stripytights

This was originally a moan post about the bronchitis that has laid me up, the ever stranger pereginations of my family, and a bunch of other things. But, I feel like I've complained a lot this year, and I want to end things on a high note.

So on that note, I offer my traditional scurrying in late to be the last person ever to get round to doing a meme (it's definitely a tradition by now) and if you've made a post of your own, please do point me at it so I can spread/share the love.

holiday love meme 2015
my thread here

and I also include the happiness recs. Right now, as I metamorphosise into a person more tissue and soup than human, I gladly and freely acknowledge that apparently this is the Winchester brothers cuddling cats or being cats who then get cuddled. Most of these are pretty well known, but that's no reason not to share them again.

Care and Feeding - fools_game This is the jackpot of cuddling cat fic. Sam gets turned into a cat. There's several stories worth - it ends in Wincest, but the majority of the stories are gen. Sam's POV in this one

Scratch - lazydaze touch deprivation + cats + quiet comfort. No more needs to be said.

Winchesters + cute cats - de-nugis This time Dean gets a cat cuddle

untitled (the kitten in rockdale) - mistyzeo

When You Think He's Half Asleep - this is Dean as a cat, infuriatingly Dean. Fewer cuddles, but still enjoyable.

I did have more cat cuddling recs, but my inability to tag my bookmarks properly is biting back. I also don't know where I acquired this gif, so apologies for no credit, but it's very relevant

Snagged from

frozen_delight

There's 50 questions below the cut, feel free to pick a number (or 2 or 3) and prepare for the resultant word vomit. If there's one thing I love, it's talking about fic, commenting, favourite authors, reccing and all of those good things. So ask away

I'll strike out the questions and cut and paste the answers into the text of the post as well as in the comments
( 50 Questions )

Below the cut so it doesn't take up too much space.

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The bottom ones are more inline, than the top ones. Perhaps I'm more clearly defined on who I dislike. I'm surprised that Garth and Adam are as low as they are - I'd pegged them more for middle rankers, and I'm suspicious that Christian Campbell is at 47 - I'm fairly sure I clicked whoever he was against, each time he popped up. However Bobby, Samuel, Becky, Gabriel, yeah not surprised.

The top 15 are relatively accurate, but I'm not sure I'd put Mary as high as that. I do like her a lot (as witnessed by constant clicking) but I'm not sure I like her more than I like Bela, Ruby, Tessa etc. I'm also really surprised by John being in the top 10. I don't subscribe to John hate, but I also don't find him very interesting, and I would never say I like him particularly. Certainly, if he was in my top 15, it'd be towards the bottom. Jo, Bela, Victor, Ruby, Balthazar, Jody, these are all good picks though.

ETA: I've decided that John should be at 25. Below Dick Roman (who I thought would be higher up as villains go) but above Lilith. Mary should be at no 10, and I would move Gwen, Anna, Kevin and Uriel up about 15 places each into my top 20 at least.

I usually skip music memes because I just don't listen to enough music to justify it. However, the discovery of an mp3 player I loaded up with songs and which has a shuffle function (I found it in the very depths of my handbag after I emptied it out into a new one and cleaned up the receipts) means that I can legitimately give this one a go! Click below a cut for the revelation that yes, I have really terrible taste in music, and a fairly idiosyncratic one.

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The fantastic

indiachick tagged me in the 7 by 7 meme. Luckily I only have one relevant WIP that's seven pages long at this present moment in time. It may not ever see the light, but it's really fun to write.

"You could leave it," Jared says, but even as he speaks, he can see Jensen retreat. He's broached the impossible, the thing they never speak of, violated the unspoken compact of mutual discretion. Jensen stands then, takes up his book from the table as though he recognises now the futility of any commonplace gesture of friendship.

"Goodbye Jared," he says quietly. "I've asked the bishop to consider reassignation. He's very helpful, I suspect it won't be long." There's no bite to his voice, only a certain inevitability, as though it isn't Jensen speaking, but a thousand years worth of crushed human nature.

Since most people have done this meme, whoever would like to be tagged, consider yourself tagged!

Snagged from

milly_gal (I chose to do five for each instead of ten)

The rules: Make a list of

1. Ten things that you think are common in your fic
2. Ten things you think are uncommon in your fic although commonly found in fic in general
2. Ten things you wish were more true of your fic.

( Five things under the cut )

Hi to the new people from the friending meme! And what better way to start than with some useless information about me.

cassiopeia7 gave me the letter R and it was surprisingly difficult.

Something I hate: rum (for good reason), ratatouille (the food not the film), radiation poisoning, racism, rats

Something I love: robots, reading, (white) Russians (the drink), raspberries, reviews, racing-at-speed

Somewhere I've been: Reykjavik, Reading (v cosmopolitan, me), Rome,

Somewhere I'd like to go: Russia!

Someone I know: I know so many Rebeccas, my facebook is full of them. On LJ there are the lovely riyku, road_rhythm, rockyrace and runedgirl. So R has good company clearly.

A film I liked: Rashomon, Revolutionary Road, RocknRolla,

I think most people have already done this meme, but if you'd like a letter you can have one.

Thieved from

emily_shore

Never Will I Ever meme: Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I may attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

Again with the lateness.

Usually I make November resolutions rather than NYs because I like starting early, but last year was hectic and I forgot. So:

- Do Big Bang. I failed to turn in a draft for the last two rounds (can I still sign up even?) This year is different though - I feel like I have an idea I really want to write, I'm not claiming I've planned anything - I'm pretty sure I'm not capable of planning anything, but I've been thinking about it for most of the past month.
- Lose last bit of weight. I got so so close to my ideal goal but derailed at Christmas (alcohol and fruit cake mostly). So I'd like to drop that last bit and work on maintainance. I'm also going to work hard on my fitness as well as my weight. I should probably do chess instead. I'm just as bad at it but it's kinder on the ankles.
- Write something every day no matter how small.
- Stop being so lazy when it comes to the work I should be doing. I'd like to end the year not regretting how I spent my time.

What are your resolutions if you've made any?

( Trope Bingo under the cut )

Meme

Go to the closest book to you. Turn to page 206. The first sentence explains your love life. Stolen from

amber1960 as the most recent poster.

I snagged two because I like to give myself some decent odds (and when I tried this yesterday I got the Hunchback of Notre Dame suggesting I drive people mad).

- Marc, the quintessential cold fish, capable of love? - Magnificat, Julian May. I think it's quite hopeful! And mildly accurate.
- But there is a further possibility: it is conceivable that Caelius may not have been supporting Catiline at all. - Rubicon, Tom Holland. I have no idea what this means.

I am permanently one step behind, always. It's very sad. But I have forgotten none of the Christmas meme entries - they'll just stretch into January, I promise.

This is all the Christmas things and I've combined my end of the year writing roundup into it as well!

( Boring Christmas happiness )

End of year writing round up! This year I am opting for the exciting arrangement of doing it by pairing.

( Sam/Dean )( J2 )( Other SPN (gen) )( Adrianne/Genevieve )( Les Miserables (mixed) )

Also, Happy New Year to all! Wishing you the best.

wendy asked how I drink my coffee for this day.

The simplest answer to how I drink my coffee...is that I don't!

I used to have a truly disgusting habit of filling a mug half full of instant coffee and then sloshing a little bit of boiling water over it (no sugar, no milk). The resultant mess stained cups, skin if you spilt it and tasted like thick tar. I have no idea where I picked the taste up from, but I used to drink four/five mugs of that a day - much to the horror of the rest of my family who preferred actual coffee that didn't come in kg jars. I'm still caffeine-insensitive and I'm pretty sure that's why.

Then one day I gave it up because I thought it was unhealthy. Just stopped drinking it and never went back. I didn't have a cup of coffee for the next three years or so. Nowadays I'll occasionally drink one - I still only want it black and strong enough to make you wince (or when I can get it, a mint frappuccino thing). I do like coffee flavoured chocolates though.

Instead I drink tea; mostly standard breakfast tea or earl grey, though I try and get two or three cups of green tea a day because I think there may be some health benefit to it. And wine, obviously.

I still have some spaces open on my talk meme - you can find it here. I have six ficlet prompts so far, so a couple of 'talk topics' would be particularly nice as well - what can I say, I like to talk. Or you know, stick figures! I'm very nifty with MS Paint.

It's that time of the year for love-memes (though I may have forgotten that until I saw firesign's post about it) Regardless, here is the link.

holiday love meme 2014
my thread here

Do let me know if you have a thread, I'm currently trawling the pages by hand (dedication!).

- Will write up about my fun fannish week a little bit later, but just going to say I find myself increasingly shipping Cas/Hannah and I have no idea what is going on.

- Insmallpackages is a go! Find it here. Double points if you can spot my asks when the claim post goes up (1st Dec).

- Fandom stocking is also a go. It can be found here

Well not ultimate, but definitely a combination. I like the look of the talking meme but reluctantly have to accept that with the combo of exams in December and writing commitments that I'd be highly unlikely to fulfil it. So instead I snagged and modified this likely-looking meme from

lilliburlero. The request can be related to the prompt you pick if you like, or not at all.

Pick any one of the properties or personnel from the Twelve Days of Christmas and any one of the following:

·         A ficlet prompt. Any fandom/any pair
·         A talking post - give me a topic to talk about. No limits - can be fannish - favourite fics, meta, stuff about my incredibly boring real life etc
·         A request for a drawn stick figure.
·         Anything else really.

The prompts are of course
Pear Tree:

cassiopeia7 (Abaddon)

Partridge:

glovered (Jess - STICK FIGURE)

Turtle Doves:

alycat (J2)

French Hens:

amberdreams (My three favourite fics)

Colley Birds:

wendy (How do I drink my coffee)

Gold Rings:

big_heart_june (J2)

Geese:

emily_shore (stick figure illustrations of how you know when you're in a Mary Renault book)

Swans:

snickfic (Meg/Castiel)

Maids (1):

lilliburlero (Hilary Mansell at school)
Maids (2):

steeplechasers (Sam/Dean, virginity)

Ladies:

miss_morland (What would I like to see more of in female character fic)

Lords:

meus_venator (J2)

Drummers:

Pipers:

gorkonelka (Dean/Sam, lips appreciation)

OhSam is running a commentfic meme at the moment for the express purpose of whumping Sam. I'm not very good at whumping anybody but I very occasionally like trying to, so I wrote a piece about Sam drowning that's a little more hurt than comfort. Who am I kidding, it's all hurt, I'm sorry. It's also gen and can be found here

Insmallpackages is running again this year. I was a complete fail last year but I'm cautiously resigning up so fingers crossed. My favourite low-pressure mini-exchange.

Posting date for my Sam/Dean Minibang grows closer. I am mildly excited, mostly because for the first time ever, yes ever, I've finished well before the actual date.

I've seen this from several people on my flist but the last one was

de_nugis so I'm counting it a snag from her. Ten Things to Love

1. I finished an essay and handed it in at least half an hour before the closing time. Looks like this finishing early lark is catching (well, early for me anyway).

2. My AllSaints t-shirt arrived in the post and it is as nice as it looked online.

3. I had steak for dinner tonight.

4. I get to meet a friend I've never met before in a couple of weeks time.

5. My flatmate invited me swimming. I didn't go because I couldn't find my costume but it's the thought that counts.

6.

salt_burn_porn is running and it's as awesome as usual

7. My fake stocks rose.

8. My room is tidy and my bed is made with fresh linen that smells amazing (this may have been the procrastination before the above essay got started).

9. I left my trainers in my parent's house so I have a legitimate excuse not to go to the gym.

10. I have red peppers stuffed with cream cheese. Delicious.

Here's how it works:

- Post a list of your five favourite kinks/acts/tropes/themes in your journal. If you need inspiration, have a look at this list. At the bottom, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
- Comment on this post with a link to your list.
- Read other people's lists here.
- Post comment fic based on other people's lists.

( My Five Acts )

( My Fandoms/Pairings )

I've been on holiday so I miss all the fun things. Will be going through and adding my comments tonight.

♥ LOVE MEME ♥

full meme | my thread

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life

2) Have your f-list guess your favourite characters/members from each item.

3) When someone guesses correctly (LOL, good luck with that), strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

Dividing this up by genre.

Anime:

Gundam Wing

Books:

Harry Potter

~~Lord of the Rings~~ Eowyn

~~The Charioteer~~ Andrew

The Lymond Chronicles

The Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliff

The Eagle of the Ninth- Rosemary Sutcliff

Little Women

Aubrey-Maturin series

Iliad

Movies:

The Faculty

Fast and Furious series

~~Pacific Rim~~ Raleigh Becket

TV:

Supernatural

Generation Kill

Angel
The Professionals

RPF:

~~Supernatural RPF~~ Jensen

Alexander the Great RPF

This is a really weird one for me. My main experience of fandom has been either in the tiniest of tiny fandoms where I'm the only person writing and I literally do not expect anyone to click let alone comment (every book fandom ever), or when I'm in a big fandom to write a tiny pairing or gen (see LOTR and Arwen/Eowyn).

Suddenly I have Sam/Dean! Jared/Jensen! What is this madness?! Luckily, I still have a real yen for rarepairs, gen and rare characters - only 11 of my 26 SPN fics are Sam/Dean.

In the end though, I picked The Full Ride Experience NC-17 because you don't get more minor than a fic which is the only one in the pairing tag. It's Ruby/Tyson Brady with background Sam/Brady and Sam/Ruby.

The concept is simple - Ruby wants to know everything about Sam, every scrap of information she can use to manipulate him and Brady has things he can tell her. They work it out through sex. It's probably the most graphic het sex I've written (apart from maybe the Gen/Jared one with the fucking machine) but it (to me) succeeds in what it set out to do with the characters - the sex is never the point, it's an instruction manual in how to manipulate Sam Winchester through it. It also helped me work out a few Ruby thoughts - specifically regarding the change in vessels and the ostensible change in personality. Also, as I've bored everyone with a number of times, my only piece of unchangeable SPN headcanon is a college fling between Sam and Brady so I liked bouncing off that.

( The Seven Days )

The real joy of SPN and associated RPF is that for the first time since Alexander the Great RPF (a surprisingly big fandom), I'm shipping a juggernaut. Two huge pairings even, and I get all the rest of the fic to read as well because I like everything.

I picked In the Midwinter Cold LJ, AO3, Dean/Sam, PG-13, 8.5K

I chose this one because it exists in an odd place for me. At the time I wrote this (December 2012) I'd been in the fandom proper for two/three months, and I'd read hardly any Sam/Dean fic at all. So in a sense it's what you get when someone's completely unaware of everything else written - which is a very freeing feeling. It was also the first thing I wrote for D/S with a semblance of a plot - there's a monster, a climax, everything! It contains some of my favourite tropes (as well, I hope, as some of my recipient's favourites) including huddling for warmth, intimacy, first kisses, time-disturbance, and plenty of brother time. It's low key and nothing special, but it was fun to write and an entrance into a different type of fic for me (please note the lack of sex! shocking!)

In a sense everything I write is for myself, I wouldn't write it otherwise - who has time for that? Then I really thought about it and realised that I totally have a story that is so self-indulgent and ridiculously, embarrassingly, clearly for myself, that I should pick it and weep over my bad taste.

Trial by Fire, Sam/Dean/Cas and all combos thereof, rated Hard R

This is my favourite fic that I've written, for exactly the self indulgence that I mentioned up above. In short, it's a season 8 divergent fic where, after Sam begins the trials, it riffs off the idea that he's being changed on a molecular level and separated from the rest of humanity as a precursor to the necessary act of closing hell. In this fic, it takes the form of Sam not being able to touch anybody without burning their skin, including through clothes. The only person exempt from this is Cas, who can touch Sam if he exerts the effort to. So touch deprivation, isolation, finding ways to bridge the gap all come into play. Writing a sex scene without penetration, and where two of the participants (Sam and Dean) can't touch each other, and for more than one reason was a challenge, and balancing the emotions between all three of them was even more difficult. At no point did I want Cas to be a proxy - he's not the conduit between them, he's a disrupting force. Also wooo chance to write Sassy! With bonus difficult emotions that neither of them can articulate. My jam, all of it is my jam.

With my other recs this meme I've been upfront with the bad bits to them, but I'm not going to bother listing the things that are wrong with this one (though there are plenty!) but I give a fair heads up that I couldn't find a beta for it and that my issues with commas are pretty awful, though I think I've caught the worst of them by now.

The story I picked (and as a change it's neither SPN nor SPN RPF!) is a loaded weapon (ready and waiting) rated Explicit, which is Hercules Hansen/Stacker Pentecost from Pacific Rim and written for acaramelmacchiato/bro-stoevsky

Sadly Hot Dads (official ship name right there) never really took off (I do not know why - look at this screencap and boggle also) but it seized my brain and made me wonder what a relationship would look like between two people who verbally barely interact but whose presence, ease with each other and the way they anticipate one another came across so well. It was a joy to write for bro, not least because it forced me to be significantly more subtle than I usually am. I ended up dialing back every single extreme and working on creating a mood of extreme tiredness. It ended up infecting the whole story and creating a slowness to their actions, a damped down enjoyment of their time together, a parallel to the fact that they're aging but not decaying. I liked the chance to get the other side of Chuck's damage as well - writing jerks (and their reasons) but not excusing them is always fun.

If I was writing it all over again, there's things that I would fix - I'd like to add a little more about where they know each other from first in particular, but as a snapshot of a relationship between people at a time of crisis, who play their cards close to their chest but who know each other from the bone up, I think it works. And the recipient liked it, which really I am the happiest about.

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