Stuff

1. I am drinking the last Diet Pepsi in the house, oh noes! Soda is on horrible sales right now, though. The sort where they put up brightly colored signs to try and convince you that yes, $3.50 or $4 for a 12-pack is a really great deal!!! I have a coupon for Diet Pepsi at Costco, but it's not good until tomorrow and I can't go til the evening, so I'll have to make do til then.

2. Going out to breakfast with my mom tomorrow, which means of course that I'm terribly tired and just want to sleep. That always seems to happen when there's something I need to stay up for, but when there's no need to stay up, I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed all through the morning.

3. Speaking of sleeping, I ended up doing that instead of going to the BBQ this afternoon with my 6th grade classmates. What happened was I wasn't feeling tired, so I decided to just stay up (since it was at noon) and go to sleep when I got home in the afternoon. But then at like ten I was really tired and took a nap which made me even more tired and unwilling to get out of bed an hour later. But I figure this is already the third time various ones of us have gotten together this year since we all got in touch again, so it won't be the last time, either.

4. I finally watched the first episode of SPN season two last night. ( Spoilers )

I had the computer down on the floor with me and did forty minutes of stretching while I watched.

5. I'm not sure if I should start reading my flist filtered now or wait a few more days til it gets closer to the Potterpocalypse. I don't plan on doing anything more than just the no-comms filter, but I'm not sure I want to not read comms for an entire week. *wibbles*

6. I need to stop thinking about my mcshep_match fic and actually, you know, write it. Argh!

Fic reviews: 1 SGA + 1 My Chemical Romance

I'm not going to be reading much of anything for the next few weeks because I really need to concentrate on writing and then any reading time will be going towards Deathly Hallows, so I figured I'd go ahead and post these two rather than have them sitting on my hard drive for who knows how long.

Also I figured I'd start posting summaries outside of the cut tags, since they're not spoilery.

Where We've Been Before by helens78 4/5 Recommended
2200 words. SGA. Rodney's friend drags him to a sex club, where he hooks up with John.
( Great Rodney POV. )

Une Femme n'est pas Un Homme by superspleen and fallingfortruth 3/5
12,100 words. My Chemical Romance. Frank and Mikey are best friends, so Frank's really surprised when he learns Mikey has a sister, Gwen, he never told him about...
( Eee! MtF!Ger! And it's a high school (well, at least for Frank and Mikey) AU, too! )

*dies*

The second link on this page is a radio interview with Ewan and Charley with Jonathan Ross. Ewan is telling him how his wife is going to come down to Africa and actually ride for a bit of the way with them soon. Apparently she's never ridden a motorcycle before, but she's been practicing since he left just so she could come down and do this. N'aww.

But then there was this great exchange:

Ross: So does that mean there'll be no more Brokeback Mountain antics for you and Charley?
Ewan: Yeah, Charley'll be sulking by the fireplace.
Ross: Do you get lonely? Do you give each other a hug at bedtime?
Charley: Well, the thing is, what happens in the tent, stays in the tent.*
Ross: I don't mean it in a salacious manner. I just mean, do you ever spoon? Do you ever think why have two sleeping bags?
Ewan: You do mean it in a salacious manner!


*They're actually quite fond of this. I've heard both him and Ewan say it before. XD

The top link on the page is a video of Ewan playing with a baby rhino.

Help!

Okay, so I have some ideas I'd like to submit for the choc_fic challenge, but I'm having trouble fitting them into the submission format.

So what I am asking you, dear flist, is to help me think of how to phrase each of these scenarios so they fit the submission form. Mainly what I need is the "Kink/cliche or fannish trope" line, as I can probably come up with suitable lyrics or something for "Phrase/word/idea/lyric" (though feel free to suggest there, too). I am just really stumped, and while a list of fannish kinks was provided and was supposedly narrative kinks as well, it was really all just sexual kinks, which are well and good, but not the sort of stories I want here.

Here are two I already submitted:

Fandom: Ugly Betty
Character/pairing/threesome or moresome: Justin Suarez/OCs
Kink/cliche or fannish trope: Five things
Phrase/word/idea/lyric: First crush (sex okay, but I'm not interested in PWP)
Number (pick from 1 to 30): 10

Fandom: SGA
Character/pairing/threesome or moresome: John/Ford, John/Teyla
Kink/cliche or fannish trope: High school AU
Phrase/word/idea/lyric: On the field I remember you were incredible/In a car with a girl, promise me she's not your world (sex okay, but I'm not interested in PWP)
Number (pick from 1 to 30): 15

(I can't believe no one else has asked for anything from Ugly Betty! ;_;)

Anyway, some ideas I have:

1. Stephen Black/the fairy gentleman (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell). I really haven't got any specific ideas here; I just want to see more of this totally canon pairing.

2. Alexis/Wilhelmina or Alexis & Wilhelmina (Ugly Betty). How did they team up? Why was Wilhelmina of all people the only one to know about Alexis?

3. Teyla/Michael or Teyla & Michael (SGA). Dude, I am going to pimp Michael prompts to every damn fest until I get some fic! Teyla reveals she has Wraith DNA.

4. Ronon/Melena (SGA). How did they meet?

5. John/Ford (SGA). With the lyrics "a subtle kiss that no one sees". Canon. Could be set in season one or season two.

I could probably come up with a dozen Ronon/Teyla AUs, but mainly I'm trying to nail down all the stuff I've previously thought about wanting to see/read rather than coming up with new stuff.

Kelly Clarkson

I still haven't got the writeups done for those Digimon mix CDs, but here is the new Kelly Clarkson album instead. Sadly, it's not as good as Breakaway, but I am liking it quite a bit. My favorite song is Can I Have a Kiss?

Kelly Clarkson - My December

ETA: After a second or third listen, I'm really loving Never Again as well.

Also, LJ is like a ghost town. Ugh. This is going to be one long week. I should use that to be productive? Since, you know, I have a long fic due in a month and I'm really behind on lyrics translations and I have some accounting work to do for my mom and I should put some stuff up for sale on eBay and try to get some money and and and. But instead I just keep refreshing...