Lately, my whole life has been an experiment in terror. When it comes to suffering, I'm right up there with Elizabeth Taylor. (Yes, Vin, that was for you.)
First thing: My website, Beauty Effulgent, is unavailable. Because I can't get into my hotmail account, I missed the notifications that ivillage is no longer hosting member websites. So that means my fics, my recs and my tiny archive are offline. As well as my mood theme, dammit!! 'Cause right now, pissed would be GREAT! They're offering to transfer the accounts to Lycos, but I liked ivillage - it was small and didn't have pop-ups. Crap.
Two months ago, I had a nice thing going on LJ. I had a WIP I enjoyed writing, a lively repartee with my flist and I was adored by hun...doz...at least six people.
Now I have a computer that must be travelling back from California to Oklahoma via carrier pigeon or stolen demon gang motorcycle. It's taking that long, anyway.
Also:
A website that doesn't work (may not EVER work?) and hours of linking put into it.
A house that won't be mine for another week and living my entire life in one bedroom, obsessively watching TV and reading Cosmo...okay, kinda like college, so really, kind of fun. Except no sex. Wait a second - exactly like college! (Kidding, Caza. Like freshman year, okay?)
An undying love of Spander that blinded me to all else. I get my computer at work back online and what have I read today?
I can't tell you everything about this, but a sneak peek of
stoney321's Buffyverse parody of "Annie" written for Yin's ficathon. Let's just say it involves a song called, "It's a Hard Cock Life," and something so dirty!bad!wrong she's going to have to make several humanitarian gestures. In a word: it's fucking brilliant.
Also:
Spuffy like it was meant to be by
uberaeryn
QaF RPS by
adis723
Spangel Human AU prison fic by
toobusy2write
and
Salon worthy Peace Corps stories by
camisha
Oh! Wait!!! I read
reremouse and
camisha's "In From the Cold" tag fic. Ha! Spander 4-Ever!!!
I want my laptop (and the uncompleted last chapter of Sunday so that it can become the completed last part of Sunday). I want my new house (and someone else to move my furniture in.) I want my website back up and functioning. I want the phone to ring and someone else be responsible for answering it. (Sorry, random work thing.)
Again, this email was just made to inform anyone trying to access my website that it will be temporarily down until I figure out what's up with Lycos. All of this bitching was tongue-in-cheek, btw. Except about the website. I am wicked pissed about that.
First thing: My website, Beauty Effulgent, is unavailable. Because I can't get into my hotmail account, I missed the notifications that ivillage is no longer hosting member websites. So that means my fics, my recs and my tiny archive are offline. As well as my mood theme, dammit!! 'Cause right now, pissed would be GREAT! They're offering to transfer the accounts to Lycos, but I liked ivillage - it was small and didn't have pop-ups. Crap.
Two months ago, I had a nice thing going on LJ. I had a WIP I enjoyed writing, a lively repartee with my flist and I was adored by hun...doz...at least six people.
Now I have a computer that must be travelling back from California to Oklahoma via carrier pigeon or stolen demon gang motorcycle. It's taking that long, anyway.
Also:
A website that doesn't work (may not EVER work?) and hours of linking put into it.
A house that won't be mine for another week and living my entire life in one bedroom, obsessively watching TV and reading Cosmo...okay, kinda like college, so really, kind of fun. Except no sex. Wait a second - exactly like college! (Kidding, Caza. Like freshman year, okay?)
An undying love of Spander that blinded me to all else. I get my computer at work back online and what have I read today?
I can't tell you everything about this, but a sneak peek of
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Also:
Spuffy like it was meant to be by
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QaF RPS by
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Spangel Human AU prison fic by
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and
Salon worthy Peace Corps stories by
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Oh! Wait!!! I read
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I want my laptop (and the uncompleted last chapter of Sunday so that it can become the completed last part of Sunday). I want my new house (and someone else to move my furniture in.) I want my website back up and functioning. I want the phone to ring and someone else be responsible for answering it. (Sorry, random work thing.)
Again, this email was just made to inform anyone trying to access my website that it will be temporarily down until I figure out what's up with Lycos. All of this bitching was tongue-in-cheek, btw. Except about the website. I am wicked pissed about that.
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Date: 2005-03-02 08:47 pm (UTC)From:Also, I better be one of those six. Just sayin' :D
*cuddles you and waves a magic wand to make all your problems go poof*
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Date: 2005-03-02 08:54 pm (UTC)From:I'll always come back to S/X. I just found it amusing that once I got my fic reading abilities back up, the first things that came my way weren't Spander. I'm actually trying to catch up with "Letters" at the mo. And to poke you for more SSTW, if you feel like being poked...
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Date: 2005-03-02 08:56 pm (UTC)From:*purrs as the hair braiding*
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Date: 2005-03-02 08:54 pm (UTC)From:I want the phone to ring and someone else be responsible for answering it.
*nods vigorously*
And that is exactly why I took the day off.
I finished what was the last posted part of the sequel to the Hollywood!Addict!Brian QaF epic. I didn't know it was the last posted part. I'm devastated. *taps vein on arm* Need more. At least the update wasn't that long ago (January). I may have to join the mailing list. Oh, this is bad. So. Bad.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:01 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-03-02 09:06 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-03-02 09:42 pm (UTC)From:Sue: For upon glistening mount, first light did gleam, dark did displace, and gentle silence broken by...
Kathy: Give me some candy, cheese face!
And that, children, is why you should never take drugs and write. Unless you're Radiohead. Or Pink Floyd. Or Doves...
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:45 pm (UTC)From:2. What's wrong with writing fanfic while high? Um, forget I said that. Can other people see this!?!?! Eavesdroppers.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:51 pm (UTC)From:Wrong number! Wrong number!
Ah, drug paranoia jokes are funny. I want that you should make me some icons. Wanna? Just bases with like one quit phrase on them like:
Quit it!
Sumbitch!
And other ejaculations that occur to me.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:53 pm (UTC)From:You said 'ejaculation', I heard you! Careful though, the walls have ears.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:54 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-03-02 09:13 pm (UTC)From:gotta say, i'm totally not a huge spangel fan, but "bent justice" is hella good.
and worry not, the function of moving briefly away from spander, is only to revitalize your love THE one true pairing. of this i have no doubt.
*smooches* look at it this way, things have nowhere to go but up from here.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:36 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-03-03 06:45 am (UTC)From:and yes, HBO movie describes it well.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:21 pm (UTC)From:Depressed as hell about your website, myself, because rereading Sunday was one of those things I was using as a carrot for getting through a stinky, muddy, blood spattered day yesterday and having to get out and do the same thing again every day until all the calves are on the ground.
I would help you move but I'm sort of distant. I love the whole new house dance, and am always much better at doing other people's hard work than my own.
Also, my beta's out of town and I'm ahead on revision and should be writing new chapters and Ida Wanna.
So far today's big accomplishment was defriending someone who I decided was leaking crazy into my head.
Not the GOOD, Sue, kind of Crazy, the late night political call-in radio show brand that I try so hard to avoid.
Julia, something about watchin "Surprise" for the thirty-leventh time puts me in a mood and destroys any vestige of logical sequencing in what passes for my thought processes
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:55 pm (UTC)From:I could probably look over a chapter or so if you want (it would be tomorrow, though, I'm getting ready to leave.) Is this yoru Irish Rose story that I'm needing to start reading? *g*
LJ is too crowded to let the crazies take root. *nods emphatically* Well, the really crazies.
Surprise doesn't quite put me in the mood that Innocence puts me in. Something about the way Angelus says, "Love ya, too," makes me want to shag him silly. Because I'm a masochist.
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:10 pm (UTC)From:I know what has to happen out three chapters, which is part of what;'s screwing me up: what fun is it writing stuff I already know?
I had sufficient online debating insanity on several boards at AOL that I never need to read or produce it again, and as the hostess of the rolling insanity is apparently not going to write any more fic, I feel safe in defriending, although it is rather a strange process. emotionally speaking.
Julia, wanting to spend an irresponsible sum of money on something I don't need, just for the rush, except I can't find anything exciting.
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:28 pm (UTC)From:And here is a suggestion about getting your house moved in and not by you...movers. Wait, before you say no...I love movers. You call them up, they come over to where your truck is (full of stuff), and they unload it. When I moved to where I am now, the movers were about half the cost of the trip, the other half was the truck rental, but total, an out of state move only cost us 500 bucks. Not bad when some ways it takes thousands to do it.
Look into it, if you want, have just a few guys carry the really heavy things. They'll have a minimum hour so use them till the time is up, but it is sooo worth it. I'm never going back to doing it myself.
So does all this computer trouble mean you can't beta my Spander Ficathon assignment? *pout* Say it isn't so!
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:58 pm (UTC)From:I will always beta for you! I'm emailing you my work addy right now.
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:17 pm (UTC)From:Oh, and thanks for the work addy, I'll be sending the first chapter along in about two days. I have 10 chapters written and 5 more to go but it isn't all edited, so I need to get that done one chapter at a time. Otherwise I'd never make the deadline, the 5th.
Oh and Bent Justice just got updated so go read! She'll be making another post tonight so if you don't want a lusty cliff hanger wait for later. I adore that story!
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:05 pm (UTC)From:Hee! WHY AM I SO HYPER TODAY??
Goldurnit about that website thingy. Looks like _sharvie_ has a good option for you, right?
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:13 pm (UTC)From:I'm kicking in $5 toward your donation to Blanks with Blanks because it's so wrong it's right...
The website sucks! I hate that, because it was such a low maintenance site. And my hits were over 3,000! And now I have to start over. *pout*
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:20 pm (UTC)From:OH MY GOD. I'm totally coming up right now to do that.
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:28 pm (UTC)From:That is so something I'd yell out, ala the Simpsons, to mock conservative paranoia. I bit a hole in my lip trying not to howl. Ah, good times. Throw on the prairie skirt and grab The Book of Mormon and come on!
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:51 pm (UTC)From:I mean, they can't be that much older than me... I mean, of course, 34,000 or so, beore there werehumans on this continent?
Julia, remembering a whole lot of no fun at all in the 'fifties
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:48 pm (UTC)From:I still worship you even if you don't have any fics. Where are your fics?!?! Argghhhhh!
I'm 12 and I'm still giggling over 'It's a Hard Cock Life'. Tee, hee!
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Date: 2005-03-02 10:56 pm (UTC)From:Give me 15 minutes, a glue stick, a star shaped cutter, a pic of JM with appropriately emaciated cheekbones and I'll get the letterhead started...
My poor fics. Alone in cyberspace and probably being laughed at by the scrapbooking and knitting sites also jettisoned from ivillage...
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Date: 2005-03-02 11:13 pm (UTC)From:Bwah ha ha! You funny! I say we just slap a couple of cheekbones, a lip, some blue dots for eyes and then use some white pipecleaners for hair and wahla!, it's JM. In my dream I was quite rude to him over breakfast. I was going, yeah, it's probably a good idea doing the whole convention thing. You keep doing that hon. I'll never get an invite to another imaginary breakfast at this rate.
Though who knows, maybe Scooby Doo 4 will come out and SMG and JM can reunite and have dirty wrong sex in the back of the Mystery Van.
iVillage sucks. I say we storm it and burn it to the ground and spread vicious rumour about it.
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Date: 2005-03-03 02:26 pm (UTC)From:*attempts to move your furniture with the power of my mind!*
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Date: 2005-03-03 02:29 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2005-03-03 09:17 pm (UTC)From:How's Caza's tooth?
I'm glad you're reading Bent Justice, it's fantastic. Also In From the Cold is incredible. You've got to catch up on No More Snakes and Ladders, though, it's great.
Haven't seen any QaF so... never gotten into any QaF fic, except
I was about to wail, "Where's those Peace Corps stories?" because
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Date: 2005-03-03 10:00 pm (UTC)From:It's supposed to be fixed, we're just waiting for it to come in the mail.
Caza had his dentist office visit (and got the good drugs) and now he's due for some sort of root canal/new toothin'/fixin' it up kind of deal. But he's no longer moaning in pain, and that makes me happy.
The only reason I haven't started "No More Snakes..." is that I know they've got a lot written and I'm I'm afraid of getting sucked in and not being able to keep reading until 2:00 a.m., if I wanted. But, oh, once I get my laptop back...
I started watching QaF through Netflix after catching a random ep on Showtime (I don't have cable.) The writing on QaF? Is terrible. But the boys? Are pretty. I'm shallow. I feel no shame about that. The fic writing in QaF is actually better than the screenwriting. Life's funny...
So you're all settled in post wedding?
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Date: 2005-03-04 11:35 am (UTC)From:Hey, I was hoping that you could answer a question for me. Now that I'm reading a BtVS/QaF crossover, and you are obviously a QaF expert now, I would like a clarification on a QaF issue. Since Brian and Justin (and a few other characters from QaF) are in this story, I'm a little confused about the relationship between Brian and Justin. I know that they sometimes are together? But not always? Is one or the other jealous? Do they have other boyfriends? Waaaah! I just don't understand this modern world, where people don't fall in love and stay in love and stay together! (She says as she sits knitting in her rocking chair gumming her dentures...)
Are you about ready to come sleep on my guest bed in cold snowy Boston, or are the in-laws just barely tolerable?