Last year, I tried writing about the books I'd read, sort of like a half-assed literary exchange, but that turned out to be a lot of work. This year I've decided to just tell you about various things I've consumed and provide you with as little detail about them as possible. It's an ambitious project, obviously. Also, self-indulgent, but this last part isn't as sarcastic as the first part. Should you choose to comment, feel free to be as aimless in doing so as I am being in making such a list in the first place.


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Title: Convertere
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Pairing: Kahlan/Cara
Rating: M, S
Word count: ~2900
Author: Harper
Disclaimer: Not mine. No profit made, no infringement intended.
A/N: Set at some ambiguous time after Richard returns from his stay with the sisters of the Light. This isn’t entirely what I meant to write. I meant to write what you might call Confessor kink.

Title: Cowboy Up
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Rachel/Quinn
Rating: M: S
Word count: ~3000
Disclaimer: Not mine. No infringement intended.
Spoilers: Up through ‘Rhodes Not Taken’. Kind of.
A/N: I was visiting the glee_kink_meme earlier today when I realized I had a prompt I wanted to make, namely: Rachel/Quinn and the cowboy outfits from ‘Rhodes Not Taken’. Then I realized I wanted to fill that prompt. It seemed pretty silly to do both, so I didn’t make the prompt; I just filled it. This is total smut with a very tenuous connection to canon. Quinn has no troublesome baby bump and there’s no mention of how she and Rachel might have gotten together, because that’s so not the point. The point is, they’re doing it. Also, this is a ridiculous story.

OMFG. Dexter brought it's A-game this year. Seriously.

( a wee squee, with spoilage )

In which I talk about Glee.

I've mentioned recently, elsewhere, that I love Glee, and I do. I just wish I could love it more.

So, flist, here are my not very well organized or articulated thoughts on why Glee is a total tease; that is, it brings me right to the edge of euphoria then leaves me hanging. I don't even get put away, to allude.

I'll preface this by saying that the internets have, over time, taught me a valuable lesson. The lesson is this - I often think people are dead wrong in their opinions/thoughts about certain shows and their like/dislike of a particular character. This is because I have inherent reasons for liking particular characters or storylines and a certain take on what I think is quality entertainment versus absolute dreck, and - it still shocks me - not all of the rest of the world is in line with those reasons/takes. People sometimes actually squee and squee about things I think are absolutely atrocious, and while I know in my heart of hearts that I'm always right about these kinds of things, the admittedly slim possibility exists that they likely feel the same way about me (only in reverse) and, here's the kicker, feel justified in doing so.

Anyway, enough of this strange phenomenon. Onward.

Title: Pay It Forward
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Quinn/Rachel
Rating: M, S
Word Count: ~4000
Author: Harper
Spoilers: Up to and including “Mash-Up”.
Disclaimer: Not mine. No infringement intended.
A/N: This is just a bit of total fanfic fluff. Nothing serious. (Surprisingly.)

Okay, you remember how I posted about my insane 'I want to ship them' love for Rachel and Quinn? And there was the adorable picture of them all snuggled up and smiley?

Well, thanks to you, anonymous person who enabled this, I was directed to the clip below, where they (okay, I'm confusing reality and fiction again - I mean Lea and Dianna, who play Rachel and Quinn) look at one another as if they are announcing their engagement and/or they want to lick ice cream from assorted places on each other's bodies. It's the gayest, loveliest thing I've seen since Bleighton, and I thank them (and the anonymous enabler) for giving me such a giddy-making event.

 

I want to ship it. I want to ship it so hard. And now, I want to ship it harder.





ETA: I changed my mind. I want to assault your flist with the photo so that you, too, can be sucked into my vortex. (That sounded different in my head.)
 

Mean-spirited?
 
Absolutely.

Hilarious?

Oh, fuck yes. 43 pages of funny (to date), and almost all of them are worth it. Seriously. I looked at all 43.

So, dear flist, I won't draw out the suspense any longer. May I present: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

(The strangest thing I've ever seen at Wal-Mart would be the two guys dressed up like Ace and Gary. What about you?)

Books 2009: August edition

It's a short one. At the bottom, as per usual.

http://harper-m.livejournal.com/21534.html

Title: The Purity Myth
Fandom: Zombie Strippers
Pairing: Jessy/Ryker
Rating: PG-13
Word count: ~3175
Author: Harper
A/N: Zombie Strippers is schlocky B-movie goodness. If you like zombies and you like strippers, then I highly recommend it. This story might spoil a little bit of it, but not much.

Books 2009: July edition

New ones to be found at the bottom, and link below, presented with my usual aplomb/flair: