GALENTINE'S DAY

(First, go nominate things for rarewomen.livejournal.com. I promise you'll have fun!)

Second:

GALENTINE'S DAY IS NIGH UPON US
How it works:

-- Just comment to this post! I can't make you mosaic portraits from diet soda bottles, but I can make you meta, recs, ficlets or graphics, and I can certainly tell you why you're awesome.
-- If you want, include a question/request for a bit of meta or recs of a certain kind, or some prompts(could just be fandoms/actors), and I may write you a twitfic or a drabble or a comment fic of unpredictable length, or make you a mini-picspam or possibly a very wee vidlet, or do something totally random, if inspiration strikes. (Answers may or may not all happen by February 14 itself but they will happen!)
-- For reference, fandoms are the usual suspects: Parks & Recreation, Fringe, The Good Wife, Bomb Girls, Lost Girl, Party Down, Up All Night, United States of Tara, The Hunger Games, various movies, various RPF
-- You don't have to be on my flist (nor do you have to be a gal) to come to the party. If you can see this, you are invited!
-- Happy (early) Galentine's Day!

I'm super overwhelmed right now

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