Stuff wot I wrote. A handy fic index for anyone who doesn't want to sift through LJ tags. And hey, do me a favor? If I write about someone, please don't link my fic to the person I've written about or the actor who plays them. They have Google just like the rest of us if they want to find fanfic.

( Bandom )


( Prince of Tennis )


( Harry Potter )


( Other Fandoms )
 
 

And Community, too, at least a little.

Since I last LJ posted, I've caught up with the entire Avengers-related Marvel movies universe, and I thought Thor and Captain America were the best of the bunch, other than The Avengers itself. I've got this giant crush on Chris Evans now, but only when he's in his Cap get-ups. I feel all right about this. And I came out of Thor shipping Thor/Jane majorly, and out of Captain America shipping Steve/Bucky, and I feel all right about that, too. So if we're keeping track of the ships I'm interested in, we have Bruce/Tony, Pepper/Tony, Thor/Jane, Steve/Bucky, Natasha/Clint, and maybe a little bit of Loki/Sif and Cap/Natasha. And the fic ideas keep coming. I keep working out Bruce/Tony bodyswap in my head, so that one looks likely to be written. Yay? Yay.

This, unsurprisingly, led to a resurgence of comics reading. I have no idea what possessed me to read The Ultimates, knowing full well that it's been anti-recced by every person I trust and it's written by Mark Millar, whose writing I don't like very much, but I do have major trainwreck syndrome. But anyway, it was as terrible as promised. Everyone's a jerk, no one's redeemable, and everyone's edgy. There's spousal abuse, brain tumors, schizophrenia, homophobia, everything you could possibly hate passionately. If you want your Avengers without any of them resembling The Avengers, then Ultimates is for you! The two episodes of Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes I've watched were a much better option, though. I'm happily going to continue with the series, especially since the iMDB tells me that Gabriel Mann (Nolan from Revenge) voices Bruce Banner. So there's that.

Anyway, onto Community. Cutely enough, I've gotten a ton of kudos on my Abed and Troy find a baby fic in the last week, but I think I've earned it, since I was psychic a year and a half ago and all. The video game episode also gave me the only Community fic idea I've ever had outside of Yuletide, which is an Abed/Troy and Abed/Hilda Weird Science parody. Mostly I just want Troy and Abed wearing bras on their heads as they try to make a video game lady come to life.

Finally, I don't think I'm too freaked out over the Dan Harmon firing. I do believe the show is his baby, but show runners have left shows before without a complete crumbling of everything they've built. And now that we know Megan Ganz is staying, I'm hopeful this is one of those times.

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Taking a TiVO break to build up buffer for the next two episodes of Community, but with no spoilers, that first episode was AWESOME. And I think I wrote a fic about that tag in 2010. The 30 Rock episode in between was pretty good, too. I really want Liz to have a tiny plant of her very own.

Like most of my flist, I've fallen headfirst into Avengers fandom. Combined with my Hunger Games fic ideas, I'm suffering for the first time in I don't even know how long with too many ideas but not enough time to write them. Also not enough time to read all the fic I want! I know, I know, what terrible problems to have.

I've been making my way through all the lead up movies to The Avengers, some that I've seen before, some that I haven't. I skipped the Ang Lee Hulk movie because I saw it before years ago and it doesn't need revisiting, but watched the Edward Norton one, and also both Iron Mans (Iron Men?). Tomorrow I watch Thor for the first time! I'm excited for that.

In TV news, I have no idea what to make of the upfronts. Everything is moving all around and messing my schedules up. >:( Why is Revenge moving? Why do I have two Friday shows now? Who thinks moving Glee to Thursday is a good move? Will I watch any new show other than Mindy Kaling's? Only time will tell. But for the first time, uh, ever, nothing I watch got canceled. So that's strange.

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Just popping in to leave a link for all you fine people. I've been reading The Atlantic's "Y.A. for Grownups" columns for the last few weeks and I think they're a really interesting read. There's a new segment every Friday!

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/posts/ya-for-grownups/

The AV Club is also running a similar column called "YA Why?", but that's more of a special feature and isn't updated regularly. Still, it's here, for anyone who might be interested:

http://www.avclub.com/features/ya-why/

I'm sure you're all aware Young Adult novels are so hot right now, which makes me as someone who's probably consumed more Y.A. as an adult than I ever did as a teenager very happy indeed.

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I saw The Avengers yesterday, which is notable since it's the first movie I've seen on opening weekend since DH, Part 2. New parents don't get out much. :D But anyway, I looooved it. I'm really not a Marvel person, but there's no way around the fact that Marvel movies are waaaaay superior to DC movies. And seriously, since DC has spent the past decade stomping on most of the stuff I loved from my childhood, I don't even feel disloyal saying so.

( maybe minor spoilers? )

But on an unrelated to Avengers note and back to my Hunger Games obsession, I've also been working my way through Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson's filmographies, and I watched Bridge to Terabithia last week, which is a book that I've somehow never read. I know, I know, it's a big oversight on my part. But because of that, ( spoilers for a 33 year old book ) Next on the list is Winter's Bone, which I'm at least already aware isn't a 100% happy fun time ride.

Soooo talk to me about The Avengers or middle grade novels killing you softly with their song or just say hi. :D HI.

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LJ fixed the cut tag change so quickly that I didn't even get a chance to complain about it! But hey, look at me posting twice in one week.

That Archive of Our Own hit count meme is going around again. I don't think I did it last year, but that shouldn't stop me now. It's interesting to me to see what fics get a lot of hits there, especially since it's been so long since I've written fic regularly that I've never posted primarily to AO3, except for challenges. That will be changing soon, though, so next year should be more relevant. Uh, if I actually ever finish anything, that is.

( Begin navel-gazing now )

Mmm. Well, that's quite enough reflection that's only interesting to me.

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Still in the throes of The Hunger Games love. I have a shortcut to the AO3 page for all works in the fandom and I'm hitting it at least once a day. I sincerely hope some of the chaptered WIPs I see going up get finished because my one complaint would be lack of longer fic. I'm not even one of those people who thrives on 100k epics, either, since I don't really have the time for that and I prioritize books over fic anyway, but a couple of 20,000 or 30,000 word fics wouldn't be unwelcome.

Anyway, I have a file for fic ideas and I've added something like 35 things for The Hunger Games in the past month, which is about 35 more fic ideas than I've had in the last year. So that's something, though admittedly I never really manage to write more than a third of my ideas. And I haven't actually written anything yet. Still, my intentions are good.

I do come bearing recs, though, so no one leaves empty-handed! Most of these spoil the whole series, so if you're still reading through it, I wouldn't click on the cut until after you're done.

( 14 fic recs, all for The Hunger Games )

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Here's part 2 of my Hunger Games fic recs!

( 8 Hunger Games fic recs )

Now I'm just hoping for an influx of new writers with the movie. That would be so excellent!

Also watched the first two episodes of The Legend of Korra on a whim this afternoon, and I reaaaaally enjoyed them, even though I've only seen about three episodes of the original Avatar series. I know I have to remedy that and I've always meant to, but I'm glad to have a jumping off point that didn't really require me to know more than the bare minimum about the first series. Korra is such a cutie! And I really like her mentor (Tenzin?), his kids, and the dudes she's pro-bending with. Can't wait for the show to start for real!

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Wow, it has been a long time since I last posted! One day I will start a post without something along those lines. ONE DAY.

Baby is great. He's WALKING now, jeez, full on strutting everywhere. And dancing, which is the cutest thing in the world. He rocks back and forth while grinning and clapping, and I think babies are amazing. But he's going to be one in 19 days and that's insane to me. I feel like I just left the hospital with a baby wearing a tiny froggie hat yesterday. Job-wise I've surprisingly (to me) been out on two interviews already, one pretty bad, one pretty good. I know I didn't get the pretty bad one because it was three weeks ago and I heard nothing after, but I just had the pretty good one yesterday, so keep all your fingers and toes crossed for me.

In my blogging absence, I got really into The Hunger Games, just in time for me to not be able to see the movie when it comes out. Heh. But holy crap, I am in full-on new fandom flush, which I haven't felt with any of the other fandoms I've been dabbling in. And while it's a pretty small-to-medium fic fandom right now, I suspect that's about to change majorly.

Which is my way of segueing into a big multifandom recs post! Some are from Yuletide because, yes, that's how far behind I am.

( 22 Recs in 5 fandoms: 2 Parks & Rec, 3 New Girl, 8 Revenge, 1 Gossip Girl, and 8 The Hunger Games )

Okay, I actually have a bunch more recs for The Hunger Games, but I'm tired of typing. Maybe I'll get the second part of this finished in another month. :D In case anyone is looking for me in the meantime, I'm around Tumblr a lot more and I'm nonnegative over there.

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Happy Groundhog's Day, internet! I'm told Punxsutawney Phil said we'd be having six more weeks of winter, but it's okay because I'm delighted to officially live in his territory now. Even if it does mean I get "The Pennsylvania Polka" stuck in my head just talking about him.

Anyway, I meant to post two days ago, but I wound up using all of Nate's naps to mainline Revenge instead of updating my journal, and that turned out to be a fine use of my time. I'm all caught up now, though. It's fabulous and I'm obsessed and I can't wait to pick it up in real time starting next week. I just finished it today, though, so I'm letting a lot of my opinions marinate still.

I've been dabbling in a bunch of media lately -- I'm reading ASOIAF very slowly, watching Game of Thrones just as slowly, I got caught up on Sherlock (not fannish about it in the least -- apparently I only like my Holmes set in olden times), I finally became mildly obsessed with New Girl after months of watching it, and I'm indulging in nostalgia by watching Shin Tenipuri (Prince of Tennis II, which is just as ridiculous as ever) and reading old HP fanfic.

I'm smart and don't try to do things like chores while my kid is asleep, which is just as well because he likes thinking he's helping while I make the bed and unload the dishwasher and picking up his room, even though he's almost 10 months old, so what he's doing is frequently the opposite of help. Nate's pretty much a holy terror now. He crawls and screeches to hear his own voice and cruises and stands on his own and has taken a few tentative lunge-steps. He also has a meltdown if an adult lords their tallness over him for more than five minutes, which makes things like standing to cook dinner a bit of a challenge.

Speaking of stay at home mom stuff, I'm trying to make that chapter of my life come to an end soon. Where I used to work is just too far for me to do a daily commute, so that's out, though I'm looking for a similar position. I do love being at home with my baby, but our financial situation isn't one where I can stay home for years and years, even if a lot of our income will have to go towards daycare since we have no family in the immediate area. So, job search. But our financial situation is also stable enough that I can somewhat take my time with it, which is a good thing considering the economy. Life! So boring!

I'm going to go think about Revenge some more now.

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I'm spending the baby's nap reading H/D fic. It's like just like the old days, but with far less free time on my hands.

Speaking of, I've got Dan Radcliffe's SNL episode saved up for me on TiVo. Was it any good?

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I wrote The Adventure of the Watson League for fourthage, Watson gen for Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant fandom, which was a lot of fun to write, but in first person??? I figured it was okay since the only two fandoms I like reading first person fic in are Holmes and The Baby-Sitters Club. Next year I figure out a way to request both of those for Yuletide.

I recieved Everything (ha!), Seth Meyers/Stefon for Saturday Night Live by florahart. I saw myself on the pinch hit list and guessed the fic I got was written by someone who knows me, and I was totally right. :D :D :D Anyway, Flora did an excellent job, the fic is a blast and you should read it post-haste.

Happy 2012!!

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http://archiveofourown.org/works/302143

I haven't even read it yet and I'm posting from my phone because I won't even be home till tonight, but I totally got Stefon fic for Yuletide and I am PSYCHED.

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And here's my annual "so you got me for Yuletide" letter. Generally, I like humor, misunderstandings, people who are bad at feelings, and shows that are always on the brink of cancellation (though that's neither here nor there). I'm what you'd call an easy Yuletide recipient. I just like good, fun stories, told well. So as long as you write me something fun and funny, I'll be thrilled. For me, optional notes are totally optional. One of the best Yuletide fics I've ever gotten ignored my notes completely and was better for it. But in case you're like me and stalk your recipient incessantly, here's more to work with than half a year's worth of baby pictures:

( Saturday Night Live, Parks and Rec, and Community -- I swear I don't work for NBC )

Woo! Hope you have a great time writing for me!

It took all day since, you know, I can't spend 20 hours refreshing the internet anymore, but I've now got my wand and I've been sorted at Pottermore. Will attempt making a potion tomorrow, but for now I'm DraconisGold145, my wand is spruce with a phoenix feather core ("10 inches, surprisingly swishy" - great wand description or GREATEST wand description??), and I'm a Ravenclaw, which doesn't surprise me even though I wasn't trying for any particular house. Maybe especially because I wasn't trying for any particular house.

Anyway, I want to add all of you, so just drop your username (and house, but that's just because I'm nosy) into this handy-dandy poll and I'll add you if you haven't already added me. :D

Poll #1777552 Pottermore
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

What's your Pottermore handle and what house are you in?

1. Thanks to everyone who gave me kisses and chocolate heads! I love getting those little things to decorate my userinfo. :D

2. ( I saw it! )

I'm very jealous of everyone at MJ right now. One of the first things I realized when the MJ dates were announced was that I'd either be sitting around twiddling my thumbs at 39 weeks pregnant or trying to deal with keeping a newborn alive, so there was no way I was going again. Boo. But in keeping with the spirit of the thing, I totally have a con cold! \o/

Wait, that sucks. But I've had a stuffed up head and sore throat since Wednesday night, so it's almost like I did spend days with a big crowd of people and got sick like always! Awesome.

But yes, ready to pop any day now, though that any day could be about two weeks from now because my OB thinks kiddo is very comfortable in his surroundings. I knew I shouldn't have installed cable in there. One of my RL friends has been my pregnancy buddy because her due date was the day before mine, but she had to go and have her baby on Monday, so now I'm lonely and huge. Oh well. I'm just using the time to actually enjoy my last few full night's sleeps (minus several bathroom breaks).

The one thing I did promise is that I would not be telling anyone I've gone into labor on April 1st unless I've actually gone into labor on April 1st. So, if you hear later in the day that I'm heading to the hospital, I actually am. Baby fakeouts are mean!

Play me out, flugelhorn feline.

Pantless in the doctor's office -- far less casual than one would think!

Less than 4 weeks till my due date, guess I better get used to this.

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Duuuuuuuuude, what on earth did I walk into today?????

mousapelli threw me a virtual baby shower today, which meant I woke up to a confusing but lovely gift from midnitemaraud_r, made a mental note to thank her tonight, and then Sara sent me an e-card all LOL SURPRISE!, which it really was and when I shared my happy surprise with my husband he said, oh yeah, she told me all about that weeks ago. OH OKAY FINE BE THAT WAY. AND THAT'S WHEN THE TWO GIANT BOXES FILLED WITH PRESENTS WERE DELIVERED TO MY HOUSE.

Seriously, though ( LOOK AT ALL THIS STUFF )

Thank you to mousapelli for coordinating this, and to mousapelli and stealstheashes for collecting gifts and mailing them to me, and to all of you for being AMAZING. Best π day ever!

Anyway, could all of you listed above send me your real mailing addresses, unless you're like 90% sure I have them already? :D? My email is parselmouth@gmail.com.

Stayed mostly out of Fandom March Madness this year, aside from voting, but they're at the finals now and one of my favorites is surprisingly still in it. Vote Troy Barnes!

http://community.livejournal.com/f_march_madness/6801.html

TROY, TROY, THE WONDER BOY! Hip hop, body don't stop! Riverside got the broom, don't need a mop. Put your T-Man in the box, put a ribbon on top. We're not John Kerry cause we don't flip flop. Say OHHHHH! Bing bong, sing along! Your team's Al Gore 'cause your views are wrong.

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Wow, I have not updated for a really, really long time! That's a horrible habit to fall into, so in case you didn't know, I'm alive and fine. I've probably not been updating mostly because I have nothing at all fandom-related to say, considering my RL has been consuming most of my time, something which will only be getting worse in about a month. I'm now just one month and three days away from my due date, holy crap!

Last week was my baby shower and it was mostly a surprise (the party itself was a surprise, but I knew I was getting one sometime since my mother and MIL made me do a registry in January and gifts started getting sent to my house -- so my husband deserves credit for coming up with a cover story that I believed) and I even had several internet weirdoes in attendance, scaring a couple of my non-internet friends who hadn't met them before. But seriously, I'm so glad mousapelli, stealstheashes, drunktuesdays, and mythofthebelle were able to make it. It was fun! I have so many itty bitty baby clothes now and have discovered a deep love of tiny socks that I didn't realize I had.

( now a picture of my belly for anyone who's interested )

So how are you all, LJ friends?

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I signed up for no_tags and so should you, particularly if you like any of the bandom pairings I'm more inclined to write. It's a quick turnaround, double-blind fest. You have until the 5th to prompt with your username screened, then you pick a prompt without knowing who made the prompt in the first place, then you have until the 12th to write. Then fics are posted, quick and easy. I was so sad about not being able to sign up last year, so I'm totally playing this year.

Anyway, my husband's been scanning in this box of old pictures I inherited from my grandmother after she died (five years ago, but they were just sitting around until now), and there's a hilarious number of pictures of my dad as a tiny child. Let me just say I'm really happy I wasn't going to Catholic school in the 1950's, as evidenced by his first grade ID picture:

( CALL A PRIEST )

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Happy New Year, everyone! I'm very excited about 2011 for obvious reasons, and I hope this is going to be a great year.

Anyway, yuletide reveals are up. I haven't quite gotten around to reading everything I want yet, so expect the latest ever Yuletide recs post at some point. :D But I wrote three fics (yes, I got a little carried away at the end):

Christmas Wrapping - Parks and Recreation Gen, Leslie-centric with some Ron, 2422 words, G for emilys_list - Leslie tries to make having Christmas alone work. This was my original assignment and I looooved writing in Parks & Rec fandom. If you couldn't tell, I'm kind of gravitating toward sitcom fandoms now. And if you couldn't before, you will after the next two fics.

Tapdancing in a Minefield - Modern Family, Alex/McKenzie, 1579 words, PG for semirose - So, I was reading DYT letters and I saw that Semmi wanted a Modern Family fic about Alex a few years down the line questioning her sexuality and I thought yes, I want to write that. So I did! McKenzie actually isn't an OC, but she's close enough as she's never been on the show, but Haley's "I was McKenzie. I invented McKenzie" makes me laugh whenever I think about it, and there was my inspiration.

I guess this was my big fic this year? I was really surprised by the reaction I got to it. It's always the fics I write in a couple of hours that turn out that way. :D

Three Men and a Baby Minus a Man - Community, Abed/Troy-ish, 595 words, G for shoemaster - Shoe likes Troy/Abed and babies and so do I. So I wrote about Abed finding one. You know how it is.

Incidentally, Shoe and Lea had a whole conversation about this fic where I could see it and I had to sit on my hands and not yell IT WAS ME. So anyway, Shoe, IT WAS ME.

--

I'd also like to thank lightningwaltz and everysecondtues for my two wonderful A Softer World fics, and I want lists of all the strips that inspired you ASAP. :D

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CHRISTMAS IS SO TIRING. I've been to my grandparents' house, my in-laws' house, my dad's apartment, a restaurant, and my aunt and uncle's apartment between yesterday and today, and now I'm ready to sleep until 2011.

Every person I haven't seen in a while went on and on about how great I looked, and while this is fantastic for my ego, I eventually realized that since I look pretty much the same as I did last year that this is actually code for "OMG, you're pregnant, but you haven't gained weight anywhere but your belly." Which is true, but you don't have to look so surprised about it.

At my aunt's house, some of my girl cousins and I were sitting around together chatting about Jersey Shore and skydiving and Power Rangers, and my youngest teenie cousin says she was never a Power Rangers girl because she was into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and you had to be one or the other, like you're either Harry Potter or Twilight. Now, teenie cousin is pretty much my clone minus ten years, so I already know she's a HP person and a bandom person (specifically a Ryan/Brendon person -- the things you learn googling your relatives), but our other cousin pipes up with "I like HP more, but I really only care about Harry/Draco." Seriously, I see this side of the family twice a year; is this stuff genetic? As far as I know, none of them are on LJ/DW currently, but maybe I'm about to get a surprise.

I really did have a fantastic couple of days, but SO FULL and SO TIRED.

Now to read my Yuletide gift before bed. I'm excited about it already: maybe next year is the year (maybe last year), a fic for A Softer World (!!!) with a summary that includes the words "dystopian government," which are like magic words to me. *__*

Yuletide recs coming, probably starting tomorrow!

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So you might have noticed I've been MIA for a while. I wasn't really completely away, but writing up posts just seemed to be the last thing on my mind. In the last month, I've moved into a new house, found out I'm having a BOY, found out that my amniotic fluid is on the low side, which means lots and lots of ultrasounds, and wrote a decent amount of fic.

Fic Stuff
- I finished yuletide and I'm considering writing a treat for madness, but I don't know if I'll have the time. I have to wrap so many presents still, and my grandparents asked if our usual evening Christmas Eve get together could be bumped up to the afternoon, so I'm not sure. We'll see!
- I wrote a fic for boostlethon, which I type "boostlethong" every time. It's here. I also have to read and review the fic for me! I'll do that today, once I get back from a last-minute Toys 'R Us trip.
- I also wrote for sheldon_penny's Saturnalia exchange, which you might have seen yesterday. That's posted here.

No bandom at all! That said, I still have a few more fics I owe people, bandom included. I may also do no_tags, since I was so sad about missing out last year. I mean, I might as well get in all the writing I can before spring rolls around and I have a little dependent thing taking up all my time. :D

Moving Stuff

- Moving is always tiring, but about ten times more when pregnant. I know, I know, great revelations. :D Either way, my house is beaaaaaautiful. I walk around going "I love my house!" all the time. Well, not out loud, but it's a close call. And our new furniture and appliances have all been delivered and we're almost unpacked already! Pretty good for only living here two weeks.

Baby Stuff

- Yes, Baby is a BOY. And a show-off. Like I said, I have slightly low amniotic fluid (which went up as of my last checkup \o/), which they found at my 20 week anatomy scan. I was really closer to 21 weeks then, now I'm at 25 weeks. Anyway, that means I got sent to the hospital for a scan on a better ultrasound machine and also that I got to start my "go every two weeks" checks about ten weeks earlier than I'd originally expected. That also means that I've had four ultrasounds since Thanksgiving, and kid has a personality. At the last one, the tech was like "oh, I hope you know what you're having" because the baby was like LOOK AT MY PENIS as soon as they started scanning me. drunktuesdays said I'm carrying the spirit of Pete Wentz, which is a horrifying thing to say to an expecting mother. Once he was done showing off, he looked straight at the camera and had his hands on either side of his face. My husband said he looked like he was pointing at us all TONIGHT, YOU. I love my creepy baby.
- Low fluid or not, the baby's anatomy is 100% great and he already weighs about 1.8 pounds. \o/ Just stay in there for three more months, kiddo.
- Now that holiday stuff is winding down, I can start focusing on baby stuff and jeez, we need a lot of stuff. BABIES NEED A LOT OF STUFF, DID YOU KNOW?
- He just kicked me for the ten thousandth time this morning.

...Yeah, that was long. I really have to update more often.

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Let's Get Behind the Wheel
PG, 5080 words, Sheldon/Penny

Summary: Sheldon takes another stab at driving lessons with Penny's help. Gratuitous mentions of Ewoks, constellations, and Dr. Mario ensue.
A/N: Written for jazzfic, based on the prompt "some sort of fight happens between the boys, leaving Sheldon on the outside with Penny as his ally." This doesn't exactly fit that, but I hope you like it anyway. Happy Saturnalia!

( Sheldon started grinning, the creepy one that started with pursed lips and ended with his mouth stretched all the way across his face. Like the Joker, only more sinister. )

To everyone this applies to, thank you for your kind words. They really helped.

To anyone who's thinking of participating in Yuletide, but doesn't have an Archive of Our Own account yet, I have one invite code, if you need it? Just drop me a comment. Taken!

( And now my Yuletide letter! )

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* If a fandom you love has somehow been overlooked in the 4398 fandoms nominated for Yuletide, you have three more hours to get them in there. I nominated Hellcats, The Like RPF (and added Annie to the character list, yay \o/), Macdonald Hall, The Flash, Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video, and A Softer World. The last two are ones I added to the database and my interpretation of characters is laughable. I'm thinking of only volunteering to write for comedic fandoms, at least initially -- who knows what I'll wind up picking up in pinch-hits?

* strobelighted mailed me the best congratulations card. I love you, Ils! :D Baby's fine and I have another check-up a week from now. I own one whole maternity shirt now, which was a gift.

* The weekend before last, I went to stay with mousapelli, as I do, and besides bonding with her five guinea pigs and trying to claim her body pillow for my own, I also got addicted to The Big Bang Theory. Trust me, I'm as surprised as you are, but Sara sat me down and made me watch the first season and half of the second season because she knew I'd love it. She was right. When I got home, I mainlined the rest of the series, and now I'm reading fic. It's a bigger fandom than I would have guessed! Good, too. Anyway, there may be recs later.

* Did you wear purple today?

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I wanted to make a comics post, but I have... Jesus, 15 books unread at the moment. Maybe I'll get to them tomorrow? :\ Stupid backlog. My ability to write anything at all has also dried up completely, so I feel like I'm in LJ limbo. Hence the rarely updating thing.

I have been watching a lot of TV! The new season's going swimmingly so far; I really like Hellcats and Nikita so far, the new season of The Vampire Diaries is all I could have asked for, Mad Men has been more interesting to me because Don's basically at rockbottom and I love that, and I enjoyed the premiere of Boardwalk Empires more than I thought I would. Really, I was only interested because of Steve Buscemi and seeing Michael Pitt get work again, but I got totally sucked into the show in the first fifteen minutes. So I recommend it.

Personally, things have also been going swimmingly. Baby-in-progess is fine. I feel okay, just tired and nauseated. I haven't gained any weight yet, but I have gone up a cup size. I keep looking down and going, "WHERE DID THOSE COME FROM?" Hello, boobs, you are large. First ultrasound next Tuesday! I'm excited to see something I can barely make out. :D

Also, we bought a house! Some of you might remember we almost bought last year, but that ultimately fell through and we decided to hold off for a time. Well, that time is apparently now. :D The sellers signed our contract today and it's heading into attorney review. I have a lawyer and a husband, and I'm going to have a house and a baby. It's so weird to think about, but my life is seriously the best it's ever been.

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Well, our families have all been told and I've got a clean bill of health, so I think it's time to tell the internet! I'm pregnant and due in April 2011! My husband and I are both really, really, really thrilled about this.

Oh, and by the way? If you're going to take a pregnancy test and have it come up positive four days before you're meant to go to the beach with 20 fangirls, which means you're not drinking, people will immediately guess even though you're about a month away from being ready to tell people. So, all of you who guessed a month ago, of course you were right. :D :D :D

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