Words of warning

[kitanzi]

Don't take expired Dayquil (or, presumably, Nyquil). It will do things to your brain that you will regret. On a somewhat related note, please forgive me for any idiocies I post today. Dan Savage's project on Youtube is still well worth while, though. (That was before I took the Sinus/cold Syrup of Doom.)

On an utterly unrelated note, does anyone one know of any crossover fics/vids for White Collar and Life or Castle? I could really use some entertainment that didn't require a lot of brain cells. Poly friendly is a plus, but not a requirement, obviously. (I hope.)

Edit at 12:17: Son of a bitch. I can't spell Son, and I clearly have no excuse since I posted this before I took the Nyquil. The URL is http://www.shewired.com/Article.cfm?ID=25790

Comments

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Not xovers, but here's my White Collar recs, including a nice OT3 vid: http://belladonna.org/fanficrecs.htm#WhiteCollar

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I have, in fact, read all of those through your website that I hadn't already read before. (Want some counter recc's? Keep in mind, they will be heavily weighted toward poly-friendly. In fact, I have never before seen a fandom so heavily weighted in that direction. I can't type worth a damn right now. I think I fixed a couple dozen typos. Please shoot me.)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

What, you thought I didn't have your webpage bookmarked? and I STILL can't type worth a damn. fuck this.)

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Actually, I kind of assumed that no one ever reads my recs. I'm glad to hear I was wrong. ^-^

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Oh good god, no. I was reading those before we started doing coffee. :) I do appreciate a good recommendation. I find that I get better reccs going by writer than I do going by fandom - hell, that's how I GOT hooked on White Collar.(And entirely too many other fandoms....) The actual canon/broadcast was very nearly beside the point.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Um, if it's not clear, I'm stoned on past-expiration-date Nyquil. Yeah.... legal and stupid. Please do shoot me.

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

It's very clear. *S* Don't worry about it.

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's great!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're probably laughing, and I deserve it. *sigh* Do you ever want to do coffee again?

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do. Lemme find my appointment book.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Ok, just say when. Just... not today. Today is embarassing. (And,technically, a sick day. Goad, I hate sinus infections.)

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Are you free during the week? The next two weekends I'm pretty busy.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

During the week is harder...

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Then a few weekends down the road.

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

I suspect TPTB thought they could discourage the slashers a little by giving one of the guys a happy marriage to a very likeable woman.

Those poor, innocent fools.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

That's exactly my theory. And yes, poor innocent fools. (Although, I'm pretty happy about all of this. So is my husband, who has NEVER been this hooked on a fandom while I've been with him. Yeah, we're biased. Yeah, I'm an idiot. I'll take it while I can get it.)

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Have you noticed that at AO3, they've changed the name of the "pairings" field to "relationships"?

Of course, my favorite OT3 is Dan/Laurie/Walter.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I, sadly, had not noticed. What fandom is that? (I reiterate, please shoot me. If I were Neal, I'd be so very busted right now.)

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

Watchmen!

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Naturally! *grin* I should have spotted that.

[dessieoctavia.livejournal.com]

If you're interested, there's recs (http://belladonna.org/watchmen.html#OT3).

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

I'll give those a try, thanks!

not crossovers - but just White collar

[alymid.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading this one - http://archiveofourown.org/works/109992

and this one was kind of interesting: http://archiveofourown.org/works/117244

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[alymid.livejournal.com]

i found two more in my bookmarks at A03
http://archiveofourown.org/works/58328
http://archiveofourown.org/works/53377

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd read the first but not the second. Yay!

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[alymid.livejournal.com]

clearly I should be asking you for links ..... ;) Speaking of which I have an AO3 invite - do you need one?

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

That would be spiffy, thank you.

Recc's.... well, you could do far worse than pretty much anything from here:
http://sam-storyteller.dreamwidth.org/

And since you suggested The Rehabilitated Con Con, I assume you've found that China_Shop has lots of good stuff?

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[alymid.livejournal.com]

I am currently working my way through anything that looks decent (and in one of my favored fandoms) in the polyamory tag and the in the neil/elizabeth/peter tag. I'll take a look at China_Shop's fiction too.

Speaking of which astolat - who wrote one of the stories that I sent yesterday is one of my all time favorites when it comes to high quality fan-fiction.

What email should I send the invite info too?

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

kitanzi at kitanzi dot com ought to do it. I have Astolat's web page bookmarked, but I didn't know to look there for White Collar. (Hmmm, just looked - only one.)

Re: not crossovers - but just White collar

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Read both of those already and enjoyed them. :) Thank you!

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Thanks for the heads up on Nyquil or Dayquil! While I don't take too much stuff like that anymore - it was too hard to wean myself off! - I have been known to keep that kind of stuff around and not be good about checking expiration dates.

Hope you keep feeling better! *hugs*

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm going through the medicine cabinets this weekend. That was Not Good.

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

That's a very good idea. Pills and powders don't go horribly bad when past their perspiration dates, but liquids most certainly do. I (and especially Lois) regularly took prescription pills past their dates. Lois was a stockpiler and tended to get ahead on her scripts, so she'd be taking the older ones on a regular basis. And, eventually, the newer ones became older ones. But they weren't liquids, so no bad reactions.

But I once took a swig of a perspired OTC tussin med when I had a cold, and when the nausea, diarrhea and vomiting stopped I promptly threw the bottle out and made a mental note to be wery, wery cwareful of liquid medications and perspi dates.

Get well sooner.
Ann O.

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm sorry you found this one out the hard way too. *hug*

[keristor.livejournal.com]

So what does it do if it's old? Nasty side-effects or just a 'recreational' effect? (Not that I'd have it anyway, it contains a lot of acetaminophen (paracetamol outside NA) which I avoid.)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Both, actually. It's not something I'm going into detail on - but seriously, check your expiration dates. That was... something I am never, ever going to do again.