jadesfire

If you want an idea of what I looked like after cycling back from work, you can replicate this in your own home!

#1. Go to your kitchen/bathroom and fill a sink/the bath with cold water.
#2. Find a kitten/puppy/furry animal/small child
#3. Dunk #2 in #1
#4. For the full effect, then hold in front of a fan and bounce up and down (my bike has minimal suspension)

Of course, this can't replicate the pedestrians, other cyclists and cars I had to dodge while cycling through the pouring rain with drops on my glasses obscuring my vision and one eye swollen and tearing because I seem to be allergic to the library, but you get the idea.

In other news, Criminal Minds folk, there's a discussion of the episode LDSK over at criminalxminds here. I've kicked things off but it'd be great to have more contributors this week. As a mod, there's nothing more dispiriting than a discussion post with no actual discussion on it.

And now I'm going to stop spamming you and go make dinner. And find another towel...

Cross-posted to the Criminal Minds comm at Dreamwidth.

( Just some random thoughts )

This was supposed to be a reaction to "Roadkill" but it's ended up being a more general think about how I've responded to S4. But it does have spoilers for "Roadkill", so ( it goes under a cut )

I can't believe I actually finished something. This is my first whole story in over a week.

*happy chair dance*

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Title: Evaluation
Words: ~1300
Rating: G
Spoilers: 4x03 "Minimal Loss"
Notes: Written for the Gen Battle prompt: Emily and Hotch, rules. Extract posted there. This is the full thing

Summary: Bruises fade.

( Evaluation )

When I first started out in the Criminal Minds fandom 2 years ago, I began a rec list for Gen fic. At that point, there weren't many people writing Gen, so it wasn't that hard to find things to go on the list.

2 years later, and I still don't exactly have a wide field to choose from. But I've just updated the list with some great stories that I've found recently, and now that I've got a delicious account, it's a heck of a lot easier to keep track of things.

The full list is here, and the latest additions are under the cut. As I say on the full list, if you come across Genfic that you think I might like, please do drop me a line. There's lots of great slash/het on rec lists already. I'd like to get a Gen list to match them.

( New additions )

[bau_inbox, no linky, thanks]

I think I'm starting to understand why there isn't more Criminal Minds case-fic out there. It's not really a case of being intimidated by the show's quality, although I think that's a factor. It's because you have to wade through pages of depressing statistics to give Reid one line of dialogue.

Actually, scratch out depressing. Replace it with disturbing. At the moment, I'm researching an episode tag to 3x05 "Seven Seconds" ( so I'm cutting for spoilers )

*shivers* Still, I'm writing the story anyway. Because there's one hell of a loose end there, and I really, really want to tie it up. Or at least draw attention to it, because I can't have been the only one to spot it.

My first Criminal Minds fic in 2 years, and I'm still coming back to LDSK. I'd love to know what it is about that episode that gets me, but for now, I'll settle for the story ideas and leave it at that.

Title: Tilting at Windmills
Author: jadesfire2808
Words: ~1700
Rating/Warnings: G/None
Spoilers: Episode tag to LDSK
Notes: With thanks to donutsweeper and miss_zedem who leave my stories better than they found them

Summary: We've been using gunpowder as a propellant to kill each other for over nine centuries. I guess I'm just the latest inheritor of a long tradition.

( Tilting at Windmills )

Who's who in American Television? Well, in ( Criminal Minds 4x11 'Normal' )

Protesters occupy a Bodleian Library building. It's a Gaza protest, and they have a list of demands. Um. I'm honestly at a loss as to what to say. Of all the places to protest about the Israel/Palestine issue, Oxford is not even on the list, let alone near the top.

Also, I just watched Criminal Minds 2x20 "Legacy" and ( is it still a spoiler? Just in case )

For those of you who track these things, I've put 2 new recs on my Criminal Minds list.

BTW, is it just me, or has the amount of JJ-fic exploded lately? Does something happen in S2 that I don't know about yet? Because, seriously, even over at the Pit, she's the one to watch. Reid's definitely got a rival for "Most Written About Character"...