Can't Stop a Law Dog

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And now back to writing! :P

Man, I love Martina McBride's music -- the woman has the most gorgeous voice ever, I swear.

But some of her songs are so incredibly painful to listen to. I'd forgotten how Concrete Angel makes me all teary.

( Lyrics: )

And if anyone wants to hear it (it's an absolutely gorgeous song), here, have a music file: Concrete Angel - Martina McBride

Right-click and save as :)

Is LJ being flaky for anyone else? Loading slowly, not load completely, that sort of thing?

Title: From Ashes of Steel
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: implied Ricky/Jake, Mickey/Jake
Words: ~350
Spoilers/Warnings: Vague references to The Age of Steel
A/N: I need to be writing J2 -- or better yet, sleeping! -- so of course I'm not doing either. Upon re-watching AoS for the 103498140398th time tonight, I was struck by how much I like the idea of Mickey/Jake. So, um. Have some. :)


( From Ashes of Steel )

Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...

The Shipper

Slash, pairings and Playboy plot bunnies.

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Well, maybe not Harry falling in love with Draco, or Legolas and Aragorn, etc., but I do like to write about Sam and Dean falling in love ;) Or Jared and Jensen. Buffy and Spike. Chris and JC. Methos and Duncan, Jim and Blair...

I HATE winter.

Right Now for
Elizabethtown, KY (42701)

Mostly Cloudy
9°F
Feels Like
-4°F

By way of kitanachan:

Why I Love Large Men, by Anna Davies

The article is pretty misleading, actually, and like kitanachan, I found it very offensive. The author never says anywhere what it is she "loves/loved" about large men, but rather states that she used them as a shield, as a way to make herself feel better about her size, until she "got over" her issues and could enjoy the skinny guys she was really attracted to.

An excerpt from the article:

The guys were "larger than life" in every sense. Still, I wasn't drawn to them for their fantastic sense of humor or their laid-back attitude. I liked them because they made me feel better about myself.

It was only AFTER one of her large-sized suitors rejected her that she found a therapist -- and he rejected her because he wasn't up to playing psychoanalyst for her.

There's no email contact for the article, but it was originally published in Marie Claire. If you read the article and it offends you, and you'd like to let someone know, you can contact the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine at JoannaColes@hearst.com.

Want to start your fic writing year with a bang?*



puella_nerdii's explanation: Saying Yes!




*Why yes, I am mentally twelve.

The wonderful fics I got were written by wizefics (Patterns of Laughter - RH Plus) and puddingcat (A Tight Fit - Fenndom). Thank you so much, both of you! I loved the fics!

When it comes to what I wrote, I'd like to think my writing was sneaky and undetectable, except . . . well, not so much. I suspect that people reading Yuletide from space could point to my fics. Thank you to my tireless beta readers, puddingcat, derryderrydown, toscas_kiss and zalia!

I wrote Too Little To Bite (Fire From Heaven, Mary Renault) for alexcat; In which the child Alexander protects the weak.

I also wrote three full length treats:
The Stars in the Bright Sky - Hut 33; In which the staff of Hut 33 must deal with celebrating Christmas in Bletchley
Good Clean Fun - Hut 33/Hetalia; In which Gordon must babysit a foreign child.
The Customs of the World - Fenndom; In which there is innuendo and naked swimming.

And two Yuletide Madness sharing a common theme:
Funky Robot - Tennis Robot AU; In which Rafael Nadal is a robot
Rough Beasts - Mediaeval French history Robot AU; In which Bernard of Clairveaux has an unusual visitor.

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The Magical Healing Power of Threesomes -The romantic adventures of Fandom, LJ, and Dreamwidth, as told to Fandom's BFFs, Porn and Meta. OMGWTFBBQ!

The Terror from Bohemia: Being the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., in the Year of the Old Ones 745 - A Study in Emerald. Oooh, shiny.

Made the Lord God to Grow - Ancient Near Eastern Myth - Eden/Enuma elish FTW!

The Old Things Fade - Let the Right One in - Oskar and Eli future!fic

The Yiddish Policeman's Chapbook - The Yiddish Policeman's Union - snippets of casework

Title: Everything I Want Is Nothing But You
Pairing: Sam/Dean, nominal Sam/OMCs
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~12,200
Spoilers/Warnings: A/U (mostly, with some canon woven in), hooker fic, references to past underage prostitution, but none appears in the story.
Disclaimer: They're not mine, and I'm not holding my breath.
Summary: He swore last winter he wasn't going to trick any more, but it's hard to pay the rent on just tending bar.
A/N: This is for balefully, for the spn_j2_xmas exchange. Honey, I hope you like it. I tried to work a lot of your likes and preferences into it! *crosses fingers* I need to say huge thanks to cormallen for holding my hand through this, and to arliss, lazy_daze and thehighwaywoman for looking it over for me.




( Everything I Want Is Nothing But You )

Headers, etc. in Part One.


( Part Two )

I hope it's a good one for ALL of us.

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2010 be good to us all.

Jungle Favor Go With Thee - Jungle Book - Mowgli's future

Speaking for Himself - Asterix the Gaul - Asterix doesn't like to think of Obelix being lonely

Sisters of Bilhah - The Handmaid's Tale - a social worker, dealing with refugees from Gilead

What Eli and Oskar Do on Their (First) Summer Vacation - Let The Right One In - how to survive (and have fun) in the short summer nights

Hot DAMN, I've achieved the angst! *boogies*

God, I might actually get this story finished on time.

AIG executive resigns over pay limits

NEW YORK — A top executive at American International Group Inc has resigned because of pay curbs imposed by the Obama Administration's pay czar, the insurer said on Wednesday.

Anastasia Kelly, AIG's vice chairman for legal, human resources, corporate affairs and corporate communications, resigned effective December 30 for "good reason" and is eligible for severance pay under the terms of the company's executive severance plan, the insurer said.

Kelly stands to be paid about $2.8 million in severance, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Kelly's resignation comes after Kenneth Feinberg, who is charged with monitoring pay levels at companies that received taxpayer funds, imposed pay caps for AIG's top executives.

Earlier this month, Feinberg set the compensation structures for the 26th through 100th highest-paid employees at four firms, including AIG, limiting most cash salaries to $500,000.

Rest of the article here.

Gosh, they're unhappy about their salaries being limited to $500,000? My heart bleeds for them. Also, since when do you get severance pay for resigning/quitting? I thought severance packages were for layoffs/retirement, that sort of thing?

$2.8M in severance. Bet she won't have to pinch pennies and wiggle things around to pay HER COBRA payment every month.

No, I'm not bitter at all. Much.