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Citizens of Capua! I, the undefeated Gaul, have recently attended a festivids-viewing party (between watching Spartacus eps, but that's neither here nor there). For your pleasure, I present my selections of choice.

Therefore, let us cease wallowing in slow-motion carnage and set eyes to purpose. Gratitude.

( behold, vids that will impress themselves upon your mind as surely as the mark of a domina upon your back )

Whew, I finally managed to do my Yuletide flailing/reccing post! You can find it on Tumblr or right here:

Gentles all, here you will find a quick and dirty roster of Yuletide fics that made me flail particularly hard. It's by no means exhaustive (uh, there are like three thousand fucking fics, hello) and I'm sure I'll find even more to flail about as I continue reading. I hope everyone's had a merry Yuletide experience!

Here we go. In no particular order:

• Hold up, I lied, this one is first for a reason. Priceless is the tender tale of two young ladies discovering life and each other, complete with plenty of hot lesbian sex. This was the first Yuletide fic I read and the pairing alone had me grinning like mad. Did I mention it's a crossover between 10 Things I Hate About You and Bring It the fuck On? Because it fucking is. Kat and Missy are roommates, Kat is a baby social justice activist, Missy does martial arts, and it's all so early 2000's it makes me yearn for my Discman.

• Once upon a time I saw this movie called Cracks where Eva Green plays the uber-chic and slightly unhinged swimming coach at a British all-girls boarding school. There were, like, schoolgirl crushes and intrigue and backstabbing all over the fucking place and everything was so gorgeous I didn't really care how fucked up it all was. The Ruins is a stunningly plausible look at what happens when Di returns to school years after the events in the movie. I'm pleased as punch this exists because Cracks was the fandom at the very top of my things-I-want-for-Yuletide list.

• Teahouse was another one of the fandoms on my want list. Yeah, the yaoi webcomic about fancy whores. And there are not one, but two fics for it this year! Storm in a Teahouse is a Rhys/Axis fic that finally, finally addresses the weird lack of awareness everyone seems to have about the royal family. It's just the sort of dramatic reveal I can see playing out in canon, and there's also some hot sex. Just putting that out there.

( BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE )

Remix is here!

I swear, every year I do this I'm blown away by how creative and talented the participants are. My remixer this time around chose to take on the only Arthur/Eames/Ariadne fic I've ever written, a PG-rated one-off about Ariadne coping with the aftereffects of dreaming, and turned it into a sweet, poignant story about Arthur and Eames looking out for each other and Arthur needing a sound machine to sleep and both of them wanting to keep Ariadne from heading down the same path as Cobb. It hits so many buttons of mine, particularly the concept of coming to trust someone in an untrustworthy environment, and it has bed-sharing and banter and little snippets of both the guys' backstories.

Please, if you have the time, go check it out and give the author a little love:

Infinity Spirals Out Creation (the Leave No Man Behind remix)

There are times when Arthur will turn the room upside-down, tear curtains off their rails and almost disembowel soft furnishings looking for a totem he's convinced he's lost and which Eames can't help him look for because the terror of having someone else touch your totem would probably lead asleep-Arthur to claw his eyes out.

There are times when Arthur will keep his light on and read bits and pieces of inane trivia out loud until Eames dozes off, or when he'll put a pot of tea on at four am even though he doesn't drink it, and the faint smell will send a restless Eames back to sleep.

They've never talked about it. They just get on with it. And more often than anything else, there are times they sit up together all night working, drinking coffee and tea and whiskey and whatever else they can get their hands on, and talking, and those times are worth a lot more than any sleep Eames has ever had on his own.

Hello, strangers!

I've been MIA around these parts lately thanks to an overabundance of school, work, writing assignments, and holiday runarounds, but now that I actually have some downtime it's harder than ever to get reacquainted with the intricacies of actually posting here. What I have been doing is keeping up with my flist (for the most part), even though I haven't been commenting as much, and my Twitter feed when possible.

So, that said, I'm going to pimp some things now.

For those of you who enjoy podfic, sophinisba has taken on the unholy trilogy of the Sickness and Shame verse and, to the best of my knowledge, still has a voice. You can find all three here, and please leave her feedback if you have the time!

Yuletide is in full swing and the reveal is just around the corner, but I can't wait to gush about the fics I've gotten. Growing Together is a Last Unicorn fic about Molly Grue and Schmendrick making their way in the world after the events in canon. I asked specifically for anything to do with Molly and the author gave her a well-deserved happy ending wrapped up in a narrative that could have come straight out of a coda to the novel. Also, Schmendrick fails at growing a proper wizard's beard.

I also got a treat from another Ghostwriter fan (seriously, that was my show growing up, in all its uber-'90s glory): Eventually We Find Our Way gives us a very plausible look at Rob several years down the road--I always felt like he got the short end of the stick, since not only was he shy to begin with, he had to go and move to Australia--and some of the decisions he faces when he comes back to New York.

Inception fandom's festivus this time around was dream_holiday and just today I got an excellent fic from iri_descent. In The Great Game, Arthur and Eames gradually learn each other very well despite being apart for months at a time. I adore the Arthur characterization in this, and the way both of them are drawn to each other but not at all defined by each other. They're both very much professionals here and the author fleshes out their world so deftly that everything seems perfectly natural. I really enjoy it when there are little references to the world of dreaming, or to things that will later come up canonically, and the really beautiful thing is that I didn't mention this at all in my request and just so happened to land a writer with wonderful attention to detail anyway. There also just so happens to be a kitten and a bit of awesome Yusuf/Eames friendship.

And tomorrow, I am going to bake banana bread and party it up! Happy New Year in advance, guys, and thank you for making 2011 a lot more fun.

It's official: Remix is open and my remixer is the bomb, the best, the bee's knees. I couldn't be happier.

the boys are calling for me (the history boys remix) is a Glee fic with a twist. It's a remix of a Kurt/Blaine one-off I did for the last Porn Battle and it manages to take a very simple story and work it into this multifaceted origami crane of alternate realities and what-ifs and seriously beautiful words.

I haven't been very active in Glee fandom lately and I don't particularly care for Blaine, but this remix blows my mind the way it blows the original fic out of the water. I never thought a quick fic about the Warblers playing Never Have I Ever would inspire anything even close to this. Sometimes, being proven wrong can be a good thing. Remixer, if you're reading this, you deserve to be showered with praise and cupcakes. Thank you once again.

Since it's the end of the semester and I'm trying to tread the waters of academia, I haven't been able to read through very many remixes (285 this year!), but there are some that I've really enjoyed so far besides my own:

Accordingly Adorned (The BFF Remix)
Baby-Sitters Club future!fic in which Claudia makes some changes and Stacey takes it like a champ. In addition to being adorable, it also contains some BSC Outfit Descriptions all faithful readers came to know and love back in the day.

Of Twisted Ankles and Herbal Teas (god is a girl remix)
Mulan! The Hero of China faces some new obstacles when she gets her badassery on without being disguised as a man. And is awesome, of course.

Going Under (the Dante Wrote The Book But Forgot To Look remix)
Good Omens. Crowley gets called back to Hell. Aziraphale smites things and goes after him. The banter in this is right on the mark.

And now back to studying. Gnnnnnnergh.

HAY INCEPTION PEOPLE. EVER WONDER WHAT ARTHUR MIGHT SKETCH IN HIS MOLESKINE?

~*~LOOKIT THIS~*~

It's not very often that I come across something that makes me literally laugh out loud. Like, crazy-ridiculous, on-the-verge-of-choking-on-my-sleeve LOLOLOLing because I can't actually make any noise because it's the middle of the night and my mother's trying to sleep in the next room.

If I had to pinpoint the moment that made me almost strain something trying to be quiet, it would have to be Pac-man!Cobb chillin' in the cafe trying to order coffee AND THE LITTLE GUY BEHIND HIM GOING "COOB!" OMG I DO NOT EVEN KNOW BUT IT'S A THING OF WONDER OKAY.

So yes, go look, go leave some love. Support the arts!

Firefly folk! This is me, leaving this here.

It's six parts total, very nice quality, all on YouTube.

The panel consisted of Morena, Jewel, Sean, and Summer, with occasional prank calls from Alan and Nathan.

Highlights:

-- Adam once put a potato in Nathan's tailpipe.

-- Nathan once covered Jewel's trailer door with Vaseline. I don't even.

-- In response to a question about River finding a love interest, Sean answers, "Besides me?" and causes every Tamcest aficionado to spontaneously give birth.

-- On that note, Sean seems to have a wedding ring and mentions a daughter. What the.

-- Summer Glau has the most adorable drawl. For real. At one point, Morena and Jewel are tittering about pushing each other over on set and how unfair it was since Morena had heels and Jewel had boots, and Summer sweetly interrupts with, "At least y'all had shoes!"

-- Jewel, Morena, and Sean apparently do pilates together.

-- Morena is a bookworm, fangirls Oscar Wilde. Wait, no! She's fangirling The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which has been on my to-read list for a while now. Dude.

-- Summer's favorite movie is Camelot, though she hems and haws quite a bit before admitting it.

-- Jewel instigates a mass showing of middle fingers, takes photo to send Nathan in retaliation for wasting panel time with his prank calls, then instigates a mass serenade in honor of her husband's birthday.

-- Sean: "I never felt like it was a sci-fi show."
Morena: "Are you on crack? It takes place in space, five hundred years in the future, on a spaceship." (See also: A Very Potter Musical's Draco explaining that you can't go to Pigfarts because it's on Mars.)

The reveal for cm_exchange has officially occurred!

I received Toy Box, a nice smutty Morgan/Reid fic by thought_ribbons. There are sex toys!

I'm really starting to get into this pairing. The brotherly relationship is sweet to an extent, and then the mind wanders into the realms of "so, what if they were banging?" and all is lost.

Oh, and I wrote two fics of my own for ubervirgin:

Title: Illative Illocution
Pairing: Hotch/Reid
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,607
Summary/prompt: Reid is finally introduced to Hotch's brother, Sean, as "the boyfriend."

Link: Illative Illocution

and

Title: All This Will Pass
Pairing: Hotch/Reid
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2,056
Warnings/spoilers: Public sex, voyeurism, and dirty talk with a side dish of angst.
Summary/prompt: Garcia and Prentiss go out and are surprised to find Reid and Hotch on a date...and engaged in heavy PDAs.

Link: All This Will Pass

The reveal for cm_exchange has officially occurred!

I received Toy Box, a nice smutty Morgan/Reid fic by thought_ribbons. There are sex toys!

I'm really starting to get into this pairing. The brotherly relationship is sweet to an extent, and then the mind wanders into the realms of "so, what if they were banging?" and all is lost.

Oh, and I wrote two fics of my own for ubervirgin:

Title: Illative Illocution
Pairing: Hotch/Reid
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,607
Summary/prompt: Reid is finally introduced to Hotch's brother, Sean, as "the boyfriend."

Link: Illative Illocution

and

Title: All This Will Pass
Pairing: Hotch/Reid
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2,056
Warnings/spoilers: Public sex, voyeurism, and dirty talk with a side dish of angst.
Summary/prompt: Garcia and Prentiss go out and are surprised to find Reid and Hotch on a date...and engaged in heavy PDAs.

Link: All This Will Pass

Things I have concluded during my sojourn on the homefront:

- Having a car for a little while is nice, but the luxury of getting to yowl along to the radio or talk to yourself in a thick Boston accent might be even better.

- Sherlock Holmes is not supposed to be a buff studmuffin. The boxing scene is forgiven because "The Rocky Road to Dublin" was playing and that song never fails to make me feel like Riverdancing.

- Rachel McAdams is perfection and should have been topless at least as often as Robert Downey Jr. was in that movie.

- Gallivanting all over DC and beyond with the_samosaurus, La Actriz, and other rad folks is something that needs to occur in my life far more often.

- Cheddar Pringles exist and are amazing.

- Installing a new hard drive is not something I should attempt alone.

- My writer for prettylightsfic is an incredible creature who wrote me some sublimely adorable Firefly RPS.

- My writer for Yuletide gave me Name of the Rose fic! For a book about sodomites, there's precious little in the way of fanwork out there, and I truly didn't expect this, of all my requests, to get picked up.

- ...and, um, my Christmas packages didn't all get mailed on time. So if you haven't received anything from me yet, it's on the way!

I haven't been on much lately, but I hope everyone's had an excellent week. Anything new going on?