Small update

[zouzounaki]

Watching Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed on TV at the moment; watched it with my sister last year but I just happened to turn the channel to it right when he's visiting Hadamar, one of the Action T4 extermination sites. It's the first time, other than my sister's book obviously, that I've seen T4 addressed in popular culture and not only is it easy to be horrified and awed by the Nazis careless disregard for life, but it's intensely moving to see Ben Stein's own quietly emotional reaction. We hear so much about the actions of the Nazis that when we interact with a part of it on a very personal level, the depth of their corruption and degradation is still shocking.

And that's my deep thought of the day. I know, gentle flisters, that I've been rather FAIL lately regarding LJ. I am reading, and I try to comment where and when I can, but I find myself feeling rather... wistful as of late, suffering from a bit of the ol' ennui. I've been inundating you with Porn Battle IX entries and for that I apologize! I've really been hoping to shake myself out of the 'blahs' by cranking out a few fanfics.

My original Porn Battle goal was to write a story a day, but from the beginning I knew that wasn't going to happen, and also, if I tried, the quality was going to suffer a bit. Now, I think people have been exceedingly nice and generous to me and I've gotten dynamite feedback, but being the little A-type perfectionist I myself am, I'm a bit disappointed with some of my own writings. On the other hand, I think I've at least approached, danced around the edges, of some of my best work. So I'd call that a win!

I'm particularly proud of my Inglourious Basterds piece (and eternally grateful to lastwordslinger for giving me the inspiration for it!) and a little pissed at the fact that whoever archived that page of original posts somehow seemed to have skipped right over it. Sighs. So, my favorite of my pieces is now nearly impossible to find or even for someone looking to realize it exists! Poo.

Working on a Susan Pevensie/Caspian fic today. Trying desperately not to make it too dark. And not really succeeding, LOL! Yes, I'm one of those who have more than a slight problem with Lewis' treatment of Susan and that keeps sort of leaking into it. I still want to get that Lancelot/Morgana one done before PB ends as well. Heather Dale's Exile (also the prompt - exiles) is making for the perfect muse but i think I might actually be smutting myself out, bwahahahaha!

Peace, Ghani

Comments

[savepureness.livejournal.com]

You wrote Basterds fic???

Alright, I urgently need a link to that!

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Basterds porn! (http://community.livejournal.com/mrs_peel_fanfic/14477.html#cutid1)

Oh, if I'd had the time, I would have taken so many of the Basterds prompts! ♥!

[kittycallum.livejournal.com]

Aw, I've been pretty ennuyee too lately. It doesn't help that I'm totally uninspired by my current classes! But fanfic is a good cure.

Love your icon!

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Quotable comment of the week, LOL! And yeah, that ennuyee can be a beeyatch. A lot of my flist seems to be suffering as of late.

Hee, loves me some Blackadder! xD

[musetrax.livejournal.com]

Susan/Caspian?! I will try to wait patiently! ;)

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Up now over at Porn Battle, posting it to my journal ASAP!

[musetrax.livejournal.com]

Ooo, will read it when I get home!

(PS were you thinking of "It's Been Awhile" when you picked your title?)

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, happy to oblige with the pr0n!

And, yes, I was! Pretty much the theme of this fic, though I had another song which I embarrassingly can't even remember what it was because that is the POWAH that is Staind! ;-P

[musetrax.livejournal.com]

I just enjoy singing along to this song, especially the parts that the radio version bleeped--take that censorship!

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Singing along to the censored bits of songs are the best, especially when they leave that little bit of the word in there. "But all that sh-- seems to disappear when I'm with you!" And you're gonna get louder and more insistent when you fill in the word for them. Yeah, I do that too, hehe!

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike, they say! I just remembered that you used that exact same lyrics for that gorgeous drabble you did with the ivy metaphor! (Forgive me for it taking this long--I'm slow, LOL!)

[musetrax.livejournal.com]

Lmao, I was wondering if you remembered! But it's excellent lyrics so who can resist? ;D

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

I tried so hard to get inspired for the porn battle, but it just wasn't coming (hehe) for me this time. I think part of it is my Supernatural fan fic muse is in a coma at the moment, and none of my other fandoms were that well-represented. At least not for couples that I ship. But I am so glad that you were so very inspired! And I admit that partly has to do with selfish reasons. ;) *hugs the Donny/Shoshanna fic*

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha, it's okay to be selfish every once in a while, and I was happy to oblige! Seriously, you deserve so much credit for that fic, it's insane! Huggles!

And I admit in my own selfish way I was kind of hoping you'd be inspired by the Crusher/Picard or Troi/Riker, but I do know the feeling when it just won't come (teeheehee!) Star Trek is just stuck in reboot mania over at the PB, which I guess isn't exactly surprising. Shrugs.

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

I was very tempted for the Riker/Troi one... but there was only ONE prompt. And I didn't know what to do with it. "Forever" is too general, LOL! I usually like general prompts, but it didn't inspire me. :( And what the HELL was up with all the Data/Troi prompts? How did they end up being the ship with all the prompts? I don't even know anyone that ships them! O_O

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaha, oh my gosh, I thought that too with Data/Deanna. What up with that?! I guess it was just one person with a kink who actually got their prompts in (I'm going to try to next year so hard!) because, yeah, I didn't think that was common or, like, at all!

Some of the prompts are just... really whacked. They're either really, insanely general, like "forever", or just bizarrely 'what the hell am I gonna do with that?' (like the Caspian/Susan one, transubstantiation 0_0 I mean... dude! xP)

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

After saying I wasn't inspired, I thought of an idea. So expect Riker/Deanna pr0n soon. :p

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

*SQUEALS RIDICULOUSLY!*

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

Tada! (http://oxoniensis.dreamwidth.org/26521.html?thread=2936729#cmt2936729)

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

Tada! (http://oxoniensis.dreamwidth.org/26521.html?thread=2936729#cmt2936729)

[lytab-au.livejournal.com]

I've had a read of s couple of the fics you posted and though I haven't read this genre enough to comment I just wanted to say that I think the ideas are really interesting and you write them really well :)

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D