Unsurprisingly, despite being awake at 6:30 this morning, I got very little accomplished.

[aruan]

Wrote some more Law&Order!Sync this afternoon. Apparently, I can do that sort of clipped cop drama thing. Go figure. Mostly re-inspired by Cesare's Grand Theft Auto, which every single one of you ought to be reading.

icebun and I both had the same JoLa craving today, so I actually took myself up on a rather fabulous suggestion - printed out my favorite JoLa fic of all time, Mexican Moon by Betty Plotnick, and took the party to Starbucks over a grande White Chocolate Mocha. The cushy chairs were, amazingly, unoccupied, but remind me next time not to read slash with my back to the room, as it makes it hard to focus on the story and not who might be peering over my shoulder.

Mexican Moon is yet another one of those fics I can practically quote as I read because it's that poignant and perfect. JoLa can be such a tragic scenario, but Betty brings out how wonderful they are together, and how that's bigger and better than any problems they have to overcome to make it. I actually can now recite my favorite passage:

"It's hot. You're hot. How are you not getting how hot this is? You and me, trashy Mexican brothel-looking hotel, you taste like tequila and your whole body has to hurt but you're still starting to get hard thinking about us. I want to fuck you unconscious and maybe leave cash on the dresser, but it's *you.* It's you, and you'll always be the best part of whoring around in Mexico, because I remember when your idea of getting crazy was cinnamon Schnapps and putting your hand down my pants."

The story is sexy and fun and so spot-on in both characterizations, it just makes me giddy to read it every time.

I may have passed on Legally Blonde 2 (too perky), Seabiscuit (too sappy), Bad Boys 2 (too insipid), and 28 Days (too scary alone) and gone to see Pirates for the... fourth time now? Something obscene like that. I love the whole movie, but especially the ending. One of the best I've ever seen, and though I speak mostly of Jack Sparrow's triumphant return to the Black Pearl ("Now, bring me that horizon. Drink up me hardies, yo-ho." He looks so beautiful saying it, happy and free) I also very much liked the entire exchange between the Commodore and Will on the tower, and even Elizabeth's "No, he's a pirate." Love this film!

Also, Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer are so getting goodies in their stockings this July Christmas for the job they did scoring this puppy. I don't drive around for an hour and a half looking for just any old soundtrack. Hot damn.

Challenge picture count stands at around 870, which is just absurd. Project for tomrrow: Challenge, Pirate, and JC icons. Yes.

Comments

[amyshaped.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to have the law and order up somewhere so I can read it, or is it still a work in progress? I'd really like to read it!

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

Oh, very very much a work in progress. It's looking like a cross between Law & Order and Se7en, plotty and thick and it's going to need so much planning I'm trying not to freak out about it. But apparently I can do cop banter, which in itself is inspiring to know. I'll post if there's anything to update about it. :)