I walk, I talk, I shop, I sneeze.

fandom, what language is Erik's mother speaking at the beginning of XMFC? by which I mean, when the two of them are separated and Erik bends the gate. the English subtitles won't even give me a "(speaking [insert language])" except for the brief moment when she's speaking to a guard and it says "(speaking German)." I've tried to find a shooting script online to no avail. I think I need someone who can recognise the language through some actual expertise and then just tell me. ;;;;

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this goddamned story that ate my life for longer than I care to admit has finally been posted at my fic journal: If This Isn't A Kingdom, XMFC, Charles/Erik. as it says in the notes, the title is from Richard Siken's Snow and Dirty Rain, which I found after the fact (it's been "untitled slow-dancing whatever" until now) and is amazingly, amazingly perfect.

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would anyone be willing to beta this xmfc thing? charles/erik, natch, about 7000 words, porny?

it was originally meant to be a kink meme fill but now i can't find the freaking prompt and i suppose if i'm gonna attach my name to it, it'd better be readable.

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so do we have a decent bootleg of X-Men: First Class yet? I've downloaded one but it's... pretty bad.

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all right, fandom, show me your fic. is there a kink meme yet? if not I say SLOW ON THE DRAW, FANDOM. it's not like you haven't had fair warning that this was going to be the slashiest thing to hit you since 2009.





eta: HAHA.

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had a moment of total disconnect earlier.

you know how when you go to someone's twitter profile it will show who else is following them that you already know? so, Alyson Hannigan just tweeted, "Waiting for @AnthonySHead to come over. Why are all my English friends so SLOW?" I was unaware (or had forgotten, more likely) that ASH has a twitter, so I went to his profile and thought, huh, @BradleyJames is following him too— oh, that's right, he's a Buffy fan— OH, THAT'S RIGHT, THEY'RE ALSO COSTARS. possibly my brain doesn't easily make the leap from Giles to Uther, but possibly this is mostly symptomatic of not having much to do with Merlin these days.



so, regardless of whether delicious ends up sticking around or not, it looks like I'm going to have to find a different service to house my recs/bookmarks, since today, for the second time, I have noticed one of my links has mysteriously disappeared. this is very not okay, since delicious is meant to cater to my need to keep my interneting meticulously organised and archived, and when it doesn't do that I feel betrayed and a bit panicky. because I can't help but wonder what other links have also disappeared that I've just failed to notice. HAS THIS HAPPENED TO ANYONE ELSE. D: the thing is, I didn't save any of the posts where people were breaking down the alternatives when Yahoo was getting ready to shut delicious down (don't even tell me they weren't, 'cause they so totally were). so I am kind of flailing about rn. does anybody have any recommendations or just links to any of those posts?

(like, the first time it happened? I honestly wondered if I only thought I'd saved the link. I would have sworn I had, but even so. but the one that's just now disappeared had a tag I've only used once, on that particular story, which I've been seeing in my sidebar for months, which is how I noticed it had disappeared in the first place, because the tag is gone too. I just can't even, guys.)

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I've thought about it long and hard and have decided, with the help of sisabet and sockkpuppett's The Best Laid Plans, that my Supernatural OTP is unconsummated Sam/Dean. which feels revelatory to me even though when I think about it I'm like oh, that's just canon. they're erotically codependent but don't kiss. but they still need to get laid, and I believe that Cas and Gabriel should do the honours, respectively*. so that's pretty much how I approach that fandom.

though I still haven't figured out why I balk at the consummation part so much. YES. I EXPEND BRAIN POWER ON THIS. it's not like I've never shipped siblings full-frontal before**. but whenever I try to read about the Winchesters and sex, together, my face goes like this: D:

I'm sure — possibly — that this has something to do with the amount of fluff that's written for this pairing, which just. no, no, god no, why. well, I'm not sure if fluff is the right word— it's more like, I love the potential of Sam/Dean but I feel like a lot of it is written for an audience that is not me, an audience that has already accepted that the boys are MFEO, and I really want to be convinced every time. like why should I accept this pairing within the context of this story? I would probably read a lot more of it than I do but, you know, even the good authors assume I'm already sold so I don't really know how to find what I want.

anyway, I realised a long time ago that my fandoms tend to shift pretty much in sync with major life changes*** and whatever fandom I'm currently invested in is one that most suits my present mental state. which is why I tend to be a serial monogomist and not really understand people who can stay with the same fandom forever. they must be much stabler people than me, I think. I was into SPN during s1/s2, but there's something about the latter seasons**** that I find especially appeals to me right now — I don't want to examine it too closely because I mean who even cares, but I'm sure it has something to do with a day job that I am just completely unable to relate to (whereas I dropped Merlin like a hot potato once I got my new job 'cause I could relate just a little too well to running around after a man who consistently makes you feel unappreciated and belittled).

all of which is to say, I guess: recs, anyone? also I'm sorry this is the first time I've updated since October, and that about my vagina. what you all (and random passersby) must think of me.



*I may ship Sam/Gabriel more than Dean/Castiel. shh, don't tell fandom.

**see icon for one example, though I mostly picked that one because my paid time ran out and now I have no icons.

***speaking of, I moved recently! I mean. I can still see my old apartment from the new one, but I'm looking at it while standing on a balcony. we have very exciting plans to acquire patio furniture and also some plants!

****still haven't seen s6, though. the hubby and I tend to wait until each season is over and them consume it all in one fell, obsessive swoop. we feel this is the best way to enjoy Supernatural.



eta: I'm jeeps at AO3. I have no fandoms in the queue because I suck, but I do have an invite if anyone would like to claim it. I was pretty whatever about AO3 until I got my Kindle, and now I have realised it is the most amazing resource ever and think everyone who writes in fandom should archive there because it makes my life awesome.

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please, comment so that I know I'm not alone. I'm just trying to keep my head together while I wait for the doctors office to open.

so women are said to have a higher pain tolerance than men. this might very well be true. I don't like pain (who does, obvs) and when I'm actually experiencing it it's hard to think along those lines because you can only ever experience pain as yourself and compare it to your own past experience. when I think of it in light of my tolerance threshold for itching, however, I think I might be pretty okay with pain. part of that might just have to do with available remedies. modern medicine can effectively make the pain of something completely disappear, whereas I've never had that experience with itching -- you can relieve it to certain degrees, but it's still there. so there's certainly a psychological component as well, knowing even in the midst of pain that there's an end in sight (of course, I am speaking as an able-bodied person who has never dealt with chronic pain).

granted, I have extremely sensitive, reactive skin, so maybe this is different for other people, idk. when I got poison oak I think it kept me out of work for a few weeks and I felt like I was going mad. I said at the time that, having had my foot run over by a car and my heel bone broken, the worst pain I've yet experienced-- I said that I would rather go through that pain again than have to endure the poison oak. with hindsight and time? I would still rather have my foot run over with a car than get poison oak again. this makes me think I either handle pain well or itching very poorly.

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oh, they actually open 30 minutes earlier than I thought, time to go rouse my poor exiled husband from the sofa (apparently my moans of pain keep him awake), put him to bed, and go demand some drugs.

eta: they probably won't get back to me for another couple of hours. in the long run it won't make much difference, it's not like the effects are instantaneous anyway.

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