#challenges accepted

Be kind, smart, read books, make me laugh, get up in my face, tease me, open my mind to new things, teach me something, make me want you, make me crave to own you.

Write about just that, your fans.

Hmmm. That’s an idea, I think I’ll try that. 

@automatgalpals answered: 

write about ME. you’re a fan of me, yes?

Had lunch at the Old Port Sandwich Shop and had a conversation with a cute guy who works two jobs.  He was nice and cute and both of us were shy, but I'm going back there to flirt some more.  Next week, when it's not pouring.

Then I went to Gritty's and met up with The Friend for trivia night - we were supposed to have more people show up, but everyone bailed.  He's buying a car, and I finally -- FINALLY -- got confirmation that he truly did "date" K. the Whore, and by "date" I mean "carry on an illicit affair that everyone knew about but everyone respected The Friend too much to actually come out and say anything to him directly about it," but he actually told me that he dated someone at work, and I quote "and you know who I'm talking about."  That is the CLOSEST I've ever gotten to an admission.  

Also, his philosophy when it comes to his match.com adventures: "I'm going for quantity, not quantity."  My reply: "You're such an asshole."  He laughed.  

But seriously, this is a weird confluence of events.  I can't get over that he's actually sharing with me.  And again, he trusts that I won't tell anyone (and again, tumblr isn't telling people - he doesn't have any of my info on social media, and we're keeping it that way).  It's like someone flipped a switch and he realized he doesn't have to be so secretive with me anymore?  And I'm not sure how that happened, but I like it, so I'm going to keep encouraging it.

And then telling tumblr about it afterwards.

And then, as if that weren't enough, I had tweeted the following yesterday after my lunch break:

Cute guy at the Old Port Sandwich Shop.  Challenge accepted.

And I didn't think anything of it, because I tweet like I tumbl: randomly, never expecting a response.  And this guy I used to work with years ago (who I honestly forgot found me on twitter and started following me) tweeted to me, 

Did you unlock an achievement? ;-)

What is that??!  Literally the first communication I get from this person in over two years (aside from him following me on twitter and LinkedIn, which doesn't count because I don't know how to use LinkedIn) and he's asking about my flirtation skills with a guy and if I was successful?

I'd say "everything's coming up Milhouse," but I am so confused right now I'm just going to let everything go with the flow and see what happens.

But all of this is weird.  Good-weird, but weird.

#1 - Hellboy/Labyrinth(film) AU (for seizure7 and for nuggetsofembeddedweirdness): “Hellboy-styled AU - Tony’s a loose-cannon of an exorcist who works for the BPRD. He's alcoholic and has a bitter streak a mile wide. Loki is a very ancient and cynical Fae King and is Tony's oldest foe/ally/occasional drinking buddy. Right now he's decided to court Tony. Things are severely complicated.” AND THEN “maybe merge the Hellboy!AU with the Labyrinth one: incorporate the world of the former with the sort of… mythos and archetypes of the latter.”

#2 -  An Instance of Mortality-Swapping (for a charming Anon): "In an act of desperation, Loki gives Tony his immortality, but it makes him mortal in return. Sort of a role!reversal to all of the angsty Tony-aging-and-dying fics that have been going around."

#3 - Greek Mythology-inspired AU involving a Minotaur (for another charming Anon, and kyttwrites ): Anon requested “I CANNOT TELL A LIE, the minotaur myth was my obsession for several months, IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT DOING ANYTHING RELATING TO IT I SECOND IT SO HARD.” and Kytt requested “Write me something ‘mythic’, I will leave it to you as to what.” #4 - Tony Was A God the Whole Time (for craw101 ): "“Coming back with my prompt that Tony was an Asgardian god from the beginning. You can either have Loki be a mortal, or their love born solely on Asgardian soil.” 

 #5 - FrostIron + Natasha Romanov (Another for craw101): I couldn't quite get my head around a threesome involving Amora, but while my brain happened to be firmly in the gutter, I considered Natasha Romanov, and offered her as an alternative. Substitution accepted, I now have at least one interesting PWP to pursue.