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Back from a much-needed vacation. I've barely glanced at LJ for the past week, so if anything noteworthy was posted, please let me know.

Meanwhile, I'm pleased to return with a Thing for this week: a SV ficlet. Once again dipping into the 69 Love Songs project.

Title: Love Song #29: Grand Canyon
Author: slinkling
Fandom: Smallville
Rating: PG
Length: 600 words
Notes: Unbeta'd, and it probably shows. Oh well. The Magnetic Fields song which inspired this ficlet can be heard here, at the top of the second page. It's one of my favorite sad songs; go listen. Music uploaded by the very generous disprove.

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( Lex isn’t the one who’s changed. )

1) kassrachel pointed out this article about a new Joss Whedon TV series starring Eliza Dushku. That’s just nifty.


2) I’ve just listened to a cover of “Don’t Fear The Reaper” by Nick Cave and Enya. It was wrong in many, many ways. But still, the fact that Nick Cave and Enya entered a recording studio together -- and the world didn’t end, despite the coming together of musical matter and anti-matter -- is really kind of cool. Even if the results of their collaboration are scarier than this reaper I’m not supposed to fear.


3) So I go offline for two weeks, and J.K. Rowling outs Dumbledore. (Coincidence? Yeah, probably.) There’s an interesting essay in the NYTimes about Dumbledore’s sexuality and whether or not it matters (you’ll have to register with the Times to read it, but it’s free). I’m particularly intrigued by this paragraph:

Her heroes are the hybrids, the misfits, those of mixed blood, all bearing scars of loss and love: the half-giant Hagrid, the mudblood Hermione (whose parents were not wizards), the poverty-stricken Ron, the orphaned Harry. Perhaps speaking of Dumbledore as gay was just a matter of creating another diverse rebel against orthodoxy.

Go down the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix and you get yet more examples: the werewolf Lupin, the uncertainly gendered Tonks, the estranged-from-his-evil-family-and-wrongly-imprisoned-for-twelve-years Sirius, etc. So far, so good. But it seems to me – and I preface this by saying that I’ve never been into Potterverse slash, so I don’t have a vested interest in proving this one way or the other – but anyway, it seems to me like this is all an eloquent argument in favor of the gayness of Draco. ( Cut for VERY vague DH spoilers. )


4) I watched SV 7.04 and 7.05 -- "Cure" and "Action" -- yesterday. Holy crap, Smallville! Two really good episodes in a row! With clever plots and juicy Clex scenes and seriously fascinating canonical meta! Dare I hope that this is a trend? ( Some spoilery comments follow. )


5) “Action” has inspired a wee little addition to my 69 Love Songs project. It’s a bit dopey, I admit. But it had to be done. (I am, as always, Lex’s bitch.)

( Love Song #34: My Only Friend  )
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Gacked from astolat: When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

These are all SV, shockingly enough. Some of them might actually get finished someday.

( partial Love Songs and incomplete AUs )

I've seen people do such fantastic things with this meme lately. It looks like way too much fun; I just have to play too.

Name a character (from a show I'm familiar with) and I'll give you three (or more) facts about them from my personal canon/fanon.

Note: I'm actually familiar with more shows than I've fangirled about in here. And I'm kind of curious to see what happens if I stretch my fandom wings a bit. So for purposes of this meme, possibilities include SV, BtVS, Sports Night, Firefly, MASH, The West Wing (first two season only), and Slings & Arrows (ditto).

I have to admit, when I began this I really wasn't sure if I'd be able to come up with little bits o' porn (pornlets?) for 14 days in a row. But I'm very nearly at the end! Woo!

Anyway, here, have some more of ( For We Are the King of the Boudoir. )

One more day of angst, and then, I promise, something happier. Today's piece could be read as a companion to yesterday's, if you choose. Or maybe they take place in different universes. I can't decide.

( Love In the Shadows. )

Today has gotten away from me; I'd meant to post this earlier. Also to reply to comments, which I'm running behind on. Whoops.

Anyway, here's another installment of ( Love In the Shadows. )

One last day of this theme; tomorrow we'll go to a darker place.

Today, however, we're still in The Night You Can't Remember.

Please note, today's vignette contains spoilers for "Shattered" and "Asylum" (SV 3.8 & 3.9). Given the theme, you knew I had to go there, right?

( The Night You Can't Remember )

I finally saw "Labyrinth" and "Crimson" yesterday. I thought "Crimson" was terrific ( and I'm cutting for spoilers. )

"Labryinth" was a big disappointment; I could point to specific reasons why, but mostly it just came down to bad, bad writing. It annoyed me as I watched it, but it did at least inspire today's vignette, which has me once again playing with the theme, The Night You Can't Remember.

Note: this is an AU scene for "Labyrinth" (SV 6.12) and probably won't make much sense if you haven't seen the episode. ( If it had gone like this, I'd have liked it a lot more. )

'Tis I, the friendly porn fairy, here to bring you your daily moment of clex. But first, if I can just vent for a second -- I was downloading the newest episode of SV and had gotten 325 out of 350 MB and then it crashed and went kablooie. And due to satellite pissiness, I can't try again until tomorrow. And the exact same thing happened last week. AAAAAARRRGGGGHH.

Ahem. Just had to get that out of my system.

Anyway, here's one last installment of Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits; tomorrow I'll start on a new theme. ( Click me, baby. )

At the request of allzugern, I'm now tagging these posts, so if you'd like an easy way to revisit my 14 days of porn, follow the link for february smut.