dynamite with a laser beam

Watched Law and Order SVU from the other night. Sharon Stone is the new DA! (And she was apparently Elliott's old partner.)   I love SVU, but the acting seemed so... stilted in that ep. EW agrees that the dialogue sucked balls.

Oh, hey, cool site: vintage letterhead. http://www.letterheady.com/ 

Recs! edibleflowers  has a lovely Jack/Ianto story up! Briar's Books - New, Used, Rare - Special Orders Available  I also done helped beta Sam's virtual series fanfic (though you don't have to read tw_itallchanges  for it to make sense, it helps!)  Family Secrets.  And DUDE -- go read the latest story by kel and blue_fjords: All In Good Time. Awesome. 

Looking for more things to read? Try lipsum - she's been sharing great links!

dremiel is sharing her recipe for Matzo Brickle. WHY DID I NOT KNOW YOU COULD MELT CHOCOLATE OVER CRACKERS IN A PAN AND THERE IS SALT INVOLVED, ALONG WITH ALMONDS? 

I am so making these. I am cooking/baking-challenged, but I actually have the ingredients for something for once. Most of the time someone posts a recipe and then I see that it requires something like "mace" or ""wrens' livers" or "dexterity" and... so much for that!

count_to_seven  has a drawing of Myfanwy eating snax with seagulls @ sad_welshman . She escaped the Hub before it blew up, ok? :D :D :D

Via racialicious, The FDA may "regulate" menthol cigarettes.  WHY DO YOU WANT TO BAN THINGS I LIKE?  What's next, slash? Menthols do not make you die faster than other cigarettes. They make you die mintier.

...take away all of my terrible guilty little pleasures, why don't you?  Isn't making them expensive bad enough?

Just... everything.

I've got loads to beta and it's Monday so I have to work first because I fuckin' didn't win the lottery again!  What is this?

Will link to things I've beta-read when I have a spare hour to work up a post (they're not all up, either).

In the meantime, stasha2g  is doing White Collar recs.  And BEST XKCD in a while! OMG!LOL!!!  (Fanfic shout-out.) :D

(There will probably be a deluge of "fanfic sucks!LOL" comments in the comments. Letting that roll off my back.)

I'm liking the band The Nightgowns. Listening + writing is making my fic... weirder than usual.

*tilts head*

Okay. If you don't want to write female characters, and you prefer to write m/m slash fic for whatever reason you like, cool! I like to write male relationship stories/erotica as well. It can be hot and there are many characters in my fandom with awesome dynamics together -- their gender doesn't matter to me. Plus: yay!cocks! I enjoy cocks a lot. Some people only like reading and writing about people with cocks and female sex/relationships don't interest them because they already know what that's like and sometimes, it's not really "different" enough to interest them. I don't want to write about my own life and mostly feel this way about long-term couples of any gender/orientation in canon who don't have a bit of conflict/history/relationship hot mess to spice things up. Kinda boring to me. Different strokes.

But if the stated reasons are:

-- "The female character(s) are badly-written in canon! The guys are always more interesting!"
-- "The female character in a het or poly or any relationship can't be "as equal" as a man relating to another man because of historical, institutional sexism. "If I write two guys they can be equals" !

Uh... you do... realise that in fanfiction you can write female characters better and write them into healthy, hot, sex-positive relationships even if those don't exist in the source material, right?  This is not really more farfetched than a story about two canonically straight guys falling in love with each other and running through a field of daisies and fucking all over desks and spaceships and getting m-pregnant?

"Badly-written in canon" hasn't stopped slash writers from giving any given (hot, natch) male character with two lines a vibrant back story and sexxins by writers. Nobody has to write female characters or het or femslash, and liking given male characters better than the female ones is of course up to the individual fan, but fic writers routinely FIX holes in canon:

Fanfic = making things up.

It's also totally possible for a woman to have a healthy, nonsexist relationship with a dude (or another woman, for that matter). I've had one for over a decade. "Help, help, I'm not being oppressed! Really!"

I am doing a help_haiti  auction donation. I think I might have started the bid too high. (It's just BETA. For charity.)  But a lot of people are offering fic already.  lefaym  has a list of people on her flist, many of whom you probably know, who are taking part and offering great stuff to bid on including crafts! And fanmixes!

amand_r  has finished her Jaws crossover for reel_torchwood, LEVIATHAN!!! Sorry. Leviathan. Dude, it's awesome. I especially liked Ianto's characterisation and snark and thought patterns here. You don't have to be super-familiar with Jaws to enjoy it, but it's even better if you are. 

copperbadge  has a new novel ready for feedback from the internets. The first chapter of Charitable Getting is up. Who writes a novel in less than a month when it's not even NaNoWriMo? Strange awesome people, that's who.

The poll about where you write/send/archive your fic was funnnn. The vast majority of people surveyed use  Word Docs and send that to their beta and save a copy on the ol' hard drive. I'm loving Google docs so hard for everything, though.  Scrivener sounds interesting, and had I a Mac again, i'd try it out. Write Or Die just sounds like the most insane thing ever, though and I would rather carve my eyeballs out with a spork than use "kamikaze mode". I'm told it eats. Eats your words.

The Onion's AV Club has a great interview with Brian Baumgartner, who plays Kevin on The Office. I love Kevin, and the interview has a lot of insights into the characters and behind-the-scenes stuff.

I had to make a cheesy, romantic comedy movie poster out of Sam's Virgin Mobile manip.

Genius original here.  (He did the hard part!) 

Fondled Inappropriately by an Angel? Something like that...

( Click for rom-com fanservice! )

In case you missed it in the run up to the holidays. (Narrated by John "I'm better at talking when you can see my fayce making expressions" Barrowman.)



I have some recs to make later, because I've beta-read some cool-ass shiz lately.

*huggles!*

If you missed it, ask_captainjack  has a Christmas list. :D  Check his f-list; Ianto, Janet, T, Tosh, Owen and everyone have been busy!

What did Jack do between leaving Cardiff in CoE and leaving Earth? He went to Hollywood and met Zachary Quinto. auctorial  knows! (Check out To Leave This All Behind. OMG.)

curriejean 's Advent of Awesome - all of the music you heard in Torchwood -- not the instrumentals, but the pop and other snippets? HERE for your downloading pleasure. :D

And...there is more awesome stuff around, but I'm spent!


YULETIDE STATUS: POSTED!

Liked this planet so much I put a ring on it. Har. Um.

I just read a Rose/Gwen story well, I really liked it. I think those two would get on. Check out All That Hopping (A Multi-Dimensional Love Story) by magicallaw .

WTF, why didn't I know there's a dw_femslash comm? *joins*

From cruentum : John Barrowman on the Vernon Kay show. It looks to me like he's stealing Gareth's shirts.



I have RP to catch up on, and owe betaz.

Then I'm going to the mall because I need some black flats and I'm craving Cheese On A Stick. (Shut up.)

Nick finally posted his final writerinadrawer fic and it's so goooooood.  Read it, you should.  (That was done in my Yoda voice. No, really.)

Title: Something Beautiful
Characters: Gwen Cooper, Jack Harkness
Rating: PG
Length: 4,500 words
Summary: After Torchwood, after Jack, Gwen lives her life, even as Jack comes back.

Big encouragement to all of you who signed up for NaNoWriMo. I'm not sure how you do it.  I don't have a novel in me, pals. My creative mind is like a junk drawer. Open it up and you'll find pens and rubber bands and batteries and an iPod cord and some purple envelopes. These do not make one big cohesive thing when you put them together. 

Did sign up for yuletide , though.    

So many people on my f-list are bummed, hiding from H1N1, stuck with flat beer, being bothered on bus benches or have puppies with fevers.  I want to make great big cheer bubbles with one of those giant wands, blow them all over with a fan and clap with glee as they pop on each of you with a big soapy *gwink!* 

Since that's just bizarre, here's something even weirder: If I were going to start a striptease career, I'd do it to this Lou Reed Song. In fact, I'd only strip to Lou Reed songs.