The Middle Distance

Once again, I'm vulgarweed at GreatestJournal and now, InsaneJournal too. Friend at will. There's also a mirror of switchythings at GJ, and soon there will be of go_exchange as well.

Still been a craptastic week, but I still managed to get a few straggling birthday drabbles written. More forthcoming!

For maelipstick: HP - Snape/Lupin, a skin-care product with mysterious ingredients (Rather DH-compliant, if irreverent, so SPOILERZ. Also risque.)

For dreya_uberwald: GO - something with Hastur and Ligur (tasteless reference to recent real-world events my own responsibility)

For waxbean: HP - Hermione/Snape - a glimpse of a continuation from the "Ravenous" universe.

Lessons learned from rock festivals? I don't care how hot it is, it's still physically impossible for me to stay grumpy while Sonic Youth is playing. Even if it's not one of their best nights.

Also: strapless bras are great in theory, but there must be some art to wearing them that I have never mastered, because I've never found one that doesn't migrate towards my waist, dragging my boobs down with it and making them look saggy when they aren't, and isn't that the very opposite of what a bra is supposed to do?

Appropos of nothing, from "Old Possum's Book of IMpractical Cats": I'm in love with these guys. Little cuddly kits are great but I want a Viking lynx!

I've written three more birthday drabbles, all of a crossovery flavo[u]r.

For vivien529: A GO/HP drabble (Minerva thinks that angel's got a little Slytherin in him!)

For signifier (who I get to see in August!): J.K. Rowling via J.L. Borges - Snape and the Aleph (also owes a conceptual debt to "The Three Versions of Judas")

For blueeyedtigress (who I get to see tomorrow!): GO/LOTR - Aziraphale and Crowley having a cuppa with Frodo

Productive? I think so.

Slowly but surely. Oh yes, here's more!

For forodwaith: LOTR - something on the theme of "moving house"

For machka: US Politics RPF - Kerry/Edwards anniversary fic

For amberdiceless: GO - Crowley sulking over birthdaylessness, with bonus-points DEATH cameo (And SHE wrote me one back - see comments!)

For murasaki99: LOTR - something with Our Wraithy Friends

For duniazade: HP - Snape consults Trelawney about his future

Remember now, these are all kind of really for everyone. Happy Belated My Birthday!

...and I kinda feel it too, because that's how tired I am. I'm waayyy behind on the drabbling, but that's because of the last 48 hours, I've been at home and awake for about maybe 5 of them. Yes, my friends have been feasting and feting (and other f'things) me pretty splendidly, including an 8-hour marathon of a BBQ in a beautiful yard in Humboldt Park yesterday. I woke up at 2 PM today with a huge grin on my face, feeling loved.


And someone anonymously bought me two months of paid LJ time! *squee* Thank you thank you thank you!


So here's the first five b-day drabbles, anyway. I WILL do them all if it takes me to next b-day. (And I'm doing them in the order the ideas hit me, not the order received, sorry!)

For musesfool: GO - Something with the Them and a birthday party

For kkpixie: TDS - happy, fuzzy Stewart/Colbert

For celandineb: GO - Aziraphale/Crowley, bananas

For teh_jenna: HP/US Politics - something involving Snape and George Bush

For use_theforce_em: TDS/LOTR - members of the Fellowship on the Daily Show

OK, more to come in days to come - enjoy!

Gyah, PMS and money troubles on top of everything. My usually hard-and-prickly therapist took one look and went all Jewish-mother on me, all but forcing me to eat cookies.

But I can still drabble! (x-posted from go100, for the "Holiday Spirit" challenge.)

Title: Slaybells
Words: 100
Rating: v.mild PG for stealth slash suggestions
Notes: Discworld x-over of sorts.


“Oh dear, this is a bad idea…”

WHY? I’VE DONE IT BEFORE.

“Hogswatch is different, Azrael…the round Earth isn’t nearly so…flexible with space-time, and…your reindeer are terrified, and…”

YOU ARE A ROD IN THE QUICKSAND, AZIRAPHALE.

“I believe ‘stick in the mud’ is the idiom here. And who’s doing your…not the boy!”

IT BROADENS HIS HORIZONS. BESIDES, I HAVE PRESENTS FOR YOU.

Tea from the bottom of Boston Harbour. A library card from Alexandria. A highly uncensored Renaissance painting.

“Dear Lord, is that—?“

HE POSED IN FLORENCE, YES.

“Just this once, then. I didn’t see you.”

HO HO HO.

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Safe journeys to everyone travelling the next few days!

Sometimes you get the bitey ones. And sometimes the bite reveals pure BAD TASTE. All apologies, especially to my Aussie friends.

Inspired by the "Ligur's Day Off" challenge at go100, although it doesn't use any of the required words.

Off the Record

Words: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Ligur and...uh...oh god...you'll see.

( needing professional expertise )

will x-post later, when I stop laughing being ashamed of myself.

for go100's "Possession" challenge; x-posted.

Words: 100
Rating: PG for an archaic insult to a woman and mild demon molestation.

( Yipe! )

That my brain is cracking. And rebelling. Little bits of unproductivity keep sneaking out through the work, yay.

This was written for the go100 "Help" challenge. I'll post it there as soon as I can figure out how to do the spoiler warnings right.

See, one of my all-time favorite movies has a remake imminent that I am not looking forward to...

The Consultant
Words: 100
Rating: PG for suggestion of pretty icky violence
Characters: Crowley and Aziraphale
Summary: It's a crossover. And no, it didn't have to happen this way...

( It's a human-sacrifice murder mystery, with martyrdom and apples )

In other news, that Spike Lee documentary on Katrina that's starting tonight on HBO looks like it's going to be really excellent and really hard to watch. Will have to get someone to tape the rest of it for me tomorrow.

Obrigada to everyone who offered condolences and commiserations over yesterday's unfortunate World Cup turns.

Here, have a Good Omens drabble. x-posted to go100


Mislaid Plans
Words: 100
Rating: PG for inadequate profanity
Characters: Aziraphale and Crowley
Summary: Some human passions can easily override the outmoded communications systems of Heaven and Hell.


( Sunday, 2 July, 2006 )

Not sure if that makes it better or worse, really.

It's been a productive time for the little stuff, at least...

Two G-rated Good Omens drabbles for the Snow challenge, here, at go100


And, two just under-the-wire decidedly-NOT-G-rated entries to oxoniensis's Porn Battle Rematch!

One in a fandom I've never written before, go me!

SO nice of her to actually suggest pairings and prompts; these are the suggestions I took:

Good Omens, Crowley/Aziraphale, collar

and

Lost, Sayid/Sawyer, knot

Warning: as the prompts might suggest, both have much, much more than a hint of D/s about them. I was just in that kind of mood.

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And huge, homongous thanks to whoever nominated 30 Minutes Over Kandahar for a Multifaceted Award! SO sweet! So unexpected - and on a day when I needed a boost too.

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Your BHH & A word of the day is:

letchwater (semen)