Citadel Correspondent

Usually Mondays at work are busy busy, but today's a holiday -- for the government, anyway -- and there's no mail, the courts are closed, and we have little to do. So hello!

Friday I took some friends to the Haunted Trail my cousin puts on every year for charity -- it's at hauntouthunger.com if you want to check it out. This year's theme is haunted fairy tales. They do a really good job, and it's free admission, though they ask you bring a can of food.

Saturday I went with more friends to Crown Hill Cemetery, which is apparently the fourth-largest cemetery in the US? Anyway, they had a storytellers' evening. The stories weren't very scary but walking in the graveyard after dark, looking at the very old graves, was a little spooky. There are some beautiful and very fancy graves there, though. Who knew that bunches of towering obelisks were a thing at one point in the last few hundred years?

Yesterday I took Mom to a brewery and a winery (enjoyed telling my dad that) and the weather was fantastic. The brewery was Upland Brewing Company in Bloomington -- home of Indiana University -- and they have a really good seitan tenderloin, fried up Hoosier style and served with lots of mustard and tomatoes. Then we went to Oliver Winery, more to walk around the grounds and look at their gardens, waterfalls, and ponds than to drink the wine, though of course I had a taste. They grow half their own grapes and get the other half from Cali. I was surprised, because I had thought Indiana wines were all the sweet stuff, to find that they grow and make some very nice, dry reds and whites. Their cabernet sauvignon was too pricey to buy but I picked up a bottle of a very smooth chambourcin.

I don't think I'm going to sign up for Yuletide this year. I even nominated fandoms! I just can't get excited enough about any of them or the others nominated to think of prompts, let alone write something. Edit: I just bit the bullet and signed up for yuletide, hah. I am doing yuletide-smut, and am looking around for another exchange to join, maybe. I haven't yet gotten hit with an idea for weiss v saiyuki, either. Ah. well.

So what'sup with y'all?

Title: All Right, Tonight
Author: jedishampoo
Rating: R-18
Pairing: UKxUS, some side pairings with other characters
Summary: Attorney Arthur Kirkland gets a new divorce client - Alfred Jones. Things easily heat up between them, but can they get their heads out of their own behinds long enough to really see each other? Deanon from the Hetalia kink meme.

Read on the AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/972105/chapters/1910633

Or FFN: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9698667/1/All-Right-Tonight


Unbeta-read and 41K words. Don't read it! LOL.

yuletide smut is open for prompts!

There are some new rules this year -- see if y'all might be interested in joining?

http://yuletide-smut.dreamwidth.org/84861.html

In other news, I think I'm going to try and write Sanzo het. Just because it'd be freaking hard to do. And I haven't written anything Saiyuki that wasn't for an exchange in a couple years, so I'm rusty?

So, I finished watching the Saiyuki Gaiden OVA. Blood, lots of blood. And guts.

And the worst? Goku cries through the whole thing. I think it's easier to endure when one could only read Goku crying, and not need to listen to or watch it.

I'm heartless, y/y?

I know for a lot of people Gaiden is weep-city, but it pushes my "I'm being manipulated" buttons so, so hard, setting off my "WTF" alarm.

Mostly, though, I enjoyed it, if only for Kanzeon Bosatsu, seeing Li Touten get his, for Goujun (whom I really liked more in this than ever before), and the opening song. ;)

Hey all, go check out the fics at the Saiyuki 7thnight_smut exchange on Dreamwidth:

http://7thnight-smut.dreamwidth.org/

You have to be a member to read the fics, but as long as you're over 18 you're eligible! I think you can probably find out how to join here: http://7thnight-smut.dreamwidth.org/profile

Saiyuki's a canon that just lends itself to AU, with all its reincarnation and distinctive characters. And there are always great stories!

So sadly, in April, my friend Donna died. She was a fantastic lady, a truly nice person who was always cheerful and fun to be with, and a super-big scifi and fantasy fan, who started going to cons in the early 1980s and never stopped. :) She was, in fact, the one who took me to my first Worldcon, in 1998. She fought breast cancer for two years but it was a nasty one and finally got her, but up till the end Donna was upbeat and loving and going to cons. She did Worldcon in Chicago with us last year in September, and she was hardcore conning it with her breathing machine and everything! She was an AWESOME PERSON and I miss her still.

Anyway, when Donna passed, she had no children, though she had siblings and nieces and nephews, and her family and husband sadly did not share her passion for science fiction. She left a few things to some people, me included (dude, she left me an ORIGINAL 1982 "Revenge of the Jedi" Star Wars Fan Club poster! Is that not the most awesome?) but mostly her nearest and dearest had no idea what to do with the stuff she'd spent thirty years filling the house. So I basically packed my car full on at least two trips, promising to find good homes for Donna's stuff, with people who will appreciate it.

I've been able to share some of her (many many many) books here and there with great people, but it's looking like a good number of books will make their way to a fan-run scifi charity that will distribute books to youngsters. That's cool, right? Anyway, she had some super-cool fanzines and things that I just KNOW someone will want. FOR FREE! I wouldn't mind if someone sent me three bucks here or there for envelopes and media mail postage, but mostly I want to find homes for these things she collected and loved. And they're soooo neato.

Lots of pictures under this cut (EDIT: Yay, just a couple left (until I go through more things, haha)! I knew you guys would enjoy this stuff!):

( Click this link so see some of the free and awesome fanzines you should adopt )

Title: Good Boy, There
Author: jedishampoo
Pairing: UKUSUK (Arthur/Alfred AU) (sort-of-side US/Ukraine)
Rating/Warnings: R-18; sex-slavery and the consent issues inherent in that, though I will say nobody is outwardly unwilling.
Summary: Sometimes Alfred doesn't mind being a Pleasure slave. Sometimes, though, he dreams of another life.
Notes: Written for a general slave fic prompt on the Hetalia kinkmeme. Here's the kinkmeme link. This is dedicated to my id, which wanted Arthur/Alfred sex-slave AU. This is totally unbeta-read and shows; I wrote it quickly and purely for smut value, and there was no research involved. Hope you enjoy!


( Click Here to read Good Boy, There )

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Title: Year of the Shark
Author: jedishampoo
Rating: R-l8
Pairing: Hakkai/Gojyo
Warnings: Looks like dub-con but isn’t, exhibitionism, smut, language.
Summary: Better watch out! You’re in Nepal now, buddy, and the Nurse Sharks are comin’ to town.
Author's notes: Written for the the yuletide_smut comm. on dreamwidth The prompt was “nurse,” and I played fast and loose with it. Thanks to my awesome beta whymzycal and to those who enabled me in this idea. Many thanks to the Merciful Goddess for her work on these fic-exchange comms. You help keep the fandom alive.

( Year of the Shark )

Title: So Here We Are Now
Author: jedishampoo
Pairing: England/America
Rating/Warning: R-l8, for DUBCON, smut, language
Summary: England is one of those and America is one of them and they discover this by fortuitous accident. Alpha/Omega dynamics, sort of.

Author’s Notes: Kink meme deanon because someone already outed me, ya twerps. I used the The Anything Goes prompt. Alpha/Omega dynamics shaken up a bit and made how I'd like 'em, like canonverse and without all the mpreg and stuff but with all the nice heat and knotting and marathon sex and hey, hello, I am DUBCON, nice to meet you. Consent is eventually implicit but that's it. Think of it like sex-pollen. Here’s the kink meme link.. This is totally un-beta-read because just too embarrassing. I know there are mistakes and feel free to point them out.


( click here to read So Here We Are Now )

Thanks to everyone a few weeks ago who made some tea and brewing recommendations -- I've been having too much fun trying stuff you recommended. :)

( more under here, boring if you don't care about tea! )

Happy Sunday, everyone. Going to the home and patio show tomorrow and maybe I'll buy a couple of new back doors for my house, since the ones I have are sort of falling apart.