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[apocalypsos]

1.

Love the storyline. Kinda want to punch a boxing fan now, though.

2. The good news! The bonus checks are available this Friday. The bad news! Oh, wait, did I say this Friday? I meant that if you're working, you get them handed out there, but if you're not working (see: me), they're getting dropped in the mail on Friday, which means we won't get them until Monday or Tuesday.

My place of employment -- still piloting the failboat down the mighty Lackawanna.

(Of course, there's still the possibility I won't get anything, which ... ugh, I'm trying not to think about that.)

3. This article makes me want to watch Stick It again. And not just because Nastia Liukin actually wins on the uneven bars in that movie.

4. Need to take a shower, eat something, and start writing. I really want to try and finish chapter two of The Hollow Girl, because as soon as I get three or four chapters finished I'm going to polish the hell out of it and see what someone who's not me makes of it.

In other news, I'm horribly tempted to write a story about a girl who's the Zeppo. You know, her roommate's a hot ass-kicking demon hunter, the guy the roommate's got major sexual chemistry with is a vampire king, there's a love triangle with ... I don't know, a minor Greek god or something goofy like that, the roommate's best frend is a witch, and my girl is just ... you know, a girl. The one who's NOT a special and unique snowflake or a raging angst monkey. Hmm.

Comments

[jessikast]

I would totally want to read that story!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

*raises hand hesitantly* Um, I'm a massive boxing fan and non-dick-homophobe-wanker-person? We're not all dicks. Editors are dicks. ;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know! I can't help it. Stupid storyline. Stupid boxer with a mullet and his dumb jokes. *hangs head*

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

It's okay. He *is* a thundering tosspiece and deserves your hate, even if he is the catalyst for some seriously squee-worthy moments between the boys.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

SECOND-BIGGEST DREAM. KNEE TOUCH. *swoons*

Stupid show, giving me moments like that when you just know they're inevitably going to break them up one day and bitterly depress me for days. *grumbles*

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Oh god don't don't don't. I will be forced to fly to Germany and KILL and EAT the writers.

[medie]

Dude, can I has your productiveness? *G* I'm struggling to get a few paragraphs of, er, spn/tng crackfic. Also? The Hollow Girl? I am dying to see this and the Zeppo idea? RULES.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I will go with you! I'll hit them over the head with sticks and you go get the barbecue sauce.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Given that they seem to be one of the most functional and lovely couples on the show it seems fruitless to break them up for cheap dramallama. Don't give in, writers! Stay strong! WRITE MORE SQUEE!

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

You must write that as a comedy.

I can sort of picture her just casually going about her business while this maelstrom of drama whirls around her. For some reason I picture her sitting sideways on a off-white couch, reading and chewing bubblegum. She pops a bubble just as a werewolf gets thrown through a wall. She looks up, then turns the page on her book and goes back to reading.

Dammit, now *I* want to write it.

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

Please write the Zeppo story. :)

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that story idea.

[sophie-448.livejournal.com]

The Zeppo girl? dooo eeet! That is all. :-)

[fyrdrakken]

I read your later post mentioning the Zeppo story before getting back to this one, and yeah. That's going to be a major tightrope act, writing her story without getting a bunch of readers whining about how you should have been writing the sooper-speshul roommate's story instead of this ordinary chick's life.

Mind you, having her reactions to the sparkly destined roomie's various dramas be the ones that sane readers have to the ridiculous heroines in urban fantasies and supernatural romances -- eyerolling at the endless whining about wanting to be normal and give up the powers and destiny and hordes of preternaturally hot love interests, noting the manufacturing of drama when life is actually going pretty well, etc. -- could be a useful narrative technique.