mix you up some some magic

Is this thing alive? Am I alive? Has Tumblr shit the bed again?

I did, in fact, finish the Anji fight. And then my laptop died. This Thursday I'm headed down to the Makerspace to retrieve the SSD and turn it into an external. (Woo.)

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More news: got married! Honeymoon was a cruise with like 8 of my favorite people in the world (and one person I would have happily pushed over the side of the ship) and it was fucking fantastic. I miss having everybody all together and maybe someday we can all do it (or something similar) again. Only maybe not on Norwegian.

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The summer has continued apace. soon I'll be back in classes, oy vey. Mostly I've been writing. I'm about 17k into a piece I'm calling "The Heart In The Water-Grass," though its title may end up being "Armed Prophets."

Drop one of these bad boys in a comment and I will respond, without editing:

• FIRST — the first two sentences of my current project
  
• LAST — the most recently written two sentences of my current project
  
• NEXT — the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.
  
• [insert prompt here] — you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project
  
• THE END — i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it
  
• BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project
  
• POV — something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

Meme provided by journalmemes.

ETA: My current projects are:

• "Flicker From View" (RK time-travel fixit)
  
• That We've Broken Their Statues (HP/Labyrinth xover)
  
• Come All You Madmen (original work)
  
• Bound To Drown (original work)
  
• The Twofold Path (original work)

1: I've been quiet because I've had exams. Fuck only knows how I did on the A&P exam, but I think I only missed one or two questions on my Gen Chem.

2: The seven year old Guatemalan girl who died after being in Border Patrol custody? Yeah, that particular checkpoint operates out of Lordsburg, not far from where dogstar and I are. We've grabbed a saint candle and we'll see about lighting one for her outside the Border Patrol office over there. It's not much, but god, I want these dipshits to understand that their adherence to this administration's bullshit fearmongering policy killed a child. And I know it won't change anything -- I sincerely doubt people go into Border Control thinking about the compassion they want to extend to others -- but since it's assault to grab somebody, shake them, and scream in their face, this is what I've got.

3: We went up into the Gila to watch the meteor shower tonight. dogstar took some super-hot cider; I mixed up some booze 'nog (sadly, it was Evan Williams. Not that I'm specifically proud of anything about Tennessee, but Kentucky whiskey is just inferior) and listened to traditional Christmas carols. It was the first meteor shower I'd ever seen, and holy shit, I was missing out.

4: AAAAAAAAAAAAA VATHARA UPLOADED SPIN CYCLE TO THE AO3 AAAAAAAAAAaaaa.

(Someday, I'll go back to Dragon Age or "Even In Another Time" or "That We've Broken Their Statues," but Ruroken is my primary fandom right now. I'm not sure why "disturbed former spies running a ryokan and the manic pixie conartist girls who love them" is so comforting for me right now, but I almost always go back to RK when I'm under stress. IDEK why.)

That moment when you realize that in your high points update, you didn't mention that your mother died in February of 2016. Whoops.

Maybe I'm a terrible daughter, but considering the backstory... No wonder it's barely a blip in my life.

Fucking ow — Si split my lip with his head last night. I leaned down to kiss him on the head and he sat up, ramming into my mouth. I have blood all over my teeth.

OTOH, the best thing about working from home is that I have my kitty curled up at my left elbow and Si is staring at me from the foot of my bed.

One of these days, I will learn to stay the hell away from the comments section at yahoo news.

I am sometimes astounded by the people I work with. I had just put an iron supplement in my mouth and bent for the water fountain when a co-worker shoved his hand in front of the spigot, preventing me from drinking.

And he seems to think that this would have been a very funny joke if I hadn't had a good damned reason to be wanting water immediately.

How about nope, not funny? Just obstructive and weird?

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I've been here two and a half hours and I am already done with this day.