Becca Stareyes

Putting the post up early tonight/today because I'm ten minutes from face-planting into my pillows. So, who's added the llamas to their stories? I know there's got to be one of you, even if it was just a dream sequence. Come on, you can tell me. *grins*

Jenn

It's Friday. Those of you who are off today, sprint for the 40k mark. Those who aren't... try and slap in another 2k into your word counts. We can do this.

Jenn

What I'm really enjoying about AO3 is that so far, the quality of work is great. I like clicking on a link and getting an awesome fic! THIS IS ENJOYABLE TO ME.

Also, hello, hello, I am your friendly Junjou Romantica and Hellboy (movie-verse) tag wrangler. UHM. I have no idea, okay, I blame renay okay. If you would like to know what fandoms need wranglers, see this list!. :3

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

Today I'm going to try and sprint to the 50k mark. Story's no where near done, but yeah. I'm at 32695. That's not bad with midterms and starting to study for finals.

Post is up. Let's get busy.

Jenn

Just got word that this is now in circulation to be put on the ballot next year:

CREATES SPECIAL CONSTITUTIONAL RULE FOR SPEECH BASED ON THE BIBLE. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
Exempts speech based on biblical authority from existing constitutional and statutory restrictions applicable to all other speech, including restrictions against discrimination and hate crimes. Repeals constitutional provision denying protection to acts of religious expression inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State. -Snip fiscal impact.-

Oh, state of California. WHY? This beats out the mandatory Christmas music in schools for the coveted position of "#1 thing Phoenix is most disgusted at the idea of being obligated to vote on in 2010." Driving parents across the state batty is a much less evil thing to try to violate the establishment clause with than promoting violence against queers (and, soon enough, Jews.)

*sneaks on in class and looks around* Post is up, have at kids.

Jenn

So one of my test grades got /lost/ in Floral Design. I'll have to hope I can find the corrected test so I can get my grade to my TA, because I am /not/ taking the average on that test. I know I did better than that.

If I can't find it, well, I don't know how it'll work out. But this is kind of...okay, really...annoying.

I also need to figure out what I'm doing for my final paper in Japanese Lit so I can get the abstract in tomorrow. With sources. I have no idea what I want to write about.

Disgaea 2 stats

Play time: 204 hours
Max damage: 203,407
Max level: 3,246 (to be fair, this is Mao, who came on level 3,200. My highest-leveled character who didn't COME on a high level is my thief, who weighs in at 1,317).

Item world visits: 214
Item world levels: 1939

Have defeated: Prism Red, Asagi, Kurtis, Mid-Boss, Priere, Marjoly, Flonne, Laharl (all three times), Zetta, Champloo, Raspberyl, and Mao. (YOU'RE NEXT, BAAL.)

Have collected: 71.39% of all weapons (it counts three separate times for common, rare, and legendary), 88.62% of all armor, 62.80% of the "misc" category.

In other news, I'm experimenting with monster classes. I've never really liked them, but since I mostly play during my obnoxious hour-and-a-half commute to school, I've decided to dick around with them a little. For the most part, I got exactly what I expected... Tink may be invaluable in the Item World, and Zetta has saved my ass more times than I'd like to admit back when I was pirate hunting, but monsters tend to be a little too gimmicky for me, and lacking the flexibility of human classes. Even with the magichange retconned in from Disgaea 3, monster classes kind of suck.

At least, I thought that until I made a Deathsaber

DEATHSABERS ARE FUCKING AMAZING.

Known as Saber Cats in Disgaea 3 or Saber Kitties in Phantom Brave, I have found that Disgaea 2's name of "Deathsaber" is, in fact, the most accurate one. Their innate ability is a 10% bonus for every step they take. If you give one a pair of Angel Sandals, you can do +70% damage on every turn. I'm going to level up said Angel Sandals later and add even more MV. 8D They also have a nice extra +1% added to each step for every ten Evil Cat Lovers you have (btw, NipponIchi, nice job on not even being able to have naming consistency within the same game). On top of that, it has highly excellent moves - one for hitting a single target, one for draining HP from three enemies in a row, and one for hitting five in a cross. There might not be any 3x3 attack grids that you'd get with swords or fists, but I don't even care. This dumb-looking, derpy little creature was doing truncated damage (if a character does more than 100k damage, the game starts abbreviating it) on the extremely modest level of 581, to a set of enemies TWICE ITS LEVEL. Even now, at lv 800, it keeps up with my lv 1000-1200 party without a problem. It actually does better than some of them.

Good kitty.

First day of work = success. Phoenix = tired. The week = just beginning.

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Tomorrow is the National Call-In Day for Equality. It’s the day when we flood Congress with our calls demanding equality in the workplace. Tomorrow, talk to Congress. Call them at (202) 224-3121. Give your zip code and ask to be connected to your Senators, and then your Representative. If you haven’t contacted your elected officials, NOW IS THE TIME. Let them know that you support ENDA and you want them to support it, too. If you already have, please do it again.

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Talk to your friends, family and neighbors and let them know. Start with the simple opening: "Did you know that Congress is considering workplace legislation? Did you know that only 40% of the country is covered are clear laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination?" Ask the people in your life how they feel about that. Then tell them they can help protect people from discrimination based on who they are--ask them to take action.

Share this event with your friends and family and ask them to join this event and pledge an email or phone call to Congress.

It just takes a minute to do your part to end discrimination in the work place.

*drags my carcass back in* Just got back from Stafford, Tx. I will never do that again! Never ever ever! But enough of my woes. We've got 14 days left, including today to get to our goals.

Give me about an hour to recover and I'm joining in the mad typing.

Jenn

Title: Crumbling Down
Author: jlsigman
Rating: G
Word count: 160
Prompt: Final Fantasy VII, Reeve: the fall of Sector 7 – It shouldn't be like this
A/N: Originally due Oct. 16

There was nothing he could do, and that hurt most of all.

Reeve had only heard about the plan to drop the plate a few moments ago, overhearing Reno's voice as they passed in the hallway. For a moment Reeve had frozen in shock, not wanting to believe that something this horrific was anything more than the Turk shooting his mouth off again. Several frantic phone calls soon had him throwing up in his office trash can.

After he washed out his mouth in the bathroom, he went to find a place in the Shinra building where he could watch it happen. That was his penance for not being able to save anyone. So he stood in silence, hands clenched at his sides, tears running into his beard, and watched the plate kill untold thousands of people as it crashed down.

It was then that he decided he hated, and that he had to do something to make it right.

Okay. Well. It's November. Dear Gods, kill me now. Hates November. Hates it forevers. On the plus side, it has been a remarkably mild November for the state of Nebraska weatherwise. Or, at least it was. The last two days have brought in the cold, grey, icky, half-assed-drizzliness-that-may-or-may-not-become-snow that characterizes November at the point where the alleged poetic beauty of autumn is gasping its last but winter is still dragging its heels to get here. Oh YAY.

Been crafting away, though. For the holiday crafting list:

Little Jen: COMPLETED.
Zanne: COMPLETED. Except maybe for some blocking, which isn't strictly necessary in this case.
Becky: Probably about a day or so from completion--it's going remarkably quickly considering my needles for this project are roughly the size of frickin' toothpicks. Seriously. Trying to get through it ASAP, though, because I really, really want one of these for myself too.
Ed: Have materials, but haven't started work yet. According to the pattern, though, should be a fairly quick and simple knit. But, that's what they ALL say, isn't it? Anyway, yours is probably going to be the next on the working block.
Amanda: Have materials, and have attempted to start work I don't know HOW many times now. The patternmaker claims she whipped it up over a weekend, but apparently I chose a very evil (but very very pretty!) yarn for this and it keeps trying to not do what it's supposed to do. This will invariably take some fighting. And possibly a whip. Forgive me if this one runs a little late. ^_^;
Dani: Have materials, but not yet started work. Still trying to reconfigure the pattern to turn a hand towel and two washcloths into a single scarf pattern--mostly it's the edging that's throwing me. Should be an easy knit once the pattern particulars are ironed out, though.
Paul: I think I have materials all ready--still deciding how much is going to be done in pure pipecleaners and how much real fabric I want to use for this. But, thankfully Pipecleaner People can usually be whipped up in an afternoon or two.
UO: Have a plan for you, but, honestly, it's on the backburner, love. Because you are getting OTHER pretty pretty shinies from me. Maybe for your birthday or next year or something if I don't complete it this year. But, once done, it should go marvelously with the OTHER fabric-based things I've made for you. ^_~
James: Theoretically, this should be easy to do, at least once I get printer ink and transfer paper. Let's see how well my scanner cooperates, though. They should still have plain white t-shirts along the back wall of Hobby Lobby by the time I'm ready, but if I have to do much fighting, this is going to likely wind up a birthday present.

Hmm. Usually I'm further along than this. Then again, last year I was only working part-time rather than full-time. Plus having to do Adrian's Halloween costume by hand slowed me down too--but he was still the cutest little Link you ever did see. No, really. And people RECOGNIZED him as Link, without my prompting! Well, some did. Others thought he was anything from an elf to Robin Hood to Peter Pan. Hmm. And, I, of course, looked smashing as always in that dress. It was pretty funny, though. Adrian saw me dressed up and immediately asked "Mommy, are you princess?" Now, generally, I don't wear a tiara with the red dress--I usually wrap a bit of silver trimming in my hair instead, but Adrian refused to let me go anywhere without my tiara, insisting, "No, NO, Mommy! You PRINCESS!" So. Damned. Cute. Also, a tip from the expert: if you take children trick-or-treating, wear a costume yourself, especially if you have young children that need to be escorted all the way to the door. Lots of houses will give double treats if the chaperones dress up too, apparently.

Oh, and we do have a treat for you today! Yes, we have more Lucian! In fact, I have a LOT of Lucian. But, I assure you, it will be worth it! We have canon yaoi! Gay marriage! Pederasty that isn't pederasty! Cheese sweat! Honey snot! Flying grilled frogs! And lots and lots of penises! Oh, yes, the little group I'm working among on this had an absolute BALL with this whole section. Because we're all secretly twelve. Yes, Part 10 is long, including another excision removed to protect the innocent minds of Victorian schoolboys, but wonderfully amusing. It's Day 75. And here we go! Um, be warned, though. Not all of this text is exactly work-safe, as they say:

( True History, Book I, lines 325-387 )

Richard O'Brien hasn't been publicly ID'ing as third sex/transgender for very long, has he? Only it seems so logical that I can't quite believe it wasn't already well-known, but I hadn't heard until today so....

(Typing this post took forever because I am learning Colemak and all the keys are where I don't expect them to be.)

(Thanks to everyone who commented about my grandfather. I still haven't really processed it so I can't really say more on the subject yet.)

New day is dawning and there's music playing in the background. Let's boogie on down with our bad selves and write like there's no tomorrow.

My grandfather just died.

I still don't know how I feel.

I got my Yuletide assignment. \0/ and also OMFHDSJKDHSDSHDS

I AM EXCITED

Unfortunately, I didn't get any NaNoWriMo writing done yesterday. This is what happens! I'll have to write double as much today! I WAS SUPPOSE TO HIT 50K, DAMN IT.

The Archive of Our Own is in Open Beta! Learn more about it here. I'm Nan over there but I've yet to upload anything. I am keeping standards here, which means that I'm only uploading crap I'm actually proud of. There, uh, there really isn't that much that I like! D: I must fix this!

There was something else I wanted to talk about but, uh. Memory, memory.

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

It's Sunday... Just 15 more days left in NaNoWriMo. So where are all of you lovely people at today?

It's Saturday, bright and early too. I vote that we all go back to bed and sleep for a few more hours. No? Oh well, on to the writing. Post is up, let's get down with our bad selves.

Jenn

Holy crap I can't read this white-on-grey default layout! @_@