BEST BINGO CARD EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG, OMG, OMG - I've never gotten a bingo card quite so perfectly attuned to my writing. trope_bingo for the win!

curtainfic	immortality/reincarnation	snowed in	time travel	holiday
secret child	wingfic	au: magic	kidfic	au: band
au: space	telepathy/mindmeld	WILD CARD	accidental baby acquisition	au: apocalypse
huddle for warmth	virgin!fic/secretly a virgin	animal transformation	sex pollen	sharing a bed
fuck or die	in vino veritas/drunkfic	truth or dare	poker/strip poker	au: college/highschool

Seriously going for a blackout this time around. Prompts would be lovely.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2015 - Day 3

Day 3 - In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?

( Because I tl;dr'ed, it's under a cut. But there's a bonus Bomer if you make it all the way through )

Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2015 - Day 5

Day 5 – In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity?

I've told my fandom origin story so many times, it doesn't even seem real anymore. But the very first place I told it was in my first real LJ entry.

A few things to note, Tim DeKay had a shirtless scene in Pilot. It just went by so quickly it didn't even register until the ten or twentieth time I watch Pilot.

And how's this for a hoot, in case you don't want to go back and read that entry:

I'm not sure I'm cut out for writing fic...I do write and write well (if I may say so myself), but one of the things that makes my writing good is an intensive and obsessive attention to research and detail - and I just do not know if I can turn that off enough to write with the dramatic intensity I would want. But you see, I have these plot bunnies coupling in my head - they don't let me sleep - so I may just have to try.

One Million Seven Hundred Thirteen Thousand words later, I'm still not sure I'm cut out for this fic writing thing.

White Collar Fic - Marching to the Beat of the Heart Within Me

Title: Marching to the Beat of a Heart Within Me
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Moz, mention of other canon characters, eventual Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~9200
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: theatregirl7299, pooh_collector, sinfulslasher
Summary: An A/U where Peter is the Chief Technology Officer for Winters Industries (otherwise known as MozCorp), Neal is Moz's stepson and is the company's best (and only) salesman. In a fit of inspiration (or madness), Moz makes Peter Neal's supervisor. Things don't really go well.

Author’s Note: Written for my dearest miri_thompson, who'd picked "What's Locked Behind the Glass" as her prompt for the ninth night of Fic-Can-Ukah. She asked me to write more of the "Unfireable Neal 'verse" – which I'd started in Performance Review a ficlet I'd written for her for my Trick or Treat meme.

Title from the song "The Happy Worker" from the soundtrack to the movie Toys

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( Peter scrubbed his face and almost wished he had an appointment for a colonoscopy. Without anesthesia. Scratch that, not almost. )

Today in Marriage Equality - Florida Ban Lifted

Ending a drawn-out battle over same-sex marriage in Florida, Miami-Dade on Monday became the first county in the state to allow gay couples to wed after a state judge lifted a temporary ban on the nuptials.

According to this article in today's New York Times, Miami-Dade was the first county to proceed because the judge’s ruling Monday was part of a state lawsuit, separate from a broader federal lawsuit. The judge, Sarah Zabel, of the Miami-Dade Circuit Court, declared the prohibition on same-sex marriage unconstitutional in July but had kept the ban in place pending appeals. On Monday morning, in response to a federal ruling last week in Florida, she lifted that temporary ban.

Three hours later, Judge Zabel officially married two of the six couples who had sued the county over the same-sex marriage ban. The wedding took place at Miami’s civil courthouse, where the couples exchanged rings.

Florida becomes the 36th state to allow gay couples to wed. (The District of Columbia also permits same-sex marriages.)