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At some point when I was in grad school I acquired a book that gave me the following advice: In order to write a story worth reading, you must put your protagonist up a tree and throw rocks at him repeatedly. (in the book, context clues told you that rocks are a metaphor for obstacles, here we will use a parenthetical)

I have generally been more the kind of girl who puts her protagonist up a tree and throws the boys of his dreams at him and watches them make out. I like that method. It makes me happy. But this last week I've been writing a story where I cannot seem to stop throwing rocks at my protagonist. It also makes me happy (so happy, omg it's so much fun this story), but it means that I've hit 12K and my protagonist has yet to utter so much as a single word to the boy of his dreams. Apparently what the advice-giver dude meant was If you want to accidentally write a novel when you meant to write a PWP...

I was going to finally get to the whole speaking point this morning, but a rock was thrown at me, in the form of THIS VIDEO IN WHICH THE BOYS FROM MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE DRESS UP IN SNOW SUITS, JUMP AROUND, AND SING ABOUT SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES HOW EVERY SNOWFLAKE IS DIFFERENT

See???

Yo Gabba Gabba, I appreciate you. You bring me this.

Today I have found much to delight me on the internetz, and so I thought I should share some of it.

1. dauntdraws drew me more Sam and Dean ponies!!! I am very excited about this for many reasons. Not least because they are for MEEEEEEEEEEE and that is always fun :D But also, I LOVE LOVE LOVE SPN Ponies. Love them. And these ones make me do that thing where you grin so hard your shoulders go up around your ears and your head tilts and your neck and nose scrunch up and you look ridiculous, but you don't care because you are happy and something is SOCUTEOMG.

2. ash48 and maichan808 finished their amazing new vid and it really is AMAZING. We have some RIDICULOUSLY talented people in the SPN fandom.

3. The teamcockbert community. IDEK. It's hilarious, and kind of jaw-dropping in that way that Adam Lambert manages so effortlessly. Mostly this post has been getting my attention. It's just a massive huge post that lists a whole bunch of guys one might pair Adam with, with a picture and then information about his occupation and whether or not he's actually met Adam in the flesh as it were. I just spent the last hour looking through it. In the George Clooney entry there is a link to fic, and that is awesome, too. Also awesome, this post which has pictures of men in kilts and some kilt sex fic. om nom nom. I'm going to guess that pretty much everyone on my flist who might care that this comm exists already knows that this comm exists, but just in case...

4. Sugar bunnies! Thank you, my lovelies! ♥♥