More LGBTfest recs! And holy shit, guys, it's Monday tomorrow and I'm working! What faggotry is this?

♥ ♥ ♥Counting - Firefly, Jayne/Simon <-- one of my favourite Sine fics ever, and yes, I did just decide that Jayne/Simon was called Sine. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.

♥ ♥ ♥ Fire - Firefly, Simon/Kaylee

♥ ♥ ♥ Its Own Kind of Chase - Sherlock Holmes, Holmes

Blood of Salmacis - Greek Mythology, Hermaphroditos, Thanatos

Like the Doors of My House - xxxHOLiC, Doumeki/Watanuki

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Note to self: the high end of the 'dumb things writers do' list contains the line that goes stop writing for extended periods of time. I doubt it is a coincidence that the only time I have not felt miserable today was the hour and a half I spent feeding the plot snake. This is here to remind me of this tomorrow night when I get home from work, so here's a to do list for tomorrow:

- go to work
- heyyy capoeira *clap-turn*
- walk home from work (arr. home ~6.20pm)
- eat food
- write shit, you stupid fucker

The more hearts something has, the more important it is that you read it. I'm sure there are far more than these, but these were the fandoms I was vaguely interested in. I'll keep an eye out for other awesome LGBTfest fics later, perhaps.

♥ ♥ A (Great) Work in Progress - Pundits RPS, Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert

♥ Freedom of the Seas - Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack Sparrow/James Norrington

♥ Out with the Buccaneers - SGA, John Sheppard

♥ ♥ ♥ The Relative Truth and Part Two - Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood/Neville Longbottom

♥ ♥ Corrupt Perversion - Merlin, Arthur/Merlin

♥ ♥ Lfe, and Other Things - Pundits RPS, Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert

♥ ♥ ♥ Sketches of Wars Yet to Fight - Captain America, Steve Rogers

♥ ♥ That Sort of Thing - Discworld, Carrot, Vimes, Dwarves

♥ Breaking News - Harry Potter, gen.

♥ ♥ ♥ What You Will - The Twelfth Night, Viola/Orsino

♥ ♥ The Five Stages of Going Native - Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley

♥ ♥ ♥ We Will Question All Your Answers - Firefly, River, Simon

♥ ♥ The Rules - Discworld, OMC, and for the record I love Ridcully SO FUCKING MUCH XD

♥ ♥ Over and Out - Pundit RPS, Jon/Tracey Stewart, Stephen Colbert

♥ ♥ ♥ Walking in These Shoes - Iron Man, Pepper/Tony

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Modern Love - Discworld, dwarves

♥ ♥ How Stephen Colbert Proved Jon Stewart is a Lady - Pundit RPS, Jon Steward/Stephen Colbert, OH GOD THE CONFUSION

♥ ♥ ♥ Marching Orders - Discworld, Polly/Maladicta



More to come, but I can't be bothered any more. The apathy has set back in. Hurrah.

A fascinating article re. swearing to virginity and living as a man. I can feel characters developing as I type. XD (That said, I can also hear Youta in the back of my head, scoffing at the idea that anyone would think she wasn't man enough to head her family.

In other news, I have been snatching bits and pieces of Admin in between doing more important things, and I think I have to tell you all now how much I love Paul, who appears in Quis Custodiet... "I shall remember you always. Or for at least a week." He is like a frilly, gentle version of Sanga. It is kind of hilarious.

...I was going to say something, and I have no idea what it was. Er.

Oh, wait.

I want to write Rook/Thom/Balfour. I recognise that this makes me a bad person, but I cannot bring myself to apologise sincerely. I would be happy writing them interacting in general for pretty much ever, I think, but what with Balfour having girl parts and new hands and needing to learn how to use them, well... I am sorry, but it is practically a recipe, and all the ingredients are there and waiting to be used.

Work todayyyyy. At least Megan is in, which means I'm not spending the whole day on my own with Allen.

(Also, I realised that part of the reason mum was so annoyed re. the laptop purchase was that she hadn't got my email re. my tax return. XD Following this information, she high fived me twice in front of her boyfriend out of sheer glee. Colour me amused.)

Finally, last night I had a dream in which I was being taught minimal-damage maximum-pain pressure points. I think this means that reading Admin is doing things to my headspace - or at least, that constantly thinking, "Bloody hell, I wish I hadn't been too tired to finish that chapter before I went to bed." XD

HASTUR (sings):

I am lurking, going on skulking
I can lurk all night
Around the corner, there I’ll be hulking
I’ll give you quite a fright.






DAEGAER IS A GENIUS.

JUST SAYING.

Don't ask what made me think of this, but:




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...sometimes Hellsing just happens to my brain, okay? XD;

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This story had me whimpering like an absolute fucking baby; I cannot even tell you how embarrassed I am by this, but blogging for posterity requires honesty in all things. It made me feel hollow and sick and dreadful because apparently that particular form of anxiety is a demon that hangs around to make you emotionally stupid even when you do nothing more strenuous than read about it. This one was also kind of totally awesome, and is illustrated by EK, so wins on many levels, including the one that says no one likes Leonardo best, because no one does, because Leonardo is a shitty ninja turtle.

Unfortunately, now I have to wait another two months for another volume of Shousetsu*Bang*Bang, and more reliably excellent short stories. :( Cry.

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In other writing news, there is so much to foreshadow and peel-back-reveal in F&F. It is very difficult to do any of this without jumping back and forth between scenes and time zones like some kind of crazy hyperactive Spriggan.

That said, rereading what I have, uh, rewritten... I am so much happier with this. XD My characterisation has come a very long way.

Speaking of this universe, though: tainted4life, pinkumbrella, leviathanmirror, kessira and teacupscientist what are our opinions re. mako therapy and human fertility? I want to say that high-class SOLDIERs are altered enough that they're no longer considered strictly human by most genetic processes, particularly given certain things in the absolute plot-vomit that is Crisis Core, but by the same token, it is essentially being infused with further life, and should this not, you know, improve fertility? Yes, I am perfectly serious about this. Talk science to me, guys.

(For the record, this came up because Reeve is trying to decide whether mako-infused bloodstreams can actually be passed on genetically, or even whether ciceqi's amusing little theory about SOLDIERs and blow jobs applies - and, for the record, I think it does. I just cannot believe it never occurred to me before she pointed it out - although given Sephiroth's CC!based whining about donating genetic material, it was only going to be a matter of time. XD)

[EDIT] And now I have Button in the back of my head going, oh, honey, you've picked up the blow glow! HELP ME.

[EDIT] And now I am hunting for the Japanese FF7 script to determine what exactly the word that was translated as "clones" was. Because of course I am having these thoughts at Dad's place, where I do not have FF7 Ultimania Omega.

Okay, so, this is a fic about GRANNY WEATHERWAX and LOZ, YAZOO AND KADAJ. That means GO READ IT. :D? :D.

Because she didn't even want to imagine how big an explosion a place full of wizards could make if they got their hands on an overgrown boy with no upbringing and a knack for engines.

Also because I quite enjoy the :DDDDDD!retarded way that Loz is written by most people. XD Because, hell, after Advent Children, who cares about characterisation, right? Also for a line in description of Yazoo because kjasfdhasd ahahaha, there are too few lines that describe Yazoo and I like him. ......where have all my Yazoo icons gone? D:

I think I went to bed at about half twelve last night, which makes my sleep-in partially justifiable, but I also drew things before I went to bed, which is awesome. I drew Aeris! I never draw Aeris. More importantly, I drew Aeris doing strange things with her arms, which is impressive for me. XD It's not every day that I start with the hands and go from there. Anyway, it's a good note to christen the new A4 sketchbook on.

Once again I had weird dreams about taking care of things that were determined to kill themselves. It seems to be a theme. There was some kind of zombie dream, and some kind of looking after escaped sloths dream, which, man, I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START WITH THAT ONE. XD They weren't even sloths! They were like little green Graeme Base hedgehog!dragons. XD;

Anyway, mum is at the coast today taking food to my grandparents and I am trying to decide whether I want to work on Monday despite the fact that I'll be going in to talk to Jeff about getting references, and thinking no, because fuck Luke and his poor baby seventy hours a week WELL MAYBE IF YOU HIRED SOMEONE WORTH EMPLOYING. Seriously. It's ridiculous. So, yes, definitely thinking no. And making a list of places to hand in my resume~! Because that was part of the reason I was having such trouble sleeping last night. The unfortunate thing is that I'll have to go clothes shopping again, but I suppose that is what the holidays are for.

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Also, someone needs to remind me that I do in fact have an exam on Tuesday and as such I should really study for the damn thing. >_>; But I just want to drawwwwwwwwwwwww.

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Also, for the record, I really love the Vagrant Story sound track. I wish I had the patience to put it on paper, because I can't find sheet music for it anywhere, except the stuff arranged by Barhaven.

Restructuring is a motherless whore, but I think I'm ready to roll on this Half Jack proposal and I ought to be able to finish it by six o' clock tonight. Novel is already done and dealt with, so all that I need to do tomorrow is draw things and make this proposal presentable, and then drop the fucking thing in to Assignment Minder.

Probably the most embarrassing thing about the frustration of this task is how much I enjoy working through my vicious annoyance and sorting everything out. I am doomed to a life of screaming and tea and pulling out my hair... and I will probably enjoy every minute of it. :( And be bored when the pain stops. What the hell, self.

Also, for those of you who do read the Anita Blake series, I just found a lovely Asher/Jean Claude piece. Set after the book where everyone forgives everything and I writhe in joy because Asher is no longer such a sad, sad, beautiful panda. (And on the note of Asher, who agrees with me when I say that this Kojima Ayami artwork is definitely based on or the base for Asher? Also, fuck, I love Kojima Ayami. ♥ Her grotesquery makes me happy in my pants. Where the hell is my Castlevania poster, anyway? That poster was hot. ♥)

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And it's a damn good thing that this will be mostly finished by six, because I think that's as long as I can possibly expect my hands to last out under the assault.

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Or, uh, not by six. >_>; Shhhhh.

Okay, feather_qwill has convinced me.

Read these. I don't know why I've never read them before. Morally ambiguous characters are excellent. Amazingly, I am actually less fascinated with the gay porn than I am with the universe. It's been so long since I read a decent scifi murder mystery, and this is like the gay version of Bladerunner. Making the main character an interrogator is a nice, if simplistic, way to get around problems of exposition, and I will say that it's a little heavy on the dialogue, but it works very nicely and I'm just... very impressed by the complexity of the situation. I'm only about... well, a little over a third of the way through Mind Fuck, but colour me fascinated.

(Someone tell me why I fell out of scifi. Where are my Doctor Who novels? Where is The Placebo Effect? Why don't I own any Who novels any more? Where has Return of the Zygons gone? D: I may need to crawl back into it over the mid-semester break; I'd forgotten how I used to just devour. I still have that Fairyland novel that I picked up because it reminded me of Tina's future!fae, and I... god, I have so many books to read, ahahaha, I am just looking at my bookshelf and realising how many of them I have bought and let sit for years. I still haven't read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell; how many years has that been out?)

I love reading. I love reading, I love reading, I love reading. Why am I becoming a writer and not a librarian or a book shop owner? Hopefully my mother's retirement plans will take care of that. (She wants to own a book shop, and she wants to employ me to read things and write little reasons-to-love-this cards for them. I LIKE THIS PLAN.)

I think I need to make a list of books I own that I have not read yet, or simply have to read again, just so I can keep track of them. XD;

Speaking of keeping track of things, I'm looking at classes for next semester. ( So far it looks like a dog's breakfast. )

Ernie and Vince have stolen attributes from each other for the sake of cohesion, which annoys me, because Ernie was meant to be the crossword man, but now Vince has decided he doesn't like the media, which leaves Ern to take care of the front pages and the plot development. Sigh. Why can't characters ever do what they're bloody well told?

(Because that makes it all far less interesting. Yes, I know. Still.)

I'm sorry for the spam, guys, it's just that the new version of SeMagic doesn't like me editing, so it's easier just to post. Here are some Good Omens fics that I found over on the Yuletide archive - I don't know why I don't hang out there more often.

Cumulative Effort by Magpie
Very nicely written, very nicely in-character, and just all around has the right feel, even though Aziraphale as the experienced one is so very, very rare. ♥ Of course, he still has these gorgeous moments of awkwardness and, okay, I'm going to stop talking about it now. XD

Naked and Unashamed by Louise Lux
Purely for the drunken conversation re. sins at the top. XD And the line, Aziraphale thought they'd done enough understanding for one day. (Really, you can skip the sex in the middle, it is unspectacular.)

...okay, you know what? You may as well just go straight to the archive, because most Yuletide stuff is worth reading a time or five.

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dairysorbet should, I think, understand where I get it from. XD H-he's not usually this exuberant...

Dad: Hello, Robert speaking.
Me: Hello! Just me.
Dad: AH HAH DARLING HELLO.
Me: o.0 I-is this a bad time? You sound like you're running.
Dad: NO! I HAVE SPENT DAYS TRYING TO FIND YOUR HOME NUMBER! I HAVE YOUR PHONE! *excited*

XD XD XD Given that I called him specifically to ask when he was home so I could pick it up, and had previously spoken to Kyla about having left it there, it was just a highly amusing conversation. XD XD XD

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._. Boy, there have been a lot of stories on incest lately.

And on a similar note with a completely different tone, I love Richard.

And on a note that is at least related by way of sex to the first link and webcomics to the second: I never really read Questionable Content before this year's April Fool's trade-page with XKCD, but now I'm finding myself checking back fairly frequently. Not because of many of the characters - purely because when Sven and Faye get together, I want to know about it. The fact that this story arc is dragging for as long as it has is really frustrating to me. XD I want my Sven/Faye, dammit! Properly.

And... uh... unrelated except on the note of men that I love, a new Nightrunner book. :D So soon after alleyne and I have finished the series, too! (Speaking of which, Rage, would you like my extra copies? XD; Keep the ones you have and I'll slip you Luck in the Shadows again when next we meet.)

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Oh, for the love of--

GRAMMAR:

IT'S NOT OPTIONAL, BITCHES.

Sometimes I just want to make badges. Spiked badges, like the blue koopa shells in Mario games. And I want to throw them at people's faces.

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lololol, since I was watching the new David Atenborough thing five minutes ago: who here knew that Shingleback Lizard males just picked a female and started following them? XD XD XD This is officially the greatest animal relationship ever, aside from all the ones that D tries to scare Leon with at the end of that volume where Chris asked about sex. .......you know, I probably ought to be able to remember what volume that is........

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GOD, PEOPLE, SPAM MORE, WOULD YOU. I FEEL ALL ALONE, HERE, AND I'M EVEN MAKING AN EFFORT NOT TO POST AS MUCH. D:

[EDIT] So of course as soon as I post I find something else that is awesome and must be communicated:

If Azula is really secretly in love with Zhao, all I gotta say is, WHY THE FUCK AREN'T I CAUGHT UP ON SEASON THREE OF AVATAR. D: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?

It is really rare for me to read a piece of fiction that deals with disease, and even rarer for that fiction to be amazing. But The Only Living Boy in New York was that rare thing and now I'm just going to sit here and thank small gods and large gods that I'm alive and well and all that's bothering me at the moment is a headache and the residual ache of the shots. ;_; I love stories.

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Oh, hello five ay em. (I am always surprised at how awake I feel after four hours of sleep when six hours makes me feel like I am dying.) Heigh ho?

I just watched Little Miss Sunshine for the first time and came away wanting to read more about Dwayne and Frank. ( Belated thoughts. )

I knew Yuletide wouldn't fail me, but it looks like the rest of the internet has. :( Any idea where I can find fic, guys? I know it's an atypical fandom, but they were interesting people and I liked them both a lot.

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Also, thoughts on the Crisis Core soundtrack thus far are that... well, there are a lot of tracks with a nice sound to them. I adore the acoustic and slightly CW twang; it fits Zack very well. My only problem with it is that it's way, way too repetitive.

( Apparently I get a little preachy about some of my favourite game music! XD )

In essence, I like the Zack twang, but I think Ishimoto-san needs to learn when less is more... and when more is needed.

[EDIT] Whoops, my bad: "The World's Enemy" is actually Toyama Kazuhiko's fault, not Ishimoto's.

I really, really do. :3 It was probably a mistake to pick up the manga during breakfast, because now I'm in the mood to watch the anime, but... oh, well. Must regain Conductor!head for the day, and then probably read and crit people's novel openings.

This can really only go ahead if someone saves me from myself by preventing me from reading all of ciceqi's FFVII fic, since her Zack/Sephiroth for SpringKink was fucking amazing and I have found the rest of her sekrit stash. (I am in a FFVII mood again. I wonder if I can go back to F&F tonight after I finish the Novel draft? :3 That would be lovely.)

...yeah, today is a day for fandom!head, it seems. That's not going to help anyone. XD

NOTE TO SELF:

D/LEON FROM TELANU = GET.

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