Smarter Than the Average Squirrel

It's been brought to my attention that you can use your email to make DW posts. Handy, since the damn site doesn't ever let me post from my phone. Handy if it works, that is. Call this an experiment.

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 OK, I had better apologize in advance for this post, because I have been drinking wine out of my Autobot Pimp Cup for the past few hours, and this post may not make complete sense. But it's Saturday night and I'm bored on the internet, and I realized there were things that needed posting about that were not meme related, so. Yeah.

Point the First - Alpha fics, yatta! Oh my god, you guys, there was SO MUCH good stuff written for this fest this year, I can't even. I still need to go back through and kudos-review all the things. 

I wrote One of Their Own for thesecondbatgirl because we're ridiculous people. It's rare that I say this, given that my self-esteem is generally less than stellar, but I am actually proud of this fic. And hey, if I had to watch the same three episodes of Goseiger on repeat for the sake of writing it, it was still a worthwhile venture. 

I received TWO fics, woohoo!

First, Mistel Me What You're Thinking by Revieloutionne who...I don't THINK has a DW otherwise I'd be linking him right now? IDK. This is one of those wonderful situations in which I prompt the thing, I don't expect anyone will actually write the thing, someone DOES write the thing, and it's WAY BETTER THAN I EXPECTED IT TO BE. Seriously, I can't say enough good things about this fic. It has it all. Gia and Jake having an awesome bromance! Prank wars! Troy backstory! Troy having an angst! How often does a fic inspire both laughter and wibbling? I rec the FUCK out of this fic, it is AWESOME. 

And second, Something Fishy This Way Comes by queenriley , in which so many of my favorite things happen, let me count the ways. 1, Billy showing up in seasons where he ought not be. 2, there is FINALLY FIC ABOUT BOTH BILLY AND ANTONIO BEING AFRAID OF FISH, 3, he still makes Antonio eat sushi but he is SO MUCH NICER about it than Ji was in canon, 4, Billy totally knows what motivates Antonio and tells him to DO IT FOR JAYDEN. I am so happy this fic is a thing. 

And even though these were not fics for me, I'd be remiss if I didn't give a bonus rec to Private Lessons by tptigger , which is the Rocky and Justin friendship backstory I've always wanted but was too lazy to write myself, and The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship by queenriley , which is far and away THE BEST social worker!Rocky fic I have ever read. 

I swear, this fest gets better every year. <3

Point the second, I have plane tickets now, so I am officially going to visit thesecondbatgirl for couchcon again! Huzzah! I can't wait for another extended weekend of hanging out with awesome fandom people, watching ridiculous amounts of toku, writing fic and making my liver hate me. <3 <3 <3

It's 2014, woot woot! I have resolutions and goals and shit like that, but I'm not going to post about them because every time I do, I end up looking back on that post and feeling inordinately guilty about whatever I didn't succeed at doing. :P

Anyhoot, there was a ridiculous New Year's party at my mom's house last night, complete with ridiculous amounts of alcohol, of which I consumed entirely too much. I suspect I'm getting too old to be partying that hard, but there's something deeply satisfying about getting drunk as hell in the company of nearly all your favorite people.

And now, without further ado, it's time to start the topic meme! For day 1,tsukino_akume asked me to explain the origin of my username, and I am glad to do so because this story never fails to delight me with its derpiness.

( Of cons and silliness )  

 Two different people requested stuff for day 3 and no one for day 2, so I'll just bump one of them up for tomorrow's meme. Day 2's post will be on favorite animals (with bonus cute pictures!) as requested by punkpinkpower , and day 3 will be diversity in the women of Power Rangers as requested by angel_negra . And I'm still actively soliciting for about 15 more topics, so feel free to comment here  if you'd like to suggest one. 

On a lark, I went back and re-read all the NaNo related posts I made back when I had my first go-round in 2008. And I discovered two things.

1) This is proving to be MUCH easier than last time.
2) Wow, I was a whiny bitch.

So yeah. As of the end of day 9, my total word count is sitting pretty at 17209. I participated in NaNoThon today with great success, coming in with a daily total of 3665 words. I have also realized that there is no possible way I'm going to get to the end of the plot by the end of this month. Not sure yet if I'm going to continue writing into December, or shelve it for a few months and write the rest come Camp NaNo time in the spring. I figure I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Highlights of the month so far include:
- A one-off line about a character's ratty old sandals which I suspect is going to turn into a running gag.
- My personal favorite character and resident giant woob rushing in to save his future boyfriend from certain death whilst wielding the infamous Traveling Shovel of Death.
- Throwing my protagonist off a building only to find out that, surprise, her super-suit has WINGS.
- Writing a scene and realizing after the fact that I have just unintentionally foreshadowed the end of the novel.

And low points:
- A day during which I wrote next to nothing due to working for over 14 straight hours. I love my second job, and I love the extra money, but I'm going to be ruing Mondays for the rest of the month.
- The constant, nagging feeling that 90 to 95% of everything that I've written thus far is complete and utter shit.

 My submission for Femslash Ficathon is like. Almost four times the required word count. Oops.

...At least it's done, though? And not terrible, I think? 

Last night I was chatting with people online while drinking beers and watching the Power Rangers movies in celebration of both my birthday and the anniversary of the MMPR:TM release...as you do...when I was reminded of a certain bad and wrong post-T:APRM AU that I think developed in response to a SpringKink prompt some time ago. And flagrantly enabled to write said bad and wrong AU by a certain thesecondbatgirl .

Tomorrow also happens to be the start of July's round of Camp NaNoWriMo.

I'm sure you all can see where this is going.






Seems pretty apt to me. We'll see how this goes.

As usual, I should be writing or doing something useful. (In my defense, I WAS doing some work from home, but then my remote access crapped out, so...) But finnickodair posted this genius list of ship meme questions and you know how I feel about memes...

If you can think of a ship, i will answer these questions for them
who cooks normally?:
how often do they fight?:
what do they do when they’re away from each other?:
nicknames for each other?:
who is more likely to pay for dinner?:
who steals the covers at night?:
what would they get each other for gifts?:
who remembers things?:
who cusses more?:
what would they do if the other one was hurt?:
who kissed who first?:
who made the first move?:
who started the relationship?:
who is the big spoon/little spoon:
what is their favorite non-sexual activity:
who uses all the hot water in the morning:
what they order from take out:
what is the most trivial thing they fight over:
who does most of the cleaning:
what has a season pass in their DVR:
who controls the netflix queue:
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working:
who leaves their stuff around:
who remembers to buy the milk:
who remembers anniversaries:
what was their first kiss like:
where were they their first time having sex:
who’s louder:
who wakes up first:
if they had to choose a third+ person to include who would it be:
their general feelings on sex in the relationship:
how careful are they about using protection:

I'm not even going to get into my thoughts on Megaforce because it would take me hours and all of my opinions are unpopular anyway. So fuck that, I have fandomsmash to report.

My husband, who is ridiculous and harbors an irrational enjoyment of terrible movies, decided that we were going to watch Battleship this evening. Initially I complained about this, as you do, until it was brought to my attention that John Tui is not only in the film, he actually has a decently big part. Wrap your heads around this fact, friendslist. JOHN TUI IS IN FUCKING BATTLESHIP. He of course plays a spectacular badass who is also quite useful because he seems to be the only one around capable of getting the protagonist to curb his "angsty Red Ranger"-ish qualities. And of course, his guns are ridonkulous and he looks stupid hot in a military uniform.

It is both surreal and hilarious to see Daggeron in a boat with Rihanna.

One of the other major characters in this film is played by Hamish Linklater, who no one cares about but me because I happened to see him in a Broadway play with Alan Rickman last year. I am kind of proud of both of these guys for getting into a major movie. It is a superbly crappy major movie, but it is a major movie nonetheless. So yeah. Thumbs up, guys.

(Footnote: For the purpose of keeping myself entertained and distracted from how silly the plot is, I'm keeping score on who is having a more difficult time controlling his accent, John Tui or Liam Neeson. So far, Liam Neeson is losing.)

I'm hanging out with fly_buggy_fly today; we're chilling on my couch and watching assorted nonsense on Netflix. Right now the deal is, for every episode of MLP:FiM I agree to watch (Say nothing, just because I'm watching doesn't mean I will ever be sucked into the fandom.), she agrees to watch an episode of Power Rangers. I feel vaguely victorious because of this. But really, the important part is that it resulted in this being said:

"That's about the extent of my knowledge [of PR], you make them gay and you like the yellow one."

That is...probably the single most apt description of my fandom I have ever seen.