if you read nothing else in this post, read the last paragraph!!!

[wakeupnew]

The printer is making death rattle noises. There are four of us currently here, in an office of 20+. None of my favorites are in. At least five of the people who aren't here are out for the entire week. So much jealousy. So much. I know my vacation is coming but I want it to come FASTER! I really miss having a winter break this year. This is the first year I've ever not finished reading through the Yuletide archive before having to go back to school/work. I am only up to the beginning of the M's in the fandom list; I'm a little over halfway there. I want to read more and more and more, but I'm trying to avoid fan fiction while at work, especially since my wireless access is no longer cutting it and I can't do internets on my laptop.

Basically, this is a pointless post about how bored I am and how cranky I am that I have to be at work today when I could be at home reading fanfic, kink meme-ing, and RPing. Ridiculous complaints are ridiculous, but I am still so happy it is a four-day work week.

(If you want a good laugh, go through Rotten Tomatoes' section for Sherlock Holmes. Some of the less flattering reviews are uproarious. I sat by myself at the reception desk this morning, as no one called and no one came in, just laughing my ass off. Bad reviews are the best! Writers always come up with their best turns of phrase in them.)

So this is a Give Me Things to Write and I Shall Endeavor to Write Them post! You all know my fandoms and what I am willing to try (for the record, a few ideas off the top of my head: Sherlock Holmes (new movie or oldschool canon), Iron Man, Glee, Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, NCIS, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, iCarly, National Treasure, M*A*S*H, Hellboy, Firefly, True Blood... there are many many many things I'm willing to try that aren't on this list, so feel free to request others if you know I am familiar with the source material). I can't write anything dreadful or explicit due to being at work, but otherwise, I'm pretty easy. Give me a character or characters, a pairing, a situation you want to see somebody in, a word or a song lyric or a phrase... Crossovers, crack, angst, romance, gen, whatever else, and general ridiculousness are all a-okay. Just give me something to jot short things about. For the love of God, please. D: D:

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[ashen_key]

Plourr and AJ, with AJ working for Plourr since the whole drug cartel thing effed up. Glee over guns/fighting optional.

[wakeupnew]

I COULDN'T REMEMBER what AJ was going to do, so I set her on security. Unspoken but implied: she is the head of security.

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"--nother thing, make sure that Dielder doesn't try to--" Plourr unceremoniously hands a two-year-old to Ajedrez without stopping the steady stream of words into her comm, "--keep taking over the committee meeting; that huttslime would kick a whisperkit if it meant more good press for himself--"

Ajedrez and Princess Ianna stare at each other, the little girl's pudgy legs dangling. Ianna blows a dubious bubble, and Ajedrez sets her on her feet and gives her a gentle push toward the blanket laid out across the floor and covered with toys. "Go on, niña."

"No," Plourr is saying, turning away, "no no no, no, no--"

It's a quiet garden, tucked deep within a restricted area of the palace, but Ajedrez takes her responsibility seriously. Keeping Ianna in her peripheral vision (knowing that despite her seeming inattention, Plourr is watching the toddler like a hawkbat), Ajedrez trails behind Plourr at a comfortable distance, hands clasped lightly behind her back.

Switching the comm off with a final irritated instruction, Plourr whirls back -- and raises an eyebrow at Beatriz. "Unless you suspect Ianna of hiding a thermal detonator in her kiddie shoes, I don't think we're in a whole lot of danger here."

"I'm just doing my job," Ajedrez says lightly, walking back toward Ianna beside Plourr.

"Krayt dragon mierda," says Plourr, and by this point, Ajedrez doesn't think twice about the Spanish curse words sprinkled in with the name of a large lizard from Tatooine (Plourr has taken to Spanish cursing like a duck to water and loves to use the words interchangeably with Huttese, which Ajedrez has yet to get the hang of; the glottal stops are disgusting). "You just wanted to hear what I was going to do to Dielder."

"Not very much, from the sound of things," she remarks dryly as Plourr takes a seat on a low-lying stone wall overrun with vines.

"I was doing plenty of shooting on the inside," Plourr promises, prodding at Ianna with her foot; Ianna promptly grabs her mother's boot, holds on for dear life, and goes kaput right down on her side.

"Those giant cannons with the energy bursts?" Beatriz Ajedrez asks, and if her expression has gone a touch dreamy, well, she can hardly be blamed.

"I was thinking something of a smaller caliber, some good close work, but sure," Plourr says companionably, "ion cannons work for me."

[ashen_key]

PLOURR SWEARING IN SPANISH YES!

*beams* This is wonderful Lexie, thank you.