3 - For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?

I am only going to do the fandoms I actually remember what I wrote for them for this...

Star Trek: TOS: Mostly McCoy and Spock, but I also wrote a fair bit of Chekov and Sulu
Invader Zim: Dib, mostly
Gundam Wing: I think mostly Heero and Duo, maybe a little bit of Trowa and Quatre
Saiyuki: Hakkai and Gojyo
Bandom: I mostly wrote Pete and Patrick but I really loved writing Joe and Travis
Eureka: Fargo, all the time
Torchwood: I mostly wrote about Ianto but I liked writing Tosh and Owen
Inglourious Basterds: Shosanna
Pushing Daisies: Emerson was the most fun to write
Stargate Atlantis: Rodney and Zelenka
Heroes: Sylar. I wrote Sylar more than anyone else, by far. Mohinder and Hiro were also fun to write.
Supernatural: Gabriel
Star Trek Reboot: McCoy, Spock and Sulu
White Collar: Mozzie
Chuck: Chuck and Shaw
Big Bang Theory: Raj and Howard
True Blood: Sam
Venture Brothers: mostly 21, I am trying really hard to write Rusty but I don't think I'm doing a very good job, and I'm absolutely certain I'm falling short of the appropriate amount of malice for the Monarch.

So I've been saving an awful lot of X-Men: First Class fanfiction... would anyone like it if I made a recs post? Or are you all satisfied to just look through my Delicious account on your own time? Because I'm only willing to make one if there's a point to it, it's not for my benefit. It would just be Charles/Erik, as I haven't saved anything else.

I think I may need to switch sleeping pills again. Or up my dose again. Or start combining them, or something to make them effective, because 10 mg of Ambien isn't cutting it any more. I may need to start breaking them and taking one and a half. Or taking an Ambien and a Lunesta.

Or doing what they tell me not to do on the packaging and having a glass of wine with my pill.

I just have to do something, because I took the damn thing like three hours ago and I don't feel tired at all. But I have to be up tomorrow for 11, so I need to sleep one way or another.

I don't know, I've only been on nonbenzodiazepines as sleep aids. Maybe I should ask Dr. Giaccio to put me on a benzo. Julia's been on them, I could ask her what's useful. Although you're not supposed to use those long-term. Although apparently you're not supposed to use Ambien long-term either, the problem is if I don't take my pill, I don't sleep at all. Unless I get drunk or stoned enough to fall asleep, and I can't afford enough weed to do that every night, until they legalize medical marijuana and Medicaid starts paying for it for me.

I'll get to sleep eventually tonight. And tomorrow I'll try something different. I'll figure something out by the time it becomes important for me to sleep at regular hours... although whether that will be next week or the end of August is up in the air still.

Best:

Unreleased Mountain Goats. "You Were Cool".

Bright Eyes and the Mountain Goats are playing Baldwinsville on July 31st. I want to go SO bad. Bright Eyes was the first band I ever saw live (at Higher Ground in Burlington when I was 18) and the Mountain Goats are the band I've seen live the most (twice so far, I will keep going as long as John Darnielle is touring, I fucking love watching that man), and it would just be really wonderful to be able to make this show.

Anyone else live in Central NY and like indie rock? Tickets are $32.

I could probably get Julia to come with me, but it would be cool to meet up with someone there.

So I was informed that Moscato is a dessert wine, which doesn't surprise me because my sweet tooth is well-documented and everything else tastes too strongly of alcohol for me to enjoy it. I can deal with liquor when I mix it or chase it, but you don't really do either of those things with wine. So I'll stick with the dessert wine and pretend I'm a real adult.

I really have to start packing up my room. Now that it's a sure thing we're going to be moving, I have no excuse not to start putting things in boxes. I should at the very least clear one of my bookshelves over the next couple of days.

Today I did a bit of cleaning on my computer. I really have to start watching all this TV I have downloaded. I'd like to make it back to 100GB free on my hard drive... which isn't going to happen until I succeed in catching up on some of these seasons. I should get back into Fringe, because I really do love Fringe, I just... haven't had the attention span for it. I also have a lot of movies to watch... a couple with James McAvoy, a couple with Jesse Eisenberg, a couple with Benedict Cumberbatch.

But while I'm working on clearing my downloads folder, I'm loading music into iTunes. Right now I'm doing the Warblers album from Glee. Darren Criss's voice makes me happy on so many levels. And we're already aware of my feelings about Chris Colfer, yes? Yes. He's adorable. So. Music and more fanfiction, because I'm never going to run out of Charles/Erik fic to read, or at least not any time soon. 50K AUs? Bring 'em on.

...I am kind of disappointed in myself in that I have been avoiding writing out of fear of failure. I can't fail if I don't do it, but I also can't surprise myself and succeed if I don't do it, either. I would really like to be able to surprise myself and magically get the characterization perfect, but even rewatching and rewatching the canon isn't helping me feel more confident about being able to do it even kind of right. I haven't even been writing anything original since Kink Bingo started, which is stupid because I can use original stories to fill squares now, this is a terrible time to stop writing altogether.

I have just been doing all the reading instead of any writing. I should be able to balance these things out instead of indulging in one to the exclusion of the other. Still, if I was spending time writing anything more involved than LJ entries on a daily basis, I wouldn't be polishing off 20 fics and a novel a day.

Anyway. Speaking of reading, the University of Chicago press gives away a free e-book every month, and this month it's The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. Which seems like it might be of interest to some of you. I'm certainly going to be reading it... eventually. When I get around to it. I have something like twenty books I need to read that I own in paper form, e-books tend to fall to the bottom of the reading list, even ones I pay for. I bought a compilation of short stories by Diane Duane that I have yet to read, and she's my favorite author of all time. It's weird that I can read 50K+ fanfic in one sitting without problems, but I can't get through more than a couple of chapters of an e-book at once.

I am feeling kind of starved for social interaction right now, though. How are you all doing?