Lycanthropy is a career choice, not a disease.

Hi.

This is the LiveJournal of Val Mora.

This journal is friends-locked, with the filters of:
1) original fiction
2) fannish
3) RL

All fanfiction is either unlocked on this journal, or posted on AO3.

If you wish to read Val's original fiction (such as this piece), please leave a comment. Val asks that people looking to read the original fiction not look like sock puppets or likely to steal.

If you wish to be subjected to Val's fannish ranting, you may also opt into that category with a comment.

If you wish to opt into Val's real-life entries, you should either
1) already know Val in real life, or
2) your online persona should be well-known to Val for a reasonable length of time beforehand.

If you stumble across a fanfic that is still friendslocked, please drop Val a note.

Thank you,

valmora

Edited August 2011: If for any reason you wish to contact me privately, either PM me here on LJ or comment on this entry (all comments screened).

Edited September 2018: I cannot promise responses to anything on this journal. Please contact me at val-mora on tumblr if you wish to get in contact with me.

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thank you for writing me a nice thing that I will love this Yuletide! I'm super-excited about my assignment, and hope you are too. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you write!

Things I do like: WORLDBUILDING.

Things I don't: public embarrassment, or anything causing vicarious embarrassment. Rape, graphic violence.

( By fandom: )

So, all in all, thank you for being my writer, and I hope what you receive will be as enjoyable as what I will!

Val

Hello Yuletide Writer! I hope you are as excited by Yuletide as I am.

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my life, my choices. expect updates as I continue to watch what's available of the series.

( motorcity recs. )

If those of you who read my journal haven't heard yet, it sounds like comment headers will be going away on Tuesday with the new site update, UNLESS you use S2 AND custom comments pages that are deliberately designed to allow comment subject headers. Not many people do this, because custom comments pages are not terribly popular (they mimic the layout of your main journal).

For several reasons, a large section of the userbase is not pleased by this.

There are other changes that sound like they will be implemented re: comment browsing, userpics, etc., and which may result in greatly-slowed loading times, which I am "Waiting And Seeing" on.


I sort of get the feeling that LJ staff doesn't care about userbase concerns, so if it actually is as bad as all that, I would expect that by the end of the year:

a) the kink memes will have moved to DW or some other site - and frankly, I spend a lot more time on the memes than I do chatting on my journal these days, not that I don't love and cherish you all

b) I will have abandoned this journal to move to DW (where I am also valmora, and which is allowing free registration through the end of the year, should you wish to join)

c) I will be doing most of my communicating on tumblr, which I loathe utterly but have an account on as val-mora and currently do not use at all PRECISELY BECAUSE I prefer LJ

d) I will no longer even consider posting fic on LJ and all fanfic from here on out will be posted exclusively on AO3, without notification here (not that this was not already happening)


It is likely that I would port all entries from here onto DW, if that is possible.

If you have my yahoo email account and consider that your "primary" way of emailing me (there shouldn't be anyone of that description here), please cease using it immediately. I last tried to check the account on Sunday after not doing so for several months, and discovered that my email and password no longer work. I was unable to answer the "security questions" to yahoo's satisfaction (my account predates the security questions!), and so I have decided that the account is irredeemable. Any further emails from that account, should you receive any, should be considered spam.

(It's most likely that yahoo froze the account after extended inactivity, rather than the account being hacked. I had it happen to another yahoo account before.)

Title: The Dishwasher
Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Tavros ♥ Dave, Dave/others
Notes: originally posted here for this prompt at the Homesmut kink meme. Sequel in spirit to Apt. 202 (AO3).

Warnings: infidelity, internalized ableism, depressing, fake cut to the AO3

( Tavros, in the kitchen, thinks it's too late to be waiting. )

Title: Seasonal Joys
Fandom: Homestuck
Characters: Rose ♥ Kanaya UST, Karkat ♥ John, Dave ♦ Terezi, Dave/???, Kanaya ♦ Karkat
Rating: PG-13
Notes: originally posted here on the Homesmut kink meme, for a prompt requesting "pheromones/heat".

Fake cut to the AO3.

( Rose comes home one night to find an unusual smell in the apartment. )

I love Charles/Erik/Charles enough, and the movie panders to me enough, that anything not including that [homoerotic] relationship in some capacity is essentially not worth reading for me.

Last updated: 19 July 2011

( keep an eye on this post; it'll grow )

I KNOW I HAVEN'T WATCHED ENOUGH OF THIS SERIES TO DO THIS BUT. BUT.

( this list will probably explode in size in the next few days. )