Punk-Ass Book Jockey

I just sold my first paid article! *dances dance of joy*

Okay, my second paid article.

Okay, if you count the time I was a salaried editor for a university newspaper, this is possibly my 200th.

Still! Cheque! From a company that has never paid me before, for something I pitched and then wrote and then submitted! At least two of those are things I haven't accomplished in fifteen years!

Yah!

I've conceded that I've run out of entertainment, and have, thus, started watching Supernatural.

I was avoiding it because I am not down with shows where women have to die in order for men to go out into the world and be heroes. I KNOW. IT'S NOT SO VALID A COMPLAINT IN THIS CASE, what with the fire demons and, oh, I don't know, the supernatural shit. I'm still watching with a jaundiced eye, because fire-demons or not, it's still the (non-Jo & Jess) women who are consistently the vulnerable ones, threatened by lake monsters or Bloody Mary or skinshifters or whatever, and who need to be saved.*

I understand that tried and true dynamic (sexual tension! heightened stakes! save the pretty girl, for god's sakes, we need those genes!), but I miss Buffy! I miss Buffy a lot! And BtVS/A people are showing up in this show, and it only makes me miss Buffy more. Where are the fierce women? Where are the girls who can damn well save themselves, thank you very much Winchesters?

I'm still watching because idle elljay reading has led me to suspect that they show up in later seasons, and I am incapable of skipping forward without feeling wrong about it.

I am also still watching b/c the banter is awesome. And Jensen Ackles? Is that level of hotness even legal? Srsly, that has to slow him down. How does he get anything done, what with the rest of the world turned to drooling mush at the power of his intensely beautiful eyes and mouth? (Dude, it cannot just be me.)

Lastly, fanon has made me totally impatient with Dean for not being more proactive about Sam's nightmares. I think that a blowjob would really have helped out there. I mean, except for the fact that Sam's feeling guilty over his girlfriend's death and is emotionally unstable and probably couldn't deal. STILL. Comfort sex: the phrase exists for a reason, people.

*At least, in the first six eps, which is as far as I've watched. I recognize this is not a large sample size.
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On an unrelated-to-SPN note, o fandom: I am down with novellas, but I am not going to read 83 chapters of fic. I don't care who you are, you cannot sustain a story through 83 chapters. Sequels are your friend. Other stories set in the same universe -- also your friend. Short pieces are harder to write, it's true, but they make you a better writer because there is no space to cheat.

So after thinking hard about it for a week (having handed in my last paper ever and suddenly having hours and hours of empty time to fill), I've decided that it's time to try. I'm not getting another job. I'm going to keep working at the bookstore part-time, and I'll write full-time, and somehow, the money will stretch.

This, of course, fills me with utter panic, which is why I'm posting here instead of following my own brilliant plan.