Hey friends who are in the know in the publishing and/or legal realms, I need your help here. The screenshot below is from a FB group [posted with permission] about the legalities re: ownership of fanfic. It's based off this FB post of tumblr screenshots about why disclaimers are used in fanfic.
Here's my question: Can someone give me a good link(s) that either confirms or refutes the claims this person is making re: ownership of fanfic? Is this really the way it is with derivative works? This is mostly for personal edification, but also because I would like to get the RIGHT info out to people, regardless of whether I'm right or wrong. I'm really curious...
ETA: Sources I have found thus far to support my stance in this situation:
50 Shades Of Copyright Infringement — How The Broken Copyright System Renders A Story Illegal Note: This is the SOLE source cited by the other person to support her argument that basically intimates that all fanfic writers who rework their fanfic into an original novel to publish are money-grubbing hacks like EL James. And if they publish through Ylva, they're even worse because she says Ylva is a vanity/self-pub house that isn't legit or reputable.
I'll keep updating this list as I get more info. And I haven't even touched OTW yet...
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I used to do these posts over on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth a lot, then I just kind of slacked off. The last time I did one of these posts anywhere was in April of 2014. I won't try to update every single thing that's happened since then, but I'll hit some of the major points.
Check my fandom list via my tags and comment here with one fandom. I will tell you the following:
• The character I first fell in love with • The character everyone else loves that I don't • The character I love that everyone else hates • The character I used to love but don't any longer • The character I would totally smooch • The character I'd want to be like • The character I'd slap • A pairing that I love • A pairing that I despise
Give me a character and/or fandom that I have in some way been involved in, and I'll answer the questions about that character and/or fandom.
These are the questions I will answer for characters: How I feel about this character: My het ship: My fem/slash ship: Any OTP: My non-romantic ship for this character: Any unpopular opinions? My favourite plot-line for this character: Something I wish would/had happened to this character: A crossover ship or interaction I would love to see for this character: A head canon fact:
These are the questions I’ll answer for fandoms: Favourite characters: OTP(S): Funniest character: Prettiest character: Most badass character: Most annoying character: My favourite thing that has happened so far: What I would most like to see happen next:
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First TV show I had self-insertion fantasies about: Oh geez! Probably Little House on the Prairie, tbh, but the first one I remember that I wrote self-insertion was Dallas.
First fandom in which I interacted (online and in person) with other fans: In person:21 Jump Street Online:ST:TNG
Pairing in the first slash fanfiction I read: Beverly Crusher/Deanna Troi
First RPS I read: I don't read RPS...
First fanfiction I read that made me think, YES, this is exactly the kind of fanfiction I'd like to write... Something by Jeanna Gallo, I think.
First fanfiction I read that made me think, YES, this is exactly the kind of fanfiction I'd like to write, really well-written, and also funny... Something from ST:TNG is all I can remember atm, and that it was on ASCEM-L or via my BonC group.
Pairing in the first fanfiction I wrote: *thinks* Of the non-self-insert shit [wrote a LOT of self-insert-type shit with the first ex-gf & a former friend], it was probably Troi/Riker. Actually, now that I think of it, it was probably that weird "The Test" that I wrote as a reactionary piece to the ST:TNG ep "The Host", which was Troi/Riker, Beverly/Odan, and Beverly/Riker, with a possible hint of Troi/Riker/Beverly.
First FPS OTP: Watched: Pam/Bobby, Dallas Written: Troi/Riker
First RPS OTP: I don't do RPS...
First fandom I wrote in that made me sweat bullets in fear I would fuck it up: Dude, I feel like this with every new fandom. But the first one I wrote for public consumption was ST:TNG.
First fanfiction writer I collaborated with: *thinks* This chick named JeriKat, back when I was in the Voyager fandom more. There was some sort of weird flirtation thing going on between us, which got us to write this Janeway/7of9 story called "Into the Fire", then all hell broke loose and she went psycho on me. I still have the story on my hard drive, but she disappeared from the intarwebz, so I don't think the story is posted anywhere anymore. Which is okay, as it was kind of a crappy story. Though I'm now tempted to rewrite it and make it better...
First fanvid I saw that made me think WHAT IS THIS SORCERY! I don't remember anymore. It was a video for ST:TNG, that's all I can remember...
First fannish friend I met in person: *thinks* You mean, besides the first ex-gf and her weird brand of fannishness? Hmmm... I was going to say Lorre, but I met kadiluv in person before her. Actually, there was the guy I kind of flirted with in college, the one whose doddering old wizard always got teamed up with my Amazon warrior in our D&D games [and the havoc his faulty memory would wreak on me!]...
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In what has been a 2011 filled with new ideas and directions for F4F Radio, we start winding down the year with another "panel". Rather than having on authors to interview them about their work in a specific fandom, we have on several committed fans/writers from a fan community to talk about the impact of the fandom itself. Tonight's topic has been off the air for a decade, but that hasn't diminished its sheer importance regarding LGBT storylines on network TV. "Babylon 5" was a popular sci-fi drama which ran on TNT for five seasons in the 1990s, and it was here that lucky fans met Susan Ivanovna (Claudia Christian) and Talia Winters (Andrea Thompson), two women who immediately clashed, primarily thanks to Susan's hatred for the Psi Corps that Talia belonged to. Over the course of the first two seasons, however, the two grew closer, culminating in the episode "Divided Loyalties". It combined the highest of the highs - a night together that strongly implied Susan and Talia had slept together - with the lowest of the lows - Talia being "possessed" and "killed" by the Control sleeper personality. Regardless of how the storyline ended, the fact remains that this episode aired in 1995, well before shows like "Xena: Warrior Princess" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" prominently featured canon and subtextual lesbian relationships, making B5 one of the VERY first of its kind on commercial television. Our panel will discuss the evolution of the Susan/Talia relationship on B5, its impact on the LGBT community at the time, fan fiction, and how people view it today. The panel will include past guests Del Robertson and ariestess, as well as first-timers kerkevik and sammysam, all of whom wrote at least one Susan/Talia fanfic over the years. Also joining us will be two-time guest cohost Kim Pritekel, making her debut as F4F Radio's new full-time cohost.
I've finally finished reading Out of Oz as of about 2 hours ago. I've been a sobbing mess pretty much ever since then. Actually, from about 50 pages from the end, to be honest. And I've had "For Good" on repeat for the last hour or so.
Suffice it to say that Gregory Maguire's fucking incredible writing, storycrafting, and characterizations have pushed both Katherine Kurtz's Deryni universe and MZB/Diana Paxson's Avalon series down to #3 & #2 respectively in my favorite book series ever.
I'll post more later, once I can properly write up a review of this book. For now, I'm just gonna continue to wallow in my Gelphie love and mourn the end of this series. Fic shall also commence as soon as I can be coherent enough to get my muses to work with me...
"Because I knew you, I have been changed for good."
Thank you, Gregory Maguire.
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I am the happiest little happy shipper right now. You have no fucking clue how deliriously happy this confirmation has made me. I was literally giggling and squeeing when I saw that image. To know that something I was taking as text really WAS text has just made my fucking month. Possibly my entire year.
I do believe that as soon as I finish Mary Called Magdalene, I'll be starting a reread of my Wicked books. I'd been planning to do so in preparation for reading Out of Oz, but this just makes it even more delicious to reread my books. And then start some fanfic...
Yeah, happy as shit about this...
*happy sigh*
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Slept in a bit this morning. I was up by like 0715. Not unusual for me, thanks to my bladder, but there are days I'd love to sleep in later than that, you know? This is what I get for having a work schedule so early in the morning for the last 2 3/4 years...
Anyway, while shatterpath & amyrayh went and did some errands in Tacoma [including a card shop, the building materials resale place, & I'm not sure where else], I stayed home and did some stuff online that needed updating. Case in point, I got the graphics made and the votes tallied and posted for the FemSlash Advent Calendar :: Dead of Winter 2009. And I've made the decision that the voting portion of the calendars is going to be going on hiatus for the foreseeable future. There really isn't a lot of turnout, not when compared to when we started the voting, and if there's not turnout/interest, I'm not going to take the time to put it out there. If people show interest in doing the voting again, great. If not, shatterpath & I will continue to do our special awards each round. Hell, I'm already thinking and planning for the next calendar. But this is nothing unusual.
I also managed to clean out some more of the backlog in my various inboxes today. That's always a relief. Expect a fun time wasting poo entry tomorrow, as well as a quotes entry. That should have things pretty well cleaned up to where I like them. I still have some work to do with the next SSP update, and I need to finish writing up my responses to the "fake TV series" meme suggestions given to me by havocthecat and nnaylime. The latter will actually be easier to do, I just haven't sat down to do it. The former, I'm honestly still working on it. I have a great idea, but it's somewhat hard to translate from my brain to paper/the screen. But I'm working on it, honest...
I managed to watch several movies today, too. Got to rewatch White Nights, which I haven't seen in years. I'd forgotten just how much I LOVED that movie! And the scene where Baryshnikov and Hines are dancing together? Pure magic! Also got to rewatch Fried Green Tomatoes, which is always a personal favorite. And earlier tonight, I got to see Race to Witch Mountain [or whatever it's called] for the first time. The jury's still out on that one. It was kinda... weird...
And now that my femslash_today update is done [the first in more months than I can count], I'm heading up to bed. I'll read another chapter or two of Tailchaser's Song, then bedtime for me. Here's hoping I get another Addison dream... *veg*
Oh, that's right. NaNoWriMo sucked it all up. Well, NaNo, illnesses, job stress, and a Thanksgiving weekend visit from will_i_am_oak and his mom. Other than having to work on Friday, it was a lovely weekend with my boy and his mom. Saturday, I finally got to take him to the Reptile Zoo, which he absolutely adored! We got to see amyrayh get the Egyptian Banded Cobra and the Sumatran Cobra to not only flare their full hoods, but attack the glass at her. Now in the Egyptian Banded Cobra's defense, he was shedding and pissy, but still... The snakes weren't nearly as active for me, but the place was fucking PACKED like I've never seen before. Sunday was a lazy day at home. Well, maybe not lazy. There was the football game, shatterpath & the boy setting up the tree and some outdoor lights, and then amyrayh took the boy and his mom to see 2012. I did some frantic writing on my NaNo novel, and then we all watched Shaun of the Dead before heading to bed.
Work was work. I ended the month in a fucking spectacularly craptastic way. I won't get into details as I don't need the stress. And then I came home, did a little more writing on my NaNo novel and ended up calling out for today as a migraine started kicking my ass. I ended NaNo with 31595 words, 21041 of which was specifially for Laikhostra. A far cry from 50k, but respectable, given the stresses and distractions of the month.
In other news, I got my Inner Child Secret Santa package on Saturday from lawgrrl_23. I'd planned to wait until at least my birthday on Friday to open it, but just couldn't wait any longer. Will post a picture of my haul tomorrow. Suffice it to say, the presents were fucking perfect! My inner child positively squealed at all the sparkly and purple! So thank you, thank you, thank you, lawgrrl_23! I loved it!
And before I forget... On Thursday, 3 December 2009 at 2200 EST, allaine77 is going to be interviewing me again during the first part of his 2 part series on femslash archving. It would be awesome if you could listen in! I had an absolute blast when he interviewed shatterpath and me about CSI: Miami & our involvement with DuVista among other things. And you'll get the added bonus of hearing shatterpath read the anwers that ralst pre-wrote, since she's the other person being interviewed with me. Can't wait for this one to happen!
And last, but certainly not least... If you want a holiday card from me & shatterpath, please leave a comment here [or PM me or send email to ariestess @ lj] with your name and addy. Our cards this year are primarily "generic", but there are some that are Christmas specific [because that's how we bought them at the time]. I'm hoping to have the cards out by the end of the week, so act now...
Thanks to a recommendation from racethewind10, shatterpath and I are going to be interviewed by allaine77 about CSI: Miami femslash and the birth of DuVista.
A few days ago, I decided to be "daring" and added my name to the Anonymous Writing Feedback Meme. I've done a few of these in the past, and never got any comments. But I was feeling a bit curious and tossed my name in the hat.
And then I got a comment today, anonymous, of course, and got very angry and upset by the comment left. Yeah, I should have known better, that I'd be opening up a can of worms that would probably be better left unopened. My work got called juvenile and un-developed [my emphasis], and I was basically branded as an unprofessional hack who needs better betas.
This person didn't have the balls to say this to my face. I don't know if this person was just a random fucktard, or someone with a chip on their shoulder against me, or someone on my flist. Regardless of who it was, and regardless of the fact that I participated in the anon meme [and posted feedback for several of my friends, all positive], this meme is indicative of a pervasive problem on the 'net and in fandom in general. These anonymous "fill in the blank here" memes are so rampant and foster a sense of "I can say whatever I want, whether it's true or not, as long as I say it anonymously and not have any consequences". It's sickening. No one seems to have the guts to really speak their minds anymore. And that's got to stop.
From this point forth, all fics of mine will contain a disclaimer stating that constructive criticism is accepted. While the "Yay! I liked it! Write more!" comments are lovely, I have been reminded again that I can only improve my craft by knowing what I'm doing wrong and fixing it. I would like to know what things work and don't work in my fics. You don't have to spend hours on it, but if there's something that stands out, good or bad, please comment on it.
Along these same lines, I will be getting back in the habit of giving out constructive criticism on any and all fics I read. If you don't want this, you need to let me know, and I won't bother. That doesn't mean that I'll stop reading your fics necessarily, but it does mean that I may not place as high a priority on them. But as far as I'm concerned, if you want to be a writer, you should want to better your craft. If you don't, that's your choice, and I'm not saying you're wrong. But if you can't take the time to have a proper beta done on your fic and don't care to improve your craft, why should I care to read your fic?
NOTE :: The previous comment does not apply to EVERYONE on my flist. I am talking to the people who tend to revel in churning out quantity over quality fics. And honestly? Most of those people aren't on my flist at all. But I'm going to say it anyway.
I fully expect that this is going to vilify me in some circles. But I believe in quality writing. I always have, but I got lazy for a number of years. When I send an email or leave a comment requesting a story for ShatterStorm Productions, I want the author to know that I find his/her story to be of a certain caliber that I want on my site. When shatterpath and I started ShatterStorm Productions eight years ago, it was initially for our fics and then for links to our favorites fics and authors. That spawned into what the site has become today. And I'm getting back to those original roots of what that site meant. And it's not really changing a lot of what I do already with the fics I request for the site, if I really think about it.
I was going to say that this isn't meant to offend anyone, but that's not exactly true. I want people to change their perspective. Mediocre fics shouldn't be considered the best thing out there. I have no issues with people wanting to write. And please, if my opinion makes you want to stop writing? Rethink that decision! If you really want to write? Can't stop thinking about it? Don't let anyone change your mind! But at the same time, consider bettering your craft.
I am a snobby, grammar!whore bitch when it comes to writing and beta work. Ask anyone whose work I've beta'd. The ones that stick around for me to keep betaing? Eventually, they do get to the point where there's not a lot for me to beta. And that right there makes me prouder than fucking hell. Knowing that I've helped someone get really good at their craft. Some people don't like my brand of beta work, absolutely despise it and call me a mean bitch. That's their prerogative. Hell, I've been asked to leave a number of yahoogroups because people didn't like my honesty in what I will and won't leave feedback/concrit for. I'm a picky bitch and I don't hide that fact.
Constructive criticism is not about bashing someone's work. And if anyone tells you it is, they're fucking lying asshats. Constructive criticism also isn't "OMG! U R a gr8 riter! Rite moar!" Constructive criticism is "This worked for me, and here's why." or "This didn't work for me, and here's why." While I do like any and all feedback I get, this is what I prefer. I want to know what I can do to improve my craft. Period.
So we hit ECCC09 on Sunday, after hitting Second Use to pick up some stuff for the house. I hadn't read the website well enough, so sent us over to the Qwest Field event center, where it had been the last time we went. Yeah, not so much. It was a the Convention Center. My bad! We got there around 12:30, so I missed the BSG panel, but I hear it was quite entertaining. We did the rounds of the booths. We got a metric fuck-ton of t-shirts from one booth. Srsly. Like 10 shirts or something like that. I shall start wearing mine every Saturday at work that I still have a job. And shatterpath and I found Gargoyles comics [4 about different villians] and a graphic novel. And yes, they are now mine. Mwahahahahahahaha!!!
*clears throat* Ahem....
So I decided that I couldn't afford the official pics with the actors, as much as I wanted them. I just couldn't justify that kind of money... Oh well, it's all good. We got our Cthulu print, but were too late to get the Hellboy w/ the Fremont Troll print. I'm still rather bummed we missed out on the Hellboy one. We also decided agains the Monsters & Dames charity artbook, as there really weren't any artists that we really knew, and none of hte pictures leapt out at us as needing to be owned.
shatterpath got another Foglio book, amyrayh got the Girl Genius backpack & a gear pin, and we all got Growf dragon pins. shatterpath & I got them the last time we went to ECCC, but we can't find them. And srsly, one can't have enough Growf dragon pins. For srs, they are made of awesome. And near the end of the day, I spun the Zombie wheel of misfortune, survived, and got a Wolverine: Origins poster. No idea what I'll do with it, but there you go...
So the boys... Y'know, the reason we went? Having missed the panel & choosing not to do pics, we wandered the room, as I'd mentioned. Then about 10 minutes before 2pm, we headed down to get in line for Wil Wheaton's panel. Holy frak! What a line! And LONG before I got anywhere near the door, they were at SRO. I love me some Uncle Willie, but I was not about to be crammed in a room with SRO for an hour [later found out it was like 90 min long!] just to hear him speak. My claustrophobia issues were in full force. I was incredibly bummed to have missed Uncle Willie, as that was the one panel I REALLY wanted to see. *shrugs* There will be other cons. And I'll frakking know better next time that he's popular! Duh! But to drown my sorrows [and because we were all hungry], we headed over to Cheesecake Factory to waste some time before trying to do the autographs.
I'd brought along 2 of my BSG DVDs to have the guys sign, but ended up buying pics of Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas. I ended up not getting Tahmoh's autograph. I'm not sure what prompted it, but I just wasn't all excited about it. Must be my Cylon thing... *veg* So I went over to Michael Hogan first because his line was the shortest. There was a very drool-worthy shot of him and Eddie [already signed by Eddie], but I just couldn't justify $60 at the time for that shot, so bought a nice shot and got it signed. When I told Hogan my name [AJ], he said "Like AJ Juliani on the show? He plays Gaeta." I agreed and inwardly smirked at Hogan having to explain who he was talking about. I thanked him for the autograph and shook his hand and moved on. I couldn't think of anything to say. I'm really not used to getting autographs anymore when I don't have the Stuffy Guard regalia on [and having to explain why the hell I'm all dressed up like that]. My only comment? He looked so old and gaunt! I got reminded of my Grampa Zip...and just moved on.
Then I went over to stand in line for Aaron while shatterpath held my spot for Uncle Willie, as he had a HUGE line. I had my gift all ready for AD, but kept trying to hide it so no one would question me on it. *heh* Then I looked at the pics he was selling at his table and fell instantly in love with 2 shots, both from Sometimes a Great Notion [4x11]. I grabbed the shot I liked best and continued to wait. When I got up to him, the convo went something like this...
Then I went to wait in line for Uncle Willie and shatterpath put the pics in her backpack after rolling her eyes at how weird I was [and AD by extension] before she headed off to look for other things with amyrayh. While waiting in line, I got my item out to be signed and waited patiently as Wil talked to everyone that came thru. As it got to be my turn, I slid the DVD sleeve for The Secret of NIMH out of the case...
While in line for Wil, I decided I was gonna go get another pic of Aaron, one that I could put online. Plus, I had something else to tease him about... So I bought the other shot, then gave it to him... There were a couple more inside jokes that I had to tell him, and he gave me appropriate dirty responses. *smirks* And then I said I wanted to get another pic with something that I could post online.
And really? The auto from Wil? Really is probably my favorite part of the day, primarily because I got to give him the gift of a good memory from a movie not many people equate with him...and I got that great story out of it... Tho' fucking around with Aaron was quite fun, too!
I think I'm getting sick. This really fucking sucks! I haven't been suck sick all winter. The weird thing? I missed my pills this morning [multi-vitamin, claritin, herbal supplements], and I was fine. Then I took a nap because I'd gotten up at 4am for some damned fucking reason around 9ish and got up somewhere around 11-12ish and felt like fucking shit: lef ear and Eustachian tube sore, sore throat, a little stuffed up, and the back of my throat and nasal passages feel like I've been drinking bleach. I HATE this feeling. It lessens a bit when we went to King's Wok Buffet for lunch, but it's back again. Damn it!
*sucks on a Coldeez*
In other news... Bev FINALLY popped yesterday! We have like 60 new dalmation lyretail molly puppies. It took her about 3 hrs to give birth, and looks like a completely different fish now! And the babies are so fucking cute! Now we're not keeping all the babies, not really. If there are one or two really nice looking ones, we'll keep those, but these babies are going to be food for Papi. And before anyone gets their undies all up in a bundle over that, this is fucking cheaper than buying small guppies to do the same damned thing. Bluegill eat other fish, as does our turtle. End of story.
I've got a couple more stories to read before I post my vote for week 6 of lastficstanding. It was an interesting challenge this week, and all I'll say about my story is that I've finally dealt with something that has been fermenting for a long, long time... More on that Saturday or Sunday...
What else? Oh yes... For all of you who are going to say, and I know you're out there, go ahead and say "I told you so" now. *waits while you say it* Yes, shatterpath and I have finally gotten sucked wholeheartedly into the Wicked fandom. I've finished the book and The Grimmerie in the past 2 weeks now. I just need to find my copy of Son of a Witch now, so I can read that. shatterpath is on the fence about reading Wicked, simply because it's quite dark and not exactly her normal reading fare. And it appears she'll be the first one to be writing fic in this fandom, between the two of us. I really like the idea she's got, too. We'll see when I start writing for it. I've quite a few things on my plate as it is, particularly with lastficstanding on my plate.
There was something else, but I'm completely blanking atm. And my OJ tastes like icky grapefruit juice. I blame it on the Coldeeze I've been sucking on...
The long and short of it? Yeah, I'm not leaving LJ. I have backup journals at Vox and Greatest Journal, as well as being found at Friendster, BakeSpace, & the Directorium. You can also find a couple basic links for me at Fandom411.Com. GJ is primarily a backup to my LJ here.
Honestly? There are a lot of people who've said what I want to say a lot better than I can hope to, including
But I'll give it a shot to express my thoughts here... I fully realize I could lose some members of my flist over my views on this. I accept that. I don't necessarily like it, but I accept it. This is my journal, therefore what I think is tantamount in my journal.
Regarding the two pieces of fanart that were deleted and their creators' journals also deleted... While I understand where fandom is coming from, I can also see 6A/LJ's point, too. We all agreed to follow the TOS when we signed up with LJ/6A. If some didn't read the TOS, that's their own faults. You can't claim innocence based on ignorance. Now I'm not saying that's what happened in this particular instance, I'm talking in general in that respect.
So just a few notes of interest in some of my fandoms....
gacked from frogfrizz :: slashiest spoiler post/chat transcript re: BSG in a while My comment on this? It is Katee Sackhoff, and we already know that she can do pretty convincing with the lying when Ron & Dave want her to, so I'm not sure that I can believe all of this. But I'll still squee happily....
gacked from individual_68, who posted on it in bsg_femslash :: Battlestar Galactica gets even sexier Yeah, more commentary on Razor, the BSG TV movie intended to appease us while we're waiting so frakking long for the series to start up again coming out later this year... I'm really liking this whole spoiler that's been outed and all... I hope it's better than expected, because I expect that much from these people....
makelaurahappy's Second Make Laura Happy Ficathon Am considering this one. I ended up not doing the first one, simply because it was coming up due the same time that the calendar was really coming into full bore for me. Maybe I'll give this one a shot...
getyourtoaster is doing a poll to determine if there's gonna be any kind of ficathons/challenges during the hiatus...
Got caught up on my Virtual University homework this weekend. The only class of my four that I'm actually posting results for this quarter is my Navigate Deep Space with PSP 8 course. I think my favorite image so far that I've done is the cougars shot from the first week's lessons.
My other three classes are interesting. I'm taking a course on being organized. I'm learning some great tips, but there's nothing overall that I don't already know. That's okay. I'm also taking a color theory course that's quite fascinating and is kind of tying into the PSP class. My last course is on practical & easy nutrition. Am learning some great things there, but got royally bitched out by the instructor over my admitted soda addiction. Which pissed me off because I also said that I'm working to get myself off the soda as soon as I find a good caffeine substitute that isn't coffee or have aspartame in it, which was totally ignored. *rolls eyes* I'll not be taking any more courses from this particular instructor if I can help it...
Also realized when setting the pages up, I realized that I haven't done a VU class in like a year and a half! Scariness! I've missed it...
Did a massive update over at dogged_by_muses for the site... It was necessary. And I'm quite sure I've forgotten some stuff [mostly my licenseartistic pups' stuff], but I'll get it in there eventually...
Have been working on a great new granny square pattern for an afghan. It's all in red and black, alternating blocks [all red, all black, red center w/ black border, black center w/ red border]. When I get it done, I'll post up a picture.
Am looking into doing some filet crochet designs for a few projects I want to do...
Speaking of NCIS, when we were in Wal*Mart today, I was going to pick up the 3rd season box set, right? Then I saw the 4th season box set for CSI: Miami, which marks the beginnings of my lovely new studmuffin Natalia Boa Vista. Needless to say, NCIS will be waiting a little longer.... *veg*
For the writers on my flist... Announcing the Pagan Fiction Award & Anthology .. I am SO gonna do this... I'm still debating what I'm gonna write about, but I think it's gonna be a piece from the original fantasy piece shatterpath and I started 6 years ago... Anyone else gonna give it a shot?
That's pretty much the bulk of my weekend.
Tomorrow when I go into work, I'll find out the decision re: my training after missing Friday... I thought I'd have heard from my trainer by now, but I haven't...It's kinda freaking me out...
So after a horrendous bout of insomnia that had me and shatterpath up until 3 this morning, I slept in until 8. It didn't matter that I was exhausted when I got up. I needed to get myself back on some sort of schedule because of work tomorrow. I'm kind of tired now, which is a good thing, yeah?
So more was accomplished on my to do list. It's not all done, but I'm quite pleased with what's been done. The rest will be put into a new to do list for the next week.
I didn't get as much writing done as I wanted to, but I did get a lot of other things dealt with, so I'm happy. And I've gotten several new plotbunny ideas to work with. Particularly for my latest little obsession, which is Sofia Curtis/Calleigh Duquesne. I'm obsessed enough that, with 4ensicbones's badgeringinsistence coaxing, I've created calleigh_sofia. I've added my first 2 stories for the pairing over there, as well as the rules and the very first challenge.
I'm still waiting on the final poll results for the Calleigh/Natalia comm, but so far it's looking like DuVista's winning. I'm kind of bummed, as I really like Callia, but DuVista probably sounds more like the two names... *shrugs*
Got my Mix CD from haunting_love in the mail yesterday. Yay! I know some of the songs and artists, but not all, so this will be a fun new thing. Now I just have to do a CD so I can send it to her... And then post the meme for others to play...
Also got my big envelope of crochet stuff in the mail yesterday. Am anxious to see what's in it... *hee*
And now, my revised/updated to do list...
organize desk
determine where spirituality posts will be on lj
determine stories info to have in binder to take to work for breaks
print out stories info to have in binder to take to work for breaks
And may I just reiterate just how fucking HAWT Emily Procter is? Particularly when she's portraying Calleigh Duquesne? I do believe Ms. Duquesne may have a better swagger than Sofia Curtis... *swoons*
So just a quick last couple of things before I head up to bed...
First off? New default iconage... It's still my sexy Sofia, just a new hotly intense look... *hee*
Second? Anyone who's the least bit interested in Calleigh and Natalia over on CSI: Miami, could you please go over and fill out this poll for me? I'm working out some options for shatterpath & myself.
racethewind10, this means you should be filling out the poll... *g*
And before I forget... I'll be doing the update for ShatterStorm Productions/dogged_by_muses tomorrow morning before we head across the water for a few errands and possibly a trip to the aquarium.
There's one more thing we'll be posting over on dogged_by_muses in the morning, a fun thing in honor of Gabriel's 1st birthday. Yeah, the little shit's turning a year old tomorrow. There are days [today included] where I am completely stunned that he's made it to a year... *veg*
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