*makes bring it on gesture from The Matrix*

[inmyriadbits]

Oh, what the heck. From thespatz and yahtzee63:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character/prompt of their choosing, in any fandom I am familiar with. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or dirty limericks or something instead.) I'll even write you a dirty limerick, if you prefer that to a drabble.

For the record, I recently got into Generation Kill, re-watched all of Lie To Me and Fringe with my twin, and am having a Southland renaissance, so I'd be particularly thrilled by prompts in those fandoms. But I'm really really easy if you want to pull out something random like, say, The Pretender. :D

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[trialia]

I'll post this to my journal, but not yet - I'm in the middle of moving house, and my muse hates me because it's exhausting to all higher brain functions =P

Edit: *laughs* Yeah, higher brain functions NOT working well. My brain, it fails. Not Dairine/Carmela - are you even in that fandom? I forget - but Kaylee/River would be nice. ^_^ Thanks.

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't really care if you do or don't; I'm always tempted to scratch that part out on these memes. And moving is hard!

Dairine...she's the younger sister in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, right? I only read the first few books, a looooong time ago, so I don't think I'd even met Carmela yet. Sorry! I'll write you some Kaylee/River, though. :)

[trialia]

Indeed! I've taken a six-week hiatus from both my newsletter communities because I know I won't have the energy to deal properly with them while I'm doing this. I've never had a place of my own before, so it's exhausting trying to figure out all the little details, but it'll be worth it.

Yep, that's the girl. *g* I think I mixed you up with paxluvfelicitas in my head, for just a moment. *squishes* I really wasn't braining well this morning, having spent 5 hours travelling the evening before, then going to the cinema. Slept like a log, but woke up still tired. And Kaylee/River is just fine by me, darlin', thank you! :D

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Kaylee curses, loud but muffled underneath the console. River doesn't look away from the stars; she knows that Kaylee only insults Serenity's ancestry like that when her parts aren't cooperating. (Kaylee doesn't curse anyone else when she's hurt herself, and those are the times River worries.)

River has been curled in the copilot's seat for a long time, and her muscles complain. She unfolds one leg from beneath her and stretches it up toward the ceiling, flexing and pointing her toes.

Simple complaint, simple solution. It's soothing to her like algebra.

Kaylee drops the wrench with a clang and a final curse, scooting out from under the pilot's side controls. She whistles, eyeing the long extension of River's leg. "I just don't know how a person can bend like that," Kaylee says, sitting up.

River lowers her foot, leg straight, smooth arc -- and pokes Kaylee in the stomach. Kaylee giggles, ticklish. This, too, is simple algebra of the body, and it makes River smile.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

Cooper/Sherman Saturday

:DDD

Saturday's child works hard for a living

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were a Southland fan! Yay! I love them THIS MUCH. :D

(and for the record, it is all your icon's fault that I was briefly imagining a FOB crossover, until I realized that Cooper would shoot Pete Wentz about five seconds after meeting him, and that it would thus be a bad idea. :P)

***

This was the last thing he expected John to do the morning-after.

Ben had woken late to an empty bed, but not a silent house. He wandered blearily out to his living room to find John sprawled across the clean lines of his couch, watching Saturday morning cartoons.

He stood in the doorway and watched John laugh at an animated explosion. His arms stretched casually along the sofa cushions, but he looked a little stiff. His back, Ben thought.

John looked up when Ben shifted his weight, uncertain, and he smiled wide. "Hey," John said, and turned down the volume. "Come here."

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[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDDDDDD THIS IS GREAT. and we should all just be thankful that Pete probably doesn't have much interaction with law enforcement.

I started watching it...sometime during the original run, just streaming it on Hulu, because Ryan Atwood! Police Officer. and my roommate is a huge Micheal Cudlitz fan. I just really want the fusion/crossover where Sherman secretly IS Ryan, and he brings John home to the Cohens for Chrismukkah.

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[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDD I'm so glad you like it! I was going to write the actual makeouts that would follow, but then the cough syrup kicked in and I also realized that it would end up way waaaaay longer than drabble-length. It's perfectly 100 words, as it is. :)

we should all just be thankful that Pete probably doesn't have much interaction with law enforcement

LOL very very true. Such is the stuff nightmares are made of.

I started watching it...sometime during the original run, just streaming it on Hulu, because Ryan Atwood! Police Officer. and my roommate is a huge Micheal Cudlitz fan.

You should check out the TNT broadcasts! There were six new minutes of footage in the re-aired pilot, and they cut out all the bleeping, so Houston, we have cursing. :D

I just really want the fusion/crossover where Sherman secretly IS Ryan, and he brings John home to the Cohens for Chrismukkah

You mean, like this? There's no Chrismukkah, but it's still good. hackthis has written some amazingly hot Cooper/Sherman.

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[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

oh, believe me, I know about TNT. They've already put in more promo for the first episode than NBC did for the entire series. I kept telling my roommate "IT'S ON THE TV!" because I never remembered to watch it that way the first time around.

I'm pretty sure I've read every single Sherman/Cooper fic in existence. Or at least on delicious. I'm hoping the rebroadcast/new episodes yield more fic.

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[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

They've already put in more promo for the first episode than NBC did for the entire series. I kept telling my roommate "IT'S ON THE TV!" because I never remembered to watch it that way the first time around.

I know! It's really exciting. I always watch the promos, even though I've a) seen them before and b) seen the actual episodes before, just because it makes me happy. :D Also, it's encouraging that TNT is so excited about the show.

LIKEWISE. I think I need to make a pimp post to help make this happen, because I was poking around to see if there was one already I could link to, and there's NOT. That's just wrong. I'm planning to include clips like this and this, and likely this picture, but that's about as far as I've gotten. I've noticed you have a singular talent for pimping, so, any suggestions? :)

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

Write me something about Zuko? :D? :D? I don't even care what!

(and I'm not playing only because I still have like ten trope fics to finish, which is KIND of like having done the same thing. but I'll write YOU something, if you want to make a request!)

[inmyriadbits.livejournal.com]

Aww, Zuko! I love that boy. <3 I was kinda tempted to write him getting drunk with Toph and trading drinking songs, but perhaps another day. Or you can write that for me, if you like. :D?

***

Aang was fidgeting.

Zuko had never paid Uncle Iroh much attention during his many rhapsodies about the Art of Tea, but apparently enough sunk in through simple constant exposure that Zuko had squawked in outrage (a noble, dignified sort of squawking, no matter what Sokka said) at this morning's tea-making travesty.

They were boiling the tea leaves with the water. It was not his fault.

So here they were – Aang squirming impatiently across the fire, and Zuko, channeling his uncle and trying not to miss him so hard it hurt.

"Watch carefully," he said, and began to set out the tea leaves.

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

awwwww, that is adorable! I love Zuko and Iroh SO MUCH. (and eeeee, yes, now I want that drinking song fic too! :DDDDDDD)