All the RomCom of Qi Xi

slashcast is looking for your fandom new year's resolutions. Instructions at the post on how do it!

Episode 25 is available for download. It's the Holiday One episode where we talk about all sorts of things like Fandom Giving Back, an interview with Astolat about Yuletide and plenty more. Go forth and download.

For the fourth year, I'm participating in the Southern Arizona AIDSWalk. If you wanted to donate, please go here. Any little bit helps. This year, your donations are going to support free HIV/AIDS Testing to everyone that comes to the event and wants to be tested in addition to expanding their version of Meals on Wheels for AIDS patients in Southern Arizona.

I'm on the team of one of my friends, Team Ti-To, which is named after her father and a family friend. Her family friend passed from AIDS while her father has been living with HIV since 1997. We're a small team and hoping a few more people from our circle of friends join us so all your support would be appreciated.

This is my first year of not walking with one of my dogs. Unfortunately, my dogs are simply too old to walk 5k. It's going to be weird not having to stop to pick up dog poop and almost get run over.

Anyway, shameless pimp to get you to donate here to help HIV/AIDS patients in Southern Arizona.

And for those in the area - if you were thinking of walking/attending/volunteering, please let me know! I'd love to connect with you!

Originally posted by emmagrant01 at Announcement! :-D



Woohoo! Wait until you see what's coming :D

I've just completed my listings for help_japan. If you are interested they are:

Star Trek Cross Stitch 1 and Star Trek Cross Stitch 2. Any pairing of cute little Star Trek guys accepted. Kirk/Gorn anyone?

Care package from Arizona.

Postcards for a year. If anyone on my flist wins this auction and/or anyone mentions to me that they saw my offer, I will make these postcards into an epistolary fic. Only fandoms/pairings I've written before (no snarry).

Fic of at least 1k.

Also - IDK who gave me paid LJ time anonymously but I love you for it and if you feel like revealing yourself, I'd love to say thanks personally. <3

Humanity has officially jumped the shark.

( embedded video under the cut )

If anyone ever shows up in that, I want photographs.

auction 1 and auction 2 for cross-stitched Star Trek characters for help_nz. They look cute framed! If someone on my flist wins one of these auctions for over 25 american bucks, I'll toss in a fic* with it. *of pairings/fandoms I've already written with the exclusion of Snarry because I love you, DJ, but I don't love you that much :P

I'm also offering a a care package from Arizona.

Fry's did not go well. My ankle hurts.

I'm going to the wild wild west steampunk con this weekend (at least, Saturday). It should be amazing. Where better to have a steampunk convention than at an authentic wild west filming location that also features the train from in that awful Will Smith movie of the same name?

I've signed up for help_nz here.

They won't be long fic(s) but I'm willing to negotiate depending on how high the bidding goes.

( my offering )

Yes - this includes HP. Yes, this includes expansions on anything that I've previously written (including that awful abandoned WIP that shall go unnamed).

You have until Monday night at midnight (I'm assuming EST) to get your bids in.

slashfest opens for claiming tonight at 12:01am EST! Have you guys popped over to take a look at some of the prompts? There are some really awesome ones. (And none of the below are mine as I believe in pimping other people's prompts)

Por ejemplo:

Star Trek: Bones/Kirk XI: Prohibition era AU: Jimmy Kirk runs booze for the moonshiners from the north Georgia mountains. When a run goes bad, Dr McCoy find him in his practice patching himself up. Smut encouraged but not required.

Or, if that doesn't tickle your fancy:

Star Trek: Kirk/McCoy XI: McCoy's seriously injured on an away mission and Jim is forced to allow the aliens to save Bones' life, but at the cost of his current memories. He won't know who Jim is or even remember anything from before his marriage ended in divorce.

Hey, if Star Trek isn't your thing, there's some really good ones in Sherlock Holmes.

For example, this one has been around since I took over slashfest over FOUR YEARS AGO

Sherlock Holmes: Holmes/Watson Reminiscing over the memoirs and mementos of a lifetime spent well.

Srsly? That's such an easy, open prompt! Surely there's some creative people on my flist that can fulfill a prompt waiting around for about five years!

But, if you'd rather fulfill a more recent prompt:

Holmes/Watson WWI AU. They are the best of friends (and maybe already lovers) but the war rips them apart. Bonus for internalized homophobia, the horrors of war, family secrets, and love letters (burned, cherished, unsent, discovered by the wrong people, whatever). Character deaths, violence, sex, unrequited love, melodrama, and shamelessly epic romance all okay!

Interested yet?

BEFORE you make your claims, please remember that the due date is May 22nd, 2010 at 11:59PM EST.

Claiming Posts will be open from February 12th, 2010 (at 12:01 am EST) until February 17th, 2010 (at 11:59 pm EST).

[Rules/Regulations] [Fandoms: #-C] [Fandoms: D-H] [Fandoms: I-R] [Fandoms: S-Z]

With over 100 fandoms represented in over 450 prompts (from Bleach to Merlin to Harry Potter to Star Wars to Boondock Saints to Departed to the Bible), I'm fairly certain you can find something to inspire you. Why not pop over and take a look?

Everything I Needed to Know About Life, I Learned From Sesame Street (and Mister Hooper)

Sesame Street's anniversary makes me grin and shake my head and realize that I'm getting old. I grew up on Sesame Street. To really get an understanding of how much Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact, Electric Company and Mister Roger's Neighborhood meant to me, I need to explain where I grew up and what little exposure to the outside world I had.

I lived out in the middle of bumfuck. We had 20 acres, most of which went back to woods with deer that would walk around our orchard looking for fruit. We had a garden that was a few acres big and we, for the most part, grew all of our veggies and fruit. We made our own jelly, canned our own tomatoes and I cannot tell you how awesome it was to steam up our own asparagus.

My driveway was half a mile long and we owned a snowplow that broke more often than it worked. We lived in a huge dip in the road and that dip resulted in me, literally, walking uphill both ways to school. In the snow. My walk to the school bus was over a mile long. One year, for Girl Scouts, as part of our environmental awareness campaign, we had to count the cars that drove past a major intersection near our houses at rush hour. I had 3. All day. For sitting at that intersection for 4 hours.

So all this is to say that there's a reason we only got three stations, the local ABC affiliate, the local NBC affiliate and PBS. Cable? HA! We would've had to pay for the poles to go down our street and our driveway!My family and I devoured the PBS because it was either that or movies (rented from the nearest movie rental place that was a 30 minute drive away and was a mom-and-pop store) as far as young children went. We watched everything. 3-2-1 Contact was huge in our house. I learned about electricity and helping others and science. Mister Roger, on the other hand, scared me. It had something to do with the changing the sweaters and the shoes. IDK, my little kid brain was weird. Or, god, Captain Kangaroo. That show ROCKED.

But, by and far, the most popular show in my house was Sesame Street. I remember Gordon, Luis, Maria, Linda, and Bob. I remember signing along with the songs and dancing about as Big Bird and Oscar taught me about caring and sharing. I remember learning a bit of Spanish and that pinball routine where they taught you to count. (and I might still sing it) here is a link and you'll be singing it for hours afterwards. It's addictive.

I remember learning about death when Mister Hooper died (offscreen) of a heart attack. I remember my mum and dad sitting down with my older sister, my older brother and me and talking to us about how sometimes, when people get old, their hearts give out. I remember crying and wondering where Mister Hooper was because who was going to run the store and sell paperclips to Bert if Mister Hooper wasn't there.



I just rewatched it again and, I'm not ashamed to admit, I still teared up and sniffled.
( Moar on Mister Hooper and Sesame Street )

What's your favorite episode of Sesame Street? What do you remember from it? What's your favorite muppet?

( my favorite are mostly embedded below )

I did promise more slashfest pimping.

[Rules/Regulations] [Fandoms: #-C] [Fandoms: D-H] [Fandoms: I-R] [Fandoms: S-Z]

A few "random" requests -

Harry/Draco They're only casual meetings. Except when they're not. Which is every time. (Find it here)

Dean/Seamus Post Hogwarts. Dean and Seamus wake up together (and naked) after a rough night none of them can remember. They question the people at the party and figure out" what happened, accepting it but... later (maybe months later after they have an established relationship), they find out it was all a joke from the twins. ;) (Find it here)

Bob/Frank Bob goes to see one of Frank's Leathermouth shows and reaps the benefits of post-show, adrenaline-charged, aggressive Frank backstage. Established relationship would also be a plus. (Find it here)

Jared/Jensen Jared gets a tattoo and Jensen gets off on it. OR! Jensen gets a nipple piercing and Jared gets off on it. OR! Both! (Find it here)

James/Sirius Sirius can't fly nearly as well as James can, so James takes him up for a magic carpet broomstick ride. A whole new world, indeed. (Find it here) (also - can I just say that I'd love to see artwork for this prompt? oh man :D:D:D:D)

Go forth and claim and fulfill! You know you want to!

Resolution Reviews – First Batch for 2008 – 7 movies, 4 books –

( Ratatouille )

6 out of 10

( The Simpson's Movie )

6 out of 10

( Eastern Promises )

5 out of 10

( Stardust (movie) )

10 out of 10

( Stardust – Neil Gaiman )

10 out of 10

( Dragonlance – Dragons of Autumn Twilight (animated movie) )

11 out of 10

( Balls of Fury )

9 out of 10

( Pirates of the Carribean 3 )

7 out of 10

( Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich )

10 out of 10

( Captain's Fury – Jim Butcher )

7 out of 10

( Morning Light – Catherine Anderson )

3 out of 10

I'm in the middle of the first book for fandom_reads so I will probably write my review after the discussion opens there. You have until February 15th to read Persepolis and join the community to get to discuss it with the rest of us. Join before then and you'll get a chance to pick the next book, too! They don't all have to be serious or anything.