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Name ten things (in no particular order) that make you happy ~~and tag five others~~.
(this is not a 24/7 happiness list, just the things that hold good right now):

The Carbon Leaf song, "Desperation Song". It's just addictive and quick and makes me think of gunshots and mysteries. If I could get up and dance to any song in the world, this would be it.
I'm turning it from shade to light, hold it up to candlelight, roaring into the firelight, scorching up the charlatans...

Snow, and its lovely ability to keep my lazy ass out of school.

The Oxford Comma. You know why? I'll tell you why. I'm in Journalism class and in one of the proofs my teacher did on my article, he started marking out the Oxford commas in my State of the Union round-up. And, subsequently, got into a ten minute argument with me over it. Eventually, he gave up, "fine, put the damn things back in!" Thanks, I will. *snapsnap* Is it probably against the AP Stylebook? Yeah, but do I give a flying fuck?*

Stephen Colbert's theme song, "Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance", by Jonathan Coulton. Seriously, guys, it's about a newsanchor who goes out dancing after work. It's hilarious.
He hails a cab in the early grey dawn, gets to work, turns his microphone on, and his dulcet tones wake up the city.

How Chris and I tune into Tucker just to make snide remarks about his outfits. LULZ, he can't dress.

This really awesome idea I have for a Psych fic. Like, it revolves around Lassiter's past, when he was a scholarly New York kid before Something Bad Happened. And everything he learned back then makes him aware that the series of murders are serial killings by someone with a sick sense of humor and a very good knowledge of literature. So Lassiter has to face his past and use things he's tried to forget. All the while, as the case spins out of control, Shawn's slowly figuring Lassiter out. It's be cool!

How I have so many fic ideas, I literally can't get them all down fast enough. I kinda worry that the quality suffers due to my rush to get it all down, but... I wouldn't trade it for my old Writers Block.

Plaid, worn, soft jimjam pants. Grandmum left some of hers here from the last time she visited and I'm stealing them. The blue ones in particular rock.

That batshit AU Chris has me doing:
"I heard we'd finally filled that hole in the staff and wanted to say hello." Keith frowned at the new instructor. "What're you teaching?"
Anderson looked up from the box of books that he was unloading on the shelf. "I don't teach anything until some students transfer into my classes, but I'll do Psychology and Sociology and any other electives Principal Colbert wants me to. You?"
Keith smirked. "The four required Lit classes and the Dual-Credit Writing classes."
"Ooh, a core class man." Anderson laughed. "Poe and Shakespeare and so on?"
Keith's eyebrows rose a bit. "Please. Only the Freshmen. Milton, Aligheri, Orwell, and Adams."
Anderson paused in the stacking of the books and turned to face Keith for the first time since Keith had invited himself in. "Richard Adams?"
Keith chuckled. "Douglas, actually."

The commentary guys on the Westminster Dog Show. They remind me of Dan and Casey. *shakes head*

*Answer: No, I really don't.

-Luce

Current Music: Damien Rice, "9 Crimes"

Dear Psych,

You are forgiven.

Love leik whoa,
-Lucy

PS: A smug, chuckling Lassiter? You know how to woo me.

Seriously, that was great. Only thing that could have made that better was a lack of Jules/Shawn, but the HUGE Shawn/Lassiter ~~sub~~text made up for it. Shawn likes Lassiter! He writes him little notes! He's just smitten! *loveslovesloves*

-Luce

Everyone in the applicable fandom should head over to the official USA site and check out the Psych page. Lassiter has a new entry up and, again, this character is killing me. Oh, babe, why are you so screwed-up and fascinating? *hugs him*

-Luce

Initial reactions to the latest Psych episode are very positive, I notice. I have to say, FList, I'm wondering if we were all watching the same show. I'll take this time to emulate

miriam_heddy, the woman who made me hate Numb3rs, and tell you what I thought of this episode.

Miriam, if you read this, I am totally kidding. I love your reviews and would still read them if I hadn't totally given up on N3.

( This Meta brought to you Christina's precarious sanity, bad cell phone reception, and the obliviousness of the TPTB. )

*steps off soapbox, has a cup of tea*

-Luce

Current Music: "Take Your Mama" Scissor Sisters

Title: Varying Degrees of Con-Artistry (Or: Six things no one knew about Shawn Spencer, and one thing he didn't know about himself)
Author: Lucia Zephyr (

lucia_tanaka)
Fandom: Psych
Genre: Character study, drama
Rating: PG-13 for slash and occasional darkfic-vibes

Summary: Of pianos, first kisses, trip-ups, semantics, aspirin, facades, and mental slight of hand. Seven glances into the mind of Shawn Spencer.

Author Notes: I know, I know, I know. I said I wouldn't write another "five ways" thingie, but this is COMPLETELY Ashley/

lunarwolfik's fault. Damn her.
This fic is essentially my view of Shawn Spencer, who is a really screwed up guy in my head. Under the cut is much made-up history, blink-and-you-miss-'em characterizations, and a bunch of stuff that'll be completely jossed in January. Enjoy!

( It's all just varying degrees of con-artistry and no one seems alarmed... )

I am extremely proud of myself for finally finishing this bastard. *slumps to floor*

-Luce

Current Music: Snow Patrol - Chocolate

Huge fricken fic reccomendation: Okay, I am so behind on pimping this bitch.

E Pluribus Unum is a Daily Show/Colbert Report RPF.

No, wait, stop, come back here!

Okay, seriously, I avoid RPS/RPF like a plague. It leaves me feeling squeamish. But this, this is an epic. This, I feel, will be one of the fics people will cite years from now when asked "is RPF even on the same level as normal fic?", and this will prove RPF can be above and beyond normal fic.

The story, according to the summary is: 'Fall 2016. The reformed Patriot Act pressures all forms of the media to comply with the new policies. Stephen dares to defy the FCC and censors, ready to face the consequences. He finds salvation in an anonymous e-mail, signed with the nickname of a man he believed died years ago.'

The genre is correctly listed as a dystopian suspense thriller. It's a scarily accurate image of Orwell's worst nightmares come true. The story starts off, in the Prologue, with Jon Stewart's disappearance, then continues in Part One with a world gone to hell. The story is extremely well researched without giving you the sensation of reading a textbook, which is a big plus for me. It's smart, has humor, has introspection, and a load of tension and awesomeness. The writing itself is very good, better than usual seen in fannish work.

It is a WiP. If you know me at all, you know that I hiss and hide at the mention of a WiP, but this is so good, I refuse to miss out.

So, I'm reccing this as a fangirl with an RPS-squick, but a huge amount of respect for a project as colossal as this one. I'm helping my girl Chi make a trailer vid of this, and I have some spoiler info of future events. So, if this fic doesn't end up blowing your mind, you can take it out on me ~~Chi~~ me.

Go read it!

In other news.

Fic: Working on it. Listen, folks, I have three major fic projects going on. One is a long, slash H/C that revolves around Lassiter being heavily injured ont he job with Shawn and the aftermath. It is tricky to write due to a (hopefully) cool thing I'm doing with the pace the story's told at. Two is "Seven Things No One Knew About Shawn Spencer", which is, I'm gonna admit it truthfully, is a long, character study that is meant solely to appease my metabrain and, to a larger degree, to smack some sense into people writing Shawn in fic. STOP FUCKING HIS CHARACTERIZATION.

*cough*

Then is the meme responses, which are coming not as fast as I hope. I have two major projects in school this week as well, so... this will be interesting. I apologize to all my more impatient readers. RL before fannish pursuits, mates.

Muzaks: Anyone have any songs from an artist called The Servant? I have "Orchesta" and "Body", love those some desperately, and want more. Can anyone help?

That's all for now, fen. Stay shiny.

-Luce

Current Music: The Servant - "Body"

rustys_head drew fanart for my Five Things meme. Its accompanying ficlet is the fifth one here.

Zee art iz here.

*happydance*

-Luce

Current Music: The Killers - Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine

The meme responses for

lunarwolfik are finished, hallelujah glory. I'm gonna give them a PG rating and warn you all of some slashiness, but you were expecting that from me, right? *grin*

By the way, these total a whopping 3,369 words. I am dead serious people. That a LOT more than I intended when I started out. I blame Ashley, because I can.

Let's begin.

( Five superpowers the Psych cast doesn't have )

( Five times Shawn almost told Lassiter his secret, but didn't )

That's all for now. I hope to get more up by Monday, but no promises.

-Luce

Current Music: Snow Patrol - It's Begininning To Get To Me

Conduct a post in the style of Doctor Perry Cox from the medical comedy Scrubs.

We-heh-ell, newbies, it's been such a long time since you've seen me darkening your doorstep, but have no fear, because while you've all been out trading notes on whether you want David Hewlett or Jensen Ackles to be the one to pop your cherry after a candlelit dinner, some of us have been doing our jobs, namely spending 16 hours a day juggling these little unimportant things called school, food, and writing, but have no fear, because it's all for you, Daphne, just to see you smile when the blood, sweat, and other bodily fluids I've sacrificed for fandom morphs not unlike a butterfly into forty-fricken-five ficlets because God forbid you people can sit down and take the time do a little fic-writing of your own, so it's left to five or six authors who are carrying a load of schoolwork, real life, and an entire fandom on their shoulders, but don't you fret your pretty little heads on that bit because since we're working our asses off in Geometry and Trig, we know the exact angle to hold the fandom so that when our wrists break from the strain, you lazy lurkers won't fall off and hurt yourselves.

And yes, that was a single sentence clocking in at 199 words long. I coudn't be more proud of myself.

That was surprisingly cathartic.

-Luce

PS: point of post is I am working my ass off doing those Five Ways fics and some are really awesome and it's fun, but OMG FORTY-FIVE FICLETS! AHH!

Current Music: Scrubs marathon

I am gonna joss this up so bad...

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "5 Times Shawn Refused to Lie", "5 Songs Lassiter Won't Own Up to Having", "5 Words Gus Loves Most", etc). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to all your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun! Then you post this offer in your own journal, if the mood takes you.

Okay, here's the big thing: Psych fandom only. I cannot bounce from fandom to fandom. I have a Psych-oriented muse right now, so that's the only show I can pull off currently. My apologies. My OTP is Shawn/Lassiter. And I may turn down your request if I get no bunnies. This is unlikely, since I got three fic ideas in the last 24 hours. *sigh* Oh, Psych, how you eat mah poor brain.

-Luce

PS: Do not say anything like "Five Things No One Knew About Shawn". Why? Well, I'm a few hundred words away from completing "Seven Things No One Knew About Shawn Spencer". I am weak.

Current Music: The Killers - "When You Were Young"

Title: Prolonged Exposure
Author: Lucia Zephyr (

lucia_tanaka)
Fandom: Psych
Genre: Fun ficlet
Rating: PG, preslash

Summary: Ficlet, Shawn and Lassiter locked in a basement.

Author Notes: Giftfic for

lucius_admirer, who made me pretty icons.

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The room is dark, with only a small, dirty window high above letting light in. Shawn shuffles around, using his elbows to prop himself up. ( You never realize how damn useful your hands are until they were tied in coarse rope in front of you. )

Current Music: Stephen Colbert on Da Report!

So, been looking through my LJ and I realized that it's been days since I've updated and ages since I did a non-fannish update. Some things be goin' down for me, I must say.

-Have gotten a haircut. To normal folk, this isn't a big thing. To me, a person who hasn't had more than a trim since I was born, this is a big thing. The cute hairdresser at the salon, Michael, has been at me for a very long time to get a 'grown-up style'. I finally gave in and left him take scissors. If you've met me in RL, you know this is about as difficult as ... a really difficult thing. (Similes are failing me today.) So, he chopped half of it off, which is about six inches, and layered it, and now it's curly. Something about the lack of extra weight letting the hair do a curly thing. He really decked me out in sloppy, messy curls and for the first time in my life I looked in the mirror and thought "yes, okay, maybe I'm not completely horrible". Then I cried because that fucker chopped off all my hair! But I like it now. *thumbs up*

-I am very sad about Steve Irwin's death. If you tease me about this, violence will ensue. That said, I kinda giggle at the tons of jokes at metaquotes.

-Have lost my mind and become utterly obsessed with Psych. This show rocks my cashbah. It's smart, funny, and has a very sexy OTP for me. Yeah, I can't do the Shawn/Gus thing. It has nothing, no tension, no pizazz. But Shawn/Lassiter is just UST and tension and anger and love/hate and wallsex and force and passion. I fricken love it. This may be because I've latched onto Lassiter's character liek whoa. I love him to death. I think I have an inability to resist men with shock-blue eyes. *points to current icon* And Shawn is just such an emotionally fucked-up kid... he'd fit in with the Winchesters, truly. I've gone off on meta-round about Shawn multiple times now and I'll paraphrase it here: he's been lying for so long, he might not know what it's like not to. It does not occur to him to every tell the truth. He lies on default, and to everyone. *sits down*

-Speaking of me losing my brain to fannishness, the Psych RP owns my soul. I love it.

-Have made a slash fanmix-story with lunarwolfik. It is Shawn/Lassiter. It will rock your socks. Whenever she gets online and shows me the last steps in the project (namely story snippets and artyness; she's doing the arts, not me, have no fear). She's the one who did the PHENOMENAL "24 Hours" fanmix-story. This is gonna rock so hard.

-The Parent is out of town until late Friday night and I am a fucking wimp. I just keep thinking "someone's gonna break in and kill/rob/rape me". Feel free to laugh at me. *looks over shoulder, nervous*

-Still haven't seen SGA's "Common Ground". STFU, I've been in a not!SGA mood. And I still haven't seen "Real World", but I plan on just skipping that one entirely on account of my hating Lizzie.

-I miss Chi and Ashley being online for chattage. Ashley is just phenom to talk to and she's a fantastic RPer. Chi... If I were gay, I'd elope to Canada with Chi. nothing but love.

-I have Other People on my FList that I haven't been talking to much. I've been feeling very "no random chitchat, worktime". Erynn, I love her to pieces, but... I dunno what to talk about with her. I'm not out of love with her, not at all, but I hate awkward silences. Is it possible Erynn and I have spoken to each other on all conversational topics in the universe?! Oh NOES! It might stem from my close-lipped-ness about my RL. I don't like to bore folk with my nattering. *shrugs*

-I miss Hoshi. I can't seem to talk to her long-distance though. It just doesn't work the same way and makes me want to cry.

-My current fandoms, in order of how much I'm interested in them: SGA, Psych, Supernatural, everything else. *shakes head* I'm losing mah brain.

That's it for now. Sorry for the long post, folk. I'll go write Shawn/Lassiter fic to make up for it, yes?

-Luce

Current Mood: nervous
Current Music: Turin Brakes - "Pain Killer"

Title: Five Conversations Carlton Lassiter Never Had
Author: Lucia Zephyr (

lucia_tanaka)
Fandom: Psych
Genre: Character study
Rating: PG

Summary: A series of looks at the many sides of Carlton Lassiter.

Author Notes: HUGE kudos to the, like, five people who read this over and squeed and coo'ed over it and fixed my typos.

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( 1. What happened to make you hate psychics? )

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Read, enjoy. Reviews are love.

-Luce

Current Music: Modest Mouse - Float On

Psych Friending Meme.

*thumbs up*

-Luce

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Standard rules apply. Comments are trigger happy love.

-Luce

Just in time for the new episode on Friday.

Title: Accidentally In Love
Vidder: Lucia Zephyr (

lucia_tanaka)
Song: the overdone "Accidentally In Love" by the Counting Crows. But with a twist.
Fandom: Psych
Warnings: Slash, slash, slash. And a lot more plotty than you'd expect from this song.
Format: WMV, high quality, 640x480, 46.6 mb file, 3:17.

Summary: The short version- Constructed universe that assumes (like the rest of the fandom) that Shawn and Gus are together. Alas, things go pear-shaped when Shawn meets Detective Lassiter.

Download Link: Permanent MegaUpload Link
ETA: YouTube Link
(If the link dies, lemme know and I'll get it up for you again in no time.)

Vidder Notes: So, this vid happened entirely by accident. I started out just tossing together a cute, fun, OTP-friendly vid that would pander to both the major pairings. Then, I got halfway through and looked over the WiP and discovered that there was a serious subtext in the vid. Chi told me to run with it, and I did.

( After you've seen the vid, click here for an explanation of. )

HUGE kudos to Chi and Voni. Chi's the one who made me do the vidfic thing and the both of them forced me to agonize over some timing gags that didn't work. Thank you, girls. You guys rock the cashbah.

Enjoy the video! If you enjoy it, lemme know.

-Luce

Current Mood: accomplished

Again, to add to the list of reasons I'm going to hell:

psych_oh_boy and his friend

spellmastahgus. And there's

kickass_lass once that one's up and running.

Yep, special hell. I blame

rainyd.

-Luce

PS: For those not in the loop- Psych RP.

Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: The Caesars - Jerk it Out

we can raise cities or raze them, it whispers

and the only difference is the spelling

Ganked from Cosmic and Scrunchy

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Just a heads-up.

I haven't had Deep Fannish Thoughts like this in ages.

FIC: Varying Degrees of Con-Artistry

update, muzak request, and rec

In which I rock (by proxy of RH)

FIC: two of the seven Five Things meme

Because Comedy Central's running a marathon today.

5 Things Meme

FIC: Prolonged Exposure

Fannish and RL update time.

FIC: Five Conversations Carlton Lassiter Never Had

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some Psych icons from "Who You Gonna Call"

VID: "Accidentally In Love" - Psych, slash, storyvid

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