Things Learned at a Scissor Sisters Concert

1. It ain't a party till the tits come out. So said Ani Matronic introducing, what else, Tits on the Radio.

2. Jake Shears lost his virginity in Toronto. Or so he says. (We'll assume he wasn't just playing to the Toronto audience.) He offered the further detail that he was, and I quote, "fucked up the ass by a hot construction worker." Ah, Jake, how we love you.

3. The Scissors Sisters are totally the hardest working band on the planet. And their disco version of Comfortably Numb makes a killer end of concert rock out.

And now I shall haul my fortysomething butt to bed. (It's probably a good thing I won't be able to do late concerts for much longer. Eventually, it'd kill me.)

The Me-Me-Me-Meme

Tagged by st_crispins...

Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

1. My Golden Afternoon with the Grim Reaper (Pros)
The second Pros stories I ever wrote and one I'm still rather proud of. Bodie encounters a ghostly character in an English garden who may or may not be Death. I seem to have an affection for writing almost-but-not-quite death stories, and I think this is my best one. And it was also one of the easiest stories I ever wrote. The idea came to me in the shower, and I quickly got out, wrapped myself in a towel and wrote a good chunk of the first draft perched on our second floor stairs whilst I dripped onto the carpet.

2. The Terrible Doubt of Appearances (Wild Wild West)
Although I love the show, I don't know that I'd precisely call WWW one of my fandoms. But I do love writing stories in the universe. Partly, it's because I have a real fondness for Jim and Artie. Especially Artie. Partly it's because I enjoy doing the research to find some crazy incident from the time period that I can turn into a story. In this case, I wanted to do a first time meeting between Jim and Artie during the Civil War, and ended up researching Grierson's Raid into the Confederacy. (I had spreadsheets for timelines and pages and pages of details for the raid.)

3. Los Vivos y Los Muertos (UNCLE)
The third story in my Celebration Cycle. This is the story I wanted to write when I thought up the idea of doing a series of stories set during various holidays, but it took me a while to get to it. In part, because I knew I was going to have to start writing more background for Illya and Napoleon, and I wanted to take my time and get it right, since I'm (mostly) only writing one continuity in UNCLE and I want to make sure I don't muck it up. (I still haven't cracked the story that includes the first meeting of Illya and Napoleon, though it has an outline and a title: Reflections in a Distant Mirror)

4. The Rake's Descent (Clarissa/The Prophecy)
A rather nasty little tale that sprang from my Sean Bean/Viggo Mortensen LotR obsession. I took Robert Lovelace, the titular rake that Bean plays in the quite fab mini-series Clarissa, and had him encounter the version of Lucifer that Mortensen plays in The Prophecy, a nifty little B film. Needless to say, it does not have a happy ending.

5. Tempted and Velvet and Silk (Pros)
I wanted to include one of my two earliest smutty Pros stories, but I couldn't choose between them, so I'm cheating and including them both. Pros was the fandom that I seriously broke through the smut barrier - I'm actually shocked at how chaste my early UNCLE stories are - and these were the two stories where I got seriously stuck into the sex scenes. In the first one there's Alley Sex (tm). (And as I quickly found out, everyone loves alley sex.) In the second, there's Doyle posing in sexy clothes and getting molested by Bodie.

As for tagging, I've no idea who hasn't done this yet, but how about byslantedlight, msmoat, just_ann_now, faramir_boromir and stormheller. (Y'all feel free to ignore this if you're as swamped as I am.)