We choose to go to the moon...

From callmesandy:

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life.
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.
2b. Hater Variation - Guess my least favorite characters as well/instead.

(I will write an essay/expound on my love of any character if the correct guesser of that character wishes me to. Or if you correctly guess the character I dislike the most I will write (upon request) a vitriolic well-reasoned argument explaining my dislike.)

( My list... )

* It just hit me that I have to go back through my Harry/Snape recs and add new links for any stories that were hosted at Detention. Um. Ugh. Thank goodness fandom rallies and there are already any number of communities compiling new links. It's all well and good until it affects me. ;)

* Okay, so someone tell me I'm not the only one looking forward to "There and Back" - the Ashley Parker Angel reality TV show on MTV. Someone? Anyone? I wasn't anything close to an O-Town fan but I'm incredibly interested to find out what they hell that kid's been doing with himself and watch him try to start again. It's gotta be good.

* cranberryink - Did you see this list of Ronon/Rodney recs?

* A Ron/Draco rec: Sea Change by Anonymous. It's well paced and beautifully written. I most enjoy Draco when he's paired with Ron.

I'm terribly behind in my smutmas reading. So much so, that I'm buying a new ink cartridge and some paper and I plan to print out a ton of stories for next week's cruise. Two years ago I printed SeSa stories for my cruise and it was some of the best vacation reading I've done. *g* This year, I'm stocking up on HP and SGA and I dare my family to try and read over my shoulder.

* New employee starts tomorrow. A new manager, actually. All of my current managers were inherited when I was promoted into my current position and I'm really exicited about this guy. He's new to the company and the industry but he interviewed flawlessly. I have high expectations. High enough that I'm not even letting myself stress about the training and development he'll need over the coming months.

Shower. Errands. Bills. Good times!

tinkerpixy posted the fic she wrote for my erotic_elves fantasy fest request: Harry/Bellatrix. Harry captures Bellatrix and makes her pay for Sirius' death.

Her Lord

"He imagines her with matted black hair and haunted eyes, like his own. He thinks he'll laugh, like she did, and this will all disappear."

Warnings: Non-Con, Bondage, Breathplay

Harry is vengeful and tormented and this is even more than I hoped for.

(And, you know, I need a dark fic icon. Nothing in my arsenal is quite appropriate for this post with the possible exception of angry!Justin who is never quite appropriate for a post about Harry/Bellatrix non-con.)

switchknife wrote, lizardspots drew, and the end result was The Secret-Keeper. Holy fuck. It's hot and raw and wrong and so fucking good. It's also, as the warnings probably tip you off, not for everyone.

Pairings: Snape/Hermione, implied Hermione/Ron.
Summary: Knowledge is power, but endurance is strength.
Warnings: Teacher/student relations, underaged sex, abuse of authority, dubious consent, coercion, dirty talk, voyeurism, masturbation, cunnilingus.

The Secret-Keeper. Gah. My brain is fried from the hot and the wrong and the so, so good.

I'm working on a redesign to my HP recs page which will also be a redesign of the rest of the pages over at Moonshot so I'm going through my Lotrips recs. I had a near panic this morning when I couldn't access Thank You by _cee. It's a follow-up to She Knows She Can Take It by veuki, it's Liv/Viggo, there's object insertion, and it's delicious. It turns out that the link changed since I last read the story but I would have been a very disappointed girl if it had been gone for good.

Moral of this tale? Read both stories if you haven't already. They're fabulous.

Related to the site redesign, I have to mention that not_satisfied is one of the most generous people I've met on-line. She's one in a million.

shamrock_kid tagged me for this meme: Rules: Pick seven songs that you're into right now, list them. Pick seven friends who have to repeat this process, list them.

I don't actually know the names of most of the new songs on the radio but I'll give it a go:
1) The "come on dj, won't you turn the music up" song.
2) The new Missy Elliot song.
3) ADIDAS. I'm experiencing a bit of a JC renaissance.
4) "Joking" - The Indigo Girls. "You said the world was magic I was wide eyed and laughing..."
5) The new Mariah Carey song. The "shake it" one. Or something like that.
6) Joss Stone's versio of "Some Kind of Wonderful."
7) "This Womans' Work" - Kate Bush.

I'm not tagging anyone for this but I'll read your list if you post it. :)

Last thing. I love my job. It's satisfying, challenging, and interesting. That said, I wish whatever I did for a living led me to say things like this in passing - "I mean for example, if we integrate over an interval [a,b],
and lim n --> inf int_[a,b] f_n(x) = 0, then I doubt that lim n--> inf int_[a,b] f_n(x) g(x) dx = 0 even if g is very nice. Of course if lim n --> inf int_[a,b] |f_n(x)| = 0, then it's trivial. Maybe the modular function is super special though hah?" Instead, I can read that kind of stuff here. Ah, mathematics. It's a beautiful place for the wanna be math geek in us all.

I managed to follow those S2 component tutorials and my journal is now both Potterfied and very, very green. saturn92103. See? It's been a long time - years - since I changed my layout and I still need to figure out exactly how to add additional components with graphics/photos but I love it!

I also updated my Harry Potter Recs Page with 16 new fic/art recs:

2 Harry/Snape
1 Lupin/Snape
5 Weasley (1 Ron/Charlie, Bill/Charlie implied; 3 Ron/Harry; 1 Ron/Harry/Ginny)
4 Misc (2 Snape/Draco; 1 Snape/Albus; 1 Fenrir/Draco)
4 Art recs (3 Harry/Snape; 1 Lucius, Harry, Neville, Remus)

All HBP spoilers are noted with the exception of stories featuring characters introduced in HBP as those, quite obviously, have spoilers.

Tomorrow is my kayaking date and I'm leaving to meet the guy at 7:30am. I'm so bad at dating guys that actually have potential. I project a multitude of scenarios where I have no privacy, no space and I'm suffocating, suffocating, suffocating. I do like this guy, though. He's attentive, funny, easy to talk to, and I'm actually looking forward to tomorrow. The alligators on the river are probably a greater risk to my well being than he is.

Oh! And I'd be remiss if I didn't note that Dan Radcliffe turns 16 today. Sixteen. I should probably leave it at that and go on my merry way.

It's ant watch, day 5, and the ants got a reprieve because the exterminator never showed up. But what the ants don't realize is that they have persistence, instinct, and numbers but I have ingenuity. And that wins. The issue is that the ants swarm Sally's food and I'm really not interested in trying to change her eating schedule because of some damn bugs. So I rigged a makeshift moat that keeps the ants away from her kitten chow. Ants - 2, Saturn - 1. I'm evening the score. And, once What Bug shows up, the game is mine.

There are a number of things I don't like about Florida and this is one of them. It makes my head hurt.

Among the things I do like, however, is my date from Tuesday. It's too soon to know anything other than I want to see him again but he left me a sweet voice mail before he went off to Greece and we have plans to get together again when we're both back from Europe. So that's something. And I like this part. The part where you're getting to know each other and are mutually interested and the butterflies start. Though I also like the part where you look at someone in the morning and know them. But first things first. :)

I come with a fic rec: Benediction by Reddwarfer. Harry/Snape. NC-17. Felching warning for anyone squicked by that. But the story is good. It's short and smutty and a Harry/Snape dynamic that I love.

Also. I need a Nick/Gil icon.