Well, I'm not sure who is still on here but I thought I'd still make my post.

I said I'd try to get back on here years ago and that just...didn't happen. But that's not for this post! This post is for if you'd like to get a holiday card from me. Just leave a comment with the name and address you'd like me to send it to. As usual, all comments are screened.

I didn't forget that I have a DW account (or even a LJ account) but I have been avoiding both - I think I just miss when people connected using one of those? I don't know, I don't have a good excuse!

I am, however, trying to get back to being on here again. I've been writing and reading and working and while I love that I'm part of group chats, etc. with writers in fandoms I'm more interested in (and I joined VM Discord after the shitshow that was season 4), I miss the sense of community that used to be so easy to find on LJ and DW.

Then, when going through old jump drives, I found a BSC snark that I'd done and I wandered over to LJ to check it out and saw that everyone had pretty much migrated to DW and I said to hell with it. Let's get back to DW. Maybe a bit of LJ because I know there's still some fandoms that are more over there than on DW.

Meanwhile, I'll keep on writing - no matter how slow updates might be sometimes! I'll keep on reading.

And I'll be trying to get RL back on track because while it's not off the rails at the moment, it's definitely not where I want it to be and a lot of that has been on me. So. Time to work on that.

I feel like I should have clever titles for my entries though. Damn.

I've been doing much better the last couple of weeks. Not working myself too hard and I've been writing. Even though I'm not editing my VM fic when I post it at AO3 (such a challenge not to - I've reread it as I've posted and some of it is like "No, why did I do that? His actions get paired with HIS dialogue, not hers, omg."), people have been great about it. It's nice to see that my writing didn't totally suck back then, lol.

Still, one day I might edit the hell out of a lot of them and see if I can improve on them.

Either way, it's gotten me back to reading VM fic and wanting to write some, which is quite possibly the weirdest thing of all? I don't know.

And I'm still working my way through my list of Captain Canary fic that I want to write. I need to find my list though because I moved it and now I don't remember where I moved it to. Kind of like the notebook that I was using then finished - I had half a story started in there, maybe more, and it continued to the new notebook but now I can't find the old one and I hadn't typed up the fic yet. Ugh. That's annoying. Either way, I finally finished Chelle's birthday fic last month (her birthday was in June, that's so awful, I took forever with it) and I finished the next part of the Multiverse series. Next up, I think I'll write more of the HP fusion/crossover and there's also two more soulmate AUs that are nearly finished. Plus the tragedy of the next Earth in the Multiverse series.

I've got another series planned out but I haven't done much with it. I've got part of the first story of the series written but I've actually stuck to not posting this one. So far, I've plotted out at least 3 stories in this with the option of a 4th. I'm leaning towards yes on there being a 4th part but we'll see.

I have no idea if voting for the Captain Canary Awards are still going because I've been absent from Tumblr except to reblog a few random posts but I was nominated again in a couple different categories and that's awesome enough, especially since I wasn't expecting it.

And last, but certianly not least, I got the day off that I requested for next month which is excellent because otherwise I'd have faked being sick to not go because that's the day my best friend mibelladeseo, her younger brother, and I are driving up to Denver so we can see RENT the next day. I'm so excited to be able to finally see the stage version! I can't wait!

And now I've gotten my icons updated on DW and made sure entries will crosspost, I think I'm set. Though I probably should have done this months ago because now DW is missing a few entries but I can't remember how to fix that so I suppose it'll just stay that way.

I'm getting back in to looking up some writing comms - I've already signed up for hc_bingo and I'm looking at a few others. I miss doing those and a lot of the ones I used to get involved with for weekly prompts don't seem to be active anymore, which is a shame since it looks like at least one of them was active up until just a few weeks ago. Those comms were always great for the muse!

Meh, I'll figure it out. Meanwhile, I'm slowly getting my VM fic posted at AO3 though I'm just posting them as is and including the original post date in a note. It's a bit fun to see how my writing has changed over the years, considering I wrote those back in 2005/2006!

Happy Friday, folks! I'm going to bed. I have to be up in like 5 hours but I got caught up in icons and writing a new Captain Canary (or rewriting the start - I can't find the notebook with the original start). Oops.

Apparently this made the rounds on tumblr, but it sadly never appeared on my dash. So I'm sharing it here because I loved it.

He should totally be one of your favorite things ever. Because he will make your life better by acting like a complete and utter dork.



Why, yes, he and friends/members of his band DID dress up as Ghostbusters (and the Marshmallow Man). Yes, they did run around DC chasing each other in costume. Yes, there is video and there are pictures and an article.

Pictures and article can be found here.

I discovered this pairing back in 2006 and I've loved it ever since. There's so many possibilities to explore (and believe me, fandom has done so). It's been a good long while since I've actually written this pairing but that's not because I've lost interest and it's not because I don't want to write them (writer's block, anytime you want to leave me alone so I can write some Buffy/Dean again, that'd be awesome), it's just because I've been playing in other fandoms. That said, I have a soft spot for this pairing because it led me to some of the best people I've had the pleasure of knowing. I still read Buffy/Dean and I still look for icons and art of them, which is the reason I decided to do them for this challenge.

IMAGE HEAVY UNDER THE CUT!

**Artists: If you see your stuff here and would prefer I take it down, please let me know and I'll take it off the post, no problem. I checked the posts that they were at in the Buffy/Dean community and didn't see anything but there's always a chance I missed it since I had most of these saved on my computer anyway so, again, just let me know and I can take them down!**

( My Guide To All Things Buffy/Dean )

And, really, that's all just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what you can find for this pairing! Hope you liked what you saw and I definitely suggest checking out more of the art and fics done by all of these people. If you'd like to see more, I suggest checking out buffyxdean.

It was so hard to narrow this down to ten ships! But I managed it. There's groups on here too, just as a fair warning in case that's not your thing. And now....

( To the ships! )

So, I got a call from one of the managers at my new job and found out that I was the top seller in the office with over $1000 in sales. That means I've hit my first promotion already and they're looking to see how I'm going to be ending what they call the fast start competition. Thing is, I have one person who has agreed to an appointment. The three that I had, they didn't really give me many referrals. And the referrals that I've got haven't answered the phone. The family that I talked to about setting up an appointment hasn't followed through (though I have to check my email since one has to do this over email anyway) and the other family member completely ignored me (which was awesome, yeah, since I knew he had his phone since he was texting my mom when I was texting him).


So, I don't know how this is going to go. My stepdad still wants to see the hunting knives and my mom said that his sister sounded interested (and she's looking for her own place so she'll need kitchen stuff, I figure) and starrydreaming said yes to an appointment (because she's awesome and knows that I get base pay for even having an appointment) but everyone else is pretty much avoiding setting a time up or they want prices first and don't care when I say that that comes during the appointment.


I'm frustrated since I can do demos over the phone using the internet and people can get things that way but that doesn't mean much when calls aren't being answered, etc. We're only allowed to advertise a certain way (like no taking out a billboard but I can make fliers and business cards, etc.) so I might give that a shot because this? This isn't working.


Wish me luck on getting more names or at least getting some people to actually agree to either a phone demo (it's watching videos, that's not even hard, darn it!) or a demo in person.


To top it off, we've got a team meeting tonight and I'm sick. These team meetings last 3 hours because the last part of them is usually getting on our phones and calling people about appointments. I'm hoping with the fact that I'm losing my voice that I can get out of there a bit early. Heck, maybe there's someone out there that needs to buy a gift for someone that's, I don't know, getting their own place or getting married or something. I can hope, right?


So, yeah, wish me luck, cross your fingers and all that!

I never would have known about this if it weren't for teagues_veil - who knew Kate Winslet could sing? I totally had no idea! And I like it. Huh. *watches*