Here's the (writing) plan for the rest of the year (HOLY SHIT WHERE DID 2011 GO?):

• Finish hp_zombiefest - due Sept30 BLAH should be done soon though
  
• Finish interhouse_fest - due Oct25 (halfway through!)
  
• Plot out and finish smutty_claus - due Nov22
  
• Write that fic for ccharlotte - let's say it's due Dec31
  
• Drabbles for the flist for December

I did holiday drabbles once-- alllllll the way back in 2004. SEVEN YEARS AGO. Jesus. I can't believe I'm still friends with some of you from there! :| :D

Anyway in celebration of friends old and new (*waves to all the new friends*) I figured it was time to do this again.

The rules:

1. Comment with at least three characters or ships.
   
2. Add a selection of prompts for each.

And that's it. All ships are welcome-- I'm tempted to say the rarer the better, but some of you might see that as a challenge. :| Harry Potter is my preferred fandom, but I am willing to take on the following as well (with the warning that I've never actually written anything for these so apologies if I don't get any of their voices right):
* Criminal Minds
* Doctor Who (new series only)
* Feed, Deadline, that universe in general
* GoT (still slogging through the second book, sorry)
* Gossip Girl
* Hockey (gen only)
* How I Met Your Mother
* Sherlock (BBC)

Plus, IDK, anything that I may be familiar with. If in doubt, just add Harry Potter prompts and the fandoms/ships/etc that you like and I'll see what I can do for you. :D

Anyway I know it's only September but I'm planning on not writing much (or at all) in November and I figured I should get a head start on this ASAP. Also September is a -ber month. TOTALLY holiday season tiemz already. ♥

but asking the flist is so much more fun!

SO! Based on a conversation I'm having with ccharlotte, I would like to know what you--yes, you--would do if the person you are currently seeing (or the last one you were seeing, or someone you would like to be seeing, or the cashier you were flirting with at the store today) ~magically~ switched genders.

• How long have you been seeing this person?
  
• Would you keep seeing this person?
  
• Will the relationship stay romantic, sexual, both, or platonic?
  
• Do you identify as straight, gay, bisexual, asexual, or something else?

Speaking of gender switching-- is this something that, like, could ~hypothetically~ happen in the Harry Potter universe? In Tales of Beedle the Bard, it's mentioned that Transfiguring a person into an animal is not the same as becoming an Animagus, because Transfiguration makes the object of the spell lose his/her consciousness while an Animagus retains it. So if you can Transfigure a living person into a living being, does that not then mean that you can Transfigure a living person into another living person? (Which, incidentally, renders Polyjuice moot, unless the potion is somehow easier to do or something.)

And really, now that I think about it, this goes into two different discussions, doesn't it?

( A. If Transfiguring people into people works, then... )

( B. If there is some sort of ~rule~ rendering that theory an impossibility... )

God, Jo. I would really love it if you were more meticulous with how your universe worked, but that would take all the fun out of writing fics, wouldn't it?

If you've been living under a rock, you should probably know that LJ has laid off a lot of people, and basically, people are either saying it's the end of LJ or that people are just getting spooked all over again.

The funny thing is, it's actually GJ that bit the dust. :|

Well, whatever, I would rather just make sure I've got my LJ backed up properly. So I remembered my password for insanejournal (username, by the by, is also slumber, which is also my handle in journalfen), and now I am shopping around for a good back-up program. I'm using a Mac, and I'd prefer it if the program also imported comments from the entries.

Flist, any good ideas/suggestions?

ETA: I have started friending some of you on IJ, which I did oh-so-systematically by friending one person I knew in IJ, and from that person's flist, looking at who else I knew, and from there, well, you get it. :| Haven't backed my LJ up there yet, but yes. You may also leave your IJ/JF username here and I'll get to friending.

whatever holiday it is that you celebrate. ♥

So the Terminus bug has sort of stayed, and tomorrow I'm going on a road trip with alaana_fair, dramedy, and scarlet_malfoy to mijan and fiona_fawkes' for a fandom slumber party. Of the Midwest variety. Oh, fandom. ♥

I am giving away this shirt to one person on my flist.

It is from 200 Nipples, a site that sells only 100 designs of a shirt ever (and prices them each from $1 to $100-- I got this for $26), and as their description goes:

This is for the people who think, “It’s my own spit in that ocean, dammit, and if you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain. I’m headed for the polls!”

Yes, it is free. Yes, it is random. Yes, I'm shipping it for free, too. No, I wasn't asked to do this by anyone else. It's a slow day in the office, I got bored. And yes, there are strings attached:

• You must comment with an election-themed haiku;
  
• You should be female (as the shirt has been ordered for the female figure);
  
• Keep in mind the shirt was bought in size medium;
  
• You've got to be an American citizen (unless there's a way you can spin this so it's ironic that you're wearing a shirt despite not being American);
  
• You should have actually voted for this election (and prove it, too, unless you're the ironic non-American)

This shirt ships out on November 12, so I'll leave this post open for whoever wants to comment til then.

When you see this, post another Supernatural quote in your LJ. Let's see how long this can go on.

Dean Winchester: I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.




I don't even watch the show, and now. Dean sounds really really funny. :|

I bet you are--so let me help you!

This is a logic puzzle challenge thing that I picked up from random-LJ-surfing. It apparently consumes your life until you solve it. Time yourself for fun! :|

The rules are in Japanese Chinese, but I picked up a nifty translation too!

• Everybody has to cross the river
  
• Only 2 people on the raft at a time
  
• The father cannot stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence.
  
• The mother cannot stay with any of the sons without their father's presence.
  
• The thief cannot stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there.
  
• Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
  
• To start, click on the big blue circle on the right.
  
• To move the people, click on them.
  
• To move the raft, click on the poles on the opposite sides of the river.

I finished in about fifteen minutes, but mostly did it through trial and error. This time of night is no time for logic, obviously.

1. A Public Service Announcement:
   
   Mac Users: You may want to be warned about a sort of trojan spreading around designed particularly for Quicktime users. (Though it isn't really the point of the article to which I just linked you, really. :|)
   
   
2. A Question
   
   I joined a holiday card exchange community and one of the occasions we're asked to write cards about is the Winter Solstice, or Yule.
   
   And I have no idea what sort of greetings are used for it. :| (On that note, coming from a country with primarily one religion in one area and a different one in another, I don't actually know much about Jews either.) The rest (like dates and stuff) I'm sure I can google, but if any of you do know more about this please to be telling me any special rituals or events regarding Winter Solstice?
   
   
3. The Christmas Card Thingy
   
   Guys, I've already bought the cards, but I realised it would be SO much cooler if I did it another way, as inspired by the comm I previously mentioned.
   
   If you trust me not to stalk you, please do leave me your address in a comment (I'm screening them, don't worry), along with characters you'd want to receive christmas card/greetings from, and I shall attempt to be in character for you. :| or something. maybe i'll just send you regular christmas cards. :| but you know. in case this is a good idea. :D (I DO have a seal that I've been dying to use since I bought it in Denmark, if I can only find it now. :|)
   
   Also, my address can be found here. I think it's been arbitrarily filtered so if you can't see it but want to send me a card as well then comment and I'll add you to the filter. (S'the problem with those things--you set them up once and then forget to add people to them. :|)

ETA: If I have your address, and I may or may not have lost it, depending, I'll likely send you something still. :|

Clearly, I should never be given whipped cream for dinner. Or autumn brings out the craΩ--OH MY GOD I JUST MADE AN OHM. *IS AWESOME*--zy in me. :|

Anyway, today I seriously feared for my life, when an UNKNOWN BOX from an UNKNOWN ADDRESS was delivered to ME.


Dell? I did not order anything from Dell. I have a Mac! Who could this box be FROM?
Dun dun dun DUN.

I tell Line and Hetty that if someone hated me, and planted a bomb to send to me, to be activated as soon as I opened the box, then they'd know what happened.


Strange, though. No BOOM. And plenty of.. newspaper? Someone sent me NEWSPAPER.


Oh, no, wait. Not newspaper after all!


Could it be? Why, yes, it could! It's shamelessly obnoxious 90s memorabilia!

(In other news, Ticca, it's arrived!)


I tried it out...


Insta-motel!

Oh my god I want it now. :| Ticca. This is awesome. (Also, email me for more details re: shipping to you. :P)