In the Garage

Title: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club
Pairing: Primarily Claudia/Stacey, with a few others tossed in
Rating: PG
Summary: Claudia's always stayed friends with her exes. All except one—her ex-best friend, Stacey McGill.
Disclaimer: No characters belong to me, nor am I making a profit from this.
Notes: Written for Yuletide 2011. Thanks to poisonivory for the beta or for listening to me worry about this for like two months straight.

Read it here!

Still no comment from my Yuletide recipient. :(

I did, however, survive giving my cat a bath tonight. The day after Christmas, she surprised me with the gift of a disturbing amount of dandruff, which wasn't coming out through brushing, so it had to be done. She cried, I cried, no one got scratched, surely only through angelic intervention. Afterwards, it took three hours, a wet food treat, some cat nip, and the heat cranked up the speed up drying time, but I think she's finally forgiven me. And her hair does look better.

I wonder what would happen if I used pet shampoo on my own hair.

I'll write something up about Christmas presents and their awesomeness later. But first: the Yuletide Fairy has been very, very good to me this year. I got two incredibly awesome, amazing stories that were everything I wanted.

The Same, but More -- a Captain America (2011) story set midway through the movie, in which Steve is shy and uncertain and Bucky is aggressive yet guarded. SEXY TIMES ENSUE.

the lay of your lands -- a Marvel 1602 fic in which John Storm and Peter Parquagh have adventures and tell stories and fall in love. Totally gorgeous.

Breaking news: Someone is WRONG on the INTERNET.

I hate this random person's fic (none of you, flist ♥) and I feel like a jerk because my hatred is so darn visceral. I've certainly read many, many worse fics, but this one's over-the-top characterization, blithe ignorance of canon, and stilted melodrama put me over the edge. It's like the written equivalent of nails on a chalkboard

On a happier note, my little stupid $8 Christmas tree now has presents from magikfanfic and derien underneath it. :DDD Why isn't it Sunday yet?

I saw this meme on harmonyangel's journal and it made me smile, so:

Give me a pairing and I will tell you:

who is the big spoon/little spoon
what is their favorite non-sexual activity
who uses all the hot water in the morning
what they order from take out
what is the most trivial thing they fight over
who does most of the cleaning
what has a season pass in their DVR
who controls the netflix queue
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
who steals the blankets
who leaves their stuff around
who remembers to buy the milk
who remembers anniversaries

Also, I did all my chores today, even the grossest one (litterbox-cleaning day). I'm absurdly proud about it. Now I just need to concentrate on addressing holiday cards...and starting my Yuletide fic...and work stuff...sigh.

I forgot to mention that this week's Marvel Dimestore Dame was Deathbird.

Also, I woke up today to find myself sick. My throat and lungs kind of hurt a lot. Oddly, drinking water just makes them hurt worse. That can't be good.

THE VERDICT IS IN. I'm thrilled to know that the majority of people joined me on Team Blue. For those of you who had no idea what any of this means, there's a recurring joke in the movie where Flora (red fairy) and Merryweather (blue fairy) keep fighting over whether Aurora's birthday dress should be pink or blue. Here's the ending scene:



As a small child, I always got irrationally furious because, to me, blue was CLEARLY the better choice. To this day, I have a lingering resentment toward Flora because of this all-important issue. It was probably because I liked blue better than pink, but I remember feeling incredibly vindicated when I read Little House in the Big Woods and Ma Ingalls preferred her blonde girl in blue too.

I assume Aurora wears the pink version of her dress on merchandise because a) little girls often like pink, and the only other Disney Princess who wears it on a regular basis is Ariel (and Ariel shouldn't be wearing pink ever); and b) Cinderella's gown is often blue. Of course, Jasmine's main outfit is blue as well, but she's not always included as part of the main princess crew for reasons that are surely not at all racist. (In my head canon, she's too busy jumping Aladdin's bones to hang out at every single lunch party.)

But anyway, I do actually Aurora's her corset/peasant number a lot too. In terms of design, Aurora's actually one of my favorite princesses. In terms of everything, picking favorites becomes way, way harder.

Before I left New York, I started a project in which I was going to read all the American Girl books and review them. When I stopped reading AG, Addy was the newest girl, so it was going to be an interesting mix of revisiting the old and jumping into the new. At the time, I lived 5 minutes from a library, which made procuring the books really easy.

I only got through the intro books, Meet ______, before I moved. Since I don't have a lot of interest in buying the whole series (especially since some of the books really suck), I scrapped the project. Maybe when I get my license and a car, I can get to a library again and start it. Until then, here are my notes on the books I did read, since some people have expressed interest.

( Meet... )

Yuletide -- so nice, I did it thrice.

( First of all, thank you! )

This week on Dimestore Dames, I ramble about Mary Jane Watson.

And, wow. MJ is one of those characters where I end up with 9000000 awesome scans of her being great. Picking and choosing was hard, man. Most of them went out the window for having not-my-favorite '90s McFarlane art.