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I saw today that Unsent Letters: An Epistolary Exchange will be gearing up soon. More info at that link. I checked it out and went to 2021's stories and lost myself in several. I want to rec them here, in case anyone else would be interested.

Immortal Beloved (3074 words) by mechanicaljewel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), John Snow (1813-1858)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Letters, Telegrams, 19th Century, Gratuitous Historical References, Minor Aziraphale (Good Omens)/John Snow (1813-1858), Cholera, Angst with a Happy Ending
Summary:

With Crowley unavailable for most of the 19th century, Aziraphale unwittingly collects pieces of a feeling it will take him even longer to put together.

I loved this so much! There is some gorgeous historical work at play, and a glimpse of what makes humans and angels/demons different, but not so different, that made my heart skip a beat.

of all my demon spirits (1730 words) by basketofnovas
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Diary Tom Riddle & Ginny Weasley, Tom Riddle & Ginny Weasley
Characters: Ginny Weasley, Diary Tom Riddle
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Diary/Journal, Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Missing Scene
Summary:

After the end of term, Ginny gets a new diary and struggles with the events of her first year.

Gah, what a great look at the effects of Riddle's diary on Ginny. I loved so many parts of this and it felt authentic to me and also really gave us insight into the path that Ginny took from this poimt of her life.

To Whom It May Concern (4875 words) by Meilan_Firaga
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alex Vreeke/Bethany Walker
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Pining, Mutual Pining, Diary/Journal, Letters, video diary
Summary:

After she returns from Jumanji, Bethany Walker finds that there are things she needs to say. Writing letters sounds exhausting, and she doesn't want to leave that much paper lying around with her thoughts and feelings for anyone to stumble upon. But she's got a pretty geeky friend now who can help her keep a video diary secure.

This was a romp with some real emotional punches.

Bootrec.exe by listlessness. This is "The Umbrella Academy" with a gorgeous look at Grace Hargreeves and Diego Hargreeves.

Messages from Tatooine (3217 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anakin Skywalker & Shmi Skywalker, C-3PO & Shmi Skywalker, Cliegg Lars/Shmi Skywalker, Shmi Skywalker & Owen Lars
Characters: Shmi Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, C-3PO (Star Wars), Cliegg Lars, Owen Lars, Qui-Gon Jinn
Additional Tags: Mother-Son Relationship, Character Study, Family Feels, Canon Related, Parent-Child Relationship, Motherhood, Slavery, Freedom, Coping, Healing, Separation Anxiety, Epistolary, Letters
Summary:

Five messages Shmi Skywalker began and one she finished.

This made me cry. I loved it.

Mr Not a Sir gets his Little Bird. (1435 words) by CorinaLannister
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sandor Clegane/Sansa Stark
Characters: Sansa Stark, Sandor Clegane, Ned Stark
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Email Communication, Emails
Summary:

Sansa Stark (SansaStark@StarkIndustries.com)
Cc: NedStark@StarkIndustries
To TheHound@yahoo.com
Sent: Fri, Mar 12 at 14:01

Dear Sir,

Following your application, I am pleased to inform you that you have been selected for an interview at Stark Industries.

Kind regards,

Sansa Stark

This was really cute!

Pick a fandom, character(s) and/or pairing, and an AU trope/cliché/type, and I will tell you the gist of the story I would write for you, if I wrote it.

I will probably never write the story, but I will do my best to write a back of a novel blurb for it! Hehe.

In other, non-whimsy news, boot camp started back up yesterday. Lord, I'd missed it. I was in a rough mood yesterday, honestly. I was tired and kind of emotionally volatile (and by kind of, I mean I ripped off heads with wild abandon, so be glad you didn't spend time with me) and it just... declined.

I wasn't in a bad mood, per se, but I also had ZERO filter of the IB. For example, when I was in the line at the Starbucks - as I woke up dreaming about coffee and then we didn't have any at the house and that was too dire to contemplate - the woman didn't wait for me to finish specifying the trillion choices you have to make when ordering coffee at Starbucks before asking me if I wanted anything else. Without missing a *beat*, I replied that I wanted her to let me finish speaking before interrupting me. *twitch*

And it pretty much went like that, only with increasing amounts of venom behind my answers to various people. S was determined to piss me off yesterday, berating me for anything and everything from the fact that the sweet tea I brought him wasn't sweet enough to the fact that I shouldn't have trust Amanda to pack his pictures in the move because he has no other pictures of some of his past pets. I asked him point blank if he was trying to make me feel badly, and he didn't deny it, so I told him that he had been successful and I felt bad. And I did.

Then I was a complete bitch to him for the rest of the afternoon, only not, because I was still only responding in kind. But I didn't let him be snarky without retorting in the same vein. It was exhausting.

Even my paralegal at one point looked at me in amazement and said that the world was trying to piss me off and that she admired my restraint. By the time I got out of work to go exercise, I was shaking with CAPSLOCK!RAGE about too many things to count.

So, sweating was a good idea. :)

We did circuits with partners, one partner acting as the time keeper. The first circuit was 100 jumping jacks/kettle bell exercises. The second was relay running/jump rope, and the last one was relay exercises/team situps.

My shoulders are in agony today. LOL. But, God, I'd missed it.

We also got caught in the pouring rain. I was DRENCHED. Completely soaked. Oh well, though, because despite that, I still managed to be in a better mood afterward than I had been in all day. :)

After working out, I went back to the office to finish up a few things, changed, met up with the friend that joined me in my near arrest experience, and hit the town for the night. We went to some of Atlanta's finer establishments, and then decided to go to the movie theater that serves beer! Yay, beer! Yay, Captain America! Double yay for the two together!

Seriously, awesome movie. I enjoyed it tremendously and when the Avengers trailer came on, I gleegasmed and embarrassed myself in front of a non-geek friend. Oops. LOL.

It was totally worth the fact that I only got about 3 hours of sleep. Totally worth it, but good lord am I tired today. At least I'm in a better mood. :)

All right. I've rambled enough. I'm going to get some work done! Toodles!

Snagged from everyone everywhere: List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined.

1) Bobby "Iceman" Drake, X-men
2) Gwen Cooper, Torchwood
3) Annie Sawyer, Being Human (UK)*
4) Michael Westen, Burn Notice*
5) Burton "Gus" Guster, Psych*
6) Light Yagami, Death Note
7) Winry Rockbell, Fullmetal Alchemist
8) Gohan Son, Dragonball Z
9) Vash the Stampede, Trigun
10) Uryū Ishida, Bleach
11) Rick Castle, Castle
12) Naruto Uzumaki, Naruto*
13) Raylan Givens, Justified*
14) Abigail Brand, Marvelverse
15) Hagi, Blood +

( My own thoughts on this list )

It was very pretty.

And eventually, I will stop giggling about the fact that I had NO IDEA what that movie was about. ( SPOILERS )

Also, computer generated young!Jeff Bridges is... scary.

I think the best part of the movie was the preview for Pirates 4! Whooo hoo! A BIG MOVIE ALL ABOUT PIRATES! I feel my fannish interest piquing!

I have no idea who this guy is, but this vid has been everywhere today and it made me LOL. I'm sharing.

OMG. This show was clearly MADE for me.

I can't wait.

I'm going to make a second serious!post about my feelings with regards to the latest rounds of fandom uproar. To my astonishment, I find that my thought patterns have settled to the same conclusion with both the issues of race!fail and issues regarding the hurt/comfort paradigm.

In sum, this is my opinion -

"Authors, write whatever you want, but be prepared to stand behind it. Do not feel that you're entitled to a pass if you fail. If you write something, and people are upset about it, you should be able to explain why you wrote what you wrote and still sleep at night. If you cannot do this, then it's a safe bet that you have, indeed, Done It Wrong."

For a little bit of background, I wrote this post on DW (which is the same as this post on LJ) about an incident where I failed in the past and got called out on it. And you know what, I survived just fine.

Here's the short of it - I have two jobs, both require me to write a great deal and both require me to write persuasively. Also, both jobs require me to obtain feedback from my bosses/editors. In both jobs, I've been told to do better before, and it hurts my pride and it makes me upset and at the end of the day, I suck it up and do it better.

(And for the record, I had an asshole!boss once who threw something at me that I'd written and demanded, "What the hell is this shit?!", so it's not like the critiques I get in my professional life are all that nice. Just saying, for comparison's sake.)

( And here's the long of it. )

I am not going to link to the J2 racefail that is going on at the moment, because if it's not on your flist, just click on mine and you'll see it everywhere. What I'm going to do instead is talk about an experience I as a writer had with a wonderful, talented and damned brave beta reader. (She will probably read this, and should know who she is. If she permits me to name names, I will, otherwise, consider her as just Awesome Beta.)

( Wherein I Fucked Up, Got Called on It by a Beta, and Fixed It Before It Turned into Epic!Fail )

I'd love to hear suggestions for characters and fandoms!

muscle strains and spasms	sexual extortion: to pay for something	amnesia	seizures	orphans and runaways
drug addiction	unexpected consequences of planned soulbonding	Stockholm syndrome	insanity (always there)	fear of heights
brainwashing / deprogramming	cuddling for warmth / snowed in	WILD CARD	alcoholism	hookers
sore muscles	heat stroke	dungeons	disappearing	counseling / therapy
difficult pregnancy	child abuse (sexual)	undercover: discovered and hurt	imprisonment	loss of job / income

Today's non-fannish topic appears to be the SCA. Since I know nothing about SCA, nor am I particularly interested in learning more, I decided I'd do that 101 Narrative Kinks meme. I struggled a bit when I got to 78, took a break, and then remembered all the other things that work for me!

If you happen to have a similar list, would you link me to it in the comments? I'm very curious ~~and nosy~~.

( 101 Bullet Proof Fic Kinks (for Me, Anyways!) )

“Hi, I’m Brad. Thank you for calling [Cable Company] today! How can I help you?”

Brad was cheerful. Brad was too cheerful. Brad was… annoying.

( Confessions of the Apathetic )

This entry was written in response to the

therealljidol Challenge 2: “I Don’t Care About Apathy: What I "Should" Care About – But Don’t.” There will be voting for this week's entries. I will make sure to link to the poll once it is put up and I would appreciate it if you would vote for me if you enjoyed my entry. As always, feedback is welcome and appreciated.