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I'm behind on the fanfic meme, but hey, let's do this one too!

The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.

Smallville. I was surprised a week or so ago to realize how many ~feelings~ I still have about Smallville. And more accurately, with Smallville it's more like "the one who seduced you then changed into a completely different person but still showed just enough flashes of the one you fell in love with that even though it was completely over when they said 'hey baby, c'mon, give me one last shot, it can be like the old days,' you listen and get your heart stomped on all over again."

Ahem. Like I said. ~feelings~

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp

Left 4 Dead 2. Nick/Ellis is my happy funtime pairing.

The mysterious dark one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 AM at weird coffee houses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized s/he really was fucking crazy.

Watchmen. I've never in my life had such a hard time writing for a canon I loved so passionately.


The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor and whom you'd still really like to get with again, although you're relieved s/he doesn't actually live in town

Heroes. Someday I'll finish that Five Years Gone Peter/Claude story I've got plotted out somewhere.

The steady

Doctor Who. My forever show, whether or not I'm currently writing fic for it.

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with.

B5, Star Trek and Star Wars. I love all those canons but I've rarely felt the urge to write for them or seek out fic, although I'll happily devour anything recced to me (the exception to SW is Thrawn/Pelleaon, but I still haven't actually finished anything for them.) Harry Potter, too.

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with, but ultimately you're just good buddies

Firefly. Jossverse in general, really.

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool person except it's never really gone anywhere.

Sherlock? Maybe when I watch that last episode.

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How the hell did they land all these cool people?"

This is exactly how I felt when SGA took over my flist back in the day.:)

The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and against whom you measure all other potential partners:

Oh, X-Men fandom. I'm only on LJ in the first place because I followed the comics!fic writers here.

The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better:

Oh, Human Target. How our romance was cut tragically short!

The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they'd clean up a bit:

Iron Man movieverse. I honestly don't think I've read or thought about writing fic for Iron Man since the second movie. Maybe when the Avengers movie comes out.

Your hot new flame:

I suppose this would have to be Supernatural? But really, SPN is more, "That fun friend you never really saw that way but who came back from summer break with an awesome new haircut that made you go, "Hey, why not? Could be fun," then a month later you're living in his apartment and you haven't left the house in days and even though you know it's going to end in tears you're having so much fun you don't care."

The one who stole your significant other:

...Can I say Smallville again? I feel like the later seasons did that to the show I loved.

Title: Lost
Fandom: Left 4 Dead 2
Characters/Pairing: Nick/Ellis (pre-slash), Nick character study
Rating: R (zombie violence and some language)
Word Count: 4190
Summary: Nick has always depended on himself, first and foremost. So when Ellis goes missing even Nick isn't sure why he's the one who volunteers to bring him back.


( Five hundred yards from the safe house everyone realized it was much, much too quiet. )

After my week's excursion into the WILDS OF TEXAS I am finally home and back to snuggling with Fluffy Cat. Arriving at the airport is lonely when you know there's no one coming to pick you up and you have to drive yourself home. For it being my first time driving back from LaGuardia by myself (in the dark!) I didn't do half bad, aside from getting so turned around in Manhattan that I wound up practically blundering into the Lincoln tunnel despite my Garmin trying its little electronic heart out to make me take the GW Bridge. I love a lot of things about NYC, but good God, do I hatehatehate driving there.

And the parking bill was so high. So high! I half-expected the attendant to leap out and sink fangs into my neck so they could bleed me dry properly.

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I miss Fiance.

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I have an outline worked out for my help_haiti fic, so that's step one taken care of. In addition, the L4D2 fic I've been working on is almost done, probably by tomorrow, and since the help_haiti fic is a Reflections fic I've been poking at the Huntress-based follow up I have in draft, since that would chronologically take place before this new one. Which means if all goes well I'm going to have three fics in beta very soon. Good God. I've had years that weren't that productive.

After all the rigmarole of the past week, researching companies, getting quotes, etc., I wound up renewing with my current insurance company anyway. At least that's out of the way and I don't have to deal with it anymore. Bah. Adulthood is no fun sometimes.

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You know what would be fun? A White Collar/Left 4 Dead 2 crossover. Tell me that smooth-talking Neal isn't everything Nick aspired to be when he started his con artist career, only things didn't quite work out that way. I could absolutely buy that they've run into each other, most likely with Nick getting the raw end of the deal.

If you include Kate, the White Collar crew even has four people! It would be magical, is all I'm saying.

(I was playing with this idea at during downtime at work; Neal had gotten Nick into some kind of trouble, leading to Ellis winding up a rambling aside with this: "An' I swear to the Lord on high, if you get my friend killed out there it won't be the zombies you'll have to be worrying about. You got me?" I have no idea how things get to that point, but Neal's charm is failing him.

Also, I can't decide whether Peter or Neal would be more likely to trigger a Witch, just hearing the crying and not realizing what it was. But one of them definitely would.)

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I signed up for help_haiti, because while I have very little money to burn I can definitely write a fic for the cause. Bid on me! Or someone else! It's all for a good cause!