Because when you have banana bread warm from the oven, you want something fast and tasty on it

Kicked off the new year - after napping through the middle of the evening and waking just at midnight thanks to fucking hormone headache - with my new faaaaavorite dessert, cream cheese-frosted banana cupcakes!

Banana bread makes great cupcakes/muffins. By the loaf I like to spread butter on it, but actually it's even better with a simple cream cheese frosting ( which I actually make in a tupperware to use as a spread. )

plebefic headers: Scmoop

1. [Warnings:] Scmoop and Christmas Carols



2. Title: Wisely and Slow; they stumble that run fast
   Author’s notes: The title is a line from Romeo and Juliet. In laymen’s terms it’s about not getting ahead of yourself by rushing into situations (“slow and steady wins the race,” said the turtle). [English to English translation completely free, apparently. Does this hold true for the entire story? Or perhaps it's already built in, so that the word count reflects twice the length of what happens?]



3. Disclaimer: I own both of these men. Oh yeah, and I'm a purple, sparly Christmas pixie.



4. Summary: On a trip to New Jersey to visit Gerard's family, he and Frank suddenly find themselves trapped on a plane thousands of feet in the air with two murderous hijackers...will they make it out alive?



5. A/N: To clarify, Rys is the name Harry [ed. note: That's Harry POTTER] has chosen to be called.

boots of the new year

1. Think "Aida" in green 2. Lola Ramona "Elise" in black
3. Irregular Choice "The Twizzler" multi 4. United Nude "Fold Hi" multi

 

yuletide reveal & recs part 5: the social network

For Yuletide I wrote The Social Network.

Doing It Right for zephyrprince. Eduardo Saverin/Mark Zuckerberg, explicit, ≈4k. An est-rel missing scene from early in the movie.

It's actually a subject of some curiosity for Mark whether Wardo really likes that many people that much, or if somewhere under the dense shell of affability and social conditioning there's a tiny core of judgmental superiority. Not because Wardo's ever given any sign of it, and Mark's done some judicious digging when Wardo was at his most inebriated - it's just that, well, he also likes Mark.

Really, he obviously does. It's not like Wardo gets anything else in particular out of their friendship, not anything he couldn't get from anyone else. He's better at algorithms than Mark is, and he's not even studying programming. Wardo is wealthier, taller, more fashionable, more social, and more conventionally attractive. Mark is marginally stronger and also better at fencing, but Wardo shows no signs of being a fencing fetishist, and it's not like he needs Mark to carry his books for him. It's usually Wardo who ends up carrying Mark's things that he forgets to take with him.

I added The Social Network to my Yuletide offers almost as an afterthought, as I was trying to offer everything I was confident I could write, and had been following the output of this small fandom since I saw the movie. I didn't give much thought to actually getting the assignment in advance and mistakenly thought that it would be easy, because I had a million half-realized fixit fics floating in the back of my head. Little did I know that my recipient would want a missing scene from early in the movie's timeline with romance and sex, a possibility I never gave any serious thought to. I spent most of the time just trying to decide how to write it to my satisfaction. Watching the movie, my initial interpretation was that the root of the conflict is that they're mutually in love and both in denial, and the breakup wouldn't've ever happened if they'd just started dating. But what I tried to do was posit a situation where they aren't in denial, but it's insecurity that leads to the divorce instead. Since Eduardo's insecurity re Mark's feelings is effortlessly imaginable, I went with Mark's POV and tried to construct a foundation for Mark's insecurity re Eduardo's (but couched in a cosy scene of banter, college sex, and snuggling). I'm not 100% satisfied with it, but I did have a lot of fun writing it.

Which brings me to my next set of yuletide recs - the Social Network ones.

Throw Your Back Into It, by jibrailis. Mark/Eduardo, E, ≈4.5k, post-canon. Humor, crack, amazing ♥. Sex is not the enemy. Except when it is. The one where Mark is a slut, Eduardo has performance anxiety, and there are cross-country booty calls.

But meeting Mark's needy demands in bed also hurts Eduardo's back.

And his thighs. And his cock.

Mark hurts Eduardo's cock.

This...really should not be as surprising as it is.

Delays in Communicating, by BlackEyed Girl. Mark/Eduardo, T, ≈3k, post-canon. Eduardo and Mark are both great at communicating. Just, lately, not with each other. They start sending messages without ever getting around to talking. Chris and Dustin watch and wait.

“What happened? Look, turn on your computer and tell me if the quote’s accurate.”

Chris fires up his laptop and finds the first report, on the gossipy end of the tech blog. “Why are you asking? You don’t think it sounds like Eduardo?”

“No, I think it sounds exactly like the kind of defensive shit Eduardo always came out with when someone tried to call Mark out.”

The Ghost at the Back of Your Closet, by Sandrine Shaw. Mark/Eduardo, T, ≈4k, post-canon. Watching the movie leads Mark to question the nature of his and Eduardo's relationship after the fact.

Worse yet, the movie makes it all – the ups and downs of Mark's friendship with Eduardo – sound like a tragic love story with an unhappy ending, which it wasn't.

It wasn't a love story.

Was it?

writing resolutions: 0 for 1, but I might as well keep at it...

I actually never make resolutions, but in 2010, just to see if it would work, I made one to start getting rid of my WIPs. Included in my resolution was an idea of the order in which to do them. I was going to finish one, then write a NYR fic I had my eye on, then finish a second one.

Instead, I finished one, started the NYR fic and got stuck a couple of thousand words in, unable to finish and unable to move on because I can't actively work on more than 1 fic at a time. It's a weird OCD thing, okay. Yuletide is an exception because it's an important deadline.

Anyway, I didn't finish anything last year between March (<1000 words) and Yuletide. So... that resolution really didn't work then.

Weirdly, though, I've now dusted off a Batman piece I started for the Batman Kink Meme right after TDK came out. It was originally meant to be longer, but I got stuck on the plot, and just a few months ago I looked it over and realized it was actually two stories with two completely different plots, and one was quite short while one was probably a novel. I've cut them apart and am now looking at the shorter one, and I think I can finish it almost right away. It would be nice to get it out of my hair and throw out the other part for good. Also, it would bring my uploaded fics on AO3 to 100; having 99 there has been driving me crazy since I uploaded my Yuletide fic.

Therefore, this year's resolution for writing will be to work on more than one thing at once, starting with finishing this before I finish my novel, and continuing after I finish the novel too. Maybe I'll even do it!