I made roasted peaches a couple of times this summer (an absolutely marvelous dessert -- you cut them in quarters -- a little butter, a little sugar, a little lemon juice, maybe a sprig of rosemary), and the spouse and the kidlet have been asking for them again, but there are no fresh peaches to be had.

Who has recipes along those lines? Mostly fruit, lightly sweetened, reasonably low in fat, something that a spouse with high cholesterol can eat multiple times a week?

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Tags: food

Tea with youkosiren! Bookshopping with her and Pru, then the strongest hot chocolate in the world, then more books (also kittens!). I met merelyn and leupagus who are both amazing in the most retarded ways. I can’t even talk about it.

Actual stuff when I get back to Toronto and have slept off the high of hanging out with Pru, who is awesome in ways I can’t explain and who is fattening me up, Fat Princess style so I won’t return to Canada.

Pru: (in the other room) OH GOD, LACTATION, WHY. There is so much other stuff to write! Why, guys? WHY.

( Links )




Pru: Oh, Jim Kirk. Why are you always doing the alien equivalent of poking holes in the condoms?
MK: He is obsessed with sperm.
Pru: Jim Kirk just wants things.
MK: Someone should write a story where he runs a fertility clinic but can’t get pregnant himself.
Pru: Hold up a second, let’s think about this for a minute.

Why Pru and I should probably not be allowed to hang out in the same room for an extended period of time. Also, we are amazing.





( Fic Recs: Star Trek TOR, Merlin, White Collar )


MK: Whenever I see a post on my flist from ncis_finders, I weep.
PRU: i don’t know why you subscribe to that other than that you probably like pain
MK: Well this time I held back from clicking on things
PRU: that’s a start
MK: but when the internet is low on fic for me to read, that’s usually when someone posts something to ncis_finders like “I’m looking for that story where Gibbs ties Tony to the boat in his basement and whips him with a bag of soap bars so it won’t leave a mark. And then he bites giant hickies all over him so people will know who he belongs to. Anyone?????”
PRU: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
PRU: WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
PRU: s;dlfksdfsldkfjsd;aiew;jdskf
MK: I made it up
PRU: EMILY
PRU: OH THANK GOD

Tags: conversations, fic recs, links, merlin, ncis, star trek, video games, white collar

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I'm working on art tonight because I have one more application left to do (WOOT), and I've come to the conclusion that I really need to be rich and/or influential, so I can hang out at the SPN set and take pictures of what I need and not hassle with Google or trying to manip/scrounge random caps and make them work.* This was a conclusion I came to with SGA as well, because there was nowhere near enough boys in civvies--and there certainly wasn't nearly enough orange fleece. On one hand, necessity teaches ingenuity, and I definitely have been able to do pretty much everything I've wanted to do, but damn it, sometimes I just need Castiel in something other than his trench coat.*

Anyway, as I said, one application left to go, and then I have to put together a practice job talk in the hope that a hiring committee somewhere will like me enough to maybe invite me to their campus. Then I get to escape for a week over Thanksgiving, and I am totally cancelling class to do it. God, I can't wait to get out of here.

While not suffering through the sado-masochist exercise that is applying to stuff, I've been amusing myself by contemplating Dean's fangirling of Dr. Sexy, and am being rather diverted by reports from ChiCon. (DAMN not having any money, I could totally have gone, assuming I'd worked up the intestinal fortitude. I'm fucking looking at you, applications and Big Boring Academic Convention In December That Will Sadly Not Involve Panels With Jensen, Misha, David, Or Joe.) I feel kind of weird reposting people's con photos, so I will just say YES to the three-piece and red tie. Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

(.eta: I direct you HERE for one such example. I just... his NECK. *is kind of ashamed of herself*)

Now I'm gonna go and do art. I haven't opened CS4 in a few days, so my poor tablet is all dusty.

* = and I don't just mean Dean and Cas making out. Sheesh.

* = like Dean's gray t-shirt, for example. Trin and I have discussed this at length.

Current Location: deskie
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Death Cab for Cutie, "Your New Twin Sized Bed"

Okaaay, if I wrote every fanfic that took up camp in my head, I would nevereverever sleep again, much less get The Book finished. So I think I'd like to attempt a multi-chap fic, and see if that doesn't keep my mind from wandering quite so much!

Opinions? Questions? Kumquats?

Poll #1486001 Rin has too many ideas to know what to do with.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

What the hell should Rin be writing?

Tags: avatar: the last airbender, poll
Current Location: my desk
Current Mood: silly
Current Music: "Flowers"; The New Radicals

HAPPY BIRTHDAY dawnbringerz!!! :D ♥! I hope you have a great day! Woo~!

Cut for those that don't care. xD

( Rambling about my PH doujin stash/wars )


~ECK ♥

Tags: doujin, doujinshi, i am a dork, moneeeeeeeeeeh, pandora hearts, random, spam
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Elize - Lovesick

Title: Repeat Offender
Author: Seperis
Codes: Jim Kirk, Spock, Kirk/Spock
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: movie
Summary: After a bar, in Iowa.
Warnings: click here, mild spoilers.
Author Notes: Thanks to shinetheway for reading and beta, and transtempts for reading earlier versions of this and not hating it.

( fic: repeat offender )

( warnings )

Tags: fandom: star trek reboot, fic: other fandoms
Current Mood: awake

The Vampire Diaries fic rec!

Lure by transtempts, in which Bonnie is a witch and Damon is a vampire who might be helpful but God knows really if he means it. It's a wonderful exploration of a carefully navigated relationship between them; Bonnie is awesome and incredibly insightful, Damon is ambiguous and strangely useful, and it could go anywhere at all. Me, I hope it goes somewhere. Canon-compliant up to most recent TVD episode, and highly recommended for the wonderful capturing of Bonnie and Damon as people who aren't friends but might be one day.

Also, pitch-perfect Elena and Bonnie friendship, which is possibly my favorite relationship on the show. Sure there are vampires, but I seriously, seriously love watching them together.

Also, because transtempts was wondering last night and now I am too--anyone have any good recs for M*A*S*H fic that don't make you want to cut your wrists from subject matter or crimes against language?

Tags: recs: other fandoms
Current Mood: awake

I cheated on my NaNo again. This is just some fluff. FLUUFFFF. My original characters were angsting me out, man. Bad characters. Good Dean ‘n’ Cas.

Title: Saints Have Hands
Rating: G
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: Through 5x09
Length: ~650 words
Summary: Post-5x09. Dean turns observation into action.

( Saints Have Hands )

Tags: fic, spn
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Obnoxious coffee shop folk

My mother got married yesterday, guys. My mother. She is now a married woman. She's changing her last name to Reed tomorrow. She is MARRIED. *still in shock* She told me today, and only because I called her and asked her why she was acting weird!

MY STEPFATHER IS MY AGE. HAVE I MENTIONED THIS? HE IS THREE MONTHS OLDER THAN I AM. EDIT: I AM 23. I FORGOT TO MENTION.

*rolls around*

adhfjkadhsjkfhkajshfkjashgkh.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Current Music: Jonathan Coulton - I Feel Fantastic