Round 17, Hour 5

[lolmac]

*orders up a midnight buffet of writerly pasta, cookies, and musecakes*

Also herring.  For the penguins.  And in case we need to cut down any trees.  Alien herring, of course.

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[isdon-isgood9.livejournal.com]

Got 400 words this hour, very happy, but I'll take so herring, my drunk skateboarding ninja penguin is getting hunger :D

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

400 words gets you 400 herring! Hopefully that will be enough for your hungry, drunk, skateboarding ninja penguin. :D

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I'm still not used to you being in my timezone. ;-)

*shuts browser window because James seems amenable to being written cuddling with Mort... we'll see!*

(For those who came in late: I'm writing an asexual male/male romance, 35 years long, in 50,000 words during May. Well, there's also a framing story of which this scene may actually be part - I keep writing scenes and THEN finding out where they go.)

[lolmac]

I'm not used to it either.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for the ninja penguins on skateboards to show up. Do you think they'll be tempted by the alien herring?

And happy midnight! How's tomorrow? It's still today over here . . .

[lolmac]

I certainly hope they'll be tempted.

Tomorrow is looking pretty good, although I'm exhausted. But I just got a new piece posted. It's the sequel to a crackfic that Thothmes wrote in one of the LOLMac threads.

So the first part (by Thothmes) is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6852131/3/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Gate_Travel

And the sequel (by me) is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6852131/4/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Gate_Travel

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on posted fic! "The Penguin Guide to Gate Travel"? Ninja penguins? Ninja penguins with gates?

[lolmac]

I set up two ongoing series on ff.net so I could post the crack from this comm (and other cracky places): "Better With Penguins", for MacGyver crack, and "The Penguin Guide to Gate Travel", for Stargate. Although there are no penguins in "The Cat Came Back" or its sequel.

[sid]

They're ninja penguins. You just don't see them. They're there, all right. *nods sagely*

[lolmac]

Remembering how to do LJ links properly:
The Cat Came Back

The Cat Came Back Again

[lolmac]

Ninja penguins! Of course! Or maybe they're Ascended penguins. Eeep.

[sid]

*seizes musecake liek woah*

[lolmac]

And I just got the sequel to the Ascended!Cat!Daniel story posted!

[sid]

*goes to look n laff*

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

...okay, promptly got stuck because I haven't shared a bed since I was five years old. I'm trying to describe how you just know your sleeping partner's there even though you're not touching them and you were asleep when they got in bed, and they're not snoring. Is it the feel of the mattress with the extra displacement, the sound of their breathing, just a subconscious memory of feeling them get into bed or bump into you in the night?

*talking to self, mostly - I didn't even know Mort got in late last night till James rolled over, and I still don't know when last night was! Although I think today is a Saturday, in the fic I mean, but I don't know what Saturday...*

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I think the main hints are mattress displacement and movement of the sheets as the second person gets into bed / pulls on them. Depending on how big the bed is, you might also be able to hear the other person breathing (even if not snoring).

[sid]

Extra body heat?

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

That sounds like what I was looking for, I think! :D That and the mattress/sheet displacement... but I knew there was some sort of an "aura"-type thing that I just wasn't consciously remembering well enough to place. Thanks!