Wow lots of shit today

[kowaiyoukai]

I have to remember that Riverside, Iowa is Kirk's hometown. Then I have to research it for the BB Apogee prequel. I'll need to get pictures and facts and events and all of that shit... *epic headdesk*

I also have to spend some time on dictionary.com today. This is sad for me b/c I'd really rather just know everything without having to look shit up. But it's for epic Pinto fic so... yay?

ALSO! Animated mood themes! I can't believe I've forgotten to pimp this here, but I'll do so now. wikked_angel_78 made an AWESOMESAUCE Arthur/Merlin/Bradley/Colin animated mood theme, which you should all download and love upon muchly. Go and do so now. Also, I'm wondering where to find a good animated Star Trek mood theme--TOS or XI, obviously. I'd prefer it to be Kirk/Spock only. Any ideas or recs, flist?

Also, I'd love to go to a Star Trek con now. *le sigh* One day I will have money and a car and the means to do things like this. This will be after I am a multi-millionaire published author, of course. XP

NEW LJ FEATURE!! Notes on people!! I think I will write things like "DO NOT FORGET TO AVOID THIS PERSON LIKE THE PLAGUE" and "IF YOU MEET IRL, HAVE SEX WITH THIS PERSON IMMEDIATELY". XD

Next time I come online, I must steal all the userpics these people have: eumelkeks, affectingly, and ladylothwen. Oh, and eos_rose's too!! *WANTS NAO!!*

And finally, I've got so many fics in-progress it's actually kind of depressing. It's a good thing I've already decided I'll be writing original and fic for the foreseeable future. Choosing would be torture. D:

Oh, and it looks like Twitter's stopped posting to my LJ. LOVELY. FAIL, TWITTER, FAIL. D:

Comments

[mariole.livejournal.com]

> I have to remember that Riverside, Iowa is Kirk's hometown. Then I have to research it for the BB Apogee prequel. I'll need to get pictures and facts and events and all of that shit...

I'd love to help out. I was just there for the last Trekfest. My sister lives in Iowa City, 25 mins away, so I've been a couple of times. I have pictures, home-town attitudes, you name it.

Let me know! Whatever I can do to support this fic, I'll be happy to!

[kowaiyoukai.livejournal.com]

Oh that's incredibly useful! Once I get down to business with the prequel, I'll definitely be bothering you about this. For now, if there's anything that you think would require a lot of foreknowledge or foresight on my part to set up--like if Riverside's got a serious hatred of... t-shirts or something, IDEK--please let me know!

[mariole.livejournal.com]

This ought to help your fic:

> if Riverside's got a serious hatred of...

Anything not calm. (I want you to imagine a calm baby Kirk here. Nope, you can't do it. Neither can I.)

Seriously, the inhabitants live in Riverside because they want a quiet, non-fuss existence. They hate Trekfest even though it happens only once a year and brings in lots of money because 1) lots of cars park on the streets all through the neighborhoods-- they have to, there are no sidewalks and no parking lots-- and 2) (get ready) the people who visit _walk on the lawns_.

They do. Bold as brass. They walk on the lawns (remember, there are no sidewalks) and they drop trash and they are a NUISANCE! A NUISANCE, I say! With all their walking and parking and stuff. (I was there; this was the calmest, most polite convention crowd I'd ever seen.) Still, according to my bro-in-law, most of the natives try to be out of Riverside when Trekfest happens because they can't handle the strain.

Hope you find this helpful.

[kowaiyoukai.livejournal.com]

LOL, thanks so much for all that HYSTERICAL info! ♥ I read it aloud to siriuslyyellow & jelost and we all were cracking up. :P

And that's actually incredibly useful and perfect for what I was going to do with Kirk's childhood anyway. It all makes this wondrous kind of sense to me. I love it when everything comes together marvelously by beautiful, fortuitous accident. \o/

I will definitely bother you if anything else comes up. Thanks again for all of your awesomesauce help! *gives cookies*

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I'm so glad it was useful. Just throw in a few grain elevators and you're all set.

Looking forward to your next installment!

[kowaiyoukai.livejournal.com]

LMFAO, OMG I honestly do not even know what a grain elevator IS. Clearly I have a lot of learning to do about Iowa. :P

Oh, and I just put 9 up tonight! \o/

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Not home Mon and Tues night, I'll catch up with your fic when I can. Looking forward to it!

I'll try to send a pic of a grain elevator; they have one in Riverside, right downtown. It's a big honking silver thing that... sort of looks like a miniature version of the Riverside shipyards in the movie. Except it has corn in it. I took a pic and will post it for you Weds when I'm home. Cheers!

[mariole.livejournal.com]

I just added a pic of a grain elevator to my second Riverside entry here:

http://mariole.livejournal.com/141393.html

In case you want to view one in all its magnificence. They're really big!

[kowaiyoukai.livejournal.com]

I looked through your entry and it's great! You look like you're having a blast. *is very jealous* Clearly, I will have to hitchhike to Iowa to get to a Trek convention at some point. XP

I've started working a bit more on the prequel, but so far nothing's come up. I'm prepared to bug you for your expertise if/when a problem arises, though. :)

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Thanks! No hurries and no worries. I'll be around when it pops up on the stack. :)