La Vie De TKP: The Return!
Hey kids, I'm back.
-drove for 2 days (22 hours) to get to my parents' cottage, which is next door to my Granny's cottage, which is on Lime Lake, which is next to Leland, which is in the county of Leelanau, which is in the northern part of Michigan.
-drove back, but stopped in Chicago and had deep dish pizza
-had this view from the porch:
-married Ethan from "LOST" (it was a MASH game)
-roasted marshmellows and bratwurst and made s'mores. But not with the bratwurst.
-froze my boobs off
-spent time with my three best friends from high school, who're still my bestest friends in the world
-froze the rest of myself off
-ate a sandwich from the same shop almost every day because they're so freakin' good!
-read Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, which I highly recommend to l_aurens if she hasn't read it yet
-didn't eat cherries. The county and area is known for cherries, but it was too early for them, which was really disappointing. But we did go to this place called Cherry Republic and eat cherry cookies, cherry jam, cherry pie, cherry candy, cherry barbecue sauce, cherry hot sauce, cherry salsa, cherry chicken salad, and drank cherry wine and cherry water and cherry juice and cherry pop. I ate cherry bratwurst, too. So I guess in the end I might've eaten some cherries.
-never had enough water pressure in any of my showers
-saw a fox, lots of deer, a wild turkey, but weirdly no raccoons
-dug a hole in the sand 3 feet deep, but didn't build a sand castle
-kept having slash AU all-human fanfic ideas pop into my head, with a college professor and a student, alternately Angel and Xander and Spike and Angel, and was freaked out by it, so I tend not to enjoy most all human AUs
-sighted an unidentified pair of underwear in our cottage
-had lots of fun!
What's been happening in fandom/on my flist.
-There were hate memes and love memes and now there's a humor meme, and I'm just left saying why? But then marenfic gave us a synopsis, and I realized the reason was 1. to amuse us, 2. because fandom is like that, and 3. to keep us asking why?
-FANDOM ALERT!!!!!: Spike is/was evil! He raped murdered pillaged killed and ate babies! And so many people are coming out and saying it.
-peasant_ has interesting meta, as usual, on the possibility/plausability/whyability of Spike's redemption sans soul. And then about Angel/(us), and further contemplation on the nature of the soul in Jossverse. Which, if I were to express my thoughts on it, as I hope to do, I wish people wouldn't get confused with the conception of "soul" in real life religion, society, and human ideas.
-and then l_aurens, not to be outdone, wrote a drabble about Spike's schlong vs. Angel's ass, which is all that really matters when talking Angel and Spike. CANNOT. STOP. LAUGHING.
-to which kita0610 said, here, here! The important thing in life is porn!, and then asked about our kinks. *Ahem* in fic.
-dovil (pronounced "Doovil"!!) also has meta, which in my head connects to Peasant's meta, because it's about the fact that Spike is not a puppy and Buffy is fucking cool. Then she has further thoughts on why the character of Spike is so appealing, and then she tells us why Spike sucks, though I'm still not really clear on that part.
-though apparently, it's because Spike voted for W. Or at least dlgood is discussing who Spike would've voted for for American President. BAHAHAHHA!
-all of which has left a lot of people talking about SR, the AR, BR, and ER, and possibly George ClooneyR. The AR is SR is something lots of people just don't talk about a lot these days. Well, people start to talk about it, and then someone says, "But we've already been over all this before, and I don't want to fight about it, and Spike's cock rocks my clock", and then everyone nods quietly and sagely and goes about their business like very polite people. To which I say, "I like Mrs. Jennings; she talks about things; we never talk about things!" Spike's cock does rock my clock, but--in fact, Spike's cock is the reason why--I like to see him and the things he's done (or not done, whatever floats your rootbeer) discussed. I think I might have a Thought about it, but I need to do a separate post about it because I am ANAL. Always Needing Another Ljpost.
-to which rahirah says, with her usual sense and candor, Dude, I talk about things, and I'm not afraid. Sheesh.
-and somewhere amongst the "Buffy is a slut" BS, regala_electra asked why so many writers want to make the woman of their OTP a virgin before she can have sex with the male half. She was talking about Doctor Who, which I finally sat down and watched, but the question is applicable everywhere. What I hate even more is when Buffy only did it over the covers with Angel, and Riley was a bad lay, and so only Spike can show her what REAL SEX is like.
-Speaking of other fandoms, seraphcelene discussed the new X-men movie in length. I used to be all over the X-men movies. Most of the other fic I've written is in that fandom. (I was/am a big Wolverine/Rogue shipper. I kinda ...miss it. Now I'm getting all nostalgic.)
-stoney321 should be recieving the combined income of Dan Brown and Ron Howard, in fact, should be catapaulting to the top of the bestseller's list STAT, but the world isn't ready for her yet. But I so am, so am in love.
-ros_fod is obsessed with Snarry and not leaving anyone links.
-a2zmom and kita0160 have cute kids. Which shouldn't be in "what's happening in fandom", except it should, because if there was a fandom comprised of a2z and Kita I'm so there!
-I got an awesome postcard from chrisleeoctaves! Thanks honey! And I hope your trip went well!
-crazydiamondsue and femmenerd were missed by moi. Just mentioned here because I didn't know what to link on them.
-hi imnotacommittee! *waves*
-germaine_pet wrote fic, which is a very nice thing to come home to. (I almost wrote "the best thing to come to." Hee. Which is not true; I didn't almost write that; in actuality I almost wrote, "the best thing to come home to", but thought about my shower and various other things one could come home to, and changed my mind, and then I mistyped while telling you what I almost typed, and then I almost started talking about how Xander's ass is like coming home, so I stopped myself.)
-cordelianne wrote baby Connor drabbles.
-a2zmom wrote a ficlet I haven't seen yet!
-entrenous88 wrote a bunch of Cordy stuff, and the one I'm most looking forward to reading is 5 Ways Cordy and Xander Never Got Back Together. Because I'm not so secretly in love with C/X.
-birthdayrecs was started, where you can mush and gush on fandom people on their birthdays and stuff. It sounds so nice!
Most of all, the world loved on lostakasha and sothernbangel, and there were thoughts of them both from Michigan, even if they just felt them as a tiny little warm breezes.
That's all I got. If anything happened you'd like to share/fic you wrote/discussions you're having/observations you made/meta you posted/weird stories about your pets/boring stories about your light bulbs/intimate feelings about the dissolute activities that went on in your neighbor's apartment last night, I'd love you to leave a link. It's nice to be back.
I have to go pick up my parents at the airport. My mom cultural attache'ed her way through Russia, baby. She's super duper important.
-drove for 2 days (22 hours) to get to my parents' cottage, which is next door to my Granny's cottage, which is on Lime Lake, which is next to Leland, which is in the county of Leelanau, which is in the northern part of Michigan.
-drove back, but stopped in Chicago and had deep dish pizza
-had this view from the porch:
-married Ethan from "LOST" (it was a MASH game)
-roasted marshmellows and bratwurst and made s'mores. But not with the bratwurst.
-froze my boobs off
-spent time with my three best friends from high school, who're still my bestest friends in the world
-froze the rest of myself off
-ate a sandwich from the same shop almost every day because they're so freakin' good!
-read Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, which I highly recommend to l_aurens if she hasn't read it yet
-didn't eat cherries. The county and area is known for cherries, but it was too early for them, which was really disappointing. But we did go to this place called Cherry Republic and eat cherry cookies, cherry jam, cherry pie, cherry candy, cherry barbecue sauce, cherry hot sauce, cherry salsa, cherry chicken salad, and drank cherry wine and cherry water and cherry juice and cherry pop. I ate cherry bratwurst, too. So I guess in the end I might've eaten some cherries.
-never had enough water pressure in any of my showers
-saw a fox, lots of deer, a wild turkey, but weirdly no raccoons
-dug a hole in the sand 3 feet deep, but didn't build a sand castle
-kept having slash AU all-human fanfic ideas pop into my head, with a college professor and a student, alternately Angel and Xander and Spike and Angel, and was freaked out by it, so I tend not to enjoy most all human AUs
-sighted an unidentified pair of underwear in our cottage
-had lots of fun!
What's been happening in fandom/on my flist.
-There were hate memes and love memes and now there's a humor meme, and I'm just left saying why? But then marenfic gave us a synopsis, and I realized the reason was 1. to amuse us, 2. because fandom is like that, and 3. to keep us asking why?
-FANDOM ALERT!!!!!: Spike is/was evil! He raped murdered pillaged killed and ate babies! And so many people are coming out and saying it.
-peasant_ has interesting meta, as usual, on the possibility/plausability/whyability of Spike's redemption sans soul. And then about Angel/(us), and further contemplation on the nature of the soul in Jossverse. Which, if I were to express my thoughts on it, as I hope to do, I wish people wouldn't get confused with the conception of "soul" in real life religion, society, and human ideas.
-and then l_aurens, not to be outdone, wrote a drabble about Spike's schlong vs. Angel's ass, which is all that really matters when talking Angel and Spike. CANNOT. STOP. LAUGHING.
-to which kita0610 said, here, here! The important thing in life is porn!, and then asked about our kinks. *Ahem* in fic.
-dovil (pronounced "Doovil"!!) also has meta, which in my head connects to Peasant's meta, because it's about the fact that Spike is not a puppy and Buffy is fucking cool. Then she has further thoughts on why the character of Spike is so appealing, and then she tells us why Spike sucks, though I'm still not really clear on that part.
-though apparently, it's because Spike voted for W. Or at least dlgood is discussing who Spike would've voted for for American President. BAHAHAHHA!
-all of which has left a lot of people talking about SR, the AR, BR, and ER, and possibly George ClooneyR. The AR is SR is something lots of people just don't talk about a lot these days. Well, people start to talk about it, and then someone says, "But we've already been over all this before, and I don't want to fight about it, and Spike's cock rocks my clock", and then everyone nods quietly and sagely and goes about their business like very polite people. To which I say, "I like Mrs. Jennings; she talks about things; we never talk about things!" Spike's cock does rock my clock, but--in fact, Spike's cock is the reason why--I like to see him and the things he's done (or not done, whatever floats your rootbeer) discussed. I think I might have a Thought about it, but I need to do a separate post about it because I am ANAL. Always Needing Another Ljpost.
-to which rahirah says, with her usual sense and candor, Dude, I talk about things, and I'm not afraid. Sheesh.
-and somewhere amongst the "Buffy is a slut" BS, regala_electra asked why so many writers want to make the woman of their OTP a virgin before she can have sex with the male half. She was talking about Doctor Who, which I finally sat down and watched, but the question is applicable everywhere. What I hate even more is when Buffy only did it over the covers with Angel, and Riley was a bad lay, and so only Spike can show her what REAL SEX is like.
-Speaking of other fandoms, seraphcelene discussed the new X-men movie in length. I used to be all over the X-men movies. Most of the other fic I've written is in that fandom. (I was/am a big Wolverine/Rogue shipper. I kinda ...miss it. Now I'm getting all nostalgic.)
-stoney321 should be recieving the combined income of Dan Brown and Ron Howard, in fact, should be catapaulting to the top of the bestseller's list STAT, but the world isn't ready for her yet. But I so am, so am in love.
-ros_fod is obsessed with Snarry and not leaving anyone links.
-a2zmom and kita0160 have cute kids. Which shouldn't be in "what's happening in fandom", except it should, because if there was a fandom comprised of a2z and Kita I'm so there!
-I got an awesome postcard from chrisleeoctaves! Thanks honey! And I hope your trip went well!
-crazydiamondsue and femmenerd were missed by moi. Just mentioned here because I didn't know what to link on them.
-hi imnotacommittee! *waves*
-germaine_pet wrote fic, which is a very nice thing to come home to. (I almost wrote "the best thing to come to." Hee. Which is not true; I didn't almost write that; in actuality I almost wrote, "the best thing to come home to", but thought about my shower and various other things one could come home to, and changed my mind, and then I mistyped while telling you what I almost typed, and then I almost started talking about how Xander's ass is like coming home, so I stopped myself.)
-cordelianne wrote baby Connor drabbles.
-a2zmom wrote a ficlet I haven't seen yet!
-entrenous88 wrote a bunch of Cordy stuff, and the one I'm most looking forward to reading is 5 Ways Cordy and Xander Never Got Back Together. Because I'm not so secretly in love with C/X.
-birthdayrecs was started, where you can mush and gush on fandom people on their birthdays and stuff. It sounds so nice!
Most of all, the world loved on lostakasha and sothernbangel, and there were thoughts of them both from Michigan, even if they just felt them as a tiny little warm breezes.
That's all I got. If anything happened you'd like to share/fic you wrote/discussions you're having/observations you made/meta you posted/weird stories about your pets/boring stories about your light bulbs/intimate feelings about the dissolute activities that went on in your neighbor's apartment last night, I'd love you to leave a link. It's nice to be back.
I have to go pick up my parents at the airport. My mom cultural attache'ed her way through Russia, baby. She's super duper important.