Absolutely fabulous, darling!

I think I may go and look for some chocolate now....

Chocolate makes everything (except diabetes) better!

I'm glad to hear your knee's better off than you'd expected. I wish your hands were feeling better, too, though. :(

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Thanks H *hugs* I gave up on finding chocolate and am now watching Live Shit Seattle which is actually better than chocolate! So good to see the Mighty Het again :D

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Mmmm Live Shit Seattle. Definitely my favorite-ever Metallica concert to watch. (Granted the boys are smokin' in Cunning Stunts, but Seattle has ZERO Black Album songs. *happy sigh*)

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I like the Black Album, but I'm really enjoying the longer more inticrate songs from the previous albums. More to the point, James looks awesome, and despite the half-shaven head, Jason is also looking pretty good... and best of all, my bunnies are starting to wake up!

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Woohoo! I'm probably going to watch some of the Iron Maiden DVD I bought here in a bit and see if any bunnies get stirred up around here.

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Go, bunnies, go! ;)

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Yay for bunnies! ::cheering on the plot bunnies::

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Alas, the bunnies went back to sleep. Maybe they've been overworked recently?

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Awwww.

Oh well... they will bounce back at some point I know! ;)

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*Hugs*

Chocolate and Live Shit Seattle is as good as it gets :D

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The only thing that would have improved the afternoon, would have been James and Jason sharing a bloody kiss on stage. Yum!

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LOL! Yes! (you are so corrupted :D)

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I know :D Isn't it wonderful?

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Glad to hear your knee is not as bad as you dreaded. I hope your hands will be better soon--rather leave those heavy books lying around than hurting your hands, darling.

Chocolate is a very much underestimated anti-depressant. :D

*huggles Ang*

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Thanks Brigitte. I have to admit that my hands are feeling much better tonight. Still not normal, but they don't have that horrible tight, swollen feeling to them anymore. *huggles back*

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I'm glad your knee isn't as bad as you feared, but I wish your hands were better.

And I love Midsummer Madness, so I hope you do get it done and sent in :)

Best wishes for a great weekend...and much chocolate to you.

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Thanks Keli! I'm resisting the urge to rewrite huge tracts of it at the moment.... James has morphed into Greg, a stressed-out office worker; its really quite odd to read! Hope you have a great weekend too!

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It's funny who the guys become when you turn fanfics into original fics. Jerry Cantrell once became a concierge at a fancy hotel. lol

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Hee! I can just imagine Jer trying to put up with irritating guests :D Do you try and write more of a back-story when you convert fanfics into original fics? I can't decide whether it stands well enough on its own :( I'm currently cringing at how much I've over-used James' (well, Greg's) name.

Must resist the urge to turn it into first person from the current third person limited viewpoint....

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Hmm. Let me think....

No, not really. In the formerlyJerry one, I just worked in his job a teeny bit, whereas when it was fanfic I didn't mention his job at all:

An image floated into his mind of [Jerry] at work--concierge at one of the top hotels in the city, dressed in a crisp suit and tie, the glint of steel just hidden beneath the collar of his shirt. Or would it be? Hundreds of people coming and going from the hotel...they might all see it. As he thought back to pulling [Jerry]'s tie loose earlier this evening, to popping the first button on his shirt free, he encircled [Jerry]'s neck with his fingers. No, the ring would rest lower than the top of his collar. None of those people would know he was wearing it. But still. He'd know. And whenever Mark dressed more casually--at the grocery store, the gym, the lake--well, then everyone would know.

In "Roughing It", I.... I don't think I made any mention about who "Scott" is or what he does. In the sequel I was working on, I did have to give him an occupation and some backstory so I could explain formerlyKirk and formerlyJason in relation to him, as well as how he can afford to take a month or so out of his life and pay for what would obviously be a very expensive unique vacation. But in "Roughing It", I guess his job just didn't come up; at no point was he lying there chained to a radiator or whatever thinking, "And to think, in my real life, I'm a" whatever I ended up making him.

During the brief period when I was trying to make "Fuse" original fic, I just put them all into a made-up band, so I had to make up some backstory about how formerlyJason ended up in the band, and I changed their instruments around, and I changed Kirk and Lars, personality-wise, especially in the second part I was writing to "Fuse."

And with "This Night is Gonna Last Forever", it was all AU to begin with so really all I had to do was change the names.

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Jerry in a collar? I really, really want to read that one now. It isn't ringing any bells though. Thanks for that, H - it really helped. I'm still mildly shocked at how well James has translated into being Greg; I hope it doesn't mean that it was a weak characterisation!

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