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And now, a short and diverse Friday Reccslist!

Sherlock: DNA by Resonant: Explicit, Sherlock/OFCs, Sherlock/John. This story came about from a conversation Resonant and I had, and I couldn't be more pleased with having been a part of it. John discovers Sherlock is basically putting himself out to stud to women who want smart babies, and it...causes some issues. Really cleverly written and I love the ending, particularly Sherlock's confusion.

Person of Interest: Outsider Perspective by Neery: Explicit, Finch/Reese. I don't generally read Person Of Interest fic but this one caught my eye on a recc and I found it extremely enjoyable -- the entire fic is from Finch's POV and really nails his voice, down to the weird little verbal quirks he sometimes has. Reese and Finch get whammied with amnesia gas, and draw some deeply incorrect assumptions about their relationship -- which backfires when they remember, and I really like that there's a deep exploration of the backfire that happens only about halfway through the story.

Avengers: Traitor's Throne by Cluegirl: Teen and Up, Tony/Steve. I was fortunate enough to get to beta this fic, which was done for the Cap-Iron Man Reverse Big Bang. The art and fic are both exceptional, set in a well-built fantasy world where Tony Stark, Prince Abdicate, is returning to the site of a major battle after a year's recovery to try and find both the young, fragile monk Steven who used to sass him and absolution from the dragon he killed during the battle.

sophie

I've been meaning to post this for a while. I made another mashup! I already posted this one on Twitter a while ago when I released it, but didn't post it here. Oops.

This one is called (You Drive Me) Crazier Than Life (direct download link) and is a mashup of these two songs:

Larger Than Life, by the Backstreet Boys
(You Drive Me) Crazy, by Britney Spears

As always, feedback is very much appreciated. :D

Thanks to Anna for the suggestion to make this mashup and for the ideas for what to do with the mashup while I was making it!

Crossposts: http://soph.livejournal.com/235517.html

kate_nepveu

Flights all pushed back and kids all up ridiculously early, but off to airport now. Supposed to get in around 4:00 local. Honestly I have a bad feeling about this but I'm trying not to stress, there's nothing to be done, and even my 9:00 panel tonight would survive without me because I'm not moderating. If only I can grab a catnap on a plane I'll be okay, I think.

dglenn

"What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent when their own go on TV and tell the parents of children lost in a tornado that those children and their families got what they deserved. What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent and supportive when their own are accused of multiple counts of child abuse and appeal to the first amendment to try and avoid investigation. What's worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians perpetuate an abusive theology that teaches people that whatever abuse they are suffering, whatever pain they are enduring, whatever violence they have been subjected to, is deserved and perpetrated by god." -- Rachel Held Evans, 2013-05-21 [thanks to the friend who linked to this in a locked entry]

gorgeousnerd

Really, Hannibal was destined to break my heart: Bryan Fuller doing an NBC show? That doesn't even have an official fate after the upfronts? Tears and pain. But this is also just a bad time: I'm going on a trip starting next Thursday, so I won't get to watch next week's Hannibal until a week from Monday at the earliest, and I'm officially moving starting either tomorrow or Tuesday (depending on when we get the keys), so it's not unlikely there'll be dish/Internet disruption after that.

It isn't just Hannibal that'll be hard to fit, of course - Gerard and Mikey's Aquabats episode is coming up (the timing seems disputed, but I'm thinking it's late June/early July?), and I'm going to miss the Teen Wolf premiere, the Game of Thrones finale, and probably an episode or two of Mad Men. But Hannibal's the one that's really making me hug my pillow dramatically. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE TIME I GET WITH THE SHOW. IT CAN'T LEAVE ME. ;___;

( I even got a sprawling crossover idea, which is really how you know I'm in trouble. )

Crossposts: http://cho-malfoy.livejournal.com/1111528.html

wyomingnot

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zvi

I have 167 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 167 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

meme gakked from

sohotrightnow However, if I can't think of three things,I may tell you something that happened before, something that happened during, and something that happened after.

Ps. Have not had time to work on five things not!fic, but I have but forgotten.

twistedchick

I have ... well, it says 102 stories at Archive of Our Own, but actually it's more like 81, because the last 21 or so used to be up at the Sentinel archive 852 Prospect, and so are duplicates. So, pick a number between 1 and 81, or 1 and 102, whichever, and for the heck of it tell me what story it is (because since some are in twice they may be different versions), and I'll tell you three things I liked about that story.

archangelbeth

Once again, I note that those people who leave a "will" that a forger could do a better job of faking... especially if they convince the beneficiary of the "will" that sure, it'll work... They go STRAIGHT TO HADES, DO NOT PASS GO, and the Angels of Final Justice will shove them in with their feet.

JUST SAYING.

Havva Quote
One of the questions everybody seems to ask writers – right after “Where do you get your ideas?” – is “Do you have a time of day when you write?” I can’t figure out whether they want me to say “yes,” hoping that writing is the same as any other nine-to-five job so maybe they can do it, or whether they want me to say “no,” confirming that writing is a mysterious and unpredictable process that they can give up on.
--http://pcwrede.com/blog/writing-methods/

( INwatch+Bookwatch )

( Dragons under fold )

Crossposts: http://archangelbeth.livejournal.com/1522279.html

wanderlustlover

If i'm going to get back into this journaling more regularly thing, I'm going to need to revamp my icons (in both places). Why, Dreamwidth, don't you offer large icon packages over 250 yet. I want them for my main journal and at least three of my playtime ones.

It might, also, not be a vicious lie that I put out the very first feeler to begin looking into PhD programs today, finally. Nothing big. No massive, undefeatable overwhelming drive yet. But I think four years after my Masters finished it's time to start at least looking into the programs (scholarships/fellowships) offered in my immediate vicinity, and the ones across the US/World in my primary dream(/Master's Thesis focus) -- Post Colonial Theory/Literary Study.

So. Yeah. Those things are all happening right now, too.

Crossposts: http://wanderlustlover.livejournal.com/2277595.html

wanderlustlover

In Portraits in Seasons
by Danielle Pafunda

As a feral thing would. As a dead leaf
whose crunch she herself hears, whose

buggy interior floods the sidewalk. Beamy
the world, yet a blank all the same.

Where you've tucked your pen into your notes,
I tuck my fingernail, burned and cursed and

shut tight my eyes. I tuck my feet up like a girl.
In this corner, warm milk fall of light something

far from revealing its bone-blank eyes, that is,
the eyes downcast in every portrait, shaded

the ribbon a bright blue furl across the gaze,
the peculiar mother, her arm around a naked toddler

the fall of light. Betrays nothing. The book in
hand, betrays. As a feral thing would,

I shred its binding and burn through it for warmth.

Crossposts: http://wanderlustlover.livejournal.com/2277173.html

anarchicq

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jelazakazone

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Current Mood: tired

kate_nepveu

I just read about tweetle beetles for the poetree community. If you remember Fox in Socks fondly, you should too, it's fun and takes literally only a minute or two! You don't need the book either, jjhunter has the excerpt.

(Actually the formative Seuss tongue-twister book of my childhood is the other one, Oh Say Can You Say?, the one with the bread/bed spreader and the shinbone pins, but SteelyKid loved Fox in Socks for a while and the tweetle beetles were my favorite part, so I could not resist. And now, WisCon packing.)

healingmirth

Breakin' The Rules: 20 General Principles Suspended In 'Fast And Furious 6'

I had a little trouble parsing some of these, but still funny! Also reminded me how annoyed I was at the widespread destruction of public and private property in the closing scenes in Fast Five.

( maybe spoilery, if you're super avoidant, I guess? )

But its not like I'm *not* going to see it, so...

sporky_rat

Turns out today was not my Headologist appointment, it's next Thursday. It's now in my phone's calendar with a reminder.

It's hard to feed one person after being used to feeding two. Last night I fell back to my standby of two fried eggs and a piece of toast with a root beer.

I've been reading more of A Clash of Kings. I went to the library today and paid off enough of my ridiculous fine (ridiculous in the amount, not that I owed it) to be able to check out books again. They're due 13 June. Gotta remember that. I picked up the next ASOIAF, A Storm of Swords. I figure if I've got the next one here staring at me, I'll get on the reading of the second one a little harder. I read some while the computer was updating and the week was rolling at work today. There's nothing else to do with it while it's updating, so might as well.

I need to keep updating. Journaling is good medicine.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: The Apartment
Current Music: Ke$ha - Your Love Is My Drug

aunty_marion

Off to wild/wet/woolly/warm (! - unlikely...) Wales tomorrow. I am NOT taking the laptop, in order to conserve energy & save on luggage weight, since I'm the one who has to lug it. However, I will have the KnitronomiPhone, on which I can do a lot of stuff like reading emails, Twitter, Faffbook, and even - at a pinch - LJ/DW. The screen is too small to read fanfic, though, so that'll all just have to wait till I'm back home (even if I had the links on there, which I don't). Don't expect much in the way of entries here, or comments. I don't get wifi there, so it's PAYG mobile data at £1 a day, which has to be made to last.

I went to knitting tonight and discovered another couple of Washing Machine Conspirators. And, of course, got some knitting done. I took Herman - at one point I wasn't sure I was going to be able to make him, as I had to go to the dentist this morning. But I got the tooth temporarily (but I hope securely) filled fairly quickly, so I came home, started Herman, got him in the oven and whizzed down to the launderette, as I'd investigated the laundry basket to see if I could take a couple of pairs of trousers/tops with me to Mum's and wash them there, only to find that the damp clothes I'd been sprawling in the flood in, while trying to get stopcocks etc turned off, were trying to go MOULDY. Ew ew ew. So I sprayed them with Vanish pre-wash stuff, and hung them over the lines in the bathroom overnight, and took everything down to the launderette. All clean, but not dry enough to take. I only had 3 spare 20p pieces for the dryer, so they're all on the lines and will be fine till I get home.

Then I just missed a 59 bus, and had to wait 25 minutes for the next one, getting colder by the minute. Luckily, I didn't have to wait too long at Euston for a 390, but I was still too late home to have a supper drink, so I've had 3 squares of chocolate instead.

Pretty much everything is packed - I've got to put the phone charger in tomorrow, think about whether to take Shiny and his charger (Palm), and add some reading matter, and the bag with my inhalers (etc.) in. I've got a sandwich in the fridge, and am about to investigate drinks. The train leaves at 11.45, so I want to be leaving here no later than about 10.30, as I've got to lug the case and small backpack and myself down the stairs at Archway, and back up at King's Cross, back down the stairs there, and up and down stairs and along platforms at Paddington.

Back in just over a week...

Current Mood: busy
Crossposts: http://aunty-marion.livejournal.com/521671.html

aximili

1. Local foundation took my futon, my fold-up table, my fold-up chair, and my bookcase.
2. Dad's taking the printer and giving it to my grandmother.
3. If the person interested in my computer doesn't offer a good price on it (or changes their mind), I'm giving it to my sister.
4. Someone's taking the loft bed Monday, theoretically. If not I suppose I can have that donated as well.
5. I have lots of donation things packed and ready to go, and when it's closer to moving day I'll do that with the rest of the stuff. (Right now, I kinda still need things for cooking.)

So things I still need to get rid of:

1. The shredder (T might want it IDK she hasn't responded yet.)
2. The microwave oven.
3. The balcony chairs.
4. The bike.
5. The plastic storage containers.
6. The wooden cubbies, which I need to throw away but am not sure how because I don't think, even disassembled, it can go into the compactor. In retrospect, I wish I had just gone with plastic because then I could have taken it to the recycling center.

I guess this experience has been useful because I'm at least learning how to deal with stuff when you want to move out and have stuff you need to get rid of? And also that my dad's obsession with aesthetic should be ignored when living in a temporary situation (even if that situation is almost three years.) Because at some point you're gonna have to get rid of shit. If I ever got stuff again along those lines it would mean I thought I was never going to move and it'd be permanent cabinetry installations and shit.

Too bad I don't see 'broke' coming off of the list of things I am any time soon.

gorgeousnerd

As promised, here's the story I posted last night:

"So gimme all you've got (I can take it)" (AO3 | DW)
Bandom (MCR), NC-17, 2400 words, Ray/Frank, for

bandom_meme
Ray's played a bunch of different types with Frank, and he doesn't always take the lead. But he's usually the virgin, not the teacher.

Yay porn! Yay roleplay porn where people are pretending to be sex workers! I needed to write something that wasn't me trying to tie in themes and build things and everything that my BBB is. It felt great to write.

And if you haven't done so yet, feel free to drop me a number at the AO3 work meme! :D

Crossposts: http://cho-malfoy.livejournal.com/1111048.html

phantomas

Apart from other stuff, are you people watching Vicious? On ITV, I believe, or the iPlayer/Catch on Demand.
A short Brit sitcom, with Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi being funny and silly and just splendid :)

Do watch it! :)

Crossposts: http://phantomas.livejournal.com/413281.html

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