The Life and Times of a Caffeine Addict

Apparently, there is a website that has sent bots to AO3 to steal people's fanworks and make money off them (mostly through ad revenue but you also need to give a credit card to make an account in order to access the works? skeevy as fuck if you ask me!).

I do not know how to feel about this, because holy crap, I don't want to lock down my works on there so only registered users can read it, but at the same time, I don't want to have to deal with filling and sending a DMCA if it does come to happen.

AO3 isn't doing much beyond telling people they should lock their works to prevent that from happening for now, they are apparently looking into it, but appear to be pretty sure there isn't much they can do.

*sigh*

I am NOT going to FF.net, no way, no how. Nuh-uh!

Here is a Tumblr post about it.

I am going to be putting my writing muscles to the test. More or less. But at least, trying to figure out voices with writing prompts. So I lurked a fic prompt community and just jotted down words that either triggered a basic plot bunny or seemed more challenging, and built my own table.

Of fifty (yes, 50) writing prompts.

( Here it is, under the cut! )

Now, off to have fun.

Because LOOK AT THEM! LOOK!

Cropped out is his hand on her shoulder, and from the angle his arm is around her and he's pulling her in to kiss her.

Oh, and movie/IDW!Janine is in tears in the background, because movie/IDW!Egon is about to kiss her self from an alternate dimension.

But it's Egon/Janine on a cover! *hearteyes*

I finished the PG version of that Egon/Janine story I was working on ages ago that got me squees.

Now I just need to have it beta'ed and I'll post it.

Possibly on here first.

Maybe on AO3.

But I also got a request to make it smutty, so... maybe there'll be two versions. :P

I was invited to go hang out for finger foods and drinks at a (now former) co-worker's home, who is moving back to France in a few weeks.

So John took the opportunity to go hang out at his best friend's place, which is at the other end of the large complex we're also moving into (but we're moving into a fully renovated unit) and, since he doesn't drive, I drove him there. Because I didn't want to spend more than necessary, I decided to just park there, and take the train from there into work, so I did a trial run of walking to and from that train station.

It's a really boring stretch of road lined with small and medium apartment buildings and attached townhouses. But the walk is only about 10 minutes, if that, and the attached parking is still free (because there had been rumours there would be a fee to park there), so if worse comes to worst and the conditions aren't all that great (like really heavy rain that an umbrella won't be enough for or something) I can always drive there, as it's maybe a two minute drive, or take the bus, if the times match up.

I can't wait to move!

We're currently starting to look for furniture, because most of the furniture we have is old and/or second hand and needs to be replaced (save the kitchen table, but we might want a new one anyway, and our bed, which is new). The couch is over 20 years old and is uncomfortable to sit on, and that's just the start of it. We're thinking Ikea mainly because a lot of their stuff is compact, perfect for apartment living, and our place is not going to be bigger than here, just the divisions are more convenient. It also comes with five appliances (refrigerator, stove, dishwasher - yes, you read that right, washer and dryer), so we're really excited, even though that means we need to sell my stove and my mini-washer, we're keeping my fridge as a drinks fridge, which'll go into the second bedroom until we have a kid, then we'll see.

We were also planning on getting a new cage for Charlie-bird, because hers is relatively narrow and she's a big cockatiel with a wide wingspan, but we'll see how the money holds up to buying all we need for the new place.

Hey, as of this morning, I got four hits and already two kudos.

Well... okay then!

Egon's face on my icon was pretty much my face when I saw that. XD Except my glasses weren't on my face, yet.

Posting this to AO3.

It's short. It's not that great. And I'm not sure anyone who hasn't read IDW's Ghostbusters will get it or not be offended by it. After all, Mel isn't an OFC, she's canon (except for the fact that she and Peter don't have a friends-with-benefits type of friendship as far as we know).

:/

I was planning on working on that fan fic I had started awhile back, work kinks (of the storytelling kind, get your minds out of the gutter!) out of the flow of it, and whatnot, but the nagging cough I'd had for four days suddenly decided to bloom into the cold it was always meant to be yesterday afternoon, and I am so freaking pooped, I can barely function, aside from sitting on the couch playing Tetris on my phone.

Especially after running errands and whatnot.

My whole torso hurts from all the coughing I've been doing, and I am constantly hungry from the Prednisone.

*headdesk*

Oh, well, at least, it's not bronchitis.

For now.

The verdict was that there is no evidence of a clot, so the likelihood of DVT is near null.

Watching the Doppler imaging on the screen was fascinating.

They will be sending the images and results to my doctor who will then decide whether to order a different test or see if the bump goes away by itself.

It does behave a bit like a shin splint, so it could very well be that.

This past weekend we went to visit my fiancé's family, in Ottawa.

His aunt and uncle were super excited to show us their new toy. A sailboat in the Caribbean that they will charter out when they aren't using it. (They have money, well-earned too!)

It took my brain 72 hours to process that, not only do I know people who make enough money to own a sailboat anchored in motherfucking Tortola, but that we've been invited to go out on it, when our vacation time can be taken at the same time and the stars align just right.

O_o

Whaaaaat?