in the room the women come and go

Self, what the hell are you doing? You're supposed to be finishing your Big Bang draft prior to begging for betas. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BE ADDING SCENES. Didn't you learn this the last time with Dirty Rotten?

Although that scene was one of the best ones in the story, and really fleshed out the First War. Still. No new scenes!

Anyway. I'm going to need a beta once this one is done. Anyone interested? It's around about 30k non-graphic Dean/Castiel circus AU after the Vietnam War. I'm mainly looking for tense checking, making sure everything's in character, and keeping the dialogue as authentic as possible.

Anyone? Bueller?

*puppy eyes*

I really need to sleep and I can't feel my legs, but my bigbang fic is due tomorrow and I've finally got over 20k and a reasonably complete plot but it's so rough I don't know if any artists could pick up anything from it, let alone something to inspire them.

... Maybe I'll work on it for one more half hour, and then a little bit when I get home from work tomorrow. At seven thirty. Four and a half hours before the deadline.

So I just wrote this:

It is the nature of the circus to be transitional, a fleeting dream set up and gone again in a day. After so long living like a gypsy, being stationary fit like a bad coat. And as familiar and comfortable as Carver’s winter quarters were, Dean always felt better when he was on the road. He’d spent the beginning of his life in a boxcar, the clickety clack of the railway and his mother’s lilting voice the only lullabies he knew.

With the advent of the highway it was certainly easier to pack everything and go, big trucks and silver bullet campers taking the place of rail cars and steam. Traveling shows like theirs could hit more small towns this way; branching away from the mother roads onto any pavement Bobby was willing to risk the big rigs. Sometimes, when Dean was having trouble sleeping at night, he’d toss the keys to Sam and lean his head against the metal door of their Ford RV and conjure up those train sounds, letting the sway of the road drift him away.

Dean always slept better when they were traveling.

He doesn’t think Sam remembers the trains, and that makes him sad. He knows he doesn’t remember their mother.

And I realized something about my Big Bang universe.



*headdesk*

I've been scrounging the internet for traditional circus acts (WALL OF DEATH, PEOPLE), watched The Greatest Show On Earth, and I'm picking up a library book on the history of the circus in the United States tomorrow at the library. Oh, and I have both a rough outline and a couple paragraphs already written out.

Folks, this AU fic is a-go. Send encouragement and cookies, 'cause this looks to be a long one.

So the best friend got me season one of Supernatural for Christmas and we've just now gotten around to watching it. I...may be a little obsessed. And wanting to catch up on fandom but HOLY GOD THERE'S SIX SEASONS OF THIS STUFF and I don't want to be spoiled.

In olden days we'd have knocked out five episodes a night and finish a season in about a week. Now she works early and is fostering her sister's five-month-old baby girl. We're averaging two or three episodes a week. I've gotten my greedy hands on season two but have promised to wait to watch them with her. Thanks to a birthday marathon there are now eight episodes left to watch of season two.

The episodes are getting better and I want more! Dean! Sam! Family issues! Demon plans! WANT!

*whines*



Does anyone still reading this have recs for season one fic? Or maybe half way through season two fics? I've gotten a couple recs lists but I'm leary of reading too far and getting spoiled for later episodes.

In preparing to post my reel_torchwood entry it occurred to me that I never put up a link to my Snupin BLU fic, which posted...well, let's say a while ago and leave it at that, hmm?

This was the first thing I'd written in years and I was very nervous about posting it, but I really like how it came together. I was able to include a lot of my thoughts about Remus and HP canon, and still make it shippy to my heart's content. Sort of. Anyway, here it is! Better late than never, right?



Title: Dirty Rotten
Rating: PG-13/light R
Final Word Count: 32, 157
Disclaimer: Not mine. Characters are property of J.K. Rowling, who has so much more money than me it’s not even worth contemplating.
Warnings: Features naughty language, violence, unrequited RL/SB, and non-explicit het and M/M sex. It’s more or less canon compliant up through DH so, you know, death and taxes.
Author’s Notes: I haven’t written anything in over four years, so taking on something like the Snupin BLU was understandably intimidating. Special thanks to drusillas_rain and lore for their last-minute beta job and prize-worthy hand holding, respectively. This was inspired in part by watching The Filth and the Fury, a document on The Sex Pistols and the punk movement of the late seventies. The plotline started out as something far different than what made it to the actual page, but everything focused around a single idea…
Summary: There are many reasons to lie, and Remus Lupin is familiar with all of them.

Click to read at the BLU archive.

Just finished seeing Wicked live for the first time in Columbus. AWESOME. I now desperately want to see it again from better seats (we were waaaaay up in the vertigo-inducing balcony). I went with my mother and best friend, who knew nothing of the play other than that it was about the Wicked Witch. I love taking my mom to shows like this because she gets really into it and applauds like crazy whenever someone performs fantastically (which they did - seriously, SEE THIS PLAY).

The actor playing Fiyero reminded me a lot of James Marsden, which was a perfect fit for his character. But it got me thinking...

... Can anyone else see James Barrowman as Fiyero?


And lord, I understand the Galinda/Elphaba now. Like my mom said, they weren't but they totally could have been.

*ahem*

Boobquake 2010.

I have had issues with the girls of late, but I think this is something all three of us can agree on.

*goes through her closet*

I just signed up for reel_torchwood. Memento, to be specific.

...

I may be insane.


But, but! It could be epic! With retcon, and Cybermen, and the Life Knife, and snarky Owen. Oh, and exciting formatting! Oh god, I'm totally insane.