Twisted Sanctuary

Snagged from racethewind10

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random.

Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.


1. What fandoms are you into watching/reading right now?

CASTLE, OMG! Can Castle and Beckett just please to be doing it already? Geez.

The Hollows - sort of, kind of. I don't know. There's something about Rachel that keeps me coming back to the books even when they're horrible. Kind of like Ivy to Rachel. But i'll get into that more with the next question. 

Grey's Anatomy - just because. It's a comfortable habit. I've watched since the beginning and Callie and Arizona, while are nothing necessarily to write home about, are hot and do not make me wanna cry or bang my head against a wall. 

Alphas - It's a new-ish Sci-fi show. So far my favorite character is the autistic kid who sees computer signals. Which, btw, awesome super power. I'd love to be able to jack into the internet with just my head. There's even some slight femslash potential. 

And last but not least, Venice. Hot actressess, the gay is front and center, and the soapy twists and turns are fun. I want the pay off, damn it and this brings it. There's also kick ass dramatic "oh-no-she-didn't" storylines as a bonus. Did I mention the hot lady sexy times? Because there are lots of those. 


2. Can Kim Harrison ever make me want to read the Hallows again? 

Oh god. Did you read Pale Demon? I mean it kind of sucked on the Rachel/Ivy front. Or was not the awesomeness of A Fistful of Charms, but it did have Rachel talking about not acting like an idiot and actually following through on that. Granted the compromise was Trent character assassination and making him act like an idiot, but apparently we, the reader, cannot have everything. I'm holding out for a happy Rachel/Ivy ending in the last sentence of the last paragraph of the last book. That will not be enough for most fans. Maybe if it was the whole last book? I don't know. She's done a lot to alienate her fans by this point. I guess something about Rachel's repeated idiocy just appeals to me. I find it amusing? I don't know. If I had to deal with her personally, it would not be with Ivy like results that's for sure. So I guess I'd say if there was anything that KH could do to win you back, it would probably be to let the characters return to acting how they were originally written, not they way they were written after their behavior freaked her out and made her run screaming back for the straight and narrow. 

That's why I'm hoping with her last book, and maybe financial constraints not as constrainty as in the middle of the series she'll give us Ravy. I hope. 


3. What are you doing for school/work these days? 

School. Mostly school. I was one very crammed semester short of finishing my A.A. so I'm going for it full tilt. Some days with more success than others. But I'll be done and that's progress. Work is the same old, same old. Winter isn't our busiest season, but we're actually building in the house so that's adding another special layer of crazy to things at the moment. What I would give for a sunny day and a quite space right now. 

4. hottest actresses on TV in no particular order

I'm cheating and going with some web series actresses. 

Crystal Chappell
Nadia Bjorlin
Jessica Leccia
Cote de Pablo
Eve Myles
Stana Katic
Oh! Oh! Sara Ramirez is smokin' hot! 
Yvonne Strahovski. I'd give at least my left hand to see her guest star on Castle as a fling Beckett had in college. Good. Fucking. God. 
And last but not least Jennifer Esposito and KaDee Strickland. I don't even watch Private Practice but I'm pretty sure it's the accent. And the kick as attitude. Hot.

5. Goals for writing? 

I want to write a novel. That sounds so cheesy right? Everyone says that. And I'm still kind of in that weird limbo stage. I don't really have a plot that is demanding me to write it yet. I kind of need that. There are a few fan fic things that I have in progress and want to write but nothing major. I've been getting the itch to write again lately, but I haven't had anything scream that it must be written. Which is probably good with the whole school consuming most of my waking hours thing I have going on right now. 

6. One thing on your "I wants" list?

An unlimited amount of money to spend on amazon.com so I could indulge my fancy for all-right-ish lesbian novels. Oh and I want The Grove webseries to start filming already. 


Edit - Apologies for the length. Does anyone need a cut? 

Recently the number of entries on my friends page seems to have spontaneously jumped to ten from twenty. I'd like to send it back up to twenty, but I couldn't find the spot to change it back. Does anyone have a suggestion or know how to do this ridiculously easy thing?  

So the month is up. NaNo is a bust.  I wish I'd finished, but at the same time I'm not completely upset about it either.  I think if I hadn't gotten interrupted I might could have pulled it off.  It hasn't put me off at all, and if I'm still writing next year, I'll definitely consider doing it again. :D

Anyway, the point of this post isn't actually NaNo.  It was more that I picked this icon as my default for NaNo and now it's over and I'm not sure which one I want for my new default.  

Flist-y thoughts?

Also it doesn't want me to participate in IDF, apparently.  Because each time I go to save the next part of the fic I'm writing for IDF (Cutting it late? Me? Never. Perish the thought!) my internet dies and the part I've re-written four times already gets lost in the endless void of nothingness. 

So, if I don't get fic written? Totally my ISP's fault.  *nods*

What does it say about me that the LJ advertisement bot or whatever thinks that my journal would be a good place to advertise *NSYNC ringtones?

I think I'm insulted, LJ.  Or at least disappointed in what you think are my tastes.  How could you?!?!

Hi,

So a few people have friended me lately that I don't really know, and I haven't added ya'll back.  Hi.  Thanks for friending me.  That was cool of you.  I'm assuming you're here for the fic, because there's not much else of interest in my LJ, and that's great.  I really appreciate that anyone would be interested enough to friend me.

I'm gonna admit though, that I'm a leery re-friend-er.  This is because I'm paranoid.  I've been around the internet for, oh, about nine years now.  I've spent the bulk of that time on some pretty great message boards.  But in that time I've also run into some not very nice people who really don't like me and my friends.  Also the internet can be a scary place.  Look no further than the kid who committed suicide because of myspace bullying or a dozen other incidents. 

Now I'm not saying anyone who's friended me is a scary psycho.  Ya'll all seem to be pretty nice.  But in general, if someone friends me that I don't know from else where, I'm not gonna friend them back.  If you wanna get to know me, comment in my LJ a few times, and let me know you're friending me, odds are I'll friend you back. 

So, I just figured it was time to say something about all that. 

Um...so, I've been playing with making a banner for my LJ.  I made the banner and with a little bit of help from syehsreh and coding for beginners I even managed to put the banner up on my LJ.  Go me.  Except now, it looks kinda like this.  Which is bad because I want to show off the banner not have my posts on top of it. *sigh*

Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this?  Is there a way to fix this with a basic or plus account?

So...I'm cheap. I upgraded my LJ to a Sponsored Account, meaning ads. You won't see 'em if you have a paid account, but you will otherwise.

I like a few of the features that the sponsored account offers, but I don't know how important that is to me at the moment. At the same time, I haven't decided if the features are worth having the ads on there.

So...feedback's appreciated. I know no one likes ads, but are they really horrible?