your works of nature are unnatural

General info: Hello, and thank you for offering to write me a fic! I like Yuletide to make me happy. One of my prompts contains some inherent angst, but I generally just request that you write something you enjoy, that is fun and hopefully cheerful at the end to read. A couple of my main squicks/triggers to avoid, please, include killing off my requested characters, amnesia, pregnancy, teacher/student relationships, infidelity, and breakups (unless these are canonical). There are more public posts on my DW than LJ but LJ goes back further into history.

Fandom: Actor RPF
Characters: Sandra McCoy and Nicole Gale Anderson
What you need to read/watch: ten minutes on IMDB and Google images?
Optional details from request: I would especially like an AU, but reality-based is fine, anything where they are friends or lovers or teammates or relatives or archenemies or some combination, and maybe also superheroes or secret agents or space pirates or crimefighting con artists or epic archaeologists or elves or.....
More details: Not many more details to give here. I emphasize the F over the R in RPF, I totally love Sandy immensely, I just want to read the epic adventures of Sandy and Nic, have fun, they're pretty. (Though, please don't mention Jared Padalecki, I have... lingering issues.)

Fandom: Alan Grant Series - Josephine Tey
Characters: Liz Garrowby and Leslie Searle
What you need to read/watch: one novel, To Love And Be Wise
Optional details from request: What does Liz Garrowby think and feel when she learns the truth about Leslie Searle? Or does Leslie Searle ever take Alan Grant up on his invitation? Any missing scenes between them? Or anything else about one or the other or both of them or any other Josephine Tey character would be awesome.
More details: I've made some pretty long posts about why I like these novels in previous Yuletide letters. I received Tad Cullen/Bill Kenrick (OTP) in an earlier year and kinetikatrue got a lovely fic about Mary Innes last year. So this time around I requested these other characters. Seriously, anything about them or any Tey novel is awesome. I am always trying to increase this miniscule fandom. I also think there could be a great compare/contrast between Leslie Searle and Mary Innes.

Fandom: Archie Comics
Characters: Veronica Lodge
What you need to read/watch: at least a few issues of the Veronica's Passport series
Optional details from request: Veronica in... world travel adventures and sleeping around!
More details: You would think that as a geeky little girl I would have preferred Betty. But I actually liked Veronica better. It was all because of the series I thought of as Veronica In... but learned from Wikipedia when I was planning this request was actually called Veronica's Passport. The cover every month said something like Veronica In... Germany! Veronica In... Mexico! Veronica In... Australia! I loved the stories being set all over the world and the reader-submitted clothing designs. Every issue we got to see Veronica go to a new country, flirt with a new boy, and learn about the local history, culture, food, geography, and so on, while frequently solving a crime or being engaged in some hijinks and shenanigans. Looking back on it now as an adult I also appreciate that there was never any slut-shaming about how she had a boy of the month all over the world (sometimes two, like in Greece). So what I'm requesting here is adult Veronica, still traveling the world for business and pleasure, saving the day, and being all self-aware about how she hooks up with loads of guys and that's fine (maybe some girls too if you want). Something like that.

So my birthday weekend consisted of less fun and productivity than I had wanted and instead way more of being sick and sitting around feeling grumpy and icky. :/

DC Comics Nielsen Survey - If you are a current or former or possible reader of DC Comics, especially if you fall outside their target 18- to 35-year-old straight white male audience, tell 'em what you really think.

And, we all know I like HGTV, right? The Urban Oasis Sweepstakes ends soon.

They also have a new show called House Hunters On Vacation, where the premise is, they take a family to a dream vacation location, show them three fancy houses, and then the family gets to pick which one to stay in for a week while HGTV pays for it. In the episodes so far it seems they are making a point to pick families who can't pay for vacations on their own. So, if you haven't been able to afford a get-away and you want/need one, maybe HGTV will give you a free and lavish one. It can't hurt to apply.

On Tuesday there was an earthquake. Now, I've felt lots of earthquakes before, but they've never been more than a little shake-shake for a few seconds. This was the first time I ever felt one that went on and on and on and was violently shaking and really really loud and made me imagine three stories of brick building falling on my head. (Or, you know, wonder whether someone had bombed DC.) (Though I am also surprised by the number of people who say they've never felt an earthquake before, given that many of these people have been through some of the same earthquakes I have, like the one we had earlier this year.)

Then on Saturday night we had Hurricane Irene, which actually wasn't that strong a storm around here on the scale of wind and rain storms, but did still put out our electricity for over 24 hours. AND NOT THE COLLEGE'S ELECTRICITY, damn you Pepco, worst of both worlds scenario. Neither the earthquake nor the hurricane got me out of work at all, yet we ditched a bunch of food when the fridge was out.

But between those, on Friday evening, I went to a trapeze show v_greyson was in, and it was so cool. Now I want to try that someday! It was a student show, so it was very much, hey look, normal people doing amazing things! You don't actually have to be a hyper-fit professional to pull it off, though the hyper-fit professional instructors looked awesome (and sansets and I totally discussed how certain comics characters ought to be played by real aerialists in live-action versions).

Now the semester has started, so speaking of which, I can finally go to the gym again! And I am super duper glad that there were no students in here when the earthquake hit, let me tell you that. And now I have read more stuff and have a better idea of what to do if I am ever in a big earthquake again.

Other than that, am going sailing, rereading Josephine Tey, dreading the DCU reboot, and so on as usual.

Having just watched the latter of these last night, I must say that Minion from Megamind and the minions from Despicable Me should hang out. It would be the cutest thing ever!

Well, possibly still surpassed by the SDs from the Spyboy/Young Justice storyline, which left me flailing and grinning constantly on the bus while reading it. So adorable! Even more adorable because they're trying to kill everyone! Evil chibis!

1. For Yuletide I wrote How Horses Came To The Desert, worksafe gen about Diana Wynne Jones' Tough Guide To Fantasyland. I received The Things We Say Are True by be_themoon which is Gwen/Penny from Sky High and is awesome, and an anonymous femslash ficlet based on the song Boys Boys Boys by Lady Gaga. I always get better than I give for Yuletide.

2. I have been reading Cass' run of Batgirl and I would just like to say that Cassandra Cain is made of awesome and amazing and perfection.

3. I have now made up two totally different, totally AU, totally self-indulgent Lex/Kon scenarios because there is something wrong in my head.

4. But of all the characters in the DCU the one who is the mostest embodiment of purity and goodness and wholesomeness and love and nobility and helpfulness and generosity and sweetness and light and stop me now before I really get into hyperbole is Bart Allen. ( I was trying to graph his thought processes... )

And then I finally realized who his voice most reminds me of. So I decided I should write a scene where they meet.


Title: Bart Meets Delirium
Summary: Worksafe gen and the title says it all. And I probably got Bart's powers all wrong because I don't really understand the speed force as a force/place/thing and I've only just started reading canon and I have no right to write fic for this fandom augh what am I doing.

( Bart's running across the Atlantic when he notices the girl walking next to him. )

So I'm reading Young Justice and sansets and I have been having a lot of conversations about the DCU recently, and they mostly go like "OMG, what crack is this even on? They did a what now? It makes no sense!" or "How is [character] so adorable!" or "Someone needs to write that threesome! All the threesomes!" (yesterday's addition to the list: Kon/Cassie/Cissie) or "Bart on Smallville is not Bart! He needs to be BFF with Kon and Tim in the future! Shut your face SV! And Bart is the sweetest and NOT A RAPIST! Shut your face Kyle Gallner!" But the other day we did this:

Me: So speedsters are faster than Superman, right?
S: I think so. I don't know if it's canon, but I think so.
Me: And Superman can turn back time by flying around the Earth really fast.
S: I don't think that's canon anymore.
Me: Whatever, it was canon. So could Bart turn back time by running around the Earth really fast? Or are the superstrength and flying necessary parts of it?
S: Maybe.
Me: ...Wait, are we having a fanboy-type conversation right now?
S: Augh! Nooooo! Uh, um, they're all in love! They're all sleeping together! *flail* Okay, better.
Me: But I still want to know if Bart can turn back time by running really fast!
S: He could punch Wally in the face.
Me: That's why he needs to turn back time! So Wally forgets about it.
S: Someone should write that fic.
Me: There, you fixed it.

Because seriously, normally when I read/watch stuff if I care about it at all I will spend loads of time trying to figure out how it works and how the worldbuilding all fits together and exactly what people could do with their powers and etc. BUT YOU CAN'T EVEN DO THAT WITH THE DCU. Because it's just got too many layers of congealed crud from where they threw everything in and never even TRIED to make it make sense. So there's no point in analyzing it that way really rigorously.

And the fanboys would totally mock OUR conversations... *le sigh* WHATEVER.

1. The Washington Post had an article this morning about the backlog in the copyright office (apparently their new faster system for registering stuff is actually slower) and it was incredibly frustrating, talking about how people were "waiting sixteen months to get their copyrights" and saying things like "you don't need a copyright to publish or perform a work, but registering it provides legal protection and is the only way to keep people from copying your stuff" and I was yelling back like "These people already have copyrights! They aren't waiting to GET them at all!" Argh, fail, Post, fail.

2. There are more and more Big Bangs springing up, and somehow the average wordcount they require has shrunk from the 50,000 it originally was to 15,000 for almost all of the new ones. Since when is 15,000 words a huge long story?

3. Bandom/CW crossover in real life: Leighton Meester doing vocals on Cobra Starship's new single.

4. I was watching Angel the other day and suddenly there was surprise!JDM, playing some guy whose boyfriend had been killed by vampires.

5. I've also been watching reruns of various CSIs and have seen surprise!Lucas Luthor, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Megalyn Echikunwoke, a Ghostfacer, Brendan Fehr, Adrianne Palicki, and Sandra McCoy.

6. I went out last night to watch Star Trek again and then ended up making it a double feature with Wolverine. Because I'm able to do that kind of thing now. Also they gave me a free popcorn. Wolverine was indeed fairly meh: it wasn't a very well-structured story and I didn't think it added very much to the movieverse overall. Mainly it just made me think a) movie-Gambit/movie-Rogue would indeed be hot (hey, they are a classic, I liked them together when I was little (though the other movies have made me appreciate the Rogue/Bobby/John of course)) and b) Lynn Collins taking Taylor Kitsch home to Steven Strait for a little reunion and by "reunion" we mean "hot threeway sex." Because you guys, I learned a few weeks ago that Steven Strait GOT MARRIED last year at AGE 22 (to a woman who is 29, I'm just saying). And she was in the Wolverine movie so of course it was like "hey, honey, someone in my movie is someone you've worked with before." "Oh reeeaaaaallly." And I feel very dirty for thinking this, yes I do, but still. Somehow the pure innocence of Sky High was washed out by the obvious slashiness of The Covenant here.

7. Speaking of feeling dirty, if you had asked me a week ago whether I'd ever be reading porn about Captain Kirk enjoying being dominated and roughed up and choked during sex, I would have said a) totally OOC and b) I don't read fic about those people, oh god my childhood! Fandom, what have you done to my brain, apparently the new Enterprise is a big orgy where everyone is part of a happy team with benefits and especially Kirk, Spock, and Uhura have lots of sex all together. Team with benefits, I just. (YouTube is not cooperating and finding kissing clips for me.)

8. Apparently there is something wrong with me on the internets.

9. Am also trying to hash out a concept for a mainstream sci-fi action blockbuster with a majority female, majority of color cast and a happy queer romance subplot. Because the day I go watch a blockbuster with surprise!homoerotic plotline will be a happy day, and no one else seems to be moving faster on it. Plus, have gone back to working on Gilgamesh, though that has fewer women and no overt gay sex. It does have a more complete plot at the moment, though (so far I am stealing viral aliens).

10. This entry is apparently all about threesomes.