Incoming flist spam! The first of my Christmas drabble requests~

ironyaficionado
Fandom: Naruto/Squarewarts
Characters/Pairing: Sasuke
Prompt: Obligated to be a bell ringer in a Christmas choir

Title: Sasuke's Christmas Miracle
Rating: G

( jingle all the way! )

A few more scenes -- but wait, there's more!

( Here's a holiday bonus for the fans. Enjoy! Click to read. )

As a prefacing note: I woke up deathly ill this morning. Morning being 2:30 am. So, so far my Christmas has been less than stellar.

BUT.

NOW THE NARUTO CHAPTER IS OUT.

AND WE SHALL SEE JUST HOW MUCH MORE BROKEN MY BRAIN CAN GET.


( set plot to 'puree' and... )

It's not exactly the 'beautiful game', per se.

This scene kind of ran away from me, by the end of it. I wasn't expecting to cut it off where I did, but that's fine; this actually serves the story better, since Melvin's turning out to be a lot more of an insistent and angry young lad than I was originally planning in my outline. I listen to my characters and write them how they want to be written; my plans can be changed to better suit what they develop into. It'll all work out in the end.

Feedback welcome. I think my auto-twitter-summary thing fires off in an hour, which may nudge this post down, but hey.

I'm considering setting up one of those thingamagoobers that 'daily digests' up my Twitter posts into my LJ.

Used to be I'd LJ once or twice a day with my thoughts, feelings, project updates, reviews of things, wacky links, etc. Nowadays I've spread my focus across both equally, and to different purposes. For long running rants or observations, and for project feedback, it's LJ. For spur of the moment thoughts and wacky links, it's Twiter.

I try to make sure both get Quality Content(tm) which is amusing, entertaining, or at least weird enough to justify reading -- no "I'm taking a poo!" messages. (Unless it's really exceptional poo. Or there's so much of it that it defies description. Or it's such an embodiment of biological horror that it makes you question the existence of a loving God. Y'know, like two weeks ago.) So, presumably my twitterings will be of the Interesting flavor rather than the Annoying flavor.

Sooo. Anybody know how I can set that up?

As for my life, today I'm back at the office and still banging away on the 'ol inbox backlog. This is the problem with vacations -- they rest me up and give me time to enjoy myself, but when I get back, whoa nelly. Job security in the form of being the only person capable of wrangling this role has its drawbacks.

So yeah, I've been home since Thursday night. I'm glad to be home. I don't have ridiculous amounts of work to do (or really any amount at all 8D), and I can sit around while my sisters do their schoolwork. Mostly, I've been doing nothing but walking my dog, playing Jak 3 again, sleeping (a lot), and RPing. Especially RPing.

XI's been fantastic lately. I don't know why I'm having so much fun playing probably the most depressing of all my muses, but I just am. I love the community. Everyone's totally chill, and the only rule seems to be IF IT'S AWESOME, DO IT. <3 I'm thinking about apping Yellow there next app period.

Sorry I haven't really been posting lately, I guess. I've just been stalking my RPGs for tags and being kind of boring, so there's not been much to actually post about.

Oh yeah, and I should probably write those drabble requests XD

O hai, story I haven't written in awhile.

Now that NaNoWriMo is over, I'm done being horribly ill, I've moved into my new place, my vacation is done, and things are resuming a nice pattern... it's time to get back to anachronauts. This chapter was VERY hard to outline, because I had no actual ideas beyond "some kind of Harry Potter parody". According to the poll I ran, this is what you guys wanted to see (although Los Muertos and the lunar adventure are coming too).

Eventually, I managed to get a plot together, one which goes beyond just making fun of Hogwarts and actually delivers an anachronauts flavored experience that furthers my various plot points. Hope you like it.

I always seem to neglect my blog when I'm on vacation. Huh.

It hasn't been a very PRODUCTIVE vacation, in a creative sense. We did get the house 90% set up and I've settled in nicely, which I suppose counts as productivity. Last night I did outline sa04, but I wish I'd done that days ago, so I'd have time to work on it before it's back to the grind at the office. Ah well.

Also on the 'meh' list, it's my birthday. I'm 34 now. I dislike getting older. I'm past the point where media is really aimed at me -- it's all about youth and rebellion and living it up in that core 18-25 bracket where everything is happening and stuff is awesome and so on. After that point you're pretty much expected to shut up, sit down, cycle your days through your career, and eventually end up a grey-haired murder suspect on Law & Order.

Still, I can't complain about my QoL. The new layout is spectacular, and I've got plenty of awesomeness around me which I can pick up and goof off with at a moment's notice. Once I get back in the writing seat (which I delayed on owing to massive illness and busyness moving in) that itch will be scratched, as well. So it's not like I think the future's gonna suck, or that I hate my life. It just gets on my nerves when once a year I'm reminded of how far I'm drifting away from my youth. A minor complaint when you look at the larger scope, but a harsher one on the local scale of a single day out of the year.

So. Yeah. Happy birthday to me, dammit.

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In September I bought porn for xlormp (-10 points). Last month I didn't flush (-1 points). In July I gave redbrunja a kidney (1000 points). In February I stole fuuma_konan's purse (-30 points). Last Thursday I gave star_x_faery a wet willie, then I took it back (-5 points). Overall, I've been nice (954 points). For Christmas I deserve a Pony Slaystation 3! Sincerely, okroginator

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:

ME. BUYING PORN.

/dead

After a billion thousand angsty posts about papers and why I am such a silly person, I am hooooooooooooooooooooome.

/collapses on couch

( UNGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH )

homg this chapter was great yessssssssssssssss

come on one page left one page left

I can bullshit enough to fill one page.

I can do this.

please

Dear self, why are you a stupid idiot?

Haven't posted since my "I aen't deade" post.

I've been busy as hell, is why. Wake up, wrangle unpacking and assembly and organization for several hours, finally breathe, eat dinner, party party party, wash up, chill, game too late into the night, go to bed. That's pretty much been my thing for the last few days, so it was nothing really worth blogging about.

Sat down to watch Return To House On Haunted Hill, for some inexplicable reason. I love the 1999 remake -- it had a good mixture of witty dialogue, fun characters, great visual design, and even a number of dodges and swerves that switched it up so what looked like ghostly kills were con jobs and vice versa. The followup Castle remakes for 13 Ghosts and Ghost Ship played to the same formula, with terrific visuals and sharp scripts.

The Hill House sequel? Aaaaanoneofthatstuff, pretty much. A bunch of grizzly, sexy people go into the house with a lot of guns because they like Money and because apparently a boring MacGuffin was behind all the evil rather than man's indecency towards man being to blame, black guy dies first, lesbian dies second in an allegedly sexy way, people croak, boring things happen, things stop happening, the end. I only kept watching because I don't like to stop things once I've started. In the end it was an incredible waste of time.

Now, back to my life.

I'm pondering anachronauts. I put it on hold after beating down NaNoWriMo, so I could focus on the move -- now that I'm here I think I need to mix in something of constructive substance during my week's winter vacation, lest I end up playing Torchlight 24/7. Trouble is I've kinda roped myself into doing a Harry Potter parody, and my parody ideas are thin on that front. I do think I have a good plot, though, which just needs some prodding into shape. We'll see how it goes in the evenings ahead.

Gonna unwind with some TF2, I think, then sleep and tomorrow go buy a TV for Jen. Later.