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Why hasn't anyone written Loser fanfics that cross over with the Avengers? Or Watchmen,for that matter. Or both. Both would be good.

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Nukume Dori 20 [Hokuto]

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Feeling particularly accomplished today after spending literally the whole day in bed adding some 2,500 words of Seishirou being over-confident, which brings the chapter to a current total of 6,700+ words. Me and my inability to write short chapters, siiiiiigh

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So I'm assuming from the hints dropped in the last couple of books that at some point we're going to find out exactly why Billy-Ray ripped out his own eyes, and I'd like to state right now that my best guesses are a) that he saw his parents going at it or b) somebody made him watch an NSYNC music video, because these are the top two reasons for gouging your eyes out and ALSO two of the fastest ways to turn somebody into a serial killer. Though presumably he would have been a serial killer anyway since his dad was a stealth assassin ninja (who wore a BOLO TIE, that's fierce when you're a ninja) before he had to quit due to prison and oldings.

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I spoke here about not really liking my wedding dress and feeling kinda gross about it. First, thank you to all who commented with encouragement and suggestions. I really appreciate your feedback. But the more I looked at pictures of myself, the more I realized what was bothering me. It wasn't that the dress was a little tight (it was) or that it was white when I had previously decided not to wear white (though I didn't love that.) It was that it just didn't feel like me.

That dress felt like a costume. It felt like I was trying too hard. Which is basically the way I dress when I panic and don't know what to wear.

So, I decided to send the dress back.

And I went back to the drawing board and thought, "If this was just a party and I was going to wear something that really made me feel great, what would that be?" What I came up with was something short, and form-fitting, that would show off all my curves and let a little bit of my tattoo peek out. I wanted something elegant and sexy, that made me feel wonderful when I put it on.

I found it. Can't show you a pic right now, as I had to buy the dress 1 size up to fit my hips and am getting it altered. But I LOVE IT. I love it so damn much that I might marry this dress! I want to wear it to everything! I LOVE IT!

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There are like eight thousand things that I want to tell you about why Runelight is awesome and you should all be reading it, but I don't have enough typing hands for saying so for now I will just say that I love that Heimdall is basically only in this story to be the straight man of the entire Norse pantheon. Like, his whole character is just him getting sour about how fucking retarded the rest of the Norse gods are. I want these books to be films JUST SO Idris Elba can stand around looking furious while the world ends and all these other superpowered dudes are riding the bus with the flavoured windows.

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So, I was going to tell you all about this amazing website I found that basically retells myths and folklore and fairytales in like, people-words, and how that story I heard about, that I thought had canon mpreg, was about Loki fucking a horse, as a girl-horse, and then having that horse's eight-legged horse babies, basically so Odin didn't have to pay a giant dude for building Asgard, and then what happens is that Odin keeps the horse, and all the gods get a hall in Asgard,except Loki, even though getting boned by a demon horse is the ABSOLUTE EPITOME of taking one for the team, and it was hilarious and about Odin just being massively douchey in an amazing way, but I can't tell you about that right now, because I just watched the Breakfast Club and it was AMAZING and basically, Judd Nelson gets all the blowjobs from now on. Like, all the blowjobs that are not specifically earmarked for Colin Farrell? Those are Judd Nelson's blowjobs right there.

Anyway, I am full of zucchini fries and chocolate mousse and some cocktail, I dunno, it was nice, so I'm going to take a bath and go to bed and maybe tomorrow I will tell you about the website I found and how pimping your friends to demon horses to avoid paying your bills is how I'm going to live my life from now on.

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Yes, I am nearly done with finals! And I think I have a place to live in August! And it's really hot here, I don't understand why!

The point of this post is that someone translated one of my fics into Russian! Moving In is a very short Black Books fic, and it's been translated into Russian as part of what looks like a giant omnibus of short Black Books fic. Rad.

IDK anything else, my brain is given over to finals and the relief of not having to deal with craigslist anymore.

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(Still buried up to my neck in job-search related stuff. Looks like the universe really wants me to work at my old university, since every time I finish an application for an awesome job there, another awesome job there comes along. I have my first interview on Thursday, so… we’ll see.)

Anyway, while working on The Reversal I thought FailAvatar Amon would be the Character Most Likely to Make the Readers Turn to Drink, in the sense that he out-Brittas Britta Perry in the “being a pizza burn in the roof of the world’s mouth”, “being the AT&T of people”, and “he should join a ruiners’ club, but he’d just ruin it” departments, but the more I write the more Korra comes in from behind for a surprise win. It’s not so much her shitty backstory , because this is Republic City, the worst place in the world, everyone has a sob story. It’s more like… she spends her eighteenth birthday in a half-submerged basement with only an Eldritch Abomination that has told her things like “See? No one loves.” for company, to say nothing of the whole “swimming in a mental cesspool of all the memories people have of the horrible things they’ve done”, and… she thinks (tells herself) it’s great, really, her special destiny at work, and what would she do without her little friend?. In conclusion:

I'm reading Khaled Hosseini's latest Afghanistan-centered novel, And the Mountains Echoed... which isn't actually to be released until May 21, but work got an Advance Reader's Copy, an assistant manager laid claim to it, and kindly lent it to me after reading it herself. I've been too distracted to focus on reading much lately, but I'm over halfway through this, and it's been breaking my heart into little pieces so that I keep crying unexpectedly. I don't regret it, though! He also wrote The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, and his style is simple and intensely powerful. Maybe it's simply because of Afghanistan's tendency to be insanely tragic almost all the time which lends it to good storytelling. I feel that anything I could say, though, would be too shallow...

So since I can't find my pictures of the Chinese wedding I went to this weekend, I figured I'd do a post about Batman instead.  Because why not?  Now with edit.

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As some of you know, I've written a novella with similar themes to my AU fic, Just a Little Touch. While it's a western, has totally original characters, and I changed some of the fundamental "rules" of the soulmate 'verse, I keep hearing it's best to cover my butt and take down the fic anyway.

This fic will be removed from my LJ/A03 account on Wednesday, May 15th.

If you'd like to keep a copy of this fic, here is the A03 download link : http://archiveofourown.org/works/225201/chapters/340914

Here is the link for the podfic, read by kansouame   http://archiveofourown.org/works/455056
(Note: The podfic will be staying up as it's considered a transformative work).

FAQ's

Can I share my copy of your fanfic to friends after you take it down?

I can't stop people from emailing copies to their friends, but be cool. Don't reupload it on your website/blog for public viewing.

Do you plan to take down any of your other fic?

Not at this time. To be honest, this is bumming me out. I dislike removing my fic for any reason and I realize this may disappoint a few people.

When will your novella be available for sale?

Right now I'm in the process of querying for possible publication. Let me know if you'd like a heads up if/when the novella will be available for sale.

If you don't sell it, will you reupload Just a Little Touch?

You mean, after I drown my sorrows with my friend, Mr. Margarita? Yes, probably. :P

The hug! THE HUG! Andandand he has Alan's dog tags hanging up in his trailer! And "Don't monologue!" And Gwen being all sexy with the Lara Croft outfit and Zoe being all cute in the stompy boots and pleated miniskirts, and it's also haunted by cannibal pirates and HE CLICKED ORDAIN ME and Peter was all, "What the fuck?" and then BURNINATING and did I mention THE HUG OH MY GOD?! *bouncing forever*

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Definately the best thing about the Lost Boys 2 are the alternate ending scenes with Alan in that cowboy hat. Though I'm glad that in the end, they went a different way, because now it's time for Lost Boys: the Thirst, in which the Frog Brothers are utterly lovely and everything is wonderful! Huzzah!

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