We're gonna run out of cake at this rate

JESUS CHRIST, YOU GUYS, ALL THOSE HEARTS, I CAN'T.

YOU KNOW I LOVE ALL OF YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, YES? ♥♥♥♥♥ UGH WITH YOU LOT ON THE CASE HOW IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO FEEL ANYTHING OTHER THAN BLISSFULLY HAPPY? :')

Thank you. Seriously. This outpouring of love makes me all twitterpated and stammering and so, so loved. :') YOU ARE ALL THE BEST THINGS EVER.

Special thanks go out to Anonymouse, who made me giggle giddily into my coffee this morning and blush like a fourteen-year-old girl. My first Valentine, likely ever (at least in recent memory), and it came from no other than Clint bloody Barton. ANONYMOUSE, YOU KNOW ME SO WELL. :DDDDDDDD <333333

Anyway. The point of this post is that I have been overwhelmed with support and love and everything that is good in the world. And I'm feeling heaps better this morning, you'll be pleased to hear. :) That ought to be the worst of it for this month. There's always one day that I want to fucking die, and after that it tends to get settled. Now just the pains and aches to look forward to -- which, as many people will know, are much easier to deal with -- yes, it hurts, but it doesn't make you want to crawl under a pillow fort and never come out.

RIGHT. OKAY. TODAY IS NOT A GOOD DAY FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, FOR REASONS. And I seem to have recovered just in time to do something about it. The other day radioaches and I were talking about how WE SHOULD TOTALLY HAVE A FANDOM 14TH FEB THING WHERE ALL THE SINGLE LADIES (AND GENTS) DO SHIT FOR EACH OTHER. Because frankly I'm sick to death of Valentine's day. I WISH TO CELEBRATE SINGLES DAY. And radioaches said that VALENTINE'S DAY IS BORING AND IT SHOULD BE "WE'RE ALL AWESOME" DAY ANYWAY.

SO I THOUGHT WE SHOULD. WHO'S WITH ME?

Fun fact for you: in my country, today isn't just Valentine's Day; it's also Trifon Zarezan, which is the day set aside on the calendar that celebrates vineyards, pubs, pub landlords, anyone involved in the production of Wine, in whatever role. (Also Gardeners' Day, and, strangely enough, Falconers' Day, but those kind of lurk in the background mostly.) IT IS ALSO A DAY WHEN WE TRADITIONALLY GET PISSED. BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ALLOWED -- IT'S EXPECTED. A bit like St Paddy's Day. :D I JUST THOUGHT I'D THROW IT OUT THERE. Three guesses which holiday I choose to celebrate. ;P A decision not entirely dictated by the fact that in my family we make our own wine, which is delicious, let me tell you. <3

ANYWAY. THIS IS YOUR INVITATION TO SPAM THIS POST WITH PRETTY THINGS, THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT TODAY, ABOUT YOURSELVES. LET'S CELEBRATE HOW FUCKING AWESOME WE ARE, YES? <33333

I'LL START. PREDICTABLY, WITH MY VALENTINE -- BECAUSE FFFFFFFFFFFF YES, CLINT BABY, I WILL BE YOUR VALENTINE. (DON'T WORRY, PHIL, YOU CAN COME WITH, HO YUS. ;P)

( ALLLLL THE PRETTIES )

IN CONCLUSION: ISN'T THIS THIS CUTEST THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN???



HAPPY 'WE'RE AWESOME' DAY, EVERYONE. <33333

OKAY OKAY YOU GUYS, JUST. You can blame/thank delicatale for those, because she was the one to shove them in my eyeballs, AND NOW I CANNOT LOOK AWAY. BECAUSE. JUST. Okay, look, y'all know what happens when I lay my eyes on a sharp-dressed BAMF, don't you? YEAH. SO. I thought these ought to be shared with the world. YOU'RE WELCOME.



( ONE MORE )

...AND NOW WE SHOULD ALL WRITE COMMENT-SUIT!PORN FIC HERE. AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY ALSO STARRING PHIL MF COULSON. BECAUSE. LOOK AT HIM. I WANT TO PEEL HIM NAKED AND PUT MY MOUTH ALL OVER THAT.

LOOK, CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A MINUTE. OR TWO. OR A FEW, I'M DOWN WITH THAT, THAT IS A-OKAY WITH ME. somehowunbroken, THANKS I BLAME YOU. (Could be considered NWS depending on your job -- it contains partial nudity of the bare chest variety. And his eyes. His 'fuck me' eyes, THEY NEED A WARNING, TOO.)

( SEBASTIAN STAN, TAKE ME NOW )

WHAT. I MEAN. WHAT. WHAT. HOW IS THIS REAL LIFE, I SWEAR. I keep thinking of Bucky coming back (look, just imagine his arm all metal-y), and after the whole reunion thing, and a few months of fighting with the Avengers, and fuck, he just wants to have a beer and crash, pal, what do you want from him? And so he does, and then Steve walks in and, and sees that.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

Most important things first: the h50_exchange story is done!! \0/ \0/ Just got it back from SuperBeta, and she says just a few minor clean-up-type things, so. Yay! Mind you, I'm still apprehensive about the cop!Erik AU reaction. Gah, I have to stop doing that to myself. D:

Speaking of, I decided that MICHAEL'S FACE would be a good thing to watch all yesterday evening. And so I rewatched Basterds and 300, where he is FUCKINF FABULOUS. And er. I... cried. To 300. AGAIN. JFC, BRAIN. I know it's made for a target audience of 12 year old boys, okay, I DO. But just akjgkfjgfkjg STELIOS. *_______* YOU HAVE THE RIGHT OF IT, JAMES, LOVE. It kind of helps that I am rather partial to Gerard Butler, with that face and that accent and that fjghfjsgh EVERYTHING.

Also now searches for Michael Fassbender on Google Images throw up James McAvoy as well. YOU TWO, WHAT EVEN ARE YOU. :D :D :D AND ALSO I CANNOT STOP STARING AT MICHAEL'S FACE. JESUS. I now have an inkling why I always found Azazeal SO FUCKING SEXY in HEX.

Er. I had... other things to say, before I got distracted by HIS FACE, CHRIST. The rest of him isn't too bad, either. ;P

Oh, yes. No hot water this morning, so no shower, and therefore no proper waking up. My head's still a bit fuzzy, but it's getting better. Cannot bloody type, my nails have got too long again. First order of the day is to CUT THEM THE FUCK DOWN. D: And work out my next project. I spent Friday coming up with a bajillion ideas for the X-Pride sequel (aka the XMFC/P&P debacle that hijacked my brain a couple months back. Zarah5 coined the X-Pride thing, AND NOW I CAN'T CALL IT ANYTHING ELSE). There is much Regency-style domesticity and Getting To Know Each Other and Falling In Love Properly and Learning To Live With Each Other and awkwardness and Being Married and Husbandddddssss. And there is also a cello. YOU'LL SEE. I think my brain exploded from sheer GUH when I thought THAT one up. :D :D /tease

Also there is this story where Erik Doesn't Like People (shocking, I know), and the only thing he tolerates is his cat, Ferrum. And then Ferrum gets out somehow one day, and ends up being found by a certain floppy-haired, blue-eyed Professor (who can kind of talk to animals. Mentally). IDK whether to make it with or without powers yet. This basically started out as a prompt on the 1stclass_kink meme and evolved into-- well, this. I'm thinking it's going to be a bit of fluffy light relief after the angst of the cop!Erik AU. It could also be referred to as The one where Erik is taciturn and grouchy but kind of falls for Charles hard and tries to be Nice to him even though he has no idea how to do that. It--doesn't go well, at first, but he's a quick study.

On the H50 front, I have the three yca_auction stories to write, so I'm not short on ideas yet. I have one kind of drafted and started, then I have the one where Steve and Danny are Fake Husbands for the sake of their separate businesses (I am seriously looking forward to tackling that one! :D) The third one I haven't really thought about yet. And then I have whatever insane thing blindsides me at two in the morning. WHICH I KNOW WILL HAPPEN, OKAY. >.>;;

I have recently realised that I can write something in two different fandoms at once -- it's kind of a way to, IDK, take a break from one with the other? Sort of. To take a break, I've been reading a rare paring (Mycroft/Lestrade) in the Sherlock fandom in the past couple of days -- I can basically place the blame for that on stardust_made and this INCREDIBLE story arc by sheffiesharpe in equal measures. This series, though. MY HEART. I am hugely impressed by the sheer quality of writing in it, and the masterful storytelling. It could almost be original fic, if you desregard the BBC Sherlock references. The depth of characterisation is simply staggering for a pairing that has about 160 stories on AO3. I actually find it jarring to read other Mystrade stories now, because I keep expecting them to be this good, and not many are -- not to mention that each universe is unique, and so Lestrade isn't the French-cuisine-cooking, karaoke-singing, The Clash-obsessed former punk with a heart of gold, and there certainly isn't his family in New York, which is almost the best part about this particual arc. Almost, but not quite. Because the way that Mycroft and Lestrade find their way to being together is just breathtakingly beautiful. IDEK, this story arc just speaks to me.

Aaaaanyway. Ahem. Sorry about that, got a bit carried away there. >.>;; Here, have a pretty:


David Hockney, 2010 ‘Untitled’ created using an iPad and the Brushes app

And another: check this out, seriously. It's Jizzy doing spoken poetry, and Jesus, that girl, I honestly don't even know how she's real some days. :')

And finally, a meme! Which I know everyone and their cat has seen all over the place, BUT I saw perspi doing it and I COULD NOT RESIST, OKAY. /0\

Directions:

1. Reply to this post with 'hot cocoa', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR ICONSES.

( Under a cut for those who have had enough of this rambling already )

I got two words for you. CHEST HAIR.

( Nnnnngh )

Shocking, I know. It's like I'm rediscovering the wheel. But I'm super energised today after another night of 10-odd hours in a row. I shall do ALL THE THINGS!! And maybe even write! \0/ After I come back from shopping with my mother, however. We've like three christenings that we've been invited to attend, and we need presents for them.

Let's see now, to make up for my crappy mood and moaning of the past week, here's another edition of HAPPY-MAKING THINGS! :D


1) THIS IS MY FAVOURITEST GIF RIGHT NOW.



WHICH, COME ON. I MEAN. LOOK AT THEM. And I STILL haven't seen that interview! D: NO WONDER I'M MISERABLE. And quoththewriter is A Star and has spammed me with a bunch more of them!! You can find them here! :D


2) Again, courtesy of my pledge brothers, I give you this video, which, seriously, I was laughing so hard last night that there were tears leaking everywhere. That dude is stoned out of his mind, I'm thinking.

Obviously the epic mocking is coming from Logan. Mainly. Head canon.


3) Chapter Five of Hand in hand is the only way to land is up, for those following it! :D There's maybe another two installments that I'm thinking of, which makes me sad because no more awesomesauce red_rahl art, but y'know, all good things and all that. Also, THIS THING IS NOW OVER 9k, WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN.


EDIT: OH OH AND ALSO.

4) Arthur and Eames as bunnies, courtesy of the ever-wonderful red_rahl! THE MOST HAPPY-MAKING! :D





Er, okay, so this is an abridged edition of happy-making things. I imagine there will be more tomorrow! For now I have to eat and go out, so. Happy weekend, everyone! <3

YOU GUYS. I JUST. I CAN'T.

( LOOK AT HIS ADORABLE FAAAAAACE!! )

THANK YOU delicatale FOR BRINGING THIS INTO MY LIFE. I NEED TO STARE AT THIS FOR A WHILE, JUST SO ITS UTTER SWEETNESS MAKES ANY KIND OF SENSE OTHER THAN 'ALEX MARRY ME NOW'.

Who wants to bet that Danny sees Steve in this exact situation and goes, aklhgajfhgg /big pile of mush/ and only ribs him a little? And Steve's all defensive and stuff, until he sees the softness in Danny's eyes when he calls Steve a goof, and then he's all HEARTSEYES at him. <333

So because zarah5 and me have been maybe a liiiittle traumatised by all the angst in the finale (eggs notwithstanding), and wanted ALL THE HAPPY from the past season to make us feel the Steve/Danny endorphins like we're used to, we decided to compile our Top Ten McDanno moments of the series so far. ETA: zarah5's ones are here!

So then I sat down trying to sort those out, and my initial list was thirty moments long, and those were just the LOL ones. This is maybe quite hard to do WHEN THIS SHOW IS SO GOOD AT GIVING US MCDANNO. I have AGONISED over the choices, but finally I have whittled them down to just ten. ARGH ARGH IT WAS SO HARD.

So here we go!

( Cut for leeeeeeength and many, many pics! )

( England's green and pleasant land )


Hmmm, I thought I had some of the fields and Stonehenge, but I guess they were on the other people's cameras. I have loads printed out, from the pre-digital cameras age. I hope these do for you, Aurrai-chan!