Well! I certainly haven't used this thing in awhile, have I?

I don't even know who's still reading their flist regularly, or even who still remembers me around here. I just wanted to apologize to everyone for going MIA for the last six months or so - life got busy, and I just... moved on to other things, I guess. I'm doing well, though. I have a job I love, in the industry I want, and my own place now. I have a new cat. I'm slowly but surely getting my life together and growing up. Things aren't perfect, but they're pretty damn good for twenty-four. Which is all I can ask for right now. I'm grateful for that.

I don't know if I'll come back to using my journal or not. I don't know if I'll need it. But I'm keeping the journal around, because there's five and a half years worth of words on here that I think I'm going to want to remember in the future. So it's staying. I'm not sure if there'll be new entries in it or not - maybe sometime. We'll see. We'll see if I need it.

I did want to give people on my Flist a chance to find me elsewhere, if you were looking. I'm @kissoffools on Twitter, and I'm wordsunsung on Tumblr. I don't reblog all that often, but I'm on it all the time. Private Messages here still go to my email - which is kissoffools@gmail.com - should you ever need to get ahold of me!

I'm not gone from the internet, by any means. So don't be a stranger. And I hope you're all doing all right, too. ♥

So, Livejournal, I'm working on a screenplay. I think. Probably. I've been tossing the idea around in my head for weeks now, and over the last couple of days I've started to sketch out some scenes in my head. I have character names and plot ideas, but now I need your help.

I have a question for you all.

Do you think a heterosexual male and a heterosexual female can truly, genuinely be platonic best friends?

I don't mean where one secretly has feelings for the other but it never gets realized. I don't mean a will-they-or-won't-they scenario. I don't mean a relationship where they get together as a happy ending. I mean two genuine, platonic best friends of the male - female variety. Do you think that's possible? Have you seen examples? Do you have a friend of the opposite sex in your life that you have a platonic best friends relationship with? What's it like? What are the things that keep the sexual tension and romantic feelings out of it?

(And to be clear: no, your opinion is not valid if you do not have a best friend relationship like this, and nor is your opinion valid if you aren't straight. That's what I have experience with, and that's what my characters will be/have, but I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and opinions and stories on this sort of topic. No matter your gender or your orientation.)

Basically, I want to write a story about a boy and a girl who are best friends and do not fall for each other. (My friend said "Like When Harry Met Sally but they don't cop out at the end" and I have not actually seen When Harry Met Sally but come to think of it I probably should.) I want to write a story that emphasizes that no matter how cool romantic relationships can be sometimes, sometimes there is nothing more important in the world than a best friend. I want to write a story where the love story truly is a friendship. And I'm choosing male-female characters because I am so sick of movies where the male-female characters are best friends and then later realize "omg you're who i've been in love with all along!!!!". That's great for them, but that's not what I want to write. I want to write about how, sometimes, that friendship is more wonderful and rewarding than any romantic relationship you could ever have.

Is that silly and ridiculous? It's really the first time I've talked about it, so maybe it's lame or overdone or schmaltzy or uninteresting. I don't know. I just know that I have a straight male best friend who I love dearly, and I want to write about how important that's been to my life.

And I want any opinions, thoughts, suggestions, and personal stories that you all can give me.

Thank you. ♥

Well, Yuletide is now over and done with for the year! :( Regardless of anything that happened with other stories, my own personal experience was awesome. (I feel like I've gushed too much about this already. Well, whatever.) I got two fics that I love, and I wrote four in new fandoms that I had a blast with!

I actually have a post right here at my fic journal, which links all four fics I wrote and talks a little bit about my selection/writing process for them, because I'm long-winded and ridiculous like that. So if you're interested in stuff like that, please do go check it out! :)

And, for convenience's sake, here are links to the four stories I wrote for Yuletide:

The Correlation of Salvation and Love - Asuncion RPF (Jesse Eisenberg/Justin Bartha | R | 2,416 words)
Give Me Back My Pieces - Everwood (Bright Abbott/Hannah Rogers | PG | 1,804 words)
Eventually We Find Our Way - Ghostwriter (Rob Baker gen | G | 794 words)
Snapshots and Ultimatums - Community RPF (Donald Glover/Gillian Jacobs | PG | 669 words)

Or you could just go to that meta post I keep linking, because it has story summaries as well. But seriously! If any of those fandoms/pairings interest you, I'd love it if you'd pop over and give the fic a look. :) I'm vain and it would make me v. happy. ♥


Oh, and also! I did that Fic Year In Review Meme over at my fic journal, as well. Turns out that this year, I wrote 58,218 words! Isn't that insane?! :D For someone like me, whose typical fics sit comfortable between 2,000 and 5,000 words, that seems like a pretty big accomplishment.

That Year In Review meme has a full links list to everything I wrote this year in eight different fandoms (The Social Network, Inception, Harry Potter, etc), so if you're interested, please go check it out!

Yay, fic! :D

Okay guys! I need some help.

I'm participating in tsnsecretsanta, as I know a few people on my Flist are. We still have another month or so before our fics are due, but I'm hoping to get started on mine sooner rather than later. The problem is... I have absolutely no idea what to write.

So I was hoping my Flist could help me! I'm not saying anything about who I've received in the exchange, except that they haven't given me a lot to work with. Here are the stipulations:

-Mark/Eduardo or Jesse/Andrew
-winter-centric

.....That's seriously it. So please, Flist, help me out! Leave me prompts and suggestions for fics. They can be TSN centric ("Jesse and Andrew go ice skating!"), or they can just be generic ("hot chocolate by the fire"). Whatever comes to mind. I can't promise I'll use any of them, but I need as much help as I can get to get the ideas flowing and come up with something to write.

So please, help a girl out! :)

Because people on my Flist are doing it, and because it looks like a good time...



My thread's all empty right now. :( And I'm definitely going to go back and leave love for all my friends, as soon as I am not on this dinosaur-aged work computer! Hugs to you all on this Tuesday. ♥

So, as many of you now know, I had a really awesome day on Saturday. I got to meet the wonderful Tom Felton!

This is way long, my apologies. You don't have to read it all if you don't want to - although I'd love you to, because it was quite the day. But I've bolded some important stuff for the TL;DR crowd. And it's only the Tom stuff that's bolded - lots of stuff relating to my best friend Jess and Eliza Dushku are important, but I didn't bold those. They're there, though.

I tried to space things out with photos as best I could.

ANYWAY. Let's proceed, shall we?

( All the details about my day - and about Tom - are in here! SO MUCH TEXT. SORRY.Collapse )