So I was poking about on queerlygen earlier, as one does when one is procrastinating writing one's remix (I do have an opening sentence, though!), and I thought I'd look back through my own fics and see what I had written that might qualify. My own definition of gen excludes non-canon pairings, so I don't have too many by that definition, but if I were to broaden the definiton to be stories about other than sex/romance/relationships, whether or not the people in them are in a non-canon relationship, I would have quite a few more.

Rest Stop (I Knew You When Remix)
Supernatural. No pairing. Dean is ftm. Sam and Dean do Sam and Dean type stuff like hunting and patching each other up after a hunt and having awkward conversations about things.

Morning Sunlight
Hikaru no Go. Hikaru/Akira. Hikaru thinks about Sai one morning while lying in bed with Akira.

Team Q
Harry Potter. Dean/Seamus. Dean and Seamus try to figure out what to do with their lives after leaving school and hit upon the idea of creating a queer superhero comic together.

Out of a Picture Book
Harry Potter. Dumbledore/Grindlewald. Just a little snapshot of Albus and Gellert and Ariana.

No Rules for This
Digimon. Daisuke/Ken. This is a little more relationship-focused than the others, but mostly it's about being a gay teen and trying to navigate things like Valentine's Day when the rules don't apply to you.

Our House
RPF. Jason Isaacs/Liam Neeson/Carrie-Anne Moss. Ficlets about parenting in a poly relationship.

Learning as You Go
RPF. Jude Law/Ewan McGregor. Ficlets about two guys raising a son together. Also includes one fic about having to explain to your kid that sometimes sex involves things that leave bruises, and that's okay. (I'm particularly fond of that one.)

I also have some Vampire Chronicles fics where Louis and Lestat are gay for each other while Lestat is obsessed with iPods or Dance Dance Revolution, while they receive odd souvenirs from Lestat's mother, and when Lestat accidentally kills David by reading Merrick to him and he and Louis set off on a cross-country trip to catch Anne Rice before any more innocent lives fall victim to the book's powers, in a parody of Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.

I know it's considered a huge faux paus to say so in fandom, but I really think my writing is pretty awesome, and when I read over old stuff like this, I'm always impressed. Randomly, here are some other fics I read and thought were awesome while going through my old fics tonight.

Holidays
RPF. Jude Law/Ewan McGregor. Jude and Ewan meet as kids on holiday and then again later as adults.

Drawing his knees up, Jude wraps his arms around them. He wants to ask this boy why he hates school, and if it's because the other boys beat him up and call him queer and poof and Judy. Well, they wouldn't call him Judy, but they might call him some other girl's name.

No Explanation
LotRiPS. Dom/Elijah. Cyberpunkish ficlet where Elijah is obsessed with revisiting the time when he and Dom were still together.

Elijah flips the switch and leans back against the wall, breathes deep, eyes closed so he can't see himself disappear. The one time he'd looked, he'd ended up collapsed on the floor in a puddle of his own vomit, his hand and arm transparent in a way flesh and bone definitely shouldn't be. The technician on duty had fixed him up, no problem, but it's not something Elijah can easily forget. That doesn't stop him from using the machine, though. He just makes sure he closes his eyes when he gets in. He can still feel it, though, and sometimes that's enough to make him sick, leave him feeling nauseated on arrival.

Rude Awakening
Brokeback Mountain. Alma. A missing scene. Alma's reaction to seeing Ennis and Jack together.

She read Alma Jr. a story; Snow White was her favorite now and Alma'd been reading it every night for near on two weeks. Her voice didn't break and she didn't say don't you wait for your prince, 'cause he ain't comin', or other things a four-year-old wouldn't understand.

All but the Bitter Residue
Harry Potter. Sirius/Remus. In the days following Voldemort's defeat, Remus struggles to come to terms with betrayal and loss.

It's not til a few days later that he finally picks it up, muttering Reparo under his breath. He stuffs his wand back in his pocket and slides the photo out of its frame. It doesn't want to tear at first, but once he gets it started it rips straight down between Sirius and James. James is too busy making eyes at Lily to notice anything wrong, but Sirius looks startled for a moment before Remus crumples him up and tosses the scrap into the bin.

He puts the photo back in its frame and sets it on the bedside table. The Remus in the picture keeps laughing at Peter's joke, but his eyes are focused on the ragged edge where Sirius used to be.

These are not fics I would normally have picked out as favorites of mine. They're ones I'd kind of forgotten about, honestly, but reading over them brought back how much I really loved them (especially that last one).

1. A while ago I tried to do the 100 pushups thing, but found that because it was every other day, not every day, I had trouble remembering to do it. So I gave up and then later thought maybe I'd try to do a similar thing but daily, and I ended up dropping that, too, because it's just a pain to have to get down on the ground and do pushups. I can't do them on my toes anymore, because I get a painful twinge in my foot when I do. But we have hardwood floors, so in order to do them on my knees, I have to get a pillow or something and it's just...a pain. I can't be bothered.

But then Bruce suggested wall pushups (or push-offs, I guess), so I started doing those. I don't think it's quite as much of a workout as pushing up from the floor, but I can definitely still feel it.

It's much easier to do, though, because I can pretty much do a set every time I get up from my desk to get a glass of water or go to the bathroom or whatever. I'm much more likely to do that than to get down on the floor for pushups.

So I have been doing 30-40 per set, trying for at least a hundred a day, for the last week or so. Now I'm up to 30-50 per set. I think I did 80 or 90 already today, so I'll probably do another couple reps.

2. I made chocolate chip cookies with dark chocolate M&Ms last night. I really wanted to make them with peanut butter M&Ms, but the store didn't have them. Boo. We're going to a BBQ later today with Alexander, so that's what the cookies are for. They turned out really good.

3. This is cute.

This is a really interesting article: That's Not a Real Game: Videogames, Gender, and the Popular Imagination. (Though it is long and white text on black background, so my vision is swimming a bit.)

Not really the point of the article, but made me think about my relationship to video games growing up. I have been a fan of video games ever since I can remember. First it was arcade games (played mostly at Shakey's or other pizza parlors), but then my dad bought me an old Atari 2600 at a garage sale when I was seven. I got an NES in high school, and started subscribing to Nintendo Power, then Electronic Gaming Monthly and others (I think at one time I was subscribing to three or four mags and bought a couple others in the store whenever I could). I've played just about every sort of game over the years and at one time had a collection of video game systems that included every major system and a lot of minor ones. Now I only have a Wii, a DS, and a PS2 (oh, and an SNES in a drawer). The games I play most often are Peggle and Mahjong and stuff on the PC, because I just don't have the time to devote to gaming like I used to. But I still think of myself as a gamer and it's still one of my favorite hobbies.

I can see now how they're marketed to guys (with things like Barbie and virtual babyfactory or whatever as special girl games), but I never really thought of them as a boys' thing growing up. No one ever told me that I shouldn't be interested in them, and I played video games a lot with Erin a lot. (I can also remember times when I thought I was playing video games "with" other girl friends, but looking back, I can see I was just playing them at their houses (on systems that belonged to their brothers) and not actually interacting with the friends themselves. But at the time, I did not have the necessary social skills to perceive that difference.) Looking back now, in high school, the friends I really connected with over video games were guys, but at the time, I never made the connection that gaming was considered a guy thing.