There are a lot of things I keep meaning to post about (Like Alaskan Klee Kai's [THEY ARE MINI HUSKIES!] and how much I want one.)

But this weekend there was a disagreement that requires the internet's imput:

My sister's boyfriend claimed that, on Heroes, Samuel was more attractive than Sylar. There were six of us in the room (evenly divided by gender and all the males claim to be straight and at least two of the females [the third I had just met and don't know about for sure].). Half of us had no idea who this Samuel person was since we hadn't seen any Heroes he was in. So the sister's boyfriend showed us a picture. The result was unanimous within genders and opposite across them. I told the menfolk that as they didn't swing that way their opinion didn't count really in terms of hotness, but the boyfriend insisted I ask LJ. So here I am. In voting for this poll you are not stating that you think either is attractive or unattractive, or saying you like one character more than another. It is simply a a basic visual cliff/shag situation not meant to be based on personalities or anything else.


Samuel
Sylar

Poll #1489637 The boyfriend demanded a LJ poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

More attractive?

The boyfriend is going to be crushed.

Ps. Totally re-upped my paid account for this.

Title: At Fixed Points In Time
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters: Dr. Manhattan, references to Dr. Manhattan/Laurie, Dr. Manhattan/Janie, Laurie/Dan
Rating: General
Word Count: 916
Notes: pojypojy wanted to see something about Dr. Manhattan.

( In 1982 Laurie is angry at me for referencing something she won't say for another six months during one of our arguments. )

Title: A Change of Climate, A Change of Heart
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire
Pairing: Brienne/Arianne
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2456
Summary: Brienne finds more than she expected at Sunspear.
Notes: Written for cetacea during the most recent round of asoiaf_exchange.

( Arianne speaks of men and bedding with such a frankness that Brienne blushes red and averts her gaze. Arianne seems to find this amusing, and she only grows more detailed. )

Title: Not Always for Him
Fandom: Terminator-The Sarah Connor Chronciles
Characters/Pairings: Derek/Savannah, Allison, John, Kyle
Author: lodessa
Word Count: 3171
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Time travel provides for complicated relationships.
Notes: Written during the scc_reloaded exchange for indiefic

( The first time that Derek sees Savannah Weaver, she's talking to John Connor. )

Title: Asshai
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: R
Character(s): Melisandre
Word Count: 499
Summary: Melisandre comes to be a woman and finds her God.
Warning: Some of this backstory is pretty squicky.
Note: Written a while back for curtana in a ficlet exchange.

( Asshai is a hard land. Some years the same crops that were good to eat last year either don't come back at all or sprout up corrupted, poisonous, and inedible. )

So I usually don't post fanart (even though I periodically draw it) because I am not an amazing (or even middling) artist like some people out there. But today I figured: what the hell, why not. So here are some random GRRM based drawings (mostly just not colored in pencil with one that I used color on).

( ASOIAF Fanart: Brienne, Littlefinger, Cersei & Jaime, Brienne, Ned and Catelyn x2, Sansa and Littlefinger, Ygritte (in color), Danaerys (partially nude), Cersei (totally nude) )

Also one Dresden Files one of Murphy after that time where she has to take her pants off to defeat the Black Court Vampires ( (Yes, I know Harry' Coat would be way too big on her... ) )

Attempted Rape in Buffy: Why I'm Still Pissed About Xander
A Comparison of the Events of "The Pack" and "Seeing Red" and How This Demonstrates a Typical Lack of Narrative Consequences for Xander and His Bad Behavior

( Read more... )

Thank you to sainfoin_fields for letting me traumatize her by trying to work this out at her in gchat. Without you guy, I might never find my brain power again.

Title: Maybe, That First Time
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Characters/Pairings: John Connor, Kyle/Allison, Derek
Rating: General
Word Count: 1196
Notes: Written for allchildren/sainfoin_fields who wanted: Kyle/Allison, escape. Hope the John POV works for you, the idea just sort of ran away on me.

(  The day he reprograms his first terminator, he realizes that he is running out of time. )

Title: Sapphires and Emeralds
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: General
Character(s): Brienne
Word Count: 499
Summary: Back on Tarth...
Notes: Written for zoeiona during a ficlet exchange.

( The servants were getting used to her giving orders, but Brienne knew they would like it better if she'd brought home a lord husband to give them for her.  )

Title: Additional Dimensions
Fandom: Crossover - Dollhouse/AtS
Characters/Pairings: Adelle DeWitt, Wes/Lilah, Illyria, mentions of other characters from both shows.
Word Count: 1,115
Rating: General
Summary: My take on who the inside source might be, and a way that Dollhouse fits together with Angel the Series.

( Sometimes Adelle DeWitt, suspected that this dimension really wasn't any less hell-like than the one she'd grown up in. )

Title: Doctoring the Results
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Donna/Martha
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,159
Spoilers: Through the Season 4 Finale
Author: lodessa
Author's Notes:: Written for vanitashaze for the dw_femslash ficathon. Apologies for the lateness.

( This was a hard place, clawing your way up the ranks would take nerves of steel. And you could see it, under the soft skin and shiny hair, there was something hard about Martha Jones, strong but cruel, like scar tissue. )

Title: To Hold
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Martha/Ten, Martha/Tom
Word Count: 2,690
Summary: Martha is still haunted by her feelings for Ten and confused as to what bearing this has on her engagement to Tom. About two steps from PWP, this was written for the porn.

( Logically, Martha knew that the shivers down her spine at his kiss were more about anticipation and the way she'd been pressed up against him for the last hour than the actual kissing. )

Title: The Signature Stamp
Fandom: The Office (US)
Characters: Pam, Michael
Word Count: 387
Rating: G
Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with any job or boss that the author has ever had, except that it totally does.

( Pam was browsing the Staples catalog, as she often did on Thursday afternoons, when she noticed the page for the first time. )

Title: The Hunt
Fandom: Mythology (Greek)
Characters/Pairings: Apollo/Artemis, Artemis/Orion
Word Count: 1,144
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Written for prozacpark, whom I promised this to ages ago. Thank you to aphrodite_mine who talked me through this when I was having a hard time with it.
Summary: The Orion myth from Apollo's perspective.

( It was she whom he chased when poor Daphne despaired. It was she whom he struck out at through the Trojan princess. )

Title: Like Joan of Arc
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Jaime/Brienne, allusions to Jaime/Cersei
Word Count: 1,977
Summary: Jaime aims to start a new life with Brienne, but the source of his past sins troubles his efforts at every turn.
Author's Note: Beta by zoeiona without whom this thing would be full of canon errors as well as grammatical atrocities. Written for fiendishrogue during asoiaf_exchange's summer 2008 round.


( Cersei laughed, radiant and insubstantial. If anything she was more beautiful than in life, vibrant and well defined and yet somehow wrong. )

Title: Judgment
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire
Characters/Pairings: Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,142
Notes: Written for syderia who asked for a conversation between Jon and Jaime. I hope she likes how it turned out.

( Ser Jaime, the Kingslayer, knelt before the Bastard King, head bent, as if he expected Valayrian steel to pierce his flesh then and there. )

Work has been sucking my time/soul, yesterday I had a bad reaction to my allergy shots, and I am soon departing for my sister's graduation... but I've been meaning to post this entry since Tuesday and I damn well will today.

Tuesday, I was suddenly linked to three lovely pieces of Bones fanfiction. Since, usually that front is pretty quiet and/or mediocre, I thought I would share:

stars_like_dust wrote Expert Witnesses a cute ficlet about Bones/Booth.
runpunkrun and iamsab wrote (You and) Things Like You which is an adorable fic, also Bones/Booth, that looks at the issue of smut writing as well.
sophia_helix wrote The Hang of Thursdays which is a wonderful crossover with Doctor Who. It's brilliantly in character and quite funny.

Title: Forgotten Afternoon
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairings: Ten, Martha, Jack, Shakespeare (and various pairing combinations of them all)
Word Count: 778
Rating: PG
Notes: Written for sophia_helix who asked for: "Martha/Shakespeare, Martha/Jack, Martha studying for her stupid boards and getting taken away to the beach on another world by a Doctor who doesn't tease or get her hopes up for once, just shares girly drinks and helps her build a sandcastle out of pink sand." This is a little in the middle of those options.

( The two biggest flirts in the history of humanity, and we’ve put them together. )