your works of nature are unnatural

Is anyone willing to beta 1,500 words of f/m/m RPF fic about actors? Yeah, actors that no one else writes fic for. It's Lynn Collins/Steven Strait/Taylor Kitsch. Only warning is that it does involve some reference to alcoholism so don't offer if that is a problem for you. Otherwise you hopefully don't have to know too much about anything, just tell me if there's any big problems? Kthnxbye. :)

First, my birthday party is soon! Saturday, October 6, at my house, precise time yet to be determined. Pencil it in, yo! Theme: "I'm not in Europe or Japan."

Next, I need a beta for my marvel_bang fic! It is the X-Men First Class/Darkover crossover fusion AU thing, about 11,000 words (yes, I know, Big Bangs get shorter all the time, kids these days), main pairing Charles/Erik, subsidiary pairings rather all over the place, translates XMFC characters and plot to Darkover, does a bit of pastiche of MZB's style, no explicit sex, both physical and psychic violence and gore, references to sexual assault, ummm, yeah, them's your warnings. I would actually like at least two betas: one who is not familiar with Darkover and can say "half this fic isn't even in English, it makes no sense, what are you talking about here wtf?" and one who is familiar with Darkover and can discuss what I've got right or wrong. (I am having some translation woes, everything from worrying I'm being anachronistic and dragging Rediscovery-era stuff into the Ages of Chaos, to gendering casta words, to worrying about people yelling at me because Erik is not Jewish, because look, it's Darkover, right, the only religious minority is the Cristoforos and trust me, THAT is what would be offensive.) So anyone who likes Charles/Erik and doesn't know Darkover and wants to read a feudal science-fantasy AU thing, please volunteer! And anyone who does know Darkover and maybe also knows XMFC hopefully or if you don't is willing to read what would basically be OC fic and talk to me about the development of the Alton Gift, please volunteer! (Yes, his special psychic power is that he can mindrape you and kill you with his brain.) I have been putting a lot of thought and effort into figuring all this out, but so far I haven't found anyone who wants to talk about it all and can, and final drafts are due in a month and I know only about 3 people will read it once I post it but I really like what I'm doing but I don't know if it makes sense to anyone who's not me and I need a lot of handholding and you've got a month to beta it, please please please volunteer. Yes, I am desperate.

I now have an extra ticket for the Jesus & Mary Chain concert this Sunday in DC, due to someone else dropping out. Anyone want it?

I'm looking for a ticket to the Garbage concert at the 9:30 Club on May 23.... Don't suppose anyone has an extra?

I am in need of plans for New Year's. Anyone have any suggestions in the DC area or reasonably close environs?

I have one person who has offered to beta my spn_j2_bigbang fic, but I'd like another, as well. It's J2 space opera AU, just a hair over 20,000 words, and my posting date is July 26. Anyone?

Does anyone own/control/have a location in the DC/Baltimore/etc area that we can use as a set for the 48 Hour Film Project this Saturday? Any kind of location is good - a house, a yard, an office, a school, a restaurant, a garage, ANYTHING. We are really short on possibilities so far and if we can't find a place to film then we can't make a movie.

Help please?

I'm back at work today after getting all last week off on account of SNOW. And a week off work makes me want to be here even less, of course.

SNOW is sad, too, because when I was a kid I would have been SO EXCITED to see three feet of SNOW and I would have immediately run out and started digging a cave inside it. Now it is just cold and wet and I want it to go away. Seriously. We have a buildup of four snowfalls now, it's ludicrous. And supposedly we may get more tonight. Also I had to take my life in my hands to get to work because apparently pedestrian access is pointless and everyone should just walk in the street.

The worst part was last Saturday when the snowpocalypse really started, and the house lost power. Which meant no heat. Which meant all I could do was huddle in bed under the covers to try to stay warm. It was cold and boring and scary. Nothing to do (no TV, no internet, not much light for reading), no way to get anywhere else (no metro, no bus, no roads, and also only the current charge on my cellphone to communicate with anyone), watching the thermometer inside tick down and down to 49 degrees (9.5 degrees celsius) before the power and heat luckily came back later at night. Then the internet was wonky for a while afterward and the TV is still conked out (I think there's too much SNOW on the receiver for the signal to get through, or something was knocked off, or somesuch, but I am NOT climbing on the roof to check).

So with no transportation for most of the week and no one else around and no work, I may or may not have watched S2 of Merlin, S1 and S2 of Torchwood, and most of S1 of the new Doctor Who but I can neither confirm nor deny it what stop looking at me like that I was locked in the house for days on end. I will however confirm that I finished S4 of Friday Night Lights, which I got way behind on when I went to NZ. I am comfortable with where everyone is in that except that I worry for someone whose name rhymes with Jim Higgins.

Speaking of which, I would still appreciate it if someone would beta the FNL fic I wrote. Sigh sigh sigh.

And I learned that Adrianne Palicki and Alan Tudyk are dating which is a REALLY REALLY BIZARRE crossover (though an understandable decision on both their parts).

Now POSSIBLY I can get lunch but since my boss decided to skip out and leave me the only one here it is only a possibility.

In conclusion: SNOW