Fire Juggler

Well, I have family coming into town. So that means the dildos get put away, the microphone stuck behind a file cabinet, the browser cache and history cleared, and that I'll be going on HIATUS!!!!!!!

Have a wonderful couple of weeks! ♥



In the meantime, you should totally check out Hyperbole and a Half, because it's just that awesome :D

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Oh boy. It's been kind of a whirlwind of a year in my fannish life (actually in my RL, too). So… to take you back… In mid-2010, I was a lurker. A lurker in a big way. I think I had…never commented on a fic, never heard a podfic, I don't think that I had even made an actual post in my LJ. *goes back to check* Yup. First post ever made was in June of 2010. I had an LJ account purely for the purpose of posting searches on fic-search comms.

By the end of 2010, I had just started maintaining a few lists in HP Fandom, dipping my toe into my second fandom (Merlin) and had listened to...maybe…. 12 podfics total. So. Cue 2011:

If you don't want to read all this… Summary:

**Created 24 Podfics (18 hours, 18 minutes, 18 seconds )
**Participated in 2 fests
**Modded two fests
**Discovered 9 (maybe more?) new fandoms
**Met uncountable awesome people *loves all over her flist*

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( Just random floaty thoughts...move along...or click at your own risk )

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I'm back from NYC where I met two incredible people for the first time. The first was the new addition to my family, my niece, who is 5 weeks old, 21 inches, all legs and dark, dandelion tufts of hair on her head. I'm in love. Completely and irrevocably. I could watch her sleep all day and I could spend hours and hours just snuggling her up (and I did just that).

The second was my very own ladydeth12!!! Okay. Maybe she's not my very own. She's yours too, and her family's, and RL friends. But for 3 hours, she was mine *grabby hands*. She schlepped her way into Brooklyn all the way from NJ just to spend a couple of hours eating chocolate and chatting with me. She is, I am pleased to report, just as lovely and charming and funny in person as she is online, and it was just so great to be able to really put a face to the name and have a real conversation with her! Actual tight hugs beat the hell out of *hugs tight*. Every time.

Much to catch up on in fandom world (it always seems like the world moves way faster in fandom than it does in RL, which seems unfair, since RL moves fast enough already). So...anyways, I'm home, safe and sound. *waves*

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( Cut, because this is just me, whining )

EDIT: Well, with almost a full 8 hours of sleep, and a boatload more perspective, I'm feeling a bit better this morning. Thanks for all the love!!! ♥

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I'm back from my whirlwind trip to Kyoto and it was so wonderfully wonderful (if more than a little brief)! It was so great to leave the country for the first time in so long, and to dig my traveling mind frame out from under the bed and blow the dust off of it and put it to good use. As always, so many lessons learned....

1) It's frustrating to have loads of postcards and no addresses to send them to. Next time get the addresses first. That said, I did get postcards off to those who requested them and sent me an address: singlemomsummer, ladydeth12, winterstorrm, celestlyn, uniquepov, eanelinea77, and kitty_fic. For anyone I missed, here's a pretty for you...



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I am going on hiatus for my first vacation in.... *counts* 4 years!!!!! Do I care that it is supposed to rain every day that I am in Kyoto? No! I am going to enjoy it in spite of the weather! I'm going to see beautiful shrines and drink tea and eat sushi I'm going to be a total tourist (sans fanny pack/bum bag). Sooooo....you will be without my endless pimping and squeeing about podfic for a bit (I'm sure you're all heartbroken). However. I leave you with such amazing pretties by phoenixacid!!!!! Clickable bookshelves! Click a book and it takes you right to the fic! Brilliant! (and for some of my favorite pairings! Snarry, Drarry, and Merthur!) They are rather large, so I'm putting two of them ( under a cut..... )


Merlin/Arthur Bookshelf


To get them for yourselves, check out phoenixacid's LJ: Snarry Bookshelf, Drarry Bookshelf, Merthur Bookshelf

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This is a randomy post full of random things. Therefore.....

( Cut to save your flist )

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Hi all! Well, after a very long week of busy days and a weekend with relatives in town, I realized that I barely skimmed my flist in the last....about.... week and a half. So.... "hi!" *waves sheepishly*

This is randomy updating post:

1) I am about to spam you with a couple other posts. Could I include them in this post and save your friends pages? Yes. But I have made the executive decision that these are each worth their own posts, so your friends pages will have to deal.

2) The list-of-men-I-would-be-straight-for has doubled from 1 to 2! But...I'm not sure it counts. The thing is, man number one is Alan Rickman, who I have been halfway in love with since I was about 12. I can't help it. It's the voice. The voice just kills me. Would it be better if the voice was walking around in a female body? Maybe. But...really, I don't think it matters. Then.... I discovered that the voice exists in another body!!!!!!!! Hello, Benedict Cumberbatch! *waves* So, I am now A) wondering if it is possible to be in love with a voice and not care what body it happens to be walking around in, and B) realizing that I don't care. *is in love*

3) Remember when I said I was editing podfic? Ummmm....yeah. I'm still editing. It's those long days, relatives visiting thing. And a small crisis of confidence. BUT, I am back on the horse and I think that one of them will be ready in the next week or two *crosses fingers*

( cut for small fandom wankiness that I am probably going to regret putting into writing )

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There will be radio silence from me for the next however many days. My sweet, lovely computer is having technical difficulties for the first time in 4 1/2 years (I guess I shouldn't complain about that). So I am taking her into the doctor. They will have her for at least 3 days. *clings desperately to her*

I shall have my trusty iPad, so I might pop-up unexpectedly, though :)

In other news....

1) I finished recording Savage by marguerite_26 (Drarry) and No Room at the Inn by dementordelta (Snarry). Both wonderfully, fabulous fics and a complete joy to record. Hours and hours and hours of editing ahead of me before they are ready for posting, but I'm totally psyched about them. *flails* I've also decided on my next two recordings (one Snarry, one Drarry) after that, so I feel happy about having things queued up.

2) I have discovered Supernatural. I do not get Sam/Dean (I think maybe because I have a major incest squick, but also, I just get no chemistry between them). J2, on the other hand, I can totally dig, and I have high hopes for Dean/Castiel, once I get to that season (I have a ways to go). Hello, new fandom. Somehow, after more than 7 years of being only HP, in the last 6 months I have added Merlin, Sherlock, and SPN. *peers into the can of worms*

3) I am behind on my Fest List. I know. *spanks self* Will get back to it as soon as pretty computer is back in my hands....

And with that.... over and out.

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To the moms on my flist:

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

I'm putting a beautiful essay by Anna Quindlen ( under the cut )

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1) Not only did I post podfic #2, but a TWO completely random person people, that I don't know commented on the Amplificathon posting that they listened and really enjoyed it!!! *cheers*

2) Someone claimed my prompt for serpentinelion's Glompfest!!! *cheers*

3) The sun came out!!! *cheers*

4) I decided to go for some short & sweet podfics to recover from the really long process of Romeo, and completed an entire (11 minute) podfic in just under 3 hours!!! *cheers*

5) I ate jelly beans!!! *cheers*

6) I officially killed my ugly plant!!!! I feel guilty but am excited at the process of replacing it with a non-ugly plant *cheers*

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1) I just watched the first disc of The Big Bang Theory. On a hunch, I checked out Sheldon/Leonard slash. It exists. *brain explodes* Now I will say that I can slash just about anyone in my head and make it work out okay, but Sheldon is the most asexual creature on the face of the planet!! He is unslashable!!!! (at least in my head) It got me to thinking about how and why we slash certain people over other people. I've never had a slash malfunction before this.

2) "There's just something about you Merlin, I can't quite put my finger on it"
Now I ♥ me some Merlin/Arthur fic. I do. In fact, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me some Merlin/Arthur fic. As a matter of fact, I ♥ it so much that I read lots and lots of it. The result is that I have read "There's just something about you Merlin, I can't quite put my finger on it" about 9,400,003 times. The weird thing about this is that I can't figure out what I feel about it. Usually something like this would either irritate the hell out of me or make me smile. I understand why the line is there, it's just that when I read it now, it triggers this weird fight-or-flight response in me. I'm paralyzed.

3) Podficcage.
I am podficcing. In fact, I am working on a rather epic (for me) podfic (H/D). It should come out to about 4 hours long (I think). I was in the middle of recording it when I came down with the the cold/flu/bronchitis/lost voice/horribleness of death. So...I polished the first part and now I am just hanging around waiting for my voice to come back from vacation and my coughing to go back to where ever it came from. Big, big thanks to ladydeth12 for listening to the first 45 minutes of it and waving cheerleading pom poms and giving me the enthusiasm to continue on in the face of perils and the treachery of my body. I also have a few more stories in the line-up. AND I got a brand spanking new microphone. I might not be good at podficcing, but that doesn't mean that I can't do it with zest and enthusiasm.

4) I'm generally more than a little skeptical of polls, but this one cheered me up: More people support Marriage Equality than don't. I'm not sure I believe it, but the fact the the numbers are even in a place where they can be skewed in this direction is positive. Who knows, maybe someday, a majority of people will actually believe that LGBT people are...well...people.

5) Don't look now, but I think that spring might actually be in the immediate future. 70 degrees today!!!!!!!!!

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I got tagged by singlemomsummer who I ♥ ♥ ♥, so here I go.

The Rules:

1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question.
2. Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you. An aside: I am refusing to do that because I am lazy. That is all)

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( cut for personal, whiney bullshit )

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It has been noted by some that I haven't updated my rec lists recently. It's true. It's also shocking that there are people who actually read and keep up with this journal and my random blatherings. While I find it bewildering, it also makes me feel loved.

Anyway, I'm sick. Not near-death sick. Just a bad cold. My hope is, that because I am sick and have an excuse to sit around doing next to nothing this weekend that I'll be able to update some of my lists. I need to make sure that the links still work, and add in my recs, and I shudder to think about what my List o' Fests looks like. Also, I am due to put a few book "reviews" up (I finally read The God Eaters, by Jesse Hajicek). I am so behind. What can I say? RL is kicking my a$$.

As another aside, I have a rec. It's been recced by others, so I am hardly the first, but I am re-reading it now, and even in my stuffy-headed, achy, cranky, tired state, I am squeeing. It's Merlin/Arthur. NO DON'T TURN AWAY, HP-ers!!!!! Because, really, it's about fandom. Just go. Read it. You won't be disappointed:

Pairing Pendragon/Merlin by Anon.

Summary: Arthur is a BNF and Merlin is his prized beta.

P.S. *points to mood theme* I look just like this when I'm sick. Really.

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( Click here for annoying personal update )

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I have never been so grateful for podfics. It's cold and dreary outside, and all I want is to be curled up reading a book or some fabulous fanfiction and drinking buckets of tea. But...this move is going to happen with or without me. So instead, I am plowing through the stuff that went under my bed the last time I moved and deciding whether it is worth moving something that hasn't seen the light of day in 3 years.

On the upside:

1) I do have podfics, so as I sort through the detritus of my life, I can at least listen to happy stories.
2) There is nothing like moving to make you realize how many good friends you actually have. I swear that I am going to be more social in the next 2 weeks than I have been in the last 3 years.
3) I got a Merlin mood theme!!! *points* courtesy of magicallaw.
4) All the holiday fests are in full swing. This is good (because I ♥ ♥ ♥ fests), and bad (because I don't have time to actually read anything).
5) leo_draconis is gonna write me an epistolary fic of my very own. No-one's ever written a fic just for me. *squee*
6) All my Christmas shopping is officially done.
7) I got sorted over at platform_934 (Ravenclaw, with a healthy dose of Hufflepuff thrown in....couldn't see that one coming from a mile away), and I think that I have found a great community with lots of friend potential.
8) Prop 8 Hearings at the 9th District Court of Appeals starts tomorrow!!!!! (OK, this could go either way, but I have hopes).

So...I will cling to the good things in my life and continue pondering the weird stuff under my bed.

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OMG. I got a job offer. It was the lowest I would take to consider moving to SLC. I am so freaking conflicted right now. I can't even begin to express it.

On the one hand: A current job I love (which is highly unstable and could be out of business in 6 months), in a city I love, where I am settled, and have friends, and am comfortable.

On the other hand: A new job, in Salt Lake City (land of Mormons), which is seriously more stable and a good opportunity for $10,000 more than I am making right now. But....it's Salt Lake City!!!! *whine* and I don't know anyone there *double whine* and I'm so tired of moving *triple whine*

Suffice it to say, I am deeply conflicted. Deeply. Shit.

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Today I went shopping. I hate shopping. Trying on all those clothes under all those fluorescent lights is only for the gluttons for punishment. But...I came, I shopped, I conquered. The Goal: 1 outfit for an interview. I succeeded. The pants are at the tailors getting hemmed. I ask you, why, oh why, do they make pants 6 inches longer than any human being could ever wear. Even in 2 1/2 inch heels I was still tramping on the cuffs.

The interview: in Salt Lake City. They are flying me out on Thursday. Is it any wonder that I am filled with ambiguity about this? I'm in the top three, but do I want to move to SLC? I'm a lesbian. A very, very socially liberal lesbian. Is there a place for me in the land of Mormons? No guarantee of a job offer, but I foresee deep thinking ahead of me.

I bought Taylor Swift's newest album. I'm almost ashamed to admit that I love it. There is something about loving something that everybody else seems to love that rubs me the wrong way. I'm the girl who said she liked orange when everybody else liked pink, or green, or purple (and I still stand by my claim that orange is a highly underrated color). Still, after two glasses of wine, I am dancing around my apartment to the 20 year old Taylor Swift.

That is all.

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