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I wrote fic! This was for [personal profile] riverlight, originally posted at the YAGKYAS comm.

In lieu of goldfish
Brad/Nate, Ray/Walt
2835 words
PG for language
beta by [personal profile] mimiheart, audienced by [personal profile] why_me_why_not and [personal profile] jmc_bks; remaining mistakes are mine alone

Brad is the White House Press Secretary. Nate Fick's the new guy covering the White House for Mother Jones. (A West Wing AU of the pre-slash variety.)
asimplechord: (Cupid's chokehold)
That high-pitched shriek you heard a couple of hours ago? That was me, realizing that Patrick Stump is going to be in Texas on his tour, 26-28 August. SMALL VENUE AWESOMENESS. :D :D :D

In other news:

1. Sasha is back in my possession. I love my car. I live in the 'burbs, and I drive an unfortunate amount, and I MISSED MY iPod DOCK AND MY DECENT GAS MILEAGE AND MY EZPASS. Now I have them back, and Sasha is pretty and shiny again. My commute time is halved. I am marginally less cranky at the end of my work day now. Marginally.

2. Finished Tropic of Chaos. It's an interesting read, examining what Parenti calls the "catastrophic convergence" of climate change and political/economic policy of the Global North as applied to the Global South. [For GK fans, you'll be amused to hear that when citing The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy National Security Implications of Global Climate Change, a product of CNAS & CSIS, Parenti says that it was produced by "the most scientifically literate of the lot" of DC think-tanks.]

3. Is anyone else planning on going to the Empires show in Austin on the 18th?
asimplechord: (no sitrep)
+ The grant is submitted, so at this point there is absolutely nothing that can be added to my work to-do list. This is a good thing.

+ We brewed (I say that, but really A brewed today, a wheat IPA, while I cleaned), and smoked a brisket (beef: not my thing, but it's his, so whatever), and instead of being social, we're going to hang out at our house tonight. Friends are having a party, but one of the people involved pissed me off: last week he told me that my ink "looks nice in comparison to most prison tatts". Uh. Yeah. My response: you are drunk, so I'm going to point you toward your wife (who was also annoyed, b/c he was the designated driver for the evening) instead of shoving my beer and my fist in your face. I just. Yeah. Lots of people comment on my ink, people I know and strangers alike, and mostly it doesn't bother me; I'm patient about explaining what it means if they ask. But for an acquaintance to deliver what he probably meant as a joke in his drunk mind but came off as insult? When he's been semi-insulting to me about them in the past? No. I'm done. He can fuck right off.

+ Mmm, banana bread with pecans.

+ Tropic of Chaos by Christian Parenti. Interesting topic, but a book published by someone who writes for The Nation? I expect to be copy-edited well enough that the South American nation's name is appropriately spelled. Colombia, not Columbia.

+ NCAA lacrosse finals on my TV. MD/VA. Totally making me want to write more about Brad/Nate in the college AU. Y/Y/MFY?

+ Rafa/Nole tomorrow. Breakfast at Wimbledon? We might even have some strawberries to mix with cream.

+ Fireworks Monday at Tinsley Park. We'll probably hang out at the Flying Saucer beforehand, if anyone wants to meet for beers and then walk over by the Allen Parkway.
asimplechord: (inevitable)
That'll Do

Brad/Nate (but mostly about Nate) || ~1800 || pretty work safe

Summary: One day can be an eternity.

Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] preromantics for the [livejournal.com profile] yagkyas exchange. As such, it was submitted before the vote to repeal DADT. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] why_me_why_not for beta duties; any remaining errors are my own. The image included below is modified slightly from Bryan Denton, combat photographer. This is a work of fiction based on portrayals of and by actors, and is meant to imply nothing about any real people. Can also be read at the original post here.

There's things to know
and so we're told
But the days
keep rolling on so painfully slow

-Jason Mraz

* * * )
asimplechord: (inevitable)
running in circles

Brad/Nate, 1000 words

for [livejournal.com profile] lickingbeads' prompt at [livejournal.com profile] lunatics_word's DADT repeal porn fest, but sadly without much porn

Nobody said it was easy
Oh it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

--Coldplay, The Scientist

tell me your secrets and ask me your questions )
asimplechord: (something there is that doesn't love a w)
+ My [livejournal.com profile] yagkyas fic is finished! It's been beta'd. I'm letting it sit for a day before I look at it again, make any additional changes, and then submit it. \o/

+ All holiday shopping (minus one pair of liners for crocs) is complete. Multiple loaves of pumpkin-pecan bread are cooling, and banana-walnut batter is waiting to be poured into the baking tins when they become available. \o/

+ I still haven't addressed any holiday cards yet. /o\

+ I'm most of the way through S1 of The West Wing. I might be the only person in the world who didn't watch it when it was being broadcast. Between 1996 and early 2004, I watched college football, hockey, and the occasional episode of ER, and that's pretty much it; I read a fuck-ton of books and scientific papers, though. Anyway. I am in love with CJ. Seriously, my competence kink, she hits it EVERY EPISODE. And 1.7, the state dinner episode where she's in the gorgeous grey silk gown, barefoot in her office? I needed a moment. (Aaron thinks this is hilarious; for some reason he - who watched TWW with Rachel - thought Sam would be my favorite. Um. No.) I have to ask: is Danny Concannon based on the actual WaPo WHPC rep, or a nod to Danny Schechter, News Dissector?

Anyway. I won't ramble, because I'm sure that the awesome of TWW is already known to most of you.

+ I have eight different tabs of poetry open. I would love for someone to write GK fic based on Frost's Not To Keep.

+ Since the exchange fic is done, I am allowing myself to think more about the college AU, or maybe a vampire-politics AU. Here, have a fic-bit of the former. How Nate meets Brad in the college AU )
asimplechord: (half-faded)
Faces of Luck
adult ll 2040 words ll girl!Brad/Nate
Fiction, obviously. Based on portrayals in the series, and implying nothing about any real people.

The story behind #12 of 10 Some Things About Bradley Ann Colbert. This was supposed to be an exercise in writing straight-up porn, since I've been having ~issues with that lately. That is not quite what happened. So we get porny schmoop. And I need to shift it out of the "in progress" folder to the "posted fic & ficlets" one, so you get it as is, entirely unbeta'd. No one to blame but me and my brain for this one. Title and cut text are from Audioslave's Be Yourself.

don't lose any sleep tonight / I'm sure everything will end up alright )

This entry was originally posted at http://favoritemistake.dreamwidth.org/8892.html.
asimplechord: (blame tabby)
A Disney AU, where Bravo Company are the characters in The Fox And The Hound, or -- BETTER YET -- Lady And The Tramp.

Best distraction from work ever, y/n?
asimplechord: (you heard that I was trouble)
a) BRMC's Live In London DVD is on sale. If you pre-order from the band's website, there's an immediate download of the audio files. I have no words for what the live version of Aya does to me. Just. Yeah. I'll be... over there. *waves helplessly*

b) Vacuuming, dusting, dishes are done. Laundry's mostly done.

c) 100 pages more read of Aftermath. I could pretend that I have something profound to say about it, but mostly right now I'm pondering how very small the world of punditry, analysis, and journalism is, given all the comments from other folks whose blogs I follow. Interesting to read Rosen's analysis of the surge in Iraq, and of Petraeus, and compare to previous authors' opinions.

d) Instead of writing my [livejournal.com profile] yagkyas exchange fic, I spent the day pondering a GK Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves AU.

I can feel you judging me, and all I can say in my defense is that Alan Rickman was AWESOME in that movie.

And that you know you'd read a thousand words of shenanigans involving swordfights and ambushes in the woods if it included Brad blowing into Nate's ear when he's about to win the archery contest.

e) Gabe Saporta's love for Mikeyway will never cease to entertain me. He encapsulates everything that drew me to bandom bands, back in the day, before I realized bandom even was a fandom.
asimplechord: (blame tabby)
I drabbled this a week or so ago, when [livejournal.com profile] why_me_why_not needed some schmoop for cheering up. I meant to post it then but got side-tracked, and I was reminded of it when I checked Danger Room this morning.


So, here, from the Chart Your Way universe.

400 words )

This entry was originally posted at http://favoritemistake.dreamwidth.org/7249.html.
asimplechord: (ivy league)
chart your way
pg || Brad/Nate || 528 words
Complete fiction, based on portrayals by actors and implying nothing about real people.
Inspired by Something Corporate's Globes & Maps, from which the title and cut text were culled. Totally self-indulgent schmoop here.

I wanna hang onto something )


ETA: Now with bonus map-related drabble, 400 words.


This entry was originally posted at http://favoritemistake.dreamwidth.org/6322.html.
asimplechord: (inevitable)
can't stutter when you're talking without words
teen || Brad/Nate || 1231 words
Complete fiction based on portrayals by actors, and implying absolutely nothing about any real, living (or dead) people.
Unbeta'd. I know next to nothing about astronomy and constellations, except that the ones I named do, in fact, exist. Written as comment fic for [livejournal.com profile] lickingbeads in response to this not quite work-safe pic. Cut text modified from Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing.

I can see by your eyes you've been waiting )

This entry was originally posted at http://favoritemistake.dreamwidth.org/6129.html.
asimplechord: (inevitable)
Five Times People Realized Brad and Nate Were Together
PG-13 || ~4500 words
beta'd by [personal profile] why_me_why_not; remaining mistakes (including POV switches that I couldn't figure out how to fix and still convey all that I wanted to convey) are my own
Set in the same universe as Out of sync at the beginning, Steal (the rhythm) while you can, and this ficlet.
Based on the actors' portrayals and meant to imply absolutely nothing about real people.

see what I let you see )

This entry was originally posted at http://favoritemistake.dreamwidth.org/3200.html. Please comment here or there using OpenID.
asimplechord: (Ray sadface)
a) I assume y'all know this, but I keep LJ separate from FB and Twitter, so I won't be crossposting, and I'd appreciate the same courtesy.

b) Also, as a reminder, I am [personal profile] favoritemistake over on DW. I keep forgetting to crosspost there, but I suppose if there's another mass migration, I'll start doing so.

c) Godammit. My sister is evil. )

d) I have listened to Are We The Waiting an unhealthy number of times since the AOL session with the American Idiot cast was released. I've got it in a loop with the cast CD, the American Idiot CD, and the Bullet In A Bible version [Did you know it's listed as We Are The Waiting there? I couldn't figure out why it wasn't with the other versions when I arranged the titles alphabetically. And also, b/c I listen to the CD version more than I watch the DVD, I'd forgotten that Billie Joe Armstrong introduces the song as St. Jimmy, so I was all "wut?" when I watched it again the other night, and saw/heard that.] and I need to set the iPod down and just Step. Away.

e) I'm gonna go write the next bit of the 5 Times fic that's living in my brain right this second.

f) And watch Jeremy Scahill on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.



ETA: Operation New Dawn. Is that another installment of the Twilight saga, or a military political/diplomatic mission?
asimplechord: (tell us how you really feel)
1. I posted fic last night, and then forgot to pimp it here!

Steal (the rhythm) while you can
[livejournal.com profile] irisgirl12000 and [livejournal.com profile] why_me_why_not
Brad/Nate (Generation Kill) || adult || ~2200
Based on the performances of actors associated with the HBO series, meaning nothing about real people.

Follows Out of sync at the beginning. Porn without much plot, but the little dialogue that is present will make more sense if you've read the previous fic. Title from Soundgarden.

Brad's snoring softly when Nate wakes up. He lies there a while, enjoying the way Brad's body heat keeps the breeze from the ceiling fan from creating a chill.


2. >:/ libraries in NJ

3. :D Books! Chalmers Johnson's new book should arrive on my doorstep tomorrow! It's a follow up to the trilogy about blowback and American empire. Along with it, I'm expecting The Fourth Star. I suppose I should hop to, and finish reading Washington Rules instead of messing about with Inception fanfic, right?

4. The thing that bothers me most about the uproar over Cordoba House is that the people who object most strenuously to a mosque at Ground Zero are the same people who will wave a copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in defense of the right to bear arms; somehow they forget that the First Amendment of that very same document guarantees the right to religious freedom. Or, IDK, they stop being strict constructionists and say that the founders didn't mean it the way we're interpreting it. (I sincerely doubt that, since James Madison was part of Jefferson's cohort, and as has been quoted pretty much everywhere lately, TJ's the one who wrote that "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.") The First Amendment also guarantees that if a mosque is built there, haters can protest it to their hearts' content. But still. Muslims have EVERY RIGHT to build a mosque there. Beyond that, I don't see why someone who is not a resident of the area thinks they should have any say in the matter. Who gives a shit what Sarah Palin thinks? Why is Newt Gingrich's opinion important? Do they live there? Are they family members of those who died? Did they suffer when the towers fell? How is their objection relevant in any way?

ETA: ♥ Jon Stewart & John Oliver on this topic. /ETA


5. Also on the political level: hmmm, Stan McChrystal. I can't help but compare a possible political future for him to Petraeus, who vowed once again that he would not go into politics in his interview with David Gregory this weekend. (I was tickled by Gregory's use of Grant and Grant's quotes re: going into politics to broach the subject, esp. since Petraeus has spent a great deal of time reading/studying Grant.)

6. My mom forwarded the address of a cousin who is deployed in Iraq, with the suggestion that he might like to receive some mail. I honestly have NO IDEA what to write. This is a cousin I haven't seen in at least five years, and saw infrequently for the decade before that. I can babble about random stuff, I suppose, but is a guy who's been deployed for over a year really going to give a shit about daily life and family events in the 'burbs, especially for the cousin that he probably only vaguely remembers as being a babysitter and homework-aid when he was a kid?

fic post!

Aug. 3rd, 2010 09:00 pm
asimplechord: (ivy league)
Out of sync at the beginning
by [livejournal.com profile] irisgirl12000 & [livejournal.com profile] why_me_why_not
Generation Kill || Brad/Nate || Adult || ~3300 words
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction based on the portrayal of characters in Generation Kill by Alexander Skarsgard and Stark Sands, and is meant to imply nothing about the real people who bear these names.

Summary: When Ray tells Nate to fix whatever's between him and Brad, Nate has to figure out if Ray's fucking with him, and if not, how to get Brad where he wants him.

A/N: As one does - or maybe it's just as we do - we accidentally created a 'verse based on a random comment. This is the beginning of... something. Originally written mostly as textfic. There are other bits and bobs in various email and phone logs, and we'll get to posting them as we clean them up, but this can stand on its own. We beta'd this ourselves, so hit us up with any mistakes. Title paraphrased from The National's Slow Show.

Nate knows something’s Not Right when he gets home, but he’s certain he can defend himself against whatever it is that’s causing the uneasy feeling.



Sorry if you happen to be seeing this multiple times.
asimplechord: (inevitable)
Four Eyes || adult || ~1050 words

Brad/Nate

This is a work of fiction based on the portrayal of characters in Generation Kill by Alexander Skarsgard and Stark Sands, and is meant to imply nothing about the real people who bear these names.

Long ago, someone requested glasses-kink at the anon kink meme. Nothing but PWP here.

Unbeta'd, so hit me up with grammar mistakes and concrit if you so desire.

Apparently men *do* make passes at guys who wear glasses. )
asimplechord: (ivy league)
Off The Map
Brad/Nate || R-ish? || 1040 words
Spoilers for A Burning Dog, I suppose.
Fiction. As in Not Real. Based on the characters as portrayed in Generation Kill, as created by Evan Wright, David Simon, et al.
Title and inspiration from Alkaline Trio's Off The Map. Go read the lyrics. No, really. You'll see the lines I mean.
Pre-read by [livejournal.com profile] vic_ramsey but unbeta'd, so feel free to point out errors.


I'm like a junkie for your smart mouth )
asimplechord: (ASkar wins at getting some)
(and [livejournal.com profile] vic_ramsey doesn't do anything to discourage me; in fact, she eggs me on)



To: nfick77@gmail.com
From: bcolbert74@usmc.gov
Subj: really?

"Fick is the Kerouac of our time"?

Nate, I realize you got used to taking orders while you were in the Corps, but when I mockingly suggested that you'd become a liberal dick-suck if you went to Harvard, I didn't think you'd take me seriously.

How many times did you suck Ricks' cock, to get a blog post review like that?




To: bcolbert74@usmc.gov
From: nfick77@gmail.com
Subj: Re: really?

No more than necessary.

Jealous?




To: nfick77@gmail.com
From: bcolbert74@usmc.gov
Subj: Re: Re: really?


As long as you keep sucking this Republican's dick, I'll deal with my disappointment.
asimplechord: (inevitable)
Strong, strong wind
Nate Fick/Brad Colbert
This is a work of fiction based on the characters of Generation Kill, as portrayed by Stark Sands and Alexander Skarsgård in the miniseries created by Evan Wright, Ed Burns, and David Simon.
~2100 words || PG-13

... )

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