Love In The Asylum

Oh internets, once again I am back in the glorious ranks of the unemployed!

Not that this is in any way surprising, since I knew when I joined up that the firm just needed me for this one project, which was due on Friday last week - not that we finished it on Friday, Dudeboss being the kind of procrastinating engineer that he is, but we did our best. And they actually found several days worth of extra work for me to do after that, but finally yesterday we had to admit that there just wasn't enough to do to justify me coming in. They have my number in case any more crises come up like this one, but for now, I am Not Working.

I interviewed for this job about two days after I got back from California, so I never really got the time off I had hoped for between finishing school and starting working. So that's what I'm doing now! I think this job gave me enough padding, money-wise, that I can stand to wait at least a couple of extra days before I start job hunting in earnest next week.

And I have to admit, I do like this lazy free time thing. Today I baked bread and read pervy manga and watched Deathly Hallows Part 1 for the first time. And I've been making colourofsaying help me plot out ridiculous ideas for fanfics I will never write. Like the Wicked/FF7 fusion where Cloud is Elphaba, Zack is Glinda, and Sephiroth is Fiyero. Or the one where Zack is the inventor of the Super Shinra SOLDIER Special Duluxe Sandwich, and Cloud has permission to shoot anything that comes out of his fridge on sight. Or the one where Zuko, Cloud, and Martin Crieff are in a support group seminar for angsty, socially awkward failbenders where they do self-esteem exercises and learn how to accept hugs and eat cookies.

(Look, I spent three days at work proofing site-specific nuclear hazard safety guides with no livejournal and a lot of musical theater on my pandora station. This is the kind of thing my brain does when I treat it like that.)

And this weekend there shall be Deathly Hallows 2 and story time and birthday cake. :)

Now, waaaaaay long ago, I may or may not have mentioned an idea for a collaboration project between myself and Roy, spawned by a class project Al and I did once upon our senior year. Schedules, classes, and time zones being what they are, this plot rather died off for the last month or so while Roy and I got settled and tried to find time to talk at all, let alone about porn and other good things. But as of this weekend, we are /so/ on! We've worked out all the rules for writing this, and we shall probably start production sometime this week if everything goes well and we are lucky and she doesn't have her brains eaten by the Satanic Zombie Cult. So, for your perusal, the rules. *cue dramatic music*

Reasons Zack and Reno Are Never Allowed to Drink, As Per ShinRa Company Regulations 

a collaboration between masterofmidgets and Roy of No LJ

1. Each entry shall open with an Addendum to ShinRa Executive Order CXXVII (see title); for example, Addemdum # 7: Reno is never allowed near Rufus' closet and/or bathroom. These are taken to be elaborations and/or justifications for Executive Order CXXVII.
2. Each entry shall be at least 100 words, and from there on out, as long as it wishes to be or the writer can make it
3. There shall be no set structure for the entries: it can be told straight perspective, as an story/excuse to Sephiroth the next morning, as a confession to the arresting officer, as an anecdote offered up during another round of drinking, whatever, we do not care.
4. Pairings shall be as follows: Seph/Zack/Cloud and various combinations thereof (Seph/Zack, Zack/Cloud, Seph/Cloud, and what not), and Reno/basically everything that moves, but especially if it has a dick (ie Rufus/Reno, Tseng/Reno, Rude/Reno, Random Bar Patron/Reno, etc). 
5. Aeris and Zack shall have a relationship best described as "we're not dating anymore but that doesn't mean we can't be friends". In other words, at some point (hopefully before he entered into a threesome with 2 other guys), they realized they didn't belong together romantically, but he still meets with her often to talk and hang out, calls her when he needs someone to bail him out (when Seph has his cellphone off)/give him a place to hide, and when he thinks Cloud is in need of being mothered ridiculously, which is often, but no sex ever occurs.
6. Entries shall be posted here, on their respective writers' ff.net accounts, and on the FFVII Yaoi lj comm. LJ posts shall be made by masterofmidgets with credit given to Roy for her work, since she doesn't have an LJ and masterofmidgets does.
7. As pertains to the actual writing, for each set, Roy and masterofmidgets shall exchange lists of prompts/scenarios, and agree on a period of time in which entries must be written and posted. The number of prompts and the length of time to write shall be kept flexible in order to accommodate Schedules of Doom.

Well, that's it! Hopefully this will all end well, and not in flaming death and disaster.

Oh my god. I've been watching the Crisis Core trailers, and I want it I want it I want it!!!!!! I want to buy a playstation and learn how to not suck at RPGs just so that I can get this game and play it over and over again. It has ZACK!!!!!!! Have I mentioned that I love Zack? I love Zack paired with Cloud, I love Zack paired with Sephiroth, I love Zack as the gooey center of a Zackwich, with Cloud on the bottom and Sephiroth on top, I love Zack paired with Aerith and doing his best to hook up Cloud and Sephiroth together, and most especially I love Zack trying to warm Seph up, bring Cloud out of his shell, and cause as much collateral damage as humanly possible. Which in Zack's case is a lot. I just love Zack. And Crisis Core Zack looks...so exactly like what I thought Zack should be - the overexuberence, the energy, the getting in people's personal space and touching them and glomping them, the loudness, the obnoxious jokes, but still with this basic edge of being a real person. When he cries in the church in the trailer - wow. Just wow. And he and Cloud have a Moment. It's adorable.

I have a feeling I'm going to spend the rest of the night reading Zackfics. Somehow, I'm okay with that.

Oh, and I downloaded Last Order off Limewire, but I really don't think I can watch it - it looks great, but I just can't cope with seeing Zack die at the moment. It's bad enough just knowing that it happened, I don't need to go back and wallow in it.