Firstly, HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE MAN.:D

Here is a little piscpam to celebrate a quarter century of great acting - I don't have good pictures of all my favorite roles, but I tried to pick ones that show some of the more striking incarnations he has assumed over the years...




( A few more under the cut. )

Secondly, I didn't go to see my parents this weekend after all. I came down with a nasty cold on Saturday night, and have spent most of the time since then in bed. ( Read more... )

I was tagged by taelyn_sass.

Here's how it works:
Each person starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves.
Those that are tagged need to write on their own LJ about their ten things and post these rules.
At the end of your entry, you need to choose ten people to get tagged and list their names.

( My ten confessions. )

As for the tagging, it's been a bit of a challenge to pick ten people on my flist who are actually likely to read this or want to play... but here goes: alliwantisanelf, gairid, helynhighwater, matan4il, mellacita, rainweaver13, romi, stormatdusk, surreysmum and vamp_ress. And now let me fall on my face and get the five hours of sleep I've got left till I need to get up in the morning... *sigh*

Okay... here is a question to anyone on my flist who feels inclined to discuss a controversial topic. What is your reaction to the sight of two teenage boys making out? And by 'teenage' I do not mean over 18 - since I'm pretty sure I know how almost everyone on my flist would react to that.:P I mean barely teenage - as in somewhere around 13, perhaps. In other words, clearly below the age of consent by even the most liberal standards.( Read more... )

I know today may not be the most aproppriate time for a fangirling post... but I just have this unsurmountable urge to squee.:D All because of this one amazing, wonderful guy:



He's all the way at the top of the Hollywood dream machine these days - and still, no trace of an inflated ego can be detected in his behavior. ( None whatsoever. )

News Item No.1: Vacation problem solved. There is a Slashy Retreat in Texas in October (texas_retreat). I almost forgot about it, then thought it was already too late to sign up... but it wasn't. All booked now, including the plane ticket. Definitely cheaper than the Yaoi Con in San Francisco would have been.:) Plus, I'll get to meet some famous ladies from the Adult_Viggo Yahoo!Group.:P

News Item No.2: I got the fingerprint notice for my citizenship application already. I only sent the application about three weeks ago. The website said you normally wait 9-12 months to hear back from them after they file your case. OMG WTF???... Unless I misunderstood the instructions and it meant that the waiting period starts AFTER they take your fingerprints. Since they apparently need them checked out by the FBI before they can process your application. You know, just in case you're a dangerous terrorist or something. *headshake*

News Item No.3: The boss wants me to do 3 hours of overtime each week in September - including this current week. ( And she tells me this on Wednesday. )

I feel so weird. I still can't quite believe that I'm not getting laid off. Not only because I had anticipated it for a few months, but because they did lay off a few people I would never have imagined I could possibly be chosen over, so to speak. I mean, I know it's about money, just like I said before - but still... The entire 'data operations' department (of which we are part) was pretty much cut in half. We had another meeting yesterday, just for those who are being retained - and I was shocked at how few of us there were. We all looked sort of wide-eyed and deflated, and the HR lady told us that we are suffering from the 'survivor syndrome' - feeling guilty about still having a job while others don't. That pretty much sums it up, I think. *nods*

Besides, I'm still at a loss about what to do with my vacation. ( I don't really want to go anywhere just by myself, and since I didn't know what was going to happen, job-wise, I haven't been in touch with anyone regarding their travel plans and such. )

Okay... here I go again. Another snippet... very porny this time.;) Must be some hormonal fluctuations or whatever.:P

I meant to make an RL post today, btw, but somehow this seems more important. I wonder what that says about me, LOL.

Anyway... on with the smut.;)


Title: Voyeurs
Author: Floating Leaf
Pairings: A/L, Elladan/Elrohir
Rating: NC-17
Summary: A passionate tryst in the woods... with an audience.;)
Warning: Graphic sex, (implied) twincest, voyeurism.
Disclaimer: This never crossed Professor Tolkien's mind, I'm sure.

( Legolas threw his head back with a deep moan. )

Life is certainly full of surprises, isn't it? This would seem like the worst time for writing, and yet... the muses chose to come back full force and grace me with this brand new little ficlet which practically wrote itself in the scant few hours between 10p.m. and 2a.m. last night. I don't normally stay up that late anymore, even on weekends - but I felt so exhilarated at finally being able to write again that I just had to finish. The funny thing is, I suspect that this sudden bout of inspiration might have been brought on by an anthology of erotic lesbian stories I am currently reading (you know, trying to find something I might want to translate for my publisher friend back in Poland). Don't ask me how or why that helps with writing m/m slash. I'm not sure I know.;P One thing I can definitely say is that in whatever I read or write (or translate, for that matter), I am primarily interested in feelings, emotions, the dynamics of relationships and human (or Elven in this case, lol) interaction - not in the mechanics of sex itself. That is a very secondary thing to me - and so is gender, basically, even though I do prefer exploring homosexual relationships to heterosexual ones (probably because they are simply closer to my personal experience and I feel more confident talking about them). And I am perfectly fine with PWP's - but they must be featuring either an established couple, or the beginnings of such (first time sex between people who feel very intensely about each other). Otherwise it's just a waste of time for me. Which could be one of the reasons why I'd much rather read fanfic than 'original' erotica where the characters often seem too anonymous (if there is little characterization and no 'back story', I simply don't understand why these two/three etc. people are having sex, or why I would want to know anything about it, and can't for the life of me get into it enough to actually feel turned on, even mentally - if you know what I'm talking about). But enough of the background philosophy for now - on with the fanfic.:) I hope it brings a smile to whoever choses to read it - as it has certainly done for me.:D


Title: Investigation
Author: Floating Leaf
Pairings: A/L, E/E/L (implied)
Rating: PG-13, I think
Summary: Legolas and the Twins have a talk.
Warnings: Complete sap and silliness.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to Tolkien, though he probably wouldn't recognize them by now.
Author's Notes: This little snippet immediately follows Pure Bliss. If you click on the 'my fiction' tag at the bottom of this post, you will see all the other ficlets taking place in the same universe, which include also Naughty Thoughts, Secret Mission and Closer Than Brothers (that last one is out of chronological order and does not need to be read to follow the storyline). Hopefully there will be more. *crosses fingers for her wayward muses' future cooperation*

( Legolas stretched luxuriously, sighing in bliss as his pleasantly aching body savoured the memory of last night's activities. )

Snagged from mellacita:

Your result for The How Well-Read Are You? Test...

Incredibly Well Read

Your level of Well-Readliness is 94 %!

Take The How Well-Read Are You? Test at HelloQuizzy

Eee... really?... *blinks* I didn't think so. I read a lot, but not necessarily 'only the best' or most famous authors. And I made a few intelligent guesses.;)

I suppose I'm lucky that this quiz is based almost exclusively on literature written in the English language, since that's what I studied at university. Otherwise I'd probably do rather poorly. Not that poring over Chaucer was any fun.:P

Welcome to Confusion Central, again. As of this week, I am being trained in a completely different section of our products than what I have been doing since I started this job, over a year & a half ago. Why?... Shoot me if I know. All I know is that it would make absolutely no sense for it to be happening now if were to get laid off within the next month or so. ( Read more... )