then there are blackbirds

Ugh... where did February go, and why didn't the cold weather start leaving with it??

Connection has been extra challenging lately! I haven't been writing much here, but it's not that I'm terribly busy- I just haven't had much to say. Life is rather horribly uninteresting outside of zouk at the moment and my fannish brain keeps running off to parts unknown unless reeled in by other people, so I've been sticking to chat, email, and Skype this past month. My one achievement was KagaNigou crackfic in which Kuroko is a Grey Warden, and that only happened because BPS chat is really good at enabling. :P (There will be more of it! I just need to think through some more KnB/Dragon Age crossover details before I continue.)

In other news: anybody have yarn store recommendations in the NYC area? Or favorite yarns? Seeing as this is the winter of my losing hats (including the one I crocheted over Christmas, sigh), I might as well go and make another one. Or two. Possibly three, if winter doesn't GO AWAY already.

♠ Kuroko 2x01: ( flail ) I am now reminded that I meant to make some more Kuroko icons! I never even got through S1 properly, s-sigh. /o\

♠ Now that Touch Pass has been revealed, I can thank Jiri for writing me Moral of the Story! Also, I can now say that I wrote contrapunctus (finally, I wrote a thing! Finally, I wrote a KnB thing!) and properly apologize for the youtube vortex of doom, ahaha. ^^; More linkspam after I've finally finished reading Touch Pass entries!

♠ It feels so good to be writing again. I am already plotting my next project, but throw me prompts anyway? Any fandom, though I do want to experiment more with KnB. :3

Have some links instead!

+ The LNYE 2012 Masterlist is up! Which means I can now admit that I wrote crossing over, heh. Thanks to terajk for the OTGaang ficlet & beccastareyes for the Appa hat! ♥

+ Via... someone on twitter I think, N.K. Jemisin: Dreaming Awake.

+ Water marble nail art tutorial, which I stumbled upon via a friend. This... never would've occurred to me, but I foresee future procrastination experiments. >.>

Happy Mother's Day, awesome moms in my circle! &hearts

Remix reveals are up! I wrote no returns or exchanges (the equilibration remix), which was probably PAINFULLY OBVIOUS to everybody who read it. (Also it is true I haven't exactly inhaled everything from the archive yet, but you may have noticed my crafty radio silence regarding A:TLA remix stories, so EVEN MORE PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, no? xD)

... and now I shall go back to rereading Stealing Harry & Laocoon's Children, because HELLO NOSTALGIA.

This weekend ended up as an unintended A:TLA marathon, because my dad was curious and started watching, and I am apparently as incapable of watching just one/a reasonable number of eps as he is! (Seriously, we're talking Friday night straight through Saturday here- the self-control thing, um, runs in the family? /o\)

THEREFORE. I declare trick-or-treat promptfest! Have at it, guys, I am SO ready for more. :D

eta:
- one-upmanship [Sokka, Zuko, Toph; G; "tough-guy bonding"] for whymzycal
- prep talk [Aang, Zuko, Mai; G; "Zuko and Aang being dorky bff leaders together"] for nan

Not finished with all the prompts yet, but I'm putting these up first as my brain has been decidedly derailed by the need to scream inside myself for a while. (crooked & zarathuse, I will get back to writing shortly! &hearts)

1. flip [A:TLA, Ty Lee & Azula, G] for wingstodust:
( Ty Lee's practicing her handstands after school when Azula comes in, scowling. )

2. unfortunate facial growths [HP, MWPP, "five o'clock shadow," G] for ruffwriter:
( Sirius. What is that on your face? )

3. that unnoticed, & that necessary [HP, Cho Chang, G] for gehayi:
( Lunar New Year falls on the day of a Hufflepuff-Gryffindor Quidditch match, )

4. truth, lies, & cabbages [A:TLA, Aang, Katara, cabbage merchant, "something to do with the Ember Island Players," G] for whymzycal:
( They're out buying ingredients for hotpot when Aang sees them: the most beautiful cabbages he could have imagined, sitting in the most dilapidated cart he's ever laid eyes on. )

5. hearthfire [A:TLA, Iroh, "lessons in preparing tea," G] for magnetic_pole & crossedwires:
( Now rinse out the pot and do it again, properly. )

Scrapping the current draft of the Azula fic as it needs a total rewrite, but I think this bit stands on its own. (Also goddamn, I need an Azula icon. *g*)

title: appetite
fandom: A:TLA
rating: G; no warnings.

( She devours knowledge the way lightning strikes: )

FINALLY, OMG.

Title: quid pro quo
Fandom: Good Omens
Rating: PG
Summary: Sometimes Aziraphale is more of a bastard than he lets on.
Notes: A very, very belated help_haiti ficlet for viggorlijah, whose prompt was baby in a jar. Thanks to such_heights for looking this over! &hearts You may want to skip this if you are squicked by mention of hands-on anatomical studies (not in the porn sense), embalming methods, and weird medical phenomena.

( Outside, the storm redoubled in force, sending rivulets of rainwater down the windowpanes. )

Title: gang aft agley
Recipient: netgirl_y2k
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Vaguely up to 2x03?
Summary: Arthur and Merlin are Not Talking; Morgana stages an intervention with help from Gwen. Gen/OT4.
Notes: Originally posted here. Many thanks to woldy, such_heights, kelene, and ineffabilitea for their invaluable assistance! This couldn't have happened without you all.

( Not for the first time, Morgana contemplated locking the two of them in the dungeons together until they'd managed to talk things out. )

SGH:SLDKFJ FINALLY, OMG. just two left, bbs!

title: the fair in the park by the sea in the dark
rating: pg
summary: for dogdaysofsummer, prompt day 29. also, apologies for any discombobulated-ness! /o\ (i wasn't originally planning to do this one; it sort of snuck up on me!)

( Sirius bounces impatiently, craning his neck to watch the (agonizingly slow) progress of the queue. )

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V IMPORTANT PS:
1. bigbangblackout is UP AND RUNNING, BBS! &hearts come and get your dose of Sirius.
2. fortassetu is BACK, Merlin ladies: A Remedy to Cure Something That Wasn't Ill In the First Place. GO FORTH AND SHOWER HER WITH LOVE, for lo! YE OLDE SEX POLLEN: Camelot now has it. xD