Twisted Sanctuary

Now live! That only took forever.

I was reminded a minute ago as I put in the title of this post how down right amazing it is that this show even exists, let alone has four full seasons so far. It seemed like a pipe dream when Crystal Chappell started talking in interviews about wanting to do her own web series. I would never have imagined that it could get this big and be this successful. It's a testament to the fans of Guiding Light who loved Otalia so much, and to the people who never even watched Guiding Light but got sucked in by something good. It's even more a testament to Ms. Chappell's talent, determination and appreciation for her fans.

I just wanted to take a minute to remember that and to appreciate it. My complaint when I was figuring out that I was gay, was that there was so little media, especially television and movies, that portrayed lesbians in a positive light and with a happy ending. I don't know if Venice is going to have a happy ending, and I sure as hell hope we don't find out soon, but I do love knowing that I don't have to worry about seeing negative, discriminatory views of gays and lesbians portrayed as the right way of thinking when I sit down to watch an episode of Venice. Love is love is love. Even when it makes me want to pull my hair out.

After a year and a half, we finally have new Venice! It picks up right where it left off with Owen and scissors! Check it out for yourself and then come check out my thoughts on this first episode. I'll be discussing Venice over there all season long.

Title: The Push and Pull
Fandom: The Good Wife
Characters: Alicia Florrick, Kalinda Sharma, Nick Savarese, Peter Florrick
Category: Angst, Drama, Romance
Rating: R
Word count: 4,944
Summary: It's a dance between them, push and pull, getting close but never too close. It's tearing Kalinda apart.
Spoilers/Timeline: For Je Ne Sais What? It goes AU directly after that episode ends though sadly. I'd intended to post this weeks ago; such a slacker.
Disclaimer: All characters (Alicia Florrick, Kalinda Sharma blah blah etc.) and situations belong to Scott Brothers, and some other people who have a hershey bar for a logo. Not me.
Beta: Many thanks to tamoline and her beta for taking a look at this for me and offering many helpful comments. Anything that still seems goofy is entirely my doing. :)



( Alicia's thighs stuck together as she walked. )




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Max - Maximus, Maxi, Maxwell, Maximilliam, and occasionally Maxi-Pad - he of the many names, was eleven years old this January. We've had him since he was a little puppy that looked like nothing more than a poofy rug than a breed once cultivated by royalty. I was fourteen when we got him and I didn't want him. We'd had two dogs - Dodger and Joe - a English Springer Spaniel and purebred Labrador Retriever respectively for a while. Dodge was probably four or five years old and Joe was just a puppy, about six months old at the time, but he was already shaping up to be an awesome hunting dog. They got out the front door one day, plowing out before their leashes were on and darted across the four-lane-at-that-time-undivivided-highway. They were fine until they tried to come back across the road and then there was a sudden, a little unusual, burst of traffic. I saw them both get hit. I won't go into details here, but even now, over a decade later I still remember how it happened like it was in slow motion and all the weird little emotions and things you remember that come with it.

My sister is big on getting another dog. She's always had dogs and she wanted another one immediately. It's how she copes, I guess. I'm pretty much the opposite. My pet dies; I have the urge to never get attached to anything ever again. I don't want to replace anything. It's not good or bad, just a thing. But she got Max, the little shit, and I spent the first two months we had him not getting attached and calling him the suicide dog because he did his best to kill himself about four different ways.

He weighed barely two pounds probably and managed to sit in an fire ant bed and get covered from head to tail in bites. A few scant days later, he managed to ingest some rat poison. Less than a week after that at a friend's house, it was some bug poison. I kind of hated him for almost dying on me so many times when I didn't like him and didn't want him anyway. I didn't want to care. But the little shit kept living. For a long, long time. Longer than any dog I ever had, except for the first one that I grew up with. I sort of thought that Maxi might be around forever.

About two weeks ago we found out that he had Cushing's disease and his prognosis wasn't looking good. We knew he was old and had pretty bad arthritis anyways. We didn't want him to suffer. Then he got a puncture wound in his paw. We're not sure how - no one was out there at the time. There's a possibility that it was a snake bite. But at any rate after he got the wound, he was way worse. He was shaking all the time and laying around on the floor with sad eyes. He couldn't even jump up on my sister's bed anymore - always, always his favorite spot.

He was a spoiled, whiny, neurotic little shit, prone to barking at people he knew really well at super inconvenient hours of the night. He was worthless and kind of snooty and I'm crying as I type this 'cause I miss him. He was cute and his tail uncurled, but only when he was depressed and he always knew when you were sad or upset and he'd stick close or come up and nuzzle your hand. I miss the little guy. I don't want to forget him. So this is for Maxi. I wish I could pick him up and give him one last hug, scratch his ear.

...you know, about that whole 10 fics in 10 days thing? Yeah, not gonna happen. Sorry about that. But if it's any consolation I have like 7 works in progress sitting incomplete on my google drive account right now that are not abandoned. Which is not the same as me promising that they'll all be finished someday, but you know, possibilities. 

Hope everyone's having a good weekend. 

Title: Once Upon a Christmas Day
Fandom: Guiding Light
Characters: Natalia Rivera, Olivia Spencer, Father Ray and the rest of the gang.
Category: Romance, Drama, Christmas-y-ness
Rating: PG-13
Word count 7,273
Summary It's a few days before Christmas in the Spencer-Rivera household; Olivia manages to surprise Natalia.
Spoilers/Timeline: Through September 09, but very few specific ones, I think.
Disclaimer: All characters (Olivia Spencer, Natalia Rivera, blah blah etc.) and situations belong to Guiding Light, Telenext, Proctor & Gamble, etc. I'm not them.
Author's Note I had feels about gay marriage in New York last year. This is the result.
Beta: All the good grammar, most of the characterization and the scarcity of plot holes can be laid entirely at aimlessny's feet. Any remaining plot holes, typos, bad grammar, characterization or general idiocy would be my responsibility.


( "Hello, Father." )

Title: Five Times Tony Stark Proposed and One He Didn't
Fandom: Iron Man I & II
Characters/Pairing: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Happy Hogan
Category: Humor, Angst, Romance, Drama
Rating: NC-17, eventually 
Word count: 5,365
Summary:  The fifth time Tony Stark proposed it was a retcon, romantic gesture thing. 
Spoilers/Timeline: This one takes place after the second movie.
Disclaimer: All characters (Tony Stark, Pepper Potts blah blah etc.) and situations belong to Marvel Comics, Disney, etc. I'm not them. Also, Star Wars. Wtf?
Beta: Many thanks to infinitlight for taking a look at this for me. I was having a definite case of the new fandom jitters and her help and opinion was greatly appreciated. As was her fixing of all my commas. Commas hate me. 
Author's Note: Early post, woo! I didn't think anyone would mind. Y'all don't mind right? Lol. Have a good weekend, y'all. I certainly will be. :D 



Proposal 1 || Proposal 2 & 3 || Proposal 4


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Title: Five Times Tony Stark Proposed and One He Didn't
Fandom: Iron Man I & II
Characters/Pairing: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Happy Hogan
Category: Humor, Angst, Romance, Drama
Rating: NC-17, eventually 
Word count: 1,529
Summary:  The second time Tony Stark proposed it was in a timely manner.
Spoilers/Timeline: This one takes place after the second movie.
Disclaimer: All characters (Tony Stark, Pepper Potts blah blah etc.) and situations belong to Marvel Comics, Disney, etc. I'm not them. Also, Star Wars. Wtf?
Beta: Many thanks to infinitlight for taking a look at this for me. I was having a definite case of the new fandom jitters and her help and opinion was greatly appreciated. As was her fixing of all my commas. Commas hate me. 



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( "Marry me." )

Title: The Election Day Drabbles
Fandom: Iron Man, a dash of Avengers
Characters/Pairing: Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Jarvis, Thor
Category: Humor, Angst, Romance, Drama
Rating: NC-17 to G, depending on the drabble. 
Word count: 761
Summary:  A series of Iron Man drabbles on a variety of topics, written to take my mind of Election Day '12.
Spoilers/Timeline: For both Iron Man movies and The Avengers.
Disclaimer: All characters (Tony Stark, Pepper Potts blah blah etc.) and situations belong to Marvel Comics, Disney, etc. I'm not them. Also, Star Wars. Wtf?


dracutgrl - A Sunday with nothing to do... 

( "Go 'way." )







marienomad --The Lady Gaga song, Bad Romance

( It’s not healthy to give your life to a man who can’t even remember your birthday. After ten years. )






manywaters --Tony and Pepper at Comic-Con. Pepper trying to talk Tony out of entering the costume contest. Tony trying to talk Pepper into entering the costume contest.

( “Tony, just...just think about it for a minute. It wouldn’t be fair.” )






shadphenix --Cookies, Milk, and Jarvis


( “Milk and cookies?” Pepper asked with an amused arch of an eyebrow. “I don’t think Santa’s actually coming down the chimney, Stark.” )






neptunesubmerge --Pepper is running late. Tony is not helpful.


( Hands ran up Pepper’s thigh. )






neptunesubmerge --Tony doesn't like it when Pepper has plans, but now that she's trying to make plans with him, he's found a new perspective.


( “That won’t work. I have plans.” )






neptunesubmerge --Tony and Pepper enter a room. There is a naked man already inside said room.


( “Tony,” Pepper called over her shoulder. “Why is there a naked man in our bedroom?” )

Well if you live in the United States today, it's a little bit hard to escape all the election day drama. But if you're like me and you've already voted, there's nothing else you can do about it. 

So I decided I'd take prompts (fandom/pairing/prompt) and try to knockout some drabbles both to distract me and to entertain others. If you want a drabble, then hit me up in the comments. 

Edit - Thanks everyone for distracting me! I'm not taking any more prompts but I will finish up the ones I've been given (hopefully today!) and post them later!