Goat is firm but fair

1. Plumber is coming tomorrow to fix our leaky sink. (We were too busy last week to call, so we've just had a bucket under the sink so it's not getting flooded.)

2. I just had a delicious bagel toasted with butter. Om nom nom bagels.

3. New favorite Maru video.

4. Dating advice from the '30s is hilarious.

5. I am so excited at how much I've been writing this year so far and how much I feel like writing. The past couple years I have just had no motivation. It's not writer's block, but rather, as thingswithwings called it, writer's blaaaah. I've had ideas, tons of ideas, but it was so hard to make myself write. Now I actually find myself choosing to write over other things on my to-do list, rather than leaving it for last and never getting around to it.

6. My story is in first place! If you haven't voted yet, please do so. The story to vote for is Right Where I Want You. (Story and website are NSFW.)

1. Had a nice dinner with Alexander and watched Kung Fu Panda, which was fun.

2. Started scanning Aozora Yell. I don't plan to translate it as I don't want to get started on another ongoing series, but the reason I bought vols. 2 and 3 was because I couldn't find scans anywhere, and unlike most times when I break down and buy something and then scans show up the next day, I still haven't seen scans for anything but vol. 1. I'm just going to take my time and do 10-20 pages per day, but I plan to scan both vols. I have here. Our scanner is so nice and fast it's really not as much of a pain as I thought it would be.

3. Still enjoying Zelda. I finished the second wolf part (in Kakariko Village or however it's spelt) and am now in the Death Mountain area. Fighting that guy on horseback was a huge pain in the ass. My RSI was flaring up after all that sword-swinging.

4. All my fics on AO3 are now in chronological order. I didn't backdate when posting them because I wanted them to show up in the updates page, so I had to go back into all of them to change the date. Can't wait for the day we can edit headers without having to edit the whole fic!

I still have a bunch of fics to add (mostly Vampire Chronicles and Jude/Ewan, but there is probably near 100 between the two of those), but it's nice seeing everything that is there already so nice and organised.

5. I am super excited now about writing more ftm!Zoro. I'm so glad torches gave me the idea, because it just really works. (I also really like the idea of Robin as mtf! I LIKE IT SO MUCH.) No idea when I'll write any more, but I want to. (Right now I'm trying to finish up another fic that was on my hard drive, so I can get a 1000+ fic posted in February, too, along with all these short ones. Maybe I should change my 12in2010 goal to be not just one 1000+ fic a month, but to have at least half of those be finishing up half-started stuff I have lying around.)

6. Apparently this will be the last season of Ugly Betty. I have enjoyed the show a lot, despite frustrations, but I will be glad to have one less thing to follow.

1. The rain stopped for most of the day and we got two nice walks in. We got rained on a bit when we were out the first time, but it was just sprinkling.

2. I have really been enjoying Twilight Princess. I beat the first temple tonight. Somehow it took me 7 hours to get this far. O_o I was thinking about how with the original Zelda there's not all this beginning stuff. You're just dropped in the middle of the desert and go. No story even, really. To be honest, I kind of miss those days. I don't play RPGs for the story. Still, even though this had a slow start with all the blah blah blah stuff, once it got going, it's really fun. I do wish it were more traditional cartoony graphics, though. I often find it hard to differentiate stuff with this "realistic" style. In terms of the movements and stuff, though, it's pretty similar to Ocarina of Time? Obviously it's a bit different with the Wii controllers, though.

3. I am so in love with Kimi ni Todoke. ♥♥♥♥♥ Today I should have been doing all sorts of stuff, but pretty much I just read that and played Zelda. Oops? (Also I wrote a drabble that took me hours! And I had half of it written already, so really it took me hours to write like fifty words! Well, I wrote more, but had to delete them to get it down to 100. Editing!) Anyway, Kimi ni Todoke! *_* Sawako is so cute. I have never seen a cuter manga heroine. She is just adorable (and adorkable). And Kazehaya! And Chizu! And Ayane! And Ryu! I think I love Ryu best after Sawako, actually. And Pin! And Kurumi! I love everyone. And it's hilarious, too. Hilarious and heartbursty and I just love it to death.

Wow, some of these are OLD. I had these Hot Fuzz reviews sitting on my hard drive for several years (I read the first one Christmas '07 because she was my Yuletide recipient and I was trying to see what sort of fic she wrote for the fandom I'd been assigned...), thinking I would read more and do a full set, but that is not happening? (I have a bunch more of Ann's bookmarked to read, but who knows when I will get to them.) So I figured since I had a small batch of random stuff, I'd just go ahead and include the Hot Fuzz as well rather than let them sit for another two years.

And hmm, now I've run up against that old debate, is bandom just My Chem and Pete Wentz & co. or is The Beatles bandom, too? And if not, how do I tag it? *headtilt* Suggestions?

Long Shot by kassrachel
Hot Fuzz. 3300 words. If this isn't happily-ever-after, Nick thinks, it's damned close.

This is pretty much your standard slash story you can find in any fandom. It's not badly written, but it's not my thing and it doesn't fit the tone of the film at all.

Christmas Number One by annlarimer Rec+
Hot Fuzz. 1500 words. Nicholas and Danny's first Christmas together.

I've never actually read any fic by Ann, but she is one of the funniest people I know, so I figured her fic had to be pretty good, and it is! This is well-written, hilarious, and totally awesome. It feels just like the film (seriously, slash and all XD).

The O.C. by annlarimer Rec
Hot Fuzz. 100 words. Danny writes Star Trek fanfic.

This is hilarious. And true. (Well, as true as something about fictional characters can be.) Assuming that in the Hot Fuzz universe, Scotty is played by an actor who looks a lot like Nick, Danny would totally be writing Marty Stu slash with himself and Scotty. Yes.

Some Boys Are Different by alienchrist
Ace Attorney. 5900 words. Miles was always different. Is that something Phoenix can accept?

I'm not at all familiar with the Ace Attorney series, but you don't really need to know canon for this. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although I would rather have had Miles' POV as a child rather than his father's.

Seventeen by sarken
Pundits. 600 words. Keith, Rachel, and dreams and false memories.

This is sort of a literal take on "I feel like we've known each other all our lives!" I feel I was missing some by not knowing the characters, but I still enjoyed it.

There's a Skyline in Oklahoma by saengie
Johnny's Entertainment. 10,300 words. Love is a mystery to Kame, it always has been, and it doesn't bother him much. It doesn't bother him, but he's curious. He wants to know if he can fall in love too, just like everyone else.

The writing wasn't really great, but it was definitely an interesting story. I don't think I've ever seen a fic with an asexual character before and I wish there were more.

Run for Yer Life by bossymarmalade & glockgal Rec
The Beatles. 5000 words. You don't get to the toppermost of the poppermost without a little sacrifice.

Okay, I really don't know enough about the Beatles to get most of the references, but this is awesome even so. It's a serial killer AU! And it's got art by one of my favoritest artists ever!

Wow, I am really not impressed with this game so far. I have spent an hour playing and have not even got out of the village and started doing stuff yet. The whole beginning has you doing these little tasks for the villagers which are I guess to teach you various skills you'll need to know for later in the game, but omg, I am about ready to kill someone because I just spent twenty fucking minutes trying to catch a fish so this woman's cat would go back to her so I could buy a damn slingshot from her and I cannot for the life of me catch a fish! There's nothing I can do. I'm stuck at the beginning of the game because their fishing system is horrible and I cannot make it work. If I'd wanted a fishing game, I would have bought a damn fishing game. I just...is there something I'm doing wrong? I put the hook in the water, and then some fish swim towards it and then...nothing. There's no way to tell if any latch on, and whenever I've pulled my line back up, there's never any fish on it. This is so frustrating because it's not even the point of the game! ARGH!

1. Totally off my regular sleep schedule again, thanks to a nap that turned into a full-length sleep, but at least I got a good night's sleep? After several days of 4-5 hours' sleep this week, it was nice.

2. Rain! I hope it lets up for a while so we can take a walk at some point, but still, I am happy there's rain.

3. Bleach was AWESOME. Shinji! ♥♥♥ Oh my God, those two panels of Shinji were brilliant. I love the longshot of him swinging his zanpakuto and then the closeup of that GRIN OMG. And him and Hitsugaya working together = heartburst! Two of my favorite characters, bweeeeee!

Expect the Unexpected
~400 words :: Leverage :: Parker/Hardison :: 2/3/10 :: warning policy
Alec has long since learned that when it comes to Parker you have to expect the unexpected, but he didn't think there was anything unexpected to expect about this, and that's obviously where he went wrong.

( This he was expecting. He knew there wouldn't be any coyness, no hesitation. )

Notes: Written for ms_treesap's prompt of "Hardison/Parker, non-heteronormative".

What Makes a Man
200 words :: Sherlock Holmes :: Holmes/Watson :: 2/2/10 :: warning policy
John has always known Holmes is a remarkable man.

( John Watson is a man who loves other men. )

Notes: For thingswithwings's prompt of ftm!Holmes/Watson.

So I'm going through the stuff tagged trans on AO3 again and found this fic from a fandom (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) I'm unfamiliar with. I was really hesitant to click with a summary like "When Carmen the Transsexual requests Mac's presence on the Maury Show, Dee will do anything to get her slice of the fame pie." and I kind of wish I hadn't. Both the story itself and the comments are pretty horrible. (Apparently Carmen is a canonically trans character, and the "humor" in this fic is consistent with what's on the show, if Wikipedia is anything to go by, but wow. So glad I don't recognise any of the names of the commenters.)

Anyway, my policy for the master list is to include offensive fics, but put a warning on them. However, my policy is also to not include fics where a trans character is in the story, but not one of the main characters (for example, I left out a Transamerica fic that briefly had an appearance by Bree, but was mostly about Toby). This has a lot of people talking about Carmen (in the most offensive way possible), but Carmen herself only has a small part. It's sort of on the line, though. I think if it were a positive portrayal I might think she had a large enough part to include the fic?

So, idk. Opinions? I don't recommend reading unless you're really braced for it, but I would like opinions as to whether or not people think it's a large enough part to qualify for the list.

ETA: Have decided to leave it off. Have also decided to elaborate in the comments box as to why fics labelled potentially offensive were given that label.

1. I think I may finally be getting back on my regular sleep schedule! Last night I slept from 10pm to 5am, but then this afternoon I took a nap for several hours so I'm not feeling at all tired now. *crosses fingers*

It's nice being awake in the daytime to run errands and stuff, but I just don't ever feel able to settle down and be productive during the day.

2. Speaking of errands, we went to Best Buy and got Carla a new keyboard. Her old one works, but it's so hard to type on. They keys are really, really stiff. I don't know how she's managed with it all this time (it's like ten years old). Anyway, her sister gave her a Best Buy giftcard for Christmas while she was back in Indiana, so we figured we'd pick one up there. (Normally we stay away from Best Buy after they made me pay $80 to return a defective laptop which they insisted worked just fine, but I can make an exception for a giftcard.)

We also stopped and had lunch at this place across the street from Best Buy called El Super Taco. Been meaning to try it for a while, but never seemed to be there when hungry. They have mostly tortas, it seems, so I'm not sure why their name is El Super Taco, but whatevs. I had nachos, which were delicious, but I am still stuffed ten hours later.

3. This site amuses me.

4. I've been wearing my binder lately and getting used to it. The first time I tried it on, I couldn't get it on at all. I've seen a lot of people suggest that if you can't get it on over your head, you should try stepping into it and pulling it up, but I didn't even bother trying that, because in my case, it's not my chest that's the biggest part, but the rest of my body. So I just put it away and figured I'd try again another time.

I did try again, and this time was able to get it on, and wore it out, but it rolled up to bunch at my hips and ended up actually hurting my hips from the pressure, so after that I was reluctant to wear it and didn't wear it again until last week, when I decided to try it again for just a short walk (running an errand like two blocks away). It seemed okay then, so I don't know if I just didn't pull it far enough down the first time or what. Anyway, I've worn it the last four days when we went out, two of which involved walking like three miles or more, and didn't have any problems with it riding up or hurting my hips.

I don't like how it feels with my jeans, though, like they're going to slip down because the material is so slippery. But so far they haven't actually slipped down, so.