gay guys and big fat party animals

I am stupid and slow today. God, I hate the muggy atmosphere in my office. Even the air purifier and the fan don't do much good sometimes.

But I shall distract myself with maybe writing some more of my Remix fic, and with the Different Kind'a Joey rec of the day:

Rebound by cjmarlowe

In the end neither one of us ambushed the other. Joey looked up suddenly as I was still staring at him and gave me a long, hard look, then a nod of acknowledgment. He put his beer down on the counter and patted the stool next to him. An invitation to talk, or not, whatever I chose.

It's Joey and Justin, and for once Justin's not the gay one. There's something so hard and embittered about this Joey, and it's done without going overboard on melodrama. It's like he just doesn't have the energy to hide his disappointment this time, and it's almost cathartic to see.

if you focus on the pimps and the chuds

I'm totally in love with CJ's journal style. I could just stare at it all day--everybody's icons look so pretty, framed in that soft sand color.

And now that I'm doing them again, I'm realizing just how much I missed doing fic recs. I stopped for a while because I thought, "hey, I'm doing a lot of feedback, that's good enough," but really, it isn't. Because that's pretty much one-on-one, and pimping means I get to tell everybody how much I loved a fic, instead of just the author. So, it's both again from now on. Go me.

In that vein--go read Autumn Goodbye by stenaline:

Britney doesn't tell Christina that it had only been that one time and that it was a long time ago. She remembers that one of the things she had liked about it was that girls' hands were so much softer than boys'. It isn't true with Christina, though, Britney thinks as Christina's hands disappear under her top. Justin has softer hands than Christina.

It's this amazing detailing of post-Britney/Justin with a bit of Christina, and Stina manages to slice right to the fucking core of each of them with an unerring eye and unexpectedly even-handed voice. Britney is a good person, and Justin tries so hard, and Christina says it like it is, and none of them quite know themselves as well as they like to think they do. The ending isn't neat, but the beginning isn't either, and when it comes down to it there's too much hope for me to be sad.

i can't believe you don't shut up!

Here are your answers:

want to staple
begging to be stapled
shoot staples into her eyes
shoot staples into her own eyes
to shoot staples into her eyes
shoot staples into the eyes of


huzzah!


i mean, really, people. I've gone past twelve of these in the past ten minutes. TWELVE!!