Hi. So a friend of witling's, Juanita, is trying to win a grant to continue her work with orphans and abuse survivors at a convent in Mexico. She needs lots of votes to get to the next round, so if you vote, witling -- fantastic author of one of my top three favorite fics of all time -- will write you a drabble.

So:

1. Vote here. (Click over to the rate/share button on the upper right. Registration is required, but they don't spam you.)

2. Ask for drabble here.

END PSA.

I'm trying something a little different: instead of a mix for one fandom with songs by different artists, here's one artist for a bunch of different fandoms. All these songs are by the lyrically awesome The Mountain Goats.



( M*A*S*H, Farscape, Harry Potter, Buffy, The Office, Skins. )

Download the whole mix as a zip.

Kudos to:
+ cleversimon for finding the Going to Georgia bootleg from the concert I was at last year.
+ un_den_iable for originally pegging Going to Scotland as a Dwight/Angela song.
+ Cover photo via Flickr.

Also it only occurred to me after I'd made this that the entire Tallahassee record is about Saul and Ellen Tigh. Chew on that for a while.

So, Mountain Goats fen, any more ideas? I could play this game forever.

VOTE LORELAI!



Lorelai Gilmore is up against Spike from Buffy in the current round of 2009 Fandom Steel Cage Match March Madness. If you're in fandom, I don't have to tell you that Spike is a crazy formidable opponent (he got more than 1,400 votes in the last round). Lorelai's already beaten Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights and Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell, but she'll need a lot of help to make it through this round. Go vote for Lorelai if you want to see her win!

And why should you want to see her win? I'm glad you asked:

[+]
Shadow dancing!

[+] HILARIOUS CLUMSINESS:

[+] This amazing Lorelai picspam from thatlldopig

[+] A vote for Lorelai is a vote for all people who love coffee everywhere.

[+] GIRLPOWER. There are only four women left in the competition and after this round there could be just one. We all know fandom loves dudes, but as awesome ladies should we not also give props to other awesome ladies? Plus her show passes the Bechdel Test like nobody's business.

[+] Because she can out-pop-culture-reference anyone on tv except maybe John Crichton.

[+] Because she loved Luke. Because she loved Christopher. Because she loved Rory more than anything. Because she loved Emily and Richard in exactly the same sad, difficult, fucked-up way they loved her, and she never stopped trying.

[+] "Mothers and daughters. They speak so fast, but they speak so true." - Turk, Scrubs

[+] Because who doesn't love an underdog/dark horse/surprise upset in Very Important Fandom Contests?

[+] "Oh! Dinner with Rory! "How delightful! Well, spit-spot. Alert the corgis."

[+] Because right now she's losing, and she had a baby at 16 and ran away and raised her alone and built a career and an inn and a life and sent her kid to college and sang karaoke to Luke and she deserves better than to lose to someone who'd use the word effulgent in a poem, and she'd tell you so, in about 18 paragraphs or so.

VOTE LORELAI!

My Yuletide fic!

10 Ways to Prove You're Not Gay
The 40 Year Old Virgin

David/Cal. Hard R. Written for epshlan in Yuletide 2008. Thanks much to annakovsky for co-brainstorming. Also online at the Yuletide archive.

( You know how I know you're gay? )

Dear Yuletide Fairy,

Thank you for writing for me! I like you already. I honestly am not that picky -- I mean it when I say please write whatever you're most excited to write, since I think those stories always turn out best.

( If you'd like some ideas, though: )

One Great City
The Office
Oscar/Andy

Spoilers for episode 5x07, Business Trip. Takes place during that episode. (Oh my god, how long has it been since I posted fic?)

( ... )

Um. Hi.

Say Switchblade
Skins. Cassie/Effy. Spoilers through 2.05 - Chris.

For the Skins Drabblethong '08. Thanks to miss_bennie for encouragement! And constant, dedicated Skins pimping in the first place.

Don't say love. Say switchblade.
- Peter Murphy, epigraph to On the Use of Concrete Language by Diane Lockward

( You come home and everything's different. )

Ficlets!

outer space without the stars
The Office
Andy. Dwight. Post-The Job. 435 words.

( Andy and Dwight repaint Michael's office on Saturday morning. )

**

Very belated birthday fic for honey_wheeler, who requested Almost Famous, Anita, what it's really like to be a stewardess.

your entire future
Almost Famous
Anita. 300 words.

Listen to Tommy with a candle burning and you will see your entire future.

( Madison, St. Paul, Duluth. )

River

Fandom: The Office RPF - Jenna&Angela, John/Rashida, John/Jenna, Mindy/BJ, more pairings if you squint

Notes: This is a work of fiction. Written for cashewdani for Yuletide 2007. I tried to get in as many of your prompts as I could -- I hope you like!

Songs used for section headings: Joni Mitchell, River - sections v, i and 0. Creed Bratton, Spinnin' & Reelin' - section iv. Run DMC, Christmas in Hollis - section iii. Low, Just Like Christmas - section ii.

( A backwards Christmas story. )

Believe it or not: part 10 of warning_labels. My sincere apologies for the delay.

Title: Danger: Pavement Ends
Author: kyrafic
Story Info: The Office, Jim/Pam. Set mostly during Drug Testing and Conflict Resolution. Part 10 of warning_labels, an a/u season two. Read earlier parts here. Hard R. 5,190 words.
Story Notes: Thanks to annakovsky, honey_wheeler and obsession_inc for beta-ing.

( Pam's been watching him all day. )

I haven't posted fic in SO LONG. :( Maybe this will prime the pump?

Fruity and Delicious
The Office
Birthday ficlet for fiorie, who requested Karen and Kelly during A Benihana Christmas. Here's to another year of being super awesome! 589 words.

( You can find all the information here on our more brightly colored flyer. )

I don't normally make non-fic posts here, but let's see how this goes:

1. I could kiss whoever suggested Office RPF for Yuletide right on the mouth. Brilliant! (Also Dinosaur Comics, because that just blew my mind.) As of right now it's the most requested RPF fandom, too! Um, I'm sure most of you know this, but if you want to sign up it's a holiday obscure fandom fic exchange and you have until 9pm Eastern tomorrow (Thursday). I can't believe there are over 1100 participants already!

2. If you read scranton_times, you know that a few more people have recently stepped in to start helping out with the newsletter, and that's been such an unbelievably huge destressor -- I actually feel like I have time to feedback (... and perhaps write?!) fic and stuff. Basically, they are awesome and I am hugely grateful and have no way of showing it beyond this paragraph. And the company-leased Sebrings they all get, natch.

3. I don't think I linked this here: mandysbitch has been doing a series of interviews with fic writers and, uh, I put my head on the chopping block a little while back. Check out the rest of the interviews, because they're all really interesting and insightful.

4. The Office: great show or GREATEST show? Oh, that's rhetorical, clearly it's greatest.

My joy that shakes the house
Friday Night Lights

for honey_wheeler, to cheer her up. I hope my woefully inadequate knowledge of canon doesn't show through. Title from the poem For the Moment by Pierre Reverdy. Post-season 1.

( Hey! Hey Tim Riggins! )

Live Better, Work Union
kyrafic

Story Notes: Jim/Pam, Pam/Roy, ensemble. Season two a/u -- starts after Boys and Girls and eventually diverges from canon in obvious ways. ~11,000 words.

Author's Notes: I wrote almost all of this story a year ago, in the summer hiatus after season two, and then didn't post it because I wasn't sure how to end it. Um, a lot of the ideas seem less fresh now, but oh well. Totally the longest fic I've ever written, fwiw! Thanks to annakovsky for beta-ing, and everyone who was awesome and encouraging.

Summary: You know, this would not happen if we had a union.


( Live Better, Work Union )

Okay, first go read this hilarious and delightful post about George Clooney owning John Krasinski. But $1,000? Really? Their lives are not like my life.

.... which I was discussing and one thing led to another and somehow this happened. I don't even know what to call it, satirical RPF??

( Things I've Bought That I Love, by John Krasinski )

This show is so fantastic I feel like I shouldn't even post this, especially since it's just glorified meta-squee, but, um, too late.

Ordinary People
The Office, Pam, G, spoilers for Beach Games.

Summary: Listen: Ordinary people do extraordinary things all the time.

( my losing streak is done, I said my losing streak is done )

In my continuing quest to give myself weird fandom projects, I've made a del.icio.us account of all my fic, so you can sort by fandom or find all the stories about apocalypses or slash or whatever. Woo?

(For the record, Buffy is still my most prolific fandom ever [and I know I missed bookmarking some random weird pairing challenge fic], but The Office is getting very close. Also I write about spaceships and magic a lot.

And I've written in 25 fandoms! What! Clearly I have a problem. But my sheer-number-of-fandoms race with annakovsky is so on.)

In other news, I love Pam Beesly (and the careful, caring, smart way The Office treats its characters and women and Pam) so much my heart may explode. Explode, I tell you.

And some stories you don't tell
How I Met Your Mother
Ted/Lily. 1100 words. PG. For nothing_hip.


( So close you can almost taste it )

Things To Do In Scranton When You're Dead

The Office. Jim/Karen/Ryan. Rated R, 2,700 words. For nothing_hip week 3: turned a bright spark into a flame. For my evil enablers.

Summary: How a number of very surprising but ultimately enjoyable things happened to Ryan Bailey Howard.

( Ryan's having a weird year. )