isle of gramarye (the crystal goblet and the wine)

further adventures of yuletide

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:52:13 GMT

No Returns Or Exchanges Evil Dead, Ash/Sheila. Postapocalyptic retail.

I Will Not Sleep Hornblower. Pitch-perfect h/c.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Duckling explores the uses of fairy tales in talking about characters of color.

Trade All My Tomorrows Indiana Jones, Indy and Marion pre-canon. Which is awesome and sexy and satisfying.

He Blinded Me With Archaeology, Indy/Mutt, with great linguistics porn and all kinds of sexy bookishness.

Lovelace and Babbage vs The Christmas Death Spider From Beyond the Atlantic !!!

Unsaid Dune, Paul&Alia. Hurty and fantastic and just oh Paul. All the things that they never said.

faded from the winter Anastasia/Dimitri pre-canon, sweet and saucy and light, with shadows at the edges.

A Very Large Location of Something The Sound of Music, Maria-centric and lovely and intense. Captures a fantastic sense of longing, and of sublimity.

Every Day Is A Reminder Calvin and Hobbes. Long and plotty fic that somehow catches the exact feeling of what it's like being the kind that's different. Eventually Calvin/Susie, but Hobbes is a constant presence, which is nice.

In My Life Glee, Rachel/Quinn homg so cuuuute!

Life And Variations Spirited Away. Haku, after, trying to fit in. Cheerful and sweet.

Third Time's The Charm Spirited Away. Post-canon, a little bit more grown-up.

The Girl in the Water Spirited Away pos-canon - Chihiro swimming, remembering, feeling happy.

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yuletide recs!

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:49:38 GMT

Come On, Sport Murry/O'Keefe, Charles Wallace-centric.

Love Overcoming Murry/O'Keefe, Meg and Calvin getting married, and the tesseract curtain

nuns fret not at their convent's narrow walls Song of the Lioness George/Alanna AU, all swashy and romantic and fab. Alanna is hardcore in any universe.

Pride of the Lioness Song of the Lioness - Alanna in the aftermath of her father's death. Sweet.

The Perils and Profits of Being a Wallflower Song of the Lioness. Raoul! And Kel! And Buri! And parties!

Armiger Song of the Lioness, back when they were young knights and Alanna was a squire.

Where the Wilderness Ends Where the Wild Things Are, lovely and hurty and just ouch.

If on a Yuletide night, a reader If on a winter's night a traveler. V. cool.

Five stories the Reader never began If On a Winter's Night A Traveler. This is the best story in all yuletide this year, I am convinced. Beautiful and lyrical and literary and sexy and the kind of thing that makes you cry from too much feeling.

The Magical Healing Power of Threesomes Dreamwidth/LJ/Fandom omg amazingosity.

Packet Switching Dreamwidth/LJ/Fandom, the one where DW is black and uses a wheelchair.

Open Beta Dreamwidth/LJ/Fandom, the one where Fandom is socially awkward and LJ is kind of a hipster, and Dreamwidth is hot.

Skill Set Disney Princesses, Tiana/Naveen. Ahahaha!

Bittersweet Disney Beauty and the Beast, the one where there isn't a happy ending, but things are maybe still okay.

like gold to ayery thinnesse beate His Dark Materials - the impossible happy ending, which is all squirmy and joyful and heart-bursting.

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god jul!

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:17:39 GMT

My yuletide story, What Birk Has Learned, is so unspeakably wonderful that I have to rec it in particular (especially to hyel, who apparently was one of the other two people in yuletide to request this fandom.) Ronia the Robber's Daughter, Birk/Ronia friendship.

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Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:25:36 GMT

Took The Baby to see The Princess and the Frog, and (this so doesn't count as a spoiler) that's a really big, obviously displayed diamond ring. Thinking back, I don't remember Disney doing the diamond-industrial complex thing before. Yah boo hiss.

Am now playing happily with the Yuletide Madness prompts lists. Two ficlets up up and away already - we'll see how many I get through by the end of the day!

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poetryspam

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:51:08 GMT

Love Song
Rainer Maria Rilke

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch
Or stir it with your own? How shall I place
It clear of you to anything beyond?
How gladly I would stow it next to such
Things in the darkness as will not be found
Down in an alien and silent space
That does not resonate when you resound.
But everything that stirs us, me and you,
Takes us together like a bow when two
Taut strings are stroked into the voice of one.
What instrument have we been lain along?
Whose are the hands that play our unison?
What a sweet song!

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Good Solstice, fandom!

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:27:10 GMT

I love Solstice. Maybe it's a function of a Northern Michigan childhood, I don't know - but somehow I always feel, Solstice morning, as if a tremendous weight has been lifted from me, as if I am free, as if I can fly.

And this year it coincides with my post-yuletide-uploading happy, so I'm all smiley. Seriously, you guys, do you all have any idea how wonderful you are? Today I'm amazed by fannish power and ingenuity: not only did we write all those bloody Yuletide stories - not to mention recording all of the podbangs! - but we built the sites that hold them. This year, Yuletide is on our own servers. And I'm just overwhelmed by how cool this entire enterprise is. Not only are the sisters doing it for themselves, they're also ridiculously smart, innovative, and artistic.

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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:13:06 GMT

yuletide away!!!!! (the AO3 interface is sooo cooool, you guys, homg!)

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eyes on the final hour

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:19:01 GMT

Annnd of course, two days before the deadline, my yuletide fic is demanding the use of verse. Land's sake! But I've got at least 7,000 words of pretty solid work, so I figure it's okay for me to spend an evening marking out meter. It's just so rutting typical!

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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:55:13 GMT

Crisis averted! Interwebs magically back! I have no idea, but whatever.

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halp!

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:48:26 GMT

Urg, flist, I am having wireless unhappy. I share internet with the girl next door, and sometimes it does this thing where the network connection vanishes for a second and then comes right back. My boyfriend's pc is never phased by this, but my mac gets all fussy, and the system has to be turned off and on again. Which wouldn't be a big deal, except that it did that last night and my neighbor hasn't been home since, and I have a worried that she'd gone home for the holiday.

Do any of you have the slightest idea what this glitch is, and if there's anything I can do to repair it? Because the network is running - I can see it in the Airport menu - and the Biy's machine works fine, but mine won't. hook. up. And I hate using his system. /whine

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giant hugs for everybody!

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:23:03 GMT

Oh my god. Whoever just gave me six months' paid accountage - I just opened my recent comments page, and my eyes got really, really big when I could suddenly see more than ten. Um. I feel all verklempt. This is pretty much the most awesome thing anyone has ever done for me, and, uh. I'm so grateful to you, whoever you are. And really happy. If you tell me who you are, I will totally make you fic or icons or wallpapers or banners or mixes or any other thing you want, because you are definitely my new favorite person in the world.

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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:26:48 GMT

Does anyone have links/recs to girl!Daniel art - manips or drawings or whatever? I haz a want.

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right then.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:41:25 GMT

Hay guise? I've got spare Dreamwidth codes for anybody who wants to come over to the sane/nondiscriminatory place.

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this message brought to you by too much hagaren fic:

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:21:28 GMT

"the blonde"? Is a girl. I can tell, because you spelled that descriptor in the feminine way. Words that are also not ungendered: fiance/fiancee, confidant/confidante. Get the picture? I keep feeling like I've accidentally wandered into Elric genderswap fic - not that there's anything wrong with that.

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for a cold night

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:48:00 GMT

Carl Sandburg ~ Snow

Snow took us away from the smoke valleys into white mountains, we saw velvet blue cows eating a vermillion grass and they gave us a pink milk.

Snow changes our bones into fog streamers caught by the wind and spelled into many dances.

Six bits for a sniff of snow in the old days bought us bubbles beautiful to forget floating long arm women across sunny autumn hills.

Our bones cry and cry, no let-up, cry their telegrams:
More, more—a yen is on, a long yen and God only knows when it will end.

In the old days six bits got us snow and stopped the yen—now the government says: No, no, when our bones cry their telegrams: More, more.

The blue cows are dying, no more pink milk, no more floating long arm women, the hills are empty—us for the smoke valleys—sneeze and shiver and croak, you dopes—the government says: No, no.

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a blaze of light in every word

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:32:29 GMT

aaaand papers are away! No more class for the semester, just an online exam on Monday. Whoo!

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my SG Rarepair fic

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:15:45 GMT

Carry

Sam/Daniel, PG, 2,095 words. prompt: I can't carry it, but I can carry you and it as well. Daniel-whumping, scary-alien-artifacts-made-them-make-out. Kinda-sorta a Lord of the Rings fusion – I couldn't resist, with that prompt.

but I can carry you

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progress report

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:11:26 GMT

Have broken a thousand words on yuletide story; go me! I even think that most of them are pretty, functional words. It helps that I've been daydreaming this fic out in my little pockets of spare time, so that I really have a concrete idea where it's going. At least for now.

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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:27:30 GMT

thanks to whoever gave me the pretty snowflake!

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Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:57:09 GMT

Oh my god MLA 2009 is going to make me tear my hair out. I keep fumbling, inputting the key commands for underline and then getting all messed up. Also, I fail to see the point of distinguishing between journal articles on paper or via jstor - it's the same rutting article either way. And, using that frame, how exactly does one draw up a general bibliography of things one has not actually read, but might read someday?

It can't possibly be this complicated.

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eff it.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:14:30 GMT

I'm really ready for Joss Whedon to stop talking about Dollhouse, because every time he does I want to smack him with a stick that says "rape is not sex."

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meme!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:01:09 GMT

My lotesse brings all the boys to the yard
and they're like
it's better than yours.

Which song was this lyric from?

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things what need doing:

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:22:55 GMT

-Draft of first term paper complete, revised a couple of times
-Work desperately needed on research prospectus for the second; momentum lacking
-Yuletide canon in need of consumption stat.

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whether or no

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:39:48 GMT

Reading about hobbits again. Why do i put myself through this? they never fail to make me cry a deal too much. But then again, they also make me happier than anything at the same time. Odd little paradoxical things. I just can't seem to resist them - they pull at me so. With their love and devotion and stubbornness and silly small ways of thinking about things. <3 <3 <3.

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phew. now I don't have to.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:37:40 GMT

Jezebel says everything I wanted to say about Twilight fandom, and about leaving babyfen alone with their squee.

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