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• 16:56 Started writing original fic about a Catholic priest working w. vampires #
• 16:58 On pg. 3 & already have an Expy of Muraki #

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Computer gear shopping

Just back from Target where I was picking up a few odds and ends for the laptop -- which I have named "Francis Xavier", in honor of the first Jesuit missionary to Japan. I needed a laptop case to carry it in, and I've also bought a few odds and ends: AVG software (when the trial version of MacAfee runs out), surge protector, even a cooling base (which I'm currently using to raise the keyboard up a bit: the crate I'm using as a desk is just a little low). Also picked up Season 2 of True Blood on DVD, though I never did finish watching the first season, oddly enough. And the peace I'd made with the whole Twilight thing nearly was disrupted: come to find out Ms. Meyer is releasing a new Twilight-verse novella. I'm hoping it might actually be good, since it does not focus on Dulla and Edweird. Definitely one for the "get it used on Amazon" list. Only good thing about it is at least the proceeds from the sales of the novella are going to help the Red Cross.

God help us if we ever got a Dulla and/or Edweird at the Mansion. Riku might be cool with them (since he tends to be friendly with everyone) and the same would go for Tsuzuki for the same reasons, but it would likely be hard to keep Muraki from trying to consume either or both of them (plus he and Aramat would likely fight over who gets to dissect them). And I think I would have too much fun letting Ryuk bedevil Eddie-kins. I'd love to see Adrian Ivashkov snark the either of them down. I think Paul has had some exposure to them, since tomboy_typist and I have spoken about him and Muraki eventually having a conversation involving the nature of sparkle-pires.

LJ housecleaning

To the tune of removing some comms and defunct journals from my flist. I was sad to see one person delete their LJ, but I enjoyed being their friend in the time that they spent on here. Also removed a few comms that were just plain getting too wanky. If I see one more wankrant on FFrants about metaphors and description, it will be all I can do to keep from drubbing that poster with the omnibus of Gormenghast. People use metaphors and a lot of description. Live with it. For some people, that's just their style; it may not make them Mervyn Peake (and one could argue that his densely descriptive style goes a long way to helping establish the static, ponderous quality of the castle of Gormenghast), but it's How They Write. Some could likely learn to pare things down just a bit (I'm looking at *YOU*, Stephanie Meyer...), but there are those of us who don't mind reading a lot of description.

I'm also debating removing some of the whiny older entries from my own journal, and I have to admit, a lot of the earlier entries are little more than a page of wank. The problem is... I'd likely end up cutting into the lovely 2,000+ number of entries I have on here and I'm not sure as if I want to do that.

Though given the number of fics I've posted on comment_fic, I'd likely rebalance the number of removed entries fairly soon. I've... been working on one or two SPN fics in a bid to try and give back, in the hope that someone will fill some of my YnM prompts. I have more fic ideas than I really have time to write them.