When life hands you lemons, slash them with limes

HI INTERNETS! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

How's things? I've been on sort of an unofficial hiatus due to a bad mood of indeterminate origins (though I suspect it's mostly a February funk). This is about the time of year where I'm all, "OKAY I AM DONE WITH YOU NOW, WINTER!" Anyway, avoiding people when I'm grumpy = fewer apologies I have to make later for moody jackassery. :D I did go out with some friends IRL over the weekend and I'm feeling much more cheerful. \o/

Since I have been away, you get an infodump of randomness!

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This made my morning. How are they all so adorable? Lol @ Jared and Misha. It kind of makes me want to write fic where Misha is constantly trying to one-up Jared and every time Jared is all, "AH HA, PWNAGE!" and Misha's like, "How does this keep happening???" and then Jared tops the hell out of him and Misha's like, "OIC now..." and is okay with the pwnage as long as it comes with sexytimes (he still slyly tries to get the better of Jared, but Jared is only smugly amused by it).

I also love the quote about "Miss Genevieve" and possibly got a little wibbly and naw'd out loud. Seriously, they're such a charming group. It makes me a happy fangirl.

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In other delightful news, I discovered that Spartacus is available for streaming on Netflix. GUESS WHAT I'M DOING THIS WEEK?

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I recently started following the Daily Show's twitter and clapped with delight at this tweet:

Bored Hiatus Tweet 3: Spent the day looking for the Cash Cab. #onlyfoundrealones

I was just talking about Cash Cab!! Also, A++ for clever hashtag usage.

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In an attempt to alleviate grumpiness the other day, I fell down a rabbit hole of JDM youtube vids and ended up rewatching all of his Craig Ferguson appearances. I sort of ship them in that way where I don't really want fic, but OMG so adorable! Then I watched some of Kristen Bell's appearances and now I really really really want JDM and KB to be on Craig Ferguson at the same time and watch them all chat and be hilariously adorable and awesome together. Dear Universe, my birthday's coming up...

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I was watching Friends earlier and was ready to post this big huge rant about how much I hate the trope of love triangles where the two who are "meant to be" basically act like horrible people but it's okay because they're MFEO!! But I don't have the energy now. Sigh. Maybe some other time.

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Justified came back last week!! HOORAY!! I enjoy this show because it is fun and amusing, but mostly because Timothy Olyphant is a Sir-ish HOTASS. This is why I watched Deadwood as well. I am predictable, what can I say?

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Hmmm, okay. I think that's actually it. Happy V-day to you all! Single or taken, it's a good excuse for a little indulgence for yourself and your loved ones. ♥!! I think I'm going to indulge by watching some Spartacus. Nothing says festive Valentine's fun times like boobs and sodomy*. <- Can be taken so many ways...

Spartacus: Boobs & Sodomy TM elizardbits

SHOW!! Show is back! Yes, I'm late to the party, but I thought I'd throw in my $.02 of episode reactiony thoughts anyway.

( Show! Show show show!!! \o/ )

I realized this evening that I was like 2200 words shy of meeting my getyourwordsout word count goal for the month. Now, all things considered, this is actually pretty decent. But I am stubborn and contrary, so I asked laulan if she had any prompts/requests for something quick and silly, and then wrote a story for her because she is awesome and helpful in every possible way and doesn't shun me when I flake out and forget to answer my emails.

The point is sometimes I write stuff to amuse my friends. This is one of those times.

Story: Hotass Jeff's Bar & Grill

From the prompt: JDM owns Jensen's favorite bar. Jensen's been coming there since he turned 21, and he and JDM have been flirting just about as long. Insert lots of Jensen crushing and ordering sexual drinks (sloe screw against the wall, etc.) till JDM finally puts him out of his misery and kisses him senseless.

In other JDM-related news, he for reals called Jared and Jensen "my boys". IT'S LIKE HE KNOWS AND IS TAUNTING US WITH HIS SEXY SEXY UNFNESS!!*

JDM counts as an actualfax legit kink now, y/y? Like I could say, "JDM is my bulletproof kink," and that would be valid (and true!). I should probably go ahead and add that as a tag, actually...

Please note: I do not think that JDM actually knows and is actively taunting us with his sexy sexy unfness. I believe he can't actually help being such an incredible hotass.

I have never wanted to attend a con more. WHAT EVEN? I CAN'T- It is entirely possible my brain short-circuited at the thought. If there is any celebrity I would make an absolute idiot of myself in front of, he'd probably be it.

I'll be over here telling myself that it's best I don't have the means to attend. On the bright side, between this and him filming in Vancouver, there should be lots of fodder for some lovely non-AU RPF in the near future, AMIRITE? Finally the universe is heeding the call of NEEDS MOAR JDM!!!

In other news, I rewatched Faith today. I think if I had to pick a single episode out of the entire series as my favorite, that one would be it. I loved it when it originally aired, and I love it now in the context of the later seasons. There's so much there wrt who Sam and Dean are on a fundamental level, you can see the groundwork for their character development in S4 and S5 especially. There's NOTHING I don't love about that episode.

Possibly one of my favorite things ever is Sam's "Watch me" in response to Dean's "But I’m gonna die. And you can’t stop it." Sam: ORLY? FUCK DEATH! I'M SAM WINCHESTER!! Seriously, it is so quintessentially Sam, stubborn and willing to do WHATEVER it takes to save Dean. And Dean's willingness to (be the first to) die, and all his interactions with Layla, and Sam's snapping back to the straight and narrow once Dean is okay, insisting that they can't kill people. *dreamy sigh*

On top of that, all the themes of faith and salvation and this exchange with Roy:

DEAN: Why? Why me? Out of all the sick people, why save me?

ROY: Well, like I said before, the Lord guides me. I looked into your heart, and you just stood out from all the rest.

DEAN: What did you see in my heart?

ROY: A young man with an important purpose. A job to do. And it isn’t finished.

*dreamy sigh* So freaking brilliant from beginning to end. I think that was possibly the episode that secured my undying love. It was one of the first episodes I felt compelled to write a coda for. SO MUCH LOVE!!!

*ahem* ANYWHO! Don't mind me, I'll just be over here fangirling all the things.

HEY, INTERNETS! Let's talk porn for a moment!

Prompted by the closing of blindfold_spn tonight and the chat post over at spnroundtable, I has curiosities!

For those of you participating, do you plan to claim your fills? What are the deciding factors in that? Also, what makes you choose a prompt to fill? Do you tend to fill pairings/kinks that you love, or do you hold off on those and hope that someone else does it? Are you frantically working right now to finish that one last fill?

For reading purposes, do you tend to stick to certain tropes you know you'll love, or do you give most everything a shot and see what hits you right? Does the spirit of blindfold make you more likely to read something you'd normally skip on the regular kink meme? Are there pairings that you prefer for kink over your OTP?

Do you try and figure out who filled what when you're reading? Are certain people's styles obvious? (I'm curious about this especially! I've never been able to do that.)

*chinhands* Tell me things! Or leave a comment in the roundtable post! I'm not picky, just curious. (I think I have things set here so that you can comment anonymously, if you so desire)

I am trying to finish up my to-do list of grown-up responsibilities today. Obviously breaks to talk about porn are both good and necessary.

I got this from laulan (she posted the Iron Man one in her Awesome Monday post this week which also has a link to the "How Crayons Are Made" video *____*) and there are a bunch of them that are hilarious, but OMFG THIS:



And speaking of truthiness:




I'm all over the place today. I've either had too much coffee or not enough.

My friend rhiannonhero was talking about characters being rickrolled, so naturally I imagined Dean trying to rickroll Robo!Sam. He'd be all, "Hey, so check out that link I sent you. Possible alpha?" And Robo!Sam clicks and he's all *furrowed brow* "I don't know about alpha, but it definitely seems demonic in origin." And Dean's like, "How do you manage to suck the joy out of rickrolling? We really need to get your soul back." He tried to do it to Cas too, but Cas was like, "I enjoy this song." And then he kept singing it, so that really sort of backfired in a major way.

Poor Dean. It is hard to be him.

Have officially signed up for spn_j2_bigbang!! I am OTT excited, I don't even know why!! I want to start writing now! But I have to do some plotting first. Today, my plan is to go to the library for some research-related books. About LORE! *snickers*

For now I'm just spazzing about quite spazzily. Add this to impending salt_burn_porn and blindfold_spn, it is a great time to be in fandom!! \o/

:D :D *\o/* ♥!!! *jazz hands*

I wrote porn!! (It's Jensen/Jeff *warns for JDM*)

I also signed up for salt_burn_porn. I'm not sure what possessed me. I blame rhythmsextion, actually. With any luck, I won't make a complete fool of myself. I am, at the moment, optimistic. Am also very excited about impending blindfold. Which is hilarious, as I really do loathe the whole porn-writing process. I feel very accomplished once it's done, though.

Anyway, how YOU doin'?

The sun is out, shining on the snow so that the whole world looks like a pretty, sparkling wonderland. Happy New Year!!

So far today I have finished cleaning up, and changed my sheets. I also made ten fairly specific resolutions I think I can reasonably accomplish in the coming year. My plan is to write a more detailed list in order to make sure this is the case. My overall plan for the year is to be more proactive. We'll see how that goes.

I hope those of you who had NYE plans had a wonderful night, made it home safely, and aren't in too much pain today. ♥ I watched Marry Poppins and Shrek 3, read a couple of fics and went to bed. Woke up to aforementioned sunshine, so I'm in an optimistic mood.

Right now I'm watching Wildfire as I sort through some stuff. It's a fairly silly show, but there are some things I really like about it, and it reaffirms my ridiculous girlcrush on Genevieve. She's so unbelievably adorable.

For lunch I am having traditional ham and bean soup (and black-eyed peas). Hooray!!

And, just because, my Brezsnyscope says:

Aries (March 21-April 19)

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed," said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out. You will have to be vigilant to keep from getting swept up in the giddiness of big talk at the expense of practical action. You'll have to push hard to make sure that seductive ideas are translated into concrete details. Can you do it? I think you can.

Oh, Brezsny! How are you always so relevant?

I know logically that New Year's is not a magical day, but I like the idea of fresh starts and all. It is what we make it. I hope that 2011 holds many great things for y'all!

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HI, INTERNETS, I AM BACK!!! I have been too caught up in holiday drinking festivities to get online for like the past week. I was starting to get all twitchy as a result.

I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday/weekend/whatever!! I had a wonderful (if exhausting) Christmas and now I am all ready to do end-of-year memes and make impossible resolutions I have no hope of keeping. GOOD TIMES!!

The first of which is a writing one. I went through and did a rough add-up of my word counts of all the stories I posted for the year (at least the stuff I put up at storiesimakeup) and I wrote around 140k this year. That was without having any real writing goals set for the year (aside from participating in spn_j2_bigbang). Considering I also moved across the country this year, I'm counting that as decent output.

So I'm thinking of doing getyourwordsout this year, but I'm unsure of what sort of goal I ought to set for myself. My writing for the year still falls under their "Modest Level" (150k), but as I plan on focusing much more on writing this year, I'm thinking of doing the 200k? Or 250k? Writing for nearly the whole month of December, I ended up with around 20k, and certainly not all of that was brilliant, so maybe I'd better stick with the 200k. HMMM.

Ahahaha, oh, my fascinating ponderings!! Alas, I do not have time to redeem this entry right now, as I have to go out and shovel snow before it gets completely dark. I hope that those of you also buried in snow are staying warm and safe. ♥!!!