Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Cassie A.'s LiveJournal:

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Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
8:27 am	( notagain_again ) ( 100 Fandoms ) ( A to Z prompts ) ( story_lottery ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
1:17 am	Ick, a bit of dirt got caught under my contact today and scratched my eye, and in one of those bizarre ways that different parts of your body can interact with each other my eye being hurt has made my nose run like a faucet. It's seriously more annoying to me than my hurt eye. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 11th, 2012
12:14 am	words words words Hey, gamers on my friends list! If you've never played the most excellent game Psychonauts before, I just thought I'd drop a heads up that the PC version is currently only $3.99 through Amazon right now. The short version of the plot is that you play as a young psychic who's run away from home to sneak into a summer camp where psychic children are taught to use their powers, and once he's caught he only has until his dad comes to pick him up to learn as much as he can. Most of the levels take place inside the minds of the various counselors and other people, and can get incredibly inventive since any kind of realism can be gleefully thrown aside for anything within the bounds of what the character who's mind you're exploring might have imagined up. Also, it's very funny and has some awesome characters. And it rewards you for dawdling around instead of going straight to your next task with little character moments building up the lesser NPCs so they feel more like full characters in their own rights. This is my favorite game in the world, so I definitely recommend giving it a shot if you've never touched it before! How much do I love it? When I saw that it had gone up on Steam I bought it, even though I didn't know if my computer could run it, just because I wanted Double-Fine to have that money for making a game I loved so much. Then this year when I finally got a 360 and (even later) a wireless adapter for it I paid for it again through them, even though I obviously already have a console version, for the exact same reason. So, yeah, when it comes to Psychonauts I basically love it so much that I turn into this. (As do a lot of other people, considering the number of folks who seemed to pledge to their Kickstarter hoping that maybe, somehow, that'd lead to a sequel someday.) Just to share, this is the story about the game that first convinced me that it had to be something special and made me buy it years back: ( but this post ends up long, so let's cut that ) To give you more of an idea if you might like it, here's the opening cutscene to give you a taste of it, and here's a fanmade trailer which has kind of ridiculously overwrought music for a humor game but doesn't spoil the plot like the official trailer I found does. And, just for fun, Inceptionauts. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
12:13 am	Huh, AO3 just gave away who my Not Primetime recipient is gonna be, provided that mods don't shuffle my match around while they're trying to find fits for everyone before the assignments actually go out. I was just posting a new work and it had the Open Assignments box with a match in it. Never had that happen before! Unfortunately it doesn't give me any type of head start on writing, since I still don't know what their request was (though I can at least guess which fandom I matched on based on their profile). (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
12:19 am	I don't know if anyone reading this follows the Homestuck fandom (last year's team A♥E are you still following your friends pages?) but if you have any interest this year's shipping olympics just opened for sign-ups! I had loads of fun with the challenge last year and have been looking forward to it starting back up for months now! It's a contest where you make fanworks of any type for your favorite pairing to earn points, but the focus is less on winning for your team than on having loads of new fanwork to enjoy across all of them (and on stretching your own limits during the optional bonus rounds, which do things like give you certain types of mediums to work in and make you focus on different pairings). (Comment on this)
Friday, May 4th, 2012
8:58 pm	JEM just got added to Netflix's watch instantly service. I am so happy. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
10:25 pm	Pimping a couple of fic exchanges that are in sign-ups or nominations right now that I'm looking forward to and y'all might enjoy too: Not Primetime (npt_admin) is for fandoms that are too large for the yuletide rare fandom exchange but which are still small enough or slow enough that you still feel like you can't find enough. It's in the sign-up stages so you can no longer nominate new fandoms or characters, but you can check over the tag set to see if there's anything you'd want to request/offer. Even more exciting for me, as a huge rare-pairing shipper, is The Rare Ship Swap (shipswap), which is like Yuletide except for rare pairings. And that one is open for nominations, so if you're like me and spend a depressing amount of time searching for fic for pairings that just doesn't seem to exist you can add them in! (Or check if it's already there over here) (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
1:41 am	[FICLET]Bed Head, Lulu/Rikku, Final Fantasy X Title: Bed Head Fandom: Final Fantasy X Pairing: Lulu/Rikku Rating: G Notes: Written for the No True Pair challenge for the prompt "morning routine" ( Lulu woke, as she often had in recent days, to slender fingers carding through her hair ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
9:14 pm	Somehow in all these years I never ran into the fact that they designed a full set of Gil coins for Spira. Aw, 100 gil has a chocobo on it. And suddenly I feel so very sorry for Tidus, Yuna, and co for how much money I usually have them carting around by the end of the game. That's gotta suck in a world without paper currency. The strange things you run into while anally comparing characters hair colors for a throw-away line in a ficlet. (Results of this research: the character whose hair color is closest to Lulu's? Seymour's mom, oddly enough. Everyone else with really dark hair tends to be a touch browner or greyer than true black.) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
3:37 am	It's funny how over time you can start to care less about ficcing weird things. A while back, when I first discovered disney_kink, I wrote a Boo/Sulley (from Monsters Inc.) story for someone, and at the time I was all "Man, I am never ever ever admitting that I wrote an even slightly erotic story featuring someone who was a toddler in canon, even if she is aged-up." Though shipping (aged-up unless it's very innocent) young characters is something I usually don't mind, and major age-gaps are one of my kinks, apparently I draw a line when "young"="all-but preverbal" Now, about a year-and-a-half later, I reread it on a whim since I couldn't remember the story at all and suddenly "Huh, I actually like this enough not to feel horribly embarrassed. It needs a couple of typos fixed, but... *posts on AO3*" (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 18th, 2012
10:56 pm	I've never been the type of person to get headaches from the cameras in video games before, but I've finally gotten FFXIII (just a few years late *g*) and my god is it giving me a migraine. I think it's just the specific area Snow's in right now (I'm only in the second chapter, so he's in the house of stairs place, and argh the way the camera keeps bobbing up and down when he's on stairways and I need to keep twisting it one-eighty to go back around sidepaths to check for chests which then involve more bobbing...) because my brain only starts pounding when he's on screen, so hopefully I won't have to put up with this for long, because otherwise I might seriously need to return the game because it's too painful for me to play and just watch all the cutscenes on Youtube to get the plot. (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
4:11 pm	Man, I feel like shit today which sucks. I had to call in to work today which sucks even worse; I was really hoping I wouldn't have to do that until I'd been around a lot longer than a month and a half, so it would be clear I'm not the type of person who calls in over every little thing. What's especially annoying is that the problem is I've managed to food poison myself and I know what I ate to do it and I know I should have known better. Blargh. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 6th, 2012
5:25 pm	I usually don't post about amvs I make here (actually, I don't think I ever have), but Premiere gave me so much trouble with this one that I decided "Grr, I deserve to pimp this around a little after the trouble I had with it." So! I made Homestuck AMV to the song Dead Hearts by Stars. Enjoy, if you think you might! (Even if you don't know Homestuck, you might want to check it out just for the song if you've never heard it before; it's a pretty one.) (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
5:09 pm	Man, I have such a craving for no-bakes, but I'm out of butter and there's no way in hell that I'm braving a store on Christmas Eve. Maybe I'll just make them without and accept the fact that the end product will be oaty chocolate and peanut buttery mush. The taste should still be pretty much the same, it just won't firm up into cookies as it cools without the butter. (Too bad I also don't have any chocolate chips or baking chocolate, or I could work around the problem a little by leaving out some of the cocoa powder and melting in some of them to harden up when it chills. (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
4:09 pm	I've got both my holiday exchange gift stories written and posted, yay! Thank goodness I got it done now, because I only have one other day off before their due dates and wouldn't have looked forward to trying to cram in time to finish them off. *g* Their both shorter than I wanted, but that's how it goes when you're pushing up on a deadline, alas. Now that I know there's no way I'll end up defaulting I might try to flesh them out a bit more and post longer versions before the deadline if I can, but I'd kind of rather work on yuletide treats so that might not happen, at least for my yuletide fic. The other isn't revealed until after Christmas, so I might manage that one. *g* (Comment on this)
Friday, December 9th, 2011
3:53 pm	Yay, I found a job in the area I moved to! It's just cashiering at a hardware store, but in this economy anything that puts some money in the bank is fine by me. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
3:47 am	I just uploaded a bunch of my old Yuletide stories into AO3, but I didn't notice until I was almost done that when you import them it automatically fills in the name of the recipient. Not such a big deal, except that the people who have those names there aren't necessarily the same people who had them in the original Yuletide archive. I hope I'm not going to disappoint anybody who notices they have a gift they weren't expecting listed for their account only to find it's for some fandom they've never heard of. (Especially if what they find is my bizarre noir black comedy commercial cereal mascot slashy murder thingy. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would side-eye me pretty hard for that one! Luckily the recipient's name for that one is unique enough that it's probably the right person.) (Comment on this)
1:36 am	Man, sometimes I wish I could go back in time and choose a different ficcing pseudonym for myself. I don't actually know what I'd want to pick--I like being Person! There's something about having a name that doesn't tell you a thing about me until you sit down and read one of my stories that appeals to me--but damn does having such a generic name make it difficult to self-google if I want to see if I can find any recs for any of my stories. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
3:31 am	Thanksgiving memories Today is going to be the first time I've spent Thanksgiving with my extended family since 2008, which was a little surprising to realize. In 2009 I spent it in the hospital with my mom, then last year my dad came up here (he usually lives in Kentucky, and my brothers and I are in Michigan) to spent time with us since Mom died and it would have been awfully awkward to have him come to dinner with mom's family so I just stayed home and made a full Thanksgiving dinner for the four of us. I remember that in 2008 I was asked to make dessert for everyone, and I wanted to make something special so I stayed up all night trying to make this fancy thing that just went completely wrong on every step after the first. It ended up tasting delicious, but looked incredibly ugly. I was so sleep deprived and stressed out about everything that could go wrong going wrong (while still resulting in an edible product) that when my mom came before we head up to the family's and I showed it to her I ended bursting into tears. I think that's the last time she ever really hugged me; I have pretty major touch issues, and while I can be the one giving a hug I usually get tense and twitchy if someone else initiates one and she understood that. That time was one of the rare times when it did just give me comfort instead of making me horribly uncomfortable; I let her keep hugging me for a few minutes, and after I calmed down she told me that (along with the fact that I was crying in front of her in the first place, I also don't generally let people see me cry) let her know just how upset I had to be. Now it's a happy memory, in spite of what a wreck sleep deprivation had turned me into, but the type of happy that makes me get all teary-eyed and wibbly for a few minutes when I think about it these days. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
6:41 pm	I'm so happy that what looks like it'll be Yuletide's major fandom this year is one I actually watch and am interested in. Most years the big fandom is something I don't know a thing about, so I'll see the big number of stories in it and all the recs being left for them and feel a little sad that I'm missing out. I'm even happier that it's a femslash request heavy fandom. That, like, never happens! (Comment on this)