Hello the fair few people who even visit this journal anymore.  My life has been a crazy place of paper writing and moving and emotional meltdowns, so I've just been trying to stay afloat.  I feel like there might be a, oh, 70% chance of me getting some fic posted next week, and if I say this aloud I'll feel obligated and might actually do it, O.o.

(I'm about 1/2 way through the next chapter of CotR, and, weirdly, I've been on a Sei/Youko kick lately - there's a reason for this.  I was like, hey, you know what would be an awesome way to try and remember some japanese?  Reading fanfic in japanese {with lots of help from Rikaichan}, and then I was like, hmm, why did I never post that random ramble about Youko hooking up with girls in college?  And then, I recalled, because it's shit.  So I was working on it.  Lord, actually, going back and checking, I've realized that I'm about half way through three or four chapters of things, and jeez, I need to pick one and finish it already!  Any suggestions?)

On another note, has anyone here been to Lisbon?  (Or for that matter Austin?)  What is one supposed to do in Lisbon?  (Or Austin?)  Good suggestions might help prevent another emotional meltdown!  (Because I kind of hate traveling.  if I can't get there on the train or in less than 6 hours on a bus, I don't want to go.  If I can pretend to myself that it will be super fun, I won't melt down until I'm actually going to leave.)

 So, does anyone recall What Happened In Vegas?  There were hookers and gambling.  And I have a set of random follow up scenes that are, uh, random.

Scene 1 - Emily accompanies Reid on a trip back to Vegas to visit his mom.
Scene 2 - After the irritating british dude tries to flirt with her.

I was thinking... I may have a type:

Much belated random fic scrap:

Title: The Arrangement
Author: Alsike
Fandom: Criminal Minds/X-men
Pairing: Emma/Emily
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Emily gets back from her 'death,' and picks up where she left off, or at least tries to.

Things tragically cut from my article on Fandom Pairing Names (FPNs) (:D  I have an acronym!  I am a scholar!)

On February 14, 2012 the Faberry fan community motivated enough fanpower and effort to carry their couple to victory in the eonline TV’s Top Couple Tournament, regardless of the fact that Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray have never shown signs of romantic interest in each other in the maintext of Glee.  Although I can only conjecture, I doubt the name Quichel would have been able to motivate such enthusiasm and fervor.

And

Blending is also evocative of the inseparability of the base terms.  The speaker employing the blend is not making a simple coordination; he is, in fact, referring to a concept, which is identified by the names of the two participating characters, but embodies something other than just the incorporation of the two characters.  regardless of opinions about the individual characters, the pairing itself has its own set of associations and interpretations.  An example of this that I recently encountered was using the pairing name descriptively.  An author of a fanfiction story about characters from Glee stated in the description, “this is not a Brittana fic.”  By this she meant that although some of the story would include Brittany and Santana as a couple, the point of the story was not so that they would end up together, nor was it considered the only viable pairing for either of the characters.  Pairing names often carry with them a specific worldview including a set of values, hopes and valid storylines, which must not be violated in any way.

And

Somehow the token [dordi] is evocative of insulting someone’s mental competence.  It is understandable if others were preferred.

Title: The Beef Jerky Incident
Author: Alsike (I should have actually posted this during the battle that I wrote it for so it could have been Anonymous, but no.)
Fandom: iCarly
Pairing: Carly Shay/Sam Puckett
Rating: NC-17!!! (And not for the easily disgusted either!!!!  This is possibly the grossest thing I've written, (except for that poorly planned cannibalism eroticism one)! And it's supposed to be cute!  Which makes it worse!) 
Disclaimer: I'm so, so sorry, Nickelodeon.
Summary: PWP.  Future-fic.  Roommates/Established Relationship.  Uh. Beef Jerky.

Apologies: So, I wrote this, along with the beginning of something much longer ages ago during one of the Texts From Last Night porn battles, or summat, and then was too embarrassed by having written this at all to post it.  I think I've gained enough distance from the writing that I no longer take any responsibility for coming up with this idea, and now just find it hilarious, (and generally implausible, except not for Sam). So, yeah.  Enjoy.  :D