Jen

1.Name any character from one of the fandoms you know I'm into and I'll tell you three things from my personal canon about them.

2. Name any story I've written, and any character in them, canon or original. I'll tell you three things about that character which didn't make it into that story.

3. Give me the title of a story I've never written and some sort of feedback about what you liked best about it, and I will tell you at least three of the following: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Okay, guys, I don't ask for things very often and when I do they're not for me.

shadowcat needs help. Badly. She has a post here detailing the writing and tarot reading services she's offering.

Please, guys, help her? Even if you can't donate anything, please boost the signal? She's my best friend and the sister of my choosing, and I hate seeing her suffering like this.

I go home tomorrow and I really, really, REALLY don't want to. I'm infinitely more comfortable here than I am back home. I honestly wish I could just move out here.

Of course, I'd need a job out here, and I can't afford things like rent and bills and food, and I'm pretty sure there'd be a problem with me living in shadowcat's living room, so the moving out here isn't such a good idea.

Yet, anyway. Maybe someday.

Also? I want my Yuletide assignment, man. I really do. I have my suspicions on what I'm going to get matched on to write, but I want my assignment so I know for certain.

Hi, dear Author, you are my new favorite person for writing me this fic, whatever it is.

A few basic things before we dive into the specifics of the fandoms. I'd like kink left out as much as possible -- it isn't that I don't enjoy a good story with kink, I'm just not sure how well kink would fit in with most of the requests I've made. (That having been said, if you WANT to write me kink, I'd like the milder side of it as opposed to the darker side.)

I like happy endings, but even more than that I like angst. I LOVE angst, actually. If you can do an angsty fic that has a happy ending -- or even just a "happy for now" ending -- then have at it and I will love it to bits. (I'll love anything you write me, but angst is my favorite thing ever, pretty much.)

I don't like one character triumphing over enough at the cost of the other person's dignity or putting another character down just for the sake of putting them down (it's different if the character doing it is the kind of character who WOULD do it).

And now, on with the show!

( Some fandom specifics ahead. )

So to sum up, Dear Author: Thank you and you rock.

Had a seizure at work this morning, which was all kinds of fun. Only, y'know, not so much.

Spent four hours in the ER and came out of it with a doctor's note excusing me from work tomorrow and a recommendation to see a neurologist. We're going to call and make that appointment on Monday.

It was... incredibly surreal. I was sitting in the break room before work, checked my phone at 8:22, and next thing I knew it was 8:26.

Was actually pretty scary because I KNEW what was happening but couldn't really do anything about it. Thank God I don't have the type of seizures that involve shaking or twitching -- I just have the ones where you pass out or have altered consciousness or something like that.

I took my lithium today after not having it for four days due to an inability to FIND the damn prescription in order to get it filled. Hopefully I'll get back to mentally and emotionally balanced soon, because I'm really not enjoying this whole depression spiral I've got going on.

I need to write. I have a bigbang fic due the 13th of next month and just, um... I'm at 8.2k out of a minimum 10k. This should not be as hard as my brain is making it. Because I've done 7k in one day before, so in theory 1.8k over the course of days shouldn't be that difficult.

"In theory" being the key phrase.

In actuality, my brain is just locking up.

But I still have basically two weeks -- I have to pretty much finish the thing a few days early due to vacation -- so I'm not actually panicking about that. Yet. (Just flailing, lol.) Because we all know I will sooner or later.

Speaking of writing! I kind of want to do a big prompt table of some kind, like both Mylia and Pesha are doing. Except I know that I will fail miserably at it, like I do every time I try a prompt table. This does not, however, keep me from wanting to try again.

In other news... vacation! I'm going out to Maryland again to visit shadowcat, which is going to be fun. It's also going to be Tattoos For Everyone, because there's going to be five of us -- the two of us, her daughter, and two other friends -- getting tattoos. Kind of nervous, since it's my first one and I don't do well with needles or pain. But it's a pretty simple design, so I should be okay.

Hey, arty type people who like doing stuff for bigbangs! scifibigbang still has a bunch of fics that are available in art claims. One of mine, yes, but also some other really interesting sounding fics. So go take a look, see if anything interests you!

Am currently sitting on shadowcat's bedroom floor -- yes, I know there's a chair, I'm comfortable here! -- and I dun wanna go home on Sunday. I just don't.

All you arty types, heads up!

We need artists over at angstbigbang @ LJ. If you can create art for a fic, art of any kind, we need you! The summaries are here, and the artist sign-ups are here.