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Tall, Dark, and Angry / tempers confused for passions by unknowing youthful eyes

I realise I have a soft spot for Earl Povich and Fury/Piper because it reminds me of Faith Lehane and Faith/Buffy. I remember for the longest time I actively disliked Riley and Spike, not because I was a Bangel fan, because even though there was no way a lesbian would ever be canon (so I thought at the time), I was rooting for Faith/Buffy even though, initial chemistry aside, there was no way back for them at all after the backstabbing(s?), I wonder again how different things could be if Faith had been in that limo with Buffy instead of Cordelia, but I don't remember if it was already too late.

marionlove16 made my favourite Baith vid, even though the quick white flashy scene changes in the beginning is slightly headache inducing:

Buffy and Faith~ Apologize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Z…

defying3reason mostly ships Trickster/Piper, and some Nightwing/Piper, even Barry Allen/Piper, but she wrote some canon compliant Fury/Piper that is set in the past, that shows Fury's temper and manipulativeness as well as the good alluring bits of him that makes it easy to see why Piper was so drawn to him.
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Nature: "What Plants Talk About"

I saw this on PBS a few nights ago, and it's very interesting, I'm both awed and worried that carrot juice might be murder*, but it's very fascinating:

What Plants Talk About:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/epi…
When we think about plants, we don’t often associate a term like “behavior” with them, but experimental plant ecologist JC Cahill wants to change that. The University of Alberta professor maintains that plants do behave and lead anything but solitary and sedentary lives. What Plants Talk About teaches us all that plants are smarter and much more interactive than we thought! Buy the film. What Plants Talk About premiered April 3, 2013. (Video limited to US & Territories).

ETA: Unfortunately the video is only viewable within United States.


*I don't think I would ever be vegetarian even though I'm uncomfortable about eating animals, I can disassociate well enough by sticking to meat that is meal shaped instead of recognizably an adorable animal. Still, I'm hoping to /reduce/ the cattle meat in my diet by eating more vegetarian protein and considering entomophagy, I can't eat crickets or grasshoper because I imagine it'll feel like there'll be a cockroach in my mouth, ew, but I've eaten "larvets" I've brought from Tutti Fruitti just fine, I think I can eventually work up to a "mealworm casserole", but I need to figure out a way to kill those things, it's not like you can break their necks, I have a feeling they'll wiggle after they are dead(will they be dead if you behead them?). I would really like to be able to enjoy eating vegetables without remembering that part in the Nature program where the scientist says the grass are screaming in their own way when being cut because they were suffering trauma, what the hell?

Also, if god exist and was a fair god, things that looks cute and things that are delicious should be very different things.
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Some Things: "If Easier" & "Toys and Playmates", Girl!Piper, Trickster/Piper, Rule 63

Title: Some Things; "If Easier", "Toys and Playmates"
Pairing: Trickster/Piper, short snippets in a Girl!Piper AU, so het, as well as reference to f/f.
Characters: Hartley Rathaway, James Jesse
Warning: Mature Content, hint of abuse, by authority in the first one, domestic in the second one. Brief consensual bondage h/c in the second one.


If Easier

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Toys and Playmates

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Badger Pride, Hartley Rathaway

http://piper-trickster.livejournal…

Badger Pride

The Sorting was not a surprise or a shock to Hartley, he had started thinking "Hufflepuff" over and over before the hat had even settled on his head...and the hat, granted Hartley his choice.

When the news reached the Rathaway Manor, his parents were absolutely scandalized, it was worse than having a Gryffindor son, said his Slytherin father (who really wasn't very Slytherin after all, to have been so blindsided). His mother privately console herself with that her son might at least live long enough to give her grandchildren.

Hartley grew his own salad greens on his windowsill, and shared with his housemates. He instigated inter-being musical concerts with goblins and centaurs and a few brave house-elves. He stayed humble in the face of high praise from Slughorn and Flitwick. He went to all the Quidditch matches even though he wasn't much a fan of the sport...

Yet it wasn't until his second year, when Nerville Longbottom became the new Herbology Professor, and told them that the hat put him elsewhere even though Longbottom had pleaded to be put in Hufflepuff, did Hartley Rathaway had faith that he had only requested what the hat would have chosen for him anyways, that he was a true Badger after all.

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AN: You have no idea how very tempted I was to end this snippet with the line he was sorted this way. Hartley is a Hufflepuff with a Slytherin pride, he's certainly brave, at points foolhardy in his youth (the rebelling), clever, and ambitious, but all this is driven by his sense of fairness and decency. He's a loyal soul and a social creature, one that doesn't let class / racial / gender / legal lines divide him from his friends.
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Never Have I Ever (Supers (superheros and supervillains) - set)

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Pick a character, and:

Never Have I Ever (Supers-Set):
- Came back from the dead.
- Punched Hitler (high-five if you drink!)
- Outed my secret identity to someone before the Third Date, by overt admission or careless slip.
- Stripped my enemy down to their underwears.
- Had my enemy escape or attack me in the middle of my monologue.
- Been involved in a Two-Person Love Triangle (Alter-Egos)
- Kissed an enemy.
- Been kissed by a enemy.
- Kissed an enemy and I liked it.
- Joined a team-up hoping for a hook-up.
- Switched sides hoping for a hook-up.
- Spent more money robbing a bank than I took from it.
- Caused more monetary lost than I prevented by engaging fleeing robbers.
- Started a fight I could have ran from / delayed while surrounded by civilians.
- Lost my wallet while in costume.
- Spent more time on the costume than robbing banks or fighting crime.
- Spent more time on the fashionable elements of the costume than robbing banks or fighting crime.
- Been mistaken for a sex-worker while in costume.
- Been mistaken for an elf while in costume.
- Accidentally checked out Captain Marvel before realising he's Billy Batson and Super UNDERAGE.
- Had a friendly drink with my enemy or enemies while 'clocked out'.
- Knowingly had a friendly drink with my enemy or enemies while 'clocked out'.
- Utilized the fame / infamy of my costumed identity to chat up civilians.
- Been stalked to my hide-out by a civilian groupie.
- Got dumped by a significant other after disappearing during a crisis too many times.
- Dated someone with no known last name who is eventually never mentioned again.
- Been surprised in the shower by Batman.
- Been dangled off the rooftop by Batman.
- Been strung up by Poison Ivy's vines.
- Been 'sex-pollen'ed
- Blamed public indecency on sex pollens when it's Blatant Lies.
- Used my secret identity / double life to find out what my love interest feels about my alter ego.
- Tried to lied to my butler that the claw marks was a WORK injury.
- Evoked the jealousy of my civilian boyfriend or girlfriend by still having very obvious feelings for my recently ex-jailbird / working hero / operating villain ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, using such words as "titan", "glamourous", "wild", "thrilling", "alive", especially after falling asleep earlier.
- Antagonized my secret love interest every moment I'm handcuffed to them before taking a bullet for them right before a love confession.