I Read Your Post and/or Story and Enjoyed It

So I'm definitely not going to make the happy!fic deadline -- I've been up to my ears in school work, journal/clinic/play stuff, and defending my apartment from bedbugs (no bugs for me, but apparently someone on my floor had a full-on infestation, so everyone got fumigated, and I had the fantastic task of laundering every bit of fabric I own and packing it away in plastic bags, whoo!).

I spent most of last week (on Fall Break from school) working Voter Protection for the Obama campaign in PA, and I'm going back tomorrow through E-Day. Enfranchisement, FTW! I'm finding it a lot easier to deal with all of my tension re: the election (so much tension) by working on concrete tasks for the campaign. Instead of "oh crap, national polling data that I can't do a thing about", it's "oh crap, a spreadsheet that needs a total overhaul and several hours of data entry" which I can totally take care of. And there's always more distracting work to be done!

So yeah, happy!fic-writing hasn't been happening (though I did participate in this month's artword round robin challenge, which was awesome and will be going live maybe next week?), but I like the idea that I was working with, so it may eventually see the light in some other form.

I'm feeling both ficcish and contrite, though, and I know I'll need some minor non-election-related breaks over the coming days, so if anyone wants to give me a prompt to ponder, leave it here!

( And here's an example of how I've been diverting my election-stress energy )

In honor of the first full day of legally equivalent gay marriage in California (and my two newly-married friends!), I'd like to recommend/remind you of taffetablue's A Supermarket in California. If there were ever two men who need to get married ASAP, it's John and Rodney, and taffetablue's John and Rodney are particularly dear.

Anyone else have any marriage-fic recs?

Also, from an LA Times' photo essay on one couple's impending nuptials, this quote:

Paul Waters and his partner Kevin Voecks look through a wedding cake photo album at Vienna Bakery in Thousand Oaks. The couple settled on a cake that resembled a tuxedo. They will also have a second cake made entirely of cheese.

YES. CAKE OF CHEESE. YOU WIN, GENTLEMEN.