the trick is to keep breathing

So you've found my LJ! What up.

first_seventhe is not a Friends-Only journal; however, it is a Somewhat-Friends-Locked journal. I don't have any kind of "friending policy" - if you're here, you're free to comment on anything. If you can see an entry, it's free game. Here's how it usually breaks down:

• Unlocked - Fandom stuff; open entries about writing, art, photography, etc; general bitching; healthblogging and workout stuff in general; memes and photomemes


• Locked - More personal entries; healthblogging / workout stuff with specifics about me; anything that mentions other people not represented on LJ; entries about work or grad school; anything posted during the day (from work) with naughty language in it


• Filtered and locked - Personal entries with life details. I do have a set of filters based on how well I know someone. Don't be offended if you're not on one. Get to know me better.

I'm a friendly person. I like to communicate with people. On this particular LJ I come across like a hobo on speed, but underneath it all I'd like to think I'm keeping a fair bit of intelligence and life experience.

Yes, I am in fandom. Yes, I write fanfiction. I'm old enough that I don't really feel like I have to hide that fact, or even justify it in any way. I'm not exactly trying to sit at the "cool table" any more (as a professional chemical engineer and a part-time graduate student in polymer science, I think they've already revoked my "cool table" license anyway). If the fandom parts (or the crack that comes with fandom) bother you in some way, feel free to ignore, or de-friend, or leave me a comment to take you off of X or Y filter. However, if you're here from fandom, feel free to comment on non-fandom-related stuff if you want! Like I said: if you can see it, it's fair game.

I do love random friendings and random stalkers. If you friend me, I'll probably friend you back. If we end up not interacting much, I always reserve the right to take you off certain lists -- my F-List is mainly for my own reading purposes and shouldn't be used to gauge how much I like someone. I like lots of people! Everywhere! Except when I don't, because people suck.

If you're here because you've Googled my real name and followed the internet trail through my website to this journal, leave me a goddamn comment (on this entry) and let me know. Stalkers freak me out.

If you're looking for my writing, my other stuff, or whatever, please check this post.

As of tomorrow evening I will be drunk at Ohayocon. My itinerary includes:

• Battleshots


• FF Roller Derby Rydia, part of the Zeromus Haters roller derby team


• being drunk


• (drunk) (gay stylist) (spaghetti making) Trowa, from Gundam Wing


• gluing sparkly shit on everyone who stands still long enough to let me


• getting to curl Becky's hair :D


• possibly seducing Quatre's voice actor with Katy


• drinking an entire beer penis


• a round of Snirvines (this year's shot)


• Mongolian Fucking Barbecue


• cuddling


• lots of compromising photos posted to our live photo feed


• creepersharking


• HOPEFULLY partying with Hot Leia and Hot Tifa and Hot Cloud and Hard Gay

I'll have my phone for email and texts, but I will very likely be drunk or sleeping, so. Contact at your own risk, fools. Otherwise, I will get back to all of you on Monday when I am hung the fuck over sober and back at work.

CHEERS :D

So, I watched BBC Sherlock.

I didn't actually really know anything about this show going in. safety_caesars had suggested it, having been introduced by somebody else, and I was like, "hey, okay, sure." Becky has good taste, or at least terrible taste that's similar to mine (which obviously makes it good taste), and I like Sherlock Holmes-flavored things in general, so I certainly was interested – I wasn't boning for it, half because I didn't know shit about it and mostly because there's a fairly big activation energy to actually get me into something*, but I was interested and willing.

This show is fabulous. Or, was, since last night we watched the end of S2 and now have to wait in agony for, probably, another year.

Having recovered from the flailing agony that was tears and a jumbo bottle of wine last night, I have a lot of thoughts, actually. First up on the S2 finale, and then some idling thoughts on the series as a whole.

[SEASON TWO FINALE COMING UP. AKA, SPOILERS.]
( The Reichenbach Fall thing. )

[General show discussion from this point on]
( Stuff about the show -- no real spoilers here; I talk about the show but I don't think I give anything away. )

So, even if you don't want to read the spoilers or anything, I do highly recommend you watch the show. It's very well done, incredibly entertaining, and the chemistry between the two main characters is exquisitely intimate. Now, I have summed up over 2K in a sentence and also used the word "exquisite". I'm done now.

So who would like to dive into this fandom and write (comfort) fic with me…??


*This is why I re-read and re-watch and re-play so many things: the undertaking of a new thing, book/game/movie/show/comic/other source material is strangely daunting to my head. I find it very comforting to re-read, or re-watch, or re-play things: I still enjoy them on the second (or third) (or fifteenth) time through, and it's relaxing to not have to pay all of my attention to it. "Comfort reading" is a very real thing in my world.

The amount of energy it can take to engage with something new is something I don't often have lying around for whatever reason, and I am really sometimes dumb my first time through a thing because I'm very easily distracted and if I'm not engaged it's going to take me a while to be able to remember who is who and why I should give fucks. Movies not so much: they're short; other canons, especially long ones, can be really overwhelming. The undertaking of a new thing with fannish expectations is even more overwhelming to my head, somehow (see for reference: Gundam Wing); and even more so on top of that if people have built any part of it up. I'm not entirely sure why it's so intimidating, why sometimes I would rather watch reruns than something new, but it's entirely true. Maybe it's because I feel like I have to get invested?

So like, if you have ever recced some canon/source material at me and been like, dude, Sev, you need to read/watch this and I haven't jumped into it right away, this is why: and I am sorry. Sometimes I physically need someone to drag me in over that hill. It isn't that I'm not interested. It's just my brainspace.

(I like how I say "I want to talk about BBC Sherlock" and then I spend just as many words navel-gazing about myself. Awesome. I've got the best blogging style ever.)

**(Somewhat contradictorily, I am more likely to cry at moving scenes in books I've read a thousand times, or shows I've seen before, or even games I've already played, even though I know what's coming.)

*** God, I'm never even sure how to write this. "Romantically involved" seems silly since so many relationships really don't match up with a cultural definition of "romance", right? And "physically involved" doesn't necessarily mean intimacy. And both of them can in some ways belittle the amazing connection that you can have with a friend like that, which can go beyond intimacy (or boning). Askldjalksdj how do I words

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A Network Of Sev, or: How To Successfully Find Sev Anywhere

I've been wanting to do a post of this for a while, with all my NEW FRIENDINGS and the LJ problems and the DW influx and my fic crossposting woes and my terrible new addiction to Tumblr, but I haven't gotten around to it... Until now. This is going to become part of the sticky post at the top of both my journals, and hopefully I'll keep it up to date.

Anyway, this is a list of where I am in the world of the internet. Obviously this is very important to everyone here (I know your priorities don't look at me like that stop judging me for the love of fuck don’t you know I am the captain engineer of the shame train and driving the fandom hell bus)

I had it listed at ff_fanlisting, but that isn't up to date anymore. So here's a better master list. /creepershark

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Things To Know: Feel free to follow/friend me anywhere! Also, feel free to not do so; or, feel free to unfollow/defriend me at any time. I'm a pretty easygoing person and I like to be very friendly online because I am much too lazy to actually get into wank, as disappointing as that can be.

If you've friended me somewhere, the rule that applies is: If you can see it, it's free game. Please feel absolutely invited to comment, reply, retweet, whatever, if you are so inclined! I love interacting with new people and starting conversations and meeting new fandom friends, and you're always welcome on anything that you can access. (What I'm saying is that if it seems too personal and you're wondering whether or not you should/can say anything: if you can see it, you can. I am actually quite careful about my filters, and I also just don't post the stuff I really don't want to talk about.)

JOURNALS

• seventhe - Dreamwidth is my main blog. I do all of my posting through DW, and I usually check it more frequently. I'll be paying for DW, because at the moment they've earned my money.


• first_seventhe - I am, however, still active on LJ. I will continue to crosspost to LJ, through DW, pretty much indefinitely - it costs me nothing to do so, and allows me to interact with people who are still there. I won't, however, be paying for it anymore, so you'll have a sad lack of icons and editable comments.

The content in both of these is, and will be, exactly the same. (MY VERY EXCITING THOUGHTS ON CATS, LADIES BEING AWESOME, AND GAY FANFICTION: WORTH SUBSCRIBING TWICE?) The conversations in these places will not be, which is why I have it set to crosslink between entries in case I'm talking about something interesting (spoiler: SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS), like fandom or a show or something. Feel free to cross over if it’s something relevant to your interests.

FANFICTION AND WRITING

• seventhe - AO3 has become my home for almost all recent work. It is definitely the home for any recent “worthy” work. I have plans to transfer older work over to it, over the next few months. If you’re looking for my recent writing I would definitely look here first.


• brokenprism - brokenprism is my old archive of writing on LJ. I updated it religiously, almost daily, until some time in 2009 when a couple things happened simultaneously (including AO3) and I just fell behind. I do plan to update it with my newer work, at least.


• brokenprism is the DW mirror of the above, currently containing nothing while I wait for the import queue to die down. It will soon be a mirror of BP/LJ.


• 2012 SevWords - this is my word tracker for getyourwordsout 2012. I’ve pledged 200,000 words for 2012. Feel free to watch how I do.

I hope to keep these all updated this year, at least; I haven’t yet figured out a great system for doing so, however. As I figure it out, I’ll update this page. If I start updating anything original again, I’ll also add that. Right now it isn’t worth pointing you toward Beacon at all.

ADDITIONAL SHIT I DO

• sevdrag - I am going to let my Tumblr description speak for itself.

  This is a place for me to post and repost happy shit that I like. It's mostly reblogs of my amazing fandoms (and my excitingly godawful obsessions with them), mixed in with a shitload of cats owls and wolves, with a splash of seriousness and feminism added until it makes absolutely no sense at all. Serve over ice with an attractive man in a suit and there you go. Usually I am drinking when I queue stuff anyway.

  I find myself addicted to Tumblr although it is 99.99% me reblogging shit I like other than actually creating new Tumbls. Oh the fuck well. If you’re ever wondering what I’m digging at any given moment it’s a pretty good window.


• sevdrag - I use my Twitter for A) spammy stuff like liveblogging FFVIII, which I am sure is annoying to many of my 8 followers, or for B) random comments throughout the day if it’s not worth an LJ post but I’m bored enough. Or, occasionally, C) when someone in my family says something that is funny and stupid enough that I post it. This means I can go days without using it and then spam for hours. But FFVIII and other live thoughts go there.


• drunkencatladies - exactly what it says on the tin. Only drunker.

OTHER SHIT I DON’T DO

• Facebook – I don’t use it as Sev and I’m pretty sick of using it under my real name, so don’t bother.


• Google+ - I have an account under Sev Dragomire, but I don’t like G+ either so don’t expect me to be there a whole lot, although I check it occasionally.


• Plurk – I think I am on there as seventhe or sevdrag, I don’t even remember, which should tell you how often I use it. I just don’t remember to check it.

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This list is updated as of January 2012~! As things change, I'll do my best to keep it updated.

So we realized a while back that, holy shit, not only is Nay's birthday coming up, but NAY IS GRADUATING COLLEGE LIKE A BOSS. She has to get something super special! So we may or may not have decided to write a story! about some things! that we hope Nay will really like! Nay, please note: we started this in like, late October, because WE TOTALLY HAD FAITH. We knew you could do it! And you did! CONGRATS!

Unfortunately, a lot of life intervened for both of us, and we didn't manage to finish the whole thing. But! But. We do have a teaser ready. A six thousand word teaser. BECAUSE IT'S US. AND YOU.

So we hope you enjoy this teaser! We promise the rest of the story as soon as we can manage it -- we're so sorry for not having the whole thing yet, but we hope this can still make you happy! Lots of love, thank you for being awesome, and CONGRATS TIMES A THOUSAND! Please get very drunk for us.

( This teaser will soon turn into a full-fledged present! YOUR SNIPPET IS NOW DIAMONDS. )

Love, congratulations, tl;dr, and cock jokes everywhere,

justira and seventhe

I need to stop posting just to share lindorie's amazing icons >.>

SO I SHALL TALK ABOUT FANFICTION IN ADDITION TO STARING AT THIS AMAZING THING THAT HAS BEEN ADDED TO MY LIFE.

I've been wanting to do a post for a while - a post that would become a sticky - describing all the different places you can find me and find my shit online. Like my fic, or my really stupid Tumblr, or whatnot. part of this is the current migration; I definitely want to keep friends as they move to DW. (I use DW primarily, although I don't have any plans to stop crossposting at this point in time.)

But part of this is my fanfiction. And I really need to figure out what I am doing with it.

I have brokenprism, where I posted pretty regularly and religiously for three or four years. Stuff is tagged fairly well. It isn't impossible to find shit there. And a lot of it is smaller, drabble-type stuff, short pieces that are -- I'm not saying they're not good, but Livejournal is the kind of place for posting them. They're snack-fic. I don't know.

But then AO3 came along, and I started posting there, and ...it isn't perfect, no, but I do like it a lot. I like freeform tagging, and I like that they've kept comment-threading (even if it can confuse comments/reviews with WE JUST HAD A 12-COMMENT CONVERSATION), and I like kudos, a lot. I like being able to have series works. And I'm writing more chaptered stuff now. I see myself using AO3 for a while.

But -- there are audiences on LJ that aren't on AO3 (not that... I really... care a TON about comments, but, I like meeting people through fic and comments/feedback is always nice). AND, now, DW is soon opening up community importing. I also have brokenprism on DW, but I've done absolute nothing with it.

So now I am like, what the fuck do I do with all my writing?

I'm not really sure I want to import EVERY THING I WROTE ON LJ into AO3. Or if I did, it would be in a different way -- I had a claim of 100 themes on Rydia, and I was up in like the 30s or 40s, and many of them are tiny little things; I don't really want to storm the Final Fantasy IV section with 37 fics of Rydia all of which are 248 words long. I'd have to make it a chaptered fic, or something, and I'm not sure that's worth doing.

But I'm also really the fuck behind on posting things into brokenprism. The last set of things I've written, like for DOINK or Chocobo Races or for other gifts, or whatever, haven't made it in there; none of the Gundam Wing shameporn made it in there; I really need to crosspost it all and catch it up. IF I plan on keeping BP/LJ as a fic archive. And if I do, I should probably make BP/DW an archive too, simply as more fandom moves to DW and also because DW allows longer entries and longer comments and ACTUAL COMMENT HEADERS and it isn't LJ.

(does anybody know -- can I set crossposting options somewhere for communities? So that like... if I post something AS seventhe TO BP/DW, it will crosspost AS first_seventhe into BP/LJ? Or is this totally wishful thinking)

ANYWAY

So somebody dictate my archival life kthx

I blame boxed wine and fic prompts. And lindorie.

I am totally stealing this from lassarina because, hey, why not.

- By "12 Days" I mean that I will run this tiny meme until 12 January. It's more than 12 Days, but that's how Christmas runs, sucka.
- By "Promptmas" I mean that you leave me prompts. Or a bunch of prompts, and I will choose the one I fancy the most. And I'll write it! For you!

- I make no promises on length: but if you know what I like, you know what to give me to tempt me to a higher word count.
- If you leave one prompt, I'll do my best. If you want to leave multiple prompts, I'll pick one or two that I really like and go to town. It's up to you!
- I am open to prompts from any fandom you know I'm in. If you are iffy on a fandom, leave me multiple prompts in multiple fandoms to choose from! I am open to any themes and any genres from G to PRON.
- this is open to anyone! Even if I've just met you!
- I make no promises on whether I will write your fic sober.

And, uh, Happy Holidays~.