Thank you for signing up to the challenge and I’m very excited you got matched with me.
General things about my likes and dislikes; 1) I’m usually a slasher when I write myself, but am always happy with good gen, 2) I’m happy with any rating from the lightest, fluffiest gen to the most explicit NC17, and I’m good with most kinks including BDSM (my particular kink being orgasm delay/denial/control), incest and rapefic if that’s your jam, with the exceptions being bodily fluids and actual damage; and finally 3) I’m all about the happy ending, so no darkfic or death fic please (other than cannon if necessary), but I‘m perfectly happy for them to suffer along the way to a happy ending!
After a decade out of fandom, when my daughter turned 10 recently I thought a little bit of self-care wouldn’t go amiss, what would I like to do, and the answer was, read some fanfic!
So I did.
And I enjoyed it. Been doing it for a few months now, enough to confidently say I’m definitely in fandom again, at least as a reader, so I thought I’d try reengaging.
Turns out I still have lj, dw, ao3 and tumblr accounts, although my twitter seems to have been purged…
I’m very aware fandom is no longer on lj or dw, and I’m likely talking to myself here, but if anyone is around and can tell me where fandom actually is these days, outside of ao3 for the fic, (seems to have maybe moved on from tumblr? Is it twitter? WTF is discord?!) that would be marvellous!
If you are around, give me a wave; I’d love to hear what’s been going on with you <3
Anyway, what I’m probs mostly going to do is just rec a lot of stuff, and I’m going to start here with the fics I specifically searched out when I thought, ok, so what shall I reread? It therefore goes without saying these are all at least a decade old! I’ll rec new stuff I’m reading later. Might try and rec on my tumblr as well. Wish me luck…
Dear Yuletide Writer 2018 EDIT: I will be away on Christmas Day. I’ll definitely be reading on Boxing Day though! Can’t wait to read it. ❤️
Dear Yuletide Writer ( The Night Manager, Elvis Cole, Death in ParadiseCollapse ) Thank you so much for writing my request! Here are some hints and tips, but I’m overall pretty easy to please, so if you write about my favourite characters and avoid my Do Not Wants (DNW), I know I’ll love it.
In general I am slash, het and gen friendly, and happy with G to NC17. Probably best to avoid any serious kink as it’s so individual. I love a good, long plotty story, but am also happy with a character or relationship focused piece, and good dialogue is my favourite thing in the world.
Request 1: The Night Manager, Jonathan Pine and Richard Roper. DNW: Death fic, AUs, Crossovers, threesomes. Optional details: I loved this show. I really enjoyed the tense, highly-charged, but quite understated atmosphere.
I’d like the focus to be on the relationship/interactions between Pine and Roper, but am very flexible about the nature of that relationship, whether purely focused on the cat and mouse, give and take, antagonism we got on screen, or a slashy slant (I’m ok with non con here - if you went down this route explicitly, given the nature of the plot, I think it would have to be at least dub-con!) and the slash could be either explicit or implied/sub-text. I’m fine with the cannon relationships including Corky and Jed, although no threesomes please.
No AUs please, but I’m happy with it set any time during or after the show.
Request 2: Elvis Cole - Robert Crais, Elvis and Joe DNW: Death fic, unhappy endings. Optional details: How much do I love these guys? Beyond the telling of it. Almost anything would delight me, so long as you keep them together and happy. I’d like the focus to be on their relationship, but either BFFs or slash is fine. No other romantic relationships, though please, whether you go gen or slash. Other than that, whatever you like! Take them AU; backstory; set in a cannon story; a new case; whatever you want, I can’t wait to read it.
Request 3: Death in Paradise, Richard Poole. DNW: Dark fic. Optional details: I loved Richard. Write me fic focused on him and I’m happy. I’d just really like it not to focus on his death, please (if you keep it cannon just ignore it, or indeed if you go cannon but decide he doesn’t die, that’s fine with me!). Cannon, AUs, I’m good with it all so long as he’s in character and it’s a happy fic. If you do go with a romantic relationship then just Richard and Camille please, although there’s no need, gen is totally fine. If you'd like a plot bunny, I do have a bit of a yen for a school au in this fandom: Camille and Dwayne the cool (but nice!) kids, Richard and Fidel... not so cool! Maybe Doug Anderson as a school bully who gets his comeuppance? But please don’t feel constrained by that idea, just a suggestion, I look forward to anything you do.
This isn't really true, but I liked the banner by nyaubaby from the_dean_show too much to resist! Anything you may have stumbled across this journal looking for - fic, recs, the occasional fannish poll are open to all.
Please do feel free to friend anyway, because new friends are always a pleasure, and if you comment here or on any other post, I'll friend you back. Otherwise, just enjoy!
LJ is my home on the internet, but FYI all my fic is also at AO3 jasmasson - except for the X-Files discipline slash (see masterlist for link to that) - and I crosspost at jasmasson at dreamwidth.
I read the LJ flist, though, at the moment but plan to move to DW at some stage, so if you want to be friends that's delightful, and please do friend on LJ AND DW if you have them. (Ohh! Or give me a link to your dreamwidth/LJ rss feed, if you have one - but that's way above my level of technological competence! ;)
I'm also on jasmasson on Tumblr, too. I am a master of disguise. Follow me there and I'll follow you back.
Sticky: Master Recs List This post includes all recs in date order. Most Recent up the top. Each set of recs ordered by fandom and by genre (slash/gen etc). At the bottom are my top one (or sometimes two) fic(s) in every fandom I have ever read in.
EDIT: All I seem to do is rec these days, but OTOH I'm really not keeping this post up. I'll leave it here; basically it has old SPN recs up to May 2009 and my BEST FIC in each fandom I've ever read at the bottom, but for things post May 2009 you'll need to use tags.
In an effort to be helpful, therefore, here are the tag links to all recs, and things I rec regularly:
Re-engaging with a pimp In an effort to re-engage with some fannish community and creativity I have signed up for this week's gsd_rtfn = Get Shit Done - Right the Fuck Now!
It's a weekly challenge where you set your own daily/week's goals. You can sign up here if you've got some writing/art goals this week, and want to be part of a nice supportive community to help you along.
Vikings? Anyone know where I can get an avi of episode 3 of The Vikings? My sources only have 1, 2 and 4! It's available on The History Channel, but alas not over this side of the pond.
Anyone got a line? (Or technical knowledge how to fool it into thinking I'm North American?!)
Fic rec and request for recs Interesting. Just read this Kane/Toews de-aged fic and it occurs to me that although I’ve read many of this trope (one of my very favourites) I’ve never read one before from the de-aged POV rather than the adult POV. I liked it!
SPN RPS Fic rec So, I read a SPN RPS fic today for the first time in, IDK, 3-4 years?
Because I still love the boys even if I don't love SPN anymore, and, more importantly, my love of Peter Pan is part of my DNA and it's a Peter Pan au, and also a sneak coffee shop au! \o/ My cup runneth over. 10k words, R, J2.
Reading meme The BBC thinks you will have read 6 of the books on this list. Copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak.
Go to your works on AO3, open up each of the fandoms you've written in by ctrl-clicking or right-clicking on the fandom name and opening it in a new tab, then sort each fandom by hits. See which of your fics appear on the first page of the fandom. You never know, in those little fandoms (or the bigger ones if you've been a good little fangirl) you might even find yourself near the top.
There's only three fandoms I've written more than two fics in on AO3 (it's fair to say I'm not prolific) and here's the results!
1) SPN - ahahahaha. No. 2) Troy RPF - Wow. Number 1! \o/ But, ah, it's not as impressive as all that because actually I've written 5 of the 25 fics on AO3 (20%!) so I'm also 4, 7, 9 and 10 ;) 3) SPN RFP - ahahahaha. No.
I then realised how many different fandoms I've written one fic in, which comes from doing Yuletide for four years, I guess, so here are just the notable ones:
Troy - 1st! and 3rd \o/ Out of 54 - in the interest of full disclosure, the number 1 is the same that made me number 1 on Troy RPF as it was a crossover/roleplay thing. Myron Bolitar - 1st! \o/ Out of, uh, ahem, 6. The Outsiders - 1st! Out of 43. Monty Python RPF - 4 out of 26. Belgariad/Elenium - 5 out of 21. Casino Royale - 11 out of 62. But obvs nowhere if you take all Bond movies thanks to the Skyfall phenomenon. Jeeves and Wooster - 15 out of 395. X-Men Origins Wolverine - 17 out of 78. Hard Core Logo - No, but an honourable mention for being first on the Kudos list?
Yuletide! And Merlin. Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and a wonderful 2013 to all.
Ah, Yuletide. Genuinely one of my favourite things about Christmas, and one of the few times in fandom my timezone works for me, because I get to have some sneaky reading as soon as I wake up before the family festivities begin.
I had two (2!!) lovely Yuletide stories this year, both Pointless RPF. Oh my God, if you've never seen Pointless find it and watch it. It's a BBC tea-time quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman.
They are so delightful; clearly very, very intelligent, witty, funny, occassionally silly and definitely incredibly fond of each other. <3
Merlin Unfortunately, someone won't get the Yuletide treat I was hoping to finish now, as I need to rewatch Merlin a million times instead, because I just can't process it at all.
State of me... 1) Good news - I'm still in mini_wrimo. I think this is maybe the 4th year I've done it and this is the furthest I've ever got, so \o/
Sadly, I'm probably averaging about 102 words per day, and I've started four different things, but still. Words! Every day! \o/ \o/ \o/
2) Those four things are all in the same fandom and all for yuletide. Three actually seem mutually exclusive as I'm groping for the same point just in three different ways, so I need to commit to one!
3) I'm mostly on tumblr now, as jasmasson (I know, I'm a master of disguise). If you're on tumblr follow me and I'll follow back. It's no LJ in its heyday, but it's a lot of fun.
I reblog anything that catches my eye and enjoy following multifannish blogs (that's how you find good things on the interwebs!)
4) Fannishly, I'm re-reading a lot of old Due South fics. Dammit, I loved Fraser/RayK and I loved Fraser&RayV, and hot damn there were some great authors in dS.
Also Hockey RPF and Olympic RPF. I have an extremely embarrassing crush on Patrick Kane. I don't know. I can only assume he has somehow stockholmed me into it the way he has apparently also stockholmed Jonathan Toews.
5) I'm enjoying Merlin, although I'm kind of at that stage you get to when you're reading good fic that's getting a little tired in the later stages and I'm just counting the moments until I know... how does it end how does it end how does it end?
