Daily Happiness
1. I got my Jump scans pretty much on time last night, and both Naruto and Bleach were pretty short, so that made up for the fact that Bakuman was super long. (Three pages were sketches of the characters' manga, and each page had four of the mini manga pages, so there were essentially nine pages extra to translate. Argh!)

Oh, speaking of Bakuman... While names of many famous Jump manga have been mentioned, including almost all the currently-popular series, there are two popular ones that have never been mentioned...D.Gray-man and Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, both of which "just happen" to be written by women. So...okay, they don't mention these series. Or the fact that women write for Jump and write popular series. Whatever. But in this week's chapter one of the new manga that Takagi and Mashiro submit is called Hitman10. I really don't think that Jump would run two titles at the same time with Hitman in the name, plus there was no mention of another manga about hitmen even existing while they were coming up with the idea. There was a mention of Mr & Mrs Smith and how it might be too similar to that, but not the fact that there is a manga about hitmen currently running in Jump. So I guess in the Bakuman universe Reborn and probably D.Gray-man DON'T EVEN EXIST. When all the popular titles by male authors do. Nice. Also this manga is deliberately being set up as the "bad" manga of the three they're trying out right now. Both boys don't like it, they don't think they have written it well, and they don't trust Miura's judgement when he loves it. And it just happens to be a gag manga about hitmen. Which Reborn is. With all the massive sexism in Bakuman, somehow I don't think that is a coincidence.

2. Brizzly seems pretty cool for using Twitter via the web (I always use the web interface anyway). One nice thing it does is it unpacks shortened links (which on Twitter is almost all of them). I think it's new yet, though, because it seems a little glitchy (even more so than Twitter, which is already plenty glitchy itself).

3. I love this Wondermark to death.

4. It got warm again yesterday (I knew I would jinx it!), but it wasn't bad (nto as muggy maybe) and it still got nice and cold at night.

5. anatsuno pointed me to this call for submissions to a supernatural gay erotica anthology. She was thinking of a story I actually hadn't written (helens78's Jude/Ewan vampire fic; not a surprising mistake, since like 90% or more of the Jude/Ewan fic out there is indeed written by me), but I do have a formerly-LotRiPS one with a ghost that might fit. It's more horror than erotica, despite containing sex, so I don't know. But it's also a story I've already origified (apparently I actually submitted it somewhere three years ago, according to the date on the file) so all I had to do was send it in. The #1 reason I don't try harder to get published is that looking for places to submit stuff is a huge pain in the ass, so the fact that the story was already ready to go, and ana did the work of finding the call for submissions for me made it easy. :D It's only $25-30 if it gets published, but like I said, I didn't have to do any work, and $25 is better than $0.