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Guy dances to Britney Spears' Circus in the shower. Pretty good. Go watch. (The other vids by this guy, though? Uh.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BplSoTSmKx0

Also, a mashup of 2009 top 25 billboard hits. Cool, I'd listen to this for itself. Previous years were not as cool, at least partly because Katy Perry and Gwen Stefani really didn't fit in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzrwh2Z2hQ

In case someone wants something to look at while waiting for "End of Time Part 2," here's the Doctor Who Series 5 Promo. ( Brief spoilers under the cut )

Drop me an e-mail at mdawn6 @ yahoo.com if interested. $10 off any $50 or more purchase at HPDirect.com. The code expires 2/28/2020

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Yay I had a lovely New Year's Eve celebration with astolat. In conclusion, Adam Lambert is adorable, but many of us knew that already. He's fun. He can stay. *g*

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yuletide 2009 reveal!

Life was such that I could only write the one main story this year. This was the first time I didn't do a pinch hit or an extra story as a gift and I was a bit sad about that, but there was literally no way I could do another story, although I thought about it. Anyhoo, my story:


Shades of Mars
24, Jack/Tony, Adult, +4,500 words.
Written for savageseraph
With a big thank you to kadymae for the last minute beta.
Spoilers for Day 7 and Day 3; No spoilers for the upcoming season.

( Jack/Tony 4eva! story blather )

I've got a few days off and so I'm visiting my family again, which is really nice. :D
I hope everyone here had a good start into 2010!


A tale from work: Yesterday I had a customer who really looked a bit like Anthony Stewart Head. (Not so that you couldn't tell them them apart, but the resemblance was really there) which of course I realized at once.

What I only realized a few hours later: My customer's family name? Was "Haupt". Which is a German word for "head".

o.O






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Fanlore has over 6000 zines (someone just finished inputting the Beauty & Beast fanzines from the Qfer Helper Database. (B&B fandom was very prolific and zine intensive). See http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Zines  The Star Trek and Blake's 7 zines need to be input next.

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Title: 'Twas the Bite Before Christmas
Author: Settiai
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Janet van Dyne, Peter Parker, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark; Steve/Tony
Word Count: ~1200 words
Notes: Originally written for kijikun as part of yuletide and posted here on AO3. Many thanks to the wonderful elfwreck for beta'ing. Aren't hippos wonderful?
Summary: Just when Tony thought their lives couldn't get any stranger...

( What do you mean, you think Cap's been turned into a vampire? )

Title: Deck the Halls (and Hit the Deck)
Author: Settiai
Rating: PG
Characters: Egon Spengler, Janine Melnitz, Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Slimer, Winston Zeddemore
Word Count: ~3100 words
Notes: Originally written for neotoma as part of yuletide and posted here on AO3. Many thanks to the wonderful Sandra for beta'ing as well as lilly_rose for all her suggestions and help.
Summary: The Ghostbusters never have normal holidays. There are always busts to go on, ghosts to stop, demonic possessions to undo, mysterious disappearances to solve...

( Winston Zeddemore groaned as awareness slowly returned )

Title: Beginnings, Ends, and All That's In Between
Author: Settiai
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Rictor/Shatterstar
Word Count: ~1300 words
Beta: Originally written for twbasketcase as part of the ricstar holiday fic exchange and posted here on AO3. Many thanks to the wonderful iambickilometer for beta'ing.
Summary: The destination isn't what's important. It's the journey that matters in the end.

( For the fifth time in the past hour, the van's engine made a loud grinding noise. )

Well, I'm officially unemployed. Yay?

Also, my aunt's going to be fine. They did a scan, gave her some medication, and sent her home, so... yeah.

The first day of the new year was spent in front of the computer and on the couch with watching the second competition of the Four Hills Tournament (ski jumping). Wohoo. We also played Farmville on Facebook. Um.

And we had dinner at my mom's place.

At the moment saba1789's sitting on the couch squeeing and fangirling. She's watching a Fall Out Boy concert thingy on MTV. She's so cute when she's in squee mode! :-D

And we're finally drinking sparkling wine. Even though I have two bottles, we couldn't drink any, because I don't have a corkscrew. So much fail on my part! I borrowed one from my mom.

I hope everyone had a great start into the new year! Also, Happy Birthday, Colin Morgan. :-D

It's Reveal Time!
For DSSS I wrote The Hypotenuse of a Right Triangle for exeterlinden's awesome prompt about looking at gender issues wrt Stella and RayK. I wrote PG-13 rated AU casefic where Stella is a detective, RayK is the asst. state's attorney, Vecchio is Stella's partner, Fraser is facing rather different consequences of Victoria's Secret, and Welsh is Welsh. HUGE thanks to china_shop for the beta! If any part of this story works at all, it's due to her.

For Yuletide I wrote A Mystery Rite of Irkalla. It's a riff on ancient Sumerian myth in the style of the source material, which is one of the many excellent possibilities quillori mentioned in her request -- her prompts were so GOOD! I wish I'd begun rereading Sumerian lit sooner because I might have managed to do more stories. I offered it as a fandom because I remembered enjoying it many, many years ago and one of my women's groups recently did a thing on Inana, so it was fresh in my mind. But I started digging deeper in the online trove of myths and fell head over heels. SUCH A JOY, OMG! (Yes, I own my geekery. :P)

I was extremely lucky with both my recipients this holiday season. ALL the prompts were fabulous and in their feedback each recipient seemed to get what I was trying to do with what I wrote. This is a relief especially because the DSSS story & Yuletide poem pretty much lack the fan-friendly tropes that automatically get lots of squeeful comments. What matters is I got to do something in each case that I never otherwise would have imagined writing AND the recipients liked how they turned out! Yay!

( 2009 Year in Review )

( the questions! )

May 2010 bring all of us lots of inspiration, talent, skill, good words, and satisfying writing and creative work! Also, health, happiness, prosperity, and excellent luck!! HAPPY NEW YEAR! ♥

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I am running off soon to see Sherlock Holmes (woo!), but here are the three things I wrote for yuletide:

A Veneer Upon the Surface -- This was my original assignment. I actually matched on "The Black Stallion" series of books, but the prompt didn't immediately make me go "oooh!", so I spent some time rereading the books, and picked up "Appaloosa" at the library at the same time. And really, the slash writes itself. Except for the part where it's a pain in the ass when the characters talk but don't actually say anything.

Wait Wait Don't Eat Me -- I saw this pinch hit go by, and thought "No, I am not crazy enough to pick up a pinch hit. I don't have the time." And then I wrote the story anyway. It helped immensely that I just spent the past few weeks at work listening to 6 months of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" podcasts.

Soul-Hurting Magic -- Browsing through the Yuletide Madness prompts, I saw this one for Barbara Hambly's Windrose Chronicles. I've asked for a story about Zake Brighthand for the past few years (but not this year), so when I saw the prompt, I wrote this drabble.

Happy New Year, y'all! May it better than the last.

Yuletide authors are now live! I wrote To Watch the Sun Go Down - Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series. I've been in love with this universe since I was about 9 years old, but it was more difficult than I expected to write within it. I wasn't entirely happy with the story I uploaded by deadline, and I actually ended up completely rewriting the second half of the story and updating it before the archive opened. Yay for self-editing!!!

Also I'm shocked! Shocked I say! To see that ellen_fremedon is the writer of the awesome Lord Peter Wimsey/Doctor Who crossover. *G*

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Signal Boost: Here is a fannish person in Davis, CA looking for a roommate for FREE RENT in exchange for assistance in case of emergency (she is disabled and would need help getting out of bed).

Bingo cards for Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 2 (no spoilers, just things that are likely to happen in Who).

Useful geeky resources mostly for web geeks of various kinds, but there's some useful photo and password stuff, etc. of general interest.

Speaking of web geeks, Clients from Hell web design clients from hell. Some of these are just... o_O

Alleged business plan fail I dunno, this looks like it could be fun.

Church store fail oh dear.

An extremely strange bra ad

Comical legal case names "United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins, No. 05-56274 (9th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008)." must be amazing.

And if that's not enough government fun, here's the Government comics collection!

I think escapism and hanging WIPs were a good look on me in 2009. ( I posted stories in Buckaroo Banzai, Merlin, SGA, Leverage, Highlander, Tin Man, and a whole bunch in White Collar. )

I have but one New Years resolution. I want to unclench my fists when I make Paul Gross Arms.

I've been looking at pictures of group Paul Gross Arms happenings, and everyone else extends their fingers and my hands are clenched in every single one. I plan on letting loose for the New Year. It'll be awesome.

with Doctor Who's "The Satan Pit". \o/ This is one of my favorite episodes.

(In case anyone in the USA didn't know, BBC America is doing a Doctor Who marathon of all Ten's episodes through the airing of "The End of Time, Part 2" tomorrow night. Actually, that's a lie; they seem to have skipped straight past "Love & Monsters" and "Fear Her" to "Army of Ghosts". Interesting.)