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    Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
    princessjessia
         		11:49p
    rpwrimo 2009 - final count;
    MY LIFE IS SO HECTIC RIGHT NOW.

    I think, I THINK, I have some big news in the works, which has been getting my attention combined with crazy sleep schedules for the munchkin and I, so I'm sorry if I'm behind in things. I don't want to JINX it, so keep your fingers crossed for me?


    Final RPWriMo count, based on logs, threads and some narratives is:

    38270 | 30000

    I WON!

    MOST WORDS: Ben Braeden.
    LEAST WORDS: Nathan Petrelli.
    MOST TO LEAST: Ben Braeden, Claire Bennet, Lily Potter, John Winchester, Sarah Williams, Druella Black, Nathan Petrelli.

    Ben is not a character who has gotten a huge amount of play in the past, so I'm so excited he hit first place and that I did get a chance to truly let him shine during the Para plot. I didn't make my personal goal of 50,000, but I feel it was a decent window into what is typically the crappiest month creatively/motivationally in my RP year. I'd be interested to know what word counts I hit during my better months, so I may keep track again just for my own

    I see other people counted apps, which I considered doing because I had some HUGE apps in the month of November, but there's no way for me to tell now if some of the ones earlier in the month were truly all written in November. So, next year, will keep track!
    Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
    princessjessia
         		10:43p
    baaaaaa;
    1. My username is ______ because ______: [info]princessjessia, which, when not a lowercase required thing, looks like PrincessJessiA (not Jessia, as my name is Jessica). I used to have a bunch of different online names for different accounts way back in the NINETIES INTERWEBS, but "Princess Jessi" came about from a forum years ago where I was dubbed the Princess of Impatience. princessjessi was taken the first time I decided to run with that, I tacked on the "A" for my last name, and that's what I tend to use places now because I'm lazy and resist change.

    2. My name is _____ because ______: [ JESSI ]. Because it's my name and I'm not witty like y'all. :D

    3. My journal is titled ____ because ____: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? / Well, obviously I do. I just wondered if there was anyone else." Because I love this quote. Also, DISCWORLD!DEATH IS THE BEST THING EVER.

    4. My default userpic is ____ because ____: Jessica Rabbit. Because she is my alter ego and SHE KICKS ASS. Also, in my journal layout, it always looks like she's seducing all the icons on my f-list and it cracks me up.
    princessjessia
         		1:51a
    Druella is trying to bring the niceties of pureblood society to Crazytown, Madkingsland, by organizing tea parties and soirées and whatnot. I am actually not kidding. She's already at work deciding how to manipulate people with just the invitations alone, right alongside patiently replicating a few of Dorea's favoured playthings while Dorea describes them.

    Where does she intend to host such things? Why, Grimmauld Place, of course. *facedesk* SHE DOESN'T EVEN WANT THE DAMN HOUSE (I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT THE ~TOKEN OF BLOODLINE WAR~!), but she's decided it's a pretty useful pawn to getting things she wants. Plus, it's the principle of the matter, and goddamn, apparently Druella Black is not going to halfass the principle. She pretty much has refused to go more than a foot outside that house since the EPIC "YOU ARE NO BROTHER OF MINE" stuff (only if Cygnus is still inside it and if it's necessary, like meeting Dorea outside to bring her in the house) and so is PAYING PEOPLE IN SHINY MAGIC GOODS to run her errands for her.

    That said, AM needs to stop swallowing my soul because I have SO MUCH other stuff to DO. I wanna play at TOS, omg. :/


    VICKIE. TWO QUESTIONS, the first just my curiosity, the second more logistics.
    1) Where the heck is Wally at this point, the Three Broomsticks?
    2) WHEN did she leave? Dani said Cy's pretty much ignoring her after that last response to him, so did she pack her toothbrush and leave yesterday? And was there shrieking/a throwdown because Druella barricaded them in earlier, or only until Druella dropped what was keeping her in?
    Sunday, November 29th, 2009
    princessjessia
         		11:16p
    oh, ij;
    DEAR INSANEJOURNAL,

    I would really love to get my notifs soon after the comments are made, not three hours after the fact, as now I'm missing Important Things unless I refresh everything obsessively.

    NO LOVE,
    ME.

    Anyone else having this problem?
    princessjessia
         		5:36p
    i siriusly love this :D
    DO I NEED TO THRASH AMERICA?


    This quote in my inbox made my morning. I think I need it on an icon.
    princessjessia
         		2:38a
    got behind in friending!
    I was really behind in friending people from AM but I think I've gotten most everyone I would likely to be plotting with/talking about the game with on a more-than-once basis, so if you've clicked over to figure out who this is because the contact list isn't handy, HI! This is Jessi at AM (Lily, Druella & Owen).

    Everybody else, nothing to see here. :P
    princessjessia
         		12:03a
    So Lily ripped Alice's face off, and it's a small thing compared to the Epic Drama and not even close to the one Lily RAWR attack on the former Hermione, but it's pretty significant to me, as sometimes even I forget she can be a hot-headed snot who overreacts, so I'm always HEY NOW STOP THAT and kind of want to hide when she does it.

    Also, I realize this is kind of silly and whatnot, but it keeps happening and I don't get why and I'm still assimilating WHAT ALL IS GOING ON IN CRAZY TOWN and needed a five minute break, so: I REALLY DON'T GET WHY CHARACTERS KEEP CONFUSING DRUELLA WITH WALBURGA AND VICE VERSA.

    ETA: OH MY GOD REGULUS CONFESSED TO LILY *FLAILS*
    Thursday, November 26th, 2009
    princessjessia
         		4:30a
    fandom ramble;
    So I caught wind of this post/essay/meta on Lily tonight.

    What struck me most was not the content itself (though it makes me happy, because I love Lily and it's annoying to see people tear her apart rather than embrace both her humanity and flaws alongside her strengths), but that fact that 1) it's necessary for fans to defend against such a wide range of misogynistic bashing of female characters (I can remember Anti-Narcissa essays back in the day that made me SEETHE) and 2) I can only recall a handful of essays that cover a somewhat sane positions on canon/interpretation, but I can think of comms full of the Lily-bashing/female-character/any-character bashing. I'm sure the reality is not so uneven, but in my mind it very much is.

    Ultimately, it always comes back to this - why do some fans, fanfic writers, roleplayers, etc feel the need to tear down everyone around a character just to make their own more sympathetic? We may not always agree with the creator, but we were still provided with toys to play with that have depths we can explore simply by logically assessing the canon. Is is that people are insecure about their ability to rewrite characters as they are in canon, is it just laziness, or is it speaking to a need to make their character one hundred percent right?

    For me, something that has always put me off a fic or a character bio is the moment they make someone the convenient villain to get what they want, without any thought for how it demeans their own character to do so. Be it tortured!Sirius or ignored!Andromeda or beaten-by-Ron!Hermione or delicate-flower!Draco or whatever, in the end it always feels like it's taken away from or trivialized that character (Sirius escaped to save his life, rather than it be because he was not being treated as a person with opinions and feelings of his own, Andromeda ran away because her family didn't love her and Ted was the only one who did, instead of it being she changed her purist mind for one man and retained other prejudices, etc) rather than make them sympathetic and layered.

    Ugh, and I should so be sleeping, family things to do in a few hours!
    princessjessia
         		3:01a
    oh my god what are you people doing;
    [ as of 3 a.m. EST. ]

    FIRST COMMENTER TO OWEN'S JOURNAL: MALE.
    EVERY OTHER COMMENTER TO OWEN'S JOURNAL: FEMALE.

    We need some testosterone up in here, plz. *DYING*
    Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
    princessjessia
         		7:51a
    am is my drug of choice;
    Three hours ago an old character grabbed hold of my brain and I made the hold (yes, goodbye for the moment Hugo, maybe if I can be awesomely active with my four I'll still app him in a few weeks).

    Eight minutes ago I submitted the completed app. No, Louis is still not done. HE WILL BE THOUGH. I just want to be sure he isn't going to infringe on Cassie's niche in the game too badly because I think they are more than a bit alike and wah I am an anxious and fretful person.

    So, anyhow, I've potentially unleashed Owen Gibbon upon the world again. This is the character I'm actually embarrassed to be "seen with" and yet I'm playing him again. Craaaazy. It's not that he's going to be mean or violent or visibly purist or anything, he'll be a perfect gentleman and nice to everyone and protective of children and constantly sending little trinkets to the ladies that catch his attention, whether they're single or married. It's that he's such an ICKY PIECE OF WORK underneath it all AND I DON'T LIKE HIM AT ALL. I want to slap a warning sticker on him so characters don't get taken in by him, because otherwise it's likely a lot will because he just SUCKS PEOPLE IN. AND I JUST FLAIL.

    But, umm. Yes. Provided he's accepted, hide your females.
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