This is my life

Thank you all again for your patient and kind responses to my depressing holiday posts. No more of that, and I'm sorry for the crankiness.

It only took 15 hours of driving through various snowstorms and I made it to Baltimore. I got in at 5:30am and slept for a few hours, and now have been up all day to get my sleep cycle back on schedule. Braindead, so will not be posting on this tonight, but, MEME! From scheherezhad, lady_krysis, tygermama and others.

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing that I'm familiar with, and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

( Trope list )

You may have noticed. If you haven't, maybe take a look at my stocking on fandom_stocking or my Dear Creator letter for ante_up_losers or my requests for sga_santa or my Dear Author letter for galentinesday.

P.S. You can still sign up for your own fandom_stocking or troll trawl Dear Creator letters to make something for the ante_up_losers Scramble.

P.P.S. Drop a link here with your fandom_stocking! I will try to make you a little something. :D

Happy International Women's Day.

I'm going to do this one again (I still owe some of you from last year, eep). Originally stolen from petra.

Name a woman in one of my fandoms and I will attempt a drabble or short fic about her.

If you give me a keyword or lyric, I will use it if it sparks something for me.

Fandoms on offer: SGA, The Losers, Leverage, Criminal Minds, and any other fandom/tv show/movie/other media I've talked about in the past. Give it a try - I'll let you know if I don't know the source material.

<3

For the third time in two days, I have actually done ALL THE THINGS at work. I'm so on top of things that I can handle every single thing that comes in, as it comes in. And the total number of items in my queue (all waiting on other people) is only 23. It fits on one screen of my email. I’m astonished.

I’m also languishing in this huge story I’m wrestling with, trying to find the right way through a minefield that’s basically caused by the fact that I’m writing 1000 words of it a day, so it will randomly wander off course and I won’t notice for a couple of days because I’m not reading the whole damn thing every day. Hopefully I’ll be able to sit and write one day over vacation, and just plow through to the end. I’m also having a problem because straight!John is insisting that he is VERY VERY STRAIGHT, THANK YOU and he is not cooperating with my plans to slash him up. What the hell, he’s never come off as that straight to me before, I can’t figure out what his problem is. >:(

Also, kink_bingo is doing these gift basket themed mini-cards and a lot of them are really neat! I'm looking particularly at the body alteration one, because a) the card is pretty, b) I have a thing for a lot of those kinks, and c) I have a nicely wide variety of items for them (including How To Train Your Dragon meta). I just can't seem to quite get myself motivated to write anything. I'm thinking of finally trying my hand at podficcing because there is one really awesome story that I love a lot for one of the squares, and would like to find some way to honor it.

Oh, I need to put up a reminder post over on queerlygen too; the Family (biological or chosen) challenge ends next week so we can line our next challenge up with 3W4DW. Anybody want to prompt me for it? I haven't written anything yet because no bunny has really grabbed me by the neck, so while I don't guarantee I'll write your idea, I might! I'm eyeing SGA, Losers, and Leverage, mostly, though I might be tempted to try Criminal Minds, White Collar, or other things. I've been watching a lot of movies lately; try me. I should say that chosen family works for me better than biological family for obvious reasons, but I'm willing to take a whack at biological family, too. I've done a lot of Rodney/Jeannie stuff in the last year (working out sister issues, maybe).

I am also sitting on a bunch of comments I need to answer; I have a weird amount of social energy lately; I'm funneling a lot of it into writing (which I'm doing in the mornings now) and work, and when I get home, I just can't do anything more than sit around and watch comforting things and play games. I'm hoping our vacation (leaving Thursday for home - being taken care of by mom is always a wonderful vacation - and we'll be there 10 days, so I can actually forget about work for a while) will free up some of that energy for following up on comments and commitments. (I haven't forgotten about my pledge to do Radek/Ronon for the sga_guide, my list of blanket permission authors for remix_goes_wild, or the International Women's Day ficlets. Really. I just need some real time (meaning time when my brain can be engaged).

There's some outrageous flooding in Queensland, Australia, and as a way to get some dollars to flood relief organizations, waltzmatildah is having an auction in the comments in this post.

I am offering two fics to the highest bidders, you get 100 words for every $1 Australian. Bidding ends January 23, 11:59 pm AusEDST (I cannot for the life of me find that link to the time converty thing - HELP ME!).

Here's my offer, if you're interested:

Fandom/s: The Losers, SGA
Characters/Pairings: Gen for either (and possibly other fandoms as well, feel free to ask). Losers: Cougar/Jensen for sure, Cougar/Jensen/Pooch probably, others, please PM to ask first just in case. SGA: just about anything, but obvs McShep and Lorne/Zelenka are my go-to pairings.
Other: AUs are my specialty; I like crack. If you specifically want canon, let me know, please! Also, please let me know what rating you'd like - I will write specifically to what you're looking for.

WORK SUCKS. Just getting that out there first.

If I owe you fic and you haven't told me what you want, pls to comment here. If I owe you fic and you haven't gotten it, and you'd prefer I not try to make it into one of my kink_bingo fics, pls to comment here. If I owe you fic and you haven't gotten it, and you'd prefer I do try to make it into one of my kink_bingo fics, please to comment here with a suggestion.

( My pretty pretty kink_bingo card under here. It's like they know me! )

I've got ideas, but that's for later, when I make a roundup post of the many many things I owe people.

mcshep_match will have voting on the drabbles later today. Team Play outdid themselves - they have a HUGE number of drabbles (way more than Team Work, even with cesare's Herculean efforts). I'll post a plea for voting later today with links to some of Team Work's best stuff and where to vote.

SPEAKING OF VOTING. If you intend to vote for Team Work in the drabble poll as part of my incentive package, please to be naming your requested reward fic (and whether or not you'd like it to be a possibility for one of my kink_bingo squares - sex not necessary! I will write gen kink!) in the comments.

So, I've got a few goals for Team Work with regard to the drabble tree.

1. Have a drabble series.

2. Back and forth with someone (in progress)

3. Write one response drabble for everyone who's written something for team work! (in progress)

4. And this it the important one: get as many people to write drabbles for Team Work as I can. You don't have to be on the team, you just have to write a drabble using a word or two or sixteen from another drabbler (bolded helps to pick out the words), and put Team Work in the subject line when you reply to them. quinfirefrorefiddle wrote one with OpenID, and whizzy has written several. Of course I love everyone on my team, and appreciate everyone who's already written drabbles (some people to the tune of 50 or more!), but I'd really like to get a varied response as possible, so I'm begging you, yep, hands and knees here, to think about writing 100 words for Team Work. If begging doesn't work, let me bribe you! I'll trade word for word! You want some Jensen/toppy!Aisha? I'll try that. Leverage or White Collar OT3? I'll do my best. Curtainfic for the Criminal Minds team? I'll do that!

Just one drabble. Pretty please? There's always cookies, if that's up your alley. <3

Drabbles are hard, dude.

No seriously, they're tough enough when you have the slightest snippet of an idea (when I'm in practice, I can automatically write to within five words of a hundred… when I'm out of practice, I usually write to about a hundred and fifty), but when there's a whole plot (I'm looking at you, gblvr) that's a hell of a lot of conciseness to fit it in a hundred words. That one's not my best (sorry, gblvr), but I did it! I did at least one for everybody! And here they are:

jumpuphigh requested sitting on the pier after a rough mission and kissing that turns to biting of the neck and shoulders and early morning sleepy kissing.
gblvr requested one or the other of them getting the wrong idea about something they see or overhear the other doing with either Radek or Evan, and having that lead to a jealous! and/or relieved!kiss.
soleta requested polky dots
cesare requested mice and parrots.
danceswithgary requested swimming.
psyche29 requested in the pouring rain.
queenbarwench requested strawberries and champagne.
iadorespike requested John touches something he shouldn't and Rodney kisses it better.

*wipes hands*

And while you're perusing commentfic, why don't you stop by and tell fyrefly101 that her very first foray into SGA fic is as brilliant as I'm telling her? It's a remnant of studying for finals and educational as well as sweet.

ETA: Bonus! sohotrightnow wrote scorching hot Clay/Aisha Losers porn!

I'm watching the Ace of Cakes marathon on the Food Network. There are bunches of commercials for 5 Ingredients Fix and I keep hearing 5 Ingredient Fics.

I mean, doesn't that sound like fun? You pick five ingredients and make a fic out of it? Okay, so comment with either a request for five ingredients and I'll see if I can do something fun for you, or a list of five ingredients and I'll see if I can write a fic for you!

ETA: They can be food ingredients if you like, but I was thinking pretty much anything... characters, pairings, kinks, cliches, tropes, zombies, whatever you can think of. Thanks to meansgirl for kicking me to clarify.

For cleverkat: Supernatural, Sam and Dean

For knitting_hobbit: Wampire Greg, Mischa

For ninquelosse: Drabble, Late night shopping, which is not a drabble, and set in a fandom, even though she didn't ask.

One on the way for gayalithiel, even though she didn't ask for one.

Wanna get in on this? Go back and take my birthday poll!

You know, I realized some time ago that I only wrote in my paper journal when I was down or trying to figure out some unpleasant circumstance. After all, if things were going well and I was happy, then what was the point of writing? Why not just live life to the fullest?

I find that Livejournal is almost exactly the opposite. If things are tough in one way or another, then I don't write. I think that's because there's an audience. I know you can privatize, but I don't. Because if I wanted it private, I'd write it in a paper journal. No, this journal is social, and that affects what and why I write here.

[EDIT]

Well. *wipes hands* That's enough of that self-pitying drivel. So.

I have, indeed, done almost all of the fic requested by people in my Yule drabble gifts and birthday mathom. I'll put up a post with links for everyone to follow, but I'm tired from moving, so I won't be doing that this week. In the meantime, my birthday is coming up, and I'd like to offer another mathom. I'm also going to ask for a couple of suggestions, by way of a birthday present for me. Call me an opportunist, I dare ya.

[Poll #992905]

Hello, my lovely friends. My birthday is this weekend, and I have a request.

I love each and every one of you so much. Because of that, I request that you not post anything on your own journals re: my birthday. Mostly because there’s a high likelihood I’ll miss it, and that would make me sad. Both to miss it, and to possibly make one of my friends feel bad because I didn’t comment. I feel bad enough already that I’m a million years behind on my commenting. I don’t have a lot of time to get online. However, I do have a lot of time to write on the train, and that leads to my mathom.

So, in lieu of birthday wishes, ( have a poll )