she says I like long walks and sci-fi movies

WE ARE ALL GOING TO PRETEND THAT MY FIRST ENTRY OF THE NEW YEAR IS NOT TECHNICALLY A LATE FIC, OKAY? OKAY.

title: more than the recommended amount
fandom: the social network
pairing: mark/eduardo
rating: r
word count: ~12,700
disclaimer: these are a) not based on the real people but their fictional counterparts from the 2010 film, and b) not my characters either. TSN YOUR DISCLAIMERS ARE SO CONVOLUTED.
a/n: a tsnsecretsanta fic for goldendoods! :D I hope this is okay for you! shdgfsjh also, as ever, all the thanks in the known universe for laliandra, who read this over despite me sending it THE DAY BEFORE NEW YEAR'S EVE... and told me to add more feelings. I also couldn't have got this done without antistar_e bearing all my ridiculous emails. SO MANY ♥ YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW. sdjhgfshjgf. That aside, this was actually so much fun to write! HAPPY HOLIDAYS ONE AND ALL. I have this fic saved in two different word docs on my computer, one of which is called "TELL HIM THOUUUUUUUGH" and the other "WARDO JUST HAS A LOT OF FEELINGS OKAY", which basically sum up this fic. *pokerface*
summary: in which Dustin gets impatient, Mark gets a cold, and Eduardo gets ALL THE FEELINGS IN THE WORLD.



( We can all see you looking at him. There is no invisible barrier that stops us seeing your terrifying huge-eyed love. Just freaking tell him before you explode love goop all over the dorm. )

I think we can all agree that subject line basically sums up my life. WELL DONE, MOOG.

ANYWAY. It has got to the point where I am avoiding the front page of LJ with its judgmental "it's been THIS long since you last posted, did you know?" and I have just braced myself to check and it has STOPPED TELLING YOU THAT, that is how long I have not posted for. Two months! It has been two months! Hello and welcome to my life of vague incompetency.

In the time I have been ~absent, I started university and, okay, somehow I am doing the best degree because GUYS I AM TOTALLY WRITING AN ESSAY ABOUT HOW MARK AND WARDO ARE BOYFRANS. AN ESSAY. FOR CREDIT. ABOUT THEIR LOVE. It is also about dear Sorkin, what is your deal with these female characters, why are you this way, so essentially I have won the degree jackpot, y/y? I am doing Film and American Studies, so a) I will never be employed ever but also b) AMAZING. Admittedly at the moment in one of my modules I am trapped in comedy pre-sound film insanity, but SOON we will catch up to sound in the movies and my life will just get dramatically better. For a time there, we were doing, like, the earliest films, and they were REALLY SHORT AND INSANE and our screening blocks for this module are three hours long, and let me tell you now, three hours of thirty-second-long black and white silent films will do STRANGE THINGS to your mind.

Anyway.

What also happened in those two months is that I signed up for tsnsecretsanta and then FORGOT TO DO A DEAR SANTA LETTER, oh my god, glorious unknown santa I am ridiculously sorry and obviously a terrible person. ( brief things about that, I guess, cut to spare RIDICULOUSLY LONG TEXT ON YOUR FLIST )

I am v. excite about the prompt I get to write! Also for FINALLY getting to finish the help_japan fics that I am approximately HORRIFICALLY late in doing, and PEOPLE WHO ARE WAITING ON FIC, YOU ARE THE MOST PATIENT AND LOVELY PEOPLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD, oh my god. Everything is underway! Coming soon to a journal near you.

I have been around on tumblr and twitter, if you have a burning desire to get more Moog in your life. I HAVE A BURNING DESIRE TO GET MORE ALL OF YOU IN MY LIFE, OKAY. I AM JUST SLACK AT ALL THINGS.

ALSO GUYS GUYS IT IS NEARLY CHRISTMAS. In case this was not already blatantly obvious, allow me to mention that my feelings on this subject are EXTREMELY POSITIVE. CHRISTMAAAAAAAS. I love the lights and the decorations and the chill in the air (which, get on that, UK, I don't even need a coat djkfgdjh what is this shit, WHY IS WINTER NOT COMING) and the Coca Cola adverts and ALL the Christmas adverts and carols and gingerbread and pink cheeks from being outside and wearing scarves and smelling pine trees and red and green and seasonal coffee drinks (GINGERBREAD LATTES FOREVER) and department store window displays and wrapping paper and Christmas cards and picking out presents and then getting presents and SMILES and Christmas songs and Christmas movies and THE MUPPETS' CHRISTMAS CAROL and blue skies on cold days and then eventually SNOW and ICE and oh my god, Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas. It should be noted that in my head, the seasons run sping, summer, autumn, CHRISTMAS, January/February. I have just put on a Christmas song. YOU GUYS, CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS. CHRISTMAS.

Here are some pictures of poor, long-suffering laliandra coping with my CHRISTMAS FEELINGS. ( WHICH ARE NO LESS POSITIVE IN TEXT FORM )

I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS, OKAY. Also, a Christmas card post! I will put one up soon and be like CARDS FOR EVERYONE, so if you would like a Christmas/winter card from me, they are AVAILABLE TO YOU. I will do a post with screened comments soon for CARD DELIGHTS :D

On the topic of FEELINGS, I am reading Game of Thrones for the first time! I watched the show earlier this year and basically fell into a mass of BUT THE STAAAAAAARKS HJSDGFHSDFG COME TO ME NORTHERN BRETHREN but held off on reading the books because there are TOO MANY PEOPLE and they all have WEIRDLY SIMILAR AND RIDICULOUS FANTASY NAMES. This is a problem I have with a lot of fantasy books (YOUR NAMES ARE RIDICULOUS AND INTERCHANGEABLE HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE) but usually I power through and by the end am fiercely defending name choices etc etc. I am aware this is stupid. ANYWAY. The fact that the Song of Ice and Fire series is approximately never-ending long also probably had something to do with my NOPE reflex. BUT. I have started, and it is AMAZING, and I have ALL THE FEELINGS IN THE WORLD. It definitely helps that I have a visual for who these people are otherwise I would be completely lost and flailing (fucking Lannisters, TYRION AND TWYIN ARE NOT DIFFERENT ENOUGH NAMES etc). Also I love books with maps at the beginning! I particularly love books with maps at the beginning that include A LOT OF PLACES on the map, rather than just a rough idea of how the geography works. fksdhjg I have forgotten the point of this paragraph, but essentially: GAME OF THRONES: IT IS EXCELLENT.

ALSO I feel I should mention before I end this post without mentioning it and Lal shouts at me for being rubbish, I went to invade laliandra's home again for a few days last week and one day we watched seven episodes of Band of Brothers, which were EMOTIONALLY GRUELLING, and I made a series of terrible noises and hid further under the quilt. And then Lal told me more about her TSN/BoB au head canon and I pulled the quilt over my head and refused to come out at all because EVERYTHING WAS TERRIBLE, OH MY GOD, LAL Y U DO THIS. Trauma aside, Lal has somehow allowed me back in her home despite the fact that I steal all the sofa and keep her up talking nonsense until stupid times of the morning (6 am is a totally valid bedtime) and can't cook and she continues to be the best thing ever. THERE. LOOK LAL I HAVE WRITTEN A THING. :D? :D? :D?

PROCRASTINATION OVER. I am off to watch Citizen Kane, and then, er, something with Buster Keaton in it. #srsfilmstudent #ysosrsfilmcourse #filmsareFUN

(masterpost // part one // art)

( the time is come when the day is done; part two )

title: the time will come when the day is done
fandom: the social network
pairing: mark/eduardo
rating: r
word count: ~10k (+ 1k of LUDICROUS EPILOGUE)
warnings: the end of the world, zombies, mild violence in a few scenes. THE LUDICROUS EPILOGUE NEEDS A WARNING FOR LUDICROUS.
disclaimer: these are a) not based on the real people but their fictional counterparts from the 2010 film, and b) not my characters either. This is a fic about zombies. It definitely isn't real. Title from No Roots, by Amy MacDonald.

( obnoxiously lengthy author's notes )





the time is come when the day is done
for thesocialbbang. Mark is in California. Eduardo is in Florida. There's a whole country full of zombies between them, but Mark's not going to let a little thing like the potential to be eaten stop him from getting somewhere Eduardo wants him to be.

part one // part two

art by aqualined

OPTIONAL LUDICROUS CRACKTASTIC EPILOGUE

map of Mark's road trip

ahjsgfhj I am so behind on everything. Fic! Comments! Emails! Applying for uni accomodation for September! Packing! Renewing my passport! SO MANY THINGS. AND YET. INSTEAD OF DOING ANY OF THAT, here is an lj entry instead! My life choices continue to be excellent and productive. #who let me be a human being

Fic-wise, I'm aiming to get the first of my help_japan fics (ALL SO LATE, OH MY GOD, MY ENDLESS, ENDLESS APOLOGIES EVERYWHERE) up by Saturday, and then the TSNBB drafts are due relatively soon, I think, so there's that, and then more help_japan fics, and then ugh hopefully at some point I will stop being so rubbish? ANYWAY. I may have to chain myself to the laptop and stick on Write or Die at some point, but I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY FIC.

TV! In a move that is entirely and completely novembersmith's fault, I have started watching Stargate Atlantis. Elizabeth Weir owns an alarming portion of my interest in this show, I have to say -- I've seen the first four episodes so far, and on so many occasions she's said something I have just thought. Like, I'd be going "huh, okay, plants, well, I'm sure that makes the set more decorative even though this city's been deserted for years" and then she'd go "can we lose the ten thousand year old dead plants?". UGH BB I WAS DOOMED TO LOVE YOU. Okay, and you know how there are shows/films etc that you try to avoid because you have the sinking feeling that they could eat your soul? No? I mean, that could just be me, but earlier this year I was all "I WILL NOT WATCH TSN, I HAVE GLIMPSED THE FUTURE AND THAT WAY LIES MADNESS" - I clearly didn't listen to myself, and look how that turned out - and for actual years I have been avoiding all the Stargate shows, and - aekjghfs ffs. SGA kind of combines an actual ton of Things that are Relevant to my Interests - settling/surviving in a new place! Snarky/secretly super brave/super clever scientist! Equally snarky soldier! Women being badass all over the place! UGH UGH FUUUUUU SGA YOU CANNOT HAVE MY SOUL, I NEED IT.

um though I mean, fic recs would be welcomed. ;________; I have lost control of my life.

( so also I'm super behind on Game of Thrones but I have been watching it ) I hear the most recent episode is all kinds of splamtastic? ugh I really need to catch up fast. And then I need to read the book! agjksf things.

With that wall of caps aside, let's talk about DOCTOR WHO. ( otherwise known as: River Song is my queen. SPOILERS for the mid-season finale )

also what the hell is this hiatus, that does not happen on British tv. MORE WHO NOW, PLEASE.

ALSO also, of the over-used alsos, I've been getting back into using twitter - procrastination! I need all the ways to do that - and I'm mooging. What are your twitter naaaames?

title: if you're gonna try to walk on water (make sure you're wearing comfortable shoes)
fandom: social network rpf
pairing: andrew/jesse
rating: pg-13
word count: ~4000
disclaimer: these people are real and belong to themselves, this never happened, I'm not implying that it did, this uses fictionalized versions of public personas, etc etc etc.
a/n: ajshfsd so I had incredibly badly timed writer's block after finishing the bakery au, and I fell in love with this prompt when I first saw it, and then it was BRILLIANTLY filled here by pidgeoned and the wip at the kink meme by blueberryboxes is so lovely too, and is brightening my day every time it updates, so this is basically redundant and unnecessary, but it got me through the thorny forest of mocking blank pages in MS Word, so I am slightly attached to it. APOLOGIES EVERYWHERE, GO READ THE OTHER (BETTER) FILLS, ugh I feel so guilty and rubbish. Title from Piledriver Waltz, by Alex Turner, which is also from the mix pidgeoned put together, because a) I am a massive hack and b) it is beautiful and perfect. This, on the other hand, is, I think, my brain's reaction to 72k of pure sugar. :S
summary: in a summer post-Spiderman and pre-Woody Allen movie, Jesse and Andrew get together, and decompress.


( Andrew shook his hand on a New York street, a month or so ago, and Jesse biked home by himself. Here in the two-step width of Jesse's hallway, paparazzi-free, Andrew can fold himself around Jesse like Jesse is used to, nosing at the crook of his neck, familiar. Andrew's rucksack swings off his shoulder and bumps into Jesse's side; Jesse ignores it, hugs Andrew back. )

Auuuugh, oh god, my internet connection lately has been the actual worst. JUST. STAY. CONNECTED. jfc. Apparently sometimes a full bar of signal actually means NO SIGNAL, obviously. What even.

ANYWAY, this is to say a huge, heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who has commented on the bakery au - you have been so amazingly wonderful, and some of the things you have said have legitimately left me speechless. I just - thank you all so, so much, and I want to take the time to reply properly to everyone but my internet is really dubiously reliable at the moment and keeps swallowing LJ comments and generally messing me about, but I am definitely going to reply properly! I didn't want anyone to think I was ignoring them, or - idk, just, I genuinely am blown away by some of the things people have said, so thank you, and as and when my stupid internet connection allows, I want to say that again, and better. FOR NOW, HEARTS EVERYWHERE, I FEEL LIKE I AM BEING SPRINKLED WITH RAINBOWS, YOU ARE ALL THE BESTS. ♥

On a similar note, hello to the people who have recently friended me! I completely missed the TSN friending meme but I would still love to get to know you all! Drop me a comment to say hi? I am abysmal at making the first move to friend someone, mostly because I am convinced everyone is much more quality than I am (YESTERDAY I FELL OVER INSIDE A POPCORN MACHINE; I AM CLEARLY NOT THE MOST EPT HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET) but friends are awesome, so. :D

oh god, it has taken me, like, half an hour to write this post. CANNOT INTERACT WITH THE INTERNET, SEND HELP.