I'm With the Pilot

A little added bonus for jurisenpai and the other high bidders of my help_haiti auction: a series fanmix. No cover art because, well...I wouldn't feel right subjecting you to any poor excuse for Photoshop "art." Please download and enjoy.

Nothing Left to Save
The Catholic Schoolboys Series Mix

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Less than 12 hours to go for the help_haiti auctions! Once again, I am offering a fic of at least 1K in exchange for your charitable donation, of either ST:XI or ST RPF fic, with pretty much any pairing up for grabs because I'm a ship slut that way. Remember that every dollar counts!

Click here to bid, bid, bid!

In exchange for your generosity, I give you a song inspired by La Quinto's latest fashion faux pas and "Particle Man" by They Might Be Giants, originally posted at ontd_startrek. (That latter link goes to a vid of the brilliant Tiny Toons sketch that first turned me on to the track, many moons ago.)


Accessory Man

Accessory Man, Accessory Man
Putting on all the accessories he can
Puffy vest for the win
His stylist chagrined
Accessory Man

Is he for real or is it a hoax?
Does he wear plaid on plaid just for a joke?
Or does he just really dig plaid?
Nobody knows
Accessory Man

Accessory Man, Accessory Man
Accessory Man hates Good Taste
They have a fight
Accessory wins
Accessory Man

Accessory Man, Accessory Man
Owns all the fugly hats in the universe man
Usually caught in yoga pants
Accessory Man

He's got a date with a farmer’s tan
On the fine behind of a Chris Pine man
When they meet, it's happy land
Fashion-challenged man, Accessory Man

Accessory Man, Accessory Man
Accessory Man hates uncuffed jeans
Just get that shit hemmed
You're rich as fuck
Accessory Man

Three things you should read, like, yesterday:

Broke Another Mirror by 1297 (Chris/Karl, NC-17)

I am pimping this not only because she wrote it for me (*squeeeee*) but because it features EMO!BOTTOMY!KARL, which is always a good thing. Not only is the sex between the boys hot, but the entire description of the end of Karl's marriage is just so spot-on in its finality, and it's so discomfiting to watch these two people admit defeat and carry out the requisite politeness as they try to move on.

Awesome snippet: "We did okay, Karl," she says with a shrug and a defeated sort of smile when they leave the Family Court offices, a dissolution order granted with no more than a wave of the hand and a swing of a fountain pen.

It's a Thursday afternoon and the sun seems to follow them like an overprotective dog as they walk down Kingston Street. It's warm and familiar, not like the sun in LA; even that feels artificial against his cheek. But it's too bright, he thinks, this is weather for weddings, not divorces. It should be raining or something.

"Yeah, we did," he says finally, thinking before he speaks for the first time in a long time. And his smile as he turns his head to look at her is careful - practiced - the way he smiles when a stranger takes his photograph.


Someone to Drive You Home by starsandgraces (Kirk/Sulu, Chekov/Sulu, background Kirk/McCoy and Spock/Uhura, NC-17)

This fic needs MOAR LOVE and I don't just say that because I beta'ed it. It's a Formula One AU! They drive cars and Kirk gets into an accident! He and Sulu have testosterone-driven sexytimes! Chekov is jealous and EVER SO SASSY. Wonderful characterizations and the dialogue is perfection.

Awesome snippet: "This is the awkward part," Hikaru says eventually. "Let's go to the bedroom and we can maybe... do something to help us forget about it."

"Smooth."

"I know, right?" he says, and they grin at each other.

Pavel sits up and kicks his jeans the rest of the way off, then pulls his t-shirt over his head. Hikaru just lies where he is for the moment, happy to watch. Pavel's so pale, and Hikaru can understand that when Pavel spends so much of his time indoors or entirely covered up, or both, but his shoulders are freckled. Hikaru wants to ask him why.

Instead, he just copies Pavel and strips out of the clothes that he's barely managed to keep on up until now.


Warp 5 by ewinfic (Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Chekov & Sulu, PG-13)

Um, hey, so did you guys know thatewinfic wrote me a ficlet of BOYBAND AU for the last Sinfest? Well, she did. And it has RAPPING SPOCK. And they sing a song called "Orion Slave Girl"! WHAT.

Awesome snippet: The spikes on Hikaru's dog collar flash against the colored lights, his torn black tank raggedly revealing his perfect abs. He lets his long black hair swing free as he flashes a look that somehow encapsulates both blatant sexual invitation and infinite angst, and half the audience screams in ecstasy.