DAY 7: Count your fannish blessings. Post about (at least) three fannish blessings, for example, three reasons you love your fandom or fandom in general, three happy fannish memories, three people who've inspired your fannishness.
*does anyone actually need this cited?
**see what I did there? And there?
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china_shop's annual event is underway. Today it's rec 3 fanworks more than 6 months old.In the PWP category, since I cannot seem to find the one that starts off in a California Pizza Kitchen: How's That for a Sign? by accol Generation Kill, Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, 2624 words
accol is a good writer, and these bite-size stories are great for standing in line, etc. Brad in a wet T-shirt is irresistable.
I seriously need to relocate the California Pizza Kitchen story though - I've been searching AOOO all day, with no luck. The thing is, they're so damn smart. The words they string together are unbelievable, and unbelieveably hot. Plus, the pretty doesn't hurt a whit.
jerakeen (stories and recs) and Dira_Sudis (dira ) (stories) and the fangirl meetup. We watched ep 4, so I have some actual canon to go with it. Since it's all about the adolescent hormonal werewolf angst, I feel one ep is fairly sufficient for basis.dira , because she loaned me the entire DVD set, I now have the first 2 parts of Generation Kill under my belt. DH is a hard core military movie/documentary fan, so it wasn't a hard sell at all. So far, I'm not seeing the Nate/Brad, but everybody does lust after Rudy, and I think there might be a case for Evan/Ray. Or at least an unrequited crush by Evan towards Ray. I have to say, it's hard to believe the same organizations that successfully run critical covert ops were responsible for invading ANY country. SHEE-eesh.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
kradamadness That's a lot of reading!
slodwick is hosting an all-fandom challenge, and I highly approve! 50 Smuts of Gray will be fandom's improvement to that book. Even if you don't want to sign up, you should visit to see the format of the prompts - very cool (no pun intended).kradamadness will come out of hiatus in August for a challenge to celebrate the newest Kradam releases! I can't wait - the mad mad women over there come up with the best stuff. Also, I feel I must acquire the newest releases to be able to play along (or at least appreciate the results).
kass : kass reminds us, it's ALL personal. So really, please remember to be kind to everyone who's giving so much so you can enjoy your corner of fandom a little more easily. 
astolat's fault, though I totally intended to see the movie when it premiered, but RL had other plans) china_shophas me reading Clinton/Neal in addition to the OT3.bone, (SO HOT!) which featured Dean/Tim. I've seen half of one episode of SPN, so I'm standing by my "no original canon" claim there. 
Now, my dreams tend to be pretty equal opportunity in the sex department, but when I dream of women, I rarely see/remember their faces, unless they're someone I know in real life. Strange fun fact: when I dreamt of men, for about the first 10 yrs of my marriage, they always had my DH's face, no matter what their name was or even if they were someone I knew in RL. So on the rare occassions that I'd see someone else's face in a dream, it was usually shocking enough to wake me up.
dragonfly PG, kinda gen, and all kinds of wonderful. I always loved this movie, and this little future fic of life after the curse is broken is something I never even knew I needed in my life until I read it this week.
china_shopis running the annual fandom appreciation challenge starting today! Yay! sapphiredreamsposted on kradamadness - sweet, but not sappy (G)
sasha_feather 's birthday celebration, and I was finally able to go socialize with the girrlz. It's been probably a year since I've been to bookclub, and although we've all run into each other at various other events in that time, I've really really missed those regular gatherings. I haven't read any of the bookclub choices in that time either. But this isn't about all the crazy in my RL that prevents me from getting my girl fix.were_duck was as adorable as usual, with an added side of kittenish and snuggly. Her girl was a lot more talkative than usual, and it turns out that we have some similar tastes in music. I got to make up a lot of touch deficit, and giggling deficit, and general fullygoldy deficit. The weather sucked, but I waited for it to calm down a bit before hitting the road. Even though it was only 4 hrs out it was heavenly.were_duck recommends mistresscurvy quite highly. I did manage to wash all the laundry, and do the grocery shopping, but the weekend was also dominated by my stupid PMS, which made the reading the only thing I was seriously interested in accomplishing. DH wanted to go to the protests/rallies, and I wanted to too, but I totally needed the sofa days, and he needed a bit more recovery time.china_shop and synecdochic are notable examples. The former is a master at short stories, so her chapters are delightful little bites, and the latter writes in great flowing chunks, posting no less than 10k words at a go, so that you need the break anyway (also each break makes sense).kradamadness , a monthly challenge com that is home to many, MANY WIPs, the majority of which get abandoned by the time the next challenge rolls around. And I love it. I mean, I do mourn my unfinished favorites, and sometimes I wonder why the hell I'm reading a 50-part piece of utter fluff, littered with grammatical errors and egregious spelling, but when the next challenge rolls around, I gleefully dive right back in. I can not get enough of these adorable boys. And while I love all the flavors of Lambert, the Kris/Adam combo is my absolute favorite. So, I'm in WIP hell, but I'm here with a bunch of crazy, amazing, creative people who are all having a blast. It could be worse.
china_shop , I blame YOU)resonant )astolat )astolat )resonant )china_shop )astolat )lamardeuse )texasbek)sasha_featherand anna_bird)sasha_featherand anna_birdand icarusancalion)nestra and shrift are fannish goddesses)
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