lady_sarai

So! I had a lovely birthday--just stayed home and had a quiet day, and Mom made me my favorite chicken casserole and a cake and it was nice. I felt lousy, but the cold is mostly gone now, except for a nagging cough--ugh.

Then I went to zoe_chan's for a few days, and it was awesome. =D Had more bad news about a job, but. Status quo? =P And anyway, zoe_chan, her husband and I watched Willow, Blade III and The Princess Bride. Which was awesome.

I had never seen Willow--upon hearing this, her husband said "You walk and talk and look human, but you've never seen Willow."

This is just one of many reasons I love visiting them.

Also! zoe_chan made a cake!

And I had some very lovely birthday messages from my wonderful f-list! ::loves:: Thank you>! ♥

scribophile even wrote me comment-fic crack! Sawyer and lobsters and a woman named Sarah! =D (As Kate said, clearly not me, as this woman has an "h" in her name. ;) hee!) It is made of win and awesome and makes me giggle.

AND!!!! AND!!!! AND!!!!!!

xenokattz!!! KATT MADE ME MANIPS!!!

So, okay--for cute_and_glee, we cast Milo Ventimiglia as Dick Grayson--BEFORE he said he wants to play him (YAY!), and Jared Padalecki as Roy Harper.

Katt totally made manips of them as Nightwing and Arsenal. O_O!!! AND she made one of Zac Effron (who we cast as Tim Drake) as Robin.

( Lookit! Lookit the pretty! OMG, it is beyond perfect casting. )

The pictures, they are pretty and they make me smile.

zoe_chan said we should post these with fic snippets, but she *did* admit that was a shameless bid for fics on her part. ;) As for me, teh pretty distracts me every time. I have no photomanip skills, so I remain in awe of you, Katt.

Clearly, I need icons of these.

The other day, in the comments of one of my entries, this exchange occured, which I am transcribing so you can all appreciate my new icon:

xenokattz (about me): You're that lovely person you meet at the party who is ever so much fun and sparkly and the next thing you know you're in a circular bed with leopard-print sheets going "Where am I and why am I snorting crack?"

scribophile: OMG, I am so seconding this!!

xenokattz: She should come with a warning label: Warning: Addictive as Crack Pie!

And lo and behold, scribophile made me this icon!

♥ I think I love it, despite the insinuations about my sanity--although perhaps it says more about those who FALL for the crack pie I deal. ;)

I clearly have the best f-list EVER and EVER amen!

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Speaking of crack pie, xenokattz and I spent last night writing mini-biographies for our cast of characters in our Crossover of Cute and Glee, Oxygen Variations--which is also housed at cute_and_glee. Speaking of, Katt posted the most AMAZING THING EVER over there.

The Cast (with bonus ficlets and character bios), intended as a quick reference guide to those unfamiliar with one canon source or the other, and as a quick explanation of the changes we may have made to canon in the process of creating this insanely addicting world.

The pictures Katt made are absolutely fantastic, so go take a peek! And she wrote the accompanying ficlets, which made me go a little hypersonic with glee, so read those, too! :)



No, really, GO LOOK! You won't regret it.

It's finally up! A while ago, I mentioned that xenokattz and I had created the Best Crossover Ever with the OTP of cute.

This is that crossover.



Katt (xenokattz) and I present The Oxygen Variations, a collection of stories centering around Jason White (of Superman Returns fame) and Lian Harper (of DC comics fame).

TITLE: The Oxygen Variations
FANDOM: DC comics/Superman Returns crossover
CHARACTERS: Ensemble, though mainly Jason White and Lian Harper at this point. Eventual pairings include Clark Kent/Lois Lane/Richard White, Roy Harper/Dick Grayson and Tim Drake/Conner Kent.
RATING: Eventual Teen/Mature.
SUMMARY: Two families growing up together as seen through the eyes of Jason White and Lian Harper.

NOTE: Katt and I have had many a long, detailed and geektastic discussion about this crossover and how best to meld comics canon with Superman Returns canon. We even have a very extensive spreadsheet. Because of the nature of comic canon and movie canon, some significant changes have been made, but rest assured that nothing has been decided without extensive discussion--and probably a lot of squee.
CONTINUITY: Currently--post Superman Returns. Coinciding DC continuity illustrates the afforementioned canon-twisting; WAY pre-Infinite Crisis--in fact, pre-Death of Superman. However, Dick is Nightwing and Roy is Arsenal--a member of the JLA. Tim is not yet Robin.

NOW AVAILABLE:
--Dueling Intros, wherein Katt and I explain precisely how this insanely awesome Crossover of Glee and the OTP of Cute came about. (There is also an explanation of the carefully chosen title.)
--Stranger Like Me: Lian Harper has just moved to Metropolis for Gr. 1. and Jason White finds a real bestest friend. How it all begins.

Note: Now also available on LJ for those so inclined: Stranger Like Me (LJ remix-but-not-really).

Disclaimer: We do not own Clark Kent (Superman, Kal El), Lois Lane, Richard White, Roy Harper (Arsenal, Speedy I, Red Arrow), Dick Grayson (Nightwing, Robin I), Kon El (Superboy, Conner Kent), Tim Drake (Robin III), Jason White or Lian Harper. They belong to DC with extensions to the creative teams of Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and Brian Singer, Dan Harris & Michael Dougherty.

And a minor footnote involving our casting choices:

xenokattz: I LOVE our cast. I don't think I've said that often enough
Lady_Sarai: I LOVE IT TOOOOOOO!
Lady_Sarai: I don't think we've spent enough time gushing over them, either, given how awesome and made of win they are.
xenokattz: It was like cherubs were harping and light came down from on high and the fanfic God pointed a finger and said "This is Thy Cast with whom I am pleased."

The banner and HTML are entirely Katt's doing. Links lead to her website, because her HTML-fu powers are greater than my own. ;) Also, she rocks.

No, really, tell xenokattz how absolutely FANTASTIC and AWESOME the banner she made is. Because isn't it gorgeous? ♥ And now go read. ;)