I have such lovely feedback! I will respond to it all soon, but I wanted to get a bunch of thoughts out right now while they're still fresh.

There was a series finale on tonight and such, and I figured I'd spill a bunch of thoughts.

( spoilers and reflections on a time long past (or a few years ago, whatever) )

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Title: and admit that the waters around you have grown
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Pairing: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr
Rating: PG-13
Word count: ~10,000
Summary: "I would never turn away another mutant in need," Charles says. He reads Erik's mind blatantly and without shame these days. Erik supposes he deserves it. "And you, my friend, are needier than most."
Notes: Everyone needs to write an 'Erik ends up back at the mansion' fic at some point, right? This one is mine. Many thanks to merisunshine36 for the beta.

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I have been writing! Writing has been good! Except for when I have been bad at it. Ha.

I am also thinking about watching the House finale for old time's sake, even though I've only been half-paying attention so far. I have so thoroughly lost my feelings for this show that I don't even look at my old fic anymore. I love endings, though, and I'm curious to see how they close it out.

Anyway, I have this mint plant that decided to grow super quickly with all the rain we've been getting and such. Does anyone have recipes for delicious things that need fresh mint?

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'Sup. I know I haven't been around for a while, but I am sort of back.

This is what has happened to me lately:

1. My mom informed me that I might need to be a bridesmaid to my cousin's wedding, which happening in June. I did not know it was happening in June until three days ago. WHAT IS THAT EVEN.

2. I have played a whole lot of Mass Effect, but now I am not playing it any longer. Maybe I will go back for more. I'm not sure.

3. I have been reading way too much XMFC fic. There are not enough old people feelings for me, which makes me grumpy. I want the sadness and tragedy and the fact that they can't quite find enough common ground to stand on to stay together, but they love each other sooooooo much. Also, no powers AUs make me cry. A lot. I've gotten to the point where I'm okay-ish with modern day AUs, especially if they do good worldbuilding with the mutant rights/social justice stuff.

4. Not writing anything, which is making me cranky. Unfortunately, that's because I have no inspiration and no fandom. SADFACE.

5. Oh, I went to go see Death of a Salesman with merisunshine36 and ninhursag! We hung out with azephirin, too, and we had a blast bumming around NYC. Also, Andrew Garfield has a bald spot. I can't wait until he starts Shatnering.

EDIT: It has been so long I forgot a few things!
6. Donated to the OTW. If only to keep the AO3 servers going. I know that there are a lot of issues technical or otherwise with out the OTW is run, but I love AO3, and I am happy that is becoming well-used and well-loved.

7. Purchased the Humble Botanicula Debut! I love all of Amanita Design's games, and now you can pay what you want for all three of them and also give to charity at the same time. Plus, soundtracks! All of their soundtracks are atmospheric and lovely.

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I've been a way for a while, mostly because I'm super addicted to Mass Effect 3. Sorry. In fact, I wrote this other fic about it.

Life Among the Ruins (2509 words) by thedeadparrot
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mass Effect
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kaidan Alenko/Male Shepard
Summary: ME3 Ending Spoilers! Based on this prompt on the kinkmeme asking for a different sort of happy ending.Sometimes, it's just as difficult when you win as when you lose.

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Oh god, I feel like keeling over or something.

Title: Sheppard's Eleven
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: McKay/Sheppard, Ensemble
Rating: R
Word count: ~23k
Summary: AU. The Atlantis casino in Las Vegas has just acquired the famous Zeilinger Phosphorus Mold. John Sheppard is going to steal it. With a little help from his friends, of course.
Notes: Finished this for raphe1 as part of help_japan. I am so, so sorry that this is so late. More notes at the end.

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animabaya made a lovely podfic of Equivalent Exchange! Go check it out!


I am also working through my Mass Effect feelings, so here, have a fic:
An End, Once and for All (1094 words) by thedeadparrot
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mass Effect
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Female Shepard, David Anderson
Summary: Major Mass Effect 3 ending spoilers! Shepard deals with her decision. Not a fix-it fic.

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I got through Mass Effect 3! I have so many good feelings about this game and its blatant emotional manipulation. It felt like the last season of a good TV show, trekking on through a bunch of old dangling plot threads and getting some resolution to them, getting to revisit old friends and old enemies.

The apocalyptic wartime ambiance of the game is pretty amazing, I think. It hangs over everything you do, every choice you make, every place you visit. I love the little moments where you can carve out little pockets of happiness amongst all the darkness. It's kind of weird to admit this, but I don't think I particularly cared deeply about the story of this series until this game. You run around doing all this stuff, and it's supposed to feel urgent and personal and connected to you and your character, but it doesn't, not entirely. I am usually pretty good at doing pure paragon and pure renegade playthroughs because I don't care enough about the choices to make a huge decision. On the other hand, this one punched me in all my feelings everywhere. I'm not sure I could do a renegade playthrough. It would be too emotionally painful.

Anyway, I'm guessing you're here to talk about the ending (if you've gotten there).

( HOO BOY GIGANTIC ASS SPOILERS )

I have more feelings if you want to talk about them! ALL THE FEELINGS.

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Mass Effect 3 demo is awesome, mostly due to multiplayer, which I am still bad at. The single player stuff is interesting, but the demo is mostly focused on multiplayer, which makes sense.

Anyone else playing on Xbox want to team up and kick some ass? :D :D :D?

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Dear Jesse Eisenberg,

Look, dude, I get it. This whole 'Linsanity' thing is getting a little overblown. You wanted to let off some steam, You wanted to write something that mocked the meteroic rise of this one dude. So you wrote a little essay as an exercise in exageration about how it's kind of absurd that Jeremy Lin is now being showered with ridiculous amounts of praise and attention and is co-opted by the world at large. And after only one week! I get it, especially for a Knicks fan such as yourself.

But you're also a white dude. I would kindly ask you to STFU with your hipster douchebaggery regarding Asian American athletes, becuase hey, racism that says that Asians are so smart they can't do sports. The fact that we finally, finally have an athlete that people know and love and respect outside of the Asian American community is actually kind of a big deal, considering how invisible we can feel the rest of the time.

Stop talking about shit you don't understand, dickweed.

No love,
me

P.S. And I was all set to forgive you for Asuncion, too. AHAHAHAHA. How naive was I being, huh?

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