8 Days of Happy

Day One: Fanfic
Day Two: Friendships
Day Three: Mindfulness

Day Four: Music

Eight songs that make me smile. If you're visiting the lyrics sites, make sure your pop-up blocker is up to date. :) Please feel free to share songs that make you happy if the whim takes you!

Fucking Perfect by P!nk (YouTube) / Fucking Perfect by P!nk (Lyrics)

Comedy Tragedy History by Akala (YouTube) / Comedy Tragedy History by Akala (Lyrics)

Jolene by Dolly Parton (YouTube) / Jolene by Dolly Parton (Lyrics)

It's Alright by Dar Williams (YouTube) / It's Alright by Dar Williams (Lyrics)

David Duchovny by Bree Sharp (YouTube) / David Duchovny by Bree Sharp (Lyrics)

I Predict A Riot by Kaiser Chiefs (YouTube) / I Predict A Riot by Kaiser Chiefs (Lyrics)

The Monkeys Are Breaking Out Of The Zoo by Belle & Sebastian (YouTube) / The Monkeys Are Breaking Out Of The Zoo by Belle & Sebastian (Lyrics)

Annoyingly, I can find neither a decent recording on YouTube nor a set of lyrics for this one. Perhaps I will rectify both these things at some point, but for now: Without You by Milk Kan (YouTube)

Day One: Fanfic

Next up, eight fictional friendship that make me happy inside! Please feel free to join in (or not!) in comments with your own favourite friendships!

Day Two: Friendships

( Alice and Luther (Luther) )

( Meredith and Cristina (Grey's Anatomy) )

( Lewis and Hathaway (Lewis) )

( Kalinda and Alicia (The Good Wife) )

( Brad and Ray (Generation Kill) )

( Becca and Alistair/Athena (Huge) )

( Bailey and The Chief (Grey's Anatomy) )

( Masood Ahmed and Jane Beale (EastEnders) )

Day One: Fanvids
Day Two: Recipes
Day Three: The interface of animals with technology!
Day Four: Fanfic
Day Five: Mind control
Day Six: Douglas Adams
I'm afraid I feel uncomfortable posting day seven unlocked. Sorry!
Day Eight: Picspams

Eight days of happy, day six!

*deliberately lowers the bar again*

Day Six: Douglas Adams

Eight quotes! Because who's awesome? DNA is awesome!

-- Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin natural scientists who had spent months locked away in their rooms growing white and fishlike, emerged blinking into the light. Couples walking along the bank got so excited about the general wonderfulness of it all that they had to pop inside for an hour.
-- He was a rather overweight man who had been driving wearing a long leather coat and a rather ugly red hat, despite the discomfort this obviously involved. Kate warmed to him for it.
-- "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
-- A personal friend?" inquired the Vogon, who had heard the expression somewhere once and decided to try it out.
-- "Do you know," said Sergeant Gilks of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary, blinking with suppressed emotion, "that when I arrive back here to discover one police officer guarding a sofa with a saw and another dismembering an innocent wastepaper basket I have to ask myself certain questions? And I have to ask them with the disquieting sense that I am not going to like the answers when I find them."
-- He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
-- Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar and bought most of it.
-- AMERICAN ATHEISTS: What message would you like to send to your Atheist fans?
DNA: Hello! How are you?

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And a bonus moment of happy!

My brother, whom I love dearly, sent me a Science: It works, bitches t-shirt, which I love dearly, not least because it comes from him. But once you see the arrow you can't unsee it, so I was a little uncomfortable walking around wearing a slogan that asserts dominance by feminising the other party. It makes me deeply, deeply happy, therefore, that with the aid of some paper, sticky tape and a biro, I am now wearing a t-shirt that reads Science: It works, [unproblematic slur]. I'm going to have to redo this amendment every time I wash the shirt, so any suggestions for other alternatives will be greatly appreciated. *beams*

Eight days of happy, day four!


Day Four: Fanfic

I cannot quite believe this, but it was actually easier for me to find eight lots of eight pieces of fanfic -- themed, no less, not just the first sixty-four that came to mind, but the first sixty-four that came to mind and fit the tropes -- than to limit myself to just eight pieces. (Please note I wrote the previous sentence before I started coding this entry up. GAH. Tomorrow you're getting something with no HTML at all.)

I should disclaim and disclaim and disclaim that I have missed out any number of gems here; please take this only as a celebration of a tiny glimmer of the vast shiny that's out there.

-- ( Try Your Hand: 8 AUs and other new tricks )
-- ( Befores And Afters: 8 stories from elsewhere in the timeline )
-- ( Tree Full Of Monkeys On Nitrous Oxide: 8 queer affairs )
-- ( Had We But World Enough: 8 seductions )
-- ( And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead: 8 Pieces of Kidfic )
-- ( Do You Even Need To Ask If I Have Any? 8 without shame )
-- ( Make A Wish: 8 chances at magical realism and virgin sacrifices )
-- ( But Is It Art? 8 moments of meta )

Eight days of happy, day two!

Day Two: Recipes

I have a deep, dark secret: while I appreciate many things about food, I'm not very fond of actually eating it. I learned to cook in self-defense -- I like simple recipes with good, strong smells that make me hungry enough to eat what I've made. The following recipes are very, very simple; they are written under the assumption that if you already know how to cook, you already know (or, at least, can guess) how to make these.

(I should add, I owe a debt to many people for these, but most especially cealdis and fhtagn.)

-- ( Spinach and brie and tomato and mushroom and joy, purest joy, pancake bake )
-- ( Steak and ale pie )
-- ( Greenstuffs risotto )
-- ( Greenstuffs risotto part 2: The naughty bits )
-- ( Liver )
-- ( Espresso cupcakes with chocolate icing )
-- ( Squishy cookies )
-- ( Earl Grey tea loaf )