.: i'm sure the view from heaven :.

I am not sure what to make of the dream I had last night, but I am reasonably sure it is Ed's fault. Maybe I shouldn't be reading alchemy books before bed. I dunno.

Pernelle really does not want me to go to work today. She is laying across my throat and purring like a car motor.

I have a half-finished Sceptre of Flamel fic I am staring at right now. It needs to cooperate. I am going to beat all of these prompt lists into fucking submission and Win All Of The Things*. All of them. Considering I started at least half of them in 2009 this will be an adventure.

This piece of fanart currently owns my soul. Shoulders. Nnnghghghgh.

So I ran into my little brother's doppelganger at Carino's with my parents. That was completely surreal. He had the same hair, body shape, facial shape, manner of dress, stride, all of it. If you looked at his face dead-on you could tell it wasn't him, and his voice was different, but THAT WAS IT. It was CREEPY. I have dubbed him Heiderich.

I need to go to the grocery store for celery and soda after I get off of work. Wish me luck.

On one hand, I don't work tomorrow. On the other hand, I had planned the entire week around the assumption I would be working. So, I am making my own Thanksgiving and eating it while Writing Fic. I've got some (pre-made) turkey, gravy, mashed potatos, mac 'n'cheese, corn, and biscuits. I am GOOD TO GO. *thumbs up*

I cannot believe I've created a verse with vampires and werewolves. But Ed and Roy are so cute in it. And I adore my mythology. What the hell is wrong with me I am writing an angel war on one front, a zombie apocalypse on the other and vampires and werewolves on the third. I honestly don't think I'll ever get tired of FMA because I can KEEP CREATING ALTERNATE UNIVERSES.

Oh, the last day I did the 30 Days meme I said I probably have written hundreds of thousands of words of FMA fanfic. So, I tallied. Not including RPs; things written by hand, crossovers (muse'verse, stuff with Kenshin), or files not encoded as .rtf or .txt, I have ... 1.1 million words of FMA fanfic on my hard drive.

I am insane.

Edward you are making me insane.

Day 27- What attracted you to the series overall?

I think I answered this way back at the beginning of this meme but, curiosity. I downloaded the first episode back in 2003, raw, the week it aired and it blew my mind. I think we got to the point where Ed is chasing Al around in the desert screaming his head off and went "fuck, I need SUBTITLES."

And as for what kept me? Interesting characters, a compelling story, and the well-researched alchemy.


* there are no things to actually Be Won. Unless you count more prompt lists.

I have had the most bizarre slate of dreams this past weekend. I'm blaming it on over-creativity ... I've been pounding away at my bigbang all weekend (and not getting very far, stopping every few paragraphs to check out little tidbits to ensure historical accuracy... which at one notable point led me to being trapped in TV tropes reading about bad accents for almost an hour. PSA: KIDS, GOOGLE RESPONSIBLY AND REMOVE TVTROPES FROM YOUR RESULTS IF YOU'RE TRYING TO BE PRODUCTIVE) and that probably helped a bit.

Saturday night I crashed out early (ish) around 11pm or so. Now, it's important to know I go to sleep with a TV on - it's set to a sleep-timer so it is supposed to turn itself off and everyone's happy. I have the belated thought that my TV is tuned to Cartoon Network and I'm not a big fan of dubbed anime any longer, but I figured I would be safely asleep before midnight. I fell almost immediately asleep, so no worries. 

I was woken up by Edward shouting.

In my bleary, very not-awake status I was convinced that my plushie had come to life and was yelling nonsense at me. Trying to reason with a plushie never ends well, and then I realized that the TV was still on and FMA had come on. AH. I turned off the TV, glared at my plushie, and went back to sleep.

I had a dream about a giant library that had a new version of Inuyasha published in 2010 - a two-volume set that were huge omnibuses that one could effectively clobber someone with. It was a vast library, it reminded me a bit of the one from Bantorra, with huge shelves running to the ceiling and rooms leading deep underground. I didn't get to explore this dream very long because it led into another one about zombies.

In this zombie dream, there were two groups of survivors. One group had a mother and a teenage son - they meet up with this second group of  survivors at this large, isolated tower. This tower would make a great base, a place to survive because it was very fortified but first they had to clean out the zombies already there, and the second group of survivors was too small to do it on their own. It turned out that the father was among the second group of survivors, so there was a happy reunion.

Then, in the course of cleaning out the tower of zombies, both the mother and the father were on an elevator and the cable snapped. The son, in a panic, tried to leap over the railing after them but another one of the survivors pulled him back and convinced him not to jump. Eventually they cleaned out the tower of zombies and it became a thriving community in the post-apocolyptic world. 

And then, last night I had a dream about the school from Ao no Exorcist, and Shiemi was in it, a little. I think Dean and Sam were checking the place out because they were arguing at a car lot about getting a temporary car because they didn't want to drive the Impala there; there was some girl who was feeding fellow students to a forest-spirit that lived outside the school that needed to be stopped and Shiemi knew her. Then when they were fighting her... some Transformers started showing up. Not even kidding. My alarm went off shortly after Bumblebee showed up.

So, yes. Weird, weird dreams lately.

I had a peculiar dream last night about "the end of Bleach," idek. It was about the omg end of the show and then derailed into following Ishida around as he played go.

Okay, I KNOW that has no logical basis in anything, when was the last time I thought about Bleach? Oddness.

And then I woke up to the cat chewing on my hair.

Dear brain:

I know you really, really, really wanted to go to PKI this summer, but the dream about roller coasters? Really?

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... okay, I know you're a scatterbrain, Himura, but do not keep wandering your ass through my dreams looking for your sword.

I was having several different random dreams about stuff and every time, every time without fail whoops, here comes Kenshin wandering through the dream! "Have you seen my sakabatou?"

I swear maybe I headbutted him in one of the dreams I don't really remember. I'm going to sic Ed on him and ... go make some popcorn or something.

Hahahahaha slept through all three of my alarms, the insistent mewing of the cat, and the two phone alarms. I forgot I had set the actual alarm clock because it never seems to wake me but that saved my ass this morning. I need to move the phone away from the bed again, it seems I shoved it under my pillow and that muffled it so I didn't know it was going off.

Fail.

Rush, rush, rush.

Had a peculiar dream, went to Hastings, it was going out of business. They had cardboard stand-ups of Kenshin everywhere. They were all specifically manga, because they were from manga panels, black and white with just a hint of color for his hair. I wanted to take some home, but I didn't know where I was going to put them so I decided against it. Then we went driving off, and the steep hill was like, roller-coaster steep going down it. Like that first hill when you can't see the bottom, and I actually wondered out loud about how this road could even exist. It took us through a set of hi-tech college dorms, where there were college students laying out everywhere enjoying the pretty day. There were a lot of them lounging in the trees, like laying on branches and stuff.

Mighty peculiar.



This movie can't possibly be as cool as it looks, but damn I want to see it now.

Woo! I reached my first weight goal with weight watchers ~.~ I celebrated by allowing myself to purchase a six-pack of glass-bottle Coke. It's a sad statement when you can buy a 24-pack of cans for cheaper than a six-pack of glass bottles. HOWEVER GLASS-BOTTLED COKE IS CLEARLY SUPERIOR. Yum yum yum. Onwards new weight goal~.

I had another fandom-y dream last night. This is getting clearly ridiculous. It was a Supernatural dream, Dean and Sam were hunting... I think it was a chimera, it was this small cat-person or something, but they came to this diner that was attached to a house to look for clue. All the rooms that led off the diner were decorated in solid colors, I remember this one room that led off the diner's kitchen was this acid-trip green; all the furniture was that color too. It hurt the eyes to look at. Apparently the cat-person-chimera-thing was running some kind of slave trade, transmuting people into half-animal chimera and selling them. I think Dean might have gotten transmuted into a mouse-chimera. I'm kinda fuzzy on that point, but it was about then that Pernelle decided HAY IT'S DAYLIGHT LET'S PLAY and landed on my face.

Burning DVDs; I've got a bunch of packages made up to send out! Just gotta wait for payday because one of them weighs a lot more than I anticipated, but that means I'll be sending them out next weekend.

Fingers crossed on the car front, I'm waiting to hear back from a lot about a loan. T___T; vdfksdfj I need a new caaaaar.

Back to writing~

So I had this dream last night about this woman giving birth to kangaroo chimera. And they were adorable, until the point where they unhinged their jaws and devoured her. Then Sam Winchester came by to kill the kangaroo chimera, and then ended up trapped in a bathroom with a broadsword by two vampires and a morrigian in human form.

... my brain is apparently a very special place.

In other news ... WTF LIVE-ACTION? Was there official confirmation yet or what? Because, because what.

God I did not want to get out of bed this morning. Must remember that drinking heavily does not make the AAAUGH ANGST of the newest FMA episodes go away, it just means that I then have spectacularly odd dreams. Case in point: I had a dream that mashup!Ed, Castiel and Dean were all at Burger King. And Castiel was going nom-nom-nom on cheeseburgers and mashup!Ed managed to knock over a whole huge display of napkin dispensers. Then some people from NCIS showed up and Dean threw a cheeseburger at DiNozzo.

I, seriously. I HAVE NO IDEA, OKAY. Wow.

It's rare that I just completely fall in love with an entire album and go OMG OMG OMG all over it, but yesterday it was 30 Seconds to Mars's album "This is War" that provided the soundtrack for all the Sceptre of Flamel fic I put out. @_@; It's kinda amazing how it worked itself all over the fic, it's been a long time since music just grabbed me like that and shook me until the words fell out.

I'm actually going to go and buy the CD when I get off work tonight. I don't even own a CD player anymore but I'm hoping the one in my car will accept a real CD at least because ahhhh~. This is an album I want to OWN.

Begun the process of rewriting prompts and posting them to my writing journal proper. (rocksalt_rifle to those newcomers here. I think I have a link in the sidebar too.)

In other news, I had a dream that was long and convoluted but the only bit I remember, that happened right before my alarm went off was Supernatural-related. Dean and Sam were investigating ... something, and protecting this woman and her son but they couldn't go fight the baddie because the woman needed to be there but her son ... didn't and Sam volunteered Dean to baby-sit while he and the woman went off to save the day. And so this kid climbed into the front seat of the Impala with Dean and they sat there and looked at each other, then the kid starts SPOUTING off random shit about ghosts and demons and spooky things like the kid from Jurassic Park went off about dinosaurs to the paleontologist and Dean just went "o_______O SAAAAAAM THIS KID IS WEIRD" and then I woke up.