tonight:

[aruan]

1. Gave Michelle an education on Slash fiction as I had neglected to remember that people outside our little Circle of Clex read my Livejournal. Whoops.

2. Owe Harvard Girl oogobs of chocolate for tracking down that it was in fact the episode 'Hug' where Clark refers to Lex as his "best friend" as MamaKent tends to his bullet bruises.
MoonBrat42: [Harvard Girl] is so my hero for the day
MoonBrat42: thank you thank you thank you
MoonBrat42: that was really eating at my concentration
infinitium27: anytime
infinitium27: esp. if it means we get more writing
infinitium27: we're gonna be building a shrine to you soon
infinitium27: :)
MoonBrat42: ::flushes scarlet::

3. Responded to the feedback of my adoring public. Or you know, indulgent friends. Or just honest ones, which makes me tingle even more. Love love love to you three!

4. Gonna draw up and post that damn timeline so it can stop distracting me from all the pretty things I want to hear Clark say to Lex to talk him down from that ledge already and convince him that a roll in the hay is eminently preferable to joining Lana's parents on the IHOP In The Sky pancake menu. No word yet as to whether any revelations will be involved to accomplish said task, or if it will simply be a gluttonously blatant sexual manipulation. Stay tuned for the news at 11.

5. So apparently, there's a concensus:
MoonBrat42: the archive doesn't host works in progress
infinitium27: ah
MoonBrat42: even fanfiction.com does chapters, not unfinished pieces
MoonBrat42: oh don't get me wrong
MoonBrat42: if i could post it someplace where it would garner attention and prodding, i'd do it in a heartbeat
MoonBrat42: but it's not presentable at the moment
MoonBrat42: a little desperate, frayed, naked
infinitium27: isn't that how we like our lex?
infinitium27: ;)
MoonBrat42: oh man
MoonBrat42: yes
MoonBrat42: god yes
MoonBrat42: but he's a little too all of the above for consumption right now
MoonBrat42: irrationality doesn't suit him either
infinitium27: i think a little would do him good
MoonBrat42: a little losing control would do him good
-We like our Lex just a little trussed. Being the good brain prodder/ee that I am, will do all that lies within my shameful typing skills to oblige.

6. On Jocko, post-haircut and asking Lana to "wait for him." Gag: "Just as he was beginning to look good, he had to go dirty himself by digging a character hole." -Me

7. Can't decide what to feel about Chloe, pity or sympathy. She knows she's playing second fiddle to a couple of Smallvilleans with the initials LL yet still sets herself up for the mother of all disappointments by ignoring it all in the hopes that Clark's asking her meant more than his shameful attempts at keeping her friendship. Messy messy messy. Can't complain that I don't play in the Het Gutter right abouts now.

8. Jon began delving into Te this afternoon all on his own! I am so very very glad he's embraced all this so wholeheartedly. I'd die if I had to watch the eps with him and not be able to share sideways glances about GAYLEs and swooning under the in-your-eye sexual tension those two so blatantly give off. It's all so "*heartwarming.*"

9. Rant:
MoonBrat42: you know what really jars me out of a story? when the author gets tired of calling the boys by their names and decides to make up little descriptives for them
MoonBrat42: the bald man
MoonBrat42: the young farmboy
MoonBrat42: blah
MoonBrat42: choke
MoonBrat42: ::falls to floor::
MoonBrat42: done
Grey Sanctuary: ::smirk::
Grey Sanctuary: right there with you
MoonBrat42: i'm okay with using 'the boy' for clark, but only when there's a need to mention that yes, he is in fact fifteen and lex is an adult without actually saying that
MoonBrat42: age assertion
MoonBrat42: nothing more
Grey Sanctuary: okay
MoonBrat42: just saying
MoonBrat42: i'm debating with myself over the last paragraph i had posted
MoonBrat42: called clark 'the boy' when describing his stoicism in the face of lex's threats
MoonBrat42: second-guessed myself
Grey Sanctuary: should i look at it?
MoonBrat42: always :)
Grey Sanctuary: okay, it fits fine
Grey Sanctuary: if *you* don't like it, take it out, but it reads well
Grey Sanctuary: because it's highlighting his youth, but juxtaposing it at the same time with unexpected maturity
MoonBrat42: right
MoonBrat42: ooh
MoonBrat42: i feel a little accomplished right now
MoonBrat42: ::tingles::

10. 'Tempest' recap is up. I am so, so unworthy:
"Clark gives Lex a long, lingering look -- one that Lex himself might have lent Clark for the episode."
"Oh my goodness! Lex wins a GAYLE with his bow-tying gaze at Clark's chest! Appropriately, it's a tie (ha, get it?) for the Gayest Look of the Episode. An unprecedented two Gayest Looks in one episode! I guess the season is going out with a bang. A very gay bang."
"Clark asks about the plant troubles. Lex says it's going to get ugly before it gets better. Lex uses the occasion to reiterate that he and his dad have a complicated relationship and his dad and he have no trust and it's all screwed up and blah blah blah Oedipuscakes."
"Lex tells Clark that whatever happens in the next few days, Lex is still Clark's friend and that's never going to change. At least until Gene Hackman takes over the role. "I hope you feel the same way," Lex says. "I do," Clark says. He said, "I do!" and he's wearing a tux!"
-So we end the season with foreshadowing, as close to legally binding union as can be forged without a priest or between two men, and more fanfic fodder than it's good to toss to a pack of rabid wolves you're desperate to convince are just seeing things, that there's nothing to see behind the curtain, la la la,...

11. Textual love from across the miles:
infinitium27: i'll guarantee feedback, if you want it
MoonBrat42: !!!!
MoonBrat42: of course i want it!
MoonBrat42: hello, oxygen being replaced as my numero uno need to sustain life

i really am such an attention slut.
also, i need to make up some kind of sleep schedule that doesn't tempt me to just toss my watch because time became completely irrelevant - it's now 'when my eyes are open' and 'the necessary void.'
maybe tomor--, er, later today. ::shrugs:: whatevercakes.

Comments

[silentfire.livejournal.com]

you know, i love the fact that you apreciated my efforts to help you out, and the chocolate would be ever the well-received gift, but . . .

you used the word "oogobs." why did you use that word? bad connotation, it has.

other than that, i'm excited about further progress on the piece. keep it up, and remember- i'm here for whatever.