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I'm a very novice PHP programmer. Let me just say that up front. But I picked up a new trick today in pursuit of a work project, and informed my boss that whatever else happened, it made my day 'sparkles and badass' to be able to tell our coworker 'yes, and here's the test!' instead of 'uh, I have no idea...', and all it took was a half hour of internet research and a little trial and error. :)

In other news: I am 18,600 words into a mid-season 3 Falling Skies canon divergence story that seems headed in a distinctly Tom Mason/John Pope direction. Plus, you know, a garnish of Mason Family Love including Dan Weaver and Maggie. I am not quite to the Tom/Anne fallout part yet-- not going to fridge her, I swear, despite being peeved with her role that season-- as the story seems liable to go another 10K or so words minimum before all my metacommentary on Season 3 is sufficiently vented. Don't ask me where it came from; except maybe that I rewatched all 30 episodes last week in prep for the new season, and got clubbed across the face with "BUT IF THEY HAD ONLY...."

Back to "Never Look Back" next week, I swear. I know just what Buffy's up to in that chapter. But Tom and Pope really want their say first, and I don't argue with steamrolling plot bunnies this large. And to give you an idea of just how seriously I mean that 'steamrolling' bit, even beyond the unusual wordcount: I actually went to the bookstore, hunted down a translation of Popol Vuh, and read it just to find an appropriate enough tagline for this thing.

... I don't suppose anyone is actually interested in reading this monster? Even just to read; not beta. Is there actually an audience for a "what if they actually talked to each other instead of randomly breaking into a fistfight in enemy controlled territory, and things snowballed from there" kind of thing? The fandom is still seriously teeny on AO3. And even on ff.net the number of adult-centric non-OC-romance stories is pretty microscopic, never mind slash of any kind.

I'm in Portland today for software training. Getting here was no fun-- I really, really dislike city traffic, and it was a good hour and forty-five minute drive-- but the class itself is small, not that arduous, and they're feeding us, which is always a plus.

... I keep forgetting to mention this, but I've been nominated at the Crossing Over Awards over at Twisting the Hellmouth; I have twenty nominations, I think, but I keep forgetting to sit down and list them all out. I'll have to do that later; the first round of voting runs until the 21st.

I've also been nominated at the Horrible Awards for In Memory of Penny Lesse:



More from me later tonight, I think. I have a fic or two almost ready to post, I just haven't had enough time to sit down and edit them given everything else going on lately. Oh! And I should do a pre-Birthday-Event challenge over at the drabble comm...
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