just a small town girl
Jul. 16th, 2010 08:00 pm*wills parents to get NetFlix*
I guess to give people an idea of the town I went to high school in, and where my family still lives: You know all those small towns Sam and Dean visit in season 1 and 2? And you're always thinking, "This America isn't even real! Why the hell have there been only two black people in this entire show? Does everyone really carry a gun?" And there are creepy dark pine trees and depressed goth girls skirting around the edges of everything? That's here. Maybe I'll steal my sister's camera one of these days and go snap a picture of the house where the road turns off into the woods with the Confederate flag and the noose in the front yard.
Also! I got my driver's handbook! So presumably I am going to learn how to drive! oh god what if I kill someone
I've killed two black widows* in the past week. A third one has taken up residency in the fusebox, and I await my day to kill it. The battle between girl and poisonous arachnid continues.
In other news, soccer RPF has taken over my brain. I've written like 4000 words of porn even. And I hate writing porn. ALL FOR U,
familiardevil , ALL FOR U.
My head hurts. Have some memes wut I stole from
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Post a link to whatever fanworks you're most proud of! I don't care what your medium is: podfic, art, graphics, meta, fic, poetry, mixes; if you're particularly proud of it, I want to see it in the comments. Throw in a link to something you've always wished had gotten more attention and I'll wander over to have a visit. If you think I've already seen it but it really is your favourite, post it anyway. I'll leave more feedback if I haven't already left much and it gives everyone else a chance to be exposed to these fantastic things they may have missed.
*I originally forgot to put the very important modifier "black" here. So it read "I've killed two widows in the past week." Yeeeeah.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:14 am (UTC)One thing about Leen: I absolutely, positively cannot walk in any form of high heels.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:18 am (UTC)*shrugs*
That is very sad. ): I love high heels. I used to wear them to school all the time my senior year.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:26 am (UTC)One thing about me: my immune system sucks. If someone in one of my classes has a cold, I will get it.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:31 am (UTC)Ouch. That really sucks. : / *pets*
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:31 am (UTC)You adored the hell out of this already, but I am pretty proud of my boy!Ruby/girl!Castiel mix. :D
ALSO:
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:36 am (UTC)>D I can adore the hell out of it some more though, can't I?
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:31 am (UTC)Stuff about me? I'm an urban girl but I still love the countryside. I love classical music. I have an interest in fictional incest so the SPN fandom was good for me. I like parfait. Got an interest in Japan/Japanese. I like being short (5'2") but I'm normal size in Japan and that is weird.
Black widows ahhhhh T_T;;;.
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:38 am (UTC)Oooh! One thing I've always wondered about you, why Japan? Why Japanese?
I have an interest in fictional incest so the SPN fandom was good for me
*g* This made me laugh. I don't suppose you could link me to any essays on the subject matter?
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:45 am (UTC)So the thing about me, since you brought up desolate little burgs...I literally stop for chickens while taking my son to school and it's always fun for us to see if the ponies are wearing their blankets in the morning. On the main street I've witnessed - mind you in fenced yards, but still - goats mating and peacocks strutting. The NRA calls my house weekly - it's the demographic and the Bush/Palin signs painted a lovely blue and red field around the neighborhood during election season. And - drum roll please - if you stop by on a Saturday the local hot dog, sandwich stand plays host to a semi-trailer bed bedecked in the glory of the confederate south.
My favorite thing by me, hmmmm... this is hard and unfair to make you look at the end of the world, long ass fic with unicorns and musical numbers so....truthfully this is my favorite thing - part of a bonded Sam/Dean story, Sam is 12, but this is very PG-13.
http://loolookitty.livejournal.com/28528.html
please to be coming and killing my black widows - many of them and they will challenge the great widow slayer with their soul sucking black carapaces and snicking pincers
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Date: 2010-07-17 03:50 am (UTC)No chickens that I've seen! But a girl I tutored in math kept goats, and I know several people who raise llamas, of all things.
Thanks for the link! :D I will be sure to check it out.
I would be happy too. Let me just find my Trusty Rock of Big Crushing.
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:09 am (UTC)1. I am deeply arachnophobic. If I ever have black widows, someone is definitely going to have to come deal with them. And then get me discharged AMA from some fine mental institution.
2. I have twice tried to learn Middle Welsh, but it didn't stick either time. OTOH, I do know that Old Irish had a word for "a pile of severed heads," so my education in things Celtic has not been totally wasted.
3. I grew up in NYC, and something still clicks for me when I go back to visit and come out of my old subway station.
4. I dislike the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. Too gooey.
5. I was known in undergrad for giving dub con head pats.
Something I'm proud of? I'm still new at this fic business, I'm proud every time I finish something. While I'm not sure it is my favorite thing I've written, I congratulate myself on having written the angstiest hamster fic in fandom, because I approve of the idea of hamster angst.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:27 am (UTC)Any chance you would share this word? Because that is kind of awesome. :D
Oh, gosh, I love NYC. What borough?
D: BLASPHEMY.
That's amazing.
Angsty hamster fic? That sounds fabulous.
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:10 am (UTC)But neat memes! Thing re: me--if one of my favorite songs comes on while I'm driving, and I arrive at my destination...I can't get out of the car until the song finishes. Or if I'm in a hurry and I *have* to get out, it BUGS me that I have to turn the song off partway through.
My spn fanworks are hit or miss, but this poem I did last year's still my favorite, and is one I'd actually show a nonfan:
http://whitereflection.livejournal.com/684516.html
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:42 am (UTC)D: I'm the same way about songs I like! Except I'm never the one driving, so I never hear the end of the song. And just bugs me beyond measure.
I've really enjoyed the spn poetry of yours that I've read. :D I'll be sure to check it out.
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:22 am (UTC)here's some original fiction i wrote/am proud of.
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:43 am (UTC)Ooh! Shiny. And I'm so happy that you're writing again, bb.
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:27 am (UTC)And that 'decorative' noose in the front yard of that house you mentioned - um, wow, colour me shocked. I can't imagine living in a place where someone could do that and people would let it go (or where someone wouldn't get the shit kicked out them for it). I guess I'm pretty naive for a city girl.
Also, black widows?! Ugh, gross and scary! You are much braver than I. I would be terrified. I'm pretty much afraid of everything, but I've been driving since I was 16 (which is, yeah, a while ago). In other words, if I can do it, you can, too :)
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:49 am (UTC)Where you live now kind of sounds like where I go to school- the neighborhood just to the south of us has a bad reputation. but really! It's not that bad.
I couldn't sleep because it was too quiet
I've heard of people feeling that way before, and it just seems so strange to me! But I guess I can sleep anywhere. *g*
And that 'decorative' noose in the front yard of that house you mentioned - um, wow, colour me shocked.M
Yeah, there's a lot of that kind of ugliness around here. : / And it definitely colored my perception of what was normal. A lot of the desks in my high school had swastikas carved into them. Which I didn't think was acceptable, but still thought was normal for an American high school. When I mentioned it to my college friends, they all stared at me in shock and horror. And we had problems my junior and senior year with people coming onto campus to harass the few black students.
So, when people tell me racism isn't a big deal in America anymore, I can't help but wonder what planet they live on.
I don't mind spiders. Really, I'm kind of fond of them. I'm just not a fan of poisonous ones. And thanks for the support. *hugs*
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:28 am (UTC)I love wearing skirts, but can rarely find dresses that I like/think flatter me. I am not a picky eater at all and will try pretty much anything. I really dislike crocs and ugg boots.
I like office supplies, too, jsyk. Back to school supplies shopping was always one of my favourite things! :D
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:53 am (UTC)I am the exact same way about skirts and dresses. I love skirts and own many, but I'm just not comfortable with dresses. (And I agree about crocs and Uggs.)
And yay for not being a picky eater! I like to think I'm not, but that's probably not true.
My best friend in middle schools love supplies too. Her favorite store was Office Depot. *fond memories*
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Date: 2010-07-17 04:33 am (UTC)I've been meaning to watch Generation Kill for literal months now. I've got streaming links and transcripts and everything at my disposal, but I just never seem to get around to it. I watched the first episode way back in winter, maybe, and I loved the style and was intrigued by the plot and liked the characters, etcetera etcetera. And yet...
Ah, I guess that can double as a random fact about me?
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:55 am (UTC)I've been wanting to see it for ages. I read the book it's based on last quarter at school, and it was fantastic. (I also fangirl the author from a previous book of his I read), but the universe seems intent on thwarting me.
Clearly you should just sit yourself down and watch it. :P I'm sure it will be a great hardship.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:02 am (UTC)Your Fun Maria Fact of the Day: I can fly a plane.
Fanworks I'm most proud of: your birthday fic, which I know you've read, My Little Misbegotten, which is all
I just posted, like, five minutes ago as to whether I can justify running an SPN/SPN RPF femmeslash big bang, but I am totally ganking both these memes for my next post :D
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Date: 2010-07-18 12:57 am (UTC)And I am oddly gleeful that you are particularly proud of the birthday fic you wrote for me. (Which I adore me btw.) And I'll be sure to check out the others.
I am so torn on the femmeslash bigbang. D: On one hand, want. On the other, I don't know if I'll have the time to sign up.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:37 am (UTC)I don't know if you read my BB from 2009, but you should, because I'm immensely proud of it, and my 2010 comes out July 30 and is a direct sequel, so much better if you've read the first. Santa Fe & Iron I am saying proudly that yes, it's an AU and I am going to reclaim the good name of AUs if it kills me because there's a sad prejudice against them and some truly godawful ones out there. Mine excepted of course ;)
I also love my icons, tagged with "icon binge", especially the ones from TMATEOTB.
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:00 am (UTC)Also, you have to tell me more about you working for a communist government. Because that sounds fascinating.
:D! I will be sure to check it out. I like AUs in general, but I am torn when it comes to Sam/Dean AUs. Hopefully yours will change my mind.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:50 am (UTC)Something about me, huh ... well, I'm rocking a buzz-cut right now!
And my favorite SPN story would be Dare Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry, but in case graphic violence and explicit incest with bloodkink and dubcon between evil!Sam and animalistic!Dean, all in a dark post-apocalyptic setting isn't your thing, I'm also really proud of Ride the Lightning, a gen casefic.
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:03 am (UTC)I'll try the first, but I admit evil!Sam and dubcon make me ):. But I will definitely read the second one.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:50 am (UTC)WOW YEAH so I had not thought about this question much but seriously, small towns in the west? Yes. Absolutely. White people who have confederate flags whether they think about it or not and big/old cars and lurky loitery teens - I grew up on the edge of rural and suburbia, so I'm not living in your town or anything, but where are the black people indeed. Somewhere else, idk.
anyway.
memes!
IDK if you have noticed but I am a latinaphile like whoa and it is my dream to translate poetry or literature from spanish to english for a job. (It is also my dream to write spanish in SPN fic XD)
All my fics that I am the most proud of are kinda old XD I am particularly fond of ones where I blatantly appropriate Carl Phillips poetry or, for instance, Faulkner's writing style: All our yesterdays (Narnia, Peter/Susan). what, yes, Narnia was my 'cest shipping. But really one of my faves from forever ago that never got read was for
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:08 am (UTC)It's strange, too. I mostly grew up in Georgia and Texas, but it wasn't until I moved to California that I saw a Confederate flag in real life.
I had noticed. I will probably make you help me with Spanish if I decide to take it and not just skirt by on testing out of the language competency requirement. :P
I know literally nothing about Smallville (except that it's about young!Superman, and Supernatural RPF fandom appropriates its actors all the time), but I'll check out both.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:53 am (UTC)That town sounds creepy, but it's so good that you're happy to be home regardless! D'awww!
You'll be the best driver ever! You can roadtrip to Florida and then kill a bunch of spiders for us, you warrior woman, you.
YAY TO YOU WRITING A LOT OF SOCCER RPF. FTW.
IT MAKES ME SAD WHEN YOU ARE COLD AND DISTANT, COYOTE. Have you contacted LJ about the notifications thing yet?
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Date: 2010-07-17 08:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-07-17 07:59 am (UTC)YOU SHOULD GET NETFLIX. TOTES SHOULD.
Confederate flags? Nooses? Black widows? EEEK! *hides* *steals you away to hang at the beach and with my netflix on demand*
I AM SO PLEASED YOU ARE WRITING PORN. \O/ FAMILIAR IS DOING A GOOD JOB IN CORRUPTING YOU.
Oh man. I suck at telling facts about myself. YOU ALREADY KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT ME, COYOTE. I live in California? By the ocean? FUCK, I DON'T KNOW. YOU SHOULD ASK ME ACTUAL QUESTIONS.
Also, everything I've written that you'd be into you've already commented on XD So, the work I'm most proud of the Jo/Bela you beta'd *___*
ALSO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, COY. DON'T NOT BE GETTING NOTIFICATIONS! DDDD: THIS MAKES ME SO SAD IN MY HEART! COME BACK! Also, I really hope I don't accidentally talk to your bro or dad or cousins on AIM accidentally. Is there a question I should ask to make sure (or to make sure your bro or cousins aren't pretending to be you?).
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Date: 2010-07-17 08:32 pm (UTC)*purrs* You might've seen said porn thanks to the writing battles but agfsgasfgsf omg omg omg she is amazing and I love her so much.
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Date: 2010-07-17 09:02 am (UTC)SHE TOOK THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN GOIN'
ANYYYYWHEREEEEE
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UM OKAY SO
RANDOM FACT: I can do this trick with my hands -->
(The trick is to not let any of your fingertips separate while doing it.)
FAVORITE FANWORK: We've come a long way (J2 AU; 16k+ words). I wrote this for the
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:19 am (UTC)I still haven't made it past 10K. I've made it to 10K, but not beyond. Someday though, someday. And I will check it out. I do so love J2 AUs. <3
ETA: Also, if I did not get "Don't Stop Believing" stuck in at least three people's heads, I will be disappointed.
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Date: 2010-07-17 05:28 pm (UTC)I'm the eldest, with three younger brothers, though the dynamics sometimes get flipped because two of them are very, very close to my own age and they did a lot of the "eldest sibling" groundwork with the parents while I was ill. We're very close-knit and I consider myself very, very lucky to have them.
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:24 am (UTC)I love hearing about people who are close to their siblings. I have three as well (second child, though), and I'm incredibly close to all of them. Lucky, indeed. ♥
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Date: 2010-07-17 08:31 pm (UTC)That is what Key West is like, only the creepy dark pines are palm trees, the depressed goth girls are friendly Cubans, and there are tons of rainbow flags :D :D :D
The vagina spiders will be angered that you have murdered their kin. I hope you're prepared to face them in October.
I love you so much. There aren't words. *just reread fight!fic* *wiggles*
Ack my face is so sunburnt. BUT. KITTEN CIRCUS SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EEK I HOPE HE'S THERE TONIGHT.
Have a wonderful night my sweet delilah ♥ I might be on later tonight and I'll probably be on a little tomorrow before we leave. MWUAH.
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:27 am (UTC)The vagina spiders love me. I wrote them soccer porn.
I love you in a way that makes me want to write sonnets for you. :* Or, you know, obscure soccer slash.
D: *rubs aloe vera on your face* AND OMG KITTEN CIRCUS EEK HAVE FUN
MWAH! I'm sorry I missed you earlier. I was sleeping. ): But I will- I hope- catch you tonight.
Have a fantastic day. ♥
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Date: 2010-07-17 08:35 pm (UTC)I am in love with youI got to feed a six-toed cat today!no subject
Date: 2010-07-17 10:03 pm (UTC)How strange! I am also in love with you!Mutant cats! Eek! What did you feed it? The blood of your enemies?
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Date: 2010-07-17 10:41 pm (UTC)The first time I was in the States I stayed in this tiny little place with one bar that we went to, where you had to be very careful not to look too long at the mullet ladies' boyfriends, to avoid having a picther smashed over your head :O That'd be a little something about myself: I've so far stayed in/travelled through the UK, the USA and Canada - I love spending time in English languaged countries (coming from a country of only five million people, I love the amounts of media and the diversity of culture).
A story that I'm happy with would be Love Like Semtex, mainly because I was so love in with the first seasons of Entourage, and I'm pleased that I actually managed to finish something for this fandom :)
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Date: 2010-07-18 01:30 am (UTC):O That is somewhat frightening. But also kind of cool. And, gosh, traveling! Eek! What's your favorite of the places you've been?
Mmm, Entourage. I still haven't seen the latest season, and I'm not sure if I should. I like leaving it off with E and Vince reuniting all codependent like they're supposed to be. And the early seasons are love.
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Date: 2010-07-18 05:14 am (UTC)::concerned looks at you::
thing about me: I don't know which apartment I'm living in next year or how the rooming situation will work out. I decided not to worry.
I...so this one time, at school, I had to write about Twilight for a prompt and I came out with this and it is half meta and half fic 100% femslash.
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Date: 2010-07-18 08:08 am (UTC)D: D: D: D: D: THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Why don't you know? I thought everything was sorted out and you were staying on the third floor apartment????
>) Oh really. Is it Alice/Bella? I bet it is Alice/Bella.
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Date: 2010-07-21 12:24 am (UTC)