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3. Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
Yes, most of the time. Real-life crap gets sent to my personal LJ and story/fandom-related posts go to my story/fandom-related LJ. I've been at LJ so long that I can't - and don't want to - leave it completely.

4. What do you do online when you're not on DW?
I'm a student, so I spend a lot of time getting to school, being in school, doing school work, and then bitching about all three. When I'm not doing any of those, I watch movies, play video games, or read. now that it's spring I'm spending more time outside, either walking around our neighborhood or chilling in our tiny backyard.

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5. How about when you're not on the computer?
I spend a lot of time commuting, and while I probably could use those hours doing homework, I try to give myself a break from the computer. Also, despite using a small laptop, hauling a computer around does a number on my shoulder. On the train and subway I listen to music, read, or fiddle with my DS or PSP. I just finished Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard, which I loved, and am currently playing Dissidia, which I'm digging.

Like I said for #4, now that it's nice out, we spend much more time outside, either walking around or relaxing in our postage stamp of a yard. My favorite walk is up to the park and library; in Manhattan, I like wandering around Union Square and down to St. Mark's Place.

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renaming

Just changed from jaetion to jaebility here at DW. And changed my Twitter name from jaebility to sminkingofgin. Beatle fans should get the reference.

3d4dw drabble - final fantasy vii

Digging through what was left of Shinra's archives, she felt even more like a treasure hunter and a spy, only for herself again, and not the stupid Turks. Yuffie surfaced with armfuls of the weirdest, coolest stuff ever. Tseng wanted boring crap like maps and office receipts and personal reports from a hundred years ago back in the days of yore when everyone drove cars made of coconuts, but it wasn't like she was some gopher, so she put her headphones on and totally ignored him. Instead she pulled out these bizarre plastic records and big box of gray photographs where everyone was wearing hats and monocles, and a one-sided correspondence between some woman and the guy she was trying to convince to come back from his cabin in the woods on top of a mountain where he was building a submarine.

She brought the whole kit and caboodle to Tifa's Seventh Heaven and dumped it on the bar. "No materia," she told Tifa and Cloud before they could ask, "but today was only day one. I'm 'posed to be rummaging around all week. Which I actually might do because this stuff is awesome."

Tifa put down her glass and bent over the box. "And Tseng let you take all of this?"

"Hey," she said with an offended sniff, "I don't take orders from him. Just suggestions. Hey Denzel, check this shit out. This guy is riding a bike and he's totally naked."

"Yuffie." Cloud had a talent in making any word a threat. Even innocuous ones like "basket" or "toilet paper" or "dirty socks." But he bent over too, rifling through the papers and ephemera while his sort-of-adopted-son grinned at the photograph and then ran off with it to show Marlene. "What are these things?"

She gave him a shrug. "Stuff no one wanted, but no one wanted to get rid of, I guess. Beats the hell out of me. Hey, where do ya think I can get a monocle? Because they're sort of the greatest things ever. Oh and check these things out. They look like info-discs, right? But they're so huge. I'm thinking of using them as shurikens, whadda think."

Fannish 5

fannish5: 5 favorite/least favorite royal characters

1. Princess Zelda (The Legend of Zelda series) - Ever since Ocarina, she's been one of my favorite female characters. The princess-to-be-rescued trope usually annoys me, for obvious reasons, but the recent games have put a spin on the tired cliche, and Zelda becomes greater than just a locked-up, passive girl. She has strength and wisdom, and when she kicks ass she really kicks ass.

2. Prince Zuko (Avatar) - C'mon. The angst! The redemption! The awkwardness!

3. Princess Azula (Avatar) - The way her character was developed - I'm still amazed at how much awesome Azula is. For a children's show, hell for any show, it's a rare thing to find a powerful, ambitious, intelligent female character like Azula. Also she's a fascinating foil to her brother, and his rebirth and redemption makes her fall and failure all the more poignant.

4. Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda series) - He was so, so cool in Ocarina. The dark king who appears in the swirling sand of the wasteland, integrating himself into the royal court and then killing for the throne as a storm rages outside the castle walls. <3

5. Yuffie (Final Fantasy VII) - ...She's kinda a princess, right?