idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

1. It is my hope to write something -- ANYTHING -- one day soon for scribblinlenore. I know that's mighty vague, but trust me, I need to be that vague if I'm going to produce anything that's not me shrieking DAMNIT!

2. Should the apocalypse come this weekend, I am hackthis on Greatest Journal and Insane Journal, but not JournalFen. Whomever that is, it's not me.

3. romanticalgirl wrote lovely Neville & Luna, The Age of Not Believing. I LOVE Neville & Luna. If I wrote het, I would write them nonstop.

4. sparky77 has finally started listening to me about what she needs to watch. First I got her hooked on Burn Notice and lately she's been all about the Psych action. She's so about the Psych action that in my comments she wrote a wee Heroes/Psych x-over 5 Confessions Carlton Lassiter Never Got (in no particular order). You wish you had a sparky77.

5. Heroes people I have been keeping well away from fandom because if I get spoiled *again* lives will be lost, and yet I came across What It Is and What It Is Not, which is a Nathan/Peter story (NC-17) by mandysbitch and MY GOD. In the summer hiatus I tend to forget about the things that make me love Heroes (except for Adrian Pasdar, because one does not forget Adrian Pasdar) but this, this story just blew me away. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Really.

6. Where are my people who are watching Mad Men at? COME. ON. It's got people canonically in the closet, a serial adulterer, real women who look like real women and Conner from Angel. Where's the fic? Where're the fans? Help me out here.

7. So, I'm watching Starter for 10 the other day, because I want to have James McAvoy's babies and in the middle of me thinking EEEE! I suddenly pause and shriek Dakin! I heart Dakin. He and James and are very slashy in Starter for 10. Just saying. Also, I read this tremendous The History Boys story from the yuletide archive... which uh, suddenly isn't in the archive. Strange that.

8. Can anybody hook me up with the Guillemots (I have who Left the Lights Off) and/or Stephen Fretwell by any chance? I'm in the exploring stages with these two artists, and things seem to be at that precarious stage where I'm either in love or going to write them off. Dunno just yet.

I am taking an extended break at the moment. I do hope everyone is well, or at least treading water with a life jacket. I don't have much to say about anything at this point, because other people's asshattery only makes the baby Ari irritable, so I will just post the links and be done with it.

a) Brad Fitz has given notice to Six Apart, which really does say a lot. Thanks Larita.

b) I have been instructed to make an Insane Journal, so I did, under the same user name, but I'm not really that bothered.

c) Any video of Adrian spanking Milo wins best EVERYTHING in my book. sparky77 watch this. antheia, ilu.

d) I continue to think Burn Notice is the best thing since grilled cheese with butter on the inside. Michael continues to be queerer than a three-dollar bill, and I now consider it canon that on his first date with Sark, Julian did the quick knife game (the one where you hold down someone's hand and stab between their splayed fingers with a knife) on Michael as foreplay.

e) I finally saw Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix the other day (I wasn't that bothered to be honest) and have to say that if the book had been as half as good as the movie I might not have burned it in irritation. Neville FTW. And, no, I don't have any Deathly Hallows thoughts that you couldn't suss out on your own.

f) I do hope that you'll stop over to allvoodooanyway and leave some good thoughts and/or porn for the much beloved scribblinlenore.

1. After ten months (yes, I know, hush) I have finally updated my website, dysfunctional.* There are new sections for all my Heroes writing as well as Friday Night Lights and various other things that I've written and forgotten about, so you know, head on over there and poke around.

*Read: I coded but obsessedmuch did all the heavy lifting and gave the site a face-lift (g'bye, Ryan!) and just made it all pretty and coordinated, you know, thank her. *smushes*

2. You don't think Apple would do something like delay telling people that iTunes 7.3 for the iPhone will probably jack your iPod AND your computer up and OMG, uninstall it NOW!, because they don't want any bad publicity around the iPhone frenzy, do you? No, of course not.

3. I need something happy. Happy happy happy... James McAvoy in Shameless. I want to have his babies. Lots of little Scottish babies, even though he's already married to his co-star. *sigh* So sad. I feel like bastardising Robbie, "All the best men are married all the handsome women are gay."

4. ethrosdemon and I have been discussing Harry Potter recently. Namely whether or not we're going to give a shit about Book 7 and the film and all that other business. The film I can do whatever, but the book I am so going to read. That's definitely worth a last stint in HP fandom for that. Oh, yes precious. *pets Neville*

With regards to who's getting offed, my sentiments can be summed up thusly:

I have a serious love/hate relationship with Draco, but... If she kills him I'm going to feel seriously aggrieved - not just as a Slytherin, but as someone who knows what it's like to have good intentions, to just want to protect the people you love from everything. Fucking sanctimonious Gryffindors. (Except Neville, but that's a sermon for another day. I am not even entertaining the idea of anything happening to Neville).

I was going to write something, but I have no inspiration, except for wee!Peter following Nathan around the house with his chewed up Winnie the Pooh and his bare feet, and every time Nathan sits down, or tries to focus on school work, or watch TV, he can't because he can feel Peter thinking AT him.

So, finally Nathan stops, sits down at the kitchen table, pulls Peter up on his lap and is like, "Fine, what do you want, minor irritation?" And Peter smiles, missing his two front teeth -- he jumped out of a tree last week, thinking he could fly. Typical.

He scared the shit out of Nathan. Also, typical.

Peter's smiles as enigmatically as a four-year-old can and flings his arms around Nathan's neck, smacking Nathan in the head with his Winnie the Pooh. "Fly me now!" he demands, and Nathan sighs. You play airplane one time and they never let you forget it.

*pauses*

Anyroad. I wanted to share 5 8 5½ Things That Are Making Me Happy, because there should be more happiness on my flist.

1. George did this basketball commercial that you lot have to see! George Clooney for Amnesty International's 'Make Some Noise' Campaign. Watch this video. George. In a suit. Playing ball. Being hot. It will improve your life. Really.

1½. Brad Pitt, in a Heinken commercial, being chased by the paparazzi. At the end he calls George. No, really. You will fucking love this. Yes, fine, George is subtext, but you can't tell me it's not George on the other end.

2. For the five people who have never seen The Landlord I cannot stress highly enough how much this video will improve your day. I'm not a Will Farrell fan, he's not funny to me, but this isn’t about Will, it's about Pearl. His Landlord. She'll put you on the streets, yo, be afraid.

3. A new Nathan/Peter video 'Back to the Start' by kaiyote. There's something about this video that appeals to me on an emotional level and you lot know how I feel about emotion – just don't do it. And yet, there is something about the way this video translates their whole relationship and every reason I adore them. Nathan. You know what I mean.

4. A while ago linaerys wrote a story -- You'll No Longer Burn -- which I consider the definitive Peter and Nathan in a Canadian shack story, but the Canadian shack is a peripheral to the story, which is about Peter and his powers and how hard it is to support someone when all you want to do is protect them. I heart this story.

4½. For the last, however many days it's been since Heroes wrapped shooting, sparky77 and I have been very avidly following the growth of Adrian Pasdar's beard. *pause* There are so many double entendres in that last sentence that I don’t even know where to begin. ANYROAD. This has lead to my serious demand for Nathan!Beard!Porn and well, I demand really loudly sometimes. Last week sparky77 wrote me The Hidden Benefits of Anger because she lurves me. Do you love me? Then you should write me some beard!porn too. Just saying.

5. For every Lloyd. For every Marc. For everyone who has ever worked as someone's bitch (assistant) and been overworked, underappreciated, treated like shit, made gold out of straw or killed for their boss -- Congratulations! Assistants have made the EW Hot 100. Took the fuckers long enough.

5½. You guys make me happy, so you should make each other happy too. Duh. Oh, and you can have a song too: Otis Redding 'The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)'

Now, share some links that make you guys happy. Pay it forward, man! You have to put it out in the universe if you want to get it back. Also, does anybody have Chester French 'She Loves Everybody' or Doves 'Eleven Miles Out' or 'Son of a Builder'? How about Sondre Lerche's 'Phantom Punch' (album) or Tom McRae's 'House of Cards' (album)?

ETA: Clive Owen in Chancer?! Is this Profit the UK version? Why have I never heard of it? Everybody's fired!

Okay, let's just put it out there right now:

I am puritanical about staying away from Heroes spoilers. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THEM. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW THEM. I DON'T EVEN WANT THEM LINKED IN MY LIVE JOURNAL. I know filming for Season 2 starts at the end of the month and people will be tempted. Have some restraint around me. Think of spoilers like Fight Club, and we don't talk about Fight Club, now do we? Seriously. Casting. Clothing. Who drank how much water the other day. I don't want to hear about supposed plot arcs, if Nathan's getting knocked up by Peter, or if Jeezy Creezy himself has a guest spot during sweeps, got it? Good.

Having said all of that. When your beta is all LOOK AT THIS! And you click, well, you are kind of stuck. So stuck in fact that you're like, oh, I should write about this. Plus, you know, it is from a NYT Book Party, so technically, not spoilery!

Heroes
Nathan/Peter, PG-13
Post-S1
Mad love to sparky77 for getting me out of a jam at the end.


Love is a Grave Mental Disease


( And then there's the belt. )

antheia is having an asstastic week. slodwick is uphappy. I said to myself, "Self, we should write something nice for our girls." This is not what me, myself or I was expecting.

Heroes
Peter, Nathan, PG
A story in 60 minutes.

Finding Jim Morrison

( On Peter's sixth birthday, Nathan sends him on his first treasure hunt.  )

There have been some covert rumblings among me and mine about what my RPS project for the summer will be. Last summer it was the Incredibly True Adventures... The year before it was Star Wars RPS. Before that... you get the point. So, I said to myself (actually to antheia and serialkarma and sparky77), 'Self, who is the most deserving of them all? Who do I have no morals for or about? Who is The Man above all men, who is political and smart and savvy and has really really nice clothing and didn't want to show his ass the other day?

GEORGE CLOONEY

I think we are all well aware of my love-love relationship with George. We won't even need to start talking about Ari-n-George, because, well, really. But I think this summer shall be something special. Something about George. And Bradley. And Matthew. That's right, kids. It's OT3 time.

Or as I just e-mailed antheia and ethrosdemon:

The best thing about this story that I am never going to write (TM), which will prolly be some random series like K's Color of Wheat or The Incredibly True Adventures is that I can clearly write off reading about Matt's new project as research. George is so proud of Matt for taking a nice political project that there was some really awesome sex that night. Unlike Brad, who's is ON NOTICE for his shenanigans. Knocking up Mother Jolie and whatnot. Shameful behaviour!

So, you know, you got links? You got gossip? You got some random George/Brad/Matt factoid that you just *know* will make this RPS crack the crackiest crack that ever did crack? Post it here. Link me up. This is Ground Zero.


[sidebar: Does anybody have any Teddy Thompson to share with the class?]

P.S. Save the Boom Boom Room George and Brad!

P.P.S. If you notice the amount of links here growing exponentially it's for research purposes, yo.

I'm with goss on this. I'm not backing up my Live Journal. I'm not friends-locking shit. If shit happens, it happens. Hell, it already is. What I am doing is finally updating my website, Dysfunctional, because it hasn't been updated since September 2006 and that's a bit lazy on my part.

It's my hope that LJ won't shaft me until I've at least saved off my Heroes catalogue and my FNL, but if it does, IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. This is a hobby -- one of many -- I won't die without it.

One of the mods on one of my communities has asked that anybody writing anything incest related (i.e. Nathan/Peter for me) go back and flock the post itself, which is something I am not going to do, because that infringes on how I run *my* LJ. What I have decided to do is go back and delete the post that links to the com instead, so you know, that's how I roll. I got confused. It's all good. I'm still updating the website. Fuck, I'm prolific. Shit. Don't wait 10 months to update your websites, kids.

Stand up and be counted. fandom_counts

I, uh, yeah. Not quite what I set out to write, but what decided to write itself.

Heroes
Peter, Nathan OR Peter/Nathan (depends on your point of view)
Spoilers for Season Finale 'How to Stop an Exploding Man'


A Brand New Set of Wings


(  He wonders if she still believes in love. )

I forgot the finale was tonight. Yes, really. I could make some excuse about being clubbed by a sandwich or something, but yeah, no, just forgot.

In my defense I bring a couple things:

a) I had the awesome fortune to stumble across this lovely Nathan/Meredith story from selenak called Folly, which is truly how I believe everything in Texas went down and is now my personal canon. I had wanted to write Nathan/Meredith, but it was on my list, and as you all know, my list is a wee bit long. This is so much better than anything I could have come up with. Read it.

b) goss is on the Heroes train! This means lots of spectacular art for us unworthy mortals! Awesomecakes! Here's her first foray into Heroes-land, this pastel drawing of Sylar, which is vaguely spoilery for 1.22 'Landslide' but dude, so awesome. Yay goss!

c) Any good leader knows you have to pick your battles. You have to know when to hold'em, when to fold'em, when to walk away, and when to enlist your flist to harass persuade the great scribblinlenore to write Peter/Nathan pron entitled SEX BOMB. Yes. Really. Damn, I am good. Bring extra knickers.

Naturally, I only use my powers for good bad My Nefarious Purposes. And this is why you love me.

No, I have not forgotten about that Sylar fic I just seem to be blocked by the eclipse at the moment. It was probably the coat.

Pee Ess: Anybody who watched Entourage yesterday is more than welcome to come and squee with me here.