I don't read a lot of Marvel comics anymore now that the Avengers are nothing like they used to be (both the team in general and the characters themselves specifically). I'm been keeping track of Thor, which is quite a nice book with wonderful art. And while I only vaguely kept track of the Secret Invasion thing, I did buy every single issue of Secret Invasion: Inhumans because I happen to have a weird love affair with that wacky royal family of theirs.

But this is not a post about Inhumans. No. This is a post about something far more important, something the Inhumans reminded me of.

The Rules:

-Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
-If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
-Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
-Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
-If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call. There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
 

Whosoever can produce one or more nice Bea/Tora icons for me gets a drabble of some sort. I need to practice my drabbling skillz anyway.

Whosoever can produce a Bea/Guy/Tora icon wins the internet (and also probably something longer than a drabble).

I can see it in your eyes now. You all think I can't write anything that's less than 700 words, don't you?

...You're probably right. But that just means that my pathetic inability to be concise in my fic is your gain!

I'm only ten prompts away from fulfilling my 80-prompt Guy Gardner claim, and five from fulfilling my much shorter Dibnys claim. I've quite enjoyed dcu_freeforall, and I've decided that, as soon as I finish one or the other of the claims I already have, I'm going to make a claim for the JLI. I haven't decided just how many prompts, yet, but I've decided to ask for some advice.

Anyone know any particular prompt tables, or any particular individual prompts, that you think would make for good JLI stories? Obviously my favorites are the Beetle/Booster/Fire/Guy/Ice version of the JLA, but technically the JLE also counts -- and of course any supporting characters from those books. While you're at it, now would be a good time to suggest any story ideas that you wouldn't mind seeing written on such a table. Basically anything that would help me set up or pick out a nice prompt table is welcome.

 

But it did get me to thinking about what pairings I can see, and why. I'm not saying that any of these actually happened, or even actually would happen, just that... well, let's put it this way: I think I could write them and folks would go "Oh hey, that sort of makes sense" rather than "...Where the hell did that come from?".

So let me be a pathetic fangirl for a moment and discuss my pairings that I really want to see written.

So...
 

The goal was to drabble out a few short little pieces in order to properly sort out the personalities of Guy and Tora's kids (who won't leave me alone), but I ended up writing way too much (as usual) and thinking really hard about the consequences of having kids when you're a semi-active superhero.

 

Wow, I'm feeling productive again for the first time in months.

I've written something a bit odd, and rather than cram another hugely long "Author's Notes" down your throats, I thought I may as well make a full-fledged post out of it prior to the posting of said story.

EDIT: I HATE Livejournal and the way it continually randomly rearranges my posts. Seriously, what's up with that? It takes snippets of text and sticks them in the wrong place when it posts. Sometimes it's whole sections, sometimes it's just a couple of words.

I'll fix this shortly. In the meantime, this is filler because LJ screwed it up bad. Sorry. 

EDIT AGAIN: The post as it is supposed to appear (I hope) follows. If it looks buggy, be aware that I'm working on it. I expect that LJ just hates it when I use bold or italics or colors at the beginning of a line, so I'm just gonna remove that and see if it works. It even screws it up just switching between rich text mode and HTML mode. Geez.

I've got a Guy and Ted fic to post later this evening, perhaps, if I ever finish editing it in the middle of all this other stuff I'm doing, but I wanted to get this out here before I forgot.

Stuff I'm crazy about currently:
Callings by

slwatson

ilyena_sylph

So I have Tora on the brain right now, which is why none of my other stories that I'm working on are really moving along at the moment. Tora, Tora, Tora, Tora, Tora. She won't leave me alone -- it's like the little Tora in my head is begging to be written as something other than an accessory/angst prop for Guy or Bea.

Because, y'know, she's probably one of my top ten favorite characters of all time, but I have a bad habit of only considering her in relation to her friend and her boyfriend, who also are both pretty high up in that top ten (you mean you couldn't tell?). But it's not only me! The writers have done the same, too. Though they aren't really to blame, either. Her personality isn't really in-your-face, she doesn't feel the need to jump into the spotlight to prove her toughness (though she did occasionally suffer from a bit of an inferiority complex in regards to her powers), and she's just a more passive sort of person -- as much by choice as by nature, I think. She can be tough when she wants to be, but she has a habit of letting stronger personalities overshadow hers.