A Witchy Diary

Stolen from thisbluespirit . Looks interesting.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.


A - Absurd Distractions (Inuyusha - Kagome&Sesshoumaru friendship fic, Inuyasha, Rin, Jaken, original characters)
B - Be My (Fake) Wife (Star Wars, Rey/Kylo Ren AU, modern setting, unconventional courtship)
C - Caught In-Between (Unnatural History, Henry/Jasper/Maggie polyamory fic, original characters, mystery and romance)
D - Dark Stranger (Arrow, Oliver/Felicity, Felicity/Slade, canon-divergent, Sarah Lance, John Diggle, Barbara Gordon)
E - Eleven Probable Honeymoons with River Song (Doctor Who, Eleventh Doctor/River Song, Amy, Rory)
F - The Flip Side (MCU, Darcy/Loki, Thor, Jane Foster, Coulson, Nick Fury, Clint Barton, Canon divergent, body snatching hijinks)
G - Grave New World (Heroes, Peter/Claire, Sylar/Elle, Noah Bennet, Rene, Angela Petrelli, Alternate universe)
H - Horror Fest (Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge) Sunako/Kyouhei, canon)
I - Impulse (Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor/Clara Oswald, canon compliant)
J - Just to Make Sure (Harry Potter, Hermione/Harry, canon compliant)
K - Kiss or Kill (Star Wars, Rey/Kylo Ren, canon divergent)
L - Loose Ends (Moonlight, Josef/Mick, canon compliant)
M - Mischief and Tasers (MCU, Darcy/Loki, Avengers, Canon divergent)
N - Noisy Neighbors (Inuyasha, Kagome/Inuyasha, Miroku/Sango, Rin, Kaede, post-canon)
O - The Other Side of Lonely (Arrow/Flash, Laurel Lance/Cisco Ramon, canon divergent)
P - Pound of Flesh (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula, Aang, Zuko, canon compliant)
Q - Quite Comfortable (Heroes, Peter/Claire, canon compliant)
R - Redeem (Original/Hebrew Bible, Lilith/Eve in modern times)
S - Silence for Naught (GALS!, Rei/Ran, ensemble, canon-divergent)
T - The Tell-Tale Kiss (Miraculous Ladybug, Adrian/Marinette, ensemble, canon-divergent)
U - Unintended Entrance (Doctor Who, Eighth Doctor/River Song, Charley Pollard)
V - A Valentine for Rosalie (Twilight, Rosalie Hale, Jacob Black, Renesmee Cullen, Emmett Cullen)
W - A Wanderer's Heart (Star Trek: TOS, James T. Kirk/Janice Rand)
X - 
Y - Young Avengers Assemble! Ficlets & Drabbles (Young Avengers/Marvel 616, Kate Bishop, Tommy Shepherd, Billy Kaplan/Teddy Altman, Eli Bradley, Cassie Lang, Clint Barton)
Z - A Zero Who Dares - (Fence, Nicolas/Seiji, canon compliant)

25/26 fics! Didn't have one for X. Really hard. I have so many fics haha. Do it if you can!

Whelp. I'm still pretty annoyed with my mom, but as usual, she's moved on and nothing has changed. She even had the audacity to ask if she could come out for Labor Day and have Joe cook some pork on the grill. It's like, you want my husband to cook for you after you lashed out at him and then tried to make him out to be some sort of villain. Ugh.

Last weekend I went to Renfaire with her and two of her friends that I met for the first time. Her friends were not interesting, it was hot, and I did not have a good time. For whatever reason, I was annoyed that she didn't even invite Juliet to Renfaire or even think about including her. When I mentioned that next year I'd like to bring Juliet, she acted like it was a foreign concept, even though they have a lot of kids' activities there. I did some shopping for Juliet, and as usual, didn't buy anything really for me, and after I told her all I could think about was Juliet, she then proceeded to shop for her too, and kept asking me "would Juliet like this". It was super annoying.

She asked me later if something was wrong and if I was ashamed of her. I asked her to explain and she said "I'll tell you later" and then never did.

Ugh, I can't even deal with her antics anymore.

Other than that, things are going well. Work is super busy as usual, and now it looks like projects are fighting over me. There's been this whole back and forth between my bosses and the managers of the Caesar's project. My bosses want to put me on the Subway account, and the Caesars PMs don't want to lose me and are scrambling to find the budget to keep me. I thought I was on this project through the end of the year but it looks like they only slotted me for September 14th. In the meantime, as my role in this project is ending, they are fighting with each other about it. It's kind of embarrassing but also kind of awesome they consider me "in demand". It just gets awkward when I'm on a team call and the PMs take like five minutes to talk about how frustrating it is that I'm in demand and that they get calls constantly from my bosses trying to roll me off their project to start a new one.

I'm still blocked on writing, so I hope that changes soon. Also, I haven't had the time. Same for drawing time too. It's just been elusive. Instead, I've been reading a lot. I have gone past my reading goal on Goodreads already.

It also doesn't help that I've been having stomach problems and sleeping issues. After a long day at work, the last thing I want to do is look at a screen. I've tried writing a little on paper, but even then it's rough. I had two migraines last week, one which caused me to miss a work meeting. Thankfully I was able to make up for it though.

I am trying to do more with my fitness. I upped my step goal, and I joined a gym. I'm hoping I can make it to the gym tomorrow if my kid will let me. I think it'll be okay as my husband has said he'd take care of her so I can have some time to myself.

Juliet's daycare preschool is going okay, I guess. Joe and the daycare lady are not getting along, and it's kind of frustrating. So I'll have to take Juliet more and pick her up too since he just can't deal with her. I'm thinking it's a huge personality clash or something.

Bastet the cat has fit well into our household. She's coming out more and doesn't hide in the corner. She eats like a horse, steals food, and begs constantly to be fed. She's a sweetheart though. She and the dog are still adjusting to each other. It helps that Holly is a big wuss.

Other than that, things are going well and busy. We are trying to refinance our home, so fingers crossed on that. I'm hoping the concrete people can get out to our house this week and do the work. WE ARE SO READY. Tomorrow I'm going to finish cleaning the house. Today I just did bills and washed the dishes and then conked on for a nap. I picked up a book to start reading and had a light dinner as my stomach was acting up again. I think I need a cleanse or maybe some fasting. For now I'm trying to avoid ALL dairy and fried foods, hoping that helps.

I hope I can update and catch up with all of you more regularly. I still have TV reviews to add to my WordPress. I did update my new portfolio site though as my old URL expired, plus I didn't like it anyway. I need to make some freelance business cards as my current ones have my old email and old defunct site. Ugh.

In the meantime, here's a meme I've stolen from some friends...

( AO3 Meme )

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Stolen from author_by_night 

 I had a busy weekend so here's my catch up post.

 

Day 10
In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! 

My favorite tropes/kinks/motifs are:

• May-December Relationships (This is why I like Twelve/Clara [Doctor Who], Sessmom/Inuyasha [Inuyasha],  Mrs. Higurashi/Houjo [Inuyasha], Colonel Brandon/Marrianne [Sense and Sensibility], Mr. Knightly/Emma [Emma]

 

• 'Cest Ships - incest, soulcest, preferably angsty and full of taboo feels: Peter/Claire [Heroes], Quicksilver/Scarlet Witch [Marvel], Inutaisho/Sesshoumaru [Inuyasha], Azula/Zuko [Avatar], and pseudo-incest too, like step-siblings Thor/Loki [Marvel], and even weirder, Soulcest, [Kikyou/Kagome] where two incarnations of the same soul are intimate. Some incest ships I'm Meh about though so depends on the situation.

 

• Body Switching - Freaky Friday, Big, Trading Places, The Gang Goes Black [It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]. I love it. I think it's hilarious and it amuses me. It was the inspiration for my fic "The Flip Side" where Loki and Darcy switched bodies.

 

• Wild West/Pirates in Space - Think Firefly, Star Wars, Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato, Cowboy Bebop. I like the idea of retro things or spaghetti westerns taking place in space. I don't even really like westerns that much. I just like the idea of Space being more of a wild frontier rather than controlled by alliances. 

 

• Nice Guys winning - I like this in romances. Mostly because I get bored with dominant alpha males that have mental problems. Yawn. I have seen a lot of anime's like this and it has pleased me. Golden Time, Tenchi, etc.

 

• Regency/Jane Austen type AUs - Take my favorite fandom characters, modern or futuristic, and drop them into Jane Austen's time. Boom. I'm happy. 

 

• Dark Comedy - I love things that are dark, gory, full of horror and murder but has a sense of humor to it or make light of things. Monty Python or Kurt Vonnegut. Bring that stuff into fandom and wreck it.

 

• Villains as Main Characters/Villain point of views with NO redemption and winning - I like that, but I don't see it often. Or when good characters go dark. I'm getting into a lot of Dark!Rey for the Star Wars fandom lately, which is like that. I love Regina from Once Upon a Time. Azula from Avatar. Loki from Marvel. Kylo Ren from Star Wars. Magneto from Marvel. I like to cheer for villains. After all, they don't think they're villains, not really.

 

• Silver Screen/Hollywood AUs or Film Noir/30s and 40s crime - LA Confidential, James Cagney movies, This Gun for Hire, The Thin Man. I love that stuff. I wrote and published my first novel with a film noir/crime motif. I almost wrote an Oliver/Felicity [Arrow] fic where Felicity was a safe-cracker from the 30s and she was trying to steal a diamond "heart" that belonged to Oliver Queen. If someone writes something original or fandom based on that I'm there!

 

Day 8
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Shit, I'm in so many fandoms. I have a lot of canon scenes that I love.

Many come to mind, especially recently with Star Wars: The Last Jedi with Rey and Kylo Ren. I LOVE the battle scene in Snoke's throne room. It's just fucking glorious, as a shipper and as a fan of action.

In Doctor Who, when Paul McGann as the Eight Doctor got his memory back and kissed Grace Holloway. I first fell in love with Doctor Who here!

Also in Doctor Who when the Eleventh Doctor confronted the Atraxi after reuniting with an older Amy Pond. My love for Doctor Who revived!

The Twelfth Doctor robbing a bank with Clara. I shipped them hardcore and my muse was happy.

In Heroes, when Peter and Claire talk intimately in The Hard Part in Season One and wipes a tear from her cheek. Because even though they were related I still shipped them like burning and they had wonderful chemistry.

In Downton Abbey when Matthew proposed to Mary. Because the wait was too long!

In Arrow when Oliver and Felicity tried to fake loving each other but ended up really speaking from their hearts. An OTP I never thought would be canon did so!

Or in Anne of Green Gables (Avonlea) movie where Anne finally accepts Gilbert Blythe when he gets over being really sick. Because it was just so romantic and sweet and heartbreaking.

And of course in Pride and Prejudice when Darcy first confesses his love for Elizabeth. Because it was goddamn sexy AF.

I guess I could go on but those are the ones that stand out!

 

Day 5

Recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Dailymotion.com - I watch all my Classic Doctor Who episodes here.

I use Tardis Wikia for all my Doctor Who questions and canon checks. I've also been using Wookieepedia for my Star Wars content look ups. I've been on those sites A LOT, with the addition of regular Wikipedia.

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Working from home and hanging out with my dogs today because they did some work on my cube (that I requested) and I have a bad head cold and my boss didn't want me around. As long as I get my work done, so today is filled with wrapping up these email templates for all our stores. HTML-FUN!

I need to stuff some stockings today and finish my hc_bingo . Then maybe some reading and baby snuggle time! Happy Friday!

Seems appropriate

Major Pimpage:

100_fairytales
This place has some awesome prompts. You don't have to make a claim, and you can write in any fandom or for any character, as long as you follow the prompts. I'm going to go through the ideas I already have now and see if they fit the prompts. If not, maybe this will inspire me. You too, so check it out.

( book meme and RL crap )

DON'T FORGET ABOUT MERLIN THIS SUNDAY!!!

It airs on NBC on Sunday at 7 p.m. central time for the first two episodes. If some of you are watching True Blood and want to check out Merlin, I hope you can DVR one of them and watch it later.

IT'S WORTH IT. IT'S A DAMN GOOD SHOW.

How can you give up a show with pretty like this?

Snagged from a lot of people.