Talkin ’bout my generation… oh wait, our generation’s too young for that song.

I got asked to fill out a survey about Generation Y (ages 18-31, I think) and some of the questions got me philosophizing. I thought I’d share.

If you want to take the survey, go here.

Fighting the blues

Keeping track of your spending is quite simply one of the most depressing practices known to man.

Add to that a shift to working nights and a post-holiday blah and your husband basically working his tail off and…

blah.

(Yet Another) Year in Review

Warning: this year in review will have very little about the presidential election, even though it dominated all of our consciousnesses. This is more navel gazing. So yeah, unless you like your head in my belly button… feel free to ignore.

This year I wrote more than 294,000 words of fanfic (not counting ficlets, drabbles and unfinished bits), more than 18,000 words of original fiction not counting my novel, and more than 43,000 words of original novel (not counting what I wrote and scrapped.)

Deconstruction of a Drama Queen

And this is where I will explain how my brain works, how it gets me into such massive trouble, and why I can’t see a way out of it.

Here are the operative axioms:

• Axiom 1) I advance conversations and conditions inside my head until they are at a different place than they are in real life, and I respond to them accordingly.
• Axiom 2) The less rational I’m acting, the more I feel compelled to hit the “send” button.
• Axiom 3) I’m sure if I just explain myself, people will understand why I’ve done or said something.

Now on to the story.

Fandom Christmas Carols FTW

So every year I make a set of Christmas carols based on whatever fandom I’m into at the time. This year I’m not on LJ for the holidays, and I couldn’t decide what fandom to use. So I used fandom itself, since I’ve sort of been meta-ing fandom from this distance.

The truth is, today I could be thinking about a difficult decision that my husband and I are trying to accept (no, I’m not pregnant, it involves whether to move to a condo we can barely afford but is absolutely gorgeous– we decided to play it safe and stay put for six more months, but still, it’s a little bit distressing to know we won’t be ever setting foot in that place again. Wonder if they’d be interested in dropping the rent by $400? hah!)

Anyway, never mind… I have leafed through the Fandom Carol Book and found the following gems:

• Slash the Halls
• Good Kink: Wincestness
• I Wrote Three Ships
• I saw Jack Harkness Kissing Santa Claus
• It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Canon

(And of course if you want to sing “Hetalia” instead of “Hallelujah” that should work out fine!)

But behind the cut is the Twelve Days of Xmas, that X of course is the X between the members of your favorite pairing…)

How I’d market my book, and late-evening high-flying thoughts

Five words that change the universe. A new kind of supernatural thriller, based on an original mythology– simple and limitless in scope.

Tiptoe writes about fan fiction on her non-fan fiction blog, Part 3 of 3

The three favorite fics I’ve written, behind the cut.

Tiptoe talks about fan fiction on her non-fan fiction blog, Part 2 of 3

Previous part is here.

In a moment of panic

Because I am trying to learn about myself and figure out how to deal with these situations, I’m writing this blog from an emotional foxhole. I’m despondent and frustrated and need to figure out how I go on from here and don’t let my emotions rule me. Abandon hope all ye who click the “more.”

Burning questions left over from last night’s Heroes

Last night’s episode was surprisingly good after the suckfest that was the previous week. But it left behind a number of burning questions (sorry, Meredith!)

Spoilers behind the cut involving skin care, heavy-handed political metaphor, and supercharged nothing…