[life] party and shopping

Wow it's been a long time since I drank anything more than a glass of wine or a couple beers. You would have semi-drunk posting, except I spent too long talking to J. and R. at their work (hanging out at the security monitoring place in the wee hours of the morning, do I know how to party or what?) and now I am completely sober as opposed to mostly sober.

Also, twenty-one-year-old boys apparently find me intimidating. Damn straight.

Today was fun (mostly shopping and lunch and Supernatural with my sister, K., the party was just so-so), but I am really looking forward to WisCon, and getting to be with the people with whom I'm comfortable (at least most of the time).

Okay, bedtime now.

[fic XMM] Count (the Burn) Down (The Stop, Drop and Roll Remix)

I was thrilled when I received my Remix assignment, in part because there were so many fantastic stories I could rewrite, and in part because Ion Bond wrote that fantastic Remix for me last year, and I was absolutely giddy with the chance to do a story in return.

There are actually two versions of the original story, "Countdown", one in reverse (like the Remix) and one in chronological order. I like them both a lot, but one of the things I liked most about the reverse version is that the story starts with Pyro and peels away layers of him until he's just John again. As I've said many times before, one of the reasons I like Pyro in the movieverse so much is because of his identity issues, and the way he wants to be one thing and doesn't want to be another and, in reality, he's both and even more.

Title: Count (the Burn) Down (The Stop, Drop, and Roll Remix)
Author: Carla (escritoireazul)
Summary: Pyro’s been waiting his whole life.
Rating: 17+ for language
Fandom: X-Men Movieverse
Warnings: language, het, slash
Spoilers: Through X2
Title, Author and URL of original story: Countdown by Ion Bond, written for remix_redux

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