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[itsallovernow]

It's hot! (Cue the cries of, "No shit, it's hot here too.") Sleep is elusive, so is getting to work on time.

M. has been tanning in our front "yard" (yard being defined as a chain link fence surrounded by very tall shrubs right on a major street). This is funny for so many reasons, not the least of which is that apparently he's been tanning naked. But, in case anyone was worried, he has not burned the more sensitive parts of his anatomy. I know this because he told me this, and then in fact announced, "I have a super penis." Somehow, I had the presence of mind to close the laptop before spitting beer all over our table.

I am currently processing an ad for a major automotive company that is the slashiest thing ever. It's a picture of this sort of ruggedly fey young man on one side and a giant compensatory truck on the other, and the giant headline reads, "Sandwiched?" then smaller "Between a cement mixer and a semi?" Y'all have ruined me for the real world I tell you!! I can't even look at this ad without giggling.

Why, oh why, is there not more S9 or S10 fic out there? Why? synecdochic has a story Metaphor that I'm a little in love with, but even more in love with the discussion that followed the fic which touches on Joseph Campbell and tropes and metaphor and the heroic tryptic and I don't really want to join in this late in the game but it makes me sort of swoony to read the discussion (largely because the discussion, the fic, is all so much better than the source material and yet I'm starting to get why people get gooey over this show because the potential is so strong it makes your teeth ache).

The Daniel/Cam slash pairing doesn't do much for me, but I'd be happy to see them in a threesome with a little female energy to counter them. Or a foursome or fivesome. I'm just saying we shouldn't narrow our possibilities.

Also, because she is weak (hee), and deserving of many, many presents, cofax7 has posted a tiny Mitchell n' Sheppard snippet that deserves to have a life of it's own. NOt just because it's C. and I'd give up something precious to get her to write more. But then, I'd give up body parts to get more of many of her 'verses and then I'd have nothing left of myself but greedy teeth and want.

Comments

[cofax7]

You and your greedy teeth!

Heee.

And M. makes me laugh like a loon.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee. And dude, he makes me laugh as well. He's such a nutcase sometimes and yet it's mostly harmless:)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

You know, I was taking a wee break yesterday in triumph over finishing a chapter, and I read Cofax's snippet, and thought to myself, 'Eureka!', I thought (not just because my Dad had all but insisted that I watch the pilot episode with him last night because I was Going To Like It.)

Anyway, 'Eureka!' I thought, 'if I read through my favorite author's webpages of fic, I won't get caught reading dreck or (woe!) without anything to read at all! 'Tis a brilliant plan!'

And then I reread the first fic from This Is Not Wartime, and found that apocafic? Is sorta depressing, and it's possibly not the best thing for me to be reading right now.

So what's a girl to do? I pulled out a crappy first draft of the Teal'c and Cam, Courting fic and poked it a little bit with a stick. Then I sent it to Rydra to poke with a pointier stick.

Oddly enough, this kind of wanting-to-read-a-particular-kind-of-fic-and-not-finding-it is exactly the problem that got me into writing fanfic in the first place. Ironic, innit?

That is my story. Lunchtime over, back to the methods chapter now. *slogs*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee:) And it was a good story, and well told:) And do you want me to wait 'til the diss is done before sending you the Farscape disc? Purely in the interests of suplementing your fic reading options, of course.

You clearly need giddy cheerful fic!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

No! Don't wait! I am perfectly capable of sitting on Farscape discs, clearly, and this way, I can mainline like, 7 episodes after I turn in my diss and it'll be great.

I do need giddy cheerful fic. Failing that, I will take kick ass Cameron, slightly existentially angsty, stories, or anything really well written with a smile for an ending.

So you did good. *g*

[cofax7]

Now I feel sad I made you sad. But there's OT3! Yes!

You could read the other not-sad stuff! Like, um, Take a Ride! Or Tuscany!

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Or the one with the ankle!! That's certainly inspired me!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Not sad so much as 'way more than the brain can handle presently'. Overwhelmed, maybe.

I'm taking those as recs. Am reaching the part of the evening where the idea of working is just getting silly.