cook, don't kill.

[be_themoon]

FIRST and most importantly as well! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, zempasuchil . I hope it is a fabulous one. :D I would write you things, but I am afraid that I am too busy. <33333 I shall make do with good wishes and cheer! LOVE YOU LOTS AND LOTS.

Speaking of busy: this Saturday my mom leaves for New Zealand. She'll be gone for a week attending my sister's wedding. My older sister is out West skiing with her boyfriend and his family. Essentially, this means that I'm in charge of meals, cleaning, school, and getting everyone (including me) to school/baseball/other places on time for a week. This will Not Be Fun, especially because both of my younger siblings are kind of jerks when it comes to cleaning. I do almost all of the cleaning in the house - they do some yard work on Saturdays and make lots of messes. (Yesterday night I found molded over steak in the back of the stove, which I had had no occasion to use or clean since last Friday. I had mistakenly assumed that others weren't just dumping dirty frying pans and plates in there.) When I ask them to clean, they don't. When I get angry at them because of that, they yell and say that I never do anything. At which point I go really quiet and kind of scary. It is not fun.

Also: ScriptFrenzy and Remix, same time. I can... totally do this? Uh. TOTALLY. well, I can, but it'll be tough. but I am SO PLEASED to be writing Cabin Fever, SO PLEASED you have no idea. I have been needing a new original fic project to distract me from wanting to turn to go nowhere with you into a whole 'verse.

Three tests recently - one today, one last Tuesday, one take-home due next Tuesday. Got a 61% on the Biology test, which is killing me inside. I just. GAH. It's definitely my fault, there. *facepalm*

Okay time for happy things. happy things like writing memes! TWO OF THEM. an old favorite and one picked up from fahye.

Ask me a question about one of my fics -- characters, plot, what happened before or after, what the writing process was like, what scenes I cut or changed, other ways the fic could have gone, relevant bits of backstory/headcanon/worldbuilding, what a certain line or scene meant or was in reference to, what various characters were doing offscreen, or anything else you can think of. Questions can be as silly/serious/sexy as you like.

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Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

ETA: THAT'S IT I'M GOING HOME AND MAKING SOMETHING WITH SUGAR OR AT LEAST VAGUELY SWEET AND NOTHING CAN STOP ME I SWEAR TO GOD. *glitter rage meltdown* Shit, I knew I was heading towards this. It's what I was trying to avoid with cathartic sad TV, which worked but not as long as I'd hoped. Now I'm tired and crying in the school library for NO REASON whatsoever. goddamnit. I have a driving test tomorrow and I cannot fail it and. I just.

going home. making sugar. doing writing memes and fixing Pevensies/Winchester of Doom and I am going to HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.

Comments

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

I loooooved the conversation Edmund and Lucy have "Be the End of Days" concerning the apocalypse, and how you bring to light all the issues inherent in destroying a world, even if it is for something better, and how dead are they really?

<333333333 I hope things are all better

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

There is something wrong about destroying a world, and I think Edmund is especially likely to see that (next to Susan). Edmund is more detached from the current Stepford reality. and ohhh man, Edmund experimenting with death in this country. that was really hard to write.

I think I have such trouble writing Stepford Heaven because it creeps me out sooo badly, but there is also this very delicate balance to hold in so many places. I think in this place, they are defined by absences. absence of pain, and fear, and Susan, and sorrow. and that's a really heartbreaking thing to be, really. I dunno. Stepford Heaven rattles me, badly.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely! Your story actually reminded me a great deal of this one, with the slightly-off Heaven and the characters who both can and can't understand.

Yeah, that was hard to read too! It is difficult for me to see a character so curious abotu death but it brought into sharp focus the link death has to life, how you're not truly alive unless you can die, as Edmund says.

It is so strange to put SUsan in with those three, isn't it? Anyway, you definitely wrote a rattling sort of fic for it