The Middle Distance

This is why I can't be trusted with social or family gatherings on holidays. Given any free time whatsoever, my brain tends to go places like this and stay there, and next thing you know I've lost the thread of every conversation and burned the pudding.

This is for altariel, because of her holiday banana icon and this thread. There is no God who can help me now.

Title: Waiting For My Manwë
Fandoms: Lord of the Rings/60s rock RPF
Rating: PG-13 for near-constant drug references

( Electricity comes from other planets )

Happy Christmas Eve, Festivus, Sol Invictus, etcetera!

For reference.

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!

I'm pretty overwhelmed by the response "Breathless Mouths May Summon" has gotten; only a few people know this, but as of last week I was all a-wibble with anxiety about it not being good enough. (I only do this with things that really, really matter to me)...especially with a collaborator involved; being worthy of her work is a new level of responsibility. We seem to have made a lot of people happy.

If you're wondering why it was posted only to lower_tadfield and not here, it's because the person who physically does the posting (me, in this case) gets all the email notifications, and q_w shouldn't have to keep checking both here AND there to see what folks were saying. Best to keep it all centralized.

Now, just because that story took up my whole psyche, it doesn't mean that's all I've been doing.

Remember that crackfic meme that was going around a couple weeks ago, where you take characters whose pictures appear in your icons and alphabetize them to generate pairings? I didn't do it for my own icons, but I did leave a couple drive-by crackfics in other people's comments.

For violet_quill I actually sort of used TWO of her pairings. The first is a het pairing, of a Real Person and a Toon. The second is....well, I'm just glad I don't actually believe in Hell.

PG, I think. Be warned - I did not spend more than half an hour on either of these.

( She was a tall dame. I am not a tall man. )

The second was for xylodemon, who wound up with Crowley/Dementor. Well, this is more a story about Crowley and a Dementor. Just a little bit of virgule, ew. This one I think owes a spiritual debt to hjbender's hilarious "Revenge of the Houseplants" and I know it owes a very concrete material one to mamushi's genius illustrated treatise on Dementor reproduction, from which I used a premise. Also PG-ish.

( He couldn't even say why. He just didn't like it. )

We all are She's still waiting for that Eminem/Gandalf, by the way.