flammablehat

1. Comment on this post with "This is Halloween!"
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ/DW.

My dear teprometo gave me G.

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I am home with a cold or something (crossing my fingers it's not the flu, though I feel like I'd probably be prone and groaning pitifully if it was, so...looking good so far!).  Obviously that means it's time to finally catch up on some LJ!

First things first - thank you so much for all the birthday wishes and notes.  #^_^#  You all make a lady feel special.  And while we're on the subject of my birthday and how lucky I am to have all of you as friends, please direct your attention over here so I can rec you some amazing things:

• A fucking incredible podfic by teprometo of Night Sky Changing Overhead.  I'm pretty damn fond of this fic, and when I say Te takes it and makes it better, fleshes it out and gives it solidity in her performance where I stumbled in writing, I'm still not doing it enough justice.  Even if you've not read the fic, you really don't have to.  I'd recommend this before I'd recommend the story.


• Home Is Wherever I'm With You by lady_ragnell is ~1600 words of solid gold tiny-ship of my heart.  Bronwyn/George curtain-fic?  YES PLEASE.  (For those of you who might not remember, Bronwyn was the adorable maid from S1E1 of Merlin who Eve Myles Lady Helen sang to death.)  Nell was the one to introduce me to the good ship Bronwyn/George and I requested happily ever after fic for them during pornathon, and Nell wrote this adorable fic for my birthday because she's wonderful and indulges me in my sappy cravings.  ^_^


• The lovely samyazaz wrote Brighten Up The Darkest Place when I prompted her for Gwen and Merlin and Arthur and PUPPIEEESSS because apparently fluff is a thing I'm mainlining like a champ, now?  ANYWAY IT'S THE MOST ADORABLE THING.  If you like Gwen and Merlin and Arthur and most of all puppies, you need to go read this right now.  It is precious and lovely and fun.

And I got a phone call from kaizoku, which was a wonderful surprise!  So great to hear your voice, bb, even if my reception is utter shit in the house.  It was a wonderful birthday and I love you all!  ♥♥♥

But seriously there are so many September birthdays both here and irl that if I missed saying hey to you or sending you a squeeze, I'm terribly sorry!  I will get better at it, promise!  This year was not great for my organization but next year I should be much more organized and hopefully no longer in flux.  XD  

Hello again!  This marks the official flist cut.  If I have removed you in error, please just let me know!  Otherwise, happy trails!  :D  You are all fabulous and may your future adventures only bring you health, wealth, and happiness! 

Hey kids, how's life?

It's been awhile!  The fifth and final  year of pthon has just come to a close, and if there's anything that can bring me back to LJ after a long hiatus, it's pthon.

That being said, a lot has changed since we were all here last, so it's time for some journal cleanup!  I know there's supposed to be some kind of amnesty for defriending when it comes to general organization of one's flist, but it always feels weird to me.  I've gone and unfriended a couple of journals I'm fairly certain are dead now, but for the ones with folks still hanging about I feel better if it's less a unilateral decision to cease-follow.

So this is a heads up that I will be clearing out a lot of names in about a week just for the sake of my own sanity.  Folks who are up for friendly removal will fit any one or more of the following criteria:

1. We have not spoken in a long, long while, even since before le hiatus on my end.


2. We no longer share a fandom - this pretty much means anything other than Merlin fandom because I don't know how to let go, apparently.


3. This kind of relates to 2, but you are almost exclusively into Teen Wolf.  Noooo offense meant, promise.  I just really don't care about Teen Wolf.  I can deal if it's just part of the mix or if we have other things in common, but if it's all TW all the time on your journal I'll be honest - I'm probably gonna skip it anyway.  Might as well save us both the flist space!    

Things that might influence your desire to no longer include me on your flist!

1. I am still in Merlin fandom lolololol.


2. I'm not sure what the ratio of personal to fannish related posts I'll be making here in the future, but I'm leaning toward moving this to a more fanwork exclusive kind of space.  Who knows, I might not change a thing, but my general intention is to produce more fics and less personal wangst.  Let that be either the enticement or dissuasion that it is. 


3. You've been meaning to remove me or had forgotten I existed and now is the perfect opportunity to clear up some space of your own!

If you do meet any or even all of the first three criteria but you still want to be friends, just let me know!  These are more like ~guidelines for me anyway, and maybe we've not had the chance to really talk before or something.  If this is your moment to peace out, feel free to mention it (or not, if you don't want to).  Comments are screened for purposes of not broadcasting the mechanics of this journal, so whatever you wanna do is copacetic.  I'd prefer not to get flamed but I suppose if the spirit moves you, you can do that too. 

Whatever the case may be, I hope you are well and have been well, and that you will continue to be well whether we carry on or shake hands and part ways here.

Title:  Chokepoint
Author:  flammablehat
Reader:  sophinisba
Fandom:  Merlin
Pairing:  Arthur/Gwen
Rating:  NC-17
Contains:  Breathplay
Summary:  It goes through several iterations of mistake before it becomes a choice.
Writer's notes:  This combined fic/podfic project is a joint effort between sophinisba and myself (or myself and sophinisba, as Bradley would say, though now I'm not sure if either is even correct, bother) for this year's pod_together as well as the "breathplay" square on our team card for kink_bingo.  I struggled with writing this story due to a combination of unrelated things and am independently responsible for all of our missed deadlines, but sophinisba is a superhero and she made everything work in spite of my fail.  I can't thank her or the mods enough for their patience and support in finishing this fic.  Many thanks also to samyazaz for her encouragement and sage writing advice in the face of my flailing.  This was my first experience writing a fic knowing it would be read aloud, and it was totally cool collaborating to construct the story with a mind toward a listening audience as well. 
File info:  mp3 and m4b versions, 10.5/21.3 MB, 3408 words/21:52 minutes
Links:  Read, download, and/or stream at the AO3.

From my RL frand:

Hello hellooo.  This is my first podfic, omg.  I don't really know what to do with it!  But the story is awesome and you should really go and read it and maybe skip out on the part where you listen to me because I'm pretty sure there is nothing more derp than my voice.  Podficcing is scary in a nice way.  It's like performance anxiety.  IDEK.  I am strangely full of wriggly embarrassment.  But yes... this is it.  My first podfic.  Eee.   

Title: Drink His Kiss Down Dry
Author: sophinisba
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Nimueh/Merlin
Summary: Nimueh likes Merlin's mouth.
Download: .mp3 link here at Mediafire

Did I do that right?  I am the ultimate n00b. 

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I thought this looked really cool and I've seen a couple of people doing it now so I figured hey, why not find a ~seemingly productive way to procrastinate from the stuff I should be writing? XD


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How do you go about naming your totally sweet blog, friends? General tips are welcome, but if you're looking for specifics - let's say it's a totally sweet blog about sci-fi and fantasy, writing meta, and other awesome things?


And speaking of totally sweet things, check this awesome video ouuuuuut:


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Hey there author friends on my flist!  Come check out this awesome post by sophinisba concerning podfic!  Even if podfic largely flies outside of your radar, it's a great post that can offer some insight into a different avenue of fanworks and how to be an awesome friend and supporter of the medium even if you don't listen, don't record, and never intend to do either. 

I have just finished recording my first ever podfic, which I will be posting as soon as I finish having fun editing the file, so if you can't think of any other reason to go read - do it for my sake so that I can pester you more easily in the future about podficcing your stuff.  Yeah?  :D 

You can also find this post here at Dreamwidth if that's your preference! 


Also, have a delicious Merlin/Arthur fic: That Thing by teprometo

Let me tell y'all about this hotass fic.  It's insightful, it's funny, it's beautifully written and characterized.  There's crossdressing that doesn't quite go the way you'd expect, there's realistic, intense, hot-as-fuck first time sex.  This is everything you want to read tonight.  Go-- go now and thank me later.