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I'm not sure what it says about me that not posting for three whole days feels so WRONG and INEXPLICABLE, but it really does. So, um, hi there!

I got a lot of reading done this past week -- I finished Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey, which I'd been nursing alng for a few weeks; it was long and rich and absorbing, just like the first three, and I'm a sucker for historical fantasy, even if everyone *is* inhumanly beautiful and the sex is weird. I also got through Magic Lessons by Justine Larbalestier and The Mislaid Magician by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. They were both really good and exactly what I needed to read this weekend, so yay! Quality YA fantasy series for the win.

Next up: more Julia Quinn romance novels. Totally anachronistic voice yet incredibly charming and funny and likable characters = heart.

Last night speshope and I went to see Spider-man 3, which, yeah, not a great movie -- it was episodic, unfocused, overstuffed -- but there were fun moments within it. As I told Spes afterwards, my favorite part was ( spoiler! )

and my least favorite was ( spoiler! )

. The ending made me sad, too, just because ( spoiler! )

Spes also took me grocery shopping last night, which I desperately needed. I have FOOD now! It's so exciting! It was my first time shopping at Trader Joe's, too, so I was pleasantly surprised by how cheap yet cool and enticing everything was.

Today is Monday. That means it is HEROES NIGHT. Yay!

I am a big flooffy smooshy sap, when i'm not randomly making awful things occur

1) Random comment I made to etben earlier:

Now I have finished my novel and I am thinking all about how Fraser and Ray are the old married queers who live on the corner of the block and have been in the neighborhood forever. <3

2) Conversations we just had a few minutes ago:

pearl_o: *curls up with you and thinks nice thoughts about fraser and ray*
etben: awww
etben: also - they are TOTALLY old married queers on the corner
etben: for the record
pearl_o: i know, right?
pearl_o: Also, here is an image that ever ever fails to make me happy:
pearl_o: the two of them on a couch, with Fraser sitting up and Ray lying down resting his head in Fraser's lap.
etben: AWWWW
etben: OH BOYS
pearl_o: (Fraser's hands can be stroking absently at Ray's hair, but they don't *have* to.)

3) You all read the porn she wrote for me last week, right? The dirty, dirty, DIRTY RayK/Stella het porn of hotness? Just checking.

4) You GUYS, stop_drop_porn is live again! And the new ds_flashfiction challenge is starting soon! I signed up for both of them, because I enjoy torturing myself, apparently.

5) This isn't a meme, but IT COULD BE: Write me a F/K kiss in my comments (or your own journal, I guess), and I will write you one in return. Just a sentence, if you want, or a paragraph, or a drabble.

I have too many appropriate icons.

To the small portion of my friends list who love both How I Met Your Mother AND Callum Keith Rennie:

Okay, no kidding, after tonight's HIMYM, somebody is going to write Barney/Craig from Last Night, right? RIGHT? He ... he has a list, people. *hands it to you on a platter*

Edited to add: the mini-crostic puzzle I am working on online right now has KEN WAHL as a clue. *glares* I am not sure HOW Tracey is responsible for this, but I blame her nonetheless.