Lhude sing Goddamn

Wonderful: When people are really glad to see the next part of your ongoing fic. Phew, also thank you deeply.

Problematic: Shit!!! You like the developing plot? There isn't one! They're going to talk and gaze lustfully upon each other for the rest of the story. There's a hug, I mean it's a helluva clinch, but plot...

(There's never a plot. My fics are about people engaging in sufficient dialogue that circumstances are eventually revealed to be sad/romantic/sexy/amusing. I live in fear that someday people will discover this so sshh, it's a secret.)


Now for your regularly scheduled Gunnerkrigg outpouring. So there was a time when I pared my livejournal interests down because it was tiresome keeping track of my changing fandoms in that list, and one of the few things that remained was "pigeons". This is still true. It is very true.

With Kat spending the last few pages with ( burds )


shipswap is a fic exchange for rare ships, with nominations only open until tomorrow, the 16th. I nominated Aravis/Lasaraleen (Narnia), Glenda/Nutt (Discworld, Unseen Academicals), Flury/Elda (Diana Wynne Jones - Year of the Griffin), and Marik/Odion and Kisara/Thief King Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!).

And then I got trapped in a storm of Kisara/Thief King Bakura while I was checking if the ship was small enough to qualify. Mandolina Lightrobber has good stuff - I like Across the Sand, We Were Standing, and At the End of the World. It's all elemental forces in opposition and creepiness and loneliness and desperation and need... this nonsensical but perfectly logical ship is so great.

Shipswap allows platonic team-up fics too, so I might just ask for Kisara and the Thief King becoming best buds and roaming Egypt, blowing everything up as the exact opposite of a buddy-cop duo. Marik and Odion should make out though. Since they've actually met in canon and in fact have a great platonic relationship, I like when fic tosses in makeouts.