I've written lots of fanfiction for both The Matrix Trilogy and Iron Man.  Some of it is a little scattered around, but you can find it all here.
 

Well, I sat through the panel for 2012 at Comic Con, waiting for the IM2 panel, so I already knew well in advance that there was probably not going to be one single scientifically accurate moment in the whole film. Personally, I like my scifi good and realistic, thank you very much, but somehow my mom talked me into seeing it with her.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY, EVERYBODY!!!!!!

:-D

Eat way too much food, spend time with your families, and don't let yourself get trampled during the insanity of Black Friday tomorrow!

I am currently watching Iron Man for the first time in several months. Pepper is currently playing Operation on Tony's chest.

I fucking love this movie.

That is all.

Seriously. Watch this. It's amazing.

And by the way, for all my geeky friends out there, if you are not already a fan of The Big Bang Theory, I highly recommend you watch it. It is awesome.

(See, Tally? That's how easy it is to tell your friends to watch a show you know they'll love.)

Okay. Maybe the plan of writing an entire book (even if it is supposed to be short) to give to people as a Christmas gift was a bad idea.

It's halfway through NaNoWriMo, and what's my word count? Excluding the 900 or so words I wrote as a test piece for my creative writing class, absolutely zero. Zip, zilch, nada. I've been planning and trying to work the details of my idea out, but... I don't know , maybe the tasks just seems daunting, or maybe it's the way that I write that can take a while, or maybe it's just a bout of writer's block this weekend, but I'm feeling less and less confident that I can actually write it and have the copies published AND delivered in time for Christmas. I would really love to be able to do it, and I don't want to give up on this. But maybe it would be best to just... wait until next Christmas to give it, maybe. I don't know. Maybe it's just too much pressure at this point.

Just ignore me, I'm gonna go back to banging my head on the keyboard now.


EDIT: So after a couple more hours of banging my head, I'm left with a headache. And a deeper understanding of a fact I already knew, which is that I can't write for anyone else. I just can't. Or rather, I can, but it takes forever, involves a lot of angst and insecurity, and sucks. I can only write for myself, or it just doesn't work. And if I tried to finish this book to give as gifts this year, I wouldn't be writing it for myself. So I think I'll just set the story aside, work on it in my own time, and write whatever I feel like for the time being. So yaaay, y'all get more fic.

Title: Gift

Author: ZionAngel

Rating: PG-13

Length: 2,517 words

Summary: When he needs her most, Pepper gives everything of herself to him.

AN: This is pretty much complete and total emotional fluff. The idea came to me while avoiding an awful assignment, and I just couldn’t let it go. I’m hoping the emotional tone in this is as strong as it was in my head. This hasn’t been edited except for spelling and stuff. I wrote it using the glorious tool that is Write or Die (a huge life saver, really), so I was really pushing to get it done, so I’m not sure if it’s up to my usual caliber. Reviews are much appreciated!

GOD I hate technical writing.  Really.  I have this advanced technical writing class, and trying to write the essays for it is like pullinng teeth.  It takes forever to get myself to sit down and actually write, and I'll avoid it and procrastinate worse than I do for any other type of assignment.  And once I finally do get down to work, every word is a struggle to type.  I had an essay rough draft due this past Wednesday in class at 2:00, but because I had a ton of stuff all due around the same time... I only just now emailed it to the professor.  My inability to get it done kinda ruined my weekend.  Granted, this is only the second time I've done something like this (the first being a couple of weeks ago), and it is only a rough draft, and I did make it to my junior year of college before doing things like this, but....  Oy.  Just oy.  I hate this kind of writing.  I wanna write fic.

/rant

In other news, someone has introduced me to something which I think may be a lifesaver... they call it Write or Die....

So, with exactly six months to go until the premier of Iron Man 2, I was able to find a few bits of Pepper-inspired fashion!  I never was one for polka dots, but based on the photos and previews that have come out of IM2 so far, they're kind of Pepper's new thing, and so of course I now feel an odd sense of loyalty to them, cuz I'm a geek like that.  Especially considering the fact that leopard print is sort of Natasha's thing, and I've been seeing leopard print everywhere lately, but hardly any polka dots.  Which is just wrong.  Natasha can suck it.  Except when I finally get around to writing that smutty femslash fic with her and Pepper.

Anywho, I found two polka dot dresses in the sales rack at Target.  The first is brown, the second is black.

So, as of yesterday, it isn't just Californians who see fit to take away a harmless right that people already have.

I wonder if Maine's Yes on 1 campaign preyed on people's fears as much as California's Yes on 8 campaign did.  I still find it hard to believe that people's fears and insecurities and prejudices and even sometimes hatred can be so easily worked up, and so easily overshadow wahat is right in front of their eyes, that what they are so against is harmless to them, and beneficial to others.  I saw this coming a mile away, and it's still so utterly ridiculous to me.  Now we get to wait and see what happens to the people who got married already.

What is wrong with this country?

Title: Heart

Author: ZionAngel

Rating: PG

Length: 2,538 words

Summary: For a Halloween charity benefit, Pepper talks Tony into a rather special costume.

AN: This could be considered a sequel to Tin Man, but it doesn’t have to be, and you don’t have to read that one first. This may have turned out a bit cheesy, but mostly it’s just cute and sweet. And what is Halloween for, if not sweets?