1) I've written about 8,000 words on the babyfic since I lasted posted a word count, and as of now the word count has risen from 40,046 to 40,406. There was a whole bunch of miserable rewriting and various flavors of deleting leading up to last night's redaction of an entire plot event which was making things unnecessarily difficult. I feel like I just moved all the way from Why is this happening to me?* to OH! WRITING IS FUN!

2) If you spend enough time searching the internet for military hand signals, you will wind up at this video, which, according to the YouTube comments, actually gets shown to actual members of the military when they are getting trained on hand signals.

You're welcome.




*Somebody with more brain to spare than I currently have could probably turn that into a Scale of Writing/Creating Pain. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader.

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So I'm sitting in my hotel room at WisCon, taking some quiet post-dinner pre-party time to hang out with Iulia and try to get some writing done on my Nate/Brad babyfic.

And it occurs to me that a year ago I was at WisCon spending quiet time in the hotel room with Iulia reading One Bullet Away and trying to figure out how I would make a Companion to Wolves fusion work. So I guess I've been in this fandom for a year now! \o/

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BLACKOUT! BY MIRA GRANT! THE CONCLUSION OF THE NEWSFLESH TRILOGY! IT CAME OUT ON TUESDAY HAVE YOU READ IT YET HAVE YOU HAVE YOU HAVE YOU.

( COME MAKE SPOILERY EXPRESSIVE FACES AND CAPSLOCK UNDER THE CUT! )

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I manage to go long periods of time without remembering this about myself, and then it occurs to me again. I am a Midwesterner/Rust Belter in this very specific, defensive way.

I get sincerely angry when people impugn the awesomeness of the Great Lakes.

THEY'RE REALLY BIG, OKAY. REALLY, REALLY BIG. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THEM, BUT YOU HAVE SEEN OTHER LAKES THAT ARE NOT OFFICIALLY TITLED "GREAT", AND THEREFORE YOU THINK YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE LIKE BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT A LAKE IS, NO. NO, YOU DO NOT.

PATRICK KANE DOES, THOUGH, I FUCKING PROMISE YOU.

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Anybody know if warbigbang is happening this year?

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1)GK Babyfic

40,045 words.
107 pages.
10.5 scenes/events to go.

I am currently guessing there's another 15,000ish words to write. 20, tops. I'm pretty sure.

2) Oh my God, they have made a movie just for me because the universe loves me and wants me to be happy.



( What Maisie Knew: the movie where ASkars plays the marriage-of-convenience stepdad who adores his little girl and Dira is ALREADY DEAD JUST FROM WATCHING THE TRAILER AND PLANNING TO SPEND THE AFTERLIFE HAUNTING THEATERS TO WATCH THE MOVIE WHEN IT EVENTUALLY GETS RELEASED, HOPEFULLY SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDWEST AT SOME POINT. )

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I took a day off work today to spend with iulia, who was off work for a health thing (mostly fine now, hopefully) and thus needed to be taken to see The Avengers again. I have a few Avengers-y thoughts:

( Spoilery thoughts under the cut (Spoiler: they're not actually very spoilery) )

And here is some fic that may be relevant to your interests!

Domestication (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers
Summary:

Introducing the Hulk to kinder, gentler sensations has side-effects.

Zen and the Art of Anger Maintenance (12838 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bruce Banner/Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Characters: Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts
Summary:

Bruce doesn't trust himself as far as an unenhanced human could throw him, but his new employers, or rather teammates, or--possibly--friends want to help him work on that.

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1) The thing I forgot to include in my last post:



Earlier this week I earned the "double flock" badge on 750words.com, which means that I've written a quarter of a million words on the site in the last two years since starting there. \o/

2) After trying off and on to fit it to every pairing/character I've been obsessed with interested in in the last four years or so, I have finally assigned Iron & Wine's "Resurrection Fern" pretty firmly to the Nate and Brad I'm writing about right now.

Uh. Sorry, guys. Things will get better, I promise.

(In our days we will say
What our ghosts will say:
We gave the world what it saw fit
And what'd we get?

Like stubborn boys with big green eyes
We'll see everything:
In the timid shade of the autumn leaves
And the buzzard's wing

And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Our tender bellies are wound around in baling wire....)

I'm just gonna go write some ... suffering.

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1) Babyfic.

30,072 words.
Dudes who have kissed each other: 2!
Dudes who have had sex with each other: the same two!
Scenes left on my list of stuff-that-happens: 14
Number of items on the list that include a (???): 1

So. We're getting there. I think it's turned a corner and might actually end at some point!

2) I really want a vid of Bravo Two's Humvees to Adam Sandler's "Ode to My Car" or, failing that, just fic where they're singing that song.

3) So in about 2008 I bought this t-shirt which is still one of my favorites. At the time I thought it was a vaguely Pete Wentz sentiment. This morning I put it on and then realized that, with the turning of the Great Wheel of Fandom, it's become weirdly appropriate (or inappropriate in a topical way) for my present fandom.

( Portrait of the fangirl as meta-something. )

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...I cannot listen to "Tainted Love" (which is, naturally, on my running playlist) without picturing Trombley singing the whoa-oh-oh parts.

If anyone else has a more awesome/embarrassing/awesomely embarrassing side-effect of being in this fandom, PLEASE TELL ME. ESPECIALLY IF IT INVOLVES EIGHTIES MUSIC.

PLEASE I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE.

( In case you are not in GK and don't know what I'm talking about, or just need to watch them singing Tainted Love again because it's been more than twenty-four hours. )

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