Ximeria's Journal

And April just whoosed by LOL - I've been fighting with fatigue due to my pollen allergies, so getting anything done has been an uphill battle. With May around the corner, my arch nemesis AKA birch pollen (I'd torch the fuckers if I could get away with it) will be going down fast and I'll be able to reclaim my life *g*

I wasn't sure what topic to put up here this month, then realized that I've actually got a few pictures of churches buried in my albums. Some are taken here in Denmark, some are from other countries.

I'm not a religious person - quite the contrary - I swing between Agnostic and Atheist on most days but I love visiting churches and taking pictures. The light is so different in there and the architecture varies so much. My interest solely lies in the cultural history and the architecture, but I love big hulking buildings as well as quaint little village churches.


Stephansdom - Vienna


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So, at the very tail end of February - with a chill factor of -15ish C I figured I'd give you all some fur and feathers. I have a ton of pictures of animals, and I figured why not show you guys some animals goofing off/looking silly?


Last time I went to the local zoo, the tigress was being all silly, rolling in the snow, licking it, and playing peak-a-boo with me *g*. She normally holds back and the big male is the camera whore, but on this day, he was lounging inside, sleeping, while she was acting like a kitten.

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My intention to post from January is almost deflating, isn't it? *laughs*

Well, since I'm procrastinating on a Saturday night, I figure I might as well get started.

Now, if I don't lose my way *coughs* I'll be using a couple of specific tags in the coming year (though not limited to those, they will be the main ones).

• 2018:Project of the year


• 2018:writing


• 2018:hobbies

Now, the project of the year is my photography project. I love my old Nikon D5000 and I miss taking it out for regular spins. So I figured, why not set myself something to do. Each month I'll find a topic/subject - nothing set in stone, but I feel January needs to have the topic: light. Mostly because it's dark as a cellar in hell here - I mean, we're on the way towards longer days, but it's still dark by four/fiveish in the afternoon - especially if we have shitty weather - overcast, cold and dank.

I figure I'll do a mixture of pictures I've already taken through the years and pictures taken during January. And come February, who knows, I'll find another topic for that month. Feel free to make requests.

The writing, now that is going to be on and off (probably mostly off during February because work tends to be insane). But I fully intend to use my DW for the WIP I'm trying to plan - a while back I did a Warehouse 13 fusion with X-men which was fun to do, but nearly killed me. So I figured, why not give a Trek-fusion with X-men a go - and the ideas are plentyful XD - I just know that if I don't put it somewhere as I go, I probably won't get it done. And I don't do long WIPs on AO3 - I'll put it up there when it's done, but I need somewhere to pour my writing into. So if you feel like it, you'll get an ongoing story of the first ship in Starfleet history to be captained by a mutant, with a crew predominantly mutants - sent out to do research on the influence of deep space travel on a mutant. Sounds like fun? Well, yeah, unless you throw in some bad guys with horrible agendas, a man on the run and the dark, cold space where no one can hear you scream ;)

As for hobbies - well, I've got a few LOL - apart from the photography and the writing. I want to get back into drawing, I want to do more arts and craft stuff - I have a few projects and figured it might be fun showing them off *g* - I have a lamp shade that I want done up in a ghastly/haunter/gengar themed style, I have boxes that I want to decorate in one way or another.

And you'll all probably be submitted to my love for pokemon, both GO and DS. Hell, I caught my first shiny pokemon in GO today - two, actually - because of the community event day today. Two shiny pikachu with the move 'surf' because that's what Niantic were giving us for this event. Useless, but who cares?! I have shiny CHU!

(it's also half past midnight and I should be in bed - instead of trying to make sense on the interwebs XD)

Changing the rules (1105 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Friends With Benefits
Series: Part 15 of 2017 Bimonthly Shorts (x-men AUs)
Summary:

Erik gets no sleep that night, raging silently at Charles. Why did he have to go and change the rules?

On Monday, because we don't know how to slow down ;) - we went out to Paignton Zoo - and zoo trips ALWAYS mean a ton of pictures to get through afterwards *g*

Under the cut are some of the pictures and at the bottom of the post is the link to the full album on flickr.com - I have to admit, that I managed to cook it all down to 136 pictures in the album, where I came back from the trip with a good 600-700 pictures. It's what always happens - I get carried away ;)

We drove from just outside Tavistock, across Dartmoor to Paignton - along the way hoping to see Dartmoor ponies (wild ponies) and we got more than we'd bargained for - ended up behind a car with one of the ponies trotting along the road, not really able to get off it, but not really giving a toss about there being several cars behind it.



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Click here for full album om Flickr.com

No Smoke without a Fire (1409 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers, Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, Humor
Series: Part 14 of 2017 Bimonthly Shorts (x-men AUs), Part 3 of MI6 - Mutant Division aka the Mad House
Summary:

Erik is getting an extra bit of training in, mostly because Charles claims he needs to stop relying on his gift to always get him out of trouble.

So it's all above board, unless you ask anyone else in the facility. They might have a different view on things.

Anger Management According to Erik Lehnsherr (1918 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers
Series: Part 12 of 2017 Bimonthly Shorts (x-men AUs), Part 2 of MI6 - Mutant Division aka the Mad House
Summary:

Erik has an unfortunate reaction to Charles returning to the team as its handler. It's really rather a Pavlovian response and it's only a matter of time before it comes to blows. Charles might be a patient man, but Erik excels at finding people's last nerve and dancing a jig on it.

The Sleeping Beauty in the Ivory Tower (- or Erik Lehnsherr is a hopeless romantic) (1283 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers
Series: Part 10 of 2017 Bimonthly Shorts (x-men AUs)
Summary:

There is a tale, out among the stars, of a sleeping beauty in an ivory tower.

I got to re-reading some very old Sentinel fanfic - as in back when it was a very active fandom. My history with the fandom was very short, mostly because I came into it via Stargate SG1. SG1 fandom had annoyed me at this point and I thought the Sentinel fandom would bring enough change. Nope, not really - too many of the same faces XD

Well, re-reading a decade and a half to two decades later, there's always a risk. A risk of the story you recall as being quite good turns out to be less so.

It's partly that the stories that I re-read weren't exactly brilliant, but another reason is the fact that Sentinel wrote a huge chapter of the book on cliches and tropes. I think some of the things that hit me were:

• Everyone's straight except for when it comes to THAT one guy (both Jim and Blair are portrayed as 130% straight and struggle to come to terms with being GAY for that one dude - seriously - it's like bisexuality didn't exist in the 90s...)


• The amount of purple prose is downright hilarious! (A ton of it is possibly down to it being from a time when ff.net was used a lot... it's definitely a different way of writing fic XD)


• Non-con/dub-con - seriously - it's not like I haven't read and written my share of biological fuck or die stories (especially in Star Trek with pon-farr or for that matter, SG1 - aliens made them do it/sex pollen etc) but seriously - having Jim go caveman (another sentinel trope) on Blair's ass (literally), screwing him and afterwards lamenting that he has hurt his partner to only have Blair accept it because it's a guide/sentinel thing... I've never been a huge fan om non-con, or for that matter dub-con and reading 5 out of 6 stories where this is actually the outcome... yeah, not my pot of tea


• LUBE, PEOPLE, LUBE. If it's the first time having anal sex, spit isn't going to be enough, and if you choose to go with it anyway, there'll be either tearing or at least VERY much discomfort afterwards.

I know it was a different era for fanfic, but still - I almost regret re-reading the fics, they were better in the shadows of my memories. It's not a complaint about one specific author, because I realized it was a trend in the type of fic that was written during this time and also probably something that the writers liked exploring.

The Road to Redemption (2904 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers
Series: Part 7 of 2017 Bimonthly Shorts (x-men AUs)
Summary:

Erik doesn't pick up hitchhikers - so why the hell he does it at 5AM is beyond him. (Though not really, if a mutant is in trouble, Erik has a hard time turning a blind eye).