Argh, sorry

[circ_bamboo]

It's been a while since I updated, but I am not, in fact, dead.

So!

• I turned in my marvel_bang with 25,000 words and then finished the actual first draft with 29,500. It's . . . I mean, it's done? But I might have some macrostructure issues. We'll see.


• feels_like_fire and I finished Whoever Fights Monsters, technically the sequel to her Slow Dancing in a Burning Room but sort of a standalone, a White Collar/James Bond (OOQ) crossover. It's over 107,000 words long, which, holy shit. And of course we've already started planning for part III. Of course.


• I'm staring at two things right now (most others have sort of fallen off the radar at the moment; yeah, I know): my avengersfest assignment, and a quasi-original-fic sort of thing. With the latter I'm desperately trying to get rid of the endemic racism in a world where there are elves and vampires and werewolves, but only since the '60s or something. (Yeah, I'm doing the crappiest worldbuilding ever. I do not care at all.)


• Related to that, feels_like_fire and I are celebrating what we're calling TROPEFEST 2013: write whatever the hell you want and worry about how many tropes it's falling into later. Anyone who wants to join is free to! I'd have banners and icons but I'm terrrrrible with that sort of thing.


• The kitten (who is almost three, by the way) has been eating cookies out of the cupboard. Even though we put a rubber band across the handles so she shouldn't be able to get in. That doesn't seem to stop her. *sigh*


• I survived my parents visiting. The highlights had to be when my mom told me that it was worse to be fat than racist, and my dad told me that he was absolutely sure that the government invented the rape charges against Julian Assange because it would be an easy way of discrediting him. I got really mad about both and my parents, of course, told me that I was getting mad for no reason and also I was wrong if I believed any other way. Sometimes I do not like them very much. *sigh*


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[igrockspock.livejournal.com]

I think you need to set up a video camera so we can all see how your cat is removing the rubber bands from the cabinet doors and eating your cookies. Think of the youtube hits!

Congratulations on surviving the parental visit! Parents are extremely weird. It's fortunate you had plenty of alcohol to help you cope.

My dad and stepmom are throwing me an engagement party. On the one hand, that's incredibly sweet. On the other hand, my stepmom is a not-so-closet racist who thinks Muslims are killing people by poisoning salad bars. My mom has an alcohol problem and hates my stepmom. My fiance's aunt is a super opinionated liberal who probably doesn't know that non-interference is the prime directive, and it's better not to talk to my mom about alcohol, or to my stepmom about Mexicans or Muslims. All of these people are going to be in a room together, which could be glorious or horrible. Either way, I plan to drink a lot.

Nice to see you around again!