Heaven in Hard Times

1. Stop what you're doing. Print Screen.
2. Print screen your current desktop.
3. If you have Photoshop open, print screen.
4. If you have a music player open, print screen.
5. Pick a folder, open it, print screen.

( Boring )

The whole world is annoying to me, so please enjoy this next installment in the continuing saga of "memes no one is actually interested in", one I found hopping journals in the Jonas Brothers friending meme:

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment. (That way you're not leading the questions asked to fit the characters.)

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the comments.

For example: 'One, nine and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?'
'Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?'
'Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?'
'Write a drabble in which three and eleven fight crime.' (...possibly not technically a question.)

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

1. Everyone immediately go read blackwayfarers' new Kevron fic, Home Is Not A Harbor. It's a Titanic AU and it's AMAZING.

2. Apparently I'm wired to do this meme every single time it gets posted. Post a line or paragraph from one (or more!) of your works-in-progresses, and encourage your flist to do the same.

( Way Too Many Kevin/Bandom Crossovers )

Kevin Jonas is my fandom bicycle.

Oh man I am so excited for Starstruck. I don't even care if it looks like it's gonna be one of the sucky-awesome DCOMs instead of one of the awesome-awesome DCOMs, it has Sterling Knight, who I think should carry all my babies. Sterling Knight SINGING with too much autotune <3

I have nothing of importance to say. You know what this means.

Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Favorite character, favorite moment, unpopular opinion, something about a fic of mine... whatever. Subparts allowed. Wackiness encouraged.

Stolen from mayqueen517, because the more the merrier!

Hang your holiday stocking below by leaving a request for something: your favourite pairing, your favourite person, your favourite group, your favourite tour, etc. I'll fill them up with something that I hope will match your request. It might be a fic rec, a photo, a song, a link to a youtube clip...anything. You can also fill other people's stockings if you see something that strikes the right chord.

from mayqueen517

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "5 Sexiest Things About Ron Weasley" or "Top 5 things to drink"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to all your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Then you post this offer in your own journal.

I was horribly sick last night and ended up in the emergency room from 2 am until 4; I'm fine now, although I won't know what's actually wrong until I go see my doctor next week. It was bad stomach pain - like, couldn't move without five minutes of psyching myself up bad - and the er doc's guess is an ulcer or something with my gall bladder. Because that wasn't awesome enough, after I skipped work to sleep all day, I woke up with a killer migraine that won't die. PLUS PLUS the reason I'm not seeing The Academy Is... tonight is I didn't want to miss work (it's a 4 hour drive)...but I missed work anyway. SO TODAY KIND OF ROCKED, and as is the custom with days that rock, I'm posting a meme (and, uh, I am not ignoring the songfic meme prompts, I've just had 800 other fics demanding to be written).

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

One of the things I do when my depression/anxiety flares up is spend a lot of time reading my old LJ posts. I have no idea why, but. That's why all the ~classic~ memes lately.

Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

I should be asleep right now, should've been asleep three hours ago. I'm tired. And yet.

I was weirdly excited to go to work today. DORK. IDK, I have lost my taste for sitting around doing nothing for more than a day or two at a time, and my anxiety's too high to look for another job, so even if I didn't like the job itself going back would've been kind of a relief.

EXCEPT. One of my favorite work people who is kind of a douchebag, in the typical-20-year-old-privileged-white-dude way, started in with some racist bullshit (the sort you hear from lots of people - "they can call me whitey I can't call them n*****, they can have BET I can't have WET, the playing field is totally equal so clearly this is all unfair"). A couple people caught how horrified I looked, tried to steer the subject elsewhere, he kept going. I specifically asked him to change the subject, because I have the privilege of just ignoring racist bullshit, he...did, sort of. Stopped for maybe a minute, then asked me to explain what was so offensive about what he'd said. I said I didn't want to talk about this anymore, he pushed. So against my better judgment I started to explain, and he...argued with everything I said until I just stopped.

AND THEN he spent the rest of the day asking if I hated him, if we were cool, etc. because OBVIOUSLY that is the main concern when you get called out on your racist bullshit, if the white woman still thinks you're a lovable douchebag instead of just a douchebag.

So THAT WAS FUN. Escapism! Meme:

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE ON MY FLIST WATCH MAD MEN I NEED A FLAILING BUDDY FOR THINGS LIKE DUCK/PEGGY UGH I LITERALLY SQUEALED WHEN THEY KISSED. SO PERFECT.

Also. You know the drill: bad day = escapism = meme

Ask me a fandom, and I will tell you:

+ OTP
+ Runner-up
+ Honorable mention(s)
+ Crack pairing(s)
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't