It's raining stories for me!!

vaingirlfic just completed my story from the last Sweet Charity auction! It's always-a-girl!Kirk/Spock, first-time hooker!AU, which basically means it's awesome. I love her take on girl!Kirk and her relationship with Spock. Available here.

How much do I love gnatkip's art?

More than words can say.

(Glee, political).

Everything about this article - from the writing itself to the situation it describes...

...Makes me want to cry:

Damsels in Distress, Bozos in Heat

THE television landscape is a universe of opposites. The Travel network (get up and go someplace!) is the opposite of HSN (sit on your couch and buy stuff!). Syfy (fantastical things that haven’t happened yet) is the opposite of History (moderately interesting things that have already happened). The Golf Channel (sedentary activity watched by sedentary old duffers) is the opposite of Nick Jr. (frenetic activity watched by frenetic young children).

But one pair is more striking, more revelatory, than all the rest: Spike versus Lifetime. Guys versus Gals. XY versus XX. And with each channel offering new fare this month — Spike introduced the gross-out comedy “Blue Mountain State”; Lifetime fired up a new season of “Project Runway” — it seems a good time to compare and contrast these two cable franchises. What do their programs tell us about the sexes? What deep-seated yearnings drive the male of the species? What hopes and fears motivate the female? Is one smarter than the other, and if so, by how much?

The gender thing at LJ

Far be it from me to defend LJ about ... well, anything, really, but on this narrow issue, it appears that the change may have been the result of a good faith effort to improve things. And it appears they will be changing it again to say "Unspecified/other".

Now it can be told!

festivids reveals are up! The names of the vidders are listed at the Festivids master post, and the individual vid posts have been edited to include the vidders' names and to provide download information.

As for me, I ended up making two vids. They were in different fandoms, but they had similar ... ahem ... themes: variations on vampire angst. Download and streaming info at the links below.

Cemeteries of London for abby82 (Forever Knight)

AEIOU for greensilver (Vampire Diaries)