Titolo: Mad as a Hatter
Autori: fiorediloto e sarabakanashimi
Fandom: Originale
Parte: 2/2
Rating: PG (giusto per scrupolo)
Pairing(s): Uno, nessuno e centomila
Warning(s): Presenza di formaggi vari, ma niente marmellata oggi (solo ieri e domani)
Conteggio parole: 13591 (word)
Sommario: In una realtà sospesa tra la dimensione reale e l'onirica, fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio, si svolge la stravagante vicenda di 25 e 26, ospiti di una clinica psichiatrica con la passione per la corrispondenza e nessun interesse se non scriversi l'un l'altro tutto il giorno. Di lettera in lettera l'identità del mittente e del destinatario mutano senza soluzione di continuità, cambiano e si trasformano, saltellando instancabilmente di personaggio in personaggio, di maschera in maschera; reali alcuni, inventati altri, altri ancora letterari, tristi, allegri, drammatici, surreali o anche solo malinconicamente se stessi. Nelle lettere c'è posto per tutti: per la signora Pina che scrive al vicino di fare meno chiasso, per il giocatore di D&D che chiede in sposa la sua bella mezzelfa, per la Lepre Marzolina che ricorda al Cappellaio che è l'ora del tè. E anche se la realtà aspetta silenziosa ai margini della follia il momento buono per riprendere possesso delle loro vite... c'è sempre tempo per un'altra lettera prima dell'ora d'aria.
Fanart: Mad as a Hatter di dylan_mx
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Titolo: Mad as a Hatter
Autori: fiorediloto e sarabakanashimi
Fandom: Originale
Parte: 1/2
Rating: PG (giusto per scrupolo)
Pairing(s): Uno, nessuno e centomila
Warning(s): Presenza di formaggi vari, ma niente marmellata oggi (solo ieri e domani)
Conteggio parole: 13591 (word)
Sommario: In una realtà sospesa tra la dimensione reale e l'onirica, fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio, si svolge la stravagante vicenda di 25 e 26, ospiti di una clinica psichiatrica con la passione per la corrispondenza e nessun interesse se non scriversi l'un l'altro tutto il giorno. Di lettera in lettera l'identità del mittente e del destinatario mutano senza soluzione di continuità, cambiano e si trasformano, saltellando instancabilmente di personaggio in personaggio, di maschera in maschera; reali alcuni, inventati altri, altri ancora letterari, tristi, allegri, drammatici, surreali o anche solo malinconicamente se stessi. Nelle lettere c'è posto per tutti: per la signora Pina che scrive al vicino di fare meno chiasso, per il giocatore di D&D che chiede in sposa la sua bella mezzelfa, per la Lepre Marzolina che ricorda al Cappellaio che è l'ora del tè. E anche se la realtà aspetta silenziosa ai margini della follia il momento buono per riprendere possesso delle loro vite... c'è sempre tempo per un'altra lettera prima dell'ora d'aria.
Fanart: Mad as a Hatter di dylan_mx
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Oh hey, I meant to put this up a few days ago but forgot--holiday cards! If you want one, leave a comment with your address; all comments are screened, and if I sent you one last year I have assuredly forgotten where you live anyway. Since I have pretty much nothing to do for the next six weeks, please give me a drabble or sketch prompt, anything you want, seriously, I need to fill my life with something besides watching anime.

This does not surprise me. I <3 David McCallum.

News
TV Guide scans posted by elizzybright (Spoilers)
Hollywood Least Wanted 3D" with Guest Zachary Quinto posted by canadian_turtle
Heroes to return to 9PM time slot on January 11
Zachary and Hayden have matching Tyler Shields "Video Portraits"
Adrian will be on The Today Show on November 30
Sendhil mentioned in reporting on the American India Foundation's "India Rising" fundraising gala posted by aratama

Challenges and Ficathons
Challenge reminder at pairechallenge
Challenge reminder at heroes_contest
Midweek reminder for Challenge 63 and Challenge 38 (Sylar) at zacharyq_stills
Peter/Sylar Advent Calendar for December at sylar_peter

Fanfic: het
Always got by on my own ('Til I met you) by fallenmagic (Peter/Claire | PG)
God Make Me A Stone - 9/? by devilishlysas (Sylar/Claire | NC-17)
Broken Soul - 2/? by sarah_1228 (Gabriel/OFC | NC-17)

Fanfic: slash
Save Me by harukafairbanks (Claire/Elle | PG-13)
Urgent by w_t_amazon (Claire/Gretchen | NC-17)
The Brother's Keeper - 2/3 by verizonhorizon (Peter/Sylar | R)
Keeping It Up - 3/3 by verizonhorizon (Peter/Sylar | NC-17)
Validation by bitterfig (Claude/Peter | NC-17)
Precipitate by random_muppet (Peter/Sylar | PG)
Brother's Keeper - 11/? by henrika_amanda and pilar_sama (Nathan/Peter | NC-17)

Icons
23 icons by faded_facade
92 icons by hobbit_hunter

Fanart
Fanart and fanfic inspired by Where the Wild Things Are by starrdust411 (Mohinder/Sylar | PG)

Pictures
Photo of Hayden and Madeline posted by alex_davis11
Photo of Zachary posted by canadian_turtle

Vids
Bad Reputation (Elle/Sylar, Elle/Peter, Elle/Mohinder, Elle/Claire)

Meta
Weekly reminder to link to episode meta at heroes_meta

Miscellaneous
Discussion about the graphic novels at trust_tissues
Facebook group for Claire/Gretchen shippers
Mod post at mylar_fic

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50030 / 50000 words. 100% done!


I got there yesterday. I planned to be the second in Italy, but I was pwned in the end and resulted fourth (... or fifth, maybe). Oh, well. I feel exhausted from writing, but I don't want to stop! I'm now going to sort my notes out and get everything planned carefully for the second half of the story, so I won't keep making stuff up as I go (which I personally find extremely tiring, because the results are way below standard, which makes me sad, which just sucks my enthusiasm out).

My mood graph looks terribly unstable and is now about 7/7.5. All in all, there are maybe 5,000 words I don't want to burn, but who cares? I've done it! I'm great! Woohoo!

(Two days ago my main character decided to propose to a girl he had never met before the very same day and didn't care to let me now first. The spoiled brat! I might kill him off to teach him manners. What do you think?)

Alright, moment of truth... Peter wakes up! Hang on, people!

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Title: Brother's Keeper

Authors: henrika_amanda and pilar_sama

Fandom: Heroes, pre-series (AU)

Rating: Eventually NC-17

Pairing: Nathan/Peter… and more in future chapters

Summary: The year Peter graduates high school, his big brother Nathan takes him out on a 3-week long camping trip… which will forever change the lives of them both.

Disclaimer: No rights, no income. We’re just a pair of poor students anyway.

Warnings: Incest, dark themes, violence.

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Title: Needful Love
Pairing: Horatio/Archie, Horatio/Barbara
Rating: G
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for Mutiny and Retribution
Summary: LKU, Barbara POV.
Link/Lj-cut: Here

I suspect that'll never happen again under any other circumstances.

( More from Adrian's YouTube, and Vague Thoughts on What It All Might Mean. )

I go home tomorrow morning! By which I mean, I get home tomorrow evening except that is actually tomorrow afternoon because I will be traveling into the past. Or across a couple timezones. Whichever. In any case, classes are done and I haven't had much to do the past couple days anyway which is how I ended up watching the first sixteen episodes of xxxHolic. As one does. (To the anime-unsavvy, no, it isn't porn; I don't know why it's called that. I don't think anyone knows why it's called that. Possibly not even the creators.)

--anyway, I like it! Quite a bit! Possibly more than I should, or maybe I am just clinging to it because the only other option would be productivity. I'd already read the first volume, and liked it well enough; I hadn't planned to check out the anime until I'd read more, but then I ran across a review of the DVD over at some random section of ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, which. Well. Was not the most positive review. But given that the review also declared the series to be a Harry Potter ripoff, I decided I had to watch it right away, because if the reviewer was that horribly wrong on one count, then she was probably horribly wrong on the others. And she was! (There is pretty much nothing about it that is like Harry Potter, unless "guy with glasses who is in the presence of magic" = Harry Potter, and that seems a bit of a stretch.) It is a thoroughly enjoyable series, assuming you can get past the spaghetti proportions. Which the reviewer couldn't, but I got used to it, even if it does look a bit alarming at times. (An example being here, though even that does not fully convey it. You could snap these people like a twig, yo.)

Again for the anime-unsavvy, xxxHolic is about a Japanese high schooler who constantly and unwillingly attracts spirits and ends up stumbling into the house of a weird lady who says she can stop that from being such a problem in exchange for unspecified compensation. He agrees to it, because it is not very fun being accosted by giant freaky smoke monsters no one else can see. Then it turns out the compensation entails being her bitch working for her until he pays off his (unspecified amount of) debt, which mostly involves cooking for her and doing errands, except the errands usually nearly get him killed, because spirits are still drawn to him, just not as much, and it is difficult to avoid this when you have to go near them in the first place. The lady runs a store of sorts that caters to people who didn't realize they needed to be catered to, specifically with supernatural problems, although a lot of the time it is really just psychological problems that are exacerbated by supernatural things. Or sometimes it is not supernatural at all! She fixes weird stuff, that is the point. And drinks a lot and is generally mysterious and kind of a demanding bitch sometimes, but in a fun way.

In the picture I linked a couple paragraphs up, the glasses guy is the high schooler (Watanuki), the lady is the, er, lady (Yuuko), and the other guy is Doumeki, Watanuki's classmate/perceived romantic rival/occasional partner/did I mention perceived romantic rival, because Watanuki is totally crushing on this girl named Himawari and Doumeki generally happens to be around whenever they're interacting. Not that Doumeki's actually shown any interest in Himawari, but Watanuki's prone to overreacting. It's just who he is. Anyway, Doumeki has the random ability to repel and weaken spirits, so Yuuko forces Watanuki to take him along a lot of the time, because having someone like that around when spirits think you're tasty is a pretty good idea. Yuuko also insists that Watanuki should get along with him better, and Himawari is convinced they're BFFs, and a fortune teller says their bond will deepen, and you know Doumeki really doesn't seem to mind Watanuki as much as he realistically should and why was he always hanging around Watanuki anyway--what I am saying is, the mangakas who created it have also done a straight-up (so to speak) if nonexplicit yaoi piece whose characters had a cameo in the Holic anime, so. So. That's what I'm saying. Indeed. This is perhaps slightly hampered by Watanuki being a flaily overreacting dork, but one of my favorite aspects of the series is seeing how he is when the chips are down and flailing won't help anything. Also Yuuko is a magnificent smug drunken witchy lady, and her vaguely abusive relationship with Watanuki is kind of adorable. And the music is pretty good, as is the general atmosphere of the show! So. I like it. Quite a bit. Yes.

--and now I am going to print out my flight itinerary and watch more, because seriously what the hell else do I have to do tonight, that is kind of awesome.

Postcard winners!

We wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude for sending so much joy our way. Frank is still blushing with excitement over the love notes, proposals, propositions, and occasional intimate photos sent from his admirers around the world (China, Norway, Japan, and Poland just this week)! At his request, we blindfolded Justin, one of Frank's BFFs, spun him around in five dozen counterclockwise circles, and asked him to point to ten random postcards/envelopes pasted to the wall. After a brief trip to the bathroom, he chose the following lucky winners, to whom we will give a six-month paid account token (for paid, basic, and plus users) or, for our permanent account holders, a $15 voucher for the LiveJournal gift shop.

So, without further ado, the winners are:

1. seraphene
2. fotog
3. boykitten
4. seshat_6
5. anti_aol
6. lisalees
7. katrinkacat
8. mistyboston
9. _woody_lein
10. another_slender

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Thanks, again, for joining us. See you next week!

I saw this week with Tracy we had a return of one of Heroes favourite little plotlines - the woman who finds that she can't control her powers and thus puts herself and those around her in deadly danger. It made me further reflect on how the show seems to hold the unspoken view that women shouldn't really be given the heavy duty powers. They only cry and break them. Maybe this is why a lot of the female Heroes have powers that are kind of passive in nature - Angela, Claire, Emma (although that looks like that may change), Becky, Daphne, Candace, Lydia, Charlie, Eden & Molly, all have powers that are purely defensive or work by manipulating and deceiving a foe.( Read more... )

News
Possible casting spoiler about episode thirteen SPOILERS
News about Monday's ratings

Challenges and Ficathons
Challenge 10 voting by sylelle_chall
WINNERS - Challenge #62 + Sylar Challenge #37 at zacharyq_stills
Sign ups for heroes_exchange close this Friday

Fanfic: gen
Powerless, part one, part two by avaserenity (Peter, Nathan, The Haitian, Samedi | R)
Small, chapter two by azuraangel05 (Sylar, Noah Gray | PG-13)
Between the Lines - Prologue by oldscarletstain (Elle, Noah | PG)

Fanfic: het
The Commute by razycrandomgirl (Gabriel/Maya | PG-13)
All We Know of Heaven/All We Need of Hell byrazycrandomgirl (Adam/Maya (mentions of Claire/Sylar) | G)
The Assent 9/? by celestegrey (Sylar/Claire | R)
God Make Me A Stone, chapter seven & chapter eight by devilishlysas (Sylar/Claire | R/NC-17)
The Pits of Hell Welcome Us by rosie1234 (Adam/Elle | PG-13)
Broken Soul, chapter one by sarah_1228 (Sylar/OC | PG-13 to NC-17)
A Far Distant Future - Volume Two by vespaer (Sylar/Claire | R)
Earthern Embrace by jaune_chat (Samuel/Claire | NC-17)

Fanfic: slash
Broken by sexytrekkie (Noah/Sylar | PG-13)
The Rest Of My Life by jaune_chat (Nathan/Peter | NC-17)
Where Death Is Most Alive by vaeltaa (Sylar/Nathan/Peter | PG-13)
An unbrotherly keeper by verizonhorizon (Sylar/Peter | R)

Fanfic: other
Primum non nocere by razycrandomgirl (Gabriel/Maya | Heroes/Dollhouse crossover (sort of) | PG-13)
A Very Sadistic Christmas byyasminezamanfan (Elle/Claire, minor Elle/Peter | PG-13)

Icons
Heroes 410 - Brothers Keeper Icons by shemp_o2stk

Pictures
Jack Coleman picture from Wendi's twitter
Eleven macros from S4 Chapter 9 "Brother's Keeper" by averys
Old promo Paire pics: The Butterfly Effect
More HQ Heroes photos - Mohinder-centric
A Twitter pic of Elisabeth Rohm, Jack Coleman, Jimmy Jean Louis and Wendi in the makeup trailer

Screencaps
19 Peter/Emma 4x08 large Screencaps
Episode stills from Butterfly Effect

Miscellaneous
preosmo wants ideas for her Sylar/Claire NaNo fic
vickyblueeyez wants to know about kink memes


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Powerless
Author: Avaserenity
Characters: Peter, Nathan, The Haitian, Samedi
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence, Torture, Non-Con
Summary: A retelling of Peter and Nathan’s time at Samedi’s camp in ‘The Eclispe Part II”
Author’s Note: Written for Day 18 of mini_nanowrimo
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. I just like to play with them.


Powerless - Part II

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Title: Where Death Is Most Alive
Author: vaeltaa
Pairing: Sylar/Peter/Nathan
Word count: 1000+
Summary: He could play this character well, better than anyone, as the memories of the deceased senator were still there to use and abuse.
Rating: PG-13
Notes/spoilers: Set right after the final scene of 'Brother's Keeper'.

Where Death Is Most Alive

Title: The Rest of My Life
Author: jaune_chat
Fandom: Heroes
Characters/Pairings: Nathan/Peter
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 1,437
Spoilers: Up through 4x10 “My Brother’s Keeper”
Warnings: Slash, consensual incest
Disclaimer: Heroes belongs to Tim Kring, NBC et al.
A/N: I needed a Petrelli brother-moment coda after “My Brother’s Keeper.” I needed it really badly.
Summary: Peter can’t accept the insane truth of what he and Nathan learned.

He couldn't believe Nathan was just going to give up.

I barely ever even look at my Facebook account these days, but in the last couple of weeks, I've been getting a bunch of random friends requests from people I am 99% sure I've never met (the most recent is from Australia, and I have never even been in that hemisphere). Why might this be happening? A Google search informs me that there's a newish TV writer out there with my name (HELLO, THIS MAKES ME MORE JEALOUS THAN YOU CAN POSSIBLY IMAGINE), so... I dunno? I'm confused. And annoyed, as these friends requests are coming in to the email account I'm using to submit my query letters, so I get all excited when it dings, and then it's just another stupid random friends request, grr.