Reading quigonejinn's Your Fixed Point, an Ironman girl!Tony fic which is fascinating in its very explicit focus on how being a girl would make everything different even if everything was the same. Warning: it goes to the Obadiah/Tony place and makes it exactly as horrible as it would be.

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Dreamwidth is going to start selling accounts in about six hours, and they've got a countdown clock on their front page for those who, like me, find timezones confusing.

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It's interesting to me that although the tendency is for us in fandom to conceive of the bodies of characters, to some extent, without troubling ourselves about the body of the actor who portrays them, we generally edit their bodies to be more fit. But Aldis Hodge is, at least to me, way more fit than Hardison, who is canonically the sort who counts everything is WoW avatar does as exercise. (Image hosted at grimfandango.org and linked w/ kind permission of skywardprodigal) I'm sorry, but my Hardison cannot do one-armed push-ups. (Which kind of means I have to lust after them separately, which is, of course, a burden, but one I am equal to.)

(Separate issue: we really demand a heck of a lot more fitness from our actors now than we used to, don't we? I mean, Shatner would never be allowed in a starring role, nowadays. I don't think it's a good thing, the way the body public is permitted a voting share in the body private.)

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The TWC is calling for papers for an upcoming issue on Race and Ethnicity in Fandom, and it needn't be peer reviewed, if you're not strictly the academic sort, if you submit it under the category "symposium."

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For those as haven't heard, giandujakiss's new vid, It Depends On What You Pay is a pretty brutal condemnation of Dollhouse for its inability to say the R-word. (She includes a trigger warning, and I think one ought to mention also that it's pretty damn brain-breaking to hear Jerry Orbach crooning out "♪Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaape!♫") It got linked on Whedonesque to predictable results, if you've ever been linked on Whedonesque. (A couple of karenhealey's posts have been, and she always get three fanboys who follow her home to explain how she is a failure as a feminist for not recognizing that Joss is Feminist Jesus.)

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Also, while I'm on vids, there is a possibility you might not have seen tzikeh's Close To You, an X-files vid, seemingly with the theme: "Somewhere on Alpha Centauri, there is a bathroom wall with 'For a good time, call Fox Mulder' scrawled on it." It's hilarious, and you don't have to have seen more than a couple of X-files episodes to really get it.

(Does anyone know if there's a hi-def download available of this one? Streaming chokes my machine, and I would like it on my hard drive to cuddle and name Steve)

Hardison's Week Off: What We Talk About When We Don't Talk About Love.
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: There were three in the bed, until Alec kicked them out so he could get some sleep.
Warning: The Library of Congress does not endorse these shenanigans.

Notes: By brown_betty and emeraldwoman. Sequel to House Rules. Part of the http://brown-betty.livejournal.com/tag/series:+odd+jobs. First in the Week Off sub-series.

( Susan is not impressed by your bipedalism. )

Title: House Rules
Fandom: Leverage
Warning: Contains suggestions of unsafe food-handling.
Pairing: You're new here, aren't you?
Notes: Third in the Odd Jobs series, by brown_betty and emeraldwoman.

( The cats aren't allowed in either )

odditycollector: So, has there been a Leverage fic yet called "The Blow Job"?
( Read more... )

Some random stuff you might like, no guarantees that everyone and their parakeet hasn't already seen them:

That's Entertainment, by lady_ganesh.
I just like anything that has the kids hanging out and be dorky and anti-social together.

Parker's Surprise, by zvi_likes_tv
Alternately, threesomes are good too! (Okay, because I am the person who always has to say, "actually, that's a common misunderstanding...," I do have to point out that the proposed solution to the logistics problem is not the only or even simplest. It is the hottest, though, so I am not actually complaining.)

Working Without a Net, by facetofcathy
And then there's Hardison/Eliot, which does not exclude Parker, entirely. I like that they're sort of both insecure and unsure, but this does not preclude it being fun.

Title: The Cat-Burglar Job. [Part 3 of 3]
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Pairs? Pairs? Pshaw.
Rating: There sure is some punching in here.

Notes: Written with emeraldwoman, and betaed by skywardprodigal and mari_luvs_gcfa. This story may be considered to be set in an AU branching from about the middle of the The First David Job. Sequel to The Underwire Job. Sequel to The Underwire Job. Part one here. Part two here.

Summary: Wherein it all comes together in a most delightful way

( Susan will cut you. )

Due to the slings and arrows of an outrageous schedule, emeraldwoman ended up taking up a bit more of the writing than is strictly fair. Identify a line by me and I will give out a fabulous ridiculous title which you will be entitled to use on all fannish occasions, except in Suriname or Guam.

Title: The Cat-Burglar Job. [Part 2 of 3]
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: Category error.
Rating: I don't think these thieves are being totally honest
Notes: Written with emeraldwoman, and betaed by skywardprodigal. This story may be considered to be set in an AU branching from about the middle of the The First David Job. Sequel to The Underwire Job. Part one here. Part three scheduled to be released next Friday.
Summary: Wherein Eliot begins to realise the extent of the hole he has dug, and Fish does not.

( Grover will steal your wallet )

Title: The Cat-Burglar Job.
Fandom: Leverage
Pairing: no, think bigger.
Rating: Schemin', macin', and kissin', y'all.
Notes: Written with emeraldwoman, and betaed by skywardprodigal. Sequel to The Underwire Job. Parts two and three scheduled to be released each following Friday.
Summary:

brown_betty: But if we wrote kittenfic, no one would respect us in the morning!
emeraldwoman: Betty.
emeraldwoman: No one respects us now.

( our story begins... )

Title: The Underwire Job
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: There is drinking and Warcraft in this one, folks, as well as mature discussion of sexuality as depicted on the internet. It's probably depraved.
Notes: This is the first time a co-writer has let me title anything! Either I'm softening them up, or my titles are getting better. Spoilers for The Two Horse Job, but fits into continuity much later. (And will probably be jossed next Tuesday.) Written by me and emeraldwoman
Disclaimer: No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture.

Summary: Parker recruits Eliot for a side job. Comedy and horror ensue.

( The Underwire Job )

TV you oughta watch: Leverage!

It's not intelligent, but it's written as if it's clever, and sort of produces it by means of an optical illusion. It's big, and dumb, and lovable, in the manner of a Newfoundland. It's written by John Rogers, who you may know from such works as Blue Beetle.

Overview:

( Characters: )

Together, they fight crime!

Generally speaking, Nate and Sophie play mom and dad, and Parker, Eliot, and Hardison (why does Eliot get referred to by his first name the rest not? I don't know, that's just how it works!) are the bratty kids. They tend to get in trouble if left unsupervised, usually on the order of reflexively running cons like some people light a cigarette without noticing. They con people who they disapprove of out of tremendous amounts of money. It's interesting who is set up as "villain" and "innocent victim." Twice now, the victim on whose behalf they seek revenge has been an Iraq war vet, and once the villain was, well, basically, Dick Cheney and Haliburton in disguise moustaches.

The Fandom: SO HERE'S THE THING. There's a certain amount of Elliot/Nate, but there is ALSO, and based on my brief survey, a whole lot of Eliot/Hardison, and Parker/Hardison. Do you know what this means? It means that fic is being written about the black character.

I know. I had to sit down.

Also, there's Nate/Sophie, and Sophie/Parker, so really, it's a pretty well rounded fandom. You can check out my del.icio.us feed to get you started.

So, I had a Leverage dream.

( I do like that my id went with "rocks fall, everyone dies" as a solution to the problem of plotting. )