Title: A Special Relationship
Fandom: Smallville/Doctor Who
Pairing: Lex Luthor/The Master
Rating: PG-13

Written for scribblinlenore’s mismatched OTP challenge over at black_dress_lex. Part of me is curled up in a corner channelling Ten, “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” and the other part is striding out to face the firing squad with the Foreign Legion, belting out Piaf all the way ( Read more... )

Had a glorious dinner out with china_shop and Mr China last night, so glorious in fact that I had to *cliche alert* undo my belt on the way home. Thanks Mr C ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 14 of 14valentines. Today's subject is V-Day International. There's an essay on the subject hereI've really enjoyed participating in this endeavour, and wow, fourteen posts in fourteen days, that feels like more than I posted in the last six months. I am well into my lj renaissance, and feeling the love ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 13 of 14valentines. Today's subject is arts and athletics. There's an essay on the subject herePersonally, I find making triangles a pain, and since my family's huge I generally cheat and make massive square pies in a roasting pan. For light hors d'oeuvres, though, nothing beats the real thing. They also bring the kudos, which occasionally ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 12 of 14valentines. Today's subject is economics and work. There's an essay on the subject hereWhen I was eight (maybe ten, either way it was the middle of the eighties) I precociously told my mother that the clothes she wore when she was young (ie the seventies) were the most hideous ever devised. Nothing fazed, Mum replied that one day my ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 8 of 14valentines. Today's subject is domestic violence. There's an essay on the subject hereI love cocktail parties. My mother thinks it is madness that useful and commonplace things like frying pans live in the garage so that my full selection of cocktail glasses can live in the kitchen. Priorities, Mum ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 7 of 14valentines. Today's subject is sexual assault. There's an essay on the subject hereI didn't feel right posting something entirely frivolous/sexy today, but nor did I want to be depressing. So with tongue firmly in cheek, here's something to imagine when cursing the male sex. This recipe cracks me up. I've never actually made it, I ( Read more... )

In honour of Day 1 of 14valentines. Today's subject is body image. There's a great essay on the subject here. This post has little to do with body image per se, except possibly for how my love of this sort of food led to a love/hate relationship with my own body ( Read more... )

How the hell did it get to be the twentieth of December?

This year has been one of constant ups and downs for me, and while portions of it seemed to drag, on the whole it actually vanished in the blink of an eye. This time last year I was driving through Arizona, scoffing down vast quantities of fat and salt or fat and sugar -- I do mean vast, I ( Read more... )

I've been working like a mad thing at my new apartment. Stripping wallpaper, shampooing carpets, jiffing down appliances, painting cupboards... I am so incredibly exhausted I fall straight into bed as soon as I get home (mindset change needed here -- I mean the old place), and maybe I can stay awake for an episode of something, but usually I fall ( Read more... )