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So, DW/LJ, it's been long time no see. I figured the Snowflake Challenge is a good place to stick my proverbial toe back into the fannish/journaling waters to see if I can spend a bit more time in creative pursuits in 2018.

 

Day 1

In your own space, talk about why you're participating in Snowflake and, if you’ve participated in the past, how the challenge has affected you. What drew you to it? What did you take away from it? What do you hope to accomplish this year? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've been in fandom for a long time - I'm a mid-1990s dinosaur, get off my lawn you young whippersnappers - and I miss the fun, feedback, and general conversations that used to happen in the old LJ communities.  Fandom has definitely changed since those days - a bit for the better, a bit for the worse, and a lot for the Tumblr style of communication, which has its pluses but IMO makes interaction a lot more challenging.  I really like this annual challenge because it's a throwback to the give-and-take style I loved in the heyday of LiveJournal.  I know there are a few of us out there who prefer this format, and hopefully this will help us find one another. 

...Plus, anything that pushes me to get my fandom mojo back is a good thing, because I've missed it and this space!

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Wow, so in my last post from July I seem to have mentioned that I can't believe it will be Labor Day soon. 0_o Happy Labor Day to my US flisters, and happy September, everyone!

I'm about two days late if I have my time zones figured out correctly, but I want to send out better-late-than-never happy birthday wishes to hidden_houses - I hope it was a good one, Sari, and I hope you have a happy & healthy year ahead with all of the good things you deserve!

Things took a turn for the crappy in mid-August because we had to hospitalize our teeny kitty Sophie. ( Details below the cut.Collapse )

So we're going to keep being really proactive and hovering over her and her brother and probably driving them crazy, but I'm holding out hope that our little household will stay intact as long as possible. I'm incredibly grateful that we've been fortunate enough to have these guys as long as we have, but it's never really enough time that we have with them. I'm trying to enjoy Sophie as much as I can and minimize the weeping on top of her fur, but some days are easier than others. There's just been too much loss in my life lately, and coupled with turning 50 a couple of weeks ago my birthday wish was that I'm not here to see 51 if this is all that's left. (Not that I'm going to do anything about it, chances are Chris could live a long time yet and I'm not about to leave him without his mom.)

Anyway, Sophie and I have been logging a lot of quiet Netflix and Amazon hours while she recuperates, and we just finished our re-watch of season 1 of Veronica Mars. I think this is about the third or fourth time I've done a complete re-watch, and I still love it to pieces and am still picking up little details that I missed the first time or two around. Case in point, the scene where Logan ( it's a ten-year-old show, but what the hell, spoiler cutCollapse )is set to "Ventura Highway," and it's just so evocative of that whole California baby-boomer vibe and yet so jarring and so disturbingly perfect for such a dark scene. America's Greatest Hits will be playing on my iTunes for awhile, haha. I'm also wondering where all the good Wallace fic is, because I can't be the only person who loved him in every single scene he was in?

Will try to have a more uplifting post one of these days, although I think I've been saying that for about a year now? Stay well my loves, will try not to be gone for a month this time. *hugs*

A bit of lady-parts humor for a Sunday afternoon - I saw this on Facebook today and scared the cats I was laughing so hard. *G*

On the semi-serious side, I'd never heard of the company HelloFlo before this, and now that I've poked around the website I think I'm jealous that it wasn't available way back in the day when I was of an age to appreciate the mail-order delivery and the candy.

I was tagged by fellow shipper jaq_of_spades to discuss some of my favorite couples - I think the biggest question of the night will be who even recognizes some of them!

Choose 5 OTPs without looking at the questions under the Read More, then tag.

1. Frannie Malone/Jack of all Trades (Profiler)

2. Veronica Mars/Logan Echolls (Veronica Mars)

3. Christina Nickson/Lucas Boyd (Point Pleasant)

4. Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty (Sherlock)

5. Alexandria Quartermaine/Tiffany Hill (General Hospital)


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I'm not tagging any specific person, but I'd be curious to see what my flisters come up with for their ships!

I figured while it's the weekend and I'm feeling both creative and human again that I'd post a snippet or two for 12_daysofficmas, even though my 12 days will probably be more like 2 or 3.


Title: Almost Home
Fandoms: Supernatural/Dead Like Me
Characters/Pairings: Jimmy Novak, Georgia Lass, Mason
Disclaimer: Definitely not mine!
Summary/Teaser: In which Jimmy Novak finds out there’s more to life after death than peace and the Pearly Gates, and that even minus one angel on board, his day job just got a whole lot weirder.

Rating: PG-13 (language, some off-screen violence)
Word Count: 2451


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So, to try to realize my good intentions of increased blogging in the new year, and because this has been a lot of fun in the past, I'm jumping into this year's Fandom Snowflake Challenge.

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I hope this list provides a little bit of enjoyment and amusement, and I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with!

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Hi there, author!anon, sorry for my delayed letter and thank you for your patience, I hope I didn't cause you too much alarm with the prolonged place-keeping post. Life has kindly allowed me to be fannish again for a few hours, so let's do this! \0/

You can check out my account at AO3 or my LJ nancefics if you want to get an idea of what I write, but basically I'm pretty laid-back and easy to please when it comes to fics and fandom and shipping - I can get into gen, het, slash, angst, humor, casefic, AU, crossovers, coffee-shop fic, holiday-themed fic, supernatural-themed fic, zombie apocalypses, you name it, so please feel free to do whatever is fun and comfortable and interesting for you. I don't really have any squicks except for animal abuse; I'm not a huge fan of non-con, but if it serves to advance your plot I'm OK with having it in a fic.

Below are some fandom-specific prompts/suggestions, although bear in mind that I'm fine if you come up with something totally different:

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Thanks again for taking the time to write for me, I hope you have as much fun with this as I'll have reading what you come up with!

The authors have been revealed for the Low-Key Summer Exchange, so I can officially thank semele for her marvelous fic for The 100, People to Come Back For - it will give me a happy fic fix until season 2 rolls around!

Oh, and now that I can 'fess up to it, I wrote Maybe They're Hiring at Wok n'Roll for the marvelous serialbathera.

Next up on the writing front: sign-ups are open for the Trickortreat2014 exchange over here. There are lots of fandoms represented and it looks pretty low-key overall, so it should be fun if anyone wants to sign up with me. *insert peer pressure*

Because I apparently go from no contact for months --> posting like a mofo. This may also be the influence of the nice pinot I had instead of with dinner. So now I'm going to bug my friends list for inspiration courtesy of some meme-age that's making the rounds:

Pick a trope/AU from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll write you a fic or mini fic or drabble.

• Noir AU
• Police Procedural AU
• Reluctant teammates that save the world together AU
• Platonic living together AU
• Lawyers AU
• Stuck-in-an-airport-because-the-flights-were-SO-VERY-delayed-and-it’s-like-two-am AU
• Sent to live with cousins AU
• Fairytale AU
• Pretending to be siblings because of reasons AU
• Forget high school students AU I want a high school teachers AU
• Supernatural hunters AU
• Law school AU
• Royalty AU
• Forced to share a table at the coffee shop a couple days in a row because crowded coffee shop and no room AU
• Thieves AU
• Spies AU
• Doctors AU
• Medical School AU
• Ride the same bus together literally every day AU
• College professors AU
• On a train together and the train is stopped in the middle of nowhere for some reason AU
• Musician AU
• Time travel AU
• Medieval AU
• Character Swap AU (Characters swap places in the narrative)
• On the Run AU

(Fandoms, pairings, characters, etc. can mostly be found on my profile, my tags or my fic at nancefics. But also, feel free to shout things out and if I know it, I'll attempt to write it.)

Poor LJ seems to be turning into an ever-vaster wasteland these days in terms of actual fannish stuff, but there are still some interesting writing opportunities to take advantage of if you scour the corners enough.

Case in point is fluffyfrolicker's Low-Key Summer Fic Exchange. The idea is to leave at least 3 fic prompts and offer to write in at least 3 fandoms/pairings, plus you get to leave a "wild card" set of prompts in your own journal for off-the-wall pairings/crossovers/etc.



1000 words in a month sounds like something I could actually find time to do right now...does anyone want to succumb to my peer pressure and sign up with me??

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Title: somewhere east of Taliesen (can't get there from here)

Author: empty_marrow

Rating: R (language, mentions of some violence and sexual situations)

Characters/Pairings: mainly Ruby and Granny; mentions of Ruby/OFC/OMC, Ruby/Billy and Ruby/Whale; appearances by most of the rest of the Storybrooke crowd

Word Count: 9,179

Warnings: spoilers up to and including season 2 episode 9, "Queen of Hearts"

Disclaimer not my characters, I'm just playing in the OUaT sandbox.

Summary: She can still feel the longing of the little girl she never was as she fell in love at first sight with the skyline of a city she never set foot in. Irony, not!Ruby whispers in the back of her brain, can be a real bitch.

Author's Notes:  originally written as part of the 2012 ouat_exchange


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Just wanted to do a quick pimping post and remind my flisters that the 2012 Profiler Secret Santa exchange is up and running over at profiler_fans - sign-ups close on November 14th and more participation is always a plus.  I can say from experience that it's always been a positive, pretty low-stress event, so if you have any fond fannish memories of Samantha and Jack and the VCTF and want to stroll down memory lane again, please consider signing up!

Things are fairly quiet over here at the moment - I suspect I'm like lots of people in post-Election Day hangover mode who're just happy that all of the negative ads are off the air and hoping that both sides can learn to play nicely together so our country might actually accomplish something to help people over the next four years.  Closer to home, Maryland passed its referendum in support of same-sex marriage, so yay to my adopted state for leaping into the 21st century! \0/  Otherwise, I'm doing the work/sleep/occasional Internet thing and pondering that the holidays are about to hit us upside the head. 0_o  Seriously, wasn't it just October five minutes ago?

I wanted to join the party and wish a happy, healthy and wonderful day to Amanda, aka serialbathera, who's one of the nicest and most generally awesome people to grace LiveJournal.   She's also a marvelously patient soul, as she's been waiting for the final part of her fic for the last ten years or so (one, at least).  

The Zombie!verse is still plodding along in my Fic Files, Amanda, but I believe I promised you a fanmix for it -- apologies for the crappy artwork, I forgot I hadn't loaded PSP onto this computer.   In terms of the music itself, I decided this one needed a kind of Western, "last-man-standing" theme with a mix of old and new tunes.

Happy Day, chica!  \0/    Hope you enjoy!



 
How Everything Goes to Hell MP3 During a Zombie Apocalypse


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