Life is a Cabaret

I want to say I'll never stay away from the internet for four days again, because skip=600 is sorta ridiculous (especially when I deliberately keep my flist smallish), except that it was rather relaxing. :p I kept thinking about all the fic I was missing, but getting away from the discussion was great.

This is sorta funny, because I pretty obviously love metaing about things, but I think I've hit saturation point. On other people's meta, at least, which I normally find interesting. But I think Journey's End was just so controversial that it's exhausting. I might only read people I already know agree with me, which feels a bit limiting, but is less likely to make me feel depressed and/or insulted.

I hope to get to comments soon, but thinking of replying to a bunch of them just still feels tiring, so it might take me a bit longer.

A few things about my trip:

--Zion National Park is gorgeous. I totally regret forgetting to bring a camera to Vegas, because I would have liked to take pictures. It was just really awesome, and the kind of place that could actually make me appreciate deserts. :D

--It stormed both days we wanted to spend at the pool. That was not fair. :p

--The best deterrent to drinking is actually getting drunk. I've never been drunk before, so that was a bit of an experience--and I'm definitely glad to know my limits (it was either the seventh or the eighth glass of wine, though I had nine total XD). Being drunk was fun when I was stationary and talking to my friend and vaguely watching the movie we'd put on, but it was not fun when I had to stand up and go to bed, since remaining upright in the shower was sort of an adventure, and my head kept spinning once I finally collapsed into bed. No hangover the next morning, though, but I'm not sure if I just didn't drink enough for one, because I didn't really drink much water that night.

So, my first time drunk wasn't bad (definitely not the horror story my friend had), but it did put me off drinking enough to get drunk again. I'm not going to complain. :p

In writing/DW news, I did manage to start one of the fics I was talking about, though I'm sorta iffy on chapter length. I like long chapters--with Feet on the Ground and Burnt by the Sun, the average is about 5000 words, which I think is just right, because I love being able to sink my teeth into a chapter, rather than barely beginning to read it before it's over. I am probably one of the few people who will never complain about chapters in excess of 20,000 words, because in terms of reading, I seriously think the longer the better. And in terms of writing, I dislike the idea of a chapter less than at least 3000 words. For this particular fic, though, I'm not sure how long I can stretch the chapters before they just feel padded, since they seem to not be ending up very long, but are still discrete.

So, have a poll. I don't think this will affect chapter length in my story, but I'm curious.

[Poll #1225463]

In other fic-writing news, this morning I got this awesome idea for a fic that's Eight/Rose and Nine/Rose, which happies me. I have a rather irrational love for Eight/Rose, but there's sadly not that much of it around. And it's nice to have an idea for Nine/Rose, since in canon I have difficulty thinking of a place to insert anything actually happening between them. XD But this fic is decidedly AU, which neatly takes care of that.

And this is not so much fic, but ( my new spoilery OT3 )

Now I'm going to shut up and go watch more Six. XD

remix_redux is open! The fic of mine that was remixed was a Star Wars fic, "The Choices We Make", which I was rather pleased to see--I did think that fic very remixable, but I was also glad that Mysterious Remixer chose a Star Wars story, and not Harry Potter, since wow, those fics are getting old, and I'm still more interested in SW than HP. The remix itself was both interesting and not what I was expecting, which I am also pleased with. I liked the surprise.

As for my own remixes, I want very much to talk about both of them, but I have to wait another week. But I do think that both of them have me written all over them, so I'd be interested to see what people would guess. Therefore, have a poll! People who guess right will get...ummm, something. :p (Unless you betad for it. Then you're cheating. *g*)

[Poll #971492]

I'm eventually going to have a big recs post when I finish working my way through everything. I do wish I knew more about Buffy and Doctor Who, though--some of the fics in those fandoms are sounding really good.