Title: Reasons to Stay
Pairing: Spock/McCoy
Words: 1525
Rating: R?
A/N: I've been writing, in this fandom, a hell of a lot of Kirk/McCoy, and a girl's got to keep her NoTPer muscles in shape, right? Plus, I liked the prompt: McCoy and Spock are together, but McCoy worries that inevitably, like in the other timeline, Spock will be drawn to Jim. Spock logically explains why not. Modified slightly from the anon posting made there late last night.

( Reasons to Stay )

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...because the server being overwhelmed is messing with your carefully-allotted Christmas Day Yuletide Reading Time™

ETA: Now with unborked code... *eyeroll at self for laziness of checking*

I would like to just note that lots and lots of fests are ongoing and you may not have had time to read everything in them, especially things posted in the whirlwind days leading up to today, or in the days that were festival days for you, if Christmas isn't your area. In lots of fandoms. I played this year in Daily Deviant's Kinky Kristmas (HP, all smut, het and slash and other); SGA Santa (SGA (obviously), het and slash and other), Happy Trekmas (Trek, reboot and otherwise but mostly reboot, slash-only); Space Wrapped (all Kirk/McCoy, all holiday-themed), and Smutty Claus (HP, all smut, het only).

And that's just the ones I wrote for (unless there is one more which is totally possibly, hello overcommitment), but there are plenty of others--Snupin Santa, Snapely Holidays (those are both DW and IJ and LJ, I think), HP Yule balls, Bestmates (Harry/Ron), HD Holidays (Harry/Draco)... I'm sure there are quite a few others in HP alone, much less in other fandoms I see all y'all mention.

So, you know, while the AO3 folks are knocking themselves out over there, if your reading time is now, hey, stuff to read! [Not that I don't want comments on things I wrote for yuletide, but I mean, I also want the grocery store not to have closed a lot earlier than I thought last night and me to have, um, stuff I need for the cooking today, but no, so making do and seeing what happens is the theme of the day anyway, heh]

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This year for Yuletide I wrote my original, three real pinches, and five treats. In essentially seven different genres of source material (arguably eight).

It is possible I am not right in the head.

I uploaded the last pretty much at the stroke of midnight.

*waits for archive to open*

Is it time yet?

...

now?

...

NOW?

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You guys, I am in the middle of writing, as a yuletide treat, what may well be the wrongest thing I have ever, ever written.

*\o/*

(it's fine; it's what the request asked for)
(no seriously, SO not right)
(bleaches computer)

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So, Shapely Prose...

I don't actually agree full-bore with everything she says all the time, because I do think there is a relationship, if not quite the one(s)* being pushed by large chunks of society, between weight/food and health, but I also think that given how prevalent those social messages are, having some voices that are a little over the top on the other side is probably all to the good.

Anyway, today she talks about the effort to have kids not leave Santa cookies because cookies are a sometimes food, and the comments, in which people write letters to Santa and tell him why he can't have cookies, may have me falling off my chair with giggle. Possibly repeatedly.

*The messages I think are bad are: 1. fat people are unethical and weak and probably pathetic; 2. fatness and weight can be measured and talked about in absolutes even in the absence of other data; 3. only thin people are pretty. The messages I wish we spent more time on are: 1. feeling well and strong are worthy goals and sometimes but not always weight management/reduction is a part of reaching them; 2. the ethics of consumption are about sustainability and sharing of resources, not about fatness; 3. beauty isn't about skirt size.

Nothing about any of that should be taken as a criticism of the efforts I am aware many people who might read this have made to change their own bodies.

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Title: Conspiracy
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Words: 1600
Rating: PG
A/N: I know, shocking lack of porn. Sry. Established Kirk/McCoy, shortly post-XI.

( Conspiracy )

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Title: Edible Tattoos
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Rating: NC17
Warnings: none
Word Count: ~2150
Summary: Jim has a plan, involving edible Christmassy tattoos.
A/N: Written for Space Wrapped, a Kirk/McCoy Christmas countdown comm. So, I've been awake a lot lately (no, I mean a LOT) and am all screwed up for time. I had one fic I started for this, and then I realized it was getting all involved and there was no way it was getting done today, so I though, okay, but I can always do porn, short and sweet, right? And then the porn developed other traits, like possibly oversugary sweetness.

(and hoping she doesn't notice the plagiarism) (am kidding. Beth, I am plagiarizing you. Sry.)

No, I'm just a little too sleepystupid to be more coherent on my own, and she says all the things I mean to, so.

Anyway.

Take a look at this charming news from synecdochic about LJ's decision to make Gender a mandatory field and only allow the options 'Male' or 'Female.'

Even if I didn't have friends who identify as transgender or genderqueer, I'd still be disgusted by LJ's shortsighted and, quite frankly, hateful decision, because...what will our next mandatory binary choice be? “Black or White?” “Christian or Atheist?” How many ways can you imagine you being written out of the equation?

Read the relevant linked posts, consider changing your gender listing to unspecified' while you still can (if you haven't already done it), and consider – one more time – whether it might not be smarter to leave LJ once and for all.


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Part not from Beth: so, in following links, it seems pretty clear the intent is probably targeting for ads, which, yeah, hi, I don't actually want pop-ups and flash ads in the first place? but oh my GOD do I ever not want ads that guess what I will like based upon my biological gender, because, and I swear this is not a slam against those of you who are fond of cosmetics and shoes, but I am not one of you, and I already tolerate 837456826345 pages of less-intrusive nonblinky ads for these and similar in magazines more aimed toward women. Not that I want to see more ads for trucks, either, but I'm more likely to buy a truck than a truckload of shoes. Anyway. This shit is not binary, sorry, and I know there is a whole industry of people who try to take demographics and break them down this way and I know that by and large, they see trends and averages and it works well enough for them, but it doesn't work well enough for me, and I can't imagine I'm so very unusual that my frequent irritation at assumptions made along these lines is totally off the end of the curve.

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EDIT: There are now addenda to the original post in which the US GM asserts this was all a test thing and they really had no such intent. I think that's ass-covering, but as long as the outcome is Not Do That, okay. *Waits for next time they do a code push*

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Heh, yesterday, in a locked post (locked because it was mostly about other kinds of content), I said something to the effect that we were now in the annual period of impatience, in which we wait for fic both by and for self to post at various fests.

This morning, fic for me is up at both Happy Trekmas [here] and Smutty Claus [here is the fic; the Smutty_Claus post at LJ is here].

Either I have a superpower (in which case, I probably should use it more directly for good rather than for making the world eject fic for me), or I am the beneficiary of entertaining serendipity.

:D

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Today's Bridge2Sickbay prompts were all images. I did some other drabbles and stuff, but here, you get one with babies, and one with ow.

Title: Child Development
Prompt: Spock, Uhura: a picture of two babies in a spilled-over box of packing peanuts
Words: 350, sappy.

( Child Development )

I have had a stupid day.

Stupid week, actually. Some of the factors have been household drama, broken things, and a lot of medicine with not nearly enough sleep.

I believe this calls for a round of increasing general cheer. So. Drabbled*-within cards, anyone? No particular reciprocity expected, required, or anticipated.

I will need a character and a prompt (HP or Trek Reboot or original if you wanna see what my cracked head comes up with), and I tend to like prompts that are single words or short phrases, though a couple single words is fine and if you MUST use a quote, just know I am at least as likely to take it out of context as in. ;) And obviously I will need an address and a handle I can write on the envelope that will both get to you and not freak anyone out.

I have some cards that are Christmas-specific, and some that are non-denominational; if this is critical to you, please to note. I make no promise whatsoever that I will get them mailed by Friday, so they are likely, at least some of them, to be late. Late December or January cheer is good, too, right? Right! *nods*

Onward, then. Comments are screened (and clearly I can't answer any of them as that would unscreen them). Just in this case, I am disabling comments on the other sites so as to put all the comments in one place.

If I get *horribly* overwhelmed, I will note accordingly. But, I mean, hey, cards will go on sale in a couple of weeks, and FEBRUARY cheer is ALSO good.


*If I'm hand-writing, it's likely I will not do exactly 100 words. I mean, I might, but just saying. You might get a limerick. Or a bunch of haiku. Or a word puzzle, for all I know.

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Meme is: please comment to tell me, If I came with a warning label, what would it say?

Flora's addendum is: please, feel free to build upon other people's answers and generally be ridiculous. I has the snot and lung-ick, and require entertaining.

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Title: Best Seat in the House
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Rating: PG
Words: 400
A/N: One of today's Bridge2Sickbay teenyfics. Prompt was Best seat in the house.

( Best Seat in the House )

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Do you know what is super wrong with my response to this item from regretsy?

Go look; I'll wait.

It's that when I glanced at it, after observing the title "This is how we love," the silhouette I saw was Jar-Jar Binks on the right, and my immediate problem with this as a representation of love was that Padme's hair is never all stringy like that, and Anakin's is never long enough to be like that.

BRAIN.

WHAT THE.

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Title: Stop to Think
Character: Amanda
Words: ~950
Rating: PG or so but gen
Warning: risky pregnancy issues, which may be painful to some. In case you need outcome information in that regard: *it's all fine in the end*
A/N: Initially posted here for Where No Woman's current drabblefest. The prompts this time are quotes from movies, and the prompt I used was (Your scientists) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

( Stop to Think )

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This morning I woke from a very involved dream about making cookies. Lots of kinds of cookies, with chocolate and nuts and drop cookies and bar cookies and vanilla and mint and mmmm, but most especially this variant on sugar cookies with this frosting that was magically shape-able like fondant, only didn't taste godawful and also was soft and yummy.

Also in the dream, at one point I was repeatedly following Gwen out of Camelot and losing her at some sort of weird hidden path that went on the side of the boulder that didn't exist; I would come back and 1. make more cookies, and 2. listen to additional/ongoing discussion on the importance of calling in the right people to resolve the problem when there are unusual incidents at work (with worksheets and group activities and all the other trappings of an all-day training on something lame), and then follow her again (and lose her again), and so on.

Then, more cookies.

I cannot tell you how sad I was to find no cookies whatsoever in my kitchen on getting up. The lecture on public-safety calls I was okay not to find underway, but. Cookies! I can practically taste them, and yet, they are not here. Also not here: Camelot. *wail*

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Fic for exchange: making me seriously crazy with just the very last little bit of it resisting like I'm asking it to give me all its candy and it's a two-year-old with a sugar fetish and a high degree of fondness for the word no.

Rar.

However, here, let me give you a ficlet from the kink meme from a few days ago. :D

Title: Twice as Nice
Words: ~675
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy/Spock
Warnings: none, I think.
A/N: For this prompt (Kirk/McCoy/Spock DP, bottom McCoy making whimpering sounds). As you might find unsurprising for a kink meme fill, this is straight-up porn.

( Twice as Nice )

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Title: The Needs of the Revolted
Pairing: Sarek/OFC
Rating: NC17
Words: ~800
Warning: dubious consent
Summary: The kink meme prompt was for Sarek to get tired of his people talking smack about Amanda and Vulcanishly telling them to stick it. However, as it was on the kink meme, there is sex.
A/N: I have fooled with this a bit more (largely for clarity) since posting it over there last night while I was taking a break from the more substantial fic that is currently taunting me.

I appreciate your industrious hacking away at the (somewhat-past-)due fic, but some of these errors of logic and departures from expectation as you go along are a bit ridiculous.

For instance, "building" and "bukkake" (of which there is none expected in this fic) are really quite not at all the same thing, and are not interchangeable.

Pls to type what (and only what) the brain says now.

Thx,
Me.

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Two weeks' worth of bridge2sickbay drabbles and teenyfics. Prompts are the cut tags. There are 21 different things here (good grief) in 5300 words.

Last week the prompts were single words.

( Scotty/Gaila - Brownies (100 words) )
( Kirk/McCoy - Romance (300 words) )
( Kirk/Spock/McCoy/Uhura - Complete (250 words) )
( Kirk/Gaila - Cartography (150 words) )
( Author's Choice - Ring (Gaila/Joanna, 450 words) )
( George/Winona - Dance (450 words, ouchy) )
( Kirk/McCoy - Issues (125 words and Flora being a smartass and using an archaic definition) )
( Ensemble - Home (Spock-centric, 250 words) )
( Author's Choice - Bear (Jim and Joanna, 550 words) )
( Kirk/Spock - Brief (250 words) )
( Pike/Nero - Intimacy (550 words, ouchy) )

One match, as usual, but two other things I expect I could get up to speed to write, if I panic about the nature of that which I am assigned.

Although, uh, I don't think I will. *\o/*

Yuletide author: please note I posted my letter a couple days ago; scroll down. Also, it's tagged.

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WTF. Summary: students were saying "Meep" too much, so school administrators banned the word and threatened suspensions. Okay, seriously? I am so not a troublemaker, and I would be seriously inclined to simply invent and promulgate a new non-word for whatever disruptive purpose, were I met with this. For instance, "Merble."

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I missed most of bridge2sickbay's "TV shows" theme yesterday, but I got back for the last little bit, and made up for it by writing four 100-word drabbles in the last two rounds. Two of them to the same prompt. Heh.

Each of them is 100 word even, and none of them are porny. Cut tags are the prompts; recall that in this context, the / in the prompt does not imply relationship as it does elsewhere.

( Ensemble - Sesame Street (this one is McCoy) )

( Kirk/Spock - Jeopardy )

( Ensemble - Sesame Street (this one is Spock and Bert) )

( Pike/McCoy - Law and Order )

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I forgot to link last night!

Title: Up to So Much No Good
Pairing: This is a little complicated. Harry's involved, and there are mentions of Charlie, Percy, Ginny, Snape, Kingsley, McGonagall, George, Hermione...
Theme: Costumes
Warnings: faux, or possibly real, sibling incest; anonymous sex
Words: ~1400
Rating: Quite NC17

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At least one person can't see the comments on the Baseball AU fic most of the time.

Even if you don't want to read the fic, it'd be nice if I could know if it's just her, or if there's actually a problem to report.

Fic is here. It's long, but at the moment there are a handful of comments. If you don't mind clicking, could you let me know if you can/can't see them, and if not, if there's anything unusual about your browser/viewer/whatever? If there's any common thread, I figure that's something the support folks need to know.

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