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Challenge CLOSED!
That's that for the first week of the year! A new prompt will be up on SUNDAY!

Drabble Topic - Rover
Post Chosen, comics compliant (to an extent)

And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go

Buffy never expected to be a world traveler. She's been to almost every country, gathering newly minted slayers as if they were stray kittens. When she's not delivering her "bunch of super powered chicks taking down monsters" speech, she finds herself in suitcase mode anyway. Now that she has the resources, she finds that there's plenty of demons world wide to keep a girl on the go.

At then end of the day, after yet another demon is vanquished, she sees the sights, even finds time to shop.

She dreams of settling down and finding a place to call home.

Author's Note: The tile comes from "A Pair of Brown Eyes" by The Pogues

Rover
Timeline: sometime after New Moon Rising
Rating: G
Disclaimer: still not mine, alas
Challenge: Rover

"Kukkur, kukkur!" the kids crowded around. No taller than their Nepalese parents, Oz was still a curiosity.

"They want to see the dog." Oz turned at the English-speaking voice. A wrinkled man sat on a doorstep. "Like you say... Rover."

"I don't have a dog." A chill crossed Oz's neck.

The man smiled placidly. "You are the dog."

"I can't show them... I'd hurt them." Many tiny hands patted Oz's spiky hair.

"Don't worry. I will not let you." The man howled; the children answered. Then Oz was the only one on two feet. A minute later he joined them.

Panto Ticket
I have one ticket for the Panto this coming saturday (January 9) at 7pm, Stalls F17 that I bought for a friend who will no longer be able to use it. The ticket is a will-call, so you can pick it up at the theater.

If anyone would like it, please comment here or email me, and I'll give you the details for payment and pickup. I am only asking face value for the ticket, (24 pounds)

I saw the panto last year, and absolutely loved it. Definitely a fun show.

I Know

That everyone is interested in the fight going on between NPH and JB at After Elton. But there's another poll that John's in over there and here's the link:

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/1/gay-peoples-choice-voting

John's on page 13, his lucky number:

http://www.afterelton.com/people/2010/1/gay-peoples-choice-voting?page=0%2C12

So please vote.

Warning about Compromise to Fellow Fan's E-mail Account
From Robin, another fan:

"Please post this as a warning to all John Barrowman fans on this website: I just received this fake email that was sent from someone in the UK to friends of Robbie Hall. I have sent an email to Robbie letting him know that his email account has been compromised and for him to call his email provider. Here is what I received:

"'Compliment of the season,How are you doing? I hope you get this on time. Am
sorry i did not inform you about my travelling to United kingdom for a
program.I can barely think or type straight at this moment.Something really
terrible is happening to me right now and I will be needing Your Urgent
favour,I hope you come to my aid.'

"[snip]

"Please don't fall for this scam."

Note: I received the same e-mail message from Robbie Hall in my inbox with the subject line, "PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ASAP!" I saw a subject line reading "Robbie Hall's email account" further up in my inbox and opened that first. God bless John Barrowman's fans!

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Cristobal De Morales - Magnificat (Octavi toni) | Powered by Last.fm

C/X Old School
pre-Surprise

Xander inspected his elbow, sure that he’d find a chunk of flesh missing. Last week, a vampire had kept him hostage. Dead man’s grip had been gentler, and his claws hadn’t sunk this deeply. “Needing fresh blood to replace that lipstick?” he snapped, pointing in the general location of Cordelia’s lips.

“Don’t look at my lips! Don’t look at me." Cordelia scowled. "Shouldn’t you know how to keep a secret? Even Harmony can tell that your eyes are roving all around me. Stop the rovering!”

“Am not.”

Her dark eyes narrowed. “I mean it, Harris.”

And then she kissed him.

Current Mood: pissed off

Drabble Prompt: Rover
Generations of men (and eventually women) had dedicated their lives to the Watchers Council. They claimed it was a calling, requiring commitment and loyalty. Only the best and brightest were admitted to this rarefied atmosphere and even then, the top positions were jockeyed over by the fewest and finest. Young men (and eventually women) fought for roles as active Watchers, competed to rove the world with their slayer, fighting evil in whatever incarnation they found.
In the end, though, they were no heroes. They were nothing but pirates, sea rovers stealing lives and futures of lovely and brave young girls.

Blood's a Rover

Characters: Spike from BtVS. Blood from Harlan Ellison's story A Boy and His Dog.
Notes: The quote “blood's a rover” come from the poem Reveille by A. E. Housman. Harlan Ellison once wrote that the sequel to A Boy and His Dog would be called Blood's a Rover.

“You don't mind, do you?” Spike looked up from his meal. Nearby, a dog wagged its tail.

Spike stood. The voice had been in his head. “Who’s there?”

The dog smiled. “Blood.”

“You then, what do you want?”

“Dinner.”

Spike gestured to the corpse. The dog started eating. Spike started walking away.

“Wait. We could work together,” Blood said. “Watch each other’s back.”

Spike hadn't had anyone since Dru had left him. Shrugging his acceptance, he asked, “Why me? Why not some nice family?”

“Blood's a rover.”

“Great,” Spike said. “Not only do you talk, you spout poetry as well.”

L'enfer c'est moi
He had halfway expected to end up as a rover across the wide world's hells: redemption was impossible, death too kind. Down the dark years he had traveled through Europe, reddening its convents. He had lived through China's revolution of blood and fire, and he had survived sewers, Sunnydale, rain in an alley, dragonfire.

For all the differences between places, all the different tongues spoken, tall people and short, pale and dark, he came to understand that hell was in his own mind, and thus no matter how many footsteps he put between himself and his past, he was damned.

Dude, you saved a puppy
“It’s perfect, Angel,” Buffy said, petting the Pomeranian through the open cage door.

“Are you sure?”

“Faith told me about the puppy, Angel.”

“I know she did,” he said, shooting a quick glare in Faith’s direction. “I will never live this down. Will I?”

“Hell, no,” Faith said. “It’s too good.”

“Maybe if it was a bigger dog--” Angel began.

“It’s perfect! Come on, Rover,” Buffy said, scooping the puppy up into her arms. “You’re coming home with us.”

“Dude, it’s your fault,” Faith said. “You had to save a puppy, and now B has to save a puppy.”

John Header
[2] Stock (photos by noe0712 at Flickr
[1] Supernatural - Dean Winchester and Impala
[1] John Barrowman

Here at my LJ

Prompt: Rover
Wander Alone, Far and Wide

His family is dead. The pain is indescribable. He runs to Rome, taking her selfishly before disappearing again, hoping for forgiveness.

He takes brooding global, rarely seeing anyone, often forgetting to eat although it's necessary now.

One morning he wakes to Spike's voice in his head (moping tosser) and decides to get out of bed.

In Morocco on Dawn's tip, he approaches the slayer base nervously. It has been three years.

Spying him from her window, her heart swells with something: perhaps sorrow, perhaps happiness, definitely love. She turns towards her door, waiting for him, her roving man returning home.

Young woman, share your fire with me
My heart is cold, my soul is free
I am a stranger in your land
A wandering man
Sand, Einstuerzende Neubauten

Current Mood: pleased

Playground Games
“Red Rover, Red Rover, let Ella come over!” the girls chorused, grips tightening.

Ella ran like mad, suddenly swerving to attack a pair of hands that were least expecting it, and broke through.

“We’ll take Buffy,” she said, pointing at the blonde girl in the anchor position.

Buffy sighed. She’d switched sides so often that she didn’t know why they were playing anymore. It wasn’t her fault she never lost, and since she’d accidentally broken Alana’s and Jeanette’s wrists, no one asked her to “come over.”

“Freak,” she heard the girl next to her mutter as she changed sides again.

Very Weird Thing
Mods please excuse if inappropriate.
With a gift certificate I got for the holidays I just went to iTunes to download the End of Time. They only had Part 1 up but also listed Part 1's David Tennant Special which I also purchased.
When I just finshed downloading it and checked my iPod what I got instead of the Special Part 1 was... The Making of Me with John Barrowman the entire episode. I have not watched to see if it it the "sanitized version" they showed on BBCA or the original but it's definately 1hour long.
Now unless my computer and I are completely whacked out (entirely possible) iTunes has made an error that I feel is in my favor.
Somebody else PLEASE go check!
Yeah Me! so US iTuners...hurry and go check!

Current Mood: giggly

Need icon help
Feel free to delete this if it doesn't fit in, but are there any plain or animated "Yay!" icons of John?

#votebarrowman Twitter Trend
Well, we all know about the Battle Royale for Gay Man of the Decade between John and NPH. But for all you Tweeters we've got a push to trend #votebarrowman going on right now. For new users to twitter, just put the "#votebarrowman" into your tweets, anywhere to help the cause.

Challenge 354 OPEN
Happy New Year!!! Happy New Decade (yes officially it will start on 2011 but culturally it starts now!)

But today's prompt looks both forward and back as January 3rd is the 6th anniversary of the first Landing of the Mars Rovers! These brave robots have covered miles of the Mars surface, and yet avoided picking up the Doctor! It's our real science nudging against our Sci Fi. So to honour Spirit and Opportunity the prompt is:

ROVER(s)

Remember all forms of the word are acceptable!

Have fun! And best wishes to all for a safe, creative, and successful 2010.

January 2nd, 2010: AKA the day that John Barrowman discovered Twitter
This is truly the funniest thing I've seen all day. There's a real chance he was/is drunk (as he is still tweeting as I post this, and had some vodka tonics).

( +++ )

( Have an image! )

Current Mood: amused

AfterElton's Man of the Decade
I hope everyone here knows about the Man of the Decade poll happening at After Elton, since it's already been posted.

In yesterday's Morning Meme it was announced that 80% of the votes were almost evenly split between John and Neil Patrick Harris.

This led Neil to get on twitter and ask for votes: If you're feeling it, throw a vote my way: http://tiny.cc/Do80i Being atop John Barrowman would be a great way to start the decade...

Later last night, John caught wind of Neil's plea for votes and responded: @ActuallyNPH http://tiny.cc/Do80i Sorry, Neil, I won't go down without a fight.GIVE YOUR VOTE FOR TOP MAN BARROWMAN........ jb

AfterElton picked up the twitter battle, but also announced that Neil's now leading with a lot more than 20 votes.

John's added two more tweets to the battle, and Johnathan Ross is joining Team Barrowman as well.

Voting is open until tomorrow at midnight!

Vote for Team_Barrowman as Best of Twitter 2009!
End of voting is midnight New Year's Day, Central Time USA. (Countdown shown on Best of Twitter site.)

Team_Barrowman is currently on page 16 (close to 17) out of 270. Here's the link to the site: Best of Twitter 2009

The site says you can vote every 20 minutes, so you have approx. 5-1/3 hours, which gives you...101 votes to get in for them! Go for it!

Current Music: Bones Season 5 recordings

La Cage shadow boxes
I finally got all my La Cage shadowboxes done. John looked so glamorous as ZaZa so I knew he needed lots of glitter. I knew I needed to commemorate seeing the play in a way that would last (and I'd picked up a few extra copies of the flyer). Anyway, here is the results of JB in his sexy dress and about a ton of glitter.

( I Am What I Am )

AND CLOSED!
That's all for 2009!

Late drabbles, prompt ideas, general good wishes all accepted in the comments!

Happy New Year, everyone!

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