without hesitation

Title: All for you
Artist: wallflowergirl@IJ kath_ballantyne @LJ
Media: Photoshop
Characters: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: nudity
Themes/kinks chosen: clamps
Artist's notes: Sorry I missed my original posting. I contacted the mods and they said to post it today.


( All for you )

Walked Juno, did 6 loads laundry, took Juno to the vet (time for a vaccine & also more heartworm med), and read a couple of novels. Now cooking beets (for me)and radishes (for SO) for dinner. Maybe will also make the little bit of broccoli; we've had the beans-and-greens 3 days running, so even though there's still lots, time for a break from those. Also have leftover baked chicken and noodles.

So, yeah. Basically a lazy day, in which no work for either teaching or school got done. I didn't even check those email accounts.

Have some fic to edit, and am gradually developing an idea for my Yuletide fic. Oh, and thanks to cruisedirector for the AO3 invite - of course now I have tons to upload, but that's the way it goes.

Day 09 → A photo you took
I like this subject much better than yesterday's.
( Read more... )

It's about that time, right? If you want a holiday card from me, comment with your mailing address (comments screened). I still have the mailing info of those who've given it to me in the past, but if your address has changed, make sure I have your new one! I sent out 40 cards last year; let's see if I can make it 50 this year. :D

Dear women in fandom,

Don't tell other women what they can and can't write. Don't tell them how they can and can't express their kinks.

Please keep in mind that when we write fanfic, we are writing fiction. We are exploring our fantasies, not demonstrating how our kinks work in real life.

If you don't like something you are reading, then backclick.

If you want to post a BDSM instruction manual drawing from your own, specific personal life experience than go for it! I'm sure a lot of people will be grateful and find it extremely informative.

But when I see one woman in fandom saying that she hopes a post will stop other women in fandom from writing a particular kink because it isn't written the way they personally want to see it written it make me furious with furious rage.

Especially if you are coming from the perspective of someone who lives a lifestyle that is frowned up and denigrated by greater society. You should know better. You don't try and stop other women from expressing their kinks in fiction. You don't tell them to do it "right" or shut up.

Women should not be trying to silence other women.

Given that, I challenge anyone who reads this and is interested to write and post BDSM fic in their LJ written exactly to their own personal kinks. Make it completely realistic, if that's what gets you going, or don't worry about making it realistic at all. Do it if you've got 10 years of experience in the BDSM community, do it if you're vanilla as hell in real life, do it as a celebration of the freedom we have in fandom to express ourselves exactly as we please through fiction.

Just don't tell other women what they should and shouldn't write and don't let anyone else tell you what you should and should't write.

...I love days like this :D

Awesome links that need to be shared because they are awesome:

• From caeseria, A Map of the Lands of Human Sexuality -- shared because it's lulzy and awesome (I find it charming that 'necrophilia' is further categorised into 'freshies' and 'moldies' :D :D :D). Sadly, it is not comprehensive, as it does not include my favourite kink, or gryffindor_j's favourite kink [yes, J, I've assigned you this as your favourite kink :D -- at least it's not waterports (sic.)]


• To all the Twihards Twi-mockers out there, grrliz has an excellent post about RPATTZ, and the fact that HP fen were mocking him (affectionately!) loooooooong before Twilight was so much as a glint in SMeyer's eye: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Opium Eater. A snippet to get you emotionally invested in reading it:
  

  cadiliniel on meeting him at Collectormania:

  cadiliniel: I have to ask – you know the scene in which you tell Harry about the prefects’ bathroom?
  Rob: Yeah…
  cadiliniel: Was it meant to sound like you’re coming on to Harry?
  Rob: [with perfect seriousness] Oh, yeah, definitely. There’s an outtake where I’m licking his ear.
  cadiliniel: Wow, really? You don’t happen to do anything like that with Krum, do you?
  Rob: [giggling by now] Yeah, there’s a hardcore sex-scene in there somewhere!

  And on the subject of Twi-anything, apparently a share of all of the profits from book/movie/sparkle!cock sales goes to fund SMeyer's (Mormon) religion -- the same one that splashes about a lot of money on anti-gay propoganda. I have done no research to evaluate this allegation, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, and if you need another reason not to spend money on Twistuff (other than the sparkle!cock, of course, because who could resist it?)


• I don't know which of you guys introduced me to Regretsy, but... I just can't look away O.o One of my favourite creations so far is this (work safe -- probably not brain safe) homemade cummerbund -- 'one of a kind' (and thank fuck for that!).


• I love Go Fug Yourself -- who doesn't? But can someone explain to me who Phoebe Price is, and why she's famous? I mean, her outfits are crackily lol-worthy, but I'm at a loss as to where I should know her from... I'd check Wiki, but she strikes me as the type to edit her own page :D


• athena8 is wonderful, and is translating the little notes that Minekura has done to accompany the pictures in SaltyDogVI over here (it's locked to the comm). My favourite (well, since I requested it and all :D ) is the note accompanying this image:
  

  She says this is a well used situation, but she likes it quite a bit, where a character is unable to keep his cool. She says it's easy and fun to draw characters in their unguarded states, and she likes Sanzo like this. In the line drawing, you can't see the bubblegum on Sanzo's face, making it look like he's just a kid who couldn't make a bubble, lol.

  Oh, ikkou. Aw.


• And finally, I've started writing a Saiyuki/HP crossover, with Sirius from HP (naturally) and from Saiyuki... Well, for now I'll just say that the working title for the fic is the Hogwarts motto -- Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus (or 'never tickle a sleeping [spoiler]') Watch this space! :D

This entry can also be read on my Dreamwidth Account, where the comment count so far is:

Thanks mandebooks for linking this:

Read online discussion comments, wrote a recommendation, taught two classes, met w/ two different students re: research paper, revised lecture, wrote up lesson plans for all next week, read two chapters in source reader, wrote up two sets of discussion questions, dealt w/ both work and student email, checked on LIS classes' readings/assignments/due dates (some reading & discussion to do this week and should work on last big assignment).

It's now 4 pm, I'm incredibly stiff and sore from yesterday's gardening, and I'm gonna go home and drink tea and edit ficlets (or else read Yuletide canon). *nods firmly* I can write a quiz and another recommendation at home later this week, also grade a couple of reviews and do a last bit of reading for one of the classes I'm teaching. So yeah. Outta here...

Title: Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Artist: thilia
Media: Photoshop 7, tablet
Characters: Harry/Luna
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Just smut :D
Themes/kinks chosen: Costumes!
Artist's notes: ♥ :D

( Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf )

Ha. I remember you from a lot farther back than you probably realize. I was already reading your LJ before I ever shambled my way into HP fandom, and honestly, your fic is probably at least partially responsible for my being here. So damn you thank you for that!

You're a wonderful musician and artist, a positively brilliant writer, and you're 100% a performer in everything that you do. You have a large and captivating presence that draws people into your orbit. I love seeing your posts, whether they're fic or a rant or a story about your cats or just what you did that day. You have a way with words that makes it all fascinating. I envy that, as well as your willingness to put so many of your thoughts, opinions, and beliefs out there without reservation. One day I'd love to have the opportunity to sit down and chat with you over coffee, 'cause I think it would be a highly interesting and entertaining experience.

If you don't know what the heck this is all about, the explanation is here.

I had a blast meeting you for the first time and hanging out with you at Sectus -- and my god, was that really more than two years ago?? You're a hilarious and spirited person to be around. Your brain is a seriously crack-addled place, and I'd love to be able to see inside it, but I expect I might go insane from the experience. Rather like what happens when one looks upon Cthulu.

As one would expect, you create some of the most cracktastic art in the fandom. But you also do some seriously delicious pr0n, and some very poignant pieces as well. Your diversity is wonderful. Your art is incredibly complex and gorgeous, and your style so distinctive. Your work is uniquely your own; please keep doing what you're doing!

You already saw this, but for everyone else's benefit:

Jin was a fanartist expert,
Who drew crack and porn most overt.
"I'd come out of the gutter,"
She said, "but I'd rather
You all joined me down here in the dirt!"

If you don't know what the heck this is all about, the explanation is here.

Title: Va-Jay jay
Artist: tripperfunster
Media:ink, pencil crayons
Characters:Snape/Harry
Rating:? I honestly don't know.
Warnings:Bad vajanatomy
Themes/kinks chosen:costumes


( Not work safe. duh. )

Worked in the yard for 3+ hours today; raked (w/ SO's help) 10 bags of leaves, also planted about 100 bulbs (daffodils, crocuses, iris). Am now tired and sore. OTOH, I slept in till almost 9, so I'm less tired than I might be.

Have also talked with my mom, and am about to go start cooking soup and chicken. SO is walking Juno with the neighbors and Scruffy. Was too brain-dead to work on resume etc., but maybe will manage a bit after dinner, and also plan to read for tomorrow's class.

The first two need to be made about 3 days ahead; I'm not doing the pickled peaches for Thanksgiving this year, but I'll make the cranberry relish tomorrow. Not making pumpkin pie this year either although I expect it will be around, just made by someone else.

• Pickled Peaches


• Cranberry Relish


• Pumpkin Pie

Ok, this is weird, old, and not a little twisted but I just rewatched scenes from the 'Horsemen' episodes on Youtube...

You out there who once dabbled in 'Highlander' - ever come across fic pairing Kronos and Richie? I've been wanting this ever since Kronos turned up, and there seems to be *nothing* out there I can find, and it's just a crime against darkfic!

Halp!?!

I've wanted to do one of these about you from the beginning, but I think I've been putting it off because I'm not sure what I'm going to write. It's not that I don't have anything to say about you, or that I don't have plenty of thoughts and feelings about you. But those thoughts and feelings are complex and multi-layered, and you're complex and multi-layered, and I'm not sure where to start.

Perhaps it's easiest to begin with the music angle, because I knew you as a musician before I knew you as a friend. I've always thought you were a very talented musician with a amazing voice. Over time I came to see the genuine love you have for it -- for the music itself, and the creation of it. I think you're one of those people who makes music because you just can't not make music; it's just an intrinsic part of who and what you are.

I'm grateful that I've had the opportunity to get to know you beyond that, however, because you're one of the most singular and original individuals I've met -- and I've known a lot of unusual folks. There's just no one else out there remotely like you. You're intelligent, diverse, witty, fun, loyal, determined, and about a zillion other adjectives I could list. But listing them is fairly pointless, because a collection of words can't adequately describe the overall sense of you that exists in my head. So, er, I might as well just stop trying and tell you that you're seriously awesome and totally one of the cool kids. ;)

If you don't know what the heck this is all about, the explanation is here.

Finished the pathfinder, both paper and web versions, and submitted 4 hours before deadline. *does happy dance* Only one more major assignment, plus a final exam, for the two LIS classes, if I remember correctly. Will double-check tomorrow. Possibly a minor thing or two as well, not sure.

Also today took SO out to lunch, went to four stores for grocery and other shopping, and made a white-bean-and-greens dish that turned out pretty well (which is good since there's like 3 or 4 more meals' worth!). Watched part of ST:XI during dinner, SO's choice.

Tomorrow: walk Juno (hopefully) and/or do some yard work, work on resume and job apps, cook for the first half of the week, talk to maternal unit, and do some reading for classes.

Other things to do over the next week: start writing holiday letter/cards, make a lot of cranberry bread, possibly bake regular bread, write/edit some fic, work on last big LIS assignment, go to the art museum, cook a lot, clean the house, and do the last course preps for the term. I was really really clever and managed to schedule things so that I don't have any grading of substance to do over Thanksgiving, go me!