first time I heard "Satisfaction" I was young and unemployed

[sab]

For reasons which deserve explication but which won't get it as I'm one foot out the door, the Jetta is still my car! But is at the mechanic's at the moment to the tune of five hundred bucks (see also, "transmission, removal of," "oil leak, slow" and "starter, extremely crappy") so I'm hightailing it down there to work out a sort of payment plan.

Exactly one freelance job and one very, very considerate loan have made my survival to date possible, there's also a frightening night job writing subtitles in my future: more on that story as it unfolds. For now:

Please do one of the two things below, player's choice:

1. Sign up for the multiverse2004 and write that epic space show crossover you've been dreaming about. If you've already signed up, please, please pimp the project far and wide. We've already got literally dozens of responses, and all the fandoms are represented at least twice over, but we need a rich tidal pool from which to draw our...coelacanthus...in order for...life to develop? Yeah, okay, I totally lost control of that metaphor there.

2. Gimme feedback for your favorite Sab fic I never wrote. Invent a fanfiction I wrote and post about it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it is something that I never wrote. Give me feedback! Mention your favorite quote! Flame me! Illustrate it! You know you want to.

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I dreamed I went into Manhattan for a Magnolia cupcake. Halfway across town in the middle of the night I came across a The Limited with a "help wanted" sign in the window, went in, applied for a job. They took me right then and there, and I went to work examining shelves of poorly-made clothing named after Ikea furniture models. At one point I asked one of my co-workers what time my shift ended. "2 am," she told me, sadly. And Magnolia closed at midnight. No cupcake for me!

Comments

[ropo.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you're still mobile! Yay!

what's a Magnolia cupcake?

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

If it's a dream thing, I guess it's just a metaphor for S-E-X.

Re: what's a Magnolia cupcake?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh no. Way better than sex. The Magnolia cupcake is a New York tourist attraction as well as being ridiculously trendy. However, it is so fucking good I would crawl across broken glass for one.

Damn it. DAMN it. Fuck it. I'm moving back to New York.

Re: what's a Magnolia cupcake?

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

When you get there, send me a Magnolia cupcake.

Re: what's a Magnolia cupcake?

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

mmm. i'd want one right now except i had my teeth cleaned today and my gums are sore. mmm.

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

more on that story as it unfolds.

Yes, please. *g*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Writing subtitles? I thought they're almost as unpopular as dubbing in the US?

Anyway, good to know you were able to keep your car. (Insert appropriate quote from Joe Gilles in Sunset Boulevard here.)

Feedback: You never cease to amaze me. Your John/Scorpius story is truly the first one I've found where John doesn't get blackmailed, tortured or brainwashed into sex with Scorpius - why, he even makes the first move! And using Scorpius' relative lack of experience in non S/M sex (as seen by his startled reaction to Sikozu's kiss in La Bomba on the show) as a way to equal the power balance? Inspired.

I have to question your use of Chiana, though. Not that Chi wouldn't encourage John to get laid in almost all other circumstances, but she really doesn't like Scorpius, and so I doubt she'd suggest the Scorpius obsession would go away if John had sex with him.

Favourite quote: "And now, Scorpius, we end this."