This is even better than the original. Love so much!

I know it’s been forever since I’ve updated, fic or rl, but I had to share.

So, my job is online brand protection. Basically, companies hire me to make sure people aren’t selling knock-off products under their name or other internet-type shenanigans. Anyway, I had this guy write me claiming to be offended because a certain website (on online forum) was not, in fact, affiliated with a certain company… One back ground check later: the guy owns a competing forum!  I’m so tempted to be the hand of karma and bitch slap the guy.

I went digging through his forum and found him and his cohorts had some fun stringing along a Chinese domain hosting company a few months back. He’s possibly looking to repeat the experience; stirring up all sorts of corporate panic by complaining to the right/wrong people. Not going to work buddy, I’ve been in online fandom for 15 years. I know all about trolling.

Asshole.

Brief update to prove I'm not dead...
 

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I was rereading an old SPN/BTVS xover I started awhile back and never finished. It has Andrew/Sam subtext... 0_o  I didn't intend it, at all. It could be read as one-sided (Andrew notices Sam's good looks) however, I have Cas point out that Andrew had committed terrible acts and redeemed himself and, well, Sam sort of... yeah. Maybe I've just been reading too much slash this summer or something. I don't (at least, have never) written slash, yet this certainly seems to be leaning that direction.






Huh.




In other news, I have a second interview with the company that will hopefully hire me soon after on Tuesday.  If I get the job *crosses fingers* the first thing I'm buying is a new desktop, 'cause typing anything of length on my laptop is a trial.  I miss writing!

Snagged from twilight2000  :-)

The one who seduced you and screwed you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it.
Heroes.  The first season and a half was great (twisty, turny, bad, but in a good way) then it started to suck.  *sigh*

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This is ten kinds of adorable. Fight Club is probably one of my favorite movies, both in and of itself and because it allows for awesome parodies. 

Fic: Sad SmileBy: Cousin Mary
Fandoms: BTVS & Firefly
Disclaimers: Don’t own BTVS or Firefly. Do own all the eps on DVD though…

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Confession: I'm the guy... I wish I wasn't... but, yeah

Back in the late 90's - oh those halcyon days! - I was an even bigger geek than I am now.

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Awhile ago I did this meme about my old FK fanfic and I thought it was about time I filled it out for my newer Buffy fics.  (Procrastinating you say?  Bite your tongue!  ;-)

  Five Ways to Tell You're Reading BTVS fanfiction by Me

Buffy and Dawn are awesome sisters who totally get along!Andrew is deep, like a geeky ocean.Xander and Willow are mentioned... in passing."Um, er, huh.." eloquent my characters are not.Puns!

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Come May I will have earned a B.A. in Mass Communications, or, as one of my professors called it, “a degree in advanced T.V. watching.” This degree includes a second emphasis in journalism. Basically, in a month’s time, I’ll be really qualified to blog about T.V.

 

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So, I'm working on my story for Fiction Writing class and I'm trying to decide which story I want to workshop. I've narrowed it down to two, but I'm not sure which to submit.  

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Okay, so I'm watching TLC's What Not To Wear and they just pounced on a goth witch and I'm so offended it's not even funny! I don't dress goth and I'm an atheist, so it's not like I'm overly identifying or anything, but still!

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Title: Family Business
By: Cousin Mary
Fandom: Forever Knight
Disclaimer: FK is the property of James Parriott and Sony/Tristar, nocopyright infringement intended
Summary: Tracy meets her cousins for coffee
Rating: PG

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Okay, so this popped into my head yesterday and now every time I'm not actively thinking about something else... it comes back.  Now, usually my rabid plot bunnies would be, I'd like to think, read by somebody. 

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Title: Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String
By: Cousin Mary
Fandom: Forever Knight
Characters: Natalie Lambert and Lucien Lacroix
Disclaimers: Standard and holdiay themed disclaimers go here.
Notes: This is a complete rewrite of a story I wrote 10+ years ago. Same plot, better jokes, pacing, grammar, etc. Enjoy! 
 

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Snagged from brightknightie .  Once upon a time, long before I started writing BTVS xovers, I wrote Forever Knight Fanfic.  It's not the greatest, but it's where I learned how to write.  Anyway, for this meme I'm going to limit my answers to my FK fic, if I can remember that far back  ;-)

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Holiday Fruit Cake
Chalk full of Christmas spirit!
 

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Because it's always fun to imagine that writing fanfic will lead to a legitimate career... here's a link, Rants and Ramblings.  It's a literary agent's blog with info on how to write a query letter, book proposal, and the like.   Nice little thing to bookmark.

In related news, I have one slot open next semester and I'm thinking about taking Fiction Writing.  My fanfic usually garners plenty of positive reviews, however, I've never taken a writing class or been in a writing group and I'm curious how non-fandom people will react to my writing.  Plus, being encouraged to write using only original characters?   O_o   It'll be a trip.

First off, I don't like camping.  Second, it'll be too cold soon anyway, however, I have this idea.  I want to go camping, out in the middle of nowhere (with like canned food, booze, MREs, the whole nine yards) and pretend the apocalypse has come.

Now, I'm not usually one for role-playing, though this wouldn't be for a particular show or anything, but this sounds like it could be fun.  And I can think of at least a half a dozen people who would be all for it (some of whom actually go camping on occasion, which would be helpful ;-)  

There would need to be a radio set to constant static...  We could get all shifty eyed and paranoid... 

I think it could be a good writing exercise if I documented the group interaction.  Of course, this is the kind of idea that either turns out to be a lot of fun, or, someone (probably me) will get shot... 

The first time I listened this, I didn't really like it.  Then I showed it to my hubby and liked it a bit more.  It's been stuck in my head for days now, some of the lines are amazing.  "Start off with the saddest thing you know, and then you have your audience and then it's all your show..."
 

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This is kind of neat, it's a flow chart of female character tropes.  Useful for writers and generally amusing.  Check it out  :)

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/10/11/female-character-flowchart/

Thought I'd share a graphic I made for a possible Buffy xover.
 
The vague idea behind this is Dawn was sent to NY and Rorschach feels compelled to protect her (note the key-green influence in his last thought)

Disclaimer: I own nothing

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I have 4 bookcases in the study, so without even looking through the titles people would guess I'm a reader.  As for what they say about me... probably that I'm a liberal, would-be intellectual that hangs out at bookstores a lot.  ;-)

The first bookcase is all philosophy (my major in college for awhile) and religion (mostly atheism and catholism.)  The second is literature;  heavy on the 1850-1950 British and 1920-present American, lots of Orwell and Vonnegut.  Victorian to avant garde, the shelves are overflowing. 

The third case is politics, history and art.  Left wing, pro-labor politcial writings.  As for the histories, I love the 1920-30s and histories written by women, so that's heavily represented.  And my hubby has a ton of Irish-American and Irish Republic stuff.  FDR, Che, and the Kennedys have their own shelf.  Art leans towards 1920's art deco, propaganda and street/graffiti.  The fourth case is reference (dictionaries, guides to, quotes, etc) and essayists: David Rakoff, Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, pretty much anyone on NPR ;-)

We really need floor to ceiling shelving put in, because there's never enough room.  One of our spare bedrooms upstairs is stuffed with boxes and stacks of books that didn't make the cut to go into the study.  All of the graphic novels, cook books and popular fiction is up there, (abandoned and cold in the unheated space.)