happy turkey day everyone :D

i will be spending today on my couch, watching television and writing. and possibly finishing my chapel/gaila art. XD what are you all doing for your holidays? and does anyone else besides me still get a stupid childish pleasure out of the macy's thanksgiving day parade? right now jimmy fallon and the roots are singing on a giant guitar. eeeee and the snoopy balloon!!!! i love it. :3

i watched the first two episodes of merlin last night. the acting is pretty terrible, but everyone is very pretty and i may or may not be spending part of today reading some fic. likeaglass i blame you. :P i'm not getting into this fandom, especially not when i've finally caved and begun writing spn, but a girl can dabble in some fic every now and then, right?

also, i have a few google wave invites to give out. comments are screened, so leave your email address in a comment if you want an invite and i will send them along. <3

so i know there are a lot of TOS fans out there on my flist, and right now i am staring VERY HARD at each and every one of you. why, you ask?

because i am modding a fic challenge to reboot all of the original series episodes using reboot-verse canon! operation80 opens for signups on december 10 and close on december 31-- which is over a week after yuletide is due, so no wimping out. posting will open in feburary and run through the end of march-- so really, if you're a fan of classic trek and new trek both, you have no excuse.

i put up a post this afternoon with guidelines and rules, and there's about two and a half weeks til signups even open, so you will all have time to plot and plan and ask questions and (hopefully) pimp the community out on your own journals! XD really, i'm just hoping we get decent turnout; i'm ridiculously excited about this and i don't even know which episode i want to write for yet.

if you're interested and you haven't seen much TOS, you can still join! there are tons of ways to find the episodes online and fear not, i will have a post dedicated to such ends. ;D

GO FORTH AND JOIN. it is going to be SUPER FUCKING AWESOME.

Title : This Kind of Loneliness
Fandom : Supernatural
Characters/Pairing : John Winchester, Ellen Harvelle, past John/Ellen
Rating : PG-13
Warnings : spoilers for SPN 1x01 and 2x06/2x14.
Word Count : 1265
Summary : It had been twelve years since his shape had darkened her door and still she knew him. How could she not?
A/Ns : unbeta'd, forgive any errors in continuity because my memory of john's storyline in s1 is a little hazy. for morlockiness's prompt at the fall fandom free-for-all. title and cut text from the rolling stones.

( i've been travelling but I don't know where / i've been missing you but you just don't care  )

stolen from pseudicide!

Eight ships you like :
1. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek XI)
2. Jayne/Inara (Firefly)
3. Sandor/Sansa (ASoIaF)
4. McCoy/Chapel (Star Trek XI)
5. Harry/Draco (Harry Potter)
6. Kara/Anders (Battlestar Galactica)
7. Phedre/Joscelin/Hyacinthe (Kushiel's Legacy)
8. Jon/Danaerys (ASoIaF)

Four ships you're curious about :
9. Arthur/Merlin (Merlin)
10. Puck/Rachel (Glee)
11. Neal/Peter (White Collar)
12. Dean/Castiel (Supernatural)

Two ships you don't like :
13. Kirk/Pike (Star Trek XI)
14. Simon/Kaylee (Firefly)

( and the questions & answers under the cut.... )

another psa - did a teensy friendscut today just to cut down on the size of my reading list - with the holidays coming up (oh, retail) it's likely i'll end up checking LJ less, and i want to make sure it's manageable. and just a reminder even if you were cut, you won't miss anything because i don't flock anything here, and you can always link me to things you want me to see. ♥!

and now, a meme! i changed a few of these categories b/c i didn't have anything that fit the ones listed-- most of my icons actually fall into one of three categories -- "awesome", "wtf" and "nyeeeeeeeerd!!" so anyway, here they are. XD

The Character Expression Meme

.happy.	.sad.	.angry.	.scared.
.disgusted.	.surprised.	.flirty.	.sexual.
.awesome.	.angsty.	.playful.	.interested.
.hurt.	.guilty.	.bored.	.laughing.
.sarcastic.	.tired.	.wtf.	.blissful.
.sympathy.	.evil.	.innocent.	.in love.
YOUR	FOUR	FAVORITE	ICONS

WANT TO DO IT TOO?
Snag yourself the coding here.

so i'm just saying, there's this community, pilotsbigbang, and the minimum word limit is only 10,000 and you don't have to have the draft in until march 28.

anyone who was looking for a sequel to 'reconciliation', you might get it sooner than you thought.....

also, idk if it's because i've had the busiest last 72 hours ever, but i feel like i haven't talked to any of you in a while (except you, singingintime, obviously). so talk to me, tell me things. it's friday! are you excited about this? what are you doing with your weekend?

i'm still getting to all of your questions from the 'resistance is futile' thing, btw. i'm looking forward to your answers!

it should be noted that i plan to read every big bang eventually, or at least i plan to try to do so. i'm going to start with the kirk/spock ones probably (expectedly, i hope, lol) but i think i've only read like three so far besides the one i beta'd. just trawling the community makes me go O_O;;;; i really can't believe how fucking cool it is that we have so many big bangs and the fandom isn't even a year old yet. *pats its head fondly*

also, trek_exchange still wants writers. seriously you guys, 1000 words is nothing. if you're already a writer, you know this. you can literally request anything you want, be as specific or general as you feel like, and dude, even if you end up with an assignment you're not salivating to write, it's like eating your vegetables-- it'll stretch your writing muscles and who knows, maybe you'll stumble across a fic you never meant to write but that you end up loving. don't make me keep reasoning with you, flist. go sign up. XD

they moved my desk at work so i can't stare at the hot girl when she walks down the hall anymore. >.>;;; probably for the best, but still, my day is that much less interesting now. oh well, will make up for it with reading fic. XD

today's post was brought to you by yesterday's 17 hour day, 5 hours of sleep, and not getting home until 10pm tonight. ugh.

Title : Thy Countenance Fallen
Fandom : Battlestar Galactica
Characters/Pairing : Helena Cain / Gina Inviere
Rating : R
Warnings : brief description of non-con.
Word Count : 757
Summary : two moments in a relationship.
A/Ns : for teh_gandu at oxoniensis's fall fandom free for all. title taken from the book of genesis.

( She stirs in the darkness, reaching out blindly for the light. )

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

( my questions from zippitgood... )

now all of you do this so i can ask you stuff and you can ask me stuff back. XD

i have too many fics to finish for the fall fandom free for all-- they're supposed to be in tomorrow, though i know we can post after the date, i did want to get them in. urg. well, here's what it looks like i'll be writing when all's said and done :

- supernatural/ocean's 11 crossover genfic
- star trek xi, mccoy/chapel darkfic (for vega_ofthe_lyre ♥)
- star trek xi, ladies of the enterprise save the day
- bones, cam/angela (if i can get my shit together w/that one)
- asoiaf, arya reacting to finding out about sansa/sandor
- vmars, a followup dick/mac that actually fits the requester's prompt, lol
- bsg, cain/gina
- star trek xi, chapel/gaila art (omg, art. i actually have the lineart for this done, i just need to color it, and i'm unreasonably excited about it)

and then there are a bunch of others (gormenghast! west wing! his dark materials!) and some graphic promises (zombie wallpaper, omfggggg) that i want to do but idk if i'll have time.... hope, hope, i will hope. :"D

singingintime is like a one-woman cheerleading squad, yo. she's been reminding me that my tarsus iv thing is a good idea and will actually be read by someone, so, that's been nice. and you should all watch out for her totally awesome and hilarious california AU that probably won't be posted for months but for which it is my job to generate tons of hype so she is certain to finish it. XDDDDDDDDDDD

i am also completely wildly excited about my yuletide assignment, and that's all i'll say about that.


....hopefully writing will take my mind of the completely inappropriate baby crush i have on my rep from the temp agency (who is gorgeous and out and walks by my door like five times a day now and nrjsehfsdjfsjd). :E

also, 'welcome to the overground' by badly drawn boy sounds like the contemporary christian music my parents used to listen to when i was a kid. >.>;;;; ilu BDB, but do not want.

to my dearest, beloved yuletide writer....

( f. y. i. )

phew. okay, yuletide writer, i think that's your lot. thank you, thank you, thank you in advance for the fic you're going to write me-- i know i'm going to fall all over myself freaking out at how awesome it is, and i hope this post was helpful and clarifying. i might come back and edit it later (it's late and i want to get this up) but for now, if you've even finished reading this, you have my many many thanks, and i really can't wait to read what you come up with.

♥ ♥ ♥
betweenthebliss / emily

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
---> i wasn't tagged, but i stole it from candesgirl.

SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy. Unless you really don't want to of course. And if you're not tagged and you want to do it, then do!
---> idk why it stipulates sexy people, but my flist is full of them, so, whatever. XD mutantjules, presently, pseudicide, laulan, vellum, speccygeekgrrl, raindissolved and douxquemiel!

Who sleeps in bed next to you?
my fat cat and four pillows.

What did you last eat?
a kickass salad with avocado, apple, mesclun greens, almonds, etc

What kind of books do you read?
fantasy, mystery, steampunk, urban fantasy, and anything recommended by the people i trust.

If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?
boston, troy or maine

What's really creepy?
brother justin on 'carnivale'.

Name one odd item within five feet of you.
there's one of those weird huge markers that have spongy tips and are full of glue-- i always thought those were weird. why not just use a glue stick?

What's your current fandom / obsession / addiction?
star trek reboot (if you're reading this, you prooooooobably already know this)

What did you really want to do today that you didn't?
write another drabble

What are you most excited for?
The holidays, I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. <--- i'mma ditto candesgirl on this one.

What websites do you always visit when you go on line?
lj, gmail, twitter, dreamwidth, and my igoogle page which is full of games.

What was the last thing you bought?
a new piece of sultana from work, and before that my mom and i went shopping on my birthday and i got the awesomest bag ever.

If you could have any pet, what would it be?
the cat i already have is pretty awesome (and so suited to my personality, omg) but i would also like a dog.

Who's the most recent addition to your flist?
i wrote this question and i actually don't know the answer to it. i guess laulan though i had her as singingintime for a while before that. but now it's like we're not just fandom friends, we're RL-journal friends too, lol. ♥

What do you want right this minute, off the top of your head?
A decent job. I'd also love a cupcake. <--- aaaaaand i'm going to have to ditto candesgirl again.

Where is the place you like to return to in order to calm down / relax / etc.?
it varies, depending on what stressed me out in the first place. my bedroom, my mom's living room, sekala or douxquemiel or halfdreams/linaeloisetook's apartments... my car is ironically a failsafe, i'm never stressed when i'm driving (unless i'm late for something lol) but if i go for a drive it never fails to chill me out.

How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll centre of a Tootsie Pop?
I have immediate gratification issues. I bite almost immediately. <--- jen and i are clearly twins of some kind. >.>;;;

What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
you are ridiculously hot and if you weren't sort of my boss, i would perv on you worse than i already am. also, way to make me realize i have a thing for southern accents. >.<;;;;

Are there any bits of childhood that you miss?
holidays at my grandparents' house, and school vacations of all sorts.

Say something to the person who tagged you.
she didn't tag me, but candesgirl, you're awesome and i find it funny that we had similar answers for some things. XD

Title : When We Tried Not to Slip
Fandom : Veronica Mars
Characters/Pairing : Dick Casablancas/Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie
Rating : PG-13
Warnings : teenage drinking & drug use, a veritable avalanche of angst. and if you haven't seen through the end of vmars season 2 you won't have any clue what this is about.
Word Count : 800
Summary : two people, one loss; on the outside they couldn't be more different, but on the inside they're both trying to fill the same hole.
A/Ns : for snoozin81's prompt at oxoniensis's fall fandom free for all. the funny thing about this is how i handwrote a quick list of prompts to take w/me to work where i had no internet, and just wrote down dick/mac as a pairing, neglecting the actual meat of the prompter's request-- so while i was at work i wrote this, which in no way answers the prompt in the slightest. but i liked it so i'm posting it, and there will be another (way less angsty) dick/mac fic in the future. :3 and yes, title and cut text from 'freshmen' by the verve pipe (cus come on, find me a more appropriate song....)


( we've tried to wash our hands of all of this )

time for a little pimp action up in here.

trek_exchange
wants you.

i'm serious you guys-- go fucking sign up. you will not regret it. that's where my scotty/uhura fic came from, and the fic i got in return was AWESOME, and just, come ON. i know it's nano month but you won't actually have to write anything until december, and i know then it's yuletide month but seriously, there's no contribution too small. trek isn't eligible for yuletide, so think of this as a way to give some holiday presents to the rest of the fandom. we all deserve it!

the signup post is HERE. please, do me and yourselves and others a favor and sign up!

now back to your regularly scheduled friendslist. ♥

question for all you folks not currently residing in the united states :

i am no longer a regular smoker. however, i do enjoy the occasional djarum black clove when the fancy strikes-- usually when i'm drinking, but other times too. really i just love the smell and the taste, they're definitely a weakness right alongside 70% dark chocolate and really good gin. :3

so thanks to the US banning flavored cigarettes, they're pretty much extinct as far as walking into a store and buying them goes. the link above seems to be telling me that a pack is $22 to order them from the site-- which, not gonna lie, i'm not above spending since i'd know i'd have to parcel them out and they'd be like a treat or luxury thing. but i'm wondering if it might not be cheaper for me to try and get them other ways-- say, if any of you lovely folks would be willing or able to let me paypal you some money to buy me a few packs and toss them in the mail to me. they're not illegal to *have* in the US, they're just illegal to *sell*, so there wouldn't be a customs issue as far as i could see-- unless any of you know differently on that score, in which case please do enlighten me.

i'm willing to do just about anything in exchange; write you drabbles, mail you back a bath bomb or two from lush, whatever you like. just lemme know if any of you can find them cheaper than $22 a pack, and let's negotiate. :3 ilu guys!

(ps, i still want more prompts on the outtakes meme! and no, i'm not going to stop until more of you tag. XD)

my yuletide signups are done at last-- only took me about two and a half hours to do. hmph. so much for finishing my taxon app today. ;_; ( for the record, i signed up for... )

it's thursday already. i'm hungry. will be putting on V for Vendetta as background to my afternoon, because it is the fifth of november, indeed. even now, several years after i saw this movie for the first time, it still brings me to tears in places (probably not hard to guess which ones) and leaves me with an unshakable bittersweet feeling. i adore it for its ability to do that to me over and over, probably more than almost any other movie i can think of.

oh, and you all should go prompt me for outtakes from my fics. come on, this is your chance to have your very own writing slave, lol. do eeeeeeeet.

♥

SO BIG BANG IS DONE HOLY GOD YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. and because all of you are so amazing and supportive and wonderful for putting up with me throughout this insanity, i present for you all a meme that requires almost no effort on your part and will result in me writing more fic. XD

THE OUTTAKE MEME!

so you know that scene you always wanted to see in that fic i wrote? that missing chapter that would've just made your day to read? now's your chance to let it see the light of day. prompt me with an outtake or deleted scene from any of my fics, a "what happened next" or "what happened before", "the next day" or "five years later", and i will write a drabble answering the prompt. i'll take prompts for anything on the master list of my fic including the drabbles!

my responses will mostly be short, but if the inspiration takes me i might write longer pieces (and some of you have probably picked up by now on the fact that 'drabble' to me is several hundred words, lol).

i really hope you guys have fun with this, and unlike some of my other posted-and-forgotten drabble memes, i am going to do my goddamnedest to answer every prompt i get, even if it takes me a while. because i love you guys and i want to make sure you know it. ♥

also zoppity is THE SHIZZLE FOREVER and bought me a goddamn YEAR'S WORTH OF PAID TIME for an early birthday present!!!!! for which she earns the right to prompt me ANY OLD THING SHE WISHES, fic outtake or no. :3

i'm just going to come right out and quote olivia_circe because there's kind of no way my capslock can express my flail better than hers did.

"OH HOLY SHIT, ADAM LAMBERT. HOLY SHIT. THANK YOU FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER FOR WRITING AN UPBEAT DANCE SONG FOR THE MAINSTREAM RADIO THAT IS UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY ABOUT BDSM."

Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment [ lyrics | download ]

um yeah. YEAH. I LOVE THIS MAN. AND MY ICONS ARE GONE SO I CAN'T EVEN USE THE GOOD ONE OF HIM THAT I WANT TO USE RIGHT NOW. LAGJSLKDJLGAJWIFEORJSL. not gonna lie, i think this might've just trumped 'poker face' as my shameful pop addiction song of the moment. *listens to on repeat forever*

in case anyone hasn't been checking leupagus's journal every day for the past three weeks waiting for the update of "Only Good For Legends", it got updated on friday-- which was also big bang day, and therefore the best day ever. if anyone on my flist has not read this fic, GO AND DO IT RIGHT NOW. it is epic, my friends, truly epic.

i will be putting up a meme most likely tomorrow or wednesday asking people to prompt me for outtakes from my fics. so in case you want to ponder that, here's the master list of my fic for a refresher. :"} also i promised people a lot of stuff from the fall fandom free-for-all, and i mean to get that shit done starting tomorrow as well. (today is just for relaxing and recovering from my weekend of real-life awesome.)

my paid time ran out. can i survive two weeks with only six icons? time will tell........

i also am going to be sort of casually keeping track of my own novel in time with those of you slaving away at nanowrimo. i like seeing the progress meters, i like knowing i can commiserate with people and i like the tangible reminder that writing a shitton in a month is totally doable. so we'll see how that goes.

also the rec list will be updated possibly today. i'm working through it, it's taking forever and i'm thinking i'm going to have to move it to dreamwidth soon, if not this time. also question, i'm wondering if i should change my dreamwidth account name, because it's different from this LJ name (i'm chosenmortal over there if anyone wants to friend me) and i am afraid people won't recognize me or something. idk. i changed my default icon over there to the same default i have here, hopefully to reduce confusion. or possibly it doesn't matter and i'm overthinking this.

also raphaela667 has posted another west wing / trek AU snippet. and if you're not reading THOSE, especially you, douxquemiel, get on that shit. XD