Assorted Ramblings...

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Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then admonish your readership to do the same so you can find new stories to read and pimp.

Hm. Well, I've only written in two fandoms, so this isn't going to be a fandomly-varied meme!

( ta-dah! )

I’ve been planning to do this for ages, but what with one thing and another, it’s taken me a while to get around to it.

But being the monomaniacal obsessed dedicated fangirl that I am, I forced myself to tackle the piles of paperwork and planning I have to do so that I could allow myself to go and stare at pretty things by way of reward.

( And anyone who knows me knows what that means… )

So, naturally, I watched the "UK TV premiere" of Studio 60 tonight.

( you know how predictable I am, so... )

I said a while back that I was going to write some stuff down about Studio 60 and have a virtual wake.

Well, here it is. Pick your bevvy of choice and jump in anytime.

( Be warned - extremely long ramble within. )

This is completely stupid and pointless – so I’m going to blame Quaggy. Although, come to think of it it is her fault. She said one night "wouldn’t it be funny if Josh and Donna were watching Studio 60..." because I think the idea of ‘Josh’ talking about ‘Danny’ kinda made her head want to explode! But she didn’t have time to write anything and was still under her self-imposed vow of not starting anything new until she’d finished her fic backlog, and I was working on something else. But then, predictably, a couple of days later Josh and Donna started yakking and so I wrote some stuff down. And then forgot about it. A little while later, when I’d been having a crappy couple of weeks, Quaggy told me she’d written me something to cheer me up – and she sent me her WW/S60 crossover! And I owned up and said I’d started one as well! This was around the time of The Disaster Show and seeing that Sorkin had brought the WW and S60 worlds together, we figured if it was good enough for him, it was sure as hell good enough for us, so we thought we’d spruce the fics up and post them together.

Quaggy's fic is here

And we're posting them this week by way of a light-hearted farewell to the show. So long and thanks for all the fish, Aaron!


Disclaimers: I own nothing, I’m making nothing… these wonderful characters were created by Aaron Sorkin and belong to Sorkin, Wells and NBC. I’m just taking them out for a spin and will return when I’ve finished with them. Although I might need to hang on to Josh (or Danny – I’m not picky!) for a while …

Being anally retentive about that sort of thing, I proofed it myself, so any mistakes are mine!

Category/Pairing: J/D. (Mention of Danny/Jordan)

Spoilers: God knows – unless you don’t know who Matt Albie and Danny Tripp are…

Rating: G

A/N: Of course, Studio 60 doesn’t exist in the same world as The West Wing, and given that I’ve decided that Josh and Donna are still boss and assistant in this, the timeline is completely screwy… but I thought “what the hell - if I’m taking liberties, I might as well take some big ones!"

Thanks, as ever to quaggy_mire and coloneljack for their encouragement. (Although, Linz? I never got my toast!)

You’ll also gather that my tongue remained very much in my cheek while I was writing this…

Oh, and by the way? I started this waaaaaay before Danny proposed to Jordan.


( That’s your 'I’ve just figured out something you didn’t want me to figure out' smug face. )

I'm sure most of you've seen this but...



... now we've raised the money for the ad, anything you want(ed) to contribute is going straight to Tipitina's Foundation.

I was so busy squeeing and doing stupid Josh-style victory dances when we reached the target yesterday that I forgot to say anything about it.

So I'm doing it now and want to encourage you to give what you can.

Oh, and digitalred93, "coloneljack and hooloovoo_42 are just the greatest bunch of crazy women it has ever been my privilege to know and work with. But we're not done yet!

We're still waiting for the actors to approve the ad (and yes, coloneljack has already voluteered to sort Brad out in person - *rolls eyes* - yeah, I thought you'd be surprised... ) but once it's done we'll put it somewhere you can see it.
And we're also continuing with our efforts to raise awareness of Tipitina's - there's a press release doing the rounds and we've had some interest from the media, so we're not bowing out quite yet! More details as soon as things are finalised.

Sorry for teh spam - but it's for a good cause!

Most of you probably belong to the same communities I do, so I'll apologise in advance for the spaminess of this post.

You've probably seen that a bunch of us are drumming up funds to place an ad to say a "Goodbye and Thanks" to Aaron and the team for Studio 60. I won't bore you with all the details again, and will just tell you to hop over to thanks2studio60 where there are all the details as to how you can contribute to the ad fund and donate to Tipitina's Foundation for the preservation of the musical heritage of New Orleans.

Oh, what the hell, here's the link to contribute to the ad fund - I'm shameless, I know!

( cut for f-list sanity )

Incidentally, we're getting interest about this from outside parties, so I'm writing a press release which we'll send to a few places - it can't hurt and will raise awareness of the charity, so it's all in a good cause.

Time to put my CJ hat on!

I don't really know what to say about this episode, other than that Nate Corddry broke my heart. And that those last seven minutes or whatever it was, reminded me of just how good this show could have been had it been left alone and given time to find it's feet before the execs and other know-it-alls started prodding Sorkin with their sharp sticks.

But, oh, TOM... All the other stuff that came before kind of paled into insignificance beside that.

( Well okay, so maybe I could ramble on a bit... )

I’ve missed my show. It’s sad that these are the last six episodes of Studio 60 we’ll ever see, so it’s a kind of bittersweet welcome back.

Anyway, this week…

( Tell me you didn’t have the time of your life tonight. )

One down, five to go…

I said I was going to write this when I was feeling more awake, but I lied. There's stuff on my mind, so I thought I'd get it written down before I forgot it.
Not that it's important or earth-shattering, you understand - I just wanted to say it.

( cut for f-list sanity )