some people see the revolution

SO! zempasuchil posted a link to you are here: the journal of creative geography (!!!!!!) which made me whimper with glee because CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY oh academia you can be so RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME SOMETIMES. ahkhdlgkhsdlkfjsdlg

but I am busy I CANNOT TRY TO WRITE FOR THIS JOURNAL NOOOO I have xover_exchange due in two months, and one of said months is NOVEMBER during which I am doing NANO (I got my prompt for the crossover exchange, btw, AND OMG YAAAAAAY I cannot give things away but I shall have LOADS AND LOADS of fun!) and then there's the SPN fic I've been writing off-and-on for a little bit with marycontraire 's birthday in mind (it's going to be late, but most everything from me is late these days D:) and well at least I finally finished that Susan fic and posted it! because the next three months there is going to be one hell of a lot of writing! NaNo = 50K, xover_exchange = at least 1.5K but considering what I want to write will be probably at least double that, the SPN fic is threatening to be long if I can't curtail it (but I don't really WANT to), and the imaginative geography thing if I do manage to get around to it (which I had better!) promises to be full of ridiculousness and squeeing and stuff. *headdesk* 

Happy two-days-after-your-birthday, marycontraire ! I'm sorry this is late, for some weird reason I thought your birthday was today (my brain is scattered). eventually there will be SPN girls-being-awesome fic for you! <333333333333 you're awesome!

things!

+ katakokk , if you want a book that's basically all about the American Navy under sail, check out 'The Boys Were Men: The American Navy in the Age of Fighting Sail,' by Forrest McDonald. I think others on my f-list would probably like it too, as a matter of fact. It's a really nice book - I enjoyed it a lot.

+ you guys, I break my political/religious science to say this: how fucked up is this whole Rifqa Bary thing? honestly. unfortunately for me, I live close to where she came (of all states, she picked Florida? really?), and so have to endure articles about her almost every day, and every single one lowers my opinion of her intelligence EVEN MORE. you want facts, boy have I GOT FACTS. *headdesk* basically, wtf, Rifqa. wtf.

+ I'm getting very annoyed at the regular use by people I know in RL of the word gay as a sort of slang word for 'ridiculous/silly/weird/annoying'. I hear "that's so gay!" really frequently, and (this would be amusing if it didn't infuriate) most frequently at the Christian homeschooled co-op! yeah, I know. it's interesting to note that I don't think I have EVER heard gay used like that at choir, most likely because of Shane, who graduated two years ago, was in choir for ten years, has a fantastic voice, everyone liked him, and is quite openly gay. I just... the small-mindedness of the people at co-op is GRATING ON MY NERVES. A LOT. This is only one of the things that they are bothering me with!

+ xover_exchange sign-ups are open! I have my sign-up form saved and am debating sending it in, though I'm sure I'll end up doing it. what can I say? I have no willpower when it comes to saying no to potentially awesome stuff.

+ I feel... twitchy? I dunno. Eh.

Two things!

A) GUYS GUYS go to xover_exchange and nominate Narnia! It only has three votes so far. D: If I sign up for it (I'm really hoping that things will have settled down enough by then that I can *crosses fingers*) I want to be able to write/request Narnia! (and you totally want to read more Narnia crossovers, yes?)

B) Something that made my day brighter today - hanging on the wall of the Teacher's Lounge my mom was in when I went looking for her today at community college - part of the Benedictine society's orders, the rules on accepting traveling monks into your monastery. The last two lines? "But, if he shall have been found contumacious during his sojourn in the monastery, then it shall be said to him, firmly, that he must depart. If he will not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him." I looked it up when I got home, and naturally that section isn't actually in it, but it's still kind of hilarious.

+ a third!

I fell off my bike coming home today. D: I was on the far side of the road, because it's a fairly big one, and there's a drop of several inches to the ground there. A squirrel came running, I swerved, and ended up on the ground. I didn't hit my head, and I fell how you're supposed to, so all I got are some scrapes and a really stiff left elbow. Also a tear on the knee of my jeans. Mostly I'm just annoyed I was that stupid and happy I didn't break something or hit my head. :/

You guys, this is awesome! I've never had an actual TV season to look forward to before - Supernatural was the first show I ever had to wait for episodes on (what? I went straight for the classics! Buffy, Firefly, etc.), and that was just for a little bit last year! But now I've got all sorts of awesome shows to look forward to and hopefully I'll stop binging on shows and just watch a few episodes every week. I can handle that! (before I go into my excitement, the post-apocalyptic WarGames AU is being worked on, but it needs a fair bit of editing and I don't like the opening STILL, and I've been busily watching SHOWS YAY! Also, narniaexchange has started posting, and there are some pretty awesome pieces up already. SO EXCITED AND HAPPY!).

This fall is going to be so awesome!

Heroes: don't look at me like that you guys! I basically watched/read my way through all three seasons (do you have any idea how much I adore TWoP?) this past week (I really need to stop doing this) and I'm tentatively excited for Season 4 - the second half of Season 3 went a long way towards being awesome again after the horror show that was the first half of Season 3 (the continuity screwups made my brain hurt). I really, really love Nathan and Peter, and because of inhibitions that Narnia fandom kind of completely stripped away, I ship Peter/Claire. What? Look at them! (I mean, it's not like half the show doesn't have completely incestuous subtext! and if it's not incestuous, it's gay subtext! sometimes both!). In short, I'm not like 'OMG YAY!' about Season 4, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

Glee: I was a little unnerved by the sheer amount of sex talk going on in the new episode (AND THAT SONG OMG so wrong and yet somehow REALLY funny!) and I'm crossing my fingers it doesn't end up being all soapy but it still delivered on being funny and adorable, so I'm still really really excited for all sorts of things about it! Especially if we get to see Tina more! (I LIKE Tina!)

Supernatural: The 5-minute preview at Comic Con! "I learned that from my friend Cas, you son of a bitch." OH, DEAN. I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS SHOW TO BE BACK. *bounces up and down*

The Office: Yay for the office being back! That's going to be a lot of fun. XD

Merlin: ARTHUR/GWEN. GWEN/LANCELOT. I think the only thing that would make me happier about this season being potentially FABULOUS would be a Merlin/Morgana plot going (man, can you imagine how AWESOME those two would be together?).

SO BASICALLY, SO EXCITED.

In other news, oh my god school agh.

My life in bullet points! (the last week or so, that is)

+ Mary is home! Obviously, this is fabulous. With her she brings Esther, who actually makes an appearance now, many games of Catan, lots of music, carved wooden spoons, and a need for adventure approximately three continents wide.

+ I've done a fair bit of writing. One Narnia fic, finally almost finished What Images Return, wrote Holland and Cedric just being, and a little bit of Celia and Sebastian together in Canada.

+ I start college classes this week. I mean, I was already taking AP American Government, but my two dual-enrollment classes start tomorrow. And one of them is a math class. Oh, joy.

+ The past three Fridays, I have biked at least 5 miles.

+ Esther bought two mice! The school year has started, and since she is working in a Montessori school, her classroom has to have animals in it. So she got mice! I have named them Hermes (black with no tail) and Apollo (gray and bigger, definitely the dominate one) after Greek gods. Esther has said 'NO we are naming them sensible names!' but she hasn't come up with any yet and people are starting to call them Apollo and Hermes. Sooo. *snickers*

+ I'd forgotten how utterly AWESOME the Season 4 finale of Supernatural was, and now having seen the promos for Season 5 I'm really excited. Also, for Season 2 of Merlin! Did you know this will actually be the first time in my life I'm watching a TV show as it airs?

+ I didn't sleep last night. No, really. I never woke up that I can remember, and I remember really long periods of being wide awake and fully aware of it. Also? Really vivid periods of dreaming/daydreaming, in which my mind took BSG and completely rewrote it. I suppose it could have been dreaming, and I woke up and didn't realize it, but I got very, very little sleep at most last night. I have no idea why this happened, though I suspect the aspirin I took for the killer headache I had yesterday afternoon (must remember to ask mom to get Tylenol).

+ During this period of not being asleep, my mind decided it needed to fix BSG. That show was fabulous, but after Season 2 it was a lot of talk and very little interesting stuff happened. It was only fun when Kara and Lee were spotlighting, which wasn't often enough. Honestly. I wanted space battles and Kara/Lee, and tey couldn't even give me that for more than two seasons. Hmph. Anyways, the first thing my mind did was think about biological warfare, and then characters started interacting and I went 'HEY that's Lee! And Kara! Wha?' So basically, the reworking of BSG is that there are no human Cylons, so while the surprise was large the Cylons only destroyed approximately a half of the fleet and bombed a few cities. Working from the idea of computer viruses, the Cylons had managed to come up with a clumsily effective disease that they injected into a few test subjects, who then then let 'escape.' The disease spreads rapidly at first, wiping out several million people, until doctors are able to develop a cure. However, a few mutated strains remain persistently, and prove difficult to isolate and destroy. I wrote three scenes out in my head last night. This is not happening. I have Cedric and Holland Celia and Sebastian to attend to! I have Harper and Connor to watch over! I cannot be writing fanfic that would most likely end up at least novel length!

+ Well, I am participating in autumnwrite, so you never know. It might get a little bit written. *headdesk*

Because I'm really not up to a full length post right now. Later! I swear! When characters aren't forcing me at gunpoint to write them! (OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, HARPER.)

Stolen from approximately HALF MY FLIST.

Ask me my fannish Top Five. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

<333 I'm fine, I promise! Just really busy , with lots of school and cooking and taking care of the house and being responsible, which is lots of fun half the time and sucks the other half.

A) I got my teeth pulled it was very interesting and my mom said that if I ever have to get real anaesthetic she is tying me down. I asked her to videotape it. I could not stop laughing for like half an hour. My first words after the first tooth was pulled and Mom came back to see me was "I feel very unattractive." When I came out after the second tooth was pulled I said "I still feel unattractive but now I also feel very giggly." I have big holes in my mouth now, but the teeth came out in like thirty seconds and five seconds respectively once I was numbed. So yay!

B) EVERYONE GO HERE NOW OKAY. WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS. SHOO. GO. WRITE COMMENTFIC! ESPECIALLY IF IT INCLUDES CUTE MACROS! (omg someone do more mafia Narnia AU's! or Merlin mafia AU's! - wait why are you still reading this why are you not gone, GONE like the WIND?)

Okay, I'm pretty sure this is going to be a post on the scale of epic.

( thanks and cracked teeth )
I've caught up with my f-list! I went back to around Thursday and hopefully caught everyone from then on. Sorry if I missed anyone!

Things I want to recommend to people.

A) zempasuchil drew Mary Blake/Renesmee. It is adorable.
B) Anything on houseofpevensie . I'm a bit erratic on commenting on them, but the writing is superb and I adore the characters.
C) animus_wyrmis posted her lovely Leah/Angela fic with no name. So pretty!

TV shows I watched while I was in a horrible mood - Chuck (about six episodes of the first season), Pushing Daisies (part of the first episode before I got kicked off the computer), Supernatural (a few of my favorite episodes), Project Runway (I have to admit, I generally skip to the reunion episode after my favorites get kicked off).

As proof that I really need to slow down on the fic writing and just concentrate on a few, I'm going to go ahead and do the 'give a line from each of your WIP's' meme. Um. For some of them it's more like post a paragraph.

( harborverse, nostalgia!origfic, what images return (next renesmee), untitled susan!fic, untitlted narniaexchange, untitled erasureathon )

I must turn in one Latin assignment and two Government assignments, and then I shall return to play with fic! Renesmee metafic is being difficult. a) I completely forgot Seth b) I introduced the Cullens. I'm thinking that needs to be a later story, that this one should be only about Mary and Leah. I dunno.

Stuff I did yesterday
-went 'back-to-school' shopping, or our equivalent of it. my mom hates shopping generally, so we only go on big shopping trips two or three times a year. I got cute shorts and a t-shirt that has peace's definition on it and a skirt that is legitimately adorable with really big pockets (do you know how long I have wanted a skirt that has pockets and is still cute?) and two white church shirts and new white good shoes (they are so cute!) and also slips and a tank top etc. SO YAY!
-went through my two drawers and rearranged everything
-brought in two loads of laundry
-got half an assignment for government done
-posted part 2 of the Mary 'verse, which needs a 'verse name

Things I have done today
-wrote parts of Cedric and Holland in New Orleans with the mafia (oh god help *whimpers*)
-responded to comments on LJ
-determined that 'Don't Stop Believin'' is Renesmee/Mary's theme song, most definitely
-wrote bits of part 3 of the Mary 'verse (some in comments, mostly in my head - it's set in Harvard) and extraneous bits

Things I still need to do today
-make brownies for when Papa and Sam get back from baseball
-do the dishes
-get at least one assignment, preferably two, turned in for government
-work on Latin
-finish eating dinner
-get some typing up done, of any of the stuff I've got floating in my head/on paper (this includes Mary 'verse, Happenstance Harbor 'verse, my random nostalgia writing
added
-make graphic for and pimp erasureathon 

So much! I'm going to turn the music up loud and dance while I do the dishes.

(other stuff in my head - it's weird, but generally the only time I actually talk about my depression is in when I'm in one of my down moods, and once I'm feeling better it's instinct to just white wash it and say everything's fine and smile a lot. I'm not exactly sure what this says about me. I do know that I'm kind of tired of feeling ashamed of something I'm doing my damn best to control, especially since it's not anyone else making me feel ashamed of it now that I don't talk about it to my sister, just me. it's stupid and frustrating and I keep doing it anyways.)

*turns on the music*

ETA: You know what? It has been one of those days (weeks, really) again. I'm getting tired of them.

Completed fic forremixredux09 , got it beta-ed and posted it. Hope to begin work onnarniaexchange more seriously tonight. Mowed a half acre of really thick grass and got a headache so bad even aspirin didn't help it, the evil little thing.

AND YET! JOY ON THE HORIZON, GUYS.erasureathon has opened for business! I might try to properly promote it tomorrow and make a banner, but for now this is just me going *squeeee* and signing up right this second, thank you very much. So the sign-ups are going to be going until July 25th, assignments will be out by Aug. 1st at the latest, and everything will need to be posted by Aug. 29th, which gives more than enough time to write it and turn it in and is also 10 days past the Narnia Exchange deadline, so yay!

Also, while explaining erasure,zempasuchil linked to Tom Philipp's A Humument the website, which has all the pages of the first edition and is so, so pretty. For instance -

see, it is
feminine
this was broken by
poetry

The woman we are speaking of is
over her ankles
in
the storm and fire
and
desire of art; and
the art of art

I love poetry! *more squeeing*