I need an intervention.

I broke 12,000 words on Part 2 of the DE (which has a name, but which I still think of as either the DE or FutureFicEvilBunnies, which was the file name for the longest time).

I'm almost done writing the Lilah I started in May.

Even Route 66 is going rather well.

So why am I reading AU Badfic instead of writing? Of the Spuffy and Child WIP kind? Please, slap me.

I am horrified and transfixed, but I'm reading Audrey Lemon's (she of the How Slash Saved Me article) Lost Boys series. I need to see this movie. I need to read every good Lost Boys story out there, as much as it deeply scares me.

Link?

I liked the movie a lot at 13. I don't think I've seen it since.

But, anything to stop me from reading the Buffy/Spike/Precious Infant tale.

Haven't any of these people been around children?

Or been pregnant?

For one thing, if you've missed more than one period, or you're more than a little late, the extra line almost always shows up the second it gets wet. You're really, really unlikely to have to wait for first morning urine. Today's tests are insanely sensitive.

For another thing... most five year olds speak in semi-articulate sentences. Mind, they're normally saying things like "That's nice, I wanna watch Pokeman again, how do I rewind?" or "Can I play Sega?", but they're not baby talking at that age.

Sorry. I shouldn't be ranting this much over a premise this bad.

PMM, [link]

I'm seriously getting frantically upset at how much I like this.

Liz, you have to get your hands on The Lost Boys. Man, I loved that movie. Not only did it have both Coreys in it (Corey Haim and Corey Feldman---who at the time were "teen idols") but it had Jason Patrick (he plays the older brother, Corey Haim plays the younger brother) but it had VAMPIRES!!! Sweet! Not only that but I had the novelisation of the movie (which I liked better because the vampires were freakier) AND I had the soundtrack.

It was, easily to say, one of the defining movies of my teenage years. Also, there was a movie...a craptastic movie about a skateboarder that I watched over and over and over with my bestfriend (from middle school) because the guy in it was SO HOT. Plus skateboarding was really "in" but only with the alternative and "bad" boys. Not to mention the guy I had a crush on and the guy my bestfriend had a crush on were skaters. So it was all kinds of wishfufillment going on there.

Oh! And I was so very Mary Sueish in my head about the Lost Boys. I never wrote anything I thought up down, but trust me, if I had, it would have been incredibly bad Mary Sue fanfiction.

I liked Lost Boys--plot twists, cool lines, the guy from "Bill and Ted's" who isn't Keanu Reeves and never got a hot career, and even a closing line that makes you go "I went through this entire movie and you give me THIS?"

Haven't any of these people been around children?
Or been pregnant?
Well, since a lot of these writers are teenage girls, I'm hoping they've never been the latter. It does seem that most of them get all their information from sitcoms and soap operas. While I wouldn't want them to get too realistic ("Buffy's episiotomy" is a phrase I hope never to encounter"), it'd be nice if there was some grip on reality.

I saw "Lost Boys" for the first time when I was very young, and only remembered the comic book store guys, so seeing it again recently was a bit of a revelation.

I actually tried to watch it last year and couldn't sit through it. Don't really know why.

I don't know if I'm just seeing the world through slash-colored glasses, but I watched Boomtown tonight and Ray said to his younger partner Tom (who was looking at Joel, aka Donny Wahlberg) and said, "What, you in love with him or something?" and I almost spit out my coke.

Becuase now I think he is, and now I wanna write some slash.

And more of them than I care to think of are functional adults.

Now, I've never given birth (I've been pregnant, but never with much success, although granted, that does give me a head-start in the ability to write that particular condition), but, let's face it, if you want to research it, there are so many misc.parenting.birthstories type groups on google, that even if you don't know anyone who has ever had a kid, you can quickly find out all the gruesome details you'd ever want to know. Plus, the pregnancy groups are always nattering about the tests, so even five minutes of research should have been able to get the facts and..

...again, why am I ranting about it when the premise is so flawed?

Argh. I guess I just like research. A lot. It's fun, it's easy, and it makes life better.

It is one of the easiest things to research, and I know several parentings boards that regularly get writers of fanfic and indiefic asking questions and getting great answers. In fact, one of my favorites put together a list of non-cliché but frequent pregnancy symptoms for writers to use. That is one of the things that bothers me as much as writers who don't bother to match the slang to the characters - it's a minor irk to have Willow say "clean your teeth", but a major one to have Xander say "bathing costume."