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I posted fic yesterday! Inertia, Erik/Charles, XMFC. This was so satisfactory to write. :D And then I managed to make a typo in the title that I didn't see until this morning and omgsoembarassing.

In other writing news, I still can't get that stupid X-Men Atonement AU bunny out of my head. Should I just give in and write it? Thing is, I don't want to think of the logistics, all I want to read it and bask in the awesomeness of Erik being bitter about being the help and having the Xaviers pay his way to Oxford and at the same time hating that he can't help being in love with Charles and he still wants revenge on his dead mother (dead in... WWI? Still WWII and let's just ignore the 30s setting of the book/movie?) and he's torn about wanting to stay and wanting to be better than the gardener and meanwhile Charles is just irrevocably smitten and has been all his life AND THEN THEY HAVE SEX ON A LIBRARY. That's like, the clearest point I have. And Raven is Briony but she manages not to get anyone accused of rape. And they have powers and it's all very confusing. AND THEN EVERYONE IS HAPPY because that movie has made me cry enough times already.

UGH.

I feel so much better now that I'm writing on a more regular basis. It's just very rewarding.

So talking about writing, I write much better - and easier - with music on, and for some reason I tend to latch onto a few songs that sort of convey the mood I want to give a story and then listen to them on repeat until I finish a story. It's usually instrumental, epic-y music, mostly from soundtracks. For Geometry, my last Doctor Who fic, I listened to The Other Side by Michael Nyman from the Gattaca soundtrack, just that song in a constant repeat. For that fic for The Borgias I was listening to the opening song, the opening song from The Tudors and Saving Josh from the Moonlight OST, all of them by Trevor Morris. Last year for that Doctor Who fic when Rory was still dead and gone from existance and stuff, I listened to Bat for Lashes in repeat, and I still think of Rory everytime I listen to Siren Song, especially on that last verse.

Right now, for X-men fic I'm still listening to The Other Side, and added The One Moment, also from the Gattaca soundtrack, Kanada's Death, Pt. 2 (Adagio In D Minor) from the Sunshine soundtrack and The Mummer's Dance from Loreena McKenitt. The latter would be fantastic for Merlin fic writing, by the way. But I think I just listened obsessively to The Fountain's soundtrack while I wrote Merlin stuff. That soundtrack gets played a lot in here, it's beautiful beyond words.

So, what do you guys listen to while writing (or drawing, or being creative, or something)? I find it to be fascinating stuff.

I'm not entirely sure what Canada Day entails, but I hope you guys had a good one? I'd never heard of it! I'm most interested.

I really want to write but I'm not sure what. I had this Who plut bunny (indeed, I wrote a scene of it), but it was a bit too self-indulgent, which is not to say my fic isn't usually that (I'm all about the self-indulgency in fic, if you couldn't tell), but this was a bit too much so. It was going to be about Amy being proclaimed some planet's queen, and then her living through different fairy tales in a loop, and Rory was going to be there magically (sort of) and they were going to have illicit queen/peasant sex in the castle's secret passageways. ER.

Saying it that way I sort of still want to write that. UMMMM. But it was supposed to be angsty and whatnot, and it doesn't fit with the happy, bright feeling after the finale!

I'm really, really hoping tomorrow's Who episode is the Cybermen one, 'cause I SO don't want another Cyberman finale. That said, I'd rather not having any Cybermen eps at all, I can't decide if I'm more annoyed by them or Daleks, but c'est la vie.

Fic is a bit over 6000 words now. Woo hoo! Also, I re-watched The Eleventh Hour tonight, and it's still such a lovely episode, if you sort of handwave the flimsy plot. But the last 20 minutes of it, oh. It has such a sense of wonder, of endless possibility. And that's what I love about Doctor Who. ♥

Doctor Who fic is now 21 pages long in my writing notebook and growing. I'm so ecstatic about this, after missing writing for so long, but at the same time I feel like I've been smacked over the head with this story, which is pretty much writing itself, lol.

Last night I went to my 6-year-old cousin's ballet recital, which was SO cute. She was cinderella! And danced with the prince! AW. Mostly though, it made me realize just how much I miss dancing. There's nothing like dancing, man. SIGH.

First day of freedom today! I've been bumming around writing and trolling anonimeme wank and going a bit confused at the knowledge that there's going to be a Supernatural anime. UM, WHAT.

I'm writing fic!! After a year and a half of not doing so! Yaaay! :D

So far it already features Amy/Rory porn, lol.

People! Does anyone have time to beta a 2500-ish word long Merlin fic? Like, now? Well, not really, but I'm going away on vacation early on Friday, and I know no one will have time for anything on the 24th and 25th, and I'd like to post before I leave. so. Um. Anyone?

*bats eyelashes*

Also. It's really weird but I seem to have lost the ability to write on the computer. For the past six months I've stared at a blank document endlessly, without being able to write more than a couple of sentences, and yet I can't write fast enough while in my little notebook. Huh. It's the lack of distractions, I guess, although it means that I'll go through notebooks much faster, as I used to only have bits and pieces of a finished fic in those, and now it's all of it. Oh well.

HI GUYS I'M BACK. Back from where? you might be asking yourselves, and the answer is: from the endless black pits of HELL my homework and final projects were, and from those sad, sad days when my internet decided to curl up and die. THAT'S WHERE.

After some of the most stressful, tiring, long, horrid days since I started college, SCHOOL IS FINALLY OVER. HELL YEAH. Well, I still have to track down a teacher to hand in my final project, but STILL. The big Greenpeace campaign from Design class is OVER OH THANK FUCK and I actually crashed at like, 9pm yesterday, I was that tired, and slept for about 12 hours. And now I ACHE all over from all that work with wood for the past week and I have a cold but hey, at least I'm free. YEAH.

There shall be fic in a moment which I would have wanted to post yesterday but RE: my internet: DEAD DEAD DEAD. When I write a scene that I sort of FORGOT to write that is. UM. Anyway, all in the ~build up~ for the LEGENDARY Merlin finale yesssss. ER.

And now I'm getting more DMZ because I started reading it while I was sad and internetless and holy shit but it is ridiculously good and I shall rec it more extensively later. Yeah.

Duuuude, the Merlin fic is 5800 words long right now and it's not even done AAAAH HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. o_O

Okay, Arthurian geeks in my flist! (and I know you're there, don't try to hide) What would be a good name for a neighboring kingdom? Not like, an important one, but if there's some tiny little country mentioned twice in the past five centuries, DO TELL ME. Or, you know, give me pointers to invent one. UM.

ALSO! Would the dragon be a 'he' or an 'it'? I can't deciiide.

Merlin fic is 2800 words right now, and it's still missing a couple thousand. Yay me. :3 AND it's finally all typed, since I've been neglecting to do so all week long, lol.

NEW MERLIN TOMORROW, BY THE WAY, YAAAAAY. If anything could make me happy right now, it is the gay show of gay. :DDD

Today was INSANNNNE. Me and teh teammates were printing and/or giving the finishing touches to our Greenpeace campaign since 9 am to 3:30pm. IT WAS PAINFUL. And horribly stressing. And we messed up the imposition in the final document and the, uh, cornisas (wonder how's it called in English...) ended up on the wrong sides of the page. WOE. BUT the assignment is ALMOST over, so I can at least breathe easier.

I've been ~acquiring~ Pushing Daisies all evening long in social service, 'cause when I got home my brother was bitching that there'd been no internet since morning. As he doesn't have anything else whatsoever to do, he's in crisis. Bad thing is, I only got half of PD, because the internet in here is also running quite slow. BOO.

AND NOW I SHALL GO AND EAT TACOS BECAUSE I ~DESERVE~ THEM, HONESTLY.