honeycakehorse

I'm so sick of thinking about this entire mess. I know it's important to speak about it and that it has affected lots of peoples lives, but I really don't have anything to add to the many eloquent, well thought-out and in-depth posts I've read over the last few days.

While LJ isn't my second home like it used to be, I'm still appalled at their business practices, disgusted beyond belief that any one person gets to decide what is art or not and simply tired of their evasiveness.

So, most of my LJ is backed up to GJ, where I'm honeycakehorse as well. Same with IJ and I just posted in the thread to get a JF account, hopefully with the same name JF. Also entered myself in The Directorium and archived my journal on my computer. Damn, what a hassle.

I'm still confused as to why this only seems to be targeted at HP, and other fandoms seem to take barely notice of it (because really? Fandoms like Numb3rs, where the biggest slash OTP is incestuous, should probably be worried, even if the characters are over age), but what do I know?

I'm off to bed now, gotta sell annoying parents more school books tomorrow. Bleargh.

Work was bah today, so instead I have funny music.

You've Got Hogwarts

So, I suppose DH has caused another huge influx of readers to the HP fandom? I keep getting reiews on ff.net and FA on my old stories and while I'm pleased about that, it also annoys me as hell when my pre-HBP Harry/Tonks is constantly questioned, because OMG! Remus and Tonks belong together. *sigh*

And while I'm freaking out about ncis_ficathon, because it's due in 10 days and I haven't written one proper word yet, ideas for Numb3rs keep pouring in. *shakes head* I finally decided that the NCIS one is going to be pretty much PWP, because I just can't seem to come up with a conversation that doesn't get absolutely bizarre. But I need to sit down and actually start working on it, not pretend it'll write itself.

Instead I'm knitting. *g* Back for my dad's vest is finished, now I started the front (again).

Bah, I ate a few cherries and now my stomach hurts. Was supposed to be a special treat and they were yummy and there were only 15 of them anyway, cause they're expensive as hell and now that. *pouts*

But otherwise I'm fine. Have settled back in okay in Trier and my first week of the intership at the bookshop was a success. Was in the fiction department and now I have a reading list several miles long. :D But from next week on I'll be hip deep in school books, so I'l have some time work on that list. And it is fun even though it's stressful, because I constantly have to interact with people and pretend to be knowledgable, when in truth I don't have a clue. Not to mention my sore feet. But the people there are all nice (especially the store manager), so I think the next 10 weeks will be gone quicker than I think.

Dear Old Bitch,

Thank you ever so much for pointing out to your friend that I'm overweight. I'm sure she wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Also thank you for your unsolicited fashion advice that you had to trumpet all over the busstop. Because really, I'd look so much better in a tent than a loosely fitted t-shirt. I also appreciate you mentioning that with my eating habits it's no surprise that I'm overweight. Me eating a pastry as lunch when I only had a banana for breakfast explains so much.

Of course, I was too polite to point out that even primary school kids that called me a fat cow to my face have better manners than you at your 70+ years talking loudly to your friend within my hearing distance.

No love,
Me


In better news, inspiration for the numb3rsficathon struck last night. :D I'm so excited about writing this that I could barely stop myself from getting up again and starting to type. Instead I just switched on the light every few minutes to jot down some notes. And I still have today and tomorrow free before I'm starting my internship on Monday, so I hope to have at least the outline and first scene finished by then.


ETA: Re: ranting about annoying people: I'm amazed the girls next to me haven't killed their study group partner yet. Gosh, that girl knows everything and makes sure that everybody else knows that she knows too.

So, apparently DH is very inspirational. Because I have plot bunnies running around in my head, banging against each other, producing new ones at an astonishing rate and I actually wrote the first HP fic in what? A year and a half, two years?

Title: Looking Out at Life
Author: Sabrina, aka honeycakehorse
Pairing: Harry/Ginny, Harry/Draco
Category: Angst, Drama
Rating: PG
( Takes place 2 years after the Epilogue, so DH SPOILERS )

( Spoilers )

I know I'm late to the party, with the leak and everything, but for me one of the important enjoyments of reading HP canon is being able to curl up with in in bed and read it the conventional way: on paper. I just finished and my thoughts are still a bit muddled, I haven't read anybody else's thoughts yet and I was miraculously able to stay spoiler free, so, of course, I have to write down my first impressions.

( ”SPOILERS” )

writemore has started up again and I'm using it to finally get back to writing and hopefully

*gasp* actually finishing stories. :) First round is starting tomorrow, so my current word counts.

Word counts (as of Saturday, 2nd June, 2007)

NCIS:

1. McGee/Palmer fic: 390 words (~3,000 words)


2. McGee/Tony fic: 543 words (~10,000 words)


3. ncis_ficathon fic: 0 words


4. To the Devil: 67 words (~500 words)


5. Numb3rs spillover: 305 words (~2,500 words)


Numb3rs:

6. numb3rsflashfic fic: 146 words 695 words (~1,000 words)

Sunday: 6) 406 (+260)
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday: 6) 695 (+549)
Week's Total: 549 words

I'm so ready to go to bed, even though it's only 9.30pm.

Spend last night listening to some guy banging against my neighbour's door, then against mine, bitched at him and he finally stopped, only I couldn't sleep anymore. Then had to get up at 7 to go on a little trip to Dundee today, from which I just got back about half an hour ago (was okay, but the museum my friend and I really wanted to go to was closed, then we missed the bus and all lovely stuff like that).

And this night I won't be getting enough sleep either since my flight back home tomorrow is leaving at 9.30am. International flight means I have to be there 2 hours before that, the taxi company was fully booked for 7 o'clock, so now I have to meet the taxi at 6.45. Means getting up at about 4.45 since I'll need to finish packing, get myself ready and take out the rubbish.

Oh, and tonight I also still need to pack, organise and throw away stuff, as well as take out the rubbish. Also still haven't had dinner yet. Have no food left except breakfast, a banana and some cookies. Oh, and a Bounty.

Can it be tomorrow afternoon yet?

It looked like my summer would be fairly relaxed with lots of time for reading, knitting, puttering around with my website and writing. A small internship at the local library and that was supposed to be it until October.

Well, I called the bookshop I had applied to for an internship and honestly wasn't expecting anything positive from cause I was kinda late with the application, but it turns out they are interested in me doing an internship. The manager will call on Monday when I'm back in Germany and give me a more definite answer, but it looks like I'll be moving back to Trier in July already instead of October. Which means a lot of other things I'll have to take care of. Like the fact that I won't get financial aid over the summer, the intership is not paid and I'll have to move once again, preferably into an apartment and not just a room. Then, of course, there's the whole list of things that I had planned to do this summer, which I might need to adjust a little.

On the positive side (not that the other side is terribly negative, just exhausting and complicated), I'll be getting some work experience (!) in a bookshop (!) while DH is coming out (!!). Ahem. *g* And I won't have to spend the whole summer with my parents (!!!) and get to go back to Trier (which I'm missing more than I thought I would) much earlier (!!!!!).

writemore has started up again and I'm using it to finally get back to writing and hopefully *gasp* actually finishing stories. :) First round is starting tomorrow, so my current word counts.

NCIS:
a) McGee/Palmer fic: 390 words (~3,000 words)
b) McGee/Tony fic: 543 words (~10,000 words)
c) ncis_ficathon fic: 0 words
d) To the Devil: 67 words (~500 words)
e) Numb3rs spillover: 305 words (~2,500 words)

Numb3rs:
f) numb3rsflashfic fic: 146 words (~1,000 words)

Finally, my thoughts on the season finale of NCIS.

( Spoilers, obviously )

A friend of mine and I had a pirate marathon yesterday. We met in the afternoon, watched the first two parts of Pirates of the Caribbean on DVD while eating chocolate and later pizza and drinking beer and then we went to the premiere of At World's End. And I simply loved the movie...

ETA: And apparently that is all I have to say, because stupid, stupid LJ won't let me post a cut. Hmpf. I'll try again later.

ETA2: So, let's try again.

( SPOILERS for Pirates of the Caribbean 3 )

*coughs* Okay, that break was longer than planned.

I'm mostly done with university for this semester. Had a last presentation today, so now I only have one more week of classes and then exams at the end of May. I see lots of free time in my future. :)

But I am planning on finally getting back into my online life, so maybe the time is a good thing. Let's start with what I thought about this week's NCIS episode.

( Thoughts on In the Dark< - SPOILERS )

I have an essay due tomorrow and, of course, that is once again the perfect excuse to bum around online, knit and watch NCIS. It's only suppsed to be 900-1000 words, so I haven't quite convinced myself yet that I wouldn't be able to write it tomorrow before class. ;) After all, I don't need to hand it in until 1pm.

But who am I kidding? I woudl just spend the night online, get up way too late tomorrow and throw somthing together. (Not that it matters that much. Even though here the course is 15 ECTS points, back in Germany I'll only get 3 for it, which means as long as I pass, the mark doesn't matter in the slightest.) Oi. This is not motivating me.

Okay, I'll go write now.
10:38pm: 203 words
ETA:
11:13pm: 300 words
00:17am: 434 words (At this rate, this is going to take me forever. *sighs*)
00:48am: 526 words (Where, oh where, will I get another 374 words from?)

I'm trying to write NCIS fic and realize I really should have listened better in chemistry in school. *sighs* Although I don't think we ever did the differences in the chemical composition of semen and vaginal fluid. ;)

Yes, it's time for me to start writing in a new fandom again. And this one brings a lot of research with it. Starting at forensics (no matter if human, IT or what else have you), going on to Navy and Marine Corps procedures, ranks, police procedures, weapons and I don't know what else. Despite that I usually only write romance, I don't seem to be able to get around writing some action as well and while I can see the case and pictures from the case in my head perfectly, I'm not sure yet how I'll be able to translate that to paper (or... you know, screen).

It does help that it seems easier for me to get ideas for action parts in a TV series than if I wanted to do the same for a book-based fandom and also that dialogue (something I love anyway, but am usually a bit insecure about) seems to come more easily and naturally. I'm a very audio-visual learner and apparently that translates to character voices and behaviour. Which is a bit ironic considering I study literature and not media.

The fandom hopping I've been doing lately leaves me very confused.

Over Christmas I was finally interested in Negative fics again, then when I came back to Aberdeen, and while studying for exams, I read just about every one of my favourite long HP fics. After the exams I became entranced with PotC (still am at the moment) and now I added NCIS as well. And my interest in NGT and HP is as good as gone again.

I just don't know what to do with myself. Never mind that I still have a long WIP to finish in NGT fandom (we'll not even talk about all the HP WIPs still floundering on my harddrive, okay?), but it won't work when I only write every few months when I'm interested in that particular fandom again.

And I wonder. I used to be interested in only HP, was for 3 or 4 years. And now I seem simply unable to stick to one fandom. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't lose almost complete interest in the other fandoms. Makes it very hard to keep communicating with people, following stories, etc.

That doesn't mean I'm not excited about DH coming out this summer. I am. Very much so in fact. HBP left me with absolutely no ideas for fics or interest to read about other versions of the 7th book (big exception to this is copperbadge's Cartographer's Craft); I just wanna know what JKR has in store.

Somehow I'm not surprised. *lol*

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Life is just nuts right now.

After I finallz finished my essay last Thursday, I thought I'd have a bit more time, but instead there is just more and more stuff creeping up. I neglected Gaelic a bit while I was writing my essay, and it's getting harder, so there's a lot I need to catch up on there. Then there's all the reading I have to do for my other class (East Lynne - 650 pages - by Thursday) and meeting friends, doing laundry, tidying, grocery shopping, internet (which always takes more time here, because I don't have wireless access in my room), talking to friends at home, going to various events from the International Society here...

Just dropped out of the percy_ficathon, because I just couldn't do it. I need time to write, not just half an hour here and there, but hours on end and this is so not happening right now. I hope to finish the fic someday though, because I do like the idea.

Am I looking forward to the Christmas holidays! 34 days to go.