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This has to be the least anonymous anonymous fic I've written since "Incurable (The 'All You Zombies' Remix)," I mean, really.

Title: Deck of Cards
Fandom: Jossverse RPF
Pairings: Miracle&Summer&Felicia&Joss, Miracle/Summer, Joss-->Summer
Summary: After "Epitaph Two," Miracle Laurie wonders if she's going to have to wake up from the dream now.

( Deck of Cards )

So there's been this version of "Cliff, Shag, Marry" going around with surprisingly complicated rules:

1. Comment and I will give you the names of 3 fictional characters or celebrities.
2. Post this meme with your answers.
3. Provide pictures and the names of the three people.
4. Label which you would marry, shag, or cliff.

I got three lists of names, one list each from maechi, kindkit, and netgirl_y2k.

( ROUND ONE: Summer Glau, Dawn Summers, and Joss Whedon )

( ROUND TWO: Emma Frost, Buffy Summers, Hermione Granger )

( ROUND THREE: Dawn Summers, River Tam, Lucy Saxon  )

Comment if you want me to do you. Alternately, if you just want to play regular Cliff/Shag/Marry, leave the names of three characters.

( Random Quiz )

SCC was awesome. Summer was awesome, and still makes me go guh. Next week's episode looks awesome.

The prettylightsfic 2007 archive is live, and I've gotten The Girl in the Box, which is Summer/Sean, and Joss and Nathan are in it being awesome and it does that metatextual thing I love about RPF where it's about Sean/Summer and Simon/River at the same time and truth and fiction bleed into each other.

OMG, Summer fic. Squee. Guh.

(And special thanks to the mods, because I know I was an incredible pain to match.)

Go here to guess which of the fics is mine.

Back from vacation. 'Twas great, especially the spending time with family part and the lazy mornings part, but spending five days out of six at the beach strikes me as more than a little excessive. Also, my skin is this strange color that isn't alabaster white, and I'm not a fan--if Nature wanted my skin that color, it wouldn't have needed to use the sun to do it.

I don't like the sun.

Anyway, here's some links, mostly from Elizabeth or Ari because I've been reading my flist on a pretty extreme filter to catch up on the week I missed (I plan to go back and re-read it on the normal journals-only filter, but I can't make any promises about how much I'll manage to catch up, so if I missed something really interesting feel free to drop me a link) and pretty much all about Joss and/or Summer (because, well, have you read this journal?):

Joss Whedon announces Summer Glau ballet at Comic-Con. “I'm composing the score for a short film, a ballet starring Summer Glau.” The film is called “The Serving Girl,” and Whedon is reportedly in talks with a “great choreographer.” Plus (more reliably?) info on Ripper and on the comics.
New Joss Whedon comic, with original characters, available for free on Myspace. It's titled Sugarshock and seems to be about an all-girl (well, one of them's a robot) rock band who suddenly fall into science fictional circumstances.
Sarah Connor Cast Q&A and Censorship Worries. Summer's quote:

Well, I was just so excited to play this kind of character, because in a way she's much like River in that she's isolated and she's different from the other characters in how she relates and how she communicates. But she's very strong, and she can't genuinely feel emotion. River—that's what she was all about. She was just a jumble of emotions. So I was really, really excited that Josh gave me the opportunity to try this role, and that's something that is going to be the most challenging part about her, I think, is that I want people to be able to relate to her and in some way see themselves in her, just like I try with all my characters.

Story revamped after Virginia Tech shootings. Goes into more detail as to how the pilot will be altered in response to the Virginia Tech shootings (echoes of "Earshot" and "Graduation Day," anyone?). Less about Summer (as in, she's not mentioned at all).
Chronicles' Glau Humanizes Terminator. This article, on the other hand, is completely about Summer--read the whole thing!--and ends in such a way as to prompt Ari to ask "could Joss/Summer be any more canon? Aww."

fox1013 and mimesere met Summer at Comic-Con and made voice posts about it, here and here respectively. As Elizabeth says, "So adorable and awesome. (Summer Glau: also awesome, and adorable.)" ETA: Amy has texts (which are so very Joss/Summer) and her companion has pictures.[/eta]

"Anything But" Ficathon sign-ups end on Aug. 12. For non-penetrative sex.
Characters of Color Multifandom Love-a-thon claims end on Aug. 6th. The writing of prompts that I submitted is highly encouraged (by me).

My Lilah/Eve fic "Unfathomable Youth" has been nominated at the Fang Fetish Awards for "Best of Rare Pairings (Femslash)." Mmm. There's something about college!student!Eve that's just really hot to me. And there's a lot of my favorite pairings (Wes/Dawn, Dawn/Xander, Faith/Dawn, Faith/Wes, Willow/Kennedy, Spike/Dawn, Spike/Darla, Dawn/Angelus) in the other nominated stories, so I'm looking forward to some (hopefully good) reading.

Things to be done today:
1. Go to church. (That one's easy.)
2. Go to [town redacted] to hopefully buy a new laptop.
3. Figure out financial aid for NYU. Also housing and/or transport. (Commuting the many hours from South Jersey to NYU is beginning to look like a neccesity, as deadlines come closer and I have no money and nowhere to live.)
4.  Transcribing the first half of my femslash_minis fic, written on vacation in a paper notebook, and writing the end. It's Dawn/River, which means I have to try especially hard to make it not sound like every fic I've ever written.
5. Watch the bonus material on Race You to the Bottom (starring Amber Benson) so I can send it back to Netflix.

You know, after all that Summer linkspam up-post, I'm really full of squee. So:

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Okay. I feel better now.

One of the reasons I love Colgate is that I still have remote access to their server, which mostly I just use to access the OED and JSTOR and stuff lik that. But it occurred to me to try to post the Summer picspam I wanted to post in a comment on the picspam post here and it occurred to me to try via Colgate. Which worked, and am now using the same process to crosspost here.

( Summer Glau -- 17 images )

( Amanda Sayfreid -- 2 images )

( Krysten Ritter -- 5 images )

( Tina Majorino -- 6 images )

( Misc. Actresses -- Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Resse Witherspoon, Jill Ritchie, Natalie Portman, Alicia Silverstone -- 5 images total )

Title: Bullshit
Fandom: Jossverse RPF
Characters: Joss Whedon, Jewel Staite, Michelle Trachtenberg, Summer Glau, Morena Baccarin
Rating: R
Summary: "Michelle is on the prowl." "Do you think we should warn Summer?" "No, she's a big girl." (Even as you say it, you know it's bullshit.)
A/N: Written for prettylightsfic. The Pretty Lights Archive version (with its corresonding comments) can be found here.

( Bullshit )

Ari, I don't know when you leave for school, so I'm posting this in the hope you'll see it before you go.

( What Jewel Staite Loves about Summer Glau )

( What Kaywinnit Lee Frye Loves about Captain Malcolm Reynolds )

Everyone else, don't forget to play along yourself, here!

. . . movieverse!Kitty Pryde is sitting in her underwear on a hospital gurney surrounded by Storm, Wolverine, and Colossus, who can't figure out how to use the mansion's super-advanced medical equipment ever since Jean died, because all of sudden she [i.e. Kitty]'s become really strong and stuff, and they think it might be a secondary mutation and Kitty's really afraid her skin is going to turn blue? And then an obscure script doctor named Joss Whedon enters with a ballerina named Summer Glau and announces that Kitty is a Vampire Slayer (Summer is one too), because Joss is a member of the Council of Watchers. But Kitty doesn't believe them, so they have to go wake up Tina Majorino and have her vamp out, because Tina is a vampire who was cursed with a soul two-hundred years ago. (All of her "daytime" scenes are done with CGI.) And Joss reports to his boss Alexis Denisof and they have sex and Kitty and/or Summer has sex with Tina who then turns evil and kills everybody, then cackles evilly. Where is this fic?

Because that is completely what RPF should be about.

Here are twenty-five favorite characters from twenty-five different shows, in no particular order.

1. Dawn Summers (Michelle Trachtenbeg) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Fred Burkle (Amy Acker) from Angel
Bonus! Drusilla (Juliet Landau) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
3. River Tam (Summer Glau) from Firefly

Is there really anything else to be said about the above?

4. Player (Justin Shenkarow, Jeffrey Tucker, Joanie Pleasant) from Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? ( Commentary )
5. Dr. Olga Vukavitch (Justina Vail) from Seven Days ( Commentary )
6. Morgan Matthews (Lily Nicksay, Lindsay Ridgeway) from Boy Meets World ( Commentary )
7. Capt. Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) from Star Trek: Voyager ( Commentary )
8. Cindy Mackenzie (Tina Majorino) from Veronica Mars ( Commentary )
9. President Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) in Commander-in-Chief( Commentary )
10. Donna Moss (Janel Moloney) from The West Wing ( Commentary )
11A. Tess Doerner (Summer Glau) from The 4400 ( Commentary )
11B. Maia Skouris née Rutlidge (Conchita Campbell) from The 4400 ( Commentary )
12. Clarissa Darling (Melissa Joan Hart) from Clarissa Explains It All ( Commentary )
13. Alex Mack (Larissa Oleynik) from The Secret World of Alex Mack ( Commentary )
14. Fred Rogers (Himself) from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood ( Commentary )
15. Nona Mecklenberg (Michelle Trachtenberg) from The Adventures of Pete and Pete ( Commentary )
16. Rogue (Lenora Zann) from X-Men (90's cartoon) ( Commentary )
17. Kitty Pryde (Maggie Blue O'Hara) from X-Men Evolution ( Commentary )
18. Jan Brady (Eve Plumb) from The Brady Bunch ( Commentary )
19. Wednesday Addams from The Addams Family ( Commentary )
20. The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant) from Doctor Who ( Commentary )
21. Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelly) from Star Trek: The Original Series ( Commentary )
22. Col. Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) from Battlestar Galactica (2003) ( Commentary )
23. Rita Repulsa (Barbara Goodson, Carla Pérez, Machiko Soga) from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers ( Commentary )
24. Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( Commentary )
25. Rory Gilmore (Alexis Beidel) from Gilmore Girls ( Commentary )

Ari wondered what it meant that she guessed that most of my favorites were female. It means that she knows me well, because most of my favorites--all but four, plus the ambiguously-gendered Player--are female. Which is interesting, because many of these relate to early childhood, when my heterosexuality wouldn't have been a factor (right?). I'm not sure what it says that I've always found it easier to identify with (or at least be interested in) female characters than male ones, but I think it's pretty clearly true.