My catalog of fanfic is not extensive, but I feel the need to gather it and put it all in one place. I'm also planning to use this as a general index of some of the better bits and pieces that I've posted over the now several years that I've had this journal (hey, I'm a librarian, this is kinda my thing!). So, without further ado:

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I have been considering making this shift for a while, but didn't want to lose touch with my online fandom friends. The Russian invasion made me feel even more conflicted, but as I see many of us are now making the move, I will happily jump along as well. You can find me under the same name on Dreamwidth, where I will no doubt be frantically trying to learn the new system. Hope you all are well and as happy as may be.

I've been on another miniature painting binge, and thought I would share. In the last month, I finished -



Cinderella for the library Christmas tree (This is from the Reaper Miniatures fairy tale collection):




Hermione Granger (ordered from Hero Forge):




And Fawkes, the Phoenix (3-D printed by a friend who has their own printer):


The last two were made for a coworker who's just retired. Needless to say, she's a Harry Potter fan!

Borrowing this from supernutjapan and dizzojay. Thanks for posting this! Here are my responses, for what they're worth:

1. Which book would you consider the best book you’ve ever read and why? That's a nearly impossible question to answer. I love Neil Gaiman's American Gods for the way it imbues the American landscape with meaning & reimagines old stories. I'm eternally grateful to Gaiman for creating Shadow Moon. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is one of the few books that I could say contains mostly loveable characters. Pride and Prejudice's structure is nearly perfect. The Stand and The Haunting of Hill House haunt me to this day.

All of which is by way of begging you not to make me pick!
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In your own space, resurrect an old meme.

I looked through the list, and played around with a couple of them (apparently I Write Like Stephen King--I'll take that!). But I decided to do the Music Playlist Shuffle: "Go to your favorite source of music that can be shuffled. Hit shuffle. Write down the first line of the first twenty songs that come up. When people visit your journal, they have to guess what the songs are. Strike through the ones that have been guessed with the guessers name at the end of the line.

Easy, right? I used my trusty iPod, which I've been filling with music for about 8 years now. I think you'll get some of these right off the bat. But if some seem a bit eclectic or obscure, well, it's because I've been throwing albums on the thing willy-nilly for most of that time. (In other words, I didn't know the lyrics to all of these, either!) I also skipped things that had their titles in the first line, and there are no artist duplicates.

UPDATE: I'm adding in the answers, for any curious readers out there. (For the artists, I'm listing the singer or group, rather than the songwriters)--

1) We are young, Heartache to heartache we stand jj564 & enemytosleep "Love is a Battlefield", Pat Benatar
2) I met you on somebody's island, you thought you had known me before Steve Miller Band, "Jungle Love"
3) Here it comes again, it's going to happen to me The Byrds, "Lady Friend"
4) Standin on the water, Castin your bread Bob Dylan, "Jokerman"
5) Clouds are on fire today, time has taken you away Steve Carlson, "Radio in my Head"
6) In the merry month of May from me home I started, left the girls of Tuom nearly broken hearted borgmama1of5 - "Rocky Road to Dublin", traditional, my version is from the Chieftans & The Rolling Stones
7) Hang out my window and over your head Matchbox Twenty, "Soul"
8) I'm not a savior and I'm not a saint, the man with the answers I certainly ain't. Johnny Cash, "Singer of Songs"
9) You sure know how to hurt a girl, fewer hugs and no more kisses The Go-Go's, "Skidmarks on my Heart"
10) How pale is the sky that brings forth the rain, as the changing of seasons prepares me again Alison Kraus, "Get Me Through December"
11) Hush now don't you cry, wipe away the teardrops from your eye fanspired - "Silent Lucidity", Queensryche
12) She said, Darlin, I'm in love with your mind, the way you care for me is so kind Richard Thompson, "I Misunderstood"
13) Everybody dance now! silveradept "Gonna Make You Sweat", C+C Music Factory
14) Well, I heard some people talkin just the other day The Eagles, "Already Gone"
15) Don't you worry bout what's on your mind, oh my The Rollings Stones, "Let's Spend the Night Together"
16) When I had you to myself, I didn't want you around fanspired "I Want You Back", Jackson 5
17) On the field I remember you were incredible The Killers, "Andy You're a Star"
18) I'm not content to be with you in the daytime jj564 "All Day and All of the Night", The Kinks
19) Right, right, turn off the lights, we're gonna lose our minds tonight Komadori "Raise Your Glass", Pink
20) There's a place up ahead and I'm goin, just as fast as my feet can fly Credence Clearwater Revival, "Up Around the Bend"
As I was writing these out, some of the lines seemed to connect in that weird way that sometimes makes me think that my iPod has a sense of humor. Hanging together, they don't make a good song or poem, but some of the lines almost comment on each other.

Or maybe that's just me. Any guesses?

(I'm working on catching up!) In your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of.

OK. Mostly I write SPN gen fanfic, but I also manage my library's book recommendation blog, and I have been known to paint miniatures and some Supernatural prop weapons. Here are a few recs, and a link to that blog: ( Read more...Collapse )

In your own space, create a wishlist

-I'd love to have fanart for one of my stories, of course. Maybe for "You Can't Always Get What You Want"? This was my first fic, and centers on a sort of rivalry between the Mark of Cain and the Samulet. Here's the link: https://tyrsibs.livejournal.com/10479.html

-The mod post mentions a new fandom as a possibility, and that intrigues me. While SPN will always have my heart, are there other fandoms out there that might fill the hole it left? Recs would be great!

-Along that same line, any recommendations for great book series in the urban fantasy or high fantasy realms? I've almost caught up on Dresden Files, have read The Name of the Wind, and just started Seanan McGuire's October Daye series. I know there's a lot out there--what's your favorite?

-Recs for a fanfic Big Bang or challenge to attempt? I've participated in Spring Fling, Summergen, and the Reversebang in the Supernatural fandom, and I've set myself a goal of working on a new challenge this year. I write genfic, somewhat angsty, and I like to focus on the characters and creepy atmosphere. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance--I hope to talk to some of you about these rec requests!

In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Wow--where did that--whole month-- go? But, better late than not at all, right?

When it comes to fanworks, while I enjoy the odd Avengers or Harry Potter fic/video, Supernatural is still my number one fandom. I prefer gen works like case fic or hurt/comfort, but also dip into Destiel. Here are some of my favorite works from the past year: ( Read more...Collapse )

Challenge #5: In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.

Of course, I could talk SPN, which I love, or Firefly, which created a beautifully realized 'verse in 14 episodes and a movie, but I find myself wanting to dig a little deeper and talk about the first canon that I fell hard for. The Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout.

I discovered them in junior high through a book called "Murder Ink", which was a sort of a fan friendly compilation of articles, interviews, trivia lists and glossaries about the Mystery genre. (If you're a mystery fan, I recommend this book and its companion, "Murderess Ink". Between the two volumes I found my first fannish worlds). Even then a completist, I searched out a lot of the books that were discussed, and eventually I made my way to Wolfe. The first book I found was "Murder by the Book", and I still remember that the plot blurb on the back started with "Wolfe risks Archie's neck" to solve the case. What? I had to know what that meant, and by the time I was done with that first book, I had to spend more time in Wolfe's brownstone. Lucky for me, Stout wrote about Wolfe and Archie for 41 years, beginning in 1934 with "Fer-De-Lance" and ending in 1975 with the Watergate inspired "A Family Affair."

Nero Wolfe gets top billing, and I suppose that's only right since he is the genius detective who solves the murders, but his assistant Archie Goodwin is equally vital to the novels' success. Wolfe is eccentric, strict in his daily routine but lazy when it comes to taking on new work, an overweight gourmand and orchid lover, a New Yorker with a mysterious past that began in Montenegro. In some ways, he's the epitome of a detective from the Golden Age of the Mystery in all of his habits and his Holmes-like ability to see connections that others miss. Archie, on the other hand, is streetwise and smooth with the ladies, intuitive, a man of action--more along the lines of the hardboiled American heroes of the same era. He narrates the books as well, in an economical and very funny voice that makes him very good company, indeed. One of my favorite descriptions of any character, anywhere, comes from Archie's assessment of one of Wolfe's longtime hired hands, Fred Durkin: "Fred was as honest as sunshine, but he wasn't so brilliant as sunshine." That sums up a lot of what you need to know about our Fred in 13 words.

Wolfe and Archie bicker and needle each other through their cases--in fact, Archie contends that the main reason Wolfe keeps him around is because Archie continually pressures him to work when he would prefer to spend time in the kitchen with his chef Fritz or up in his orchid rooms on the roof or just reading and drinking beer. They fight, but underneath all the irritation, each has absolute loyalty to the other. Their relationship is the backbone of the novels, the real reason to keep reading, though Stout also surrounds them with a memorable cast of side characters, and describes their world in comforting detail.
Wolfe's office is fully furnished in my imagination, and stands forever in a timeless version of New York, somewhere down West 35th Street.

Hmm-this is beginning to sound a little bit familiar---Maybe I have a type?

Challenge #4: In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

I could talk about personal and work goals, but I think I'll stick to fandom ones. OK, here goes (deep breath)--

1) I want to continue working on a fic series I began during SPN Season 14 that I called "(Fic Writer) picks the music." My plan was to use my playlist of songs related to Supernatural as inspiration for a series of one-shots from different characters' POVs. I thought the structure would give me incentive to keep writing on a regular basis, but I got stuck with the 5th song, "Thunderstruck". I would like to get over that hurdle and keep going!

2) Continuing with the fic writing theme, I'd like to participate in a big bang challenge this year. I've done Summergen several times, SPN Spring Fling and Reversebang a couple of times each, but these are based around gift fics based on prompts. I've never written a story "cold" and submitted it for an artist's consideration. In truth the idea terrifies me a bit, bringing back memories of waiting to be picked in gym class, which is a reason to do it, right? (Did I mention I'm a bit neurotic?)

3) Write more, paint more, read more. You'd think that as a librarian, I would read a lot. And I do generally have a book going, but there are so many shinies that distract so easily---

So that's a start for me. I'm excited to read some of yours!