You can't be in a gay relationship on a soap opera unless one of you is named Oliver. This is true.

Reid Oliver: His kisses are so hot, THEY CHANGE YOUR HAIRCUT.

Random links I have just lying around

-- The Top 13 Worst Movie Moms

-- And to offset that, Seven Movie Moms I Wish I Had

-- Three Things Glee Does Wrong: I concur with all of these.

-- The Next 10 TV Actors Who Should Become Movie Stars: I agree with a lot of that list, although the argument that My Bloody Valentine 3D was better than the Friday The 13th remake is bit like saying undercooked shellfish is better than a burger that's fallen on the dirty kitchen floor, because at least the shellfish isn't covered in hair.

-- The Worst Fashion Photoshop Disasters

-- The 5 Most Unintentionally Offensive Comic Book Characters

-- And also there's this:



I'm debating whether to sign up myself. On one hand, I kind of want to focus on my original stuff after I get done with the two fanfics already on my plate, but on the other hand I only seem to get fanfic out anymore when there's a challenge involved, I adore werewolf stories, and it would be squeezed right between the stories I have due now and Yuletide, so it'd be the only fanfic I'd have to focus on. Well, there's plenty of time to decide, I suppose.

Well, so much for dithering.

I signed up for werewolfbigbang AND vampirebigbang.

Glutton for punishment, me.

EDIT: Oh, and did I mention that I'm doing the Lee/Crystal AU for vampirebigbang? YAY for a story me and, like, three other people are going to read! \o/

Drink more, icon me!

So here is my new writing schedule (sans Yuletide and other original novels):

May 8: apocalyptothon first draft due
May 15-16: apocalyptothon story/stories to be posted
June 1: Have my spn_j2_bigbang completely edited.
June 1: Turn in edited copy of Heroine Addiction to agent-shaped person.
August 1: Turn in edited copy of The Grand Prize Winner to agent-shaped person.
August 1: Rough draft of vampirebigbang submission due. (8k words or 80% complete)
September 4: Final draft of vampirebigbang submission due.
September 25: Rough draft of werewolfbigbang submission due. (9k words with clear beginning, middle and end or 90% complete)
October 23: Final draft of werewolfbigbang submission due.

It's not as bad as it seemed when I swooped in and signed up for both Big Bangs earlier in the day, but I'm still pushing it. That said, in both cases the fics only have to be 10,000 words this time around, which should work out MUCH better. And hopefully I won't develop another raging case of writer's block for the next three months like I did the last time I signed up for a Big Bang. *eyes my spn_j2_bigbang*

SO. What am I writing?

vampirebigbang: This one's easy. I'm writing the Lee/Crystal vampire AU I've been dying to write since they did that Ford commercial for the show. I've never written an AI fic before, but hell, it's absolutely criminal that there isn't any Lee/Crystal fic out there, honestly.

werewolfbigbang: Currently I'm thinking Glee, Brittany/Santana, with the Cheerios as a pack and Sue as an alpha. Seriously, how perfectly is that? And okay, I maybe have a bit of a weakness for werewolf stories where werewolves find their mates, so this might tilt that way.

Of course, I have to finish my apocalyptothon assignment before I can even think about starting those, so yeah, I'll just go do that. :D

Aaaaand that's two.

apocalyptothon assignment:

2509 / 1000

It's obviously going to need some tweaking, but I got it done and after the last three months of getting absolutely jack shit done, I'm fairly happy with the way it turn out for a first draft.

Now I'm going to sit down and organize the stuff I need to edit or write in the next few months into one handy file. And tomorrow I'm probably going to see if I can start on the spn_j2_bigbang edit, just because I'd like my artist to get a copy that's not a flaming pile of crap.

Kids, don't try this at home.

If I'm going to write 10k words of a Brittany/Santana Glee werewolf!AU from Brittany's point of view like I think I want to, I am going to have to become the motherfucking Non Sequitur Queen.

Oh, man, this story is going to turn me into an alcoholic, isn't it? *headdesk*

(You know who would have an incredibly confusing yet highly entertaining conversation? Brittany and Ralph Wiggum.)

*

As for my vampirebigbang story, I've already bookmarked the vampire commercial on YouTube. I have a feeling I'm going to be watching it over and over and over again in the next few months.

*

I would really like for the power to stop flickering on and off just long enough to force my internet to reset, which means I keep losing it in these five-minute increments. It's bloody aggravating, honestly.

*

I have the stories I need to finish and edit separated from the rest, and I hereby declare tomorrow Edit The Fuck Out Of Stuff Day. Might as well get the fics out of the way first, I suppose.