if the fish swam out of the ocean, and grew legs and started walking

[mooging]

Here is another bitty post! \0/ \0/ #moog makes excellent life decisions.

- third Spanish exam on Thursday! At this point my revision to fic-writing ratio is not so much in revision's favour, so that's tomorrow sorted out.

- I have watched this an obscene number of times, but my thoughts on River Song are for another time. The short version goes like this: SHE IS MY QUEEN.

- relatedly, I am so unbelievably beyond excited for new Who next weekend. IT FEELS LIKE IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME. ahgfjhsgdj Nine was my Doctor but Eleven is my favourite, if that makes any sense? Let's not go into how I was 14 and shipping Doctor/Rose like it was my job, but, you know, that happened. I AM JUST GLAD I DID NOT READ TWILIGHT AT THAT AGE, BECAUSE YOU KNOW I WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THAT. I am essentially a sham of a human.

- I always feel like a bit of a twat when I talk about fic I'm writing, but a couple of people have been nice enough to ask when the next part of BAKERY AU is coming up (YOU ARE ALL LOVELY), so: I am working on it right now! Part three is currently ~18,000 words and maybe half done. This would be less tricky if the half that was done was the first half, but it is not. ~excellent life-decisions~ There is an awful self-indulgent possibility that it might end up being twice as long again. I AM SO SORRY, IDEK WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON, NOTHING I HAVE EVER WRITTEN HAS BEEN THIS LONG BEFORE. ANYWAY, the short version of that nonsense is: I am working on it! It won't be up this week, but maybe the middle of next week? I am going a bit mad trying to keep it all in my head when I have to do other things, and not just bore everyone I talk to rigid by talking at them when I'm trying to work bits out.

- ALSO, if anyone speaks Portuguese, is there any chance I could run a few lines past you? I DON'T WANT TO BUTCHER THE FEW BITS OF THIS LANGUAGE I AM USING, AND I AM SLIGHTLY SIDE-EYING BABELFISH. ajhgfhsdgfj why do I do these things. I don't speak Portuguese and I know nothing about code.

- on a similar note, I am so beyond amazed by the lovely comments people have been leaving, and I want to reply to all of them, because ajshfjhsdgf. I have a few extra shifts in the next couple of weeks, and the exam this week, but I AM DEFINITELY ON THAT. <33333 A huge thank you to everyone who has commented, or read it at all - this would definitely not have been as fun to do without you all. I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR.

- also, I have a document on my computer saved as "bakery au cuts", which is, cunningly, where I shove all the bits I've cut out (yes, it is stupidly long and I have cut stuff out, I am that ridiculous, etc etc) in case I want to use them again later in the fic, or they just weren't working at all, and that is ~5000 words. HERE IS A BIT FROM THAT THAT WAS CUT FROM PART TWO, because I don't see it going back in the fic, and, well, I feel guilty about having a wip and not updating it for a while. FEEL MY GUILT.


- sweet on you cut scene, NSFW, ~250 words

//

Mark's good with his hands, good with feeling his way through something. Like, when he's coding he doesn't need to look at the keys, the causers, just at the effects unfurling on the screen. It's the same with this, with sex, with Eduardo: he doesn't need to look at his hands spreading out over Eduardo's hips, wide span from thumb to pinky-tip, he doesn't need to see himself take Eduardo in hand, or watch himself palm rough down Eduardo's chest: he just needs to see Eduardo react, the effects, his shower-wet, kissed-wet mouth, his blown-open pupils, the flush creeping down his neck. Mark keeps his gaze trained on Eduardo's reaction just as avidly as on any written code, the flickers of expression evolving into a whole, like one typed letter after another, leading to Eduardo panting hard in the steam-filled shower, or a whole new user interface.

The similes don't work the other way round: when Eduardo jerks him off too, fondly retaliatory, both of them turning steam-red under the steady spray of water, there is nothing Mark can think of as a comparison. He can only lean his head back against the tile, and keep his hand on Eduardo's shoulder for balance, his other hand drawing breathless, expletive gasps from Eduardo, and there is no comparison because what can be better than this? Mark has no need for hyperbole.

Touching Eduardo is like teasing out code from a keyboard: it gives Mark the same rush.

//

- OH OH ALSO, I SAW AND LOVED RIO AT WORK THE OTHER DAY. I missed the last twenty minutes because my shift ended, but I WILL SEE IT ON THURSDAY. Oh god, it is so lovely I thought I might die. I had to come home and buy the soundtrack. Let me take you to Rio, Rio. fnnnnnnnnng.

OKAY, I think that is it. One day I will be here to post something of slightly less ridiculous quality, but apparently today is not that day. This post feels so self-indulgent I slightly want to go ostrich-face and hide in the sand forever. I NEED TO TALK TO SOME FOOD ABOUT THIS.

Comments

[novembersmith.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD OH SNIPPET OF HOTNESS. And extreme Markness. SO ROMANTIC. Eduardo is his sexy, sexy laptop. <3

And oh mannnnnnnn, I am so excited to go see Rio. I am going to be the creeper that shows up at a children's matinee alone and squees gleefully throughout. C'EST LA VIE.

Also: OH DOCTOR/ROSE, ID SHIP OF MY HEART. I always get slightly shirty when people badmouth Rose. I know they probably have great reasons or whatever, but I just cannot understand them. Nine/Rose forever, yo.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Nine/Rose forever, yo. - OH MY GOD YOU ARE LIKE THE BEST PERSON EVER. HOW DO YOU EXIST. HAVE I MADE YOU UP? JONATHAN STRANGE AND PRINCE WARDO AND NOW NINE/ROSE? UGH UGH BE MINE AT ONCE. Nine/Rose was the ship of my 14 year old heart. I wrote terrible angsty nonsense all about them all the time. ONCE I WROTE FIC ON AN EXAM PAPER BECAUSE I FINISHED EARLY, AND THEN I HAD TO GO BACK AND CROSS IT OUT EXTREMELY VIGOROUSLY. ahsgfjhsgdfjd I still ship Doctor/Rose, tbh. Except not so much Eleven/Rose. But still. ARE YOU READY FOR A SUPER UNPOPULAR OPINION: I liked Rose more than I liked Ten. :O

AND RIO HOMG, I saw it at work, and I was standing in full view of the audience and making the most ridiculous contortionist faces just so I wouldn't laugh out loud. AND THEN AT ONE POINT I DID. oh my god, okay, consider yourself warned: the opening couple of minutes are actually lethally adorable.

(also akjdgfjhsdgj thank you re: ridiculous fic snippet. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOUR FIC OF HOTNESS IS, LIKE, MIND-MELTINGLY HOT. And: Eduardo is his sexy, sexy laptop. - can't. stop. laughing. b e m i n e.)

[novembersmith.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY, ARE YOU SECRETLY ME? I totally adore Rose, and oh man, I agree re: Rose and Eleven. I read one really, really lovely fic where she ran into him briefly, at Amy's wedding, maybe? And it gave me all the closure I would ever need -- I wish I could remember who wrote it, argh. But I am all about the Amy/Rory/Eleven funtimes and River/Eleven OTP, holy FUCK. RIVER SONG, I WANT TO BE YOU. Well, I want to be a space evolutionary paleontologist, technically, but a space anthro/archaeologist is equally good. ♥_____♥

AHAHA, I suspect I will be the same as you in the theater. Also, speaking of Jesse Eisenberg and his amazing fantastic vocal acting, have you listened to his audiobooks yet? He is FUCKING AMAZING in White Cat by Holly Black, and I have just DLed the sequel, Red Glove and am trying to figure out when I have six+ hours to spare listening to it. JESSE HOW SO FANTASTIC AT LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU DO.

(a n y t i m e :DDDDD)

(arrrghh seriously, WIPs, WHY DO WE DO THEM, I am going insane trying to write the latest bit of Prince Wardo fic. And I just want to finish my other, non-public-WIP fics, but no dice. Prince Wardo has my brain hostage. /o\)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

GO AWAY HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE. RIVER/ELEVEN OTP. RIVER SONG BEING THE ABSOLUTE BEST EVER. AMY/RORY/ELEVEN FUNTIMES. oh my god, seriously, AM I JUST HALLUCINATING YOUR EXISTENCE? Re: River Song, I sort of didn't like her at all the first time she showed up, in the Silence in the Library episodes, but then she came back in s5 and blew me a w a y. I think to be fair a lot of the reason I didn't like her so much initially was because, um, Alex Kingston was still Elizabeth Corday from ER to me, and I invested a large amount of time trying and failing to like Elizabeth and I didn't want to do that again. :S BUT ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, HERE'S HOPING FOR LOTS MORE RIVER IN S6.

On the same note: YES ugh I freaking loved White Cat anyway, and then I found out Jesse did the audiobook and it was just like SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING, HOW IS THIS HAPPENING?? I listened to it straight through one night when I was exhausted but couldn't sleep, and I kept swimming in and out of consciousness to his RIDICULOUS ACTING TALENT, which was a+. I didn't know he'd done Red Glove as well! BRB D/Ling THAT RN. FFS JESSE, GET SOME FLAWS. YOUR EXISTENCE IS UNFAIR TO EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING.

(WIPs, ugh, I knoooow. I have some help_japan fics to be writing, and I can't sit and do that until I have like rugby-tackled bakery au into submisison, because it keeps rattling round my brain. If you want to talk to someone about Prince Wardo fic, you can pm or email me, if you like? I am going similarly lunatic over the last bit of bakery au. WHYYY WIPS, WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO US?)

[novembersmith.livejournal.com]

Re: River Song, I sort of didn't like her at all the first time she showed up, in the Silence in the Library episodes, but then she came back in s5 and blew me a w a y.

THIS WAS MY RESPONSE EXACTLY. *eyes you with joyous suspicion* WERE WE SEPARATED AT BIRTH? Though I never did watch ER, so I guess that is a mark in favor of us not being the EXACT same person. :D

Oh maannnnnn, I just had to do a ton of driving up and down the East Coast and I listened to White Cat over and over again and it NEVER GOT OLD. I'd never read the book, but holy GOD, what a fucking awesome universe, and Jesse's voice = JOY. And seriously, how am I ever supposed to be romantically involved with another human being when all I can think is, "Pah, you're no Jesse Eisenberg"? IT IS UNFAIR AND CRUEL.

(Dude, back at you. I was actually writing Prince Wardo fic to distract myself from the angst of my other TSN AU, which, uh. WORKED A LITTLE TOO WELL. DAMMIT, PRINCE WARDO. Also, I will listen to you talk about the bakery AU for approximately, oh, forever. I'm froppishpet at gmail, if you ever want to email/chat! :D)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

(WHAT you have another TSN au?? I must know more about this immediately.)

And lolol ikr, there was this guy at work the other day who looked a bit like Jesse and I was trying really hard not to just be like STALKER EYES all over the place, and then someone I work with was like "ugh, that guy is so weird-looking" and I was just like "DDD: noooooo we would have beautiful intelligent children". HE HAS RUINED MY LIFE. It was weird listening to White Cat at first, because I kept hearing Mark in some of his inflection, because I'd just watched TSN for the second time, and then one of the times I woke up and it was just Cassel speaking and everything was sleepy rainbows.

[novembersmith.livejournal.com]

(It is a SECRET, by which I mean, many people know about it. :| It is a mythology based AU with underworld stuff and so forth and so on, and it is CHOCK FULL OF ANGST. One day it will be finished. ONE DAY. After Prince Wardo and Mark find their happy ending.)

*__________* I met a dude that looked just like Justin Timberlake today, but a Jesse-lookalike is CLEARLY superior. And heh, I kept listening for Mark in Jesse's Cassel-voice and not hearing it, probably because I knew nothing at all about Cassel before listening. I even thought his name was CasTLE for the longest time. I still think that is a superior name. /o\

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

(OH. MY. GOD. The mythology geek in me is doing A REALLY RIDICULOUS DANCE RIGHT NOW. UNDERWORLD STUFF! oh my god. ahgsfhdgsfjhd. I cannot wait. Equally I cannot wait for Prince Wardo and Mark to find their happy ending, because THEIR LOVE IS LIKE A RAINBOW OF HAPPINESS.)

A Timabalone lookalike! How excellent! :DD I think I only heard some Mark in the Cassel-voice because a) I was mostly asleep and b) I had just watched TSN again, but idk. I LOVE MARK SO MUCH I WANT TO HEAR HIM IN EVERYTHING. ugh ugh relatedly I was cleaning up my harddrive today and shoving some files on the external one, and I somehow thought it would be a good idea to rewatch a bit of Boy A. THAT WAS INCORRECT. Cue sobbing all over the place. ANDREW YOUR FACE HAS TOO MANY FEELINGS ON IT.

[hold-onhope.livejournal.com]

I completely understand - Ten is my Doctor (You never forget your first...), but Eleven is my favorite; Rose is my Companion, but Donna is my favorite... and Amy Pond is creeping up there.

I AM JUST GLAD I DID NOT READ TWILIGHT AT THAT AGE, BECAUSE YOU KNOW I WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THAT.

I read twilight when I was 19 and I was all over it. DON'T JUDGE ME. (Then I got my head out of my ass and joined the anti-Twilight masses around the time the third book came out.)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, HELLO YOU. ♥ ♥ ♥

ajshfjhdshjg I shall not talk about my feelings for Ten, because they... are largely negative, but ELEVEN! HE IS MY FAVOURITE! And I think Donna might be my favourite companion, but I love all of them. NO WAIT JACK WAS A COMPANION FOR A BIT, HE MIGHT BE MY FAVOURITE. What are your thoughts on River Song?

Re: Twilight: I mean, I will admit to non-ironically shipping Edward/Bella, because a part of me is eternally fourteen and unable to help it, but the rest of me is able to step back and go "no, wait, this has so many flaws".

ANYWAY HELLO HELLO HOW ARE YOU??

edit: I mean, there were things about Ten that I liked! Just - not often enough for me to like him properly. I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON DD:

[hold-onhope.livejournal.com]

I shall not talk about my feelings for Ten, because they... are largely negative

I wouldn't blame you for that. There's a reason it took all of two episodes to realize that Eleven was quickly becoming my favorite Doctor. I started watching during series two, so I fell in love with the show because of Ten & Rose (although I didn't ship them). It's hard to let go of that feeling. I would gladly fill Russel Davies' house with bees.

Omg I HATED River at first. HATED. And then she showed up this season with "Hello, Sweetie" carved into a museum piece and I was SOLD. I have strange thoughts re: the Doctor and a love interest, which is probably why I didn't like her at first, but I'm definitely starting to come around. I'd say the jury's still out, but... *shrug*

HELLOOOO! I'm busy as hell. COLLEGE HATES ME. By which I mean, I have so many papers and projects due within the next three weeks that I think I might explode. I shouldn't even be on the internet right now. I'M NOT HERE YOU DIDN'T SEE ME.

[daisysusan.livejournal.com]

I am going to tell you a story you probably don't care about cause we're not actual LJ friends or something and I'm just up in here mega creepin. But anyway, I get alerts when you post stuff about the bakery AU, so I saw the email (in class, cause I was checkin' it on my phone like a boss) and I was like :DDDDDDDDD. Then I realized it wasn't an update and I was like :((((. But then I saw the excerpt and was like \o/.

Basically that is my story of creeperness that I am telling you because I have no filter.

(Also, OH MY GOD DOCTOR WHO I AM SO EXCITED.)

[anysomething.livejournal.com]

so basically i have noticed from all of your posts and your main page that we have very similar taste in music. now i have black and gold in my head, aughhhhh

so excited for part three- i'm traveling abroad at the end of the week so I may not be able to read it for a few weeks (D:) but since even the bits you CUT are excellent, part three is sure to be impossibly brilliant and I cannot wait. :)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

WHAT NO THAT IS AN AWESOME STORY. Who needs filters anyway? I think Andrew Garfield has conclusively demonstrated it is perfectly possible to live without them. I AM SORRY FOR THE DD: BUT HAPPY FOR THE \0/. <333

(DOCTOR. WHO. UGHHH MY EXCITEMENT LEVELS ARE SO RIDICULOUSLY HIGH. Is Eleven your Doctor? THOUGHTS EVERYWHERE.)

(I need a DW icon, you have just reminded me!)

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

I admit it took me a while to warm to River Song, but that moment when she stares down that Dalek in the finale? I fell in love with her right there.

[daisysusan.livejournal.com]

Haha true story! And also my filter got obliterated by the OBSCENE amounts of my roommate's birthday cake I just ate. Mostly it was just awk that I went through that whole stream of emotions while staring at a phone in class.

DOCTOR WHO. ELEVEN IS SO TOTALLY MY DOCTOR. (I may only speak about this show in capslock until it comes back.) I WANT IT SO HARD BECAUSE I MISS ELEVEN AND AMY AND RORY AND RIVER AND EVERYONE.

I have looooooooads of Doctor Who icons.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Omg I HATED River at first. HATED. - Y E S. I spent the whole Silence in the Library two parter just being like FUCK OFF YOU ARE SO AWFUL I HATE YOUR FACE AND YOUR SMUGNESS AND JUST YOU IN GENERAL UGH UGH YOUR VOICE ALSO MAKES ME WANT TO DIE, GET OFF MY TELEVISION, and then when I saw her in the trailer for s5, or in the "next time on Doctor Who" thing or whatever, I threw a cushion at the television.

and
then

NOW I LOVE HER. SHE IS MY FAVOURITE. The horrible and terrifying weeping angels two parter definitely kicked me into loving her, and then the finale SHOVED ME INTO ADORATION. ugh ugh I love her so much, I want to go back in time and beat myself up for being so negative about her. Particularly because I can see that I was just hating on her because she was a ~romantic interest~ in the Doctor's life, and I was/(am) such a stupid, dyed-in-the-wool Nine-and-Ten/Rose girl that I reacted to River legitimately in the way that J2 people sometimes react to their girlfriends/wives. I AM ASHAMED OF MYSELF.

I would just like to state for the record that the time loop in the TARDIS with River endlessly running to the door and then looking over her shoulder contains my favourite shot in all of New Who. I feel like I should write odes about River Song, except I don't think I could do my ~feelings~ justice.

OKAY ENOUGH OF THAT, THAT WAS RIDICULOUS. I DON'T EVEN GO HERE.

Ten: ~complicated feeeeeeeelings~ I WANT TO LIKE HIM. AND YET. jhasgfhjsdgj you know that vid to Handlebars? I think watching that makes me love Ten. I love the concept of Ten. I just. Whyyyy. ugh inarticulacy. I would gladly fill Russel Davies' house with bees. - THIS.

I would love to hear your thoughts on the Doctor and a love interest!

ALSO HI HI I AM SORRY YOU ARE SO BUSY DDD: I WON'T TELL ANYONE I SAW YOU. I AM TALKING TO YOUR HOLOGRAM, CLEARLY, WHILE THE REAL YOU IS OFF NOT BEING ON THE INTERNET.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I SEE AND PARTICIPATE IN YOUR DOCTOR WHO RELATED CAPSLOCK. UGH UGH UGH I DIDN'T REALISE QUITE HOW MUCH I WANTED IT BACK IN MY LIFE UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY AND NOW NEXT WEEKEND SEEMS LIKE EONS AWAY.

hom nom nom cake. I swear this fic is going to destroy my teeth; I legitimately cannot write it without a metric ton of chocolate on standby.

brb stealing Doctor Who icons. ♥

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

ahsgdhjsjgf lolol my taste in music is so ridiculous. Whenever anyone is like "oh hey, let me look through your iPod" I am just like 'OKAY BUT DON'T JUDGE ME". There's Miley Cyrus on that thing. I feel like the Mumford and Sons and Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens etc songs on there are just like "why must we associate with this music?". ANYWAY.

Where are you going on your travels? ugh ugh I am so jealous, I would love to be going abroad soon.

(and ahgsjhsgd thank you, and I hope whenever you do read part three, you enjoy that too :D)

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I didn't like River Song at all when she first cropped up in s4 but then she won my heart and all of my ~feelings~ by the finale of s5. I think it was somewhere around "honey, I'm home" // "and what sort of time do you call this?" and then by the time it got to her staring down the Dalek, I was just reduced to WHAT DO I DO WITH MY HAAAAAANDS.

(lolol your icon is excellent!)

[anysomething.livejournal.com]

it's okay, I've got Mumford and Arcade Fire and Sufjan sharing space with Justin Bieber, so. Similar territory.

I'm going to the UK! Very exciting. :)

[daisysusan.livejournal.com]

I DID NOT REALIZE HOW MUCH I MISSED IT UNTIL THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL AND THEN I WAS LIKE HOLY SHIT WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING IN MY LIFE WITHOUT ELEVEN AND AMY AND RORY? NEXT WEEKEND IS SO FAR AWAY. I NEED A FIX NOW.

Haha nice. I'm mostly afraid of eating anything sweet at all while I read it because going into a diabetic coma seems like a serious risk. Hmm ... maybe I should go into a diabetic coma for the next week and a half so that Doctor Who will come quicker ...

:D

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

\0/ The UK is where I am, I hope you enjoy it here! I mean, I am not in an exciting part of it, but still. :D

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

I DID NOT REALISE HOW MUCH I MISSED IT UNTIL I WATCHED THIS (http://vimeo.com/19910945) AND NOW I NEEEEEED IT.

Also, someone needs to take the chocolate away from me, I have zero self-control. WHICH MIGHT EXPLAIN WHY THE BAKERY AU IS SO LONG, BUT NVM.

<3

[ilovemybaby.livejournal.com]

Hi there!!
Sorry to come in here like this, it's just that I basically come here everyday to see if there's more of the BAKERY AU, and if there isn't I just read it all over again, lol! But anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I'm Brazilian, so if you need any help with Portuguese I can definately help you! <33333

Just send me a PM, ok?? I'll LOVE to help you with this masterpiece!!!

♥

PS: Hope I didn't sound too stalkerish in this! LOL!