just a small town girl

[coyotesuspect]

I'd kind of forgotten how much I hated living someplace where the most exciting thing to do is hang out in the K-Mart the next town over. Also, the only movie rental place around went out of business, and the internet here isn't even fast enough for Hulu, so my desire to see Generation Kill/Star Trek TOS/Dogma/1776 remains thwarted.

*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.  

Living condition-wise, since the house is too small for everyone to have their own room, and my older brother already sleeps in the garage, I've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor of my little sister's room and living out of my suitcase. But despite all this (and all the passive aggressive bitching I do to familiar) I'm happy? I did really miss my family. And damn, but the stars out here are beautiful. 

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 cantarina1  and unavoidedcrisis :

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes office supplies." 

and:

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.

ETA: Oh, and the point of this post: I haven't been getting lj notifications! And since I only use my e-mail for lj notifications, I haven't really been checking it! Also, aim signs me on automatically on the family computer (despite my unclicking the "sign in automatically" box), so, uh, be careful lest you end up talking to my dad or little brother or cousins? Believe it or not, I have been even worse about keeping in touch with real life friends. I don't even remember the last time I logged in on facebook. /o\

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[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

"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?"
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 a_humumentathon and it was Smallville Clark/Lex and about music. Accidentals. though who even does SV anymore, amirite.

[coyotesuspect.livejournal.com]

This reminds me- I meant to ask you where you're from the other day, since you seemed to have a passing familiarity with the Pacific Northwest. So? :D

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.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

Puyallup, Washington, not far from Tacoma. home to the second, third largest state fair in the US? dooo the puyallup.

Wow, okay, that is kind of weird. I do hear that the south still has those. There was some kid at my high school with a huge truck and two huge confederate flags flying from the corners of the bed. I think I only saw it at school a couple times, though; they probably ticketed him for it or something.

HAPPY TO HELP WITH SPANISH ANY DAY :D

I had noticed! Why does SPN RPF do that? Do SV and SPN casts cross over at all? I haven't seen any common actors... anyway, it is kinda old fic, dunno how interesting it is without smallville context. But had you ever seen a_humumentathon? I want it to go again. I love A Humument.

[coyotesuspect.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite place names in the US. Probably because I have no idea how to say it. And I've been to Tacoma! It's gorgeous there.

Yeah, the south still has those. Just not in the parts I lived. And, wow, how tacky. -_-

I think SPN RPF does that for cases when it's an ensemble cast. You need to cast friends/enemies/former exes etc from somewhere, and since they're all on CW shows, and know each other, it makes some sense. Also, it's less creepy than using actual, non actor friends, et al.

And I have not! I don't even know what A Humument is. *g*

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

:D Pyoo-all-up. natives say it fast so it sounds more like P-yall-up. It's WEIRD, haha, I love it.

Ahh. CW shows. That makes some sense. And yes, far better other public figures than private ones :(

it's erasure poetry and art and amazing. this icon is from my favorite page.

http://humument.com/gallery/index.html

I have the newest edition book if you ever want to borrow it. *push push* ;)