then there are blackbirds

fandomaid is doing a buy it now fundraiser to support those affected by Typhoon Haiyan (donation information here). Since I'm usually terribly slow about filling fic requests*, I've offered 3 sets of up to 25 icons here (A:TLA, Saving Face, Love Actually, Star Trek Reboot, or non-fandom).

*Speaking of which, I am still working on the treat meme prompts. My writing-brain is slow to start, ugh.

+ Bloomberg's speech re: the mosque at Ground Zero.
+ briar_pipe: This is a health PSA. (That vaccination-causes-autism myth SO NEEDS TO DIE, UGH.)
+ Via Repeating Islands: TROIKA's new project looks amazing!
+ UHURAFEST. I do not have time to do this one, but Star Trek people, you totally should! ;)
+ sophinisba wrote My Best Kept Secret, which is asdf;lkjasd;lfkj SO CREEPY AND SO INCREDIBLY GOOD. &hearts Also, Merlin/Freya!
+ Seen via network, art by Huang Youwei. *______*
+ Shadow of the Templar fans: if you haven't seen it already, there is a new lacuna for Double Down HERE. ;)

In other news, I can has a such_heights today! \o\ /o/ *\o/* :D

Link-basket today, since I cannot think.

+ rawles: a quick note (erasing women from the narrative is never feminist)

+ ephemere: What we remember (on Imelda Marcos; Listen: every time you reduce Imelda to frivolity and excess, you spit on countless unnamed graves.)

+ yeloson: Privilege hates, but doesn't know what hate is

+ fiction_theory: The internet IS real life

+ deepad: On talking and not about Israel and Palestine

+ crossedwires: Red Cliff Part I icons! SO SHINY, omg. *___*

+ damned_colonial: Wiscon vid party playlist

+ nextian: where you got lost, how you got by; Star Trek reversebang; Sulu(/Chekov) is AWESOME. &hearts

+ magnetic_pole: Air Heart; HP; stunning; young McGonagall learns to fly.

+ Book 21 of imaginarybeasts (aka edition: WUXIAAAAAAAAAA) is up! *\o/*

+ Thanks to Mynuet for the lovely remix! &hearts

Got done with Azula fic, or as good as done, and then realized I have timeline issues! /o\ (Brain spat it out in one big piece, but it might work better chopped in half? or bits?? or... augh.)

Also, I realize that I should probably put up another book-blogging post before I return to the library, but today is not going to be that day. Have some more Remix instead:

+ Merlin (+1 Firefly crossover)
- In My Place (the synchronised unicorns remix)
- To Command the Sea (the King of Camelot Remix)
- Talking Books and Burning Sticks (The Excellent Adventure Remix)
- Once and Future (the broken jaw of our lost kingdoms remix)
- Destroyer of Worlds
- Apple Princess (The Little Girls In Boxes Remix)

+ Star Trek:
- The Loudest Noise (affannato, affettuoso, agitato)
- Fleur de Lis (The Code of Honor Remix)
- Free, Freefalling (The Home Is Wherever I'm With You Remix)

And now I'm off to pick up some money! Money is good, especially when it's reimbursement money.

week of win, day 3;

It's a Trek-heavy kind of day, apparently!

+ Total Eclipse of the Heart- William Shatner and Lin Yu Chun

+ Zoe Saldana talks Spock/Uhura

+ An old interview with George Takei and Masi Oka:


+ Nano Trek!


+ For the New Yorkers: Columbia University's hosting a panel discussion on Asian Americans in the fashion industry this coming Sunday, as a part of APAAM (Asian Pacific American Awareness Month)! Tickets are only $5, and can be purchased here. (Some details can also be seen at angry asian man, for those of you who don't like Facebook.)

+ camelotsolstice reveals are up, which means I can tell you all that I wrote gang aft agley for netgirl_y2k (aka that gen/OT4 drunk!fic where Merlin and Morgana finally spill)! Also, I can now thank the small village it took to write this story: woldy, for the initial meandering conversation that I took inspiration from in the first place; kelene, who was there to cheerlead when it mattered most; ineffabilitea, who picked up on my faulty word choice/POV issues; and such_heights, who was an awesome beta-on-the-fly and thus put up with a far higher spam-quota than any human being should suffer. *g* &hearts to you all, and also to issahime, who wrote me Shiloh!

+ help_haiti ficlets are coming soon! I plan to finish writing both of them tonight. Anybody interested in looking them over, sometime within the next 24 hours? &hearts

+ I am to do quick book write-ups for yesterday's binge, and you are all to hold me to that, okay? *g*

+ In other news, bossymarmalade's got some awesome ficlets up! Star Trek and Holmes, among others; go and read! :D :D &hearts

+ In other other news, today's linkspam includes two interesting discussions on historical AUs: You don't have to go looking for this stuff, it just traipses across your reading page, you guys, by zvi, and History without oppression?, by naraht. These posts reminded me of sheafrotherdon's The Stories We Tell, although the fic that sparked that essay was in an entirely different fandom/historical context.

Coworker's played-list so far today has gone something like this: Lady Gaga --> Mary J. Blige --> Daughtry --> LOTR soundtrack (just another normal day in the lab...), therefore I give you meme responses. What? Randomness makes me think of random things.

OTP-meme answers so far:

heathershaped & eumelkeks asked for ( Merlin: )

such_heights and woldy asked for ( HP: )

ruffwriter asked for ( Havemercy-verse: )

moshesque asked for ( Saiyuki: )

I am totes willing to keep answering if you guys keep throwing fandoms at me! *g* I have LOTS of them. Also, have a rec! Via secretsolitaire: Between the Bars by hollycomb [Reboot; Sulu/Chekov; R]. IT IS GLORIOUS. GLORIOUS, I TELL YOU.

it is beautiful outside after yesterday's all-day Rain of Doom, so have a list of happy things:

- karanguni is killing me with Reboot goodness these days: New, and Stumbling Forward! &hearts &hearts &hearts SPOCK. LOVE. THAT IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
- i spent, uh, all of last night/this morning mainlining Darker than Black! MADE. OF. AWESOME. and also, OMG HEI &hearts &hearts &hearts *GLEEFACES* if any of you guys have watched the anime, BRING ON THE SQUEE. :D
- have started (finally) on one of my springkink fics! it is only exposition so far, but, uh, yay for exposition?? *g*
- it's partyteimz this weekend: random bbq invite of random to be followed by birthday party tonight, and then free outdoor salsa party tomorrow evening, with possible kayaking/park expedition in the afternoon! oh, summer, how i love thee.
- i went to the library today, for the first time in ages! borrowed for consumption either tonight or tomorrow in the park: Neil Gaiman's Stardust, Meredith Pierce's Darkangel (i have been meaning to reread this one for ages). \o/!

i hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to whymzycal! *\o/* *\o/* For you, a return to that eternal question: Is the goldfish cosmic, or is the cosmos a goldfish?

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Also, a couple of stories you may not have seen, following the theme of live long and prosper:
- Delta Delta Vega (or Dude, Bro) by zarathuse
- untitled commentfic (in progress?) of AWESOME by karanguni [ETA: This has now been COMPLETED and REPOSTED! To The Enterprise: of Warp Barriers, Captains, and Other Scary Things *\o/* *\o/* GO! READ!]

AND, while we're talking crazy futuristic shenanigans, take a look at Project Natal! THE GAMING OF THE FUTURE, IT IS HERE. AND AWESOME. And... talking to you from your screen, and reading the shit you doodle on your piece of non-virtual paper, and. Yeah. Um. Am I alone in thinking that's also kind of freaky as hell?

Anyway, I hope you had an amazing day! &hearts :D

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In other news, I signed up for Remix last night. Welcome back, insanity! &hearts