Fic and random thoughts

[louiselux]

I wrote fic: Saiyuki Gaiden, Kenren/Tenpou: Ascension, r, for the saiyuki_time challenge.

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I still have new_kate's notebook and makeup kit from when she came to stay in April. It was an awesome visit, I think I forgot to mention it at the time, and we had grand plans to go and see some opera that have not gone anywhere yet. Yet! Maybe going to see opera is more a winter activity. She also told me, in vast sprawling hours long installements, about the novel that is currently living inside her brain. There is nothing like listening to someone with an amazing imagination telling you a complicated and well thought out story about hot men, religion and mysterious technology. I wallowed in it, verily.

It inspired me to begin to plan out a new project for this summer, which involves concerted novel writing with an aim for publication. I have two loose ideas which need a lot more firming up, but hopefully I'll be ready to start in about a month's time. I've embroiled emungere in this as well, so we can egg each other on/commiserate/gnash teeth, and she already has something she's been wanting to write for years, so that's worked out well! My Grand Plan, let me show you it.

In other news, I slipped on our garden steps and smashed my arm in a flailing way into the steps. I now have a lovely dull blue bruise that is highlighted with purple speckles and dashes of vibrant yellow. I also have a line-shaped matching bruise on the posterior. Ow.

Final note: I am really confused about who to vote for in the lj elections, but I feel I should vote and add my voice to the throng. From what I've seen of them, jameth appears to be something of a dick, rm seems to be extremely sensible, and the others I don't know at all.

Comments

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd voted legomymalfoy for all three options. Just in case it comes down to the transferable vote thing. Oh well.

Good luck with the novel writing! I'm sure you'll write something wonderful.

[stormcloude]

You can change your vote here:

http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1192389&mode=enter

Except voting for the same person all three times will disqualify those votes, I think. I'd suggest RM for the second and Vichan for the third as that's the general fandom consensus. But follow your heart. :)

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

rm is actually one of my choices already and I'm happy with my third choice but I noticed jameth was encouraging people to vote for him three times and that made me worry that he'd get in because he'd have the most cumulative votes.

[stormcloude]

*nods* Hopefully LJ will do what they said and disqualify those so his totals will go down.

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

*fingers crossed*

[jain]

I went into more detail about this in a reply to stormcloude's comment, but the short version is: voting for the same person three times guarantees that only your first vote will count. You were right to vote for three different people.

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

Great! Thanks for letting me know.

[jain]

Voting for the same person all three times doesn't disqualify those votes, but only the first vote will count. The way that LJ's tallying votes means that a voter's second choice vote (and third choice, if it comes to that) only gets added to the totals once that person's first choice candidate has been eliminated from the running.

It's not hurting Jameth to have his voters waste their extra votes on him, but it's not actually helping him, either. It would be completely counterproductive to follow that example if there's more than one candidate you'd be happy to see win, though, since you can't help your first-choice candidate that way and can only hurt your potential second- and third-choice candidates in the event that your first-choice candidate gets eliminated from the running.