I guess I shouldn't grumble about having to go to work tomorrow... We are coming towards the tail end... my work-study student workers only have two more weeks (hopefully they WON'T finish what I have put out for them because if they complete it I will have to scramble to find them work. They are dedicated folks so I suspect I will have to scramble.

Christmas is fast approaching although I am more about when our holiday starts (Dec. 22-Jan 1) than the actual holiday. My sister and I will travel to Dallas via Amtrak. I don't trust my car to drive us (because it has an engine problem which isn't a problem now but it will die at some point... I'm nursing it like a newborn and only driving when necessary), I thought about flying but I hate air travel these days ... although Southwest had nice enough prices, but via train isn't dirt cheap. It's only $62 round trip. Mind you it will take longer to get there (5 hours as opposed to 3 hours driving or 45 minutes flying), but that's okay I have my sony reader and I hope I'll be able to read. I've discovered that reading on buses gives me a headache, reading by plane doesn't bother me, so what will travel via train do?

All the holiday food is gone. YAY.

Uh oh. Rain. Feeling...sleepy...now...

*thunk*

zzzzzzz

Our kitty is ( so weird.. XD )

In which I'm going to natter a bit about what we cooked and consumed for Thanksgiving and other issues, related or otherwise.

( In a word, we grilled... )

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Hi! We're legoline and benitle and we're your hosts for this month's workshop:

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We went down to Salinas to J's sister's new place, and holy crap is it huge. It's got a nifty layout, and infinitely more space than their old house. We hadn't seen Natalie since before she was walking so it took a while for her to stop giving J and I the suspicious eye, but by the end of the night it was lots of carry-me arms, and where Sophie is usually all about her Uncle J, somehow this time I ended up with her hanging on me more often than not. I suspect it was that I was wearing a pink shirt so that boosted my coolness rating. It's interesting to see the ways her personality has changed now that she's a big sister. Sometimes I wish we lived a bit closer in order to visit more often.

Anyway, we hung out, ate food, played with dolls, tried to devise a plan to steal their adorable pug, and at the end of the evening I got the bonus of belated b-day gifts. See subject. I have also increased my fuzzy scarf collection by one, so I should probably put out some of the ones I don't wear often out onto the curb.

The drive was nice, and J and I talked a lot about the ways in which we'd like to focus on our projects for school and general creative things. I'm back to having a solid idea of where to go with my current assignments so I'm feeling very rejuvenated about them. Which is good, as I need to be doubly-focused this weekend, since I didn't actually get any extra days off, and the lab is closed tomorrow which is typically my dedicated time to go in and work all day on my homework!

Hope everyone is having a fine holiday. I know I am... even if dinner will be a touch late because I wasn't feeling in the mood to start it earlier. :)

I'm thankful to good friends (virtual and otherwise). I'm thankful that no one in my family is laid off. I'm thankful to cool weather that actually pretends to be Fall after all. And I'm thankful that I don't have to be back to work until Monday. :)

So my gift to all of you is the gift of a rather cool ova. It has many names... It's being called, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. (This link is a description of the show). When you look at the videos (there are 4) it looks like it says Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark which is the name of the manga it's based on. I really enjoyed it, slipped tameiki a copy during Y-con. We watched the first episode and she seemed to like it.

I present to you (direct downloads) of:
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four

Enjoy the videos.

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Oh my god, I love h/c memes. So this week I'm doing a "best of" type deal, and reccing you some of my favorite fics that have come out of my favorite h/c memes. But each of these memes are absolutely TREASURE TROVES for h/c addicts like myself, and there is a TON of quality fic in there, so this is kind of a sneaky way of reccing like, a hundred bajillion fics at once. It was hard narrowing this down -- I wanted to rec at least ten for each one, but tried to limit myself to 3. I really urge you to explore the meme master lists, if you haven't already done so.

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http://community.livejournal.com/spnroundtable/187207.html

Oh my god, I love h/c memes. So this week I'm doing a "best of" type deal, and reccing you some of my favorite fics that have come out of my favorite h/c memes. But each of these memes are absolutely TREASURE TROVES for h/c addicts like myself, and there is a TON of quality fic in there, so this is kind of a sneaky way of reccing like, a hundred bajillion fics at once. I wanted to rec like ten from each meme but I had to limit myself. *calms self*

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http://community.livejournal.com/spnroundtable/187043.html

Thought I’d make my newbie debut with four of my favourite 'J2 in Canada' fics. It took me a while to feel comfortable reading non-AU J2 fics, but when they are as well written as these, why my tin hat fits just fine, thank you.*g*

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I have never had so many WIPs at once EVER. Between fannish glee and original pursuits, I have... TEN on the go at once. Okay, geez, I didn't think it was that many when I went to count. And not WIP as in, paused and will perhaps never finish WIP (though I have a few of those now and it is also a new experience for me) but stories that I'm actively WORKING on. This makes me CAPSLOCK for EXCESSIVE EMPHASIS like I'm HARRY freakin' POTTER.

It's enjoyable to have so much that makes me go sdkjls, but I sorta miss my hardcore focus of hardcoreness. I probably am getting just as much or more done, but it feels like less when I don't have a tidy sequential to do list to check off.

Talk, talk, talktalktalk. Hello, insane hour of the morning. I think I saw you here the same time yesterday, imagine that.

Originally posted at Dreamwidth here. Please comment there using OpenID or ask me for an invite code. :3

And now, porn. My excuse is Tony.

Quality Assurance
Marvel movieverse (Iron Man, X-Men). Tony/Remy. NC-17. ~3800 words. For 'aphrodisiacs' on my kink_bingo card.
The syringe was loaded, ready and waiting on the low coffee table beside the spread of cards and scatter of half-empty bottles.

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http://community.livejournal.com/spnroundtable/186626.html

Hi, I'm obsessive24 (Nicky) and oxoniensis has kindly asked me to be in the hot seat this month. I'm really excited about this, although I noted that to date I've technically made only 1.3 SPN vids, but Signe assured me that we can talk about not!SPN vids if need be, so I guess we'll just play it by ear.

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This rec documents some creative fan activity so postmodern it will make your nose bleed!

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bulletpoints!

- Although I managed surprisingly well on cards last year, there's no way I'm going to manage this year. I'm slightly bummed about this, but I think I'll just resolve to send more random letters throughout the year as that's way more fun to receive.

- I made adorable cupcakes at work again. I wish I had an excuse to make them at home, or a whole lot more people to foist them off on.

- The last two episodes of Fringe made me all excited and giddy, even with a brief Not Sure If Want moment in there. I need to get over my tendency to want to fit things neatly in canon and just write the smushy porn that I want to write.

- There is absolutely no way to reply to an anon thread with you as the subject without a) being a dick, b) encouraging the drama, and c) being a dick. I replied anyway.

- There is absolutely no way to blog/tweet/mention replying to an anon thread with you as the subject without encouraging the drama and being a bit of a dick, but it made me laugh. Oh, people.

- I had this big complicated adventure dream with JDM in it last night. It was awesome. Then I had to get up and go to work, which was less awesome, even though our new brunch cook made me Huevos for breakfast.

- Speaking of our new cook, she's been teaching J how to make stuff. Including this awesome grilled tomato salsa which is downstairs right now, calling to me. She's the best.

- I severely need a nap, but if I sleep now I'll wake up at the time which I should be going to bed. Conflict.

http://community.livejournal.com/spnroundtable/186162.html

There are a few ongoing writing challenges going on right now - NaNo, of course; Mini-NaNo; and fannish things such as spn_30snapshots. Today I'm going to be reccing a short collection of awesome fannish works people are doing for these challenges!

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Title: In The Rhythm Of Loving You
By: Bridget McKennitt
Pairing: RPS - Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1297
Challenge: supernatural100's prompt spring
Contains: No warnings in as far I know that can't be extrapolated from the header itself. Cheerleader!Jensen, Geek!Jared
Disclaimer: Any real person, location, or organization mentioned in the story below own themselves. This is only a fictional story meant for entertainment and not intended for profit or believing the real people mentioned are like this in real life.
Author's Notes: Set a few days after Jared proposes to Jensen. Part of the Moving At Lightspeed Into Eternity verse. Masterpost with chronological order here.

In The Rhythm Of Loving You

I made myself a cracky 5.08 icon (*points*) yesterday, typically made several variations, only to discover it's been over a year since I last made icons. 0.0 How did that happen?

Spam! Wrote this not long after TDK came out but never posted it. Since the evil twin just wrote Joker/Scarecrow with similar elements, I knew I had to post it as the same time as hers or I'd never do it. Team Porn does Arkham. Arharhrh.


The Frayed Ends
Batman. Batman/Joker. R. ~1000 words. Nolanverse. Violence.
Darkness gathers into a swarm around them and Bruce doesn’t want to let the bastard take one more goddamn breath.


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I have so many shiny new obsessions. I'm going to die waiting for the 34227 comic book movies coming out over the next few years.

Yay for evil twins that make my Joker extra shiny and who writes Batman/Joker over here: The Frayed Ends. :D

The Looking Glass
Batman Begins. Joker/Crane. NC-17. ~2000 words. Breathplay.
Joker fit his fingers one by one to Jonathan's throat.

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Just a little something to get me in the groove for doing homework. Done without access to my usual brushes so there are several big things that make me go DDDD:, but I didn't want to spend more than an hour on this. Warmup means warmup, Pondy.

Avengers. Steve/Tony. G.



( Steve & Tony Warmup Drawing )

Supernatural 5.10 HDTV 720p (1280x720) XviD (codec) .avi (format) 474mb (filesize)
Download: megaupload, nakido (.zip file, 454mb)

(nakido link coming.. eventually done!)

And now for winter hiatus. D:

Attended a benefit dinner last night with J, maiki, and Susan for a non-profit that we've done a lot of work for. Materials that both Susan and I had designed were all over the place and it was really nice to see it all out and looking snazzy. Susan's done a lot to get their informational materials/reports looking clean and professional. I did the benefit's programs, invites, and carried over from last year was a set of promotional posters which I'm still proud of. The project, per usual, made me gnash my teeth at times, but I do enjoy working for them, and it was flattering when people whom I didn't expect compliments from told me they were impressed by the invitations in particular. :D Leading up I had this worry about the pagination on the program booklet since I worked entirely remotely and never saw a proof (or even had time to run one myself!) but everything turned out beautifully and typo-free. By this point, I've done enough recent work to have a solid design portfolio again, so with so few classes left ahead of me it's nice to have that in addition to what's shaping up to go on my reel.

I didn't mingle much, as J and I were introduced to some great people early on and there was no incentive to bother straying away from the interesting conversation to rub elbows with people outside my industry. It was somewhat fascinating attending something like this after so long, and also after now having worked on catering from the serving end! The appetizers, by the way, were awesome. I wish we offered some of them on our own menu, especially the warm cranberries and almonds in phyllo cups. Yum.

My shoes were remarkably comfortable. I haven't worn actual heels in forever and it's nice to confirm that my knee can handle hours standing around in 3" heels.

This was supposed to be anon commentporn, but then it wasn't fulfilling what the OP had asked for so I wrote it for Blue instead.

Boys' Club
X-men RPS. Hugh Jackman/Liev Schrieber/Taylor Kitsch. NC-17. 3400 words.
God, tonight he'd be a slut for it if that's what they wanted.

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Jensen @ Chicago Con..

Answering a question about gifts he & Jared give/have given each other:

"If [...] I see a gadget or a gizmo or something that we want, we just get it."

BOYS! \o/

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I admit, I loathed Henriksen when he first appeared. But he's ended up as one of my favourite characters, and one I'd desperately love to see in more fanfic or other fannish works. So, share your Henrikson recs, please!

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