So ABC has made the brilliant decision to pick up the new sci fi drama "Defying Gravity" starring The Amazing Christina Cox! (Y'all might know her as Officer Hottie.) :bounces:

( I have a couple of stills and a promo to whet your appetites... )

ABC isn't admitting to a premiere date yet, but I hear industry buzz that it will air on 7/26. Don't miss it!

Pairing/Characters: Billy/Don
Rating: R FRM
Summary: Billy knows what Don needs, even if Don doesn't.
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: S1 X 13 Manhunt
Warnings: Bondage
Note: This fic is a remix of jestana's Anchor, which I wrote for remixthedrabble Round 6.
Disclaimer: Numb3rs is owned by CBS and Scottfree. I'm just having fun, here.

( Anchor: The Heavy Remix )

Pairing/Characters: Don/Charlie
Rating: PG-13 FRT
Summary: Charlie's starving for Don to see him.
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: S4 X 18 When Worlds Collide
Warnings: Incest
Note: This fic is a remix of emmademarais' Nothing Hurts Like Your Mouth, which I wrote for remixthedrabble Round 6.
Disclaimer: Numb3rs is owned by CBS and Scottfree. I'm just having fun, here.

( Nothing Hurts Like Your Mouth: The Hungry Remix )

EEEEEEEeee! You guys, jestana wrote me Officer Hottie fic! I am so excited to have new fic starring my favorite CHP officer.

You can read it here: Opportunist

To all my N3 friends: OMG pleasepleaseplease, come play at remixthedrabble next round!

I had so much fun with this, I can't even explain adequately. All I can do is bounce up and down and grin widely, squealing.

:pantpantpant: Okay, let me try. The joy of remixing is like the joy of fanfic, except you get to play with other fans' toys, instead of TPTB. It's one part "OMG that fic is so awesome, I would never have thought of that!" and another part "What if I..." and one part Christmas morning, when the presents are opened: "EEE look what I got!" and "Yay! I'm SO glad you like it!"

The more authors a fandom has, the more fun the rounds are. There are a handfull of us over there now, but I would really love to have more of you!

Okay, you guys.

There is this really cool event going on, which I am both totally excited to attend, and yanno, kind of petrified of.

It's a dance class for disabled & non-disabled people, followed by a social dance with a DJ.

The class is taught by the unbelievably amazing Axis Dance Company.



I have bought a ticket, and enlisted emmademarais and penguingal to keep me from backing out unless I am dying. EEE! /Flails/

It's weird to be so excited and equally freaked out by something. EEE! /Flails/

Happy Belated Birthday, penguingal!

Have some cake, Mistress...


...and some presents, too!

I hope you had a totally awesome day.
♥

Variety says CBS has announced that The Unit is cancelled.

*sniff* Where will I get my freckle fix now? Will N3 bring Billy back? Please?

I have the last three episodes saved up to watch, because I was afraid this would happen.

ETA: It's getting better, albeit slo-o-owly. I suppose it's good for my creaky old brain to be relearning some things...

My Dreamwidth page is ugly. All the content is smished against the right side of the screen.

/facepalm./

I haven't done any meaningful CSS since 2002, and I have apparently forgotten everything important I ever knew about it.

Has anyone else's layout wound up smished to the right?

/Goes to dig out dusty, moldering CSS sites/

/sigh./

Oh My. I...well.

Turns out I won some things at numb3rs_awards!

Thank you to the person who nominated Division of Labor and Crackers in Bed, a collaboration with my slashwife emmademarais.

Thank you to everyone who voted for them. I am proud of both stories, and gratified to have them noticed.

I am also ridiculously grateful to Emma herself, for the hundreds of little and big things she does to support me and my writing.

Thank you so much, Emma. /Smooches./ Maybe I *could* have written without you, but I seriously doubt that I *would* have.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! Here's to lots more fic in year 5!

I've been a fan of the novel Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind for *years* (Some of the sequels are good, some not-so-good. I love the world he's created, but I could do without the Ayn Rand-style preaching.) I put off watching the adaptation for television, Legend of the Seeker, gun shy because of travesties like "A Wizard of Earthsea."

But with other Goodkind fans on my flist watching and commenting, /Waves to magisterequitum/ I couldn't hold out too long.

( I just finished watching Denna. )

What do you think of it? Please keep in mind: I don't want spoilers for anything past ep 8 "Denna" of the tv show. Novel spoilers are fine.

I got new batteries for my power chair today! (This is important because now I can, say, take the bus to the library without running out of steam before I get back.)

(loosely related thought)I'm having a very un-writerly brain of late, despite *wanting* to write. :sigh.: I think I need to get out more. (/loosely related thought)(See above re: batteries.)

I mentioned to the wheelchair technician (who sang along badly but happily when Bohemian Rhapsody came on his radio, much to my amusement) that I could use a new chair one of these days... and he said to me "You need a new chair, huh? Well actually I've got one out in the delivery truck that's headed for the dump--guy got a new one and told me to get rid of it."

So...I'm going over there one day soon to check out this *free* chair. How cool is that?

Whitbread award-winning Irish author Christopher Nolan has died. He was only 43.

The dairy was the location of those far-flung human endeavours. It was still there, but now its whitewashed walls grew seas of black mildew. The big brown crocks which had once held cream no longer held butter's promise; now they were laden down with the year's rusted junk. Voices, the young voices which once complained of tired turning of the handle, were silent now, flown to the four winds. Panicking behind the dairy door the churn, the focal point of those distant Fridays, crouched yonder in its place. The hoops which held its varnished staves were still there, holding it intact. The plughole piece of wood, the spigot, starved of moisture and now dry as a cork, slept senile-stressed sleep underneath the dairy table. The two handles which used to loiter waiting their part in the lifting of the churn hung down in idleness, no need now their hinting strength. Yes, the barrel still stood, but only just. Weary from the years' tomboy-thinking, it yet managed to hold its body together so that the round lid would have something to sit upon. Only the lid played God; there it sat upon its frame, a cobweb hiding its porthole window. Still waiting for the pressure of his thumb, its silver escape-valve damned well watched the door to see if the child might return to train his finger once again upon its button and allow it to whistle.

~from Chapter 1 of The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan

The world is poorer without you, sir.

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

( Books )

( Numb3rs )

( Max Martini )

( California )

( Writing )

Title: Movie Night
Author: melissima
Pairing: Gen, with slight Hodgins/Angela
Rating: G
Spoilers: Early season 2, nothing specific
Summary: "You can't be serious, Bones. You never saw The Bad News Bears?"

( I find it distasteful that we as a society enslave intelligent wild animals and force them to entertain us. )

You know the best thing about Valentine's Day being over? Cheap chocolate! I am so going out to raid the sale racks in a bit. :)

Never mind the nuts and creams, though. I've got the good stuff: fic and vids!

Fic:

In Time of Need: Company by emmademarais

Love Tokens by quirky_circe

More Than I'd Hoped For by penguingal

Vids:

Should've Said No by mia_dcwut_09

All or Nothing by mia_dcwut_09

My heartiest thanks to everyone who sent (or is still going to send) goodies for the challenge. I'll continue to add to the list as links come in.

Enjoy!

It's February again my lovelies!

Roses, chocolates, declarations of love - great if you’ve got them, sucks if you don’t. If you’re in the mood to write all that fluffy pink and white stuff, head on over to n3_challenge because they’re drooling for it. /Smishes admiralandrea/

Me? I want an antidote. So here’s your assignment: Write me a break up story and I’ll cheer. Write me angry sex and I’ll growl with delight. Write me dirty, kinky pwp and I’ll...Well, I’ll be in my bunk.

I don’t care how long or short, I don’t care which fandoms or pairings. (It helps *me* if I know who they are, but hell, knock yourself out. I can use Google and Youtube.)

Post your antidote fic to your own journal, and link it here in the comments. I’ll post a roundup on the 14th, so we can all escape the sugar coma.

ETA: A migraine laid me out for most of yesterday, and I really want all this good stuff to be seen! So I'll be posting the roundup on Monday, 2/16. If you have a late submission, go for it!

Title: Setback
Author: melissima
Pairing/Characters: Megan Reeves, Billy Cooper
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Summary: It's just a visit from a friend of a friend...until it's not.
Spoilers: Manhunt, The Janus List, When Worlds Collide
Prompt/Challenge: numb3rs100 Prompt #53 Support
Notes/Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Numb3rs belongs to Scottfree, CBS and Heauton/Falacci. Just a fan havin' fun, here.

( Billy Cooper showed up in her new office late on a Friday, asking about one of her past clients at the women's detention center. )

Happy, Happy Birthday to my ECSW!

♥

Have some cake my dear! /Hugs/

Title: All About the Chemistry
Author: melissima
Pairing: Hodgins/Angela
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: 02X09 Aliens in a Spaceship
Summary: Angela won't let Jack buy her perfume....

( Ange, I'm a chemist. Trust me, there are no significant differences between the skin excretions of healthy humans. )