( Dear Washington/right-wing nutjobs: )

... Um. I was considering getting my rant on re: Glee 2x09 (the only catch-up watching I have done this weekend, woe!), but I think that was sufficient irritation for today.

In happier/fannish news, such_heights has started an impromptu happy fanathon! Babble about whatever shiny things you like- thus far, there is Merlin (as in lots of Morgana/Gwen!), Narnia, and *cough* my rather slapdash Saving Face picspam. \o/!

ETA: OH AND. AO3: shiny! :D Somebody keep me off it until I manage to finish writing? *g*

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+ because i am (already!) bored,

What Merlin character am I most like?
MY THREAD

(no picture because i am at work and i do try to be surreptitious about my LJ/DW stints. :P)

+ i mainlined all three eps of FLASHFORWARD on sunday night, and ( itty-bitty spoilers? ) in conclusion: i cannot put together a coherent sentence about this show, apparently. &hearts &hearts

+ because way back when, i promised SWORDSPOINT flail, i hereby declare today comment-party day! and i include Fall of the Kings & Privilege of the Sword in that statement. have at it, ladies! tell me how much you adore Alec or Richard or the Duchess of Tremontaine or ~convoluted politics~ or what you thought of women's roles in the books. :D

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♥ Gwen/Morgana Kiss Meme ♥

Also, have some more OTP-meme responses!

unavee asked for Lions of Al-Rassan and Gravitation:

( Lions: )

( Gravitation: )

whymzycal asked for ( Antique Bakery: )

secretsolitaire asked me about ( Shadow of the Templar: )

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Coworker's played-list so far today has gone something like this: Lady Gaga --> Mary J. Blige --> Daughtry --> LOTR soundtrack (just another normal day in the lab...), therefore I give you meme responses. What? Randomness makes me think of random things.

OTP-meme answers so far:

heather11483 & eumelkeks asked for ( Merlin: )

such_heights and woldy asked for ( HP: )

ruffwriter asked for ( Havemercy-verse: )

moshesque asked for ( Saiyuki: )

I am totes willing to keep answering if you guys keep throwing fandoms at me! *g* I have LOTS of them. Also, have a rec! Via secretsolitaire: Between the Bars by hollycomb [Reboot; Sulu/Chekov; R]. IT IS GLORIOUS. GLORIOUS, I TELL YOU.

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+ have just emerged from 7thnight_smut. OMG, so much great Saiyuki fic! there were a couple of scenarios that... bugged me, but for the most part i loved them to bits! :D i have not read outside my (39/58) pairings, but if there's something REALLY SHINY that you guys think i would like, please let me know. i'll post my own favorites at... some future point. ... yeah, no, screw that. ( favorites! [now edited post-author reveals] )

+ springkink Round VIII is gearing up; leave your prompts here! i am to sit on my hands this time around, JUST FOR THE RECORD; if i attempt to snatch a prompt, please to knock the crazy out of me with Internet Sticks. :P

+ i know you have seen the trailer 27091340945509468 times, so i will spare your flists, but: MERLIN S2. MY FLAILY EXCITEMENT CANNOT BE TEXTUALLY RENDERED. MULTISHIPPER FANGASM PARTY, CAN WE HAVE ONE? RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW? OMG. *\o/*

Now that Carnival is sort of underway, I'm starting to look forward to the end-of-year exchanges.

I am definitely doing yuletide and rs_small_gifts, so that's two committed madnesses. However, I'm also looking at camelotsolstice, and go_exchange is so much fun, and I don't know if saltydogstories is having a fall/winter round, and and and.

BASICALLY SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STOP ME. I am no longer allowed to do five exchanges! Last year I managed it, through some fit of insanity, but I have even more WsIP on the backburner this year (apocalypse!Merlin being possibly the biggest one) and also there is Carnival. SO.

this is just a quick note to say that i will probably not be around much this weekend, if at all; i am helping a friend shoot a video (?!?!), which promises to be... interesting. by which i basically mean cracky funtimes ahoy!

some updates on the fannish front, before i disappear:
- i finished one of my springkink stories! \o/ my first attempt at Junjou Romantica, ahaha. it is very short, mostly because i am still stuck on the other fic i owe (which i am contemplating rewriting, once again... *headdesk*).
- the lovely inksheddings wrote me an R/S ficlet! i am a bit late on the pimping, but it's sweet and quietly hopeful, which is just what i needed. (Remus breaks my heart a little bit, but that's par for the course in this fandom, really.) oh, HP, i don't think i'll ever truly quit you. &hearts &hearts &hearts
- i might be watching Anne Hathaway perform in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park! \o/) on Sunday night, and thus may not be able to a) watch Merlin D: & b) host this weekend's squee-fest. this is v. disappointing, but i am (alas!) unable to be in two places at once. next weekend THERE SHALL BE SQUEE again, i promise! &hearts

SUPER-SPECIAL ETA: Remus/Sirius love post!! go, go, GO! &hearts :D

it is beautiful outside after yesterday's all-day Rain of Doom, so have a list of happy things:

- karanguni is killing me with Reboot goodness these days: New, and Stumbling Forward! &hearts &hearts &hearts SPOCK. LOVE. THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
- i spent, uh, all of last night/this morning mainlining Darker than Black! MADE. OF. AWESOME. and also, OMG HEI &hearts &hearts &hearts *GLEEFACES* if any of you guys have watched the anime, BRING ON THE SQUEE. :D
- have started (finally) on one of my springkink fics! it is only exposition so far, but, uh, yay for exposition?? *g*
- it's partyteimz this weekend: random bbq invite of random to be followed by birthday party tonight, and then free outdoor salsa party tomorrow evening, with possible kayaking/park expedition in the afternoon! oh, summer, how i love thee.
- i went to the library today, for the first time in ages! borrowed for consumption either tonight or tomorrow in the park: Neil Gaiman's Stardust, Meredith Pierce's Darkangel (i have been meaning to reread this one for ages). \o/!

i hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

... so, um. that thing i said about summer and friends and plans? they are hijacking my life, for real, IDEK. i had a crazy good weekend spent sunning and dancing and making mango salsa (when not dealing with my friend's latest debacle in his great series of unfortunate moving events), but i clearly need to make a bigger effort not to default on my upcoming fandom/internet commitments! :S

anyway, this time i return from Unexpected Short Hiatus bearing gifts! first, some Joshua Bell, as i promised ego_chan and leandergasped: The Red Violin Chaconne for Violin & Orchestra &hearts

also, in lieu of that ( bigass icons post i didn't make earlier: )

001-003: Junjou Romantica artbook
004-010: Freida Pinto
011-026: Stigma

so, how are you guys? have i missed anything from you this weekend? hurl your links at me, go!

thanks to everyone who left layout source suggestions! i went looking for possibilities and ended up totally streamlining myself; i think i like it. :D

so, go_exchange reveals went up, which means i can now say that i wrote The Last Word for thesilentpoet! (featuring Adam, Crowley, Aziraphale, Agnes, and DEATH, in case you were wondering. *g*) also, i can now thank iblamebroadway for my lovely, illustrated(!) gift: At the End.

and you've all probably seen this floating around by now, but: &hearts fanficcers' love meme! &hearts i'm over here; where are you guys??

... i was going to do that intro post, but it'll have to wait until my coherency returns. SO TIRED.

for anyone who's interested, or hasn't been around the community lately, thremedon's got a friending meme up and running for Day 6 of their LJ spotlight week! ;)

for all of you who haven't yet come up with a drinking game for tonight's debate, i highly suggest you visit http://palinbingo.com. :D that is all!

ETA: also, a couple of pimps i neglected to make! for Wild Adapter fans- anyone who's missed Moratorium (KuboToki, NC-17, previously referred to as "the ficpornthing") should go and read it! *glomps reddwarfer* &hearts &hearts thanks again, sweets!

and for anyone who's read and loved The Chronicles of Prydain, there was fic posted over at seldom_end: My own true love was the flower of them all, by lotesseflower (Taran/Eilonwy, PG). so lovely.

*deep breath* so. it's been a whirlwind of a week, what with trying to get all our housing paperwork together so that we can apply for this lovely apartment, so i am now trying to distract myself by writing fic. but! until i succeed, have a meme!

( 20 first lines )

so, what's going on with you all? newsbits, opinions, updates, madness? anyone else jumping about with glee every time saltydogstories posts? :D

ETA: aaaand i forgot that i meant to pimp this! reddwarfer wrote me a Ritsuka/Soubi ficbit, and it is LOVE. :D :D

go forth and drabble away! the Hodgepodge Challenge is over here; i've already claimed two prompts, one Wild Adapter and one Okane ga Nai. perhaps this will warm me up for some actual fic-writing later today...

*note: you don't have to join the community in order to participate! anyone is welcome to comment on the post.

so i know most of you are not into anime fandoms, but on the off chance that you are and just haven't said anything, moshesque is hosting

THE SAIYUKI FRIENDING MEME!

so, if you've sekritly already discovered the antics of the Sanzo-ikkou, hop over and check it out! :)

have i pimped Saiyuki yet? i don't think so. if you feel you need some persuasion, i may do a pimp post at some point in the near future... actually, that pimp post will probably happen regardless, because there's SO MUCH TO LOVE ABOUT IT.

so! that was a completely unintentional hiatus, which was mostly due to my being lazy, busy, or in various stages of fail, as my muse has gone AWOL.

am currently plugging away at the Pan's Labyrinth fic, which after two months is STILL NOT WRITING ITSELF. this is getting ridiculous. also, Amy, i am still working on your story, i promise! the HDMverse is not cooperating with me at the moment, though. :(

in other random news, is anyone in here a fan of Kyou Kara Maou?? i've watched what seems like half the show on youtube (out of order and missing many pieces, naturally), and i'm DYING OF THE CUTE. conrad/yuuri OTP! &hearts goodness knows the last thing i needed was a new fandom, but OMG.

oh, and also, check this out! Rodrigo y Gabriela, people, for serious. my sister just showed me some of their music today, and the video clips are INSANE.

the Week From Hell is very much extended; the ballroom is very much the crazy; the midterms/papers are very much the ick; the Remix is STILL STALLED (at maybe 250 words).

on the brighter side, however, i posted a get-well drabble for setissma last week. for which you may all blame sheafrotherdon! *g*

( somnophilia? i think so. )

the Week From Hell is very much extended; the ballroom is very much the crazy; the midterms/papers are very much the ick; the Remix is STILL STALLED (at maybe 250 words).

on the brighter side, however, i posted a get-well drabble for setissma last week. for which you may all blame sheafrotherdon! *g*

( somnophilia? i think so. )

01. (untitled) drabble! i know, i know, i'm supposed to be working on previous prompts, but then i saw an icon ( with a pair of hands (presumably Remus') framing a bit of scribbly handwriting on an envelope. )

02. that five favorite fics meme... i leap for the bandwagon, yet again. :D

my favorites by far were the two fics i wrote in my Yuletide fandom, love, do you remember my name and The Longest Road. both are set in GGKay's Fionavar universe- i know i've been blathering on about him lately, but honestly, you should totally read his work. every book of his manages to make me cry, upon every single reading, and no other author has ever done that to me.

another favorite of mine is train (terrain) tracks, a ficlet i wrote for Maggie for rs_small_gifts. i loved the prompt (which was the setting), and i think i totally achieved that feeling i get whenever i'm on a train. if you haven't figured it out yet, i love trains. *g*

i'm also inordinately proud of some of the blanketforts stuff i wrote last year, but i'm particularly enamored of lonely hours long and weary and its continuation, Hyacinth. i really liked the charged atmosphere of the two of them, and i definitely achieved the sense of cold and isolation that i was going for.

i didn't really do scarvesnhats due to school and things, but out of the three prompts that i did manage to accomplish, my favorite was definitely compass rose. it's very experimental, extremely metaphoric, and working off of oblique angles is something that i don't do- to this degree- all that often. i'm still not sure the reader will understand what i was aiming for, but you know what? i wrote it first and foremost for myself, and i like it. *g*

03. five favorite fandom women! ( partially cut for those of you not in Kay fandoms )

- Lily Evans, because she has so much potential. i'm not going to go much into this myself, as others have put it much more succinctly than i can hope to; as for me, i like her because we have so few pieces of her in canon, and i've always liked a good puzzle.

- Agnes Nutter, from Good Omens, because hello, you can't not love her! *g* she's far ahead of her time, if her foresight is a bit patchy, and she's deeply loyal to her family. also, you've got to admire any woman, dead or alive, who can take the wind out of Shadwell's sails in just a sentence or two.

- Elizabeth Bennet, from Pride and Prejudice. this girl isn't afraid to speak her mind as sharply as she sees fit. she's got a quick mind and a keen eye- her sense of irony is perhaps overdeveloped (and i'll cite Mr. Bennet as the primary reason here), and her sarcasm often rockets off the charts. she loves her family just the way it is, even if she wishes all her family members would be just a little less dysfunctional at times, and she'll fight tooth and claw to keep them all happy.

PS: hi! *waves to flist* i've just arrived home from boston to a week of spring break, yay! :) you'll probably be seeing a lot more of me in the next few days.

Untitled
Author: glass_icarus
Rating: PG
Word count: 258
Summary: Prompt was "R/S, wet socks drying by the fireplace." Hope you like! :)

( Outside, the rain falls. )