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I'm so tired I actually opened my splendid packets at work and poured it into the garbage and put the paper into my tea. Oh lord.

I put the big bone test together. I'm giving it all day tomorrow and all day friday but it tok 4 hours to do and I didn't get home until 8pm. I'm SO tired.

I did get a little of the novel going and I hate to say it Nano has managed to make the absolute WORST website. It's not even recognizing updates or giving credit for updating. totally didn't give me credit for yesterday. I want to burn it down.

I am worried beyond belief about tomorrow but I've done all I can and I have to remind myself of that. Everything else is out of my control.

But speaking of the vote, look! I got a personal thank you from Keiko Ageno (god she's such a sweetie) You can hear her here here.


I'm a little worried about my new med singular. It comes with a big warning about increasing depression and fear/paranoia because that is exactly what I need!!

5844 / 50000 words. 12% done! nano word count

Last night ended well. I got to get my tickets to hear Lou Diamond Phillips and Marcus Red Thunder talk about the Longmire character, Henry, (got the tickets here. they're cheap and go to charity) The one small silver lining to this forced stay at home is these virtual conferences are bringing things to people who normally couldn't get a chance to do this (like I ever would have sat on a zoom chat with LDP otherwise!)

I literally blew the dust off a book that fit my Popsugar challenge and read a chapter and went to bed at the normal time and...I think that dust was meth. I was WIRED. I didn't get to sleep until sometime between 430-5:00 am and only got 2 hours sleep.

I have dragged through this day but I got my insulin. I got my geeky masks (fun!) and I got my Blackboard more or less done and somehow got more online homeworks set up and...I'm pretty much done except for one thing for the semester. I'm not sure how I got anything done but I am exhausted now so have some fan fic recs and I'm going to try to go write.

My Father's Evil Prodigal Son AU (WIP)

Us And Happiness 911 Lonestar

Angie Analyzes: Prodigal Son ep 7 Q&A If you've not read her deep dives into the show, you should. She's a film/music teacher so it's not just content.

Untitled old school Buffy

Saltwater Tinged Memories Check Please

Delirium PRodigal Son

here.

Three fandoms collide -

The fandom Meme
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?

Sympathy for the Devil - Lucifer and Chloe Decker

Bad Romance - Buffy and literally ANY of her romances

Broken by lovely the band - Malcolm Bright/Dani Powell

Sexbomb - Gil Arroyo/Jessica Whitly

More about that later. First



Prompt 7: Violet
Violet is a cheerful color that is associated with a variety of things including: originality, self-esteem, insight, poetry, discernment, understanding, creativity, music, perception, inhibition, and health.

Oh how I love all things violet, well purple. Blue, red, purple and black, those four are my favorite colors. Which is number one changes by day. I'm such a fan of purple. I have plenty of purple clothes (including scrub pants), purses and even my curtains are purple, well some of them --> and if you've been following along since the beginning you're probably thinking purple curtains and red couch? Not in the same room, relax.

Amethyst is one of my favorite stones, if you rummage thru my jewelry you'll find tons of it. Want to make me happy? Give me amethyst.

I'm thinking on purple in my fandoms. I don't have many that leap to mind. There was certainly a lot of purple lighting in the original Star Trek, that's one of the few things that I can think of. Oh and of course The Joker's jacket but I'm not a huge fan of him.

If I remember right, Britt used some violet washes in this fanvid. If not, have a fun fanvid any how

You'd think someone who had spent so much time at Comic-Con today I'd come up with more but nope. But that's the reason for today's title. I finally got to spend some time at Comic-Con, sure I miss the vendors and the cosplay but I do have to say I liked attending this way. Certainly cheaper. All the panels are being hosted on YouTube so I hope they're there permanently so I can see more.

I attended Keanu Reeves Constantine's 15th anniversary. I've only seen this movie once. I'm a huge Hellblazer fan and Keanu wasn't John. He just wasn't. That said, the movie wasn't a bad movie (just a bad adaptation). I should see it again. His love for this movie was infectious.

I sat in the Archer panel which mostly them talking about being drunk and not showering most of the shelter in place and somehow that seems right. I am looking forward to seeing S11 and Simon Pegg and Jamie Lee Curtis will have roles. neat. I sat in on Let's Get Spooky which I guess is a podcast but not that special.

I went to two writing panels. One on Master storytelling that I'll put in writerly ways tomorrow and perhaps one of the best I attended today one on Native American/Latinx authors. I got more people to follow on Twitter and there was some good stuff about representation and comic books and more that just sound like fun. Check it out


I plan to attend some Star Trek stuff tomorrow. And for the other part of the violet challenge have this What things are you able to offer others to bring a little sunshine into their lives?

Well I can write you drabbles. Drop me a simple prompt and I can give it a shot. My main fandoms at the moment are Prodigal Son, Lucifer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Fullmetal Alchemist, Star Trek (any). I do a lot of anime, just ask.


And let's have more violet/purple stuff. ( flowers and me! )

Know what else is violet? Me when I bruise ( Weird bruises kept for a fall record after the bad fall this Jan ) I'm still dealing with problems from that fall

Prompt 4: Green
Green is a rich color that is associated with a variety of things including: awakening, growth, renewal, productivity, intelligence, exuberance, prosperity, money, luck, envy, greed, survival, nature, spring, and birth.

This is a color I do really like. It's a color I look good in. I don't have much green IN my house but outside, oh outside is different. I am all about being in the woods. I love green. I'm not a desert person. I'm not even that much of a beach person. A lake in the woods? I'm there. I grew up a country mouse. Most of my life I've lived in the country. I want that to continue. I always want to have a swath of green around me. That was the best part of Ireland and Wales, how green they were. I transplanted some green today, a few small pines I hope to bonsai.

I love green stone, emeralds, Connamara marble, jade, tourmaline, malachite, the list goes on and on and I own jewelry made of all of them.

Green makes me think of my parents' home when I was a child. The stucco walls were green and silver and the shag carpet was green and gold. The couch was green. Mom had a lime green Bug. My first apartment post med school had sage green cabinets. (ah the 70s, and things stuck in the 70s)

Fandom wise, come on, Spock's blood, first to mind (probably always to mind) sure someone made a boo-boo, copper based blood (like a horseshoe crab) is powder blue but Star Trek made it green. My love for Spock is undying so have some green blood.



Beast Boy of the Teen Titans, the Hulk, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, oh there are so many green guys in fandom. To be honest, none of them are my faves, outside of Beast Boy. I don't know why I liked him so much. He was immature but I did really like him.

And since today was awful and my brain is jello let me just give you lots and lots of my favorite green things.

( Travel the World With Me )

My late day but instead of sleeping in someone was retching outside my bedroom window. I looked saw no one. half-hour later and it was the same thing. Still no one. I don't understand this place.

I did get the tickets to the chocolate walk. It'll rain but I'm getting my damn chocolate.

( and now let me giggle about tonight's Prodigal Son. Spoilers to be sure ) And it's still too early for coherent thoughts on this. ( except for these spoilers ) Swear if they don't renew this show...

I had two cosplays I could have done. 90 degrees = too hot and I've done that on the last two weeks. I hid inside.

I still haven't gotten much done here though. I'm not sure where my motivation is.

So if you want to toss me some spooky/creepy prompts my way that might help for spook_me.

I had a reason to post tonight but I've forgotten what it was. Snort.

ETA = I remembered! me being the tifin for a tea biscuit duel THough looking at the pictures today's event looked WAY more fun than this one was. (it was fun but...)

Day 09 : Send feedback to two fannish people — they can be anyone you want: a writer who’s made you happy, a moderator of your favorite exchange, a fanartist you avidly follow… There are so many possibilities. Just let someone know you appreciate their work

I did this one better and read and gave feedback to everything offered up this year at 12_daysofficmas and I still need to do comment to at least a few people at celebrate_fma

And for the fannish people looking at this picfor1000 is still signing people up. It's a fun challenge. LJ not required.

I survived Day 1 with only minor hiccups which isn't saying much as I only have one class in the afternoon. Let's see if I survive Wed with back to back labs starting at o'dark hundred.

I was excited however on the way to work. I almost couldn't get out of my apartment and I thought it was the electric company which made me nervous but instead it was actually Frontier cable. Maybe I can get cable internet!!

Have a little something for Professor Snape's birthday

and here 60 some animated movies for 2017

Okay right off the bat, pictures will be another day (I didn't take too many anyhow) because a) camera won't talk to computer tonight b) tired as all hell.

I did have fun in spite of a variety of annoying things, like getting up in plenty of time and for some reason leaving nearly 2 hours later than planned. I have no idea. I fell thru a time slip, who knows? And sadly there is like nowhere to eat other than Hillbilly hot dog on the way down there and it was PACKED. I should have walked into the thai place as I was walking to the arena but I wanted to get there (and had to have a shitty giant pretzel for lunch) and the parking garage right across the street you need to get a ticket to be there all day but I could NOT figure out where you do that and I drove around 3 times. The other garage which I usually park in is two blocks away so it's not too bad.

I DO think my Shion Karanmori cosplay came off well as people recognized it and were excited to see it. It must be said that Tsu is a very small con (as in the entire dealers room could have fit along one wall at Animazement). That said they did bag a pretty big name in voice acting, Steven Blum (Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop among many others).

I will say that the vendors left a bit to be desired this time but I did get some cool stuff, like another graphic novel from a lady artist that I bought from last year and found a steampunk group that's right over in Parkersburg (about an hour from Athens so two hours from me) that does events that help pay for mammograms and pap smears for at risk women below the poverty level (which is a shit ton here in Appalachia) and it’s at Blennerhasset Island! and a few others. I do know that online sales is killing the dealer's room and that's half the reason I go to these cons (I might move this to every other year like I used to attend).

I really enjoyed the greatest graphic novels you should be reading panel run by a librarian whose job it is to be the graphic novel/manga librarian of her library. WHY did I never think of doing that? How great would that be? I totally need her to be a character in a story. She runs the carolina manga library and they do take donations (if you have some old manga you want to divest yourself of).

I picked up some things from sanzaki kojika and Miss Alaynious and I didn't buy from yatta creations but I loved the dragon eggs, priced more reasonably online (instead of covering con costs)

I found one t-shirt vendor that I got a Dr. Who shirt from but really wanted the Grell one but they were sold out of my size. And I did manage to get something for ELD. I believe I now have hoarded enough to cover this christmas, her birthday and half of next year's christmas (stop, just stop now) There was one vendor I nearly bought from. She made throw pillows using an industrial embroidery machine but each one takes hours to do. And she has an in with local furniture stores and gets the left over upholsteries as the backing for these pillows. I LOVED her Snape silouette with the 'always' quote but it was leather and 75$. I thought about getting a considerably less expensive one for ELD of FMA but then a) I pictured her couch b) pictured her dogs sleeping on the pillow c) pictured her dogs eating the pillow and decided she didn't need a 30$ pillow.

I had wanted to play pachinko but by the time I was done shopping (hey did I mention I bought sweet corn pocky? It really tastes like salty buttered corn) it was time to see Steven Blum. He was fantastic, very funny and very nice to the fans. By the time his talk was over (I'm not into VAs so I didn't wait in the line and pay for an autograph) it was well after 5 and by now I could feel my sugar deranging.

I headed out back to the mall. I kicked Macy's off the list as I can always go there. I hit my favorite Mexican place down there and got the volcanic rock pot again (and that stuff was SO hot, it was STILL hot when I got home two hours later with the left overs). I hit the Halloween shop and couldn't find ram's horns so I got a face decal and dragonfly wings for the Halloween party this coming weekend. I had a 25% off everything at Michaels and picked up shit I didn't need but looked pretty.

I also hit Booksamillion and got an Enterprise puzzle for Mom for the holidays and some manga. THey had two that I knew had to be Yaoi, Ten Count and Midnight Stranger by a new-to-me publisher SubLime Manga. They looked interesting but a) BAM is cheaper online so... and b) Yaoi is NOT my favorite because too many of them are dub-con/non con or fall in love with my rapist tropes. Anyone know anything about these?


And I put my pumpkin latte on the console so I wouldn't spill it getting into the car (as this mall's parking spots are TIGHT). i get in and knock it over and it doesn't just spill into the back wheel well, no it explodes all over the back seat. Well hell.

I do love driving home up R 2 in the dark. So spooky.

And about my cosplay, I had these things in mind a) I hate that blond wig b) I found my black pantyhose in the back of my sock drawer and I wish I knew where the hell I got them all those years ago because if all panty hose fit this well and were so light weight and unnoticable while wearing I wouldn't have loathed hose so much c) my skirt is so big it kept twisting around me. Hmmm have I lost weight?

And since I know I'm too tired to put this anywhere else in their actual documents, other writing things came to me on the drive. The manga librarian was praising The Ancient Magus's Bride (I love it) and how Chise is so broken. I thought that's exactly what I'm trying to get across with Luc. He offered up that's why he likes helping Amelia. It makes him feel less like a broken toy kicked to the back of the closet, unwanted and unloved. I NEED to work that into the story. Also it occured to me I should have left the Treasure Island scene and made this set around 2010 or something because Luc now has to be older than he is in the story because otherwise he's had been a tween when Hurricane Katrina hit. And the con love story tells me it could also be called ConQuest or ConQuered Yes they want to be cheesy as all hell.

Steven Blum talked about being part of hip-hop artist's Logic's Sci-Fi themed experimental album which you can find here (not really my thing)

Happy 50th Star Trek, my first fandom love that I love unflaggingly to today. You have made such an impact on my life and that subject line is one of the reasons. Yes people have taken pot shots at you for your utopian airs (which I would argue because there was a shit-ton of strife on the show) but I LOVED that you showed me a future where men and women were equal, that the color of your skin or your faith/culture was the equal of anyone else's. You gave us the first interracial kiss, the first lesbian kiss (granted neither were really what we would have wanted them to be but you had censors to fight).

My tree house was the Starship Enterprise (and the other tree house was the ship from Lost in Space so I was doomed to SF geekery from a very early age). My parents loved that I loved you.

My first Hollywood crushes were Spock and Sulu (Sorry, Bill, but Kirk wasn't my type. You just weren't as sexy to me as Leonard and George). This crush lasted well I'll let you know when it's over. My middle school locker was covered with Star Trek pictures (which got me beaten up emotionally and spat on in reality, assholes).

You helped to create the adult I am now. I hope still to create characters as wonderful as yours.

Love you always.

Here's to another 50 years together.

and oh, if this treacle wasn't enough for you, I split my thoughts and posted half of them on Jana's blog here

and have some articles: USA today’s collection of articles.

cast member twitter tribute



me in the lab

me in the office

me at home playing in the bathroom with the shower curtain


my favorite ST filk song (just found this in grandma's basement. if it still plays I'm totally converting it to an mp3)

and this is fun too
I wish I knew where my IDIC pin is or my communicator but I NEED this one Bluetooth communicator

ETA- day 1 - 165 day 2 - 0 Day 3 -1,192 Day 4 - 1,727 day 5 1,192 Day 6 - 300 day 7 - 1,339 Day 8 -110 (okay half naked SUlu came on in The Naked Time and I was done for)

I was approached by a student today and he picked me as his professor for the student athlete/faculty appreciation night. He said he loved my teaching and my help made him switch into aiming for physical therapy instead of coaching. I'll be honored with the rest of the chosen ones next tuesday (sadly at a basketball game but I will survive). I'm really honored. It's the first time a student really went out there to acknowledge my impact on their studies in front of the school. I'm very happy.

Also unexpected, all three of the books I put on hold at the library came in today. Thanks...kinda. You couldn't come in one at a time? The last time I put a Brandon Sanderson on hold it took 6 weeks. Sigh. I better read fast AND one of the ones I won from goodreads also got here today.

Also in the made smile category, S2 of Agent Carter is even better than the first. ( mild spoilers and a crazy thought )