The Middle Distance

So I did manage to get a little writing done for the IJ porn battle....

Seems that gender-bending warrior-bonding femslash was my theme this time.

Discworld (Monstrous Regiment), Polly/Mal, "taboo."
(Squick warning on this for a very special kind of, ahem, bloodplay)

Crossover, Chronicles of Narnia/Lord of the Rings, Aravis/Eowyn, horsewomen.


The glorious hyel and I kept crossing each other - I think both the prompts I wrote were hers and I know she wrote two of mine and did an AMAZING job, so the least I can do is rec the hell out of her:

A Moon-Lit Challenge (Crossover, Good Omens/His Dark Materials, Adam/Lyra, revolution)

Dream Interpretation (Crossver, Sandman/Hellblazer, John Constantine/Morpheus, dream interpretation)

and one that wasn't one of my prompts but I wish it had been:

Heaven (Moby-Dick, Ishmael/Queequeg)

Lessons learned from rock festivals? I don't care how hot it is, it's still physically impossible for me to stay grumpy while Sonic Youth is playing. Even if it's not one of their best nights.

Also: strapless bras are great in theory, but there must be some art to wearing them that I have never mastered, because I've never found one that doesn't migrate towards my waist, dragging my boobs down with it and making them look saggy when they aren't, and isn't that the very opposite of what a bra is supposed to do?

Appropos of nothing, from "Old Possum's Book of IMpractical Cats": I'm in love with these guys. Little cuddly kits are great but I want a Viking lynx!

I've written three more birthday drabbles, all of a crossovery flavo[u]r.

For vivien529: A GO/HP drabble (Minerva thinks that angel's got a little Slytherin in him!)

For signifier (who I get to see in August!): J.K. Rowling via J.L. Borges - Snape and the Aleph (also owes a conceptual debt to "The Three Versions of Judas")

For blueeyedtigress (who I get to see tomorrow!): GO/LOTR - Aziraphale and Crowley having a cuppa with Frodo

Productive? I think so.

Slowly but surely. Oh yes, here's more!

For forodwaith: LOTR - something on the theme of "moving house"

For machka: US Politics RPF - Kerry/Edwards anniversary fic

For amberdiceless: GO - Crowley sulking over birthdaylessness, with bonus-points DEATH cameo (And SHE wrote me one back - see comments!)

For murasaki99: LOTR - something with Our Wraithy Friends

For duniazade: HP - Snape consults Trelawney about his future

Remember now, these are all kind of really for everyone. Happy Belated My Birthday!

...and I kinda feel it too, because that's how tired I am. I'm waayyy behind on the drabbling, but that's because of the last 48 hours, I've been at home and awake for about maybe 5 of them. Yes, my friends have been feasting and feting (and other f'things) me pretty splendidly, including an 8-hour marathon of a BBQ in a beautiful yard in Humboldt Park yesterday. I woke up at 2 PM today with a huge grin on my face, feeling loved.


And someone anonymously bought me two months of paid LJ time! *squee* Thank you thank you thank you!


So here's the first five b-day drabbles, anyway. I WILL do them all if it takes me to next b-day. (And I'm doing them in the order the ideas hit me, not the order received, sorry!)

For musesfool: GO - Something with the Them and a birthday party

For kkpixie: TDS - happy, fuzzy Stewart/Colbert

For celandineb: GO - Aziraphale/Crowley, bananas

For teh_jenna: HP/US Politics - something involving Snape and George Bush

For use_theforce_em: TDS/LOTR - members of the Fellowship on the Daily Show

OK, more to come in days to come - enjoy!

On the occasion of birthdays, a double-drabble on the subject of a gift.

Title: The Gift
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Pairing: have gone by many names. We'll say Morgoth/Sauron
Rating: R, I think, for kinky suggestion
Words: 200 exactly, excluding title

( It is done. Does it please thee? )