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Hey folks!  Here is the art for Pinkerton Boys by the lovely Naoe.  It's a Destiel A/B/O AU set in the American Victorian era, which isn't where I normally live, but it's charming and I had a great time working with Naoe and working on this art.  Full set of pics and info below the cut!

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Needed somewhere to post some photomanips of Tom Hiddleston into a 60's drag queen. ...Yeah, I know. It was for someone else's story. ...I shouldn't have spent so long on these.

...Seriously.

( Lady Loki )

Because my birthday is coming up...

Because I had the foresight to work out an Amazon wishlist for the first time.. er.. ever...

Because Chris is FANTASTIC and loves me and has the excellent taste to share my interest...

(And because Amazon is listing all the suckers at approx. 1/3 the usual price, hint hint, this is the time to look...)

...we are now the proud owners of our very own complete set of Babylon 5.

No more hauling a season's worth of my mother's VHS tapes up from LA when we realize we might want to have access. No more waiting months to trade it out for another season. No more years of drought because we didn't think to do it or she was re-watching or...

Granted, seeing the commercials that were being aired in Torrance in 1998 on TNT during the original airing of River of Souls was kind of an amazing time capsule. Especially the one for how they were going to be recording Monday Night RAW at the Anaheim Pond (back when it was still the Duck pond, bless it), because I remember watching that commercial then, and we went, and we even trekked out to Venice Beach because Chyna and Triple H were going to be hanging out at the outdoor gym and we wanted to meet them and she was so freaking sweet and I still remember her nail polish...

...but not a really sustainable relationship. And anyway, I'm on a Bruce Boxleitner binge and have run out of movie-of-the-week Westerns from the 90s that are available for instant streaming. I'm going to be good and wait out Michael O'Hare--we're starting over from the beginning, just watched the pilot, The Gathering, last night--but it won't be long.

Anyway, short version: love.

Sorry for spam, archiving another fill. The first one happened yesterday, but this one was what I did when I still wasn't sleeping at 1:30 this morning. Or 2:30... Finished this morning and posted like it wasn't no thang. It's like crazy times, over here.

Anyway, here:
( Rinzler the Cat (...I feel like there's a theme here) )

....That was unexpected, too.

Apparently ELT/YDF is over. I could have probably kept going for a long time, made another arc instead of an epilogue, but I think this is for the best, all things considered. I like the epilogue, and I'm happy with where I'm leaving them. (Hopefully it's not too abrupt.) Waiting on Chris's beta for last revisions to Ch. 18 (hopefully coming in during his office hour ;) ), but I think I'm basically content with it all. Will post 15-18 and epilogue probably one per day in the usual comms; Chapter 15 should be up in the next 20 minutes or so.

LOVE -


ETA: The chapters are all in order and approved, 15 is posted, and everything's on schedule for operation Finish the WIPs. I also killed a languishing WIP one-off for Kids in the Hall, finishing up the smut and posting during the Academic Senate meeting I'm kibitzing on as we speak (which seems pleasantly inappropriate). Anyway, meeting's wrapping up, so I'm off.

ETA2: Other crazy realization: Evil Like That... You Don't Forget comes up to a nice round 65,861 words - 180 pgs in the word processor, all told. ...Wow.

ETA3: ps, happy ending

I haven't been around in forever, and consequently every time I think of checking in, I go, "Oh, no, I haven't been around in forever, what do I post?" get overwhelmed, and fail to check in.

Okay, so.. it's been a long time, right? Obligatory quick wrap up of the last two (...three??...) months:

End of May was concerts for choir (went really well), a trip to Frederickton, NB, Canada (ditto), Chris's trip to DC.. There's been work.. There was our trip out to Sonoma wine country for our anniversary (7 years!) where, as part of a romantic horseback ride, I was unseated from a spooked horse to earn a broken finger and an unhappy (but not x-ray-detectably-damaged) knee.. I think that was 7 weeks ago, and they're still working on healing, but that's okay. Everyone at work is having babies, so I'm knitting--or, no, crocheting like crazy, since there was a month there where I couldn't knit (finger splint) at all, so I crocheted a million hats and booties and pinafores, and spun a lot of yarn. ....Oh, yeah, I'm spinning yarn, now, from a knitting friend's Alpaca, Ramblin' Rose, and from my cats, Arthur and Alexander. (This is crazy, and I love it.) I'm using a drop spindle I made myself which is now finally busted, so it's back to knitting. Oh, and crocheting for more babies.

We also hit LA for my 10-yr high school reunion, which was canceled (.....), and thence to Vegas for a grad school 'reunion' for Chris, and proved the motto, "What happens in Vegas... goes straight to facebook." Today is Chris's first day back to school, which means I should probably stop trying to eke summer vacation out of my part time (but not summer-slack-off ready) work and just.. well, get back to work. My cousin's baseball team just made it deep into the PONY league World Series; though I have never listened to baseball on the radio in my life, I actually got my ass up at eight in the morning to stream the suckers from PA, and cheered my fool head off. (GO BEACH!) They're out, now, unfortunately, but had a great time and did ell. I also now know a little more about baseball than I did, and discovered my cos is a 3rd baseman and "clean up hitter." I sort of almost know what that means, now, too. Progress!

Following various fannish impulses.. waiting for Doctor Who to start back up.. started buying myself Sandman compilation volumes since Borders is going under (tip: they're now clearancing for $12 instead of $20 a volume, but likely to have a short selection - I found 1 and 4 (which I've read) and 7 and 8 (which I haven't), might be worth a look if you're interested). And... and I hesitate to admit this, but after a rental binge that culminated in some serious nerd oldschool, I've fallen headlong into Tron obsession. I feel it's fair because I was headlong into the original (albeit some 25 years after the fact), but tip: while I found one good Tron (classic) fic a couple years ago, there is way more fanfic (Legacy) out there now. There are excellent recs at TVTropes (which I didn't know even recced) and at least the ones I have followed were definitely worth following.

...I'm obsessed.

(Notes: Rinzler purrs. +Micheal Sheen = sexy androgynous Greek demi-computer-god. Good, good stuff.)

(...Plus Bruce Boxleitner. He has developed his very own switch in my brain, and it says "Yes." I'm not sure when this happened.)

Luckily, reading a few (incredibly fine) stories--some WIPs--has made me feel guilty about my own languishing WIPs, and has me thinking about writing again. There was a little deja vu, to tell the truth; one tragic WIP about a broken character (who is prone to kind of 'going away' and not really in control of his own head) had a little 'fluffy' aside that still managed to be tragic. ...And there was one where such horrible things happened to the characters, I considered being afraid of the author. (...'nough said, I think.) Needless to say, it all struck chords and I want to write. I just need to kick the "what if I fuck up the plot" terror and get on it.

And since I was trying to feedback like a good girl, it also made me look back into a long abandoned ff.net ID (I know, I know...). ...There's a part of me that wants to post the first 19 (so far) parts of the collected ELTYDF over there (maybe to guilt-spur myself on into getting back to writing it?), but there is also another part of me that is looking to be talked out of it, since I feel it is probably a bad idea and could wind up being counterproductive. (Thoughts? Has anyone posted over there since they ditched Rated: MA, RPF, and anything authors said Boo about? ...Is it scary? '.' )

Anyway, I hope y'all are doing well - I loves. I misses.

I have surgery in the morning (laparoscopic cystectomy, woooo). I'll be home tomorrow afternoon and everything should be fine, but thought everybody should be in the loop.

Another way-too-quickie post.

I hesitate to mention everyone being okay, since the universe seemed to take that as a challenge last time.

( Since my last post... )

Okay, think that covers the basics. Everything is, to dangerously restate the premise, okay. Love and love and love to you all.

AGH.. can't.. brain.. Just..

........I am just posting because I wanted to thank all of you DW watchers who are watching real time for being so, so, so discreet about spoilers and for screening so thoroughly. As a BBCA viewer, I am so, so, so grateful to go in unspoiled even weeks after the fact. Thank you, thank you, thank you.


The turtle has successfully figured out how to bask (and is looking a million percent better and happier), I have made lemon bars (from an excellent recipe), and now I think I need another. LOVE to you all --