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So I got it in my head that I really want to get Salty and 4-Speed from the same person, because they are to represent Chrissy and Luke and regardless of whether they were friends in real-life, I definitely sense chemistry in their interaction as Ginger and Lou and of course I portray Ginger and Lou as friends. And it seemed squeeable to get them from the same person since then they would already "know" each other and I could think that they were "friends" before they came to me. I'm still absolutely thrilled that I was able to get the plushies at the same Jo-Ann's, and that they fit Ginger and Lou's body types!
The only person I'm aware of who has both is a seller I've done business with before; I bought the Tex Pony who represents Little Pinto/H.M. from her two years ago, along with three girls. (Oh, she is a good saleswoman. I had been considering the girls, but she managed to really talk me into it.) She's also the only person I've contacted about the Ponies whom I've actually heard back from. She replied immediately the same day I contacted her.
I tried bidding on the eBay Pony since the auction was ending and I panicked, but when it was done I was actually hoping to be outbid, so that I could get one of that Arena seller's Saltys instead. (And I was outbid.) All the Saltys I've been considering have flaws, but I'm thinking I'll probably get one of hers who has a few highlighter marks on him, poor thing. I think I'd rather have those than one with age marks. The old plastic discolors as it ages and the Big Brothers have that a lot more than some of the other Ponies, for some reason.
I'll have to get a 4-Speed with a couple of age marks, as he's even more prone to it than some of the other Big Brothers. In his case, I'd rather have age marks than one with unidentifiable brown stains. At least I know what age marks are and wouldn't have to be squicky about them. And since 4-Speed seems to be much harder to come by than Salty, I think it's perfectly reasonable to get this one and be able to get Salty too.
Now if my writing assignments could just get accepted.... I finally broke down and tried to write for a client who pays a lot better than most on TextBroker, but there are so many complex rules to keep straight that I've been too afraid to try writing for them before. And of course, as soon as I did try, I made mistakes, which was what I was afraid of. Sigh. One of them got sent back for revision and I know the other one will be coming back too, as I ended up so confused I didn't realize which things were the keywords.
I also got a mailer from Build-a-Bear and there's a $5 off coupon that's good until way into May! Squeeeee! I was hoping I could get a coupon. Looks like after I get the money for the boy Ponies, I'll be getting Luna at last! ... I hope the nearest Build-a-Bear still has her; the Lunas were flying out of Build-a-Bears all over the country when she was first released. She's definitely been one of their best sellers.
And I'm going to try to write for one of the PicFic prompts at Section 7. The upcoming one makes me think of statues corroding in cemeteries and that gives me a good excuse to get out my haunted house fic and work on it. I've already got several pages done, the cemetery part, and now they're going back into the house. I'm not sure how much of the fic will take place in there. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the fic by Tuesday; I've also been working on work, one of my Ginger and Lou pieces, and the new website and blog. But the Ginger and Lou piece doesn't seem to want to be done, so I'd probably better switch back to the U.N.C.L.E. piece when it comes to fanfiction writing.
I also keep wanting to try writing a WWW story I tried out in blurbs some time ago, an alternate ending for the Sudden Plague episode where Coley and his gang escape and take Anna Kirby with them as a hostage. I think I figured out how I could make Jim and Arte's scenes interesting, instead of just being "They went thataway!" While they're on the trail of the gang, they talk to Coley's mother and others who have met him and start unraveling some of the mysteries about the outlaw, which surprise them. Meanwhile, Anna is not being mistreated and Coley is insisting he will let her go when they're far enough away. But then Lafe's gunshot wound gets infected and Anna has to try to help him using her father's medical knowledge and things get very intense.
The story is an AU to my main timeline, since The Night of the Lazarus is my main timeline story where Jim and Arte learn of the goodness Coley still has in him. I rarely write AUs of any kind, but I've always really wanted to try this one because I found Coley and Anna's interaction in the episode interesting and I wanted more. (And no, there will not be any nonsense of Anna falling in love with him. Way too overdone and not what I want for the story.)
I never seem to have the time to try starting the first chapter. And then there's the Man-Eating House sequel I've been trying to write for several years. I just find it so difficult to "re-write" the episode, since the story picks up where the episode left off, with them finding the house in reality after Arte spent the episode dreaming about it. I actually managed to get a couple of chapters written and I thought that maybe I'd get it finished soon. But then I got mortified because one of the readers thought that I'd given Jim the black plague instead of a regular poison. The black plague does feature into the episode, so it isn't totally random, but I thought I'd made it clear that Jim has been poisoned, not plagued. But so I wondered if any of the other readers would think the same thing because maybe I'd written it badly enough that there would be those misconceptions. So that kind of discouraged me on that fic again. I've been planning to try to pick it up again and write the rest, since the chapters aren't long and there would probably only be two more, but coupled with my discouragement over that problem and the other projects taking precedence, I just haven't got back to it. But I wonder if I need to finish that before I start the Sudden Plague AU.
I just wish I could finally get it done and out of the way. But it's hard to stick with it when other things keep appearing that I want to write more and that are much easier to write.
The only person I'm aware of who has both is a seller I've done business with before; I bought the Tex Pony who represents Little Pinto/H.M. from her two years ago, along with three girls. (Oh, she is a good saleswoman. I had been considering the girls, but she managed to really talk me into it.) She's also the only person I've contacted about the Ponies whom I've actually heard back from. She replied immediately the same day I contacted her.
I tried bidding on the eBay Pony since the auction was ending and I panicked, but when it was done I was actually hoping to be outbid, so that I could get one of that Arena seller's Saltys instead. (And I was outbid.) All the Saltys I've been considering have flaws, but I'm thinking I'll probably get one of hers who has a few highlighter marks on him, poor thing. I think I'd rather have those than one with age marks. The old plastic discolors as it ages and the Big Brothers have that a lot more than some of the other Ponies, for some reason.
I'll have to get a 4-Speed with a couple of age marks, as he's even more prone to it than some of the other Big Brothers. In his case, I'd rather have age marks than one with unidentifiable brown stains. At least I know what age marks are and wouldn't have to be squicky about them. And since 4-Speed seems to be much harder to come by than Salty, I think it's perfectly reasonable to get this one and be able to get Salty too.
Now if my writing assignments could just get accepted.... I finally broke down and tried to write for a client who pays a lot better than most on TextBroker, but there are so many complex rules to keep straight that I've been too afraid to try writing for them before. And of course, as soon as I did try, I made mistakes, which was what I was afraid of. Sigh. One of them got sent back for revision and I know the other one will be coming back too, as I ended up so confused I didn't realize which things were the keywords.
I also got a mailer from Build-a-Bear and there's a $5 off coupon that's good until way into May! Squeeeee! I was hoping I could get a coupon. Looks like after I get the money for the boy Ponies, I'll be getting Luna at last! ... I hope the nearest Build-a-Bear still has her; the Lunas were flying out of Build-a-Bears all over the country when she was first released. She's definitely been one of their best sellers.
And I'm going to try to write for one of the PicFic prompts at Section 7. The upcoming one makes me think of statues corroding in cemeteries and that gives me a good excuse to get out my haunted house fic and work on it. I've already got several pages done, the cemetery part, and now they're going back into the house. I'm not sure how much of the fic will take place in there. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the fic by Tuesday; I've also been working on work, one of my Ginger and Lou pieces, and the new website and blog. But the Ginger and Lou piece doesn't seem to want to be done, so I'd probably better switch back to the U.N.C.L.E. piece when it comes to fanfiction writing.
I also keep wanting to try writing a WWW story I tried out in blurbs some time ago, an alternate ending for the Sudden Plague episode where Coley and his gang escape and take Anna Kirby with them as a hostage. I think I figured out how I could make Jim and Arte's scenes interesting, instead of just being "They went thataway!" While they're on the trail of the gang, they talk to Coley's mother and others who have met him and start unraveling some of the mysteries about the outlaw, which surprise them. Meanwhile, Anna is not being mistreated and Coley is insisting he will let her go when they're far enough away. But then Lafe's gunshot wound gets infected and Anna has to try to help him using her father's medical knowledge and things get very intense.
The story is an AU to my main timeline, since The Night of the Lazarus is my main timeline story where Jim and Arte learn of the goodness Coley still has in him. I rarely write AUs of any kind, but I've always really wanted to try this one because I found Coley and Anna's interaction in the episode interesting and I wanted more. (And no, there will not be any nonsense of Anna falling in love with him. Way too overdone and not what I want for the story.)
I never seem to have the time to try starting the first chapter. And then there's the Man-Eating House sequel I've been trying to write for several years. I just find it so difficult to "re-write" the episode, since the story picks up where the episode left off, with them finding the house in reality after Arte spent the episode dreaming about it. I actually managed to get a couple of chapters written and I thought that maybe I'd get it finished soon. But then I got mortified because one of the readers thought that I'd given Jim the black plague instead of a regular poison. The black plague does feature into the episode, so it isn't totally random, but I thought I'd made it clear that Jim has been poisoned, not plagued. But so I wondered if any of the other readers would think the same thing because maybe I'd written it badly enough that there would be those misconceptions. So that kind of discouraged me on that fic again. I've been planning to try to pick it up again and write the rest, since the chapters aren't long and there would probably only be two more, but coupled with my discouragement over that problem and the other projects taking precedence, I just haven't got back to it. But I wonder if I need to finish that before I start the Sudden Plague AU.
I just wish I could finally get it done and out of the way. But it's hard to stick with it when other things keep appearing that I want to write more and that are much easier to write.
