Life: I has lion maps! Now I just need to calculate the distances the furballs covered, do some graphs, bang my head against Access some more for new maps and then mellow out in the glory of a job well done. For about two seconds, after which I edit, prepare the databases and work on the presentation.

I called Ma today (missed call from last night) and it was Not Good but then it was Okay. I'd say more but it's already 2 am and I'm a fucking moron for staying up this late. Maybe tomorrow, when I need to vent.

Also, it's very, very windy and the universe picks right the fuck now for something in the neighbour's balcony to start pouding away loudly. Argh. I want to sleep without random annoying noises! Woe.

Nano: Still 249 words shy of today's minimum. *sigh* Icarus is finally saying he's an angel, though, so that's a plus.

( Excerpt )

Nano: Action scenes, or flashbacks of action scenes, are flippin' hard. Not as hard as keeping your guts in whilst careening down the highway, or patching up major wounds in the dark, but still, hard. Also, there's slight slash, as in fade-to-black after the first kiss. Still, squee, right? (Except oh gods, my family wants to read this.)

( Excerpt )

38494 / 50000 words. 77% done!


* 911, USA

Life: Shitty. Thesis progress appreciable but hardly enough. Food in the house, null.

Nano: Working on it, yo. Officially has a Star Wars quote.

Meme of the Day: From phantmgreeneyes

I has 5 questions. if you want 5 questions, you just give me a little cuddle and I'll give you 5 questions of your very own!

( Read more... )

Quote of the Day: Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness, here

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning.

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Other:
Eddie Izzard gives private peerformance to terror victim


* Luke Skywalker, Star Wars: A New Hope

Nano: Writing's going much better and things are moving along \o/ I'm trying not to forget Agatha, itty bitty girl though she is. I'm rather proud of how far Chip's progressed :) He likes people now! Everyone's in the car and we're heading out of Kansas City! Next up, happy flashback, Icarus bleeds out, unhappy flashback, Icarus reveal and... Yeah, that's as far as I've got.

( Excerpt )

36884 / 50000 words. 74% done!

Masterlist of Sickle's "Omg, I'm So Obsessed" Crushes, with picspam, in case you missed it. *puppy eyes*

Questions Meme, tagged by seschat:

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace and questions that you dislike with a new, original question.

SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pussy. Unless you really don't want to, of course. And if you're not tagged and you want to do it, then do!

I tag blizzardcake, lienne and phantmgreeneyes. The rest of y'all can tag yourselves. ( Read more... )

Video of the Day: Christopher Judge of SG-1 learns about Furries - "What? What?!? WHAT!" ( Embedded )


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who:
the_10thdoctor's Tribute Fanvid Not Sure (Ten)


* Common expression

Masterlist of Sickle's "Omg, I'm So Obsessed" Crushes:

This is a list of actors, writers and fictional characters whom my brain's latched onto at some point or other. This isn't a list of people I find hot (that list is way longer and does, of course, include some of those listed here). Rather, it's the people I've developed an unhealthy obsession for at some point in my life, who've fascinated me for some reason, who's work I've tracked down like a bloodhound or took over my POV-analysis lobe. In other words, uber-crushes without, necessarily, the sexin'. I'm undoubtably forgetting some.

Below, then, is the list with photos and a brief reason as to the why of the obsession and the person's main features.

WARNING: Will eat your dial-up alive.

Early Youth: ( Read more... )

The Early Teen Years ( Read more... )

The Late Teen Years ( Read more... )

The Early Twenties ( Read more... )


Is there a pattern? A type? ( Read more... )


Video of the Day Merlin Children in Need Special - Bwuahahaha! ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Misha Collins: ( Read more... )


* Mae West

Nano: Whoot! I'm super good on the wordcount for the day, and also I think I'm good for the general wordcount, in that I don't think I'll hit the end scene way before the 50,000 mark. (Oh my gods, I'm actually writting a novel. Wow.)

It's been going well today, although I've gone o.0 at some of my writing because it got so out of hand. It was a bit tricky getting Icarus' Road Trip plan to work, because even if the three men got trapped in the car, surrounded by zombies, Agatha would still be in the apartment. And anyway, unless the building's safety was compromised, there'd be no rush for them to a) leave immediately or b) take Icarus along. But Icarus mojoed the front door open - a fact which may or may not be clear, but since this is Chip's POV we're all good - and so Chip's being a hero and getting Agatha out of the now-zombie-infested building before they can all leave together. Oh Icarus, you bad-ass bastard, calling the zombiehorde to you :)

35736 / 50000 words. 71% done!

( Read more... )

Video of the Day: Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2009 ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random Internet: ( Read more... )

* Mort Rainey, Secret Window

heroes_meta for Heroes 4x09 "Brother's Keeper" ( Read more... )


* Napoleon Hill

Nano: I'm nowhere near the scene, but when I get to it, I had the most brilliant idea of flashing back to Steven while Icarus bleeds out all over the backseat. *pets brain* And to set that up, a happy flashback when all three are getting in the car. Yesh, juxtapose the happy with the omgnoooooo, tha'sh good.

And and and omg because Icarus can't heal permanently, that's why he gets a drug addiction and- *screeching halt* and totally doesn't turn into Future!Castiel, nope, not at all. *sigh* Maybe.

Why can't I be writing that scene yet? Stupid long interview scene. Ic', be less cryptic or more urgent!

Nano, Later: Okay, it's nearly killed me, but I'm all caught up (after 2381 words omg) and then some (by all of 112 words, but hey). The never-ending questioning with tight-lipped Icarus is finally fucking over. Gaaaaah, that was painful. And next? Because I couldn't get Ic' to convince the dashing trio to leave with him for no-one-knows-where? He's going to stand outside and attract zombies. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, yo. Now they'll have to go out (even though Chip's all, "no stupid heroics!") and then it's road trip again! And flashbacks, yay!

( Excerpt )

33434 / 50000 words. 67% done!


Meme!: Books most requested for banning between 1990-2000. Which have you read? ( Read more... )

Remember, there's this other "Guess what book that is" meme if y'all are bored.


Quote of the Day: Richard Siken, Little Beast, here

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
New Moon: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Foooooood: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )
Music: ( Read more... )


* James Russell Lowell

Life: Had coffee with Willemijn today. It was awesome.

Nano: Am 633 words behind. This is less awesome. Chip doesn't like Icarus, obviously, and is being delightfully protective of Saunders and Agatha. Oh, puppy! You're no longer that sad, scared, twisted anti-social survivalist! How far you've come! Icarus is rather frustrating to write because he plays his cards so close to his chest he's got them swimming around in his stomach, but there's some fun involved in that as well. I've written part one of the Interview with an Angel, in which Chip throws a whole catalogue of questions at Icarus and one *death glare* confrontation (complete with crowbar, which is getting so much mileage) between the two. There's more questions to be done before the guys scamped off out of Kansas City. Progress, however!

( Excerpt )

31040 / 50000 words. 62% done!


Quotes of the Day: Bram Stroker, Dracula, here

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

Music of the Day: The Horror Version ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:

Misha Collins: ( Read more... )
Science, bitches! ( Read more... )
Random Livejournal: ( Read more... )
Random Interwebs: ( Read more... )


* overheard by cleolinda, here

Life: Spent the whole day working on the References section. From home, because I didn't set the alarm on last night and I suck. Work was achieved, at least.

Nano: 354 words behind. The distance is decreasing, but omg, kill me now.

How to pump-up the word count: instead of saying that clothes were found for Icarus and he then got dressed, say that Chip and Saunders argue, Agatha finds clothes and then Chip proceeds to toss each item one by one. It's given me 700 words. (Don't tell anyone.)

Icarus' shade of eye-colour is somewhat like this butterfly or the Indigo Bunting only more. Or, y'know, whatever outlandish things I can describe them as.

( Excerpt )

29644 / 50000 words. 59% done!


Video of the Day: Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 - Saturday 11th April - Everyone was laughing and judging her because of her looks and age, but holy mother of god, she's amazing and I cried like a little girl.


Links of the Day:

David Usher: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Ernet Hemingway

Earlier Today: I've been sitting down for so long that my body literally cannot take it anymore. My poor bum :( Writing the Acknowledgement section makes me feel like an ass, and I don't quite know why. It's hard to say, Omg, I love y'all or I guess you helped, officially in purely scientific-article speak, which translates to "thanks to" and "I appreciate" and so on.

...I am so, so tempted to write, "thanks to X for his mad driving skillz". *sigh* Science-speak is boring!

Jeezy-creezy, I almost put in a smiley-face. My brain, it is fried. Also, I'm such a sap.


Nano: Still 724 words behind. Icarus is coming out too much like Castiel for my liking. (Well, no, I like it fine, I just don't want to get flamed for making a blue-eyed unemotional fallen angel that toes that line of "It's my creation!") Hopefully he'll be more his own man later on. Hey, he beat Chip up, so that's +1 to him and a big fat 0 to the early version of Cas. Writing this right now is like pulling teeth for two reasons: 1) my days are long and lacking in breaks, and I end up writing in the wee hours and 2) the characters are doing things relevant to the plot rather than having freak-outs. Argh.

( Excerpt: Meet the-fallen-angel-now-known-as-Icarus. )

27615 / 50000 words. 55% done!


Quote of the Day: Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation, here

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? …you’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

Links of the Day:

Supernatural ( Read more... )
Doctor Who ( Read more... )

Can't write. Spending ages to write half sentence, then groaning into hands as press delete. Fucking discussion section.

Also everything in my body aches today.

And attention span dead.

Gah.

/whine


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Random - Livejournal ( Read more... )
Random - Intarwebs ( Read more... )


* Mutant Enemy Productions

Life: Meeting with Supervisor was had. I was a ball of nerves. Things went well regardless. I now have a date for a colloquim presentation. We are not amused.

Fandom: Watched the Fall special of Doctor Who. Ow, my hearts. The Quote of the Day sums it all up nicely. I think the Doctor was a bit of a gigantic moron in his choice of date-and-location at the end, but maybe that was on purpose because he's the Doctor and he can do anything, damnit. The preview for the next specials filled me with joy \o/ Oh, familiar faces, how I've missed you!

Nano: Still missing 227 words, but it's 2 fucking am and I can't sit at this computer anymore. Fucking bastard of a novel with hard-to-write action scenes and an angel who keeps pushing back his appearance. Icarus, boy, get your ass in here right now!

( Excertp )

26455 / 50000 words. 53% done!

Quote of the Day: tommx, on Doctor Who's "The Waters of Mars", here

For a while I was thinking "This isn't quite what I expected...I thought it'd be better." Then I started cheering...then I sat in horror.

Links of the Day:

Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars" Reviews and more ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom ( Read more... )


* commodoresexual, The Five Year Plan, Part 3

Life: Today was full of random necessary odd-jobs and writing. I also had a dream in which I confronted an ex-friend and gave her a piece of my mind. It was strangely unlike my usual dreams, in that I was mostly coherent and audible and not, as in the dreams where I confront my father over some trifle, full of frustration and sadness. Instead, it was pretty realistic (for a dream) and highly satisfying. Booyah, dream-person!

Fandomlife, Topic 1: I've fallen for Misha Collins, damn the man! Sure, I've been following his twitter (by which I mean, forgetting it exists then catchin gup every other month) and therefore knew he was pretty cool, and I think he's easy on the eyes, but now I'm all a-gush. It started whilst watching Misha Collins and Richard Speight CreationCon 2009, which was the first time I'd seen Misha live and in action, and the adorableness just rolled right off the screen. (This rolling was helped by Richard, who was likewise awesome and adorable.) (ETA: Oh my fucking god, and how hot does he look in the vest and tie? Smokin', that's how much. Unf.)

Then I watched this Comic Con interview and the gushing grew as he described the potential side-effects of that many people, and by the time he illustrated Castiel's problems with personal space, I was smitten. So now I have a YouTube Quicklist all set up with Misha interviews and I'm all, "Jon Stew-who?" Ah, bloomin' crushes.

Fandomlife, Topic 2: I read fandomsecrets. I usually skim most secrets because they're mostly anime and that just goes *whoosh* over my head, or they're about fandoms I know only vaguely. I tend to stop at the "this book is great" or "I ship this" ones, because they're always interesting or cracky.

I've also taken to reading the Supernatural ones, and I really shouldn't because they just piss me off royally. Not the ones written by fans, but rather the ones written by people who think the fans are crazy. Fuck all y'all, I say. ( Ranty rant is ranty. )

Nano: Thanks to seschat, I snuck in a long-overdue physical description of Chip. Ah, self-loathing, is there nothing you can't solve? Because, seriously, Chip's rather fucked up in the head. Well, that's the apocalypse for you. But at least he's not exceedingly paranoid and antisocial anymore, which is good. Next up, Icarus the fallen angel makes an appearance! And this time he's walkin' and talkin'!

ETA: So Chip used to look like Shadow, then like the generic pale lanky dude, then like S2 Sam Winchester, and now like Dean Winchester with Sam's hair. Oy.

( Excerpt: This is the Chipmeister )

25089 / 50000 words. 50% done!


Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )

...you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.*


The title quote sums up my Nano wonderfully :D

Life, sorta: I spent ages today trying to find a photograph which I'm sure must exist somewhere other than my imagination. All I want is a nice clear shot of a dismembered crow or raven wing with nothing else. It would make the best book cover *pout* In my head the whole cover's black, and there's this wing (with the shoulder in the center, feathers going up and to the right) with bright red blood on the shoulder-joint. It's all glossy and pretty and epic and ~*symbolic*~ and nowhere on the internet. Woe.

NaNo: Oh gods, let me never skip a day again. I took to having a Google tab open, entering my word count goal and my current count into the calculator obsessively every few minutes, trying to count down to the 0 words left to write area. Over 2,700 words in one day! And it just never stops, because tomorrow there's more! Argh, yo. I'm still delighted that I know what I want to write, though. I suspect I'm going to be entering blank territory soon, which is going to be less fun.

Progress today was a big zombie-chase and fight, although I fear that my limited description makes it more of a "Oh noes! Zombies! Run! Thwack! Safe!" I think I may just suck at action. And maybe my descriptions are too flowery, run-on and adjectivey. Anywho, we had on-screen zombie-killing, whoot! Oh, and Chip totally has some wierd angel-vision thing going on 'cause he got ex-angel blood on his eyes :) I picked maroon because the internets says maroon auras are violent, and therefore zombie-appropriate.

( Excerpt. )

23350 / 50000 words. 47% done!


Videos of the Day:

Supernatural Gag Reel, Season 4 - So much love!( Embedded )

World War Z Fanmade Trailer - Zombigasm! ( Embedded )

Quote of the Day: llivla, here - It all makes sense now! (Not that I ever thought Sam was an idjit, just trying to do the right thing.)

However: still pissed at Show treating Sam and Ruby's fucked up, drug dealer/mother/lover/Dean substitute/unconditional acceptance of demon heritage relationship - as black and white stupidity when SO MUCH proved it was anything but.

Links of the Day:
Frog Bender 2000 Flashgame - Frog inna blender!
The Puppy Channel - Videos of joy!
zarah5's Merlin For Dummies
riveryklown's Supernatural Tags and Links: fanfic, j2, lyrical_picspam, picspam, wee!chesters, wincest
YouTube's CSI Miami - Endless Caruso One Liners
YouTube's South Park's "Pokerface" cover of Lady Gaga
Zombie Quotes


* George Carlin

heroes_meta Heroes Review 4x08 "Shadowboxing" ( Read more... )


Links of the Day:
queenklu's RPF Fanfic The Chupacabras Ate It Off (Mike/Misha, Jared/Jensen)
12_12_12's links to songs of Kris Allen playing at Live In The Vineyard - Awesomesauce!
marika_kailaya's shares music and squee ; Original Fic Tag Last Page Barricade
Gypsy Creams - Magazine scans and comments from the pre-feminism era. Now get yer ass back in the kitchen!


* Walker Percy

Nano: Catching up on a lost day is murder. I'm still 926 words behind, despite a 2,246 word marathon.

So far, Saunders has cooed over the car Chip found for him like Dean babying his darling Impala and Chip has entered flashback-land as he remembers the road trip he did with Steven. Oh, I didn't mention Chip's gay? Well, of course I haven't, he's been running from zombies. Sexuality or even sex are rather pointless when you're running from zombies. But he is and he had this huge romance with Steven in collage, but Steven is dead now like a large percentage of the country. But Icarus the not-really-angel is pretty fine lookin'...

I also haven't mentioned what Chip looks like. I suck at physical descriptions of my characters - actually most descriptions - but I can see them in my head just fine, and now Chip is no longer black and Shadow of American Gods's slightly less imposing twin but rather Season 2 Sam Winchester's lookalike because damnitall I had to go and mention bangs, right? That completely changed Chip in my head in 0.01 seconds flat. *sigh* Hi, new version of Chip. At least you're still tall, and you were always lanky in my head.

Also, omg what the hell is the goddamn plot?!? I'm almost halfway through and have no idea what the climax is going to be. There's a zombie-chase and angel-awakening coming up, then some yellow-brick-roading to Resistance Camp, but... Argh.

( Excerpt )

20745 / 50000 words. 41% done!


Meme of the Day: via lienne

- Take four TEN WHY NOT books off your bookshelf.
- Write the first sentence
- Write the last sentence on page fifty
- Write the second sentence on page one hundred
- Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
- Write the final sentence of the book
- Let your friends guess what book it is.

( The sentences! )


Song of the Day: Imogen Heap, "Thriller" (Michael Jackson Cover), Live ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Random Fandom ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* Henry Miller

Life: Productivity was reached! I'm half-way through making maps of all the lions showing their home ranges. Tomorrow, calculating areas and, hopefully, getting the maps presentable with all that fancy stuff like legends and titles and shit. I hope to get some writing on the discussion done this weekend, or at the very least stick on some error bars (stupid science). Oh, also? I was full of uncoordinated fail at Zumba class today, but eventually had fun regardless.

Nano: Pending. It's late, I've just had dinner and I want to mellow before getting down to it. Granted, I also want to continue the going-to-sleep-early thing, which is...not technically going to happen seeing as I'm past the "early" concept. But! Uh...Heroes, then sleep, and I may just say "Epic 'nah'" to Nano for today. There's the weekend, after all.

Video of the Day: Ask a Ninja - "What's the difference between ninjas and crazy people?" ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:
Random Fandom and General: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Maaaasive and unending, like SamnDean's angst )


* Jon Stewart

Life: I'm back from Rome. More details when am not NaNoed out and wish to enter sleepdom.

Nano: I can haz plan! Plan is vague and includes yet another road trip. I doubt this novel, when looked at critically, has a plot. Or even momentum because hardly anything happens, when you boil it right down. The lastest scribblings have Chip nabbing a car for old man Saudners. The next scene? Chip gets more not-zombies on his ass, and Icarus gets miraculously - dun dun duuuun - better and moves the plot forward by sticking everyone in a car.

( Excerpt )

18496 / 50000 words. 37% done!


Links of the Day:
Playboy's Stephen King's The Bone Church Poem
The New Yorker's Stephen Kings Prime Harmony Short Story


* marika_kailaya, here

I'm off to Rome! See y'all on Wednesday!

Listen to this 12 year old girl in her speech to the United Nations. ♥ + ;_; + \o/ ( Embedded )

The Daily Show The 11/3 Project - "There's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs." Jon satirizes Glenn Beck with musty books, glasses, and a chalkboard of win. "I'm a coo-coo bird! I eat my own tie!" And Jon says he can't act ♥ ( Embedded )

Heather's Vlog: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - "If I was just laying here minding my own business and some girl showed up in a cheerleader outfit and ripped my undead heart out...huh? It's just so irresponsible." Heather's a vampire, by the way :D ( Embedded )

ETA: Don't forget, your input is much desired over a certain writing matter. To fanfic or not to fanfic? If the inspiration is original, but coalesced through the Aha, this TV show makes it all make sense! lenses, is there any chance of plagiarism being involved?


Links of the Day:

Supernatural ( Read more... )
Random:
chemfishee's True Blood Fanmix The Weight of You In Your Resting State (Sookie/Eric)


* Common expression