One of the more amusing parts of working at a bookstore is restocking the romance novels.

One, whenever I'm shelving anything with the word 'renegade' in the title, I start humming the song by Styx. You may or may not be surprised at how frequently this occurs. Two, As soon as you think you've seen absolutely every possible way you can use either ( Read more... )

Darren Hayes mashing Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like A Hole" into "Break Me Shake Me".

I think my brain just broke from sheer joy.

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I haved scoured the internet for this song and come up blank. Even the iTunes store doesn't have it. Thus, I must turn to you all.

First person to track down an .mp3 of this gets a ficlet. I'm not even kidding. I know I owe unboundscribe  ( Read more... )

Today is 'scare the noobs' day for the Education program on campus.

Okay, okay. Technically, it's a pre-orientation. Their honest-to-goodness orientation comes in August. What happens today is that our current class, who has all but finished save for some paperwork, and next year's class all get together and talk shop for a couple hours. The current ( Read more... )

Dearest flist, I would like to propose a purely theoretical experiment here.

Let us say that there is a mutant who has the uncontrolled ability to absorb the powers, memories, and general life-force of anyone he makes skin-to-skin contact with. Let us refer to him for the remainder of this experiment as Andrew.

For the sake of this experiment, let's ( Read more... )

Flist, Romans, Countrymen? Lend me your expertise.

My genderswapped X-Fic came a-callin’ today. And Riley!Muse is kind of scaring the hell out of me.

To borrow a format from Katt…

Percy: *flipping through paperwork, attempting to be productive*

Riley: AHEM.

Percy: Yes?

Riley: You need to talk to him. NOW.

Percy: Who?

Riley: Playin’ dumb don’t suit ( Read more... )

Ended up caving and purchasing “Wolverine/Gambit: Victims”. It was one of those things I didn’t know I needed until I actually held it in my hands while stocking the graphic novels at work. Better yet, it was marked as $24.99. It came up as $21.99 before my employee discount. Fifteen bucks for a hardcover collection? Oh hell yes I’ll pay that.

Now ( Read more... )

A conversation begun with Kelly has made me realize that I actually have a fandom wishlist.

Let me be clear from the start -- I don't mean this as an "OMG GUYS SOMEONE WRITE THIS FOR ME" list. This is an "If you see anything of this sort in your fandom travels, please pass it along because HOLY CRAP I'd love you for it" list.

Now that we have that ( Read more... )

Body? You suck. Quit it with the crapping out and the stupid, plzkthnx ( Read more... )

Watched the Wolverine and the X-Men Episode "Aces and Eights" the other night.

While I now fully understand where the whole Polaris/Gambit bit is coming from, I think I'm far more intrigued by the Scarlet Witch/Gambit dynamic. Seeing as Gambit and Rogue, my bulletproof OTP, have yet to actually share screen time, I think it's a damn good runner up.

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Friends?

Comrades?

Platonic loves of my life?

I have a favour to ask of you all.

See, once I was finished working on my papers and crap this weekend, I started writing my first fanfic in the Wolverine and the X-Men universe. I'm rather fond of the concept, and I think there's some good bits in there, but I could really, really, really use a beta to ( Read more... )