Tea and Dragons

I have been drowning in story for the past week or so.  Inception is pulling the same number on me that Iron Man did, though I doubt as much will spin out of it; nevertheless, writing until I can't keep my eyes open is having a really detrimental effect on keeping my living room floor open.  

Gracious, I'm having fun, though.  *grin* 

I must add that I am extremely fortunate in that cincoflex  loved the movie too.  Our parallels in our respective stories are getting a bit scary, but how I laughed last night at the latest one...  

By the way, if you haven't seen Inception yet (and you don't mind some action) I recommend it strongly.  Wow.  If nothing else, the idea is fresh and the characters are very well done. 

Just a quick Sherlock Holmes bunny that's been poking me for a couple of days.  Inspired by Marshall Tyler's Mandala, which is not at all period.  Call it based on the movie, but also on the timeline of the original stories...  Rated G.  No slash.  Many thanks to cincoflex  for the swift beta!
( Waltz )

Just a quick bit of silliness, unbeta'd. Think of it as a mirror piece to Crack, in a way. Ice is Iron Man and rated G.

...for which I would like to issue a formal malediction to mona_lisa303 and 4persephone (minus the sprout, of course). *ahem* May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind orphan children pursue you so far over the hills and seas that God Almighty can't find you with a radio telescope. Not that I believe He can't find anyone anytime anyway.

Still. I did NOT need a new one, thank you very much. *flounce*  I'm-a goin' to bed now. 

Original graph by the amazing and generous dreams_of_him!

Last night I dreamed of tidal waves, cliffs, churches, salt and ice, and Dale Midkiff.  Also that I was dreaming, which was disorienting when I thought myself to be awake anyway. 

My latest plot bunny is running in my veins like a virus, and the only thing keeping me from working on it at my lunch break is the fact that if I start I probably won't be able to stop.  Well, that and it's probably going to be NC-17, muse willing, and this is a work computer.  It's not letting me work on PK or anything else, which could be a problem given that I haven't finished the next chapter yet, but I suppose I could take a week off if I had to.  I'm hoping I can get this one done by Sunday, at least in rough draft. 

It's an odd piece.  Much more angsty than I usually do, particularly for this fandom, and it is very defined--I know what's to happen, it's just a matter of getting the characters there.  The thing is, it's full of emotion, and I keep looking at what I've written and wondering where the heck it's all coming from, because I haven't experienced anything remotely like what I'm putting Pepper through.  More so than usual, that is.  

This sort of push from a story is rare, and I love it even as I grumble about it.  I wrote almost three thousand words yesterday, which is more than what I'd push for during NaNoWriMo, and I stopped only because I ran out of time. 

I don't even know if people will like this one, and it'll probably be a while before I post it.  But just to write it is a joy all its own. 

A plot bunny fastened itself on my ankle yesterday.  It is now well past my knee and still gnawing, and it's so angsty I shudder to make cincoflex read it. 

Gotta admit I'm having fun, though. 

I don't know whether to blame Iron Man, Marguerite Henry, or the muse for this new plotbunny, but I have to blame something.  Grrr.  Total AU, and it even came with a title, which I'm not going to put here because it gives too much away, but--sheesh.  

I didn't need this.  I really didn't!  

Okay, according to last season IIRC, Grissom speaks Korean, at least some.  He speaks bad Spanish, we've seen that, but he could have just picked that up at many points in his life.  Korean is a little bit more esoteric for a white boy born in the Fifties. 

I want to know where he learned it, and why.  I can see him doing it for the heck of it--the man collects knowledge as a spinal reflex--but still, it doesn't seem to me to be something one would do accidentally.  Did he have a correspondence with a Korean entomologist?  Had a Korean girlfriend?  Just liked the sound of it? 

*watches plotbunny approach*