For likeadeuce's birthday last week, I wanted to write something, but didn't manage in time--however, I did manage to help second_batgirl while she wrote Crisis on Infinite Shrimp Boats. I'm posting our IM, because it's kind of hilarious and also, second_batgirl wants it known whose fault that fic really is.

The shrimp boat is my fault. There, I've said it.

So when you've had a chance to read that entirely awesome fic, here is a little behind-the-scenes commentary for you.

second_batgirl: give me a plot bunny!
second_batgirl: something X-Men!
LadySarai: ummmm... Jean and Wanda being friends!
LadySarai: Jean and Scott?
LadySarai: Jean's birthday!
LadySarai: um, Jean!
LadySarai: er.
LadySarai: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
second_batgirl: heee!
second_batgirl: maybe I will write something Exiles
LadySarai: ...that is not anything I suggested.
LadySarai: MUTANT SHRIMP BOATS.

( That is only the beginnings of the existential magical mutant shrimp boat madness. And capslock abuse. )

In conclusion: WE LOVE YOU, likeadeuce!! ♥

alphabet26 did this meme:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

( My icons are under the cut! )

And later, regarding Pushing Daisies:

LadySarai55: It is not my new fandom!!! I am just watching it!
xenokattz: That's what they all say at first. Next thing you know, you're planting daisies
LadySarai55: I kill plants.
LadySarai55: I have a black thumb.
LadySarai55: It would be horrifying!
xenokattz: And your image of a perfect husband becomes lobersterman!Robin who gardens on his days off
LadySarai55: .....
LadySarai55: okay, sorry, I got distracted before I saw the gardening part.
xenokattz: LMAO
LadySarai55: you can't just spring lobsterman!Robin on me and expect coherence!
LadySarai55: don't you know me at all?!
LadySarai55: (also--is farming considered gardening?)

I am having one of those Rough Days where I want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers until I feel like a human being again, and that feels like it could be years.

But--came home and am talking to zoe_chan and xenokattz and am beginning to feel better.

Provided my family doesn't try to take my internet away from me, I will be okay in a few hours.

Katt and I had this conversation which must be preserved (Context is for the weak--or those who are getting snippets of my WiP):

xenokattz: ZOMG KON!
xenokattz: and a HAM!
xenokattz: And possibly twice-baked sweet potato pie which he hates 'cause it's got raisins!
xenokattz: It's not pie, sorry. Just twice-baked sweet potatoes.
Lady_Sarai: either way.
Lady_Sarai: they're sweet potatoes with raisins.
xenokattz: but WHY does Kon dislike raisins? As Tim says, they are nature's candy.
Lady_Sarai: ::laughs:: he doesn't mind RAISINS per se, just--he does not like raisins in his potatoes.
xenokattz: Truth.
Lady_Sarai: (he does not think he should have to CHEW his potatoes like that)
xenokattz: What does he do with fries then?
Lady_Sarai: fries are fried.
Lady_Sarai: if its fried it automatically okay
Lady_Sarai: and he doesn't mind chewing potatoes, but he minds chewing MASHED potatoes.
Lady_Sarai: Martha's cooking spoils him.
xenokattz: gotcha
Lady_Sarai: plus, she doesn't put raisins in his.
Lady_Sarai: Clark gets raisins.
xenokattz: Clark loves raisins. They are, after all, nature's candy.
Lady_Sarai: to which Kon facepalms.
xenokattz: and wonders why he ended up with the S and Tim with the Bat
Lady_Sarai: and whether or not Luthor likes raisins, and if he doesn't, he's going to buy a giant sized bottle at the wholesale club and eat them all BECAUSE.
xenokattz: oh KON
xenokattz: He's going to be runny for a WEEK
xenokattz: And I'm not talking his nose
Lady_Sarai: which is why Tim will stop him.
xenokattz: And one day, perhaps several years from now, Bruce will go to Clark's holding a giant jar of petrified raisins with a sign in Tim's spiky printing "Kon-- this will kill you. I'm not even kidding."
xenokattz: And Bruce will arch one brow
xenokattz: And say "I blame your boy entirely."

OMG IT'S CISSIE!!!!!!! AND ANITA!!!!! I approve of of the haircut. Very much so.

Also, was talking with Katt tonight:

Lady_Sarai: you know what intrigues me? those comment porn ficlet/meme things you sometimes see.
Lady_Sarai: because--how does that even come about? do you just decide "gee, I think today I will beg my flist to write me porn" and... they do?
xenokattz: yes
xenokattz: if they love you
xenokattz: I'd never do it 'cause my ego is too fragile ;)
Lady_Sarai: I think your flist would surprise you.
Lady_Sarai: I don't know what would happen if I tried this on my flist. Maybe it would surprise me and I'd be inundated with porn...?
Lady_Sarai: I would write you porn. Or, you know, try and flail and comment and run away?
Lady_Sarai: Hide behind something while you read it?
Lady_Sarai: I am preoccupied by this comment-porn-a-thon concept! I don't know why!! It's not like I often seek out porn for porn's sake, either!
Lady_Sarai: also, my ego would shatter and go weeping in a corner if I tried it. or I'd get, like, CASSIE and Tim, which--would hurt my soul.
xenokattz: LMAO
xenokattz: It might be from me and I MEANT for it to be Cissie/Tim but my fingers wouldn't fing
Lady_Sarai: ::laughs:: but if it was from you, I'd KNOW it was a typo. ;)
Lady_Sarai: one of these days it will get trained out of you and then you'll try to write about CASSIE and mistype HER name.
Lady_Sarai: and Cissie will feel vindicated. ;)
xenokattz: okay, TOTALLY writing now
Lady_Sarai: writing my comment porn?
Lady_Sarai: ;)
xenokattz: did you ask on LJ?
Lady_Sarai: NO.
Lady_Sarai: I may totally have to post parts of this IM, though, for I am silly and we are postable.
Lady_Sarai: like post-its.
Lady_Sarai: would that count?
xenokattz: sure!


So--am I asking for comment porn? Apparently. ::scratches head:: I am not sure how this happened, but I won't blame Katt because she might write me something. ;)

I should go to bed, but tomorrow I shall post the parts of our IM where Katt and I sorted the cast of Heroes into Hogwarts houses--and tried to do so for the DCU but distracted ourselves and blamed Batman.

I know, it took forever, but I finally finished Eclipse and it fills me with so much mush and love that it cannot be contained. SERIOUSLY.

I don't know if I usually have OTPs that are *actual* OTPs, but I SO DO for this series. GAH!!! ::loves Edward and Bella SO DAMN MUCH::

zoe_chan finished it the night before I did, so of course we talked about it. ;) Or squealed.

Lady_Sarai: and I finished Eclipse!
zoe_chan: eeeeeeeeeeee!!!
zoe_chan: Did you love it?
zoe_chan: I kind of loved it.
( Uh, yeah, spoilers behind this cut. )

I did indeed love this book.

Um, zoe_chan and I are the special kind of nerds.


Lady_Sarai: Kon says that at least he can milk a cow, so there is ONE thing he can do that Tim can't.
zoe_chan: Tim says that he's not sure he ever *wanted* to milk a cow, so Kon is welcome to the skill.
zoe_chan: And suggests that there is something vaguely wrong with Kon that he boasts *this* as the thing he's better than Tim at.
Lady_Sarai: Kon's going to ignore that until one day when they're trapped on an island or in a cave or on a planet populated only by cows and their only source of nourishment is milk and THEN Tim will think differently about his mad milking skills. Or possibly when the alien cows invade.
Lady_Sarai: and he says that Tim laughs NOW but it's because he knows this is entirely too possible
zoe_chan: Tim says that he will be happy to allow Kon to do the milking in this case.
zoe_chan: And he will offer a frilly milkmaid dress in the event that such an occasion arises.
zoe_chan: He's pretty sure he saw one in the Batcave.
Lady_Sarai: Kon would like to remind Tim which of them has actually dressed in drag before.
Lady_Sarai: Also, he sticks his tongue out.
zoe_chan: Tim would like to advise Kon that he still has not decided how he will kill the person who brings up his drag episode again, but suggests that large amouonts of Kryptonite might be involved. There may also be some of that in the Batcave
Lady_Sarai: Kon still thinks Tim will change his tune when he saves the world all by himself because *he* can milk a cow and *Tim* can't.
zoe_chan: Again, a situation that Tim has no problems with whatsoever.
Lady_Sarai: Kon is seriously considering distracting Tim in rather inapropriate ways, because he really doesn't enjoy talking about milking cows that much.
zoe_chan: Tim might be amenable to such distractions.
Lady_Sarai: Okay, seriously, the only thing Kon said just now was "SCORE!"
zoe_chan: Tim is smirking.
Lady_Sarai: (I have a teenage half-kryptonian clone living in my brain.)
Lady_Sarai:(It's a little scary, except I love him so.)
zoe_chan: I have a teenage Bat-clone living in mine.

Dear Unasked for Plot Bunny,

DIE.

Or at least resolve yourself to being glimpsed at vaguely and with Jedi-like handwaves in some larger picture.

PLEASE?

-No love,
Me

Dear Memes I've Seen That Look Really Fun,

I don't have the time or energy to play with you right now! ::weeps:: Wait until tomorrow?

-Much love,
Me

Dear Ficathon-fics,

Cooperate with me and be kind.

-Pleadingly,
Me

Dear HTML,

DIE A PAINFUL DEATH IN A PIT OF VOLES!

And behave.

-Maliciously,
Me

In other news, had a very productive day while running on four hours of sleep. No call to sub, which meant I didn't have to say I couldn't, which meant the cable company guy came and found out that a fuse had blown somehow. He also showed me how to fix the mess my brother made with the wires connecting the cable box, dvd player and tv. So, go me! Also, I CLEANED. O_O The house looks like people can live in it. Wow.

Also, I updated my website with my latest fic (DC) and my Narnian yuletide fic and the cracktastic llama of a crossover fic-type-thing xenokattz and I can't stop thinking about. (Can you blame us?) Then... well, the HTML pretty much beat me up all afternoon/evening. Oh, and new layout for the lj, woot! It's pretty, from premade_ljs.

Took a trip to LL Bean and realized that I go there very rarely in the summer, but it's not unusual to go in the winter. Oddly. Must be the tourists that scare me off. Mom can totally get handicapped parking in the winter--although that's essentially useless, as the walk to the door is SUBSTANTIAL when her knee is bugging her. Bought a lunchbox. Was bit by rapid plot bunny who did not leave me alone for the whole ride home. Ate quesadillas for dinner.

Has an IM conversation with aradiachiba ( in which I lost two days and found them behind the peanut butter and cracked myself up when she began self-flaggelating herself. )

I really need to sleep now, because I may or may not get a phone call at 6 am asking me to sub and oi. If this happens, it might not be pretty. I am not nice to myself, I should have been in bed hours ago.

Dear Self,

WTF?!

Self-flaggelatingly,
Me

Okay, so I go from not posting in several days to posting four times in one afternoon, but all these IM posts do come from TWO conversations--Wednesday and Thursday nights. So, um... not sure how, but that makes it better? Also, my mother is sick and I am taking care of her and thus spending my Saturday just sitting here. ;)

So, lately, I gave in to the voice in my head that was screaming DICK GRAYSON at me, and I revisited some of my comics. Which lead me to giving in to curiousity and finally reading Infinite Crisis.

Oh, DC. I love and hate you, all at once.

The hate? Well. >_< Superboy punched reality, didn't he? Which is entirely cracktastic and wonderful in that it's SO cracktastic, but it's also... horrid. ::shrug:: Also, not a fan of mindless death, but it's comics, right? Meh.

The love? Well.

I've mentioned that I've been in love with Dick Grayson since I was seven, right? ;) And the whole screwed up father-son relationship between him and Bruce is one of my favorite things, EVER, and Infinite Crisis? Was chockful of it.

I was planning on posting about this eventually, but zoe_chan and I got chatting and I wound up explaining it all via IM, so I'm gonna just copy/paste, rather than retype. ;)

But first! I was chatting and this exchange occurred:

Me: Well, Dick kind of spiraled into this wacky emo drama king full of WOE and DOOOOM.
zoe_chan: I don't really see Robin as emo.
Me: No, but Nightwing is.

And prompted me to give a quick and extensive off-the-top-of-my-head history of Dick Grayson, former Boy Wonder. ;)

Note: This was all utterly off the top of my head, so forgive any inconsistencies. Also, while I have read a fair amount of Nightwing, I also read a lot of Wiki. ;) Also, my grasp of DC timelines--especially after both Crises--is handwavy at times.

Another note: I really did gloss over a LOT of details and if you want more, check out Wikipedia, at LEAST. ;) I actually know more than this lets on, if you can believe that. I am completely aware that much more went on than I managed to convey. I could probably talk for several hours about Dick, AND the people around him. Contrary to what I might let on, I know a LOT more about the DCU than I do about the X-Men. And, sacriledge that it is, my love for Dick may be EVER SO SLIGHTLY more than my love for Scott, which, ACK!! So WRONG!

( Wherein I discuss the Life and Times of Dick Grayson, introduce Roy Harper, discuss the original Teen Titans, quote a lot of Infinite Crisis and Nightwing and generally am a HUGE comics geek. )

So, yeah. I think that covers everything I could possibly want to say about Infinite Crisis, Bruce as an Emotionally Constipated Father Figure, the Batclan, the Titans, and why Dick is, indeed, emo these days.

ETA, 3/2/07: D'oh! I read this over now and I think "wait, no, I was WRONG!" Because now I've done far more research on the Teen Titans and oh. It's not bad as a picture of what I knew, but now I know more. So forgive me. =P

Ahem. ;) zoe_chan finally read Twilight and we gushed. aradiachiba, you are not allowed to read this post until you finish BOTH books, and then you need to gush at me, too. ;)

Also, this post is mainly so I can hear scribophile go supersonic over the Twilight squeeage. ;)

Lady_Sarai: so what're you up to?
zoe_chan: not much
zoe_chan: finished Twilight last night and started New Moon
Lady_Sarai: WEEEEEE!!!!!
Lady_Sarai: ::twirls you::
Lady_Sarai: fangirl at me, please. ;-)
zoe_chan: okay.
zoe_chan: ::squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees::
Lady_Sarai: I KNOW!
zoe_chan: OMG, I love this book
( TWILIGHT CAPSLOCK GLEEE!! )

Then her husband came home and we both went our separate ways for the evening, but later, she came back to me, and we continued the squeeage.

zoe_chan: Sara...
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Auto response from LadySarai: I just tried to say "whiskey tango foxtrot" and it came out "whisko tangey foxtrot." Somehow I think I earned the laughing and the mocking.
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zoe_chan: ::whines::
zoe_chan: I'm *upset*
Lady_Sarai: is this RL or New Moon?
zoe_chan: New Moon
( Now enter the New Moon flailing. )

Then we went to bed, and the next night, she IMed me:

zoe_chan: I finished New Moon today
Lady_Sarai: SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
( IT'S BETTER IN CAPSLOCK!!! )
Lady_Sarai: ::SQUISHES YOU AND TWIRLS YOU IN TWILIGHT GLEEEE!
zoe_chan: ::IS HAPPILY AND GLEEFULLY TWIRLED::
Lady_Sarai: all right dear, it's past my bedtime like whoa, but the squee session will, continue at some point!



And that? Is really the sum total of everything I feel about these damn books. I am consistently reduced to screaming, gleeful, flailing CAPSLOCK. :)

Well, he did. Then aradiachiba, zoe_chan and I started chatting.

You should all know this is bound to go post-modern.

aradiachiba: I have pomegranite vodka
lady_sarai: ooooooooo
aradiachiba: and black currant vodka
zoe_chan: I have all sorts of liquors
lady_sarai: I have..... none.
zoe_chan: aww!
lady_sarai: ::shifty eyes:: I should call Superboy.
aradiachiba: you should
aradiachiba: he could fracture some reality for you
lady_sarai: he can punch reality and get me liquor.
( Reality punching doesn't get any realer than punching reality. )

Immediately after this, my iTunes began playing "They're Coming To Take Me Away" and I got paranoid.

When in doubt, just remember:

Superboy punched reality.