my kids used to burst into tears whenever they saw Steve Van Zandt

Placeholder! Letter will go up as soon as I can manage it, I promise.

(Also, everyone go sign up for rarewomen! TBH I'm just sort of hoping it will result in more Anna/Mary, because besssssssssst.)

Just today finished S3 in my DS9 rewatch. I was explaining to the fangirl contingent on Sunday that leaving aside my more srs bzns issues with the "Cardassians = SPACE NAZIS!!!!" thing (not least that most of the time it seems much more like they're going for the Romans, hence my inability to not refer to internal Bajoran issues as People's Bajoran Front vs. People's Front of Bajor, and the SPACE NAZIS!!!! thing just seems really jarring and clumsy), there's also the part where Cardassia is basically a planet of Bluths. Dukat especially is like 50% GOB and 50% the other Bluths. "The one thing I will never do is not tell Ziyal I have a cabin in the woods and then not take her!" Dukat was learning life lessons all over the place.

Also I am mostly having fun with how he seems to be hitting on Sisko all the time. I mean mostly he seems to be into EVERYONE, which is part of the comedy of Dukat (I know I shouldn't find it hilarious AND YET I REALLY DO, possibly specifically because no one takes it seriously), but the majority of his interactions are with Sisko and they go on multiple road trips together and there was the time they were stuck in a cave, which I haven't yet reached in my rewatch but I remember it as being pretty glorious. Mostly the reason I'm lamenting my inability to write comedy fic this week is because I really want fic where Dukat's SUPER INTO Sisko, and finally Sisko goes for it a couple of times because what the hell, he needs to get laid, and then Dukat gets really overinvolved and starts drunk-dialing him all the time, and obvs since Cardassians court by arguing, Sisko's barely managing to be civil is just evidence of how badly he wants Dukat. LOOK AT BANNER, BENJAMIN.

(Also: AU where Ziyal and Alexander meet and end up getting together and Worf and Dukat are in-laws and it's glorious.)

DS9 is kind of exciting this time around because I'm not used to being into pairings where I need more than the fingers on one hand to count the people who are into it, but somewhat troublingly, the character I project all the fuck over in DS9 appears to be Garak, and I was mostly just kind of amused by how blatant the Garak/Bashir was until "The Wire" happened and then, like, I realize it doesn't take much to send me into fits of capslocky FEELINGS to rival those of Prince Zuko, but holy shit, Internet. My OTP dynamic appears to be I Am A Spectacular Untrustworthy Trainwreck And You Are Buying A First Class Ticket Anyway, and that episode was like "ALL ABOARD, MOTHERFUCKERS" and holy shit, feelings everywhere. So it's all super-exciting because usually it's me and like two other people who are into a pairing, but instead I have tons of fic to roll around in, and I'm sitting here going "oh my God, is this how Erik/Charles people feel ALL THE TIME? *_______*"

ugh I should probably get ready for work now. Hi Internet hi, I'm alive and the DS9 kick is still going strong. Everyone should continue to talk to me about the prospect of a Buffy/DS9 crossover, too, because in my head that is still completely fucking glorious, and I have actually ended up writing a few snippets that, with the serials filed off, might end up as an original thing I've been toying with? IDK IDK.

Title: The Lights Begin To Twinkle
Fandom: Peter Pan (2003 film)
Rating: R/M
Words: ~11,600
Pairings: Wendy Darling/James Hook, Wendy Darling/OMC, Slightly/OFC, John Darling/OFC
Warnings: Some discussion of combat-related PTSD. Oblique references to character deaths.

Notes: Written for yuletide, as a gift for sweetsorcery. I drew on some of the histories of the Lost Boys from the book, although I threw out as much as I kept; re: the warning, the book was published in 1911 and Mrs. Darling's costumes in the film are pretty Edwardian, so I went with 1910 as the date of the story, and then realized, logically, that World War I would be a factor in the Darlings' future. Title is from Tennyson's "Ulysses".

Original character names: Miranda, Lady Finch, is Slightly's wife; Beatrice is John's, and Milly and George are their children; Rick (obvs) is Wendy's boyfriend.

Also, this has little to no bearing on the story at all, but in my head, the club that Slightly belongs to is the Drones, and if I ever gain any confidence in my ability to write a Wodehousian voice, I may one day attempt the story in my head where Slightly decides he's going to pair Wendy and Bertie off. Just putting that out there.

Summary: It's been years since the Adventure, and Wendy's had a number of other adventures in the meantime, and as a consequence of certain of them, she doesn't quite remember a few things. Nor do her brothers...and nor does the man she meets one day. This is the story of how they all begin to recognize one another.

So yeah, between this and the story I received, my Yuletide experience for this year can in fact be summed up as "everything is Lost Generation and nothing hurts". FLAPPERS, HOORAY.

i. My laptop has completely stopped recognizing both the trackpad/mouse button and the keyboard. :( I may get an estimate on replacing the top case from a place in town, but at the moment I'm mostly back on my desktop. The logical thought process from there, of course, was that I had to completely scour and reorganize my room, so that's...happening. IDEK. Anyway, I am pretty sure I owe lots of comments and emails and whatnot, and I have a couple of Real Name Blog posts sitting in my head so hopefully I will manage to get on that shortly! Also apply for more jobs, I have a few sitting open in tabs that I need to get on. Blerg.

ii. Mom and I have been mainlining DS9, so that's fun times! This is, upon consideration, the first time I've watched it straight through since it was actually airing, and I was pretty little then so I mostly just remember a few scenes of things here and there. We finished S1 today, and are hoping to make decent progress before the parents move to Australia in...a week, oh lordy loo. That they leave the day before my birthday, so that means that's in about a week, too. OH LORDY LOO.

iii. My Yuletide story has basically sunk without a ripple, which is something of a bummer, but not a shock, because it's a bit of a Yuletide niche rather than one of the fandoms a lot of people will be mildly interested in reading because it's in the air at the moment (Downton, Once Upon A Time, etc), and a super niche story besides. And the recipient appears to have really liked it a lot, which is the important thing, plus I got an amaaaaaazing story which includes both flappers and ladies kissing, so, you know, I shouldn't get greedy.

iv. The other day on Twitter I said of something "I think there's a lesson here, but fuck if I intend to learn it." I suspect this actually sums up my entire life. Further evidence of this: the context included my realizing on returning home from the store that I'd been so distracted buying liquor and mixers that I forgot a couple of things I needed to finish off the ~final touch~ on my presents for my family (cookies; I needed things to decorate them with). Hmmm.

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING ANNA/MARY

JUST LOOK AT IT

OH MY GOD INTERNET SO MANY FEELINGS

Also, in accordance with tradition: guess what I wrote and I'll write you something of at least 300 words! Comments screened for that reason, although if you want to read the story I got and yell about how amazeballs it is and make starry eyes over ANNNNNNNNNNNA AND MAAAAAAAAAAAARY, I'll obvs unscreen because everyone in the world should join in on that shit.

Oh god I'm so tired. But staying up to read that story was totally worth it. I'm wondering if my writer is on my flist, and if you are, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FEELINGS. The first draft of my comment had no capslock whatsoever, can you imagine? I was like "they really deserve a lot more than keysmashing and incoherent capslock". Oh I can't even, I can't even. So many feelings.

All right, bbs, I was going to use this as a way to reward myself for finishing Yuletide, but the longer the day goes on the longer this fucker gets, so! As you may have heard, kink_bingo's mini-challenge for this month is drabbles (well, miniature works, including anything under 100 words, but drabbles are easiest for me to aim for), and I was kind of toying with doing something silly and fun and id-ful, and since one of the places my id invariably returns to is Buffy crossovers, give me characters from other fandoms and I will try to produce a drabble of kinkfic about Buffy banging them. The idea is that I'll trade off and do one of these for every hundred words of Yuletide I write. GO.

ETA: HOLY SHIT I'M ACTUALLY PRODUCING SHIT AFTER TAKING PROMPTS

BtVS/Doctor Who, Buffy Summers/Martha Jones, drugs/aphrodesiacs
BtVS/Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy/Jadzia/Worf, gangbang

I'd also like to point out that among other amazing things gloss suggested was Buffy/Ned Stark. ENDLESS DELIGHTED LOLS. This is right up there with Buffy, Worf, and Jadzia being BFFs/possibly having an ongoing threesome in terms of how adorbs and hilarious it would be. Half the time they would be SUPER SERIOUS and then the rest of the time she would troll him for being super serious and pretend that she was not every bit as angsty and srs bzns about everything.

I seem to have FINALLY broken my block on Yuletide, thanks to a drinking-and-yelling-about-writing-followed-by-actually-writing session with inlovewithnight on Sunday, and now I have an outline for a much shorter thing that still stays true to a lot of my original idea, which was ballooning out of control and there was no way I was going to manage it. Draft is currently at 2521, although that includes the outliney bits as well as the story itself, so the actual story bits are probably only about 2k. Still, that's a hell of a lot more than I had this time last week, so progress.

There was also some DS9, as you may have gathered. I am still completely fucking starry-eyed over that concept, btw. Possibly I am using the prospect of writing some ridiculous Buffy/DS9 ficlets to motivate me to fill in the outline on my Yuletide story quickly. W/e w/e as long as it gets done. TBH I'm mostly just proud of the fact that I actually managed to get out of the house and socialize with someone, that's a major victory after the last few weeks. \o/?

Trying to motivate myself to go to the gym. Mostly I kind of want to take another nap. Hmmm.

Oh my god this meme is amazing. Especially since I don't seem to be able to manage actual writing at the moment.

Give me a pairing and I will tell you:
who is the big spoon/little spoon
what is their favorite non-sexual activity
who uses all the hot water in the morning
what they order from take out
what is the most trivial thing they fight over
who does most of the cleaning
what has a season pass in their DVR
who controls the netflix queue
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
who steals the blankets
who leaves their stuff around
who remembers to buy the milk
who remembers anniversaries

Give me multiple pairings if you want, actually. And crossover pairings are, naturally, completely encouraged. Who knows, maybe I'll even manage a drabble or two off of it.

Fandoms: Once Upon A Time, Buffy, Angel, Harry Potter, AtLA, NuWho, LotR, Community, Parks & Rec, ASoI&F (with the warning that I still haven't read the latest book, so my info is not the latest), and basically anything I've written (of course, if I've had a ridiculous discussion with you about some stupid crossover pairing or whatever, feel free to throw that one at me, as well; SPN isn't on the list, for example, but obviously I am more than happy to tell you about Buffy and John Winchester's Netflix queue, or Cassie and Wood's).

I completely forgot about Once Upon A Time until just now. :( I was all excited this morning, too. I am just not in the habit of watching things in real time, is the problem. Oh well, that's something to watch on On Demand after work tomorrow. NO SPOILERS PLEASE.

My main takeaway from Once Upon A Time so far: you know, if either Swan or the Queen were male, the show would be playing the UST angle to the hilt.

If BOTH of them were male, however, the show would be a million times duller, but it would be the biggest thing to hit fandom since SPN.

(Also, I kind of like how they're just fully going with the Disney versions of things. It could've gone either way, doing that, but it actually works for me. I have a lot of ~thoughts~ on that, on the evolution of stories and how there's no such thing as the "real" versions of fairy tales, but it's way too tl;dr for the time being. Also also, I totally need an icon of their Maleficent, she's glorious.)

ETA: ( Spoilery )

ETA 2: ( OKAY SERIOUSLY )

Internet, I am concerned that when I say that I AM HAVING ALL OF THE FEELINGS, what you hear is "I'm having a lot of feelings". That's not what I'm saying.

What I am saying is that I AM HAVING ALL OF THE FEELINGS.

A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct.(source)

I AM HAVING ALL OF THE FEELINGS

That's not even the FIRST super-exciting thing that happened this weekend! AHHHH I had a whole ramble about my FEELINGS and how clearly the E Street Band is going to feature heavily in several of the major relationships/emotional turning points of my life and I need to get that into my head and roll with it, but it was a little too ridiculous even for me. Suffice it to say that pearl_o has dubbed our forthcoming household "The House Where FEEEEEEEELINGS Go To Die" and she's not wrong.

Also also clearly the band are trolling me personally, since this is the first year in several where I made my peace with the fact that it was ~over~ and was trying to ~move on~ and didn't request it for Yuletide, and then hours after signups close, they announce that fuck no, NOTHING WILL EVER REALLY KILL THE E STREET BAND. Internet, seriously, I can't even. HEARTBREAK AND ELATION, ALL IN ONE. Basically that is what the E Street Band does to me though, IDK why I'm surprised.

In conclusion, FEELINGS