stevie and nando used to be a matched set too :(

Today's el Clásico: Barcelona 3-1 Real Madrid

A fairly accurate summary of my feelings: Well. Fuck everything about my life. Barca, despite you being 90% the Spanish NT of my heart, I STILL HATE YOU GDI STOP SCORING.

Here, have a picture of CriKá, because it makes me feel better:


(There are others where they are hugging, or linking arms, or ruffling hair, but I like the aesthetics of this one. :D For your edification, though, you should definitely go look at all the touching.)

( More football babbling. Very little actually about football. )

I forgot what I wanted to post here as life's been distracting. So here are some assorted updates:

1. Still in love with One Piece. Have rediscovered doujinshi and found some incredible scanlated ones (I will rec if you wish!). There are definite pros to getting into a big fandom and to shipping a mainstream pairing, negl. Am stupidly, happily giddy over it.

2. Been doing crosswords with a vengeance. TELL ME SOMEONE ELSE ENJOYS THEM AS MUCH AS I DO.

3. Externing (i.e., slaving away for free) with the state government for the next few months: it's pretty interesting stuff, but the full time hours can drag and are, on the whole, exhausting. I come home and want to do nothing but gorge on fic/books and sleep.

4. Reading hd_holidays and Agatha Christie (always! still!) and webcomics: I follow Oglaf (dirty magical fantasyland humor), Teahouse (yaoi-tastic brothel with visits from royalty), and just recently, from naninande's rec, Orange Marmalade, an adorable translated-from-Korean high school het romance featuring vampires that don't sparkle.

5. I challenge all of you to read Fox In Socks out loud. Just because it's a fun way to spend five minutes. (I actually own a hard copy of this book. I take it out occasionally and inflict it upon my friends with glee, as thyme_hawthorne can verify.) Don't get tongue-tied!

6. Writing sucks. Pulling out hair and whining endlessly is part of my writing process, okay?