The Band Gazebo

Spent a day today with Himself and Nimoy, which included Nimoy's first ever cinema trip. She wanted to see "Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy" and since she's got ten stickers on her trying new food chart, that was the treat she picked. Which suited me as we went to the nearby shopping centre where I got a bunch of stuff bought that needed to be bought, had lunch out, did the cinema and came back home. Film was good, she was delighted with herself, a little bit squirmy and restless which I expected, but not to the level that I expected so that is one for the success column.

On the way out, she also got very excited to see the Spider-Man cut outs for the upcoming film, I don't have the heart to tell her it'll be too old for her four year old self. We did get a pic of her beside the display though, apparently we are raising a Geek, as it should be!

The day would have been much better were I not fighting the monthly migraine frome hell, but at least I got through the day and only started to wilt when in the car on the way home, probably made worse from hunger. Himself was ready to stay home this morn but damn it, I had too much to do to be sick! Besides better now than next week because this time next week, we'll be over in England as his parents are 50 years married and it's his birthday the same weekend so we are going over. For this I am missing the Brad Paisley concert in Dublin, I checked and apparently divorce is not an option in cases like this, so on the boat with us!

Then when we come back, it is the Veronica Mars film and I am so looking forward to that. I have read ridiculously little about it and plan to be spoiler free as I can be going into it. We can't see it until Tuesday so tumblr blackout til then I think.

In fannish news, apparently rare_bb has no artists interested in making art so the comm mod is looking for opinions-do we make our own or do without? Which tbh I was worried might happen...I mean, rare is rare for a reason, you know? I figure I'll just say I'm fine to do without and may try making my own if I get a chance, though it may not be before any deadline for the challenge. I'm not having great luck this year with BB and art, the same thing happened with my 5 Things BB. Not going to get all woe is be about it...much!

Although if anyone wants to do a The Following Mike/Debra fanart for it, give me a shout!

So it would appear that since the last time I posted here, where I mentioned signing up for casestory big bang, I have written the guts of two scenes (both from around the middle of the story) which is currently numbering 3,484 words, out of 10,000. This is kind of making me hopeful that I can actually do this story without tearing my hair out and weeping incoherently in a corner somewhere.

Still have not seen the first ep of season two of The Following as Himself is currently on nights. Cursed night shifts! Tumblr, however, has spoiled me, not that I mind this, because I need to know what's going to happen to my darling Mike Weston, because watching it unspoiled would likely kill me, and I'm not watching it alone, I'm watching it with Himself who frowns on displays of fangirl emotion/squee so I need to be forewarned!

In other news, still behind on all other shows!

Three weeks to midterm!

That annoying moment where you realise that you signed up for a Big Bang, didn't friend the comm, missed all the check ins and therefore dropped out by default.

I wish I could say this is the first time it's happened but it's not. Someday I will learn.

OTOH, it's the kidfic one and the story's not going to be finished by the deadline and I'm not sure it even qualifies anymore anyway but man I'm annoyed with myself!

Lesson learned, let's put it that way! In future, I'm friending first, signing up later!

Blonde...no longer my hair colour, but my permanent state of mind!

Apologies for the multiple posts tonight and for spamming people's flists, but I got a very nice hint from humascot (and I mean that in the nicest way possible, I swear!!!!!!) who reminded me that I had begun posting the Dark Horses series here and I'd never gone back to it. (She was way nicer about it and way more hinty; this is my interpretation of it!) So when Himself texted and said no, he wasn't going out playing snooker tomorrow but tonight instead, I said to myself, I said, it's a sign. Ergo I turned on the computer and began copying and pasting.

Like I said, apologies.

Any issues with any of the stories, please let me know in the comments!

Now, is there anything else I should be back-posting?

(Not tonight, I swear)

To rob an NCISism....

If I thought the last Big Bang I saw was up my alley, this morning I saw this-

FIX IT STORY BIG BANG


“A fix-it big bang. Fix-it fic for an episode (or movie) that didn't end how you thought it should. Or for character death. Or maybe for a series that got canceled before resolving loose ends. Basically anything that needs to be 'fixed' about a canon you love.” (by elyss_blair)


Surprisingly enough, I'm not considering doing The Following for this, since my primary bone of contention is one that I'm just completely ignoring, and my Het Big Bang has me fixing it anyway.

So I'm wondering what othe areas of show canon might I like to fix and how could I get 7000 words out of it. (That's the other interesting bit about this, the word count. 7000? I'm thinking that's doable with the right plot!)

The ones that come to mind -

* Warrick's death in CSI. (Not sure how I'd go about that one - I actually thought it was done well in the context of the storyline. I hated it, don't get me wrong, but in terms of shitty character deaths, it wasn't that. Which brings me nicely to...)

* Speed's death in CSI Miami. (Would I have to rewatch it to write something? On the bright side, I have hand waved his surviving in an AU100 story I did; I could flesh that out)

* Cho and Summer from The Mentalist. Loved the interaction in the first couple eps she was in, loved the idea of Cho being attracted to his complete opposite. Hated the way they went with the storyline (and found it very badly done, development wise) with the whole painkiller thing... The scene in the elevator where they got together had some clunky lines that just made me cringe and the last episode with the fight? May be the most uncomfortable I've ever been watching that show, because it took my favourite character to such a dark place. I think I said it to ruuger, I liked the idea way more than the execution.

Loose ends... I feel like I should have more of them but coming up blank!

So, campfire! Hit me in the comments, if you're so inclined - anything I've missed?!

37,585

And I am now putting it in the metaphorical drawer for a week or so because that is the word count on the first draft of my Het Big Bang, which is now done.

Holy crap.

That's the guts of 40,000 words in four weeks - and if you throw in the comment fic/challenge responses that I've written for the two of them, you'd probably get to 40k easy.

I have not written that much in that short a space of time in years!

I may need an alcoholic beverage.

Himself is on a night shift today and tomorrow.

So tonight, I've sped through three eps of The Following, making notes for Het Big Bang.

One of the scenes I needed to go through is the scene that I continue to deny existed from the season finale and good Jesus, that was painful to sit through again. If, when this story goes live, anyone tells me that I quoted it wrong, I may throw my computer at them.

This current word count, again, is a bit misleading as it has the aforementioned notes and quotes inside it, but at the moment...

26,901

I am now off to look at the opening scene of Havenport. Many times.

18252 baby and nowhere near finished!

Lord, help my poor soul.

Ok, so I need one of those word count widget thingumybobs for my het big bang...anyone able to point me in the right direction?

In other news, since I can't do a widget at the moment, can I just record here that my word count at the moment is 6,235 words and that's with it barely begun?

And I also might have totally pulled a JK Rowling and written the last scene first. Well, ok, third, but I have the last scene and the last line and I love it more than I have loved anything I have ever written in a very long time and I'm actually scared how much I love it because what if it's crap?

*breathes*

Suddenly however, making 25k seems bells doable!

If this works, there will be a promo for Monday nights episode of The Following 1x13, Havenport.

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