kalpurna

Okay, first of all, I can't even TELL you how thrilled I am that you guys are being so fabulously cool and supportive and excited and SIGNING UP OMG for inuvikdotcom. Tomorrow we are throwing the prompts wide open for people to claim more than one, so if there's one in particular you have your eye on, you should go grab it right now! I just. Man. You are the best. I love DS fandom. ♥

Another thing (well, person) I love: my co-mod on this challenge, shoemaster. Let me share with you some excerpts from what Gmail tells me is our 81 email conversation planning this ridiculous thing.

shoemaster: (note to self delete off of desktop after you send this!)
kalpurna: (although, if you didn't delete it? How likely is it, really, that someone would realize it was about porn? They would probably just think you were contemplating a really drastic move.)
shoemaster: (I'm too pretty to realize that not everyone associates the NWT with sex.)

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kalpurna: OMG THE WEBSITE ISN'T LOADING FOR ME. *panics*
shoemaster: It's working for me so it must just hate you
kalpurna: I don't even know what to SAY to that! The Inuvik website hates me? But I love it so!
shoemaster: F5 it until it forgives you? Maybe it's just scared by the depth of your emotion. Give it time.
kalpurna: I guess I shouldn't rush things. I know we're young. But... I just feel READY for marriage, you know? I don't understand why it can't commit. We're in love! I thought we were past F5.
shoemaster: Maybe it's worried what the other websites will think. I know it loves you too, but peer pressure is hard to over come. Or your ISP is just jealous and trying to keep you apart. If that's the case .ca is going to be so mad at me for planting doubts in your mind. I don't want it to be mad at me!
kalpurna: I just... I have all these FEELINGS. You know?

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kalpurna: LA LA LA IT'S DONE! (that was my "it's done" song) I finished the header and icon, and FINALLY figured out how to upload that bitch to an unpaid account. And it's DONE. Go look at our pretty community!
shoemaster: OMG SO PRETTY. (Though I totally spent far too much time in the HP fandom. First thought was AVADA KEDAVRA!) Northern lights, dark mark, whatever. :D SHINY. Now we just have to get the rest of the prompts up and stuff.
kalpurna: oh NOES! I hope no one thinks I am trying to sponsor a Death Eater invasion of Canada. Although now that you have brought it up, I can see what you mean, and let me just say this: if I ever DO write an apocalyptic Voldemort in Inuvik DS/HP crossover, I can use that banner again! See, it is really killing two birds with one stone. EFFICIENT.
shoemaster: Yeah! Just add "Last Stand" underneath Inuvik and bam! Instant fic header. Though really, Voldemort vs. Fraser? I think Fraser would win. AND NOT JUST CAUSE HE'S PRETTIER
kalpurna: Fraser would KICK Voldemort's ASS. Because Voldemort? does not strike me as someone whose plans are airtight.
shoemaster: Nope doesn't even listen to the whole damn prophecy. Also, he's snake man. Cold blooded + arctic =/= good
kalpurna: good point! I love the image of Voldemort being all "NAGINI KILL" and Nagini being like "...urgh. Nap."
shoemaster: For serious. Either it'd be warm enough for them to be evil but then there'd be no night sky to do the wicked dark mark thing and Voldemort would never stop bitching about that or they'd be like instant torpidity. And Fraser would be all Lalalala under arrest for the violation of blah blippity blah. And Ray would want to drop him in the arctic ocean.
kalpurna: omg hart. I want this fic now! "You can't be properly evil if it's always LIGHT out. It lacks STYLE."
shoemaster: "There will be approximately 30 minutes of twilight in 45 days." "Fraser, don't help the magical sociopath." "Understood."
kalpurna: *dies laughing* And when it finally did get to be winter and Voldemort tried to cast a lovely Dark Mark, it would show up for about two minutes before the Aurora Borealis would completely outclass it.
shoemaster: And the voldemort would try to compete by having the dark mark change colors, too, but mostly that just made it look gay and the whole snake coming out of the mouth thing took on a whole different connotation.



WE AMUSE OURSELVES.

I've also been spending a lot of time scanning old family albums for my mom, which is kind of fun, although tiring. See, my mom's a professional photographer. So our family albums? Are, like, TOMES. Also, I had to lay down some ground rules, like NO NUDES OF PEOPLE I KNOW, and NO NUDES OF PEOPLE I MIGHT SOMEDAY MEET, and NO NUDES OF MY DAD, EVER. Anyway it's mostly fun, and the hours are flexible, and I have internet access, and she's paying me. So, there's that.

Re: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – this seems like it's going to be very, very slashy. I dunno. I could get behind that.