Random Wonderings of a Curious Girl

{Take the 100 Things challenge!}

Grabbed from karaokegal

My list is going to be 100 books I've read and my opinions and memories of them. It's going to be a grab bag of everything from children's books to adulthood.

EDIT: A series/multiple series set in the same universe counts as one item. I did this after going through and realizing one of my manga series would take up almost a quarter of the numbering without having anything really to show for it, as it's one continuous story line. After remaking a partial list with grouping books in series together, I am still at 43 items.

1-Going Bovine by Libba Bray
2-Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
3-Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray
4-Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
5-The Princess Bride by William Goldman
6-The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
7-The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Title: Dare
Author: Book_Junkie007
Pairing: Katniss/Peeta
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1433 words
Warnings: No warnings.
Notes: Thank you so much to alonglineofbread and BaronessKika for being awesome betas, and giving me insight on the world of getting tattoos and getting drunk; one of which I hope to get in September and the other hopefully never; and whiskeysnarker for being willing to discuss my version of Everlark with me, and how they're a good thing to have in the fic world. Also, I apologize to my followers who had to witness falafelwaffel and I yelling back and forth at each other in comments on Tumblr before I posted this.

Summary: Peeta and Katniss go get their first tattoos together.

( Dare )

On AO3

So, it turns out that the next thing I'll write is a Hunger Games roller derby!AU, not the Firefly fic or the Bruce/Natasha fic that I've been working on since last summer (I will finish editing it, I swear!). I've written a 600 word smut piece and 650 words of backstory all in the past two days, on my phone, while on public transit and on my breaks at work. The last time I was even close to this amount of fic writing was for my Torchwood 17 000+ word baby last year, and even then I stalled at certain points. I'm looking forward to exploring this 'verse. :)

I'm idly looking at the requirements for a BA in Modern Languages (French) in the UK even though I almost failed out of my science uni courses. And one year's worth of tuition for an international student at Oxford is the equivalent of all three years of tuition at my Canadian uni.

I still really want to do it though. I love learning, and am really smart, I just hate studying and get really bored and have a really short attention span while trying to study, but it might be different if I was learning something different. I wouldn't even use this degree, I don't think, as I have a job which pays really well. This would really be a "I felt like learning this" degree without it ever really benefitting me.

I'm just not sure how well I would do at the whole writing papers aspect. Oh, well, it's something to think about, especially as I'm thinking about setting up camp in the UK for the next two to five years, maybe even longer.

Title: First Meetings Only Happen Twice (Or More)
A Gift For: lizardbeth_j
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild references to violence
Pairings: Clint, Natasha (can be read as gen or relationship implied); Clint-centric
Summary/Prompt Used: Written for be_compromised’s Secret Santa 2012. I’m only now posting it to my journal. The last few months have only been slightly chaotic.

This is sort of a combination of mission and first time prompts, but it also morphed into something that I didn’t expect. I hope you like where I went with this.
Authors Notes: Many thanks to my beta, inkvoices, who gave me important feedback. Also thanks to this bar, both for being patient with me, and for being so awesome.

( First Meetings Only Happen Twice (Or More) )

On AO3

Hey, look, I've reached #7! \0/

I just finished this one today, and it already holds a special place in my heart. It's one of the few books I would take as a physical copy with me to England (the others are Going Bovine and Beauty Queens by Libba Bray and the Princess Bride by William Goldman).



( Have the movie trailer because the movie is close enough to the book )

So I signed up for heroinebigbang, and I'm quite excited. A mini bang is 5000 words, and a full bang is 15 000 words minimum, and the only rule is that it has to be a main female character. I've decided to write about the life of Zoe Washburne from Firefly, and I'm quite excited at the length of my rough outline. Although to be fair, my Torchwood fic outline was way shorter initially, and it turned out to be over 17 000 words. We'll see how this goes.

I finally have an icon like object which I'm sort of proud of. Gimp reminds me of Flash or something similar almost, and I haven't used Flash in years. I will probably have more in the weeks to come.



I don't own the background pic of Serenity, that comes from , but the foreground pic I took with my iPhone and uploaded to my laptop.

**WARNING: I ramble around in circles in this post because I'm tired. Hopefully it makes sense.**

So I've been wanting to move to England for two years for a while, and one of my friends decided that she wants to go as well, and we convinced another friend of ours to come with us. It felt like my friends made the decision really easily, but I was struggling with the decision, to the point that I was stressing out about it (between school, work, and this decision, I've chewed my fingernails down to nothing).

My mum and step-dad always try and be the voices of reason for me, and try hard to keep my feet firmly on the ground, as I can be a bit of a dreamer at times. They were the devil's advocate in my head while I was making this decision. I also talked with my trainer at my practicum about the possibility of finding work in England with what I'm doing for my job, and they brought up some really good points as well.

After weighing all the factors, I've made a decision: I'm not moving to England. There's no point in me moving there right now, and I should have gone when I was younger, but I wasn't emotionally mature enough to do so. Right now I just want to settle down into a career here, pay off my student loan by the end of the year, and move out. I feel like I'm ready to do that now, and my friends are still not quite at the wanting to grow up stage. It's weird feeling like I'm the most mature one, because usually I don't.

Still, I want to go back and visit England and the UK for a month in the undefined future, I just don't think I'll ever live there, and that's okay.

I finally have a rough outline for my Secret Santa fic. Hopefully I'll be able to write my rough draft either tonight or tomorrow, depending on how tired I am from work. Ink voices, if you could be on stand by for beta, that would be fabulous. I am determined to get this fic written.