Yellow gingham on the bed, remember?

Joyeux Noel to e'eryone who celebrates. ♥

For Yuletide this year I got a lovely, bittersweet little Scarlet Pimpernel fic, The Truth of Her Face. Thank you, nonnie!

The challenge seems to have gone off this year with hardly any hitches at all, aside from some on the participant end of things (whoa, that is a lot of defaulters); overall it's been great, however, and I hope everyone's having a good holiday season whether or not you participate.

Features of our New Year's hotel room:

- a glass-walled bathroom it took us a little too long to find the button for that raised/lowered the privacy screen
- a Mile High Intimacy Kit
- A Matter of Substance Abuse
- bathrobes!!
- Dear Dave (Strider?) (?????)
- disorientation

Happy New Year's, everyone! It turns out dancing in shoes with treads is actually a bad idea, but who gives a fuck. It turns out the McKittrick has a whole garden of Weeping Angels, including one I was not completely sure was not a person and kept edging around, which was super-effective. It turns out I know all the words to Lady Gaga's "Judas." I'm not done doing YT recs, so those will be going up sooner or later, probably closer to later, but happy YT too. I wrote Turn Back, O Man, a The Three Musketeers fic for eldiablito-sf. Thanks for the request, recipient, I'm glad you liked it!

There's a free channel here called "Practical Money Advice."

You can always tell when I'm trying to get something done on an actual project, because fanfic suddenly happens.

Title: my body aches to breathe your breath
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters/Pairing: Riza Hawkeye/Roy Mustang
Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: She is the Colonel's man.
Wordcount: 1283
Notes: Can also be found at AO3.

( would I spend forever here and not be satisfied? )

I guess this is what happened instead of my theory post. (This is also partially what happened while the internet was too down to do internet-necessitating work-work a few hours ago.) Also, this is what keeps happening instead of being actually productive writing-wise, so instead you can have -- this? :D

Title: Where There's Smoke
Fandom: Lackadaisy
Characters/Pairing: Dorian Zibowski/Mitzi May, Mordecai Heller/Mitzi May (sort of)
Rating: PG
Summary: Zib collected friends like ornamental tchotchkes, but even he could admit that he never befriended the New Yorker. What was there to befriend?
Wordcount: 4169
Notes: I don't know what possessed me to think I had even a snowball's chance in hell at writing Dorian Zibowski correctly. Also at AO3 as usual.

( Zib collected friends like ornamental tchotchkes, but even he could admit that he never befriended the New Yorker. )

So, AO3 users, I need help again.  In the continuing adventures of Kinda Damning Questions About Tags And When To Use Them, does anyone have a simple rubric of what qualifies as "Graphic Depictions of Violence?"  Properly using the archive warnings is pretty important to me, you see, but it's occurring to me trying to label something new that... what constitutes "graphic" exactly?  Like, the others are fairly self-explanatory -- "Major Character Death," "Rape/Non-Con," "Underage," okay, those should probably do what they say on the tin, if your story contains one of these things you check the ticky box and move on.  But the archive warning doesn't say "Depictions of Violence."  It says "Graphic Depictions of Violence."  It's like a double frigging rainbow.  What does it mean?

I am starting to sound like I'm trying to evade the violence warning.  I'm really not -- I'm happy to slap it on, I just don't want to misrepresent what my fic actually contains.  Like, obviously not every fic where one person punches another person gets this tag.  On the other hand, my one AO3 story so far that's warranted it had a vivid description of what someone's head looked like after multiple gunshots, which seemed like a -- ... no... brainer.

... anyway, Graphic Depictions of Violence: what gives?  Does it matter how grievous the damage resulting?  Would a loving description of a papercut count?  What about a cursory one of a decapitation?  (There are no papercuts or decapitations in my story.)  I've heard a "if it could trigger someone" standard put forth, which is about as useful as a chocolate teapot, frankly, triggers are as wide-ranging and personal as anything and I'd be arrogant to try to set forth a universal bar for it.  However, barring that, I'm really not sure what the going standard is.  So would someone more active in fandom, or AO3 fandom, care to help me out? :D

Also, why do I keep writing things that need goddamned archive warnings?