The problem with posting after 5000+ word chapters is that everything else seems so small. D: Ah, well! 8D Lead is meant to be a drabble series anyway! \o\ *floats on the happy boats of oblivion* Guilt thus abated, perhaps the words will come easier for the next chapter.

And we will all go down together

Fandom: Batman/Batman Beyond
Rating: PG
Characters: Bruce, Dick, Terry
Warnings: Assumes RotJ has happened. Assumes comics!history. Bruce, because this man deserves a warning all on his own. Typical Batman Relationships (TM).
Summary: Following his 50 year displacement, Dick learns about all the things that have - and have not - changed in the era of Terry McGinnis.

Fourth in the Better Dead than Lead arc.

1306 words and dimensional questions ho!

( Bruce laughs at him, low and really, truly amused. The old man taps his cane against the floor. 'Haven't slept well since I was nine.' )

*CRY OF RAGE* It's it's it's one of those months! Where there are WORDS but no WRITING comes out; there are like these IDEAS stuck in my head the way PARSLEY STICKS IN TEETH but no output because they have no SOULS. They are like ZOMBIES. D: FANDOM ZOMBIES. I've got a Batman Beyond fic on the burner and a Gundam Wing fic that won't end, BUT ALL I WANT TO DO IS COME HOME TO FINAL FANTASY VII, where the WILD GEESE RUN FREE and the STREETS ARE DARK, COOL AND CALM.

/totally useless post! *BEAMS*

*sob* Fact of the matter is, is that out of all of the tiny little draft ideas that I have, the ones I love best are still in FFVII, and/or in Nasdack, oh god, I am homesick for a fandom, this is clearly a call for Ben & Jerry's.

[edit] THIS. THIS IS WHAT I FEEL LIKE, THIS SONG: Jim's Big Ego - Stress.

I love to work I love to run I love to waterski snowboard
jetski skydive parasail handglide rollerblade mountainbike
bungee jump well I mean I love to do these things if I had the time
I love to work I love to work I love to work after work
I love to spend a little time with this woman that I'm seein
cause we never get the time to spend together
so we call each other up and we talk about work
but I think id really love is to get up by myself on a tiny little island
in the middle of the ocean with just me a book and a cellular phone
and a personal computer in case something came up
and I'd eat and I'd drink and I'd run and I'd sleep
and do nothing but swim all day
except I don't know how to do laps in the ocean
where are the SHARKS where are the SHARKS!!!

[edit again] *HANGS HEAD* I am my own worst enemy.

August 12 - Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Tseng/Zack: Longing - Finding you in the land of the lost

August 16 - Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Tseng/Lazard: Clothes fetish – Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.

Grahhghg, areyougame.

[x] Finish up Batfic
[] Slowly savour putting together a project for mailing tomorrow
[x] Make many comments to many people's journals - the madrush of the world makes me feel like reconnecting like an octopus
[x] Roll around ♥

Hope everyone had a good weekend, out wherever you guys are in the world. ♥

zjlkasf I leave my flist for 30 hours and I come home and it has exploded; apologies if I miss anything important; oh boy bedtimes nao.

Dear Santa,

Will you make Gundam Wing a Yuletide fandom so that I can ask for long, plotty 13/6? Please?

Love, K

Because voksen is an enabler and I am a masochist and long-dead fandoms (especially niche parts of long-dead fandoms!) are always an awesome thing to, y'know, try to poke awake with a stick, I hereby request humbly that any Gundam Wing fans stab the comments with AU scenarios.

I need about 10 - that's a happy number! - for an Insane 13-6 Marathon^TM. 8D Suggestions: teacher!AU; pirates; diplomats; mud-wrestlers! \o THIS FANDOM REQUIRES OLD-SCHOOL CHEESINESS.

Also, how many of you guys are in Gundam Wing fandom? *jumps up and down* I am so new to it that I have no idea! 8D 8D

Just re-watched Endless Waltz, with a serious eye this time, and god lord I just want to lock myself in a room with nothing but a laptop that has access only to Word and/or some bits of pen and paper and write ten thousand words.

I'm only about fifteen years late to this fandom, right, right? :D?

In the meantime, while I lock myself in a room and somewhere away from voksen (by the by, Voksy, I had the most disturbing dream involving you, haunted houses, a girl named Paul and... D:), I present a bunch of recs from a whole tonne of other fandoms that I've been reading. Most of them are only a decade behind time! :D :D :D :D :D

Harry Potter

The Maddest House by busaikko

It's long. It's amazing. It's Sirius/Remus AU as Sirius raises Harry. It's better written than anything I've ever had the pleasure of stumbling across. It took my brain, dragged it through the screen, and left me reeling at 4am in the morning. I want to write like this one day - smooth, flowing, interesting, never overboard but always intimate. It's good. It's really, really, really good.

shuffle: pair by geekerypokery

I knew there was a reason why I never read Harry Potter fic! Maybe it's because every Harry Potter fic I like makes me want to crawl under a rock and burn all I've ever written because HP authors, they are mad talented! Geekerypokery combines amazing skillz in this mad tossed salad of a fic - it's humour, it's the Marauders, it's Remus/Sirius and it's everything I wish I could write for these four characters. Have I mentioned that it's genius yet?

Sidekicks by kaydeefalls

The fic in which Peter and Remus are as they are: sidekicks to Sirius and James. The fic in which Peter is intelligent. I. I. I. Just. Ijaslkfjaslkfjals faljks flkajf lkaksf jlaksfj lakfsj aklsfj alks. Yes.


Prince of Tennis

The Pen and Ink series by lysapadin

I recommend you start with The Way to a Man's Heart, which is Yuuta/Saeki, and don't look at me like that, I don't even like Yuuta/Saeki on most days; most days Yuuki and/or Saeki don't even register in my head as anybody other than "people associated with Fuji". But this series, dear god in heaven, it sucked me in like a straw sucks up coke. I'm talking Yazuka!AU here, with Yukimura being badass (and I will buy a badass Yukimura any day of the week), and an explicitly amazing/hilarious by-turns Sanada, and a style of writing Rokakku that actually makes me not hate everyone, and Kirihara and I'll shut up now while you read these fics and die of awesome.

I'd stick a bunch of Tezuka-Fuji fics in here, but they seem to have miraculously disappeared from my delicious links; I'd also stick a bunch of generic Rikkaidai fics here, but again, delicious ate it up. Deliciously.

Now that I've blinded you guys with a bunch of fic recs from two really scary fandoms, I'm going to go back into my Gundam Wing hole. HOORAY!

The Exercise-Self-Daily-Until-in-Proper-Shape programme is chugging along like a happy tugboat - today was running at night, and cold as it was it felt pretty good to just do fifteen minutes and a simple 2.4km (which I am trying to force myself to convert to miles = 1.5???). Tomorrow, furry balls! :D :D :D Feels v. good. With hope I'll be up to 3k running on Friday! *flops happily onto bed and rolls around*

The only downside being that brain is usually nicely tired out at night now - it'll be a few more days of getting used to this before I'm back to writing and flailing around on chat until 1 in the morning. D: TILL THEN, I WISH YOU ALL GOOD NIGHT!

A word to the wise, good female members of my flist: a good way to hate yourself is to play a racquet game whilst period cramps ravage your back muscles and stomach. Though, on the flipside, the searing white that overtakes your peripheral vision and the feeling of your face going cold is an excellent way to heighten your focus and magically improve your placement and footwork. 8D 8D 8D

I'll be here. Whimpering now.

Stuff to do after the back stops breaking:

[] original stores for Pere
[] collaboration writing and pictures for M
[] Stick together the 1-year-overdue-at-last scrapbook
[x] clench jaw in a stoic way
[] I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here
[] Oh, yeah, fic

P.s: huge apologies for not keeping up with comments and entries in the last few days; I've been too consumed Enjoying Time Off Work. ALAS, LIFE!!!

Alsowik: Crows Zero is the world's best movie and if it weren't so complete and amazing on its own I would write fic for it, oh yes, preciouseseses, Serizawa ♥ ♥

Happy 4th of July to all the American flisters! :D

Oh, Great Britain, you have my condolences. DDDDDDDDDDD:

(knightlineninja/in_elixile, I think my heart stopped beating every tie-break!)

Drabble Battle #2! Unfortunately, the Discworld prompt somehow managed to fling itself off the Elephants and go thundering elsewhere, so for the moment the battle rages between Space and Space. 8D voksen is to blame for the Gundam Wing, and everyone else is to blame for Trek.

Again, word count is not an indication of bias (FOR SERIOUS THIS TIME), and nothing is really read through or fully thought out. Experimenting with a few new styles, too!

( Gundam Wing: Treize lives! But Zechs takes huge political falls. (And I somehow manage to write only the introduction, where Treize doesn't appear at all, huzzah!) 1031 words. )


( Trek: Flying-o-phobic McCoy, meet Starfleet! 437 words. )


DECISIONS, DECISIONS:
Poll #1424211 GW versus ST:XI knockout round
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

AND IT WAS:

View Answers

Gundam Wing forever!
4 (40.0%)

Trek to infinity!
6 (60.0%)

ALSOWIK: if you vote, you are obliged asked very nicely to go backwards and vote on the HP v FFVII battle if you know the two!

ALSO ALSO WIK!!!: it is imperative (see the number of exclamation marks I used there?) that you give me your addresses for the Great Mailer if you wish to receive mail! SHYNESS IS NOT AN OPTION. I love sending mail, so indulge my sad little life and go paste yourself there. 8D

If ye do so wish to be on K's magical mailing list for Great Justice, Spam and Other Magical Things, do leave your contact information in a comment (all ye comments will be automatically screened, yea) below, following the following format:

<b>0: Ye Real Name/Nickname/Monikor/Dread Initials</b>: <b>1: Name I Shall Put On Your Mailer:</b> <b>2: Thy Most Excellent Address:</b> <small>(Do caveat it rightly so if you are a Student likely to move in and out of Campuses over the year; feel free to give alternate addresses!)</small> <B>3: We Do Know Each Other From:</b> <small>(apply whichever applicable: specific fandom/yuletide/comment spam of joy/telepathic connection/you can't remember either)</small> <B>4: Ye May Insert Phrase of Bribery Here:</b> <b>5: Ye Do Like:</b> <small>(append type of mail that would be delicious for you [may include but not be limited to]: postcards, photographs, bits of newspaper, inspirational cards, snarky cards, mailbombs)</small> <b>6: Ye Must Not Receive:</b> <small>(specific instructions not to: have strange comments on exterior packaging, send anything larger than a folded sheet of A4 paper, etc)</small> <B>7: Thy Most Excellent Extraneous Comments/Requests:</b>

0: Ye Real Name/Nickname/Monikor/Dread Initials:
1: Name I Shall Put On Your Mailer:
2: Thy Most Excellent Address: (Do caveat it rightly so if you are a Student likely to move in and out of Campuses over the year; feel free to give alternate addresses!)

3: We Do Know Each Other From: (apply whichever applicable: specific fandom/yuletide/comment spam of joy/telepathic connection/you can't remember either)
4: Ye May Insert Phrase of Bribery Here:

5: Ye Do Like: (append type of mail that would be delicious for you [may include but not be limited to]: postcards, photographs, bits of newspaper, inspirational cards, snarky cards, mailbombs)
6: Ye Must Not Receive: (specific instructions not to: have strange comments on exterior packaging, send anything larger than a folded sheet of A4 paper, etc)

7: Thy Most Excellent Extraneous Comments/Requests:


Alsowik: please tell me if you are from the USA; sometimes I cannot tell because I am dumb and from the other end of the earth. 8D

Adapted from the poll earlier this week because K:

1. Doesn't have the brains to write a full fic yet
   
2. But wants to write bits and pieces
   
3. And is totally unashamed of subjecting 2 totally unrelated fandoms to a knockout poll to see which one gets written first.

8D THE WORD COUNT IS NOT AN INDICATION OF MY BIAS. Not at all. Note: everything is written as-is: no grammar/logic/fun checks for me at 234am!

( HP: Marauders fic! In which Peter is not stupid, and neither is James, and neither is Sirius uncouth, oh and Remus is a badass. Featuring James and Sirius and some talking. 287 words )

( FFVII: Tseng under Creepymanpedo Veld! An early scene, featuring Reeve and Veld and a lot of rain. 1106 words )

DECISION TIME:

Poll #1423818 HP v FFVII Knockout Round
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

AND THE WINNER IS

View Answers

HP Mauradertimes
3 (21.4%)

FFVII Veld-o-mania
11 (78.6%)

From the NYT:

Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years in Prison

Bernard L. Madoff on Monday received the maximum sentence for perpetrating one of the biggest investment frauds in Wall Street history and will spend the rest of his life in prison.

NOT A TYPO. 8D 8D Some things in RL are better than things in fic. nasdack, heeeeeeeere I come. >:D

[edit] BECAUSE I AM RIDICULOUS AND EASILY EXCITABLE BY FINANCIO-POLITICAL NEWS, I AM OPENING THE FLOOR FOR PROMPTS IN ANY FANDOM so long as they include FINANCIAL/POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS. Extra points for great hilarity. GO!!!!!!

WHOO TEST IN TWO HOURS LET'S GO.

Until then, a poll to keep people entertained:

Poll #1422716 fic: the next generation
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

best choice for next fic!

I AM MAKING YOU CHOOSE GENRE

genfic is cool; 10 is total agreement

K, WHY HAVE YOU NOT BEEN WRITING:

I reject your reality and substitute my

I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I am not going to write Harry Potter fic I AM NOT.

If I tell this to myself enough I honestly believe that I will be able to take the voice in my head that's telling me to write about James being an genius-fool and Sirius being Seriously Dark and Remus being Full of Pain and Peter being Actually Good and Night Time Excursions out of my head; or possible I will be able to take all four of them out into a dark, quiet alleyway and then avada shoot them all in the face. And also the one about Fred and George. Yes.

THERE HAS TO BE A SORT OF CURE, RIGHT? RIGHT?

*GOES TO BATHE AND SCRUB IT OFF*

It's 12.16am in the morning; Franz are once again the be-all end-all of my mind and existence. (Feel the Pressure - a remix of What She Came For from the June-released Blood dub-cover-remix of Tonight.)

If I could have filthy, gorgeous sex with Alex K's brain, I would. In an instant. Jesus. I am sorry I ever resisted.

Listen to this track. Feed yourself it intravenously. Inject it into your bloodstream. Turn the lights off. Put the speakers to blast. Then, tomorrow morning, if you have slept at all, go into your nearest record store and buy Blood.

Woah. Look out / you're what she came for
Knows what she came for / no question, no doubt

Dear ellnyx,

Thank you for giving me my own microworld to rule. People shall be tied to chairs/desks according.

Great love and benevolent dictatorship,

K

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ♥ ♥ THANK YOU THANK YOU!

In light of the amount of ?! and ?? and !! in the world at the moment, I give everyone a huge:

♥

That is all! STAY AWESOME, KEEP ALIVE, DO NOT LET THE HIPPOGRIFFS EAT YOU, BE WELL ON THE WESTERN FRONT, KEEP THE INVADERS OFF THE GREAT WALL, BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER, KEEP TRUE TO THE LIGHT OF THE EVENSTAR, CLICK YOUR HEELS TOGETHER THREE TIMES, DO NOT TRUST HOUSE LANNISTER, ROCK ON WITH LESTAT AND ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE CAREFUL OF SMALL BALD WRINKLY OLD MEN.