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unamaga ([personal profile] unamaga) wrote2008-09-13 10:59 am
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fic, icons, and movies oh my!

This is unprecedented for eleven o'clock on a Saturday morning. I've already been up for a ridiculous number of hours, which is so very not like me, eaten pizza for breakfast (delicious and nutritious!) and fumbled my way through the first few hundred words of my happy fic. What's going on? I don't know. Possibly I've slipped into an alternate dimension. To combat the weirdness, I'm reposting a small comment ficlet written yesterday for [livejournal.com profile] melloniel, whose battle with her recliner was inspiring.

Untitled Chair Ficlet
McKay/Sheppard, R ~620 words


Rodney found the chair by accident. No, really.

The department store was vast and baffling, and the two of them had spent the better part of that morning and afternoon blindly stumbling from one section to another, tossing whisks and shower curtains into their overflowing cart and arguing over the shade of blue the area rug for the front room should be.

(Rodney was all for cerulean, but John had been dead set on cobalt, which had naturally led to the two of them smacking each other with rolled up bath mats. John had won that round by rapping Rodney's knuckles with a toilet brush, the dirty rotten cheater.)

He'd wandered away from John somewhere around the time John had gotten really involved in the football game playing on one of the store's flat screen televisions to find a place to sit, and stumbled across the furniture department entirely by accident.

He felt a little bit like Goldilocks as he sat down in the first one, and then the second and the third - they were all far too plush, and his spine had enough to bother it without some extra padding forcibly contorting him into a shape mostly closely resembling a Celtic knot. The fifth was disgustingly firm, somewhat akin to sitting on planks of wood instead of civilized furniture - the cushions were clearly just cloth and brick - and the sixth was just too horrible to look at for more than a minute and a half.

The seventh, though.

Visually, it was appealing, all dark red leather and brassy studs. It looked expensive and lived in, and it was buttery soft to the touch - almost sensual. Rodney could very easily see himself looking distinguished and wearing a silken bathrobe while sitting in it. Then he did sit, and all of the various knots he'd accumulated during the day released almost at the same time.

"Oh my god," he moaned, low and drawn out, and dropped his head back to let the top of the chair take its weight.

He wasn't sure how long he luxuriated in the heavenly comfort before John found him, but since the shopping cart had since been joined by a hand basket, which was itself almost filled to the brim with DVDs and electronics, Rodney figured at least half an hour. John set the basket next to the cart in the aisle and picked his way through the faux living room to Rodney's side.

"You look comfortable," he said dryly.

Rodney managed a half-hearted ehn sound and flapped one limp arm at him. John smirked and sunk down to his knees, one hand high on Rodney's thigh for balance, and, huh, Rodney wasn't so comfortable anymore. In fact, he was kind of -

"Positively pornographic," John murmured. His sly fingers slid up Rodney's inseam, thumb finding Rodney's fly and rubbing the zipper down against his cock.

Rodney said, "I, uh, that's."

John chuckled and curved his hand over Rodney's crotch, heel of his palm pressed to Rodney's balls, tips of his fingers at the trapped head of Rodney's cock near his right pocket. "That's what, buddy? Couldn't make that out."

"Hate," Rodney whimpered, shifting his hips up into that tease of pressure, and John laughed at him again, giving him one rough rub before pulling away entirely. "Hate," Rodney restated vehemently, if shakily, panting hard and only just pulling himself together enough to grab onto the basket's handles when John shoved it at him. Hot Fuzz toppled over the side and hit him square in the face, and he was still busy extracting himself from the tangled mess of arousal and DVDs when he heard John, sounding smug and dirty, say, "We'll take that one."

Annnd, here's a small bunch of icons, mostly of people making amusing or shocked faces. Because that's so how I roll. Twenty eight all together: eighteen John, four Rodney/David, four Teyla, one Elizabeth, one McShep.




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09 12
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21 24
25 28

- textures by [livejournal.com profile] chaosgraphics and [livejournal.com profile] brokendogma
- most caps by Atlantica


In other news! I've decided to go on a movie binge this weekend, try to catch up on all the culture I missed growing up in the nineties. So far I've watched Singin' in the Rain and Who Framed Roger Rabbit - as, um, I'm sure you all noticed yesterday - and right now I'm twenty minutes into The Maltese Falcon. What else should be on my list, do you think?

*hoardes popcorn and blankets*
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[identity profile] kashmir1.livejournal.com 2008-09-13 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
RECLINERS!

Snagging pretty much um. ALL THE ICONS. <3
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2008-09-13 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh! Stealing #8.
I love Hitchcock movies - Rear Window, Vertigo (mindtrip!), Psycho (the original still scares the pants off me, thanks to the final scene).
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[identity profile] nakedwesley.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, I love old movies! 'It Happened One Night' is a favorite. I also love musicals and recommend any of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classics, especially 'Top Hat', 'Swing Time' and 'The Gay Divorcee'.

Not so old but highly recommended: 'L.A. Confidential', 'Lone Star' (and anything else directed by John Sayles), Memento, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.

[identity profile] beadattitude.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I want to go shopping with theeeeem.

So, you should also have "American In Paris," and um, "Key Largo," and "Notorious." Yup.


And, ::scuffs toe in the dirt:: mind if I work on that Jessica/John Sheppard Rabbit thing? Wanna help? You and 'Nny? See if we can make anything out of it? 'Cause there is already awesome art and you're doing all this noir research type stuff.....

::grins sheepishly:: Wanna? It's okay if you don't want to or don't want me to. I'm suuuure I'll find another bunny around here somewhere, fast. They seem to be breeding like...um....floppy-eared things.
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[identity profile] unaccompanied-g.livejournal.com 2008-09-14 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
God, the thought of John and Rodney being all domestic and having fights with bath mats makes me unbelievably happy. *sigh*

I love cheesy musicals because I grew up watching cheesy musicals, so you might want to ignore my recommendations of My Fair Lady and The King And I. (Unless you, also, love people bursting into song. *g*)
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[personal profile] grammarwoman 2008-09-15 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Oh! Desk Set, for more Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy goodness, with a big clunky computer set in the late '50s. Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's because Audrey Hepburn is preternaturally beautiful. Brigadoon for another musical suggestion. And if you want something completely cracked out and ridiculous, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. I want some of what they were smoking when they came up with that storyline.

[identity profile] elli.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I could read this at work. Also number 8 and number 13: make me happy!

[identity profile] villainny.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahahahahahaha 15. *so amused*

THE COURT JESTER! It is ridiculous and brightly coloured and - and like Skoosie's Oodelally, even.

[identity profile] kimberweeme.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm...chair...

So the icons are pretty! I like #20, because he looks so disgruntled. (And sexy.) I think I must splurge and upgrade to the 100 icons...

I know I'm too late (blame no power) to contribute to your Classic Film Weekend, but the next time you do it, watch something with Cary Grant. He's my favorite. Arsenic & Old Lace and Bringin' up, Baby are always worth watching.

[identity profile] kimberweeme.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I concur with this comment! Cary Grant is my favorite classic film star.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
HAHAHAH. That chair will possibly feature in many a drabble in the future. MAYBE.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
*BEAMS* <33

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Enjoy! :D

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I've got myself a copy of Casablanca as per your rec and am saving it for tonight! I'm excited. Will I need anything, aka tissues, popcorn?

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen, I think, all of those but Vertigo. I'm a bit afraid to watch any of his stuff alone for fear of being mindfucked and left for dead.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
oh man, TOTALLY go for the john rabbit fic!!! i don't know if i can swing helping out on it because i've just recently realized the massive pile of obligations i've amassed, but i'd LOVE to see what you can make out of it. eeeeeee! *bounces in place*

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I would watch that show from sunrise to sunset. My eyes would fall out from all the watching I would do. True story.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I LOVE people bursting into song. Do it quite a lot myself, actually. My roommate and I used to wander around campus singing and embarrassing whoever we were with.

[identity profile] ladyflowdi.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude. Wordity. Each episode would have them at a different store: John and Rodney go to World Market. John and Rodney go to Target. And ratings week? John and Rodney go to The Men's Warehouse.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Rodney spends an entire episode ranting at John about the evils of Walmart.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha, oh dear. What's the story line for it? Or does it even have one?

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I just saw Priscilla on LOGO the other day and, AWESOME. So very awesome, oh my god. <333

[identity profile] ladyflowdi.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
While grudgingly buying tube socks and beef jerky!

There'd have to be an episode about Home Depot. Rodney would find all the supplies he'd need to take over the world, or at least the basement, while John would stare at the big piles of lumber pleasure-drunk because, um, seriously. And Rodney would be all, "I need k-fabs and elbow joints!" and John would be all, "Mmmmmmm. Deckkkss."

And then they'd get home and sack out on the couch and forget that the kitchen is half-remodeled until they needed a snack and realize why it was they went to Home Depot in the first place.
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[personal profile] ariadne83 2008-09-15 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
My local TV channel had a Hitchcock series once - a movie every Tuesday night, starting at midnight. I watched for about three weeks and then started taping them so I could watch them in daylight with company *shudders*. The Birds is a classic people always bring up but I didn't find it all that scary. (I wouldn't watch Frenzy again. There's a rape scene that traumatised me)
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[identity profile] nakedwesley.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I love Priscilla! At one point I had a audio tape of the entire movie (homemade) and used to listen to it in the car and recite all the dialog. I still can't listen to Abba and not think of Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving in drag. *loves*

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