castalie | Warning: rambling induced by insomnia

Today is the birthday of a girl I love on my flist so let me start with this: Happy Birthday,

auster. I guess that you might have a bit of a difficult time today so I'll just hope that you'll have as peaceful and happy a day as possible *hugs*

So the second news I was expecting yesterday turn out to be kinda bad. I definitely didn't expect that so it was a bit of a shock and I didn't have the best of night, ie I kinda didn't sleep. I took advantage of this new bout of insomnia to take a little trip down memory lane and read - for the umpteenth time, though I realised it'd been a long time since I did - the Life From the Ashes series [AU extraordinaire, great mother of sci-fi XF epic] which is a favourite of mine.

And I also realised that, come to think of it, I might have a sort of guilty pleasure after all. Except okay so I don't feel guilt as such, but sometimes I'll be reading it and stop to think "wow, some people would call this fic the grand-mother of crack!fic" and it makes me cringe immediately because, seriously, I think there's so much more to that series series than just that but still; it has immortals, sorcerers, clairvoyants, aliens and seraphims, kings and princes and warlords. It has mpreg - loooooooooooooots of mpreg - and so many other things that would make it to the Fandom Kink list. It actually hits most of my kinks - so yes, btw, that would be a warning of sort, ie it contains rape. It's also a sort of comfort fic for me. Which in turns makes me smile because I tried to make a list of my comfort fics and they usually are on the darker side of the road... Go figure.

Speaking of trips down memory lane and BDSM,

alinewrites recc'ed two HL fics today, namely Hades Followed ~~After~~ Him and its sequel The Deep and wow, but those two stories are two of my favourite HL fics ever! The former is also one of the first fics I've read. Babycakes if you're there? Remember the line "I think your dick has a date with that sink"? That's the one *giggles at a Babycakes/Mouse souvenir regarding that fic* Yeah anyway, I love me some trips down memory lane. Also er, if you decide to click on the links and read the fics? Heed the warnings, okay?

And since I'm on the subject of the down and dirty, I'll keep with the theme. Except not. I zigged when I should have zagged yesterday when I was working on Charlie - and boy, giving names to your computers sometimes makes for very interesting sentences! - and I found myself in a folder that had a file I'd completely forgotten I had. It's a song, a parody and it's hilarious! So if you're into prison!stories and parodies, I uploaded Prison Bitch by Rodney Carrington for you. It's a dialogue between a prison bitch and his owner and man, just thinking of the song makes me laugh, which incidentally is exactly what I need today, so yay?

ETA: SPN - Shadow Promo Pic, ie Spoiler *has been killed ded by the sheer power of that pic*