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Population849 clone on DreamWidth

2017-04-04T21:10:38Z

Due to recent changes in the user agreement and location of servers not everyone is comfortable using LiveJournal anymore. At present population849 is cloned on DreamWidth under the same name and everyone is welcome to post directly there.

That said there is very little story content actually on the community. Most post are links to individual pages. We would like to beg that you back up or clone your work lest we risk losing it to shut down or deletion.

If you no longer want to claim your work Archive of Our Own has an option to import works then orphan them. Please consider that. Just because you no longer like or want to be associated with your work doesn’t mean there aren’t other people who love it.

Fic: "In Memory Bright or Dull"

2013-01-07T02:25:44Z

I wrote NX fic for Yuletide. There was another excellent fic posted to the challenge (it was a gift for meeeee!), which you should check out at the Yuletide 2012 index page for NX.

In Memory Bright or Dull (1540 words) by icepixie
Fandom: Northern Exposure
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joel Fleischman/Maggie O'Connell
Characters: Maggie O'Connell, Joel Fleischman
Summary: Maggie and Joel attempt a memorial for Soapy Sanderson on the anniversary of his death. It isn't the most solemn occasion.

Ficlet: "Bravest" [Maggie/Joel]

2012-03-20T17:29:20Z

Title: Bravest
Rating: G
Word count: 800
Summary: "I want to have a baby," she says.
Note: This makes extensive reference to "Baby Blues." There are also small references to "First Snow" and "Full Upright Position."

DW | LJ

Two vids

2012-01-12T22:32:49Z

ladygray99 suggested I post these here, so here we go!

Title: These Are Days
Artist: 10,000 Maniacs
Length: 3:37
Characters: Everyone. And I do mean everyone.
Summary: Cicely, Alaska: wild, weird, and full of magic.

Streaming embed and download link here.

Title: In Our Own Time, With Our Own Hands
Song/Artist: "Red Rover," Rosie Thomas
Length: 3:16
Summary: "Grow wild according to thy nature," writes Thoreau in Walden. Maggie and Joel make their own ways in Alaska.

Streaming embed and download link here.

population849 on DreamWidth

2012-01-08T11:44:29Z

UPDATE: population849 is now active on DreamWidth.

Hello,
As many of you are aware LiveJournal has recently made some changes that have pissed a lot of people off. And I know that a lot of people have made the switch over to DreamWidth. Since the Northern Exposure fandom is so small, and the number of posts here are so small I’ve been worried about losing the few active members we have.

However, recently, DreamWidth has worked out how to import communities. I as your intrepid, and let’s be honest kinda slack, mod and community owner I have created population849 on DreamWidth.

My plan is for people to be able to post on whichever platform makes them happiest then every so often do an import to DreamWidth so a complete copy of the com can be all in one place. All posts will still be the property of the original poster and can be accessed through Open ID. And according to their last set of notes DreamWidth is working on a way for people to ‘claim’ their LiveJournal posts and comments with a DreamWidth log in.

I’d just like to state that I’m doing this in an attempt to keep everyone happy which means someone will probably get pissed off. If for some reason you don’t want any of your posts on DreamWidth ever reply to this (I’ll screen comments) or contact me directly and hopefully something can be worked out. I hope to do the transfer within the next week.

I hope everyone is cool with this.

Thank you,
Lady Gray

Fic: "Out of the Ashes" [Maggie/Joel, PG]

2011-09-11T18:37:57Z

Title: Out of the Ashes
Rating: PG
Pairing: Maggie/Joel
Word Count: 4600
Summary: After Maggie's mother burns down her house ("Burning Down the House"), she resorts to staying with Joel until she can move into a new cabin. Neither is terribly thrilled with the situation. Well, not at first.

That O'Connell was homeless was a terrible thing. That she was currently homeless in his cabin might well be considered a disaster.

Rewatch community!

2011-09-10T20:42:10Z

[Posted with moderator permission.]

Ever feel like rewatching Northern Exposure from the beginning? Come join nx_rewatch! We're going to be doing one episode a week beginning with the pilot on Sunday, September 18th. Any and all discussion is welcome, from long meta essays to short squeeful comments. Also encouraged are links to episode-related fanworks, fic ideas you wish someone would write, or other creative ways of engaging with the show. I'd love to see lots of y'all there. :)

FIC: In Bloom (Maggie/Marilyn, PG)

2011-04-23T10:13:17Z

title: In Bloom
characters/pairing: Maggie O'Connell/Marilyn Whirlwind
rating: PG
word count: 290
summary: "Are you sure this will work?" Maggie asks.

In Bloom

(fic) The Frozen Edge by ladygray99

2011-04-08T04:52:14Z

Title: The Frozen Edge
Name: ladygray99
Character/Pairing: Joel Fleischman, Maggie O'Connell
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 949
Warnings: None
Beta None

(The Frozen Edge)

(drabble) In the Bleak Midwinter by ladygray99

2011-04-08T04:37:06Z

Title: In the Bleak Midwinter
Name: ladygray99
Character/Pairing: Joel
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Warnings: none

(In the Bleak Midwinter)

Two ficlets

2011-03-21T21:59:04Z

I wrote these back in January for the fandom_stocking challenge, but forgot to crosspost them here once reveals were up. Both are about 500 words and rated G.

Title: The Reality of Experience
Summary: Roslyn and Cicely share a life lived through books.

Title: I Feel the Sky Tumbling Down
Summary: An alternate explanation for Maggie's vertigo in "I Feel the Earth Move."

Mod question

2011-03-16T06:31:04Z

So it's no secret that I'm a bit of a slacker of a mod around here. It's also fairly obvious that this isn't the biggest fandom out there so my question is, what do all of you want?

Is there anything I can do or arange or promote to get your NX muse juices flowing?

I'll consider any idea.

Self-promotion meme

2010-10-16T19:14:02Z

I'm running a small fandom and rare pairing/character self-promote-a-thon/request line over in my journal. I'd love to see some NX fics being promoted.

Podfic: Road Trip, by juniperphoenix

2010-08-01T16:11:44Z

Title: Road Trip
Author: juniperphoenix
Reader: juniperphoenix
Character: Bernard Stevens (gen)
Length: 15:49 (15.2 MB)
Link: please right-click and save

Summary: Bernard drives to Cicely.

He felt like a man in a spaceship, moving through the darkness and silence in his little metal box, illuminated only by the lights of the dashboard instrumentation. Traversing vast distances. In space, it took so long to get anywhere from anywhere… except the moon. The moon was only three and a half days away. It took less time to get to the moon than to get to Alaska.

Notes: Includes cover art. Thanks to oxoniensis for the screencap!

Podfic: A Field Guide to North American Songbirds, by icepixie

2010-06-06T14:24:49Z

Title: A Field Guide to North American Songbirds
Author: icepixie
Reader: juniperphoenix
Fandom: Northern Exposure
Pairing: Joel Fleischman/Maggie O'Connell
Length: 13:04 (12.6 MB)
Link: please right-click and save

Author's Summary: A story about the birdhouse Joel Fleischman built in his soul.

Fic: "A Field Guide to North American Songbirds" [Joel, Joel/Maggie]

2010-06-02T01:03:39Z

Title: A Field Guide to North American Songbirds
Author: icepixie
Wordcount: 2,157
Rating: G
Pairing: Maggie/Joel features, but it's mostly a gen piece
Summary: A story about the birdhouse Joel Fleischman built in his soul.

Read it here.

Fic: "Out of Cicely" [Joel/Ed]

2010-01-08T23:59:09Z

TITLE: Out of Cicely
AUTHOR: bethctg2
PAIRING: Joel/Ed
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 1212
SUMMARY: Joel is "light loony", and Ed's dreams aren't helping.
DISCLAIMER: I am just borrowing these characters.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Written for ladygray99 for Yuletide 2009. In her Yuletide letter, she asked her secret writer to post here after the reveal, and I am happy to do so! :)

Joel could certainly blame it on the midnight sun - that always tended to make him a lot more… amorous than usual. The 24-hour sunlight had only started a couple of days ago, but Joel could already feel the surplus energy building up in his body.

So, yes, he could blame it on that. But honestly? It was all down to those faces Ed made in his sleep.

They were lying in Joel's bed, under just a sheet and a thin coverlet, both of which had slid down Ed's torso and were draped loosely around his hips. The hint of pelvic bones that peeked out from the blankets were driving Joel more than a little crazy. He dragged his eyes back to Ed's face.

Though it was close to 3 am, the cabin was well-lit by jagged shafts of sunlight that stole through the tartan-patterned curtains. Ed's normally pale skin took on a silvery glow in that light; and Joel watched, fascinated, as Ed tucked in his chin the smallest bit and opened his mouth into a wide "O".

Oh, boy. Joel could just imagine what sort of dream Ed was having this time. He grinned and flipped through the film catalog in his head: the butter scene from Last Tango in Paris? The window scene from Body Heat? Ed tended to dream in movies. Joel had learned this over the past year of sleeping with him, and it was always a challenge - a surprisingly fun one - to try and guess where he'd inserted himself each time. The erotic film dreams were obviously a thrill to watch, but Joel's favorites were the action hero dreams: Ed could pull a sexy grimace like nobody else. Ed's Dirty Harry dream had absolutely made Joel's day.

And - wait - what was this? Ed's lips were moving from an "O" into a lopsided grin. Joel felt his stomach do a flip. That grin was lethal. The way Ed's full pink lips parted just enough to show the tiniest flash of white teeth, one side of his mouth tilted up, just begging to be kissed…

Joel really didn't want to wake Ed, but he just couldn't stop himself from leaning down and stealing the lightest of kisses.

Of course Ed had to go and moan in his sleep, and all bets were off.

Joel huffed out a laugh and let himself go. He let his hand wander from Ed's chest down to one of those delectable hip bones (the other of which he was grinding steadily against, having slung a leg over Ed's lower body), all the while sucking on Ed's lower lip.

"Mmmf… Joel?" It had taken months after they'd been together for Joel to break Ed of the habit of calling him Dr. Fleischman.

"Hmm?" Joel was working on Ed's neck now, the pale flesh there driving him a tad insane.

"Have you - ah! - gone all light loony again?"

"What makes you think that?" Oh, that clavicle looked like the perfect place for a little…

"Ow! Um. You just bit me."

"Uh-huh." And again.

Ed let out a small gasp that turned into a laugh. "Wow. This sunlight really gets to you."

"You really get to me," Joel told him, pulling back to smile at him.

Ed grinned back and pulled Joel down for a kiss. He let his hand sink into Joel's curls, stroking the back of his neck. "I was dreaming… "

"No kidding…" Joel murmured, beginning a lazy assault on Ed's chin and neck.

"Nope," Ed replied. "I was dreaming that I was Meryl Streep in Out of Africa."

Joel snickered lightly. Ever since Ed shared his dream about being Bruce, the mechanical shark in Jaws, Joel had stopped being surprised about the things that went on in Ed's unconscious mind. The biting had been interesting, too.

Ed continued. "And Maurice was my husband."

"Mmmhmm…" … "I'm sorry, Maurice was what?" Joel was more than a little put out.

"You know, Bror Blixen? The character played by the great Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer."

"But why would you be married to Maurice? I mean, wouldn't you…"

Ed stared blankly, and then a sudden look of comprehension lit up his face. "Oh! No, we were just married!"

"Just married…"

"Yeah. You were Denys Finch Hatton."

Joel blinked.

"Robert Redford."

"Oh…"

"My lover." Ed's lips curled up at the corner.

"Oh…"

Ed went on describing his dream, despite the fact that Joel was barely paying attention now. He'd found something much more interesting on Ed's right earlobe. "You looked really good in those fancy jodhpurs and riding boots."

Joel smirked against Ed's neck. "Is that why you made that face?"

"What face?"

"You made an "O" face."

Ed's eyes widened. "I what?"

Joel laughed. "Your mouth. You did this -" He demonstrated.

A look of confusion came over Ed's face, eyes shifting upward as though the answer to his question might lay over his head somewhere. His lips formed a pout, which Joel was happy to peck at while Ed pondered.

"Oh! That must've been when you took me up in your bi-plane!"

"Is that what the kids are calling it these days?"

"Man, that was unbelievable! All of those animals heading for the Delta, and the flamingos flying under us! Amazing! I have to write a letter to Sydney Pollack!"

Joel felt Ed squirming beneath him. At first he thought Ed was simply becoming as aroused as he was, but then… no. Ed was trying to sit up.

"I need a pen!"

"What?" Joel squawked, watching Ed scrabbling around in the drawer of the bedside table.

"I need a pen! And paper! I need to write a letter to Sydney Pollack to let him know how much that scene blew me away!"

"Now?! You want to write a fan letter? Now?!"

"I only write when I feel inspired. It's more natural that way."

"Now?"

"You said that."

"You want to write to Sydney Pollack?" Joel was relieved to see Ed pause.

"Do you think I should write to David Watkin instead? I mean, he was the cinematographer, so technically it was his work…"

"Ed. You're killing me here." Joel threw himself back onto his pillow and indelicately flapped a hand in the direction of his groin.

Ed went slack-jawed. "Oh." He sucked on his lower lip (to Joel's intense frustration), trying to decide which task required his attention more.

Joel sighed. "Listen. If you wait until later - much later - we can go to Ruth-Anne's and rent the tape, and I will watch it with you, and then the movie will be even fresher in your mind, and you might be even more inspired to write those letters!!"

Ed's face lit up.

"Now will you come back to bed? Please?"

"You are my Finch Hatton." Ed said, crawling on top of Joel.

"Shut up and ride my bi-plane…"

In Case of Emergency

2009-01-06T20:25:45Z

Good morning.

So some of you have seen this, which is more or less discussing the demise of Live Journal.

This could be just blind panic and it'll never come to anything but as your mod I'd like you to know I have a plan. First I have a plan to back up all posts, luckily there aren't many. I also have plans to clone the group on either insane journal or vox. I haven't fully decided yet.

As members I would like two things from you.

1) back up your own work. Text doc, ljarchive, lj book, whatever. I just don't want to see all that wonderful work vanish.

2) should we have to move I'd like to be able to get in contact with everyone. If you don't have your email on your profile, and I know many don't, and are willing I'd like some sort of non lj contact point for everyone. You can send it via PM or my email ladygray99 at gmail dot com. I promise it'll only be used for emergencies.

Thank you all and have a good day.

Lady Gray

Fic: Mud is a Many-Splendored Thing

2008-12-27T05:49:55Z

Title: Mud is a Many-Splendored Thing
Author: icepixie
Rating: G-ish
Word Count: 438
Summary: Fluffy Maggie/Joel-centric tag for "Mud and Blood."

Follow me.

I also have a few sounds files ripped from season four episodes at that link.

Northern Exposure at Yuletide

2008-12-25T20:40:46Z

Happy Holidays everyone. In the spirit of the season I'm posting the link to the Northern Exposure stories archived at Yuletide. There are some beautiful ones there, some have been posted on the com, some not. Go have a read and a great day.

http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/fandom_northern_exposure.html

NX Prompts

2008-11-20T19:15:18Z

If anyone wants to adopt a fun little plot bunny for the holiday season rounds_of_kink claiming for round 9 has begun here. It's a lot of fun and they have a new form which makes finding prompts a lot easier.

October monthly prompt.

2008-10-07T19:41:36Z

OK. I’m a little late (bad mod, no cookie), But I’m going to keep going with the monthly prompt thing. So for October our prompt word is.

Spirit

Good old Halloween is approaching and Cicely is full of spirits. Talk to us of Ed and One Who Waits, a spirit guide that likes the smell of popcorn. What would be more perfect for Ed. How about Joel’s visiting angel? That’s an impressive spirit to land in your living room. What’s it like for Chris and Bernard who somehow seem to share the same spirit despite a lifetime apart. How about creepy spirits? Dose Maurice have ghosts from war that come and visit him in the late hours? How about Maggie’s ghost’s of dead boyfriends. Talk about the spirit of Cicely itself that seems to make the population rise to any occasion

For our character of the month let’s talk about -

Maggie

She chucked out the sliver spoon for a life flying in the wild north, a job so dangerous bush pilots can’t get life insurance. She’s got a stack of dead lovers, a family that doesn’t get her and yet she fights on at every turn. How about if some one shows us her first day’s in Cicely, or the joy of that first pilots license. What was really going on in her head when Joel first blustered into the Brick? Where do the lines of love and hate blur with our favorite doctor.

I hope a little of that is inspiring so go off and write.

:-)

Northern Exposure Prompts

2008-09-24T21:45:05Z

For anyone interested rounds_of_kink who are a fun group of people have Northern Exposure prompts for their upcoming round to be claimed here. And so you don't have to fish through the hundreds of prompts NX is represented on days 7-9, 10 part 1, and 11-15.

And don't forget our monthly prompt Cold and Joel. Just a few more days to get those in.

Lets see this fandom represent. :-)

Lady Gray

Fic and caps

2008-09-18T02:35:55Z

[ Joel, Ensemble | G | 2,081 words | 2008-09-18 ]
Set in S6 after the break-up, and I bent the canon timeline a bit. Somewhere, about ten miles south of where Joel’s sleeping, ice cracks.

[ Spring, In Its Own Time ]

Also, I took some caps and thought I'd share.

Sample caps:
http://pics.livejournal.com/trascendenza/pic/000axerd
http://pics.livejournal.com/trascendenza/pic/000aw5p6
http://pics.livejournal.com/trascendenza/pic/000atg9x

Links:

401-404: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/da4m33
405-407: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/7jgzl5
408-409: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/nbkvfb
410-414: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/puetkb
415-420: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/xxg06j
421-503: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/7ficg0
504-508: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/t6qlsf
509-512: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/pyonvq
Misc: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/8zzg3w

They're unweeded and I only took caps of the certain characters. No credit needed; use them however you like. :)

September Monthly prompt.

2008-09-01T20:25:55Z

Welcome to the first population849 monthly prompt.

Hi all.

This is something I’m going to try to do every months to stimulate a little more fic around here. I’ll be posting a monthly character and theme to focus on. Anything is welcome from drabbles to epics. If we get enough going in a year I might try doing some sort of awards thingy.

September

September a time for the change of the seasons. The brief flash that is autumn in the far north. That wonderful time after the first cold snap has killed off the mosquitoes but it has yet to snow.

So our for our first monthly character lets go with our intrepid doctor Joel.

Let’s see the moments inbetween. What was going on in his head when he first climbed into Ed’s truck or saw Maggie across the crowd at the Brick. How about earlier, breaking it to his family that he was going to Alaska. Or later when he wandered off and decided that maybe he wasn’t coming back. What were his joys, what were his sorrows? Show us our favorite doctor in a new and special way.

And for our first monthly theme let’s go with something that makes Alaska what it is. Cold.

Show us Joel’s first winter in the Great White North. He’s from New York; he should be used to the cold, right? How about Chris who has known the more metaphorical cold of a lonely prison cell? Maurice has been to space, little more than a tin can between him and the ultimate cold. Does that make winter better or worse?

I hope something here is inspiring folks, now go forth and write.

Lady Gray