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I'm bored and there's nothing to do but drink and surf the Internet and write, because lol trapped at the end of the street and getting more and more trapped as the snow comes down outside. Give me prompts! I find I am kind of in a porn-writing mood, but who knows.

(I was sort of thinking of doing more kink_bingo amnesty ficlets, and also sort of tempted to do them all Buffy/John, but I was thinking of going for a diagonal and one of the squares on my card is "facial". Lol trying to come up with any kind of scenario in which Buffy would let someone come on her face. Actually that might be ~challenge~ enough to get me to write it, just to see if it can be done. SCENARIOS IN WHICH BUFFY WOULD LET JOHN COME ON HER FACE: GO. IDK IDK, I have been drinking steadily, albeit not heavily, since noon.)

Current Mood: bored

No.

Current Mood: horrified

Because I am trying to distract myself from various offline-life annoyances: I am kind of in love with that that "create your fake TV show" meme that's going around, so if anyone wants me to create a fake TV show or three, please do leave me prompts or concepts or settings or whatever. I already have a couple of these to do, but honestly I love them so much that I am up for doing way more.

Current Mood: creative

( One line, pretty much contextless, from tonight's SPN. )

As far as I'm concerned, my crossover OTP is pretty much canon.

ETA: AND ( spoiler ) So I am pretty pleased by this episode on the whole. Not pleased enough to start watching again, but pretty pleased.

ETA2: Apparently they changed the title to this episode at the last minute; speculation is that they couldn't get the rights to whatever it was originally supposed to be. If they couldn't get the rights to that, then they definitely couldn't have gotten the rights to this, but I still maintain that "Man, That Was All She Wrote" would've been the best possible title for this episode, especially given that the last person we see is ( spoiler )

Current Mood: amused

• My thread at that crankypants love meme is here.

+ It snowed last night, just enough that everything is pretty. I dashed down a couple of ~writerly thoughts~ by hand, but have not actually shaped them into anything attractive yet.

- I have to venture out and mail this thing for paperbackswap.com. Ugh why do I sign up for this sort of thing, I never end up finding anything I want and I hate having to mail shit. ML;SH.

• Today, as LJ as my witness, I will actually write some shit. 1000 words of original, 500 of fic. Yes. I can do that.

• Young Justice League cartoon!!!!! Okay, obviously I am jazzed about &Cissie; and &Superboy; (and oh my gosh that Cissie looks so badass) but NEEDS MOAR WONDER GIRL AND/OR EMPRESS. >:( >:( >:( Especially Empress, because unless Aqualad or someone is a character of color in the DCAU, man that is one white lineup. I'm given to understand there's some kind of embargo on Wonders at the moment, which explains the lack of Cassie, but I am cranky nonetheless.

+ Also I realized upon rewatching the trailer for The Losers another five times and finally being able to focus on something other than "ZOE SALDANA IS MAKING OUT WITH JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN, HOLLYWOOD LOVES ME SO MUCH" that while it's a complete and total sausage-fest, the cast is pretty much half characters of color! And the one woman is a woman of color, so that is pretty cool. Still, NEEDS MOAR LADIES. Also JDM going "ladies? :D?" in such a way that you can hear the fingerguns in his voice is pretty amazing.

- I have a headache starting to develop. It sort of feels like it might turn into a migraine. Okay, I'm going to suck down some tea, because that helps, and pop a couple ibuprofen, and then venture out into the world.

Current Mood: okay

I understand everyone is pretty distressed over some stuff Pete Wentz said on Twitter, and I am sorry you guys are sad. I believe I can offer some ~comforting history~. Yes it all comes back to the E Street Band with me in the end, whatever whatever.

OKAY HERE IS THE THING. First while the E Street Band was recording Born In The USA, Steve left the band and Bruce was HEARTBROKEN!!!! and wrote "Bobby Jean" about him. And while everyone in the band showed up individually on the next album, Tunnel Of Love, it is generally not considered a band album. And then after ToL he gave up entirely, broke up the band and ran off to California and had a nervous breakdown and got married and made some forgettable solo albums with what everyone refers to as The Other Band.

BUT THEN!!!

In 1999 they did a reunion tour! They were in great form and it went over really well with everyone and they all seemed to be having a lot of fun onstage!

AND THEN!!!!!

In late 2001 someone pulled up next to Bruce while he was driving, rolled down their window, and said "we need you right now", and he started writing some songs, showed them to a couple of people, and realized that these were not songs for a solo album, they were songs for THE LEGENDARY E STREET BAND. So he GOT THE BAND BACK TOGETHER and made three more albums with them over the course of the next few years and this past November they just finished what was close to two straight years of touring, with just a month or so's break here and there.

In fact, at a show on that tour, someone held up a sign that said "my band broke up, play 'Backstreets'" and here is that performance! Note the moment at 5:35 after the line "on the backstreets until the end" where he looks ~wistful~ and says "yeah, it's tough when your band breaks up :')" and remember that even as he is saying that he is right there with the band after they have gotten back together. It's a happy ending!

In conclusion, you never know with failbot manchild musician types. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER!

IT'S ALL GOING TO BE OKAY

Books read in January:

A Curse Dark As Gold, Elizabeth C. Bunce (reread)
The True Meaning Of Smekday, Adam Rex (reread)

There were a couple other things, but I can't remember what they were now. >:(

Fic written in January:

Sort Of Like A Corporate Retreat If You Squint; RPF (E Street Band), gen, all audiences, ~660 words
Who's Playing Who; BtVS/Leverage, Buffy/Sophie, mature, ~620 words
everybody knows I'm her friend; Gossip Girl/Iron Man (2008), Serena/Blair/Tony, explicit, ~1400 words
out of the sun; RPF (E Street Band), Patti/Steve, teen, ~600 words
Don't Gimme No Lip; RPF (Cobra Starship), Victoria/Gabe, explicit, ~850 words
This Is How It Works; BtVS/SPN, Buffy/John, explicit, ~1140 words

Porn Battle was pretty productive for me this time around! I'm still sort of hoping to get at least one more ficlet written, but nothing else is really ~calling~ to me, or else it's turning into actual fic instead of just PWP. Hmmm.

Current Mood: awake

I worry that this is kind of deraily, but I think we all know that I am generally pretty quick to complain about how ladies are treated in fandom, so I'm taking my chances. Anyway, the point is, I'm trying for tangential more than derailing, but if it's coming off as derailing, then I apologize and everyone should disregard it.

Anyway, I really liked a lot of what

bookshop had to say in this post and this one. Here is what confuses me, though -- is "my flist might not be interested" really that huge a stumbling block for, you know, talking about fandom? ( A little more on this. )

So what I am getting at, I guess, is -- go ahead. Talk about it. I promise you, people will notice, and the Internet will be a more delightful place for everyone involved because of it.

Current Mood: okay

Okay, so

pirateygoodness shared some pictures from a photoshoot Blake Lively did with Esquire, in which she was "pretending to be James Dean"! Leather jacket, wifebeater, I seriously love when girls rock the greaser look, so I had to check it out.

( A couple of pictures from said shoot. )

Like, leaving aside how horribly poor Blake was greased up, it's a pretty great bunch of pictures! There was something I really liked about them, something that seemed kind of familiar, and I couldn't figure it out. Especially on that second one, I was like "wait, I -- ratty wifebeater, pulling up the collar of the leather jacket, lost-little-kid look on her face -- I know that picture, it's not James Dean, where do I OH MY ACTUAL GOD."

( I am genuinely a little ashamed of how long it took me to figure it out. )

THAT PRETTY PRETTY LADY IS TOTALLY PRETENDING TO BE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND I REFUSE TO BE TOLD OTHERWISE.

Current Mood: dorky

So, like, last spring there were rumors about The Losers, and IMDB said that Zoe Saldana AND Jeffrey Dean Morgan were both supposed to be in it, and I was like "haha, that would be awesome, too bad it's never going to actually happen" because IMDB is always showing fangirl rumors and people's wishful casting and stuff, it was no good to get my hopes up.

OH MY ACTUAL GOODNESS

The only way I know that this is real, rather than my having finally snapped and just started imagining things, is that if it were me running it, it would be more like JDM was the only dude on the cast instead of Zoe Saldana being the only woman, or no, it would be more like 50-50 at least. And the music would be all Springsteen. Or maybe Cobra Starship, they're more action-movie-trailer-friendly. And more ladies, which I mentioned already, but bears repeating. That aside, why am I not watching this movie right the fuck now.

RIGHT

THE

FUCK

NOW

ETA: ( WHAT I'M NOT GOING FRAME-BY-FRAME, SHUT UP. )

Current Mood: excited

i. Pentagon to detail new 'don't ask, don't tell' steps -- guys, they're gonna come up with a plan to take steps to lay groundwork for repealing it! And then present that to Congress/the White House! We queers should be grateful, WHY AREN'T YOU MORE GRATEFUL.

ii. I'm rereading A Curse Dark As Gold, and ugh I love it so much. Charlotte is seriously one of my favorite characters ever -- this wonderful, strong, brittle young woman who's so fiercely protective of her own. And the setting, England around the time of the Industrial Revolution, is so well-developed and fantastic, filled with folk traditions and this creepy, wonderful ghost story. I wanted to nominate this for Yuletide, but honestly there's nothing to do with it, fic-wise. Maybe ridiculous AUs? I admit, I would totally read an AU where Charlotte was, IDK, running a little diner in the mid-Atlantic or something. Or maybe I should just write that myself and change the names! After all, like the man said, good writers borrow but great writers steal. :D? :D?

iii. A few people have commented on me and Night's Buffy/John ficlets for Porn Battle with something along the lines of "wow, I am really intrigued by this pairing!" STEP INTO MY WEB, INTERNETS. >:D

iv. I've been watching this round of the whole women-and-slash discussion when it's caused ripples on my flist, but not much, because mostly

impertinence summed up my feelings pretty well: y'all, we've been talking about this for a long fucking time. It's just bumming me out at this point, because for a few weeks we'll pat ourselves on the back for comitting! to! change! and then, you know, go back to writing about white dudes.

Like, I was actually really reluctant to do Home Team because I knew for a fact that was how it would end, with all of us feeling smug for Caring About Female Characters and not actually having to do anything like write more fic that's not about white dudes. I was sort of thinking about not doing it again this summer, but I may have an alternative plan for it instead, so we'll see. I also had some thoughts about an aspect of one of

bookshop's posts that made me blink a bit in confusion, but this is long enough already and I have a couple of errands to run, so that'll have to wait for later.

Current Mood: busy

I have been pretty in love with that chromatic casting meme going around! But pretty much everything I could think of, other people had already done. I sort of toyed with Firefly, but wasn't really too excited about it. Then it hit me -- I could do one of my favorite movies, National Treasure.

( 'Do you know what the Preservation Room is for?' 'Delicious jams and jellies?' )

I love this cast SO MUCH. Now, as much as I love that movie, I'm always going to be a little bit sad when I watch that movie and that's not Ben.

Current Mood: amused

i. SPICE GIRLS MUSICAL. I have nothing rational to say about this.

ii. I only saw half of Leverage last night because I was super-sleepy and finally gave up and went to bed at 10:30, figuring TNT would rerun it at some point (plus don't they usually stream it online after it airs?). What I saw, I liked!

iii. Since I finished Gossip Girl S1 and don't have S2, I needed something new to watch while I worked out in the morning, so I watched Doctor Who for the first time in ages, namely "Girl In The Fireplace", which I love but whose ending is so fucking stupid that it ruins the whole thing. Ten is irritating me a little less this time around on the whole, though, so that's all to the good, and also I was delighted by seeing Angel Coulby.

iv. I'm working on a chromatic casting for National Treasure, and now I'm so delighted by the cast I've got that I suspect I will be disappointed in the future when I put the DVD in and realize that cast is just in my head. :( I'll have to get into Photoshop at some point today so I can post that.

v. Returning to the subject of Gossip Girl, I really want a Serena/Blair vid to "23rd Street Lullaby". Also, I was thinking about how the show is really obviously the tale of their epic tempestuous love and was like "is this how McShep people feel all the time? Or Wincesters?" I really like this feeling!

vi. Things I have enjoyed reading this Porn Battle:

Best Laid Plans is the Teen Titans fic I have ALWAYS WANTED TO READ, namely Tim/Cassie/Kon.
Tear All Your Walls Down is Buffy Summers/John Winchester. &inlovewithnight;
Wicked Game is Buffy/Giles that actually reads like them, which is shocking and wondrous!
Hide And Seek is Leighton/Gabe! I am all in favor of stories where ladies put Gabe Saporta in his place. And also Leighton Meester.
like a new link in an old chain is Blake/Leighton with spanking.

Maybe I'll try to write some more for that today.

Current Mood: okay

A Texas D.A.'s office is prosecuting an underaged victim of sex trafficking for prostitution after letting the thirty-two-year-old who'd been pimping her out for two years walk free. She was thirteen at the time of her arrest in 2007. Here is the story on another blog, also.

What I am feeling is so far beyond being offended, because between this and Roman Polanski defenders I am basically being bombarded with the message that nobody gives a damn what happens to women and girls. Normally I do okay about ignoring that and getting on with my life, but I can't deal with discussing it right now.

Also, even though they're just stock images and bad manips, the images on that blog are also really bothering me. Just so you're all informed. This was interesting, though, if depressing.

Current Mood: angry

This post will probably be updated as the Battle continues and I write more.

Who's Playing Who is Buffy Summers/Sophie Devereaux. This will probably make a lot more sense if you know that in S8 it comes out that the way the Slayers are funding themselves is by pulling heists and stealing Nazi treasures.
everybody knows I'm her friend is Gossip Girl/Iron Man (the 2008 movie), Serena Van Der Woodsen/Blair Waldorf/Tony Stark.
out of the sun is E Street Band RPF. In my head, this is Patti/Steve/Bruce, in the way that in my head, everything that could ever possibly be written for that band is [PERSON OR PEOPLE]/Bruce, because Bruce wants gay marriage and polygamy legalized so that he can marry his entire band, but strictly speaking I guess it's Patti/Steve with Bruce watching? Good times, good times.
Don't Gimme No Lip is bandom, Cobra Starship, Gabe/Vicky-T.
This Is How It Works is BtVS/SPN, Buffy/John. With tickling? Um.

In short, I like polyfic and crossovers, which comes as news to exactly no one.

Current Mood: sleepy

( Last night's Leverage. )

What is my stomach doing today. Ugh, this is not fucking acceptable. :(

Current Mood: sick

To go along with the Patti Scialfa interview clips from last night (time when I will get sick of hearing her coo "you're just a baby": NEVER EVER),

handyhunter has clips from some interviews with Clarence and Bruce, including Clarence talking about Bruce breaking up the band and how "we fell in love" (exact quote there; seriously, Clarence is completely open about the fact that he and Bruce are totally in love with each other and have been from the beginning). ONE TRUE BAAAAAAND. In case you guys wanted some backstory for writing fic! :D? :D?

For those of you who are n00bs to the band, because it took me ages before I learned everyone's name, ( here is a quick run-through guide to who's who in the E Street Band, with a group photo, so you can put names with faces. )

Current Mood: okay

I was feeling cranky about fandom, but instead of me actually talking about that shit, have some things that have delighted me recently instead.

This isn't new or anything, but it has some gems in it and I felt the need to hear Patti coo over how the dude interviewing her is "just a baby", so here are some audio clips from an interview Rolling Stone did with her a couple of years ago! GUYS THESE CLIPS ARE THE MOST ADORABLE THING ON THE PLANET. HER LITTLE FACE. The awkward pauses after he asks her these personal questions are sort of amazing. But she talks about how she met Bruce and lied about her plans for the evening because she didn't want to drag him to the party with her. And also how sometimes Bruce writes songs that make her go "what the fuck" (direct quote), and she uses the word "neophyte", and basically is just the adorablest. Oh band, bless your little cotton socks.

Also, a couple of fic recs. Plumage, or: Kanye Is the Dopest is Yuletide fic written by someone who doesn't have an AO3 account, and it is the most incredible story ever in the history of mankind. It is hip-hop RPF in which Kanye West gets turned into a peacock. It is even more amazing than it sounds.

"He ain't staying here. No, no, no," Jay says, and if Kanye didn't know about the something Jay's got up his ass, he might be offended.

"He's your friend," B says. It's refreshing to hear her say it without any disowning emphasis on "your."

"Illegal" Is Just Another Word For "Business Opportunity" is Gossip Girl RPF, a Blake/Leighton AU set in the 20s "in which Blake is a liquor smuggler and Leighton is a flapper and Chace runs an underground speakeasy for fabulous homosexuals." It is really delightful, sexy and fun and sweet and oh man I love 20s AUs so much.

Current Mood: sick

I am sick and cranky. Also I caught most of "Abandon All Hope" at last since it reran last night! I say most because about three-quarters of the way through Mom and I decided that we were fucking done with this show. Probably I will tune in again for ( spoiler for an upcoming episode ), though, and probably I will continue reading/writing/yammering about the characters I like, but I probably won't be watching any more. They've made it perfectly clear how much they hate having me as a fan, so why should I sit back and continue to let them rub it in?

(Consider yourselves lucky; that bit was originally two very long paragraphs until I remembered that I am sick and cranky and thus more likely to be gratuitously nasty, although I could never be as gratuitously nasty about SPN as they are about me. Okay, I'm done, I promise. For now.)

I also started watching Community, which I like! It is a little eerie how closely Greendale resembles my college experience. :D: Frustratingly, Hulu doesn't seem to be working for me today, so I can't watch more. >:(

Plus on Wednesday there was Leverage! ( Spoilers. )

Like I said, sick and cranky. But at least I'm getting some laundry done.

Current Mood: sick

Title: Sort Of Like A Corporate Retreat If You Squint
Author:

cidercupcakes
Rating: PG, mostly just for language
Fandom: RPF (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
Pairings: It's either gen or it's Bruce Springsteen/The Entire E Street Band. You be the judge.
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: This is complete fiction.
Words: 664
Notes: This is very silly. Written for the trope-prompt meme.

austen gave me "huddling together for warmth" and chose ESB as the fandom.
Summary: ( Bruce decides that the band needs a team-building exercise. As always, nobody calls Roy. )

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doot doot doot
No.
Maybe it's magic or contains some kind of monster. The second one.
So I had to come back for tonight's episode.
I'll trade you this delicious doorstop for your crummy old danish.
To my friends the FOB fans
The month in words: January '10
There's nothing better on a snowy Saturday night than curling up with a hot cup of tl;dr.
And I may or may not die young, I haven't decided yet.
It feels way later than 8:30 PM, also.
Why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?
I'd love to go shopping, too, but we have no money.
Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa!
Comments off because I cannot deal with talking about this, even just to share rage.
Stuff written for this round Porn Battle
This could be some kind of scam! Or possibly scamola!
If anything happens, just use your best jud -- um, just do what I would do.
the always-controversial couch vault
Goodbye, cruel velvet drapes!
Fic: Sort Of Like A Corporate Retreat If You Squint (PG, E Street Band, gen)

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doot doot doot

No.

Maybe it's magic or contains some kind of monster. The second one.

So I had to come back for tonight's episode.

I'll trade you this delicious doorstop for your crummy old danish.

To my friends the FOB fans

The month in words: January '10

There's nothing better on a snowy Saturday night than curling up with a hot cup of tl;dr.

And I may or may not die young, I haven't decided yet.

It feels way later than 8:30 PM, also.

Why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?

I'd love to go shopping, too, but we have no money.

Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa!

Comments off because I cannot deal with talking about this, even just to share rage.

Stuff written for this round Porn Battle

This could be some kind of scam! Or possibly scamola!

If anything happens, just use your best jud -- um, just do what I would do.

the always-controversial couch vault

Goodbye, cruel velvet drapes!

Fic: Sort Of Like A Corporate Retreat If You Squint (PG, E Street Band, gen)

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