always been crazy

Don't you hate it when you stay up past your bedtime reading a gazillion words of a fic you've found yourself sucked in to and then realize it's a WiP? Me too. So, you're forewarned that these recs are WiPs, lol. At least they were both fairly recently updated?

Captive Prince by freece
Summary: Damen is the true heir to the throne, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity and sent to serve the Prince of a rival nation as a pleasure slave.

Real Vampires Don't Sparkle by DeliriousEphemera on fictionpress
Summary: Matheus didn't ask for this. He just wanted a normal, boring life. One bad night, and now he was drinking blood, running for his life, questioning his sexual orientation and generally being a whiny b*tch. Well, that last part wasn't new. slash. snarky.

So, I totally fell asleep last night during the race, in the middle of txtng with snarkyrainbow and following livetweets from my NYC girls about PStump. Woke up around 2am, asked my brother who won the race (Matt Kenseth, for those keeping track), tried to play catch up on twitter/email but that didn't last very long. Seriously, I am SO TIRED these days, esp when I actually take meds for my headaches.

I'm kinda depressed that my brother is out here playing basketball with Davey, and Harley is planting flowers in the yard, and I can't do either. :( (Ronnie is at his other momma's house again) But it's a nice day, so I have the munchkin in her cage out here on the back porch. Roger and Maddie wanted us to come down to the lake for cookout/boatride/etc this evening, but I don't think I can handle that ride today. But Tim just came back from the store with steaks, so haha. He bought extra if anyone wants to come over for dinner, lol.

I've noticed that I have a bad habit of writing about nothing when I write fic. Like, one of the things I have up right now is 1500 words but half of it is really unimportant and pointless. Ridiculousness!

You may remember me saying something about apiphile writing Inception fic that was het and that I'd be disappointed if it was skipped over because of the pairing. You may also remember that I haven't seen Inception, but I like to read AUs and actually like to read fics by authors I like in fandoms I don't know because I can imagine the characters however I like in my own head. And it's easier than most with apiphile's fic, because I have read her original fic and even though TV and BPV aren't actually original fic, they are both worlds of their own. anyway, fic rec.

Take a good swing at all my dreams by apiphile
Written for i_reversebang
Inception || Ariadne/Eames, Arthur/Cobb, past Arthur/Eames || NC-17 || 28,800-ish
Warnings: Some violence, it's a boxing AU!
Summary/notes: This. Only a lot longer.

crotalus_atrox's Art Post and the fanmix posting.

I loved this AU, a lot, and when I'm feeling more clearheaded I'm going to go back and reread it because I have comments for apiphile that I didn't leave for her the first time I read it. But yall should go read fic / enjoy the art & music / leave love for author and artist.

I'm gonna go put the tilapia in marinade and then email asimplechord. <3

Still being super unproductive. Did have a good day on Saturday at Martinsville, despite the headaches and the fact it was super cold and windy and the Bass Pro team didn't win. With the storm rolling in today and that-time-of-the-month also rolling in, my headache last night and today has been epic. Also, my dad and I finished the bedroom downstairs last week, and even though it was decided that Tim would take that room until he found a new place of his own, he didn't go get his bed this weekend like he planned on, so I'm still stuck trying to be polite and not keep the TV/light/my laptop on at night since he has to be up at the crack of dawn for work and we're sharing the living room. Dammit.

In happier news, or the real reason for this post, is that the stories for the Spring Fling Exchange at we_pimpin were posted yesterday. I probably should have rationed them out, but really, what better way to spend a Sunday recovering from an exhausting day of sun and socializing than by overdosing on Ray-fic? Here's the link to the Master Post but here are my favorites: (no authors, obviously, because author reveal isn't until next week)

When I See Tomorrow (I See You There)
Brad/Ray || NC17 || 
5000
 words
When people ask how they met, Brad usually says that Ray followed him home one day, like a demented puppy, and refused to leave.


Sunshine and Springtime
Brad/Ray; Nate/Ray || NC-17 || ~ 9,000 words
The long con of Nathaniel Fick.

You Call This Archaeology?
Brad/Ray || R, for all those creative expletives || 9779 words
Indiana Jones!Au. It’s one thing to talk about consulting with someone, but Brad’s not going to be responsible for keeping some wet-behind-the-ears pup in one piece.

72 Hours Libo

Brad/Ray || NC-17
 || ~4,800
 words
A weekend away from base doesn’t go quite as Brad and Ray expect.

Let the Engines Roar
Ray/Brad || PG-13 || 8,936 words
"You realize we don't do bikes, right? Like, yours is a beauty and I'd fucking love to make an exception, dude, but we're an auto repair shop." He starts walking inside to where Walt is manning the front, because hanging around by the Ducati is just awkward. He'd worry about being rude, except Ray kind of gave that up as a lost cause when he was fourteen. (Fast & Furious AU)

The places we've never been (but were always bound to end up)
Ray/Brad || R || 24,500 words
Brad’s been gone for two years, stopped talking to Ray at least a year before that. Fuck, they haven’t even been friends in almost five years. There doesn’t get to be a lazy, easy friendship between them anymore. Ray just wishes Brad had gotten the memo. warnings: adult language, adult situations, domesticity

I am failing at LJ right now. Actually, I'm failing at life, the internet, and everything right now, so I guess it's par for the course. But I have a list of things I wanted to post about, so I'm going to try and knock that out, then go tackle my inbox and comments, then my flist, then work on fic. Sound like a plan?

If this entry seems like a jumbled mess... well, that's because it is.

Kane's got a song - I think it's from the Live in London album - called Oklahoma State of Mind. Part of it goes NASCAR, strip bars, American made cars, country rockin' women now to get up and get 'em, we got Budweiser beer, Jim Beam, Jack, tequila and lime. Every time I hear that, I think it's totally a Ray Person song. Y/N?

Shameless is SO FREAKING GOOD and I am sad that this week is the finale already when I just got into the show! And I want a million words of all kinds of fic, so I hope there are other people into this. Also, Lip is totally my favorite. But Ian and Fiona are too. And the rest of them.

And I'm totally writing Being Human fanfic (for the US version), especially after Monday's episode.

Someone, I think it was exsequar, posted links on twitter to these pictures of Antartica's Blood Falls, which are pretty damn awesome.

Everyone seems to be hanging out on Tumblr and I'm still behind when it comes to the tumblr craze. Sorry!

A million and one things happened in regards to the panic boys. Brendon Urie is still my favoritest thing in the ENTIRE FREAKING WORLD. No surprise. But I can't tell you anything specific about what's going on with them because I'm failing at the internet. But! I did get a concert call the other night! So I have panic + screaming fangirls on my voicemail, which is a total win!

Kirsten Vangsness posted this pic of MGG and Shemar the other day and it's totally adorable, as those two are.

Wil Wheaton posted about a Stand By Me reunion. for anyone who doesn't know, Stand By Me is my all time favorite movie. ♥

I have this article from our local No Kill Coalition open in a tab, but I'm not sure what I wanted to do with it.

And I have this up as a reminder that I want to find/steal the song b/c it was recced to me when I was looking for songs to write to. (junebug_waltz totally made me an awesome playlist to write kitten!fic too, btw. she is made of win.)

I still have swear_jar's the gentle art of making enemies: cigarettes open on my screen because it doesn't have nearly enough comments on it and I keep meaning to find more people to rec it to and/or encourage to read it.

We were playing Scene It the other day at James's and no one knew the scenes from Footloose! And it was like the tractor scene! Who doesn't know that?!

I am sick and tired of being crazy. So over this bullshit.

Also over these headaches. And I'm worried that they're going to ruin my enjoyment of concerts. I haven't actually been to a concert since I started having them. I mean, I went to the Cobra/Travie concerts, but that was while I was severely concussed, lol, so that doesn't count. And I did go see Carrie Underwood & Billy Currington, but I felt like crap that entire time, and I don't know if that was the company and/or my general emotional state that week. I am so afraid that my enjoyment of Panic and NKOTB/BSB is going to be affected by this. And that my enjoyment of races is going to be affected. We're going to Martinsville next weekend, so I guess that'll be the test.

The other tabs I have open are related to job searching or my CEUs, and the other windows I have open are also related to job searching or to partially written fic. I don't think yall want that, do you? So, I'm going to try to tackle some of this other stuff. I will be so happy when we get my bedroom finished because trying to be quiet because my brother is sleeping is kinda boo. But he has to be up at 3am. Blah.

If I've missed something important, tell me here!

GUYS GUYS GUYS!

GUESS WHAT?

swear_jar POSTED FIC!

I am super sleepy and grumpy about the dreary day and about the lack of post-Oscar afterparty conciliatory Andrew/Jesse sex fic, but I will read Jess!fic and watch Castle and my night will be good. :)

So, yall should go read this awesome GK AU (that I have been waiting on for weeks) and leave Jess some love. Or at least a "hey, I liked this" comment.

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: Cigarettes by swear_jar
GK || Rated R || Brad/Ray || 28K || warning for violence
Assassin!AU. This is a continuation of the gentle art of making enemies, which is a wee short prologue that is very much need to read for some of this to make sense.

DUDE! THIS WEEK IS ALL ABOUT AWESOME POSTS ON MY FLIST!!

Favorite authors posting fic is always A++, so let's start there:

Shelter by stratospherique
Shelter || 2800 words || Porn with a dash of sexual orientation questioning || Title comes from the movie this is loosely intended to be a prequel to- see it. Surf dudes having feelings and sex, what more could you want? Seeing the movie is massively unnecessary for reading, though, it's intended to stand entirely on its own.

Memoirs: Epilogue also by stratospherique
Porn || Features fluff and warm fuzzy feelings.
(goes along with The Curious Case Of The Firecrotch: This Is Why We Don't Write Our Memoirs While Drunk, Ben., which stratospherique wrote with apiphile)

And apiphile has ruined me for Inception. I still haven't seen the movie (yes, I do live under a rock, I think this has previously been established), but Del mentioned earlier that I'm probably going to be disappointed that the movie is not actually wall-to-wall porn. SHE WOULD NOT BE WRONG!

Summer by apiphile
Inception || 3,100 words || Ariadne/Eames

And speaking of fandoms I'm not in, harriet_vane wrote Jesse Eisenberg/Andrew Garfield fic. I'm not in TSN RPF fandom! I barely know who Andrew Garfield is!! But this fic is adorable and hysterical and I love it SO MUCH and her Justin is quite possibly my favorite thing about the fic, except that the entire thing is my favorite. (“What you need to do,” said Justin, totally ignoring him, “is send him a naked picture of yourself. That’s how this shit works. I saw it on To Catch A Predator.”)

Don't Carry It All by harriet_vane
25,000 words of Jesse/Andrew awkwardnes goodness, with a healthy dose of Justin.
It started because Justin decided to set up a dating profile for Jesse against his will.

Also on my flist this week, this awesomely happy-making multi-fandom picspam from sonicbookmark (who I adore and am going to kidnap so we can run away and get married), several awesome recaps from LA CON from wendy (complete with pictures!), PatD concert and m&g recaps from sunsetmog, pictures from pecos's Asia Adventures, and lots of flailing about Discos and PStump and MF'ing EMPIRES (yall have all gone to vote for them, right?)!

This is totally a happy week!!

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone who was celebrating had a wonderful day, and stayed warm, and didn't get arrested for the murder (or attempted murder) of family members! For those of you who weren't celebrating Christmas, I hope you're having an excellent weekend!

Here in the mountains, the stupid snow won't stop fucking falling, even though the predictions were for a light dusting. Ha. There were a good four or five inches on the ground when I got home earlier, and that was hours ago. And if you saw my tweet about my brother wrecking his truck, you'll be happy to know that Drewber is okay. A little banged up, but perfectly capable of celebrating his 21st birthday on Monday with no ill effects. His truck, on the other hand, is totalled, which is unsurprising since he rolled it down an embankment.

Stupid snow, seriously.

Also, if you txtd me holiday wishes and I didn't respond, it's because I DON'T KNOW WHO THE FUCK YOU ARE!

I'm still getting used to my new phone, but I have figured out how to email long, rambly bits of crack fic to irisgirl12000, how to look at the pics of PJ Ransone on swear_jar's tumblr, how to read fic, and (hopefully) how to post to LJ.

So, on the subject of fic. yagkyas! I have to say that the fic that was written for irisgirl12000 (one foot in front of the other) has already earned a spot in my heart as one of my all-time favorite things. It's hs au, which I'm sure yall are surprised to hear I love, and is just too awesome for words. Also, the fic that was gifted to thebunnyknows (It’s Not Love At First Sight (Because This Isn’t a Country Song)) has excellent Ray!voice.

For an actual fic rec, though, for all of you who get to enjoy your Sunday lazing around the house and playing on the internet (unlike myself, who has to work twelve fucking hours), I present you with links to fic built on the current pairing of my heart.

The best thing about this pairing and these fics is that you can read them and appreciate the awesomeness without having to be in GK fandom or have a background knowledge of GK canon.

These are both written by marycontraire, who is evil in that awesome way where she has me wanting a million more words of Stafford/Christenson, and I may make ridiculous noises of glee when I see her name come up on new fic posts.

I'll give you the porn link first.

cocked, ready to let it go
I'm sure that yall are shocked to find out that biting is my bulletproof kink, right? No? Oh well. GO READ THIS AND ENJOY THE YUMMY BITING SEX!

And the actual, 11K+ story that yall should read, whether you're in the fandom or not: tear down the house that i grew up in (i'll never be the same again)

Yall go read and leave some love for marycontraire, okay? And enjoy your Sundays for me!

LOVE YOU ALL! *mwah*

So, irisgirl12000 wrote fic! It is awesome & I love it & I've loved it since she first mentioned thinking about it.

Five moments in the birth and maturation of a "thing"
adult || ~2600 words
Generation Kill || Mike Wynn/OFCs

Complete fiction based on the performances of actors in the TV series, meant to imply absolutely nothing about real people.

go read & leave some love for irisgirl12000!

Yall, guess what?? I stepped on the scale and it says 199.5! It's been a long time since I saw this side of 200 pounds, lol. But that means I've lost almost 14 pounds in the last 2 months! AND! It's my fat week, so that means I'm doing good, right?

Okay, in less TMI info. OMG YALL I READ THE AWESOMEST WINCEST FIC!! Okay, so technically I beta'd it, but that totally counts as reading! And yall should go read it too!

dig your thumbs in by swear_jar
SPN || Dean/Sam || 12,000-ish words || NC-17
Warning: breathplay, D/s overtones.
Notes: Written for “breathplay” on kink_bingo card. Title from “Midlife Crisis” by Faith No More. Pre-series but not underage.

It's so delightfully fucked up and OMFGHOT and there is snark and fighting and sex and YUM! GO READ IT!

Also, weeks and weeks ago, I was supposed to post the answers to these 5 questions that pushingyouaway gave me. Oops?

( ask me )

HEY, THERE IS GRASS GROWING IN MY BACKYARD!!! Yall probably don't understand how significant this is, but OMG IT IS!!

*points to icon* This applies to each and every one of you on a daily basis, but today it's pretty much reserved for stratospherique, strangecreature, & apiphile.

Holdon's birthday is this week and there is supposed to be a shared birthday party for him tomorrow afternoon, but I just got a phone call that there is going to be a separate small party / cookout for him this afternoon for the other side of the family this afternoon but that he and James would really like it if me and the boys could be there. But my Saturday plans are mostly "clean house" and "grocery shop" and "read fic one of my new books", especially since there's a storm front moving in this afternoon.

Speaking of reading:

1. I didn't get my copy of Dragonsoul because NO ONE IN THE FREAKING VALLEY has it, so it had to be ordered for me. :(

2. THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SPEND MY DAY READING, SO IT'S GOING TO BE MY REWARD FOR GETTING THE HOUSE CLEAN!!!!

Ours Is a Criminal and Uncouth Love (Prisonverse) by stratospherique, strangecreature, & apiphile
Bandom AU || approximately 54,000 || NC-17 || mainly Frank/Bob
Warnings: some dub-con, buttsex, questionable ethics, legal research done by watching Law and Order and skimming Wikipedia.
Summary: LONG ASS PORN ANGSTY LULZ. And, like, acceptance and personal growth and shit. But mostly ANGST PORN GIGGLES.

I have been waiting for MONTHS for this to be finished, omg. I am gonna have to stay away from the internet so I won't spend the afternoon reading it before I get my actual chores done.

3. Also, I'm waiting on recs from BBB, but I've already heard good things about Possibilities in Basic Space, the zombie!The Used fic by schneestern. SO EXCITED!!!

Had to go by my daddy beer and cigarettes last night, then spent forever over there while he set off fireworks for the kids in the middle of the street. We were making plans to spend 4th of July weekend at the lake - pig roast & live band & fireworks & all sorts of other nonsense. I'm actually really looking forward to it. I just gotta remember to buy the boys new life vests for the boat b/c they've definitely outgrown the kid sized ones they had last year.

also, we're going on a huge family camping trip the weekend after that, so that's two weekends in a row that I'll be away from civilization with no cell or internet access. Good times? *g*

Oh, and Matt said he'd move to Texas with me and the boys, lol. Seriously, so tempted. <3