I've lost my mind and am finally doing something with the cafepress shop I've had since 2005. Unfortunately, the FAQs are crap. It SAYS you can pick from templates for the store, BUT WHERE THE HELL ARE THE TEMPLATES? And can I honestly only choose one design per tshirt? Like, if I want design A on this specific shirt, i can't do that same shirt with design B?

MAKES NO SENSE. SOMEONE HELP.

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Tags: cafepress

Forgotten about ficlet that was posted in anenko's comments in DECEMBER that I promptly lost.


Title: Same Time, Same Place
Author: alianora
Rating: PG13
Summery: You would think that being psychic would pay off in situations like this.

( Everytime they've ended up here, something happens )

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Title: Hold the Frame
Author: alianora
Rating: PG
Spoilers: through Furt
Summery: The Kurt Hummel School of Dance gains an unexpected addition.
AN: This would never happen. It's not plausible or logical based on Karofsky's freaky actions in Furt. But I really wanted to see Karosky speechless and kinda wanting, and I really wanted Kurt to be a bitch and take advantage of the fact Karofsky can't do anything nasty at this point in time. And then they had to have feelings and ruin all my fun.

( This is your dance space, this is my dance space. )

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Tags: canon gay, finish it!, glee, glee fic

Today I had a job interview for a new teaching job next year. Somehow, the words "dildo" and "vagina" both occurred during the conversation. BEST INTERVIEW EVER.

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Tags: teacher fail

Job hunting sucks, and yet, i cant seem to find the energy to care all that much about being non-renewed. maybe this means my meds are working properly. or that i just dont give a fuck, idk. the father person randomly offered to pay for me to go back to school, which would be cool if i had any idea what i wanted to do.  i've always been interested in library science and being a librarian, but i dont want to go back to school for something i feel like i dont know enough about. any librarians on the flist who can talk to me about it?

i want Glee to come back. there is nothing on to watch/fangirl. I miss writing. I have no motivation to do anything. maybe my meds ARENT working.

i've been watching Yamapi's Route 66 trip, which is seriously kind of awesome, in a very understated way. Pi speaking English and encountering random people and eating his way across the US. it's amazing. He has one suitcase, plays with glowsticks alone in his hotel room, and stays in many strange places. Also, if i walked into the laundrymat and saw this, i think I would die:



The other caps I have no excuse for, except pretty.







Also, I am completely bored with all of my music. Suggestions? Links? Anything?

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Tags: i watch dramas for the plot, jdrama, teacher fail, yamapi is ridiculously attractive

Thank you thank you thank you for the kind soothing words the other day. Things still suck, but I've hit somewhere between so-stressed-i-cant-eat and are-you-fucking-kidding-me-with-this-bullshit?

In other news, I've decided to retire from teaching to become a professional Angry Feminist. That way I would be paid to yell at people for their bullshit. I think it sounds AMAZING.

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Tags: my life sucks, teacher fail

Whining and frustration and word vomit under the cut, all real life crap.

( bleh )

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Tags: my life sucks, teacher fail

I'm writing! ...sort of. I mean, I have put words down onto paper (...how do you phrase that in computer language?), but they're teeny, and they've only been posted on tumblr, and are pic or gif inspired. Regardless, I share so I don't have to go searching for them later when i weep about how i havent written anything in over a year and i should quit fandom.

Both Glee, but whatever.

( Sexy and I Know It inspired )

( West Side Story, Krupke, handcuffs )

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Tags: drabbles, glee, glee fic

Tumblr is broken, and all I can figure is either Glee was really fucking awesome, or really fucking sucked, and fandom brought down tumblr. Again.

Which sucks, because i was at play practice and usually the download links go up on tumblr first, and I NEED MY GLEE DAMMIT.

Someday, I'm going to write a survival guide to dealing with Glee. I love it, but it's crazymaking. It becomes easier when you embrace these facts:
1. Everyone on Glee is an asshole. No exceptions. Not even Burt. (Ok, maybe Burt.)
2. Continuity is for suckers.
3. RIB will pee on everything you love.

Now, to find a download!

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Tags: glee

I've been browsing through the festivids' master archive, and I have found so much lovely goodness!

The Goonies - Retropactum



Kamikaze Girls - Power of Two



Legend - Light and Dark




Mulan - Bloom in Adversity



Ninja Assassin - Soft Boy
(Warnings for violence)



Willow - You May Be Right



There's a lot more awesome over at the comm, so go and watch!

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Tags: vids

For various reasons, I haven't done a yuletide reveal post yet. I usually do my year in fandom wrap up and my yuletide posts back to back, but as my active participation in the creative side of fandom has been nearly nonexistent this year, that ain't happening.

instead, I'm listening to Disney covers by Asian artists, and I'll leave you with my yuletide fics.

To start, the lovely anenko, to my absolute non surprise but absolute joy, wrote me Long Love Letter fic - Step Forward. I had THOUGHT it was her, because 1) no one else has watched LLL. Or cares. and 2) She didn't ask me to beta or look over or anything. Which almost always happens. I'm seriously thrilled by the story and by the fact she wrote it for me.



For the main collection, I wrote The Smallest of Things for slipsthroughfingers, which is a Push story about Nick and Cassie and settling into a life together. It kinda straddles the lines between family and more than friends, I think. Or i tried to make it. I kinda like how it turned out.

Summery:
When he comes back to wherever they're living at the time, she's generally sprawled out over the sagging couch with her legs in ripped tights tossed over the arm rest and her markers all over the place. When he's there with her at their current little crap hole of a hotel, she's constantly talking, shoving her drawings in his face, and leaving the bathtub tile splashed with weird colors from her experiments with hair dye. When he takes off for a while, she's yelling after him to pick her up something to eat and for god's sake, Nick, duck when the lady with the fish smiles or don't turn left after dinner, dumb ass.

I did write one little story for Madness, because the prompt couldn't have hit one of my childhood OTPs any harder.

With Mortal Hands, I'll Build a Castle for Katarik is a Care Bears ficlet about Dark Heart adjusting to being human and all those pesky feelings that come with it.

Summery:
It was..strange to have a heartbeat. And skinned knees and runny nose and emotions, of all things.

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Tags: yuletide

my yuletide fic is Long Love Letter and it is AMAZING. Step Forward, all about Nishi and her prickliness and how she's dealing with Otomo's declaration that he's going to take care of her. I love it, I adore it, I have ideas of who wrote it...

Regardless! It is awesome and this is my public THANK YOU EVER SO YULE GOAT.

I wrote one fic, which has gotten a couple of comments and some kudos and my person seemed to like it so yay. And one madness ficlet which got exclamation marks from my person and a couple other comments and so kudos so things are going swimmingly.

I've had barely any time to wade through the archive, and I think I'm in the L's at this point, so I'm getting there. No chance at ALL to look at madness, but I'll get there.

Otherwise, we bought a house and are in the process of moving in, so my brains are toast. No internet, 1 working toilet, and then the Dark Lord broke the shower door, and both Voldemort and Brandus are puking today. GAH.

I fucking hate what lj did to comments, so come comment over at dreamwidth if you want. You can always comment at either!

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Tags: yuletide

We're closing on our new house in 2 hours.

Yuletide is due tomorrow.

BEARS. BEARS EVERYWHERE.

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Tags: threat level: bears

Not yet started. Canon not reviewed. Notes not made. Thoughts vague and unformed.

I am rapidly approaching threat level: BEARS.

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Tags: yuletide

In time honored tradition, I pulled open a blank doc to start working on my yuletide fic...and promptly got two different fics in Fic That is Not My Yuletide started.

Huh.

I suppose I should be thrilled that I'm writing at all, seeing as this year I think I wrote one or two little drabbles on tumblr and that's it for fandom contributions in 2011.

I was planning to do more, like, work more of those things, or review canon for yuletide or something, but instead i seem to have pulled a muscle really badly in my shoulder and with the combination of muscle relaxer and tylonel with codeine, I can't do anything other than sit. Everything is processing really slowly, but at least I haven't broken down into tears like i did earlier, because i couldnt figure out a way to lay down that didn't involve pain and gagging and crying. All of which don't help when you've got a muscle in your back that affects the ease of BREATHING.

So. *drifts mentally* I can't even focus on this. it's taken me a ridiculous amount of time to type this and fix a whole bunch of typos and mess. Like, an entire phrase was missing more than once.

I think I'll have cookies for dinner. Cookies and codeine. Yum.

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Tags: yuletide

Instead of doing anything useful like going through source material for my yuletide fic or writing ANYTHING AT ALL EVER, I am instead going through all of my requests at the various glee memes and collecting the ones that never got filled.

For you! So you can write them for me for Solstice/Wintermas/Giftmas! YOU'RE WELCOME.

( This is JUST from the fluff meme. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? )

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Tags: glee, write this for me

It is YULETIDE, and I have just gotten my assignment, and while I initially panicked over it, I am now very excited and actually have THINKY THOUGHTS on what i want to see and phrase and YAY!!

And then I immediately went to stalk my person, and then I realized I haven't done my Dear Yulegoat letter yet, SO!


General stuffs:

From my 2009 letter:
I love solid characterization more than ANYTHING else. I love plot, I do, but the characters are what do things for me. I love character vingettes just as much as I love long epic fics that encompass 50 years and 7 different planets. Don't be afraid to write something weird - if the characterization comes through and I can figure out where they are coming from, I promise that I will be over the moon about it.

I love gen, het, and slash. I like gen just as much as I like porn, and I love stories about people who stumble their way to happiness. While I adore angst, I tend to be more focused on the happy for yuletide. If the angst bug hits you though, go for it.

I love banter. I love snark and snappy dialogue and people who tease each other because they know each other and know all the buttons to push. I love quiet introspective pieces with no dialogue and only in one character's head. I love...many many things. Whatever you write will be lovely.



1) Wedding Wars (2006) - Shel Grandy, Ted Moore
I love this movie and I love Shel and Ted. I think anything with them is adorable, and there is NO FIC ANYWHERE, so I'd be thrilled with anything really. I'd love to see their meeting, Ted freaking out over moving in together, the siblings introducing their significant others, or their wedding planning and wedding. Maggie and Ben and/or Shel and Ben's parents are welcome but not required.

Shel and Ted are too cute for words, seriously. Fluff and adorableness and banter and sniping, YAY! I have to admit that I'm much more interested in Ted and his emotions and reactions to Shel and either their first meeting/first dates, Ted's nervous breakdown over moving in together, or the insane awesomeness that would be Ted watching life as he knows it go up in smoke as Shel cheerfully plans an entirely too over the top wedding.

2) Long Love Letter -Otomo, Nishi, Misaki, Asami
There is no fic for this show, even though it leaves SO MANY QUESTIONS. How did the future world change after the letters? How did that effect the course of the show and the relationships in it? I ship Misaki/Asami because they are totally and completely MARRIED, and I ship Otomo/Nishi because the combination of tough cool guy and distrustful disabled girl makes me clap my hands in glee. If you don't want to get into the world altered after the letters, I'd love to see more about the relationships - how do the only two sane adults handle dating (and more) while surrounded by a bunch of stupid teenagers and radioactive spiders? How does Otomo even go about wooing Nishi..besides awkwardly and probably faily?

I love the scene where Misaki and Asami go on their date and basically end up exchanging wedding vows (SOOOO MARRRIED), and the scene where Otomo is making bad jokes about coming in the room while Nishi is washing. I love the adorableness that is Misaki and Asami, but the potential and the nervousness and distrust that would come from Otomo and Nishi. How would he convince her he wasn't playing her or planning a nasty prank or is just hanging around because there is no one else sane to bother. I also love the sheer promise of angst and pain, so if you feel the need to make it hurt..please don't kill my Otomo and/or Nishi? Asami dealing with the fallout of Misaki's death would also be awesome.

3) Proposal Daisakusen - Ken, Rei, Eri
I've always wondered about how the past Kenzo acts after one of the photographs/time traveling incidents. Does he go back to acting "normally?" I would love to see how Rei reacts emotionally to the differences in his behavior - never knowing for sure whether he's her best friend or something more.
Otherwise, I can't help but think it would be HILARIOUS for Eri to somehow get pulled into the time traveling to help Ken out. I can't help but think she'd be irritable and ridiculous.

Yeah. That's all I got. Rei thinking Ken is running hot and cold, but too shy/proud to talk to Eri or Ken about it and giving up on Kenzo slowly. Or Eri time traveling and complaining and being ridiculously awesome and snarky about it all.


And then I was just scanning the rest of the eligible fandoms, and I saw this and made noises that frightened my hamsters. I seriously had no idea anyone else had ever read these books!

4) Dancing Meteorite and Stolen Law - Anne Mason - Kira Warden, Linc Everett, Morgan Everett, Ertrex
OMG I AM FREAKING OUT. I love these books and have NEVER met anyone who has read them before. I love Kira's dedication to her job, to the validity of the truth's she knows..so naturally, I want romance. I always hoped for more between her and (is it Linc? It's been so long since I've read them) Linc, the boy who calls her "Small Stuff." I'd love to see something set immediately after The Stolen Law, and how everything shakes down from the drama of Kira's actions, with lots of comfort and feeeeeeeeelings from Linc.

I would give more details if my copies werent across the entire country!

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Tags: yuletide

Yeah, i have good intentions of writing fanfiction, but then yesterday we won a bid on a house (!!!!!) and signed a contract and now I'm freaking out, and then there is Glee, which has me gnawing on the furniture waiting for THIS TUESDAY WHICH MIGHT VERY WELL KILL ME.

if you don't know what's going to happen, I won't spoil you, but for fuck's sake, don't go to my tumblr, because i'm reblogging every single perfect screencap and early release and manip and EVERYTHING and OH MY CHEESUS I MIGHT DIE.

I might die even more because starting this Tuesday, I have rehearsals for the Vagina Monologues, which i'm crazy excited to be involved with again, BUT WHY MUST THE PRACTICES BE ON TUESDAY? AND WHY MUST THEY START *THIS* TUESDAY? AND HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET A GLEE DOWNLOAD LINK WHEN I CAN'T GO ON TUMBLR TO AVOID RUINING EVERYTHING FOR MYSELF? *weeps*

ps. holy shit, we bought a house.

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Tags: glee

DEFENESTRATE. It means to throw something or someone out of a window.

Tags: writer's block

I finally got Deepest Sender to work again. It involved messing around with my profile settings in Firefox, deleting DS, reinstalling it, swearing a lot, deleting it AGAIN, and then finally deleting all record of DS off of my firefox profile, then reinstalling.

BUT IT'S WORKING!

Everything tech wise went a little pear shaped all at once, too, and I want to give serious thanks to Darren from Bad Wolf Software for going round and round with me through email to figure out what the heck was going on with my PageFour software, which is an awesome word processing program that lets me have seven different fics open and in progress in one single window. And yet, for some reason, it was refusing to acknowledge the fact that I had more than one notebook, and i had to search and find every single story in progress. NOT COOL. But with Darren's help and a LOT of uninstalling and reinstalling and looking through settings and files, it is now FIXED.

Which means that NaNoFinito (my get-off-my-ass-and-finish-those-fics plan for November) is officially a GO. I still need a master post for that, and if anybody else wants to play, I'd love the support and cheerleading.

ALSO! yuletide noms are coming up! We're only getting to nom three fandoms this year, and holy crap I just don't know. I've decided on two, but the third? NO FUCKING CLUE. anenko and I have had several conversations about it on tumblr, and GAH, I just dont know!

One is definitely Wedding Wars, which is a very cute made-for-tv movie from 2006 starring John Stamos as a gay man who goes on strike for gay rights. Sean Maher (Simon Tam from Firefly) is his partner, and they are just SO ADORABLE I can't stand it. And there is no fic for it. Anywhere. I'm begging you, GO DOWNLOAD IT.

(CHEEEEEEESY video, but it's all I can find.)


I've more or less decided on nomming Long Love Letter as my second, which is a very very weird, futuristic jdrama that involves time travel and giant telepathic spiders. And who doesn't love telepathic spiders?

(This MV tragically lacking in giant telepathic spiders.)


And then, MAAAAYBE Dare Yori mo Mama. Which is a weird jdrama about reversed gender roles with CANON GAY. MAYBE. Because the world needs more Pinko-san and adorable boy kisses.

(Yeah, no mvs. At all. Have a cute pic!)


Or maybe something else. Hana Kimi tw? PGSM? I have no idea...HALP.

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Tags: dare yori mo mama, finish it!, help me obi won kenobi, it's possible im unhinged, long love letter, wedding wars, yuletide