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*I am told that it is a mark of growth as a writer if your old writings make you cringe. So that's a good sign, I suppose. Fics marked with WARNING: OLD were written in high school, and frankly are kind of awful, but the ones included here for some reason have sentimental value to me, such that I didn't want to leave them out. There are others that I'm pretending don't exist.

(my hands are totally instruments of God.)

I'm just going to put this here until I figure out how to better use it: writing aids and standards collected by our holy mother of webzines, bb_shousetsu. guys... English is the worst. I know. I know, okay? I know that being a native speaker and lifelong avid reader with a thorough knowledge of Latin and a less-thorough but still present knowledge of ancient Greek gives me a leg up in the grammatical sweepstakes. but when I kick and scream and throw tantrums about how people don't know how to use commas, it's not for my own entertainment. grammar is important. language only helps us communicate when we're using the same one. commas and apostrophes and sentence fragments may seem insignificant, but they affect whether what you mean in your head is understood by the person who reads your words. think about it.

someone call the exorcist, this damn thing took on a life of its own. sorry for my abject failure at keeping this up during Hanukkah, but it's done now? just in time for me to start flailing over cornerflag, hurrah!

title: morning comes in paradise
fandom: Football RPF
pairing: Victor Valdes/Andres Iniesta
rating: PG-13
word count: 4000
summary: In which puberty hits Andres like a freight train, and Victor is an innocent victim of the collision.
notes: This was originally supposed to be a Hanukkah present for ibuyu, so whenever you come back, here it is, sweetie! It's not exactly the story I wanted to write, but the further I got into it, the more I realized that while that story would make the characters happier, it would also make them assholes. And I couldn't do that, in the end. An infinite number of thanks go to stickmarionette and especially mardia for helping me figure out how the final compromise between what I wanted and what the characters would do should go! And who knows, maybe someday I will write the outtakes in which Andres wages a lolita-esque campaign of seduction and breaks Victor's resistance to his sweet-natured wiles. For now, I've had more than enough of teenage whining. XD

( if there's anything to say, if there's anything to do, if there's any other way: I'd do anything for you )

I only needed one. and here it is. Indecorous. (ironically I was looking for fic of the movies, not the BBC series, because I love the actress who plays Mary Watson in the movies so much, she was the greatest Caroline Bingley ever, but there you have it.) it is so refreshing to read a fic where John doesn't magically cure Sherlock of being Sherlock with his magical cock. that's not the way it works.

title: una loba en la bañera
fandom: Football RPF
pairing: Mesut Özil/Sami Khedira
rating: PG-13
word count: 1407
summary: (224): They only knew me as the lesbian that passed out in a bathtub. That's not what you call friendship.
notes: I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the authorship of this one was not a big secret, either. Let it be known that pretty much NOTHING except my love for distira could have gotten me to write Madrid fic! But she wrote me my darlings as lacrosse players at a girls' boarding school, so I figure the least I could do is write her darlings as a lesbian roller derby team.

( 'It wasn't even that bad,' Nuri said. 'C'mon, you know Ramos doesn't give a shit, she blacked out at the last afterparty and made out with, like, half the team. There's still photos of her licking Cris tagged on Facebook. And she's straight. All you did was pass out in her bathtub.' )

hey guys! obviously failing at the whole "write things for Hanukkah" project, w/evs, I'll get it done. scout's honor! Christmas threw a major spanner in my cunning plan to celebrate my Jewish heritage, who would have imagined.

but, more important than my personal failings: yuletide happened! and I got not one but two awesome stories, which you should all read if you haven't yet! (and LEAVE FEEDBACK, don't think I haven't noticed the general slackness on this front since we moved to the AO3.) so. THANK YOU, SECRET (and, uh, not-so-secret, you know who you are) SANTAS! ♥

Jessamy (4095 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Frederica - Georgette Heyer

and

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (1422 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Football RPF

for my part, I managed to get three stories in before deadline, but they are all very, very obviously by me, so you get no bonus points for guessing before reveals go up. XD

let's see, what else. the footballslash holiday exchange has also gone live; I didn't participate myself except for a little beta-work on the side but I've glanced through and there's some lovely stuff to be found, if for some inexplicable reason you are short of things to read! and distira wrote me some SUPER ADORABLE snippets of Victor/Andres as genderswapped lacrosse players, which everybody should read for obvious reasons. SO ADORABLE, I CAN'T. I don't have enough for a proper recs update but that should keep you all in fic until then. (ETA: I am just rolling in the riches here! cuter than cute snippet of Alcantaras by dreamofthem for all our delectation. :D)

happy holidays to those who celebrate, hope those who don't are having an awesome time anyway just being their awesome selves!

oblig tennis comment: YAYYYYY RAFA ILU FOREVER and NOOOOOO FERRU BITCH YOU BETTER NOT RETIRE I'M NOT DONE WITH LOVING YOU

ganked from various but originally willowcabin

Comment with a pairing and I will tell you:

who is the big spoon/little spoon
what is their favorite non-sexual activity
who uses all the hot water in the morning
what they order from take out
what is the most trivial thing they fight over
who does most of the cleaning
what has a season pass in their DVR
who controls the netflix queue
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
who steals the blankets
who leaves their stuff around
who remembers to buy the milk
who remembers anniversaries

any pairing from any fandom I've been in, however long ago!

thanksgiving break is never long enough and as per usual I didn't get any work done, w/e w/e I do what I want. and what I want is to procrastinate until the very last possible moment.

anyway. this is kind of random but I was wondering, would anyone like a post about my ~methods of reccing? that sounds super pretentious and obnoxious and probably nobody is at all interested, but I also realize that I have followers who are here for the recs and nothing else and idk, maybe some of you would like to know where I get the stuff on the list so you don't have to wait for my next extremely delayed due to exigencies of graduate school update? (and of course there are always the people who think it's a big clique-y circle jerk but let's face it, I could explain my system until I was blue in the face and they'd still think I just recced everything because my friends wrote it. am I still slightly peeved that my objectivity was called into question? why yes, now that you mention it!)

yuletide yuletide yuletide etc, not even going to try to start cornerflag until that's all over. probably forgetting something, remind me if you know what it is!

&youall;

I have updated the recs post with 28 new fics! it has apparently been two months since the last update, sorry about that. and I did a little reorganizing, so we now have a lovely section for the ladies. feel free to write Leonas femslash in celebration!