Hahah, assignments are out so I guess I'd better get my letter up.

General Wants (er, not all necessarily in the same fic):
- plot!
- tension!
- gritty realism!
- humour!
- getting-together fics!
- misunderstandings and/or wacky shenanigans!
- guys being guys!
- girls being awesome!

General Do Not Wants:
- schmoop (romance is ok, just not the sickeningly gooey kind)
- pwp (see point about plot)
- unusual body fluids
- characters sabotaging their own happiness for no reason (for good reasons, that's another story)
- AUs that take the chars out of their natural habitats (high school AUs must die! Uh, unless you're writing Mac Hall. Also AUs that play with 'what if char X had done B instead of A?' are awesomesauce.)

... it's really hard to do a general list when your fandoms run from high fantasy to wacky Canadian boarding school books.


CJ Cherryh - Fortress

Honestly, if you signed up to write this I don't care what I get, I want to have your internet babies RIGHT NOW.

Okay, that's not terribly helpful so... I heart Tristen. I love his innocence and his kindness and how easily the random cruelty of the world hurts him. I love how he makes Cefwyn want to be a better person. I love Cefwyn and his cynicism. I like Ninevrise and Efanor and Crissand, and I adore Uwen. I can't think of a pairing I wouldn't love, from almost-canon Tristen/Ninevrise to very very wrong Cefwyn/Efanor. Tristen/Efanor. Tristen/Crissand. My very favourite pairing is Tristen/Cefwyn, but honestly, you can't go wrong in this fandom. I'd love Lusin/Tawwys if that's what grabs you. Or no pairing at all. Or, or... I'll shut up now.


Pet Shop of Horrors

So most of us are in it for D and Leon, right? I am, anyway. Slash or gen is fine. I am a bit picky with D, in that I don't like him to have PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS; his family's been on the edge of survival for centuries, and I don't they'd be picking off humans one by one via rabid tiger or man-eating jellyfish if they had other options. At the same time I don't like to see D helpless or weak or girly. I do like that Leon can get under his skin, and I like it when Leon's a detective, not an idiot. Crude, a slob, bit of a jerk, but not an idiot. Also? Chris and Jill and the pets are love. ♥


Macdonald Hall

Oh, my most beloved childhood series. CORRUPT IT ALL YOU WANT. :D I don't think it's possible to go wrong here - I love Korman's style but don't feel obligated to mimic it. I do love the supporting cast almost as much as I love B&B, so go nuts.

After three years of trying, I finally got my Fortress Series fic for Yuletide. Now I can no longer claim to be the only person in this fandom. :D I can't begin to describe how much I love this fic. ♥

Courtly Love, by valderys. Cefwyn/Tristen. A Shaping, Emuin says the stranger is, and that you must win his love, for the sake of us all. Cefwyn, a Marhanen Prince, casual and automatically suspicious of everyone, does not know if he wants to try. Or even how to start.

I was assigned Kuroshitsuji again this year, with no instruction other than to include Finny (guaranteeing that next year I will not be putting down 'any' for this fandom).

Title: His Butler, Mirthful
Fandom: Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler)
Pairing: mainly gen, but definite everyone/Sebastian vibes
Rating: PG13
Summary: Sebastian's tastes in humour, as in everything, is fiendish.

In non-Yuletide news, PJ was bemoaning the lack of top!D in PSOH, which reminded me that I never posted a fic even though it's been essentially done for two years. Mind, it has no top!D, and has a bunch of other stuff PJ was complaining there's too much of, but still. It's new fic in a small fandom, and it's definitely not gen. :D I started this ages ago for the PSOH fic fest (prompt: Gender is a very confusing concept, especially when it comes to the D family.) but quite understandably missed the deadline, 30K later.

Title: Daylily
Fandom: Pet Shop of Horrors
Pairing: D/Leon
Wordcount: 29,000
Rating: NC17
Warnings: AU, hermaphrodite!D, D family shenanigans, crazy procreation hijinx.
Summary: For as long he can remember D has been a battleground in the war between Father and Grandfather. Now their conflicting survival tactics are coming to a head, and D must keep his family from destruction while dealing with his increasingly complicated personal life.

I am hoping to get back to posting regularly, but my work schedule is insane. We'll see if I manage. I've dropped my major freelance client, so hopefully I'll have a bit more free time.

My first post in forever, but at least it's fic?

Title: It's Vulcan for Humbug
Author: nimori
Series: STXI
Pairing: K/S
Rating: PG. I'm terribly sorry.
Length: 3000
Warnings: Irreverence for everything. Again, sorry.
Summary: In which Jim is a multicultural holiday whore, Spock could do with a little less respect, and Russians invented Christmas trees.
Disclaimer: Not even remotely mine.
Thank you to amanuensis1, as always, who suggested the title 'A Turkey and Some Mistletoe' but then wondered if it might be too insulting to Jim. <3 Written for ksadvent.

( Fic This Way )

First of all, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Second, thank you so much in advance! I'm sure I'll love your fic. I'm very flexible when it comes to genre and pairings (except if you're writing PSoH, and then I'd like D/Leon or gen), and I'm nearly impossible to upset with the content. Angst, darkfic, hurt/comfort are all very welcome. So are romance and adventure and humour if you prefer lighter fare.

And thirdly, have some more love. ♥♥♥♥♥

Because my journal is flocked and I know it'll be hard to snoop, here's a handy list of things that make me happy and things that make me backpeddle.

Likes: Plot. Cannot emphasize this enough. I want something to happen in a fic; I find mindless porn or character vignettes made of nothing but rambling internalization dull. Snappy dialogue. Dialogue in general. Wall sex. Light bondage. Non-con ok if the story calls for it.

Dislikes: Second person. Too much exposition. Breathplay. Bloodplay (there can be blood, just please not in an erotic light). Body wastes. Vampires (see bloodplay squick). Very young chan, though I don't expect this to be an issue with these fandoms.


Feel free to write whatever you like, but if you're one of those authors who likes a little direction, here are some loose prompts:

Fortress: Tristen's unique way of seeing the world. What would have happened if Cefwyn rejected Tristen's friendship? Efanor's jealousy. Crissand's jealousy. Tristen from his guards' POV.

Gargoyles: Misunderstandings. Demona and/or Puck interfering. Spells gone wrong. Xanatos' plans gone wrong (especially if he meant well this time). The trouble with having a private life in the middle of a close-knit clan (particularly if it's an outsider in a relationship with a clan member). Odd aspects of Gargoyle culture clashing with modern human ideas.

Petshop: Snarky teatime conversation leading to uncomfortable places. A disaster in one of the shop's many rooms. A real threat to D forces Leon to choose sides. Leon finally catches up with D... years later, after D has already reproduced. D needs help and can't ask for it.

In conclusion, ♥♥♥♥♥.

Only a few hours left to bid, but I finally stopped wibbling and offered something. Take that, commitment phobia.

Offering fanart and fic at livelongnmarry.

*crawls back under rock*

Dear god, I wish I were still drunk.

I was a little while ago -- pretty much since lauriegilbert and I got back from picking up cjmarlowe from the train station. And then they fed me pizza and sobered me up.

So, a little more coherently:

This afternoon I received an LJ notification from someone I'd never heard of (she later turned out to be a friend of Anj's from high school). Since I was at work I only saw the notice, not the content, so I set it aside until I got home. About 4pm lauriegilbert called my cell, and I made out that the notice, which she'd received too, was that Anj had been in car accident and hadn't made it. Of course I didn't believe it. Not only was it almost April 1st, but there is just so much random deceit on the internet that it's hard to believe -- especially when you don't want to.

Tina and I agreed that it was best not to panic, to wait until we could check with others, and to look for any info we could at work in the mean time.

For me that meant googling Anj's name and checking the Santa Fe newspapers. I found nothing, and was starting to believe it was a (horrible, tasteless) prank before I remembered Anj said she would be returning to Dallas soon. So I widened my search and found the article I linked to previously. I picked Tina up from work and we drove back to her place, where we both tried to get a hold of as many people as possible. I am so so sorry that we were unable to speak to some people in person. We tried to get as many phone numbers as we could.

I can't tell you how much I was hoping someone would dispute the post, say that they'd just talked to Anj and there was no way it was true -- or better yet, that Anj would ping me and ask me what the hell I was talking about. I was hoping right up until a few hours ago, when we called Anj's parents and her father didn't even have to ask why we were calling.

Thank you so much to everyone who's left a comment for the the family at we_love_you_anj.

Tina, CJ and I have just got off the phone with Anj's dad. He would really really love to hear from you all. If you have any memories of Anj or condolences for her parents and sister, please join:

we_love_you_anj

If you knew Anj, please share the link.

I got a notification over LJ today, which I didn't check as I was work. And then lauriegilbert called me, upset.

anjenue died in a car accident last night. I wasn't inclined to believe it until I googled and found this: Norman crash claims Texas woman.

If anyone knows anything about this, please, please, contact me.

ETA: It's been confirmed through her parents. If you're in the area, you're welcome to join us at lauriegilbert's place.

ETA2 If you'd like to leave your condolences to Anj's family or want to share your memories of her, you can do so at we_love_you_anj.

I'm doing valensnippets again this year. Post is here if you want to order one for a friend.

Updates to my IJ:

Diary of a Sim: One Week in the Life of Severus Snape
: Snape's thoughts on yaoi finding himself in my sims game.

A Very Important Poll: Concerning the future of the Snarry Household now that their puppet master (i.e., me) has a new expansion pack.

The Snarry House, Part 2: The continuing saga of the Sappiest Snarry House Ever -- now with more punching!

Updated my IJ with pics of my cracktastic Snape/Harry Sims house here.

I know you've seen a lot of these, but bear with me. I'm trying to clean up the mess.

Poll #1042753
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 182

Your journal content:

Your IJ username is:

As I said, I'm moving to IJ. Please don't bother friending this journal; it will only be used for image hosting and for a short while to keep up with the old flist. For the next few weeks I'll be letting people here know when I've posted anything significant, but I won't keep that up long.

I'll be defriending everyone who is posting their content to IJ -- I am nimori there too, so if you friend me there I'll add you, or track you down if you filled out that part of the poll. Those who are staying on LJ... good luck. I'll be checking my LJ flist every other day to start, then reducing to once a week.

ETA: Toy backed up my journal to IJ, so all the content, minus the comments, is there under friendslock.

Too much to say and not enought time to say it.

I've had enough. I've been increasingly unhappy on LJ, so I'm shutting it down. I've been hoping to just remove a few posts and wait until one of the fan-run site projects are near completion, but that's not going to happen soon and I can't deal with this shit anymore. It's sucked a lot of the fun out of DH and Prophecy, and now it's looking to take over Toy's visit.

So. All entries are private, but only for as long as it takes me to delete them (I have copies of everything and all my fic and art is still available on my website). I'm defriending 90% of my flist, only keeping old friends and people I know in real life, and will be reading that flist in addition to my new one.

I am nimori on GJ, IJ, and JF, but I will be using GJ as my main journal until a fan-run service (other than JF) comes online. ETA: snapetoy has convinced me that InsaneJournal is the better choice for the period before one of the fandom-run projects is up and running, so that will be my main account. I'll be crossposting to GJ.

I'll be retaining my LJ for the purposes of image hosting, as I, sadly, have a permanent account.