And I haven't written an update since November (bad me, baaaaaaad!). It's nothing out of the norm, LJ and I... we have this weird love-ignorance kind of relationship. I mean, I love it because it give me tons of fics to read but I ignore it because I usually have tons of other stuff to do and other blogs/social-whatever to update.

Just wanted to say that yes I'm still reading ST fic (just check my memories! I believe I crossed the 25 saves line yesterday) and I am as well absolutely in love with NCIS because it brings me the possibility to read either slash, gen or het and that's just awesome!

Anyway, I needed to write some words here because it's been the kind of day that remembers me why I love fandom & fanfiction as a hobby so much: it's cheap, it's funny, it's weird, and just when you think you've got it all figured out then it comes and surprise you all over again.

But we are all well  aware of my fondness for procrastination. So I was thinking is this lovely remedy that I discovered years ago for the sleepless nights. It's an herbal tea, gorgeous scent and even more gorgeous taste.
It's called Sleepytime from Celestial Seasoning.


The thing is, you drink it, you sleep, there's no turn around. So I shouldn't drink tonight, you know. Because I'm supposed to write til my phalanges fall or my eyes just blow up. But it's been so long since I had a nice cuppa of Sleepytime... 
Well, we will see...

Just remember, if you are sleep deprived, give it a try!

I actually just have one thing to say: I don't understand Scrivener.

I've downloaded the Nano version of this year and I don't know how the hell it works. I the worst part is that I don't have time enough to learn it. So here I am, using my ol' OpenOffice boy. 

Y como ando procrastinando, me duele el cuello una barbaridad, no me apetece hacer nada a parte de sofá-manta-peli y mucho no escribir las 4000 words que llevo de retraso, pues curioseo la flist.

Y como la señorita helenadax ha colgado un video trekkie K/S yo he pensado en colgar uno K/M (y así ya de paso que pierdo el tiempo, también fangirleo)

Pues eso...

So about the Nanowrimo? I'm just gonna say one word: fuck!

Título:  Bocados de realidad
Nombre de tu persona asignada: pauny escrito hace dos años, a modo de PinchHitter para la primera edición del aisinfronteras
Rating: NC17
Personaje/pareja(s): Jacob Black / Edward Cullen,
Disclaimer: Ni Jacob, ni Edward ni ninguno de los personajes de la saga Twilight me pertenecen. Esto es sólo un hobbie sin ánimo de lucro. Todos los derechos de dichos personajes son propiedad de la señora Stephanie Meyers, su editorial y los señores de la W&B.
Resumen: Jacob está listo para asumir su lugar como Alfa de su manada. Para conseguirlo, los Quileutes deben recuperar parte de sus tradiciones y memorias perdidas en el tiempo.
Que por el camino te cruces con alguien y te imprimes, es todo un bono extra. El destino, en ocasiones, no es más que una partida de pocker.
Advertencias: Transfondo cultural indio totalmente mezclado de varios grupos y naciones. Sí, la Nación  Tsleil–Waututh existe, y sí están en la zona de Vancouver (http://www.burrardband.com/home.html) pero  en los rituales y mitología he mezclado de todo, desde navajo, cheroki, eskimo, inuit, etc etc etc. Y algunas cosas han sido totalmente inventadas por mí. El mito de la creación me lo he inventado usando deidades y espíritus de varias mitologías indias.
Notas: ver al final


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( Leer parte 2/2 de "Bocados de Realidad" )

Título:  Bocados de realidad
Nombre de tu persona asignada: pauny escrito hace dos años, a modo de PinchHitter para la primera edición del aisinfronteras
Rating: NC17
Personaje/pareja(s): Jacob Black / Edward Cullen,
Disclaimer: Ni Jacob, ni Edward ni ninguno de los personajes de la saga Twilight me pertenecen. Esto es sólo un hobbie sin ánimo de lucro. Todos los derechos de dichos personajes son propiedad de la señora Stephanie Meyers, su editorial y los señores de la W&B.
Resumen: Jacob está listo para asumir su lugar como Alfa de su manada. Para conseguirlo, los Quileutes deben recuperar parte de sus tradiciones y memorias perdidas en el tiempo.
Que por el camino te cruces con alguien y te imprimes, es todo un bono extra. El destino, en ocasiones, no es más que una partida de pocker.
Advertencias: Transfondo cultural indio totalmente mezclado de varios grupos y naciones. Sí, la Nación  Tsleil–Waututh existe, y sí están en la zona de Vancouver (http://www.burrardband.com/home.html) pero  en los rituales y mitología he mezclado de todo, desde navajo, cheroki, eskimo, inuit, etc etc etc. Y algunas cosas han sido totalmente inventadas por mí. El mito de la creación me lo he inventado usando deidades y espíritus de varias mitologías indias.
Notas: ver al final


( Leer el fic "Bocados de Realidad" 1/2 )

Que es lo que me digo siempre que me toca re-publicar por todos lados algo que he escrito para algún exchange. Y nada, que ahora con todo eso del Nanowrimo me he acordado y he pensado "ale pues, quizás es buen momento para ponerme". Todo por procrastinar y no estar escribiendo, of course!

Así que nada, ignorad los post siguientes con fics de los últimos años.

And I really don't like aubergines but it doesn't matter, it's an inner joke that doesn't make sense at all.

The thing is, in less than 24h I'll be getting into Nanowrimo, and I'm extremely nervous... I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to do it (write the 50000 word in just a month) but I hope to have fun.

So let the party (and the anxious times) begin!

I blame fanfiction for my high expectation in finding love.
But I specially blame fanfiction on my high expectations in finding "the love of my life" working as a barista in a nice coffee shop.

Every single time a I go for a caffè on a coffee shop (and here I'm talking about a coffee shops that serves you more than your overall espresso, caffè with milk -yes, in Spain we have this, a latte is a different story- and "cortados") I expect to find that gorgeous man that smiles to me and decides to prepare me a different brewing different to what I asked for because "I'm gonna like it", or something like that. And yes, of course, I would come back for more coffees and we'd fall madly in love and have puppies, babies and roses.

And that's why I hate fanfiction sometimes.



First, we don't have that many "nice coffee shops" here in Spain (even in Barcelona!), we are more plain-cafeteria-kind. We have Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and a few coffee shops that really know how to make a capuccino, a latte, or a real cafe mocha. Then we don't have "baristas" persé, we have a bunch of kids working part time while they are studying. And obviously they don't have imaginative people that makes you from the scratch a new mixed caffè just for you.

So yeah, I blame fanfiction. And now I might or might no be planing on going on a coffee shop hunting. I'm not probably going to find the love of my life but I seriously hope to find a place where they prepare a mean "caffè mocha with soy milk and no cream, thank you very much", damnit!

Oh! And all this rambling comes from my late yesterday night reading, the every fandom needs a coffee shop AU fic. And so far in Star Trek AOS this is Common Grounds (Summary: Modern day AU. Leonard McCoy tries online dating. A story of coffee, printing, and the Internet.) And of cousse never forget about the beautiful-but-I-hate-that-this-never-happens-to-me Inception coffee shop AU: I've Got Nothing To Do Today But Smile (The Only Living Boy in New York) (Arthur's a corporate lawyer, Eames owns the coffee shop across the street, and all good love stories start with a quadruple shot latte.)

So, coffee anyone? ;)

Like becoming bi-shipper on a fandom you though you were one-ship-kind-of-girl.
In aviss favor, I had to say that the fic of awesomeness is like the best thing ever. Ok, it may be one of the two best things ever!
Observations (by anon_j_anon) Is the K/S perfect fic, and Switch (by ceres_libera)is its perfect counterpart on the K/M side.

If I could I'd gladly do a ménage à trois with both fics. Just saying.

And here I am now, doing background research and planing time lines, plots and bunnies for that crazy friend of mine. But to who am I lying? I'm enjoying every bloody minute of it, goddammit!

Wonderful dreamlittleyo (who was one of my favourite Inception authors and the best Cob/Arthur writers) is also writing ST:XI fics.
I think it's a conspiracy!
Favourite authors, best fics ever (will talk about this another day), funny icons, hot guy... oh please kill me now!

The day before to my trip to Vietnam and Cambodia I downloaded several different fandoms fics to my kindle. I had the intention to just download the longest fics from the two fandoms I was reading at the moment (X-Men: First Class and Inception), but just decided to download some Criminal Minds as well. And then something caught my attentions: Star Trek. 
AO3 has a large supply of Star Trek fics of all the series and universes.
So why not I asked myself. Just the largest or with more hits in case I read all the other fics.

There was one that it picked my curiosity (So Wise We Grow by Deastar) and for some reason, once I was at the airport waiting to my flight to Warsaw (where I was to meet with aviss and Mb), I decided to start reading it instead of all the other fics.

At this point I have to say that I was in no way a foreign to ST fandom and universe. I'd watched TOS and TNG as a kid in the Catalan TV, I later watched some episodes of Voyager on the local TV. And after the reboot movie (which I loved it) I got into the fandom for a little while, reading some K/S fics and some gen fics. But I let it go quite easily, as I belive I was, at the time immersed, in other fandoms.

The thing is, I finished So Wise We Grow in my second day in Vietnam and instead of going for another fandom I decided to go on reading all I had downloaded of Star Trek. And when I run out of ST fics, I went to AO3 and downloaded a few more, and at the return flights I decided to close the circle reading the fic that made me began my travel no just around the Great Mekong.

A here we are now... feeling like maybe I've found a new home, a fandom large and resilient enough as once upon a time it was for me the Harry Potter fandom. I bought The Original Series' DVD, I'm getting my hand in The Next Generation, and I'm reading. I'm reading like I have not read in a very long time. And oh my! There are fics and FICS, and I'll talk about this capital thing another day but let's just say that I might have already found my cup of tea in this fandom.

Dif-tor heh smusma


(entry title: letter to the Romans 11, 33)

Or how to improve your fangirling level. Because an archive that let you download full fic in just one MOBI doc so you can read it right from your Kindle is absolutely love.

And I've got my account! Oh yeah! I don't know why I didn't get one of those before, but last week I though about it and aviss  was -as always- nice and wonderful enough to invite me.

I like the kuddos thing, and the bookmarks, which even if it's similar to the Fanfiction.net system is a little bit easier in its use.
So yeah, I'm compiling my AO3 recs also over there of course! And I also got my English fics uploaded.

Let the fun begin!

Y volvemos a la carga un año más. ¡Tercera edición del Amigo Invisible Sin Fronteras! ¡Tercera ya!
Lo peor es pensar que la 1ª del aisinfronteras  era la 4ª edición de la_torre , así que entre uno y otro sumamos ya 6 intercambios a nuestras espaldas. Mare meva com passa el temps!

Self-pimping porque nosotras lo valemos (y porque aviss  es la puta reina de los banners con fandoms que nos vuelven locas)


Entrando más en modo materno-administradora: ¡LAS NORMAS! Sí, esas grandes desconocidas de las que todos hablamos y tan pocos leemos. Leedlas pretty please y si algo no os queda claro, dejadnos un comentario o contactar con nosotras via el email del intercambio (aisinfronteras @ gmail . com). Y cuando os hayáis leído ya LAS NORMAS pues me vais directas al post  de NOMINACIÓN DE FANDOMS. Recordad, se pueden nominar como máximo 3 fandoms y uno al menos deber ser obligatoriamente de los que os ponemos en la lista.

¡Y no os ralléis aún con el formulario para apuntarse! No está aún colgado, no lo estará hasta mediados de agosto, y cuando lo colguemos lo explicaremos con pelos y señales para facilitaros las cosas. De todos modos, será muy parecido (sino igual) que el del año pasado, y como siempre si hay dudas: comentario o email.

Dream bigger, darlings!

I've just spent the last hour laughing like a catcall with this absolutely awesome and hilarious X-Men First Class AU fic:

I ♥ NY (It’s My Friends I’m Not Sure Of) by oddegg on AO3.
A fan-fucking-tastic ~18K WIP fic that has made my flatmate ask me if  I was alright, because you know... laugh alone on your own can be a symptom of dementia.

Was written originally for the kink meme (yeah, all the good stuff comes from there) and it's pretty much what the promt says, just well-written and gloriously funny.

Summary: Erik is a single, successful man who likes quick sex with no strings attached. Then, he meets college professor Charles and it's love at first sight, at least for him. Charles, who heard of Erik's notorious ways, wants nothing to do with him besides being friends. Cue Erik bending over backwards to steal Charles' heart.

Reasons to invest your time on  oh-bloody-hell-another-WIP-no:

-Have you read the tittle? How can you not love a fic with that kind of title? 
-Best  first sentence ever!

 Well, in my crussade to read everything posted on the erik_charles  comm I've just found this absolutely hilarious  post by alishatorn .
I can't be more agree whit what she says, really.

The post is about one of the soundtracks themes for the movie X-Men First Class, and well... I'll let you watch the video and read the lyrics and see by yourself what I mean:


( follow the cut to read the lyrics )

6 more recs on my memories and one more on this post. And today haven't been a high productivity day -productivity meaning the more fics read the better- because shitty days are my usual day nowadays... So practically no time to read until just right now.

So goodbye and let's read!

(I love fandom explosions)

 I love the kink memes, I really do. But they are a real pain in the ass to keep track of good fics, because seriously LJ:  why can I add a comment to my memories?

So, as that seems to be impossible, I'm going to need another way soooo... I've decided that while simple fics posted in LJ can still go to my memories, the kink stuff, and the fics posted  at AO3 or Fanfiction.net are going to be reced  from this post. A post that will go directly to my memories so it can be easily checked.

So here we go, X-Men First Class Fanficion Recommendation by me:

Try, try again by anon PG13 Completed (kink meme)
Prompt: Erik is forced to repeat that day until he stops being an asshole.

Wisteria by anon NC17 Completed (kink meme)
Erik hates being unable to hide just how much he wants Charles.

Trust by nyssa123 T Completed (FF)
AU- After Cuba, Erik decides not to leave. It's all different, now- as Charles adjusts to life in a wheelchair, Erik has to atone for what he's done. In real life, nothing is ever easy.

Any Measure of Peace by manic_intent R Completed (AO3) long fic 19387k
Written for the prompt: "AU in which there was no beach divorce. Charles has been throwing himself at Erik, but Erik refuses to give in to his desires. Something about not wanting to sully Charles' happy life with his darkness. He's done some things, you see. Some very bad things. Charles, however, is nothing if not persistent. So he seduces Erik with everything he's got. Erik suffers an epic case of blue balls."

Limited Release by anon PG-13 (so far) WIP (kink meme)
Alternate Universe |Based on: White Collar. And before you go running away let me tell you something: so far it has 29 parts plus 3 bonus and it's the most funny, hilarious and amazingly detailed fic that I've read in this fandom. So trust me, go to read it even if it's still unfinished. Just today I've already read it twice!
Summary: Alex is a criminal consultant for the FBI, Hank is Alex's loyal friend who tries to get him out of jail, Erik is the agent that caught Alex in the first place, Shaw is the bad guy, and Charles is Shaw's number one target. The kids are part of Erik's team!

Time to Grow by zarah5 R Completed (AO3) long fic 20964k
In which you'll find chess dates which aren't dates (or maybe Charles is wrong about that). – This follows First Class, but turns AU during the beach scene. 
This is beautifully well written, and it makes perfect sense. You can feel the UST and the pain and loss, and you can see the changes and they feel natural. Hell, even Charles lectures makes sense!

Contrario a lo que pudiera parecer trase esta larga ausencia: no, no he muerto. Siete meses sin postear, creo que he batido un record o algo.
Y ahora me ha dado por postear porque llevo una hora mirando mi LJ en busca de una fotos... que sino de qué.
Pues eso, bonitos días.

  

¡¡¡Tenemos entradas para el cine!!!
Cine Icària Yelmo, sábado 20, sesión 20:30 Fila 11 asientos pares 2 a 12 e impares del 1al 11.
¡Y so far somos 12! Y disfrazadas! (no las 12 pero sí una cuantas ;P)

Además he conseguido colgar el post del aisinfronteras  con las directrices de formato y entrega. LEEDO!!!! Nos los hemos copiado/adaptado del dream_exchange  porque son una amor de admins y con muy buenas idea.  Solo que me ha costado la vida colgarlo... sí, estoy espesa y LJ parece que también. 

Porque creo que es el último sitio por donde me quedaba ya gritar el tema... Total, ya lo he hecho por email, facebook, twitter, en persona, por tlf... 

De verdad que sólo necesito saber el puto día que va mejor para ver la peli, viernes o sábado... El problema es compenetrar grupos de gente diferentes. Si no fuera por eso, abriría una poll por aquí...
Soooo... Cine Icària, VOSE Cuando tenga claro si voy viernes o sábado ya diré algo más. Por el momento ando pendiente de que darkmoona compre su billete de bus y de unas amigas del trabajo.

Pues eso...