Fic: Sweet as Sin (True Blood, Jessica/Hoyt, NC-17)

Title: Sweet as Sin
Author: alyse
Rating: NC-17
Fandom: True Blood
Characters/Pairing: Jessica/Hoyt
Word Count: 2,500
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers for 3.11. Blood play.
Disclaimer: Not mine. The originals belong to Charlaine Harris but these versions belong to HBO, which means there's more nudity.
Author's Notes: Written for my kissbingo card, for the square 'experimental: licking'. Thanks go to aithine for beta duties.

Summary: Hoyt is just the sweetest thing.

( Sweet as Sin )

On LJ's latest fail

I have Dreamwidth invites, if anyone wants one. I'm staying on LJ but will continue to cross post. To be honest, although I wasn't sold on DW at first, I am coming to love it more and more and the functionality, including the improvements they are making (which are actually improvements not 'really badly thought out ideas'), makes LJ look tired and creaky.

And let me also join my voice to the chorus about LJ's latest wonderful 'feature', which allows people to crosspost all of their entries and comments, including comments they've left on other people's flocked posts, to Facebook and Twitter. (Because it's a feature, not a bug, apparently, although the removal of / from tags apparently is a bug... ::sigh::).

I realise that posting stuff behind friendslocked is no guarantee that it will remain private. However, that does not mean that I do not have, or am unreasonable in having, an expectation of other users displaying basic courtesy by keeping their yaps shut about stuff I haven't shared more widely than with those I allow to access locked posts.

Consequently, I don't expect anyone who currently has access to my flocked posts to:

i) share links to those posts more widely;
ii) share information about what is in those posts or information about what is in comments on those posts, whether made by me or anyone else, more widely than on the post itself; or
iii) repost comments they themselves have made on those posts if those comments include any information about the content of those posts or the contents of other people's comments (which is kind of difficult not to do if you're having anything close to a two way conversation);

without permission first.

Like I said, I consider this basic courtesy. I think most other people would be of the same mind, as this is a fairly well understood facet of the livejournal culture, but the for the avoidance of all doubt, breaking flock will get you kicked off my flist, whether it's because you've shared (without permission) stuff I've posted behind flock or whether you share something that someone else has posted in the safe space of my flocked entries.

In the nine and a half years that I have had an LJ account, I have only encountered three people who either broke friendslock or acted in such a way that I thought there was a real risk that they would do so, and in all three cases the individuals involved were removed from my friendslist forthwith. This was simply about removing their access to that information, not because I view it as a punishment, and these are the only times I have ever removed someone from my flist before they removed me first.

It is not about punishing individuals; it is simply a matter of trust. Consider it to be something akin to virginity - once you've fucked it up, it has been forever fucked.

End PSA.

Oooooh... What does *this* button do?

This article on the Beeb is utterly fascinating and a part of Darwin's story of which I was completely unaware.

It's about Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic, and how Darwin - and his friend and colleague, Joseph Hooker - effectively undertook an early terraforming project, introducing plants to the barren island in order to make it more habitable for the Royal Navy by creating (through experimentation) a cloud forest ecosystem, thereby capturing rain and turning it into drinking water rather than have it evaporate.

And 160 years later, they have this weird but effective, robust ecosystem in place, cobbled together from various plants from various different ecosystems across the globe, which they think may yield lessons we can use if we ever decide to terraform Mars ::g::

That's a book I think I may be buying if it's ever written.