Four things:

1.) I'll be in Chicago from Thursday to Sunday to play with svmadelyn and various Chicago people and introduce her to my friend V, so if there is anything I am supposed to be doing that needs doing and I forgot, really need to email me so I know. Because um, I forgot.

2.) svmadelyn and I on an offnight. I am not writing this fic.

( the holy grail of grailiness )

Literary genius. That is in the unexpunged versions that Geoffrey wrote on the sly. Had pictures, even. The Catholic Church has robbed us. Totally in their vaults.

3.) Speaking of svmadelyn....

svmadelyn and the divine linaerys, writer of Springtime Promises, one of my three most re-read Merlin fics ever, have brought us the Merlin Big Bang sign-ups at boxofmagic. More information can be found here.

4.) If I need to rec this, I will be hugely surprised.

Crown of the Summer Court by astolat, Merlin/Arthur, I know, shocking, and um. Okay. I love the plot and everything, don't get me wrong, and omg Arthur in combat, thank you God and astolat, but....

"Arthur," Merlin whispered again, full of so much longing it curled into Arthur's stomach as though it was his own sensation, and maybe it was. Merlin's cock was brushing against his, hot and slick; Merlin was nosing softly at his face, and then with an oddly thoughtful air, he bit down on Arthur's lip. Arthur jerked, hot and coppery taste on his own tongue, to see the slick of crimson bright on Merlin's mouth, marking him, and Arthur's whole body shocked all the way through with something so far out of his experience it took him a moment to recognize it as pleasure.

Sit down first. And bring a cold drink. Sex magic is sexy. And sometimes, it involves whips. Sexy whips.

Right. There we go. Finished serpent fic, staring at it and disturbed that since sending it to beta, I've added two pages. This can't end well.

Yay, it's announcement day!

Dead Letters Variations

First, The Dead Letters Challenge has been closed with a total of twenty-seven entries. My thanks to the participants, who all made me happy.

DVD Commentaries

We are now at month two of DVD Commentary Challenge being hosted at dvd_commentary. So far, participation is excellent and sign-ups continue apace.

general_jinjur and I would like to remind everyone of a few key points:

The due date is 10/1/2008, pre-midnight CST for posting. You can continue to sign up and post commentaries until that time.

To sign up to write a commentary, go here.

To give permission for your stories to be commentated, go here.

To read commentaries, a running list is kept here for 2008, and an index for 2007 and 2006 is here. All of this is courtesy of the ultra-organized general_jinjur.

Other Stuff

I--um, maybe later. Okay, the thing is, I am writing this thing and it turned into curtain fic, even though it's supposed to have at least one murder and you know, stuff, and I kinda feel sugarshocked by all the domestic goodness. Do you know why? Because I cannot make myself destroy their happiness.

I sicken myself sometimes.

sgabigbang is open for business!

For more info, visit the community or read svmadelyn's post here.

..oh my God. Ami lost her mind.

amireal has a New Challenge! That is really, really new. As in, I honestly think that if this kind of challenge has been done before, I'll be extremely extremely surprised.

I...need to lie down now. With a compress of some kind.