading one of the newer Archie McNally books written by Vincent Lardo. While I'm glad that someone is taking over the series, I also find that I don't like them as much. The great thing about the original McNally was his obsession with his wardrobe and his meals. It was clear that nothing else mattered to him. No wonder he never asked Connie to marry him! She was just a mannequin for beautiful outfits or a second plate at his favorite restaurants. In this book, his single status weighs on him entirely too much. He REASONS it out. No, that's not what Archie does. But I still like the heart of the books so I'll read the rest of them. I'll just mourn Lawrence Sanders all the more.

Two days and 3400 words later, I've finally pulled off a pinch hit story for the

satedan_grabass Thing-A-Thon. Hooray! It's been a year since I've written SGA so I'm a bit worried about characterization but, overall, I'm happy with this story. It was strange to write this while having an AU conversation over at

be_compromised, especially since this was the fandom where I learned to love AUs. And it was also really, really odd to write gen. It's been YEARS since I've written gen but it felt good to stretch those muscles!

Title: Flame
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis AU
Characters: John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Recipient’s name:

caersmane
Prompts used: gen, friendship and AU - while this isn’t true Satedan food, being an AU, I took the other part of the prompt as inspiration for the story (I also used flame from the Big Table at

writerverse)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word Count:
Summary: All he's ever wanted to do was cook. It feels as if Ronon has finally found the perfect fit where he feels comfortable making the food that he loves. When things appear to be falling apart, John comes up with the idea that pulls the restaurant back from the brink of ruin.

Here at AO3

If you've seen Iron Man 3, I could use your help on the timeline. Do you know if anything like that already exists in writing somewhere?

( if not, I could use your help )

I discovered today that I have a nickname among a certain group of customers. I'm known as "that girl who dyes her hair and smiles all the time". That's a lovely nickname to have! I'm not a maniac and I get irritated with the rest of the normal people but I came to the conclusion a long time ago that I like being with happy people and the best way to be around happy people was to use my Alpha Powers to turn the people around me in that direction. That means I need to be happy. It's like a huge circular argument sort of thing but it works.

My car needs two new tires and I decided I would take it in tomorrow... and then walk down the block to the theater and see Iron Man 3 again. They'll need the time to do an alignment, after all.

My email address comes from a title that my dad gave me the year that I turned thirty. He called me "Web Queen" because I showed him how to use Google (back in the day when not everyone knew it existed). I'm thinking about changing up my email address this year (since I'm turning forty) and coming up with a new title. Like Comma Fairy. It sounds better than Comma Dictator, which is how I feel when reading some of the ebooks I've been reading lately.

Why am I such a stickler for commas? Because commas tell the reader what the words mean. They give nuance to the sentence that might be harder to discover without the proper pauses. Like the sentence: The panda eats shoots and leaves. It could be The panda eats, shoots and leaves. Without commas, the reader has to use clues found in other sentences. In other words, the reader has to stop reading and start playing detective. Do you want to lose readers? No, you don't.

This particular book that I've been ranting about is AMAZING! Good characters. Excellent plot. It even has a beautiful cover and you don't see that on many ebooks these days. Unfortunately, the comma usage is spotty. There are a few spots where sentences don't make sense. I very much want to email this woman and offer up comma services for free just because I want to see this book (and her next one and the many more I hope she writes) succeed. Am I perfect with comma usage? No. But I'm tenacious.

Back in the day before I actually started writing, I thought a good writer needed to be technically proficient. Instead of actually writing, I studied punctuation and grammar and sentence structure. It's not something that goes away easily. It's just who I am.

I picked up a quick pinch hit that is due on Sunday so I'm trying to come up with words tonight. So what did I do instead of writing? Yep. I decided to clean out my closet. Yep, yep, yep.

TeeFury had a grab bag event and I got my shirts today!!!! Tell them your size and they sent out a shirt. For $9, it's a pretty doable way to add to my geek wardrobe.

( all the pretty pictures )

I have seen Iron Man 3. I will see it again. Mostly because I have this need to add on to New Mexico State of Mind with an explanation of where everyone else was for the movie. I've got ideas but need to get a better sense of timing.

I'm in a quandry! Last night, I signed up for

marvel_bang and thought I knew what I should write but I suddenly realized that I have two ideas that I'd like to do. Which do you like?

1) The Commas By Debate college AU: a bunch of college students come together to form a band even though there's nothing that seems to connect them other than music. A coffee shop (owned and operated by a guy named Fury who likes to poke into other people's business) will make an appearance because the setting and idea sort of cry out for one.

2) A third segment to the New Mexico State of Mind universe (the grouping of stories that explains where the two of them are in relation to other movies - so a sort of "fit it all together" that makes my muse happy) that puts Natasha and Clint into place during Iron Man 3 (which I'm going to get to see, for the first time, in about 24 hours! Hooray!) and explains the arrow necklace that Natasha appears to be wearing in Captain America 2.

I think both ideas could be the 10k I need. Thoughts? Ideas? Feelings? Cookies?

Also, anyone have any really good Felicity/Diggle ideas because I also joined

dcu_bang with the intent of writing an Arrow story. Well, specifically a Felicity/Diggle story but I'm actually open to just about anything at this point. I just want to write Felicity!

First, WIP first lines... the question is exactly how far back to go with this.

1. Clint Barton hasn’t always been Clint Barton.

2. “Her name is Peggy.”

3. There was a moment when everything was at peace.

4. There had always been music in her life.

5. Darcy had always attracted geeks.

6. The first time she saw the drifter was at the barn raising for Mary and Jack Hathbert, a newlywed couple from Chicago who thought they’d try their hand at farming even though the two of them barely looked old enough to have been allowed on the train alone.

7. “I don’t like him.

8. There is a moment, just a sunset, when the sea and the sky are the same color.

9. Natasha doesn’t want to walk into the room.

10. “Sir, I think you need to see this.”

11. Natasha paces the small confines of the cell.

12. It was great that everyone had a place to belong, now that Stark Tower was being rebuilt into something more Avenger-friendly.

13. When she’s four, Anastacia wakes up from a horrible nightmare.

14. He says he’s okay.

15. On the morning that Darcy took over the world, she made muffins.

16. Kate stared at him for a long moment before asking, “How do you know?”

17. Clint opened the door after the second set of soft knocks, perfectly timed in the familiar code they had to let the other know who was standing on the other side of the door.

That puts me into late October so I'm going to end there. It's just all too much. It's not so much that I haven't been writing... but that I haven't been finishing. Perhaps I should try writing in another fandom. That might jump start something in my brain.

I just finished my online application for a paraprofessional librarian position at one of the local elementary schools. While I don't have any actual "librarian" experience, I know libraries like the back of my hand! They are some of my favorite places in this world! I'll never know if I can do it unless I try - right? Here goes nothing!

My 16 month old nephew broke his leg going down a slide! He got a cast on it Friday and has been here with us this weekend. So far he's doing a good job of getting around but he's mastered the art of "get me over there" gestures. He and I have worked on a lot of those marble tunnel sculptures, much to my enjoyment. I build them and he sends marbles down them... and then gets excited and beats them back to pieces.

My sister has lost 33 lbs. in the last year with just diet and exercise. It's amazing to see her results because the girl has MUSCLES but it's also very depressing. I've always been the biggest in my family but seeing that it can be done does something for my psyche. I need to be better about, if nothing else, eating better. It wouldn't kill me to get on the treadmill, though!

The muse has been gracious this week! I may have those QueerFest stories done in time, after all!

I watched the Defiance pilot tonight and LOVED IT! It's definitely on my list of shows to continue watching. There's some great apocalyptical steampunk going on with those costumes! There are exactly three stories at AO3 and one of them (a drabble) is by the lovely

aryas_zehral so check it out and give it some love!

My littlest nephew has a spiral fracture just under his left knee. Right now he has a temporary cast and will get a more permanent one on Friday. I have tomorrow off, as luck would have it, and thought about running over there for the day but I'm afraid that I would just be in the way since Mom already went over. I do want to shower him with kisses, though. The poor kid just barely learned to walk! :(

My cup of coffee this morning was SO GOOD that I'm thinking about going to bed early just so morning will be here sooner and I can make another. My secret? Put some marshmallows in the cup before you pour in the coffee. This only really works is you're more of a latte girl, of course. I add a little chocolate syrup and VOILA! It's lovely!

As this feels like a sort of adoration meme towards AO3 (and because I do adore AO3 so much), I thought I'd do it. This combines my love of stats (numbers? that fit together? DONE!) with my love of kudos. So much wonderfulness!
( In which I talk about numbers )

This last weekend, I went on an overnight excursion with co-worker Beth. Her husband was out of town and she wanted to go to a bead show in another town and she invited me! We had a lot of fun. The bead show was small but that was good because, if it had been any bigger, I would have stood in the middle of the room with a twitch in my eye as I tried to figure out where to start. We also went to Michael's where I bought even more stuff! Then we crafted in our hotel room until the small hours of the night. I made several projects and have several others laid out, ready to go when I get the 1)equipment and 2)courage.

One of the projects I've been working on is woven wire bracelets and other types of jewelry. Check out these heart pendants that I hope to duplicate... someday. I should post pictures of the stuff I've made to date but I've been lazy about it.

Just as I've been lazy about getting on LJ in a timely manner. Sorry about that!

Title: Spot
Cliche used: A kid is away for a few days and a friend or relative is supposed to care for their pet and through their carelessness the pet dies, so the friend or relative goes out to the pet shop and buys a replacement hoping the kid won't notice, but they always do. for

writerverse
Word Count: 458
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Original
Pairings (if any): none
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/etc): none
Summary: Fiona goes on a trip and asks her friends Doug and Duncan to take care of her dog, Spot.

( ...one dog has a spot and one dog doesn't but both are adorable in their own way... )

Have you read Alliterative Domiciles by Vera? So much goodness! I'm not quite done with it but I will be soon. It's giving me shivers! The good kind of shivers, of course.

My dad joined in the Twentieth Century and got a Facebook account. I thought it would be a simple step. Dad gets Facebook account. Dad can now access all the stuff he always asks Mom and I to show him. Gah! NO!

For some reason, he thinks joining Facebook has added to his spam. No, YOU added to your spam. He keeps OPENING spam, thinking that people really do need to get hold of him now that he's on Facebook. As if this one step has suddenly made him harder to get hold of? I don't know.

All that I know is that it's become my problem. Or I'm making it my problem. I don't know.

In other sad news, I've come to the end of Cabin Pressure 4 and it appears that there is no more. My heart... it is breaking. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at any one thing in my entire life. Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh, you have to discover it! It's a radio play by John Finnemore and stars Benedict Cumberbatch... you know, that guy who's in EVERYTHING at the moment but stole my heart in the BBC version of Sherlock. But not just Benedict. No, there are a ton of famous (and funny!) people on this show. I came to this show in a sort of circular way. I did not, in fact, fly to it as soon as I discovered Benedict but crept at it when I realized that I needed more John Finnemore in my life when he wasn't on The Now Show quite as much as he had been in the past.

John Finnemore. I swear, this man is the funniest man EVER. I have evidence here:

And now that I know that JF has his own YouTube channel, I may have to lay down because I'm sure the laughter is about to escalate.

Podcasts make my life bearable!

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Recent Entries

The muse is getting feisty!

Fic: Initiation Into This Life (Avengers)

All the pretties

Fic: First Kiss (MCU)

i wish you sunshine

SQUEE

a little fall of rain is enough to take out our power lines

Fic: Flames (SGA)

I've got a hankering for this data

brown hair is so boring but it's nice to be normal from time to time

tshirts

no spoilers

Tell me, oh wise ones, what I should do

First Lines meme

We're somewhere between winter and spring

My toes are cold even though I have on socks

AO3 Stats Meme and Stuff

Fic: Spot

Splendid

For some reason...