who only by moving can balance

Thank you so much for letting me play with your ideas. Mass spec time largely done now - data! - but if you still wanna leave something please by all means do and I'll try to get to it. <3

Poetry

• prompt: "you're the heroine of someone else's romance"
  
• prompt: "this is who I was, half a lifetime ago", Perspectives
  
• Volcanoes
  
• prompt: "Here we go again...", Here we go
  

Ficlets

• prompt: My Travels Through A Mass Spectrometer, [Dicebox] At Least According To Molly
  
• prompt: "How the Laundry recruited me", [Laundryverse] Doggerell
  
• prompt: For SCIENCE!, [snippet about the Thames, which is really more about science-propitiating-dragons]
  
• prompt: character of your choice finds an adorable kitten, [Elementary, accidentally not a drabble] Moments of glad gracelessness
  

Other

• Leek-and-potato soup

Some of these are repeated from the last such list, but this one is a bit more organised/coherent... as ever, holler if there's anything you'd particularly like me to bump to the top of the list. :-)

Fic.
- Mai walks into a bar and meets June (gift, to be ~500 words)
- Kuei and Bosco meet Song (gift, to be ~500 words)
- the one about all the ladies set up schools (which I have started, and is more Mai and Zuko interaction)
- the Proceedings of Ba Sing Se university (seriously, I have about 5-6 papers outlined for this one, I just need to write them) (batrachian has requested this as a perk for fundraising, as have a couple of other people; so include a survey of swamp fauna)
- Katara & Suki gossip about Mai
- the misc drabbles
- the dreadful A:tLA/Molesworth crossover noldo & I have been threatening each other with for about a year now
- the Spike/Xander monstrosity
- the actual *backstory* to the elaborate Buffyverse AU in which lots of dreadful slash is set

Essays.
- tech competence vs tech confidence (to pitch to geekfeminism; the rest are for the LashBlog) drafted, sent to betas this is going to go up wooyeah :D
- disablity vs impairment: chronic pain is fundamentally shit/"mixed model"
- what's in a name? - chosen names, "IRL" as a busted concept when used in opposition to "online", etc live
- the machinery of grace is always simple/how Ani DiFranco helped me learn to love mobility aids
- buying your first wheelchair: a guide/retrospective
- what "queer" looks like taking into account non-binary gender (plus revisiting my previously-stated thoughts on "non-binary" as a term)
- something, not yet formulated, about being me & being a scientist - poss. collaborate with someone I know in the artsy side of academia (if you think I might be talking about you, I probably am, I just haven't asked you yet ;) [thank you, past self, for not putting down anything less cryptic! but having thought about it for all of thirty seconds, I think I've worked out what it was going to be, ergo I'm going to leave this just as cryptic for even-further-future-self. HI. WE LIKE YOU, HONEST. -april2013] aaaand in August 2013 this is finally scheduled to be posted on the LashBlog :-)
- talking dirty "versus" enthusiastic, informed consent
- medical advocacy reworked for VP
- social negotiation as informed by disability and care needs
- dinnertime geology started, which will do for me.
- what being genderqueer is like from the inside, for alexseanchai

Other.
- A5 flyer on kitchen ingredients repurposed for sex & sexual health
- 15-minute presentation on STIs for a workshop about women who have sex with women, for LGBT+ and welfare reps across the university
- ... my lit review [2300 words down, 2700 to go...]
- ... catch-up on the lectures I've missed so far this term [partially achieved!]
- leaflets for UCS on being queer & trans palmed off on my successor
- LashCookBook HOLY CRAP I FINISHED IT
- that one paper, maybe?

Title: To crave the rose
For: noldo
Size: 645 words
Characters/pairings: Mai/Zuko, two minor OCs
Rating: U
Elsewhere: AO3
Notes: the Internet tells me that birthday cake would be unlikely to happen until the age of 60. I couldn't resist the combination of Zuko being a bit rubbish at crafts, and those two after a lifetime together. In the headcanon I'm rapidly developing, the rose garden was Zuko's official wedding present to his bride. (She rolled her eyes at him, of course.) Happy birthday-of-2012, dearest face.
Summary: The palace grounds are meticulously laid out, and the rose gardens especially are noted for their exquisite formal design and the creativity and dedication evident in the unique cultivars. They are Mai's favourite haunt.

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I have just received my first fic-gift after participating in my first fic exchange, and it is lovely and gorgeous and perfect and I Cannot Even. (Warning: oblique spoilers for The Promise, but then I suggest people not read The Promise anyway, so. >_> )

(And yes, I did write one of the others, and you are welcome to guess which. :D)