Bones!

( The Boy in the Shroud )

I would say Bones is my favorite show this season, except Supernatural hasn't started yet, so there's no way to compare them. I like it a lot, though, and am filled with glee.

Again I'm talking about a_kindara's Massive Flist Fic Exchange o' Doom. You should go write up your requests and then see if there are any you'd like to write.

Below the cut, the ones I'd love to read (and may end up having to write for myself).

( Stories I'd Like To See )

Happy Easter, have some girl porn.

From the ficlets for all meme (still open to requests) in which lytabenten requested dominant Mia from The Fast and the Furious. I meant to do a couple hundred words, but it went a little over.

title: afternoon siesta (minus the sleep)
author: Carla
disclaimer: Characters belong to Rob Cohen and all the rest
distribution: Escritoire Azul
dedication: For lytabenten, because the Letty and Mia love makes me happy.
pairing: Letty/Mia
rating: 18+
word count: 850+

summary: When they're alone, things change.

( afternoon siesta (minus the sleep) )

Of course, the story I actually tried to finish this weekend hasn't happened yet. I'm feeling a little bit better, though, so maybe I'll be able to do it now.

aphrodite_mine is looking for interest in a femslash fic exchange based on music (and possibly multi-fandom).

I've already finished disc one of BSG season one. Woe! I love it so much, but I will be done with the two discs I have too soon and then the third isn't coming until Monday. I really need to slow down on this. Plus I think we're going to game tonight, so I need to drag myself away--except. BSG. And Dog Soldiers is on Sci Fi tonight. I love that movie. And, um, well, the girl and the boy are both online right now, so I'm not inclined to want to leave the general vicinity of my computer. Soon though, I will.

Also, did you know the femslash06 is due Monday, not Tuesday, despite the fact they said Tuesday in the past couple of emails. Interesting mistake, that. Eh, Monday, Tuesday, whatever, but I can understand why other authors are maybe a little upset about it.

I continue to love Starbuck.

I'm watching season five right now, and I definitely see the Buffy and Tara. I've never watched the whole season all the way through in order, and I'm sorry for it. Buffy turning to Tara for comfort is a fantastic, fantastic scene.

Anyone have any good Buffy/Tara recs?

(I am still shocked I don't hate Buffy as much this time around. Dare I say, once in awhile in rewatching all these seasons, I've actually liked her, and even rooted for her.)

Here's where I've continued this discussion: labels and sex and gen versus shipper part two.


( round one, 1:47 p.m. February 20 )

( round two 3:10 p.m., February 20 )

There is a very interesting discussion on fluid sexuality in fandom going on in missambs' journal. The part I found most interesting is about how though straight characters are often put into slash pairings, canon gay characters aren't often put into het pairings, which is very interesting, and though I've had that thought before (mostly while comparing the Oz/Tara/Giles and Dawn/Willow stories while writing them), I hadn't seen it discussed before. (Not that it hasn't, I think hermionesviolin even mentions in the comments there she sees that discussion a lot, I'm just very out of the loop usually.)

velvetandlace has interesting thoughts and questions about literary trends in young adult fiction and how they are blurring the lines between young adult and adult. I find this topic endlessly interesting.

I also have thoughts on fluid sexuality in young adult fiction, which I will try to put together soon.

Now I have to go lay down. My neck aches and the lack of sleep is making me ill, I can feel it. I don't even have a relaxing weekend to catch up on my rest (though I'm looking forward to it).

( to do this weekend )

femslash06 is taking sign-ups for this year's ficathon and I'm really impressed with some of the wild card fandoms people have requested and say they can write. Lovely fandoms I really enjoy, most of them.

There's been talk about how House and Sports Night are making a really good showing in the wild card requests, when both of the fandoms have a major bent toward male slash (which even I know, at least in regard to House--I don't watch either show, nor have much experience with the fandoms), and it reminded me of my own pet fandom which is dominantly male slash oriented but where I want to see femslash. This is The Fast and the Furious, and I have requested it in my sign-up for femslash06, but if any of you would like to write me some, maybe for my upcoming birthday, I would adore you for all time.

I'm not very involved in FatF fandom (or in any fandom, at this point, I just kind of hover along the edges of many fandoms), but from what I've seen, the majority of the fic (and icons and vids, but I'm a ficcer, so I talk about fic) is male slash, and most of it is either Dominic/Brian from the first movie or Brian/Rome from the second (or variations of those three characters, usually Brian using Rome as a substitute for Dominic). I can see why, both movies are male slash friendly, and there are so many more guys than girls anyway.

(From here on out, I'm going to mostly ignore the second movie, because I've only seen it once, and don't own it, so I can't refer to the source material.)

However, the first movie does have two interesting female characters, Letty and Mia, and they are often ignored and/or abused. Even in the few het stories I've seen, both women are often cast aside in favor of an original female character (usually a Mary Sue).

I just don't understand it, especially with all the stories pairing Dom/Brian. I understand why they're put together (on different levels, from the "oooh, hot guys making out" [even though I don't actually find Brian hot] to the way they interact, which is very slash friendly, etc. etc.). What I don't understand is why there aren't more stories about Letty and Mia, either with other women or together.

Especially together.

Letty is a dominant, angry woman who, in my opinion, wants to be the center of Dominic's universe (or the center of anyone's universe, and Dom is the one she has) but she knows she will never be that to him, because he is the head of the family, he brings everyone together. As Mia says, he's like gravity, and he is the center of all their worlds, so no one person can be the center of his. Letty can drive away outside competition (see the catty comments and the verbal attacks on any woman who dares to speak to him when they are all in public, away from the garage and the house), but she can't do that with the family, and doesn't often try. The most she can do is distract him for awhile (see Letty immediately whisk Dom away from the after-race party to have time alone with him, despite their guests), but he always returns to his duties to everyone else.

This is only exacerbated by Brian's presence. He's the new guy, the bone of contention in the balance of the old group dynamics, the upgraded part which doesn't quite fit into the rest of the car. Brian takes Dom away from Letty; this does not have to be in a male slashy way, either, canonically he's taking up Dom's time in the garage and preparing for Race Wars, and there isn't a thing Letty can do about it.

Within the source material there are suggestions that Brian ties Mia and Dom together in his mind, not sexually, but that he's afraid to go after Dom as the criminal because Mia is related to him, and Brian cares for Mia. It's not difficult to extrapolate that perhaps Mia is a replacement for Dom in Brian's head, the Toretto he can lust after without dealing with the fallout of a homosexual desire. (Many male slash stories do extrapolate just that, in fact.)

I can see Letty doing the same thing to Mia; Dom is distracted by the others, Dom is busy, and Mia is there, always in the background. She is the safer of the Toretto siblings; while Dom is very dominant and argues his position (though he does often give in to Letty), Mia reveals her strong personality only in bursts. She is more subtle in the way she manages the others, and is the least entrenched in the racing mentality. She studies, and, it can be assumed, wants more than just the garage and the street racing life.

Mia also wants to be the center of someone's world, to come first before her brother, who brings everyone together.

So here are two women, both looking for validation and wanting to be wanted. One defies stereotypical female roles (Letty races, works in the garage, embraces her sexuality, is treated as "one of the guys" to the point she plays games and watches movies with them after dinner instead of doing dishes, which is Mia's job because she is female); one feels trapped within both female roles and familial roles (Mia wants to live somewhere where she doesn't have to cook and clean because she's the female, she wants to escape her brother's influence, she has greater dreams than street racing and theft). These two women watch their male sexual interests spend more time interacting with each other (sexual or not) than with them.

Why are they not paired? Mia wants out of her "place" as a woman and as a sister, which Letty has done; Letty wants to be important to someone, and Mia is looking for someone to love. Letty wants Dom, but if she can't have him constantly, why wouldn't she turn to Mia? Mia is an extension of Dominic, which she hates, but is used to people treating her as such.

Plus, if you're just looking for the hot, have you seen them? Yes. Yum.

I want to see stories where Dom's off with Brian (sexually or not), so Letty goes to Mia. Stories where Mia crushes on Letty for being so different from the female definition Mia is thrust into by her family (especially stories set before Dom notices Letty, and even stories where Mia is the experiment for Letty, thrust aside for Dom when he comes calling, and this makes Mia's need to be the important one, over and above Dom, even stronger). Stories where Mia and Letty are together after the movie, healing physically and mentally, which leads to sex. Stories where Letty overwhelms Mia, seduces her because she can. Stories where they sneak together at night, steal minutes wherever they can.

There is so much potential for them, why is it never touched?

So I hope someone writes me Mia/Letty. I'm working on at least one Mia/Letty story, and now I have more ideas. And if anyone has any links, I'd appreciate them.

Title: she has the best secret
Author: Carla (escritoireazul)
Fandom: Mean Girls
Recipient: fox1013
Written for: New Year Resolutions 2005
Author's Note: Thanks to thestalkycop for the beta work, as always.
Summary: Cady knows a secret.


she has the best secret

Or here in the journal itself:

( She has the best secret. )

What have I been doing? Working a lot, preparing for my holiday with thestalkycop, and watching Victoria Pratt hit things. I purchased Cleopatra 2525 and have almost finished the series (Victoria Pratt and Gina Tores!) and keep catching Mutant X on television. Pratt's characters certainly do hit things a lot. A whole lot. She looks so good doing it I of course won't complain.

Cleopatra 2525 is cheesy, silly, at times poorly written, did not have a big enough special effects budget--but I adore it. The more I watch, the more I love, and I am both so sad I'm almost done and already looking forward to rewatching it. The dialogue is often poorly written, but the characters are amazing, and I think the overall plot had a lot of potential. I wish they could have taken it farther.

I must find fiction about this show. Cleo, Hal, and Sarge were certainly having threesomes, and I really think Hal was more than a little in love with Cleo (and Sarge with both of them). I've not seen much so far, but how can there not be slash about this show? Three powerful women spending all their time together, often comforting each other physically, and the main male characters are either bad guys or their robotic helper who has no sex drive.

Come on, where is the slash?!

I think I might have to write some, myself.

Mutant X is also cheesy, silly, often poorly written, and the poor man's X-Men, but unlike Cleopatra 2525, the overall plot isn't nearly as interesting, nor are the characters well developed. I'm rather fond of Shalimar, but much of the feeling is because she's Victoria Pratt's character, and I am a big fan of the energy she brings to her characters, the quirky smiles, the physical strength, and the sexuality.

Also, she is beautiful, which I enjoy.

What have I not been doing? Writing fanfiction. I should, I have so many story ideas and the Butterfly Effect ficathon is due next month, but I haven't been. I've been working on original writing, both fiction and non-fiction, but I miss fandom writing, too, especially the stories I'm writing with shisaiyan.

I did get part of the next chapter of "Queertet Revisited" written and sent to thestalkycop. We have quite a bit of the next ten chapters or so written, we just need to add in specific scenes we skipped, but it's slow going these days, we're both so busy. However, two weeks from yesterday we'll be on holiday together for two weeks and will maybe do some work. I'm taking my laptop, anyway.

When I bought Cleopatra 2525, I also picked up Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (very cute, better than Stitch The Movie but not as good as Lilo & Stitch) and The Pacifier, which is still silly and Disney, but Vin Diesel remains the most sensual man on earth. Shower scene, shower scene, oooh la la.