So I watched Ninja Assassin tonight! GO WATCH IT.

The bad:

Women in Fridges: 2 (1 total fridging, one a bit more complex)

Times it passed the Bedchel Test: 0

Times I wanted to yell at the female lead "NO, DON'T DO THAT!": 1

The good:

Awesome POC leads: 2

Times 2 POCs talked to each other about something other than white people: Lost count

Times Rain was shirtless: Lost count

Times Rain was tied up: 2

Times I thought, "Hey, flash step!": 3

Times I found myself working on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover: 2

The YMMV:

Arterial bloodsprays: Lost count

Flying body parts: Lost count

Rain kissing scenes: Only 2, and both pretty tame

Boy band/pop star jokes: 1

Times Rain was in the RAIN: Lost count

Camp value: APPROACHING INFINITY

So yeah. RECOMMENDED.

Enjoy some Jane Russell. This movie makes me so happy. If you haven't watched it YOU SHOULD it is all about the AWESOME POWER of female friendship and girls working together.

THIS HERE IS A SPECIAL MEME. Ripped from longsufferingly. YOU SHOULD DO IT it's deeply enjoyable in a wtf sort of way.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.
2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

Genjo Sanzo
Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Kanda Yuu
Takatori Mamoru
Schuldig
Vegeta
Revy
Gwendal von Walde
Peter Bishop
Charles Gunn

( With a cast like that, what could possibly go wrong! )

What does Chuck (the prophet/writer) drive? It's a truck, isn't it? I have the episode but can't get to it at the moment.

In news that doesn't involve my watching NCIS: LA:

I posted a ton of stuff to springkink!

Lavi and Kanda get caught on a train.

Billy and Teddy are incredibly cute.

Nagi and Mamoru are completely fucked up.

Guinevere, in contrast, is completely adorable.

Sanzo overhears Gojyo and Hakkai. Hilarity ensues.

Ouka and Mamoru AU.

Gunter/Gwendal and the abuse of stuffed toys.

And my yuletart project is almost done! Whee.

And I'm 3000 words into the apocalypse. Oh yeah.

I am poking around at Archive of Our Own! It is quite fun. I am attempting to not fart around and avoid writing by doing this. I am not having quite as much luck with that.

A few questions:

Is anyone but me having trouble setting a rating when they're uploading existing work? If it's just me I don't want to bug them.

How are people handling multipart works that aren't necessarily in sequence? Just thinking of figuring out hot to link up the Ran-verse is making me cringe.

No, I find your ship creepy and incestuous because I find it creepy and incestuous, not because I think it threatens one of my ships.

AND WE WERE DOING SO WELL UP 'TIL THEN.

I said I could write that, didn't I? HAHAHAHAH HOSHIT.

I'll be fine. I do this every Yuletide.

Having said that, HOSHIT.

Also, I just added D. Gray-man to Archive of Our Own. I feel STRONG and POWERFUL.

EDIT: I also suggest anyone doing Yuletide turn off "My Guests," which can be done here. That way when you go to stalk your giftee, they won't know about it.

First, THANK YOU! You are clearly an awesome person for wanting to write for my fandoms, because they too are AWESOME.

Pretty much, you can just listen to what I put on the request. I love gen, I love het, I love slash, I love mixing all of those together; I love humor and capers and snappy dialogue and serious takes, too. If you want to know what I like, my recs are in my memories; if you want to know what I write, it's conveniently located at my Dreamwidth account.

But if you want to know more about my fandoms and why I love them, the details are behind the cut

( Here )

Wow, there's some serious ablism in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Suits the characters, though.

ANYWAY have a meme.

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you four questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

From micaturtle:

1. Raphael the Manwhore? What does THAT mean? ... *blinka*
2. If you could date ANY fictional character, who would it be and why?
3. Last I heard, you had reproduced! How is your child(s)? (Or am I completely batshit in my memory/recall)
4. Are you planning on coming to Comic Con in 2010? Also, do you ever attend any other conventions?

( The answers )

This movie is pretty damn good. Lana Turner was pretty hot back in the day.

I signed up as one of the Cleverly Hidden Authors at yaoi_challenge! Go leave prompts for people you find interesting.

Also, I put Nagi inna dress for springkink, and Charley and Johnny in hot springs at the same community. (Vassalord is such crack people. Such. Crack.)

Because I am starting to lose track of my life, I have a to-do list under the cut. Click only if you're curious or want to share my masochism.

( To do )

Set in the End-verse with spoilers accordingly. Sex but not really the shippy kind.

( Don't know what you've got 'til it's all washed away )

On last week's White Collar: the father from Little Mosque on the Prairie as an infamous Israeli forger!

Also, Kelly Kapowski. And I'm really enjoying her.

Edit: And Charlie's on next week! CHARLIE.

Happy Halloween, and good luck to everyone on my flist doing Nano!

Via meganbmoore, awesome photos of kick-ass women serving their countries during World War II (Ally-centric but international).

Also, I watched the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie. It is every bit as bad as everyone has told you it is. Except for the Earth, Wind and Fire version of "Got to get you into my life" and Aerosmith covering "Come Together". Check it out. And then don't watch the movie. If you do watch the movie, do what I did and fast forward every time things get terrible; it's mostly pantomine so you can just follow the, er, plot along without the sound. (Believe me, for most of this movie, 'without the sound' is a very, very good idea.)

And last but not least, I keep forgetting to note that I wrote three drabbles for remixthedrabble, all 100 words each:

Prodigy (The Unexpected Consequences Remix), Buffy-verse

Shameless (The No Trouble in Paradise Remix), Saiyuki Gaiden

And then I decided that Shameless was too optimistic a take on the characters' situation so I wrote a counter-drabble (yes, I am this neurotic):

Discretion (The Trouble in Paradise Remix)

Y'all probably know by now that Nickelodeon has bought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

What better way to celebrate than stupid crossover fic, I ask? There is no better way. Warnings for my sense of humor and a perhaps unwarranted sense of optimism.

( We're just here to say welcome to Nickelodeon! And we have a cake! )

But what a GIP it is.

Also, go Rutgers University, Bea Arthur, and the Phelps-a-Thon.

That's all I got.

Oh, XKCD, never change.

Thanks to their timely reminder, I've harvested all I wanted to keep from my old GeoCrappies page. I do have a host, but I haven't been arsed to get things organized there yet, and better backed up than sorry. I keep toying with some fic with some of my old OCs; this guy is definitely coming over to the other side.

If you're curious about my old TMNT OCs, or you've known me that long and want soak up a little nostalgia, here's a little backstory fic with him I had up on the page. Bye, Geocities. It was fun while it lasted.

( Gary Stu? Maaaabye... )

I don't think I'll ever forgive you. I've tried for years.

And no, I never confronted him. He lives far from here and it was never worth my energy.

Geez, this question's a downer, huh.

You should basically just plow through remixthedrabble and look for goodies. The anime fics are here.

Written for me was the gloriously wicked Flimsy Excuses, Shigure/Hatori, and the dark and thoughtful Otherside, Crawford/Shuldig. Thank you, phantom writer!

I am still chewing over the $60 million dollar sale of the TMNT to Nickelodeon. I hope all ends well for everyone involved, especially the writers and artists I've been privileged to meet over the years. It's a good group of people. The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that it's not remotely like "Conan Doyle selling his rights to 'Sherlock Holmes' to Stephenie Meyer." If you want to know more, Peter Laird talks about it at his blog here. He sounds so tired.

I had something else...guess I'll just have to spam more later.

Over at Dreamwidth, for Kink_Bingo:

Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine, Naruto-centric, set during the timeskip. Enjoy!