Bluespirit

... & checking it twice! *g*
He's loving his Advent calendar (as usual! *g*)
This year, the little chocolate slabs have embossed images on them - so far we've had a bauble & Santa!

Here he is waiting patiently for today's window to be opened this morning. ♥



On the subject of festive things, I got kudos from a story on AO3 earlier that I couldn't even remember writing. So, I read it, & it made me smile all over again. LOL
A little bit of smoochy McShep fun: Under the mistletoe

Something else that I always associate with the holidays - Lord of the Rings!  I've really enjoyed watching the vids from The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies world premiere in London last night.
I can't wait to see it!  We'll be rewatching the extended editions of Unexpected Journey & Desolation of Smaug before we go, & then at Xmas it's our annual rewatch of the LotR trilogy.  I love it!
\o/

I've committed fic - just a teeny, tiny one - for the 'SGA... Ten Years Later Fest'! \o/

Where hope is coldest

McShep, G, ~300 words

Summary: Another life or death situation.

(Thank you to velocitygrass for the prompt. *g*)

So, I'm supposed to be painting the bathroom door today.
Instead, I've:

• taken Bud to the woods (well, in fairness - I do this every day)
• answered some email/comments
• posted to LJ
• baked some cheese & herb scones
• scoffed one with some gorgeously sweet baby plum tomatoes for my lunch
• updated the ipod
• and am now making another LJ post

Hmmm, procrastination thy name art Bluespirit. *g*

Alright, alright - just before I go & paint the blinking door, here's a quick meme type thing... :)

Snagged from tarlanx

Post the 21 first lines from your last 21 fics.

( first lines )

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean - apart from there being a lot of showers/baths *g* - but it was fun to remind myself of some of these stories (I'd actually forgotten I'd written half of them! LOL)

*nods*
Okay - the bathroom door...

celtprincess13 managed to hook me up with the shirtless!Sam gifs that I wanted needed! \o/
So, I've added them to my sidebar & like to think that these three tell a little story... ;)

Sam's working out & sees Dean watching him...


Sam's all 'like what you see? Strip!'


Dean doesn't have to be told twice!


*g*

I've had some lovely responses to my 1920's AU McShep art, 'World, far away', &, as I'd mentioned that I felt it could easily be viewed as Lord John & Rodney from my Big Bang story 'Time & Tide', it's been lovely to have a few comments to that, too!
I love the idea that people are coming new to something that I wrote quite a while ago. :)

In completely different news, with the installation of a new window blind our kitchen renovation is finally complete! \o/
It's a whole new kitchen (everything was ripped out) & I absolutely love it!  (I'll take some pics to share when I get a second.)  It's a fairly small area (no room for seating but it does lead into the dining room through an open doorway, so that's not a problem) but the new layout has given me so much more storage space!  I actually have empty shelves! LOL  Although, I've rediscovered my love for baking (after a break of over 15 years) & so I doubt they'll stay empty for long with all the supplies I'm buying. *g*

I'm finding the baking very therapeutic for my depression, funnily enough.
I'm concentrating on fairly straightforward stuff like muffins for now, but I'm loving baking them from scratch, & the measuring, sifting & mixing is weirdly soothing. :)

My lovely xanthe  gave me her recipe for the gorgeous pear & ginger muffins that I always love (& scoff!) when I stay with her, & I'm really pleased at how they've turned out. (Although the first batch was a bit iffy.  Turned out my oven wasn't quite at the temp it said it was - thank goodness for an oven thermometer!)
I'm also planning to try out some raspberry & lemon muffins, & some carrot & pineapple wholemeal muffins.  The recipes sound very scrumptious.
If anyone has any favourite muffin recipes - please do share! :)

Happy Thursday, all!
*hugs*

Gif credits in my profile. :)

Today's my birthday! *g*
As this is going to be a fabulously Tolkien year, I thought I'd follow the Hobbit tradition of giving gifts on my birthday.

'To cross this line'

Summary: Rodney's life changes forever.
McShep, G, 1050 words

So, 'happy my birthday', folks! *g*
*hugs*

I'm already having such a lovely day with cards & messages & LJ gits, etc.  Thank you so much! (Personal thank yous are on their way.)

Happy birthday to the lovely zinfic!
*hugs*
Wishing you a super day!

Here's a teeny, tiny bit of Rodney consciousness for you. ♥

Hush

(It's been so long since I've written and/or posted anything - I hope I've remembered how to do it! *g*)

Just a couple of bits & pieces:


++ I've posted a new ficlet over at my fic & art journal.
It's a little bit of future!fic:

TLC by Bluespirit

John needs a little TLC, John/Rodney, G, ~550 words ♥

*happy sigh*
I do love writing these boys so much. ♥

++ I've been seeing some of the Twitter pics from behind the scenes of Joe's new movie 'Six Bullets', but, oh my...



Considering how shy Joe tends to be about showing some skin, this is pretty 'guh' making!
Thank you, Joe for sharing... :D
Mmmmm... love those slinky, slinky hips!

He tweeted with the pic:

JoeFlanigan: Survived Bucharest, but I've changed a little http://t.co/8TAqwM7T

Hee! Oh, Joe! *g*

Thinking of Joe (yeah, like I'm not most of the time *g*) I loved his appearance in Fringe.

( spoilers )

I've been going through a little bit of a creative slump in the last few months, so I'm pleasantly surprised to see how much I have managed to produce. :)


+ H5O (Steve/Danny)

Art:

Making Waves (American Romance Library)


+ SGA (John/Rodney)

Fic:

Touchdown John gets kidnapped. PG-13 (~6,000 words)

Art:

Second Time Around

Safe Surrender (American Romance Library)

The Dandy Highwayman or You Can Take The Boy Out Of The 80s...


+ Lord of the Rings RPS (Sean Bean/Viggo Mortensen)

Fic:

A dark... and stormy night (a pair of drabbles telling one story) It was a dark and stormy night... PG-13


+ Awards

The GateFic Awards 2011

I've won some awards! \o/

( banners )

Thanks again to everyone who took part in the awards process. I'm really, really touched. ♥
*hugs*

I haven't been online for the last few days (hiking the Stiperstones, taking Bud to the beach, broadband dropping out, etc, etc *g*) so I hadn't realised that the results were up for this year's GateFic Awards. Luckily, the lovely hildejohanne & sgamadison were on the ball & emailed me to say 'go & look'!
*hugs*

Wow... I'm absolutely blown away. I've won three awards!







Thank you so, so much to everyone who took part in the awards process. I'm so touched & can't stop smiling - this has really made my day (week, month, year! *g*)
*hugs*

There were so many amazing stories & pieces of art - congrats to everyone who won & to all the nominees! What a lovely celebration of our shared passion.
I was especially pleased to see sgamadison's wonderful 'Second Verse' being recognised in the novel length AU category! This is my absolute favourite of her stories. ♥

And if that wasn't enough - Team Sheppard has won this year's mcshep_match!



\o/
Woot! We won!
Go, Team Sheppard, go! *g*

The standard was incredibly high & the result was really close, & Team McKay were gracious & wonderful opponents.
Congrats to everyone involved!
*hugs*

I've just posted my own Match contribution in my fic & art LJ - I wonder if anyone guessed this was mine? *g*
*waves at winter_elf*
:)



What an exciting day!
*hugs flist*


Thanks to GateFic Awards & mischief5 for the banners.

I've just posted my contribution to the sheppard_hc summer exchange!

Touchdown

Summary: John gets kidnapped.
McKay/Sheppard, PG-13 (~6,000 words)


Off on holiday very, very early tomorrow, so I have about twelfty-billion things to do today! Eeep!
*runs away*