the journal of a fangirly insect

I'm leaving Friday morning for Charlotte. I'm a little excited, but mostly not. I think it's the seven hour drive that is making me not want to go. :P Tim, you had so better be worth it. I am still disappointed that I won't be seeing Richard Todd Adams as Phantom. Sigh.

I spent a good hour or so last night adding all of my comic books to this site. Yeah, I know 212 aren't that many, but considering that I had never read a comic book or graphic novel until late February of this year? Not too shabby, if I say so myself. I've picked up a lot of cheap lots on eBay. I could pretty much spend at least a year of my life on this site, because they have all sorts of information that I didn't know I wanted to have until now. Like every single Taskmaster appearance.

One of my new favorite quotes: "I only wish I could be sure that people really do work...but when in doubt, there's always the comforting reassurance that ordnance does." It totally shows how awesome Nathan Summers truly is. XD He could be my GI Jesus any day of the week.

I apparently need to decimate my liver to be able to write nowadays. Hmph.

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

( Hahaha. I have so many works in progress, I needed a cut. )

Now, the question is - will I ever FINISH any of them? XD

Tomorrow I'm going to see Watchmen again. No, I'm not obsessed. Not at all. O:)

I'm a little disappointed that the get-together with fellow Watchmen fans in Ohio is apparently not going to happen, because I haven't heard back from them. But, that's okay. I like watching movies by myself anyway. ;)

I'm writing fic. So far, I've managed to crank out a measly 554 words in about six hours, but I'm very proud of those 554 words. For some reason that I can't explain, writing for Watchmen is proving to be much easier than I'd initially expected. It also doesn't hurt that there are so many amazing writers in the fandom; I find an amazing fic almost every day. Reading great fan fiction inspires me to try to write some of my own...I don't know, that's just how I function.

I totally forgot that Easter is coming up this weekend. I guess that's what happens when you don't celebrate it. I know what this means! DISCOUNTED EASTER CANDY ON MONDAY, YES. I'm going to grab some peeps and Reese peanut butter eggs. ;)

Yeah, I watched it again. XD It'll probably be the last time that I'll be able to catch it in theaters; besides, I had a really shitty day and needed a pick-me-up.

The more I see it, the more I love Ozymandias...

Also, when they play the muzak version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears in the part when Ozy's talking to the captains of industry about Alexander the Great and wanting to conquer the ills that beset mankind? LOLOLOL COMEDY GOLD. I can't keep a straight face thinking about it, much less when I'm actually watching the movie.

I had an hour and a half to kill, so I went to Barnes & Noble again to browse, since we don't really have what I consider to be a "real" bookstore down here. I didn't buy anything, but I found about a dozen books that I'm going to buy eventually. Then I came home and bought Swamp Thing Vol. 1 by Alan Moore. I know that they say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but I think the cover art is beautiful. Besides, I haven't read anything by Alan Moore yet that I haven't adored. Sigh. As if my "to read" list isn't totally out of control already! Well, as my mom always said when I was a little kid, "It could be worse. It could be drugs."

And, on the way home, I was bitten by a plotbunny of doom. As if I don't have more than enough of those, too...

So, I totally blame inlaterdays for this, because now I'm curious to see what I wrote this year. Did I write more or less than I thought I did? Well, there's really only one way to find out.

( fic written in 2008 under here )

I think that's everything...I had a very productive November, it seems, thanks to mini_nanowrimo! ;D

I think I've finished my fic for masked_ball. I'm kind of doped up on Nyquil at the moment and my beta is internetless for at least another week so I'm flying rather blind, but I do think that I buckled down and finished it tonight. I will have to read it tomorrow to make sure before submitting it, but if it's not finished, it's surely almost there. *is pleased*

If you love Phantom of the Opera fan fiction or art, go join masked_ball! It's a ficathon-type-thing where you can request what you'd like to read, and others may write it for you! You don't have to write or draw to be able to post ideas, so go! Go now! Go now and LEAVE ME REQUEST STUFF before November 15th is over! It will be fun!

Plus, I know some of you could think of some totally amazing crack!fic ideas that would be so much fun to read, or perhaps even write. XD

5,000 / 50,000 (9.0%)

Thanks to taking part in mini_nanowrimo, I feel all inspired and stuff! One hundred words a day for the month of November - surely I can accomplish THAT, right?

It bothers me greatly that the counter says that I've completed 9% of my goal, when 5000 is clearly 10% of 50,000... XD

And, so this post isn't completely pointless - eBay lolz! Phantom of the Opera old fashioned key with tassel! It's not the key/tassel combination itself that makes me LOL (I hate that in the movie though, with Gerik locking Christine in her dressing room - I much prefer Christine locking Raoul out of her dressing room), but the description.

A Key to lock out Raoul from Christine's life...

A Beautiful addition to any Phantom of the Opera collector's collection.

How can one forget when Erik locked out Raoul, in the hope of winning her heart.

The symbol of his hold on her...

In the movie, the Phantom turns the key to Christine's dressing room. A key that looks like this one. A key to keep Raoul out.

Because nothing says love like locking someone in a room so she can't escape when you put the moves on her.

Wannnnnnnnnnnnnt!!! Is that not one of the coolest things ever? Also, these. Mmm, makes me think of a scene in the movie Hannibal! XD

Also, a little smidgen of progress:

4,456 / 50,000 (8.0%)

3,992 / 50,000 (6.0%)

3,495 / 50,000 (6.0%)

1215 words so far this weekend!

2,280 / 50,000 (3.0%)

Almost a thousand new words AND I finished the chapter! Woohoo!

P.S. I feel happy. Not just happy because I finished the chapter, but like, baseline happy. This is an interesting development.

1,387 / 50,000 (2.0%)

At least I'm making a little progress, though it's VERY LITTLE progress. :\

My Das ticky thing:

1,366 / 50,000 (2.0%)

325 / 50,000 (0.7%)

I know that I'm going to have to kick it up a notch if I even want to get close to reaching my goal of 50,000 words by December 31st. :\ I've been having so much trouble with this current chapter; it's really annoying, especially since I whipped out three chapters rapid-fire last week. Still, I continue to plod forward! Every little word counts for something, right?