Sort-of F-locked? Due to familial internet tom-foolery with a helping of douchebaggery. However, fic, and sometimes flail, is public, and I'll friend you back if you comment. If you do add me, consider this your warning: normally, i post a couple times a day. Filter me if you like. *shrugs*

I'll get around to a banner eventually.  

***of relevance:
   If there is something particular that was formerly unlocked (a meme, a picspam, what have you) and you can't see it? drop me a line and i'll unlock it. i'm going to unlock the ones that are easy to find? but i may miss one or two.

Unemployment continues, even though i have applied everywhere that is not fast food service (not counting coffee shops, since that's food service work i actually enjoy.). And my neighbor's internet has been pretty much refusing to work properly from ANYWHERE on our property for three or four days. hence my radio silence across the board.

HOWEVER! My sister and I have been shenanigating at night when we can't sleep, doing co-op art or working on our own art in the general vicinity of eachother (the better to steal each other's supplies. I'm taking her water color pencils and she's taking my ink and pens.) So i've got. A kind of (super-mini)mini-art dump? Preview? I don't know. just some stuff I/we were fooling around with at 4 am, Most of it crappy, but relevant to my interests

I apologize in advance for the shitty quality of the photos and the un-inked art that is nigh-unto impossible to really see well. My scanner is on the fritz and my memory card for my camera is missing so. Camera phone photos. Hence why they are a preview and not an actual art dump.

( Nothing to see here, really.  )

Anyway, firefox is being thoroughly evil about co-operating (i think i'm at something like 30 tabs with to-read BBB fic, and that's going through with a fine tooth comb and picking only the things I really want to read.), So I'm out. also, They are kicking me out of the cafe as it is 5 minutes till closing time.

I apologize to my Flist. Unemployment does that too me. I sleep a lot when not job hunting or avoiding friends who want to hang out (because i have no money to go do the things they want to do when hanging out. i currently have ten bucks to my name. and I'm saving that for cigarettes.) because I don't want to be that person that can't pay their own way somewhere, eve if my friends are generous to a fault and wouldn't mind nd would yell at me when i tried to pay them back later.

Unemployment also boosts my reading, because there is no better way to kill time waiting for call backs from prospective employers than catching up on your reading, right? So i'm steadily making my way through BBB (I have about 40 tabs of fic open right now for when my connection inevitably fades later) AND. I picked up one of the Fables graphic novels that I don't already have (a million thanks to the flister who sent me the first book for christmas/yule this last year. you knwo who you are and i love you! I am well and truly addicted now) and devoured it in about thrity minutes. I'm working on Christopher Moore's Lamb when i am away from my computer/internet and it's turning out to be one of the funniest books i have ever picked up.

So what's new with you, Flist?

I posted this elsewhere earlier, but felt like i should share here as well.

this morning i couldn't sleep (by morning i mean 2 am) so i decided to bake.


( Here ya go. Chocolate-Orange cupcakes )

also, HI NEW FRANDS!</div>

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BBS.

you too, Pete.

So. I'm a little disappointed in myself for not making BBB this year. real life interfered. but, GOOD NEWS. the co-write WILL be finished. come hell or high water (pending gdocs not being quite so douchey as it is rn). I intend the same for every other WIP i've got going. mostly. definitely the important ones (pirates, brendon at the burlesque!, Bob's Hotel, Teacher 'verse, etc.)

Other good news. I AM EMPLOYED AGAIN. (you can't see me, but i'm totally dancing.)

Yeah, I'm peddling cell phones? but whatever. money. commission. these are things i enjoy because they mean a) move to chicago is still on and b) i will not be scrounging pennies for cigarettes and gas money much longer.Also, possible internet at home that is not stolen from the neighbors soon (which obviously hasn't been working anyway, due to my lack of ANY online activity, even twitter, which i was on pretty constantly, spotty internet aside.)

so yay stuff!


AAAAND apparently my paid ran out. woops.

I CAN HAS A stephanometra  AND AN anoneknewmoose  TOMORROW NIGHT! \o/

in other news, i am hesitant to buy my ticket for TU in SA on the 20th because my boss is being silly.

hey guess what! I WROTE THIS WEEK. yes I did. BBB first deadline is looming like a looming thing and just the thought makes me want to chain smoke and not leave my computer to get finished but OMG, the story refuses to leave my head when i actually have some way to write it down in front of me. *headdesk* however, at like, 5 am, when i am curled up in bed, and too toasty and comfy to move? IDEA. and i just think "oh, i'll write that down in he morning." because the laptop at my feet and the notebook on the bedside table? are way to far away and would mean moving out from under my feather blanket.

i got some sub-plotting done too, for teacherverse, and have picked a couple of pairings to focus on and how the story is laid out and told, starting form summer inservice on through the graduation ceremonies in may/june (or possibly the start of the next years teacher inservice), telling it in three week sections? like grading periods. idk. we'll seeeee.

and now back to work. or attempting to check my flsit for the what, month? i've been sort-of gone? /o\

Important things First!

reishin ! LOOK.
from pwentz via twitter:
oh and ps jensen i need you to go to the mj auction and bid me into debt. yes i said it on here to make it more urgent for you.

TIMES LIKE THIS I AM NOT SURE WE DID NOT CREATE THESE BOYS WITH OUR BRAINS.
(if you're lost, my glee and lols are in reference to some things in these comments.)

So. Finally firmly ensconced at mom's house. Internet that is not stolen form the neighbors or hotel down the street sometime in the next few weeks. Sorry for the radio silence, bbs. things were crazy. I moved, had some shit stolen which i don't think i'll get back (if you've got me on twitter, you heard about that, and i'm not gonna go into details. suffice it to say, things that were important to me were stolen by thieving former-neighbors), but i'm now in a place where I can save some money for The Exodus. \o/

Back to the grindstone for BBB now. I will finish both my own fic and the one I'm writing with ink_on_the_page  come hell or high water.

Also! Concert shenanigans coming up with anoneknewmoose  & stephanometra ! The Used in San Antonio and Amanda Palmer in Houston on Rachel's birthday. (lets see if I can finish her birthday gift in time. cross your fingers) and THEN. William Beckett made my LIFE yesterday. 3/5 of Empires on Tour with TAI, possibly starting in Texas? can we say GLEE??? YES WE MOHERFUCKING CAN.

For some reason I'm listening to Prince (Love). This is what happens when my iPod is on shuffle for the entire music library. Endless amusement. and I need to stop playing FOBTrail. I'm fairly sure this is not going to happen, but i'm not touching it till my actual work is done today.

...And Now some beloved Jimi Hendrix.

SO MUCH HAS BEEN GOING ON, OMG.

So. Moving out at the end of the month, stuff going into storage as of... weekend after next? Not looking forward to it, but really kind of am? meh.
( TL;DR- You guys are used to the rambling by now, though, right? )

anyway, good things! Girls scout cookies are in and I am nom'ing on some peanut butter sandwich cookies, backreading twitter and waiting for things to upload at work. slow day is slow.

2k total word count on Spy Vs Spy with ink_on_the_page  and about that (plus second main character intro!) on Bob's hotel. it's been a good morning to write, apparently. but my back hurts, and in a few hours i'm gunna have to head home to get ready for a funeral and tn shopping. Have to dig out the nice heels. bah.  however, I'm loving both 'verses and using every opportunity to crack as many jokes as possible, so it's all good.

I'm kind of in love with greta in Spy vs. Spy. she's spunky and independant and not afraid to do what she has to when required to get what she wants/needs for her job. not too terribly different from hotel-verse greta, really, except ya know. I'm pretty sure hotel-verse greta doesn't own a catsuit (you'd have to ask hotel-verse spencer, he could tell you, i'm sure.) also, Brendon intro! sort of. the introduction of brendon's introduction? i don't even know anymore.

DEAR FANDOM,

IF I DO NOT GET LOTS OF FIC WITH GERARD BEING CRAZY AND FLIGHTY AND A LITTLE BIT ANGRY,  ALA THE CRAZYFACES AT THE END OF THE DESOLATION ROW VIDEO, I WILL TOS THE UNIVERSE.

-brandi


DEAR MCR,

ILU SO FUCKING MUCH IT CANNOT BE QUANTIFIED AND I HAVE MISSED YOU STUPID FUCKING FACES LIKE BURNING.

&hearts;
brandi

YOU GUYYYYYYYYYS.


THE PRETENDERS. ON TOUR.

CHRISSIE MOTHERFUCKIN HYNDE.
yooooou guys.

ok. some of you youngins' are probably all "who the fuck?"

hit up wikipedia for a bio, that's not my job.




i jsut. HEARTS IN MY EYES.

( tl;dr me spazzing and rambling about first girlcrushes ever and the amazing of chrissie hynde. VIDEOS ALSO! )
OKOK. ENOUGH FLAIL. anyway. what does all this mean?

the pretenders are on tour and gunna be in houston next month. i don't know if anyone on my flist from houston is a fan? IF YOU ARE GOING, DROP ME A LINE. I WILL BE THERE WITH BELLS ON.

also reason for flail, unlike the motherfucking PIXIES, or all the other ancient bands doing tours right now (ahem) this tour? not an arena tour. HOUSE OF FUCKING BLUES. so. possibly meeting chrissie hynde.

WATCH ME WHILE I FUCKING DIE OF JOY, OK? ok.

I will always love you best and most, no matter my affection for those stupid panic failboats. you were first.

I only have one other thing to say:
DESOLATION ROW. OMG.

hearts in my eyes all over the fucking place. I missed your stupid fucking faces.

♥, Brandi

omnomnom WHATABURGER. Oh how I'll miss thee when i head North. (except up north there are Crystal and WhiteCastle. I think i'll survive.)

oh hey, found a place where you can read Coraline online for free! (ILU NEIL GAIMAN!)

I will get some writing done tonight after work, come hell or high water. a tag for you, steph, I PROMISES. and i'll dig out my notes for Bob's Hotel from the other computer. (since i got my laptop, i NEVER touch the hulking beast that is my PC. because i'm weird and thoroughly enjoy reading fic from my bed. also, my desk chair is REALLY uncomfortable.)

I was gonna post a snippet from one of the the fics for BBB, but. Nothing for Bob's Hotel is even remotely ready fot public consumption except the excerpts that have already been posted, (it has an actualfax title already, i jsut use Bob's hotel because it amuses me and that's what i've been calling it in my head since i started this nonsense.)  and i don't think we've got enough for SPY vs SPY that is rady for public consumption. i'd give you some of the chatfic-style notes? except that they give away a lot of the plot twists, so NO.

i've been dying to watch this one version of snow white that my mom recorded on VHS YEARS ago. it's nto quite a horror version, but it's far more frightening than most live-action versions, and i havent' been able to remember the exact title (no, it wasn't a Tale of Terror) to see if i could find it anywhere. BAH.

back to work i guess.

I um. may have signed up to write for BBB?  and then signed up to co-write, as well.


woops?

i think nano icons should apply to BBB.  because i stress so much more about BBB than i did NaNo.

either way! I'm debatng which fic i want to work on for BBB. am thinking teacherverse, because it's. um. the onyl one that's not pretty strictly panic. (except Bob's Hotel, which i'm still hanging on to.)

WISH ME LUCK. FIERY FICCISH DEATH FOR ALL.


am still debating signing up to do art. *headdesk*


ETA: SO HOW DOES EVERYONE FEEL ABOUT AN AU. A LITTLE BRENDON/BOB? AND THIS FANCY OLD HOTEL THAT GABE IS CONVINCED IS POSSESED BY THE SPIRIT OF A DEAD PROSTITUTE?

the entire plot of what i am working on right now can be summed up as follows: BECAUS PETE WENTZ. (also, anoneknewmoose )

ink_on_the_page: aaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha
omg yes
yes PLZ
me: of course, he hasn't told his team this.
ink_on_the_page : of course not
because he knows that they would just point and laugh
me: as far as they know? it's a nuclear plant intent on dumping things into the lake.
because pete didn't say it WASNT

this fandom could use a little crack right now, y/mfy?

SO UM. I THINK PETE WENTz JUST FLOUNCED FROMT HE INTERNET. WHY DO I WANT TO HUG HIM??? ILHSFM.