For all the bakers on my flist...

( Best. Chocolate. Cake. EVAR. )

Tagged by emony2

List ten fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag 5 people to do the same.

Pictures under the cut. Not dial-up friendly.

( So many men, so little time... )

Tagged: Whoever feels like it.

Any of you Batman fans? Then check this out.

Seriously, bad ass.

All the reason I ever needed NOT to vote for Obama.

Dude, you're not the Messiah. And acting like you are only makes you worse than Dubya. He's an egotistical, self-important, moron. And even he had the sense not to go there.

Snagged from tidbit2008

( Who comments the most on this journal? )

I left out myself, cause you'd kind of expect I'd have the most, cause it's well, mine. :P

Title: Merry Kiss-mas
Author: shadow_diva
Fandom: Teen Titans (TV series)
Characters: Roy "Speedy" Harper/Karen "Bumblebee" Beecher
Prompt: 044. Christmas
Word Count: 1,127
Rating: FRT (Fan Rated suitable for Teens)
Summary: Picks up the morning after The Spirit of Christmas Titan, by obabscribbler, and is continued with her permission. Mistletoe catches two Titans off-guard.
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Don't sue.

( Merry Kiss-mas )

Ray/Neela table for ships50. Fortunately, there's some potential overlap between this and 50scenes, so it works out. And quite a few of these will fit in BMF, so I can get more scenes out of my head. And that's always a bonus. :D

01.	Young.	02.	Life.	03.	Hardship.	04.	Drama.	05.	Gold.
06.	Forgotten.	07.	Loneliness.	08.	Don’t Leave.	09.	My Name Is...	10.	Betrayal.
11.	Answers.	12.	Forever.	13.	Tomorrow.	14.	Bitch, Please.	15.	Candy.
16.	Selfless.	17.	Regret.	18.	Emotions.	19.	Denial.	20.	Seeing Red.
21.	Despair.	22.	Reckless.	23.	Choice.	24.	Agony.	25.	Contradiction.
26.	Pink.	27.	Flowers.	28.	Anti-Hero.	29.	Questions.	30.	Family.
31.	First Meeting.	32.	Far Away.	33.	Prayers Answered.	34.	Feeling Blue.	35.	Sexual.
36.	Come Undone.	37.	Everlasting.	38.	Beautiful.	39.	Tease.	40.	So Close.
41.	Lovers.	42.	Affection.	43.	Unclothed.	44.	Sensitivity.	45.	Oops!
46.	Green.	47.	Silver.	48.	Joy.	49.	Serenity.	50.	Attraction.

Stolen from tidbit2008

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

Add yourselves, peoples! You know you wanna. :D

Movie meme, snagged from attitude_issues:

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

( Quottage, this way. )

Tagged by tidbit2008:

Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.

1. the_dibbler
2. tidbit2008 (Sorry, hun. You don't have to do it again.)
3. fc2001
4. emony2
5. obabscribbler
6. vuliemoor
7. attitude_issues
8. jensucks
9. erinallen
10. phindle

Snagged from emony2



Yep. What'd I tell ya? :P

Snagged from tidbit20081. What is your pen name and when did you join?
2. How many stories have you submitted?
3. How many fandoms have you submitted stories for?
4. Go to your account. On the left side toolbar select 'Stats'. Copy the table(including the headings) and paste into your journal/blog.
5. Now on the stats page there is a list of links in the upper right corner. Select 'User Stats'. Copy the info and paste into your journal/blog.

1. AshCarroll aka ShadowDiva, 5/27/00
2. 31
3. 9
4.
title words chaps reviews hits c2s favs alerts
When the Rain Comes 2645 1 25 1028 2 13 2
What He Can't Have 1933 1 15 935 1 6 6
Turtlenecks in June 2619 1 23 1163 2 7 8
To Leave A Mark 667 1 14 1065 2 5 1
The Needs of the Many 4262 1 7 464 1 5 3
The Inhumanity of Crapsicles 618 1 8 499 1 2 0
Suffer the Children 3327 1 12 889 2 2 0
Static 3283 1 11 306 0 2 1
Someone To Watch Over Me 3915 2 16 66 0 1 2
Sleepless in Bayville 3143 1 6 316 0 2 0
Say It With Flowers 1189 1 21 1394 3 14 0
Safety Net 815 1 4 221 0 3 1
Right Beside You All Along 1530 1 26 236 0 2 3
Physician, Heal Thyself 940 1 14 1101 2 7 2
Note to Self 2922 1 15 820 1 8 2
No Sleep Tonight 1415 1 12 1297 2 4 5
In Absentia 680 1 13 234 0 7 1
Identity Crisis 2063 2 15 658 1 3 0
Hazy Shade of Winter 3460 1 2 148 0 0 0
From Sloppy Seconds to the Main Course 914 1 2 302 1 1 0
Emergency Contact 810 1 14 1195 1 6 0
Could've Been 174 1 5 388 1 2 0
Coming Home 1128 1 11 240 1 4 1
Cold Water Wash 1052 1 10 598 1 1 1
Caught in the Act 942 1 21 1029 4 8 2
Break My Fall 27699 4 27 2414 1 8 9
Beauty and the Spark 588 1 8 907 2 4 0
Anchor 2871 1 20 918 2 12 0
Acquired Taste 1390 1 15 969 1 7 4
A Merry Little Christmas 5591 1 37 1616 3 28 1
A Break in the Routine 550 1 2 80 0 0 0

5. You are on the favorites list of 75 members.

You are on the author alert list of 71 members.

You have submitted a total of 1657 signed reviews.

Total words archived : 85,135 words.

Avg. number of words per entry : 2,746.

Numbers of hits to your profile page : 4751.

Title: Coming Home
Author: shadow_diva
Fandom: ER (TV series)
Characters: Ray Barnett/Neela Rasgotra
Prompt: 012. Distance
Word Count: 1,080
Rating: FRT (Fan Rated Suitable for Teens)
Summary: Eighteen months and 810 miles, and it all came down to one moment.
Warnings: Spoilers for 13.21 through 14.1.
Disclaimer: Not mine. ER and its characters are the property of Michael Crichton, John Wells, Amblin Entertainment and Constant C Productions. No infringement intended, please don't sue, yadda yadda yadda.

Thanks to fc2001 for the beta. :)

( I've been stuck in this whirlwind...my life's been spinning round my head... )

Happy Birthday, fc2001!

Hope it's a good one. :)

( Open your presents... )

Snagged from tidbit2008:

Step 1. Put your playlist on random.
Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (You can skip songs that are instrumental.)
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
No Googling! That's what they call cheating, fool.

( So you call yourself a Music Whore? )

Tagged by obabscribbler

I only have like, 5 stories to choose from (and that's cheating a little to count BMF, cause it's still ongoing and the most recent chapter was posted this year).

Favorite story this year: Hard to pick a favorite. I think it's probably a toss up between Break My Fall and Identity Crisis, though. I've worked the hardest and struggled the most with them, but in the end have been pleased at where I ended up.

My best story this year: It's another tie, I think. Break My Fall, because even though I started it last year in 2006, it's still being updated, and the way I've managed to juggle two ships for most of it, and now building up a third makes me quite pleased with myself. And Identity Crisis, because Abby and Dubenko are not characters or a ship that I usually write, but somehow I managed to do well enough to please the fans of them that I know (who are tough critics) and leave them wanting me to write more than just the first chapter. I'll consider that an accomplishment and rise to the challenge.

Most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I don't really know; I don't write for appreciation, so people not liking my stuff has never been a major concern. I write because I have stories to tell and my muses won't shut the hell up till I write them. :P But A Break in the Routine doesn't have any reviews, even though it has 40+ hits. So that one, I guess. I'm pretty pleased with it, personally speaking. I like the banter I managed to get down at the end, and the way I got into Bee's head for most of it.

Most fun story: It's a toss up between Cold Water Wash and A Break in the Routine. I really love writing UST, so it was fun to do.

Sexiest story: Gonna have to say Identity Crisis, cause it's the only story I wrote this year with any smut in it. :P But Cold Water Wash is a close second (Ray's imagination in overdrive upon seeing Neela's undergarments? Yeah, that'll do), with A Break in the Routine coming in third for the UST bit near the end.

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: I don't really have one. I mean, I guess you could say Identity Crisis, cause I don't typically write outside my ship (Dave/Abby, FTW.) And I'm sure some people saw it on their Flists and did a double take, but there wasn't anything actually wrong about it. There was part of Safety Net with Rebecca's thoughts about the way Webb dealt with her that was pretty disturbing and wrong, but it's nowhere the show didn't heavily hint at going.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Identity Crisis again. I have hated Abby with a passion for a good number of years, but somehow I was able to get in her head for this one and sort of figure her out.

Hardest story to do: Identity Crisis (Are we sensing a pattern here?) If only because Dubenko was a challenge to write and stay in character with. It's not the kind of character I'm used to working with and it's not a character I was terribly comfortable with before starting the story. I'm still not totally comfortable with him, but I'm getting there.

Biggest surprise: And yet another award for Identity Crisis. I'm a Dave/Abby shipper from way back, and once I find a ship I love get obsessed with I tend to stick with it. And also, it's the first ER fic I've written since getting back into the fandom that didn't have Ray/Neela in it as a major plot or primary subplot. But that's going to change, lol. Cause I'm weaving them into it but writing that part of it as a separate story, so my Dubby readers that don't ship Roomies don't have to read through it. (You didn't really think I'd be able to manage to write an ER fic that didn't have something to do with Roomies, did you? Me? Come on now, let's don't be silly. :P)

Most revealing story: I don't really know. I don't think any of them reveal too much about me, except maybe that I am an obsessed fan. But you guys already knew that. ;)

A story I want remembered: Break My Fall, cause it's the one I've done the most work on. It's been stewing in my head since S11 of ER. (We're on S14 now, just for reference.) And it was late S12 before I even started writing it. I've got so many ideas and such big plans for it, and I've put in so much time plotting and planning and researching, and trying to make it a good story. I won't mind at all if it becomes the story people most associate me with.


Five People I Tag: madkrazyghetto, _fullofgrace, the_dibbler, emony2, and obsessivemuch

I've edited in most of the prompts I intend to use for the Writers' Choices. I still have one more to fill in, but the muses haven't told me what it is yet. :P But a lot of these will be scenes from as yet unwritten fics that are bouncing around in my head, looking for a means of escape. So it may very likely be one of those.

001.	Hero.	002.	Grave.	003.	Repent.	004.	Change.	005.	Power.
006.	Glory.	007.	Bitter.	008.	Smiles.	009.	Her.	010.	New Year's Eve. (Writer's Choice.)
011.	Escape.	012.	Rose.	013.	Heart.	014.	Bleed.	015.	Crimson.
016.	Pain.	017.	Relax.	018.	Lover.	019.	Without.	020.	Ready. (Writer's Choice.)
021.	Child.	022.	Banned.	023.	Grin.	024.	Pattern.	025.	Imprint.
026.	Cost.	027.	Calculate.	028.	Gasp.	029.	Benevolence.	030.	Resolution. (Writer's Choice.)
031.	Angel.	032.	Teddy.	033.	Failure.	034.	Sigh.	035.	Overdose.
036.	Saviour.	037.	Epitome.	038.	Syringe.	039.	Mask.	040.	Commitment. (Writer's Choice.)
041.	Angst.	042.	Loss.	043.	Wrapper.	044.	Christmas.	045.	Flicker.
046.	Glimmer.	047.	Bells.	048.	Voice.	049.	Listen.	050.	Writer's Choice.

Tags: 50scenes: speedy/bumblebee

I unlocked my fic entries. Because I have claims I just made and the stuff will have to be visible to everyone. But the rest of my journal (except for icons and other fanart posted from here on) is still locked down. I'm not entirely comfortable with the current climate at LJ, and until I see how things play out, it'll stay locked.