Bet he'll talk about the origin of the Live Long and Prosper hand

[bironic]

Attention once again, local people: Santa Claus Leonard Nimoy is coming to town. Specifically, to a temple in Rockville, MD, in May. You, too, can try for a ticket (general admission is double chai, $36).

\o/

In other news, I got my first and hopefully only sunburn of the season on Sunday while performing in the D.C. St. Patrick's Day parade. WTF, Washington. Sunburn in mid-March? Remind me why I moved here?

But it was cool to be in a parade. And cool to be one of the people being watched, doing those nifty-looking Riverdance-type steps, rather than one of the admirers.

In other other news, Vividcon snuck up on me. Deadlines for vid submissions start in about six weeks, I think. At least, Club Vivid submissions are due May 1; those are new vids set to dance songs, and they play them at a party at the con while people drink and dance and sort of half-watch the vids. I may try to do one.... There's a song I heard on the hip-hop station that I like, and that could work for a multifandom fight-as-dance thing. What I should do are any of the four or five serious vids I meant to do last year but haven't finished. Yet the idea of throwing something together to a beat is tempting. Will it break the dam so I can finish the others? Or will it get me all tied up in knots as usual because it's too ambitious an idea in too little time?

Here, have some fic recs. Fic fixes everything.

• The Wind on the Mountain by starlingthefool (Inception) - This one, you need to know the canon for. Really excellent story. Well-depicted platonic relationships all around, fascinating journey of discovery for Ariadne, hot Ariadne/Arthur/Eames in the first section.
• Jailbait!Arthur and the Joys of Anal Sex by five_ht (Inception) - And this one you don't need to know canon for. Slightly underage boy convinces young man to take him to bed. Hot hot. Lovely positions and sexual awakening.
• Slide by anonymous (SGA) - In which John offers himself to a dominant AU!Woolsey to protect his team, only it doesn't end up like that at all. BDSM. Issues of consent.
• Love of his Fucking Life by anonymous (SGA) - Tentacles and eroticized noncon. In which the city's metal probe slides in to conduct repairs, and John writhes in a confined pod - first for one reason, and then for another.
• ETA: Sugar Spell It Out by notfar (Glee) - A powerful story and a satisfying read. I've only seen a couple of episodes, but the character voices and tones -- especially Sue Sylvester's -- seemed pitch-perfect. Warning for underage noncon, not of the erotic variety.

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Hi! You dance?!

Eee, you rec awesomely.

*is hauled away by little children*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*stretches after you*

A bit, yeah. This is about my fourth-and-a-halfth year, cumulatively but not consecutively. This school I started at the end of September, I think, after a few years off.

I like Irish dance for many reasons, one of which is the loud noise you get to make with your hard shoes, another of which is the music, and a third of which is that I can't really dance otherwise; I am all elbows and self-consciousness, and in this kind you stand up straight and keep your arms at your sides and do what they tell you with your feet, and you don't have to spell out the alphabet with your hips. Although there are hilariously named moves, like "rise and grind" and "flirtation" and "stack-up." To name three from one group dance we learned yesterday.

[catilinarian.livejournal.com]

It is AWESOME that you were in the parade. It must have been a hell of a lot of fun! (Although I imagine it's pretty exhausting...)