a turquoise flower

= Only got up to episode 23 of Power Rangers S.P.D. before I suddenly started watching Samurai Sentai Shinkenger i.e. the Japanese version of Power Rangers Samurai. (Hopefully more coherent thoughts on S.P.D. as a whole after I finish it to follow. I know I should've seen it before watching Samurai because the whole time I was watching SPD, I was imagining Mentor Ji had suddenly gone evil and it messed with my mind.) HOLLLLY MACKEREL IT'S SO AWESOME it's about ten times more awesomer than Samurai, sorry sorry. But in Samurai, there are nagging questions like "but! how did the samurai end up in a California-esque place?!!" (I know it's called "Panorama City" but that doesn't mean anything really.) "Why is Jayden's last name Shiba??" "And WHY IS A WHITE GUY LEADING A TEAM OF POC??" Except for these nagging questions, Shinkenger is basically the same show though but somehow more awesome???? IDK why do american shows suck so much?

Having said all that though, I still love Samurai, but now I feel like any one of them could've played Jayden and that it didn't have to actually be Alex Heartman. I heart Alex Heartman and his boyish good looks as much as the next fangirl, and it does feel strange to imagine anyone else in the role, but after seeing the Japanese version, I feel like it'd at least solve the problematic racial aspect of the show. It's just a thought experiment.

= Before becoming obsessed with Shinkenger out of nowhere, I also caught about five random episodes of Gogo Sentai Boukenger (because of a fic obviously) and liked it as well. After Shinkenger, I'll start watching it properly in order. (Only got through two episodes of Operation Overdrive, the Americanized version of Boukenger--well, an episode and a half--before I started wondering if there was another PR series I could marathon already. Sigh. Maybe after I've watched all the interesting Super Sentai shows, I'll come back to OO. ngl, I just want to come to that epic episode where Adam comes back and they team up with Tori, Xander, Kira, and Bridge because they're all my favorites.)

= I also signed up for PR Femslash Ficathon 2014 because I love both things immensely though I haven't really written any PR femslash before now. The letter for it might show up here soon because, while signing up I started to ramble and ramble and was like, maybe people wouldn't like to actually read such long ramblings on the sign up page?? despite the long ramblings for some of requests I had chosen, I had a hard time coming up with prompts because I literally like everything so my impulse is to just write to have fun, but I realize that is also super unhelpful so I endeavored to come up with random prompts. Coming up with prompts is sooooo hard though.

+ I am kinda sad not a whole lot of you are on LJ anymore, but I get it. The site has not been user-friendly for a number of years, and people need to do what people need to do. But LJ and DW are, I think, the only platforms that invite intimate conversations about our daily lives. Twitter is good for snippets and random thoughts that pop into your head, sure, but not conducive to lengthy conversations without feeling like you'd break Twitter, and/or annoying if you have to go over the character limits, and Tumblr is unwieldy re: personal texts, and writing, imho. Tumblr's mostly good for graphics and music. Not that Tumblr /can't/ be used for text posts, but the archive system is shit and I can never reply to people's post because the site is not made for such things. (I mean, I /can/ reply but it entails me going to my dashboard, and I never scroll through my dashboard anymore because I'd never get out of tumblr if I did that, so now if I want to reblog/like things on tumblr, I go to the individual tumblrs themselves and that's not conducive to replying, is what I meant). I have friended a number of you lovely people on DW, so there's that. What I'm saying is, I'll be here, if people find themselves wandering back around or visiting for the first time. I'll be like that one grandmother who loves to hang out on the porch, and wave at random people passing by.

+ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Movie is getting a reboot! I can't see this news as being anything other than awesome because a whole new generation of Power Rangers fans! What's there not to like?

+ an archive of our own meme snagged from sarken:
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...I don't even know, honestly.

Crossing the Line (912 words)
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: Underage
Category: F/M
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Relationship: Melissa McCall/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Melissa McCall, Stiles Stilinski
Additional Tags: Porn Battle, Age Difference, um yeah, Underage Sex, Consensual, I can't believe I wrote this
Notes: Written for Porn Battle 14 for the prompts: Teen Wolf (TV series), Melissa McCall/Stiles Stilinski, age, guilt, shame, want

Feels Like An Overdose (853 words)
Rating: Mature
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Multi, Other
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (TV 2012)
Relationship: Catherine Chandler/Tess Vargas/Vincent Keller
Characters: Catherine Chandler, Tess Vargas, Vincent Keller
Additional Tags: Porn Battle, Threesome - F/F/M, Not Canon Compliant
Notes: Written for Porn Battle 14 for the prompts: Beauty and the Beast (2012), Cat Chandler/Tess Vargas/Vincent Keller, parallel, armed

The Beginning, the Middle, the End, and Everything in Between (801 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandoms: Pushing Daisies/Once Upon a Time (TV)
Character: The Narrator
Additional Tags: crossovers, this will eventually get jossed, but I don't care, kind of meta-ish?, the Middleman also makes a quick appearance
Summary: There were many important questions in the world.

Like, why are we here? What happens to someone when they die? What's the meaning of life? Is there life beyond our pale blue dot, as Carl Sagan called it?

This does not attempt to answer any of the above questions, unfortunately, except for the most important one: Who wrote Henry's book?

Terminology (1037 words)
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: Power Rangers Ninja Storm
Relationship: Hunter Bradley/Cameron Watanabe, Blake Bradley/Tori Hanson
Additional Tags: porn battle, terms of endearments, established relationship
Notes: Written for Porn Battle XIV for the prompts: Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Cam/Hunter, [any].

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So what I've learned is that writing porn gets me over my writer's block (that Ouat/Pushing Daisies gen story was something I've been ruminating about for a while now and as such is an outlier). I don't know if this will always work, but seems to be doing the trick so far.

Finished a fic late last night and posted it today after a quick self-beta:

like a journey i just don't have a map for (1398 words)
Fandom: Power Rangers: Ninja Storm
Rating: Teen
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hunter Bradley/Cameron Watanabe
Summary: Cam gets drunk, and tries to sleep with Hunter. It kinda doesn't work out for him that way.
Notes: Written for smallfandomfest for fest10. For the prompt: Power Rangers, Ninja Storm, Cam/Hunter, morning after

I had wanted to write for this prompt many, many moons ago (alright - more like two fests or something-like-that ago). But then I could never write the beginning I wanted, and then this fic ended up being rewritten three times before it ever really was even finished so of course it's taken me like half a year or something to totally complete it and post it.

I like it now - as much as I like anything that I produce creatively (which is not very much - I'm sure, a month or two from now, I'll be embarrassed to remember I wrote this - my insecurities, ladies and gents).

BUT YAYYYYYYYY FINALLY IT'S FINISHED! *crosses off one fic, two more to go*

*celebrates*

I had also considered titling this "At the bottom of the bottle" but I don't know. And then I happened to be listening to Savage Garden in the background when I was finishing up and decided to steal the title from their lyrics.

Of course I was totally right about a theory I have and this thing that keeps happening to me where if I leave a story hanging in the middle of writing it, I have SUCH a hard time getting back to it. Like. So much difficulty, it's unbelievable.

I started writing this fic on Christmas Day, and I got through 977 words in one sitting. Then I left to do something, don't remember now, maybe to go eat or something (or to play Bejeweled), and when I got back to it, I had no idea how to continue. I hate when that happens - I make a good headway on a story and then I leave it for awhile to go do other things and when I come back to it, it's like I haven't looked at the story in YEARS (when - in reality - it's only been several hours at the most).

I always say I want to finish writing at least three prompts for the fest, but then January 31st comes around and I've like written one or none. Really, really hope I can break that trend this year.