Stop Asking

So it occurred to me that there an awful lot of people who need things written, want things written, are in need of a pick-me-up, or just generally want to see something, damn it, and don't have the time to write it.

So.

In my infinite insanity wisdom stupidity need to make people feel better, I'm instituting this little practice. If you want to see Spencer skipping around with Brendon, or what happens when Frank's given a sharpie and turned loose on Warped, or a slice-of-life from 15 years down the road when Pete and Ashlee have a little girl that Pete hands to Uncle Patrick and says "Hi, this must be yours because she's a musical genius. Teach her!" and what happens at that first guitar/piano/vocal lesson, or you *really* want that orgy, written in graphic detail, but you're too embarrassed to write it yourself? Drop me a comment, and I'll give you a drabble or a ficlet (i make no promises for length. None. if it's 100 words or 10,000 words, or even more, then it is. I just...can't limit myself, or set myself a goal like that, sorry kids) in return, in accordance with your prompt.

I place only a few limits on this request system, and they are thus:
1) at the moment, the only muses i have swarming me are bandom. Sorry kids, but even my other current TV loves (Torchwood, Heroes, NCIS, etc.) have sort of disappeared, so please keep it within the following bands (and their girlfriends and wives):
30 Seconds To Mars
Cobra Starship
Empires
Fall Out Boy
Metro Station
Mindless Self Indulgence
My Chemical Romance
Panic At The Disco
The Academy Is…
The Cab
The Hush Sound
The Used
We The Kings
2) you can't get mad if it takes me a while to get to writing the prompt. I'm working full time and a single mom with a 4-year-old, and only off school for the summer, so when fall comes around, i'm back to full time. I will *try* to be prompt about it, but you are not allowed to get mad it if takes me three (or more) months. If you can't abide by this, then please don't make the request. :)
3) Anonymous commenting is on. I've done this so that if anyone feels embarrassed for asking for fic, thinking they're being greedy or selfish or whatever, they don't have to "show their face" so to speak. I promise, I wouldn't offer if it bothered me. I really, really wouldn't. However, I understand how uncomfortable it can be, asking people for fic, so I want to provide you with as much anonymity as possible.

That good for everyone? Fabulous! :D Request away! And please, this post is here for....well, for a long, long time, so if, in three months, you really want a fic, come on over and ask for it, okay? Okay! :D

Hey guys.

Until further notice, this journal will be on hiatus. I'm having a lot of trouble with TLE right now, and he needs my full attention. Not that there's been a lot of posting going on, but there won't be any at all for a while.

I'll be around in the evenings after he's in bed, still, but don't look for me otherwise.

And hey, if anyone's got any advice on how to deal with a brilliant child who can't seem to grasp that he needs to sit down, be quiet, and sit still in school, or respect his teachers/sitters/mother, i'm all ears.

This is my day.

• car window jumped off it's track this morning, wouldn't go back up


• missed Brit Lit and Chaucer to go and get it pinned in place until I can fix it


• got yelled at by dad for interupting his morning, to which my exceptionally bitter response is, don't fucking train me to call you when I've got mechanically based problems, then


• Chiro was his usual weird self, but managed to piss me off with his continuing pontification that medication doesn't work for mental disorders because they're just a figment of your imagination.


• went to work, and had to bust balls all day, trying to get this shit done, that's suddenly due tomorrow instead of at the end of the month, and oh yeah, we have to fix last month's too. and oh, by the way, our company has a double standard and you're beinbg yelld at AGAIN for IM and internet usage, and OH BY THE WAY, we're going to yell at you about your ipod too. never mind that the people that sit immediately behind you ARE CURRENTLY WEARING THEIR HEADPHONES WITH THEIR IPODS BLATANTLY VISIBLE ON THEIR DESKS, and no, it doesn't matter that people in your own department also use the internet and instant messenger, YOU are not allowed


• don't leave work until nearly 6:30 in an effort to get July's presentation done so that tomorrow, we only have to worry about August


• remember that I hadn't yet told my family that, oh, by the way, my ex has decided to join the army, by the way, he left Yesterday for fort Jackson, and oh yeah, he decided that it was my job to take care of the child support situation and let them know that he would be paying me directly for a while, and yes, he didn't tell me that part until oh, monday night


• get home, and my child has filled every soap bottle with water, gotten water all over the counters, gone through my desk drawer, spread change all over the floor, dug through the clean laundry, and oh yeah, they're not home because the sitter took him home with her because i was so late. oh yeah, and he didn't eat any of his lunch (or very little) again.


• and in the middle of cleaning up the kitchen, i get a fucking phone call from the cable company, telling me that i'm scheduled for a hard disconnect on Friday, even though, when I spoke with someone just a few days ago, I was told that the fact that I DON'T GET PAID UNTIL THE FUCKING 15TH AND CAN'T PAY THEM UNTIL THEN WAS JUST FINE, NOT A PROBLEM, WE'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT, and no, it doesn't matter what I was told, if i get the hard disconnect, i'm going to owe them a deposit on everything, go ip to the really expensive rates, and yes, all of this is because a hard disconnect basically means that I'm restarting my service all. over. again.


and that's just today. that's not counting the rest of my week. I'll go into that at a later date. right now, I am going to do homework. and maybe cry. or maybe i'll cry and then do homework...

In short, i'm not here. if I don't message you, don't message me, or you'll get dumped on like poor akire_yta did.

Dear Internets:

WHERE IS LEVERAGE FIC? SHOW ME LEVERAGE FIC. LEAVE ME LINKS. I HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO LOOK FOR FIC ON MY OWN. DAMN YOU BANDOM.

LEVERAGE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC

Love,
ink_on_the_page

Well, doesn't that sound pretentious? :P Still, I know a lot of you have been wanting to know what's been going on with me,a nd I didn't post the update I promised to when shit started happening, sooooooo.

Here we go.

( in which my heart goes bonkers, i confound doctors, and get some bad news that's still good. )

In short, I'm all right. I'm not fine, nor will this just. Go away. I am absolutely going to have to deal with this; i can't just ignore it. But I'll be okay. :)

What else has been going on? Not much. Work is in flux; it's finally come down to I'm either going to be hired full time or i'm going to be released from my contract. Sexetary can't put it off any longer. That's fine, because she's going to do her best to get me hired full time. If she succeeds, that means benefits, sick time, etc. if she doesn't...well, bright side is that I won't have to pay the gas or the daycare?

Title: Open the Door
Author: ink_on_the_page
Rating: hmm. PG-13 for possible emotional triggering?
Fandom: Original
Disclaimer: for once, I get to say that I *DO* own them. This is my original fiction, please do not reproduce in whole or in part without contacting me first.
Summary: She can’t do it anymore, and it’s time to go home.
Warning: dissolution of marriages, possible emotional triggering
Author's note: Written for the sticksnstrings challenge. My prompt was See Jane Run by Trace Adkins. Also mentioned is Janis Joplin’s Me and Bobby McGee, and because I like to give out music, I’ve included it, too.
Word count: 1202

It's three in the morning

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Just made this for our class party tonight. This is a fun, delicious little recipe for the whole family. I apologize to everyone who's not in america, because this recipe is, by default, american. Peanut butter and crispix are, as far as I know, not available in other countries. D: I'm working on trying to figure out a good alternative, but so far, no dice. :P I'll let you know if and when i figure it out.

Puppy Chow

Five years ago today (at 9:08 pm, but who wants precision), my little boy surprised the hell outta me by...well, being a boy. See, we were expecting a girl. Doctor confirmed, "mother instinct", the whole nine yards. Then this conversation occured:

"You. Uh, you said you had a boy's name ready, too, right?"

"Er, yeah, we figured it was a good idea."

"You were right. It's a boy."

That was just the first of years worth of surprises he's given me (crawling at 5 1/2 months, walking at 8 months, speaking Danish before English [ah. that would be my fault.]) but as much as he drives me up the wall (the way *any* child drives their parent nuts), I love him. I love my astute, emotional, brilliant little ball of energy.

Five years ago, we looked like this:



Now, we look like this:



It's amazing how time flies.

Here's some more for you guys. I'll be over in the corner, sniffling over how big he is.

( TLE )

Happy birthday, baby boy. Here's to many, many more.

and apparently, it was me this evening.

According to my oh-so-official twitter poll, Y'all want to hear about my quick, easy, quasi-veg, and most importantly INEXPENSIVE meals that I come up with. I'm cooking for myself (intolerant of any meat other than fish, waaah) and a growing 5 year old boy on an exceptionally limited budget, both financially and chronologically. If i get home before 6:30, it's a freakin' miracle. TLE's bedtime is 8. so yes. meals have to be quick.

So!

I'm gonna start posting what I come up with because 1) i've always loved messing in the kitchen, 2) i was asked to share when I asked if anyone was interested and 3) i'm a verbose motherfucker and don't you forget it. ~grins~

all I ask is that you help me name these things. I *never* know what to call the recipes what i come up with.

Tonight's meal!

Yes, it's a link. For now, i'm not crossposting, as I *know* i'll forget to crosspost somewhere, do soemthing wonky, or whatever. Feel free to comment there or come back here and comment; i don't mind either way. letme know how they work out for you, what you think, if you have name ideas, and so on! :D

Bon apetit!

No, i'm not back. Not really. But any of you following my twitter know that I've been writing again. It's a good feeling, recovering what was lost lo these many months ago. Having my words back is like being able to breathe again.

There's been some interesting things going down in my life. Thin has been let go. I was offered a TA position for math (something i'm good at, for the most part, but *loathe*). I'm now a few signed forms away from graduating in May.

Things have been...phenomenally odd lately. I"m not sure I can really articulate it, but...it's there. They're odd. I think a good odd, but...odd.

Things of note:
♥ fic with greenet. And when I say fic, i mean *verse*. It's kind of awesome. So far produced: 15,000 words.
♥ bbb with brandixcyanide. About a quarter of the way to m in. word count. We're having a blast. Let's just say that guacamole stains are mentioned, Homer Simpson keeps tapping against the floor, and Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith are about to shenanigate with Bob Bryar and Mikey Way.
♥ fic with stardustonsable IS NOT DEAD. I'm very glad to realize this, because Bob Bryar shaving Spencer Smith? ~purrs~
♥ Move the Mountain, the steampunk novel from this year's NaNo, has become my project for creative writing. Yes, this means there is Bitsey shenanigans happening. You're welcome. ;)

Things that are making me sad:
♠ I think I have to drop out of writing group for a while. I can't keep up, and it's not fair. i haven't made any final decisions yet, but that's the way it's looking.
♠ I panicked and didn't write anything for the literary review for school. Teacher gave our class extensions. I didn't do anything for it. Teacher and classmate both called me princess (well, classmate called me prima donna, but same diff) when it comes to my writing. They're not wrong considering what they see, but it makes me sad because I just wish I could like my writing. :(
♠ My financial situation. Unless I get a *lot* of financial aid and some stellar luck, I'm starting to wonder if a fall move is feasible. My car accident and the attendant bills have really fucked me up. :(

As I head off to class, know that I love you all. I miss you guys, and i look forward to the day when I can come back for real and snuggle in with everyone again. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

HI GUYS! My professor gave us 20 questions for extra credit during spring break. Y'all know me and google; i couldn't resist its siren's call, so i've already fighred out all the answers. :D I thought, however, that you guys might wanna take a stab at it. Dunno as the winner gets anything bnut bragging rights, but I may drabble. idk. :D

DISCLAIMER: ALL QUESTIONS ARE LEFT HERE EXACTLY AS SHE LEFT THEM FOR US. YES, I KNOW THAT THEY ARE GRAMMATICALLY FUBARED. DEAL WITH IT.

RULES: yes, you can google. you're supposed to. that's how we're to come up with the answers. :D Guess as many times as you'd like. If you can prove your answer after I declare it wrong, gimme your source, and I'll include it for my prof. :D Comments screened. I'm going to bed shortly, so don't expect responses quickly. I'll reveal the answers tomorrow night. :D

1. What Detroit rap group was Emenim a part of?

2. Who is Hamlet's girlfriend?

3. Where did the lumber from the President's desk come from?

4. What computer celebrates its 25th anniversary this year?

5. What type of airplane takes off every 5 seconds somewhere in the world?

6. What is Jimmy Hoffa's middle name?

7. What President's love letters to his wife became best sellers?

8. Despite its small size, what country has had the longest ruling royal family in Europe?

9. How tall is Michelangelo's statue of David?

10. John Thomas Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, was charges on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of what?

11. What mammal lives in Australian waterways and lays eggs?

12. What is New York City's only main land borough?

13. What product did Elvis do a commercial for in 1954?

14. In what plane did Charles Lindbergh fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

15. What are the rival gang names in West Side Story?

16. What well loved patriotic American anthem was originally a poem written by Julia Ward Howe?

17. On the Great Seal of the United States of America, which way does the eagle face?

18. What is the worlds highest waterfall?

19. What American artist is known for his work "The Birds of America?"

20. How many time zones are spanned by Russia?

The Assignment: a claim of value essay for comp class.

The Result: an essay on vampires and zombies.

( No, seriously. I wrote about vampires and zombies. )

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

From atomichatred82

( TLE, 5/27/2008 FLAIL, Five of the Clock , The Panic Listening Party , and The Failbots on Tour Fund )

from complications_g

( Twitter, Video Loving, Writing, Being a mom, and Empires )

psssst. we ficced. We wrote fic for sirritwist's birthday.

:D

Four Things Spencer Did That His Band Never Found Out About (one thing they did)
by akire_yta, stardustonsable and ink_on_the_page in honour of the anniversary of the day of sirritwist birth.

(PatD Bandom fic with guest stars Jepha, nearly every drummer in bandom, and Doctor Who)

I have no idea why this video's still is of me with my eyes closed. Does Vimeo go through and try to find the weirdest expression you're making or something?


a very flisty valentine from Stephanie Johnson on Vimeo.

Guess what I did on Valentine's Day? And no, I'm not cutting this. Deal with it.



and my ears have been f ixed, so i no longer have a wonky number of piercings.

and my parents have replaced my car. I"ll pick up my 2000 VW Passat on Monday or Tuesday. \o/

HI GUYS I FINISHED A FIC AND IT NEEDS A BETA. GABE-CENTRIC, Gabe/Mikey/Alicia, Gabe/Travie, Gabe/William, and Gabe/Spencer. Anyone up for it? I'm looking for grammar and spelling (because while I'm an english major and a grammarwhore, i still miss shit), but also for flow, content, etc. :D Fic isn't due until Feb 10, but I'd like to have it finished as soon as possible. Thanks!!!

~breaks lj radio silence for a good cause~

Hey guys! I know lots of you are writing for bandomficathon but I also know that plenty of you aren't. This is ficcing for a good cause! Along the lines of Sweet Charity, you get to sponsor a write to acheive a specific goal, only this time you get to donate to a charity off the author's, "I'm writing for these causes!" list! There's no bad here! Y'all should really come on over and see if you can't donate a little bit! It doesn't have to be a lot, maybe just a buck per 1000 words completed, but as we know, every little bit helps!

Here's the list of those authors that need a little extra impetus in the form of donations!

Here's the ways you can donate!

Here's the whole participant list!

And here's my particular author thread, though I highly recommend taking a look through the whole list. There's some very, very good authors offering up their time!!

and for those of you wondering where the heck i went and wtf is up, i'll be posting soon, just to clear up some confusion.

So...as part of my personal goals in 2009 (the ones NOT shared with you guys...sorry. >_> ) I am making an effort to not only think of people outside of my self and my nuclear family, but to finish what I start. To that end, I have set myself several short term fic goals, some of them with beautiful consequences.

bandomficathon is asking us to write for sponsors, and for those sponsors to donate to a charity that they have chosen off of our sign up profile. I am completely in support of the philanthropy of this gesture, and have signed up to write . I encourage you all to read through the pledging instructions and to look over the authors (here is my personal thread), and pick someone or something that interests you. This is a win/win situations; lots of fic and charities benefit. And hey, if you donate to a charity, you can claim it on your taxes, so rock on! :D

MORNING DARLINGS! :D

Just a quick post before I head in to algebra class. I posted to the school filter last night, the prompts we did in creative writing class. One of them may move over here, beceause for the first time in a long time, I'm proud of something I wrote. the other three, though, will stay there. I wanted to remind you that I'll happily put anyone on the filts they ask for, but i need you to fill out the poll in order to do that. XD

http://t-usual-suspect.livejournal.com/87398.html

poll is near the bottom.

Today's a hell-bent-for-leather day, so I probably won't be seen or heard from until after I get home, which will be anywhere from 4:30 to 6:30. IDK when.

love to all of you!

Title: Cookie Monster Blue and Oscar the Grouch Green
Author: ink_on_the_page
Rating: eh. Pg13 for langue, i guess
Fandom: Bandom: Panic at the Disco
Characters/pairings:
Disclaimer: I don't own them. This is just for fun. Suing me for money is about as productive an exercise as squeezing blood from a stone. I do not condone any illegal activities that may be written about in my fiction, nor do I partake in any of these activities personally. This is a work of fiction, and should be treated as such. If you got here by googling yourself or someone you know, for the love of my sanity, hit the back button or DON'T TELL ME WHO YOU ARE.
Summary: Jon and Spencer get their first house together.
Warning: excessive sweetness?
Author's note: The first off my request thread. Okay, so this is. uhm. a little later than "As soon as I can", but then again, life intervened before now, so... Hi! Have the fic you requested, finny91! I know you've actually moved, and even gained felines, but... Uhm. well, you love me, you know it. :D Also, there's a scene in here that some of you may find hard to believe. I can vouch from personal experience that when you hold greenboard (a type of treated drywall) up with your head, it gets heavy. >.<
Prompt: Jon/Spencer if possible (because they are married okay!) with their pets and their little house, and possible shenanigans
Word count: 2253

Jon rubbed the back of his neck with his free hand and looked sheepish."

~kidnaps you and installs you in a lounge chair with a beer and some sunscreen~ pool's at 82, air temp is already 75 and rising, not a cloud in the sky, and i'm in shorts and a swimsuit while my swuirt runs around in just his trunks. I am finally relaxing after months of back-killing tension, and my weekend has only started. I get all kinds of friends invading today and staying the night and just... \o/

i love you all. if i don't catch you before then, merry christmas, happy kwanzaa, happy hanaukka, or whatever other religion/celebration you've got going down right now. i miss you. this job's insane, next semester will be ridic, but i'm getting there.

~Blows kisses all around~ i love you, my darlings.

Since we are poor, poor little creatures, incapable of sending christmas cards...


Merry Christmas! from Stephanie Johnson on Vimeo.

oh. my. god, what a miserable fucking day. It started okay (certainly better than yesterday's nightmare awakening), and i got to use my new travel mug, won lasat night at our local nano tgio. but once i got to work...it really did go downhill, oh my god.

( tl;dr Thin, shredding egos, and homework woes )

I have been so upset that I just sobbed at a St. Jude's commercial. I haven't actually sobbed at a commercial since I was pregnant. ~sighs~ need to hit the end of the semester, please. need some

In a fandom where most of the fic is slash, we maybe have a little bit more of an awareness of HIV and AIDS than your average human being. That's not nearly enough.

Please be aware that this may not yet have a cure (though there are some promising developments), it's easily preventable. I direct you to ginnytonick's tag for this day, in the hopes that you'll all remember this stuff both in your fic writing and in your daily life.

Every day, thousands of people around the world are infected by and die from AIDS. Don't become a statistic. don't let your friends and families become statistics either. Raise awareness where you need to.

I'm wearing red today. Are you?

Frank/Gerard

Dean Martin--Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

I love giving christmas presents. I really, really do. To me, it's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes of (see what I did there? D'you see? AHAHAHAHAHA--ahem)

So!

This is the masterpost for my Advent Calendar. :) I realize that not all of you celebrate christmas, so please just consider this a gift a day because I can. :) At the very least, music will be handed over every day. I'm going to try for at least a drabble to go with it.



Much love to all of you. ♥

LOOK LOOK LOOK! MY FAVORITE WEIRDO CHRISTMAS SONG EVER! \o/

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

Words and Music by John Rox
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian.
(Short Music Interlude)
There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!

testing to make sure i got semagic set up right.

I don't know as any of you have approved this, however...there's someone archiving old fics, and I recognize far, far too many tames. cluegirl, florahart, dementordelta, and thetreacletart are just a few of the ones I've found up front.

the site is thus: Amortentia

and the pages I found y'all are on are thus: Snarry and Remus x Snape

the girl's straight up said she's putting fics up because she's noticed that some of her favorite fics are disappearing, so she's putting them all in one place.

I...yeah. just thought you guys needed to know. :(

I love my flist. I *LOVE THEM SO HARD*. I posted yesterday that i needed y'all to help me with something for school. stardustonsable, akire_yta, and ix_tab all stepped up to help me.

and what help it was, too. ~glee~ This is the story that we wrote last night. Enjoy, guys. And please don't be eating or drinking while reading. I don't want anyone to choke.

and yes, technically this should be on the school filter, but omg, y'all, it's too funny not to share elsewhere.

( Duct Tape Scupltures and Gingerbread Coffins )

Well. I blame the dog, who was trained by my parents, to expect her breakfast at five AM, even on the weekend. hopefully I'll be able to get back to sleep soon. In the mean time, a few things:

--thank you, all of you, who sent me well wishes and/or kept me company on the various messengers the last couple of days. I'm feeling exponentially better than I did yesterday this time (and TLE's even asleep this morning! ~facepalm~). It's probably a good thing today's Sunday, not Monday, 'cause i can tell an extra day to recover is not amiss, but i kept down dinner and my fever broke so *yay* for feeling better. Also, thank you to everyone who gave me hydration options. There was pedialyte in the house, but it was reserved for TLE, who was also still sick. VitaminWater and tea were my choices, and they seem to have worked just fine. thank you again!!

--I know bunches of you are empires fans. I also know bunches of you have Dili friended, so...go fill out her poll? (sorry, guys, it *is* flocked...the goal, though is to get at least 100 fans to send greetings to empires. If you want to send along a hello or something else, and you don't have dili friended, give me the message and I'll make sure it gets to her, okay? :D)

--This might be my first nano loss in the five years I've done it. :( as of right now, i'm still at 6500 words. In theory, i could pull this off, by writing 3000 words a day. Even while wrangling TLE, i can usually churn out 1000 words in 30 minutes. The problem has become this year that I don't have *time*. D: Work kicks my ass, then I have munchkin. I don't get him to bed until 8, and by then, i'm beat. and twice a week I have class. I was counting on my weekends to boost my word count, but last weekend, my parents fucked that up, and this week, i've been sick. I'm not giving up, but it might turn out that I don't make it this year. Yes, that makes me sad, but one time out of five years? that's pretty good. :P

--that said, I've posted what I've got so far over in this entry. It's flocked to the NaNo filter, so if you want to read and can't see the post, let me know, and I'll get you on the filter. :)

--Work. work has been...~headdesk~ some of the language these people *have* to use makes me cry. Seriously, to any and all accountants...HOW IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO MANGLE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT?! Also, Dear Thin: you can't take out commas, just because it's "prettier" and "less cluttered". If you want these documents grammatically correct, you have to let me put the commas in. I'm sorry. That's the way it works. Head hurtingly, me. (i have some more open letters to work that i may put in a seperate post, but that's pretty accurate of how i feel right now)

I think that's the general idea of what's been going on. My life is boring. :P How about you guys? I've been skimming my flist at best. I've managed to catch the big fics posted (lyo's cowboy!au, the main post for the pride & prejudice AU is open, though i refuse to read until it's finished, given y'all's reactions, and a few shorter fics), but i know i've missed stuff. the Ashlee!fic is open, though as yet unread. Gimme links? Fair warning, I still may not read. I've found myself getting burnt out on panic fic lately, and there's a dearth of other stuff. :(

Oh! My camera went to the Miami RBL date without me (major thanks and love to dreamyraynbo and clover_darling for that), so I'll have some pics to post, once i'm back at my own home. There are some particularly fantastic ones of Spencer that I think y'all will love. :)

and now to see if I can get back to sleep....

I need help, and as usual, i turn to you, my beloved flist. I am in need of more classical music. Somehow, all of the must i had has...vanished, and I would very much like it back. Or at least classical music in general.

i found a torrent this morning that will give me Beethoven's 9 symphonies (provided I can leave it on long enough to download without my WoW-playing brother getting pissy that it's slowing down his game), but I need *more*. Moooooore. I love it all. Everything from Bach to Mozart to Gorecki (who i'm listening to right now, actually)...baroque to romantic to more modern versions.

Help? :D

(and if you want, i'll give out music, too! i love exchanging)

ETA: i love opera, too!

I'd call a do-over, but I really do NOT want to go through that day again.

The highlight of my day: paying $2.19/gallon for gas.

...here's everything else.

( a very unpretty day )

Title: Furbabies

Author: ink_on_the_page

Rating: ...pg, and i don't think it's even that "bad"

Fandom: Bandom--Panic at the Disco

Characters/pairings: Jon/Brendon

Disclaimer: I don't own them. This is just for fun. Suing me for money is about as productive an exercise as squeezing blood from a stone. I do not condone any illegal activities that may be written about in my fiction, nor do I partake in any of these activities personally. This is a work of fiction, and should be treated as such. If you got here by googling yourself or someone you know, for the love of my sanity, hit the back button or DON'T TELL ME WHO YOU ARE.

Summary: Jon supposed that knowing his bandmate, best friend, and sometimes…fuckbuddy—what the hell were they, anyway—was a werewolf was a bit of a mindtrip or some serious mental fuckery. Or at least it was supposed to be weird.

Warning: werewolves

Author's note: written for spookathon 2008; prompt: Jon/Brendon, werewolfiness, bonus for after full moon sex. I'm fucking with werewolf lore. he's more of a wolf than a beast, still with a wolf's instincts, but he's *Brendon*, people. He's a friendly, bouncy, energetic person. He's going to be a friendly, bouncing, energetic wolf. He looks like a wolf. Acts like a wolf. Sharper, more savy than a real wolf would be since he's still Brendon inside, just furry on the outside, but can blend in where he has to. Also, if this leaves you feeling like there's more to the story, good. means i did my job. :P There is more, i just screwed up while arguing with them, and ran out of time. Also, this is my mental image of what Brendon looks like as a wolf. And look! I gots a pretty banner for it, too!

Word count: 1562

HAPPY HALLOWEEN MY DARLINGS!

I'm going to host an AIM write-in tonight to kick off nano in style! The way this works is we're in a chat room, and a time keeper (moi) sets an arbitrary time (usually about half an hour), and everyone writes for that full half hour. At the end of time, the time keeper sends a series of messages in a row (a set number, so that when the chat pings, you know that's what it is, not just people sending messages), and everyone compares wordcounts. Sometimes a goal is set (e.g., 30 minutes, 1000 words, and yes, this is very much possible) and sometimes it is. the point is just to hit your word count.

You can ping me on aim (eeensmum) or add yourself to the chat, which is open and waiting, if anyone feels the need to flail. :D It's called: nanowritein. The first "word war" will commence at 12:15 AM EDT, to allow for people to get in, find us, get themselves settled with bathroom breaks taken care of, food gathered, drinks at hand, and so on.

EVERYONE HAVE A HAPPY NANO, EITHER WAY! :D

This is for those of you who never got a chance to Trick or Treat, or who grew out of it before your time, or for everyone who has an unnatural affinity for extortion...

So, in the words of the creepy dude on your street who gets his mail in his boxers and robe, "Give me a trick, I'll give you a treat, baby *winkwinknudgenudge*"

(If you have a preference of treat type, you must tell me. I'm good, but I ain't that good.)

Please feel free to put this up in your LJ to invite trick or treaters to your own door (you can use this door or you can find your own!). Treats can be anything that strikes your fancy (pics of fave actors or bandboys or girks, one sentence fics, a few words why you're glad to have them on your flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses" to visit the more fun it'll be, so spread the fun!

The following conversation just took place:

The Littlest Emo: "Can i play in my yard?"
Me: "Nope, sorry. Gotta make some progress on your room first."
TLE: "But--"
Me: "Nope, no buts. Gotta clean your room first. Doesn't have to be perfect, but you've got to clean."
TLE: "BUT I HATE CLEANING!"

he's gonna be *so* much fun as a teenager. ~facepalm~

~*~

Today is a day of...stuff. Homework stuff, house cleaning stuff, beginning to pack stuff...chances are really good that I'll wind up with a couple of documents from work that I'll need to get in on, too. Can't complain too loudly about that, though, since it means overtime, and any extra funds right now are more than welcome. so...i guess that means a to do list?

--clean the bathroom
--clean the kitchen
--pick up and sweep the living room
--laundry
--change sheets on both beds
--discussion questions and map quiz for history oh my god, dude, seriously, is it so hard to PROVIDE THE CORRECT ANSWER ON THE MAP? POLAND WAS THE GERMAN INVASION THAT OFFICIALLY STARTED THE WAR YOU FUCKNUT. NOT *LITHUANIA*
--book review...thing. i still have no idea what this shit is.
--short story for creative writing
--start sorting out shit to sell in garage sale.

...okay, so that's the weekend to do list. o_O

~*~

I have fic to write. Nano starts next Saturday. I'm going to try and write a fic a day to get me in the right frame of mind. brandixcyanide helped me plot out a short series of ficlets that should take me right through to saturday, so look for the first one this evening! hopefully! and stab me if it doesn't show up! XD

Fly By Rec

four is the new three jon/cassie/spencer/haley

This is possibly one of the hottest fics i've read in a while. I just...i don't think i even have words for how hot this was. I'll be in my bunk. ngh

So. Uhm. Apparently in my quest to make myself a new wallpaper, i got a little. er. out of control?

...

ooops?

All of these have the same pictures, just different colors or effects applied to the base. idek. BIG PICTURES UNDER THE CUT. as in...well, big. sorry. ~wince~

ETA: Sorry for the magical disappearing-reappearing-disappearing-reappearing post...i'm having an argument with photobucket. I still don't think i've fixed it.

ETA the second: Think I finally beat photobucket. Right-click/save-as should get you the image in it's intended 1280x1024 size



( 16 more under here....i told you i got out of control. )

This is apparently what happens on Saturday nights in our house. Or at least what happens when TLE pokes my flat iron and asks, "Mommy, what's that?"

"My flat iron, baby. Makes hairs straight."

"...DO ME!!! MAKE MINE STRAIGHT!!!"

( and...I did. )

LOVE ME? TELL ME ABOUT IT.

i don't normally do these, but i feel the need to tell you all I love you so. Go. put your names in. Then come back and tell me where you are so I can go spew love all over your adorable little faces.

...

that sounds dirty. >:D

So the last few days have been. Uhm. Exciting? ~headdesk~ We shall list. Because that's about the only way my brain is functioning at the moment.

1) monday's complete freak out about the motherfucking electric bill. it was my own stupid fault, and i have nothing to say for myself except that I fucked up. At least it was a) only one month's worth (back when I was with TLE's dad and he was in charge of the bills, he let it go for two months. in the summer. when he ran the AC on 75. in florida. that bill was over $300. I nearly killed him) and b) resolvable. I thiank each and every one of you, especially those that bailed my sorry ass out, and I *swear* I'll be paying you back.

2) tuesday's ~FACEPALM~ moments. Paid said electric bill. 45 minutes later, I get the notice that the child support check had been desposited. an hour after that, I get the notice that another one had been deposited. Apparently last week's and this week's. I'll be over here beating my head against the wall. However, it allowed me to get gas, buy milk, cereal, and stuff to send to school with munchkin for lunches, while i wait on foodstamps to be processed. because apparently the *were* closed for columbus day. ~headdesk~ And not 10 minutes after I typed this, they called. I"m being processesed. Apparently the unemployment portion of my appl;ication got lost in the shuffle, so I had to go refill that out, but now it is. ~headdesk~ hopefully, this works out.

3) Took TLE to class with me last night. That was...different. lessons learned: don't forget his headphones; earbuds don't work for him yet. prepare for a gazillion trips to the bathroom. let him pretend to type *sooner*. Keeps him quiet. Still, managed the ~2200 words on that story i posted last night, so it certainly wasn't a wasted class. Sorta glad I don't have one next week, but...

4) was woken up at 3 am by knees in my kidneys, and never really managed to go back to sleep. ~sigh~ i gave up trying at around 4, then crawled back tinto bed around 9 to try and get some more sleep. Didn't really manage to much when...

5) I may have a temp job! Y'all remember that company i was doing that bloody fucking boring mailing list for, back in may/june/july? Well, one of the few people I did manage to befriend there who is a supervisor asked specifically for me. The general gist of what I'll be doing is proofreading a bunch of documments that need to be submitted. I made sure that being able to leave early enough to get TLE wasn't going to be a problem. The trade off is like...4 or so hours of telecommuting a week, but I can do that. I go in tomorrow to talk to them and get more details. we'll see what happens. The length would be about exactly as long as I plan to remain here in FL, so... \o/ which reminds me, need to start sorting and packing...

So...cautious optimism right now. Shit's still gonna suck, and i'm going to have to bribe my brother to pick up Iain at school and bring him out to me on tuesdays and wednesdays for class shit, but i think this is actually doable. It better be, or i'll have my brother's liver for lunch. Shit head doesn't do anything but sit on his ass and play WoW or something on his xbox. least he can do is pick up the spawn and drive himout to me so I can, ya know, WORK.

Pee Ess. do I make a nano journal, filter, or just...post here anyway. questions/comments/concerns?

So we had to spend our class period today writing a short story based upon one of the prompts she gave us. Out of the five I was given, I chose "Fairy tales always have a happy ending. Write an alternate ending to Cinderella. What if the slipper had fit one of the stepsisters? What would Cindy do? The fairy godmother?" (i'm paraphrasing, as I don't have the page in front of me, but that's the general idea)

This...is what i came up with.

eta: you know...this went up filtered, but then I decided that because it's a *story*, and not ranting about class or whatever...everyone gets to read it. :D

( On the Wrong Foot )

I...feel utterly sick even putting this up, but I'm between a rock and a hard place, so this is me swallowing my pride and asking for help. I didn't get last week's child support check, and my public assistance app is *still* pending (and i've called this morning, and no one's answering...and then I remembered it was Columbus Day, and now I can't figure if they took off for some asinine reason or what), and totop it off, the electic company won't give me an extension. And it's due today. As in the "pay or be shut off" kind of due. The bill is $85.00, and I just...I don't have it. I was *really* counting on that effing check from last week, but obviously, shithead lost his job agian or something. So...god, i seriously, seriously can't believe I'm even asking this, but...if any of you can help out, even just a little? please? this button'll come down as soon as I've got enough to cover the bill, I swear it will. I just...~beats head on desk~ i can't *win*.

I know most of you are just as stuck as i am for cash. Believe me, this just...seriously, I feel sick just thinking about posting this let alone doing it, but right now, I can't figure out what else to do. ~goes and hides~

Halloween Meme

akire_yta shows up with burning torches, pitchforks and dip

berserkide gives you a toothbrush

blindmadness devours the entire neighbourhood's gerbils

bluejbird creates an unholy monstrosity from blindmadness, berserkide and akire_yta

chebonne haunts your brains

clover_darling sacrifices princessklutz04's Bank Manager's lunchbox

dreamyraynbo TPs akire_yta

entangled_now calls ladyshini to let them know the psycho killer's in the original version of Star Wars

fliptomybside puts real eyeballs in your candy

ix_tab runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by bluejbird, wielding a sharpened steak (rare)

ladyshini puts fake eyeballs in your cutlery

mintyfiend buries blindmadness at the crossroads with a cutlery through their heart

princessklutz04 puts apples in your razorblades

stardustonsable summons the undead armies of entangled_now to steal your candy

stephanometra TPs your Wings Greatest Hits

LJ Name

So...uhm...fuck.

~sigh~

let me preface this whole thing by saying that it's not a complete surprise. I was expecting something along these lines to happen. Just...not this abruptly or quite this fast. or without a way to talk to my parents about it without them completely shutting down the conversation.

( tl;dr whining about my life )

So it's been brought to our attention that people don't know who Greta is. Once we got over our horrified shock (HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO THE MOST GORGEOUS WOMAN IN BANDOM IS?!), akire_yta and I decided to remedy this.

So.

A GRETA PRIMER AND PICSPAM (sort of. I can't promise this won't degenerate into, "omg so hot drooooool")

( Miss Greta Salpeter )

Please forgive me for hotlinking, Joe...but y'all requested proof, and my camera's not been dumped onto the computer with photoeditting abilities.



the really tall gentleman is Phil, my friend's new husband. the other is Joe, the owner of the camera.

and that's the peanut in a tux.

a *tux*

A PINSTRIPPED TUX.

i nearly died of the cute.

I'm in transit today, headed back to florida. I'm not gonna lie, it's probably even harder to get on the plane today than it was to get on the plane to go to Denmark.

please excuse me while I go fall apart.