I don't get it.

This will never cease to confuse me: why would someone post something for others to read, somewhere that invites feedback and, hey, isn't even friends-locked -- with a medium-ish lavender-grey background with slightly darker lavender-grey text? This makes it unreadable! This defeats the purpose! Why post it at all?

And, I mean, this isn't a case of the eye-blinding colours -- they're neutral, even pretty -- I'm just squinting so hard I can't see the words. My crow's feet are getting crow's feet. Thank God for whatever genius made it so that most journals can be relatively easily switched to the style I use on my own as long as I'm logged in.

If this sounds like you, well, smarten up -- but I assure you that nobody who has ever given me the slightest indication that they read my journal is the inspiration for this post. No, I got to this particular post in a fairly convoluted way, involving two and a half days of sliding around the net, from a few comms I'm on to their friends-lists, to posts on said list, to links in the comments of said posts, to memory pages of the commentators, to links from the memories pages to fic-rec posts, etc. etc.

Possibly the binge-reading is in part affecting my squinting, especially as I've also been doing it with books when not at the computer, but dammit, it was difficult to read. :<

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X-Men fanfic: "The Big Day" by Eliyes

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Hey, look, I wrote a het couple! With no sex^*, though it's definitely implied to have happened. This is the opposite of death!fic -- no, no, not survived!fic (wherein a character who canonically died is saved, not that I don't generally like that type of fic). This is birth!fic. As in, someone being born is the main event of this story (well, arguably). I figured I should tell y'all that up-front, since I know some people avoid such stories like they're contagious.

(Don't worry, fic can't make you pregnant! ;D)

This is Iceman/Rogue established-relationship fic. It's an AU in that, at some point during the comicsverse time-line, they didn't get together in the books, but they did in this timeline. Also, this is skewed to be more from Bobby's pov than Rogue's, since I really don't think I could handle writing what it feels like to give birth, especially not having done it myself. The narrative is in the 3rd person.

I totally blame Rachel Luttrell and David Hewlett for inspiring this fic by having babies on and off screen (though not with each other). It put THOUGHTS in my MIIIIEEEEEND. *crazy face*

And now, without further ado or unnecessary authorial babbling:


The Big Day

( If we want another kid in the future, you know, I'm totally okay with adopting. )

^* I have actually written sex for these two, basically a series of PWPs with hints of the relationship that frames these moments progressing past the edges of the scenes I've written. I haven't posted them because 1) they aren't finished, and I want to post them in one chunk (don't ask me why, I don't know), and b) for some reason posting heterosexual sex seems much more intimidating to me that posting slash. Possibly this stems from the fact that there's a much much higher chance that someone reading my stories has had f/m sex as opposed to m/m, wherein it's like 49% of 1/10th of the world has had m/m sex, and most of my readers are female, so they haven't. I FEER FOR MAH AK-YOU-RASS-EE. D: So. I may post these, someday, if I get the guts. It's just that I read way too many trashy romance novels growing up and I'm pretty sure it warped my brains.

Now cross-posted to frozen_breaths.

A NEW CONTENDER FOR THE BEST THING EVER!

Do you like Blue Beetle and Booster Gold?

Do you like Rodney McKay and John Sheppard?

THEN YOU NEED TO SEE THIS!

Brilliance. BRILLIANCE! And talent, too! :D :D :D