Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Bad things:

- knee is stupid.

- summer is stupid

- sensory overload is stupid

- tourists are stupid

- knee is stupid (it gets two votes)


Good things:

( There's pictures! Um, some of them are big. )

- I am seriously decluttering. I have so much stuff to give away!

- heroinebigbang. I'm not signing up until I have a first draft for fivetimesbb, but I have a plot bunny all planned out for it.

- We watched the pilot for Eternal Law, and it is exactly the kind of urban fantasy/angelic wing-fic mish-mash that rings my bell. I love all the people, I love all their secrets, I love all the stupid references and nods and winks. It's going to be awesome.

ETA: rarewomen! sign-ups are here!

Feeling a lot better after venting about therapy, thank you everyone. The decision I've come to is to go to the next (and possibly last) appointment armed with greater understanding of her technique. If I don't walk out of that room feeling 100% reassured, I'll be looking for someone else. Which is a bummer, but less of a bummer than how I feel lately.

In the mean time, while I'm plotting out fivetimesbb (Working title: Five Times the Warehouse Called on the Sanctuary), I'm also ogling queer_bigbang (which seems to be based on the principles of lgbtfest, so, about the experience of being queer.) As well as that, I'm checking out the nominated characters at rarewomen (nominations post here!)

And, because I'm a champion multi-tasker, I'm watching Sue Perkins on youtube. When I'm sad, I watch her conducting the theme for The Simpsons on Maestro, a BBC reality show that took celebrities and taught them to conduct an orchestra. AS YOU DO.

Sue wears a purple zoot-suit. It's just... I have to link it.

( Guaranteed pick-me-up under the cut )

Hi Sue! I think I love you lots.

Okay, now I'm just boring myself with my own crush.

Title: Pop Tarts
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Rating: G
Words: 330
Characters/Pairings: Myka/Helena, Claudia, Pete, Artie
Summary: Sometimes the twenty first century is a little overwhelming for Helena, but she knows she's in the right place.
Notes: Written for fandom_stocking

( Helena has no difficulty mastering the technology in the kitchen )

Title: If It's Rocking, Don't Come A'Knocking
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Words: 450
Characters/Pairings: Nine/Jack/Rose & Donna
Warning: Spoilers for Season 4
Summary: Donna built a thingy, but what's going on in the TARDIS?
Notes: Written for fandom_stocking

( Oy! Oy! Open up, Spaceman! I know you're in there! )

Title: Baby Shampoo
Fandom: Twin Peaks, The Inside
Rating: PG
Words: 800
Characters/Pairings: Rebecca Locke, Audrey Horne
Warnings:
Summary: Sometimes it's hard for Rebecca to ask for help.
Notes: Written for fandom_stocking. This is a prequel to The Magician Longs to See, but can be read as a stand-alone.

( Rebecca leaned an elbow on the plain wooden desk, and forced her eyes to focus on the list of codes they had to memorise )

Title: The Pride of St George
Fandom: Sanctuary
Rating: G
Words: 630
Characters/Pairings: Declan MacRae, James Watson
Summary: Declan is still settling in at the Sanctuary, and he doesn't want to upset the old guard.
Notes: Written for fandom_stocking

( Declan is still settling in at the Sanctuary, and he doesn't want to upset the old guard. )

Title: No Such Thing as Soft Science
Fandom: Sanctuary
Rating: PG
Words: 800
Characters/Pairings: Helen Magnus/Charlotte Benoit
Summary: Helen discovers there's more than one kind of Sanctuary
Notes: Written for fandom_stocking

( Helen and Charlotte meet up now and then, in the weeks and months after Grand Comore )

Yeah, it's 42 degrees (107.6 for you Northerners) and there's a grass fire up the road. Life is rocking on in rural Australia.

I'm propping lilacsigil up with ice packs and icy poles. She's a hot little hamster right now. The air-conditioner isn't really cutting the mustard, though it's cooler in here than out there.

Hey, Aussies, what do you call one of these?


I grew up in Melbourne, and we always called them "frozens", as in "I'd really like a frozen." But the other day, when I said "Oh, we should get some frozens and put them in the freezer for the hot days" lilacsigil was very confused. Apparently in Gippsland, you call them by their proprietary name: Sunny Boy. I find these differences to be fascinating. Or maybe my brain has curdled in the heat. Tell me of your snow, people of the north. Tell me of the icicles and the frozen ponds and the need for woolly mittens.


In other news, Yuletide reveals are up!

I wrote The Infernal Celibacy Rededication (Or how Roxy decided she didn't need her groove back after all). (Check out my Roxy icon! The sum total of my creative effort in this heat!) I had so much fun reviewing canon for this fic - I even dug out the original comics to remind myself of certain aspects of Middleman history.

I also betaed lilacsigil's Famous Five fic, Anne and George of the Thirds. (Go read it, it's a glorious thing where Anne gets to be the competent one for a change.) lilacsigil did not have so much fun reviewing canon. We had a lot of conversations like this:

lilacsigil: Julian is such a prig!
Me (mishearing): Yes, Julian is an utter prick.
lilacsigil: That too.

If you have always thought Julian was a prick, go and read Anne and George of the Thirds. Julian isn't in it at all, and there are (not very) secret lesbians on the side.


Now, to get to work on fandom_stocking! *rubs hands together but not enough to make a spark*

ETA: Fire is out! That's really good news.

Let's see if I can get a recs post in before the reveal. I haven't read right through yet - I've just hit Warehouse 13 though I'm not reading in alphabetical order or anything - but I'd like to get some anonymous recs up before the anonymous goes away for another year.

(I have to say, I love the History function on AO3, it makes backtracking through my peck-and-hover method of reading Yuletide much easier.)

( Under the cut: Twin Peaks, Newsflesh, Hark! A Vagrant!, The Rutshire Chronicles, Valdemar Books, Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up), Billy Elliot, Modest Medusa, Austin & Murray-O'Keefe Families, Lord John Grey, The Fades, Anne of Green Gables, Lorna Hill's Sadler's Wells books )

I got four lovely presents! In order of how they fell out of my stocking:

The Doves And The Ravens (1742 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Total Eclipse of the Heart (music video)
Creepily, eerily dreamy post-apocalyptic interpretation of my precious eighties hair ballad. It's perfect.

Terror at Trinity Prep (3395 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Total Eclipse of the Heart (music video)
I don't know if anyone outside the Commonwealth ever got these weird gothic anthologies of horror stories, where the creepy schoolboys are conducting bizarre rituals in the gymnasium and nobody but the new teacher notices? This is kind of like that, and like a house-warming party at the same time. Again, perfect.

(This clip! I'm proud to have unleashed such creepy perfection on the world!)

Be My Homeward Dove (2115 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Twin Peaks
Five goodbyes in Twin Peaks which aren't really goodbyes at all. Because that's how Twin Peaks rolls. And there's Sarah Palmer (*loves*), Albert, Audrey, Harry, and Dale. Twin Peaks has been a big part of my fandom year for 2011, and this fic rounds it out beautifully.

And, like the satsuma at the bottom of the stocking, there was one tiny extra treat:
Habitual (100 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Warehouse 13
! It's the tiniest, most perfect vignette between Leena and Mrs Frederic, and it's just wonderful. It catches Leena's role at the Warehouse perfectly, and I love it.

Thank you so much, mystery authors! I have had a wonderful Yuletide. I hope you did, too.