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January 18th, 2008
Uh, I have a new default icon! Dean Winchester looking down was my icon since I first got into SPN (so uh, since March, omg):
But much as I love him, it was sort of time for a new one. So, pretty, colorful 
unamaga icon!
No one will recognize me on the internet EVER NOW, will they, Ash? Ahaha.
Anyway, I am currently working on four different things in three different fandoms. Er, two fandoms and an original TV show, I guess I should say. (The last of which is a BOARDING SCHOOL STORY, and I am in love with every single character on it, and yes, it might never see the light of day, but WHATEVER, IT ROCKS, THE END.) For ages I only ever worked on one story at once, and now I am more-or-less actively working on FOUR. Two J2, one McShep (which walkawayslowly and I keep calling McSheep, because we are ridiculous, and it cracks us up) and the TV show, not even counting the at least . . . four? five? other stories that are in progress or in some state of revision, and wow, I didn't it was possible to love this many stories and this many characters THIS MUCH all at once. Does anybody else feel that way? Like, just sort of FULL OF LOVE for a whole big bunch of characters or different permutations of characters, and incapable of choosing which ones you love the most at any given time because they are all that awesome? Yeah.
I think I had something more to say, but instead I think I am going to go hang out with McKay and Sheppard. Or maybe the Never Been Kissed Js. Or maybe the TOTALLY AWESOME Js from 
memphis86's and my crackfic. I can't decide! But whichever ones I pick, I know it'll be so much fun, and that is a pretty amazing thing.
she's calling brooklyn home and living life alone
January 14th, 2008
I did it! I signed up for 
spn_j2_bigbang along with everyone and their mother. I've only looked at the first page or so of comments, but it looks like a lot of people are writing J2 this year. I sort of want to go back and sign up for SPN instead, just to be difficult, but I'm not doing it, because I already know exactly what I'm writing: lingering in the golden gleam sequel fic!
Uh, sorry if that kind of kills the point of the anonymous title-and-summary-posting in May? I'm the kid writing the "Jensen is gay and on Broadway and Jared is a big-shot actor who just got back from spending a month or so in an alternate universe where he was married to Jensen and had kids and now they are actually getting together in the real world" not!AU. Surprise!
I'm not going to be creating a Big Bang filter or anything like that, because come on now, fics that are upwards of 20K and I? We are tight. So I'm just kind of . . . not going to be talking about my Big Bang ahead of time, other than how I just told you what it is. If you're super curious about how it's going or something, you're welcome to ping me.
Oh! Speaking of fic, I posted some last night!
The World Gone Still
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 4,083 words | written for spn_apocasmut
Dean could have stopped this thing if he'd been a little faster, a little less weak—but on the last day of Dean's year, when Sam shakes him awake at 3:30 in the morning and says he's figured it out, Dean finds himself incapable of forming the word 'no'.
It's a kind of an oddball fic for me, I'll be the first to say. I'm usually the one who needs to spell out EVERYTHING EVER, and I kind of tried to . . . not do that here. Anyway, I hadn't written Sam and Dean in ages! It was sort of fun to go back to them.
And now, back to cowriting Never Been Kissed J2 AUs with setissma and writing marry-or-die McShep for Ash and Crystal AND MERRIN, those pushy bitches. ♥
random question and a beta request
December 26th, 2007
I'm going to ahead and post this now, so that I will really have to finish this story tonight:
Who wants to beta approximately 20K of The Family Man J2?
(20K give or take ~1K -- and if I know anything about my own writing, it's that 'give' is more likely than 'take'. Sigh.) I'd especially love it if I could get a beta who isn't familiar with the movie The Family Man, because even though the fic deviates pretty far from the movie (and not just in the "Jared Padalecki is nine billion times hotter than Nicholas Cage" way), I still pulled the basic plot from there and I'm a little worried I might have left out a key plot point or something because it existed in the movie and in my brain but not actually on the page, y'know?
So anyway!
Also, speaking of word counts, a random question. I'm specifically thinking of this because of Yuletide, but I've noticed it a few other places: When people in SPN fandom (including me) post word counts, they say things like '20K' and it means 'twenty thousand words'. On the Yuletide website, though, and some other places (like Intersections by kaneko, which is pre-series SGA Antarctica McShep and like eighty BILLION kinds of amazingsauce and if you care about SGA at all you should go over there and read it right now, shoo! Huh, accidental recs post! \o/) the length is listed as, for example, '157K' (in the case of Intersections) -- but then I actually C&Ped it into Word and it was more like, 24,475 words. So does the 157K correspond to file size, IQ needed to understand the story completely, the author's address, the number of moles on the author's back, what? Someone smarter than me, explain!