Confessions of an Adamaniac

Title: Some laws should be broken from the start
Author: exeterlinden 
Fandom: Shelter
Pairing/Characters: Zach/Shaun, Cody, OCs
Rating/Category: PG
Prompt: Shaun introduces Zach to his friends
Spoilers: None.
Summary: "... Actually, most of my friends here are gay." Zach catches Shaun discreetly checking his reaction in the rear view mirror.
Notes: Thank you to my beta moon_destiny !

Some laws should be broken from the start

Title: A Night at the Beach
Fandom: South of Nowhere
Characters: Spencer Carlin, Ashley Davies, Paula Carlin, Glen Carlin
Prompt: 073. Light.
Word Count: 658
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Spencer and Ashley spend the night at the beach
Author's Notes: Written for my FanFic100 Spashley claim. My Table. Sorry I suck at writing lately, guys. I'm trying. I thought I should probably write for my claim, so here it is :) Feedback = ♥
"Do you love me?" She whispered into Spencer's ear."

There's a tag for South of nowhere: general series? This is not my claim. My claim is Spencer Carlin/Ashley Davies. Could you make a tag for it please?

Charles N. Brown, the founder, publisher, and editor of Locus magazine, one of the premiere magazines of the SF literary field, died peacefully in his sleep on the way home from Readercon at the age of 72.

I had my differences with Charlie, but he was always a professional and his love for the field was always palpable and wonderful. He will be missed.

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PHOCENSIAN DESPAIR

PHOCENSIAN DESPAIR describes a situation in which victory is snatched unexpectedly from the jaws of defeat. The phrase derives from the men of Phocis, who, during Philip II of Macedon's reign (386-336 BCE), were subject to perpetual attacks from their neighbors for daring to farm the sacred field of Delphi. So great was the Phocensians' despair that they vowed to end their lives in a mass human sacrifice. However, just before mounting the pyre on which their women and children were stacked, the Phocensians mounted a last-ditch attack on their foes and defeated them.


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Hi! I'm new! I <3 True Blood! OMG, Bill....*drools*

( Cut for spoiler. )

Chars: Tim and others

Words: @600

Spoilers: Takes place about 15 months after the wedding in FNL S3 finale

Summary: First chapter of a story about a fling's double sided, very real consequences.

Chapter here:
She's Got Your Eyes

happy summer!

Title: You Have Been Here (And You Are Everything)
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Characters: Lexie Grey, Meredith Grey
Prompt: #046 - Star
Word Count: 1,200
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It’s two o’ clock in the morning, and if Lexie and Meredith were a lot younger they would have pretended that they were the only human beings alive in the world and they both secretly are ; a summer night, wine, and a few more steps together.
Author's Notes: Written quickly to get vacation out of my system.

( You Have Been Here (And You Are Everything) )

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All right, at the beginning I had this story all wrong. I was so sure of what it was happening that it was surprising, but nice, realizing that the author managed to bring me around where he wanted and then presented me with the real story.

Noah is the classical neglected son of a wealthy man, more interested in being a perfect politician in front ot the public opinion, than a good father in his private life. All in all Noah managed to grew up in a fine man, a chemical engineering that would like anything more than being left alone from his father as he has always done. But now Senator Wiltson is running for President, and Noah has to play the role of the good son... only to come back one night and find a killer in his apartment. The man, Lord, says that he was hired by the good Senator to get rid of the inconvenience that is having a gay son. Yes, since even if Noah has always maintained a low profile, he is gay and this is not acceptable for the political aspirations of his father. Only that Lord has his own reason to not like the Senator and he is double playing: he will not kill Noah, on the contrary he will give the man all the evidence he needs to find shelter in his grandfather's home and being safe from that moment on.

Two months later Noah is living with and working for his grandfather and he meets Cain; the man is the new head of security for his grandfather's chemical firm and he seems to have come out from nowhere two months before. He has no past, everything is new around him, his work, his home... And to Noah, Cain remembers a lot the man of the night, Lord. Is it possible that Cain is trying to bring on the mission he refused months before? or maybe Cain wants to be sure that Noah is safe and sound? or maybe he is not the same man? It seems impossible, too many things are similar, the wrapping up of the story it's obvious from the beginning...

The contraposition between Noah and Cain is quite clear: Noah is the gentle and quiet man, the one who doesn't like to be under the spotlight, a man who likes to be the cherished and cuddled lover. Noah is not an imposing figure, he doesn't mind to be led and directed, he has not the core to be independent. On the other hand Cain is the classical leader, forceful but caring, a man who will protect who is under his care with all his own. Cain likes to be in control, both in his public than private life, he is really convinced that only him can be the savior of the world. Maybe a little proof that he is not invincible can be a good thing to him, but all in all, he is the perfect partner for Noah.

Noah and Cain are nice characters, but if I'm to be true, I think that someone else stole them the scene. I don't want to spoil the story, enough to say that there is another man, Mars, a skinny and skittish former hustler, that even if he has only few scenes, he has probably the most interesting role of all the book. Noah and Cain's love story is good and enjoyable, but I found myself waiting for Mars and his lover to appear on the scene, and in the end, I was really hoping for the author to write a book all for their story. A story that started before Noah's one, and that will have its happily ever after more or less at the same time.

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(Yeah, yeah, only six. But LJ making me split them into 2 parts because they're pfffft, too long or something makes me very confused in the head.)

Title: In This Home On Ice – Chapter Six: Checking Time
Author: aldiara
Fandom/Characters: Alles Was Zählt, Deniz/Roman, bunch of other people
Word Count: 11,700 (srsly, LJ. Can we raise the character limit to 12,000 words? It’d make my life so much easier.)
Rating: PG? No idea. What’s the best rating for “no porn, sorry”?
Summary: Deniz appears to pay attention. A strange and alarming development? Roman thinks so.
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these characters. I just like to screw up their lives for them.
A/N: I feel the urge to embed an audio file of the DRAMATIC EYEFLASH noise in this fic, lol. Soapy soap plot is soapy. I’ll, er, try to not take bleeding ages on the next chapter, ‘kay? Massive thanks and noserubs to my lovely beta lilithilien, both for the highly necessary kicks in the arse and for cleaning this up. Master list for previous instalments is here.

Chapter 6: Checking Time

and also:

Interlude-3-in-which-Roman-goes-on-a-date. In a place that's not No.7, so wildly AU, obviously.

Hahahahah, I was going to try and finish this before the show gets too awesome and I can't concentrate on dreary post-rentboy days because they're in the far and failing past. But with all the subbing madness and crap like work (srsly, who needs that), that doesn't look to be happening. But there are Plans and the end is in sight. Somewhere. Vaguely. Yes.

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i was just wondering if anyone knew the title of the song and/or the artist that was playing during the party and the closing credits. any help would be greatly appreciated

also, i probably owe someone credit for this icon so come forward

It's my last day home today - back to work tomorrow for me and back to school for the LG. I'm feeling a lot better and got all productive today and ironed all the uniforms for the week!

The LG starts in his new classroom tomorrow. I hope he goes ok, moving classes half-way through the school year could be confusing.

Fandom wise ( continued behind the cut )

I was just putting together an interesting 'end of course' lesson for my most advanced students, and was even considering to bring some biscuits for them...but now, they cancelled. OK, I get paid, but it is bloody frustrating when people do that.

Oh well, gives me more time to put together stuff for my classes to do while I'm spending time in London.

And since I'm feeling sick, it's probably for the best.

This week my Man Candy day is devoted to the men from the cold... people always talk about how sexy it's a latin man, but there is who likes also the ice blue eyes and the pale skin of the men for the East Europe. And so I picked up three very different men but with the same origins: Alexey is from Moscow (Russia), and I bet that many of my friends already know his catlike moves, if not his name; Anton actually lives in New York but his origins are from Belarus; and Jared is a promising new face of the fashion industry from Poland.



( Alexey Veter )

Bendable Russian model Alexey Veter hails from Moscow. He's 25-years-old, hot and knows how to take care of himself - he's big into boxing, Russian-style.

“I like swimming, vodka, Moscow, dance, finance, Polina Griffits, Egypt, ocean, Putin, music, Sweet November, red caviar, yoga, water, Deepest Blue, smiles, John Faulz, Alsou, Russia, crazy ideas, sea, Christina Aguiler, etc. I like photography as an art. All my photos depict inner-me, my ideas, my feelings... I would be glad to work as a model, a creator.... I will be glad to talk with you about everything what you want :)”



( Anton Antipov )

Anton Antipov was born on May 6th, 1983 in Bobruisk, Belarus. At the age of 13, he moved with his family to New York. While attending college and working at A|X, he was approached with several modelling offers. After submitting his photographs to several agencies, he signed with BOSS models.

Anton has done runway work, and has appeared in a published ad campaign for the Italian jewelery company, Pomellato. He also starred in a coffee table book by famed photographer Kal Yee, and has been featured on the websites Allamericanguys and Sixpacknow.



( Jarek Pietka )

Jarek Pietka is 19 years old model from Warsaw, Poland. This 6'1" (185cm) looker with green eyes is represented by KS Management. Now, he walks the runways for big names as Calvin Klein, Frankie Morello, Dsquared and Gucci.

Jared Pietka appeared on Issue #1.09 of Toni Perez and Victor Soria’s online magazine Vanity Teen. After his appearance in Contributing Editor, he looks better than ever, thanks to Zuzanna Krajewska and Bartek Wieczorek.

@Model Mayhem - Alexey
@Anton Antipov
@Models.com - Jarek

Title: Better Late Than Never
Author: omorka
Fandom: Ghostbusters (movie!canon)
Pairing/Characters: Egon/Janine
Rating/Type: NC-17, het
Prompt: smile
Spoilers: major ones for the first movie
Summary: Janine and Egon deal with the fallout from the confrontation with Gozer.
Notes/Warnings: Awkwardness and mild angst. More porn than plot. Link goes to my fic journal.

( It was tempting to say, after the fact, that the first thing she noticed about him was that he never smiled . . . )

So, is anyone else scratching their head over this turn of events? Because the way it played out didn't make sense to me.

So let's have some fun, blow off some steam, and speculate why Mary had this sudden left turn. Brain injury? Real Mary abducted by aliens and this is just an imperfect clone? Abducted by hobos? The crazier the better.

***Spoilers for "Jailbait" for those who haven't seen it yet***


My first guess under the cut:


( What on earth, lady?! )

I'm finally caught up on e-mail (except for a couple that I'll reply to tomorrow) and my RSS feed. I'm not going to even try to catch up on LJ, so if you want me to read something, point to it in comments.

It was a great weekend, all told, and this despite any number of stressors. But they all came out okay, including the one I wasn't expecting.

And now to bed................................

American space station Skylab broke up and crashed to earth over Australia, five years after its final mission (1979)

PYRRHIC VICTORY

A PYRRHIC VICTORY is one achieved at such a cost that it is almost indistinguishable from defeat. It seems the term derives from the bellicose antics of Pyrrhus (319-272 BCE), King of Epirus, who twice beat the Roman army but with casualties so crippling that one commentator wrote, "One more such victory and we are lost."


Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The 114-day Battle of Britain begain when German Luftwaffe planes began attacking southern England (1940)

BOULE, BUTTOCKS, & FANNY

Boule tradition dictates that if a team fails to score a single point during a march, the members are expected to kneel and kiss the bare buttocks of the legendary voluptuary "Fanny" (rotondités de la plantureuse Fanny), whose image is to be found on pictures and sculptures in many a boule club.


Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy (1917-63)