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• 00:11 FINALLY LoudTwitter is posting properly; it's been a pain to get Twitter set up properly, but I am enjoying it immensely. #
• 00:39 Bounts arc in Bleach: Nice touch of OurVampiresAreDifferent, but the execution just leaves me a bit cold #
• 01:55 Trying the modem trick with megavideo, see if it works... #
• 02:01 It doesn't. Dang. Wanted to finally get to the halfway mark on this series. 83 episodes down, 84 +2 movies to go. And it's still airing... #
• 10:26 Good morning, all (since I forgot to say goodnight last night...) #
• 13:50 Pre-lent weeks at the parish we go to already? Yikes #
• 17:57 Eye exam went well. Left eye is weaker due to age but right is stable #
• 20:19 Prayers & positive energy needed for my neighbor's missing cat #

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CHALLENGE: A Dozen Fanfic Roses

I talked about doing a Valentine's Day challenge, and I even stumbled upon a now sadly defunct Valentine's challenge comm. I decided to post to it, but it's questionable how many people will see the fics on there (we'll see what happen). I did like their prompt list, so I decided to lift it (with a few tweaks)

I'm going to do something a little different this time than I did for the 12 Days of Fanfic: I'm going to offer a list of prompts, and you get to match a pairing or a character to them. Doesn't matter if more than one person asks for the same prompt: ( Prompt list here! )

If anyone wants to add some specifics to their selected prompts, feel free to to so. And they don't have to be romantic pairings, they cam reflect any sort of love: Friendship, family love, parent-child, brother-sister, bromance, romantic friendship, "friends with benefits"

Did the human race wake up on the wrong side of the bed today??

Removed one entry due to whining.

All I'm going to say is, did a crankiness virus escape from a CDC lab? I've been seeing a lot of whininess around and it's starting to wear down the Zen-like calm I've been trying to cultivate. I know I shouldn't let it get to me, but it is making it hard to type up some of the Valentine's fics I'm working on.

I won't say more about the whining: I'm going to talk about the cosmic irony that is a girl who hated Valentine's Day with a vengeance, due to a bad relationship and a horrible dust-up that happened on Valentine's Day due to that bad relationship, even has an Anti-Valentine's Day icon on her LJ (which I'm trying to find a more positive replacement for. Any suggestions??), who is now writing Valentine's Day fanfics! (Well, ficlets...) How did I get from there to here...? I credit it to the fact that among the collective of characters I have "living" as it were in a big rambling Queen Anne-style mansion (think along the lines of the house in "The Addams Family") in the creativity centers of my brain, I have more than a few hopeless romantics (including, but not limited to Frank Sweitz, my "A.I." OMC, and to some extent, a certain bouncy shinigami with violet eyes). I guess they finally won the battle for my sentimentality. Re: the headspace-dwellers, I'm tempted to put together a weekly rundown of some of the craziness they seem to come up with which is too silly not to post, but which will never make it into a fanfiction:

--Hal McGeever trying to find out who keeps eating his chips
--The day we had Soul Reapers running down the hallway for some inexplicable reason
--Frank running out of clean shirts and stealing/borrowing shirts from other guys' rooms (including the Merovingian's room... Eek.)
--Fuyutsuki's abortive attempts at finding a quiet place to read his mail and drink his tea in the morning
--Hal and Muraki "not flirting with each other"
--Enniel Prussot deciding to trim his hair, thus making him look even more like an Expy of a certain crooked energy vampire