Minnetonka calf-high suede boot

plebefic headers: the stash of stolen fake yarn

1. Disclaimer: I don't own much, and I really doubt you want my yarn stash. Besides, it’s all fake, and doesn't belong to me at all. [NB: I feel like anglepoiselamp should have this on a T-shirt, although it isn't factually accurate that her yarn is fake or stolen...]



2. Summary: AU #19: Cas hasn't spoken a word to anyone in years and is a drifter who works various odd jobs to finance himself. Dean is a guy with a violent temper who grew up in foster care and has just gotten out of prison for a stupid judgment call. The two cross paths in a pay-by-the-week boarding house run by an eccentric older couple (Bobby and Ellen).



3. [summary] this is the way that I'm learning to breathe, I'm learning to crawl, I'm finding that you and you alone can break my fall



4. Author's Note: Hey look! It's me again! With a brand new story that I'm actually going to finish!



5. Summary: Written for the Fusion/AU challenge. Chuck, a writer for one of the leading gay lit magazines in the country, is fed up with his roommate Castiel's crush on their overworked neighbor. So he deals with it the best way he can. He writes their story as he watches it unfold.

1. oversleep 2. how school's going 3. the delayed mental separation of tos & reboot

1.Somehow both Wax & I slept late today: I was sleepy enough that even though I reset my alarm 3 times, I never woke up enough to finish wondering when Wax was supposed to get up or put that together with when she leaves for work, so when I finally stumbled out of bed, an hour and a half after I intended to (but not late enough to be late), she jumped up with a shriek¹ of "My alarm didn't go off! Shit, why didn't you tell me what time it was?"

So then she went to work, and now I've been at the computer almost an hour and a half without finishing even one cup of insta-caf-au-lait. The bus to my five hours of evening boredom leaves in about two hours, though, so my circumstances are not dire:

1. Except it was the morning, so her shriek was actually a slightly rough-voiced mumble♥

2.(so tempted to skip, so very tempted. Why do I need to know 3 hours' worth of information about adult psychology in order to be a daycare-or-primary school teacher's assistant? Also, I didn't actually learn anything new about child psych last week in the children's section: apparently my AP/International Bacchalaureate Psychology almost 10 years ago, the equivalent of uni psych 101, actually WAS that good, or maybe it's just that I retained more because I'm interested in psychology? And why didn't it include more about abnormal psychology, or the psychology of disability, when it comes to that? Considering the entire purpose of the teacher's assistant is to help children with disabilities, you'd expect more than a 30-minute brainstorming exercise from the class, without even any input from the lecturer, into what kinds of psychological issues could be caused by different types of disabilities).

3.In my-current-fandom-reading-habits news, I don't feel bored, for once, even though I don't have any new fandoms to haunt. I went through the insightful effex's Kirk/McCoy ST Reboot bookmarks and then started browsing other people's, and have been enjoying it quite a lot. Even though I came out of the movie having seen the K/Mc very clearly, I was held back from full enjoyment of Reboot fic for quite a while by my attachment to TOS characterization. There is enough difference in character voice (especially between Fratboy!Kirk and his predecessor, with fanon running with the hyper-modern speech patterns even past where they were onscreen), however, to make a full separation into essentially two separate fandoms practical and even desirable. That makes it possible to really, deeply enjoy new Kirk/McCoy without seeing echoes of the to me deeply horrifying de-platonicization of the TOS platonic nature of IDK K's BFF Mc. (Though, really, modern language taken into account, it should be C-Fine who is called IDK!Kirk, but his platonic BFF is Spock - he and McCoy traded roles! But not really, since Adventurer-Partners-with-UST and Hero-and-His-Adoring-(If-Sarcastic)-Sidekick are two quite different dynamics. And Bones wasn't usually a sidekick in quite the same manner in TOS: more a fount of hilarious dialogue and a proxy for the viewer's 20th-century consciousness.)

And, backing away from the Star Trek meta, in between I've been grazing on the Fraser/Kowalski Recent pages, Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto RPS, and even delicious's most popular Dumbledore/Grindelwald bookmarks (1. I bookmarked 2 of them which were really very good and 2. There's less of it than you would think and 3. Did you know people are calling it GRINDELDORE?).

I like symphonic metal so it's no surprise, I suppose, that I also like non-metal symphonic goth

My beloved music-pimp aeslis sent me the whole album from Japanese symphonic-goth cellist 分島 花音 (Wakeshima Kanon) (I checked the kanji and she actually *is* named after Chinese goddess/bodhisattva of mercy Guanyin (No, she's totally not, it's just similar and I couldn't detect the difference in the character at the relatively tiny default text size.) But I do still wish I were named after a goddess). She's a classically trained cellist who writes her own melodramatic classical/gothy music and sings in an appropriately Symphonic Metal-like style. This is my favorite song from the album, 砂のお城 (Suna no Oshiro), which is apparently a theme from an anime called Vampire Knight. You can ignore her rather ridiculous Gothic Lolita garb and the cupcake on her head... or you can LOL, either way is fine by me.