you got katana in my medulla oblongata

swallowed my heart and fled but i want it back now baby
political animals/captain america . tj hammond/steve rogers, bucky barnes/steve rogers. ~1.3k w

it's short and doesn't make much sense but it's something, right?

muscle memory
dc comics | canon au | Jason Todd/Dick Grayson | r | ~2.4k words
n: for Porn Battle XIV, prompts - beg, sweat, breath, knife, red & blue, incestuous, history, grin. this kind of got out of hand. idek.
s: She pushes him off a cliff and Jason goes back. He doesn't go back to Bruce.

what do you do when someone reposts your fic to their site without your permission?

I never did get all the way into Fullmetal Alchemist the first time round, maybe because I started with the anime and it was so... uneven. some really good stuff mixed in with some terrible no-good bad, and there were other, better things to watch, so I let it fall by the wayside and then didn't bother with the manga. but I was told by more than one person that the second go-round, Brotherhood, was supposedly much better, especially given that it covered the manga in full, so I bought the first season then promptly forgot about it. it sat on my shelf unwatched until last week when I bought the second season and decided to mainline the entire series in two days.

well I really didn't *decide* to, it just happened because FMA:Brotherhood is just that good. if it'd been a manga, I wouldn't've been able to put it down, which is why I've finally got round to the manga itself, which I've kind of devoured already and am already re-reading because. so good.

it's no wonder I'm a total Greed fan, huh?

actually, a fan across the board. Arakawa's characters are three-dimensional and human whether they're humans or not, her storyline is one of the most imaginative I've ever run across, and well, FMA is just a damned good story well told, and the Brotherhood anime is one of the best I've seen in... you know, I don't really know how long. I don't really need to give a summary, do I? most of you are anime fans and most anime fans have some idea of what FMA is about, I think, so I guess this is a suggestion to those who've maybe been thinking about watching and putting it off the way I did: do so no longer, seriously. it'll ruin your life in the best way and, if you're me, kick your writer's block to the kerb. my brain just does not want to leave Pride and his mum alone, to say nothing of Ed's final sacrifice, fml.

prometheus | Elizabeth Shaw, David 8 | g | ~1.1k words | 'Don't look at me.'

still not done, apparently. also, I seem to have a new fandom. just hell.

they're *yawn* rebooting Spiderman. again.

wtf-ever.

the only way they'd get my attention is by rebooting the backstory. like, a Spidey of Latin American descent. or hey, you know, they could do a Latina Spider-Girl. THERE ARE PRECEDENTS GOD DAMNIT.

but then, I am probably biased. I mean, Jaime Reyes. Anya Corazon. it's hard *not* to be biased.

also, you know who the coolest XMFC mutant was? Armando fucking Muñoz. and they fried him halfway through the picture.

tangentially related, while I'm on the subject, at the end of XMFC, the lineup of supposedly "good" mutants was as follows:

Charles Xavier
Hank McCoy
Alex Summers
Sean Cassidy

talk about your bastions of anglo-saxon male hegemony. all the women/people of colour were on the "bad" team. to be clear: I'm not saying I disagreed with them for being there because yes, Magneto was right and Erik was *clearly* the better choice and doing so proved their good judgment. in fact, afaic, Erik's side is in the right and Charles' entourage would obviously take their brains out and play with them if they had any.

I have to wonder, was this deliberate? were the screenwriters/director/whoever trying to make a convoluted yet politically relevant statement?

...yeah, no, I kind of doubt it. most people don't think in double helices corkscrews.

I saw Shame on Sunday. it was exactly what I needed to see. it was gloriously horrible. it wrecked me.

eventually there will be fic.

it will probably be fucked up beyond belief.

cross out probably.

that.

yuletide past:
Nowhere Special by kormantic
Blazing Saddles | Bart/Jim | pg | 548 words
note: I never knew I wanted this until I was reading it. ♥

yuletide present:
está muerto; no está muerto by anon
The Losers | gen | ensemble | pg | 1070 words
note: my Yuletide gift. short, awesome, unapologetic badassery: it's *exactly* what I wanted.

just because:
Yadda Yadda by museofspeed
DC/Marvel | Nightwing/Deadpool | nc-17 | 1103 words
note: Dick and Wade have a really chatty fight. so fucking IC it kills me. if this doesn't make you laugh your sense of humor has probably been surgically removed.

exigencies
X-Men: First Class | Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, ensemble | dub-con | r | ~5300 words
this fic is quite possibly what happens when humor and mindfuck have a quickie up against a washing machine in an all night laundromat. which actually describes about three-quarters of my writing. it doesn’t count as a do-over if you never do anything differently.

those who help themselves
X-Men: First Class | Moira MacTaggert, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr | pg | ~1400 words
notes: I’m still learning this version of these characters, so forgive me if I fumble them a little. slightly overwritten canon, though not in any way that changes the big picture. you don’t become one of the CIA’s two existing female field operatives by being stupid.