I am trapped in a BarBri Multistate review with a lecturer who annoys me so much that I had to go in the video room to stop twitching. And we've only gotten through Evidence.

We get released for lunch in half an hour, but in the meantime, bitty fics? I'll take the first ten and possibly more if I find it necessary to my sanity.

The rules of bitty fic, if you haven't seen them before, is that you give me a prompt of a character or pairing and a word, event, episode, etc., and I write a fic in 10 words, haiku, or limerick. It's kind of lame, admittedly, but you've got a far better chance of getting an answer than you would if we go for the regular drabble prompts, which tend to result in me going, "Oh, this would make a GREAT 20K word fic..." and never getting done. :)

ETA: Regarding fandoms - for bitty fics, if I know the names of the characters, I can probably cough something up. So fly free.

Though perhaps barely.

I spent the weekend with raisintorte and wojelah which was full of incredible food, cuddly puppies, and fairly mindless tv. It was awesome. And then I came home and failed a practice multi-state exam, which was not awesome, and then I fell asleep in my clothes and jewelry (I am never getting the watch marks out of my wrist) for nine hours, and now I am getting ready to take another practice-part of the bar exam I'm not ready for before I go to work. Yay. I am considering IHOP for breakfast except I would actually have to get out of bed.

The good news is, in 3 weeks this will all be over. And then I'm moving to another state, but I'm thinking that shouldn't take more than a weekend.

Coffee. Coffee would be good.

Yeah, my life - not so much with the interesting. Therefore, Rossi/Prentiss recs.

Post-Modern: A Play in Five Acts, by my beloved wojelah. Her summary is, "Four times David Rossi made a mistake and the one time he managed to fix it." It's still in progress but it's awesome. The real appeal is the ex-wives. ;)
Act One: Camille
Act Two: Angela

Talk to Me by smacky30. Um. It is just ridiculously hot. *fails at summary*

Dressed for Dinner by mingsmommy. I hesitate to say too much because I don't want to spoil the awesomeness, so let's just say that Rossi and Prentiss's date night gets interrupted by an unexpected guest. Who, because this is Criminal Minds, is not actually their worst nightmare.

Boundaries of Objectivity by mingsmommy. This is an episode tag to 4x03: Minimal Loss (aka, the One Where Emily Gets Beat Up By Dylan McKay from 90210) and what I really love about it is how seriously it takes the characters' feelings and fears and professionalism without sacrificing the humor the characters share.

This is sort of cheating, because it's still on my to-read list, but the Living Universe by amichevole is a series of stories (as opposed to a WIP.) I started to read the latest and then realized it was part of a series, so it's still tabbed in hopes of free time.

Aaaand, finally! At long last, a Rossi/Prentiss fanvid! By hopskotch_hotch, the song is "You Make Me Feel So Young" which is both hilarious and appropriate.

I love fandom. It keeps me from hating everyone.

ETA: These are just the things that popped up in the last week or two and are still sitting in my list of tabs. Earlier Rossi/Prentiss (and Morgan/Reid and Hotch/JJ and gen recs...) can be found by scrolling through the comments in this post.

Ya'll, Red line Metro trains collided at 5:05pm. If you're from 'round these parts and have internet access at the moment, would you mind dropping a note and letting me know you're okay?

I'm still at work and I take the orange line home anyway, so I am fine. But I'm worried about the rest of ya'll.

Even if I've already talked to you, you should leave a note in case someone else is looking.

Title: Against Her Better Judgment
Author: Smitty
Pairing: NC-17/FRAO
Summary: "I'm not going to be more okay if we stop," Dave counters.

Notes: Part 1 and Part 2, all accompanying explanations. This is an experiment in me trying to write something short. Please feel free to laugh hysterically. As always, much love and thanks to wojelah for cheerleading, betaing, and letting me have an extra 500 words to finish up. (This part: 2000 words. Total: 5,000 words.)

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
-Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929

( Emily's Story: Against Her Better Judgment, Part 3/3 )

Title: Against Her Better Judgment
Author: Smitty
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Rating: This part is R/FRM (how does this work again?) but will eventually be NC-17/FRAO
Summary: "Emily thinks of Hotch telling the Milwaukee PD, he puts women on a pedestal... and reminds herself she has a long way to fall."

Notes: Part 1 and all accompanying explanations. This is an experiment in me trying to write something short. Please feel free to laugh hysterically. As always, much love and thanks to wojelah for cheerleading, betaing, and axing 200 words. :)

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
-Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929

( Emily's Story: Against Her Better Judgment, Part 2/3 )

For some reason I just failed at writing up this ep when I watched it. Here are a few flaily thoughts before reccea and I move on to The Naked Time tonight.

( Star Trek 1x03: Where No Man Has Gone Before )

As always, reccea is way wittier in What I Learned From Watching Where No Man Has Gone Before.

This is, by the way, the Emily-in-fishnets fic.

Title: Against Her Better Judgment
Author: Smitty
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/David Rossi, Criminal Minds
Rating: This part is PG-13/Teen but will eventually be NC-17/FRAO
Summary: "Rossi looks up then, and for a moment their eyes meet and Emily doesn't want to do this anymore."

Notes: This was written for wojelah who gave me a Dorothy Parker quote and 500 words. The actual length of this is 1500 words. I begged 500 and stole the rest. And then convinced her to let me have parts 2 and 3.

"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
-Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929

( Emily's Story: Against Her Better Judgment )

I am in a fantastically fishnet-esque mood this weekend as krysalys made me an awesome Black Canary and Zatanna header. I haven't attacked the whole journal layout project yet, though, that's on the list for tonight. New journal layout! Marvel at my skillz! Also, I was writing some Emily Prentiss-in-fishnets fic (which turned out to be an entirely different story than the one I thought I was writing) and I had a Grand Realization:

Paget Brewster would make an AWESOME Zatanna Zatara. Y/Y? Now, we just have to find her John Constantine....

There is no actual malice in this post, just like there aren't really any fishnets. But upcoming: Layout change, fishnet fic, Star Trek ravaging (for some reason I am just resistant to writing up something about, "Where No Man Has Gone Before"), and future Star Trek viewage. I am currently watching season 2 of Joan of Arcadia and when I am done with that, I am moving on to First Monday. My Joe Mantegna love may be a wee bit out of control.

The current Not-So-Fresh on Fresh 94.7 record is held by thepouncer who heard "Devil Inside" by INXS which is from 1988. I heard "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn last weekend, but that only dates back to 1991. (ONLY.) I have also come to the conclusion that it's not the false advertising that irks me, but that they mock other (defunct) stations for playing, "old washed-up stuff." It is the mocking of the other stations for that which they gleefully DO THEMSELVES that makes me head go boom.

Now, I must feed Marlowe and head off to wojelah's house.

If I had any kind of graphic/layout-designing talent, I would totally make a black-and-gray layout with Black Canary and Zatanna and name my journal "Fishnets and Malice" after the OK Go song.

wojelah and I decided that we need MOAR AWESOME in the Criminal Minds fandom. So we figured the best way to do that is showcase all the AWESOME that's already out there.

So! Leave a comment! Rec a fic, a vid, an icon post, an episode, talk about why you love a character or a pairing, or the TEAM, or an unsub, because I'm sure some of you love unsubs. Link the best scenes on YouTube. If you want to see a specific ep, ask if someone has a link to a download or the ep on YouTube. (People may not want to post downloads on an unlocked post, so leave some contact info.) Tell me which pairing you'd like to see and why.

Make people love CM! We have an entire summer to fill up with CM glee!

(Also? If you're dipping your toe in the pool? Let us know! I'm sure someone will help you find things that are right up your alley.)

You know I like to shower love on small fandoms that don't get a lot of attention Criminal Minds so here's a vid rec:

Tribute to Hotch, v. 2 set to "This is Your Life" by Switchfoot.


SPOILERS FOR THE END OF "...And Back" AND THE END OF SEASON FOUR. And, technically some other seasons, but you've all seen them already, right?

Probably the last one for a bit since my viewing buddy is off for parts unknown. But that's okay! Because this was just about as much 60s sensibility as I can take.

( Star Trek 1x02: Charlie X )

What Reccea Learned from Watching This Episode

As part of my awesome weekend, libitina and I went up to the Franklin Institute to see Star Trek: The Exhibition and see the Ult!Star Trek movie again, this time on the IMAX screen. If the intent of that exhibit was to make me want to buy every season of every version of the franchise ever the minute I walked out...it succeeded.

BUT. reccea discovered that the entire original series is available online at CBS.com (and is linked from Hulu and IMDb) so we have decided to work our way through the episodes. I'm trying to decide if these need a filter or something, but until I get complaints, I'll just post them under the "old skool Trek" tag.

( Star Trek 1x01: The Man Trap )

What Reccea Learned from Watching Star Trek - More concise and way funnier. :)