Here's the final product! For those of you at mary_mcawesome, you've most of these drabbles, but I finally finished the little project. In honor of Mary's birthday I wrote 100 words for 11 of my favorite characters of hers, like I did a couple of years ago for Sarah Clarke. Mary's played a lot of incredible women so I didn't get to touch on them all, but hopefully you'll enjoy those that I did. A big thank you to those that have commented already! Title is taken from "Be Careful", by Patty Griffin.



( All The Girls That You'll Never See )

This woman gets hotter each year that goes by, so as you can imagine, I'm very excited to see what this year will bring. - averita, April 28, 2008.

( Let's see what it brought, shall we? )

Halloween pictures :)



Guess who I am! Guess, guess!

That took 70 hairpins, btw. I don't have bangs.

( A few more )

We had a pretty awesome time. Ate two trays of sushi, watched scary movies, fought over who got to give the little kids candy, wound up sprawled around the house as we fell asleep in various places...we wandered the neighborhood a bit. I live in a very conservative subdivision - on my street, there are two Obama/Biden signs (including ours) and at least 20 McCain/Palin - and then there are three that just say 'Sarah!' in huge letters. (We visited all three of those houses.) We hung out at my friend Jeremy's for awhile, and just basically had a good time. I love these guys :)

I hope everyone else had a good Halloween! I know I'm not the only Sarah Palin on my friends list, so it's been fun looking at pictures of you guys :) I got plenty of comments at school, even though I didn't have bangs then, just a half-assed bun (I can't do my own hair, it's insane.) The librarians were dressed up as Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain, and I know them both pretty well - actually I supplemented Ms. Polley's costume with some of my Obama pins/bracelets/etc. - and they took a picture with me, so that was fun. Only problem was that I couldn't find pink devil horns, and even if I had, by the time I had my hair done I wasn't about to risk messing it up. Anyone who knew me got it, I guess.

The accent? Did not happen. Hybrid southern/chiCAgo, with a very loud voice and strange emphasis on words. I gave up on that pretty quickly.

Two days. It's strange - I'm literally a knot of nerves but at the same time, over the past two or three weeks I've started becoming indifferent to pretty much everything...maybe thickening my skin or something, I don't know. I can't imagine anything past Tuesday night, no matter what the outcome is...my mom, however, has a weekly appointment with our therapist every Wednesday morning. I imagine that can't hurt, this week.

Quick question - I'd love to hear responses anytime, just for interest, but the presentation is tomorrow. So if anyone can respond to this, I'd appreciate it! (I'm not a procrastinator, it just occured to me that this would be a fun addition to what I already have planned.)

Anyway, tomorrow I'm doing a presentation on Fanfiction at NOCCA - which, as some of you may know, is a prestigious writing program that focuses on high quality literature (i.e. one of my teachers has not only not read Harry Potter, but is incredibly derisive towards fanfiction in general, though I doubt she knows much about it.) So I thought I'd get some feedback from those who read it.

Here's a little questionaire, if that would be easier, or you can just ramble. All questions are optional, but would be helpful. Some are N/A, depending on your answers to others.

Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Who are some of your favorite authors?
Name some of your favorite books:
What fandoms are you currently involved in?
How does fandom enhance your experience? Does it?
Do you write fanfiction? Why or why not?
Do you write original fiction? If not, why fanfiction? If so, does writing fanfiction help with your original work?
In what ways do you think writing fanfiction is easier than writing original fiction? In what ways can it be harder?
Has writing fanfiction made you consider writing original fiction in ways you hadn't before?
What do you look for in a quality fanfiction?
Why do you think that it has become such a huge part of fandom?
What are some issues you have with fanfiction?
What genres do you prefer? Do ships make a difference in what you read?
Any final thoughts?

Any recommendations would be great as well, either fics or articles about fanfiction.

I'd like to crosspost this to some HP communities (I'm focusing mainly on HP because it's a series everyone in my class is familiar with, and I can certainly talk about that particular fandom for, like, a college semester) but few of them are very high quality. (This is NOT to say that if you're not familiar with the HP fandom that I don't want you to fill this out - variety is great.) But if any of you guys want to pass this on to people you know/trust in the next few hours, feel free!

You can comment here, or email me at aberaboo@msn.com. I'll leave this post open to the public.

For anyone interested. 5 poems - 4 are some variation of a sonnet, and one is a syllabic.

( Reflections on a Wasted Summer )

As I was saying, I've been rocking the whole nostalgic thing lately!

( Rising )

Written right after Gustav.

( Seventh Grade: Vegetarian on Dissection Day )

( Sleeping )

We visited Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii in 2007 (I talk about it a bit here - scroll down to June 11), so that inspired this.

( Traitor: A Reprise )

*cuddles Nina* This is a sequal of sorts to Interrogator, which I wrote last year. I'm not happy with this one yet.

This is due tomorrow, so suggestions/feedback are always welcome, but especially for the next few hours!

Public entry, so real life friends can see it.

Title: Innocent Faces
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Through Exodus 2
Summary: 'It’s almost disconcerting, she wrote in one letter to Bill, both the normality and the wrongness of it.'
A/N: Fic for redoren over at adama_roslin's Christmas in July exchange. She requested a Roslin fic set on New Caprica.

( Laura missed a lot of things, those long months in space. )

My lip is no longer taking over my face! Now it's more Angelina Jolie-like than anything, which I'm okay with. It's pretty chapped though, and the inside of the lip as well, because it was exposed to dry air for so long. I'm on a cocktail of meds, which seems to be helping. I went to the allergist today and he thinks that all of this is somehow related to the mono, because they started at the same time - itchy legs, random swellings and hives, etc. It could be that the mono triggered something, or that it weakened my immune system and something else triggered it. Anyway, we'll see what else happens with that.

My brother's birthday was on Tuesday. He's a teenager now! He's obsessed with Batman right now, the Joker in particular, so he got mostly action figures and about 10 Joker t-shirts. He's having his birthday party tonight, a few friends in a hotel room. They went and saw The Dark Knight. Go figure. My other brother and I went in on some video game (I just paid, I don't know the first thing about video games!) Christoffer (brother 2) has his birthday in September but I ordered him a gift about a month ago because it was too good to pass up. Tricia Helfer has a store on her website where you can get personalized autographs, and the money goes to an animal rescue charity. (Have I mentioned that she's awesome?) Christoffer loves Six, so I got him an autograph wishing him a happy birthday.

We're leaving for Maine on Saturday! :)

Title: Life For The Living
Fandom: BSG/24
Summary: A thank you to _ila_ for the lovely header and the yummy 6/9 goodies she's been providing me! *hugs* She spoils me, seriously. I was working on a Caprica/Nina Earth!fic, but that didn't really go anywhere, so this is attempt number 2. It's not quite femslash but it's about the Natalie/Nina relationship after leaving the fleet.

( Nina recognized the small planet the moment it came into view. )

_ila_ just made my day!



This was inspired first by Number Nine, and then more recently by this little ficlet I wrote for her, ( here. )

I'm going to be so depressed when the actual Number 9 is revealed. This is a fun crackship!

If anyone wants to pass on any further fic ideas, go for it, because I want to write them but can't come up with anything that isn't ridiculously smutty. The 6/9 pairing was SO not intentional but it isn't helping.

Mmm, now I want a Six/Nine icon. (And I CAN'T TYPE NINE. I KEEP TYPING NINA. BOO.)

And while we're talking about Nina - Sarah Clarke is MY hero.

TM: Who are your heroes? Why?

Sarah: Anyone who is crusading to help the environment. Because even though it is getting more politically correct to care about the earth.there are still only a handful of people who are actually making a difference and changing the way we think about ourselves and our relationship to the planet.

This girl is GOLD.

Joining the Post-Six of One fic party. It hasn't been beta-ed because I wanted to get it posted before the episode tonight (which is kind of redundant because I'm sure most of you have seen it by now!)

Title: Meaning
Word Count: 748
Summary: She has walked to her death many times before, each time with her eyes clear and chin held high. She is not afraid of death, but she is afraid. [spoilers for 4x02]

( Here. )

Sorry for the cheesiness at the ending, but they deserve some, yeah?

- Greg Itzin live is hardcore. And imagining Jeannie clucking like a chicken was a ton of fun. (Would have been more fun to SEE Jeannie clucking like a chicken, but I'm not bitter or anything.) There were these scenes with Jean's character bantering back and forth with Greg's and in a way it's so good that she had to drop out because we would have been dead a few million times over.

- This Greek place we went to - I don't think I've ever eaten that much in my life. There are still leftovers at Alice's place, two days and many servings later.

- Hollywood! WE FOUND EJO'S STAR ON THE WALK OF FAME. It was brilliant. firstlady1408 put her "I Love Laura" pin in the 'O' in 'Olmos' and we took about a million pictures, LMAO. We got one of me in my 'Roslin/Airlock 08' t-shirt lined up with it too. This group of guys walked by and looked at us like we were crazy, lying all over it. I wonder if they knew who he is, that would make it even more bizarre, I'm sure.

- Watching 'Six of One' with actual BSG addicts! And squeeing over a certain scene with firstlady1408 - and not discussing it with tallulah2 and lostonbroadway, hee. For that matter, Jess and I had more live squeefests over the course of two days than I think I've ever had in my life.

- Watching Samantha Who? on a GIANT ASS TV. This week's episode ranks right up there with the car one. Drunk!Jean is pretty much kickass. And she can do angsty Martha drunk and hilarious Regina drunk and I CRY BOTH TIMES, but for different reasons. Plus, she pulls off the garish hooker makeup.

- Photofests all weekend long! I don't have a camera so I'm counting on everyone else to upload theirs (hinthint)

- THE CONCERT. HOLY SHIT. We got in line around seven (I wore my Roslin/Airlock t-shirt again) and it was like a fandom heaven. I've never been around so many BSG fans! Technically I've never been around ANY hardcore BSG fans in real life. We spent about an hour in line just talking with people. Jess and I were going freaking crazy, LMAO. I recognized aka_katya from a picture she posted on battlestar_blog so we went and said hi to her and pretty much spent the whole night together, hee. We were right up front!

- Bear McCreary is a freaking musical genius, and his brother is hot. One of the first pieces played was the Adama and Roslin theme, and Jess and I went freaking crazy. It's SO PRETTY LIVE OMG. Like, I had shivers. (Through most of the songs, actually, but this one in particular!) There was this couple standing by us and they were like "Oh, god, these are the fangirls, aren't they?" and Jess turned and said "Yes, we are!" Hee, it was great.

- James Callis is amazing. Everyone went crazy when he came out, of course. He was dressed in this little pinstriped vest thing, a white shirt, and tight black pants! He was very nice and totally hilarious. At one point my dad went to the bathroom and RAN INTO HIM. Towards the end, during the encore, we noticed him standing on this balcony and completely rocking out and clapping like a fangirl to the music. It was fantastic. And he SANG. He played this song he wrote on the keyboard (the band played as well) and sang this song called "Spooky". I'm pretty sure Michelle recorded it, so it'll be up at some point. James compared playing for Bear as the guy who invented Chopsticks playing for Beethoven. It was brilliant, I don't remember the last time I've laughed so hard.

- Wait, yes I do. They played a video/documentary type thing:
The Secrets of
Behind the Scenes of
The Making of
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
(Revealed)

It reminded me of David Eick's "Billy Gets No Respect." It starts with Bear trying to get into the s2 wrap party but no one knows who he is. Then it cuts to clips of the production staff: "Music? What music?" "Oh, yeah, Stu [Philips] is awesome! No one could ever replace him." "What, you mean the Bob Dylan thing?"

Then Bear goes to James Callis' house to interview him. James opens the door in a BSG bathrobe (LOL) and is like "Who are you? How did you get my address?" Then they talk for a few minutes and James is like, "Yeah, I have a song that Ron's dying for me to play on the show. A theme or something." So he goes and shows Bear the music, and Bear plays on the piano while James warms up his vocal chords - which was hilarious - and sings in this operatic soprano voice "Gaius Baltar..." and then starts kind of headbanging "is a motherfucking genius." Bear is like WTF? and James says "Oh, yeah, it really should be motherfrakking, shouldn't it? Hee!

Then the writers - Jane Espenson says "Oh, yeah, it's wonderful. I've never worked on a show with wild animals before." Hee! Then she starts talking about circus music.

The best part, of course, were the cast interviews. It started with Jamie Bamber who was like "Who? What? I have no idea what you're talking about, sorry." The interviewer just tells him to lie and Jamie says "Okay - um, American or British?" Then it cuts to him in an American accent saying "Oh, yeah, Bear is fantastic. The show wouldn't be what it is without him, and without his music," or something like that - just raving about Bear. Then he stops and says in his British accent "Was that okay?"

Katee does pretty much the same thing, raves and then says "Does that sound too fake? I don't want it to sound fake, should I try again?" She was adorable - and NOT THERE. She was supposed to be at the concert! :( When the interviewer goes to someone else she says "You know, you really need to stop putting us on the spot like this. No one knows who the hell this guy is."

EDDIE AND MICHAEL. HOLY SHIT. BEST THING EVER. They're talking - in uniform - outside a trailer, laughing and everything, and then the interviewer asks about Bear and the music, and Eddie just kind of smiles and goes "Music? Battlestar doesn't have any music!" Michael looks all annoyed and the interviewer keeps saying "You know, Bear, Bear McCreary!" And - this is the part where I died - Eddie kind of cracks up and IMITATES A FREAKING BEAR. He does the paws and this weirdass half growl/half MOO thing. He does it like three times. It was GENIUS. Then, later, he says "You know, that's so cute that they call him Bear." My dad recorded it, it'll probably be bad quality but I'll try to post it later.

No Mary. Boo.

Cut to Bear, who's all depressed about not getting into the wrap party. He puts his head down on the desk, his hair all over his face, and then: "One Season Later." Everyone cracked up, LMAO. It was awesome.

- All Along the Watchtower - I was shaking. Hearing that live was unbelievable.

- After the band bowed and left, the crowd clapped for about five minutes, and then, suddenly, "So Say We All!" started. I WAS PART OF A SO SAY WE ALL. Never thought that would happen. It lasted for a good while, too! They finally came out for an encore. By the end of it I was barely standing but it was such an amazing time.

- After the concert, my dad and Alice took off, but Jess, Leigh Anne, Michelle, Leanne, Katya, and I stayed. We waited in line for a good while and got to talk to James Callis! We told him where we were all from (England, Texas, Louisiana, and Australia) and he just stares at us and says "Fuck." Hee! He was very sweet, took a picture with all of us. When the camera was about to go off he says "This is Baltar's dream come true!" SLKJFSA. The pic was actually adorable, Jess is going to upload it when she gets back home. He said he liked my shirt, he could only see the front, so I turned around and showed him the back and he and Bear both cracked up and James gave me a peace sign, LMAO. Bear asked if it was us who went crazy at the A/R theme and we were like, there's a slight possibility.

- So the concert was amazing, but of course the total highlight was seeing everyone. I'd never met Jess or Leanne before, and they're both fantastic (and have fun accents!) Jess and I spent most of the weekend in a state of fangirl squee, which was a blast, because when I try to squee with anyone in real life that doesn't work out too well, hee. Leigh Anne and Michelle are always so sweet and great to see, and Alice is just a saint for putting us all up. It was the most fun I've had in a long, long time. We're planning our next trip to Tennessee in September for a certain convention!

- And now, I have a shitload of homework that I really should have been doing instead of spamming your flists. Pictures/videos to come.

I'm so tired. I haven't had a decent night's sleep in ages. It's a mix of things, I think - I'm so burnt out from school, the year is almost over and the teachers are piling it on; I've been taking new medicine that is just fucking with my mind; I just can't sleep. It's making me mad. Yesterday I was supposed to get started on an essay and I just stared at the paper for about ten minutes and couldn't form a coherant thought. I got so frustrated that I went to the bathroom and literally had a mini-freak out. It sounds so fucking dramatic, and I hate the drama queen shit, but I'm just going insane.

But there have been two things getting me through the week: BSG is on tonight, and LA TOMORROW. It'll be so good to see everyone!

In honor of BSG CAPSLOCK FRIDAY I bring crack. Seriously, it's not gonna happen and I wrote it in about fifteen minutes in American History. But there is Laura. SPOILERS for 4x01 and speculation for 4x02.

( “Kara,” she says. She is a politician, negotiating. )

Very very belated birthday fic for _ila_ (and another one coming for im_a_yogi!). I remembered you liked the bit I used as the second section in this piece so I expanded it and gave it a bit more plot. It became kind of a 'what you didn't see' between s2-s3. I hope you enjoy!

Title: Rain
Rating: PG
Summary: It was during these nights of staring at the blank white wall and counting her breaths that she’d remember.

( The rain trailed down the car windows, and she followed one of the drops with her eyes, watching as it slithered sideways and diagonal, eventually meeting another drop and converging. )


I also have two entries from makelaurahappy! If anyone read the entries, I imagine that one of mine was pretty obvious, hah. Yes, I actually wrote a Laura Roslin/Nina Myers crossover.

This was a fic of many firsts, including my first femslash and my first semi-smut. Probably as far as I'll go for quite awhile, hee.

Title: Number Nine
Rating: Light R
Summary: "Something’s not right about her. She just showed up, out of nowhere, with all of the proper qualifications – why now?”

( Nina Myers was not programmed for seduction. )


This one might go on a little further, I have a few more scenes written, but I'm not sure. It's pretty plotless, just an excuse to write Nina/Laura!

And finally, High/Society BSG.

Title: Silver and Gold
Rating: PG
Summary: “A raptor is requesting permission to land. They say they have an old friend of yours on board – Elinore Walker?”

( Gods, she wanted a break. )

Ahh, I wrote Nina!fic. Sorta. I was working on _ila_'s (very belated) bday fic when this idea came to me. It wouldn't have worked as any longer, it's 200 words as it is, but I've never explored the Nina/Kim relationship and this seemed like an interesting way to do it. It also occured to me that I don't think I've ever seen her on trial. It should be noted that even though both my parents are lawyers, I know nothing about law, so grant me a little leeway :P

Title: Sentencing
Rating: PG

( There is a trial and she is convicted. The whole thing takes about eight months. )

So I feel like an asshole who breaks up with someone right after Valentine's day, but the fact is I really can't keep up with everyone who is on my friends list right now. I just got a bunch of new friends over at laharah's BSG friending meme (*waves*) and it already takes a long, long time to weed through my friends list as it is. So I'm so sorry, but I've gone ahead with my first ever friends/communities cut. The same thing everyone says - it's truly nothing personal, and if anyone really wants to be added back, just comment and let me know. On the same token, if anyone wants me to remove them, comment and I'll do so.

Title: Tension
Author: averita
Rating: PG
Pairing: Adama/Roslin, one-sided Roslin/Zarek
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Spoilers: Through the end of season three.
Summary: The back of his hand brushed against hers, and she looked at him for a split second before turning away, eyes shining once more.
Prompt: I'd very much like an AR story told from Tom's pov. If possible, I would like it to use the big AR moments that Tom is around for - dance at Colonial Day, Bill having Laura in jail, Kobol, then perhaps picking it back up around the election and the escape from New Caprica.
A/N: Secret Santa gift for dixgrl78 over at adama_roslin Thanks to my friend Sarah for the beta.

( Merry Christmas! )

For the Prove Your Love challenge. Jack/Nina, of course :) A different twist on the Santa Barbara weekend. Also, I realize that this is highly unlikely, because (old) Jack is nothing if not honorable, but still. They needed closure.

( Maybe she could have loved him, but when he told her she just nodded and didn't quite meet his eye. )

Also! Birthday fic for tallulah2 and lostonbroadway :D

Title: Ceramic Fruit
Fandom: 24 - Martha/Aaron, of course!

( It wasn't that she didn't like to cook. )

Title: Starry Starry Night
Fandom: BSG - Adama/Roslin (sick of 24! Hee.)

( The stars hung in the air like holes in a black sheet. )