Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes me cry (or almost)
Day 17 → A piece of art
Day 18 → Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19 → A talent of mine
Day 20 → A hobby of mine
Day 21 → >A recipe

Day 22 → A website

ThinkGeek's OMGWTFun page. I like the geek haiku.


Excuse me. I have to go watch my brand spankin' new copy of It Might Get Loud and work on the WIP amnesty fic.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes me cry (or almost)
Day 17 → A piece of art
Day 18 → Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 19 → A talent of mine
Day 20 → A hobby of mine


Day 21 → A recipe

There are a few recipes I really like here, but here's a new one: ( the banana bread I baked as gifts for colleagues )

Happy solstice, for those who celebrate today!

♥

*putters off to consume more coffee*

TWO FIC POSTS IN ONE DAY!

Thinking straight, with nothing to prove

Brendon/Tom (PATD/empires) || 4495 words || adult || plotless porn

by irisgirl12000 and why_me_why_not

*facepalm* Working title: Bandboys need no pants. That says it all, pretty much.





I promise, I'm done spamming you for the evening.

*slinks off to work on next tidbit for WIP amnesty week*

Day 20 of that meme? A hobby of mine

*points at last post*

Fandom. Writing fan fic. Reading. Listening to music, seeing live shows. In keeping with that, here, have a list.

( Top 10 albums of 2009 )

So, harriet_vane and sunsetmog both have declared the next few days (weeks?) WIP amnesty, and as my previous post mentioned, one of my major talents is half-finishing fic.

This particular not!fic has been half-finished for... maybe two years? I started it after watching a rebroadcast of MCR's SNL performance. You know that moment at the end, when they're all milling about on stage, and Frank is on Bob's back, and he half-chokes him?

Uh-huh. I loved the idea of this, exploring s/D and how to handle needs when you're crammed on a bus with at least four other dudes for a year, but I have to admit that I am never going to flesh it out into more than the porn it is now. I just don't have the inclination or skill to write it.

So, here. Have 1760 words of not!fic!

Warnings: Breathplay. Without a beta, and without plot. Also, completely fictional. Consider yourself warned, okay?

( What? Don't tell me you didn't think the same thing when you watched SNL that night )

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes me cry (or almost)
Day 17 → A piece of art
Day 18 → Whatever tickles my fancy

Day 19 → A talent of mine

Procrastinating? Starting fic and never finishing it? Shall I count the number of WIP files on my harddrive or in email threads? Or the notebook with mostly finished fic from the trip we took to Australia (TWO YEARS AGO) that have not been transcribed and posted? Potter verse, SPN RPS, bandom.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes me cry (or almost)
Day 17 → A piece of art

Day 18 → Whatever tickles my fancy

I was going to blog about Gabe Saporta telling tonight's audience not to let anyone tell you what you can't do, and then proceeding to sing the radio/parent-approved versions of their songs, censoring himself for the radio-sponsored, Justin Bieber-adoring children in the audience.

But I am tired and mostly happy that I got to see Suarez slap Ryland's ass and the glittery Tyson & Nick show. (Srsly, interpretative dance. IDEK what drugs he's on, but they must be good.)

So here, ( have a photo while I sleep on it: )
More on the subject tomorrow. ♥

Courtesy of J: there were a few things in the first page of this LA Weekly article about m/m novels that annoyed me, but in the end it came off as relatively even-handed. And there's a mention of slash fandom as the progenitor of the current m/m ebook phenomenon.

ETA: :( John Frusciante left RHCP? He and Flea were the reason I loved them.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes me cry (or almost)

Day 17 → A piece of art

NGL, this piece from the Musee Rodin combines my love three-dimensional art, all things French, and hands.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic

Day 16 → A song that makes me cry (or almost)

I don't think I've ever actually cried because of a song. The closest I get is Wonderful, by Everclear. I know a lot of people don't like Everclear or have a really mixed opinion of them (him), for a variety of reasons. But as a child of divorce, who lived in at least 8 different homes in the first twelve years of life, with little or no contact with my father until the last few years, some of Alexakis's lyrics strike a pretty tender chord, and these in particular resonate so hard it hurts.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book

Day 14 →A fanfic

The first fanfic I ever read (if we're not counting things like Wide Sargasso Sea and Scarlett) was Kalina Lea's The Buried Life. I found it accidentally, when I was searching for something related to Laurie King's Mary Russell series. I put "Russell/Holmes" into google, and got hits for Kalina Lea's fanfic. The Russell/Holmes fanfic didn't interest me, but I was fascinated by the idea of Severus Snape and Hermione Granger as a pairing.

Thus began my trip down the garden path from HP fanfic to SPN to RPS to bandom.

I didn't linger with the Snape/Hermione shippers, but Snape was and still is my very favorite Harry Potter character, in the books and in fanfic. (Although the Weasley twins are a close second.)

OK, so I'm reading this m/m ebook, Lessons in Love, right? I mentioned it a couple of posts ago, for the "fictional book" entry of the 30-day meme.

Yeah. Being as two Fellows at Cambridge could lose their positions (or be sentenced to two years' hard time, like Oscar Wilde) back in that era, the sexual part of the relationship between the two main characters is developing slowly, behind closed and locked doors. Which I'm fine with. There's something about that era that, despite behind-closed-doors Victorian licentiousness, makes restraint sort of fitting, to me. Plus, part of the focus has been on the mystery of two murders in their college.

But. BUT.

In an effort to make progess with their physical relationship, one of the characters tells the other about his past, complete with abuse by other boys at his boarding school. And then. THEN. HIS FIRST LOVE. His first love was so perfect and wonderful that he volunteered at a soup kitchen, where he caught TB AND DIED.

I AM SRSLY SITTING HERE WITH A OMGWTF EXPRESSION ON MY FACE. Hey, hi, just when I was thinking that you WEREN'T badfic, this scene came along and changed my mind.

+ Currently trying to decide if I want to go to Illinois for the last weekend in January for my favorite faily boys & Greta, or if I want to wait a week and go for the 5th anniversary show TAI's doing for the release of Almost Here. I really want to see Empires, but I am not looking forward to the drive to Urbana. I can't do both b/c I'm probably going to take a day off in February to see Jack's Mannequin in San Antonio or Dallas (because they are not coming to Houston on their headlining tour AGAIN) and either a ski trip or visit to NYC to see the Austen exhibit and hang out with J on MLK Jr Day. Decisions, decisions. (I know, my life: so hard.)

+ Sign-ups for the MS150 seem to be open much longer this time around. MrIris is definitely doing the ride, and I'm happy to do the training with him, but I do not like being in a pack of 13000 bicyclists all converging on a single street in Austin.

+ My body hates me today. Why, cramps?

+ Thanks to last night's twitpic, Gabe Saporta & Adam Lambert are currently cohabiting fic-writing space in my brain. (In the compartment next door, Bden, Spence, and PStump are hanging out.) IDEK, guys.


And finally, today's installment of the 30-day meme.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book

Day 14 →A non-fictional book

Again the weird phrasing. My favorite work of non-fiction, one that I've read recently: Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilization. It's a really heavy read. Long, small print. But beautifully written. As you might imagine from the title, it draws many parallels between WWI and the US Armed Forces' current imbroglio in the Middle East. History is intertwined with Fisk's personal history and current events. It took me nearly a month to read this book, mostly just reading on weekends, but it was worth it.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy

Day 13 → A fictional book

Ah, this is a weird phrase. If by this the meme's creator means a work of fiction, I'll point you toward the honorable mentions list at the bottom of Day 04's entry.

Or, okay, the book I'm reading now: Lessons In Love. J has been telling me for ages about this series of ebooks she read by Charlie Cochrane, called the Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, so I finally purchased the first in the series and started reading it last night. They're set in Edwardian England, at Cambridge, and the two main characters, Jonty and Orlando, are fellows at St. Bride's (is that a real college?), who eventually fall in love.

It's interesting so far. I'm only a couple of chapters in. NGL, I was afraid the writing would be like badfic, b/c I've skimmed samples on some ebook websites, but it's well written and entertaining thus far.



As for the awkwardly phrased title in the meme, if it's supposed to mean a book that's fictional, as in not-real, well. Hmm. I'll have to think about that.

I am supposed to be doing something chore-related, but the washer and dryer are both full, and the kitchen is still occupied by a crazy man with hops and boiling malt, so I'm doing the icon meme-thing.

harriet_vane picked six icons, and if you comment, I'll pick six of yours to explain. ( :D )

Today:

1. laundry
2. bake banana bread and pumpkin bread
3. vacuum
4. wrap holiday gifts for shipment to Mom's
5. go for a 5-mile run to make up for yesterday's sloth-like behavior

Tomorrow:

1. package to USPS
2. drop off dry cleaning
3. follow-up on delivery estimate for MrIris's gift


ETA: Meant to write holiday cards too, but I realized that my card collection was in the cupboard that flooded when the water heater died last spring, so we threw them all out. DDD:

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently

Day 12 →Whatever strikes my fancy

Pimping strikes my fancy! If you live in the mid-Atlantic area and are a Jane Austen fan, this is something you should see!

While I am not the Austen aficionado that J is, I am very fond of Sense and Sensibility and Emma, and I am quite fascinated by the way Austen's work is both a reflection of her life and an invitation for modern authors to speculate and expand.

(What is the glut of austen-based books like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies or The Secret Diaries of Jane Austen or Mrs. Darcy except a for-profit version of fan fiction, I wonder?)

But I digress.

J sent pics and descriptions of her day trip to Bath during her trip to the UK, which made me quite envious. I'm not likely to get to the UK in the near future, but I might see if I can wedge a trip to NYC in some time before March, so that I can see The Morgan's Jane Austen exhibit.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago

Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently

In posts I've made recently, with M&G photos here and here. Plus, my icon. Otherwise not so much, because like I said: I generally avoid cameras.


M'kay. There's new fic at cm_exchange, drawn_to, spn_j2_xmas, and happy_trekmas, so I'm gonna refill my wine glass and curl up next to MrIris, who is watching college hockey, and read myself to sleep.

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took

Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago will have to be posted at some other date, because I am not sure I own any, other than a photo of me & J as kids. I pretty much hate having my picture taken, and only submit to it at family/holiday functions, generally. I might be able to dig one out from somewhere, but I have none that are already in digital format - the oldest photo I have in my photobucket & scrapbook files is one from my wedding reception, which was seven and a half years ago.