What do you consider fun? Fun, natural fun...

[cathybites]

I'm so useless and lazy today. Still in my pajamas and I need to get to the bank before work, possibly the mall, too. bah.

Anyways, because I'm feeling a little insane, I'll play along with the fic meme- give me a pairing and plot/outline/whatever and I'll write something. Can be from any of my fandoms (ooh, I'm multi-fandom now!). um...I'll try to have them written within a week.

and, okay, I think I was absent on the day they went over this, but how do you customize the moods on LJ? Not the moodtheme, but, like, how do I get a picture to show up if I type in a mood not on the list?

Comments

[loveflyfree.livejournal.com]

Okay. Billy/Orlando. Use the words "poet" and "crafty." Happy please. :-)

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

Billy didn't have the pretty words to make him blush, didn't have the smooth lines to seduce him, didn't have the magic phrases that would make Orlando fall under his spell. Oh, he had a gift for language, a crafty way with words that made people's heads spin and laughter burst from their mouths, but he was no poet.

He did try, though. His first attempt was at his kitchen bar with pen and paper at hand. He thought of Orli, thought of his eyes and smile and skin and all the ways to describe them. He concentrated hard on the way he felt about Orlando, how his pulce raced and his stomach twisted upon itself whenever the younger man was around. But when the best line he could come up with was 'eyes like chocolate chip cookies that make my tummy ache,' he tossed the paper into the rubbish bin and decided to try again when he wasn't so hungry.

Some advice wouldn't hurt, Billy decided, and he asked Viggo for help. "You need to open yourself up more," he told Billy. "Wake up your mind." Which translated into sitting in the woods together a lot, communing with nature and spirits and, on one memorable occasion, a swarm of mosquitoes. Afterward, while sitting on his bed and rubbing anti-itch cream onto the bites, Billy realized his mind was quite comfortable with being asleep (and mosquito bite-free), and when Viggo came around the next day to collect him for another communing session, Billy hid under his bed until Viggo went away.

One more try, he thought, turning over a little plastic case and watching as hundreds of tiny magnetic words tumbled out. He was determined to make something out of them but Dom showed up with a case of beer and the next day, Billy and Dom stood in front of the fridge, rubbing their heads and staring at the poetic masterpiece:

you make love me pretty flower spank
eyes like whee and then me drank

"I think it has a certain...Shakespearean quality to it," Dom said.

"And the grimace on your face is due to your hangover, right?"

Dom nodded, a little too enthusiastically perhaps, turning slightly green before bolting for the bathroom. Billy listened to the retching sounds, sighed, and swiped the pieces off the refrigerator.

Billy decided then that poetry was for wankers, gits, and other sundry prats who had little else to do with their time. Real men, he told himself, expressed themselves through actions, not words. So when Orlando slid up to him one night and whispered, "Your eyes are like green sparks of fire that ignite my soul," Billy turned to him, said, "Sod the pretty words," and shut him up with a firm kiss.

[loveflyfree.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! OMG I love this so much. Thank you! *glomp*

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

Anything for you, hon. ^_^

[stumphed.livejournal.com]

Okay. Woah. That was so effin sweet and at first I was like uhh.. because I don't usually like those 'silly' fics. But it just worked perfectly and woah. I love it!

I know you wrote it for your friend, but would you be willing to give me permission to archive this on my site (http://fandoms.broken-road.net)?

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

oh, wow, thank you so much. And I'd be honored to be on your archive. I didn't put it on the fic, but it's called 'poetic' and you can list it as written by MI. ^_^

[stumphed.livejournal.com]

Yay thanks.

I also need a few more things from you though.

1. What site should I link your name to?
2. What's your email?
3. Should I make your email public for feedback?

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

1. http://boudicca.com/taters/
2. squickgrrl@yahoo.com
3. and yes

Thank you. ^_^

[stumphed.livejournal.com]

Many many thanks <3 It's on my site now.

[aliasverve.livejournal.com]

The 'poem' made me laugh out loud. Emphasis on the loud. Sure hope I didn't wake anyone up *looks around guiltily* Hiliarious, and very cute.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

hee, glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Ha, you should really make an Orlilly icon with that poem. It's terrific.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

oh, that's a tempting idea. Thank you. ^_^

[riddlemesphinx.livejournal.com]

EEHH. Orlilly! You can never have too much Orlilly.

This was beautiful! I particularly loved the ending, and also the magnetic poetry (which is SO much fun).

I aboslutely adored this story! Thank you for sharing.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

awww, thank you so much for the nice feedback. I'm glad you liked it so much. And, yes, magnetic poetry is lots of fun, especially when one might have had a bit too much to drink. um, not that I'd know about that or anything.

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

oh. OH. that made me giggle so much, and make with the squee as well. billy communing with nature with slightly mental!viggo as his guide. dear god. it was perfect. PERFECT. this needs to be archived somewhere so I can rec it officially. ;)

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

okay, first? Your icon is Teh Sex-ay. rowr.

And thank you so much for the feedback. I had quite a bit of fun writing all that.

And I've put it up on my site now if you wanted to rec it (let me get this in here now: eeee! thank you so much! ^_^)

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

okay, first? Your icon is Teh Sex-ay. rowr.

::blushes and scuffs toes::

And I've put it up on my site now if you wanted to rec it (let me get this in here now: eeee! thank you so much! ^_^)

::whispers:: Um, where is your site?

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

ha ha, I'm so SMRT, I remembered to link it up there...not.

http://boudicca.com/taters/poetic.html