The Tradëscan Codex

x. RAH -- World-as-Myth multiverse, Lapus Lazuli Long/Lorelai Lee Long**
x. RS+RAW -- The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy, Miss Portinari
x. The Neverending Story Trilogy (movies), Bastian Bux/Nicole/Childlike Empress
x. The Neverending Story (book), Childlike Empress/Xayide
x. FHB -- A Little Princess, Sara Crewe/Becky
x. Ultimate X-Men, Kitty Pryde/Jean Grey/Charles Xavier
x. Ultimate Spiderman, Kitty Pryde/Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson/Jessica Drew
x. Spider-Man <3's Mary Jane, Mary Jane Watson/Gwen Stacey/Liz Allen/Felicia Hardy
x. Spider-Man <3's Mary Jane, Mary Jane Watson/Gwen Stacey/Liz Allen/Lindsay Leighton
x. GBS -- Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle/Clara Eynsford-Hill
x. GBS -- Man and Superman, Violet Whitfield/Anna Whitfield
x. RPF, Joss Whedon/Summer Glau
x. GO -- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Julia
x. Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, Carmen Sandiego/the Player
x. OSC -- Ender's Game, Peter Wiggin/Valentine Wiggin
x. The Parent Trap (1999), Hallie Parker/Annie James*
x. My Summer of Love, Mona/Tamsin/Phil/Sadie
x. The Truman Show, Truman Burbank/Sylvia
x. The Secret Garden (musical), Mary Lennox/Neville Craven*
x. MT -- Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer/Mary/Becky Thatcher
x. WS -- As You Like It, Celia/Rosalind/Touchstone
x. WS -- The Taming of the Shrew, Kate/Bianca
x. Into the Woods, Cinderella/Baker
x. D.E.B.S., Janet
x. Gray Matters, Gray Baldwin/Sam Baldwin/Charlie Kelsey
x. Winter Passing, Reese Holden/Shelly
x. KDW -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Emma Jane Perkins/Rebecca Rowena Randall
x. KDW -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Jane Sawyer/Miranda Sawyer
x. Beautiful Girls, Marty/Willy Conway
x. GCW -- The Boxcar Children, Henry/Violet/Jessie
x. Legally Blonde, Elle Woods/Vivian Kensington
x. Brides of Christ, Sister Catherine/Sister Paul
x. Brides of Christ, Rosemary Fitzgerald/Frances Heffernan/Brigid Maloney
x. Brides of Christ, Rosemary Fitzgerald/Lucy Mulcady
x. Sunshine Cleaners, Rose Lorkowski/Nora Lorkowski

*Written for me in Yuletide.
**Written for me in Yuletide as a Yuletide treat.

April

No fic. :(

May

Unfulfilled. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Savannah. In 2016, Savannah quizzes John about the future. NWS.

Substitution Rule. The Parent Trap, Annie/OMC, Hallie/OMC. Annie isn't nearly as fond of boys as Hallie is. NWS. Warning: rape via impersonation.

Confirmation Hearing. Veronica Mars, gen, Veronica & Mac & Keith. Cindy Mackenzie showed up to her best friend and boss's confirmation hearings with her hair dyed pink. Sequel to The Art of the Possible. WS.

June

Master and Commander. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Allison. John thought he knew how to be a soldier. WS.

Title: Master and Commander
Fandom: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Timeline/Spoilers: "Born to Run."
Rating: Largely worksafe. Mentions of sex.
Summary: John thought he knew how to be a soldier.

( Master and Commander )

My stories are here, categorized by universe/fandom. Or you can find them categorized by genre, or even (for my more commonly-written fandoms) character--just see the sticky post at the top of my DW/LJ.

I wrote the stories the way I wanted them, given the time and effort and skill I had available to me at the time.

Now go and make one (or more) of them yours. Seriously, I've always said (with a caveat for yuletide, but that's neither here nor there) that it was more important that someone assigned me in a 'thon write something true to her vision then something I'd enjoy. I hold to that.

With whom do you ship me?I don't mind people ending clauses with prepositions (because it's totally not wrong, and never has been wrong, Dryden and pedantic schoolteachers notwithstanding) but I do sort of mourn the impending death of "whom."

I still need a beta for my SCC John/Savannah/Allison threesome fic, under 3,000 words, NWS, and spoilerly for "Born to Run." I'm still looking for all types of help--spelling, grammar, characterization, canon consistency, pacing, plotting, prose, theme, imagery, race- and gender-fail, girl/boy parts not working that way, etc. One person doesn't necessarily have to be able to do all of that themself, though.

I've actually been hard at work on it since the last time I asked for a beta for it; there were a couple of paragraphs still not written at that point and figuring out something thematically appropriate to put there proved to be a lot harder and to take me a lot longer than I had expected.

I have two main bodies of concern for the fic: about its thematic unity and organicity, and also about whether the sex I describe is, y'know, something real human beings might successfully attempt.

As an alternative, anyone know a good place I could go looking for a SCC beta?

(And the plain John/Savannah fic will need a beta soon as well, but that too still needs just a little bit of work.)

I've finished two SCC fics that need beta-ing. One is John/Savannah and one is John/Savannah/Allison. They're each about 2600 words, both NWS, and both spoilerly for "Born to Run." All types of help--spelling, grammar, characterization, canon consistency, pacing, plotting, prose, theme, imagery, girl parts not working that way, boy parts not working that way (hey, virgn here)--would be really helpful, although those last two would be really helpful for the threesome fic. Having to think about positions and stuff is surprisingly hard, even with the charts I made.

Gakked from anonymous_sibyl: Name your 15 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

Now, this list of 15 is incredibly dependent on my mood at the moment and is shaped by certain agendas I might not hold at a different moment (trying not to make the list too obscure, trying to make it obscure enough, etc.) as well as what I happened to think of this morning while brainstorming. A different day would have yielded a different list. It's less a list of my 15 favorite pairings of all time (although certainly at least a couple of pairings on this list would make it onto that one) than it is an intuitively-put-together representative sampling of what right now I feel to be my 'shipping zeitgeist, without trying to too deliberately weight the list to ensure certain results.  (I mean, I could come up with 15 'cest pairings I ship, easily. But I didn't. I mean, Cuckoocest isn't even on this list.) And it's not representative of what I actually read or write, either--note just how much of this list is het rather than femslash.

1. Mal Reynolds/Kaylee Frye, Firefly/Serenity
2. Spike/Drusilla, Buffy/Angel
3. Tess Doerner/Kevin Burkhoff, The 4400
4. Annie James/Hallie Parker, The Parent Trap
5. John Connor/Cameron Philips, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
6. Peter Wiggins/Valentine Wiggin, Ender's Game
7. Cindy Mackenzie/Madison Sinclair, Veronica Mars
8. Kitty Pryde/Emma Frost, Astonishing X-Men
9. Sooraya Qadir/Laura Kinney, New X-Men
10. Joss Whedon/Summer Glau, RPF
11. Lapus Lazuli Long/Lorelei Lee Long, RAH's World-as-Myth
12. Kara Zor-El/Barbara Gordon, DC Comics
13. Kitty Pryde/Peter Parker, Ultimate X-Men
14. John Connor/Savannah Weaver, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
15. Seven of Nine/the EMH, Star Trek: Voyager

So, what trends do you notice about my couples?

Title: Confirmation Hearing
Fandom: Veronica Mars
Characters: Veronica Mars, Cindy Mackenzie, Keith Mars
Rating: WS
Word Count: 432-ish
Summary: Cindy Mackenzie showed up to her best friend and boss's confirmation hearings with her hair dyed pink. A brief follow-up to my "Senator Mars" futurefic, The Art of the Possible.

( Confirmation Hearing )

At the first merlinnyc I was encouraged by archaeologist_d and others to write Merlin/Arthur dual-mpreg. I began making some notes, but honestly? This is so not ever actually getting written (although I am open to bribes). I have, however, typed up my notes in case you're interested. (This is not what my first drafts typically look like.)

( Read more... )

And then when Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic, he wants Merlin to use it to abort the fetuses, but Merlin won't because it's past the quickening and he's pro-life.

For reference: ( images, spoilery for 'Born to Run' )

1. I signed up for the Anonymous Writing Feedback Meme; you can find me here.

THE ANONYMOUS WRITING FEEDBACK MEME

2. I have, I think, three DW invites if anyone needs them.

3. So, Dollhouse was renewed and TSCC cancelled. I really can't think of anything to say other than I look forward to more Whedon and mourn the seasons of Terminator which could have been. (And it looks like the temporal mechanics in the new movie make no sense, which would add insult to injury.) I'm glad it never came to me to have to choose between the two; I don't think I would have been able to do it.

I hope the fandom generates much fic for many years to come though; I really need my fix. Stupid Fox.

Title: A Night to Remember (3/?)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Xander, Faith, Kennedy, Dawn, and OC's
Summary: Madelyn Summer's prom night.

( A Night to Remember, 3/? )

Title: A Night to Remember(2/?)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Xander, Faith, Kennedy, Dawn, and OC's, including Madelyn
Summary: Madelyn goes to her prom at St. Clare's. Cleveland being a Hellmouth, plot happens. Also, porn.

Continued from the first part.

( A Night to Remember, 2/? )

Title: A Night to Remember
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Xander, Faith, Kennedy, Dawn, and loads of OC's, including Madelyn and Fr. Marcus
Pairings: Madelyn/Xander, Faith/Kennedy, Dawn/Giles, and a lot of teenage boys (and a few girls) lusting after teenaged girls
Summary: Buffy's daughter goes to the prom. Plot happens. So does porn. (Not in this section, though.)

( A Night to Remember, 1/? )

Title: Substitution Rule
Fandom: The Parent Trap (1999)
Pairings: Annie/OMC, Hallie/OMC, Annie/Hallie
Rating: NWS
Summary: Annie isn't nearly as fond of boys as Hallie is. Double drabble (200 words).
Warning: I don't know if we'd call this noncon or dubcon or what, but rape's under the cut. (Also implied incest, but I'm assuming you could work that out on your own.)

( Substitution Rule )

Title: Unfulfilled
Fandom: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Pairing: John/Savannah
Spoilers: "Born to Run."
Rating: NWS for language and sexual themes involving a 16-year-old.
Summary: In 2016, Savannah quizzes John about the future.

( Unfulfilled )

My BFF, ladyphoenixmage, has created an illustration to go with my XMM fic I'm Awfully Fond of You [audiofic versiona] (which is the fic that My Girlfriend is a Telepath, one of my all-time favorite fics, is a sequel to). It illustrates the scene where Bobby and Kitty are in the Danger Room fighting the giant holographic fire-breathing rubber duckie. (Why she picked that scene, who can say?) I'm particularly in love with Kitty's pony tail.

My fic has been illustrated. Wow, I feel like a BNF now.

John/Savannah has eaten my brain. As recently as a couple of weeks ago I was talking about how SCC was the only fandom I really had an OTP in, in that I was particularly invested in just that pairing and didn't like to think of the two characters apart (as opposed to using "OTP" in the looser sense of a ship I like. Some Thing to Watch Over Me, my John/Cameron/Riley fic, was totally my way of dealing with the fact of someone getting in between my OTP.

And now I find myself jettisoning John/Cameron for the sheer awesomeness which is John/Savannah (and John/Savannah/Allison). It's not really surprising why it appeals to me: obviously there's the disenfranchised-girl-pwning-the-universe kink, and it even holds some of that faux 'cestiness I love so much in John/Cameron.

dirty_diana: I'm not a Merlin person, but I checked out merlinrpf and it has 222 entries since creation last October. As RPF fandoms generally go, that seems pretty big to me. Edit: Not huge, but they probably won't qualify for Yuletide again.

musesfool: I guess the question is, then, are they interested in doing remix? And they need to come here and tell me that, if they are.

A gauntlet has been thrown down. Go here to rise to the challenge.

My RPF doesn't fall into any category that has any chance at all of becoming a qualifying fandom ("Jossverse RPF" is totally a yuletide fandom), but the idea that someone remixing one of my stories will have the option of remixing one of the RPF fics just fills me with squee. Because my RPF is pretty meta to begin with, so remixing it, retelling the story in a way that comments somehow on the original fic, would bring it to just truly insane levels of meta-ness, on par with The "All You Zombies" Remix of Incurable.

Remember this post, where I diagram the various timelines of T:tSCC? After "The Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter" and "Born to Run," it seemed like it was time to update the diagram. Below the cut is the new and improved (and very spoilery) diagram, with notes. As before, history-changing time travel is represented in red, causality loops in blue, indeterminate events in green, and Judgment Day in yellow. I've also added certain other major events in purple.

( spoilers for the entire Terminator film and TV franchise )

I don't quite understand all the fanresponses I've read that seem to assume that show canon can be one big, happy causality loop, and I find that pervasiveness of that perspective frustrating. (Even the Terminator Wiki tries to press everything together into one timeline.) The only way I can imagine that working is if everyone who came from the future--Kyle, the T-101's, Cameron, Derek, Jessie, Catherine--has been lying not only about the date of Judgment Day, but about pretty much everything. Which would be a serious break of contract with the viewer.

If we don't get a Season 3, I don't even know what we'll do.

Four years ago on this date, I created my LJ.

For some of the greatest hits of the Tradëscan Codex, see last year's LJ-versary post. For a comprehensive fannish biography of Alixtii O'Krul V, see my Fanlore user page.

For four years, this LJ has been an integral part of my life. Some of you I've even known longer than that, whether from the time I was reading LJ before creating a journal of my own, from the time I spent at FF.net or the City of Angel boards, or offline in high school or college. (ladyphoenixmage still wins the award, though, since I've known her over half my life.) I love you all and I thank you sincerely for bringing me so much porn joy these last four years. Here's for another four and beyond, whether here on LJ or on some other vehicle.

I do plan on getting a Dreamwidth account at the end of the month. This promises to be a time of heavy turmoil for me in my personal life, though, so I'm not sure how I'm going to use it. If I have the time, I'd like to create a filter on LJ for mutually friended friends who haven't navigated over so I can still read flocked posts, then read everyone else from over there while crossposting. But I might be forced to stay put out of necessity.

I've been spending some time lately re-reading some of the great chaptered fics I've encountered during my time in fandom, so I'm going to use this space for recs. These are all at least moderately long, plotty, and fun, with healthy helpings of the will-to-power. Some are pulpish with occasional lapses into OOC-ness; others really are deathless prose. They all always reward a re-read for me, though, so I thought I'd share the list as part of the anniversary celebrations. A lot of these count as classics, or at least should, but it's possible that not everybody knows about all of them.

( the list )

Today's also Good Friday, so here's a link to my Good Friday ficlet "Mystery." And here's the audiofic version.

trobadorahas an interesting post on biphobia in fanfiction that got me thinking:

In fanfic, all too frequently characters who have had heterosexual relationships are presented as gay and closeted. (Not bi and closeted.) In fannish squee, slashy subtext is generally welcomed as "gay". It hardly ever seems to allow for bisexuality.

1) This is so not my experience--but OTOH, I'm filtering it through het male privilege, so it could just be there and I'm not noticing it. I wondered if this could be an issue with m/m slash more than slash in the broadest sense, but trobadora said in response to nymphaea1's suggestion that bi invisibility in m/m fic could be a manifestation of misogyny that she saw femslashers "erasing men" (from canon characters' sexual lives, I'm assuming?), though. (And makes me think that I'm just not noticing what she's noticing, that I don't understand what was meant by "erasing.")

Can anybody on the flist think of femslash pairings where this sort of thing might happen?

2) Or this seems like it could be linked to OTP-ism. Since one of the common tropes of OTP-ism is that all relationships pale in comparison to the OTP, of course Character A's real sexuality can only be that which pairs them with B. Since all relationships with the gender B isn't are by definition lesser, than A can't really be attracted to that gender. It's stupid logic, but that's OTP-ism for you. And since I don't read OTP-y fic, it'd explain why the fic I read/write has bi characters, or at least characters engaged in queer acts while only being seen as het in canon without being explicitly labelled as something other than bi.

I wonder if this could be systematically studied? Read a bunch of OTP fics, then quantitate the bi visibility somehow, and then do the same for a bunch of rarepair fics. The only femslash OTP I read on a significant enough basis is in DWP, though, and I hadn't noticed that those fics erased Nate--just mocked and marginalized him (as well they should).

( 7 more thoughts )3) Most m/m or f/f fic I read/write is about queer acts more than queer experience--the love of A for B rather than A coming to terms with her sexuality. In the fic I read, characters don't struggle with their sexual identity--whether it be straight, gay, or bi--and homophobia is largely absent. That's part of the fantasy.

Queer acts between two cisgendered persons have to be either homosexual or heterosexual (am I missing something?); bisexuality only becomes relevant when characters begin putting themselves in boxes. Most (but not all) fic I read/write isn't about that. "My" Dawn is absolutely bi (other characters might have other identities, or it might depend on the fic, although most are bi), but I might not manage (or even try) to make that clear in a particular fic.

In WNG Femslash, I looked at the sexual identities of some of the charcters in my fic. And there are characters who, to me, have constant sexual identities. Whenever I write Dawn, she's bi. Whenever I write Willow, she's gay. Buffy's straight in my head unless I'm writing her in a femslash pairing. But does the fact that Amanda and Vi have sex in Just Skin and its sequel First Time's Not the End of the World mean they're gay or bi or straight or what? Hell if I know.

In military fandoms like SG1/SGA, DADT also makes an emphasis on the queer experience more necessary than it would be in, say, Buffy, I think.

4) Asking why people who are interested in writing about the queer experience might tend not to write characters as bi is certainly an interesting question. Indeed, out of the hundreds of stories I've written, most of them femslash, I consider one of them, My Girlfriend is a Telepath, to be about the queer experience--and yes, sure enough, bisexuality is never mentioned.

But then the word "gay" is only used once in the entire story, by Kitty's brother in the IM conversation which closes the fic:

rdwingzkikass: hey sis
arielsprite129: hey
rdwingzkikass: mom sez ur gay now?!1?
arielsprite129: i dunno. i guess. maybe.
rdwingzkikass: cool. B-]
rdwingzkikass: is she hot?

Similarly, the word "lesbian" is never mentioned either, although there are a couple uses of "dyke" by homophobic, mutant-phobic street hoodlums. So even in my story about the queer experience queerness as an identity is never utilized except from without--and every time it does, it's by objectifying males. It's a story about "repression and coming out," to use trobadora's words, but what is being released is not the knowledge that Kitty is bi or gay, but that she likes girls. Whether or not she likes boys never actually comes up. (Is that a sort of invisibility? I honestly don't know. If the deleted Bobby/Kitty kiss in X3 had been included in canon, would that have changed things? Possibly.)

While I'm sure there are cases of biphobia or mononormativity at work in some "coming out" stories, I'm not quite succeeding in imagining how the systemic process would work--which is probably a failure of imagination on my part. But there does seem to be enough of a pattern to assume that something systemic is going on. So I don't know.

5) It's not just my story; conversationally it's common to say "gay" and mean "queer," which adds to the problem. Fic often needs to be realistic about this or risks going into OOC territory; how would most canon characters refer to "not-straightness"? Which, yes, is a reflection of biphobia in the source text, which is a reflection of--and normalization of--biphobia in the real world. But I think trobadora's post may also be in part to actual uses of "gay" to mean "queer" on the parts of fans? (This problematic usage is probably common enough to not be nonstandard, unfortunately.)

6) How much is this linked to our sucky classificatory schema? I'm still trying to struggle with what was mean by "erasing" a gender. Femslash generally isn't about men; m/m slash isn't about women. Now obviously fics can and do contain both m/m and f/f pairings within the same fic, but the way our genre system leads us to think about a fic being either about a m/m pairing or about an f/f pairing or about a het pairing or about plot (i.e., gen) is extremely problematic, as I and others have argued at length before. Is this leading into bi invisibility in fic?

7) How is this related to who's writing the fic? We can explain bi and lesbian writers erasing women in m/m fic either as biphobia or as misogyny. Do we even need as complicated an explanation for the straight women who may be erasing women in m/m fic? And if I'm erasing men in my m/m, misandry strikes me as a more likely culprit than biphobia (but then I'm the worst person to judge, being me).

8) trobadora is right that WNG is less common than it used to be in the sense that you'll rarely find explicit denials that a m/m or f/f calls into question a character's straightness anymore. But I don't think the successor to WNG is a bunch of stories where the characters are explicitly gay--or if it is, then that's the second-wave successor while we're in the fourth wave or such. I think in a postmodern slash environment where everyone's potentially slashable, where there's probably an entire comm for Dumbledore/Sorting Hat, the old categories are just assumed to not apply anymore. And I think this is why biphobia and OTP-ism might go together, because with an OTP everyone's not potentially slashable; instead, it's something specific about those two characters. It's a more mordernist aesthetic.

Also, again, the existence of DADT exacerbates the problem in military fandoms--it makes the "not caring about sexual identities" thing literally impossible.

9) I find myself getting flummoxed by terminology, because straight != 100% straight, only ever attracted to the opposite gender. I'm not so much as agnostic as to whether 100% straight people exist as I find the very question to be a dangerous reification of the Kinsey scale: it assumes sexuality can be quantified, that we can possibly mean something by the English phrase "one hundred percent straight" when really, we can't. I find myself not wanting to homophobically deny my same-sex attraction but at the same time not acting like the fact I wouldn't turn down phone sex with David Tennant makes me bi--not because I don't want to be bi but because I'm just not, and I don't want to appropriate someone else's identity. (And this is true on the other side of the scale, too: is the assumption that all talk of gayness constitutes bi invisibility itself a medium of bi invisibility? Because obviously gay != 100% gay any more than straight = 100% straight.)

I'M GOING TO WRITERCON!

I managed to get a scholarship, which means I'll be going to Minneapolis. Which also means that now I have to take care of all the travel (although it looks like there might be reasonably priced flights out of Philly) and room arrangements (anyone still need a roommate?), but--writercon!!

January

Not Quite Queen of the Damned, Veronica Mars/Buffy crossover, probably WS. Faith and Vi hire Keith to investigate Phoenix Land Trust, Cassidy's old company. Is its business being conducted from beyond the grave? 6,000 words.

Spectres of Hope, Angel, Cordy/Wes/Gunn, NWS. Courtesy of Illyria, Wesley relives a moment with Gunn and Cordelia. 1,000 words.

You Just Can't Choose What She's Gonna Do, Angel, Connor/Faith/Spike, NWS. They're both fucking her, and each of them knows the other is fucking her and doesn't like it, but they both like their balls attached too much to try to tell Faith who she can and cannot sleep with. 1,000 words.

February

Silence, Buffy comicsverse, Buffy/Satsu, NWS. Sometimes words aren't needed; sometimes, they simply just aren't wanted. 800 words.

March

Some Thing to Watch Over Me, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Riley/Cameron/John, NWS. Termination is not an option, so Cameron must rely on other tactics to neutralize the threat Riley poses. 14,000 words.

Camp Camelot, Merlin (UK), Merlin/Arthur/Morgana/Gwen, NWS. American summer camp AU. There's not much to do for the counselors at Camp Camelot to amuse themselves once the campers get put to bed, but one night's strip poker game may end up having summer-long ramifications. 3,000 words.

( je suis loser )

So I spent the weekend doing MiniMerlin in Philly. Registration was just $20, and it was right there in Philly so I didn't have to pay for the hotel, so, yeah. $20 + $5 a day for the Speedline, to spend the weeking with thirty-something (that's quantity, not age) squeeing fangirls = Best. Deal. Ever.

( Friday )

( Saturday )

( Sunday )

So there's been this version of "Cliff, Shag, Marry" going around with surprisingly complicated rules:

1. Comment and I will give you the names of 3 fictional characters or celebrities.
2. Post this meme with your answers.
3. Provide pictures and the names of the three people.
4. Label which you would marry, shag, or cliff.

I got three lists of names, one list each from maechi, kindkit, and netgirl_y2k.

( ROUND ONE: Summer Glau, Dawn Summers, and Joss Whedon )

( ROUND TWO: Emma Frost, Buffy Summers, Hermione Granger )

( ROUND THREE: Dawn Summers, River Tam, Lucy Saxon  )

Comment if you want me to do you. Alternately, if you just want to play regular Cliff/Shag/Marry, leave the names of three characters.

( Random Quiz )

Title: Camp Camelot
Fandom: Merlin (UK)
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur/Morgana/Gwen
Summary: American summer camp AU. There's not much to do for the counselors at Camp Camelot to amuse themselves once the campers get put to bed, but one night's strip poker game may end up having summer-long ramifications.
A/N: Special thanks to peasant_ for a very useful beta.

( Camp Camelot )

So I'm watching Twilight on DVD, and it's exactly like everyone said. But I'm watching it with the subtitles on, as is my habit, and the music cues are just hilarious. It's all "OMINOUS THEME PLAYS" and "GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS."

Not even the subtitles in this movie are subtle.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Apparently, I am one of two people on the 'net to use the phrase "consent issues like whoa." (The other is balefully, referring to an episode of Supernatural.)

Saw Watchmen. Non-religion-related thoughts later, but ( spoiler? ) really shouldn't ( spoiler? ) during Lent, you know, if that's the ( spoiler? ) that's going to ( spoiler? )

(Now I feel like Stephanie Brown's jumping up and saying "Boo!" every couple of words in that last paragraph.)

And looking at my icon has reminded me that the summary to my fic Left Behind reads, "The women behind the Time Lords, annunciationless."