Shut Up, and Let Me See Your Jazz Hands

Or at least in "tearing out hair". THIS WAS SUCH A STUPID FUCKING PLAN. Like, at this point I will be turning in the shittiest rough drafts ever and then just editing like a madwoman for the next month. Which I guess will work? But is extremely personally disappointing. Also, I really hope y'all want to read some Homestuck, because I am currently in love with Rose Lalonde (knitting! irony! horrorterrors! teenage interspecies lesbian shenanigans!).

I should stop creating comms every time I think of a name I like.

Also, it's possible I'm doing two projects for ladiesbigbang now, because "I Loved Her, And Sometimes She Loved Me" seems like an awesome title for a femslash recs set.

So I swore up and down last year, NEVER AGAIN, ladiesbigbang, NEVER AGAIN!

But then the sign-ups-closing-soon post popped up on my reading page and well, it wasn't that bad, was it? (YES, YES, IT WAS.) But I could rec Time Braid and Brave Eyes and that Ariadne/Saito fic and - (BAD PLAN, YOU WILL HAVE REGRETS.) I'll just look at the guidelines; it says they changed them a lot!

The minimum number of recs for my round was 150. The minimum number of recs for this round is 40. Whaaaaaat.

So I'm totally signing up again, because I can do THAT.

(THIS IS WHERE IT ALL GOES WROOOOONG.)

Finally unlocking the project Sunday. It is now up to 160 recs (Inception has some awesome fic that people aren't reccing much because it's not Arthur/Eames - my big bang now contains two Mal/Dom, one Ariadne/Eames, and three Ariadne/Mal).

Have a few posts left to check tags/spelling on, but OMG, I am almost DONE WITH IT FOREVER. That is sounding very attractive right now. Nah, I'm mostly excited, just also exhausted.

Of course, I am kind of aghast at the idea of unlocking 160 posts on Sunday morning, but whatevs. Also, it looks totally weird to have everything in posts that are dated July 30 because I figured out how to spoof DW into letting me post 150+ template posts in about 2 minutes.

Does anyone know which White Collar fic had Elizabeth's POV on the asking Peter out when he was surveilling her? I remember there was a conversation with her roommate where the roommate told her what a bad idea it was to ask out a stalker. It was awesome and I want to rec it, because I just figured out that I'm reccing 69 fandoms and now I really, really want White Collar to make it an even 70.

Man, I keep thinking I've tagged everything I could ever tag on a rec and then I realize I forgot to tag "story status: complete" or the pairing or whatever. I KEEP HAVING TO RECHECK ALL OF THEM. MY EYES ARE TIRED.

Also it is almost the deadline and I am TOTALLY NOT DONE. Like, whatever, the stories are there, and linked, and I just keep agonizing over how many times I have used the word awesome so far (hint: a fuckload), and whether that quote is too spoilery, and I KIND OF WANT TO QUIT BUT AM TOO IRRITATED TO LET IT WIN.

So I'm working on my big bang, and fandom, I love you. I just got to string together these tags:

content: kidnapping, content: psychics, content: slavery, content: space pirates, content: ust, fandom: [redacted], pairing: [redacted], rec status: complete, story status: complete, type: f/m/m

Also, Secret Goal #2 (50+ fandoms) was reached and surpassed. \o/

1. I LOVE THE BDSM 'VERSE. EVERY VERSION, FOR ALWAYS. WHERE IS THE MASTERLIST FOR THIS AWESOMENESS? MY VERY SOUL CRIES OUT FOR IT.

The BDSM 'verse, for those of you going WTF?, was originally created by Xanthe in The General and Dr. Sheppard (which I have some personal issues with), Coming Home (parts of which I ADORE, parts of which I have to scroll past very quickly, again because of personal stuff), and Hiding in Plain Sight (LOVE IT IN A VERY ID, VERY UNASHAMED WAY). In the 'verse, (nearly) everyone is bisexual and kinky as fuck, as in, they openly identify as dom or sub. There are heterosexuals, switches, and nondynamics, but they are very much in the minority. IT IS A SHARED 'VERSE, and gave rise Keira Marcos's Ties That Bind, aka, my very favoritest SGA fic AND one of my very favoritest kink fics (KINK COLLEGES! MID-SCENE HEALTH CHECKS! MAJOR CHARACTERS INVOLVED IN HET, FEMSLASH, SLASH, AND POLY, AND EVERY TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP IS TREATED EQUALLY RESPECTFULLY! OH, MY HEART! ♥♥♥). Keira's 'verse is slightly different, but it's on the same family tree, okay? Well, there are a lot of OTHER stories on that tree (the one where Rodney's a hooker! I LOVE THAT ONE) and every time I see one, I get very excited (I just found an ANGSTY NCIS ONE; HOPES ARE HIGH, Y'ALL).

Anyway, A++, DO RECOMMEND.

2. I am looking forward to August in perhaps an inappropriate way, because I have decided to make a tradition of last year's "amnesty month", aka, "fuck it, LINK DUMP TIME". (I am so close to actually making a post called Fuck It and filling it with 312 links, you guys don't even know, I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER *BEING* IN PRIMEVAL FANDOM AND YET HERE I AM, CODING LINKS FOR LIKE FOUR DIFFERENT PAIRINGS. Also making me flail in confusion: fairy tales, Jurassic Park, Liar Game, and Labyrinth (I HAVE NOT EVEN SEEN THAT SINCE I WAS SIX, WHY WAS I READING FIC?). I am like that telenovela-ish Bing commercial: "LOS LIIINKS!").

AUGUST: WHERE THE ONLY THEME IS "GET IT THE FUCK OFF MY COMPUTER".

3. I am having Big Bang Regrets, where I want to finish because yay for complements and a wider audience (progress, btw, is now at JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR!), yet I also don't want to finish? Because some of my favorite stories about ladies are a guy's POV on a lady/group of ladies, or het fics that are only 50-65% About the Lady (like, I am wavering about the Compelled 'verse, y'know, the "Illyria is awesome and decides to take over the multiverse" story, because the main POVs are Illyria, Buffy, and Wesley, and what if that's Too Much Dude?, even though it's a story primarily about women kicking ass?), and those are apparently not things I should be reccing for this? Basically, the rules of the challenge are kind of making me feel like some Bechdel fic does, like artificially erasing an entire gender from the conversation isn't any more awesome just because this time it's happening to the half with penises. I mean, lady-centric fic, YAY, but "lady in the spotlight" doesn't have to mean men are entirely absent from the stage. IDK, it's one of those things where it's a lot easier to strike that 75& balance writing than it is reccing, and also a lot easier if you do more femslash/gen and less het/threesomes, but I am reccing, and I do want to rec gen and femslash and het and threesomes*, and so I am cranky.

*Secret goal: more fem-centric poly always.

Oh man, I hope this doesn't turn into my first round of rec50 all over again...98 recs in two days was a terrible plan (I only managed 88).

Anyway. Currently signed up for:

ladiesbigbang. Deadline: August 1. Minimum: 150 recs.

kink_bingo. Deadline: August 31. Minimum for a bingo: 50 recs.

hc_bingo. Deadline: December 31. Minimum for a bingo: 50 recs.

au_bingo. Deadline: January 31. Minimum for a bingo: 50 recs.