shut up and let me see your jazz hands

I'm good with any rating, but any sex should serve a purpose. I have a realism kink a mile wide, and no sex at all is preferable to fantasy sex. I don't have any squicks, though excessive emotion makes me uncomfortable. I place a high value on proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Oh, and don't feel like you have to make it happy just because it's a present. While I can and do enjoy happy endings, I also love angst (understated, please) and things going pear-shaped.

I think that's about it for generalities. If you want a better idea of what I like, just check out my fic, all of which can be found here. I write the sort of thing I wish were written, so it's pretty well representative of my tastes.

Now on to specifics.

I ♥ Huckabees
( Albert/Brad )

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
( Stephen Black/Fairy Gentleman )

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
( Any of the main characters )

Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
( Balthamos/Baruch )

These are just suggestions. If you have your own ideas, those would be fine, too. :)

Gauging interest here... telesilla and I were batting about the idea of a mashup ficathon, sort of along the lines of a remix, but you'd take two of an author's fics and use elements from both rather than just remixing a single fic. It would be complicated and we'd need to think more about logistics, but I'm curious as to how much interest there might be in such a thing.

We'd originally thought LotRiPS, but I'm wondering if making it multi-fandom might be better (both FPF RPF) and it would basically work like this. Each element in a story would be worth one point, and you'd have to use a certain number of points total. So if you used the story from fic A, and the characters from fic B, and the something else to be determined from B as well, then that would get you three points. So you could sort of pick and choose which elements you think would mash up best with each other. The fics wouldn't even have to be from the same fandom.

So what do you think? I'm really pretty excited about the idea myself.

pornish_pixies fantasy fest requests I'm considering. The one in bold is what I chose for May. Hopefully if one of the others is still left, I'll grab it for June.

mizbean -- I want to read a H/D fic where Harry is the one that submits to Draco because he’s so fucking turned on by the idea. I don’t want Harry to be a blushing virgin or a wimp either. Bondage, dirty talk, blindfolds may be included.

maddykitty -- Blaise/Draco--Blaise becomes fixated on Draco. Over a long period of time his fixation turns to obsession. It gets to the point where Draco notices and is skittish around him. Blaise ends up extremely unbalanced. Non-con. Bottom!Draco.

bookstars -- James/Sirius, James is leaving Sirius for Lily in their seventh year after a friends-with-benefits relationship that Sirius took for granted - angst and/or hate!sex, bondage & BDSM, blood play, and dubious consent all welcome. Thanks!

wizwig -- Sirius/James, rough!shower!sex at Hogwarts, dirty talk, "accidental" first time planned by Sirius // almost any kink okay except for mpreg, scat, watersports, etc.

I am still having trouble starting up my MarNo fic again after breaking to do remix. Bah! *shakes fist*

Meanwhile, I've signed up for more new challenges! Like I needed them!

The first is not actually a challenge with a deadline and all that, but rather a new comm, jukebox_fic, in which songs are posted weekly for you to use as inspiration (whether it be the lyrics, the music, a single line, etc.). It's pretty much along the lines of contrelamontre. I don't know how often I'll be participating, but anything I do will probably be Judewan, S/R, or Dom/Lij so that I can add it to my fanfic100 tables.

The other challenge is here. I'll probably do Judewan. It's not due til April 1st and the minimum is only 500 words, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Voyeurism challenge on pornish_pixies. Due date is January 31st. Already got bunnies. The question is which to use...

So I signed up for this finish-a-thon, where the goal is to finish a WiP you've got sitting around. You name several, and then everyone votes on which one you should finish for the challenge.

Voting is open to anyone, so if you have any interest in reading any of these, please go vote. They'll all be written eventually, btw, this is just sort of a "what should I work on first?" type of thing.

1.
Fandom(s): RPS (Liam Neeson/Jason Isaacs)
Description: Jason is a geeky gay guy who falls for his presumably straight neighbour. First part here.
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17

2.
Fandom(s): Vampire Chronicles
Description: Louis and Lestat relate memories of their life at Rue Royale. Epilogue to a fic I've let languish for like three years. Previous parts can be found here.
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17 overall (this section G)

3.
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Description: Years after Voldie is defeated, Harry and Draco run into each other somewhere. While they're talking, Harry tries to ignore his attraction to Draco. Draco eyes Harry openly. They end up in the toilets, where Draco shoves Harry up against the wall and has his way with him. Much to his dismay, Harry finds he likes it. Afterwards, they both leave without saying a word, and from then on they purposely "run into each other" and the same thing happens each time. They never talk about it.
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17

4.
Fandom(s): Moulin Rouge
Description: Vignette in which Toulouse rambles about his feelings for Christian.
Type: slash
Rating: PG-13? (possibly higher)

5.
Fandom(s): Star Wars
Description: Cracktastic AU with Palpatine as a drug lord, Anakin working for him, Obi-Wan as a detective on the case and out for revenge for Qui's death. Obi/Ani.
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17

6.
Fandom(s): RPS (Jude Law/Ewan McGregor)
Description: Jude as an architect and Ewan as a construction worker on one of his buildings.
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17

7.
Fandom(s): The Three Investigators
Description: Pete/Bob set during Mystery of the Green Ghost.
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17

8.
Fandom(s): Harry Potter
Description: Tonks and Remus being majorly fucked up.
Type: slash/het
Rating: NC-17