Aletheia

and I'm trying to cut down this OT3/OT5 drabble down from 171 words to 150 words instead.

I know, I should be reading my F-list instead, AMIRITE?

I skipped Merlin 2X08 and watched 2X09, because if IMO even the 2X08 _preview_ is OOC, how bad would the episode itself be? D: D: D:

ETA 11/28/09: I should clarify re: 2X08's OOC-ness: ( 2X08 SPOILERS, just in case )

My super-short 2X09 reaction: ( 2X09 SPOILERS )

'kay, should go back and join the rest of humankind in celebration. *waves* Happy belated thanksgiving! Hope your turkey was wayyyy better than mine.

Three crossovers:

1. Like an Onion Inside Out (The Doctor, the Queen, and the TARDIS Remix) by spiralleds
(Narnia/Doctor Who, The Doctor/Susan Pevensie, PG-13)
Summary: Sometimes endings are just the beginning.
Spoilers: Inclusive of the entire Chronicles and through series 4 of the new Doctor Who.
Warning: character deaths, talking animals

Author's meta

Includes Nine, Ten and Thirteen. And it WORKS. Also, even though it's character death, it's Narnia, after all =3

2. Congrats, You've Met Your Match (The Space Captain Remix) by roga
(ST:XI/SGA, Kirk/Sheppard, R, 3000 words)

Ridiculously hot even without the sex. The original reads as the missing sex scene ;-)

3. Ten Synonyms for Sensational (The Dragon/TARDIS Overdub) by nopejr (Doctor Who/HP, Ten, Draco Malfoy, PG)
Summary: The Doctor pouted. Draco wasn't impressed.

Cuuuuuute *_* And funny. With fanartzes!

And three non-crossovers:

1. Still Waters (Hypothetically Speaking Extended Dub) by cimness [LJ]
(ST:XI, gen, mentioned Spock/Uhura, implied Kirk/Spock, PG)

Author's meta

The original is an always-a-girl!Spock genderbend. The remix is Jim's pov, and his finding out (via his slutty ways myriad charms) that Spock is practically royalty. I love how the remix shows the differences of the Kirk/Spock dynamic when Spock's male instead of female.
tl;dr: Am deeply impressed, read it!

2. Art Appreciation (Boxed Wine and Crackers, or the Decline of Public Funding, Remix) by eyebrowofdoom (Smallville, Clark/Lex, PG)
Summary: If you can do this, you must be morally old enough for a drink.
Spoilers/Warnings: adult themes.

Leeeeeex, you're so cute. Only Lex would have a fantasy life as a starving art student X-D

O/T: In other news, Michael Rosenbaum's Adina/Adam is the only 3-D character in Sorority Boys. I wasn't expecting anything but a stereotypical slapstick comedy (w/ bonus crossdressing Rosenbaum!), so his acting really impressed me =D (believable character, inner conflict, repress repress repress, deny deny deny)
Also, he looks SO YOUNG in that movie.

3. Free Range Subjects (The Scientific Method Remix) by suaine
(Merlin, Merlin/Arthur, R)
Summary: No one ever said science was easy, and alien scientists are only human, after all.
Spoilers and/or Warnings: non-con (an alien made them do it)

It's an AMTDI fic from the aliens' pov =DDD \o/

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

1.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. [...] Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you've ever had them. [...]

Fandom is love for characters you didn't create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn't create. [...]

Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak. [...]

Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

--hesychasm's "in lieu of life."

♥ Hard to not c & p the whole thing *_*

2.

"I'M BRILLIANT. MORE MILK, MORE MILK! NOW SCOWL, I WANT FIERCENESS. GROWL AT THE MILK! HATE THE MILK! GRIMACE! I'M SUCH AN EPIC ARTIST I SHOULD JUST CHOP MY EAR OFF NOW"

-- ifyouweremine channeling the photographer of that video of milk being "flung suggestively" at Zachary Quinto X-D

...you'll have to watch it yourself. I recommend the "I'm Too Sexy" alternate soundtrack. (The milkshake thing is overdone, really.)

ETA 06/01/09: Icon made by zed_pm on my request >=D /o/ \o\ \o/

3.

Mr. Spock [...] holds the valid belief that he shares a bloodline with Mr. Holmes. The relationship at first seemed easy to explain; While Mr. Spock exhibits the physical characteristics and upbringing of his native planet Vulcan, he is in fact half human. His mother, Amanda (neé Grayson) was American, but the name Grayson is of English extraction.

[...]

[T]he Graysons can only trace their family back as far as Professor Jeremy Grayson of Boston in the year 2045. Spock cannot know, then, that his mother's family tree includes a Holmesian branch. At this point, we have eliminated one possibility: the only other one, that Spock gets his Sherlockian ancestry from his father's side, must by Spock's and Holmes' own rule be true. But this is an audacious possibility, because we know from Spock's World that the marriage between Spock’s father Sarek and Amanda Grayson was the first interracial marriage between human and Vulcan, and that genetic engineering was needed to produce Spock. If Holmes was Spock's ancestor, then, it follows that Holmes was a Vulcan.

--Scott, David M. "Sherlock Holmes: Visitor to a Small Planet"

Not only does Spock descend from Sherlock Holmes, he's related to Dick Grayson, twelve years old >=D Oh wait, actually it's not a good thing to share Nightwing's genes.
Genetic engineering --> Spock ~ Conner Clark Luthor? X-D

(Or, lilian_cho's criteria for favourite characters)

Question: What do these characters have in common?

Draco Malfoy [Harry Potter]
Robert Chase [House, M.D.]
Val Toreth [The Administration series]
Lex Luthor [Smallville]
Arthur Pendragon [BBC Merlin]

Answer: ( privileged prat with daddy issues )

In conclusion, Arthur is not enough of a prat to qualify as my favourite character. Sorry Arthur, I love Merlin more. But I like Bradley better than Colin =P
And awesomely enough, there's BradleyJames/Merlin fanfic out there \o/

(X-posted @ IJ)

(...and AUs Have I Loved)

No matter which fandom it is, I always have a soft spot for well-written AU fics.

There's the medic!Merlin-and-crownprince!Arthur contemporary fic (Merlin),
the Wooster-is-a-girl fic (Jeeves and Wooster),
the Hikaru-is-a-Private-Eye fic (Hikaru no Go),
the Roy-is-the-Elric-brothers'-slave fic (Full Metal Alchemist),
the Tezuka-and-Fuji-own-a-brothel-in-ancient-Japan fic (Prince of Tennis)...

- the one in which Aziraphale and Crowley are Ezra and Tony, two Jewish h00manz:

Ordinary People by daegaer

I also adore daegaer's WW1!Crowley fics. She also opened up the possibilities of Hastur/Ligur for me >=D

- the one in which Lex Luthor has numerous superhero identities:

Elseworlds (or Five Secret Identities Lex Luthor and Clark Kent Never Had) by bagheera_san
Part One: Old Friends (Xavier!Lex & Magneto!Kal-El)
Part Two: Two Sides Of A Coin (Two-faced!Lex i.e. w00bie ;_;)
Part Three: I Shall Become (Batman!Lex, Nightwing/Robin!Clark)
Part Four: Escape Velocity (Flash!Lex)

bagheera_san also wrote a GreenLantern!Lex snippet.

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Anyway, I've been hankering for some HP fanfic that's SRSLY AU for days now. I'm gulping down lomonaaeren's Inter Vivos but it's nowhere enough to appease my AU yearnings.
Serious AU, folks, not just this EWE business. You're not going to let me resort to reading Saving Connor, are you? D:

There's my BoyWhoLived!Draco plotpanda, but it's not the same when it's the product of one's own brain. Besides, the notebook in which my dracolives notes live is currently MIA *makes sad faces*

Any AU fic? Preferably Draco-centric? *shakes fandom hopefully* Please?

(X-posted @ IJ)

First, Clark was not completely, 100% heterosexual, contrary to prior evidence, which included some truly pathetic behavior on Lex’s part. Thus, Clark had rejected Lex himself, not Lex’s equipment. Lex actually felt himself moving through Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial (she can’t be right; she’s never met Clark’s boyfriend; there’s no actual reason to think he has a boyfriend—except for what Clark says about his boyfriend’s eyes, moron), anger (wondering how hard it would be to run the Kent farm into the ground and get Clark kicked out of school), bargaining (maybe he’s changed his mind and would like me now), depression (Dad was right; no one could genuinely want me, and certainly no one like Clark), and finally acceptance (a mélange of all these feelings, with a thin candy coating of calm).

1. Read rivkat's "Rainbow Sign" (Smallville, Clex) and her DVD commentary =DDD

2. Months and months ago, rivkat wrote "No Such AU" (Clex) for my Thief!Lex prompt. It ended up being Spy!Lex, but close enough!

3 a. mahaliem wrote this hilarious Clex drabble: "A Cherry"

3 b. and Things I Love About Smallville - Post 4 (Warning for b00bies and nekkid Lex chest)

(X-posted @ IJ)

It's been 1.25 year since my last drabble meme, and I'm inspired by somigliana and gelsey to do another one of sorts.

Give me a character and a fairy tale/folklore. The first 10 people who respond get a drabble/flopsy/ficlet/fic (because I'm unpredictable that way).
In return, they have to rec me a post-DH/alternate-DH/AU fic where Snape lives. Snape doesn't have to be the main character, as long as he lives/cheats death. Self-plugs are totally fine. And no, Snarry doesn't count.

I'll write for Harry Potter, Good Omens, Smallville, Fruits Basket/Furuba and Full Metal Alchemist . Or choose from one of my original WIPs (Angels Abide, santa_olivia or Ephemeral Garden)--an explanation of what they're about will be provided if requested.

(BTW, no need to request Draco & Rapunzel and Harry & Bluebeard because those are already in the works.)
*attempts to be all mysterious* *fails*

The 10 requests mentioned above are for gelsey, somigliana and eight other people. I make no promises as to when I'll get around to writing this. If it's done within a year, you're lucky (As gelsey can attest...)

( Five slots left )

Idea started by slumber:

Write drabbles for fandoms you know only from your F-list!
Those issuing the challenge should reciprocate.

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slumber challenged me to write a Gossip Girl drabble.
Am going to write smth involving Draco Nate and Theodore Chuck.

I challenged her to write: wee!Lex in Batman pajamas making "Vroom vroom" noises as he plays with a faithful replica of the Batmobile.
I told her to "Just think of kid!Lex as Draco with red hair and a history geek."

Am reposting her fabulous answer here because it's F-locked on her LJ:

"A Luthor Christmas" (PG, 200 words)

( A Luthor Christmas, PG, 200 words )

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1. I threw my hat in with other hd_worldcup hopefuls here. I'm v. v. excited =DDD Three pages and 70+ applicants already! (Applications are open until January 10, then lottery.)

2. Also signed up for hp_april_fools here. It's a fest where authors draw and artists write *g* Finally smth to force me to post drawing on the Internetz. (Sign-ups open until January 21.)

3. This week's writing_game is here!

Did this last year, had loads of fun =D

Summarize/give vague clues to 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see who can guess each fandom.

(Clue: One is a book, two are TV fandom, three are books-turned-into-movies, four are manga/anime.)

1. Caress a cheek, kiss a man, watch your best friend turn evil. Smallville guessed by fleurdeliser.

2. Beautiful hair sacrificed for a baseball cap and bruises. Prince of Tennis guessed by anyotherknight.
Old clue: Boys playing with balls. Bared midriffs and boy bonding.

3. Blond brat hooks up with martyr-turned-bitch. House, M.D. guessed by ruien.

4. Every parental figure died except for future in-laws. Harry Potter guessed by ruien.
Old clue: Stalkee turns into stalker. Slashing (literally) happens.

5. A boy chasing a boy chasing a ghost chasing a game. Hikaru no Go guessed by ruien.
Old clue: Black v. White. Eternal Rivals. Purple-lipsticked ghost.

6. Born a brunette, bottle blond accidentally turned into a redhead.. Howl's Moving Castle guessed by nekare.

7. Magic is powered by deaths in another world. Full Metal Alchemist guessed by kyouke_no_miko.
Old clue: Mother. Angst. Brother. Angst. Father. Angst. "OMG(O__o)The Gate! The Gate!"

8. The saga begins with rings, lakes and an apple tree. Narnia (Magician's Nephew) guessed by ruien.
Old clue: Tamed sexual predator in red scarf. Brothers and sisters as Kings and Queens.

9. Three years’ training to save a teammate. Naruto guessed by kyouke_no_miko.
Old clue: Must kill most important person to obtain cool red eyes. Fishcake, fan, cherry blossom.

10. Centuries old acquaintance turned companionship turned friendship. Musical chair with babies.. Good Omens guessed by ruien.
Old clue: Primates high on happy gas. Book worship and car worship.