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Where to find me usually: marksykins@lj

Where to find my fic: my hastily cobbled together fic archive

Where else to find my fic: marks@ao3

Where to find my fic recs: marksykins@del.icio.us

Where to find my random crap: nonnegative@tumblr

I wrote The Adventure of the Watson League for fourthage, Watson gen for Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant fandom, which was a lot of fun to write, but in first person??? I figured it was okay since the only two fandoms I like reading first person fic in are Holmes and The Baby-Sitters Club. Next year I figure out a way to request both of those for Yuletide.

I recieved Everything (ha!), Seth Meyers/Stefon for Saturday Night Live by florahart. I saw myself on the pinch hit list and guessed the fic I got was written by someone who knows me, and I was totally right. :D :D :D Anyway, Flora did an excellent job, the fic is a blast and you should read it post-haste.

Happy 2012!!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/302143

I haven't even read it yet and I'm posting from my phone because I won't even be home till tonight, but I totally got Stefon fic for Yuletide and I am PSYCHED.

Wow, I have not updated for a really, really long time! That's a horrible habit to fall into, so in case you didn't know, I'm alive and fine. I've probably not been updating mostly because I have nothing at all fandom-related to say, considering my RL has been consuming most of my time, something which will only be getting worse in about a month. I'm now just one month and three days away from my due date, holy crap!

Last week was my baby shower and it was mostly a surprise (the party itself was a surprise, but I knew I was getting one sometime since my mother and MIL made me do a registry in January and gifts started getting sent to my house -- so my husband deserves credit for coming up with a cover story that I believed) and I even had several internet weirdoes in attendance, scaring a couple of my non-internet friends who hadn't met them before. But seriously, I'm so glad mousapelli, stealstheashes, drunktuesdays, and mythofthebelle were able to make it. It was fun! I have so many itty bitty baby clothes now and have discovered a deep love of tiny socks that I didn't realize I had.

( now a picture of my belly for anyone who's interested )

So how are you all, LJ friends?

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm very excited about 2011 for obvious reasons, and I hope this is going to be a great year.

Anyway, yuletide reveals are up. I haven't quite gotten around to reading everything I want yet, so expect the latest ever Yuletide recs post at some point. :D But I wrote three fics (yes, I got a little carried away at the end):

Christmas Wrapping - Parks and Recreation Gen, Leslie-centric with some Ron, 2422 words, G for emilys_list - Leslie tries to make having Christmas alone work. This was my original assignment and I looooved writing in Parks & Rec fandom. If you couldn't tell, I'm kind of gravitating toward sitcom fandoms now. And if you couldn't before, you will after the next two fics.

Tapdancing in a Minefield - Modern Family, Alex/McKenzie, 1579 words, PG for semirose - So, I was reading DYT letters and I saw that Semmi wanted a Modern Family fic about Alex a few years down the line questioning her sexuality and I thought yes, I want to write that. So I did! McKenzie actually isn't an OC, but she's close enough as she's never been on the show, but Haley's "I was McKenzie. I invented McKenzie" makes me laugh whenever I think about it, and there was my inspiration.

I guess this was my big fic this year? I was really surprised by the reaction I got to it. It's always the fics I write in a couple of hours that turn out that way. :D

Three Men and a Baby Minus a Man - Community, Abed/Troy-ish, 595 words, G for shoemaster - Shoe likes Troy/Abed and babies and so do I. So I wrote about Abed finding one. You know how it is.

Incidentally, Shoe and Lea had a whole conversation about this fic where I could see it and I had to sit on my hands and not yell IT WAS ME. So anyway, Shoe, IT WAS ME.

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I'd also like to thank lightningwaltz and everysecondtues for my two wonderful A Softer World fics, and I want lists of all the strips that inspired you ASAP. :D

So you might have noticed I've been MIA for a while. I wasn't really completely away, but writing up posts just seemed to be the last thing on my mind. In the last month, I've moved into a new house, found out I'm having a BOY, found out that my amniotic fluid is on the low side, which means lots and lots of ultrasounds, and wrote a decent amount of fic.

Fic Stuff
- I finished yuletide and I'm considering writing a treat for madness, but I don't know if I'll have the time. I have to wrap so many presents still, and my grandparents asked if our usual evening Christmas Eve get together could be bumped up to the afternoon, so I'm not sure. We'll see!
- I wrote a fic for boostlethon, which I type "boostlethong" every time. It's here. I also have to read and review the fic for me! I'll do that today, once I get back from a last-minute Toys 'R Us trip.
- I also wrote for sheldon_penny's Saturnalia exchange, which you might have seen yesterday. That's posted here.

No bandom at all! That said, I still have a few more fics I owe people, bandom included. I may also do no_tags, since I was so sad about missing out last year. I mean, I might as well get in all the writing I can before spring rolls around and I have a little dependent thing taking up all my time. :D

Moving Stuff

- Moving is always tiring, but about ten times more when pregnant. I know, I know, great revelations. :D Either way, my house is beaaaaaautiful. I walk around going "I love my house!" all the time. Well, not out loud, but it's a close call. And our new furniture and appliances have all been delivered and we're almost unpacked already! Pretty good for only living here two weeks.

Baby Stuff

- Yes, Baby is a BOY. And a show-off. Like I said, I have slightly low amniotic fluid (which went up as of my last checkup \o/), which they found at my 20 week anatomy scan. I was really closer to 21 weeks then, now I'm at 25 weeks. Anyway, that means I got sent to the hospital for a scan on a better ultrasound machine and also that I got to start my "go every two weeks" checks about ten weeks earlier than I'd originally expected. That also means that I've had four ultrasounds since Thanksgiving, and kid has a personality. At the last one, the tech was like "oh, I hope you know what you're having" because the baby was like LOOK AT MY PENIS as soon as they started scanning me. drunktuesdays said I'm carrying the spirit of Pete Wentz, which is a horrifying thing to say to an expecting mother. Once he was done showing off, he looked straight at the camera and had his hands on either side of his face. My husband said he looked like he was pointing at us all TONIGHT, YOU. I love my creepy baby.
- Low fluid or not, the baby's anatomy is 100% great and he already weighs about 1.8 pounds. \o/ Just stay in there for three more months, kiddo.
- Now that holiday stuff is winding down, I can start focusing on baby stuff and jeez, we need a lot of stuff. BABIES NEED A LOT OF STUFF, DID YOU KNOW?
- He just kicked me for the ten thousandth time this morning.

...Yeah, that was long. I really have to update more often.

* If a fandom you love has somehow been overlooked in the 4398 fandoms nominated for Yuletide, you have three more hours to get them in there. I nominated Hellcats, The Like RPF (and added Annie to the character list, yay \o/), Macdonald Hall, The Flash, Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video, and A Softer World. The last two are ones I added to the database and my interpretation of characters is laughable. I'm thinking of only volunteering to write for comedic fandoms, at least initially -- who knows what I'll wind up picking up in pinch-hits?

* strobelighted mailed me the best congratulations card. I love you, Ils! :D Baby's fine and I have another check-up a week from now. I own one whole maternity shirt now, which was a gift.

* The weekend before last, I went to stay with mousapelli, as I do, and besides bonding with her five guinea pigs and trying to claim her body pillow for my own, I also got addicted to The Big Bang Theory. Trust me, I'm as surprised as you are, but Sara sat me down and made me watch the first season and half of the second season because she knew I'd love it. She was right. When I got home, I mainlined the rest of the series, and now I'm reading fic. It's a bigger fandom than I would have guessed! Good, too. Anyway, there may be recs later.

* Did you wear purple today?

Well, our families have all been told and I've got a clean bill of health, so I think it's time to tell the internet! I'm pregnant and due in April 2011! My husband and I are both really, really, really thrilled about this.

Oh, and by the way? If you're going to take a pregnancy test and have it come up positive four days before you're meant to go to the beach with 20 fangirls, which means you're not drinking, people will immediately guess even though you're about a month away from being ready to tell people. So, all of you who guessed a month ago, of course you were right. :D :D :D

I've been having one of those days where I'm reading things online and getting halfway down the page before I realize that I've comprehended none of it. And I'm not exactly reading educational content here; I've spent most of the past hour going through the Cracked.com archives. Did you know Gary Busey was in a horror film called The Gingerbread Man where he played an actual evil gingerbread man? I'm tempted to download it.

So, uh, this had a point! My point is I've not really been paying close attention to anything, LJ/DW included, because I've had the attention span of a gnat. Oh sure, I've been reading my flist, but I get about halfway down the page when I realized I haven't actually taken anything in.

Oh well. My real life has been very busy and I've been very tired, which I'm sure explains it. That or senility.

( Let's talk about the Fall 2010 TV schedule! )

- I'm seeing Black Gold and TYV tonight, which would be great only that means I have to take a break from listening to Mark Ronson's new single nonstop. I swear, I'm dreaming in Q-Tip and MNDR. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, download and earworm yourself, though hopefully not as badly as me.)

- Every once in a while I have to remind myself that I still hate Television Without Pity, so I ventured onto their Work of Art thread, which is chock full of some of the most vicious misogyny I've seen since... uh, since I checked their Community thread a few months back. So, you know, if you were thinking of doing that, don't. It's pretty gross and so lacking in self-awareness that it makes me wish all of my old comments weren't wiped out in one of the board upgrades so I could see if I used to be that bad. I don't think so, but who knows?

- Since everyone I know has done this meme, I write like Raymond Chandler, which I guess isn't the worst result I could have gotten. Maybe I should go into pulp.

- Okay, let's talk Pretty Little Liars!

( spoilers )