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Woot, weekend trifecta! I met three of my goals this weekend: to write fic, to get in a decent run, and to make awesome stuff in the kitchen. Here is the fic:

.sga: The night before book club (John/Rodney) PG13
A snippet from an AU dogeared and I tossed around a while ago, wherein Rodney joins a book group in order to get some action. (It was an act of desperation, we think.) You can find it here, with some other awesome stuff from Cate's sammich/beds/making out fest.

.spn: Run on (Dean/Castiel) NC17
Another AU snippet, something else that Melface and I thought about. In it, Castiel and Dean are on the run from evil corporate-types, and all that adrenaline and tension has to go somewhere, finally. Here is where it goes, specifically. Written for Porn Battle VIII.

( the run and the food )

I decided to sign up for Sweet Charity this time around, which is a good thing, because alas this is the last time :( (See the comm for details). This is also the first time I think I've done a charity-driven event before, so I'm a bit nervous... But hey, it's for good, yes? I've decided to offer both fic and art, as separate auctions, and here are teh detailz:

FIC
I will write for you, the winning bidder, a fic of the length of your choosing (up to 20,000 words if you want it by July 1, but my mental and plotting capacities do not go much beyond 20,000 anyway). As my tags indicate, I will write in SGA, SPN, or Merlin, in canon or AU as you desire, and will gladly write crossovers if I know the other fandom you want to write in. I am most comfortable with slash and some het, or gen as follows:

SGA: John/Rodney, Teyla/Ronon, gen
SPN: Dean/Castiel; Dean, Sam, Castiel gen
Merlin: Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Morgana, gen

ART
I will produce for you, the winning bidder, a certain number of pieces of fannish graphic art, depending on the agreement we come to. Most of my art these days is large: wallpapers, standalone art, headers, and short graphic-based fics (up to 4-5 pages), mostly, although I can do icons as well. So, our final agreement may be, say, five icons and a header, or a pair of walls, or one graphic-based fic.

My graphical fandoms and inspirations these days are SGA, SPN, and Merlin, especially John and Rodney, Dean, Castiel, and Merlin/Arthur-centric stuff. My tools are Photoshop CS4 and my awesome drawing tablet.

For examples of my art, check out my art tags at my LJ (http://aesc.livejournal.com/tag/) or else my graphics community, http://discolore.livejournal.com for icons and resources.

Unless I do art for bigbangs this year, I'm not otherwise participating in anything over the summer, and I'll need something to keep me busy and out of trouble. And all of YOU out there should totally sign up; let's have this last SC go out with awesomeness \o/

Also, ficlet link! The maybe-start of an SPN noir AU, featuring P.I.!Castiel and femme fatale (stress on the fatale) Dean: untitled noirish bit of something.


Now that it is finally sunny, I am going to take my black dog to the park.

<--check out Mr. Nigel Murray there. He is WISE, my friends, wise like a crazy owl. In fact, he totally knew the answers to the five things meme, as posed by insight2.

( Finn, Uriel, language, fleeces, and Moleskines! )

In fannish news: I wroted a drabble for the deancastiel drabble fire challenge, Secretum secretorum (The Secret of Secrets), featuring Dean, Castiel, and the Impala ♥

Also, I will confess to watching a few episodes of Merlin. So far, I am prepared to grant that Merlin is adorable (aside from the hair, oh my god please change the hair), Gwen is lovely, and Arthur needs a swift kick in the pants. Also, it is not as boring as 99% of the Arthurian stuff I've been exposed to in my life... Probably this is a bad thing for a medievalist to admit, but most Arthurian literature puts me to sleep. The majority of the Morte Darthur makes me catatonic, except for the part where Lancelot gropes the open, bleeding wounds of an injured knight. Heh heh heh, wound-groping.

In other news: To quote the BBC Pride and Prejudice, "Damn tedious waste of an evening!" I had to go out for drinks tonight, which is usually not bad, but this time it was because I didn't know anyone outside of two people, and all the people I didn't know happened to be Law and Business Students. We had nothing to talk about and very little in common. ("So... you want to research medieval literature, huh?" "You're trying to get a job as an investment banker in this economy, huh?") So, I had a glass of wine, made one of the people I knew very sorry he had asked me to come, and left.

Also, all the cretins were out on the road tonight. WTF is up with that? I arrived at the bar red-faced with shouting unheard threats, advice, and curses at the morons I encountered on the way.

First, thank you to all those who commented on and enabled my weirdness re: Aretha Franklin's hat on Friday. ILU FANDOM.

Second, I wrote a couple of wee ficlets today!

Supernatural (PG13) John/Rodney | ~830 words
[AU, set after "The Eye"] Written for mcsmooch. John is a _____ and Rodney is a ______. (And this, as they say, is a fic of crack.) A bit out of my usual way: I DID IT EVEN THOUGH AMBER THOUGHT I WOULDN'T HA HA HA!

What Is Next to Godliness (NC17) Dean/Castiel | ~500 words
Written for PORN BATTLE VII over at oxoniensis. I picked "laundry," because for some reason I have a fondness for laundromat/laundry room sex0rs. Don't ask me why: Angels have victory sex too?

In other news: I've realized that all my story ideas start coming right when I really need to get back to work. Unfair.

.eta: One of the most adorable ficlets I have ever ever ever read, oh my god ♥♥♥ dogeared is made of wonderful things!

It just occurred to me that one of the things on my Backlog of Stuff is linking to things what I wrote and arted over the past two months. So, here they are:

[fic] Faith Healing (John/Rodney PG13) ~11,800 words
An AU for temaris's sga_santa present! I completely blanked on a halfway decent title for it, which was idiotic, because the story had two sources I knew (Moby's remix of "Run On" and The Band's "WS Walcott Medicine Show") and one which I had completely forgotten until I saw it the other day (Supernatural ep "Faith," which features faith healing in a muddy field in southern Nebraska.)

Anyway, the story gave me hell but it's posted and here it is, with safe planets and Asgard and the Trust and Rodney's horrible, horrible roadtrip with Lorne, and, of course, John: Faith Healing.

[art] Arbor (Teyla, gen PG13)
Art done for siriaeve's Teyla!fic as part of artword's Astronomy challenge. She does write an awesome Teyla, you guys, srsly. There's team, too, but a lot of team through her eyes: Arbor.

The art is a cover, and sort of an experiment in how to do coloring with brushes and not have a decent drawing tablet. I desaturated the image of Teyla and recolored it in places using splotchy brushes of various persuasions... It took a bit, but it came out okay, I think.

Hurray, I finally surmounted my previously insurmountable lameitude and wrote something! Written for and posted at sga_flashfic for the Comfort Challenge:

.A Story Involving Blankets (~1,660)
Rodney doesn't say the obvious, for once, which is that agrop were native to Sateda, and that probably only Satedans would appreciate a comforter stuffed with the feathers of a poisonous bird.

That's right, the agrop gets a mention! See the agrop! tag for further details.

In other news: I start yoga tomorrow! And I finally located my bicycle pump, so I can start riding to school again and not relying on roommates who do not turn on their damned phone to coordinate driving schedules.

Also, sgabigbang is starting up its review/DVD commentary/promotion event for September. I thought about posting, except... what the hell would I have to say about my stuff? :/ And, you know, who would read it? If anything, I'm more inclined to talk about the art for cathalin than my own story, which I still haven't assimilated in my own head.

.Where the Light Is (John/Rodney) ~5,700
Written for artword's Illustrative Typography challenge. sanami276 did the art for it, and it rocks like wow!



"What would you do if you were free?" Johnny asks, looking out the window onto Afghanistani desert. John follows his gaze out, tries not to think about gravity and the physics of being tied down.

.Nevermind (John/Rodney PG) ~1,500 + art
I was lucky enough to write for the very awesome and talented newkidfan for this month's Reversed challenge at artword, and believe me when I tell you her art will blow you away. And thank you thank you to dogeared for making sure the writing is not entirely nonsensical *smooch* (And for those of you who are interested in artword but didn't have a chance/weren't able to participate last month, the new challenge starts soon! Look for it!)

Because the piece is very image-heavy, the link takes you to a preload page ♥

The last time he lost someone behind enemy lines, John had a single helicopter to get him back. This time he has a warship.

.eta: For a few billion reasons (pollen, allergies to said pollen, having to work in the garden anyway otherwise we will be growing prize weeds), I'm having a terrible, "wow do I feel like shit in more ways than one" morning. And I haven't read it yet because I want to wait for the Zyrtec to work (oh please dear god work), but I know THIS is going to be awesome and will help me feel better. It is beeej's Bar Harbour AU, and I have been praying for wojelah or someone to write it because OMG OMG OMG IT MAKES ME JOYFUL.

For reasons of economy:

1: Written for mcsmooch: Office Hours (John/Rodney, Restoration Hardware AU), in which we learn that Rodney's second base is comprehensively stolen.

2: THEY ARE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. Our fandom brings the crack, and it is good.

3: Because some of you seemed to like it, more Beokitteh, the next twenty-eight lines or so, cut for length.

( Thar wuz big boat on teh beachez (not failboat)/all icy n stuffs, pimped out liek woah! )

In other news: I don't know why I haven't done this before now, but I downloaded Trillian, so I'm reliably aesc36 on MSN, Yahoo, and AIM.

Eclipse (~1,000 words) John/Rodney
Nantucket AU

Just a quiet little piece for tonight's lunar eclipse!

Boston is only a suggestion on the other side of the horizon, city lights not quite able to stretch fluorescent fingers this far out. John wades through the sand, the heavy pull of it on his feet, and stays close to Rodney who's too busy looking up.