help i'm alive

You know what Memorial Day weekend is for? It's for working on the torrent of Generation Kill and killing time by finishing all those unfinished writing projects I've had sitting around for fucking ever. I'm not promising a lack of rough edges on anything that comes out today, but I'm tired of keeping these all to myself.

First up: Tony-Artemis, in a mix of millicanon and Extremis comic book canon.

in the furthest reaches

( how to save a life )


Expect more as the day goes on.

I was going to pimp music in this post, but I've got so many recent downloads to go through, I'm not sure what's pimpable yet.

Also, for sotto_voice and whoever else might care, I'm working more on the Artemis-Extremis!Tony piece.

Third, I blame the universe for hitting me over the head with ( SPOILER WORD ) in Supernatural and airing Silence of the Lambs every five minutes on the movie channels, but now I have Doll-meets-Jazz stuck in my head, possibly even initiallygenderbent!Doll-meets-Jazz. SOMEONE TALK ME DOWN OFF THIS LEDGE. Or, y'know, enable me. On a totally unrelated note, just because I'm fond of the little bastard, there's a boy!Doll post over here. I only torture her because I love her.

Finally, looks like LJ has finally un-fucked their comment notifications. I feel like there's still some I'm missing from the other day, but all my current ones seem to be coming through. We'll see.

Because I am going to need something fun to do at my pseudo-job tomorrow:

Pick a pairing from my fandoms, and come up with a location and/or situation, and I will write you between 50 and 250 words about the kiss that happened in that context.

I figure y'all know my fandoms by now; just ask if you want a clarification. Also, anybody I RP anywhere totally counts as fandom.


...and The Prestige is on. Universe, what is it with showing Christian Bale or Edward Norton movies lately? Are you trying to do terrible sexy things to my brain?

EDIT: Weird tv thing. Was watching SVU tonight. I already knew that Stabler's daughter's name is Kathleen (my given name) which was weird enough. Turns out her middle name is Louise, my mother's middle name. That was enough to make me sit up and go WTF. Oh universe, fuck with me more.

In the spirit of Iron Man Day, I'm spamming y'all again with a drabblet I wrote months ago and have been sort of sitting on ever since. So here's a piece of the wacky adventures of Tony and Artemis.

( She never does figure our what the damn benefit is for. )

The odds of more drabblets throughout the day? High.

I'd just like to wish everyone a very happy Iron Man Day.

The only question now is just how many times today I'm going to watch it.

EDIT: Live blogging thought while watching Iron Man.

In the scene where Bearded Terrorist takes Tony out to see the ginormous stockpile of Stark weaponry, Yinsen doesn't translate BT's words exactly. I know my Arabic is a little rusty, but Yinsen's translation is (approx) "They have everything you need to build the Jericho missile." BT's sentence that he's supposedly translating, however, starts off with "From our friends [something] American" (or "from our friends American [something]" or possibly "from our American [something] friends"; told you I was rusty). Basically, I'm just wondering if Yinsen had translated things a little more literally, if Tony might have guessed sooner that somebody (*cough*Obie*cough*) was dealing under the table.

I am going to get around to writing that D*Con post, I swear. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow while I wait to see how much of the hurricane we're getting.

In the meantime, if I were to write Artemis/Tony Artemis-Tony that mixed movieverse, Milliways, and the Extremis comic book arc, would anybody read it?

I'm also afraid I may have gotten hooked on the computer version of Elite Beat Agents.

After years of procrastination, I'm also finally nearing the end of Kingdom Hearts II. This has allowed me to realize that if the next KH game for a major console (and I don't mean handheld) is a PS3 exclusive, I am doomed. DOOMED. Because then I am going to have to buy a PS3, and I thought I had avoided that when they decided to let FFXIII come out on the Xbox 360.

If you know anything about House of Leaves, you really should read xkcd.

I really need to stop listening to this song. Which translates to: I will never stop listening to this song. Picked it up ages ago from this amazing Obadiah/Tony fanfic-soundtrack-thing-of-beauty but didn't really start listening to it until a couple of days ago. Which may explain how I can't stop associating it with the Joker (and Mary Anne; yes, I'm writing it).

If you cut him in the alley or in the street
If you cut him to the quick or cut his speech
If you cut him up on the dance floor
Listen to this, this is the risk

If you cut a man’s heart out it will bleed

Meeting up with the gang tonight for a fun game of DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE via XBox Live. Hopefully there will be sewing tomorrow, because there really fucking needs to be. Also, finally got a wig ordered for Nero, despite the Cosplay gods apparently conspiring to keep him bald. Or worse, blonde.

Not sure where this post is going anymore. Does anybody on my flist watch Soul Eater?

Back at home and loving it. Am going to try and do some more fabric cutting tomorrow, since I need to start sewing like...sometime in the past. Just ordered the wig and boots for Nero, which were my last outstanding pieces, so that should provide some motivation.

Saw The Dark Knight with my mom tonight; squeed in all the old familiar places and also got to sooth what I can only describe as a Joker craving. Had the boy on my mind a lot this past weekend, which lead to the infestation of a plotbunny where he and Mary Anne meet. Somebody talk me out of putting off writing this.

Also got a plotbunny for Artemis stuck on the Marvel!verse side of the door after a visit to scope Tony's house. There is nothing written down yet, but there is a Target run, a motorcycle theft and a lot of sarcasm.


My god, I just realized how many fandomsecret posts I have to get caught up on. I think I'll do that next if I don't write something first. Also, there are new subbed episodes of Eyeshield I haven't seen. This must be corrected.

One last thing: I'm over here at the Character Rating Meme. Tell me who I am, kids!

I think I had a dream last night where Tony Stark accidently shot Artemis in the chest with some weapon he was testing out for the Iron Man suit. He was kind of flipping out (because for some reason he hadn't really caught on to the whole goddess thing) and she was just trying to convince him it'd be fine if he could just help her get the crossbow bolt-looking-thing out of her sternum. It was kind of adorable in this terribly awkward way. As for having them on the brain, I blame staying up way too late last night working on this.

On a totally unrelated note, this article made me squee all over the place--Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard nerding out over the music they wrote for The Dark Knight. I think I'm going to have to wait until after I've seen the movie before I buy the score, I think, or I'm going to be too distracted by the music instead of...all the other shiny things I'm going to have to be distracted by. (Also, I've got my tickets for midnight, do you?)

Also, think I've found my new sewing machine, so I just need to get the graduation money into my account and make it spendable. Then, there can be sewing for great justice!

And finally, because it's way overdue, music pimp!

Danny Elfman - The Little Things : AKA the incredibly catchy song from Wanted. This song makes me geek out a little harder for Danny, since I've always known he could kick ass musically, but this song lets us let me know he can sing.

Gnarls Barkley - Necromancer : a deliciously twisted song from the boys that brought us "Crazy." Lienne & Adiva--it reminds me a bit of Chainsaw.

Puscifer - Rev. 22:20 (dry martini mix) : a pared down, piano heavy version of the original. If the first one was a sexy club and a girl who could part the crowds with her hips, then this one is after you've gotten that girl home.

My Chemical Romance - I Never Told You What I Do For A Living : just what we always wanted from our wacky little goth punk rockers--a song about being a serial killer.

The Orion Experience - The Cult of Dionysus : aside from having a psiTunes-worthy band name, this song is damn catchy and the lyrics are in no way inspiring fanfic.

I've also got a copy of the Iron Man soundtrack and I think one of my favorite things has to be the cheeseball theme song from the 60s cartoon. It has the word SMITIN' in it, people.

Alright, off to get caught up on the internets. Catch you on the flipside.

So you know that totally hypothetical question from the other day?

Here's round one, ladies.


Unspecified Number of People Tony Stark Has Never Shagged


( Artemis )


( Bruce Wayne )



Coming Soon in this series: Mary Anne Bell, Alan Shore, Winry Rockbell...and possibly Robert Downey Jr.

Disclaimer: While some of these ficlets may feature characters who are or have been played in Milliways Bar, this series is not compliant with current Bar canon. That's for a different series.

Okay, hypothetical poll question.

If, for example, I had made some statement ages ago when I first got home from seeing Iron Man about a fic I was destined to write that was equally hypothetically entitled "Unspecified Number of People Tony Stark Never Shagged" and if I had started work on (and maybe even finished) certain parts of said fic, would you want me to post them in:

a) one at a time, soon as a part is finished, GIMME GIMME

b) a couple at a time, because MORE IS BETTER


PLZ TO BE ANSWERING THIS TOTALLY HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION.


Also, when you don't have Word on your computer (because you got spoiled by student bundle packages and forgot that mere mortals have to ask for Microsoft Office) and you're typing all your fic ideas in Gmail as Drafts because you love the save feature and Wordpad bugs you, it's more than a little unnerving to see "Signs He Likes You" and "Is He Into You?" under Sponsored Links when you were really trying to keep things gen. Really.

Also, saw my first TV promo spot for Dark Knight tonight. Am officially giddy as a school girl for this movie. The boyfriend wants me to be in NYC that weekend so we can go see it together. I dig this plan; let's just hope the airline gods are cool with me making it work.

Oh, look. Lightning.

Possibly this is a sign I should wrap this post up. So I can finish watching that ep of Boston Legal. Totally.

		I will marry Tony Stark.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in Boston in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 0 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a blue Batmobile.
		I will spend my days as a photographer, and live happily ever after.

Fresh back from a midnight screening of You Know What. Conclusion?

HULK ROCKS HARD


And is it really sad that my spoilery thoughts have little to do with the movie per se and everything to do with ( cameos by other people? )

And with that, dear children, I go to pack more of my shit. Thankfully, all the heavy boxes are gone. I think I have a bruise on my hip from schlepping them. Fucking ow.

Meant to have a snack and then go to bed, so as to get up early to work on reading for class.

Redid my LJ layout instead.

Went with version four of the header, and am digging it so far. Always wanted to do a Matthew Good-lyric layout. Think the only thing that will probably change is my default icon, once I get some more Tony related ones made.

Watched the House season finale tonight; bawled through most of the last ten minutes. Was more torn up about this one than Supernatural, probably because I never saw this one coming. We can has fall TV season now, kthanx?

Tomorrow is my long day; will be using my last can of Bawls to stay awake through my morning class. Have structured Thursday's schedule around the hope of buying the Dresden Dolls CD (since sleep won out today) and getting udon for lunch.

The boyfriend comes to visit this weekend, so I'm going a little under the radar again starting Friday evening, but it shouldn't amount to radio silence.

I figure that since I'm this awake, I'm going to eat my last thing of yogurt and work on class reading before trying to catch a few more hours of sleep.

Because I can't talk about Iron Man enough lately...

All of the following versions are in a very raw state, but I want general opinions on which one you like best. (No, I'm not finally redoing my LJ layout because of Robert Downey Motherfucking Jr., why do you ask?)

Version one (and, I admit, my personal fav, but don't agree with me just because)

Version two

Version three


And now I'm off to totally read for class play with stuff for my Yoko wig, then read for class.

In my first post as a free woman, I'd like to say the following:

I've just seen Iron Man. Twice. In a row.

It was that good.

Plz to be linking me to all of your spoilerific flailing posts; I'm too full of joy to say anything articulate about that movie except for two requests.

1) Whoever can get me that aforementioned Black Sabbath song gets something shiny.
2) Whoever can get me a cap of that magazine cover in the movie--the one with young!Tony taking over the company--gets something really shiny.

I am also in no way contemplating either of the following:

- writing a fic called "[Unspecified Number] of People Tony Stark Has Never Shagged"

or

- crossplaying him for DragonCon. All I have to do is build a mini Arc Reactor, and he did it in a cave.


PS - For those who don't know, I handed in my BA this past Friday. Which means I'm back in the land of the living. It's good to be here.