Title: Silk (and Pearls), or, How Jane Sheppard Got Her Groove Back (1/4)
Rating: NC-17
Summary: (SGA, sequel to Lustrous) “Oh, good,†Jane said. “I Googled you, too.â€
Posted as part of the 14 Valentines Project. To read today’s essay on arts and athletics, click here.
And for everybody who remembered that I said I wasn’t posting for every day of the two weeks this year, thank you.
Title: Bang (MP3 format)
Rating: NC-17
Summary: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ALONE
I had actually, honestly, and completely forgotten that I had this prepped to go for 14 Valentines, huh — which, by the way, is the project for which this is being posted. To read today’s essay on sexual assault, go here.
Anybody who would like to mirror the file is welcome to do so, by the way.
Title: Fixer
Rating: PG
Summary: Your secret’s showing, Emma had written, and signed it, E.
Written as part of the 14 Valentines project. To read today’s essay on sexuality, go here - Instant Comment.
Title: Post-Nuptial
Rating: NC-17 (Not for the reason you think.)
Summary: (SGA) “What the fuck, McKay!†John yelled. “I can’t take you anywhere!â€
Written as part of the 14 Valentines project. To read today’s essay on women’s health, go here.
Title: White Wedding
Rating: PG-13
Summary: (Naruto) Sandaime never had to put up with any of this crap.
Posted as part of the 14 Valentines project, to read today’s essay on hunger, go here.
Title: Lustrous
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Tin is a lustrous gray.
Here we go again.
Yeah, that’s right — the gauntlet has been thrown.
Mostly, I don’t know any of the wank going on on lj anymore (praise wordpress!), but occasionally, people let me know some of it — and all I can say is: oh shit, bitches! I better cancel the 7th day of 14 Valentines 2008, it’s falling right on Chinese New Year. You know what that means! I don’t have to finish writing Arc! Yay!!!!!!!!
Okay, no seriously, done being mean. Sort of. I mean, okay, at least publicly.
Thinking about 14 Valentines kind of makes me break out into hives, mostly because for the first time in literally about six years, I’ve whittled my backlog of half-finished stories to, and I’m not kidding you, 12 that I am even considering completing. If you’ve seen the 14 Valentines day process before, you know it’s like, battle royale of fics, and whichever one doesn’t keep me interested long enough usually gets dumped and traded out for another — I don’t have that option this year — if I can’t finish Flicker (SPN) or Waltz (HSM) or hell, Arc (AHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHA) for that two week period — I’m fucked. I hate crapping out at the only (uh, fannishly) deadline oriented thing I do.
Oh, and also, for those of you not reading Jezebel (why not?) or those of you who might have missed this by not having as sick a sense of humor as I do, they wrote up the Rope Fantasies: Cowboys are Good in Bed and Don’t Ever Get the Blues post — which I took one look at and was like, “Well, obviously ‘Jessie’ is just Rodney McKay’s secret identity.”
So. Some of you may have noticed a year or two ago I started a project called 14 Valentines. Last year, I put it out to the community at large in a community. A ton of people participated, it was a great effort by a bunch of really excellent gals — and this year, I’m offering the community up for adoption. I’d lie and say I have the time/energy/know-how to mod it again, but let’s not lie: I’m not made for management, and I think somebody with better organizational skills than my own will be able to broaden the project even more and enfold more people into its mission.
Which, if you don’t know, is to raise awareness about women in our community of women — and maybe it’s not surprising given that we all write slash, but for a roomful of girls we very rarely talk about ourselves, except for the occasional chain post about NARAL or Wal-Mart pharmacists refusing to distribute contraceptives. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to encourage the production of creative works — for each day of the first 14 days of February and concluding on Valentines Day itself — to drum up awareness of women’s issues, about women’s work, about ourselves. Get people to start a conversation, and let your art, your stories, your essays, your bibliographies and songs and whatever else you can come up with bring them to cause, and hope that you know, sisterhood keeps them there.
If you’re interested, drop me a line at rageprufrock at gmail dot com, and tell me what your plan would be for the community and the project. I love 14 Valentines, it’s very close to my heart, and I hope that if you’re volunteering to take on the project, that it is close to yours as well.
PS, for those of you wondering: yes, I will still be participating in 14 Valentines.
PPS, no, I don’t have my line-up yet.
PPPS, seriously, don’t leave your pitch in the comments, I’ll just cross your name right off the list.