the lonesome lows don't quite go away overnight

I'm currently hyped up on early-Valentine's candy and I know I won't be able to sleep until I get this posted, at least in some sort of rudimentary form. If you're happening by this post and don't already know, rarewomen is a yuletide -esque exchange based on the hard-to-find women in large fandoms and all women in small fandoms. Sign ups are happening now until Feb 8, so get on that! Here's a list of the eligible women and here's what's being offered so far.

As for you, potential future author, I obviously have a seriously unhealthy obsession with Rashida Jones. However, if you don't, I've included most of the other nominated women in each fandom... so don't feel pressured to write me Karen or Ann or Cindy. I would genuinely ADORE any fic about any of these women. And for all of these I would certainly love femslash, but don't feel limited by that. Anything about these women I will love. (And on the off chance that you're familiar with more than one fandom, a crossover would not only be awesome but would genuinely delight me. And I reserve my delight for special occasions.)

Here's the relevant bits of my sign up...

Large Fandom: The Office
Women: Karen Filippelli, Katy
Optional Details: I love how both of these women, in their times, play a kind of second fiddle to Pam. I'd love to see how they negotiate their relationships with Jim, with Pam, with the other oddballs at the office. I'd love to see them interact, maybe post-series, or maybe in Utica. How do they grow and change from their time in the documentary? Who do they become? This should be obvious, but no Karen bashing in favor of Jim/Pam, please. If you're interested in ships, I'm interested in either of them with any woman in the office, and have a soft spot for Toby (and Michael, sometimes). Other than the Karen episodes, I quit watching around season five, but don't be afraid to reference current episodes if you want!

Fandom 2 (large or small): Our Idiot Brother
Women: Natalie Rochlin, Cindy, Liz Rochlin
Optional Details: I love how this movie pretends to be about Ned but is really about all of these fabulous and flawed women. I'd love something about Natalie/Cindy and how they navigate things during and after the movie. Um, ANYTHING about Cindy. Where did she get her awesome fashion sense and glasses? What drew Natalie to stand-up comedy? I ship Liz with Ned, but obviously that's isn't going to float everyone's boat, so anything about her in general. How'd she end up with her husband -- was there a time when they were happy? I love little scenes from daily life. I left off Miranda, but if you've seen the movie and/or we match on this you're more than welcome to write about her in a group gen or solo aspect.

Fandom 3 (large or small, totally optional): Parks & Recreation
Women: Ann Perkins, Leslie Knope, Lindsay Carlisle Shay, Lucy
Optional Details: I'd strongly prefer a Bechdel pass for this fandom, whether it be between two or more of these women, or another woman on the show. I love the absurd and detailed world-building in Pawnee, and I love the positivity of the show (however I'm sooo not averse to angst!) I ship any combination of these ladies, but if femslash isn't your thing that's totally okay! I'd love a story about Ann standing up for herself, about Leslie trying to reach out to her gay constituents, about Leslie and Lindsay when they worked together, and anything about Lucy (I'm not a heavy Lucy/Tom shipper, but sort of interested in Lucy/Ron if that floats your boat.) As for men to ship these ladies with... I'd definitely like the focus to be on the lady, but having a guy on the side and thoughts about feelings isn't bad! I like Ben and Ron best, and The Douche makes me laugh until my stomach hurts.

Here's a link to my dear Yuletide letter with more details about Our Idiot Brother and my general taste in fanfics.

Today: make it through practice without gut busting open, seriously, wtf is happening in my intestines right now? Also, don't kill anyone who is on the list of Dammit You Are Really Not Helping This League and I Begged My Parents For Money Today So Quiet You.
Tomorrow: get through work, do some writing, maybe, and GOD DAMNIT, relax and enjoy some pizza and Parks with your lesbians. (Skins?) Oh and take a few minutes to update the site because you said you would!
Wednesday: work, therapy ugh fuck, femslash_today update, rarewomen sign ups going live hopefully? CROSSING MY FINGERS, don't drink don't drink don't drink.
Thursday: work late! write! uh... write more! Parks! review! sleep!
Friday: work, admin stuff, Fringe, MEAT TRAY?!, sleep sleep sleep get some sleep please oh god. (Bomb Girls?) hope really hard that because the weekend looks mostly stress free you won't have an Anxiety Episode and ruin the time off.
Saturday: web meeting part deux - the "I had a panic attack and canceled the last one" edition, catch up on watching the things (The Good Wife!)
Sunday: relax. more sleep.

And at some point in the week:
- start re-reading Alias
- finish the wedding scene/get to 4500 words
- narrow down rarewomen sign up... I know I'm requesting Parks, but my other two slots are up for debate

Leslie Knope-inspired breakfast for dinner. Two waffles with syrup and whipped cream, an egg & cheese muffin because Ann says something about how sugar will kill her and protein is important. Wash it down with a creamsicle-flavor milk shake (bonus whipped cream).
ETA: Also wine. Because wine is a fruit no matter what Ann says. And she's drinking too so it's okay.

In the process of (mostly) moving to Dreamwidth, I've accrued a lot of really cool friends/followers/whatever you call it on this site and I realize that I talk, frequently, about things that I assume everyone knows about but are possibly really insular. So...

The Primer of aphrodite_mine 

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I'm really scared to say something like "2012 is going awesome!!!!!!" but dude. It's true. My problems haven't gone away, but I seem to be functioning better and god, today I was seriously SO HAPPY without approaching any sort of mania. Chalk it up to derby kicking off again, or maybe I just needed time with my wives (lifting weight: currently at 125 legs, 45 arms), or maybe it was requesting Selena Gomez at the skating rink and not giving a damn who saw me enjoy the fuck out of it ("Do you see how happy she looks?" - wife MeYa). I don't know, but suddenly it doesn't seem to matter that I couldn't find pants in my size this morning, or that another work week starts on Monday.

Oh, and it didn't hurt to come home to a full fandom_stocking with goodies like icons and greetings and fics, and YOU GUYS CAN I JUST TELL YOU ABOUT THESE FICS?!

There's Shoes by rise_your_dead (Bridesmaids, Rita/Becca) which is a little slice-of-life piece contemplating the things that change and the things that don't. There's Baby Shampoo by st_aurafina (The Inside/Twin Peaks (The Magician Longs to See-verse, Rebecca Locke, Audrey Horne) in which they are roommates(!) and Rebecca is full of angst and Audrey is a fixer. There's Built to Last by gloss (Our Idiot Brother, Liz/Ned) which... honestly, I'm flabbergasted actually got written and on top of that is fabulous and Cindy wears a monocle and there is hippie cuddling!

In short, dear world: <3

Back to derby tonight and I'm super excited (with a pinch of natural nervousness). I'm not sure if we're even going to be skating tonight, as we're going over a lot of strategy and playing "sock derby" which is just like it sounds. I've been a bit adrift lately, not really feeling the deadline pressure on anything though there are some things on the horizon.

I suppose the biggest news is that I'm going to have a roommate. vilomsious is making the long journey to the Midwest and staying with me for a few months. *cheers silently at desk* I've been working on two fics for rarewomen (one Astrid-centric that's 1/5 done, the other Rebecca Locke-centric) and one for recast_bigbang which I'm sort of ridiculously excited about. I have literally 3k of notes written up on it. Other than that, I've been doing some writing for kink_bingo to fill my Parks & Rec itch.

Honestly, and you probably guessed as much, I'm bored at work, antsy about derby, and don't have anything real to report.

Is anyone willing to beta some kink_bingo  fic? Working knowledge of Parks & Rec (current season) necessary. PM or email if you'd rather not comment.

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Otherwise, I finished The Hunger Games trilogy and am so worn out that I can't even write fix-it fic (which is usually my go-to therapy) at this point. Sometime in the future, there will be Johanna/Annie something, JUST BECAUSE I CAN.

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Anyone watching Bomb Girls? I'm super excited to ~obtain~ it when I get home.

 Resolutions:

• Write more (longer)
• Drink more (or find something else that makes it all easy)
• Derby like your life depends on it (it kind of does)

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It's always really lovely when the people who know you, know you well enough to get you things you didn't even know you wanted. That said, there are always those who simply... don't. (Not that I'm not grateful for the bonus check, or the snack food or cookies -- they made nice regifting material!) I was surprised by a few gifts this season -- Julie gave me a fabulously functional onesie PJ, Betsy sent me a No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July which I've been aching to read in print for ages (I have the audio book). My stepbrother and his wife somehow managed to remember that I was reading a book by Maggie O'Farrell over Thanksgiving, and threw in a "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" magnet, which is kind of exceptional coming from two people who generally don't seem to "get" feminism.

-- Per tradition, if you can guess what story I wrote in a given anonymous fic exchange before the reveal, you get a fic yourself! (Note: this year, I participated in yuletide x2, fandom_stocking, and 3_ships x2, the later two of which are not live let alone revealed. I wrote three fandoms for the first time, one crossover, a fine smattering of het for once, one of my oldest fandoms, and two of my newest. If you betaed for me or I told you what I wrote, you are ineligible!)

-- Do you have a birthday coming up? Leave the date and a prompt and I'll try to write you something.

-- I'm also taking requests for mini-drabbles (50-100 words)