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Click above to read today's essay about women in sports. I was thinking about this, how yes, all the big names of late have been men, but maybe even worse than just lack of exposure for female athletes -- of the positive kind -- is the coverage when they break form. Does anybody else remember when Serena Williams got fined something ridiculous? Maybe she shouldn't have exploded, but honestly, how many "bad boys" of sports are revered, and Williams gets slapped with a fine? Annoying.

ANYWAY, a big THE Ohio State welcome to --

Title: (Un)covered
Rating: NC-17, for graphic het.
Summary: NCIS genderfuck -- if Tony had been Toni. Toni has spent her entire life hopelessly in love with people.

Many, many thanks to

lepaugus for the fabulous beta. As for this story -- I feel like I could write an entire 14 Valentines entry about the process of writing it, and the almost alien intimacy of it.

Go read the fabulous essay that

bunnymcfoo wrote on the subject of body image, and peruse the cool stuff people have already begun posting!

As for me, rush job, unbetaed, but for you --

Title: In Progress
Rating: R, for teenagers being unbearable
Summary: Glee. ( Kurt guesses it's because they're all in high school that despite all the abnormally high levels of drama and hormones, none of them consider walking away after sectionals. )

So after about 2.5 years of living in the urine-scented hellscape of New York, I finally lost my Fuck, I Have To Go To The Emergency Room At 3 A.M., Better Call A Car Service-Ginity! This is after I was an asshole and forced poor

merelyn to come bring me a thermometer and make sure my brain wasn't cooking inside my skull at 11:30 at night, and then I put it off some more until I realized that I could feel my fever spiking (again!) at which point, my lizard brain said: "Get up off of your 101-possibly-102 degree fevered ass and go to the ER. At least if you have a seizure there, people will know what to do."

I'm not dying anymore, but when I called in to work this morning, I got what sounded like genuine sympathy from my boss, which -- believe you me -- is super, super weird. So I guess I still sound like I'm dying. Also, I present to you, "Misery, In Repose":

fuck you, too, january - Photo Sharing!

For those of you with eagle eyes: Yes, that is a book called Pregnesia on my nightstand; no, my kung fu is not strong enough to have read it yet; no, I did not spend U.S. legal tender on that (

merelyn did, for Christmas); and lastly, no, you cannot see the Icy-Hot condoms in this photograph.

( OH MY GOD ARE YOU -- IT WAS -- I JUST -- I CAN'T -- )

There's a lot of capslock under there. Fair warning.

Modern day slavery is the second-largest criminal enterprise on Earth, and unlike drugs or money, humans aren't a single-transaction item. It's pervasive, it's everywhere, it's oftentimes invisible. It's smuggled domestic workers who are entrapped by their employers and who have no recourse for assistance; it's the people who work on coffee farms that make your morning brew cheaper; it's the women who filled up the rooms in the 12 brothels within 5 miles of the White House I remember when I used to work in a nonprofit in D.C. It's also kids who run away from abuse at home only to get tricked by pimps and prostituted all over again on the streets -- a staggering number of them under the age of sixteen, and it's a system wholly unequipped with the tools, training, and resources to help. But all of that can be changed.

Be awesome. Be like

ej_neko reminded me about this. Be proactive, and if you want more information, follow the links to Not For Sale, Polaris Project, HumanTrafficking.org, or the State Department's Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

This is really only going to interest a small fraction of you guys, but if you, like me, grew up in a household where Dream of the Red Chamber was one of those classics right alongside Hans Christian Anderson and Disney movies, you'll be really interested to know that they've apparently finished remaking the series. My mother refers to this as "an abomination" and hates everybody who got cast in the series (which was its own bit of dramarama a while back if you follow this sort of thing); I'm just kind of blown away by how much fucking money China apparently spent making this thing. The production value is just stunningly gorgeous. Either way, I'm totally going to watch this series -- anybody else in on this action?

mood: intrigued

Suck it, John Scheyer, you and your fucking supernaturally accurate 3-point shots.

mood: bouncy

But! As some of you might have noticed, I am very slowly uploading all of my stories from my own website, off of the old blog, off of random places, into the A3O archive. I have the attention span of a gnat on meth, and cannot be trusted to maintain any website, so once all of this is one, I have a centralized drop box for fic, everybody will be happy because it won't be an awful hunt to find all the stuff I have put up all over the internet. As of now, all of the fanfiction housed on my website through the Harry Potter fanfiction is now up on A3O, and a handful of other things, including (I think) all of my NCIS fiction.

So here is where I am getting my ass into trouble:

Is there a story of mine you have been looking for? That's NOT -- I repeat -- NOT on my website? (If you're not sure about this, CHECK HERE FIRST.) Is it in one of my old LJ posts that got private-locked a while back?

IF SO, leave me a comment with this information, if you can find it:

1. Title
2. URL where it should have been, but is broken or whatever

This is not a guarantee or anything, but I will be working when I have free time throughout the rest of my week off to put stuff where it belongs.

mood: nervous

Because instead of slaving away for the man, I'm sitting at my desk listening to Lily Allen defaming the penis size of her ex-boyfriend and uploading stuff to A3O -- delicious. So! In case you guys have been looking for No Fault (CW RPS, Mike/Tom), Passover (House gen), Hurry Up and Wait (NCIS gen), Endearment (NCIS gen), Strictly on a Need to Know Basis (NCIS gen), Highly Classified and Very Hush Hush (NCIS gen), Rodney McKay's Diary (SGA genish? I don't even know. I drank a lot in college, okay?), Room 609 (NCIS, post-SWAK genish), or Seconds (NCIS, post-Agent Afloat Tony/Gibbs NC-17), then have at it.

mood: productive

So.

merelyn and I went and saw Sherlock Holmes tonight. It engendered in me many feelings. Mostly very positive, even though Mer admitted that at one point in the movie she thought, "No! Run away, Holmes! That smile is how Jude Law starts knocking everybody up! Run away!" So the primary question is: ladies, is there fic yet?

Title: D:
Rating: NC-17(ish)
Summary: "Oh my God, this shit has developed a narrative thread," Chris marvels.

Takes you to a download of the MP3 file -- happy listening!

Stay tuned. There's a fun little extra tied to this coming up soon.

mood: crappy

Obviously, spoilers below.

( Don't worry, Merlin fans, this is not one of my huge holy shit how can any one person type that much? episode reviews, you're spared. )

mood: giddy

All right. Rewind the day, okay? To before you realized the TERRIBLE TRAGEDY of my filling coming out and therefore ruining ALL OF OUR LIVES as a collective because of my psychic whining -- earlier today, I did a bad, bad, terrible, stupid thing, and linked

merelyn and

twentysomething to this awful atrocity for the iPhone.

That was about 3 p.m.

And then about half an hour later, it began:

rageprufrock: ahhahaa

rageprufrock: i should not be linking you guys to this

rageprufrock: but:

rageprufrock: http://gizmodo.com/5426827/younicorn-iphone-app-requires-no-explanation

merelyn: YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA PRU.

merelyn: brb downloading.

twentysomething: OMG DLING

twentysomething: OH MY GOD

twentysomething: BEST .99 PURCHASE EVER

( My friends, let me warn you: it was NOT the best .99 purchase ever. )

In conclusion: I'M SORRY.

mood: indescribable

Me: "Mom. I think my filling fell out."
Her: "HA HA HA HA HA HA."
Me: "...YOU SUCK."

In conclusion, I think I have to go to the dentist for the third time in less than a week.

INTERNET, CHEER ME UP, PLEASE, GOD.

mood: aggravated

Thanks so much all you sweethearts for the LJ snowflake cookies! If they were real, someone would need to be calling 911 right now because I would be lying on my living room floor twitching in a diabetic coma! Delightful! So classy! Genuine Pru!

mood: thankful

So occasionally I torture

zoetrope until she knuckles under and does stuff for my entertainment, for example how I was preposterously tragic all week last week and the beginning of this week and GUYS SHE WROTE ARTHUR AND MERLIN'S FIRST INTERVIEW POST PUBLIC OUTING IN THE DRP UNIVERSE! It's adorable. It's so sweet. You guys shouldn't even be reading this dribble anymore -- you should be clicking the hell outta that link! Go tell her she's awesome!

mood: bouncy

HEY, REMEMBER WHEN I WAS WRITING UNDERCOVER HOOKER SPOCK? YOU KNOW. BEFORE NANO?

Title: L/A/S, pt 5/?
Rating: R, because Jim Kirk just has all these feelings.
Summary: ( In which Jim excels at acting out, chess, and repressing the need to run victory laps over small victories. )

Happy reading!

mood: accomplished

THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME

lemmmiiiiiiiiing

Presumably, if you have internet access, then you have probably noted that a people responded positively to this week's episode of House, which is a Fucking Miracle, Let Me Tell You, Guys, given that it wasn't that long ago that I had this conversation with some friends who in responsible grrrlfriend fashion tried to talk me off of that ledge, because he always makes all these promises about being off the meth that he just never fucking keeps. I went in, leery. I required monitoring during some of the episodes. There was some fast-forwarding during the season opener.

( But guys, I am here to tell you, that episode 6x10 was a 18-carat conflict free diamond that made me forget about all the bullshit. I shit you not. )

In conclusion: Hells. To the yes.

(ALSO, CHECK OUT MY MOTHERFUCKING AMAZING SPOCK MOOD THEME

merelyn MADE FOR ME LIKE A BOSS.)

mood: ecstatic

DEAR HOUSE, AKA, THAT SHOW THAT HAS SPENT LIKE FOUR SEASONS PUNCHING ME IN THE FACE BECAUSE I BURNT ITS DINNER: YOU ARE FORGIVEN. LOVE FOREVER, PRU.

east coast gazette

[14 Valentines] Day Two: Athletics

[14 Valentines] Day One: Body Image

Guys! So exciting!

Dear NCIS

Because it's Human Trafficking Awareness Day

红楼梦

TEA + DUKE LOSING = AWESOME SATURDAY

I have a feeling this is going to end badly.

Fucking off from work is really the best, isn't it?

If you were at our movie theater: I'm sorry. We really were trying to keep it down.

[podfic] D: by Leupagus and Pru

Merlin 2x13 -- or -- "WHAT MANNER OF FUCKERY IS THIS?"

iPhones ruin lives. I'm not kidding, dudes.

FML

So many cookies...so much diabetes

Guys! Guys! LOOK DRP STUFF!

[L/A/S] Wherein I worldbuild for slavers and really question the trajectory of my life

Fuck it. It's been a rough month.

House 6x10 "Wilson" -- or -- "When he's good to me, he's so good to me, guys. You don't even know."

HOUSE!!

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