the word in language is half someone else's

So there was a remix? And that happened. My mystery remixer was bluebrocade, who turned my bodyswap porn from stop_drop_porn into Freaky Friday (the Behavioral Data Remix), which is all full of changing POVs and outsider opinions and people thinking they know what's going on and not, and - and also, awesome. Lots of awesome. *hugs bluebrocade LOTS*

In turn, I wrote this story, which I'm re-posting for...well, for to make myself happy. Originally posted here. *waves weakly at justbreathe80*

Title: Jet Ski Accidents (the Radio Silence Remix)
Summary: “Tell me something, Frase. Tell me something you’ve never told anyone else.”
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Ray Kowalski / Benton Fraser
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Not mine. Very, very, not mine.
Original story: jet ski accidents by justbreathe80
Notes: Thanks to madsciencechick and lordessrenegade for beta-ing the shit out of this thing, all in one long afternoon, and to shoemaster for holding my hand through the entire goddamn thing, and for just generally being more awesome than words can express. *hugs you all forever and ever*

( begin as you mean to go on )

...I also may clean up and post the results of Story Hour With pearl_o and etben at some point tonight. Then again, I may have another drink. It's all kind of uncertain, you know?

destiny, manifest
by etben
for picfor1000 2007
SGA, team, gen
Thanks muchly to torakowalski, who did a lightning-fast beta and prevented a very silly mistake.

( destiny, manifest )

exceptionally vivid
by etben
SGA, McKay/Sheppard, PG-13, 8288 words
spoilers through 2x14, Grace Under Pressure

So this was started, or at least spawned, on 14th December, 2005. Yeah. I'm a fast one, aren't I? Still, with the most recent episode, it actually kind of works? Maybe? Thanks go to shoemaster and ferret_kitty for beta duty at the last minute, and to rike_tikki_tavi for cheerleading in the extreme.

( grace, under rocks )

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and now I will go learn biology.

For those of you who don't watch stop_drop_porn, quick heads-up: I done wrote something! And, yes, it's Ray/Ray, but it has Fraser! and, OK, it kicked my ass around the block, so I want to show it off to you all and preen a little.

"fighting"

[R, Ray/Ray, with voyeuristic Fraser.]

In which Ray and Ray are "fighting", and Fraser is...concerned. Yes. Concerned.

pearl_o made me do it! she talked about Fraser watching Ray while he slept, and then I got tagged for stop_drop_porn, and this kept coming up. it's not porn (well, not really), and it's not betaed, and it's not what I'm writing, but it's here and it's staying and it's getting the hell out of my head.

looking
for pearl_o
633 words, un-betaed
( When Ray wakes up, Fraser's watching him. )

*goes back to the thing she's actually working on*

So I was looking through my folder of "Things I Need to Finish", and found this. I remember (vaguely) sitting down to write it, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was going to be about.

( A couple hundred words of Sheppard and Ronon. )

Did I talk to any of you about this? Do you know where I was planning to take it? Do you have any suggestions about where it should go? It's set post-Sateda (which I only know because the document is titled "post-Sateda"), but I really don't remember where it was going, except I think McKay was the problem.

So, um. If any of you know what I was thinking, could you tell me? That'd be awesome.

[please don't link anywhere, though]

Ta-da! Yet another in my series of "stories I've been intending to write since, um, forever, but haven't, because I didn't trust myself with them and didn't know how they went". Not, mind you, one of the stories I've been actively promising people, but one I've been meaning to write. Beta thanks times a millionty-one to panisdead, who got this back to me super-fast and was the most helpful thing imaginable. Thank you so much! (and, yes, you're right: 0700, 0200. I knew there was something wrong with that...)

Previous Motives
SGA, gen, team
4165 words

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( a song for someone who needs somewhere )

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(title and tagline from Homesick, by Kings of Convenience)

So I finally finished off that drabble-only-not-really-because-I-don't-like-wordcounts meme, and figured I'd post the results here, more for my own reference than for anything else. Six of them, in all three of my fandoms. Woohoo! *dances around*

For shoemaster: ( McKay/Sheppard... bonus points for baseball? )

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For pearl_o: ( dS! Dief and Fraser? )

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For aurora_84: ( John/Rodney, earth!fic, can be pre-Rising )

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For justbreathe80: ( some form of dS )

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For rike_tikki_tavi: ( some of the Grace Under Pressure follow-up fic I've been talking about for months )

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For kbk: ( SPN gen? with, um, Dean and laundry and smoking? )

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Wooohoooo! ...and now, back to the mines with me. grr argh.

See, I didn't think I'd be posting these two so close together, but they're both finished, and I really can't delay gratification for beans. This, therefore, is the sequel to Kiss Me, I'm an Earthling!, and takes up pretty soon after that one left off. I'd say that you should read them together, but really? they're neither of them what I'd particularly call plotty. Word to the wise: this is significantly pornier than KMIAE, and is maybe the porniest thing I've ever written? I don't know. It definitely was the porniest thing I'd written when I wrote it, but then I wrote the dS threesome while this was in beta, and so now I'm all conflicted.

The point being that you should read them both. Threes and fours: happy numbers!

Beta credit for this goes to ferret_kitty and stop, who are absolute ROCKSTARS and have my undying gratitude. You all should sing their praises—without them, I'd probably have scrapped a lot of the sex, and that would have been a shame.

Earth Boys Are Easy
by etben
SGA, John/Rodney/Ronon/Teyla, NC-17.
4294 goddamn words. (yeeeesh...)

( There was a rule, on Atlantis, unspoken but still carefully followed: the teams that had to do the freaky rituals on off-world missions were allowed to be weird together for a while afterwards, and nobody was allowed to hassle them about it. )

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And now...I have to go to work and pretend I'm not thinking about porn. *sigh*

This post contains 3 fic-related things, actually, but no real fic. Sorry.

1) So since the moment of reveal has passed, I can now tell you all that I wrote O My America (the Scientific Method Remix). Which you should read! Because it was a lot of fun to write.

My sock-rocking mystery remixer was panisdead, who I've now friended, because, um, hi: AWESOME! I reread the remix this morning, and it still is just the coolest thing ever. I await the dvd commentary track with bated breath.

And it got me thinking, and I went back and re-read Revelations, the story panisdead was remixing. It's - well, if you've read it (or the remix), you know that it's dark, and creepy, and weird. For a lot of people, the ending didn't work, which, you know, hits and misses - although to those people, I would strongly suggest that you read the remix. It makes the whole thing resemble what was actually in my head, all the things I couldn't show, because of the way I was telling the original story.

Any road, I re-read Revelations, which I've been feeling rather uncertain about, and decided that, you know what? I really like this story. Really a lot. I mean, it's creepy and fucked up and it has its flaws, but I really do have an appalling sort of fondness for it.

So I, um. Read it aloud and recorded it?

I'm so ashamed, really. It's not like I don't have reading to do, or that homework on historical sound change, or groceries to buy, or more reading to do, or my guitar to practice, or, you know, actual fic to write. Still, this was a lot of fun, and it made my weekend (which has, thus far, for entirely non-fannish all-my-own-damn-fault reasons, been rather impressively sucktacular) much much better.

So. I'm putting it up on yousendit - if you download it, let me know what you think. It's not like I have a surfeit of time, but this was a lot of fun to do, and, you know, I could read a happy story next time. Provided, of course, that my voice doesn't make you want to claw your ears off.

so, 2) is Revelations, podcast. WARNING: Very dark story. Seriously. Do not read listen (yes, hi. I'm smart!) if you aren't into that. 10 minutes long, or thereabouts.

3) So I'm going to need a beta. Sometime this week? But maybe not. Maybe later. Thing is, I've signed up to do an anonymous fic at some point, and so posting a beta-request right before it went up would be kind of a givaway. Not that anyone other than me cares about these things at all, of course, but still: would any of you like to beta something anonymous, sometime in the next week or so? It won't be terribly long, I don't think.

In other news? My username is hard to say, which I didn't realize until I was doing the podfic. Because, I mean, it's etben, which I took from et ben, which is something I say all the damn time when I speak French. It doesn't really have a meaning - it's just a space-filler sort of sound, like 'um' or 'well' (or 'ah', if you're Benton Fraser). But when I read it, I want to make the 't' hard and consonantal, and I just get thrown off.

And now: to the homeworkmobile!