Slightly Crazy

Title: Good Luck With Your Future
Author: Dreykar
Fandom: DC-verse/Nolanverse
Pairing: Batman/Joker
Genre(s): General
Rating: R
Summary: Approached by their older selves visiting from 25yrs in the future, Batman and The Joker agree to work together to prevent a situation allowing the mob to take over Gotham permanently. With so much going on, what happens when the men work together?
Disclaimer: I only own the plot.  Everything own by DC comics and Nolan/Warner Brothers.

(Good Luck With Your Future Chapter 14 Part 1)

(Good Luck With Your Future Chapter 14 Part 2)

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Title : Agent of Chaos
Pairing : Joker/Bruce
Fandom : TDK (Nolanverse)
Rating : R
Word Count : 2563

Summary : 'With you? I'm not going to do anything with you, I'm going to do something for you, something you can't do for yourself. I'm going to throw a little chaos into that perfect world of yours. I'm going to rattle your foundations. I'm going to introduce a little anarchy.'

(Agent of Chaos)

Title: Voyeurism At It's Worst 9/?
Author: heatherhouse
Rating: PG-13, for now
Characters/Pairings: Joker/Batman, OC
Warnings: Un'bated, Crackfic
Disclaimer: Only Desarai belongs to me, so please don't take her. The boys belongs to DC and Warner Brothers.
Verse: Movieverse
A/N: Hi guys! I'm back! This is going to a short return chapter to lead you into the next portion of Voyeurism. I still don't know where these three are going but I'm enjoying the fact they let me back in the bus. XD
Summary: I didn't want to see Joker and Batman kissing. It just happened.


Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8

Uncle

 College is making me sound like an uneducated red-neck. I swear so much now! I don't really like it either, because I feel like there are so many other eloquent ways of expressing yourself. But no. I've sort of fallen down so far that I'm reduced to swearing like a sailor. This really needs to be remedied. I don't like swearing.

However, I can say though, I think I may know why I'm swearing so much. It's because I've been super emotional lately! Like, so emotional, to the point that I can't express myself fully except by screaming. But of course, I don't scream. So, I've resorted to swearing. I've actually found myself dropping the f-bomb quite a bit, and I really don't like to hear it come out of my mouth. I used to consider crap a bad word, so f*ck is is MAJOR NO-NO.

I need to calm down, so I don't swear anymore.

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Photos of the week

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 OMG!!!!! I really hate my room mate right now! Maybe it's just an accumulation of all the stress that's been building up ever since college has started, but the past few days have really been pushing my patience! SHE'S SO INCOMPETENT!! And if there's one thing I hate, it's incompetence. And I think the major problem I have with this is that it's so easily fixable! If you have any initiative at all, you can help yourself.  I HATE PEOPLE WHO RELY ON OTHERS FOR EVERYTHING.

For example, I spent 10 minutes today, trying to explain to my room mate how to cook rice, using our rice cooker. IT'S A NORMAL, BASIC RICE COOKER! She didn't understand how many cups to put in or how much water to use! And she said it was because our rice cooker is different that the one she has at home. WTF?!!! ALL RICE COOKERS WORK IN ESSENTIALLY THE SAME WAY! And if anything, ours would be easier to use than the high-tech one she has at home, because ours only has ONE BUTTON. But no. I had to tell her that "yes, 2 cups of rice uses 2 cups of water" at least 5 times. GRRR!! Why can't she get it through her dense head?

What's even worse though, is that if she wants to do anything, she always asks me!! YOU'RE FUCKING 18 YEARS OLD! LEARN TO SURVIVE! She's always asking me if she can microwave her food on a certain plate/bowl, or whether or not a piece of paper is recyclable, or something else ridiculous/common sense like that. How can you not be able to tell what's recyclable or not? GAHHH!!!!! I'M SO TIRED OF ANSWERING HER STUPID QUESTIONS!!!

Hey, there! Just thought you all might want to see these: Yes, I attended the last convention as Harley Quinn!(It was my own version, of course) Sadly, it fought me so_very_much along the way! But I am very happy with the way it turned out! ALSO, YES Shawn (my best friend) *did* go as Dr. Manhattan ! YES, we actually covered his lovely, dark and rippled torso with bright blue makeup! I think he did a great job! There are some other pics: 1) Shawn doing his Professor X routine, where he does some cool chemistry reactions for con-goers 2) some other friends 3) my knife collection 4) some other costumes at the con 5) my cat, Dorian Enjoy!

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It appears that my whole life, I have been striving towards mediocrity. Nothing more, and hopefully, nothing less. But seriously, if anything, college has been an eye-opening experience, if only to show me JUST HOW LAME I REALLY AM.

I never really thought myself special before, but I did things that made me stand apart, at least a little bit. But everything that happened before college really means nothing here. No one cares who your friends were, what grades you got, or what clubs/sports you were in. In some ways, that's good, and provides you with a fresh start. But for me, it's rather depressing. I have nothing, nothing at all. And it's hard to build from nothing.

College has proven to me that I am nothing but mediocre. Of the two things I've tried out for (and seriously wanted), I was rejected from. I failed. I got my first C on a test too. You know what a C is? "Average". Why was I rejected from the two things I wanted? Because there's nothing special about me. I don't stand out. No one cares what the hell I did in high school. It's all about here, and now. And right now, I'm nothing.

There are some things I seriously wish I had changed in my past, I think. I wish I had done something that made me stand out. Something that gave me personality. Instead, I'm stuck here, being that generic Asian girl. Which is not good, in a school full of Asians. The problem is though, I have no idea what I would have changed. I rather like the path I took to get here, it was (relatively) fun and certainly gave me a unique experience. I like the friends I made, and the things I did. But you know what the major problem is? Everything in my life up until now has been to get to college. College has always been my number 1 objective. But now that I'm here, I'm a bit lost. I was concentrating so hard on the path to get here, I never really gave much thought to what I'd do once I achieved my goal. I'm here now though, and I'm working towards vet school, but it seems like such an impossible dream. The path lies clear before me, but I don't know if I want to take it anymore. After all, the path to college doesn't seem to have done me any good for my destination, so I don't see how the next one will be much different. But if I don't have a goal, then I really will flounder.

And you know what the sad part is? The event that sparked these thoughts was really not all that important or life-changing of a thing. It's simply because I didn't get into taiko. I knew from the start that wouldn't get in, but I tried anyway. I wanted to finish what I started. And, some ridiculous, irrational part of my mind was hoping, pleading, that a miracle would occur, and I would get in. But I didn't. And now, I'm irrationally depressed. I have been mentally preparing and steeling myself for this rejection for a long time. But it still stings a bit. It comes on the heels of the AB rejection, solidifying and cementing the fact that I AM MEDIOCRE.

What makes it worse though, is that I don't think I have EVER tried harder for something I wanted. The only exception would be wanting to get into college, but my entire life has been about that, so I don't think it really counts. School is just a fact of life.  Taiko was something for myself, for fun. I practiced so many hours on my free time, in an attempt to better myself and get ahead. I think I spent at least 7 hours outside of tryouts practicing myself. I'm not so sure everyone else was so willing to do so. But in the end, that extra effort I put didn't really matter. Those hours amounted to a big fat nothing. I have no reward in the end. I have never worked so hard for something so fruitless. Even with gymnastics, I never worked that hard to get on the team. In fact, I was one of the only people invited. I didn't even have to try out, unlike everyone else. Even the time I got the sponsorship to go to leadership camp was easy. I just showed up at an interview, which I didn't really prepare for. I just answered their questions with whatever popped into my head. Before, I thought that there must have been something about me that stood out. It never occurred to me just how lucky I must have been in the past, to have been granted all these things. 

It's a rather depressing thing, to learn that your whole life, you've been struggling to be amazing, only to realize all you've reached is averageness.

Damn, I'm lame.

I dressed up as the joker for halloween! What do you think? :D

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 I've decided I should try and post in my blog more often. After all, I have it for a reason, which is to bore the heck out of my f-list. Haha. Also, I want to see what happens when I chronicle little snippets of my life over the period of a month. Also, I wonder what will happen when I look back on this in a year or so.

 So, winter quarter is fast approaching. Too fast for me, in any case. I'm at least 2 weeks behind in all my classes! But that's not the point I want to make. I'm trying to make out my schedule for next quarter, and I think I'm going to die. Really. I know for sure that I have to take Bio, o-chem, and humanities. That's already 14 credits right there. But I think I also want to take the second part of my history class, because it's Asian-American history. I'm contemplating minoring in Asian Lit/Asian studies (or something along those lines-- I haven't thought it all out yet), and I think this history class will be a good introduction into the field. But if I take that history class, that's 18 credits! And well, those are all pretty intense classes! History, maybe not so much. But, if it's anything like my history class this semester, it's going to be really intense.

Instead of the history class though (which is something I actually want to take), I might have to end up taking an o-chem lab. Which would be horrible! That would be 8 credits of o-chem. Eww!! I already hate the subject enough, and I'm not spending 6 hours a week in a lab. *sigh* These darn requirements for vet school are going to kill me! I'm really beginning to think I'm not cut out for vet school. I might have to settle with being a vet technician....

I really hope this all works out, and I can find it in myself to crack down and study!

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 I am about up to HERE with my dumbass neighbors. Not Lucy - she's fine. I have no problems with her. 

Its the other one and her live-in girlfriend. 

The both of them are FUCKING MORONS. I mean, come on. They have no propriety and they have so consideration for other people living next door to them. They for some reason don't think that its annoying to hear their bed creaking all the time, to play super loud shitty tv shows at 10:30 at night, to not close the entry way door, to slam said door in the morning, to shuffle about and hum really loudly early in the morning, and to never stop fucking giggling all the time super loudly. 

And you know what, if they're not doing all that shit - then they're yelling and screaming at each other. I HATE THEM. Dear god, I hate them so much.

I also hate the fact that my official neighbor has the same name as me. The only thing keeping me from charging her with theft is that I hold that she must be defined by her last initial. For example, she shall always be (to me) "The Dumbass Bitch Chelsea B", whereas I am "Chelsea". Then there is the fact that she gives Brunettes a bad name - she's a fucking idiot who always makes stupid comments during history class. 

God I Hate Her!!!!!!!!

 For the past month, I've been attending taiko tryouts in the hopes of joining Asayake Taiko. I fully understand my chances of getting into the club are about 0.0000000000000000000000000000001%, but I figured that I may as well finish what I started. So, today was the last day of tryouts. I didn't have the best performance, but it's done and over with. And I am so glad it's over with. I think aside from enjoying being introduced to taiko though, I am so glad I tried out. I feel like I've met some amazing people. I really really liked my taiko tryout group. Everyone was super nice, and in the past week, I genuinely feel like we became friends.

Out of our group of 5 (including me), I feel like I really bonded to three of them. We spent so much time practicing together, and just hanging out in general. While we certainly were not the best taiko drummers at auditions, I feel like the extra time we spent together made our performance seem more cohesive and smooth, simply because we knew each other better. Okay, maybe it's just me. I'm really proud of our group though! Regardless of whether I got on the team or not though, I am so glad I tried out. Otherwise, I wouldn't have met these people!

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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.

Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(

Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.

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Conquer Writer's Block

Here are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day:

If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?

1. I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment.
2. Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me.
3. This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News.
4. I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ...
5. Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation.
6. SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok.
7. I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done.
8. I punch them in the balls. With my mind.
9. I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't...
10. Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly.

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Spotlight community of the week

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