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Here's the last fic-bit from the meme I posted weeks and weeks ago!

dodger_sister asked for something from my The O.C./SPN crossover On The Run, Driving In The Sun. I, of course, was happy to oblige.

As usual, three things and a deleted scene under the cut.

( Another case closed, another good kid saved from the lifelong stigma of California’s justice system. )

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As you can all probably tell, I can post from work I just can't do a lot of other things like read my f-list. You win some, you lose some.

So, I put up a meme things last week where I offered to answer three questions about my stories. Both hiyacynth and dodger_sister asked for more about my Ron stories All Stories End and Burn My Sins Away. So here are three bits of background/head canon and one deleted scene.

( Follow the Magic Cut )

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Went to see Cowboys & Aliens tonight. It was exactly as advertised, the cowboys fought the aliens, which was awesome. It was the best thing I've seen Harrison Ford in since the third Indiana Jones movie so yay for that. I think he should do more westerns, he really fits the genre.

It had bonus surprise!Walter Goggins so even though Seth Bullock wasn't in the movie at least his alter ego's favorite frenemy (and occasional life partner) was in it for him. So if you enjoy Deadwood, aliens, westerns, and/or all of the above I very much recommend this movie. Plus, Daniel Craig looked damn fine in the chaps, cowboy hat, and vest combo they head him in. mmmhmmmm

The Philosopher is back from her study abroad in Germany. She's staying with my parents for the weekend and then flying out to Cali to see her family and wait out the time until Lt. Wrestler gets back from South Korea. She texted me yesterday trying to entice me to go see that Smurfs movie, saying it was my childhood. Which is where the Smurfs should have stayed. I just don't understand the trailers. Why are they in NYC? What is Neil Patrick Harris doing? Why is it part real/part CGI? Wait, no, I don't want to know why. Just, no.

I should probably go to bed. I have to get up quite early tomorrow morning. Well, earlyish. Anyway, enjoy more meme.

( 10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could? )

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I posted this on DW last night. Poor LJ, these DDoS attacks are so hard on you.

I had a fairly nasty flare-up over the weekend. It really knocked me out, I wasn't good for much of anything. With every flare-up things seem to get a little worse. It's as if every time I hit a higher plauteau it becomes the new status quo. Sometimes I think law school ruined my health for the rest of my life, which sounds totally hyperbolic but that doesn't make it untrue.

So, there's that. I've also been informed that I need to write a Band of Brothers alien apocalypse AU. Can you just imagine how awesome Falling Skies would be if it were anything like Band of Brothers? For a supposed military organization they have no Intel, no Ordinance, no Transportation, no support staff at all, except for a few civilians who cook the food. And don't get me started on how stupid it is to have civilians when the entire world is at war with the alien force. World War II might have had people who weren't formal members of the military but everyone was focused on the war effort.

Anyway, yes, BoB AU. We'd have to turn some of the guys into chicks and throw in other supporting characters but it still has definite awesome potential. It's such a shame that Graham Yost didn't just do that for his new TV show.

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten the meme. Just because I was away for a couple days doesn't mean I'm giving up.
( 8 – Do you write OCs [Original characters]? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs )

Heard back about a temp job today. It sounds like it will suck but money is money is money. Maybe after a couple weeks of doing this I'll be able to move onto something else. I just hope that it doesn't ruin me for writing, I've been on a pretty good streak of it in the past week and a half and I would hate to have that ruined.

The Mum stopped by and took me out to lunch today. She also brought me a lot of fruit and a tube of Pringles Salt&Vinegar chips. It's kind of scary how well she knows me. Though I guess she should, seeing as she's my mother.

The cats here at FGC are always an adventure. James T. Kirk, the adorable grey-striped with big green eyes, has maken a career of deviling Big Buddy, the big, sweet, stupid cat. Kirk always says he's just playing but Big Buddy never wants to play that way. I've spent a lot of time today breaking them up and sending Kirk to one room or another to think about what he's done. He was most contrite when I came back from lunch but then he went right back to deviling Big Buddy. Sometimes he'll get his brother Pippin, the beautiful golden boy, into the action because Pippin doesn't understand that they're not playing. Kirk is really, truly living up to his name. He's cute and he thinks he can get away with anything.

Anyway, on to meme.

( 6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters? )

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Ugh, I am just so tired today, I don't even know why. I want to curl up and sleep for a year.

I was hoping to have a little something interesting for ya'll today. Instead, here's more of that meme. Because it's a meme.

( 4 – Do you have a muse character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse? )

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Saw the last Harry Potter last night. Thought it was very thrilling and quite well done. My least favorite part was the epilogue, but I don't like that in the book, either. And it's not like they could have done the movie without it. I'm sure there are many Potter fans who love it and would bemoan its absence.

Have been doing a Torchwood rewatch with dodger_sister as it's streaming on Netflix (thank you, BBC, for allowing Netflix to stream all/most of your shows. It's wonderful). I think it could be subtitled "How to Shag An Alien." Also, John Barrowman, bless his heart, is still the least subtle actor on the show. And contrary to fandom opinion I kind of love Gwen rather a lot.

Now, how about a little more meme-ing. You see, if I do this meme then I have to post on my LJ. And if I post on my LJ that means I'm more connected with the world and posting is writing, even if it's not writing writing, if that makes any sense.

( 2 – Name the fandoms you've written in, and how much you've written in that fandom, and if you still write in it. )

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Oh, man, I am a horrible person. I woke up early this morning, for various reasons, and after a little while decided to make a nice fried egg sandwich with cheese. Well, because I let the pan get to hot the oil burned a little and the smoke set my smoke detector off. Now I'm that person who woke all of my neighbors up early on a Saturday morning. Sorry, guys! My bad!

And since I can't resist a TV meme, and I've seen this one all over my f-list, here we go. Though I make no assurances that I'll remember to post everyday.

( The List )

Day 01 - A show that was cancelled too soon.

The Middleman. It was such an awesome show that knew how to have fun. It was geekily self-referential in all the best ways and it knew what it embraced the camp and joy of all of its many, many influences. And it had such a great cast of characters. Wendy! Lacey! Noser! Middleman! Ida!

Plus, let's not forget, in the middle of all of that glee and squee, the hero was a girl! Who was a big geek! And an artist! Who's day job involved saving the world! And she had, like, real relationships with people other than the people she worked with! You know, all of those things we say we want on television really actually happened in this show! So yeah, like I said, totally awesome.



The Middleman Sayings

Art Crawl!

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I'm fighting the urge to call my mother and yell at her. Because, you know, she's going to "fix" me. She just knows I'll feel all better if only I go to the gym everyday and take vitamins and random herbal supplements and if I stop acting like a sick person. Because, obviously, it's all in my head.

So in lieu of that here's a meme thingy. Because tarot cards fascinate me even when they're presented in internet quiz form. ( Which Tarot Card Are You? )

I am so fiendishly excited that I figured out how to embed footnotes in a story. One day I will know all of the HTML there is to know. Though at the rate I'm going HTML will be obsolete and there will be an entire new coding language to learn. But, still, footnotes! =D

OMG, you guys, you should smell the beans that I put into the crockpot last night. My whole apartment smells like tasty goodness. I kind of want to start gnawing on everything in sight.

My weekend has been amazingly domestic. I spent a good chunk of yesterday gardening. My tomato plant is tremendous and I expect a bumper crop from it this year. I've also planted some flowers (that haven't flowered yet) and a couple perennials that I saved from the Meijer gardening section. They were such pathetic, overgrown plants but now they're happy and healthy and throwing off new blossoms to their ickle hearts' content. My rosebush is also extremely healthy and blossoming at a prodigious rate. There's something so wonderfully zen and comforting about caring for plants; watering, repotting, pruning and trimming, watching them grow. *happy sigh*

I also *gasp* did some housework yesterday, work which included putting the beans in the crockpot. I'm making some good, Mexican-style beans like the kind I used to eat in South Texas. The key to making norteño food is to remember the three staples, much like the miripoix of French cuisine. These are tomate, cebolla, y chile or tomato, onion, and hot pepper. You can pretty much figure out every kind of North Mexican dish if you remember those three basics. Oh, and maseca (corn flour). For my beans I cut up a little bacon, one small onion, two jalapeño peppers and some fresh cilantro and threw it all in the crockpot with 3 cups of pinto beans and a lot of water. Then I just set it on low and let it cook overnight.

Anyone who knows me is now going 'OMG you cooked with bacon?! I thought you never ate bacon!? It's true, I'm not a big fan of everyone's favorite smoked pig product but there are some places where you just need a little of that fatty goodness, and frijoles al comal is one of those places.

Tasty food ... mmmmmmm ... Next I'm totally going to bust out my tortilla press and make some corn tortillas. Maybe I'll even cook up some meat and put together some taquitos. And I've still got that bag of rice ...

Wow, I guess I really want Mexican food. See, this is why I don't cook for myself very often, because I always get really involved and spend a day and a half on my new culinary project. I guess a girl can only live on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for so long before she needs some real food, even if the jam was homemade from in season MI strawberries by her mother.

Yeah, okay, I guess I'm going to go be domestic now. I'll leave you with my Cyborg Avatar:

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