Fic fests, kink, cake, and the weather.

[bironic]

Happy news, for some of us:

1. Remix signups are open. Each year I fear what I'll be assigned, but I'm three for three now, so that must mean something, right?

2. Getcher automatically generated Kink Bingo cards here. I am excited, although who knows whether I'll be able to follow through with a whole bingo. My card contains tentacles again (!), and medical play (I have a House WIP I want to finish for this), and consent play (a secret favorite of mine; and I've been wanting to do a story where it is clear from the beginning that the participants are playing, with mutual consent and enjoyment; none of that 'surprise, it wasn't a real attack!' stuff), and other goodies. It would be great if I could find a way to write in some fandoms I haven't shared online before, like DS9 or BtVS or the Vampire Chronicles.

2a. I feel like I've posted mostly gen and vanilla or ordinary kink (i.e. bondage) slash here, but I thought about it while glancing at people's Bingo cards and realized I've done some weird edited 2011, for and with sensitivity: a surprising variety of stuff, often unintentionally: bestiality, double penetration, aphrodisiacs, bizarre object insertion, facial/bukkake, biting/vampires, scars; and, in stories offline, suspension, consent play, student/teacher, god/mortal, celebrity/fan, alien/human, guard/prisoner, virginity, electrodes, bloodplay, gang bang, and humiliation. Huh.

3. Now is the time to leave House/SGA crossover prompts for the upcoming Porn Battle. That semiannual 'fest has been great for not only generating lots of PWPs in many fandoms but also stimulating me (heh) to produce a few new ficlets of my own, often after a dry spell (heh heh). Hopefully this round will be no exception, even with my daytime hours out of commission.

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On the walk home before from the bus stop, the clouds over half the sky looked lumpy underneath, like bubble wrap with the big bubbles. But nothing's come of it. We must have only caught the tip of the system. Too bad, because it was horribly sweltery today, and D.C. gets great thunderstorms.

Second day of work today; first full day. Place and people seem nice. There's enough work to keep me busy, and they're encouraging me to take on what I find interesting. The hours are also flexible, and it's seven hours a day (eight if I want a full hour for lunch, which most of the time I won't), not nine. What a change from my last company. Not having LJ/email access is going to be a good thing, too; I'm focused, not tempted to stall with easier, more comfortable, irrelevant stuff, and there's a neat little collection of posts and messages to read when I get home. (Though I did smile to myself when the two-hour security training I completed this morning warned multiple times against accessing or transmitting sexually explicit materials.)

I melted part of a spatula-turner-thing yesterday. Note to self: Gas stoves burn hotter than electric, and scraping stainless steel pans with nylon utensils is not recommended. It was my—subleaser's?—spatula, too, so I'm going to have to replace it with the same model before I move out.

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It is very weird, and wonderful, to see one's sister appear in a YouTube video a stranger took from the audience of a David Cook show. It's a funny clip, actually. A cake is thrown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZj5Qsme48

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I am very excited about Remix! And have actually just signed up for kink_bingo, too, though don't hve a card yet. I haven't done it before, so I'm curious to see what it's like. My initial aim is to complete a single line of bingo -- a whole card seems way too ambitious, but who knows. *g*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

A single line was too much for me over a whole year! Hee. It's exciting to hear that you're giving it a whirl. You've done dandily with off-the-cuff (so to speak) kink prompts before, so I'm sure this will be a cinch. Bingo is great because you have a lot of control over what you choose to write. Definitely looking forward to what you might come up with.

[roga.livejournal.com]

YAY REMIX! And yay for work being good! How's the weather there? (Totally random question, but I'm curious :-))

Hahaha, that video is awesome. Was your sister part of the stage crew? In any case, very cute :-)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

She's on the tour; I'm not sure exactly what her official title is. :)

It was lovely here yesterday, in the seventies, but today it went into the nineties and it was humid. Bleh. A few of us had to walk ~15 minutes to get to an awards ceremony and it was just gross.

Yay Remix!

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Remixremixremixremixremix!

I am, uh, possibly somewhat enthused. Y'know. A bit. *cough*

I wasn't going to do kink bingo and then you linked me right there. How's a person supposed to resist a link? *awaits card*

Glad the job's going well!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Remix! You are awesome at it and I look forward to what you cook up.

How's a person supposed to resist a link? Or a kink? Truly, irresistible.

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

(I cracked up at "automatically generated." more like, handcrafted painstakingly in photoshop! but, yes, you mean randomly generated, yes.)

that's the kind of realisation, the I-already-write-kink realisation, that I think a lot of people have - and it's one that I had myself last year when I started saying "Well, if I was going to write amputee fetishism, I'd give John a robot arm, and then . . . oh, wait, I wrote that." I love it because it makes me more aware of what the pleasures are in the fics that I write. :)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Heh. I realized I wrote kink, but I didn't realize exactly what kinks I was also writing along the way. Like, yes, I wrote a tentacle story and I was proud of it, but suddenly in retrospect there were also bestiality and facials in it. Weeeird.

Oh, wow, I didn't realize the work involved in making the cards. For some reason I equated the randomness with some level of automat...icity. No longer shall I slight the mods' toil. :)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You can borrow have one of our nine gazillion heat-resistant spatula thingies.

\o/ \o/ \o/

Also WOOT remix!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks! I may still have to buy a replacement that's the same model, though. Looks like I'm headed to Target again....

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You inspired this ficlet I wrote for Zulu. XD

[musicisbelievng.livejournal.com]

I think there's still cake on those pants. Maybe I should do laundry?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Unless you want to be a creepy stalky superfan who's all OMG HE TOUCHED THESE PANTS I'M NEVER WASHING THEM AGAIN.

[musicisbelievng.livejournal.com]

After being on the tour with him for almost 4 months, I think I'm good. I'm just lazy.

[musicisbelievng.livejournal.com]

Those fans, BTW, steal his half-drunk water bottles.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

:-/