So I was playing with the new random fic feature at the Refuge, and was pretty much shocked when it threw up a couple of fics that I couldn't remember reading (I've read at least 90% of what's there, at one time or another, but had NO memory of either of these). They're both fairly short and extremely sweet, and a few years old, so people who have joined in the past year or two may have missed them.

• Stranger Things Than Runaway Dreams by SnarkyBubble
  David's dreams have run off to be with Jack's. (Jack/David, ~450 words)
  
  
• Seasons and Spices by Lyse
  The seasons change, and so does Mush, at least a little. (Hints of Blink/Mush; ~1,500 words)
  

Incidentally, I updated my massive recs list last night.

PS: Spot/Blink/Race. *review whores*

The Refuge birthday stuff is up! Hooray!

REMINDER! There are only a few days left to send me stuff for the Refuge's birthday party! And since I've only had one submission... guys... I WILL CRY. Not an idle threat. You don't want that, do you?

Hey! The Refuge is turning four years old! And we're celebrating! And if you're in the Newsies fandom, you should come play! Or...I'll cry.

(Seriously. Not to emotionally blackmail my friendslist, but if people don't participate? I will be horrifically, cripplingly saddened. So. You know. You should participate.)

I beat Paper Mario today! Yay me!

Anyhoo. Thing that is making me giggle: Rachel and I were watching Pride & Prejudice just now, which happened to have been on Oh! network. They're promoing a month of movies, which I can't pick out a theme to, but Honey is among them. Which means that skeevy adult David Moscow's "Now that... that is sexy," is one of the taglines in the ads.

Sadly, him being slapped by Jessica Alba is not in the montage of chicks slapping dudes that the ad ends with.

Speaking of D-Mos, his (presumably terrible) made for TV movie on Spike airs tonight. Oh yeah. The TiVo is set up.

In a fit of productivity, I did various bits and pieces of updating and cleaning up around the Refuge -- chiefly tweaking the main page layout. Ha. My mad web producer skills at work. Look at me, all cutting and pasting things to other places. So it's nothing major (definitely not a redesign) but I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. So... hooray!

So I'm still coughing up a storm and, due to the napping today, have totally fucked up my sleep schedule and am now not going to get much sleep tonight, which sucks. I'm going to work tomorrow, though; I just hate taking days off and I really don't feel sick enough to justify it. I have no symptoms other than coughing, wtf? (Well. And now my throat hurts, because it's the really raw, racking kind of cough that causes ache, apparently.)

Today was actually pretty nice, though. The cat barely attacked me at all! And I spent it mainlining Newsies fic, which was excellent. I read everything I hadn't already ready by lielabell and then everything I hadn't already read by cymbalism219. They are both so good. I really just feel like the Newsies fandom is excellent right now; it's small and fun and full of goodfic and nice people. I know I go through phases of being super into it (like, oh, now) and times when I'm not so much, but I'm always so happy it's there to go back to. It's like coming home.

♥ to everyone on my flist.

(ETA: in my last entry, btw, I discuss various pairings: Jack/Race, Mush/Blink, Spot/Race, and -- totally not my fault -- Teddy/Denty. More requests are welcome; I'm having fun!)

So long as I am home sick I am totally going to spam my flist, SO THERE. I mean, what?

Anyway. I've spent the last couple of hours reading all of lielabell's newsie fics; I'd read some of them already, and decided that since I loved everything I've read by her, I should, you know, read EVERYTHING by her. And so should you. Because she's great, and her characterizations are pretty much all excellent.

If you're looking for somewhere to start, however, I recommend The Wages of Sin. It's sort of a collection of short stories, tied together by setting and theme: the boys are all frequenting an upscale brothel. Which means that there is (gasp) het in this fic, clearly, since... you know, brothel. But there's also slash, and -- I can't say gen, but something like it, pieces which are more about the boys' personalities and characters, rather than relationships, regardless of the fact that pretty much every chapter (in fact... I think every chapter) involves someone gettin' it on.

So, read that! Especially if you want (shh, don't tell FFnet) Jack/David smut. And then read A Mother's Love, because it's about Medda being awesome, and then check out the various Bits and Pieces at the Refuge, and your heart will BREAK. Probably. Mine did.

So yes: lielabell. She's great.

Okay, and now the meme. Though I still have to write the actual journal entries from the last meme. Perhaps I will be even spammier this evening.

Comment with any ship from a fandom you know I like or am familiar with. I will then go on about said ship for at least one hundred words. Perhaps more! Feel free to comment with ships I like, ships I hate, or ships where my opinion is neutral or unknown. I'll be honest and diplomatic about all of them, with a bit of added flail for the OTPs.

So last summer, Jess (poisonivory), Jen (harmonyangel) and I drove to Georgia to spend a lovely few days with Margot (second_batgirl). It was, as you can imagine, awesome! And I brought a recorder to keep track of all of our hilarious hijinks, which were also awesome. I was originally going to transcribe and edit the audio for all of it, but it turns out we actually produced a full gig of wackiness, and I'm lazy. But because I'm in such a Newsies mood -- and we all (mostly) met through Newsies fandom -- of course we talked about them a lot. So I dug through and found this, a truly awesome conversation, had on the way to Six Flags. Sadly, no audio track, but transcript ahoy!

Warning: lots of naked newsboys, not for the feint of heart or innocent of soul (read: my parents), complete silliness, and ... well, that's it, really. (And sadly, Margot didn't talk much, as she was busy being a responsible driver...)

[ETA: Um, thanks to find and replace, and me being a loser, Margot's name is in all caps. And I am waaaaaay too lazy to fix it. Whatevers.]

I get up for my very last day of class, ever, and feel horribly horribly ill. I'd skip it but, you know, last class ever. Also I have work directly afterwards so it wouldn't make that much of a difference. (Then get to be on a bus until, like, 2 AM. Goody.)

Ught.

Pst, fandom people: The Blush Manifesto is up.