not a perfect metaphor

Happy new year, everybody. And now, YULETIDE REVEALS. This year I wrote:

Equus ferus malus (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog), my assignment and exactly my favorite kind of fic to do: Working from scraps! My recip asked for Bad Horse backstory, and this is what came forth. (Annnnnd now I can go read "Equus malus" because apparently there's only one thing to call Bad Horse fic. XD)

A Word to the Wise (Warehouse 13), in which Rebecca and Jack investigate a mail deluge and Privilege Is Discussed. As best as you can discuss privilege in 1960, at least.

The Tragedy of Oswald, Prince of Volinar (Villains By Necessity); I had grand plans for a VBN treat, but what really wanted to be written was That Time Cata And Sam Mocked Not!Hamlet. (ceitfianna, I believe you can call in an 'I guessed it!' fic request.)

Time is the healer (but oh how it flies) (Warehouse 13), in which Claudia decides to treat HG like a grieving human being for a change rather than let her stew in her own juices.

Many, many thanks to wyomingnot for "Whistler's Coda"! It was wonderful.
Commentaries on my fics, as is tradition, will go up on afewsmallrepairs just as soon as I get around to posting them.

One of these days, I will have an icon for an OTP that is not completely doomed; today is not that day.
I have not seen the now-infamous flow chart, and I don't think I want to, at this point. But for what it's worth, I will show off the awesome ladies in my icons:
( there are not many at all, but there are a few. )
Also, places where I have written things lately: The Doomed Ship Ficathon and the Bechdel Test ficathon.
(Also also how is it Yuletide time already.)
Still need to check out that gaming shop; still need to write more Vincenia; finally came up with a character for the brainwave of a couple weeks ago, but only one does not a story make.

yuletide reveal, while waiting for dinner pick-up. I wrote:
*Snap Judgments and Premature Celebrations for kuteki; my first proper foray into Daria fic in years, and it was a blast. (Complete with a cameo crossover, for great being true to my fannish roots.)
*What a (Hench)man's Gotta Do as a treat for speccygeekgrrl; anyone who's read my Dr. Horrible stuff with Conflict Diamond and/or poker night probably knew this was me right away. XD
*and Look to the Future, a Madness treat for doyle_sb4; I wanted to give something to the person I drew into the fandom with me. (I may revisit it later, since I had more than this but was unsatisfied with it.)
And so, SO many thanks to melissima for Frozen Assets; I ADORE IT TO PIECES.

[the scene: The dining room we don't actually eat in, where we have the tree up. We're opening presents. There's a for-the-whole-family present from my sister and brother-in-law, which I gave to Mom since she'd had the least to open so far.]
Mom: ::opens the DVD-shaped package:: ...Well. That's an interesting choice.
me: What?
Mom: ::holds up Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog::
me: ...XD XD XD

Other goodies include a D20 dog tag, Jelly Babies and Pocky, pens and a case for them, a pin from the Hard Rock Cafe in Cardiff (SHEEP PLAYING GUITAR!), a... Sid-from-Ice Age Pez dispenser(???????), Barnes and Noble money, and plain old money.
And the yuletide fic of awesome. A v. tiny rec list is forthcoming.

+ New vacuum cleaner at work! NO MORE OF THE STUPID THING THAT EITHER DOESN'T PUSH OR DOESN'T PICK ANYTHING UP.
- We got absolutely slammed in the last hour today, probably because people decided they needed stuff after the football game.
+ Speaking of, what is this nonsense where the Bengals are actually good this year? I don't know what to do with this!
- So I pulled into the driveway and went to put my windows up... and they went up v. slowly, and the stereo cut out. And then my poor car wouldn't start again. Fortunately, I'm off tomorrow and Monday, and Dad's off tomorrow, so hopefully we'll be able to get to the bottom of this.
+ ANDREW BIRD ON WEDNESDAY OH MY GOD I AM JONESING FOR A CONCERT.
+ yuletide fever lingers.
+ Working on something for jossverse_bb. Funtimes!
Aaaaaaand GIP.

So there's the thing where I'm very, very tempted by jossverse_bb (and might have enough of the idea fleshed out to try to run with it). And there's the thing where I'm the last person to advocate premature holiday talk? But good God I've already got yuletide fever.
And my shoulder hurts like a lot. Not so fun, and possibly related to the two-fisted vacuum cleaner at work. (Thing's like fifty years old, or something. And it refuses to be pushed forward. Not Fun.)
Note to self: You have a phone call to make ASAP, if you want to go to that damn concert.
And GIP, courtesy of ye olde Free-For-All. (Why are all of the icons I call OTP icons for canonically doomed pairings? XD)

Hey, so here's an awesome thing.
Dr. Horrible won an Emmy. Without ever having been aired on TV.
That, I think, is deserving of the title Epic Win.

So I have a soundtrack in my head/written out for my genderbendbb story. But I don't know what else to do with it.
I'd like to at least post the list, but I'd kind of want to share it as well, and I don't have anywhere I can keep the files for any sustained period of time. I also don't know whether to tell the artist I have the list; they do fanmixes, their sign-up said, but... I dunno. I'm half curious to see what someone else would do with it, and half going 'but I have one set up!'
::shrugs:: I'll come up with something, I'm sure.

So when last we left, I was saying I wanted to see Night at the Museum soon. Ended up seeing Star Trek before that, and ye olde museum click only today.
Star Trek was quite enjoyable. Needs More Scotty, though, and... I kind of want someone to write Tony Stark and Scotty being engineering geeks at each other. XD
As for Night at the Museum... in conclusion, WIN. (With a side of WTF IS THIS SHIT, at the beginning, but then, it's very 'then I get everything I ever--'.)
So, that's life at the moment. (Other than the fact that work is awesome and got Graeter's for everyone last week. FREE ICE CREAM. FREE AMAZING ICE CREAM.)
Also, with the genderswap fic out of the way, I moved on to femgenficathon, which is also a Dr. Horrible fic this year. (The prompt I got... sort of demanded Penny backstory, and I've wanted to write something along those lines that isn't her dating history anyway.) Finished that yesterday, so... now I have nothing to stop me figuring out my remaining Sweet Charity fics but writer's block. XD

There are times I wish I had the technology/mad skillz to make vids.
Like when I can storyboard a Dr. Horrible vid to "Falling for the First Time" in my head, and really really really want to see it done. But even if I had the mad skillz, I don't think Hex is really up to the job.
Alas.
Going to try to see Night at the Museum sometime this week; Monday, if I can talk both my parents into it, or Wednesday, if I can pry Dad out of the yard long enough. Those being my only completely free days. (On the bright side, the paycheck for the week after next will rock - just in time to spend it all on loan bills. XD)