The first circle (John/Rodney) PG | ~950 Just a bit of silliness for the lovely siriaeve, who had to suffer through a Rite of Passage today ♥♥♥ She wondered what Rodney's first day of doctoral school would be like, and well....
Woot, weekend trifecta! I met three of my goals this weekend: to write fic, to get in a decent run, and to make awesome stuff in the kitchen. Here is the fic:
.sga: The night before book club (John/Rodney) PG13 A snippet from an AU dogeared and I tossed around a while ago, wherein Rodney joins a book group in order to get some action. (It was an act of desperation, we think.) You can find it here, with some other awesome stuff from Cate's sammich/beds/making out fest.
.spn: Run on (Dean/Castiel) NC17 Another AU snippet, something else that Melface and I thought about. In it, Castiel and Dean are on the run from evil corporate-types, and all that adrenaline and tension has to go somewhere, finally. .eta: Removed because I realized I needed to tinker with it some more. Will repost later, when it sucks less.
The Hard Sel (John/Rodney) PG13 | ~3,400 words A gift and a really terrible pun for the birthday of the fabulous, lovely dogeared. I hope your day is filled with wonderful and happy things, best Jenn!! ♥♥♥
(This is set in the little selmelier!Rodney AU dogeared and I have talked about; there is one drabble here that got this fic started. What is a selmelier, you ask? Well, read on!)
Probably this is insight2's fault, but while I was brushing my teeth last night it occurred to me that it would be interesting (one word for it) to develop an angelic language, now that Skanr has been my practice run for language construction. What I've been thinking of is a language that is Romance-like in the sense that angels use different forms of the copulative (to be) for the created world and the divine, to express the distinction they'd probably make between essence versus state. Or would they just see the entire world as a collection of things in a state of being or becoming or changing? And how would the near-infinite think about the bounded and contained, anyway? *ponders these things*
By executive order, I have decided that on a semiregular basis (maybe every other Sunday, or however often I feel like it), I will contribute to weekend sloth and work avoidance by writing drabbles on request. When requests are open, I will note which fandoms I'm writing in; all you need to do is name your fandom, character/pairing, and prompt, and I will write 100 words of something. This post will be the prompt and response post, for purposes of consolidation.
.drabble prompts: Leave me a fandom/character/pairing and a prompt (SGA, SPN, Bones, and I guess I will take Merlin*) and I will see what I can do.
4.26 DRABBLEVENTURES NOW OPEN
In unrelated news, Iron & Wine's The Shepherd's Dog is completely awesome and I have been listening to it obsessively.
* = I like Morgana a lot and wish something heavy would land on Uther. And I like how Arthur is kind of a jerk, but basically a decent guy. Also, I am deeply amused and, dare I say it, somewhat gratified, by the fact that the incantation languages involve Old English. A lot of this is because the Anglo-Saxons really did not like teh magics.
*le sigh* Sunday is over, alas! Drabbles closed for now.
[fic] Martha Stewart's Private Hell (PG13) John/Rodney | ~1400 Part of Roommates!verse, which means, of course, that the boys are only semi-domesticated. Still, I wrote this for casa_mcshep, which already has a ton of wonderful domestic-type things! Martha Stewart's Private Hell.
[art] Crossroads Blues/Possession over Judgment Day I was working on this for something else, but the larger piece wouldn't come together, and seeing as I'd already invested time and effort in it, I thought I might as well try to get a header out of the thing. There's a completely textful version, as well as a textless, and two with textual permutations. I love Dean and the blues, what can I say?
In other news: asd;lkjdflkj Steelers! I have no deep loyalty to them (or the Cardinals), but I kind of have a soft spot for Pittsburgh because I had a wonderful great-aunt and uncle who lived there, and the place has fond memories. Also, I think "Terrible Towel" sounds hysterical. So, yay Steelers!
Drop me a comment, and I'll tell you the first thing that comes into my mind when I think of you, whether it makes sense or not.
I was pretty productive this morning despite having to drag myself out of bed and despite almost falling asleep in the shower. This is pleasing to me.
RANDOM.
.eta: Now updated with commentfic! ladycat777 wrote some of her totally awesome Mer/John here (it continues into the next comment, it is a TWO PART COMMENTFIC HURRAH!), and I wrote a bit of subdued Dean and Castiel here for smilla02, occasioned by Kim Manners's death. RIP, my man.
First, thank you to all those who commented on and enabled my weirdness re: Aretha Franklin's hat on Friday. ILU FANDOM.
Second, I wrote a couple of wee ficlets today!
Supernatural (PG13) John/Rodney | ~830 words [AU, set after "The Eye"] Written for mcsmooch. John is a _____ and Rodney is a ______. (And this, as they say, is a fic of crack.) A bit out of my usual way: I DID IT EVEN THOUGH AMBER THOUGHT I WOULDN'T HA HA HA!
What Is Next to Godliness (NC17) Dean/Castiel | ~500 words Written for PORN BATTLE VII over at oxoniensis. I picked "laundry," because for some reason I have a fondness for laundromat/laundry room sex0rs. Don't ask me why: Angels have victory sex too?
In other news: I've realized that all my story ideas start coming right when I really need to get back to work. Unfair.
It just occurred to me that one of the things on my Backlog of Stuff is linking to things what I wrote and arted over the past two months. So, here they are:
[fic] Faith Healing (John/Rodney PG13) ~11,800 words An AU for temaris's sga_santa present! I completely blanked on a halfway decent title for it, which was idiotic, because the story had two sources I knew (Moby's remix of "Run On" and The Band's "WS Walcott Medicine Show") and one which I had completely forgotten until I saw it the other day (Supernatural ep "Faith," which features faith healing in a muddy field in southern Nebraska.)
Anyway, the story gave me hell but it's posted and here it is, with safe planets and Asgard and the Trust and Rodney's horrible, horrible roadtrip with Lorne, and, of course, John: Faith Healing.
[art] Arbor (Teyla, gen PG13) Art done for siriaeve's Teyla!fic as part of artword's Astronomy challenge. She does write an awesome Teyla, you guys, srsly. There's team, too, but a lot of team through her eyes: Arbor.
The art is a cover, and sort of an experiment in how to do coloring with brushes and not have a decent drawing tablet. I desaturated the image of Teyla and recolored it in places using splotchy brushes of various persuasions... It took a bit, but it came out okay, I think.
One and All (NC17) John/Rodney | ~ 6,730 words Part of hockey!verse and written as a belated present for the birthday of amberlynne, the great bamboozler *smoooooches* "One and All" takes place before "Playing the Body," and will (I hope) set up a bit of longer story that hashes out what, exactly, is going on with the boys.
.Hands-On Learning (PG13) John/Rodney Part of the Restoration Hardware AU, and takes place at some indeterminate time before More Temperate. Written as part of a small "it's Sunday morning, pick a body part" exchange with siriaeve, dogeared, and sheafrotherdon; my part is "hands" :D