| FFVII 25-streetsigns (brothers) table of contents post |
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| FFVII 30 for 3 (S/Z/C) table of contents post (plus a non-theme fic) |
[31 Dec 2010|06:00pm] |
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| FF7/KH/Fruits Basket crossover index - Princess Tohru |
[31 Dec 2010|05:33pm] |
Anybody remember the crazy FF7/Kingdom Hearts/Fruits Basket crossover from June? This post is the index for that series, since it doesn't seem to want to quit. :3
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| Anyone got a couple hours' reading time today? |
[10 Oct 2009|11:42am] |
I'm trying to finish off an origfic by a deadline but since it's origfic I don't know if I'm the only person it would make sense to due to the info being only in my head. (that's one thing you don't have to worry about with fanfic -- everybody else knows the world and the people too!) Also I'd like to have some kind of indicator of whether or not it sucks. ^^;;;
Anybody have a couple hours' reading time today?
I'd really like to get some idea whether the tree I'm barking up is even worth barking, so to speak, so that if I need to toss it out I'd still have next weekend for mad high-speed rewrites...
I've got the replies screened so that if anyone feels like leaving me their email address it'll be safe. I'll probably just grab the first volunteer I know well enough...
ETA- I have a volunteer! Thank you! ^____^ (fic sent along...)
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| got the pictures worked in! |
[01 Aug 2009|05:14pm] |
Posted the recipes themselves last weekend, nabbed some photo sorting and editing time today...
Cooking with Zack - Mrs. Fair's home cooking
Pairings: N/A (...what, mouth/food? XD)
Rating: G (I assume)
Warnings: Capsaicin overload. Also, Zack playing with fire. :3
( And_Cupcakes on IJ )
( And_Cupcakes on DW )
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| Fan-fanworks, overthinkeritis, and Way Too Many Serrano Chiles (TM) later... |
[26 Jul 2009|03:18pm] |
Gongagan cuisine at its finest.
As inspired by Jou's birthday-fic Cooking with Zack. :3
Pictures coming... later. (On the bright side? I bet I have leftovers for a week!)
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| There are times I would not believe my life if I was not living it myself |
[23 Jul 2009|09:55pm] |
Finding oneself locked into one's own guest bedroom is not an event one prepares for.
House is from 1933. All the doors are original. None of them closed when I bought the place. I've replaced all the latches with same-period inserts and the original door hardware is still there. For 3 years this was no problem.
Tonight? Tonight I closed myself into the guest bedroom because it's also the office and the tea room, and the cat is not allowed into the tea room because he's convinced that somewhere there is catnip if he can only destroy enough to get at it. So leaving the door open is not an option.
Putter putter putter, tinker tinker tinker, done with project, go to turn door knob... and it turns and turns and turns and turns and I'm pretty sure it's gone all the way around and hey look at that it HAS gone all the way around and there has been a complete failure to engage the latch. And it goes around again. Oh fun. Now what?
Two windows. One goes out on top of the evillest thorniest (and best-smelling) rose bush ever. The other goes out on top of the giant thorny juniper bush. Did I mention I'm only wearing my pajamas? And that I don't know if my neighbors with my spare key are home from work? And that my parents live in another city? And that if I climb out the window, there is not a darn thing I can do to get back into my house because my purse is in the living room since, strangely enough, I was not anticipating needing my house key while going from room to room INSIDE my house?
And all the tools are in my bedroom and my basement and my garage. I have tools all over the place. I think I even have some in the kitchen. The guest bedroom? No tools. I could get the doorknob fixed with a flat head screwdriver. No screwdrivers in here. Folded over tea bag edges are not sturdy enough. (Yes I know this by empirical experimentation.) The wire hook on a hanging folder is too squiggly to twist correctly. (Also empirical experimentation.) No coat hangers for attempts at lock picking from inside to see if I can get at the latch. Headphone jacks do not substitute for coat hangers. What else have I got in here?
...well, it's the tea room. I have a teaspoon.
I broke out of my guest room with a TEASPOON.
I have since:
Breathed a huge sigh of relief that I didn't need to jump out the window in my pajamas into a thornbush and hobble across the cobblestone street barefoot and half-naked to the neighbors' house,
taken apart and repaired the lock, and
made damn sure that I have a flat-head screwdriver in there now.
...I should probably make sure I have a flat-head screwdriver in all the rest of the rooms, come to think of it.
I swear I wouldn't believe my life if I wasn't living through it.
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| More FF7 sackboys |
[11 Jul 2009|09:54pm] |
(More crocheted madness over at weloveamigurumi -- Sackiroth has comrades now! SackZack, SackCloud, and SackVincent are in action, along with Jenova's yarn-dripping hacked-off crocheted skull. :3
...I wonder what it says about my sanity that I have actually crocheted a hacked-off skull and left the stuffing and yarn dangling as the equivalent of blood and guts.
There'll be more Adventures of Sackiroth posts One Of These Days(TM), because I have literally hundreds of pictures snapped at various cons and plotting out various bits of mischief between the sackboys, but I'm unlikely to have time to code 'em up until the annual "summer work-inundation from hell" period is over. Normally it doesn't hit 'til August; this year it hit in June and hasn't slowed down yet. But one of these days...
By the way - it's my birthday tomorrow. :3 If anyone happened to feel like telling me which of my fics they like best, or quoting a favorite line, or writing a drabble (or a recipe) into a comment, that definitely counts as presents in my worldview... :)
Oh yeah -- one more thing on my wish list?
Would anyone be willing to make a short (20-seconds or less) sound clip of Sephiroth's Advent Children lines about "On your knees; I want to hear you beg forgiveness" or "I've thought of something to give you, Cloud. Shall I give you despair?" ...and then run it through the filter that turns it all chipmunk-pitched?
This is on account of how Sackiroth has a voice chip in him, and I would looooooooove to get that on there. (Particularly in chibivoice.) But I lack the requisite editing skills. :3
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| not your everyday sandwich |
[26 May 2009|11:28pm] |
for anybody who likes chocolate-covered strawberries?
character recipes over at and_cupcakes. :3
*flat now, zzz*
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| It seems to be going around like the flu |
[20 May 2009|07:01pm] |
THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME
....okay I edited the font size there, but the whole HUUUUGE HEADLINE NAO thing kinda gets on my designer's instincts a little...
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| So what would you like to see next? |
[18 May 2009|02:24pm] |
Given that the number of ideas I have waiting in line for free time is always a multiple of the amount of free time actually available, what would you like to see get worked on first?
(Note 1: The results of this aren't going to be binding on account of how the amount of work I have left to do on various next-installments varies from "a couple more pages" to "first I have to do the outline and then...", but I will keep it in mind when priority-setting.)
(Note 2: "All of them! All at once!" is just as much not an option as "Naruto," thanks guys. XD There is a reason I used radio buttons rather than ticky boxes.)
Poll #3736 What world would you like to see a ficbit from next?
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllWhat would you like to be the first thing I work on when I get free time? What should be the second thing I work on, then? Since it seems to be traditional...
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| I may have created a monster |
[30 Apr 2009|09:41pm] |
...no wait, I know I have created a monster.
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) sackiroth
I'm going to take random Sackiroth pictures (and SackFair pictures, and eventually SackCloud and SackAngeal and SackWhoeverTheHeckElse pictures once I get 'em done) and post 'em to the community with Ever So Helpful Commentary(TM). (See also Sackiroth's introductory speech. Also my cat's stupendous level of unimpressedness with Sackiroth's attempts at cat intimidation.)
Once Sackiroth gets to Jou, she says she'll take pictures of him around Japan and post those too! <3
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| icon meme! |
[20 Apr 2009|09:11pm] |
From ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) white_aster!
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.
( icon rambleage here )
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| Guessing game |
[14 Apr 2009|06:50pm] |
I've got next to no wireless signal, so we'll see whether I can actually get this posted (and crossposted) or not... XD
I've wondered whether my writing has got as many identifiers as I guiltily suspect it does -- stuff that means you can take one (okay, maybe two) looks and go 'yep, that's chibirisuchan.' So here's a bit of a challenge.
I wrote one of the FF7 Anonymous Kink Meme fics. (The FF7 kink indexer has helpfully compiled a list of links that go directly to the stories.)
Anyone want to guess which one is mine? (And/or contribute more fics or requests to it while you're there? ^_~)
I'm screening comments so that folks can't see what else has been guessed already. XD
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| braggin' rights pt 2: Sackiroth! :3 |
[04 Apr 2009|01:05pm] |
So, two days ago I didn't remember how to do a single crochet stitch.
By last night, here's what I'd gotten done:
( Fear Teh Cuuuuute! )
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| braggin' rights |
[02 Apr 2009|10:42pm] |
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A little while ago, one of the LJ FF7 communities had a link to this adorable little sackboy!Reno amigurumi.
I went DUUUUUUUUUUUDE! ♥♥♥
Only problem? It had been about a quarter of a century since I'd touched a crochet hook.
At 7 p.m. tonight I didn't even know how to do a standard single crochet correctly.
At 10:45 p.m. tonight I have my first smiley sackboy head more than halfway done. :3
And it would have been faster if I hadn't forgotten a significant factor in my calculations: The last time I did any kind of industrial-strength yarnfidgeting, I did not own a cat.
Starting at approx. 7:05:
Cat: (yawn) (stretch) (spots the shiny crochet hook) ...whatchadoin?
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: HOSHIT--
Cat:
Me: AAAAUUUUUUUGH--
(insert bloodshed, mayhem, and much yowling from both parties involved)
Me: ...and STAY OUT!
Cat: No faaaaaair! You cheat, you lying cheating thumbiferous thing with thumbs that invented evil evil EVIL doors and it's not faaaaaaaaaaair -- didja hear me yet? Didja?
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ...
Cat: I SAID DIDJA HEAR ME YET?
Me: ...I think I could get to hate my life.
I finally gave up the notion of getting the whole head done when I stopped to look at the chart, moved my hand, made a really embarrassing noise, and realized that my entire hand had turned into a cramped-up painball and I wasn't entirely sure I could still feel my thumb. Note for next time: distribute the crafting over several days, not one soooooolid crochet session...
Still. Not bad for the first time I've touched a crochet hook in a quarter century. :3
ETA: Now with pictures!
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| I has a shiiiiny |
[10 Mar 2009|10:11pm] |
Paid off the last of the flood-related credit card bills with income tax return (woooot!) THEN I got $400 the state has owed me for 6 months that I thought I'd never see because of the budget crisis but hey mailbox surprise of the good kind! :3
And the last time I bought a new laptop? 1993. (I bought a thoroughly used one in 2001, but even at the time it was too unpatchable to network, and it's older than the invention of USB ports so if it doesn't fit on a floppy I'm doomed. So yeah. Kinda time for a new laptop. I've been doing just fine for years on work laptops, but it'd be nice to have one that was honest-to-goodness *mine,* y'know? Plus the hilarious part is I'll probably use it more at work than my work laptop, on account of how I most often use a laptop at work when in meetings or training sessions that last several hours and don't always have power handy. The official work laptop gets about 2 hours on a charge. This one? 9 1/2 according to specs, which I figure is probably 6 real-life. Still. Battery power goooood!)
...so. Shiiiiiny. :3 Should be here some time next week.
o-omg I really REALLY hope the self-indulgence is not an indicator that it's time for my basement to flood again...
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