A Can of Worms

Gacked from cyberducks

You Are the Very Gay Bert and Ernie!

Two grown puppets living together, sleeping in the same room? They've even got coordinating striped shirts!

*snickers*
*looks at computer clock* *yelps* *runs to work*

Firstly, if you already haven't done that, please take a moment to fill out ceruleancat's third lingustics poll.
In other news, it seems nothing happens halfway lately. I was bored out of my mind on sick leave, now I have work up to my ears and rising. The weather acted like it was early autumn and we'd be in UK, not Baltics. Now, it's ca -20 outside and dropping. The only thing that hasn't changed is the constant desire to sleep. Especially during the day.
I apologise for not being around much, I owe responses to comments and I have not had time to really squee over the porn battle or anything. It is highly likely I will be hampered by RL at least until the middle of February. I promise, I have not forgotten that I owe people porn..it's just on hold. Sorry. I haven't even had the strength left to redo my userpics:)
NCIS provides good distraction - it is something I can keep track easily while doing something on the side (multitasking is Cali's middle name. or something). It's like comfort food. (Also, how weird is it to find a show where I like ALL the characters??Well, of course not totally equally, but still.) Sadly, Buffy will have to wait for when I'm more 'together'. Hopefully, soon.
And then there's Supernatural ...I've dl'd the new eps, but haven't had time to watch yet...mmm, something to look forward to.
*snickers* Makes for good motivation, to get all the work done. *Cali dangles Buffy and Supernatural in front of her nose*. Heh.
So, flist, sleep, work. And work. Also, make fire. Seeing as the cold wave's supposed to last.
( Hmm, maybe a meme, for distraction... )

I suppose I watched "Innocence" too much, or I can blame the fact that I used to know the "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by heart.
Untitled.
Fandom: BtVS
Disclaimer: Nothing I have is really mine. Anything from Jossverse, even less. Methinks Oscar Wilde's works are already in the public domain.
Notes: Sincere thanks go to sparklebutch and ceruleancat for beta and advice and support. Also, for pimping. Everything that is still wrong is my fault:)
Takes place during Buffy season 2 ep "Innocence". The quote in the beginning is straight from the episode.
Poem quoted isThe Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde
So, in the words of two dead Irishmen (and Drusilla, who knows Angelus so well)...


Angelus: Spike, my boy, you *really* don't get it! Do you? You tried to kill her, but you couldn't. Look at you. You're a wreck! She's stronger than any Slayer you've ever faced. Force won't get it done. You gotta work from the inside. To kill this girl ... you have to love her.

Spike smiled, an appreciative, secret smile and drawled, "For each man kills the thing he loves ..." There was mockery in his voice that - for a reason Angelus preferred not to dwell on - failed to reach his eyes.

Later, in the lazy sated predawn, with Spike curled up by his side and Drusilla lying with her head on his chest, the words of the dead Irishman came back to whisper quietly in his head.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves ...

He reached to comb through Dru’s dark locks with his fingers in the unspoken rhythm of the cadenzas. Lovely, deadly, dead.

The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

The harsh lamplight broke on the sleek surface of the hair and for a moment it appeared not dark chestnut, but light wheat under his hand.

Angelus smiled. He was not a kind man. He had never been known for that particular trait.

Dear folks, please be so kind as to go over here to ceruleancat's lingusitic survey and take a moment to fill it out. It's for her research on the interpretation of "-self". She'd appreciate it, I'd appreciate it!
Thank you!

I laze around and watch Buffy and do nothing useful...wait, I can collect a brownie point for pimping, can't I?
As I found out thanks to helsmeta, there's the Porn Battle on again! Lots of good prompts, though I didn't see any for Highlander nor Buffy, on the first page at least. ETA: There apparently are BtVS ones on next pages, but dismally few of HL. So I dutifully pimp it forward.
And when I'm less fuzzy I go try put a few prompts in.

Gacked from candygramme


Rather good. Except I modified one bit. I refuse to cut down on good things, especially when there's too damn little of them going around anyway. Enjoyable experiences are good to one's health. And I might limit the 'dogs' to one puppy. Or possibly one and a half. Gotta keep a sense of perspective here.
Also, it might be sensible to aim to go to the horses at least once a week, ultimately.

Now that's what I call the holiday spirit!
Gacked from jjjean65
The first person to respond to this entry with a prompt gets a little off-the-cuff porn. The rest of you writers out there post the same call in your journals, and we make a lot of porn for before-the-holiday. It's what they call a win-win scenario.

So, first person up - prompt of your choice. And don't forget to Porn It Forward.

ETA: If somebody else would like to give me prompts, they're welcome, too. Maybe writing porny snippets is just what I need to shake me up a bit:)

I promise at least to make a decent attempt towards porn, though I make no guarantees as to the quality and also, humor and snark may creep in *g*.

Yays, the sun will be getting up earlier and earlier every morning once more and the days will be longer by a span of a cock's stride. Happy Solstice, merry Yuletide and other assorted holiday wishes to whoever keeps to whatever tradition!
Just keep the coca-cola Santa away from me, please, I'm afraid of gigacorporative trucks full of caffeine. And there's no way you can leave the sooty thomas doll behind my door, 'cause I've done and cleaned it all up proper, yesterday already, says Cali and munches gingerbread. (Look, I don't do family-cum-cooking stuff, it's too distressing, but I can have store-bought gingerbread.)
Seems the brief snow will melt suitably for the official beginning of winter, but then, what else is new. There will likely be snow enough soon enough to get healthily sick of it before spring comes.
Also...
Happy birthday, Duncan MacLeod!
*lights candles* *mutters* Light and longer days are all very nice, it just takes bloody long before one actually sees the difference...better give the sun some help.

...that I've been avoiding so far. Gacked from evil enabler sparklebutch.
BEFORE CLICKING THE CUT, pick 12 characters and assign them numbers 1 through 12. Write it down. Then answer the questions.

1. Boromir
2. Willow
3. Duncan MacLeod
4. Dean Winchester
5. Amanda Darieux
6. Han Solo
7. Nanny Ogg
8. Methos
9. Darth Vader
10. Sam Winchester
11. Rupert Giles
12. Rincewind
( I'm still laughing. )
You know, that was tremendous fun!