1.78 [new fic!]

1.78 deaths a second.

Here it is, straight from the lips of the serpent.

.: Maria :.

Also, I’ve decided to do an archives revamp. I deleted all my work on TA, and am working on slowly filling it up again. I’ve been writing fanfiction for a year now, and I think it was past time I did a clean-out. I’m leaving everything I put up on fanfiction.net, though. It’s not that I feel that what I’ve been writing is bad, I just feel like I want to start over again on Twilight Archives, in regards to my writing.

happiness take 2 xD

This morning I’m happy. Simple as that!

The sun is shining, it’s almost fifty degrees out, and I’m seeing all my friends today in civics class + chorus + band! Two hour band practice! I also rediscovered Lily Allen — who actually is a bit like a british Katy Perry, only Lily Allen is much better in my opinion. I normally steer away from pop, but Lily Allen is more pointed than most pop I’ve heard. So I’m getting her two CD’s from the library.

Yup, life is good.

I finished Supernatural season one, and was actually disappointed. The season finale was the FIRST one that has ever NOT made me cry. However, the first episode of season two did do the job, which was another first. I’ve also finally decided if I’m a Sam gal or a Dean gal … firmly in favor of Dean. He’s just less whiney and scores a bit more on the eye-candy scale. I’m really liking season two, and people tell me things just keep getting better and better.

I think spring should come a few weeks early this year … I mean, we’ve had our obligatory snow, and what’s the point of winter if all it does is make a lot of really cold wind and really cold faces. It’ll be nice to be able to walk the dog first thing in the morning and not have to bundle up like I’m going on an arctic exploration.

I’m really excited for this summer, I’ll probably be involved in a musical, and the family might be going to Canada again. Speaking of which, I miss the place. In particular I miss Nova Scotia + Cape Breton. I miss the laid back feel, I miss the fiddling coming from odd corners, and for goodness sakes, I miss the bagpipes.

Bagpipes. I have to ask myself how sane I am …

The recent bit of productivity in the writing world has also given my mood a boost! Awesomesauce!

Vampage baby

There’s this thing I should work on. It’s called sleep. Have you heard of it? It sure seems like I missed the memo.

In other news, I’m doing a gallery revamp and really really working hard on backed up homework so that next week things should be back to normal, and perhaps I’ll have time to start writing and such again.

Maybe … I really really hope so …

So list of projects I need to finish up:

• Sequel to Soul Searching – it’s been in progress since LAST APRIL! It’s only 500 words a chapter for goodness sake, why is it so hard to get done?
• The Denali Fic –  I have it planned, I have the first chapter nearly done … but I feel guilty for working on it when the sequel to Soul Searching isn’t done. 
• Story banners – I want to get banners made for all my fics. I also need to finish all the requests soon.
• New Gallery – speaks for itself
• And then I need to finish up organizing this site, you know, add lists and links and graphics!

 

Chorus + Band have started up, and I have about a month to learn the violin part for the score of Cinderella. I’m the only violin in our rag-tag band which consists of drums, a keyboard/piano, a flute, an accordion, possibly a saxophone, a bass guitar, and obviously me on a violin! Not the most conventional assortment of instruments — but it’s amazingly fun, and we sound surprisingly good when we know the music! However much fun it is though, it’s a major time drain … staying on top of schoolwork + music + online projects. 

I was going to apply for the open staff position at Twilight Novel Novice, but I decided that I really didn’t have enough time to responsibly volunteer for yet MORE obligations.

Tithe by Holly Black

 

I do realize that some Twilight fans may well come after me with pitchforks — but Holly Black’s Roiben from the Ironside series … let’s just say i’ve switched from Team Vamp to Team Faerie!

Anyway, about Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

Moving from city to city while her mother pursues an unsuccessful music career, an ominous and nearly fatal incident sends them back to Kaye’s grandmother’s New Jersey home. Kaye has been playing with faeries ever since she was a young child, but the playmates of her memories are much darker than they appeared. There Kaye discovers she is a changeling and a faerie, and becomes slowly drawn into a vicious rivalry between the two Faerie courts.

Kaye is gritty and angst ridden to the extreme, but still ultimately likable as she falls harder and harder for Roiben, an exiled knight of the Bright Court. While occasionally Kaye is self-absorbed and selfish, it adds to her believability.

Holly Black’s faeries are capricious, feral, and through all their wild barbarism, haughty and courtly at the same time. Despite the liberal use of strong language, so much it actually distracted from the story, Tithe is an extremely well written modern day fantasy. I’m a sucker for urban faeries, and Holly Black certainly delivered a complex and suspenseful ride. Definitely on the darker side of things, it was a wild ride of suspense, angst, and betrayal. With twists and turns, Tithe was an adventure as unpredictable as the faeries mood swings, and a thoroughly enjoyable read.