the deep moans round with many voices

Remix reveal day! I wrote SPNstuck (And Sit Them Down for Thanksgiving Dinner) for maypop.

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SPNstuck (And Sit Them Down for Thanksgiving Dinner) (2126 words)
Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Roxy Lalonde, Dave Strider, Dirk Strider, Rose Lalonde, Kanaya Maryam, Karkat Vantas, Sollux Captor, Feferi Peixes, Terezi Pyrope
Additional Tags: Remix, Alternate Universe - Supernatural (TV) Fusion, Alternate Universe - No Sburb/Sgrub Sessions, Thanksgiving Dinner, Alternate Universe - Angels & Demons, Family Drama, Roxy Lalonde Is So Done, Rose Lalonde Gets All The Girls, Background Relationships, Background Poly, Strilondes

Summary: You still aren't entirely sure how your family got designated as hosts for the great angel/demon peace summit of 2018. The demons are obviously in it for the chaos, flames and shouting that might as well be your family's trademark. The angels make much less sense. Like, seriously, what kind of celestial morons think you and your siblings are any kind of diplomatic? And why pick Thanksgiving dinner when none of them need to eat in the first place? It's completely absurd and will only end in tears.

(Oddly, the day winds up being the most successful infernal/celestial summit anyone can ever remember.)

[Remixed from SPNstuck, by maypop]

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As maypop says, Per tumblr user isozyme: "So the theory of supernaturalstuck is to take SPN, retain all the good setting shit, scoop out all the tragic manpain, and fill the void with tragic Rose Lalonde pain. In practice it is about how hot Rose is with really short hair and a lot of magic tattoos, and making fun of Sollux's butt, and what happens when you give all eight Strider-Lalondes a lot of weapons and extra battle trauma and sit them down for Thanksgiving dinner."

I went with four Strilondes rather than eight, but otherwise, yeah, that's the basic plan for this fic. :)

( further thoughts )

College stuff: I'm a day ahead on my Spanish exercises for the moment, which is good, and I have done this week's two quizzes. I have also done this week's reading, discussion, and quiz for my Government class, but Prof. R just posted a new video link that I need to watch tomorrow. Homework is like laundry or dishes; new stuff piles up as fast as you clear out the old.

I also need to email Prof. G and Prof. R and ask them to fill out a progress evaluation that I can forward to my advisor, with whom I will finally have a phone appointment on Tuesday the 18th.

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Not the IRS stuff: I did the instructor/course evaluations for my two online classes, but I still haven't had a chance to do the practice exercises or the exams. I'm hoping that if I leave NJ early enough on Wednesday, I will be able to get back to Ithaca before the valley office closes and finish at least one of those classes. If not, well, there's always the next week.

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Rental Office stuff: We are deep in the throes of renewals and switches, and prepping for opening day on Thursday. I could have gotten some overtime Tuesday afternoon, but alas, I will be in NJ so that is not an option. I'm supposed to clock in by 8:30am on Thursday, so we can open promptly at 9am or even a little before.

I also need to deposit my bonus checks (full building, full parking, in-lieu-of-your-annual-raise-since-you-already-got-that-in-June) tomorrow morning before I leave town.

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Family and Friends: I am driving down to NJ tomorrow morning because the USPS only does mail stops for 30 days, and my parents' vacation is scheduled to run more like 40 days. So they've un-stopped the mail for tomorrow, and will re-stop it on Wednesday or Thursday. In the meantime, I get to sort through the backlog and package anything important to send on to Minnesota. (I also get to take shameless advantage of their washer and dryer, mwahahahaha!)

Susan and I have evening plans which start with dinner at a local sushi place and may then progress to bowling if we feel so inspired, since the bowling alley is practically next door to the restaurant. If we do not feel so inspired, well, there's always Netflix. *wry*

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Health stuff: I continued to feel kind of shaky and unsettled through the night and morning, with occasional bouts of disregulated internal temperature, but the ondansetron kept it to merely rumbles and gurgles and I hit the aches and fever/chills with ibuprofen and acetaminophen, respectively, so that was all right. I'm still heading to bed quite soon, since I remain very tired and would like to not fall asleep on the highway tomorrow.

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Writing stuff: I finished and posted my remix yesterday. I want to go back and edit it a bit more, but it's a perfectly functional story as it stands, so whatever. Now I get to refocus back onto the hopelessly shapeless mess that is theoretically my NFE fic. *sigh* I know I have the bones of a good story in there somewhere. It's just a question of finding the right spot to excavate.

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Miscellaneous: It has been raining. all. goddamn. day. On the one hand, the sound of rain on leaves and roofs is very soothing. On the other hand, ye gods and little fishes, could the sky let up for a minute and let us breathe?!

Also, after work today I detoured before heading home and picked up another Great Courses CD set from the library. It's not one of the ones I really truly most deeply wanted to listen to, but those were either checked out or at other libraries and would not have arrived in Ithaca in time for my trip tomorrow. So after I finish my overview of Chinese history, it's on to the Italian Renaissance, instead of the history of food or analyses of ancient battles. *hands* Maybe I will have time to get one of those other options for my travels at Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.

Things and stuff:

1. I bought a bus ticket to NJ today, which I will use on Tuesday the 14th. The plan is to go out for dinner and whatever with my friend Susan (as a slightly belated birthday thing -- her birthday, not mine), then breakfast or lunch with my parents on Wednesday, and then I return to Ithaca with the family's spare Camry in my care until 2019. I have also acquired a new set of Great Courses CDs in preparation for the drive. :)

2. I dropped off the rest of my church recycling sale donations, which is a nice thing to check off my to-do list.

3. I finished the beta-read I'd promised the_rck, which is another nice thing to check off my to-do list. :) (The story is another creepy-fascinating Sky High AU installment. If you like that sort of thing, you will like it a lot!)

4. I bought two five-pair-packs of sterling silver fish-hook earring hooks online last week, which arrived on Saturday. You see, I am hypersensitive to trace metals in earrings, to the point where I often have allergic reactions to surgical steel or titanium earring hooks even though they're supposedly hypoallergenic. Apparently my ears can still sense traces of nickel or whatever, and I get sore, red ears for several days after wearing some of my favorite earrings. This is annoying, and it finally occurred to me that it's also completely fixable. So I am fixing it, one pair of earrings at a time -- with the help of some fingernail scissors, a smallish set of needle-nose pliers, and a bunch of determination.

5. I wanted to get a haircut on Saturday but my hair place was tragically closed. I need to check tomorrow to see if they're just on vacation or if I need to find a new hair place. (I do not want to find a new hair place. I like my hair guy. ...Fortunately, having short hair means I can go to barber shops rather than salons, and they are so much cheaper.)

6. My fall Spanish professor STILL has not posted her textbook list online. She is also unreachable via email; every time I've tried, I get a "this email address doesn't exist" error message. *headdesk* I am going to call the TC3 advising department tomorrow to ask them what's going on and whether I need to switch into a different class, because this is getting worrisome.

7. New Hire called out on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, but she did show up on Saturday and the absence was due to her child being sick, so I am still moderately confident that she's going to work out. I'm not entirely sure why she wants the job -- she lives over half an hour away in non-rush-hour traffic, the hours are weird, and it's part-time so there aren't any benefits -- but hey, her choice. (I want her to work out so badly, you have no idea.)

8. I have my Remix Revival assignment and my Narnia Fic Exchange assignment. I know what I'm doing for the first; I just need to hash out a few details and then sit down to write. It shouldn't take too long since it's not terribly lengthy or involved.

I am less certain of the NFE assignment. I like the request! I even have three workable options off the top of my head. But all three would be relatively long and complicated, and require a bunch of background outlining and worldbuilding, and while August is my good writing month (no classes for two and a half weeks, yay!), I don't know that I have enough time. But I do want to write all three of those stories -- they are all things I have at least tangentially mentioned before, and in two cases written some exploratory snippets that I then set aside for later -- and the only shorter things I can think of that fit the prompt are things I have already written. (And now that I say this, I have thought of a fourth story option... which again is long and complicated and requires intensive background work. *sigh*) So... dilemma!

I guess I will poke at the options some more tomorrow, and try to get the Remix assignment out of the way so I will have more mental time and space to devote to whatever NFE fic I end up deciding upon.