Hello, bbs! Time for the end of the year fic meme, I'm afraid. Here we go.

favorite story this year (of my own): You realize the sun doesn't go down, definitely. That story came after a long drought of bandom writing for me, totally out of nowhere, and it's longer and has more of an overarching plot than most things I write, and I still think about that universe.

most popular story this year, in my opinion: Technically this might also be You realize the sun doesn't go down, but it was A Boat That Can Love the Rocks And the Shore (the Gerard/Mikey/Frank one) that really surprised me with the response.

most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: there's no way to answer this without sounding like a douche, but the biggest difference between how much I loved something and how much response it got was probably with the Ray/Gerard 1940s AUs, especially the second one.

most fun story: gone to the moon about you is kind of jampacked with things I love about Pete/Mikey, which made it a lot of fun to write.

sexiest story: Uhhh I think it is probably the underage waycest genderfuck porn, but that really just says a lot about me, doesn't it?

"holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: I still don't know what's going on with My Dove is Home, aka the commentfic where Mikey is dead and Pete is a medium and then they have sex in Pete's brain. *hands*

story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: feel better the heavier they get. I've loved Gerard/Brian as a pairing for a long time, but I usually default to the way we see them in LotMS, that really strong caretaker Brian and freaky Gerard being cared for. Writing them present-day, with all the stuff that's changed since then, was really different.

hardest story to write: I guess my popoffacork story doesn't count, since it's not being posted until New Year's, so I'll go instead with break and take all the words from my mouth. I wrote the first part of this story and was totally, utterly stuck. It was only impertinence coming in to collaberate and add to it and fix it up that made it an actual story.

biggest disappointment: Reproductive Stategies of the Interstellarly Nomadic. In my head I have SO MUCH to say about the Crichton-Sun family, post Peacekeeper Wars, but I have no idea how to get it out.

biggest surprise: Bad Things Coming, We Are Safe. I was so not expecting to write Wizards of Waverly Place fic, but I am so glad I did.

most telling story: I always find this question impossible to answer, because honestly, I tell you guys everything in my entries anyway. There is no mystery here. I am not stealth.

And Bex's addition:

ambitions for next year: I want to write more Wizards of Waverly Place, maybe some Disney RPF (Selena/Demi or Selena/D.Henrie). I'd love to get a Star Trek:TOS story or a Middleman story out. I think I might have more to say in the universe of You realize the sun doesn't go down, but a lot of that depends on discussions of someone else's possible sequel. Also I would love to pass 10,000 words on a story, but that has been a goal of mine since I started in fandom, and I haven't reached it yet, so who knows. Mostly, though, I just hope that the burst of creativity that hit this fall continues on, at least to some extent, because I went a long time without writing, and I much prefer it this way.

Thought #1: Er... okay?
Thought #2: Well, as long as he didn't campaign on a platform of "More Evil More Better" than I guess it's okay. I'd just hate to think he was backing off from another campaign promise.

A co-worker wondered if maybe he has a Superman costume in his closet that he puts on and looks at himself in the mirror, maybe pretend to fly. After a few minutes, he stops and puts the costume back in the closet, happy.

I have never actually done one of these, for reasons that should quickly* become obvious. I did do some rambly-rambling at the end of last year, the main conclusions of which was that I should stop being afraid of Real Vidders. February will mark three years since I posted my first vid.

Vids made in 2009:

January
Unsteady Ground - Merlin

June
Convenient Parking - Dexter/Criminal Minds
Dark Room - Merlin

August
Attention: Gotham City - Batman: The Dark Knight

* I am a punny girl! Once again, my vidding output for the year can be watched in less than ten minutes. This is an improvement, as last year's total was three vids and less than eight minutes.

( 2009 Vidding Retrospecticus )

I've been podbanged! (Wow, that sounds so wrong...) But the intrepid lian_li and fleurrochard workingtogether as "fleur-de-li" have taken on my DS story Eight Sessions (you know, the crazy one with the psychiatrists and the bowling.) Apparently it was just as hard as you'd think it would be, but we all get the results of their hard work, so if you like podfic--go, download, and don't forget to thank those guys!

some unknown person is copying the public entries of this livejournal to "xanthipe" on ourstory.com. since these entries are public and there's no contact information for this "xanthipe" available (contacting ourstory.com directly hasn't even gotten me an autoresponse), there's nothing i can do about this.

if you're thinking of copying anything from this journal onto another site, please ask me first. if you'd like to archive my fiction or meta, i will very likely say yes. if you are -- as this "xanthipe" is doing -- wanting to copy my personal daily chatter (went to a movie, yay curling game, etc.) i really really want to know why.

and also? keep my name attached and keep a link pointing back to me. don't copy my journal and post it as your own. sheesh.

Could you rec some ST:Reboot Kirk/Spock stories? Not for me. For a friend.


(No, literally for a friend.)

(I mean it.)

(Look, look at my icon! For a friend! I swear!)

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Two music vids made for souncanadian and snoopypez , respectively.

Title: New Cancer
Fandom: Blade: Trinity
Characters: Asher Talos, Danica Talos
Download link: here
Stream: Watch HERE

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Title: Last Day On Earth
Fandom: due South (Juliet is Bleeding)
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Irene Zuko
Download link: here
Stream: Watch HERE

Hope you enjoy :)

If someone is a true believer, we say they've drunk the Koolaid. It occurs to me that the library analog would be that they've eaten the paste.

Or that could be what you think when you can smell ham but still have an hour to go before food's on the table.

I spent a lovely day up at Smutcutter's and Hippediva's. I provided ham, a book on pirates, and good conversation, they provided, well, everything else, from side dishes to yarn. Not to mention enough oranges to ward off scurvy for all the ships in the Pacific. 'twas a quiet day, save for the laughter, and as merry a Christmas as I should like.

The weekend may provide me some of the following: a viewing of most of this season's Dexter, hanging with the ex-roommates to do some power-tv watching and knitting, teaching a man I know to knit socks, finishing a scarf, starting another, finishing socks, and maybe a trip to the laundromat. As Dilbert says, "Life, be my wild mistress."

A very merry day after Christmas to you all, and a Happy New Year.

Angels In Your Angels, a Benton Fraser Fanmix
(Coming to Chicago, Victoria, and Ray K are all influences)

( darling, we go a-drowning )

If you're around this holiday season and delving into the exciting new array of Due South stories written for dS Seekrit Santa 2009, come on over to ds_ssdiscussion and chronicle your reading as you go!

Comment here with what you've just read and three things you liked about it.

See what others think! Join in the fun! Everyone's welcome! \o/

Note to DSSS authors: you're welcome to comment anonymously so as not to give away which stories aren't yours. Your call. :-)

I cannot seem to get a comment box open, but I just managed to hide from the nieces and nephew long enough to read my Yuletide story, Life, stripped of all luxuries!!!!

OMG, it is the Chalion story I had decided I was going to have to requests forever! Caz and Palli under siege at Gotorget, developing beautifully--if grimly--into Caz/Palli under siege at Gotorget. And Cazaril is so very almost our Caz, slowly broken down until he's ready to invite the Gods in, and so proud of all his men. (And I am so glad I had already eaten breakfast before I read it or I expect I would be writhing in sympathy.) It makes me feel like I just found the missing prologue to Curse of Chalion, and now I need to go read the rest! THANK YOU, YULEWRITER!! ♥

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Our contribution to the Podbang 2009 challenge, a gift for myriad69:

Eight Sessions by cesperanza
Fraser/Kowalski

Readers: fleurrochard (Fraser, Welsh, Berger) and lian_li (RayK, Wertzer) (aka team fleur_de_li

Length: 3:55:47

Kindly uploaded to the audiofic archive:
mp3: 202.4 MB
m4b audiobook: 109.8 MB

[original reveal here]

Enjoy, and happy holidays to those who are celebrating! <3

Reason 14,590 why I have a crush on Jay Smooth.



So--happy holidays, or not, but either way: you are not alone. :) :)

Hey, darlings. I'm leaving in a few minutes to bus it down to spend the holiday with relatives. I'm not sure what my internet access is going to be like, but I am guessing I'll be missing most of the action on lj and twitter. I'll probably be checking my email regularly, though, so if you need me or if you're just bored or whatever, hit me up there. Anyone who has my phone number is welcome to text me, too.

Otherwise, I will see you guys Sunday or Monday. For those of you celebrating, have a super duper holiday. For the rest of you, enjoy the Yuletide archive.

PS Thank you so much to the nonny who sent me the snowflake last night! You are awesome and brightened my day.

Draco Malfoy and Jim Kirk have gone down the pub to bitch about how their childhoods WERE TOO unspeakably traumatic. Han Solo and Spock have shrugged off the whole silly competition, cheered up, and gotten on with being emo only occasionally and when it serves their purposes.

This brings us to the ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN for the worst of the worst and the least worst horrible fanon childhoods!







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why, yes, livejournal, we ARE saving the Jimmy Fallon show from last night on our TiVo, even though the ONLY shot you get of Frankie is of him WAVING HIS HAND IN THE AIR EXCITEDLY as Jimmy Fallon is picking out the winning number of who won the Xmas sweater.

CONCLUSIONS:

Jamia looks TERRIFIC.

Frankie needs a HAIRCUT.

THINGS FRANK WILL NEVER LEARN:

HI YOU ARE A ROCKSTAR OMG FRANKIE HONEY.

guys. I love his STUPID FANBOY FACE.

Okay, Harry Potter fandom, OKAY.

Ahem. Departing after the quarterfinal round from the Winners' Bracket for having really pretty unspeakable trauma but not being written by Jo Rowling or JJ Abrams: Lex Luthor, Daniel Jackson, Xander Harris, and Alex Krycek.

Departing from the Losers' Bracket for being altogether too hard to cheer up for the emo kids: Ray Veccchio, Seamus Harper, Vin Tanner, and Ezra Standish.

So! The semifinal round! Feel free to guess, vote against, and/or bribe your friends:







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Title: Bitter
Vidder: sionnain
Fandom: Durham County
Pairing: Pen Verity/Mike Sweeney
Song: Bitter by Remy Zero (Lyrics)
Warnings: Spoilers for all of Season 2. Also the show is gothic horror and dark, so be forewarned.
Download: The file is .avi, and you can get it here: Bitter

AN: Made for the c6d_universe "Endings and Beginnings" challenge.

You can watch it streaming here on Youtube, if you'd like!

Okay, so there is a Mentalist Kink Meme, and I enjoy the Mentalist quite a bit, so I thought, hey! I will participate!

And then it turns out I kind of fail at kink memes so this took me three weeks and it's seven thousand words long and I can't even fit it into comment boxes back at the meme. But here it is! The original prompt, from an anon-commenter, was Jane/anyone; sex with Patrick is a one-way street (he gives but won't receive).

I think my version is slightly kinkier than that but I have long since lost the ability to tell.

It is het, though.

Jane/Van Pelt. NC-17. 7,000 words. post-"Bloodshot".
Thanks to missmollyetc for beta!
It's nice having Jane all to herself.


( Love and Affection and Respect for Personal Boundaries )

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To get the work of staggering genius out of the way first: Spork, An Erotic Love Story. Fangirls spent two months editing Zachary Quinto's voice on the Star Trek audiobook into three and a half minutes of ... oh God, you have to listen to it. GENIUS.

But if you are more into, say, seven and a half hours of Jack/Ianto audio love story, superstitiousme is here to help! She just posted the Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive podfic over at amplificathon! And there is cover art which I ADORE: ( Under the cut )

Go! Download! Listen! ♥

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Hooboy, the choices are getting difficult!

Leaving the Winners' Bracket for having trauma that is not quite the most unspeakable: Dean Winchester, Fox Mulder, Wesley Wyndham-Price, Tony DiNozzo, Rodney McKay, Parker, Ken Hutchinson, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Leaving the Losers' Bracket for being emo kids who cannot be cheered up: Ryan Atwood, Eliot Spencer, Brendon Urie, Ianto Jones, Methos, Bodie, Horatio Hornblower, and Jim Ellison.

Top Eight Winners' Finalists (Unspeakable Trauma!):

1. Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 91.4%
2. Harry Potter - 89.6%
3. Lex Luthor - 75.0%
4. Draco Malfoy - 74.5%
5. Daniel Jackson - 70.9%
6. Jim Kirk - 66.0%
7. Xander Harris - 54.3%
8. Alex Krycek - 50.5%

Bottom Eight Losers' Finalists (Cheer Up, Emo Kid!):

1. Spock (Star Trek (2009)) - 28.1%
2. Han Solo - 30.0%
3. Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls) - 30.6%
4. Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) - 31.6%
5. Vin Tanner (Magnificent Seven) - 39.8%
6. Ray Vecchio (Due South) - 40.2%
7. Ezra Standish (Magnificent Seven) - 40.3%
8. Seamus Harper (Andromeda) - 48.1%


And remember, you're always free to vote against someone whose fanon childhood trauma you find substandard. Now, on to the polls!

( Winners' Bracket: Unspeakable Trauma! )


( Losers' Bracket: Cheer Up, Emo Kid! )

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Gacked from lanning, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review in 7 parts and it is *totally worth watching all seven parts I SWEAR TO YOU*. I laughed my ass off in the way that somebody who's always really really really wanted to get drunk and take this movie to pieces in a detailed way at a party--ok, I've done that, but it was like reliving those very very good times.

White House Gives Copyright Lobby Free Press--okay, the fact that the White House is giving the copyright lobby free press stinks, but how happy am I among the list of organizations that were shut out of a White House meeting this blogger lists: "EFF, PK, Public Patent, Organization for Transformative Works, or other public interest groups". I was dancing in my fucking living room, people. Boogie down with me!

There are SGA recs on my flist again! Thank you sga_santa!!

YULETIDE IS COMING!

Also--I have a couple of really nice bottles of red wine here. \o/ Thank you world!

Ray Kowalski's in his GTO, all's well with the world: A Man With Style

This is an oil painting, and is at my LJ. (It's f-locked, but if you're a fan and you're of age, you're welcome there. Leave me a comment on the sticky post at the top of my LJ, and I will welcome you in.)

Just watched the new Star Trek film on DVD. And I am so not ashamed to say that I loved it. Movie was entertaining in the extreme. And, yum, hot guys.

I will now go melt into a puddle of goo. Who thought kissing SPOCK would be so alluring?????

But my Yuletide story is POSTED. \o/


ETA: an entirely different icon was required. :D

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Title: Consequences
Pairing: F/K
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1900 words
Summary: Fraser ties Ray up.
Notes: This is a direct sequel to Desk Duty, which you should probably read first (it's pretty short). Thank you kindly to spuffyduds for the beta! This story is a present for my dear friend akamine_chan. &hearts I promised her porn when she'd finished writing her resume, but it turns out that I'm not that good at delayed gratification. Which is kind of ironic, considering that's what this fic is about. Aka, if you are good at it, you can wait to read this until you're done. *g*

Consequences

The Horrible Fanon Childhood Showdown will be taking the weekend off to freak out over Yuletide. The Hemisemidemifinal Polls will remain open in case anyone becomes vote-changingly desperate for procrastination material.

We'll be back with the Quarterfinal, Semifinal, and Final rounds on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday!

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There is information in the Net, ABC is going to cancel two last episodes of Eastwick as well. I think, all of us here don't want this to happen. I really like Eastwick and it's getting more gripping and interesting with every episode. Since show's rating is going up too, ABC may change their mind. I think, we also could do a little something to see all season one, not just part of it. I suggest you to write to ABC and ask to find the way to show us all filmed episodes of Eastwick. You can e-mail here - http://abc.go.com/site/contact-us . Comments at the official Eastwick message board are also appreciated - http://abc.go.com/shows/eastwick/discuss?cat=278780 . Thank you for devoting you time to such a good cause!    

ETA: Cancelling information source: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/12/ugly-betty-bounces-final-eastwick-episodes-shark-tank-returns.html .
 
ETA 2: Red Bath and Beyond has been scratched out but Magic Snow and Creepy Gene is listed for December 30th @ 10:00 p.m.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402376/board/nest/153547387

Title: "First One Thing, Then the Otter"
Author: alex51324
Reader: suzumenoko
Fandom: Due South
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Length: 1:25:43; m4b 40.4 MB; mp3 78.6 MB

Links: At audiofic; audiobook,or mp3 or mediafire, at my lj here
Text: here
Compiled with the author's permission. Thank you, alex51324 and audiofic

If my math is right (which it may not be) this is the Hemisemidemifinal Round!

Eliminated from Round 2 for having just sort of medium horrible fanon childhoods:

Winners' Bracket
Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
Benton Fraser (due South)
Ryan Ross (Panic at the Disco)
Archie Kennedy (Horatio Hornblower)
Nick Stokes (CSI)

Losers' Bracket
Logan Echolls (Veronica Mars)
Blair Sandburg (The Sentinel)
John Sheppard (Stargate Atlantis)
Spike (vampire childhood) (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Tom Paris (Voyager)

Meanwhile, Ken Hutchinson, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Alex Krycek, Parker, Wesley Wyndham-Price, and Draco Malfoy will be joining the Winners' Bracket (Unspeakable Trauma) quest for the worst of the worst fanon childhoods, and Eliot Spencer, Ryan Atwood, Brendon Urie, Spock, and Horatio Hornblower have been bumped down to the Losers' Bracket (Cheer Up, Emo Kid!) to contend for least-worst fanon childhood.

And now, the polls!

( Winners' Bracket, Hemisemidemifinal Round (Unspeakable Trauma) )


( Losers' Bracket, Hemisemidemifinal Round (Cheer Up, Emo Kid!) )

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Polls will be open for a couple more hours, but I just want to encourage people to vote in both the Winners' Bracket Poll and the Losers' Bracket Poll because there is a tie at the moment and I don't want to deal with a run-off, okay? Okay.


Unrelatedly, you know how--I don't know if this actually happens, or if it is strictly a thing that happens to people on TV, but I am in fandom and TV is where my ideas about the emotional lives of other people come from--but you know how sometimes women get stressed and then get radical new haircuts?

Yeah, I bit off all my nails two days ago and now I am thinking of changing my default icon.

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Explanations are over on the Winners' Bracket Poll Post. Without further ado, the Losers' Bracket (aka Cheer Up, Emo Kid!)

Bottom Five (whose fathers will, I assume, merely look disappointed and continue to withhold affection):

Ray Vecchio (Due South) - 7.3%
Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) - 11.0%
John Sheppard (Stargate Atlantis) - 21.8%
Ianto Jones (Torchwood) - 22.0%
Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls) - 25.4%

( Losers' Bracket Matchups! )

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Hokay, SO, taking a cue from ellen_fremedon's Pan-Fandom Dead Off, we here at the Horrible Fanon Childhood Showdown will have a winners' bracket (Unspeakable Trauma) for the worst of the worst fanon childhoods, and also a losers' bracket (Cheer Up, Emo Kid!) for the least-worst fanon childhoods.

I was right about 42 making the math difficult, so the top 20 contestants from Round 1 are in the Winners' Bracket, while the bottom 22 (including one winner--PARKER I AM SO SORRY) are in the Losers' Bracket. After this round, the six worst childhoods from the Losers' Bracket will be bumped up to the Winners', and the five least-worst from the Winners' Bracket will be bumped down to the Losers', to help even out the results from some of the really hotly contested matchups in Round 1.

In this and all subsequent rounds, highest percentage vote-getter will be seeded against lowest.

And remember, THIS IS NOT ACTUAL SCIENCE, so feel free to guess. :)



So! The Winners' Bracket, aka UNSPEAKABLE TRAUMA.

Top Five after Round 1 (for which I am sure they will be punished):

Dean Winchester (Supernatural) - 92.7%
Harry Potter - 89.0%
Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 78.2%
Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1) - 78.0%
Rodney McKay (Stargate Atlantis) - 74.6%


Actual poll is, once again, over at Dreamwidth, where you can vote with OpenID!



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