Holy fuck it's been AGES. LJ has changed so much wth happened.

Anyway, making a return because I miss fandom and stuff like wow. Plus I really wanna start writing fic again. I miss everyoneeee.

I'm really super curious about how the baseball comms are doing. And what about TSN fandom? Is that still existent?! HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS?! HALP.

I feel so Internet-illiterate. What was I even thinking, leaving like this.

That's not to say I haven't been reading fic. I've spent the last year reading Merlin fic like crazy but I just don't do any writing anymore. Gonna have to beef up my flist so I can get back in the swing of LJ.

I'll do a quick update here of my life the past...year and a half? Was that when I quit Tumblr and LJ? I think so. Anyway, there was school and band and me working for the newspaper. I had a communications internship this summer at an aluminum company. I watched baseball, as usual. Even went to Yankee Stadium. Even went to Spring Training with one of my good friends. Saw the Nationals and Astros lose to the Braves while there, which was nice. Went to Disney for free. I turned 21 in October and it was great. I sobbed my eyes out at the SEC Championship game a few weeks ago. I started rushing a music fraternity. I applied for a sports journalism internship and I'm now in the process of hopefully securing a summer job. Interview soon, maybe? Fingers crossed! I decided to postpone graduation to May 2014 (I was supposed to graduate a semester early but I don't want that anymore; yay, 6-hour last semester!) and I'm happy with that. I'm not quite ready for the real world. I don't know. I'm not much less of a shut-in than I was a year and a half ago but there's been some major character growth for me, rest assured. Second most-exciting news is that I'm finally getting the chance to pick up a sports beat for the paper next semester. Hopefully softball or baseball!

And now that I'm on break, I've realized I really miss fandom. So I'm trying to make a comeback.

I started working on a Merthur fic last night, one that I've been halfheartedly plotting for months, and now I'm in the process of outlining it. Maybe something will actually come of it.

Expect more from me soon!

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Ugh, it's been way too long but I just don't have time to go on about my life right now. Posting this before I leave for my trip to Tampa, so I hope I don't screw it up.


Title: In Which Jesse Rams Prince Andrew with a Library Cart
Author: learnthemusic
Recipient: hold_onhope, who deserves way more than what I've written here.
Warnings: Fluff is a legitimate warning, right? :P
Pairing: Andrew/Jesse
Rating: PG, for now
Summary: In which Jesse, library shut-in, runs into Andrew quite literally. Andrew, who is referred to as "Your highness" by a big white man with an overcoat. ~1,500 words.
Note: This exchange caught me by surprise. One minute I was plotting and the next I was one day from the second check-in. The good thing is that, even though this is short, it's really only a teaser for what's to come. I have this whole AU planned out and it will be written at some point in the next few months. Ugh, I'm so sorry TSN fandom. I've been away for way too long. I miss you and I'm ready to come home. I gotta thank yellowwolf5 for kicking my ass over IM because this wouldn't have gotten written without her. I hope you like this, hold_onhope!


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HI SANTA. I AM SO SORRY FOR BEING LATE. I GET SO LAZY WITH UPDATING.

But here we go!

Dear Santa,

I know you're really busy up at the North Pole and stuff but I really really really want a huge set of Legos. Can you bring me the kind to build Hogwarts out of? That would be so awesome!!!

Oh wait. Not that kind of santa.

Dear TSN Santa,

I hope this finds you well!

First of all, this is not a big deal. I don't want you to write me an epic (though it would be AMAZING if you did and I'd probably drop everything I'm doing at the time to sit there and read it cover to cover -- errr, first part to last part). Anything over 1,000 words is totally acceptable. I know this is kind of starting at a rough time if you're a college student like me. The story might even be due mid-finals for you and I would never want my gift to interfere with your grades. So I would totally understand if you can't churn out a fic the length of a big bang. It's absolutely acceptable.

This is what I posted on the site:

Things that you like to see in fic? videos? artwork/graphics? Mark/Eduardo, Andrew/Jesse. AUs! I love AUs. Especially ones based on movies. And high school AUs, which this fandom lacks. The more dramatic the better, and if there's a way to include betrayal without actually using facebook, I'd love it even more. Future fic, fix-it fic, Harvard-era fic, established relationship fic -- everything goes. As far as RPS goes, I think the best fics out there are the ones that don't treat Jesse like a vulnerable man. Neurotic, yes, but not so much that he's a total hermit.
Squicks or things that you dislike? Mark/Sean, Eduardo/Sean, gender switch, m-preg, extreme kink (I just can't do kink for some reason) or any BDSM stuff. I'm about as kink-less as one can go, so none of that, please! Not really a sci-fi fan, so there's that. No pre-slash either, by the way. At least not as an overall thing. I'd actually like the pairing to have a pay-off ;).

And that's really all that I can ask for. As long as it's Andrew/Jesse or Eduardo/Mark everything will be fine in this world. I wasn't kidding about Mark/Sean or Eduardo/Sean, by the way. :P

Umm, I don't think I have any more inputs here, actually. Obviously, I would really love an AU but canon fic is great. And, ha ha, fic too. Though if you do make a vid, I'll definitely watch it :)

Thanks so much, Santa! Feel free to comment here. Anonymous commenting is on!

-- Maria

Title: three's a good number
Pairing: Mark/Eduardo
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There are three very specific things that Eduardo likes about being in a relationship with Mark, things that he never would have envisioned himself tolerating even when he was twenty years old and starving for Mark’s attention. future fic! established relationship!
Word count: 1,443
For: The kink meme prompt Anything with Mark sitting between Eduardo's legs.
Note: Written for tsn-a-thon! Team Pride all the way, baby!


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Title: Of Muscles and Men
Pairing: Andrew Garfield/Jesse Eisenberg
Rating: NC-17
Summary: It's not that Jesse wasn't attracted to Andrew before Spider-man. It's just that now Andrew's all buff and stuff and Jesse is so turned on.
For: The kink meme prompt Andrew manhandling the shit out of Jesse and Jesse just loving it, Andrew picking him up and wrapping his legs around his waist, fucking him against walls, pushing him around in bed with his arms muscles flexing and driving Jesse crazy.
Note: Man, I've never published porn before, though I've written plenty of it over the years in RPs. So, um, yes, this is the least plotty, least tame thing I've ever posted. 2,300 words of pure PWP. I blame Andrew and his muscles and Tumblr and the kink meme. Also, cheesiest title in the history of titles, I AM SO SORRY.


( There’s nothing that Jesse likes more (and he’s got to be so careful about admitting this kind of thing around certain people because he has nosy friends like Emma who like to stir pots and gossip and tell his boyfriend things he never wanted him to know) than Andrew when he’s being touchy.Collapse )

Tite: The deeper you cut, the deeper I hurt (it only gets worse)
Pairing: Eduardo/Mark
Rating: R
Word count: ~38,500
Summary: Mark can get away with anything, even if it cuts Eduardo to pieces.
(or, the one where Eduardo and Mark run circles around each other, intersecting only when they both want the same things; in other words, the beginning and end of Eduardo and Mark's sexual relationship - although there's really not THAT much sex)


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