For the hell of it:
☆the SORTING HAT meme☆

Random 1: Harry Potter tonight! \o/ Huzzah! I will be spending from about 7.30PM onward in line with my cousin Devon. Yes, it's that crazy. ♥ I plan on sneaking rum balls and possibly chocolate-coated espresso beans in with me. I may not even have to sneak, since the theater announced that it's going to allow line-sitters to bring in dinner with them lol. Devon and I are debating barbecue versus something less messy.

Random 2: After extensive tests, I have discovered that shaving with shampoo rather than actual shaving products keeps the hair gone longer and does not leave my legs feeling peeled or as bloody. o.ô It also has the convenience of being cheaper. Very odd.

Random 3: I got sucked into TV Tropes today. D: I only just worked my way free after hours of grueling battle against crosslinks, but now I desperately want to find a copy of the Red Zone cover showing Iron Man and Cap in a Pieta pose for posting to the site. It's the one where Tony's angst actually warps his metal faceplate into emoting? I may have to use my own pic tomorrow (I have it on my laptop), since I won't have time tonight.

Random 4: Dragonrider!Tony is apparently not all that different from Canon!Tony, in the whole "trying to die to save Steve" thing. (facepalm) The main difference seems to be that his dragon approves and supports this, which I suppose makes sense. If Rinnamoth didn't support Tony's behavior, Tony might actually value his own life a little and that would be just wrong. On the other hand, the resulting scene should be really, really fun to write if I handle it well. (Handling Well is still up about twenty-scenes away from being an answered question.)

Have you ever had one of those random urges that make no sense at the time, but you want to do them anyways? I do. Every time I walk through the door to work I find myself itching to see if I can pick the lock. Every. Single. Time. I know I shouldn't, because lol, I have a key! Why would I need to pick the lock? And anyway, there's probably some sort of security measures in place—it's an inner door, so maybe not, but IDK. That would be embarrassing, getting picked up by security for picking a lock I have a key to.

It looks like a simple lock to pick though. ¬¬;;

In other news, I have crafted a piece of person canon for myself. Yesterday afternoon, as I poured myself a cup of coffee and subsequently poured it all over the counter, I decided that clearly Tony Stark has built his own coffee maker and carafe. See, I have yet to meet a coffee pot that doesn't spill when pouring the first cup. It's always sort of freaky. I mean, we put a man on the moon, but we can't make a coffee pot that doesn't spill. WTF, world? Tony would take that as a personal affront, probably, and redesign the carafe. Then, while he's at it, why not build a better machine? Instead of one carafe, make it three smaller ones, set to go off at intervals, so that the coffee is always fresh. Don't forget that it needs to measure out the grounds and water itself, and it needs a back-up battery so that it doesn't lose the time (or the programmed brew timer) in the event of a short power outage. Knowing Tony, it's probably a voice-activated AI and something of a smartass, but that's just Tony. I'm sure everyone else in the house is a little worried by the talking coffee pot.

I need to think of some issues for Tony. (Believe it or not, this is actually hard.) Specifically, defense mechanisms. It's a long long long story, but I've already used the alcoholism and am now drawing a blank for some reason. ._. I'm sure it'll come to me.

Final reason for posting on a Monday! I'm going to the midnight showing of Harry Potter tomorrow! Gods, work on Wednesday is going to be pain. :D WORTH IT.

ETA: Also, o.o http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/

I really should be ashamed of myself. (facepalm) 2000 words last night, a complete short fic, and it's pretty much an excuse for me to go "oh, Tony" as often as possible. Icon relevant. On the positive side, I'm sort of stringing together a 'verse out of it. This one would come after the SR series, about simultaneously with the Discworld thing (still needs beta for postings, but gods, I've got too much backed up lol), but before Tony's Headspace thingy. (Longer story, still working on it, all I will say is that I wanted an excuse to use illogic and interesting imagery.)

Maybe I need to set the keyboard down and back away...

Okay, first let me admit something deeply personal. I am the geekiest geek that ever geeked in the Geekdom of planet Geek.

In other words, I did Steve and Tony's natal charts! Well, okay, I cheated and used one of the online things, because I don't have my books with me and they're usually pretty good, as long as you keep an eye out for BS. It's something of hobby, I guess. My paternal grandpa did my natal chart when I was born and, honestly, it's kind of creepy-accurate. So I started doing them for fiction characters just to see how wildly off they are.

With Steve, we got lucky. We have place, day and year. I would have liked the hour, but that'll do. The chart is copy-pasta, because I don't trust myself not to tweak it subconsciously.

Steve Rogers is a Cancer. Cancers are ruled by the moon which, predictably, mean they tends to be somewhat emotional and very changeable. Sometimes they want to be alone (sulky!Steve) and sometimes they want to be in a group (clingy!Steve). It's a mother hen sort of sign, so they like taking care of people. They don't take well to being told what to do (*cough*Private Rogers*cough*) and are very good with children. Their downsides include that they can be broody and have inferiority issues; they can be hurt very easily. Other fictional Cancers include Sailor Moon. Other famous Cancers are Sylvester Stallone and Tom Hanks.
( Steve's results )
Okay, while you all absorb that little tidbit, I'll ramble about Tony. Tony is hard for you see, Tony has no Birthday. I got around that via a super secret method. (I figured out what his sun sign probably is based on personality, took a wild and crack-filled shot in the dark, and am now slightly horrified and ashamed.) Luckily, I had to adjust it—the moon in Virgo made him much too emotionally stable and shy—or I never would have posted this lol. The problem ended up being the moon, mostly, which I am grateful for. It changes signs rapidly, but it reflects the emotions, which means I couldn't just write it off. The birth year was harder, but I decided to play it as if the Avengers were just getting started now, so as to have a modern!Tony, rather than a 1980s-hair!Tony.

I decided that Tony was born February 15, 1984, which makes him an Aquarius. Aquarians are generally very brain smart, but they're nervous types too and tend towards eccentricy. They either tend to be withdrawn and shy or very outgoing and almost exhibitionist. Either way, they have strong personalities that draw people in. In spite of that, they really don't make friends easily. Once they do, expect them to never. ever. EVER. let go. EVER. If you piss them off enough to make them let go, you may consider yourself royally screwed. Second chances are not something they do lightly. Downsides to Aquarians include egotism and a tendency to pull away from others. To quote: "Aquarians can be a threat to all they survey or a great boon for humanity in general." Other fictional Aquarians include Sailor Neptune. Other famous Aquarians are Charles Darwin and F.D. Roosevelt.
( Tony's results )
In a minor side note, I am always amused when my Tony!Sim is fascinated by the simplest things. Yesterday he managed to be fascinated by taking a bath.

Note for the unwary: I'm an American. This is relevant.

Today's rant! Health care. That is, my utter lack of it. (headdesk) My owner boss was asking for doctor recs, and I just sort of stared at her for a long time and then blurted, "I haven't been to the doctor in five years". You know, pity is not a fun thing.
( political rant, ahoy )

Yaaaaaaawwwwww—thudzzzzzzzzz.

I's a sleepy Faery. If I'm so sleepy, why am I posting? Because I'm not awake enough to write and I need to do something. Logic! I usually don't have it.

I had a very weird dream last night. Basically, it summed up as RDJ-as-Iron Man & Jensen-as-Cap standing in the middle of what looked like an exploded car lot reading their scripts. RDJ sort of.. tipped his head to the side, then turned his script upside down and said, "Am I reading this right? We make out, and that saves the world? o_O I thought there was something about reversing the polarity..."

Meanwhile, Jensen was smacking himself in the face with his script over and over again. It made his little wings wobble and was kind of adorable. "I'm so, so sorry about this. FANGIRL CHECK."

And then the dream flashed to the writers table and it was like a WinCon line up. There was P-chan and Missy Jack and Vel and... Jared. (blink) And somebody that my brain identified as a director was trying to convince them to re-write, but they were distracted by the lewd things they could do with action figures. Then the dream-narrator went on about how Jensen being signed as Cap brought the SPN batshit to Marvel and Marvel hasn't recovered since.

My cat jumped on my chest before I saw what happened next. :(

My thoughts on Cap: Reborn, limited to one thought per page for maximum WTF factor. I picked my thoughts (of which there were many) for maximum random and confusion. If you know what's going on, you've probably already read it. :D

This does not mean there's no spoilers.
( Cut for CAP SPOILERS HOMG YAAAAAAAY )
I can't wait to see the fanfic that comes out of this. :D

Posting is clearly getting to be habitual. I had this open and was typing before I remembered that it's July now lol.

Note to self: THIS is an excellent source of crack fuel for future writing. Especially note the section Reptillian Agenda. "'I am not a creature from an alien world', says Hillary". Doesn't that just scream for fanfic? Or possibly it's just Skrulls.

In other news, I love talking to my mother. Yes, 90% of it is sane, but then she randomly mentions something in one of my stories and things come together amazingly. How did I forget the Ruatha subplot? Unfortunately, this is probably going to result in a sort-of redemption for the Mastersmith. (facepalm) Did not plan that, but it totally makes sense. I didn't create a Dr. Cid, so someone needs to fill in, and Stark fits the bill. Sort of. Except for the whole "god riding around in his head" thing, and Pern really can't reproduce that sort of crazy anyway. I consider this a good thing.

Waitwaitwait... I forgot about the Basch-Noah thing. Can I even do that? I don't think I can... but mistaken identity plots are so much fun!

... (notes this for later consideration)

The S'teve becomes a Weyrleader thing will have to be shelved for another fic right now. He has waaaay too much going on for the sort of politics that would be needed. Plus, I need to think of people for him to displace. The only currently identified Weyrleaders I have are L'eon & Rinoa (Ista) and F'ury & Maria (Fort). J'mes and Lily might still be in at Benden; I really don't know how their arc is going or where it went. There's wiggle room, but I'm actually trying not to let the relationship stuff take over the plot. (I'll give you all a few minutes to stop gaping.)

Separating out S'teve gives me at least seven potential stories in this 'verse. Gods know how many I'll write, since some can be combined pretty seamlessly and a couple are pretty obvious excuses for porn lol. Larsa is an impatient little monkey though.; (eye roll) And I'm pretty sure T'ony managed to sleep with half of my named cast, including S'ora of all riders. o-O; He definitely takes advantage of helping out with the rejected riders after a mating flight, and Rinnamoth just seems to like snuggling. S'teve needs to hurry up with his plotline before I have to label them both something derogatory in my notes.

Also, I need (NEED, there is not enough emphasis for this) to find a comic book store around here somewhere TODAY. This is non-negotiable and I am fully willing to bite someone in order to make it come to pass. :| Not sure if I'll actually read it (what if they get it wrong?! D:), but at least I'll have it, right? Wow, here goes my disposable income for the next few millennia. ^^;; I should be more upset about that.

ETA: Tony insisted that SR Beta Version be four drabbles rather than three. And now I'm depressed. ._.; I think I prefer Pern!Tony. He has less creative ways to not-really-suicide.

Last post this month and I'll have managed a month straight! \o/ Huzzah! Goal achieved! Let the slacking off commence!

I actually overslept until nearly seven this morning. Thank goodness breakfast is portable, or I'd have been more than just a couple of minutes late. ._.; Hopefully I'll be able to crash properly this weekend and maybe catch up on some sleep. @.@ I normally don't get nearly what I should, but I have actual bags under my eyes now, and I crashed at... I'm not really sure, actually. Way earlier than usual, at least. That's not a good sign. ¬¬;

Zena seems to be doing okay, but she was very clingy last night. I think she thought the puppy was with me. She kept sniffing me over looking for him, then after a couple of hours she just crawled into my lap and laid there. She actually chose the upper corner of the bed to sleep in (right next to me), when she usually prefers to stay near the door (near my feet). Hopefully she'll perk up soon.

ETA: The puppy didn't make it. Mary called to say that he'd stopped breathing just a bit ago. She thinks maybe he was breathing in the milk? But that doesn't make sense to me, because he was doing fine yesterday. IDK.

Puppy!Cap: Lives! Is squirmy and very vocal. Seems much improved.
The Crystal: Not so much on the living thing.

lol I managed to get in a couple of naps last night, but had my alarm set to go off every hour, Cap kept me from sleeping mostly. I'm starting to worry that I'm filling out my own bingo card here. D:

We're suspecting that he is the devil-progeny of our half-Pom half-Shih Tsu little monster because of his coloring, but he's still tiny enough that we can't tell any other way. If he ends up looking 100% Shih Tsu and doesn't fade to brown or red, we have no clue. There's five potential fathers, though one of them is disabled and probably couldn't have managed it unaided. I include him in the count because Zena is a resourceful bitch who has been known to stand on couches to tempt larger dogs. @.@

In weirder news, I have managed to hold my place on the geek heirarchy.

Also, I have a Super Beta. :D ♥♥♥♥ Okay, so it seems like 90% of the fandom world thinks this is a bad thing. I CARE NOT.

#104 from this post, if anyone cares.

The puppy is still alive and squeaking. I should know. He's been squeaking all day and night. I haven't slept in 32 hours lol. But we think he'll pull through. Right now he has a milk mustache and is letting his mother know that he strongly disapproves of this thing called "cleaning". This is strongly reminding me of why I never, ever want to be a mother.

I've decided he shall be called Cap, because Steve is my brother and I have a limit to my available creepy when I'm this tired. I figure, this close to July and born weak, it can't hurt to invoke the age old tradition of luck.

D'oh. I started working on Pern!Tony's little drabble, just sort of teasing it into life... and then it looked up at me and said, "Hi, I'm the middle of a much bigger fic you didn't think you were going to write yet. Oh, and just to confuse you, here's some plot you didn't know about. Ha ha!" ._.

Of course, I immediately tossed it down into the Pit of WiP, because another 20k fic is not getting started right now, thank you. So instead here's 350 words of a Pern!young!Tony character piece.
( Set Apart )

The order of business today: Save fics to PDF for reading offline. I've actually been saving a lot more than I've read, but that would be the whole "uuuuuuuurrrrrghhh" factor at play. I have an interesting problem. I'm bone-crushingly tired, but I can't settle down. I'm fidgety. Weird.

Yesterday went... not so good. There is the WinCon thing (if you are someone I expect to see at WinCon, you can see the post; if you can't see it and think you should, comment plz), but what came before that is the real kicker.

My department at work is being merged into IT. Long story short, I've always sort of gotten the feeling that IT as a group hates our guts and would be happy to see us gone. It's pretty much mutual, since the only thing we've ever gotten from them is trouble. Luckily, we get to keep our own budget and sort-of-identity, but there's still a lot of shuffling about to happen. Worse, the man who is now in charge has a serious hate-on for my mini-department in particular. D: So we'll have to see how that goes. It could be bad. The only good thing is that theoretically, I might end up with a pay raise sometime in the next three years. Yes, I facepalmed too.

*sigh* I'm just going to spend the weekend curled up in a little bundle of bleeding misery I think. Maybe I'll write a Pern!Tony drabble to cheer up. He wants to fly.

Sleeeeeeeepeh. D: I blame my dogs. Is it really that comfortable under my pillow? Really and truly? Grah. If I an get another pot of coffee into me, I might (MIGHT) reach coherency. As it is, calling third-party tech support today should be fun. @.@ Projected Outcome:

Them: What does the error message read?
Me: [reads it off like a good little drone]
Them: Did you try restarting the program?
Me: .... GRUMPY BEAR IS BLUE.
Them: ........ o.O;

I'm also thinking, as well as I can be said to be thinking, on the weirdness that is government people and their personal relationships. On one hand, I want to point and go "HA HA", because I remember the stupidity that was the whole Monica Lewinsky thing. Hypocrisy is wonderful to watch. On the other hand... that's personal, and completely between him, his family and the Other Woman, and it's demeaning to all of them for this to be treated like a circus. I don't care what the man does in his personal life as long as he does his job.

... Icon appropriate. It usually is.

ETA: You know, even though I doubt Jensen will actually ever be Cap, I want RPS fic of it like burning. D: Also, call canceled! No Grumpy Bear non sequiturs. :(

ETA2: It is another ETA Day! \o/ I just noticed that the Pern fic is long enough to technically qualify for a Big Bang. At least, a Cap/Iron Bang; IDK about other fandoms. Is there a KH Big Bang? I do not recall a sudden flood of epic length fiction there!

I hate my uterus. OW OW OW. /TMI

In related not-news, I have an urge to write genderbender. Because I'm evil and want to spread the pain. This is... really kind of usual for me. (sweatdrop) Vindictive? Moi? I think I posted something exactly like this a few months ago. I see a pattern here. >:D

Other than that, life is not new right now. This pleases me. I am in a groove. And I completely blame this. :D

(looks at e-mail) ... (scratches her head) ... (looks at e-mail again) ... o.O

Teachers confuse me. Is it something about summer time that discombobulates them? Like a bear waking up too soon from hibernation? IDK, but their tech support needs have gotten very odd lately.

I am working up my courage (lol I have courage?) to post the following to cap_ironman. ;~; I've never posted before! It's a scary scary thing. Technically, I think I'm only watching it right now. Witness the cowardice!
( Stark Suicide Special Bingo )
Why yes, I was bored last night. Why do you ask? Also, I love my fonts a little too much.

Kind of depressing that Tony can fill out a bingo card... anyone have suggestions for changes?

ETA: Posted! EEP!

(headdesk) I just got randomly annoyed by an adjunct. The man just... couldn't take a hint.

Me: You need to e-mail our System Administrator and blah blah blah...
Him: When will he be able to do it?
Me: (Thinking that he's an adjunct, maybe he doesn't know that we're only girls in my department.) She's currently out of the office, but [insert party line about swift reply].
Him: Oh, so he should have it done by tomorrow?
Me: ... yes, she will, as soon as she gets the e-mail.
Him: Why do I need to send him an e-mail?
Me: She requires am e-mail due to...
[Ten minutes pass like this]
Him: I'll call back to talk to him about it tomorrow. [click]
Me: ...........? O.o;;

That was so very, very weird.

To pass time, Tony/Steve drabble-age! Okay, so it's not 100 words. 100 words are hard. ;~;

Okay, attempt at a normal post, even though I don't really feel like it.

I kind of hate dial-up, but yay, hi-speed at work tomorrow? And I'm watching S1 Buffy. From 1996. When I was in school.

(feels old.)

I bought Papa a VCR/DVD player for Father's Day. I'm not sure if he liked it or not. o.O He mostly seemed baffled But this way he can watch his westerns - I know he has both formats variously, so I figure it's a good thing. My Dad was the recipient of a hammock, which I figure he'll like because he's always been the lay-around and absorb-the-outdoors type, when hes not a "screaming about minutiae" type. I still have to call him. I love my dad, but... gods, he makes me tired. *sigh*

(half hour later)

Called Dad. I'm even more exhausted now.;; I made the mistake of trying to mention what's going on in my life--not even the big stuff, just "things are going pretty well". Never before have I had a conversation turned around so quickly. He didn't even try to be subtle when he cut me off to tell me about his life and why I need to follow his ideas. Yeah, I'm feeling the love.

Don't really have much to say today. I'm technically watching Iron Man with my Aunt, but most of my attention is on what's going on in Iran. I think I'll babble next time. :(

Keep the protesters in your thoughts, guys.