Shut Up, and Let Me See Your Jazz Hands

I finally finished that Watchmen minilist! For reals, it's hovered at seven fics of ten since 2010.

Also the first of my two planned femslash minis.

I think I might do a female-centric gen list? But I wanted to a female-centric list that included the Kanaya/Vriska VENGEANCE fic, so IDK. Doing both seems a bit much.

ETA: Too late! Now there's a female gen list. IDK IDK IDK.

ETA: Possibly someone might want links:

Superman Is Dead, 10 stories
I Loved Her (Sometimes She Loved Me, Too), 30 stories
Her Heart Is Hers, 15 stories

Guys, I love Opera's browser so fucking much. I CAN MAKE ANY PAGE BLACK TEXT ON WHITE BACKGROUND. I CAN USED THE ACCESSIBILITY LAYOUT OPTION TO GET BLACK TEXT ON LIGHT GREEN BACKGROUND IN A NICE ROUND FONT. IT'S NOT A WIDGET - IT'S AN OPTION ON THE PAGE MENU!

ALL OF THE HEARTS FOR THEM!

Seriously, I don't know why, but that page was KILLING me. But I need some angsty OTT Sentinel and Guide bonding shenanigans, stat, and I therefore need to be able to read that site. Or someone can link me something? Like, I tried the AO3 and came up a bunch of stuff I've already read (lots of it recently) or stuff that looked and sounded AMAZING and then went wrong somehow (it was the bad h/c, guys, where you're just looking at half of the pairing like THAT WAS CLASSIC BATTERED SPOUSE LOGIC YOU JUST USED IN YOUR INTERNAL MONOLOGUE, BLAIR. RUN, RUN WHILE YOU CAN! and I am not okay with that. Unless it's Sylar/Mohinder, shut up, I just re-read Gravity and it is still amazing and makes me cry.)

Possibly I got a little lost in there! Anyway: OPERA = THE BESTEST. SENTINELS ARE KNOWN AUS THAT AREN'T DYSTOPIAS = ALSO THE BESTEST.

I did that 100 movies meme in 2011, but typing it up is kind of a pain in the ass, so! For now, I'll just share the 10 best movies I saw (for the first time) in 2011. Best movie I rewatched? Confidence, always.

10. Made in Dagenham - Really interesting! And there is not enough YES in the world for Rita's speech to Eddie.

09. Hanna - BEAUTIFUL TRAGIC FAIRY TALE AND I NEED ALL OF THE HANNA/SOPHIE FIC IN THE WORLD FOREVER NOW.

08. What's Your Number? - It was a really fucking funny movie and I love Anna Faris and I really love the ending.

07. Scream 4 - Sidney Prescott is the MOST badass. Like, the twists kept me guessing, but it was all about Sidney for me.

06. 50/50 - I loved Adam and Kyle and Skeletor.

05. Footloose - Kenny Wormald, who plays Ren, is fucking AMAZING. The thing where he's dancing alone? FOR REAL MY FAVORITE PART OF THE MOVIE. HE WAS DANCING HIS FEELINGS AND IT WAS GREAT.

04. Fright Night - Clever protagonist + genuinely terrifying villain (who is also clever!) = A++. Also, the mom and the girlfriend ALSO got to be smart and awesome, which I enjoyed a lot. ...I maybe want some Charley/Amy/Peter fic (the thing at the end, in his apartment!).

03-02. Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached - They're really similar movies, so I'm going to talk about them, together, alright?

Sexual honesty (little to the left, brush your teeth, etc.)! Playfulness! The leads are also attracted to other people! Families and issues thereof that had nothing to do with the characters' SOs! NSA was slightly more successful at building a wider world/more three-dimensional secondary characters, but FWB took that time to do an awesome "your issues don't mean you get to be a dick to/about me" thing, so. I really liked them both!

01. Lemonade Mouth - I honestly went into this movie with really low expectations, and then it was amazing and heartwarming and legitimately MADE ME CRY. IT IS THE MOVIE THAT GAVE ME ALL OF THE FEELINGS AND EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH IT AND WRITE FIC.

Nick Stokes is such my beloved, you guys. I want all the amazing Nick-whumping stories; why aren't there more of them? THERE IS SO MUCH CANON WHUMPAGE TO WORK WITH. Oh, he is still so pretty. And nice and good at his job and basically, almost all of my CSI hearts are for Nick Stokes, with, like, three left over for early-seasons Danny Messer and one for the Vegas lab rats collectively. Thousands of hearts for Nick!

But I like Russell! And Brody. Not gonna lie, I would read the shit out of some Nick/Morgan. I am still all kinds of over Sara - the serial killer case felt like the dozenth such ep I've seen with her. I've always liked Catherine, but she's kind of bitter now, and it mostly just makes me want her to run away from here and be happy somewhere out of Vegas. Brass, pretty much the same. Ooh, I like the sheriff! Whatever her name is.

I like this season waaay better than last season, overall.

Ugh, bronchitis is horrible. This meatsuit is defective and I would like to trade it in for another model, please. Or possibly a robo-chassis.

Other fandoms have kink memes? But you basically ARE a kink meme.

(I am about to read a Harry-Snape gen fic called Flashback that was written for the Locked in a Cupboard challenge. I AM SO EXCITED. Also, I just poked a little at Catechism - clever premise and it's been recced everywhere - but I need it to get further into the comfort part of the h/c before I can deal with it. Because sometimes there IS no comfort part and I do not LIKE that.)

I am going to a haunted house tonight! I have not been to a haunted house since 2005, y'all; I am excited. I love Halloween.

I am endlessly baffled/amused at this hostess schtick I've got going with the crew from work, especially because when it comes to the attention of anyone else I've known, ever, they just go whaaaaaat. But it turns I don't really dislike cooking or baking, I just dislike doing those things alone. Also, the girls I work with are easily impressed and it's awesome. They treated a salad with apples and cranberries in it like a MAGIC TRICK.

I have two new spoon rings and I love them. I complimented a customer on hers and she said she'd have to get her friend who'd made it to come in with some sometime and then BAM. Half an hour later, they both come in with a whole tray of rings. I maybe shouldn't have spent the $40? But I'm never going to see the ring lady again and they are some badass rings.

Speaking of money I probably shouldn't spend, I think I'm going to buy a second Kindle. I love Athene? But the sheer volume of my content is apparently what's been fucking her up. I think I'd be better served by one Kindle for what I'm reading and one Kindle for what I've read. I am just rather leary of this "special offers" nonsense. For one, I hate ads on shit I've paid for. But the bigger issue is that I'm worried about it possibly slowing things down on the home screen and that is already legitimately one of my biggest problems with the Kindle. Does anyone have one of the special offers Kindles?

Oh, Sacrifices Arc. I still love you best of all.

Sometimes the only thing I want to post is an open letter to fandom, and all it says is, I am here, and I am in love. Sometimes I am too happy for anything more articulate than that and sometimes I am too busy kicking myself upwards to feel more than that, but that's the one thing that doesn't change. I'm frustrated by you; I want nothing more than to immerse myself in you; I cannot engage with you even if I want to (and sometimes I don't); I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. When I'm happy you make me happier. When I'm sad you're the driftwood I cling to in between crying jags. You distract me when I wake up shaking from nightmares. You comfort me when I literally can't make it through two days at work without hearing something homophobic/racist/misogynist. You make me stay up far too late, because I can't bear to leave even to sleep. You make me smile and enjoy my dinner alone, because an all-you-can-eat buffet, a Kindle, and two hours to kill absolutely beat a date. You turn me on. You make me pity everyone I know who will never have this community or see this archive or read this story or understand this entire language of love we've built together.

Or at least in "tearing out hair". THIS WAS SUCH A STUPID FUCKING PLAN. Like, at this point I will be turning in the shittiest rough drafts ever and then just editing like a madwoman for the next month. Which I guess will work? But is extremely personally disappointing. Also, I really hope y'all want to read some Homestuck, because I am currently in love with Rose Lalonde (knitting! irony! horrorterrors! teenage interspecies lesbian shenanigans!).

This is my computer.

(I just wanted a picture? And now I'm kind of boggling at that price. Like, they've upgraded the RAM and the graphics card from what I've got, but, uh. I got mine for $75. And it came with monitor/speakers/keyboard/mouse/wireless mouse/some specialized software (if I ever need the Oracle Developer Suite, I apparently have it? but I have no idea what most of these programs do). Once again, Western Farmers is the BEST WORKPLACE EVER, oh my god.)

I am apparently going to need to crack it open tonight to see if I need DDR1 or DDR2 RAM and I am so not looking forward to it. That thing weighs like 60 pounds.

Because if so, you should go read MajaLi's fic right now.

Sugar daddy!Harvey = WHAT I NEVER KNEW I ALWAYS WANTED. And then the D/s fic posted this morning! Wait, that's not enough - !!! !!

In conclusion, I ♥ her.

I just posted something to the AO3 and I feel weird about apparently being the first to use four of the eight tags I needed. I also feel weird about posting stuff to the AO3 that I wrote five years ago.

And hey! I don't need help right now, but in four-six weeks, I will be desperate for someone to help me tag-wrangle at least one of my big bangs. The femslash one's going to have character, relationship, fandom, and (SO MANY TYPES OF) content tags. notwellbehaved had one less category than that and still made me want to cry tears of blood when it was the day before posting and, for example, I was having to check certain pairing tags story-by-story to make sure I added all of the "content: significant age difference"s I needed. The official big bang I might still get an official beta, but the second one definietly isn't eligible for the challenge support structure.

Any volunteers?