Title: Parenthood
Pairing: Shannon/Tomo
Rating: PG-13 (for now..)
Summary: Shannon and Tomo finally go through with the adoption that they agreed upon after babysitting for Cassy's and Matt's little boy Billy. Continues from where the oneshot fic "Babysitters" left off.
Feedback: Much appreciated <3
Disclaimer: Don't own the boys..I have no idea if they would ever do an adoption in real life, so this is only fiction.


( What was that look? )

A/N: Alright, there's a song that's used about halfway through this fic that helps to progress the time. It's called "Loose Lips" by Kimya Dawson. I'm not too fond of her music, but the song was just so fitting for the point that I was trying to get across with this fic--stand up for what you believe, no matter the costs. Someone may hate you for it, but there's always someone who loves you for it. Also, this entire fic was based on the song "Existentialism On Prom Night" by Straylight Run. Enjoy!
Title: Sing Me Anything
Author: millionminds 
Chapter: 9/9
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Jared/Tim, Shannon/Tomo
Warnings: Slash, graphic sex, cursing, a REALLY fluffy ending
Disclaimer: Not real, it all came from my sick mind
Feedback: Pretty please?
A/N 2: Hope I did the link right. Still not sure how to link directly to my journal. Dx



Cut to my journal

Title: Drunkbob Pisspants & Other Stories
Author: hang_monet 
Pairing: House/Wilson
Word count: 3200
Rating:  PG-13
Warnings: Language, Timmy
Spoilers: Season 5
Summary: Our boy’s sexual interactions over the years. Almost four fics in one. Two funerals, a divorce, and a death. 

( I know at least one porn producer present that night who turned it into a film.  )

So, I know Jealous Guy has been over analyzed by all of us as being about Paul instead of for Yoko or some other girls or whatever...

Well....

We were so totally fucking right.  >3

I just bought two McCartney Playgirl issues, and this is an excerpt from the 1985 one.

"It was a weird time.  The people who were managing us were whispering in our ears and trying to turn us against each other, and in the end, I think John had some tough breaks.  He used to say, 'Everyone is on the McCartney bandwagon.'  He wrote 'I'm Just a Jealous Guy,' and he said that the song was about me.  So I think it was just some kind of jealousy.  I had to try and forgive John because I sort of knew where he was coming from.  I knew he was trying to get rid of the Beatles in order to say to Yoko, 'Look, I've even given that up for you.  I'm ready to devote myself to you and to the avant-garde.'  I don't know if its true.  One thing that I'm really glad about is that I didn't answer him back.  It's very difficult to do that when someone is attacking you.  But I would have felt sick as a dog now if I had."

Okay, well, I was just being silly. I was supposed to be doing my Japanese homework, so naturally I decided to scribble some random doodle instead. I have no tablet, though, so it's via mouse, and I've also never really attempted to color something on the computer before. But really, it was all in fun, so who cares? I know I'm no artiste. Teehee.

Anyhow, I'm sure it needs no explanation. I'm sure it's been done many times before. ^^; Enjoy my idiocy. I know I do.

( Click the button! )

Powerful.

I may have brought this point up before, but seriously, how in the hell did no one think to question John and Paul's relationship back in the sixties?  I've been going through all of my photos, and in most of them, they look more like a honeymoon couple than bandmates.  Was there seriously never a question of their relationship brought up back in the sixties?  Please help.  ;_;

Just wanted to share this video with you guys. Thought there were some nice J/P moments. Sharing the mic and hooting and howling ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrEZH7j1bQ

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/11/on-not-doing-alan.html

There's an official CORALINE trailer out....

It's out in English, but this version of it is it in Italian. Because everything sounds better in Italian.

A few of you have written in asking if I'd done an Alan Moore and taken my name off the film, or if I'd had a falling out with the studio, as my name isn't mentioned in this trailer, just Henry Selick's -- and no, not at all. Nobody's name except Henry's is mentioned in the trailer, and that has more to do with Focus wanting to make sure that if they invoked The Nightmare Before Xmas, people wouldn't then assume this was a Tim Burton film, and go and see it -- or stay away -- based on that. (On the international poster -- above -- you won't find my name or Henry's.) I suppose it's a marketing decision.

I chatted to Henry today, and am really looking forward to seeing a finished film -- the last twenty minutes of the thing weren't done the last time I was sent anything. And it has music...

Incidentally, the Coraline Movie edition is now out, with an essay by me in the back, and another by Henry Selick...



I've now assembled the same list of passwords for the CORALINE website -- www.coraline.com -- that everyone else with access to a search engine has:

stopmotion : the Biggest Smallest movie ever made.

buttoneyes : Meet the cast...

moustachio : Bo Henry, art director of Coraline, shows off his remarkable moustache tricks.

armpithair : Every hair in the film was placed there by hand...

puppetlove : Director Henry Selick explains what it must be like for the puppets in the film.

sweaterxxs : Micro-knitting. That's right: micro-knitting.

...

A small collection of MAD fold-ins are up at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html. I cannot imagine a better time-waster than if someone were to put every Mad Fold-in up on line. I could click my way through them forever...

...

I've started playing with the T-mobile G1. First reactions -- I like it, mostly. It feels good in your hand. It's reasonably intuitive. (Bizarrely, when it isn't intuitive and I've had to head into manual land, the phone's software and the PDF of the manual do not always agree with each other.) I've had fun making ring tones, creating galleries. The way that your contacts list is also your Gmail contacts is mostly terrific (although it won't let me create entries that have the same email address as someone already on the list).

The things I don't like about it so far seem huge and obvious: no Blogger app (when there's a LiveJournal app and several others) seems a huge omission, seeing it's from Google; it can't read or open PDF files yet; you can send it pictures and watch them as a slideshow, but you can't save them; the built in Gmail app can't do anywhere near the things that the gmail program on my N73 can do; the camera is about the same standard as the iPhone's, which is to say, a bit meh. I like having a real keyboard but wish it was a tiny bit bigger -- I find myself typing with fingernails. Battery life is fine unless you've got Wifi on.

More reactions after it's been on the road with me and been used for a bit.

...

Hi Neil,

I just had a quick question on the Who Killed Amanda Palmer book. I have the album already (and have listened to it countless times. It's beautiful).

I was going to go and order the book, but when I went to the site, I found that the book seems to only be in packages. I was wondering if there are any plans to sell the book alone, or whether I should buy one of the packages. The extra CD could make a nice gift.

Thanks,
Nate

Let's see... the book is being designed right now, then it goes off to the printers. The people who bought the package version will get theirs first. Depending on where in the world it's printed, this could be a couple of months before anyone else. Then, when copies come in from the printer, they'll go on sale -- probably in the early Spring. I think.

Neil!

I'm re-reading American Gods, and I'm at the point where Shadow first meets Sam. At the diner, Shadow reads a newspaper story saying "local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town to frighten the others away; ornithologists said it wouldn't work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones. The locals were implacable. 'When they see the corpses of their friends,' said a spokesman, 'they'll know we don't want them here.'"

Neil, I don't have Time Enough for Love here at school, but wasn't there something very similar to that in that story? Was your dead crow story a little Heinlein homage?

And OMG - just realized that Sam's last name is Black Crow, and that story was about crows. Wow. Sneaky of you.

Chris



When I'm driving through small-town America I make a point of buying local papers in towns where I stop, and reading them, preferably in local coffee shops. I read that in a small town as I went, and thought "It belongs in my book". So I put it there.

Dear Mr Gaiman,
I recently finished reading M is For Magic, and I have a question about the story Chivalry. Sir Galahad was considered the holiest of Arthur's knights; so, how coul he have obtained an apple from the garden of the Hespiredes? The Hespiredes were a part of greek mythology which was actually a religeon based on monotheism. So, how could he get something that his religeon said didn't exist? I am sorry to bother you with this question, but it has sparked my interest.

- a young and curious reader

He had to travel a long way.

I don't think that the existence of mythical things would have been a problem for a mythical early Christian, of whom Galaad would have been one, or even a huge problem for real early Christians: in The Golden Legend, which was the most popular book of stories about saints, collected in the thirteenth century, Saint Nicholas (the one who became Santa Claus) went up against the Goddess Diana.

Then again, Narnia, a most monotheistic world, had, in addition to a Leonine Son of God, more than its share of nymphs (just like the Hesperides) not to mention such gods as Bacchus and Silenus (and Santa Claus again) wandering around. So I would not worry about it, were I you.

I loved the link to the Sandman Death 20th Anniversary Bookends you put up.
When should they be coming out and how much of a dent will they put on my wallet, please?

According to a quick Google, http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/9960.shtml says they came out in September, and they will cost a wallet-twinging $295. (Ouch.) There are only a thousand of them.

This one has almost nothing to do with you Neil, but since his website is still in the makings I thought you could perhaps forward this to him.
I was very sad (like a child whose told there won't be a Christmas this year) to learn that Dave McKean's appearance this weekend in Buenos Aires was canceled.
In the event's blog they posted Dave's email in which he mentioned he couldn't make it because a date was changed (which sounds reasonable). But it remained unclear if it was the date of ANIMATE (the Buenos Aires event) which was changed, or if it was one of Dave's previous engagements.

Dave McKean said...

Hi Neil,

Please post this, as I certainly do feel very bad letting people down:

I agreed to go to Animate in the summer and had to organize a military
operation of friends and family to take care of our son Liam during
the proposed week, as he is appearing as Gavroche in Les Miserables in
London and has to be accompanied to and from the theatre each day he's
on, and also be available on 12 hours notice every day in case another
actor drops out.
We managed this, so both Clare and I could make the trip to Buenos
Aires, a city we've always wanted to visit.
Unfortunately, the date was changed by the organizers, and so we had
to re-arrange.
More importantly, it became obvious that the festival was now
colliding with a variety of previous commitments falling in the latter
half of November, so I decided with great sadness to withdraw this
year.
I hate letting people down, and I was really looking forward to the
trip (though not the 24 hours travelling each way, I admit!).

Hopefully there will be another event, an animation or film festival,
that will allow me to visit the city in the future. Or maybe we'll
just go for a holiday, and do a signing in a bookstore.

Thanks,
Dave

(I think it's worth pointing out that ten-year old Liam McKean -- owner of the original Pig Puppet -- is in Les Miserables in London. If you happen to go and see it, check if he's in your performance. Get his autograph. Mention pigs. Make his day.) And that reminds me...

Hi Neil,

I thought you might like to let people know that Dave McKean is on the BBC4 programme "Picture Book" talking about his illustations for David Almond's 'The Savage' and how he was inspired by Comic Book's art. The programme is airing (again) at 19.10 on Saturday and 3.30 on Sunday, and is also currently available on the BBC i-player. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fhnb6/comingup

Thank you again for all the stories,

Marjorie

You're welcome.

Hi,

Just read that you completed "the Dying Earth story." Huh? Is there a new collection of Dying Earth stories coming out? Is it an homage to Jack Vance's work, or what?

Did a search for "dying earth" on your website and saw no other mention of it.

Thanks,
Chris

It's for this.

...

And finally, Larry Marder talks about why the drawing we did together is so special at http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2008/11/neil-gaimanlarry-marder-drawing-up-for.html.

TITLE: Ugly Duckling
AUTHOR: nightdog_writes
CHARACTERS: Wilson, House, various canon characters
RATING: PG-13
WARNINGS: While this is not a death!fic, it does deal with the aftermath of a catastrophic injury to a major character.
SPOILERS: No
SUMMARY: There are a lot of things Jimmy Wilson has to relearn. 656 words.
DISCLAIMER: Don't own 'em. Never will.
AUTHOR NOTES: This is set in the ficverse of a previous story of mine, Duck Duck Goose, which is itself no bed of roses. The text of the LJ cut is from the 1986 Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters.
BETA: My intrepid First Readers, with especial thanks to hannahorlove and deelaundry.

( The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle ...  )

Hello! I'm the mod over at thebeatleworld, a Beatles Slash RP.

And we recently just lost our Jane Asher, unfortunately.

So, of course, we need a replacement. Email me at andsoshewrites@yahoo.com, or IM me at JamesPMacca if you think you might be interested. Please, we need a Janey.

Go look at the profile of thebeatleworld for more information about the RP, and if you haven't already looked at it be sure to check it out! And for all the fans, I know we've been slow with updating lately, but we're not dead just yet.

Thank you in advance.

[x-posted]

Hello! I'm the mod over at thebeatleworld, a Beatles Slash RP.

And we recently just lost our Jane Asher, unfortunately.

So, of course, we need a replacement. Email me at andsoshewrites@yahoo.com, or IM me at JamesPMacca if you think you might be interested. Please, we need a Janey.

Go look at the profile of thebeatleworld for more information about the RP, and if you haven't already looked at it be sure to check it out! And for all the fans, I know we've been slow with updating lately, but we're not dead just yet.

Thank you in advance.

[x-posted]

Hello! I'm the mod over at thebeatleworld, a Beatles Slash RP.

And we recently just lost our Jane Asher, unfortunately.

So, of course, we need a replacement. Email me at andsoshewrites@yahoo.com, or IM me at JamesPMacca if you think you might be interested. Please, we need a Janey.

Go look at the profile of thebeatleworld for more information about the RP, and if you haven't already looked at it be sure to check it out! And for all the fans, I know we've been slow with updating lately, but we're not dead just yet.

Thank you in advance.

[x-posted]

Title: What Color Is The Night, Part Three
Author: glass_rhapsody
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: Spoilers through the end of season 4. Suicide, character death, and a case of the crazies.
Summary: "And then another voice cuts in, a gruff, amused drawl, Isn’t this all a bit childish, and Wilson jumps guiltily because he is losing already, and he does have something to prove even if he isn’t sure what."
Notes: Here's part three. It's hard to say if Wilson is taking this dying thing really well or really badly.
Inspired by a drabble by the fantastic llumik, which you can read here.

Part Three: Something Like Tiger Lilies (A Eulogy for Mr. Dircks)

Note: For more details on the Slash Rec project, see this post, or follow the tags on this post.

Sitting down and coming up with three non-recent examples of great fic was harder than I thought. All three are from authors that haven't been very active recently. In this case, I choose three one shots.

My first choice was from mmara. She was inspired by a quote I found that Jared had said. Speaking of The Cure's "Fascination Street", Jared said "Atmospheric. Moody. Dark. Makes me want to put on lipstick and fishnets. Enough said." And thus, here is "Fascination Street". Interesting enough, she didn't specify a pairing for this fic. In this case, I believe the description leaves no doubt who is who. P.S. Play the song in the background while you read. (YouTube link above.)

My second choice is "Moth to Flame" by misguided_faith. It's one of those fics I love because it describes the band, and certain members of the band, so perfectly. Jared is the subject being described. Although the narrator isn't explicitly named, and there was a bit of a game picking out who he was in the comments, I settled on one person in particular who matches best to the style of articulation. Without spoiling things, my favorite line is:

I truly believe that if 30 Seconds to Mars randomly decided to play a show in some enemy-occupied, war-infested nation, this devoted family of mismatched fans would gather there, undeterred.

And my final pick is felinemuse's "Less than Innocent Roles". It's a Jared/Shannon fic with a little cameo by Trent Reznor of NIN. I think this is one I just like for the characterizations, the kinky factor, and the dynamic between the brothers. Content wise, Jared is playing actor in some videos Trent is re-making.

All three are authors I'd recommend, in general. felinemuse has a lot of supernatural style fics, but most of those were multi-chaptered and unfinished. mmara wrote some more fics early on, the most notable of which was "Man is the Dream of the Dolphin" series, inspired by the Enigma lyric. misguided_faith has only graced us with the one story, blame graduate school. *g*

Title: Revive Me
Author: jane_hidell
Rating: NC-17
WARNING: CHARACTER DEATH SORT OF. VIOLENT IN A WAY. KINKY FOR REALS.
Another plot!bunny from ficbypen: "Kink Goes Wrong -- and Someone Dies." There's a bit of a twist here in that the kink doesn't go wrong, it in fact goes perfectly right, but ... well, you'll see. >;3

Maybe if House had cleaned under his bed once in the last ten years, it wouldn’t be so damn difficult to get these restraints set...

Title: Thousand-Yard Stare
Pairing: House & Wilson
Rating: PG
Words: 950
Note: Based on the idea of House suffering from PTSD and what that might entail. Just a short scene.

['He was sitting on a forgotten bench in the woods...']

♥

A/N: Well, here's the sequel at last. It took me a while to decide what way to take this, there were SO many. I actually considered posting a couple of version, cos I just so wasn't sure. But, I like this one. The first part is still my favourite, but I'm really happy with this now. Oh, and I considered doing a sequelly thing of multi chapter variety, in more detail, because one of the reviews you wonderful people left me gave me an idea... but we'll see about that. Anyhow, I'll shut up now. ^_^
Title: For the Record... Part Two
Author: Blaqkinkstyle18
Pairing(s): Again, none specified, but it's Jared/Matt and Matt/Wifey type person, with Matt as the speaker.
Rating: Still not too sure... I'd say somewhere between PG-13 and R, because there's nothing graphic, but there are adult themes, and a lot of cursing.
Summary: For the record, I love my wife.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, none of this is real or ever happened.
Warning(s): Bad language and a possibly unlikeable character.
Beta:  None of whom are on LJ
Archive: -

 

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We have entries to vote for this time around for the Scene 5 competition!  Voting will remain open through the end of the day EST on Monday, November 24.  As always, voting is anonymous.

Poll #1301754 Who should win the Feature Length Screenplay Scene 5 contest?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None

Vote for as many as you like:

Entries for the Scene 5 competition can be found here:
fooltemptress's entry - Reviews encouraged
odannygirl7's entry - Reviews encouraged

Feature Length Screenplay Competition Scene 6 Details:

SCENE 6
LOCATION: INT. LAW FIRM – GERALD’S OFFICE - DAY
CHARACTERS:  Gerald, Oscar Ramirez (District Attorney)
OVERALL GOAL:  In spite of the recent death of his wife, Gerald goes to work.  The DA he works for, Oscar Ramirez, is surprised to see Gerald at work.  While concerned that Gerald is leaving the funeral planning to his children, Oscar is persuaded to let Gerald stay at work for the time being.

NOTES:  Scenes like these may seem boring to write compared to action sequences or anything like that but it's scenes like these where you can really explore a character.  This is the perfect scene for getting inside Gerald's head and discovering who he is as a person.  Why is he leaving the funeral planning to his children?  Does the thought of it make him too upset or does feel his time is best spent looking for the hit and run driver?  Why is he at work?  Is he trying to keep himself distracted, trying to pretend everything is normal in his life, or is he just that committed to his job?  Asking yourself little questions like that as you write can help you get to the nitty gritty of a character and in so doing, you'll create a complex character that actors want to portray on screen. 

TO ENTER - Post your scene, or a link to your scene uploaded on Google Docs, to your personal LJ. Post the link to your personal LJ entry here. All entries must be posted no later than Midnight EST on Thursday, November 27!

Please include if you would like reviews on your scene if you don't win. The winning entry will be posted to the community for general review.

A list of scene cards, plot synopsis, and characters can be found here.