I am, of course, referring to trying to round up all of my drabbles and ficlets that have been posted to various communities, but not to my journal.

Interestingly enough, everything's been either Count Cain or Merlin.

Count Cain stuff:

Title: Simple Intentions
Rating/Warnings: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Crehador/Cain
Spoilers: For Godchild volume six
A/N: This was written for slashthedrabble for prompt #212: 100 Greatest Classic Rock Songs (Take the Money and Run)

( Simple Intentions )



Title: The Joys of the Flesh
Rating/Warnings: R
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Cain/Riff
A/N: Written for slashthedrabble prompt 85: David Bowie Song Titles (Sex and the Church)

( The Joys of the Flesh )


Title: Thaw
Pairing: Cain/Riff
Rating: PG
Word Count: 313
Spoilers: For "The Sound of a Boy Hatching"
A/N: Written for comment_fic

( Thaw )



Merlin Stuff:

Title: Guinevere Leodegrance: Private Eye
Pairing: Gwen/Morgana
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
A/N: I do so love really wild AUs.

( Guinevere Leodegrance: Private Eye )



Title: Equilibrium
Threesome: Igraine/Nimueh/Uther
Word Count: 100
Rating/Warnings: PG
A/N: Written for drabble_a_trois, prompt: #21: Balance
Spoilers: For episode nine, "Excalibur."

( Equilibrium )


Title: Truth in the Lies
Pairing: Merlin/Morgana
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
A/N: Written for of_the_moon100, prompt: #6: Truth

( Truth in the Lies )


I hope that that's everything.

Title: Green Eyed
Fandom: Count Cain/Godchild
Pairing: Cain/Crehador, with mentions of Cain/Riff and Crehador/Sheila
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~2350
Warnings: Drunken sex
Spoilers: For Godchild volume six
Summary: Cain enjoys the influence of the Green Fairy, while Crehador finds himself caught by an entirely different shade of green.
A/N: The Green Fairy is another name for absinthe. (As anyone who's seen Moulin Rouge will know.) This was written for kink_bingo for the prompt: "drugs/alcohol."

( Crehador scowled as he stomped down the dirty streets of London... )

From fannish5:

Name five series that should have had a musical episode (and how it could have been explained).


1. Merlin! Anthony Head is there. He sings! It would be full of goodness. Probably hilarious goodness, but you can do a serious musical episode. It could be explained, like just about everything else in the series is explained, by a magic spell. Even better if the sorcerer who cast it wasn't evil, just mischievous. Or maybe Merlin does it accidentally.

2. Psych. Because, once again, hilarious. Someone gets murdered while rehearsing for a musical, and Shawn decides that what he and Gus really need to do is join the cast in an attempt to find the killer. Juliet and Lassiter should get roped in too. Because Lassiter's reaction would be priceless.

3. X-Files. Aliens made them sing! I am endlessly amused by the thought of the conspiracy working out their wicked plans... in verse. And Mulder and Scully would have to continually resist the urge to sing a sappy romantic duet, because dammit, they are not sappy romantic duet people!

4. Doctor Who. Because the Doctor should have to sing karaoke in order to SAVE THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.

5. I'm out of ideas, actually.

And a meme.

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

1. Anthy/Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
2. Tsuzuki/Hisoka (Yami no Matsuei)
3. Cain/Riff (Count Cain/Godchild)
4. Merlin/Arthur (Merlin)
5. Gwen/Morgana (Merlin)
6. Kouya/Yamato (Loveless)
7. Shunsui/Nanao (Bleach)
8. Haruka/Michiru (Sailor Moon)
9. Meryl/Vash (Trigun)
10. Kougaiji/Yaone/Doku (Saiyuki)

Title: Lady Fair
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Gwen/Lancelot
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Lancelot has never forgotten her.
A/N: Written for kinkme_merlin.

( From the moment Lancelot first saw Guinevere, he knew that he would never see another woman so beautiful... )

I have so much fic floating around that needs to be posted to my journal.

Title: Fractured
Fandom: Count Cain/Godchild
Pairing: One sided Michaela/Cain
Length: ~1500 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Michaela knew her life was a fairytale. However, she forgot that fairy tales aren't always nice.
A/N: If for some odd reason you haven't read the original Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", do so now. This story will make more sense. Spoilers for volume seven.

( Once upon a time, there lived a princess... )

Right, this is just a little late.

Right after b_hallward convinced me to sign up for remixthedrabble, I was struck by a frightening thought. What if if I was assigned to remix her? That would be bad. I would fail. Utterly and completely. Bad.

So, I just hoped that luck and random chance would be on my side. The assignments were sent out... and I got phoebe_zeitgiest. And then I raged at the unfairness of the universe. The whole idea of the remix is "If you wrote this fic, what would what it be like?". The problem is that writing wise Phoebe's and my brains work very differently. I simply never would have thought to write anything like the majority of her stories. Plus there's the whole "Fuck, this is brilliant; what if I mess it up?" thing.

I made a big angsty post about it, and who should comment but Phoebe. This lead to a conversation that was both comforting and rather awkward on my end.

Choosing what to remix was the first hard part. I was both drawn to and repelled by And Not Your Yellow Hair. On one hand, it's one of my favorite stories and I knew it would fascinating to remix. On the other hand, I also knew that it would be really freaking hard to remix. The Way We Weren't seemed the most logical choice. I ship Muraki/Ukyou/Oriya, and it was a subject I knew I could work with. So, there was no reason not to do it. But I felt ashamed for not trying And Not Your Yellow Hair. Was I afraid of a challenge? Was I a coward? I felt like I had to at least try. (Veleda: like a shounen hero in some ways.) So, I did both.

I finished with plenty of time (for once), and asked Dorian if she would beta. She said yes, and I sent the drabbles off. Or so I thought. She never got them. Yeah, my email provider sucks mightily. So, the day before everything was due, I finally worked up the courage to email her again, freaked when I realized the problem, I emailed the drabbles again.

So, Dorian liked them, Phoebe liked them, and I didn't have to kill myself or flee to the Sierra Nevada. Happy ending!

Dorian, would you like to make a drabble request for helping out, especially on such short notice?


Here they are:

Title: And Not Your Yellow Hair (You Yourself Alone Remix)
Pairing: Hisoka/Muraki
Rating: PG-13
Orginal Fic: And Not Your Yellow Hair

( And Not Your Yellow Hair (You Yourself Alone Remix) )



Title: And the Way We Are (Gilded Cage Sampling)
Pairing: Muraki/Ukyou/Oriya
Rating: PG
Original Story: The Way We Weren't

( And the Way We Are (Gilded Cage Sampling) )

5 questions. 5 chances. 5 honest answers. You get to ask me 5 questions - any 5 questions. I promise to answer them truthfully.

Anything! Except for stuff like my address or real name. Though I should think that would be obvious.

Title: Bounds of Propriety
Author: Veleda_k
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic sex; very, very light kink (gags)
Word Count: ~4500 words
A/N: this was written for springkink. The prompt was: Cain/Riff: public vs private - "What'll the neighbours say."


( It was breakfast time at the Hargreaves household, and Merryweather was pouting... )

I haven't posted about Iran, mostly because I don't really know what to say. I don't have anything insightful to contribute that hasn't already been said.

Because I'm dumb, all I can offer is a selection of links cobbled from my friends list. If nothing else, I can try to make more people aware. I have to say something, because my silence is too damn loud.


A summary of current events in the rallies.

Why you should care and Why I will not let it go (and neither should you) both by one_hoopy_frood. The latter has some "what can I do to help?" links.

There's a live post going on here at ontd_political

There's a move to get Google to change their logo in order to show support.

Apparently, Saturday is going to be a global day of protest. There's information here. There's going to be one in Denver, and luckily, I am not working on Saturday. I encourage people to go. Here's a handy flier.

Title: But a Torment to Himself
Fandom: Count Cain/Godchild
Pairing: One sided Jezebel/Cain
Rating: R
Warnings: Incest, violence, attempted rape, and possibly disturbing imagery. This isn't a nice story.
Word Count: ~2500 words
A/N: Written for springkink

( But a Torment to Himself )

I've been putting off this post for too long.

On May 28th, two of the hosts of a Sacramento morning radio show called Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning spent over half an hour encouraging and promoting the physical and emotional abuse of transgender and questioning children. No, seriously.

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Well, it feels good to get that off my chest.

EDIT: Carl's Jr/Hardee's and Verizon have also pulled their sponsorship! Yes!

EDIT AGAIN: Well's Fargo is also no longer advertising on KXRQ!

EDIT TAKE THREE: Nissan's pulling their support as well!

RETURN OF THE EDIT: AT&T and McDonald’s are gone too! That's ten big name corporations so far.

All right, between the poll at my lj and the one a dreamwidth, identical entries--one at crack_van and one at my journal--just barely won out. I think I like that the best, if only because all those personal notes and snarky comments that no one at crack_van cares about? They can go here.

I want to rec more than just the same old Tsuzuki/Hisoka stuff. I love Tsuzuki/Hisoka. I do. I really, really do. But there's more out there. Not that there won't be plenty of Tsuzuki/Hisoka recs. I am what I am, after all.

I also want to try to stray from the authors and stories that everybody knows, rec some of the new authors. This has turned out to be a bit difficult. First of all, the fandom is... pining for the fjords. There's not a lot of new stuff being posted to lj and the like. FF.net is a bit better, but that brings me to the second problem. Most of the new stuff seems to either suck or is unfinished. I'm frustrated by the number of WsIP that are good enough to rec.

Also, this should hardly surprise anyone, but... argh somehow I will screw this up! I don't know how yet, but it will happen. People will read a story I rec and decide that it sucks. Everyone will think that I have terrible taste. They will hate me on a deeply personal level! What was I thinking?

Lucky for me, at least today's story is unproblematic. It's different, doesn't seem too widely known (which is a shame), and I know it's excellent and have no qualms about reccing it.

( So, without further ado, this month's first rec. )

So, first order of business, ship_manifesto is having an OTP voting battle. You should go vote. Specifically you should go vote for Cain/Riff and Haruka/Michiru. Why? Because I said so, dammit! I offer slightly more convincing reasons here. Haruka and Michiru have a comfortable lead, but as of this post Cain and Riff are being slightly beaten out by Katan/Rociel. The match up seems appropriate, given that they're both from Kaori Yuki manga. Unfortunately, Angel Sanctuary is the more popular manga, which is a shame, given that I maintain that Cain/Riff is very much like Katan/Rociel... but better. Cain has his issues and he can be unkind to nearly everyone, including Riff, but he's not abusive and manipulative like Rociel.

There are lots of other couples to vote for. (Shunsui/Nanao! Juubei/Kazuki! Rogue/Gambit!) hulamoth, they don't have Guy/Marian, but they do have Mulder/Scully.

But that isn't really the point of this post. The point of this point is that I've signed up to post recs for Yami no Matsuei over at crack_van during the month of June. This brings me to a question.

Poll #1408473 Crossposting
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Should I crosspost the recs here?

Ticky box?

I originally started reading Black Butler (I'm not sure if fandom convention is to use the Japanese or English title) because the plot summary reminded me of Count Cain. Young, tortured Earls and the obsessively devoted butlers that serve them! However, while the plots have a somewhat similar feel, aside from superficialities, the characters are quite different. Ciel and Sebastian are definitely not Cain and Riff. However, that's really a good thing, as it allows me to enjoy Black Butler on its own terms.

I was initially confused about the time period. At first, I thought it was supposed to be the Victorian era, but then I saw cell phones, so I assumed present time. But, uh, no. It's the Victorian era, just... with cell phones. I'll admit, my mind kind of has to gloss over that one. Mostly, I don't care about anachronisms. You won't see me whining over the sorry excuse for period dress in Count Cain. (Kaori Yuki wanted to draw Gothic Lolita, so she did. Good for her.) Nor do I pitch a fit over the tomatoes and potatoes that show up in Merlin. However, cell phones are a little much for me. But the story's fun, and I like the characters, so oh well.

I really want to see further into Ciel and Sebastian's deeply twisted relationship. How does the power really balance out? How does Sebastian truly feel for Ciel? Inquiring minds want to know.

I also, uh, sort of ship them in a dirty, guilty way. (Ciel is twelve.) But the manga encourages me! There's a scene where the reader is intentionally lead to believe that Ciel and Sebastian are having sex. As it turns out, Sebastian is simply shoving Ciel into a corset. (...That doesn't make it seem any less dirty, does it? It makes sense in context, trust me.)

So, I liked the story and the characters, but I wasn't really hooked. But you know what? It just got really fucking awesome.

( Spoilers for up to chapter 33 )

Also, uh, wow. I am very dizzy. I think it's exhaustion. The weird thing is that I don't feel very tired. But, uh, yeah, to bed.

I came a cross a very interesting article the other day. Apparently, Keith Olbermann offered to make a donation to Sean Hannity's charity of choice, if Hannity would undergo waterboarding. Hannity didn't take him up on the offer, but another Fox commentator did.

The article is also under the cut. It's short.

( Olbermann's offer to Hannity off the table )


I think this clears things up. People who have been waterboarded consider it torture. And one of those people is a probably-Christian white guy, so his opinions actually count, unlike those Islamic brown people. (EDIT: Er, that last sentence is heavy sarcasm. I think that's obvious, but...)

I think it's time to round up members of the Bush administration and change their minds. And plenty of people in the current government. (No, I am not serious advocating that we round people up and torture them. I'm a Liberal.)

But a good percent of the American people need a wake up call too. Slacktivist AKA Fred Clark is my favorite blogger. He's a liberal Evangelical Christian (no, seriously) who writes about economic inequality, civil rights, and how very crazy the current Evangelic movement is in the U.S. His running critique of the Left Behind book series is one of the most fascinating things on the internet. His latest post is about a recent poll stating that 62 percent of white evangelical Protestants said torture of a suspect could be often or sometimes justified, while 40 percent of the "religiously unaffiliated" held the same stance. Now, while the "religiously unaffiliated" stats are nothing to brag about (Almost half? My god.), they're a damn sight better than the white evangelical Protestants. (For white, non-Hispanic Catholics the rate was 51 percent, and for white mainline Protestants it was 46 percent.) I find this both horrific and darkly amusing. See, plenty of people have defended religion by saying that we need it to define morality. This implies that people without religion must be somehow less moral. But, as it turns out, in the United States, being a white Christian makes you more likely to be a horrible person. So, the next time someone tells me that we can't have morality without God, I'm going to tell them to shove it.

First of all, what the fuck, Colorado weather? I've gotten used to the seventy degree January days, and I've realized that it's never more wintry than in late April, but it's nearly June, so these grey, wet days have to stop. Or at least don't go changing it so much. Google weather said it would be seventy one degrees today, so I dressed for that. When I got on the first bus, it was warm. When I got off, it was chilly and windy. I was not alerted to this possibility! It was still chilly when I got on the second bus, but by the time I got off, it was warm again. Oh, Colorado, I will never understand you.

I had a doctor's appointment today, to check on my boobs. It was somewhat of a trek, just because walking still hurts a bit.

On the bus I encountered a wacky conservative Christian whom I had debated last semester at CU. He was quite eager to talk to me. I was trying to write, so I didn't really want to talk to anyone, but especially not a fundamentalist Christian. He was pleasant and polite, certainly. I have no doubt that many fundamentalist Christians are overall quite good-natured, with concern for others. However, this man, however nice he was, thinks that I'm going to hell. He believes that I face endless agonizing torment after death because I like to kiss girls, and because I pray to a goddess and the wrong god. Not only will I suffer unceasingly for eternity, but quite deservedly so. It's hard for me to think of someone who believes that as a truly good person.

However, he spoke about a talk he was going to give at his church about various literary genres in the Bible (didactic, poetic, apocalyptic, etc.), which sounded genuinely fascinating. (I'm a religious studies minor for a reason.) Of course, he's probably one of the people who thinks that the vast number of different genres and literary styles in the Bible prove that it was written by God, rather than offering evidence that it was written by a great number of people over a very long time. But what are you going to do?

Also, I saw a road sign on the way to the doctor's office that gave me pause. It was next to a creek and said "Ice may exist." And, yes, all right, I know what it meant, but it sounds quite existential to me. "Ice may exist. But perhaps it's simply our subjective perceptions telling us that the ice exists. Who can say?"

...Well, I was at least amused.

I did finally make it to the doctor. I'm healing nicely, and she removed most of the steri strips. And now I can shower! Seriously, bathing became a serious chore when I couldn't get my chest wet.

Before, when my breasts were still numb, I expressed concern that it might be the first stage of horrible zombie disease, and that I had zombie tits. My fears were allayed today. No, instead, I have frankenboobs! (I just can't decide if that should be capitalized or not.) They had to cut off my nipples then reattach them, so it's quite gross looking. (That, uh, might have been more than you wanted to know.) But it's only eight days after surgery, so I'm not worried. Plus, the doctor told me that I'm still quite swelled up, and that my breasts should get even smaller. I'm so excited!

Just like I'm oh so certain that you care about the state of my breasts, so I assume that you care about how my writing is going. I've finished one of my springkink stories, and started the other one. These stories are the reason that I've been researching Victorian carriages and trains. Don't laugh, I find it interesting. And my remixthedrabble entry is in beta.

All in all, my life is going well. This scares me. Surely something must go horrible wrong soon. Well, I'm starting my summer class on Monday. That will probably count.

Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must (or rather, if you want to) then update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?


dancing_serpent gave me Count Cain, Merlin, Yami no Matsuei.

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