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Authors have been revealed, so I suppose now's as good a time as any to share.

Love Tarot (The Ten Years Later Remix) (1263 words) by gladdecease
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Relationships: Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley
Characters: Nymphadora Tonks, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Original Female Character
Summary: A Muggle fortune teller gets a few nontraditional customers.

Not my usual thing, I know - HP fic! implications of ~romance! - but I quite enjoyed writing it, taking the "oh, teenagers" attitude of the fortune teller from the original drabble and applying it to the trio, age 15/16. And as I was writing a kind of parallel between each encounter unexpectedly appeared - you've got one who listens and understands, one who listens and doesn't get it, one who doesn't listen but still (maybe, hopefully) understands. Which inadvertently also plays along with Tonks in the original, listening but kind of missing the point of what was said.

The remix I received in return was a fun expansion of a Star Trek drabble I wrote a few years ago - check it out!

They Call It Fencing (Six Months Remix) (1464 words) by BridgetMcKennitt
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Characters: James T. Kirk, Hikaru Sulu
Summary: Sulu couldn't wait to duel Kirk after six months of his captain learning how to fence. Things don't go exactly as planned.

I finally gave in to all the tempting, ridiculous gifs floating around online and watched what's available of the show. It's... kind of hilarious? And awesome?

I mean, it's very firmly set in a wacky version of Peter's PoV, including chibified fantasy sequences, literal pauses in the action for narration and exposition, and near gratuitous use of video game formating (VERSUS and split screens at the beginning of the fight, K.O. at the end, etc.) for fight sequences. There's tons of cameos and reference to other Marvel heroes and villains, which given my love for continuity and self-reference is a huge plus. Of the main cast, I especially love Aunt May, who turned badass at some point when I wasn't looking. I also find Coulson to be super accurate and fantastic; Fury is voiced by Chi McBride (hence my icon) and is beyond amazing. And while I'm not familiar with the other characters wrt their comic book background, I like them. (Except Iron Fist's hair. I'm never going to like that.)

Anybody else seen the show? What d'you think? Somebody please tell me I'm not imagining the love/hatemance between Spidey and Nova, because it is driving me nuts.

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

My seven topics from lilyayl below the cut.

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Not naming names, since we've got quite a while before posting and a while after that before reveals, but I've really enjoyed my remix experience so far this year. I didn't remix in any fandom I was expecting to - it's one I've never written for before, and I worry that it shows - but I did enjoy writing it. I think I might have accidentally a theme? Hopefully I'm just imagining it.

I'm enjoying looking at that Mystery Work on my gifts page, wondering what they've picked this year. Last year was a surprise - my Psych/Sherlock crossover, of all things - and the year before saw a beautifully remixed Supernatural drabble. I haven't written enough lately to expect something recent to be remixed, but there's a few stories I'd love to see another side to; everything else is fuzzy enough in my memory that it'll be more like reading something entirely new. I'm sure it'll be a good read regardless.

I'm never going to get tired of using that phrase to explain what I watched today. (Which was a live action version of this.)

My cousin is on one of the teams, and the mid-Atlantic region's competition is being held at Temple this weekend. Not a bad drive, and a really fun way to spend an afternoon. (Also: slightly intimidating whenever I remember that it was high school students that designed, built, and programmed these things. That is way beyond me.)

(Prefacing this post with a slight change to the previously established guidelines for this experiment: there are some days when I struggle to come up with something specific that made me happy. There are days when I struggle to come up with anything that made me happy. And there are days where I could make you a list. To reflect that, I'm eliminating the once daily posting, to hopefully be replaced with more frequent posts, even if they're just a series of embedded videos.)

I only discovered Horrible Histories a few days ago when videos began popping up on my flist. They're kind of awesome, pretty accurate to my eye, and fun to watch; take a look!

A story finally came together in my head today. Original fiction, required by my creative writing class, big chunk of my percentage. Knowing that I get graded on it, that it has a due date fast approaching, has been a huge mental block, both for writing this particular story and for writing any story.

I think, once I get this written out properly, I'll be able to get some months-neglected requests off the back burner.

...even if you forget to bring your laptop with you.

Highlights of the weekend include learning that my cousin is a Doctor Who fan*, getting to play some Ace Attorney for the first time in years, and delicious delicious seder food, a good amount of which I got to bring home as leftovers.

* This was especially awesome, leading to more irl discussion of Who than I've had since I first started watching. And he's got such good taste - his favorite companion is Martha because of badass, and his favorite Doctor is Tennant! He criticized Smith's Doctor as trying too hard to be lighthearted, which, while we agreed it was probably intentional on the part of writers/actors, was still jarring for him to watch in more serious scenes.

Easily my favorite thing about any holiday is the special food associated with it. So of course I love the "Kosher for Passover" aisle at my grocery store, and have raided it several times over the past few weeks, looking for good things and snatching them up. (See: Joyva Chocolate-Covered Marshmallow Twists, which for two weeks were only available in cherry flavor, but last Friday I finally snagged a box of vanilla.) My biggest purchase there was a five box pack of matzah, which cost about twenty dollars less than it should have because of the holiday. I like matzah fine on its own, and got through half a box idly nibbling on one every once in awhile, but today I finally gave in and made my first matzah-based meal of the year.

For those not in the know, matzah brei is a little like French toast, if you switch the toast for water-soaked crackers and cut out the milk in the egg-milk dip. You then dump your eggy crackers on the stove and scramble them. Or mold them into a cake and treat it more like a frittata, but I've never been able to pull that method off. Serve hot, with whatever breakfasty topping you prefer.

I like to drown mine in syrup.