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I want to write. Like, I have this desperate feeling that I REALLY WANT TO BE WRITING RIGHT NOW.

But I have no inspiration.

There are bits and pieces of a couple fics floating around in my head (all Avengers, as if this is any surprise to anybody right now), a little, but I can't really write those. I want to, but I don't think I can get the character voices right.

Also, I have a massive problem when I try to write: fic doesn't come to me in WORDS. What I get is flashes of images: a character dancing, two people sitting in a car talking, stuff like that. It rarely comes in words. And so even when I'm feeling inspired, it's hard to translate from the image on my head to words on a screen.

And it's just...very frustrating. Because I want to write, I really do. My fingers are all "I need to be typing right now, make me write something!" (No, I don't really know, I just have this need to type. I don't understand it either.)

On top of the two fics that I might eventually actually get around to writing, I've got another random bunny that was totally inspired by a song I recently listened to, and it's something that I would love to see, but I think it's going to involve PLOT, which is something I'm not great at. I'm decent at, like...little scenes and stuff, but not really good at things that might have plot involving more than a few scenes at most. (I've got another fic that I've actually started writing, that's Warehouse 13/Eureka, that's going to be long and plotty and full of FEELINGS and I have no idea if or how it's ever going to get done. Because PLOT. And lots of serious emotions. Oh, and a baby. WHY do I do these things to myself?)

Um. And I still want ALL THE AVENGERS AUs too. And people are making pretty graphics but nobody seems to actually be writing them? Which makes me desperately wish I could do actual art, because I'd totally have done some AU art for the RBB.

Because seriously, AUs I want include:
-fantasy (DRAGON!COULSON. 'nuff said.)
-the 1940s/film noir/private eye one (I have a THING about fedoras and pinstripes, and also these pictures happened)
-rock band (unf, pretty people with guitars)
-Victorian
-Whatever era it's called that Downton Abbey is set in (period dramas are awesome, okay?)
-a jazz age one would be pretty awesome too. (Tony Stark in a speakeasy. C'mon.)
-STEAMPUNK oh my god. I want everything to be steampunk all the time.
-Pirates!
-zombie apocalypse (because every fandom needs their own zombie apocalypse AU)
-cop drama (I love me some cop drama)
-Western
-always more high school/college AUs, because those are always ALWAYS a good thing
-also always more coffee shop/bakery AUs
-ETA: And also a fusion of Avengers and Warehouse 13, except set at Warehouse 12, where the Avengers are agents and work with HG Wells, because that would be kind of cool. Also, Tony Stark in the Warehouse.

These are things I cannot write. (Please let me know if anybody has written any of these already? Because if they have, I desperately wish to read them. CRAVING good fic, particularly longfic, right now. It helps, a bit, with the part where I want to write.)

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Whee

[Mar. 18th, 2012|08:14 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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fandom: eureka, fandom: star trek, fandom: warehouse 13, sophie, writing

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Episodes of Voyager watched today: 10 and counting. Probably fit in another 1 or 2 before bed tonight. (Because I'd rewatched season 1 a short while ago, this means I'm currently on episode 2x19, having just started the season 2 rewatch last night) I'd forgotten how much I love this show. And how much I really like the Doctor. And how much I just want to slap Neelix sometimes (jealousy is so unbecoming, and I find it terribly irritating). One beef with it, though: SPACE HAS THREE DIMENSIONS. COUNT THEM: THREE. So if you're, for example, surrounded by a "ring" of some sort of anomaly, GO UP. GO DOWN. YOU DON'T HAVE TO JUST BARREL STRAIGHT THROUGH THE DAMNED THING. *facepalm*

Also, I would like more Tom-and-Harry scenes (because GODDAMMIT I SLASH THEM, GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH).

Also managed to get the recycling taken out, dishes done, laundry done, and got my lab notebook all caught up (I was like...3 days behind?)

On top of that, I've written another 350 or so words today on the WH13/Eureka fic that's been sitting on my desktop staring at me for ages. The idea for it is eating my brain, but I have a lot of trouble actually getting words out. This fic promises to be potentially VERY LONG, and full of tension and emotion and angst...and none of those things are things I'm good at writing! Fic currently stands at almost 600 words, and I'm not even to the end of what's probably going to be the first chapter. This fic threw itself at me shortly after I'd finished watching Eureka S4, and it's going to be all twisty and tension-y and I just want to TALK ABOUT IT FOREVER but that won't get it written (though it might help inspire me as to where it needs to go?). It's an idea I'm very excited about, but I know already that the actual writing of it is going to give me trouble. At least I have a general idea of some of the scenes that need writing, it'll just be an issue of getting the words pounded out.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll ever be able to write that Ryan/Esposito fic idea that came to me the other night. I posted it as a prompt at the ficondemand comm over at Dreamwidth, in the hopes that maybe somebody over there would be able to write it.

Guh. I'm rambling. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that it's very quiet over here and I kind of just want to talk to people. THIS IS A CRY FOR ATTENTION. XD

To conclude, have a picture of my cat:

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Fic and a graphic

[Oct. 9th, 2011|04:17 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: haley jordan, fandom: criminal minds, fandom: st trinian's, fanfic, graphics: picspam, writing

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Created for the

crimeland crossover challenge, a fic and a graphic.

Title: Revelation
Fandoms: St. Trinian's/Criminal Minds
Characters/pairings: gen. Polly, Kelly, Prentiss.
Rating: G
Word count: 265
Warnings: SPOILERS for Criminal Minds 6x18 and possibly 7x01
Summary: The girls don’t let on immediately that they know who she is.
Author's notes: Written for the crossover challenge at

crimeland. A sequel to "Introducing Miss Haley Jordan," and might not make much sense without having read it first.

And a graphic, under the cut as it's a bit big-ish.

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New TV show: Fae

[Aug. 22nd, 2011|12:27 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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memes, project: fae, surrender!meme, writing

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Inspired by the

isurrendered meme, and completed for the Create-a-Show challenge at

tvrealm, I bring you Fae, formerly known as the "GODDAMN FAIRIES" folder on my computer. XD

Warning: image-heavy.

Name: Fae
Type: hour-long drama on BBC2
Synopsis: The realm of the faeries is always ruled by a queen. Lately, however, there have been a few upsets in the rule over the faerie realm. First, long-standing queen Sybil was overthrown and exiled by her daughter Brigit; after Brigit ruled for 20 years, she was in turn overthrown and exiled by a former member of her court, Adelaide. Brigit and her children have been exiled to a human city – the same one, in fact, where Brigit sent her own mother 20 years ago. Now, they’re forced to live together, re-learning how to get along with each other while plotting ways to get back their family’s rightful throne. The show focuses on the daily lives of both Brigit’s family, learning to make their ways masquerading as humans in the city, and Adelaide’s family and court, getting accustomed to being in control and fighting to keep the throne they have won.
Opening theme: In Caelum Fero by Karl Jenkins

Bonus inspirational pictures!

(The first show I wrote is here, if anyone cares.)

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Fic: Somehow, This is All Hardison's Fault

[Jul. 4th, 2011|07:58 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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fandom: firefly, fandom: leverage, fanfic, writing

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Wrote a fic for

tvrealm. Challenge was we had to take one character and put him/her in a different fandom. This is what happened.

Fic Title: Somehow, This is All Hardison’s Fault
Fandoms: Firefly/Leverage
Wordcount: 555
Warning/Spoilers: none
Summary: Eliot winds up somewhere he wasn't expecting.

This may, in fact, end up as a prologue to a longer fic, because I think I might want to explore this 'verse a little more. Maybe.

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Fic: The Robot's Drunk Again

[Jun. 11th, 2011|10:21 am]

Jennie the Looney

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fandom: late late show with craigyferg, fanfic, writing

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Title: The Robot’s Drunk Again
Fandom: Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Characters: Geoff Peterson, Wavy Rancheros, Sid the Cussing Bunny
Word count: 270
Rating: R for language (Sid is called the cussing bunny for a reason)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Summary: Geoff gets drunk, things get silly.
Author's Note: Written for the "Drunk Dial Fic" challenge at

tvrealm. Unbeta'd, and very silly.

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FIC

[Apr. 25th, 2011|09:32 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: haley jordan, fandom: criminal minds, fandom: st trinian's, fanfic, writing

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Title: Introducing Miss Haley Jordan
Fandoms: St. Trinian's/Criminal Minds
Characters/pairings: gen. Most of the St Trinian's girls from both 2007 and 2009 films, Emily Prentiss
Rating: G
Word count: 944
Warnings: SPOILERS for Criminal Minds 6x18
Summary: St. Trinian's has a new teacher. This one's not quite like some of the new teachers they've had in the past.
Author's notes: written for the Crossover challenge at

fandomverse. Takes place loosely within the Chosen & Defined ‘verse.

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MEME TIME

[Feb. 18th, 2011|07:35 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: instead of my saints, fandom: bones, fandom: criminal minds, fandom: csi:ny, fandom: numb3rs, fanfic, memes, writing

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Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

And I'm adding commentary to some of these, just because.

All from me and

language_escapes's CM kid!verse

In Which Hotch Moves In
--Half-finished. I hate writing dialogue, but chose to base an entire fic around a phone conversation. WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO?
In Which JJ develops a fear of dogs
--This one kinda got absorbed into another fic, but I didn't delete it.
In Which Reid Has a Nightmare
In Which Rossi Attempts to Bind
--This is about the only one that seems to be going anywhere at the moment. By which I mean, I wrote a few sentences on it when I went home for Christmas.
In Which something happens with a title
--Yeah. I know. But I like the title idea, just don't know what sort of fic might go with it. (Incidentally, the title is pulling hope from your pocket)
In Which We See Five Birthday Presents that Weren't Expected
--One section of this turned into a full fic of its own. It's called All Hallows. I have one paragraph of #1, and #3-5 are just vague ideas.

If anyone was curious, I use this naming system because I don't keep my WIPs in a separate folder from completed projects, so this keeps them all together and easily findable, and then I change the file names when I finish the fic and have a title for it.

Okay, so. I just realized I've got other WIPs in other folders too. (I organize all the shit on my computer by fandom, as opposed to keeping all my writing in one place or anything)

Bones, Zack/Hodgins
untitled Zack fic
--This one is...a sentence and a half long.

Criminal Minds/Numb3rs
Reid Charlie fic
--3 sentences long. In a subfolder of my CM folder entitled "Other fic shit," to keep it separate from my main CM 'verse.

CSI:NY, all Danny/Flack
WIP - fight
WIP - MI part 2
--A sequel to a fic I wrote a LONG time ago. Mission: Impossible
WIP - poker

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Instead of My Saints Masterpost

[Jan. 5th, 2011|08:35 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: instead of my saints, fandom: criminal minds, fanfic, kp, stuff for kirsten, writing

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Okay, so. Instead of My Saints is a fanfiction universe I'm working on with

language_escapes. . It is in no way finished, I just wanted to post my bits of it here. Eventually, when we feel it's ready, it has its own community where everything will go, in sort of chronological order.

A note on the timeline: We've made Hotch, Gideon, and Rossi much older than they are in canon; the other characters are approximately the same ages. (i.e. the younger characters' birthdates are in the 1970s, pretty much like the actors, while the older characters were born in the 1930s/40s, suitable for being parent-aged. Essentially, the ages that Hotch, Gideon, and Rossi look in the series are the ages they are while the younger characters are teenagers)

Additional note: While Hotch and Gideon (and later Hotch and Rossi) are effectively the parents of these children, they are not in a romantic/sexual relationship.

For now, here's what I've posted:

outside the gates of eden - set in 1977
the shield and the sun - set in 1979
All Hallows - set in 1985
Four Things about Three People (and a Train) - various time periods

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fic: Four Things about Three People (and a Train)

[Jan. 5th, 2011|08:25 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: instead of my saints, fandom: criminal minds, fanfic, stuff for kirsten, writing

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Title: Four Things about Three People (and a Train)
Fandom: Criminal Minds
'Verse: Instead of My Saints
Characters/pairing: Emily, Spencer, JJ, Hotch
Rating: PG
Summary: Random character moments
Warnings: none
Author's notes: Unbeta'ed.

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Fic: the shield and the sun

[Jan. 5th, 2011|08:20 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: instead of my saints, fandom: criminal minds, fanfic, stuff for kirsten, writing

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Title: the shield and the sun
Fandom: Criminal Minds
'Verse: Instead of My Saints
Characters/pairing: Hotch, Gideon, Derek, Penelope, JJ, Erin Strauss
Rating: G
Summary: Gideon and Hotch go to the foster center to bring home Derek. Penelope comes too.
Warnings: none

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fic: outside the gates of eden

[Jan. 5th, 2011|08:15 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: instead of my saints, fandom: criminal minds, fanfic, stuff for kirsten, writing

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Title: outside the gates of eden
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters/pairing: Hotch and Gideon, gen
Rating: PG
Summary: Jason and Hotch have had a very bad day.
Warnings: some alcohol abuse
Author's notes: an early installment of my joint project with language_escapes. In our universe, Hotch stayed a lawyer instead of working for the BAU.

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Fic for Underground

[Nov. 16th, 2010|09:05 pm]

Jennie the Looney

[	Tags	\|	fanfic, original fiction, project: underground, stuff for kirsten, surrender!meme, writing	]
[	mood	\|	creative	]

Um. So. That massive thing I posted the other day? Yeah, I wrote fic for it too. Before the project itself was actually complete.

Have some fic.

Title: Earl Grey
Show: Underground
Characters: David Murphy, Andrew Langston
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 966
Warnings: angst, alcoholism
A/N: Takes place about 12 years before the beginning of the show. Welcome to my head!canon. (Does it count as head!canon or actual!canon if I'm the one who came up with the show in the first place? I'm so confused)

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Writing project: UNDERGROUND

[Nov. 12th, 2010|11:08 pm]

Jennie the Looney

[	Tags	\|	project: underground, stuff for kirsten, surrender!meme, writing	]
[	mood	\|	accomplished	]

So. I discovered

isurrendered in...February. Never actually got prompted, just really enjoyed reading the things people posted.

Then my brain decided to throw an entire tv show idea at me. So. I wrote a show. Only took me 9 months (oh god, please no jokes about this show being my "baby," really), but I finally managed to finish the blasted thing!
(We'll not talk about the second one, that I have tons of casting for but no real plot to speak of, that came to me in September or so.)

Many, many thanks go to

language_escapes, for listening to me complain about how the characters wouldn't talk to me, critiquing ideas and suggesting some of her own, and generally being awesome in the ways of creativity.

So, without further ado.

The Meme:
1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal (and/or to

isurrendered)

The Show:
Title: Underground

Type: hour-long ensemble drama/comedy/spy show. Short first season 1 of 13 episodes; 22 episodes in season 2. The jury is still out as to whether it will be renewed for a third season.

Synopsis: When ex-MI-5-operative-turned-English-professor David Murphy (Stephen Fry) finds out that Christine de Winter (Christina Hendricks), a brilliant, young, successful CEO, has dreams of world domination, what’s he to do? He can’t stop her on his own, so with the help of rich fellow Brit Andrew Langston (Hugh Laurie), he assembles a team of top students from his university to try to stop her. The students, all from different walks of life as well as different disciplines, must put aside their differences to prevent what looks like it could be a hostile takeover.

Opening theme: Instrumental remix-type thing of Within Temptation "Dark Wings"

Closing theme: Instrumental track from Counting Crows "A Murder of One"

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A fic

[Oct. 31st, 2010|07:53 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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'verse: instead of my saints, fandom: criminal minds, fanfic, kp, stuff for kirsten, writing

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That I really thought I'd posted somewhere before. But. Halloween fic.

Title: All Hallows
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Characters/pairing: Gen, Reid-centric
Rating: G
Summary: Halloween at the Hotchner household
Warnings: none
Author's notes: Part of a fic universe

language_escapes and I have been working on for a while, the premise of which is that all the younger team members are foster kids being raised by Hotch and Gideon (or, later, Rossi). We haven't actually posted anything from this 'verse before, but I felt like today was a good time to post this one. Originally a birthday fic for

language_escapes.

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Fandom rambles!

[Dec. 17th, 2008|04:33 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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fandom: csi:ny, fanfic, slash, writing

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So. Welcome to Jennie's new custom friends group for fandom rambling. Because I'm too lazy to make a separate journal just for fandom stuff. And I'm pretty sure most of the people on my friends list don't want to see all my fandom crap. So here you are.

And for my first order of business, I may as well start off with posting the two fanfics I wrote a month or so ago.

Title: Mission: Impossible
Author:

uberniftacular
Fandom: CSI:NY
Pairings: Danny/Flack
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 820
Warnings: none
Summary: Danny can’t avoid Flack forever.
Disclaimer: Characters don't belong to me. Unfortunately.

The first fanfiction I ever wrote (well, besides an utterly terrifying attempt at a Drew Carey Show fic involving shameless self-insertion that I wrote...well, probably in middle school. And that would best be left forgotten. *shudder*). There is theoretically going to be a sequel to this, but it's not coming along very quickly. It's been about half-written for a month or so...it's 1500 words already, and I just can't seem to come up with the inspiration to finish it.

Title: Heat
Author:

uberniftacular
Beta: My lovely fiancé,

darkpoet1987
Fandom: CSI:NY
Pairings: Danny/Flack
Rating: R
Wordcount: 265
Warnings: Sex, but nothing particularly graphic
Summary: Danny and Flack run off some steam after a long week at work.

A completely different style, kind of experimental.

I have plans for like...4 or 5 other fics in this fandom that I just haven't been able to write yet. They may or may not ever actually happen.

Guess that's all the fandom rambles I've got for now.

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Quasi-backstory thingy for the upcoming Victorian campaign

[Jul. 6th, 2008|10:17 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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Though she had only been in this world for 18 years, Eponine Thénardier had seen more life in that time than some people three times her age. A childhood of privilege and an adolescence of poverty. Unrequited love. Revolution. And after all that life, she needed to get out of Paris. During the revolution, she had placed herself in the path of a gunshot to save the life of the man she loved, and almost lost her own in the process. The gunshot wound had almost killed her, but she was one of the lucky ones. She had managed to drag herself out of harm’s way for the rest of the fighting, and was taken to a hospital when it was all over. And during her recovery, Eponine made her decision: she was leaving Paris, possibly even all of France, as soon as she could. The minute she was released from the hospital, Eponine set out to find a way to leave. Exiting the city proper was easily accomplished, but it did little to ease her troubled soul, so she just kept walking, hitching rides and begging food wherever she could. Eventually her trek brought her, shivering and hungry, through Normandy to the coast. She was so thin and small that there was little difficulty in posing as a boy, gaining passage on a ship to England in exchange for doing cabin-boy work.

Once in England, the obvious choice was to head towards London. Perhaps there, Eponine could find some work, and maybe even some peace of mind. The streets of London were little different from the streets of Paris…cold and dirty, perhaps a bit wetter than in Paris. Luckily, she knew enough English that, after a brief encounter with a young man by the name of Jack Dawkins, who taught her to pick pockets, she managed to secure a position as a barmaid in a London pub. It wasn’t classy, but it was work. And that was just what she needed, if she was to bury her past and begin anew.

Yeah, really not that great, but more intended to give Nick something to work off from when he's writing his teaser things than as real backstory.

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[Apr. 28th, 2008|10:51 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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Last night I had a burst of inspiration and came up with a backstory one-shot for my new D&D character...and tonight I had another burst of inspiration that enabled me to actually write it down. Here goes, have fun...

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[Jan. 5th, 2007|10:50 pm]

Jennie the Looney

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holy crap I actually finished writing a story. I'm amazed.

...not gonna post it here right now though, cuz only a few people that read my LJ will actually understand what I'm trying to accomplish here (character backstories work like that, lol, that whole not making sense unless you know the character already...thing)

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