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... ALMOST BUT BASICALLY YES RIGHT NOW!

Allow this post to be your personal invitation to SPARKTOBER 2014! I am waaay late coming to the prep game here but I'm sure we can make it happen together, right? RIGHT? THE PEOPLE'S SPARKTOBER.

Also: THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTIS SPARKTOBER!

How can you NOT enjoy this auspicious occasion??

Things you can do right now YES RIGHT NOW!:

1. PICK A DAY FOR A THING-A-DAY! Be sure to read the comments for days that have been claimed, since more people have signed up since lyssie awesomely posted the request post!

2. SIGN UP FOR SPARKTOBER BINGO 2014! There have been literally no changes since Sparktober Bingo 2013 but the point is: forget all the bingo cards you never finished and START FRESH! it will be DIFFERENT THIS TIME! (or that is what I am telling myself.)

3. Follow the Sparktober tumblr!! This is BRAND NEW this year, and the exciting plan is to cross-post everything in daily roundup format and/or a thing a time depending on levels of laziness and me freaking out and basically because this way we are pretty much GUARANTEED new content every day because tumblr is nothing except people screencapping shows that are long off the air and freaking out about it and this is RELEVANT TO OUR INTERESTS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.

4. Volunteer! Are you tumblr-savvy and want to help with cross-posting? Are you excited and have ideas for an activity or event? Have MS Paint and want to hack together some Sparktober promotional images? Please! No, really, PLEASE.

In personal non-Sparktober news, it has been a year plus one day since R's successful lung transplant, it has been exactly a year since I started my massively time/brain-intensive job, my mom is doing mostly ok and still being shot up with chemo poison all the time, and I am in a bath right now which is pretty great. YAY. SPARKTOBER TIME!

Title: The Long Road Home
Summary: The O’Briens go back to Earth, but they left some things behind.
Pairings: Miles/Keiko(/Kira-ish)
There was a “fix-it” challenge for the DS9 tumblzine. I missed the deadline but I wrote a thing!


( The Long Road Home )

I'm obviously not going to be attempting nano because that would be crazy, but should I decide in the next few hours to fail gloriously in a plan-free actual-plot-not-just-breakfast fan fictional sort of way now or ever:

What would have been a super awesome Star Trek episode? I'm not asking you to plot a story for me (unless you want to?), but seriously, what would have been a TV guide synopsis you'd have loved to see? (Any crew any series, whateva's your fave of the moment, though I have never written classic Trek before so that might be scary and also I have no 'ships except Kirk/Enterprise.)

p.s. I just got SAD when I saw the number 1,667 today and realized it would mean nothing to me this yeeeeear.

50–60 hours a week is a lot of hours to be using my brain that hard.

I hope people have been having fun at sparktober without me?? If not I really hope people will forgive me and come back next year? Seriously I MISSED ALMOST ALL OF SPARKTOBER IT'S NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT FAIR. WAAAAAH.

But since that's my only complaint in life (job is still AWESOME) I think I'm doing pretty well.

GUYS I PHOTOSHOPPED:



sparktober ♥ sparktober ♥ sparktober ♥ sparktober ♥ sparktober

Sign-up post here!
Bingo card post here!

sparktober ♥ sparktober ♥ sparktober ♥ sparktober ♥ sparktober

Real life has been a bit frustrating lately, but the important things are: I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN, and it's about to be SPARKTOBER!

havocthecat and I are going to great lengths to justify yarn purchases to throw a scarf exchange for this winter/southern-hemisphere-summer! Knitting, crocheting, sewing, weaving, other soft wearable crafts are all welcome! We don't have the format totally worked out yet, but you'll get to request your fave colors and declare your local weather for wintry warm things or decorative cool things.

(We're probably going to outlaw Red Heart.)

I'm stupidly excited about this. Who's interested? :)

Down-side: Because of weird hidden library errors, it just took me 5 hours to print my resume to PDF.

Up-side: I can now debug all kinds of shit on my mac using command-line programming shenanigans on the Terminal app I did not previously know existed.

Which is good, because at about hour 2 I felt like my entire resume was a lie. (I HAVE NO COMPUTER SKILLS AND CANNOT TROUBLESHOOT OR SOLVE PROBLEMS CREATIVELY AND SO ALL THAT IS LEFT IS FILING.)

Conclusion: I'm pretty sure 90% of my admin superpowers are just effective googling skills.

Thanks to anr's tech brilliance... Star Trek University is li-iiiiive!

(Well, the intro post is! More content coming soon!)

Welcome to Star Trek University: one Trekkie’s quest to learn about the art, music, literature, history and science referenced in Star Trek!*


*Note: Due to difficulty of obtaining source material, historical and cultural references from alternate universes, the future, and planets other than Earth may not be included.

Check it out at www.startrekuniversity.com/blog/!

(anr also set up an lj feed! I have no idea how it works! It's probably pulling all my half-edited posts every time I change my mind! But that's my problem. For you, it's right here: startrekuni.)

First Star Trek episode that pops into your head. Any series. Go!

(If after that you also want to tell me about your fave episodes or other random Trek thoughts, that's always welcome at this journal. Always!)

Edit: Why, in the wild ocean of the internet, can't I find an all-series random episode generator for Star Trek? I can't possibly be the only person who wants this.