The Same Watari As Always

Kyou Kara Maoh/Tiger & Bunny crossover art by lynndyre.

They would RULE THE WORLD and you know it!

I need to put together a Yuletide reveal post, huh.

Anyway! The DW journal has been hit pretty hard by spam in the past day and a half, so anonymous comments are now screened. As pretty much no one comments anonymously but spammers, I don't think anyone will even notice, but if you are a human, sentient mutant, or friendly alien, please don't take it personally.

My last h/c bingo post of 2011! There's at least one story left once I get it in shape for amnesty. Thanks to lindentreeisle for betaing. Spoilers for Gojyo's backstory; angsty and kind of dark. It's the free choice square and I chose "Abandonment."

( Jien's face was whiter than Gojyo had ever seen it )

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating! Happy Movies Day to everyone else. ;-)

Time to thank/recognize my gift fics:

Captive Monsters actually went up a few days ago. It's a Weiss Kreuz AU by daegaer, and is just as awesome as all her fics (and uses a very clever conceit).

Understanding is a lovely drabble with Yohji and Omi by vr2lbast.

And then Yuletide! I still don't have my notification email, but realized I could find my fic if I looked under "My Gifts." I landed on the pinch hit list and for the first time got two stories, and they're both great!

boring is a relative state of mind is American Horror Story fic, set after the conclusion of the first season. It features Violet, one of my favorite characters from canon (and maybe the only sensible one), and does a great job of looking at her mental state after everything she's been through. I was a bit worried about getting fic in this fandom after all the twists and turns canon took, but this is just perfect. ♥ EDIT: Also this was a late addition to the pinch hit list and you totally can't tell, it's beautifully constructed.

A Practical Method of Italian Singing is a treat, and what a treat! It features the two ladies who basically run off together towards the end of The Count of Monte Cristo. (You can read this one without knowing the canon but then it's a bit spoilery.) It's so clever, and there's music theory and historical context and it's pretty perfect too. ♥

Thanks to everyone who wrote for me!

Stolen from rosehiptea with one change:

Tell me a pairing you know I ship (or have shipped, or have written, or that you think is funny) and I'll tell you...

1. who is the big spoon/little spoon
2. what is their favorite non-sexual activity
3. who uses all the hot water in the morning
4. what they order from take out
5. what is the most trivial thing they fight over
6. who does most of the cleaning
7. who controls what they watch on TV
8. who's the one to always push to go out for a change
9. who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
10. who steals the blankets
11. who leaves their stuff around
12. who remembers to buy the milk
13. who remembers anniversaries

If these questions seem wildly inappropriate for some couple you're thinking of you can still ask and I'll do my best! If I really can't sail on the ship in question for whatever reason, I'll ask you for something else.

I've had some new folks friend me lately (HIIIII) so just for the record, you are always welcome to comment/request things, whether I've friended/followed you back or not. ♥ I just try to keep the flist at a manageable rate.

I keep forgetting to link these.

For ladies_fest on LJ, I wrote post-Scott Pilgrim Knives Chau.

And for saiyuki_wk_au, I wrote Vampire Stripper Gojyo, which I finally cleaned up and posted to AO3 with help from emungere.

My first weiss_kreuzmas fic is done too! And Yuletide is coming....

Thank you, writer! I love Yuletide and am happy I am participating again this year (I took last year off).

Here are some things I like: Humor, drama, snark, romance, smiling in the face of absurdity. (You can probably tell from my requests.)

Here are some things I don't like: Character bashing/needless sideswipes at characters, noncon. I read some dubcon but am weirdly fussy about it, so if you don't already know me it'd probably be easiest not to write it.

I am agnostic about porn: if you want to write it, great! If you don't want to write it, great! I have indicated pairings in my requests where I have them but I like gen too. (In fact, Yuletide is one of my favorite places to get my gen fic.)

I love friendship, found families, and all the fandoms I nominated. Thank you so much for writing for me this year!

( Fandoms under the cut, if anyone cares )

SECOND EDIT special bonus for my writer if they're writing AHS and the crazy roller coaster that is ongoing canon.

Yeah, this show has gone crazy, Jossed expectations several times, and has me still uncertain about Tate. But that's okay! I trust you, Yuletide writer. IT WILL BE OKAY.

THIRD BONUS EXTRA ROUND: New updates regarding AHS under the cut, as I saw my name on the pinch hit list.

Oh, Ouka, you so pushy. I MISS YOU SO MUCH. I was actually going to watch an earlier episode but then I decided I'd rather watch Ouka boss Omi around. Because yes.

it's just important to spend as little time as possible actually looking at the screen

If you've missed it, there's a discussion at yuletide with horse-trading of nominations here. I am torn between Petshop of Horrors, Chintsubu, and Legal Drug, so if anyone's planning on nominating any of those or all of them so I could nominate American Horror Story, weigh in now!

(Make sure you also don't miss the poll about the nominating/writing window.)