Shine On You Crazy Diamond

 Happy International Women’s Day! I’ll be celebrating it by donating period products to Sisu Youth Shelter, and by being menopausal and itchy.

The Things:

Thank you to everyone who checked out my new blog and commented or liked it on Facebook. I was overwhelmed by the response to my dorkdom. Hearts!

We are leaving for Walt Disney World in 2 days! It's like the Mother Ship is calling me home!

Jonah picked out a hot pink Jeep Cherokee stroller to traverse the parks and is taking his plush Daisy Duck as his Plus One. Between tooling around in a hot pink ride with a duckette wearing lavender and pearls and being super excited about Cinderella's castle, I think my almost 4 year old boy is giving a big FU to traditional gender roles. Can I get a what-what? Of course, his mother will be standing alongside with precisely placed highlights, turquoise glitter polish (looks like town to me) and inches of tanned legs between short-shorts and platforms, looking like a fresh tube of lip gloss on Christmas morn, but we're both keeping it real.

I have been KNOCKED OUT by "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men" this season, but woefully underwhelmed by HIMYM. I don't watch a lot of comedies (Community, 30 Rock, HIMYM & Big Bang) but when I'm finding Ted my favorite character, I think something's gone wonky.

My husband finished another semester of his doctoral program with a 4.0 for the semester -- his Admin in Higher Ed class was kicking his butt, super tough prof -- and now he only has 4 semesters to go and of course the dissertation. I'm incredibly proud of him as he balances his assoc dean / professor duties in a single income family and still has time to be an involved father and read everything I write and listen to what I overheard at the gym every day.

WHY did none of you tell me about "Revenge"??? I watched all aired 20 eps over 2 days. OMG the tawdry fabulous! I also caught up on "Girls" on HBO, and I have thoughts on it, but it needs its own post when I'm not packing and cleaning at the same time.

"The Avengers," in case you haven't heard, kicks massive ass. I don't know what Joss Whedon's thing is with schwarma ("I mean, what's that all about? It's a big meat hive!") but I like it. Oh, and if you've seen The Avengers, read this: Avengers Dissemble by spuffyduds

Hi! Hi! I'm tripping protein bars and lots of Omega 3!

Still not really here - same reason (work, which I don't have time to whine about, and you really don't wanna read) however, should have better news on the work front soon.

( Fic Recs / Website Update )

Taking my own advice:

This has to be one of the best post I've ever read about LJ fandom: Cesspit of Love by tkp

And thank you to all who read and pimped my "slouching" post. Sorry if it came off preachy, I was really going for whimsy. :)

Two stories are currently hitting my major kink: S/X that reads like gen-fic. Yes, it's fair to say that my kinks are vanilla. These stories aren't.

The Assistant, Part 14, by witling. Spike/Xander with Wesley POV and Angelus. It ties my stomach up in knots and takes away my words. I used to be able to leave coherent feedback. If you read S/X or even well written fic and you aren't reading this...I'm guessing you're just busy. Previous parts: here.

"The Spike and Xander Love Story Told By Everyone Else Cause They're Too Stupid To Figure It Out" (not the real title, I just think that's funny) by ladycat777: Part One and Part Two. I asked her for UST, she gave me brilliance. Buffy voice! Willow voice! And, oh my god, latent Spillow love that hasn't reared its head since spikedluv stopped writing Spike/Willow. The dialogue! And the interaction! And the...UST-y-ness. (Now you're seeing why I haven't written in a while.)

I've read a lot of great stuff lately (notably entrenous88's Xander/Andrew - Xandrew! Amazing Xandrew!) but those have had me jaw-dropped.

She would only do it for love of me. And one kick-ass song. karabair wrote Xander-slash!! Good Xander slash! Without Spike - but I'm not asking for miracles, only slight wonders. :)

For the Music of Pain fic-a-thon:

"Highway Kind"
by karabair
Xander/Wesley
Part One, Part Two and Part Three

altyronsmaker wrote a lovely S/X reunion ficlet for me. It's here: Reunion

Thank you all so much for all the lovely birthday wishes!!! (And for pretending not to notice my subtle birthday reminder - I am a birthday!whore - gotta be the girl with the most cake. Okay, I just quoted Courtney Love and grossed out Stoney.)

( Sharing My New Toys )

Okay, I'll have to do this sans icon. If you've somehow stumbled across my journal because (well, I don't know why - dovil, stoney321 or karabair told you to, maybe?) and you've been reading happily or skimming merrily and thinking, well, yes, seems like an amusing girl - *love the hair* - but there's that unfortunate Spike/Xander obsession...don't get that a'tall. (Everyone on my flist sounds like John Cleese, apparently.)

Here's the explanation for the S/X obsession: Untitled by winterlive. I beta'd this last night, and she reminded me of why I love S/X in the first place. And she did it with canon (well, mostly, c'mon, we're talking slash here, people!) But there were no spells, no wishes, no Xander-is-really-Giles'-son-or-maybe-he's-Connor-but-whatever-as-long-as-he-has-a-three-way-with-Spike-and-Angel.

It's slash like it used to be - before people got tired and pouted, "I don't wanna have to think. I don't wanna explain UST. I'll just make them gay cowboys and watch the feedback roll in..." Go read it. Shoo.

Confidential to Winter: Dude - you need a title.

Self-pimp: Thanks to whoever nominated Sunday Morning Coming Down at the Shades of Grey awards. And congrats to two of my oldest old time friends, karabair and spikendru for their noms, as well.