help i'm alive

Been on a very random writing binge lately. Still plugging away at prompts for the kink meme, got sucked into a Sleeping-Beauty-inspired M_M crossover, and I must have been spending too much time on issenterprise because now I've also got the makings of a Mirrorverse AU/M_M crossover and ooooh it's so fucked up but I'm writing it all the same and we'll see if it ever gets posted.

Also curious as to the workplace's policy on Halloween. Not sure what I'll wear if they're cool with it since pretty much all of my costumes are either sexually inappropriate, ones no one would get, or ones no one would get and sexually inappropriate. Maybe I'll just wear a lot of black and my vampire fangs. Hm...

This is all Rog's fault, one hundred percent.

last ones of our kind

( it's the only explanation )

Okay, I haven't made one of these mini!posts in a while, but I have to get this out of my system before I crash tonight.

If there ever were a "Kite's evil!karaoke" song more her than Metric's 'Help, I'm Alive,' it would be Florence and the Machine's 'Blinding.' I can't even fully explain what it is about it that's her, except that it is. (Plus, it's just a badass song in its own right.)

Lyrics here and YouTube here.

(no more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world)



Yeah, this is about the level of intelligent commentary you get from me at close to 1:30 AM.

So yeah, I don't totally know what this is or where the hell it came from, but I have a thing for dreamscapes and metaphors and my newest girl hadn't gotten one yet, so I guess this is it.

Fair warning, most of the evens in this fic take place almost simultaneously over an unclear period of time, so a little confusion is...sort of built into it, but I hope it's not so confusing, it isn't enjoyable. :D?


a little dust never stopped me none

( she wakes up )

So this is for ceitfianna and doihearawaltz, who enable me.

in other words, please be true

( he almost doesn't recognize her )

So I could turn this post into a rant about how upper management at work must come from some crazed hell dimension where annoying your employees to death is the ultimate goal and only my undying love for what we do and the people I work with and days like tomorrow (potluck and time at the gun range) keep me sane, but I won't because that post would be lame.

Thanks to fanmix, I found this badass bad called Boyce Avenue. Apparently before they released their album of original stuff, they did all these acoustic covers.

Wonderwall : the staple for acoustic coverage

Realize : I've got a weakness for this song anyway, but hearing a guy sing it makes me happy.

Iris : the other cover staple, very well done

Tattoo/No One/Where is the Love : mash-up for the win

Bleeding Love : just when this song was starting to drive me crazy, these guys made me love it again

Love in This Club : No, really. An acoustic cover of "Love in This Club." And it rocks.


Also, for the two of you who care, there may be more Kite!fic.

This is for doihearawaltz who is an evil, evil enabler. Crossover with OC-fiction!verse and Star Trek


and let me play among the stars

( she promised him not to do it again )

Fight Club is on Spike tonight and I'm taking that as a sign that this weekend will be awesome.

Also, ordered something awesome from the interwebs. There will be pictures when it arrives.

For now, though, this LJ needs some motherfucking music up in here.

Lady Gaga - Love Game : if not for that really traumatizing reference to a "disco stick," this song would be pretty near perfect.

Two Steps From Hell - Freedom Fighters (Choir) : the song from the Star Trek trailer. Chokes me up without fail every time.

The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show : (I leapt across three or four beds into your arms/where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm/our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape/it's taken magic to a primitive new place)

3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me : Because some lines never get old like tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef, that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fucking scared of him.

Katy Perry - Waking Up In Vegas : I blame Vegas!plot for getting me hooked on this song. I like to think of it as the hungover aftermath of 'what if they hadn't had to flee from the fuzz.'

Trading Yesterday - She Is The Sunlight : oh god, this is my Kite song. This is it right here. (she lives in a daydream/I don't belong/she is the sunlight/and the sun is gone)

It is entirely possible I may add more later, but these are my most agressive earworms at the moment.

This is a chemical burn. It will hurt more than you have ever been burned and you will have a scar.

You know what would be frosting on this cake of a memorial day weekend? A music pimp post.

Linkin Park - New Divide : the new single for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that is every bit as much an ear worm as 'What I've Done.' (and the ground caved in/between where we were standing/and your voice was all I heard/that I get what I deserve)

Jay Z vs The Verve - Dirt Off Your Symphony : one of those mashups that shouldn't work half as well as it does.

Katie Gray - Set Free : (and you got style/and you got grace/and you got the means/to leave that place/but you'll never, never make it/and you'll never, never break it)

Schuyler Fisk - Lying to You : (you don't look good in my bed/I'll take back every word I said/you don't know me like you think you do)

Mike Doughty - Sunkeneyed Girl : my unexpected but loved Kite-McCoy anthem. (you are the drinks i drink and keep drinking and fall down stumble/all of the things i think and keep thinking and lie down tremble...i'm no prize for you/no trophy too)

Also, to waltz!Rog, still working on Kite vs the Enterprise and this should not work either, but I love it so. Pea Ess - Don't know if LJ has been playing havoc with your notifs *eyes it threateningly* but tag to you in wounded!Kite-McCoy, if you're still up for continuing.

Survived work today, which was fucking epic. Never thought FedExing something could be so complicated. But I also got a present of beer, which totally makes up for that. (Note to self: put some in the fridge tonight.)

Based on threads with Bones and Kirk (and spending too much time on the kink meme my own undying love for new!Trek), I'm seriously tempted to write 'my OC princess chuck-bass-with-tits sleeps her way through Starfleet has wacky adventures in space.' Maybe this is the sleep deprivation talking. (Not that I didn't come home from work and fall into bed for four hours.) Someone talk me out of/into this, plz.

Also, based on two eps I've seen out of order, am now watching Southland from the beginning...or I would be if Megavideo didn't suck cocks in hell.

Um, so I may have been inspired to write my Great Fantasy Epic Series in middle school (like we all were), and while the first two books may (with the benefit of hindsight) remind me entirely too much of Tamora Pierce, I can't shake my love of the fucked up children in the third book.

Eagle is an asshole, but he feels like he has to be if he's going to be king. Kestrel is something of a wuss at first, but then he almost loses an eye and gains a split personality (courtesy of the resident mother goddess). Also, he ends up shoved off in a treaty marriage to neighboring warlord-turned-king to keep him from detonating a magical weapon of mass destruction.

Then there's Kite. Kite is leftovers. Kite is the only girl, the one who was the youngest when her mother lost it and who doesn't really have any memory of her mother sane. She's the one everybody worries about, who doesn't really have a place. So she raises hell instead. She learns from assasins and theives, she parties on the wrong side of town, visits brothels, and flirts with married members of court. She is sharper than any of the knives she carries and just trying to carve out a place for herself.

I mention all this because she's over here and very loud. :D?