Title: Memories as a Teacup: Chapter 16
Author: wook77
Pairing:: Dean/Seamus (other slash and het pairings contained within)
Rating: PG (Eventual rating: Hard R to NC-17)
100quills prompt: 41. Heart
Warnings: Canon compliant through DH. Pre-Epilogue. Additional Warnings at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Wordcount: Overall: ~70k This part: ~2100
Summary: Four years ago, Dean Thomas died in the midst of a raid. Seamus saw it happen right in front of his eyes but seeing isn't believing and reality is in the eye of the beholder.
A/N: Many many thanks to nefernat and elanorofcastile for the beta job. All remaining mistakes are my own.

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Batman. My reaction: OH EM EF IN GEE. a;ldkjfa;dlfkj YES Only regret is that the Joker is dead because Heath is. I cannot put together a coherent review as I'm just too as;ldfja;dslfj about it. Review later.

Of which, btw, I have 47 48 reviews to post.

Previews of movies should be disallowed. I now want to go see Watchmen (thanks, mizbean for bringing that one to my attention!!!), the new Bond movie, and, for the first time ever... a Terminator movie. I've never wanted to see any of the Terminators. In fact, I've only seen the first (under duress) but this one is just awesome looking. I cannot fucking wait.

Memoirs of Hadrian is purported to have Charlie Hunnam and Antonio Banderas playing gay lovers. I really really want to see this happen.

Terminus. ;ldkjfald YES this shall rock if only to see a bunch of amazing people. I cannot wait for this shindig. I sort of want to get a tattoo while there. I missed out at Lumos and want to do it this time. I need the moral support because, omg, it feels like someone's taking a scalpel to my skin and carving me alive. I definitely do NOT get off on needles or knifeplay :/

I'm rather sad that I missed the people at Portus but not so much the con.

Is anyone else watching gay_icons? This is like crack for me. I want to gank quite a few of them.

So RL has me down but there's plenty of squee out there so I'm going to fixate on that, instead. I plan on having a new job by January wherever it might be. I was offered a job in London but, unfortunately, with the cost of living, it was less than I'm making now with no moving costs paid for, either. Add in the whole transport/pet passport for my dogs and, well, I turned it down.

People laugh when I call the summer storm season here in Tucson the "monsoon season" but we refer to it as that for a reason. here are a couple of vids (one in the main post and another in the comments) of the storm last night that swung in from nowhere and didn't stop. I might've gotten soaked dancing about in it on the street. My family thinks I'm nuts but OMG do I love thunderstorms. I never feel so alive as I do with lightning crashing and the wind blowing while I get pelted with heavy rain. It's a beautiful life-reaffirming time for me. Anyone else dance in thunderstorms?

Title: Memories as a Teacup: Chapter 15
Author: wook77
Pairing:: Dean/Seamus (other slash and het pairings contained within)
Rating: PG (Eventual rating: Hard R to NC-17)
100quills prompt: 36. Sojourn
Warnings: Canon compliant through DH. Pre-Epilogue. Additional Warnings at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Wordcount: Overall: ~70k This part: 2550
Summary: Four years ago, Dean Thomas died in the midst of a raid. Seamus saw it happen right in front of his eyes but seeing isn't believing and reality is in the eye of the beholder.
A/N: Many many thanks to nefernat and elanorofcastile for the beta job. All remaining mistakes are my own. (we're over 52k through the story OMG)

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I'm presenting at Terminus on newsletters with a whole host of amazing and brilliant people. However, to help me finish formulating the plan for what my time period is going to be on -

What sort of thing would you all be interested in hearing about? besides my failure to do an update

Are you more interested in the feasibility? What it takes to run one? How we go about picking the recs? What burning questions do you all have?

My entry for the rs_games Round I. No one guessed my fic. I'd be upset but, honestly, I set up a few things in the story so I would be less recognizable. I have thinky thoughts about this fic if anyone is interested.

Title: Innocence Lost
Author: wook77
Team: Post-Hogwarts
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: Canon compliant through HBP (does not take DH-canon dates into account, thus partially AU)
Wordcount: ~6000
Summary: There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
Prompt: "It's not lying if they make you lie. If the only truth they can accept is their own."
Genre(s): Angst, AU
Author's Notes: All section headings are lyrics from "Kiss Off" by The Violent Femmes and are not mine. Summary is from a quotation by Alfred North Whitehead. Many thanks to my betas, nefernat and elanorofcastile. Many thanks to my cheerleaders and plotpickers including my teammates and especially thescarletwoman and gryffindor_j. I posted a very rough draft of this and got such amazing feedback from them that they fixed my issues with the story.

( Innocence Lost )

Real life update coming soon because work is killing me in small increments. But until then - Terminus. My only reason to live right now *exaggerates*

Anyone need a room? There's a spot in my room right now. Just one but still! Come hang out with janicechess and myself! We have themostepotente and elanorofcastile (on Friday/Sat only and I'm making her sleep on the floor because she's my bitch, yo)!


If you're interested, could you please either comment here or email me at wook77[at]livejournal.com?

Space filled!

Title: Memories as a Teacup: Chapter 14
Author: wook77
Pairing:: Dean/Seamus (other slash and het pairings contained within)
Rating: PG (Eventual rating: Hard R to NC-17)
100quills prompt: 5. Fixed
Warnings: Canon compliant through DH. Pre-Epilogue. Additional Warnings at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Wordcount: Overall: ~70k This part: 2300
Summary: Four years ago, Dean Thomas died in the midst of a raid. Seamus saw it happen right in front of his eyes but seeing isn't believing and reality is in the eye of the beholder.
A/N: Many many thanks to nefernat and elanorofcastile for the beta job. All remaining mistakes are my own.

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Work is killing me in small increments. Memories as a Teacup update tomorrow. Promise.

Comments disabled as i have no brain to respond.

Title: The Story Remains Wrong
Fandom: Green Street Hooligans
Pairing: Matt Buckner/Pete Dunham
Rating: R for language
Warnings: Offensive Language. Spoilers for the movie.
Wordcount: ~2500 words
Summary: Fucking journos even fuck this shit up.
A/N: Self-beta'd. I really do mean the warning for offensive language. Don't think this will be a fandom I normally write in but I couldn't quite get the outcome out of my head.

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I have week in the life photos. Just haven't uploaded them. Instead, I've been working assloads of hours. Which means money for vacations so I'm not complaining.

Today, though... I went to bed about midnight last night, woke up about 11 this morning and was fast asleep by 230. Then I woke back up about 5 and got a shower. In the time I was awake, I watched:

Hooligans/Green Street Hooligans. ( Charlie Hunnam is hot and other important parts of a review )

9 out of 10

Tonight at Fry's, I wrote over a thousand words of a fanfic set in the Green Street Hooligans universe. The movie hit but IDK why it hit hard enough to cause ficcage.

Spent the Fourth working. Had a chance to dressdown but forgot. I blame chatting with best_of_five.

Am testdriving the Mazda 3 and the Mazda 6 tomorrow/later today.

Title: Memories as a Teacup: Chapter 13
Author: wook77
Pairing:: Dean/Seamus (other slash and het pairings contained within)
Rating: PG (Eventual rating: Hard R to NC-17)
100quills prompt: 008. Birth
Warnings: Canon compliant through DH. Pre-Epilogue. Additional Warnings at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Wordcount: Overall: ~70k This part: 2300
Summary: Four years ago, Dean Thomas died in the midst of a raid. Seamus saw it happen right in front of his eyes but seeing isn't believing and reality is in the eye of the beholder.
A/N: Many many thanks to nefernat and elanorofcastile for the beta job. All remaining mistakes are my own.

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In less photo meme news - work is kicking my ass. We're implementing five new large projects by August 1st. I'm spearheading all of them. For the next week and a half - I will be conducting training sessions on a timekeeping software system that I'm only half trained on meself. I had to be at work at 7am this morning and have to be back at 7am tomorrow. The nap, however, totally fucked over my sleep schedule. I'm also rolling out a new office supply inventory system (JIT FTW!), new merchant service ageements, our annual audit and redoing how we handle billing of customers (as we didn't have billable customers a year ago). GAH. Too much to do and not enough time in the day to do it.

Add in that, honestly, I was tired and annoyed at work so when I got a call from a friend, I leapt at the opportunity to go to happy hour with her. Prickly Pear Margaritas (of which, I forgot to take a photo) FTMFW. They were so nummeh. I got my friend trashed, we bashed dating/marriage (she's starting the divorce process due to some wtfery on her "husband"'s part) and it was all good. I poured her into her house with her mum and headed home where I promptly fell asleep in the middle of a chat. Proof positive that I am OTP with someone.

Psuedo-Random observation: Rabid shippers in any fandom really scare the crap out of me. I don't get how a character flaw is proof of twu wuv in one ship while proof positive that there cannot be love in another ship. Dude. That character will act as that character as that character unless something really major happens. IE - Harry is not going to change how he reacts to things whether he is with Hermione, Ginny, Snape or Draco. He is still going to have his chest monster. Isn't that part of why we love him? (and no, this isn't about HP shipping wars)

Also - sort of along that line - I think killing off a character to solve a love triangle is the height of lazy and sloppy writing. That was my complaint in the *Uglies Series by Scott Westerfield* (Highlight to read as it contains spoilers) and that's my complaint if it happens in a tv show. It's like writers think that if a person chooses one love interest over another, they'll show that person to actually be *gasp* human. Or it's cowardice because the writer doesn't want to piss off the rabid shippers of whatever ship it is.

I'm still in love with this icon.

Day 1

( late day 2 is late )

Thus concludes my Monday picspam. Tuesday is coming tomorrow morning. This would've been up earlier but I sort of fell asleep earlier.

I will, in all likelihood, fail at keeping this up for 7 days BUT...

Rules:
1. You must take between 6 and 8 new photographs per day.
2. Your WITL must be consecutive. No skipping days.
3. You must post your photographs at the end of that day, sometime after the last picture is taken.
4. Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and a title, with no other explanation.
5. You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other six days so that people will know wtf you're doing.
6. Your post must say "A Week in the Life of [your name/username], Volume [whatever day you're on].

( Week in the Life of wook, day 1... in which wook takes too many photos )

Random photos from when I meant to do this before:( under here )

Also GIP! Look at the icon elanorofcastile made me! *lovesliekwhoa*

I'm beyond bored and ignoring deadlines so... you guys get a conglomeration of the most odd links stored in my bookmarks page.

Affection men are two sets of videos of old photographs (ranging 1860 to 1930). Very well done vids and rather touching on the whole. The casualness is inspiring.

Male Intimacy has really interesting photos of men at work and the ease of intimacy between them. The site, as a whole, is a little creepy and mockable (it's called Cock Rub Warriors, FFS. That makes me giggle every time) but the photos are lovely. Word of caution - if you do delve further into this site, be prepared for some, err, interesting fiction. Do not read with a beverage nearby - you will probably spray it at some point or another.

Video Game Reviews as done by Yahtzee (Ben Croshaw). He's hilarious. I could watch these snarky reviews all the time.

Boondock Saints done in like a couple of minutes. FUCK

Briliant piece of fanart with the showdown between Dumbledore and Grindelwald.

A Very British Sex Scandal - an 8 part docu-drama on the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain.

Santa Claus's Blog. I don't think I need any further description of this one.

Leonardo DiCaprio kissing David Thewlis.

Fonts for Peas - a veritable assload of handwriting fonts.

An Index of important HP stuffs in a bunch of languages.

What's random in your bookmarks?

Title: Memories as a Teacup: Chapter 12
Author: wook77
Pairing:: Dean/Seamus (other slash and het pairings contained within)
Rating: PG (Eventual rating: Hard R to NC-17)
100quills prompt: 007. Smile
Warnings: Canon compliant through DH. Pre-Epilogue. Additional Warnings at the beginning of Chapter 1.
Wordcount: Overall: ~70k This part: 1700
Summary: Four years ago, Dean Thomas died in the midst of a raid. Seamus saw it happen right in front of his eyes but seeing isn't believing and reality is in the eye of the beholder.
A/N: Many many thanks to nefernat and elanorofcastile for the beta job. All remaining mistakes are my own.

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I dropped my car off at nine am. So noon goes past and... no call. At two, I called. Turns out that it took 2 guys 4 hours to get my hood to open. They ended up completely breaking my latch to get it to let the hood go. The latch was jammed which is why it wouldn't open. The cause of this headache and nightmare? A teeeeeennnnyyyyy rock. Like super teeny, smaller than my pinky nail.

That teeny rock cost me 310 dollars. But my hood works, I changed the fuse for my turn signals and got an oil change. Plus, they also put a screw in my gear shift so that it would stop popping off. It kept freaking me out when the gear shift wouldn't spin for me as I was driving. I got way used to the gear shift being a certain awkward angle. Now it's all where it's supposed to be and I couldn't understand why I couldn't get into reverse until I realized that I was pressing down on the gear shift and I didn't need to do that.

But - it definitely could've been worse. As it is, well, there goes, literally, the last of my money. However, I have also figured out that I'm not nearly as upside down on this loan as I'd emo'd about. I'm only about 3k (worst case) to 700 bucks (best case) so I think I can afford a new car in January.

Spent what little time I was actually at work watching Shelter on youtube before it gets taken down again.

For those of you following Memories as a Teacup - would you guys be interested in seeing the Dennis backstory and some of the stuff that will be happening offscreen? I've bits and pieces sketched out and I'm curious if you'd want to read it.

Still insomniac. Still no sleep. I'm dogtired, too. I just need like 8 hours all in a row. Maybe I need to lecture my body like I did my car?

Am getting ready to head to the garage to have my hood release looked at. I've my fingers crossed that it's just because of gunk build-up that the latch won't open. Don't burst my bubble until the garage does, yeah? I'm hopeful they can get it opened and do the oil change I need and switch out my turn signal fuse, too.

I've had pretty bad insomnia this past weekend and into last night. I've gotten about 6 hours of sleep in dribs and drabs since Friday. Just little catnaps. Stupid stress.

However, that only means that I've watched a metric asstonne of movies. After cruising the flist, someone rec'd Shelter and then linked to someone who had the download. Of course Firefox crashed before I could thank the person so I've no idea who I ganked it from BUT - omgsogood. It's a very lovely story that has a nice pace to it. ( spoilery thoughts and rambling review )

10 out of 10

I uploaded it to share the love. Definitely go out and buy it though as there are some really brilliant cast commentaries and special features on teh DVD that aren't on the download. here is the download. It's a zip so you'll have to unzip it and it's rather HUGE (almost a gig by itself). I also converted it to the iPod so I can watch it on that when I get bored at Fry's.

I made the mistake of watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. ( Run, do not walk, away from this movie )

2 out of 10 and it only gets that because the camera peeps deserve a spot of love.

Random observation - there are certain words that should never be used in a sex scene. I read one fic this morning that utilized the word "girth" as a name for a cock. ie - "He sucked the girth into his mouth and sucked". Um, bwa? When I think of girth, I think of my fat ass and how girthy it is. I don't think of a giant cock of doom. In conclusion, girth is not a sexxehtiems word. Stop using it. Plz.

Ok, Hollyoaks people. I've watched the JP/Craig and JP/Kieron storylines so far. With the caveat that there are episodes missing from the JPC storyline on youtube - I still think that Craig is an arse who doesn't know what he had and didn't really love JP. ( my thoughs on Hollyoaks, let me show you them and, err, spoilers? prolly? )

I've tried watching fanvids to get the best of the JPC thing so I can see why people are so in love with JPC. And, err, I've only really come across dreck.

So please to be recc'ing me your favourite JPC vids? Plz? Convert me as to why you think JPC is so awesome. I really want to like this storyline as I happen to think that JP is just about the cutest thing ever and if he were to leave the show, I might just have to cry.

Probably there will be spoiler discussions for future episodes in the comments. If there are a lot of comments as I've not a clue how many Hollyoaks fans are on the flist.