Alyse

And committed is the right word.

Last night, I got a text from moonlettuce that can be summed up as 'save me from shitty DJs and their insistence on playing ::shudder:: dance remixes of every classic song that's requested of them'. After rejecting my first suggestion of 'kill it with fire', I was left with no alternative but to text her something to cheer her up.

Text her 24 times with something to cheer her up, because while Claire can text me random porn and fit it into one text message apparently my inability to be concise affects my 'it's almost midnight and I can't believe I'm writing Tyler/El Blanco porn' texting abilities as well. (And let me say now that you haven't lived unless you have experienced Claire's 'it's the end of the month, how can I use my remaining text message quota' texting of random porn to you.)

So below the cut is 700 words of Tyler/El Blanco porn. For those of you who have not yet experienced Claire's OTP, the fandom is Tremors: The (TV) Series, and Tyler is one of the main leads. And El Blanco?

Is the worm.

'Ware complete crack below.

( Once upon a time... )

Scarily, this is also not the first time I have written this pairing either, and for that I totally blame mmom and Claire, and since mmom is in fact Claire's idea and Claire's baby, that means I blame Claire. For oh so many, many things.

♥ babe.

Does anyone remember Patrick Duffy? You know, the guy who played Bobby on Dallas and the Man from Atlantis. Yes. That Patrick Duffy.

Apparently these days he spends his time discussing issues of world shattering importance with his best friend, things like 'what's facebook' and 'America's Top Model' and my personal favourite - Patrick Duffy and The Crab discuss threesomes.

Yes. The Crab. No, that's not a cutesy nickname. And I am so utterly gutted that nominations for this year's Yuletide have already ended because right now I'm slashing Patrick Duffy with a puppet crab. And it is to ♥

Thankfully all of these brilliant insights into the human (and crab) condition are documented on one nifty channel on youtube. Go watch. I've already had aithine giggling at me over IM.

Title: What My Lips Have Kissed
Author: alyse
Recipient: lsellersfic
Prompt: Prompt 3: Something inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay's sonnet which starts "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why".
Pairing: Jenny/Sarah
Rating: PG
Length: ~1,800 words
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval. Impossible Pictures do
Author's Notes: Pinch hit for lsellersfic. Sorry, you had to wait this long, hon.

Thanks to aithine for the read through.

Summary: Sarah sees her.

( What My Lips Have Kissed )

Title: Understanding
Author: alyse
Fandom: Primeval
Challenge: New Pairings on primeval100
Pairing: Lester/to be revealed at the end of the drabble. Scarily, this is not the first time I have written this pairing.
Warning: 'ware crack!fic tag.
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: Primeval and its characters belong to Impossible Pictures. No copyright infringement is intended. This is fanfiction, written solely for love of the show.

( Understanding )

Title: Pricking Thumbs
Author: alyse
Fandom: Primeval
Pairing: Helen/Nick
Rating: R
Spoilers: Set post 2.7
Disclaimer: Primeval and its characters belong to Impossible Pictures. No copyright infringement is intended. This is fanfiction, written solely for love of the show.
Word Count: ~3,000.
Status: Complete
Author's Notes: Written as a pinch hit for the primevalathon Primeval Ficathon for blktauna, whose prompt was Nick and Helen facing off when he catches her spying on him. Verbal fighting, physical fighting and angry sex follow.

Many thanks to aithine for the beta services.

Summary: Something wicked this way comes.

( Pricking Thumbs )

Title: Life Studies
Author: alyse
Recipient: temaris
Prompt: Prompt 3: Something sweet, preferably Abby/Connor. Happy endings are wonderful..
Pairing: Abby/Connor
Rating: PG
Length: ~2,300 words
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval. Impossible Pictures do.
Author's Notes: Pinch hit for temaris. ♥ Thanks to aithine for the read through. More ♥

The premise for the story is based on the fact that, in the Primeval game on the ITV site, the log book is filled with zoological drawings of the creatures they encounter. Someone had to draw them and at one point, it's Abby who is completing the log. It makes sense to me that, with her intention to study zoology originally and her work in the zoo, she'd have at least tried to sketch the animals, from a biological perspective if not an aesthetic one ::g::

Summary: Sometimes all you need is inspiration.

( Life Studies )

Title: Prelude in C Minor
Author: alyse
Recipient: dominique012
Prompt: Prompt 2: island, darkness, tea, happy.
Pairing: Abby/Connor
Rating: PG13
Length: ~13,000 words
Warnings: Angst
Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval. Impossible Pictures do.
Author's Notes: For dominique012 who wanted Abby/Connor; angst with a hopeful or happy ending; hurt comfort; and romance. I hope this suits.

Many thanks to aithine for the beta.

Summary: Journeys start with a single step.

-o-

( Prelude in C Minor - Part One )

( Prelude in C Minor - Part Two )

Title: Prelude in C Minor
Author: alyse
Recipient: dominique012
Prompt: Prompt 2: island, darkness, tea, happy.
Pairing: Abby/Connor
Rating: PG13
Length: ~13,000 words
Warnings: Angst
Disclaimer: I do not own Primeval. Impossible Pictures do.
Author's Notes: For dominique012 who wanted Abby/Connor; angst with a hopeful or happy ending; hurt comfort; and romance. I hope this suits.

Many thanks to aithine for the beta.

Summary: Journeys start with a single step.

( Prelude in C Minor - Part One )

( Prelude in C Minor - Part Two )

Nibble has an XP SSD version of the Acer, and I take it back, klo_the_hobbit, he is finding it very, very slow to do anything. It's not outside the 28 day return period so I'm going to have to go through the warranty process. But he's been having a play with Ubuntu and thinks he can deal with it (as all he really wants to do with it is go on the web when he's out and about, and we have other machines if he needs windows), but my question is, can I install Ubuntu onto an SSD card that plugs into the slot and have the option to boot from that? I don't want to write Windows over entirely and I'm not convinced that there's enough room on the SSD card internally for both. (I have a USB bootable stick but can't save changes to it, so if we updated anything or installed VLC etc, it won't save the changes, so I'd like it 'installed' somewhere and a permanent SSD expansion in one of the external slots might be the best option if we can do it.)

But before I do, a few things for the sharing thereof.

First of all, for curia_regis:



Have a ninja ::g::

Secondly, oh Glee! You just get better and better and last night's ep, especially the end? Heart strings were tugged. And possibly snapped. I think it was the way the whole Glee club was looking at Quinn, during the last song. Not condemning, but supportive and warm and close to tears themselves. They've come so far and Rachel is right - in the end, the Glee Club may be all that Quinn has and in the end, it's the Glee Club she'll be able to count on.

Finally, shetiger posted a meme that I think should be shared. So, in her words:

One little compliment can make you feel amazing. So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty. Put this in your journal. And once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind how great you are.

Comment here and I'll give you a compliment! I'll screen comments, so you don't have to feel awkward about asking in front of other people. (Probably won't screen my replies unless you ask me to, though.)

However, I am off to bed now, so I won't be around until after work tomorrow. I will be checking my e-mail, though, so that will give me plenty of time to get my lyrical on. ::g:: So don't think that if I don't reply immediately that it means I don't love you, because I do ♥

Ok, that wasn't finally. What was the final thing? Oh, yes. This year we've passed the 100 sign up point for sga_santa, which is kind of a milestone ::g:: Just wanted to share :)

Steam Punk Wedding Cakes

Delicious in all senses of the word :)

but the 2009 sga_santa is open for business anyway.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/29/primeval-itv1-watch-deal-recommissioned

OMG! OMG! OMG! Let it be true! And let it be the current cast!

People keep asking me to post this and I, flake that I am with the attention span and recall abilities of your average goldfish, keep forgetting (as an aside, my neon tetras, which are wee and adorable, apparently have connected the time of day that I feed them and me walking up to the tank with the appearance of food. Consequently, they rise to the surface in anticipation, followed by my penguin tetras, which suggests that they, at least, have a greater mental capacity than I do most days).

So here it is. This is potato salad, a la terimaru, who taught me how to make her version of Tennessee/German potato salad on one of my trips over there. In return, I think I made mushroom pate ::g::

Apologies to terimaru if I've forgotten anything she taught me, but this is the way I make it at least.

( Potato salad )

There. Recipe posted after more than a year of subtle prodding. ::g::

Title: Several Miles from the Sun: Book 2
Author: alyse
Fandom: Primeval
Pairing: Abby/Connor
Rating: 15
Spoilers: This is an AU from 2.04, so spoilers up until the end of that episode
Disclaimer: Primeval and its characters belong to Impossible Pictures. No copyright infringement is intended. This is fanfiction, written solely for love of the show.
Word Count: ~41,000 words in total. This part around 3,400.
Status: WIP
Author's Notes: Book One was originally written for temaris. Many thanks to her and to aithine for the whip cracking and beta services. Yeah, it's been a while.

The title - and quotes - are from 'The Sun' by Maroon 5.

Summary: Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Chapter Listing and Links

( Several Miles from the Sun: Book 2 - Part 2 )

Unfortunately aithine has hit a slight delay in returning from holiday, meaning we can't officially close signups on the site until she's back tomorrow.

On the plus side, if you were dithering and thinking that you'd missed the deadline, this gives you a whole 24 hours to sign your life away! ::g:: More info on sign ups can be found here and sign ups are here

Just a reminder that the sign ups for this round of the primevalathon fic exchange close at midnight on Monday 31 August (in theory ::g:: In practice, it's whenever we get up on Tuesday).

More information can be found here

Signups are now open for the next round. Signups will close on 31 August, with stories due on 31 October.

More information can be found here.

Hope to see you all there!

I will instead post this:

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here

I am now officially on holiday, thank all that is holy, so I may actually have the time and/or energy to do something other than simply getting through the day.

Title: Heart(h)
Word Count: 100
Author: alyse
Rating: G
Fandom: Primeval
Challenge: Parents
Character: Connor

Connor doesn't really remember the father who left when he was five. He saw him afterwards, for a while, until 'that woman's' resentment meant that even Connor couldn't be bothered with the whole visitation thing. What he remembers is his mother and her thin-lipped expression when the rare maintenance cheques turned up, the ones she didn't cash.

She loves him, but... He remembers how hard she worked, how tired she was all the time, snapping at his daydreaming, his untidiness, with weariness in every word.

That's why Lester's flat, with its post-it notes and barely hidden exasperation, feels like home.