Title: Simultaneity
Author: amalnahurriyeh/amalnahurriyeh
Fandom: The X-Files (Caseyverse)
Pairing/characters: gen; Mulder/Scully, Casey/Monica
Rating: PG-13 (rude language, grownups talking)
Warnings: None
Universe: Mulder-containing, in the AU where there are 2 Caseys rather than 1 at the end.
Angst Level: Moderate
Summary: "I think I want to believe that I am who I am."

Written for queer_fest 2012, for the prompt "Any Fandom with Alternate Universes, any characters, Character X learns that an alternate version of them is/was in a same-sex relationship and begins to question their sexuality."

For new readers: This fic takes place in the Caseyverse, which is the spin-off universe to my story Machines of Freedom. The basic plot of the Caseyverse is this: ( spoilers ) Too complicated? YOU'RE RIGHT, SORRY. Don't worry--you can just read this, and probably follow along!

You know what's actually hard about writing this? Believing in straight!Casey. In my preferred version of the Caseyverse story, both Caseys are queer. A Casey who only dates men is confusing. I hope I've done straight!Casey justice here.

Also: Bryn Mawrtyr is actually the proper noun for an alumna of Bryn Mawr College. I know this because I'm related to a couple. BEST ALUM NOUN Y/N.

I don't speak any South Asian languages, and I haven't done fieldwork in the region, so thanks to this post for a bit of appropriate phrasing.


( I'm such a fucking cliche. )

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Do any of you know Sinhala or Tamil? Or, in a pinch, any other South Asian languages (pref. not Urdu, but it'll do)? Lemme know if you do--I just need a couple of lines for a story I'm posting tomorrow, and I sure as hell don't trust Google Translate.

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St. Elsewhere is the least depressing album ever made about depression.

Discuss.


(Examples: A transcendently remixed live version of Transformer; Crazy, obviously; Just a Thought, warning for discussion of suicide/suicidal ideation; St. Elsewhere, the title track.)

(Also let's talk about Cee-Lo's voice. That live version of Transformer, holy shit.)

ETA: How could I forget Boogie Monster? URGH, THIS SOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG.



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If you are at all interested in my gardening habit, I made a post over at gardening. Plants! Green things!

Man, living in the country is awesome. I bought my plants at an Amish greenhouse 20 minutes from my house. Where they were grown. I mean, I'm still a citydweller by constitution, but living in a town-that-calls-itself-a-city five minutes from working farms is pretty much awesome.

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Anybody from DC? The George Washington Memorial Parkway: what do actual people driving it call it? (In case you were wondering: the highway up the east side of Manhattan is referred to as "the FDR," the one up the west side is called "the West Side Highway," always in full, and the highway that runs through Brooklyn and Queens is called "the BQE." The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is called either "the tunnel" or "the Battery tunnel" depending on context.)

***

In other news:

1) my semester is over
2) I only had to fail two students, yay
3) I just got back from a trip for family stuff, and will be traveling for various weddings, graduations, etc for every weekend until June
4) I have actual fucking time to write now \0/
5) It has stopped being below freezing at night, which means I can put plants in the ground (oh, upstate living: it SNOWED the last week of April)
6) there is fresh local asparagus in my fridge for dinner, om nom nom

Now, to finish this scene before someone wakes up from his nap...

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Everybody, let me introduce you to pathological_needlepoint, the journal for Pathological Needlepoint Productions. PNP is my new project, a new space for me to circulate my original creative writing. It's also a space for me to experiment with crowdfunding, aka figuring out how to make money off being wildly famous on the internet. (Right now, I don't have a means to accept cold hard cash--but I do accept Dreamwidth Points.) For the next two months, I've got a planned release schedule of poetry and short fiction; past that, I'm planning on longform serialized fiction, intermixed with other, shorter things.

I don't yet have a feed made for it on LJ; friends with paid accounts, would you mind doing that, and then letting me know, so I can post it here? (You do it from this page.) Thanks muchly, kukkaseksi! There's now a feed here (as pathoneedle).

If you're interested in reading what I've written that doesn't have Mulder and Scully in it, PNP is the place to be.

In conclusion:

pathological_needlepoint

pathological_needlepoint

pathological_needlepoint

The end.

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The following sentences appeared, verbatim, in a dream I had last night:

He [Mulder] had bee disappointed to learn that Scully was an heiress from Alabama. It's not that having inherited a fortune was a problem. It's just that he wanted her to get her fortune from him.

So, there's a prompt, I guess?

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My absolute favorite thing about writing fanfiction is the ability to start in media res. Like, no warm up, no need to set the scene, just, boom, go.

My least favorite thing about fanfiction is that it is an alternative to grading, which means that I want to be writing about Mulder and Scully taking a nice walk to a cafe, and also vampirism.

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The following three ladies are losing their f_march_madness bouts:

DANA "CHUCK NORRIS WISHES HE HAD MY SWAGGER" SCULLY

KARA "FUCK THIS ANGEL BUSINESS" THRACE

OLIVIA "IN ALL THE UNIVERSES, I COULD KICK YOUR ASS" DUNHAM

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, PEOPLE.

(OK, so Scully is losing to Donna Noble, which is nice that she's winning, but NOT ACCEPTABLE.)

Polls close tomorrow midday. You need an LJ account to vote. BUT DO IT. DO. IT.

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Guess who just stayed up 'til 3AM* watching all the backlog of Fringe on the TiVo? That would be me and Leigh.

ALL OF THE FRINGE. ALL OF IT.

I have the following things to say:

( it's not really a spoiler if i just write a character's name in all caps a lot, is it? )

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