your works of nature are unnatural

Possibly the amount of cooing, awwing, and squeeing I do over the words "tube" and "vat" in fic is odd. Or possibly it is totally valid.

I signed up for comics_bb. We'll see if I finish anything. Such Shaping Fantasies sadly isn't eligible since I've posted parts of it public already, so I need to decide what else to focus on (and keep going with that anyway). I'm trying to figure out what is most likely to get an artist: Lex/Kon, girl-Kon, or multiple Kons.

I'm also thinking of doing another round of sv_remix. Because. It would be fun. If other people would play.

I went through all my fic on the AO3 and changed everything that said "underage" to "choose not to use archive warnings." I'm too lazy to mess around with things posted back when on LJ/DW, but it's easy there.

It just started to feel like having that label on meant I was somehow publicly admitting guilt and the doing of something wrong. Which I don't think I am; I don't think I've written anything too different from all the mainstream novels and movies and TV episodes that include teenagers doing sexual things. Blah blah blah child porn it is not.

And all of them (I believe) make it pretty clear from the summaries/notes/fandom/tags/metadata when they are set and thus how old the characters are, so anyone who needs/wants for whatever reason to stay away from descriptions of teenagers doing sexual things can still avoid them. (This is only the ones marked explicit or mature, anything less I certainly don't think counts. (Though apparently some people do or they just don't understand the point of the warning, because I have seen fic posted that has no sexual content or only the tiniest bit of kissing and the author has labeled it as underage.)) Some of the ficlets that are so short and vague that they could be set at any point (especially in canons with weird timelines like the DCU*) are sometimes unlabeled because the characters could be 15 or 18 or 25 or 55 and you can't tell exactly from the text, so while I as the author may have a specific image in mind the readers' images can and may be different.

So I'm trying to still be helpful to readers while feeling comfortable myself as an author.

*When is Kon 18? When is Bart 18? What do these terms even MEAN in the context of them?

Title: Not so estimable
Series: Such Shaping Fantasies/dream-Kon
Rating: worksafe gen
Canon Notes: uses S1-S3 of SV and some comics elements
Author Notes: still an unbetaed rough draft WIP series
Summary: Clark gets help to investigate. 746 words.


If he should break his day, what should I gain
By the exaction of the forfeiture?
A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.

-Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice


( Clark and J'onn hovered high above the city. )

Title: Unexpected
Fandom: Young Justice the cartoon
Pairing: Bart/Jaime
Rating: worksafe
Length: 150 words

SPOILERS: for episode 2.10 'Before The Dawn'


( Bart hadn't expected to like Jaime Reyes quite this much. )

Title: Lightly, Brightly
Fandom: Young Justice cartoon
Pairing: Superboy/Aqualad
Rating: worksafe
Spoilers: up to episode 2.03 Alienated
Summary: Electricity. 140 words.


( In the tube. He cannot feel. )

Title: So quick bright things come to confusion
Fandom: S1-S3 of Smallville, some DCU elements
Rating: worksafe gen
Summary: Clark goes to investigate this Superboy and his relation to Lex. 1,500 words.
Notes: Sequel to Such Shaping Fantasies and O brave new world. Apparently I'll be posting these as an unbetaed WIP series for now. Also available on LJ and AO3.

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.

-Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream


Around Town

Local billionaire businessman Lex Luthor was spotted at the upscale restaurant Le Rêve Épicurien dining in the company of a teenage boy whom he introduced to the maitre d' as his son. Twice divorced with no heir this comes as quite a shock, though maybe it shouldn't given the number of women this famous playboy has been seen with around town, especially if you go back about fifteen or sixteen years in the Lifestyle section of this paper. No details have been forthcoming, but if you want to date Metropolis's most eligible bachelor, ladies and gentlemen, from now on you might need to be prepared to be a step-parent.

( Clark stared at the page in front of him. )

Title: Such Shaping Fantasies (part 1: A local habitation and a name)
Characters/Pairing: Lex and Kon with background unfulfilled Clex
Rating: worksafe gen
Length: 1,600 words
Notes: Smallville? That show only had three seasons.
Thanks: To jlvsclrk for audiencing.


Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
...
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

-Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream


( Lex still has dreams. )

Title: Inside, Upside, Down, Alright
Fandom: DC Comics
Pairing: Tim/Kon
Rating: explicit
Summary: For the kink_bingo tiny bingos mini-challenge. Prompt of "bondage (other)". Because obviously that means tactile telekinesis. 98 words.
Notes: I'm imagining futurefic, so not underage, but whatever you want to think is fine.
Thanks: To sansets for audiencing.


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I started reading it last week and I am really liking it so far! I like the writing, the art, the characters, the little meta jokes, the demographics, the premise, the interrelationships, pretty much everything. I also like that it is clearly set in the Marvel universe but is fairly standalone, as I do not know much about the Marvel universe yet (indeed it feels more like an indie comic that is commenting on the superhero genre than like an actual superhero comic, I mean it feels like a normal real comic to me, not like all this wtf why am I reading superhero stuff I've been feeling (yes, indie comics are normal real comics and superhero comics are a weird outlier to me, a lot of the stuff I'm liking about Runaways (like the kids looking like their parents and the girls having varied body types) I would take for granted in a normal indie comic, and yet I am surprised and impressed by it being the case in something from The Big 2 (holy shit I really have had my standards lowered by reading this stuff for a year, haven't I? *facepalm* (fuck you Dan "we only hire the best" DiDio)))).

I bought the first TPB last week on Thursday evening (because I am actually going to the comic store weekly to pick up some of the new DCnU #1s this month, which is not really the best life choice). I finished it Friday on the bus on my way home from work, and then was really sad that I had to wait a whole week to read more. Which, if you have any idea how dead my sense of suspense is, says a lot. I frequently just stop reading things if I'm interrupted for a while in the middle of them, because my need to know "what happens next" has been mostly killed. Then on Wednesday I went back to the comic store, and this time I bought two TPBs, so that I would have more to read.

So I finished another TPB last night and went to start the next one, and that was when I discovered that I had not bought TPB #2 and TPB #3, as I thought, because apparently in the 8 years the comic has been running it's been renumbered TWICE and is on volume 3 now. Dear Marvel: I really appreciate that the back of the TPB says which issue numbers it collects but it would be super nice if you would indicate that there have been multiple volumes, so that I know (for example) which issue #11 I'm getting! Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The upshot of which is, I had to set aside the other book I bought and now I need to wait a week AGAIN to read more.

Apparently the first volume, 18 issues of it, is all written by Brian K. Vaughan, who I haven't read anything by before, to the best of my recollection, but I am liking his stuff here. And then it is written by some other people later, the other TPB I bought is by a woman I am unfamiliar with, some of it is by Joss Whedon (I hear his run is maybe not as good?) and then some of it is by Terry Moore. I really loved Strangers In Paradise, so I am looking forward to seeing what Terry Moore does here and how he handles pre-established characters.

So, uh, no spoilers please, but I am totally on the bandwagon of the Runaways at the moment. Reading through the DCnU #1s is kinda feeling like a chore now, a lot of it I am just doing so I know for sure, but can it please be Wednesday already so I can get more Runaways?