Interstices & Liminal Spaces

I'm looking at this naked fashion trend and I'm just... First, my brain goes back to Roman sumptuary laws on see-through muslin from India.  (It was absolutely see-through, too.)  Second, though, I think, 'Oh, look, the new body control for women.  Take your GLP-1s, and don't eat so you have less ground to complain about the prices of food, and show yourself off to the men.'  So, misogyny and fat-shaming. :sighs:

I'll believe this isn't misogyny when I see the straight guys wearing their best lingerie under suits cut out of see-through fabrics, just FYI.

I'm usually a winter person, but this year, I've been sick and then cranky and look forward to spring.  Not to summer, just spring. 

Anyone got stuff that's making them happy?  I'm resisting getting into Heated Rivalry because the only sport I watch is volleyball and some of the Olympics.  Mostly gymnastics and ice skating.  I'm not sure who else is reading Longmire or In Death, and honestly, I'm afraid Johnson has written himself into a corner with Longmire.  There's a nice Discord server for Highlander, and I'm hoping the group rewatches will get me back into my fandom, but honestly, most of the characters there don't talk to me now.

Ah, well.  Maybe once I finish the Leverage novel, the Numbers novel, and the Marvel/Lonesome October piece I'll get back to it.  I can hope?

The cold's been decently bad, certainly for us delicate Southern critters.  

The snow is, of course, insulated top and bottom by ice, or maybe it's insulating the ice. I do not know.  It got up over freezing significantly (41 F) yesterday... and hit 31 today, so what little had melted refroze.

But if you want to know just how bad it is in my city?  My mailman has not been by since the storm hit.

That bad.

Hope the rest of y'all are well.  Me, I have power, I have food in the house, and tea.  No worries.

So, it's too warm here for how dark it gets so early, and the leaves are still on the trees so it clearly cannot be deer season yet much less time to worry about holiday presents.  But, weirdly, my brain is in fall baking mode.  :sighs: Brains, man.

Have an old recipe I adapted years ago, originally from The Spice Cookbook by Avanelle Day and Lillie Stuckey, which I highly recommend and can be found in ebook if nothing else.  Also, oh my gods but the buttermilk powder from Bob's Red Mill is the most cost effective thing ever.  One bag cost me about... 2 pints of liquid buttermilk?  It has made a great deal more than that so far and is nowhere near empty.

Spiced Nut Bread

 

Hope y'all enjoy!

From senmut  via havocthecat  : (I'm posting my guess first, then the AO3 stats answer.)

1. Under what rating do you write most?
Me:  Probably gen.
AO3: Nope, Teen and up.  Oh, yeah, I have plot and fight scenes.  Okay.  (Teen and up:  121.  Gen: 102.  Total fics:  291.)

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Me: Oh, Highlander, X-Files, Leverage?
AO3: Mostly right.  Highlander (183), X-Files (52), Highlander movies (30), Forever Knight (23).  I mean, no matter how you look at it, Highlander wins, and then X-Files.  Forever Knight beating Leverage did surprise me.  (Yes, those numbers and 291 seem off.  I write a lot of crossovers.)

3.  What character do you write about the most?
Me:  Um.  Connor MacLeod or Matthew McCormick?
AO3: Sorta.  Original characters: 52, Connor and Duncan are tied at 42.  (After that, it's Methos, Joe Dawson, and Alex Krycek.  Matthew is in 7th place with 26.)

4.  What are the top 3 pairings you've written?
Me:  No *clue*.
AO3:  Duncan MacLeod/Methos (14), Aidan/Duncan/Methos (9), and Duncan/Matthew McCormick (6).  When I say I don't have OTPs, I mean it.  Other than me and plot, and me and Dragon.

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Me:  Crossovers, Crossovers 100, prompt fic (?)
AO3:  I was right! Crossovers:  123.  Crossovers 100:  92.  X-Files Lyric Wheel:  23.  

That was kinda fun.

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count. (Using whichever fic I feel like when there are options.  God.  I feel like I could have just done crossovers...)

• A And Sinister, X-Files/Greek myth (just trust me) It's perilous to bargain with dark women at crossroads.
• B Bad News on the Doorstep, Highlander/Marvel Hopefully, they're going to get along. Maybe like a bar afire.
• C Cherries In Winter, Victor/Victoria In the winter of 1935, soon to be 1936, Andre Cassell's club has a new opening act.
• D Double Vision, Marvel (various canon) Steve Rogers learned his guilt-trip glare from his mother. It can have interesting effects.
• E Exemptions and Indulgences, Highlander/Discworld I AM AFRAID YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION.
• F Fire In The Hole, Highlander/X-Files/Buffy Possibly the weirdest part of Mulder's night so far -- and it said a lot about the whole thing -- lay in the wolf being the one that tried to get out of his way to let him shoot the basilisk again.
• G A Game of Cat and Cat, Highlander/Blood Ties Two acquaintances from the court of Henry VIII, five hundred years later: who's playing with whom?
• H Hot Pursuit, due South/Highlander Law enforcement officers can't resist hot pursuit. 800 year old FBI agents are no exception to this rule, especially when it's a Mountie in a speeding carriage chasing a wolf through Chicago.
• I The Innocent Sleep, Highlander New Year's Eve at Joe's bar. Written for Amireal's International Nap Day challenge.
• J Joe Dawson, BAMF, Highlander/Stargate SG-1 You can learn a lot of things in 13 weeks of boot, 3 months in Vietnam and 40 years of Watching Immortals.  One of the truer ones is that almost no one looks up.
• K Kindred Spirits, Highlander/Leverage Rebeca learned about cons from one of the best.
• L Life Cycles, Marvel Sometimes 'daddy's girl' isn't a description so much as a warning label.
• M  Mismatched Pieces, Marvel/Highlander (Opportunities 'verse) Very few targets survive the Winter Soldier.
• N Not To Plan, X-Files/Stargate SG-1 The second stupid thing the goons did was throw Mitchell in the same cell with Krycek.
• O Open(ing) Doors, Leverage Game and negotiation theory suggests that opening up and vulnerability can in fact lead to the best mutual outcomes. Grifters use their own apparent vulnerabilities to achieve their aims. Mix well, stir, and add an angry Eliot Spencer, who grifts quite well for a hitter retrieval specialist.
• P Parched, Highlander Blood cleans off a blade so easily, really. Some days it's dry and difficult work. Other days it's as easy as running that blade through a man. This morning, though -- this morning was easy, both the killing and the aftermath.
• Q Quiet Breaks, Numb3rs Ian hasn't talked to either Eppes brother since they hunted down a black box together. He's been a little busy with this.
• R Respite, Buffy/X-Files Two heroes sorely in need of a vacation run into each other. They also run into tea, cocoa, conversations about vampires, and really good pancakes.
• S The Scent of Salt and Wood, Rivers of London/Forever Kissing a perfect stranger in an alley is unusual behavior for both of them.
• T Time Upon A Once, Amber Chronicles/Wizard of Oz/Fairy tales A thorny tale of 1 missing prince, 2 princesses, 2 cats, 3 witches, and a silver bird. Some overlap possible among categories; partridge in a pear tree not included. Drinking while reading not recommended.
• U Unanswered Riddles, Riddlemaster of Hed She woke in the night knowing that her doom had missed her by an hour at most... and that it was still waiting for her. So Lyra got up, and packed, and went to meet it.
• V Vintage Appreciation, Forever Knight/Southern Vampire books (Charlaine Harris) Two vampires discussing rare vintages.
• W White Horses and Tails, Nero Wolfe/Highlander Saul Panzer never forgets a face, or where and when he saw it. Connor MacLeod has lived, and done business in, New York City for two centuries, off and on. In combination, that can lead to a problem.
• Y You See Two Geek Geniuses and Several Computers, Leverage/Warehouse 13  They were in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

X & Z don't have titles.  I shall have to fix this. 24/26, and 291 works.  Nice!
(If any links go to the wrong fic, let me know and I'll fix it.)

Mint Twist (1584 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander: The Series, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Darius (Highlander), Jim Morita
Additional Tags: Inkvent, Prompt Fic, Crossover
Summary:

Planting peace is hard work that takes patience, many hands, and a willingness to weed.

Another Invent fic; enjoy! Now to go fight through more of them before December....

Quiet Breaks (1864 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Numb3rs (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ian Edgerton, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Inkvent
Series: Part 1 of drowning in your doubts
Summary: Ian hasn't talked to either Eppes brother since they hunted down a black box together. He's been a little busy with this.

communal_creators is running! spook_me
prompts are here. Fall is coming! More fic to write. In the meantime, I hope y'all enjoy this one.

This is not my work, not my doing, but it's too good not to share, and it's not like we've put out much of the fires yet. So. Here.

How to Write Fiction When the Planet is Falling Apart (2172 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: No Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Meta, Writing
Summary:

I think a lot about writing and its place in the world. I wonder if it matters, if it's enough. I wonder how we're all going to survive. The world is on fucking fire and even in fandom we can't pretend that it's not.

A guide to writing anyway in the age of despair or, a love letter to writers.

Title:  Tea.  Lady Grey. Steaming.
Author: Rhi/Gryphonrhi
Prompt:  Miss Marple walks into a bar and meets.... Amanda!
Fandoms: Miss Marple -- Agatha Christie novels, Highlander: the Series (TV)
Word count: 3,119
Rating: Gen/PG-13
Contents: No warnings needed.
Summary:  Jane Marple so rarely gets to intervene before the crime is committed
Alternately, Rosie the Riveter did not fade into Heidi the Homemaker with the snap of male fingers.

AO3 link:  https://archiveofourown.org/works/66987256

I mean, it's different, but hey, I get to post with links to fic! No, I'm finally catching up on the Inkvent prompts, so have more short fic. Hope you enjoy!

Winterberries (100 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Sheppard
Additional Tags: his team damn it, Drabble, inkvent prompts
Summary:

White snow, red berries, and soon red blood.

Cosmic Glow (400 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Numb3rs (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Larry Fleinhardt/Megan Reeves
Characters: Larry Fleinhardt
Additional Tags: One of my favorite on screen couples, and the least likely, but oh they work well together, Inkvent
Summary:

An astrophysicist buying a house so far from campus makes sense, actually.

Fruit Cocktail (1145 words) by Gryphonrhi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Saul Panzer, Fritz Brenner, Nero Wolfe
Additional Tags: Archie's here but he's not really here, you'll see - Freeform, Friendship, Families of Choice, Inkvent, Prompt Fic
Summary:

This was a little past 'experimental cuisine' as far as Saul was concerned.

I know, even for me I'm taking forever on this, but I think I now have all the pieces in motion?  (Some have fallen over, too.)

Anyway.  Here.  Enjoy!  https://archiveofourown.org/works/27855690/chapters/159094342

Friendly reminder that this one is in fact horror.  This chapter's not as bad, but FYI.

The last ink of Inkvent is Good Tidings, a black with serious hunter green sheen.  Applied thickly, say with a paintbrush, this stuff looks like dark green upholstery velvet. Writes smoothly, a nice black even when there's no sheen.  I'm not sure this is what I expected for the 25th, but hey, it's pretty!
 
(Was tired enough last night I forgot to post.  Oops.)