Right. I've had something of a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week, and from what I understand, I am not alone. Add in the fact that Remix X signups are opening VERY SOON and I don't qualify for the fandoms I'd like to write in most... The obvious answer is the thing that makes me happiest in the world. CLICHES. So, whatever, let's do a thing.

The Multi-Fandom Cliche Meme

Fake boyfriends, accidental marriages, and amnesia, OH MY!

Details here!

1) HAPPY BIRTHDAY aredblush YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, BB. ♥

2) Remix time is coming up soon! I know a lot of us have fandoms we don't qualify for that we'd like to, so I was considering doing a multifandom comment meme/prompt fest to help get the story counts where it would need to be. But the question becomes: Random prompts? A specific type of prompt? Or a theme?

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3) Inspiration is hard! And while I'm trying to figure out item #2, I thought it'd be fun to try try and get a headstart. So, whatever, a different kind of meme:
The iPod Shuffle
No, not that one. Let's be honest, when we need inspiration, the first place we go is our music library. So let's try something a little bit different. My music library is no help to me, but maybe it can be for someone else. Here's how this thing works:
1) Comment to this post, and I'll give you a prompt in the form of whatever song shuffles up next on whatever music player I've got going at the time.
2) Turn on the music player of your choice to shuffle, post this to your own journal and dole out prompts. No, you can't hide your shameful music. If it shuffles up, that's the gig.
3) Write/draw/whatever way you create for the prompt you've been given: post it. Again, no hiding the shame. Even if you think it's awful, post it.
4) Link your finished product to the prompt comment, because it's always lovely to see the results. ♥

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MULTI FANDOM CUDDLING MEME 2: CUDDLE HARDER

... This is me begging forgiveness for my absence, btw. Please don't hate me, internet. Please write me cuddles. :(

Right. So, apparently I can't figure out how to crosspost. Shocker.

EVEN MORE SHOCKING?

I wrote Hunger Games fic. This Is the World We Wanted.

I'm just going to go hide now. And try to figure out this damn crossposting thing again.

Except to say, I finally canceled my automatic renewal for LJ. So if I haven't found you on DW yet, let's, yeah?

Right, I've been pretty much absent from everything not twitter, but I still have ~feelings.

Sadly, right now, they aren't good ones toward LJ. From here on forward, I'll probably cross post from dreamwidth, for as active as I am. Just a reminder, of course, I can be found everywhere that I have an account with this same username. Twitter, pinboard, gmail, and dreamwidth. (For AIM, on the rare occasions that can happen lately, you have to add a "The" in front. Someone beat me to it, for the only time on the ENTIRE INTERNET. I'm still bitter.)

Anyway! COME JOIN ME IN MY DREAMWIDTH JOURNAL WARMING PARTY. FEEL FREE TO BRING A FRIEND.

Posting on the dl since I'm supposed to be working like a fucking bee or something idk, idk, I'm not used to having this many things on the list of Very Important Shit I Really Must Do. But! But, this is also VERY IMPORTANT, okay.

*\o/* *\o/* HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NAS *\o/* *\o/*

aredblush is one of the worst influences to ever influence, and she makes me do ridiculous things like write the Inception team as Care Bears, but she's amazing and kind and sweet and always there to make me smile when I'm ready to throw all the things. She is FANTASTIC and she deserves all the love and best wishes ever, ever, ever.

Basically, what I'm saying here is aredblush =

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I still owe her like, a decent bday present, but in the meantime she's saying that this little thing I wrote about Steve's tattoos could count. Because she's awesome, if I haven't mentioned that before.

I'M JUST SAYING, OKAY.

Right. Now back to work.

Finally, finally, finally getting an issue with the restaurant taken care of, but it requires me to be there when I'm also supposed to be on the phone with the hospital, since my surgery is tomorrow. Still have other issues that aren't even close to getting fixed.

Let me just put this out there, for all future business owners, okay. Things that are not good buiness practice: making potential customers jump through hoops, not being available at the numbers listed, NOT CALLING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BUY THINGS FROM YOU. Honest to god, you'd think it was a revolutionary concept. YOU ARE IN SALES. I NEED TO PURCHASE THINGS. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?

And like that wasn't stressing me out enough, ahahaha, seriously, I'm so randomly nervous about the surgery tomorrow. Which makes no sense, really, since I mostly just want the pain to stop.

What I never want to stop, however? the H50 cliche meme! It's proven to be the most excellent distraction so far today. Here's hoping it (and YOU GUYS, I love you guys!) will keep working it's magic while I get more and more freaked the fuck out. Here's hoping.

AH, okay, must now attempt to impersonate a real life functioning adult. Who is productive. Sigh.

Because there is no such thing as too much of a good thing, especially if you live in paradise:

The Hawaii Five-0 Cliche Meme

Fake boyfriends, accidental marriages, and amnesia, OH MY!

Whatever your poison, whatever you favorite cliche, it's open and allowed here. Want to see Steve and Danny make out for cover and discover their ~true feelings? What about when they have to pretend to be boyfriends to keep cover? When they're forced to share a bed all ~platonic-like for weeks and keep waking up cuddling and then can't sleep without each other? Maybe Grace playing matchmaker? The one where everyone but them realizes they're married? Danny gets de-aged to six and Steve has to take care of him? Steve gets magicked into a tiny, angry kitten and/or dragon? They one where they must cuddle for warmth to survive?

Maybe that isn't your flavor. Maybe you want the one where Kono is a punk rock princess that keeps getting into trouble? Or where Chin loses his memory and thinks he's back on the HPD force. Maybe the one where Kono is secretly a criminal mastermind, working the team from the inside. Or where she has the chance return to her pro surfing career and must choose. How about one where Chin goes on an epic road trip?

There is no bad cliche! Whatever your favorite, I promise I want to read/see it, too.

The Rules

♥ Every cliche welcome!
♥ All pairings, ratings, mediums, and genres can be included!
♥ Any word count works!
♥ Have fun and be kind. ♥♥♥

Comment and share the love! ♥

Well, this is going to work like a list again. Sometimes being multifannish is hard, yo.

1) Panic! moved their release date up by a week! I AM SO EXCITE. I feel like I've been waiting for basically ever.

2) The prompt post for this week's theme (kids!) is up at harlequincepted cause foxxcub is on the ball. I have so many things I want to write for this theme and no time at all to write them. WRITE THEM FOR ME, GUYS. PLEASE?

3) I missed Kurt tonight. And, uh, look, Sam is growing on me a lot. A lot a lot. Leaps and bounds. Basically I would be happy if this show was just Sam, Kurt, Blaine, Puck, Brittany and Santana.

4) I continue to be crazy, stupid in love with Hawaii Five-0. Crazy, stupid in love. Since it will be added to the Remix list this year, I was thinking about doing a H5-0 cliche meme, to help those (me) who might want to qualify for and don't. Plus, you know, I've never met a cliche I didn't like. FAKE BOYFRIENDS! Accidentally married! Kid!fic! One room at the inn! THINK OF ALL THE POSSIBILITIES, YOU GUYS.

5) A poll, before I rush in head first, since my online time is going to be a little more limited the rest of the week. Plus, ahahaha, Friday. (Stupid routine surgery, why are you terrifying?) Anyway!

Today has been a day, my surgery has been moved, all of the things failed to become accomplished, and I owe so very many comment and email answers. I will get to those, I swear! Cross my heart! But right now it's 1:42, and I've got a dentist appointment about 40 minutes away at 8 in the morning. So, I LOVE YOU, I WILL GET THERE, I SWEAR IT.

In the meantime, though, a few things I couldn't help but share:

1) Remix time is fast approaching, as it tends to do, and discussion of fandoms to add/remove is going on here. Just ftr though, Inception and H5-0 will both be added this year. I AM SO EXCITED. And need to hurry and get some fic written so I qualify in H5-0. But come over and join the discussion! See what'll it take for us to entice you all to come play with us this year! :DD

2) harlequincepted's new theme is up! We're going with kid!fic this round, which covers everything from baby-on-the-doorstep to Eames-is-suddenly-six. CANNOT WAIT to see what turns up in this. ♥

3) So there's this band you may have heard me mention once or twice. Empires? Tiny band I've done stupid things to see. Would do stupid things to see again. Yeah, yeah, you've seen the flail. These dudes are fantastic in at least a billion ways, and they are unsigned, and here is your chance to help them get some recognition they absolutely deserve by voting for them to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Do it, do it, DO IT FOR ME, OKAY, IF NOT FOR THEM.

4) Seriously THANK YOU to all the people who told me about that thing on H5-0 tonight. Ahahaha. I will be updating the pimping post regularly to keep up with that thing. Probably not everything else, because, uh, not sure if you've noticed this but: STEVE AND DANNY ARE MARRIED. I'd try and show you every moment that proves it, but that's pretty much every minute they are on screen together. Also, because it really must be said, OH MY GOD TONIGHT'S EPISODE. OH MY GOD THEM. I love them so much.

5) EVERYONE SHOULD GO LOOK AT aredblush's SUPER AWESOME FANTASTIC Valentine's Day card. Bandom and Inception and HAWAII FIVE-OH, OH MY. Honestly, I think she can't be more amazing, and she draws a Steve/Danny ninja Spider-man kiss. DYING from how much I adore it. DYING.

I am having a day. This is a day of random incoherent rage, but whatever, I'm working on it. The internet makes all the things better, right?

It helps that The Inception Anon Love Meme is still going strong. It's fabulous to know that there are people out there who really just want to make someone else feel better about themselves. There's something to be said for making someone else smile. The whole thing just warms my cold, dead heart. ♥♥♥

I am totally going to have to do a second part to the Steve/Danny pimping post. Partly because I was unaware that I was writing a primer, and partly because I managed to miss art in the last post. But look, look at Steve and Danny. Look how happy they are. Don't you want them to keep smiling and being happy and building sandcastles with Grace? *coughs* The point here, is if you have any Hawaii Five-0 recs, be they fic or art or comms, please for the love of god hand them over.

Seriously, though, seriously, I want the story where Danny gets hurts and Rachel flips out again and threatens to take custody back to court because clearly his life is a danger to Grace, so Steve is like, NO, NO, I GOT THIS. And in order to seem like Danny's is a stable environment he and Danny get married, and Danny moves into Steve's house--all while still recovering from like, a GSW that means Steve goes back and forth from "omg wtf you can't do that" to "stop being such a baby" because he's Steve. And Mary is pissed that she missed the wedding, and Chin is just smug because he called it, and Kono is like getting into fights at even the hint that someone is going to give Steve and Danny shit about being married (though mostly everyone is just like... and this is different how?). And then they figure their shit out and stop pretending like they're only pretending to be totally married. And Rachel is like, well finally, be by at seven for Grace on Friday, would you?

I'm pretty sure seeing the prompt or whatever like this on foxxcub's LJ is the entire reason I ended up watching this show. I want this story so much I can't stand it.

WHAT STORY DO YOU WANT TO SEE, F-LIST?

So, I've fallen into the pit of a television cop show that is the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. And, in the words of My Chemical Romance, I won't go down by myself.

This is not a Hawaii Five-0 pimping post. This is a Steve/Danny pimping post. Because spoiler: Steve and Danny are married. Chin (Daniel Dae Kim, omg, so much love) and Grace Park (testing your heterosexuality since 2010) are fantastic! They are kickass. They are the second and third best reasons to watch this show, but they aren't going to be featured here. It's isn't at all because I don't adore them; it's just because I think anyone who'd even consider the show would do so because Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park.

So, what it boils down to is this, the number one reason to watch this show: So you can fall in love with Steve and Danny and write me all of the fic.

( Let's begin with an introduction. Beware of spoilers, excessive youtube links, and things you wouldn't think could actually be canonCollapse )


( The Basics and Fun Canon Facts. Same warnings as before.Collapse )


( Steve/Danny fic recs! With stories from every option on the rating menu, so beware if you're underage!Collapse )


( Where to find pretty things and other awesomenessCollapse )

In conclusion:

Now write me some fic :D

I'm feeling like what the world needs now is some love, you guys, and what Inception fandom needs is so much love that they over-indulge like a kid in a candy store. You feel a little bit sick the rest of the day, but it tasted awesome so it was worth it.

So, you know, I am the girl with the cookies. As a rule. There may also be cake, because I'm trying out some new recipes. Anyway!

The Inception Anon Love Meme

Rules:

♥ NO BASHING
♥ ANON COMMENTS ONLY
♥ MAKE SOMEONE FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES/THEIR DAY
♥ IN THE WORDS OF THUMPER'S MOTHER: IF YOU CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE, DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.
♥ SERIOUSLY, ONLY HAPPY FUN TIMES HERE.

ETA: I know a lot of you were mentioning a friending meme in the comments here. For those still interested yanethyrael has put one up here!



In true anon meme style: anon comments enabled, IP logging off

For those of you who don't have the incredible patients I've no doubt it must take to follow me on twitter (@angelgazing, ftr, if you want to join the insanity) I am in the process of doing something I've dreamed about for as long as I can remember and opening my own restaurant.

It's not going to be anything very big, or very fancy. It's not going to be exactly the place I've imagined for years. But it's going to be mine, and I'm so excited about it I tend to lapse into verbal keysmashing when the subject comes up. (Thank whatever from high atop the thing, honestly, for gyzym's ability to understand when I speak in keysmash.)

I grew up in a restaurant, because my family owned one from the time I was four until they sold it about 9 years ago. I remember being six and training a new waitress on where the tables were. I remember learning to work the register. I still can't handle cash that isn't all facing the same direction. I remember slicing a billion lemons, and watching my great grandmother make bread, and having cake for breakfast, and buttered sourdough straight out of the oven. The smell of it baking is always going to ping a little bit like home for me. We're naming the new place after her.

Anyway, because I keep flailing like the ridiculous person that I am, and it's going to be a crazy and stupidly long process and also, I know that mostly people are here for fandom, I've decided to go ahead and create a filter for the news/updates/random flail about this and the process and getting it going. Because this is opt-in, not opt-out, if you want on the filter, please click the little radio button below:



In fandom news:

• Forced bed-sharing is the new theme at harlequincepted
  
• I have fallen crazy stupid in love with Hawaii 5-0
  
• I need all the fic ever where Steve and Danny are accidentally married. I need MOAR. There is not enough!
  
• I am totally working on A/E fic, I swear!
  
• Eventually, I will be writing A/E surfer fic. HERE'S HOPING IT DOESN'T TURN INTO H5-0 AU.
  

EMPIRES, YOU GUYS, FOR REAL. STILL MY FAVORITE. <333333

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In other news, I love my new iPhone. Video quality, so amazing.

So, I've pretty much decided to go ahead and hit Chicago this weekend. I mentioned it to my mother and her response was "well, it will be your last chance for a while." CURSE YOU, ADULTHOOD. >:(

But the important part of that story is EMPIRES. EMPIRES FOR ME THIS WEEKEND. :DDDD

Also, it has come to my attention--and to absolutely no one's surprise--that there is, in fact, not a single fake boyfriend fic that I don't want like burning. ♥___♥

Also, also, I am attempting to cut back on Diet Dr. Pepper and it HURTS MY HEAD SO MUCH. DDDDD:

Also, also, also, I have had Firecracker by Katy Perry stuck in my head since I woke up. >:(

Also, also, also, also: THIS HAPPENED. :DDDDDD

OKAY WHO WANTS TO HELP ME THINK OF FAKE BOYFRIEND PLOTS?

You guys, you guys, I know you've all seen this already, but harlequincepted!! GO! JOIN! WRITE ME FAKE BOYFRIEND FIC. :DDDD This is gonna be glorious. You know you want in.

Seriously though, the list of my bulletproof kinks pretty much goes like this:

1. Fake boyfriends!
   
2. Banter
   
3. Accidentally married
   
4. Pining
   
5. ROAD TRIP
   
6. EVERY OTHER CLICHE EVER
   

This is gonna be the best, I can tell already. ♥______♥



Now the question becomes: WHO IS GONNA WRITE ME THE CAN'T BUY ME LOVE AU?

*chinhands forever*

I totally missed doing the year-end round up, and I know at this point you all are sick of resolution posts and the like. So let me just say this:

I LOVE YOU, LJ. I LOVE YOU, FANDOM. YOU MAKE MY LIFE BEARABLE WHEN I THINK I AM GOING TO GO NUTS AND I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT I EVER DID WITHOUT YOU. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DID TO MAKE 2010 WORTH PUTTING UP WITH. ♥♥♥♥

I defaulted on yuletide, because real life has decided to get all up in my grill and just keep me the busiest ever. For a temporary part time employee, they are kicking my ass. And scheduling me beyond what I was expecting. :\

This is especially disappointing tonight, when my bb bro is turning 21 at midnight and I cannot go to the party and get wasted with him and the other brother I get along with very well because I've got to be at work at 8 in the morning. As best I can figure, this will require that I leave my house around 6am. Sooo much booze. So many drinking games. Such a sober and sad Nichole, sitting at home. :( UNABLE TO SLEEP, WTF IT IS 11:36. *wails*

I've also come to the realization that I just Do Not Want to go back to school next semester. It's terrible. Just... I don't want to deal with Asshole Professor Dude again. I don't. I don't want to drive every day. I don't want to take a class on business and management principles just because my school can't separate business and information technology (which, hey, not interested in anyway.)

All I've been able to think about lately is how much I would love, love, love to have my own coffeeshop/bakery/sandwich place. There would be a wall of chalkboard with the daily specials, and comfy chairs if you wanna relax and a wall with shelves of take one/leave one books. But also tables and yummy soup and possibly even pasta like I grew up with. It would be delicious and awesome, and I would probably weight a billion pounds but fuck I would be happy and I would have ALL OF THE MUFFINS. And it would be glorious.

*sighs* This has left me with something of a moral dilemma. On a scale of 1 to John Gosselin, where would I fall if I started talking to a dude I know has got a pretty gigantic thing for me that I'm sort of... eh about outside of YAY AWESOME FRIEND again just because I think he has a connection that could help me find the perfect place for that?

Lalalala I am a terrible person lalalala.