EXCHANGE INTERFACE

Okay, so I can't be unhappy when listening to James Marsden sing "That's Amore" from Enchanted. I don't think it's actually possible. Something about that song just wires into my brain and I want to sing and gesture and sway in my office cube.

Not that I was unhappy. In fact, I finally got something working that I've been working on all week and which has been crapping me out. And it's FRIDAY!

My front garden bed has been cleared of about 2m cubed of red lava rocks and looks so nice and all ready for composting and fruit trees and orchard cover greenery. The 10 bags of horse manure should be delivered today. That's going into a compost pile (or several of them), and will also be dumped into the spots where I'm planning to plant fruit trees - probably dig holes, dump the compost, and then plant the trees come spring, when all the bare-rooted trees are being sold.

My weekend consists of nothing on Saturday (NOTHING) and a destash fabric market on Sunday (where I'm selling, not buying). Hopefully sell all the extra fabric I have - I did a big clean out, but I still have more to go.

I have done almost no writing lately. Maria Hill epic is going slowly, and none of the Jupiter Ascending stories are going anywhere. Once again, the profic has gone backburner.

This is partly due to quilting - I am three gifts behind, and have two coming due at the end of this month/start of next. *sigh*

And next month the ficathons start up again. unconventionalcourtship, shipswap and the first check-up for the heroinebigbang which may or may not go.

I also signed up for...something related to Maria Hill on tumblr. It appears to be something like a crossbreed of ye olde webrings and a popularity contest - only the 15 most popular (as defined by reblogs) 'applications' get to be part of it? Or something?

*handwaves that*

Haven't gotten anywhere further on Agents of SHIELD. Thought about it last night while burying threads from quilting (seriously, most boring task ever, pushing even binding into second place), couldn't be assed. Also my sister was watching Australia vs. India in World Cup Cricket (we won) and I didn't particularly want it to become a battle of shows.

Finally: Friday meme

Pick any character from a fandom of mine and I'll answer the following questions:

1. What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her.
2. Is he/she important to the general plot?
3. Can you relate to this character at all? Does he/she grip you emotionally?
4. How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?
5. Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by his/her relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)
6. Is there anything about the character you would change?
7. If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how would you see yourself interacting with him/her? Would you get along well? Fall in love with him/her? Dislike? Have a friendly rivalry?
8. Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?
9. Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about this character (if you dislike) to someone new to fandom?

Fandoms: anything you know I'm in, or think I'm in, or think I should be in (and I will base it on my understanding of that fandom).

eta:
Melinda May
Teyla Emmagan
John Sheppard

FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
TITLE: Unbound And Undone
AUTHOR: Tielan
SUMMARY: The itch runs through his bones, through his balls, more than mere adrenaline.
RATING: NC-17
CATEGORY: Relationship, Kink, Bondage, Sex
WORD COUNT: 816
WARNINGS: (highlight to see) none
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, don't sue, etc.
NOTES: For the kink_bingo Amnesty 2012 - just squeaking in before the due date!

( Unbound And Undone )

TITLE: Pandora's Box
SUMMARY: A mission goes to hell and John is injured, requiring his team to hold it - and John - together.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: Team, Action/Adventure, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship
WARNINGS: (highlight to see) a fairly bloody injury
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, please don't sue.
NOTES: For tepring in the sheppard_hc Christmas exchange! I'm so sorry this is late - it was done by Sunday night, but then my first two betas fell through, so I had to go hunting up a third option! I hope you enjoy the fic!

( Pandora's Box )

TITLE: Progressus
AUTHOR: tielan
SUMMARY: Human beings are growing things - if they're not living and changing, they're just waiting to be put in the ground.
RATING: PG-13
WORD COUNT: ~900
NOTES: For the sga_saturday Week #17 prompt 'trace'. This story took forever to write, partly because it couldn't decide what it was going to be until I got the title for it.

Progressus

Title: Fix
Summary: Not everything that is broken can be fixed. Sometimes it doesn't need to be. John begins to learns this when he returns from being a Wraith captive and convert - but can he accept it?
Rating: R
Warning: Wraith torture, addiction, violence.
Category: John/Teyla, hurt/comfort, angst, action/adventure, drama.
Word Count: 15,650
Notes: Written for meekosan in the sheppard_hc Summer Exchange 2011. A great many thanks to the peeps of tinychat who listened to me moan at all hours, to infinimato who poked and prodded and came up with the title, and to schneefink who went through and picked it apart at the 11th hour so it could be restitched together in ways that hopefully make more sense! And thanks to kristen999 for the extension, which I very much needed.

It's too long for LJ, so I posted it here@AO3 instead.

TITLE: Comings, Goings, and Returning
RATING: PG-13
WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: Growing into his own skin, with the help of a friend.
NOTES: For lar_laughs in the satedan_grabass John&Ronon Thing-A-Thon who asked for an AU in which larger groups of Satedans survived.

( Comings, Goings, and Returnings )

TITLE: Physicality
SUMMARY: Desire is about many things.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: romance, fluff
DISCLAIMER: Stargate Atlantis characters belong to MGM, Sci-Fi, Gekko, and a lot of companies that make money out of them. I'd love to be making money out of them, but I'll settle for borrowing them for fanfiction.
NOTES: Three ficlets - one for each pairing.

living with the scars, mother-marks, playfulness

FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
TITLE: Feels Like Home To Me
SUMMARY: The heart of homesickness is the acknowledgement that you are far from where you belong.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: angst, drama, romance
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money
NOTES: Written to stuff penknife's fandom_stocking.

( Feels Like Home To Me )

TITLE: Evasive Actions
SUMMARY: John always hated watching others fly the mission while he was grounded.
CATEGORY: friendship, action-adventure, some hurt/comfort
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 1000
NOTES:For the picfor1000 (ie. a picture is worth a thousand words) Challenge #7 - Roy G. Biv - to this picture. I focused on the colour, not the image, although I did contemplate a BDSM fic. No porn, this time, though - perfectly kiddie safe!

( Evasive Actions )

TITLE: Tempered By The Battle's Heat
SUMMARY: Twenty years of friendship between two men, and a fire that comes close to putting it out.
CATEGORY: drama, friendship, AU
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money from these stories of mine.
NOTES: Okay, remember the SG1 episode Changeling? Season Six, Teal'c hallucinates that he's part of a team of firefighters, Jonas wears a pink apron, Sam is made of awesome, Jack looks good naked fully clothed on a bed?

Yeah? No? Well...think of this as the Expanded Universe from Changeling. If that makes no sense then, uh, just read the damn story. *g*

For pentapus in the sg_flyboys ficathon. She wanted a story set outside of Pegasus, and an outside POV of John. I'm sorry it's so late! Fic has been kicking my ass lately.


( Tempered By The Battle's Heat )