Francine - harvest

Trouble with a capital A

That rhymes with something or other.

Clearly You All Need To Come To My House RIGHT NOW
bff, bff - byrne
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Since [info]drax and I just spent a lovely couple of days with [info]sarabi and her Mister, and said house is thus abnormally clean.

...And abnormally full of cat toys, because a visit from the Sarabis with no cat toys is like a visit from Santa with no human toys. That shit don't fly.

Also hi, yes, I'm still alive. My ratio of reading to posting has just slipped to about 1000:1.
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Black March and All That Boycotty Jazz
Francine - fairy
[info]mpoetess
This may not be the least confrontational way of phrasing it, but it addresses the issue I have with the Big Black Box that's getting shared on LJ, reblogged on tumblr, tweeted about and generally spread around the internets today.

I have no problem with targeted activism and every admiration with the principles behind it, but please actually think about who your target is, here, because "Buy no books/magazines/movies/music whatsoever" is what's getting reblogged on that giant spiffy graphic.

Your local independent bookstore or comic shop, your favorite also-in-fandom and fair-use-activist authors (and recording artists), self-published comic creators -- those people would be hit harder by a blanket boycott on all buying of published media in the month of March than any of the huge publishing companies/RIAA/MPAA.

I chose those 3 specific artists as examples because aside from their popularity in fandom, they all actually have books coming out in March whose sales figures can directly affect whether their next book gets published at all -- or in the case of Terry Moore, comics coming out whose sales go straight to the dude's gas bills, do not pass go, do not pay anybody besides the shipping company he uses to get them out to the comic shops.

So, yeah, I get the idea. I even support the idea; by all means, wait until April to purchase that DVD box set or that new album released by RCA. But be more specific about what not to buy and who not to buy it from, so you don't cut off the nose of your favorite artist to spite SOPA's face.

ETA: from [info]killabeez via [info]morgandawn, here's a great and much more targeted post addressing how to boycott specifically the companies that support SOPA and similar over-reaching "anti-piracy" legislation. There's even an app for that!

Oh, Our Italian Cousins
red
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Happy creepy religious/personal/commercial holiday of your choice. Me, I'm gonna dress up like a pirate wench of questionable virtue (something was redundant there, but I'm not sure if it was me or the wench), hand out way too much candy to the neighborhood children, attempt to keep 8 cats and a kitten Kraken from getting outside during that process, and watch the hell out of some horror movies.

So, pretty much the same thing we do every night, Pinky, minus the Twizzlers and the black leather corset.

In conclusion, pie boobies blame Canada gingers have no souls Dutch people live in wooden shoes creepy icons! Which I haven't done in a while. This time, though, instead of Getty, I plundered Italian horror films, specifically Argento's Inferno and Fulci's The House By The Cemetery and The Beyond. So these could vaguely be considered spoilery for those three movies if you labor under the delusion that the storylines would make any sense to you whatsoever after watching the films let alone scrolling through a few icons.

These are by no means a representative sampling of every scene or iconic image; they're just visuals that I found spooky. Low on blood and pretty much free of gore because again, I like the creepy, not the gross. Warning for, um. Spiders, ginger kids, and supernaturally-induced cataracts?

Want/take/have/mutilate as desired.

Total Icon Count: 43

001 to 013: Dario Argento's Inferno

014 to 023: Lucio Fulci's The House By The Cemetery (pretty much all ginger kid, all the time, despite her not being the main character or even the main kid; it was that or decapitations and bat attacks, plus the main kid is DEEPLY ANNOYING)

024 to 043: Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (which also has a ginger kid, who's much less cute and gets much less screentime; OTOH the only lines she has are "Mom! Mom!" so she doesn't have to be atrociously dubbed by an adult)

Teasers:

TEASER! Icon 004

 

Avanti! )

James and I appear to have made fic(let)
domestic piranha
[info]mpoetess
Also, one of us is drunk*

Title: DP Ephemera: Days Go By And Still I Eat Skittles
Series: Domestic Piranhas
Author Zuh: [info]zortified and [info]mpoetess
Fandom: BtVS/Angel. Sort of.
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Rating: It says ass in it. And fuck. So it's rated the same as whatever this summary is rated because this summary says ass and fuck too. However, not in the same sentence. Well, not in the story.
Disclaimer: Their children are fish. Their children are smarter than us them. It's vaguely possible that this is a crack AU. Just saying.
Summary: Xander comes home and finds Spike being...Spike. Xander would like stuff to happen.

*Spoiler: not me

Stuff Wot I Caught Up On Watching
dw - donna
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Doctor Who 6x09: Night Terrors + next week's trailer )

Lost Girl 2x01: Something Wicked This Fae Comes )

I have nothing to say about the latest True Blood except I liked it and can't wait for the season finale, which doesn't need spoiler cuttage.

Because it's been driving *me* nuts...
creepy doll
[info]mpoetess
"What an awesome header," said I, after the initial chortling over what an awesome concept it was, on viewing the U.S. CDC's Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Guide.

And then I started seeing it every freakin' where.

"The hell?" said I, on pulling up House of Fallen while doing my daily Amazon crawl for decent streaming horror movies, after having already blinked at Bat Sh*t Crazy* on the shelf at my local Family Video. "Is this some incredibly popular piece of zombie art that the talented but crazyflakes artist dumped into the public domain, and everyone everywhere has picked it up?

No, it's just stock photography and uncreative marketing divisions. But at least, thanks to Google and TinEye, it's not driving me nuts anymore, and I can go watch an undoubtedly bad** horror anthology starring Corbin Bernsen and C. Thomas Howell. Just in case it was driving you nuts too, I thought I'd post about it.


*Asteriskery not mine; shit, ya'all, since when have I ever avoided cussing like a sailor around here?
**Nothing to do with the actors in question, just Sturgeon's Law, which seems to get a +8 modifier (so 98% of everything is dreck) when it comes to a) horror movies, and b) movies available through streaming video via Amazon or Netflix.

Writer's Block: Once upon a time…
red
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What is the first line of your favorite book?

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I don't have a favorite book, but the first line of one of them is

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood and she lived all alone.

No points for guessing which book. ;-)

Dingdongdingdong...
kittybunch
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I bought new collars for all of the cats today (except Little Brother, bottom right, who wears a harness; I just bought him a bell). They all have bells. The house is now a symphony of tinkling.

And grumbling, as they run around trying to shake them off. I predict that I'll find at least two that have been magically slipped, within the week.

Thank you guys so much for the hugs and well-wishes; [info]maeyan and I both appreciate them mightily, despite the part where answering them individually is probably, for the sake of sanity and not having to keep re-cleaning my glasses, not going to happen. ♥

It seems inadequate
kitten
[info]mpoetess
To say, "what she said" despite my urge to just hide, so.

Aberdeen, our eldest cat, is gone, the one who's always been both 'ours' and 'mine' because her mother was most definitely Jen's and because she was born unexpectedly sixteen years ago (on the fourth of July, no less), exactly to my wishful specifications: one black kitten with green eyes. (Who delighted in chewing on her mother's ears, climbing into the silverware drawer, hiding under the stove, staring down from a great height, purring so loud you could hear her from a room away, and eating green beans. As you do when you're a beautiful but insane cat. Which I know covers all of them, but anyway.)

So. She was my baby, and she lived a very long life, and, as always, it wasn't nearly long enough. I'm... calm, and not having the best day, and I'm leaving comments on but don't know if I'll be able to pull off answering them. Thank all of you guys who've been along for the ride on this, and especially [info]sarabi, who's known Aberdeen almost as long as we have.

ROTFLMAO...
Francine - zombie
[info]mpoetess
Go look at your blog/journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

The last fictional character mentioned in this LJ is Emmett Honeycutt.

...Ahahahahahaha.

However, the meme doesn't say fictional, and the post before this one is most certainly fannish. How much trouble would I have facing the zombie apocalypse with [info]kimera, [info]rhi_silverflame, [info]shadowriter, [info]airawyn, [info]kenobi, [info]sideofzen, [info]brightone, [info]darklightluna, [info]comedownstairs? Zero much, that's how much. I've already faced two zombie apocalypses with most of them.

Though now I so feel like cheating and editing that post (about people I will see in San Diego) to include [info]seanan_mcguire, because come on.

*boogies*
Bridge!
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Woohoo, 4-day passes for San Diego Comic-Con went on resale today, and this time, I was there to F5 with all my might. *pets shiny confirmation e-mail*

I was going to San Diego anyway, mind you, because I wasn't missing out on seeing [info]kimera, [info]rhi_silverflame, [info]shadowriter, [info]airawyn, [info]kenobi, [info]sideofzen, [info]brightone, [info]darklightluna, [info]comedownstairs and all the other possible occupants of the Pope Table at Buca di Beppo.

This just means I get to actually wander the con floor and spend inadvisable amounts of money on idiotic fannish things, rather than veg in the hotel for half my stay.

Random Graphicsry: QAF:US
m/m
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Which is to say, long ago and far away, I made a bazillion Emmett Honeycutt icons because I was playing him at [info]fandomhigh, but never posted them anyplace to share, because I was a lazy arse. Here is my arse being less lazy.

Free to good home. Neither credit nor comment is required, though both are always welcome.



700-ish of them. Don't ask me what's up with the missing thumbnails on a few; it's just Scrapbook being twerptastic.

ETA:

For the random amusement portion of this post, I knew it was time to pack it in because I wasn't getting him out and about enough when I realized that after six months realtime in the game, the only non-NPC person Emmett "Fuck 'Em 'All" Honeycutt had in fact fucked was... Gabrielle. You know, Xena's Gabrielle? Yeah. (I should just leave that there, but my soul requires that I add the context: it was Hell Freezes Over Day.)

He did proposition Johns Sheppard and Mitchell, though, in a saner frame of mind. One had a girlfriend and one was a teacher, so they were both off-limits, sadly.

Ahem
boobies - tara
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For [info]halfnorn who is a very silly person.

And is not allowed to make fun of my accent.
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In lieu of content...
francine - xena
[info]mpoetess
1. Terry Moore tweets con sketches
2. I ink and color them horribly in Photoshop
3. ???
4. Profit!!
5. Whoops, no profit.

In this case, a combination of old and new that was a moral imperative once the 2nd sketch hit my phone's inbox.

Green Lantern Francine and Red Lantern Katchoo, captured by the Hubble Telescope sharing some space between here and the Eagle Nebula. Chewie looks a little ragey at being spied on, I think. Not blood-spewing ragey, but she's off-duty here.




Francine and Katchoo sketches by Terry Moore, digicolor by MP, background by the universe courtesy of the Hubble telescope.

Oh, Right, I'm Home
DLM, morning
[info]mpoetess
Now you see why I wasn't too worried about spamming you with surgery updates, let alone TMI ones. I got home Wednesday evening, and have been... varying degrees of awake and alive since.

Some math that is now my day: I'm supposed to down 64 oz of fluids per day and 60-80 grams of protein. Since I'm still on a liquid diet, these obviously coincide at the moment, but still... It's almost 6 and I've managed about 16 oz of fluid so far. It'd be a whole lot easier if I didn't feel like crap when I drink more than an ounce in an hour or so.

Luckily I get to count liquid hydrocodone, woohoo! (Sadly not towards the protein.)

On the plus side, when I am awake and not feeling like crap, I'm managing to walk about half a mile a day (at around 1 mph, snerk). The later parts of the day just involve more sleeping and inability to concentrate on tiny lettery things on a screen.

Apologies in advance (and in retrospect for the last few posts) for my haphazard ability to reply to comments!
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Sooooo...
Merlin - Freya is lying in a pond
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Survived surgery. Feel punched in the stomach but otherwise human-ish. The being stoned might be helping that. Posting, as requested, while stoned (on liquid vicodin).

Not terribly interesting while stoned, apparently. I just have to keep squinting at the screen/keyboard to make sure I'm hitting the right keys!
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So That Thing...
boobies
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The surgery thing that I didn't exactly keep a running update for? That would be happening tomorrow. (After surgeon's office jumping through the wrong hoop delayed the insurance approval past the time when it would have been on my already-paid 2010 deductible, sigh.)

I am really really... not nervous; [info]maeyan does enough obsessing for three people in these situations, so it balances out.

Just an update that I'll probably be afk-ish for the next 2 or 3 days! Though I think I may end up with internet access, so alternately I may be around, but happily stoned.
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From the files of Oh Dear, Perhaps You Didn't Think This Through
ellipses
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As seen on the way to work this morning. )

Spreading the Fannish Love
dw - donna
[info]mpoetess
Fandom High people will probably be seeing this for the 60th time, but there's a lot of folks on my friendslist (and several Aussies) who predate that, so here's one more voice to spread the word.

Sharron -- RP friends will recognize her as Jack Harkness 2.0, Karal, and Harriet Jones (we know who you are) among fondly-remembered others -- lives in Queensland, Australia, and her home has been completely submerged in the recent flooding.

She and her kitties are safe and doing well (though without a mailing address at the moment), but she's lost almost everything she owns -- including every book.

Sorry, should probably have cut and warned for geek nightmare fuel there. Oops.

The one-two punch of good fortune:

1. LibraryThing is literary-nerd OCD heaven, and Sharron's entire underwater collection is cataloged there

2. [info]coltsbane and [info]anomilygrace have done a very awesome thing that's resulted in a lot of people being very awesome: they've organized a drive to recreate it through used-book donations from friends, fellow fans, and even some generous authors.

If you feel like helping out with your own extra copies, take a walk over to the post linked above and check out the list to see if you've got any of the missing titles. There's contact information and plans in place for collecting up the books both from the US (which will then be shipped abroad at a discounted rate) and elsewhere ([info]coltsbane is in Australia, but thankfully out of the flood's path). If you'd like to help but can't share/send books, they're also accepting PayPal donations for the overseas shipping costs.

Only I...
ow
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...could sprain my toe rolling over in bed. (Foot skidded across the mattress while I was using it for leverage, and little toe caught on the edge of it.)

In conclusion, ow. *goes back to bed*

Writer's Block: Eye for an eye?
five
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If you bumped into someone who regularly picked on you as a child, what would you say to them?

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"...Merry Christmas, Grandma."

--

Really, there are some punchlines it's illegal to not give.

Fanservice? In *my* BBC? It's more likely than you think.
Merlin - Arthur:  not a cunning plan
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Title: Sacred...Something
Rating: R-ish?
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Word Count: 790
Disclaimer: The BBC really, really doesn't want to know.
Summary: Merlin doesn't seem to get how this ritual is supposed to go. Arthur would explain again, but... what was the question?
Warnings/Spoilers: Minor spoilers for the opening scenes of 3x08
Author's Notes: For [info]halfnorn. Established relationship.

Yeah, so pretty much PWP.

@crazypaving
@A03
@mxa
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House-Mouse
attic
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[info]maeyan and I can has house! Which was true as of Thursday, but since said house has no internets yet, I only tweeted about it. Most of the weekend got eaten by moving Things, and by Things I mean 6 boxes of books and 6 bookcases.

We're not actually going to be living there for a bit, until we get window treatments up (there aren't even any curtain rods, so this is going to be a full installation job), but we have a couch and I have a bed. Around which are piled most of the contents of those 6 boxes of books. I only got as far as sorting them last night! The shelves, they must wait emptily. For the other three boxes of books that haven't been loaded into the car yet.

In lieu of having a pointless Wrong On The Internet conversation...
boobies
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Dear well-meaning [actor]_daily comm owner: "public domain" does not mean what you think it means.
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And then there's this
attic
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Which is thing number two, and an exercise in acknowledging the fact that more than three people should know this.

Weight-loss stuff within, skip if you don't care or are likely to be made uncomfortable by it )
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*opens the box*
pandora
[info]mpoetess
I yet live, and have both news, and that lethargy about posting that's partly time, and partly "Oh God, I haven't posted anything in forever, and the longer I wait the more self-conscious I feel." So this is me nipping that in the bud, yo.

News! We are, thank the deity or lack thereof of your choice, moving. rambling and pictures within )

She lives!
FH - abbey road
[info]mpoetess
And even more or less survived San Diego Comic-Con without coming home with Con Crud.

Also, because I told certain people I would, and it's That Time Again:



There's an app for that.

Clearly my head hurts only to keep this from being a completely perfect day
Buffy/Faith, f/f, antidrug
[info]mpoetess
Like a flaw in a persian rug.TM old Buffywank

Financial situation: bearable
Real estate situation: eeeeeee!
Work and RP situations: got everything done that I need to for the next week which is good because
San Diego Comic-Con situation: Checked in, bag paid for, tickets printed, laptop loaded, mp3 player loaded, suitcase packed (though it will have to be re-checked for cataways before being zipped up), and flyyyyyying away at 5 a.m. tomorrow. And Colin Morgan a good time will be had by all.
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Dear Merlin Fandom*:
Merlin - Arthur smells like a man
[info]mpoetess
This, this, this.

Especially as so very very many of you don't actually post fic in comms, you link to the work in your LJ, which means that "View entries on my friends page in my own style" doesn't work, and ?style=mine has to be added manually.

ILU guys but do you realize how awful some of your tiny, tiny cramped journal layouts are for reading fic? Or, for that matter, having any in depth discussions about fic or anything else, when the comments are so over-formatted that by the time you're three comments down a thread,

they read

like

thi

s
?

Just saying.

love,
MP

PS: Those of you who also link to AO3 are FTW and don't make me quite as sadpanda, though still, you might want to keep the comment/discussion thing in mind for LJ and DW.
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*(Or possibly just Dear Fandom, but you can tell where I've been reading mass quantities of fic recently.)

An example of why the FH fic won't be on AO3 anytime soon...
FH - abbey road
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Namely, that the target audience would be (in this case) "people who know both Merlin and Strangers in Paradise and can deal with the concept of the leads of both having gone to an interdimensional high school together" or [info]fandomhigh players. The Venn diagram of which is almost a complete overlap.

Title: It Could Have Been Worse. She Could Have Brought Shake-Weights.
Fandom: Merlin/Strangers In Paradise (Fandom High futurefic)
Pairings (not that they feature much here): Arthur/Merlin, Francine/Katchoo, long-past Francine/Merlin, Casey Bullock/any unattached man with eyes
Word count: 843
Prompt: from [info]rhi_silverflame: Camelot / Francine, Katchoo, Arthur, Merlin...and Casey / a well-meaning but inevitably disastrous aerobics lesson

Are you *positive* she's not a troll? )

*eyes website*
domestic piranha
[info]mpoetess
Hunh. I have now officially transferred every fanfic I've ever completed (except That One X-Files Fic No One Ever Needs To Read and the Fandom High ficlets) over to the Archive of Our Own.

The word-count doesn't make me stop going must write more even though you have nothing at the moment to write and it makes you semi-crazy when you do because all must love you and despair or you fail at fandom, but it soothes the buzzing insects a little.

Still Here, Yeah
crazypaving: MP is too lazy to log out
[info]mpoetess
In lieu of at least four unrelated rants (on, in no particular order, a roleplaying thing, a different roleplaying thing, general self-dissatisfaction, and Merlin fandom) I give you:


Francine Peters in the Green Lantern Corps

Sketch by Terry Moore, digicolor by MP. (Background by... frak knows; I think it's a Hubble image.)

Also, the fact that Amy Pond is the bomb-diggety.

We Pretend She Has A Life
Francine - harvest
[info]mpoetess
New text, same old Twitterspam. Minus the @replies. )

[Thank you - I'll be here all week. Try the fish, it's great! Don't forget to tip your waitress.]

And now for your quarterly random post to show I'm still alive...
Merlin - m/a: how do I express my feelin
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Which is, sadly, all Merlin bitching, so it will be of interest to about five people on my friendslist, I suspect.

Dear Johnny Capps,

Iconic superheroes whose best friends and loved ones never learn their secret identities: You're doing it wrong.

Sigh.
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Mmm, masochism
creepy doll
[info]mpoetess
As defined by watching any Supernatural episode set in Indiana, and not just covering my ears and going LA LA LA LA LA whenever it looks like they might mention a geographical location or community feature.

Dear Kripke Sam and Dean: ...spoilery if you care about amusing lack of wikipedia use? )

We Pretend She Has A Life
Francine - harvest
[info]mpoetess
New text, same old Twitterspam. Minus the @replies. )

[Thank you - I'll be here all week. Try the fish, it's great! Don't forget to tip your waitress.]

Is it Spring yet?
bitchplease
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Dear rest of the world that practices DST, please spring forward soon so you will stop being an hour further away than you usually are. Love, a yank who misses you.

In other news, still alive, if personally rather blah at the moment for a number of brain and health reasons.

In other news, ganked from [info]apocalypsos, a gallery of girl/girl prom pictures. Heart: *grows three sizes* Bonus gallery of the less snapshotty sort: hot girls with glasses.

In other other news, this video is not reducing my The Founding Fathers Are Hot issues. (I link to a blogpost because I am...somewhere.... that blocks youtube so I can't snag the real URL.) If Schoolhouse Rock had actually been like this, I wouldn't mostly hate it. /traitor to my generation.

In other other other news, yeah yeah, LJ header different, world ending, but more importantly, you can now turn off new comments to your post without hiding all the old ones. We've only been wanting this for what, ten years, people? I could give a crap about having to manually go hide the vgifts on my profile in the face of that. (When you edit a post, there's now a "locked" option in the "Allow Comments?" dropdown.)

We Pretend She Has A Life
Francine - harvest
[info]mpoetess
New text, same old Twitterspam. Minus the @replies. )

[Thank you - I'll be here all week. Try the fish, it's great! Don't forget to tip your waitress.]

My kingdom for a nap.
b/x-steps
[info]mpoetess
If I had a kingdom.

*eyes recent spoilery discussions around the Eljay about the Buffy Season 8 storyline*

Oh, Joss. Oh honey. You are such a fandom troll.

(I can only bear to giggle instead of gnash teeth because he frankly lost any chance at my considering the comics part of the canon continuity when Skinless Warren walked into the picture. Or rather when I realized a bit later the reason he shouldn't be walking into the picture besides 'Oh God not him again.')

...Yeah, I know. Giant Dawn I can handle. Buffy and Satsu, I can not only handle, I loved, in all its doomed-to-failure fuckeduppery, because it was interesting. (Dear fandom: here is a Kinsey Scale. Step on it.) But 'oops, when we brought back this character and said he survived, we forgot we used him as a plot point in an arc about a creature that can only impersonate the dead?' That'd be the point where it became fanfic.

Memery I've been meaning to do
DLM, morning
[info]mpoetess
But keep not being in the mood to do it when I actually have time to. Also known as Project Post More Shit So That People Know You Still Live And Entries From July Are Not Still Visible On Your Front Page.

List all of the television shows you have on DVD, no matter how obscure or embarrassing. Even if you only own one season, list it. Let's see who has what!

So of course I do it when I'm not at home to count them up. )

Vid: The Prince Your Man Could Smell Like
Merlin - Arthur loves youuuuuu man
[info]mpoetess
(Smell Like A Prince, Man?)

Fandom: BBC's Merlin, and, uh. Hot guys who smell like jet fighters and punching?
Sound: So, about that virally popular Old Spice commercial...

Summary: Even a medieval man should smell like a man, man. Arthur feels the need to share this fact with the ladies - and manservants - of the world. Sir William helps out. Merlin...is long-suffering. (But he does kind of like how Arthur smells. Shh.)

Notes: BBC + Shine + Old Spice + Allergy-Sinus meds = this. I own only the drugs. I solemnly swear that no more than one box was purchased and I have no plans to start a meth lab from the contents. Vielen Dank to [info]maeyan, [info]halfnorn, and [info]shesakicker for enabling the crazy.

Spoilers: through Series 2 technically, but so out of context that it would be a challenge to get spoiled
Format: DivX AVI and streaming
Length: 35 seconds



Streaming (YouTube)
Download (DivX avi, right-click-save: 8.4 mb)
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Happy Valentine's Day to meeeee
spank!
[info]mpoetess
Oh [info]kinkelot, how brilliant was it to end the MP's-Bulletproof-Kink challenge on Valentine's Day so they all come pouring in? :-D

And also Happy Valentine's Day to y'all. Especially the roomie-BFF who keeps spamming me with Vgifts. Yes, I will go buy pop now. :-P

Fanfic Pet Peeve Number 5000
Merlin - Morgana and Arthur
[info]mpoetess
AKA "First World Problems, I has Them" :

When there's a fic snippet on the kinkmeme for your current fandom that hits your bulletproof kink liek whoa and it's

a) unfinished
b) stated to be part of a not-yet-published WIP
c) posted over a year ago
d) from a now-deleted journal

Woe. Fic blue-balls.

Drabble: Hreóung
Merlin - M/A pondering
[info]mpoetess
For [info]slashthedrabble challenge #239 (air)

Title: Hreóung
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Pairing(s): Merlin/Arthur
Rating: Teen for language?
Disclaimer: The characters belong to antiquity; the fact that they have Bradley James' and Colin Morgan's faces, I blame on the BBC.

Camelot in winter smells of ice and the branches that snap beneath it, cold and clean. It cracks his lungs as Merlin watches from the parapet.

Arthur clumping muddy back from battle to his chambers smells of horse and horse shit, clotted blood, sweat left to simmer for hours in a metal drum shaped like a man. Grease, swallowed bile, and the boots, sweet lord of the forest, the boots, what's been squelching in there....

Rank, wet air in his face when he leans down to unbuckle Arthur's gorget and it's the first time Merlin can breathe properly all day.

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We Pretend She Has A Life
Francine - harvest
[info]mpoetess
New text, same old Twitterspam. Minus the @replies. )

[Thank you - I'll be here all week. Try the fish, it's great! Don't forget to tip your waitress.]

Fic but not mine but...
domestic piranha
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[info]zortified has a new Domestic Piranhas ficlet up at [info]gilascave, written for [info]help_haiti: DP 13.25: Grandmums!

I Continue to Live
kink, porn
[info]mpoetess
Though my back hurts like a mofo for no apparent reason, right along the sciatic nerve. Awesome.

Also I don't want to go home and take the trash out so here's a ficlet meme, snurched from [info]tinylegacies and [info]the_afterlight.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.

1. Morgana, BBC's Merlin
2. David Nabbit, Angel: the series
3. Ace, Doctor Who
4. Emmett Honeycutt, QAF US
5. Nancy Thompson, Nightmare on Elm Street
6. Gaius, BBC's Merlin
7. Cordelia Chase, BtVS/Angel
8. Jayne Cobb, Firefly
9. Emily Lightman, Lie To Me
10. Vila Restal, Blake's Seven

2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers.

Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1!

Wow, do most of these rely on knowing the source material. )

Still Alive, Yes
Merlin - m/a: boys onna steps
[info]mpoetess
And still making dorktastic photomanips, albeit not BtVS ones.

Title: Flushed (or It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time)
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Characters/Pairings: Merlin/Arthur
Rating: Mature (Hell if I know how to rate things anymore - there's nudity and carefully-shadowed bits)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Spanking. (Contain your shock.) Straight-up photomanippery with a side of cursing at Poser, yo. I cannot draw to save my life. That 'making of' pic is actually more explicit than the finished product.


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In lieu of content
ets
[info]mpoetess
Since content would be "My hands are cold, I want some lime juice, is it naptime yet, not touching the hundred thousandth round of m/m writing debates with a ten foot pole although I'm reading quite a lot of the discussion, OMG I have almost everything I've ever written transferred over to the Archive of Our Own, Bradley James and Colin Morgan are adorable and so are my cats, thank you and may your god or lack thereof go with you."

Instead, memes.

Roleplay meme )
Shallow meme of shallow celebrity objectification )

Rumours of my etc... (aka OMFG she wrote something, check the sky for toads)
Merlin - Arthur loves youuuuuu man
[info]mpoetess


Title: His Own Hand
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin
Word Count: 12,276

Warnings/Spoilers: Spanking, wanking, angst that suddenly grows a sense of humour, and Uther as semi-unwilling voyeur

Summary: In which Merlin is punished for saving his life for the thousandth uncredited time, and arguing with Uther is the stupidest thing Arthur's done until the next thing.

Disclaimer: The BBC and Shine, man. None of that copyright stuff for me.

Notes: Written for [info]kinkme_merlin and posted over in my anon-for-two minutes ficjournal, [info]crazypaving. Which ohboy did I need thanks to not writing in forever + new fandom + hello MP's id = self-consciousness overload.

On LJ: Part 1 | Part 2

(Or AO3 if you prefer it in one piece. I just like responding to comments on LJ so I can stare at pretty icons.)


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