an open letter & some recs

( talkin' about/to my body )

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Lower back pain = trying to type up quotes from three different books while lying flat on my back with my netbook precariously supported on my stomach by one of my eight-billion pillows. It's more of a balancing act than a study session. 

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Recs of some of the awesome things I've encountered lately:

1) An article about avoidance and how to avoid it, rec'd to me by the always insightful asimaiyat that she linked me to after my last post about how Doing Things Is Hard. I've reread the article about five times since then. 

2) Everyone should read everything ever written by arsenicjade, especially her epic Suits slave!fic (make sure to read the warnings!), and this WC/Leverage/Bandom homeless kid AU which she calls the Dicken 'verse, and which inspired me to rewatch Oliver! the last time I was tipsy. OH AND ALSO she totally wrote an Eliot/Mikel Dayan Leverage fic called Double Mitzvah. If you don't know who Mikel Dayan is, you can go to the post I made ages ago about my undying love for her, with a handy dandy youtube vid of her fighting (mostly OMG BICEPS) .

3) There is an awesome Grimm fic that you don't want to miss (with twisty hurty break-up(ish) sex) by rabidchild67. It's about how we can become someone we barely recognize and don't even like, in a very and visceral way. I'm Going to Feel This Way Until You Kill It

4 & 5) There are two other fics I've read lately that have really hit me with how well the female characters are written, and reminded me how much I love women who are comfortable and confident with their sexuality, and guys who are casually kind of subby sometimes. Just...really interesting, smart, realistic relationship dynamics that we don't often see in fic (and that I'm learning how to write better). The first is an untitled Grimm fic: "couch cuddles (M/N/J) and facials (M/N) - tiny hint of D/s." The second is a Sherlock series by basingstoke titled Yes Yes Yes. Author's summary: "In which John learns to balance a kinky girlfriend, an asexual boyfriend, a ten-inch cock, his sister, the neighbours, his friends, and his blog. Some are more balanced than others." I'll warn you that this series is over 50k and it's REALLY HARD TO STOP READING.

Okay. I'm going to go dig through my bathroom for some Midol, stop talking about my paper, and actually WRITE it. 

ETA: Er. Somehow this posted before I'd finished editing it. Whoops?
ETA 2: DW and I are still having disagreements about cut text & linking to LJ usernames. I will figure it out later, sorry for the mangled post!