multi-purpose update post

[buggery]

Going to try to cover a lot of ground with this one post. I've been neglecting my LJ too much of late.

As you may know, if you've tried IMing me or inviting me recently, I've been writing. A lot. And no, most of it hasn't yet appeared here or anywhere, sorry. Most of it has been a novel-length batshit-insane AU that Te and I are writing, and most of it will continue to be that story until we finish or it kills us.

If you've been waiting for me to come back to Smallville... well, it may yet happen. I'm distracted by other fandoms at the moment, though. And the "Shattered"/"Asylum" storyline was, and remains, really difficult for me. I do have a brief comment on "Whisper" I was wanting to share, though: stupid as it is for Lana's leg to be so completely healed so soon, at least we're no longer subjected to her not being able to even act like she has a limp; Pete not only had lines, not only had enough lines to qualify as dialogue, but was actually integral to the plot; and we finally get to see Her Honour Judge Mama Ross, who is just as bitchin as I would've expected. See? I'm still watching. I'll be back eventually.

I have a group of new icons I'm past due for a GIP about, so this is going to be it.

 

I said in my last GIP that I needed a Munch icon, and there he is, showing off his oral fixation. I also made myself a default-femslash icon I'm happier with, featuring deliciously deadpan Daria and Jane.


  

These three I made using scans graciously posted by other people: David Bowie feeling himself up (from The Man Who Fell to Earth), scan by tvc15; "Superguh" bearded!long-haired!old!Clark (from Alex Ross's Kingdom Come), scan by thefakeheadline; and the "temptation" of Bruce adjusting himself in his jock in front of Tim (from Two-Face Strikes Twice Book 1), scan by domarzione.




This one I cropped down from a gorgeous drawing by glockgal, because I just didn't have enough Dick in my icon set. ::stares some more at source image:: Mmmmm, pretty.




And this one I needed partly due to my newfound obsession with Jason (Todd -- who knew?) and partly because of the aforementioned batshit-insane AU. You'll see...




Last but not least, my Tara. (That's "Tah-ra," not "Terra.") Because with 50 slots to work with, not having a kitty icon is just unconscionable.


So, other things. I have actually written some stories other than the AU, of late, though I haven't been my usual anal self with them. Last week I posted In Lieu of a Lecture, which, at some point, I really need to put through at least some editing, if not a full-on beta. Now that I've got this post done, I can post the one I wrote Friday-night-into-Saturday-morning, after which I got offline to do my weekly Food Not Bombs duties and then promptly passed out for a day. There should also be a post about the Robins' history in fairly short order, thanks to a conversation I had with unovis_lj the other day.

The evil cold weather continues to make my life hell, but if I start bitching about that I'll never get anything else finished.

Comments

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

See, I feel bad when you say I scanned the comic. I didn't scan. I acquired the scan via... other means. I have a cache of pretty pictures (I'll get around to posting some of my Nightwing stash one of these days) and loopy panels and great amounts of comics that I could never afford to buy.

~me (formerly known as domarzione)

ps - greatly liked the "short version" of the History of Batman and Robin. Probably for the best that you didn't include the events of Gotham Knights: Transference, which includes some of the most oh-this-really-isn't-subtext-is-it Dick/Bruce moments ever

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Well, regardless of whether you actually operated the scanner, you did post the scan over at scans_daily for everyone's enjoyment. That's close enough for me... though if it'll make you feel better I can change it to say "scan provided by miss_porcupine.

Sadly, I don't have the first year and some of Gotham Knights, aside from #1. But I had a look at the synopses of the four parts of the storyline over at dcuguide.com, and taking into account who wrote it -- nobody brings the subtext like Devin -- I think I can imagine how amazingly slashy the issues must have been. Heh. I don't suppose you have any scans to share?

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Ah, heck, no, you don't have to change anything. As for Transference... I believe the exact phrase used to describe the Nightwing-Batman relationship is "sticky and hot". (Thank you, Hugo Strange.)

[buggery.livejournal.com]

O.O

Okay, that's pretty risque even for Devin...

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind that's Hugo Strange in a batsuit, not Bruce:


[totally shameless nonsequitur, although it works on the larger scale of your comments page: in my first life, I was a Homicide writer (shameless part here) and am muchly amused by the Munchlove.]

[buggery.livejournal.com]

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Uh. Um.

I just gaped at that panel for looong minutes.

Clearly, my shrine to Devin is shamefully inadequate. I'm going to have to start actually stalking her.

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[thete1.livejournal.com]

Holy FREAKING shit, man.

O.O

Um... thanks. For that.

O.O

Re: much more complicated... sticky and HOT...

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Is there a reason you haven't put this panel up at scans_daily? Because really, it should be shared...

Re: much more complicated... sticky and HOT...

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Hadn't really thought about it - it requires a lot of explanation (i.e., why that's not Bruce in the Batsuit, who Hugo is talking about, why Nightwing is bound and on his knees, why Robin's bound and on his knees in another room, why Bruce Wayne's acting so oddly....) I will if there's a real hankering for it, but...

Re: much more complicated... sticky and HOT...

[thete1.livejournal.com]

There is SUCH hankering. *ha* I've been pointing people to this thread. :D

Re: much more complicated... sticky and HOT...

[buggery.livejournal.com]

why Nightwing is bound and on his knees, why Robin's bound and on his knees

Aside from the fact that both of them should be bound and on their knees a lot more often than they actually are...

Re: much more complicated... sticky and HOT...

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. But that's a separate issue. ;)

[niqaeli]

I adore the Munch icon.

This may be because I adore Munch. Munch and all his droll, dry-witted, insanely well-educated, prone to intelligent ranting, ex-hippie, Jew copness.

And the fact that he is FUCKING HOT. I fail to see how he manages to walk down the street without getting jumped by everything theoretically capable of being attracted to a male.

The femmeslash icon and the kitty icons are darling. But I'm kind of obsessed with the Munch.

Belzer is one of two actors that I will admit to having a raging mad crush on. The other is Depp. I find it amusing that both are married with children and *live in France*.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the icon-love. And for showing off your Munch icon, where he's sporting that wonderfully gay new haircut. Mmmmm.

He may not be conventionally attractive, but damn, he's irresistibly hot.

[niqaeli]

:D! Showing off Munch icons is always good fun.

No, he's not conventionally attractive... but he's probably one of the most irresistably sexy men I've *ever* seen. Pretty boys are nice, don't get me wrong, and the manly men are great too, but him? Him I would not only not kick out of bed for eating crackers in bed, I would gladly, gleefully, happily give him the crackers *myself*. Just so I can watch him eat them.