Sophinisba Solis

Hello, here is some meta for the “leather/latex/rubber” square on my kink_bingo card. Some of the post is negative about leather.

( thoughts )

I was going to make a giant post about how awesome Dreamwidth is, but my computer's giving me trouble so I guess you'll be spared most of that proselytizing for now. :) I'll just link to the latest dw-news post, which has links to some very helpful resources for newbies and a preview of the new update page that they'll be implementing soon. Along with being intensely shiny, I think this new page is a great example of Dreamwidth asking their users what they want, following through, and responding to feedback as they go. (You know, because their business is about satisfying the users who pay for their service, rather than drawing in ad money. *suppresses much longer rant*)

I've got an appointment at the Apple Store in a few hours, no idea whether they'll fix it then, tell me there's nothing wrong and send me home, or take my beloved computer into custody. D: In any case I'll be going out of town this afternoon and won't be back until Tuesday, so even if I get to take my Macbook with me I probably won't be online much. If I don't answer your e-mail or fail to comment on your awesome femslash10 story, I promise it's nothing personal!

Yay, people are doing the meme where the talk about all the fic they've written this year. I love that one and I'm enjoying reading people's thoughts about their own writing. I will do it too but I want to wait until after I can claim my anonymous fest fics. ( Camelotsolstice and Yuletide talk )

Today I'm happy that I've stuck to my tiny daily writing goals so far this month. I've written at least 100 words of fic every day, most of it on my Doctor Who fic for the tindogs_fic exchange. To be honest, this is really not going very well. I've been treating it like a chore and not enjoying it much at all. Most days as soon as I get over the 100 words (which is really very little) I stop and go to do something easier. Connected to that, what I've written has been pretty bad and I still don't know what I'm doing with the story, which needs to be posted by the end of the month. I like the assignment I got but I'm not sure it was a great idea to jump into a new fandom with an exchange where I'll really be letting someone down if I don't finish or if my story sucks. :( I just don't know what I'm doing, writing wise; I feel disconnected from my old hobbit stuff but I haven't found my place with a new fandom either. Still, I am proud for having stuck to the resolution at least, and today I brought it over 1000 words, which is the fest minimum, so that is a happy-making milestone.

I've also stuck with doing this happy meme every day since I started on the second, and I'm feeling really good about that. I worry that I'll run out of happy things to post about and that keeps me looking for them all the time, even looking for the bright side of things that bug me. For instance, yesterday almost as soon as I realized I'd gotten my period I started trying to spin it into something positive (not pregnant, will have most of it over with when I travel next week, etc.). It's nice having an excuse to post about stuff that's not newsworthy or profound but that's on my mind but that could be a chance for a connection with one or two people on my f-list. And of course it cheers me up to write them out.

I'm not sure how well I'll be able to keep up with either of these things while I'm in Seattle next week (the 13th to the 18th) or once school starts up at the end of the month, but I will try. Heck, maybe being busier will be good for me and help me get organized and motivated, or something.

I meant to say something about going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the IMAX theater at Navy Pier in downtown Chicago while we were there for the moot a few weeks ago. I went with b_briarwood and vshendria. We'd all read the book and seen the movie already, so there were no huge surprises, but it was still really wonderful seeing it on such a huge screen, and with a big section toward the end in 3D. ( spoilers for the film and also for book 7 )

Watching Lost live on a decent-sized TV for once and the first three minutes were awesome!

I wrote Lost genfic on the plane today! I haven't done that before and it was not awesome, but it was fun.

One of my favorite rps writers, almostnever, finished Meltdown, a Zeke/Casey fic she wrote for the fandom_mashup challenge. The mashup works sort of like a remix but combines elements from more than one fic, and since she was assigned to me she took some ideas from several of my stories in different fandom (but especially the Stokely fic, which makes me very happy because that’s my favorite of my Faculty fics) but made something that is completely original and unpredictable. The writing is great, the science makes a heck of a lot more sense than what they gave us in the original movie, and also there is Zeke/Casey porn.

My story The Silent Street, written for a waymeet challenge back in the spring, won the MEFA Thain of the Great Smials Award for Merry and Pippin fics. This was very exciting because that’s another fic of mine of which I am really fond, and it’s been wonderful to see people reading and reacting to it beyond those few days after I first posted it on LJ. Congratulations to the other folks who were honored and many thanks to those who participated in these awards!

Most exciting of all, last night I bought a ticket to go and visit claudia603 and danachan next month! I have met Claudia just once and have never met Dana, though they're too of my best friends, so I am just thrilled that this is happening. I will bring my laptop and we shall plot all kinds of horrible things to do to Frodo and Pippin. And I'll be able to get away from this cold weather in January. Squee!!!!