| Rec! |
[Jun. 3rd, 2007|05:08 pm] |
Yesterday was (mostly) a good day - my parents and my sisters and I all had a good visit with relatives, and there was a boat ride and dinner with a lovely view of a river and homemade beer. Which was very good.
And then we drove home - a three hour drive with five of us in a very tiny car - and that was not so cool. But we made it.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hossgal has written a new fic, Pierced Ear Girl. It's a pre-series look at a character who doesn't get a lot of fic, and hossgal gives us a great look at what this character might have been like at this point in her life. Go and read! *g* |
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| Fic: SPN, Gen, PG-13: And Fear the Silence is the Voice of God |
[May. 31st, 2007|11:39 pm] |
Title: And Fear the Silence is the Voice of God
Author: Flora
Rating: PG-13
Gen
Disclaimer: Kripke's, not mine. Please don't sue. Title is from Emmylou Harris' "The Pearl".
Summary: He'd rolled the window down and let the water blow in his face to keep himself awake while the radio crackled tornado warnings and Sam practiced his worried frown. Five hours doing eighty out of Fort Dodge, staring down the gathering thunderheads and trying to remember how to pray.
Author's Notes: Thanks so much to hossgal for reading this many times, and providing inspiration and food for the plotbunnies and for poking me to finish this! Huge thanks to kernezelda and hossgal for excellent betaing - you both rock! *g* This one is set immediately post-Faith, and the majority of it was written before season two started - as a result, some canon details don't quite match up. Feedback and constructive criticism are welcome!
( And Fear the Silence is the Voice of God ) |
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| Books! - a question for the flist |
[May. 24th, 2007|10:37 pm] |
If you were going to spend a year or two with no internet, no TV, and only three books - which three books would you choose?
(These are for pleasure reading only - you can have as many books as you need for school and/or work, but only three purely for entertainment.) |
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| Remix! |
[Apr. 28th, 2007|10:17 pm] |
Remix stories are up, and someone wonderful wrote me Never Trust a Dog to Watch Your Food (Give Me the Chocolate and Nobody Get Hurt Remix).
It's Farscape, and it's Rygel, who never gets enough love in fic. This author took my story, "Midnight Snack", and turned it into a wonderful look at Rygel and ice cream (and various other kinds of sugar) and Earth, and I loved it to pieces! Go, read, leave feedback! *g*
More recs tomorrow, once the names have been revealed. |
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| Meme |
[May. 9th, 2005|07:20 pm] |
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I'm supposed to be doing homework. Writing three papers, actually. *sigh* Instead, I present ... a meme! Snurched from kernezelda.
( Who would you shag? )
That was a fun way to procrastinate ... |
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| New Farscape fic! |
[May. 7th, 2005|02:00 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  accomplished | ] |
Crais and Talyn, sometime in early Season Two.
733 words
PG
Spoilers through Mind the Baby.
Thanks so much to kernezelda for betaing this! *g* Feedback, suggestions or criticism very much appreciated!
( Untitled ) |
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| The plotbunnies, they are multiplying! |
[May. 1st, 2005|06:40 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  mischievous | ] |
The Sprogathon fics are posted! And they are wonderful! Thanks so much to simplystars for hosting the ficathon! *hugs Stars*
I have Stuff I need to do today. Stuff that does not include plotting out an epic multichaptered S4 fic. Even if said epic might involve a Crais/Aeryn sprog. I don't write long fics. Occasionally I spend hours thinking of how I might plot them, but they never get written.
I would, therefore, be absolutely crazy to actually try writing that AU Crais-is-still-alive-in-S4 fic, right? Right? Someone help me talk myself out of this. |
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| Sprogathon entry! |
[Apr. 30th, 2005|10:19 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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Waiting for a Storm
by Flora
Written for simplystars's Sprogathon, for alara_r, who wanted Aeryn and D'Argo on the run, and Aeryn teaching D'Argo to do Aeryn stuff. I hope you like it!
Spoilers through PK Wars. Thanks so much to Kernezelda for betaing this!
1644 words
( Waiting for a Storm ) |
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| B7: Time Squad |
[Apr. 27th, 2005|06:56 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
I have now met Cally. I like Cally. *g* Cally is cool, and I love the way she smiles ... that mischievous smile that looks like she's up to something.
( more thoughts on B7: Time Squad )
Now, I am going to work on my Sprogathon fic. I am not going to play with any of my other plotbunnies now.
I am certainly not getting all excited about this Aeryn/Tauvo plotbunny, even if I have finally figured out how to approach it, and seen a perfect and wonderful angsty parallel I can use in it. No, of course not.
*tries unsuccessfully to shove Aeryn/Tauvo plotbunny back under the bed* |
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| Character types meme |
[Apr. 26th, 2005|11:14 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | exhausted | ] |
Multiverse 2005 signups are still open! You know you want to sign up ... It was lots of fun last year!
If anyone sees me online after midnight tonight, fwap me and make me go to bed. Now that I have a slight break from school craziness, I really need to start catching up on all the sleep I didn't get last week. Was up until 2 last night, which was a very bad idea, as I was exhausted in all my classes today.
Snurched from ... I don't remember who. I like this meme. I hadn't really thought much, before, about what types I tend to go for – beyond "characters who are neglected by most of fandom". I seem to have a tendency to go for the unloved and unnoticed characters, although I'm not sure if it's because the types I like are unpopular, or because I deliberately go for the unpopular characters 'cause I'm contrary like that. *g* It's a little of both, I think. But there are a few types I seem to go for pretty consistently (includes spoilers for Farscape, BSG, B5, and Alias):
( The Flawed Mentor )
( The Loyal Sidekick/First Officer )
And now, bed. Yes. *yawns* |
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| Generic Flora post: |
[Apr. 22nd, 2005|09:55 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  hopeful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Another Travelin' Song" Bright Eyes | ] |
I should be in bed/working on schoolwork. Instead, I am writing/outlining a new fic/thinking about how wonderful Character X is/worrying about stuff I can't do anything about right now.
School is very stressful. Sleep is good, and I'm not getting enough of it. Coffee is good, too. [insert description of assignment I'm working on now, and much angsting about how hard it is, possibly followed by reflections on my lack of organizational/time management skills]
Character X is neglected and underappreciated and adorably angstridden, and he/she needs LOVE, dammit! [insert long ramble about Character X's wonderfulness and why all of fandom should love him/her as I do, possibly followed by a half-coherent attempt at character analysis]
I have a lot of story ideas. Maybe someday some of them will be written. But don't count on it being anytime soon. Unless I have a major assignment due soon, in which case I am diligently typing away at some fic. [mention lack of time management skills again, pet latest plotbunny]
I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up, and this is causing me much stress.
[insert list of things I intend to accomplish within the next few days]
[squee about latest new fic idea]
[statement of intent to go get more coffee]
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This is a fun meme. *g* And now I really should be in bed. Think good thoughts about me at 8 AM EST tomorrow, if you're awake – I'm taking the Foreign Service written exam between 8 and 2. *crosses fingers* |
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| Why I Love My School: Reason #1005 |
[Apr. 19th, 2005|01:41 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  geeky | ] |
So we were watching Return of the Jedi for my Classics in Translation class (really!) and the TV projector in the classroom didn't work. We spent twenty minutes trying to get it to play, and then the professor goes to look for another classroom we can watch it in. There isn't one available ... so we ended up watching it in a conference room in the building where the administrative offices are. It was pretty tiny with a dozen or so students in there, but it had a TV and a DVD player.
They let us use a conference room, in the administration building. To watch Star Wars. I love my school. *g*
Now, back to work. Six pages of the paper written, nine to go. Before 5 PM on Thursday. |
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| I could have sworn I had another week left ... |
[Apr. 16th, 2005|10:45 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  stressed | ] |
I am sitting here trying to think of a polite way to ask the roommates to PLEASE LEAVE the room if they are going to talk all night. *sigh* I understand there's a party going on in the living room, but they could go back to the other one's bedroom. They don't have to be here, and I have a fifteen page paper due on Thursday. Of which I have written about three pages. For some reason, I thought I had another week left before it was due. This ... would be the part where I start panicking.
And the library's closed, and I can't go work on it in the living room, and I cannot concentrate with these two talking. *sigh*
Of course, the fact that I haven't gotten much sleep at all in the past few days isn't helping me concentrate. I want to write. And I want to write something for the Zevon challenge this week, but I don't have time to even look at the titles and think up an idea, much less actually write one.
I have one idea, that might work, but I am not the person to write it. Seriously. I can see how the fic would work, but it's the kind of thing where I'm not capable of empathizing at all with the POV character during this scene, if that makes sense. But the song lyrics remind me of something Claudia said, once, in a commentary on a certain episode, and now the part of my brain that's not freaking out over all the crap I have to do in the next few days is trying to work out how such a fic might be structured ... *bats away plotbunny, attempts to shoo it toward some other writer who will write it better*
I get a rather surprising variety of plotbunnies in this fandom. Which is surprising, since when I watch the show, I'm pretty much totally focused on one character ...
Oh, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) multiverse5000 signups are open! It was a lot of fun last year, and I have pairings I want to request, that would be really cool, but I don't know yet what I'm doing this summer. Want to sign up, don't know yet if I'll have time ... :( |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 14th, 2005|01:17 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
Spent most of the morning reading textbooks into a tape recorder for my new job (the one I still don't know if I'm getting paid for yet) only to find out, after dropping them off with the health center and apologizing profusely for taking all week, that the student I'm making them for still hasn't listened to the first two I made, or said whether he wants any more. So the good news is I've been told not to do any more until I hear from them. Which is good, because I really don't have time. And also bad, because I wasted half the day when I could have been working on my fifteen page research paper on North Korea and nuclear weapons.
Been feeling tired and unmotivated all week, and I really hope I'm not getting sick. Haven't been sick all winter, which is unusual, and I really don't have time for that now, either. I did manage to walk to the grocery store, so I have food for the week. Was exhausted by the time I got back, and the roommate was away at the library (yay!!!) so I gave myself a break and watched some of my Alias DVDs. Hooray for Netflix! And I have discovered that andrastewhite is right. Jack Bristow is indeed The Man. And clearly has Issues. Want to see more, don't know when I'll have time. Soon, I hope.
Then I tried to study, got some work done. A little bit, anyway. Figured since I was too tired to concentrate I might as well write fic instead. So I am now writing Crais/Larell smut. *shakes head at plotbunnies* I managed to get the man to angst about three different women in the space of one paragraph. I've wanted to write about these two for a while now, but all of a sudden the words are there in my brain.
I should be revising the Valldon fic, or, you know, sleeping, if I'm not going to study. I have class early tomorrow morning. We're going to watch Star Wars! *g* And then I get to tutor another student in a subject I know nothing about. Wish me luck! |
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| New Farscape fic! |
[Apr. 11th, 2005|12:43 am] |
I wrote fic! *g*
Aeryn and Crais, during ITLD2. This is something I've been trying to write for a while, and I'm not sure if it works. I've always wanted to know what they said to each other before John showed up, how he explained the plan to her, and how she reacted. And it took me three or four times watching that scene to notice what's sitting just behind them ... and of course, once I did notice it, I had to write fic about it. *eg* Rough and unbetaed, so any feedback or criticism is very much appreciated.
999 words
unbetaed
PG
( Untitled ) |
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| Fic thoughts |
[Apr. 8th, 2005|11:42 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Iodine", Leonard Cohen | ] |
I should not be ficcing right now. I really shouldn't. *g* But I wanted to write something that wasn't about school stuff, and I have accomplished more, schoolwise, this week than I expected to, though not nearly as much as I had hoped. And so this evening was a fic night. I'm working on the fic that was going to be my ficathon fic, but it got too long and I couldn't finish it on time.
It's essentially about Crais bonding with Talyn, but it's also led to some unexpected places as I tried to puzzle out what, exactly, he's thinking with regards to Aeryn during this time period. It's very interesting to compare this ep with mid to late season 3 ... something fundamental changed in his attitude toward her in the time he was off on his own with Talyn.
( thoughts on 'Mind the Baby' ... and ficcish speculation )
The guy is still way more messed up in the head at this point than I'd realized, before I started writing this. Sometimes the characters surprise me.
Not sure if any of this makes sense, just throwing random thoughts out and trying to figure out where this story is going ... *hugs plotbunnies* |
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| Meme! |
[Apr. 7th, 2005|10:12 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cheerful | ] |
Another meme, snurched from several people and modified.
1. Post a list of 10 TV shows/books you watch/read.
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each show.
3. When guessed, bold the line and write a sentence about why you like that character.
4. Post in your own LJ - if you like
1. Farscape - Crais, guessed by snowgrouse. This one's fairly obvious. ;) Crais is my boy, and I love him, so much ... he has Angst, and Issues, and he can be a bastard at times but he tries, even though the universe clearly hates him. Tries to protect the few people he cares about, and be something other than what the Peacekeepers made him, even though nobody else believes he can. And ultimately succeeds, even though he has to kill himself, and the one he loves most, in order to do it. But he got his revenge and his redemption in the same act, and he got Aeryn's approval, at least, at the end. And he makes me cry every damn time. *sniffles*
2. Stargate SG-1
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Babylon 5
5. Harry Potter - Remus Lupin, guessed by leadensky. Remus is quiet, awkward, and terribly lonely, and once upon a time I wrote half of a fic about him. Which was a long time ago, and not my best writing, but it was the first fic I actually posted on ff.net, back when there were only three pages of HP fic. I don't get involved in HP fandom these days, mostly because it's so huge and it scares me, but I do love Remus.
6. Miles Vorkosigan (hint: I've only read the first three books)
7. Battlestar Galactica 2003 - Colonel Tigh, guessed by leadensky. I love Tigh. I knew I was going to love Tigh from the moment I watched the miniseries. I love his loyalty to Adama, and the hints we get of their friendship ... these two clearly go way back. And he also has Angst, and Issues, and keeps trying in spite of them, even though not very many people like him or trust him.
8. Buffy (only seen the first three seasons)
And I can only think of eight. Hmmm. There are other shows I watch, but I don't really have a clear favorite on Firefly, and I haven't seen enough of Blake's 7 yet to decide who my favorite is. |
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