mix you up some some magic

nagia @ 2021-07-25T22:08:00

2021-07-26T04:11:07Z

So, not to jump the gun, but I think I'm on the second-to-last chapter of a fic I've been working on for the last month. After that, I'm taking a week off from that universe and writing something else, and then I'll jump back in. I've got at least a month of buffer if I only post once a week.

It's a weird feeling. Anybody who knows me knows how rarely I finish. It really does help me to have a concrete plan, huh?

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nagia @ 2021-07-21T14:33:00

2021-07-21T20:34:26Z

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

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nagia @ 2020-02-28T22:30:00

2020-02-29T05:30:28Z

I have finally, finally fucking finished the fucking Usui fight.

Fuck you, obscure Okinawan weapons and the complete lack of footage of people using them against anything other than a katana or bokken.

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nagia @ 2019-07-30T00:16:00

2019-07-30T06:20:47Z

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."

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nagia @ 2019-03-25T16:51:00

2019-03-25T22:51:07Z

I don't want to alarm anybody, but I might have finished the Anji fight. Time to watch whatever I can find about the tinbe-rochin and re-read Soujirou's chapters.

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Meme time

2018-12-18T05:10:42Z

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)

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

2018-12-16T04:39:12Z

VATHARA JUST POSTED BLADES OF BLOOD ON AO3

Do I sound like a crazed stan? Oh well. I fucking love that series, especially the second one, "Witchy Woman."

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Many things.

2018-12-14T07:52:00Z

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.)

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Welp, here goes.

2018-12-11T02:29:30Z

I've applied to DACC so I can pick up some extra math and psych courses so I can graduate by December of 2021. I've also told Bryan College to send my old transcript over.

I guess we'll see how this goes.

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nagia @ 2018-12-06T12:41:00

2018-12-06T19:43:12Z

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.

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Has it really been six years?

2018-12-06T01:44:06Z

Looks like it's really been six years. Holy shit. Let's see here:

I've moved from TN to Asheville, NC to New Mexico
I quit working for Receivia, worked for an Asheville hospital, worked for a hospital here in NM, and am now a student again (going for a BSN this time!)
I got engaged to dogstar; we're getting married next May
Si passed away in 2016, I adopted a pit mix whom I named Barkspawn, who passed away in February of this year, and I now have a husky mix named Joker.
I've wandered around in Dragon Age, Teen Wolf, Labyrinth, and Netflix Daredevil/Netflix Punisher fandoms, and I've gone back to RuroKen for now.

Those are the big changes, I guess?

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move with pulse of war the limbs of peace / FORMATTING TEST

2014-12-18T01:58:14Z

( move with pulse of war the limbs of peace )

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2013-05-31T03:15:50Z

Nagia,

The following member has added your story to her/his Story Alert subscription:

Pen Name: Vathara

Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/77482/

Story: Gifts, Stolen and Received

Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9337464/1/

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nagia @ 2013-05-06T11:57:00

2013-05-06T15:58:12Z

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.

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nagia @ 2013-03-12T09:44:00

2013-03-12T13:44:11Z

So guess who's apparently a lay midwife at the Indianapolis VAMC? Yep, me. Guess who has never been to Indianapolis in her life? Also me.

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nagia @ 2013-03-07T15:53:00

2013-03-07T20:53:29Z

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

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Fun and entertaining midwifery notes for "Breathe and Blow Life"

2013-03-02T07:15:01Z

( not actually fun or entertaining )

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nagia @ 2013-02-22T15:47:00

2013-02-22T20:51:16Z

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?

</vent>

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Well, that lasted as long as I thought it would.

2013-02-08T17:49:44Z

Up from fifty hours back to fifty-eight. My bank account thanks Receivia. My mental health does not.

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nagia @ 2013-02-08T09:28:00

2013-02-08T14:28:49Z

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

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Welp. I'm doomed.

2013-02-06T22:39:07Z

The Misao muse has stumbled into the Fleetwood Mac and refuses to give it back. Sigh.

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nagia @ 2013-02-02T22:06:00

2013-02-03T03:08:04Z

Only a month late this year. Whoops.

2011 in review.

( I think maybe kind of a good year. )

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nagia @ 2013-02-02T20:57:00

2013-02-03T02:02:28Z

Funny how quickly everything can start seeming awful and for no apparent reason.

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The Ten Creepiest Songs I Own

2012-10-09T03:10:44Z

10) Children of the Monkey Machine - Eyes On Me (Obsession Mix)
Turning what was a love song into an obssessional, stalkerish story of psychosis. Enjoy!

9) Yuki Kajiura - Fear
Effed up nursery tunes, weird creaking noises... awesome.

8) Zyko - Akumu no Hajimari: Of Transformants And Brevity
A remix of Vincent's theme from Final Fantasy VII. Listen closely to the voices in the background.

7) Lords of Acid - Out Comes The Evil
Yeah, more effed up nursery rhymes. Woot.

6) Kamelot - March of Mephisto
Something about the dystopic sound and guttural voice freak me. YMMV.

5) Children of the Monkey Machine - Static Aversion
The Silent Hill main theme remixed by the King of Creep. Complete with radio static for sudden jump scare action!

4) Poe - House of Leaves
This comes from a companion album to House of Leaves. If the song itself doesn't creep you, the association just might.

3) Mustin - Haunted Hell
A creepified Mario classic.

2) Edmund Lyndeck - Johanna
Background: this is from the Sweeney Todd OBC album, sung by Judge Turpin of his fifteen year old ward. Too creepy even for Sweeney fans -- most productions omit it.

1) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
Hahahahaaha just listen to this the whole way through, skipping nothing. It's like Explosions In The Sky read too much Baudelaire and Swinburne and then had the worst LSD trip ever. All of which they are beaming directly into your brain via your ears!

All files available here

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nagia @ 2012-09-27T12:41:00

2012-09-27T16:41:04Z

Damn! The Mindfuck Meme would have been awesomely fun.

Ah, well.

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