Ladies and gentleman, I thought that perhaps it would behoove me to note that I am in fact alive and well. I use the term "well" rather loosely in the same way most people use the casual greeting phrase, "How are you?" By which I mean they don't mean anything at all.

Things have rather been up and down, in and out, on and off. Good times and lovely people tempered by 2000 miles of distance between he and I. Paranoia does not a romance make. But despite our flaws I'd like to think that we get along all right. I have a lot of hope for us, and hope is not something I normally indulge in. Hoping is a step further than most anything goes for me. So that is...something, I suppose.

I have had home-made Udon noodles with prime Angus steak, marinated mushrooms, onions, and sweet soy sauce coupled with gyoza and cherry wine. I have had the company of people I enjoy and I have held an adorable adolescent chihuahua in my lap. I am, for the moment, quite content.

There is work to be done, but for now I shall succumb to the pleasure of lethargy.

His birthday is coming up rather quickly now and I am endeavoring to send as much love as I can in a single package by mail.

I have never written a love letter and I find that I am horrendous at it. This is quite possibly the hardest thing that I've ever tried to write.

Challenge 287 is now over! This week's challenge, Challenge #288, is:

Field Trip

Have at it! As ever, please keep replies to 100 words, and put separate entries in separate posts.

So, I was reading a fic for a fandom where the two most common pairings are AxB and CxD. Both are non-canon pairings, though they are established fanon. The fic in question, however, is my otp for the fandom, BxC, a relatively obscure pairing. The fic itself wasn't half bad. It was awkwardly worded in places, but it's a really, really old fic and the author was very new to writing at the time she wrote it so it didn't bother me so much.

Or, it didn't until the author broke the nice, comfortable flow of the fic to have C, who's POV it was written from, explain why he wasn't with D and why B was with him rather then A. Not only was this completly unnecessary, but it broke the mood and flow of the story, jarring me right out of the fic. It would have been forgivable if AxB or CxD were canon pairings, but they're not (regardless of how suggestive the official art is). They are fanon, and therefore don't require explaination of their breakup, and if one feels they really need to throw it in there, could you at least make sure it smoothly works into the story, not just "What about A and D you ask? Oh, they just weren't right for us!"

So today I got on the M23 bus and went to transfer to the 6 train, everything went swimmingly until I swiped my metrocard and it kept telling me to "please swipe again", now I've had this issue before but I mean, this card REALLY was not letting me go. I went to the booth lady and she gave me the little envelope to mail it in and told me that there was still money on it, but it was probably damaged and told me to buy a new metrocard. This was frustrating, but I'm fairly amicable so I went along with it.

Now I had a shiny brand new metrocard with $20.75 on it(after swiping myself into the train). Fast forward about 8 hours later, it's time to go home from school, and lo and behold, my awesome new metrocard is telling me to please swipe again! A lot! So now I went up to the new ticket booth lady, explained what had happened and she checked the balance on the card which said $00.00. Needless to say, I was losing my mind. She was very nice about it and let me go in for free. My question to you, New Yorkers is: has this happened to you before? Do you know why? I didn't really mind dealing with it with the first card because there was only about 9 bucks on it, but to have it happen twice in one day when I had only used my new card once is more than a little nerve wracking.

I honestly have no idea what went wrong here, maybe some of you have had a similar issue and can help me out? Thanks a bunch.
Lovingly,
Allegra

It's called Setsugekka ーThe end of silenceー and it's coming out on december 12th.


Apparently the band lineup for this single is:

Bass: Ni~Ya from Nightmare
Drums: Tsukasa from D'espairsRay
Guitar: Shun from Duel Jewel
YOU from GacktJOB also took part in the project.



In other words I am pretty fucking STOKED.

Before I even write this, I know that half of the comments are going to be some variation of "My God, you're such a egotistical entitled brat!" but nevertheless, I shall carry on.

( So, it starts normal... )

Dear Fangirl,

So you have this fic where Hero A and chaotic neutral Anti-Villain B (who in this fic is apparently now a hero?  Wth did I miss something?) go on a desperate cross-country road trip together, pursued and dogged in their flight by Villain C and his teenage Henchwoman D (who in canon is kind of supposed to be dead but I digress).

The problems with your fic are as follows:
( I don't think Pennsylvania looks like that... )

No Love,
Me

I know any review is a good review but...

Is it too much to ask that you spend the majority of your review discussing the story instead of bashing the plot and main pairing of the canon? I wouldn't be writing fic for this fandom if I didn't like the canon. I mostly write non-canon pairings, but a quick look at my journal would show I've made my peace with the canon ship. My journal isn't your personal soapbox.

I'm looking for this song :
"hana-ichimonme" by Go5girls.
花いちもんめ★新橋Go5ガールズ.
 
but,

ANYTHING: -  Albums, mp3's etc. by Go5Girls,
would be awesome! ^_^ Thanks!
 

I haven't downloaded a game from Stardock in a long time. I was thinking of Downloading Dragon Age:Origins, buts its huge and so forth. They're customer service decent(does it even exist?)? How well do they deal with disconnections during downloads? How fast have you been able to download?(I use cable)

And any opinions on the game if you've played it?

Does anyone know where I can buy a goose in the Manhattan, or Brooklyn area? I'd prefer Manhattan. I called Whole Foods, but they said they weren't carrying it this year.

Thanks for any help given!

This probably comes with a huge helping of YMMV.

Author, sweetie. I love your story. I really do. It's compelling, the characters are IC, the plot is a favorite of mine. But here's my problem: About 30 chapters into your epic, all of a sudden you change your tone, voice and point of view so that this one character can share this long and involved history. This history of his is in its own chapter and when copied to Word is 15 pages long. I have been jarred completely out of your story. I'm going to finish reading, but I'm insanely confused. I know you could have dropped this information throughout your story instead of devoting an entire chapter to an info dump. I know you could have handled the whole thing so much better than simply cramming all of it into one chapter in a different style, voice and point of view. If this random change of style/voice/pov/etc. was something consistent throughout your story, I'd forgive you. But it's not.

Edit for clarification.

I'm wondering if anyone here knows if any bars in Manhattan will be showing the Cotto/Pacquiao PPV fight this Saturday?

No real preference for location. a place with some sort of bar food (especially bar food DEALS) would be awesome.

please and thanks!

I am feeling like a very old New Yorker.

The news just had a story oh the fact that there were 4 muggings in Central Park in the past month. As I was thinking wow thats low the news started acting as if this was  horrid.

I grew up 3 blocks from the park (78 bway) we all knew it was dangerous and you never went there after dark, it was the big scary thing to go at 9pm it showed how brave you were. And now people were going "OH its dangerous I didnt know?" as if it was shocking, clean subways? nice cops? the LES a place people want to live, and walmart wanting to open a store here, this isnt the city i grew up in, yup old New Yorker.

ash

YMMV

I'm not really an American-picker, for the most part. Though, I am something of a teeth-grinder and non-commenter when military stuff is screwed up. Not that I comment because I screw military stuff up so I keep my mouth shut.

Anyway. Despite our overweening love of all things automobile, the United States of America does have trains. We have a huge and well used railroad system that hauls millions of tons of freight every single day. Cities have freight yards where goods are off-loaded and on-loaded. Intermodal freight systems are very popular on our railways. We even have *gasp* passenger trains that run across the entire country, length, breadth, and slantwise. It may not be popular or normalized in the media, but trains do exist in the US of A and we do make prodigious use of them. All Americans know what trains are and that we have them because in every part of America there are train tracks. We even use the expression "They grew up on the wrong side of the tracks." That refers to the train tracks, not animal tracks or some other thing. Even completely moronic, uneducated Americans will know what a train is and what train tracks are for. A reasonably educated American, say a CSI character, will not be completely shocked and totally surprised to find that Las Vegas has train tracks running through it. Nor will he be shocked and surprised to discover that working trains actually use said tracks.

Very nitpicky, and may be YMMV, but if a teacher were to call a student "eye candy," there may be some sexual harrassment issues. Also, I'm not really sure why a teacher would assign an essay to compare Dickens and Shakespeare. Unless, of course, they're covering the entire span of British literature in one week. Generally, when I was in high school, you'd be assigned two authors from similar periods, or who wrote similar genres, to compare and contrast, not two random British writers. It's kind of like me saying "Write an essay comparing Stephen Sondheim and Louisa May Alcott." Not wrong, just... random.
Also, when it's considered "mild-character bashing" to have a slightly annoying but harmless character rape someone, you need to change your perception filters ;)
Oh, and Kurt's still not a girl (ETA: insert random Glee rant) and Ianto's more than capable of defending himself when Jack's not dragging him into potentially hazardous situations without any gear. Just saying.

I'm allowed to like the mainstream pairings in my fandom.

No, seriously. There's no need to call my mainstream pairing "stupid cliche bishie yaoi bullshit" to my face.

Just thought it might be interesting to see what signs/places/etc. cause songs to become stuck in your head.
Recently it was subway signs.
Chuck D saying "If you see something, you better say something"
Kathleen Hannah singing "My, my metro card" over and over and over...
Althea or Donna(not sure which) singing "Uptown top ranking" also over and over.
The kind of thing that episodes of head bashing against walls doesn't seem to help. :)

Title: Leon get's a clue
Author:mysticdreamer32
Paring: D/Leon
Rating:PG
Warning:none
Summary: written for the exuberance prompt.
http://mysticdreamer32.livejournal.com/124849.html