Let's Party All Night Long (or at least until 9pm Pacific)

[rsadelle]

If I were the kind of person to have icons, one of them would be Bart Simpson jumping around the screen yelling, "Pay attention to me!" (Quick googling tells me it's from "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy," but I couldn't find video of just that bit in the two minutes I allotted to said googling.) Anyway, I am combining this with my happiness commandment to ask and asking you to come talk to me in the comments. Ask questions, tell me about your day, outline a plot bunny in your head. It'll be a party! (Until I go to bed, but I'll be back tomorrow.)

Caveat: please don't post/link me to video. The sustained time and attention required to watch it makes me anxious. I know it's completely illogical that I would rather read a ten thousand-word story than watch a three-minute video, but there it is. Cat, Channing Tatum, and Star Trek macros are a-okay, as long as they are funny.

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[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

Friday nights on the internet are always boring! And I already wrote my hundred-odd words of Regency Romance for the day, and GoogleDocs won't load the golf AU right now, so I'm extra bored.

Today I decided that were I to write an epilogue-type sequel to the golf AU before actually finishing the actual story, it would totally be Nick fucking Caleb at The Barclays, under hurricane watch. With a plethora of storm metaphors, probably. And then I was like, "Self, the hurricane hasn't even hit yet. TOO SOON." (The championship is in New Jersey, so they canceled Sunday's rounds in anticipation of Irene.) Plus, if I don't know how the story ends, I can't write an epilogue anyway!

[rsadelle]

I have not written anything today, because Friday is my day off. I'm feeling kind of itchy about it, but also kind of like I don't want to write anything. The worst part is that I'm way too cranky to be reading fic. You, however, might try the Brendon/Spencer robot story that was posted today. I haven't, and probably won't unless I hear good things about it elsewhere, so I have no idea if it's your kind of robot thing.

I would read it! It could be an alternate epilogue if it turns out the story doesn't work toward it. Also, this is always what happens to me. I start writing something in my head and then I write more and more of it, and then I get to a point where I'm done and then there doesn't seem to be any point in writing it down because now I don't care about the beginning part. (Alternately, I don't want to do the work to write a real story and don't feel like writing down just the good parts anyway.)

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

Robots! I'll try it after I write my bit of the golf AU, now that it's finally loaded.

Yourdaily dose of Channing and Jamie being bromantical. (http://spock74.tumblr.com/post/9360116967) (No videos!)

[rsadelle]

That was the other thing I was going to say: does Google Docs seem like it's getting slower?

Are they arm wrestling? Does Jamie really think he has a chance? (My favorite is the one on the top left.)

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

Usually once my document hits a certain size, it takes forever to load, or doesn't want to load at all for a while. (Golf AU is around 12k, which seems low for GDocs stalling? It didn't get slow for loading my novel until about 50k.)

Channing's got him beat for size, but JBell would definitely put up a fight!

[rsadelle]

I've been thinking it takes documents of all sizes longer to load these days. Perhaps I'm just short on patience.

Or dance his way out of it.

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm giving up - my story has loaded, but I can't watch the little circle spin around in the tab while Google tries to contact itself. Reading this (http://paperclipbitch.livejournal.com/137620.html) Sherlock story instead!

[rsadelle]

Boo, Google. Ohhhh, that story. I just followed the link and reread it. So good!

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

I keep waiting to reach the end of the internet as far as Sherlock stories go, but I haven't! Which just seems crazy, since there's only three episodes so far.

[rsadelle]

I think even I haven't reached the end of the internet for that!

Plot bunny in my head I might write if I weren't so wary of the fact that I am very much not British: John says something to Sherlock like, "You wouldn't be the first man I slept with. You're not even the first one I've been in love with," and Sherlock is surprised, for which John reprimands him, something along the lines of, "You can't eliminate what you think is improbable along with the impossible." And then he sighs and tells Sherlock, "His name was Peter. I'll show you a picture if you like. I was at Bart's, and he would be waiting for me when I came home. I loved him very much. He was stabbed in a mugging. It punctured his lung, and he was dead before they got him to hospital. I thought that going off to get shot at didn't seem like such a bad idea after that."

Alternate versions: in the romance one, this is just the setup for Sherlock and John to be together. In the Adjustment Bureau/Mycroft is a creepy mastermind/someone else is running the show version, Peter's death was just one of the things that had to happen to nudge John into place so he'll be there to help Sherlock get Moriarty.

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

1) Not being British doesn't stop other authors! and 2) I love that you have alternate versions figured out.

[rsadelle]

But I've been reading so much British fandom fic that I really want it to feel British!

Hee! Options are a good thing.

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

Hello hello hi! ::dances you::

[rsadelle]

Dancing, whee!

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

Did you see the plot bunny pearl_o left over in my post? SO GREAT.

Also, .gif: http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqkcqgNsFG1qdi8aoo1_500.gif

[rsadelle]

Yessss, so great!

Gif: Oh, Gerard, every time I see a picture of you, you look more like the Northern European punk girl I used to be friends with.

Thing you will appreciate: my yoga class is through the local rec department, so I get their catalog of classes. I was skimming through it, and new this fall is "Playtime for Adults," which has the following description:

Would you like to forget trying to be a responsible adult for about 2 1/2 hours once a month? This is an opportunity to freely and uninhibitedly PLAY as the 4-5 year old inside you. We'll do this with art projects, play dough or clay, movement games, dress-up & story time. WHY WOULD AN ADULT WANT TO DO THIS? Well, you might discover how really creative you are. You may become a better parent or grandparent, you will definitely feel less stressed, AND you just might start to slow down and smile.

My first thought was, "Ageplay. Kinky."

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

I thought it might be the kind of thing you'd appreciate. :D

The boy has SASSY HIPS.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha, organized ageplay. That is great. That and Sisky Tweeting the other day about Mike being in a band called "Chew Toy." Oh really, how interesting, do tell me more.

[rsadelle]

I can't figure out if it's better if the person doing the ageplay thing knows about kink or if they really don't.

Mike got Sisky when he was just a teenager, before Sisky could form too many judgments, so Sisky thinks it's totally normal when Mike wants to crawl around the floor with a leash on. (He thinks it's a little weirder when Mike wants him to be the puppy and Mike to be his toy, but whatever. He still gets off.)

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

*___________________*

Sometimes Bill thinks about trying to explain to Sisky, but really, what's the point.

[rsadelle]

Hee! It's useful, too, to have Sisky be able to control Mike sometimes.

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

Give him treats and rub his tummy.

[rsadelle]

Sisky loves having pets, so he does know what he's doing with them.

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

I love ridic story brainstorming threads best of ALL.

[rsadelle]

Yesssss. I plot bunny ALL THE TIME, and since I don't see other people doing it that much, I've been wondering if that's normal.

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

I usually end up doing it on chat or in e-mail, but publicly is fun!

[rsadelle]

I do a fair amount of it publicly, but even more in my head. (Doing so in email hasn't really gotten me anywhere recently, hence the "pay attention to me" jumping around.)

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, there's stuff wandering around in my head ALL THE TIME. Sigh sigh. The more weird and esoteric it gets the less I want to inflict it on my e-mail people, though. /o\

[rsadelle]

See, this is why I never understand the "Where do you get your ideas?" question. That's never the problem!

Somehow what I end up inflicting on people that I think is iffy is the really iderrific porn. It seems kind of okay because they already know everything about me anyway, but then again it's still such idfic.

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

I love idfic. \o/

[rsadelle]

Ahahaha! I will keep that in mind. (A lot of mine has been Panic, though, so I don't know how much you would appreciate that in particular.)

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

I'll give anything a go when it comes to brainstorm-y discussions, ha ha. <333

[rsadelle]

<333

[morganya.livejournal.com]

I just realized that the thing I want to do for kink_bingo technically fulfills the prompt but doesn't seem terribly kinky. I am displeased.

[rsadelle]

I have this vague memory of something during the surveyfail thing being a kink_bingo letter that said there was a political element to kink_bingo around the idea of what is kink/what is vanilla. It might fit just fine! Although I know what you mean - I keep finding myself writing things that are interesting to write, but not necessarily the kind of thing that people might want to read when they go looking for that variety of sex. Also, I keep reading things and thinking, "Oh, sex, whatever, now this character bit is really interesting."

[morganya.livejournal.com]

I'm just annoyed at trying to *~grow as a writer~* or whatever and failing because I suck (no pun intended) at porn.

[rsadelle]

:/ Growing as a writer is hard. Is the kink bingo an exercise in stretching, or are you stretching within that framework?

[morganya.livejournal.com]

A little of both, I think.

[rsadelle]

Huh. Can you grow in some way with the story you want to write?

[morganya.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'll give it a shot. The other stuff I want to do is more explicitly smutty, so one sort-of-vanilla, weirdly structured ficlet isn't too bad. I mostly want to do it because the idea of William having a musical freakout over Carden makes me laaaaaaugh.

[rsadelle]

That's not bad at all! And things that make you laugh are always a good choice.

[mayqueen517.livejournal.com]

I'm tired, but so far, I've done really fantastically in my school-work!! This makes me so fucking happy I can't even stand it. I've gotten 4 100%s on math things, WHICH IS AMAZING.

And on Monday, I'm going to call my therapy office to see about switching to a different therapist.

Also, I'm slowly getting back to being involved in an old fanfic site (the one who got me started and slowly taught me how to write!) and they're letting me put Empires on the site. SO I'M VERY DELIGHTED BY THIS TURN OF EVENTS.

[rsadelle]

Yay to all of that! \o/

One of the things I find fascinating about fandom is how you see the same people over and over again in different fandoms.

[mayqueen517.livejournal.com]

I'm excited to go about pimping them out and getting back into the swing of things, because I'm really looking forward to the distraction. Even though I'm debating about dropping out of the zombie bang. Not because I can't finish, but my school's way more important right now. (I mean, okay, I'm still writing on it, but I don't see myself making the deadline, unfortunately.)

[rsadelle]

If it helps, I am totally in favor of dropping out of things over forcing an ending that doesn't work. Sometimes other things get priority!