I am back from the wilds of Kittyville!

Fun times were had by all. Alcohol and delicious foods were consumed in abundance. suki_blue was lunched with and, let me tell you all, she is an sneaky enabling enabler! Thanks to her evil evil evil generous nature, I now have in my possession ~60 Justice League of America comic books, plus two starring The Flash, all canon for the ficcing. (Also, a deepening curiosity about Dick.)

And thanks to kitty_poker1's generous hubby (and live-in masterchef), I also have 50 more of The Flash in digitised form, and a whole bunch of Batman movies. (Oh, and five seasons of Two and a Half Men. So silly, but oddly addictive.)

The journey out was easy enough: smooth ride, easily made connections, with only a minor hiccup in that Google maps lie about where Fenchurch Street Station is! *writes them a stern but educational email*

Then, on the way back, I got onto a Circle Line tube train at Tower Hill, aiming for Paddington, and was mildly amused that my MP3 player random-shuffled its way to Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street just as we pulled into Baker Street station.

Sadly, the amusement was shortlived. As we pulled out of the station, it was announced that the train I was on was no longer a Circle Line train and that all people who got on it expecting to actually get to their Circle Line destinations should get off at the next station because it was being hijacked by TPTB to go to Hammersmith instead. I didn't even know they could do that! But, a connection was found and I managed to get myself all the way to Paddington (the very next station on the Circle Line) without getting lost... much.

And all that excitement has worn me out, so now I will relax and start digging through everything that's piled up in my absence: 200 emails, a flist of skip=bajillionty, and an answering machine full of aural spam. Tis a hard life, indeed.

So... what have you all been upto?

ETA: I came this > < close to buying a netbook. I was petting it and reaching for the plastic. I managed to escape uncharged but I fear tis only a matter of time...

So, I was confessing to entrenous88 about my newest addiction - Batman/Flash (Bruce/Wally) fic (yes, cartoons, comics, I have gone animated, people, are you happy now, world?!) and she said maybe I should do that meme that was going around last month where you list your top ten pairings and let other people comment on what trends they see. So...

Vaguely in order of adoption, these are my boys:

Spike/Xander (Buffy)
John Sheppard/Rodney McKay (Stargate Atlantis)
Sam/Dean (Supernatural)
Jack/Nathan (Eureka)
Connor/Murphy (Boondock Saints)
Dexter/Miguel (Dexter)
Jack/Ianto (Torchwood)
Nikolai/Kirill (Eastern Promises)
Mulder/Krycek (X-Files)
Batman(Bruce Wayne)/The Flash(Wally West) (Justice League)

let me have it. :D

ship_manifesto is going to be five this year, and to celebrate, the mods (of which I am one) decided to poll the masses to see just who the ultimate pairing might be. To that end, there will be polls running from now to August, and the first one is up, so...

GO VOTE NOW!

Poll closes 10 PM EST on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Author: darkhavens
Title: Lo-Jacked
Fandom: Pairing: Buffy: Spike/Xander
Rating: G
Words: 752
Concrit: Please. If you spot a typo or a grammar glitch, feel free to tell me in comments.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Summary: Xander gets lost. A lot. A solution, of sorts, is found.
Notes: Written for spring_with_xan, this ficlet exists as part of the established relationship Protected!verse (see post tags for previous ficlets), in which Spike and Xander decided they wanted eternity without risking Xander's soul and self by turning him into a vampire. Instead, they have bought, procured and earned various spells and markings that Xander now wears, protecting him from a variety of dangers and possibilities. Can be read as a standalone.

( Lo-Jacked )

Author: darkhavens
Fandom: Pairing: Supernatural: demon!Sam/evil!Dean
Concrit: Please. If you spot a typo or a grammar glitch, feel free to tell me in comments.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Previous chapters: This is another peek into the Medlar!verse (see the medlarverse tag). If you don't care how they turned to the dark side, and what else they've been upto, you don't need to read the others to enjoy this one. (Medlar: a fruit that ripens by its own corruption.)
Spoilers: This 'verse goes AU after the end of S3/start of S4, but there's nothing specifically spoilery inside this post. Both can be read as standalones.

Title: Still Wanted
Rating: R
Words: 746 words
Warnings/Squicks: Incest, mention of canonical deaths, vague plotting of future evil-doings. *g*
Summary: Dean is pissed about Elvis and the FBI.
Notes: Written for demonlord_dean's comment_fic prompt: Supernatural, demon!Sam/evil!Dean, "Do you know how difficult it is to fake your own death? Only one man has pulled it off. Elvis!" (The X-Files).

( Still Wanted )

Title: God's Fingers
Rating: PG-13 for violence on a grand scale.
Words: 240
Warnings/Squicks: Incest (implied), non-graphic mindless destructive violence, spitting in God's eye.
Summary: Dean would do anything to keep a smile on Sam's face.
Notes: Written for maerhys's comment_fic prompt: SPN, Sam/Dean, Orange Sky

( God's Fingers )

Today (actually it's 3.16 am now, so technically this should read 'yesterday'...) has been declared lurker amnesty day! Have you read me but never commented? Do you surf by occasionally? Here for the fic? Have you friended me but never said a word? Say hello! You are under no obligation to ever comment or delurk again, but here's a chance to do so in a post just for that.

COME SAY HI. Or... just wave at your monitor. *waves back*

Author: darkhavens
Title: A Family That Plays Together...
Fandom: Pairing: Boondock Saints: Connor McManus/Murphy McManus
Rating: NC-17/Adult
Words: 3x100
Concrit: Please. If you spot a typo or a grammar glitch, feel free to tell me in comments.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Warnings/Squicks: Bondage, incest, mention of a ball-gag, mention of sharing a womb, knifeplay, minor bloodletting
Notes: Written for writercon100 off slashthedrabble's prompts 182: Bound, 030: Wet and 076: Blood

( Charlie Bronson Never Had This Much Fun )

( More Elbow Room )

( That Tickles )

Thanks to a wonderful donor (who shall remain nameless so as to protect them from their flist), I have a Dreamwidth account: darkhavens.

(NB: I am not leaving LJ. Not unless they kick me out. I have comms to run and a flist to obsess over!)

As per the donor's request, I have created a bloodclaim over there, which will become operational once I've imported everything and made sure I haven't cocked it up. *g*

I have also created slashthedrabble and slashtheimage, and new prompts will be cross-posted to both LJ and DW (so I don't get confused *g*).

Way back in January, once again staring at an empty page in MSWord, I decided to do something drastic: I signed up for findyourwords, choosing 50,000 as my target wordcount for the year 2009. That's more than I've written in the last two years combined.Wordcounts (posted fic only): 2006=53k, 2007=25k, 2008=22k. EEP!

I then continued staring blankly at various empty pages until March, when I discovered comment_fic and became addicted. A couple of days ago, 6 weeks on from word one, I broke the 10k barrier and decided to get myself a widget to celebrate:



*hugs you all and twirls*

*plants flag in new corner of Darkhavensville*

I'm here to poke about and see how this new toy works. Porting my LJ over here is a future plan, but, as of now, darkhavens is my main home. (Links go to LJ, yay for handy-dandy site-specific code!)

Bloodclaim will also be making an appearance over here, once I figure out the import tools (and learn to trust them). Quite possibly, so will a few of my other comms. ;)

I'm sure most of you have already seen posts regarding Amazon's completely unacceptable behaviour.

click here to contact amazon's customer service
You have to log in, of course. They don't want just any old riffraff emailing them. ;)

sign the petition


And surprise! Now Amazon has been called to account, they're now crying 'glitch!'. Suuure.