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I live here on AO3, if you want to read my fic.

If you want to do any kind of transformative works of my fic - podfic, art, remix, whatever - I am super excited about this idea, and I encourage you to go ahead and do whatever you like with it! Dropping me a link would be appreciated, so I can know exactly what it is I'm excited about. Have fun, friend!

I grant access very freely, and only very occasionally lock posts. Basically things are locked if they're things that I don't want to talk to the one or two RL people who sometimes look at my journal about. But drop me a line and I will pretty much always let you in.
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oops just caught a typo in my journal header that's probably been sitting there for months
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A lot of stuff going on in my life. Like way way way too much stuff. Impulsively on little sleep and the first day of my period, I decided that it was time to call work to account about a bunch of questionable rostering practices they've been doing with their casual staff so now I have my last three shifts before Christmas to meet with management about that.

I still haven't done any Christmas shopping. Like none. The day off I was planning to do it on I had a specialist appointment I'd been waiting for come through so that's the afternoon gone. I'll get there, but it's getting tight.

I scraped in with my Yuletide fic, which I'm pretty happy about, even if I did wrap it up in a public library between a lunch date and an afternoon picnic.

The 24th can't come soon enough, when hopefully I'll be allowed to breathe.

Anyway, here's a thing, if you want to kick-start your "I'll blog more in the new year" resolution. A bunch of fun journal prompts and then a friending meme, spread over January
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Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of pine needles with shells and pine cone. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.
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1. I'm feeling much better re covid! Still a little bit sniffly & occasional cough, but my sense of smell has like 80% returned and I am not suffering any longer. Thank you so much to all the people online and irl who could still find the energy to send well wishes and offerings of sympathy to the world's 600 millionth covid case or whatever. I felt very cared for.

2. An MDZS friending meme from [personal profile] spookykingdomstarlight . I still haven't gone through it completely but can report it's full of lovely and interesting people and you will for sure make some friends.

3. A Goncharov flash exchange for those who need more silliness in their lives. Minimum word count 100, minimum art a doodle, so it's very low effort & high fun.
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I wrote fic for the fake movie


not faithless (1614 words) by Alasse_Irena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Katya Goncharova, Sofia (Goncharov)
Additional Tags: Gun Violence, probably as a metaphor for sex, boat scene
Summary:

What if the boat scene had gone a little differently?

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Today is the day I start the big Breath of the Wild fic I've been imagining for literally a year or two.

Hopefully I can get it done before the sequel comes out and josses the whole thing. It's not....super plot heavy, tbh, but it does take place after BotW, so.
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Some code for posting Tumblr style photosets on DW, if that's the kinda life you want to lead in this post Twitter world.

via [personal profile] tei 

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I've got covid at last. I am lying down and very achey and stuffy of head but otherwise okay. Still up to reading books, so I am reading "Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses", which is a YA novel about a girl discovering that her best friend from her chronic illness discord server is a werewolf. It's very silly, oddly sincere in spite of the silliness, and clearly the author has been Wildly Online for a long time.

So that's what's up here. Fingers crossed for my speedy recovery so I can enjoy some of my enforced holiday.
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This has been floating around on Tumblr since yesterday or so, and is a pretty fun way to look at something and be like "hang on, there's fic for what now???", bearing in mind that it does turn up 404s a fair bit.

From [personal profile] merelydovely

[personal profile] copperbadge ([personal profile] copperbadge) had a compelling dream about an AO3 Random Work button, and [personal profile] sassysnowperson went ahead and made it a reality!

Behold:

THE AO3 RANDOM WORK BUTTON


In Copperbadge's dream, the game was that whatever work you got indicated your new fandom assignment, but that's a bit of a steep ask. What if instead we used the random button to leave encouraging comments on random works?
 
 
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Guess who's back from the dead for the 18th time? Trying my hand at slow socmed again. It's after midnight so that's all you get from me, other than this youtube recommendation which I clicked on with some scepticism but turns out to be genuinely incredible..

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Sad and stressed for poor Kamila Valieva.
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ETA: Please forgive the terrible formatting. It's late and Dreamwidth doesn't want to behave. I'll try and fix it tomorrow.

Hello!


Thank you for liking a thing I like, and being ready to write something about it for me! I’m extremely excited and also you have very good taste.


Before we get started, the DNWs. I am in general hard to upset: I have no particular triggers you need to be aware of. I do have a short list of squicks that I would prefer not to see.


  • Soulmates AUs

  • A/B/O

  • Incest (though I don’t think this should come up in any of this year’s requests)

  • Sexual assault (I am open to some dubcon/poorly negotiated kink, but I would prefer to see people in sexual situations they want to be in, even if they haven’t necessarily communicated that to their partner/s)

  • Fallings out based on miscommunication/misunderstanding the other’s intention. If two characters must fall out, I’d rather they have a genuine disagreement that they need to resolve.


Now, a few more positive general things:


  • I’ve chosen my requests this year to create a Yuletide experience that’s about relationships between women. I just want to see women who are important to each other!

  • You do not have to write romance for me! I genuinely love stories about slow-burn friendship, and if that’s more your bent, that will please me too.

  • I am fond of characters who think of themselves as isolated building families in spite of themselves.

  • Even when I don’t specifically mention it, I’m always open to other world AUs. Go wild, follow your heart, stick any of these women in any setting that takes your fancy.


Specific fandom information is below. I tried to put a cut, but Dreamwidth is not cooperating with me today. Thank you for making a gift for me. I’m sure I’ll love anything you make!


Couple of Mirrors


The first thing that stole my heart about this show was Yan Wei’s relationship with her little milk delivery girl, before any of the plot started happening. She just really really wanted to be a big sister figure to Hong Mei, and I was devastated that she didn’t get the chance. So, an AU where Hong Mei survives the hit-and-run would delight me. Just some little vignettes about their odd friendship.


I would also enjoy something about Xu Youyi and Zhang Wan’s friendship when they were at school together. How did they become friends? Were they lovers ever? I think they probably were. Or if they weren’t I’d love to see one of them crushing on the other.


Otherwise, go wild with Yan Wei/Xu Youyi content. I’d love to hear about the first time they had sex. Or them having a cute date at the shooting range where Yan Wei teaches Xu Youyi to hold a gun and Xu Youyi turns out to be pretty good at it, actually.


I really like the way that the show really values Youyi’s skill as somebody who can manage people and relationships. I’d love to see her turn Yan Wei’s photography business into an actual viable business, while Yan Wei pretends to be grumpy about it but is secretly relieved.


Yan Wei is obviously pretty new to the idea that she can want things, and have preferences about the way she lives her life and what she keeps in her house around her. I think she deserves a lot of love and encouragement, and for Youyi to buy her fifteen of anything she shows even a little interest in, just in case.


Oh, I love it when Jiang Bin comes round to dinner or runs into one of them on the street and they all pretend that they’re not kind of becoming friends.


The Locked Tomb


When I wrote my sign-up, I was only about 100 pages into Harrow the Ninth, and I had no idea what was going on. To be honest, now I have finished Harrow the Ninth, and I am not sure that I have a greater sense of clarity.


The relationships between characters in this series are so deliciously written. I loved the way that Gideon and Harrow’s progression from teen nemeses to best friends happened so gradually over the course of the first book. So basically, if you show me some more of that relationship, I will be happy.


Here are some things that tickle my fancy:

  • Some external POV on Harrow and Gideon during Gideon the Ninth. I really want to know what the hell that relationship looked like from the outside. Affectionate bickering? Obviously long-term dating? Mortal enemies? Just an absolute fucking mess?

  • So it’s clear that Gideon was within and aware of everything that happened to Harrow for the whole of HtN. This just desperately makes me want some weird secondhand masturbation smut.

  • Any version of events where they have to cohabit Harrow’s body and they are both conscious and kind of pissed off about it.

  • Any other world AU.

    • How about a weirdly specific profession AU? Harrow is a chemistry teacher, Gideon is the lab tech that sets up her pracs. Harrow is a dance teacher and Gideon is an AFL player taking ballet class for cross-training. Whatever your job is, or whatever field you know weirdly a lot about, go wild.

    • Use that bodyguard loyalty kink! I would pay (in love and appreciation) for an organised crime AU of some kind.

    • I think they are ripe for a spy AU. You know that thing where in the Cold War, sometimes spies spent so much time with each other, and so much time away from their superiors, that they developed weird friendships with enemy spies?

    • Any one of those AUs we skimmed past towards the end of HtN.


I only requested Harrow & Gideon, but if you wanna write me some kind of Ianthe character study, or show me what Ianthe’s crush on Harrow looks like from inside Ianthe’s head, please be my guest.


Malory Towers


For some reason, I loved this series a lot as a kid, and the older I get, the more potential I think these characters have for some very messy, interesting relationships that I didn’t think about much when I was young.


Much is made in the series of girls sometimes having friends that are bad influences, or aren’t good for them, and much of the time, the girl in question eventually sees sense, breaks it off with the Bad Friend, and settles down with someone deemed more sensible. I want to see a story where that’s not what happens. I’d love a version of events where Felicity and June, or Darrell and Alicia, or any other pair of girls who aren’t meant to be good for each other, decide that their best-friendship (or girlfriendship) is important anyway and stick to their guns.


Another thing I’d love is to see any story where two Malory Towers girls reconnect in adulthood. It’s set in some non-specific time in the 1940s. What are the girls’ wartime experiences like? Or you don’t have to look at that. Maybe everything is happening after the war. Midway through finalising a messy divorce, Gwen runs into Darrell, who she hasn’t seen in a decade…...etc.


Alternatively, anything where somebody has the misfortune to navigate some kind of gender/sexuality stuff in the context of the all-girls-school environment. Speaking as a one-time Catholic-school, this is close to my heart!


Omar Rayyam paintings


I think I covered most of what I wanted to say about this fandom in my sign-up. I was very happy to stumble across it looking for a five-minute fandom. I dearly love any kind of merfolk - including non-traditional merfolk like these squid-headed people, and I’d love to explore something about their society.  I vaguely imagined the squid people living in some kind of undersea bubble with futuristic technology but rococo aesthetics, but honestly, go where your heart leads you.


Are there fashionable ways to arrange your head tentacles?


Can you make rude gestures with your head tentacles?


Who are these people, and why are they important enough to commission portraits of?

The Priory of the Orange Tree


There were a lot of things to love about this novel, but mostly I loved the relationship between Ead and Sabran.It’s my favourite kind of romance, where the two partners are both prepared to have full lives apart, but their relationship isn’t treated as less serious because of it. Individually, they’re both such mature characters, and they have other priorities in their lives that aren’t each other, but the novel still conveys how important they are to each other, and how tender they are with each other.


My dearest wish for this fandom is to see Sabran and Ead able to find each other again after the promised ten years, and have quiet domestic happiness into old age. If you can give me any little scene in those years, I would be delighted.

  • How does their reunion go?

  • Do they have to reach a compromise on their interior decorating choices?

  • Maybe they’re living anonymously in a little seaside town, and at some point someone figures out who they used to be.

  • An outsider’s point-of-view about them as two weird old ladies would be great.


I was also very sad about the loss of Sabran’s child, and I’d love for the two of them to have the chance to have a family in some fashion, whether they adopt, or they get to be somebody’s cool aunts, or what.


I would also enjoy a peek into their correspondence in the years that they’re both taken up with political obligations. I trust that they don’t keep it strictly professional in those pages.








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So I read Gideon the Ninth and it was a Good Time. Loved Gideon and her giant muscles heaps, and also I have So Much Time for the relationship arc between Gideon and Harrow.

I'm just starting the second book now so like talk to me about it spoiler-free if you wish.
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Crawling out of the woodwork post-pandemic. I was missing having a place to post where no-one irl who knows me is, and I briefly considered starting a secret twitter before I remembered that this journal was here.

So um.....how's everyone?
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I have received two absolutely delightful Untitled Goose Game fics!

I definitely requested this fandom with no idea how one would go about writing for it, but both my gifters have done So Well.

They're gorgeous and sweet and creative and full of horrible geese.

Untitled Multifandom Goose Fic (4231 words) by Anonymous
It's a lovely day in the multiverse, and you are a horrible crossover.


The Adventure of the Horrible Goose (2741 words) by Anonymous
The blue carbuncle of the Countess of Morcar has gone missing; so have a number of Christmas geese. Pastiche of “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” and “Untitled Goose Game”.

NB: although there is reference to christmas geese in this fic, there is no goose death. The horrible goose is out to save them all!

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I finished nanowrimo, somehow, for the first time in like five years, so now it's on to getting the Yuletide fic done!
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My nano is nearly 20k and I'm watching Les Mis for the first time in years and I have a bottle of gin, so that's nice.

My voice has dropped like a fifth since then which is weird, but that's life.

Anyway I am having a good time.
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I did my typical winter time disappearing off the face of the earth, but now I am back from hibernation!

I read a sweet queer sci fi comic called On a Sunbeam, at the behest of the Yuletide promos post. It's free, google it! (I will have put a link when I'm not on phone.) Everyone in the world is a woman or non-binary, with no explanation. Girls fall in love at boarding school,then go on space adventures about each other! It was a good time!

I'm learning aerial silks. It's very hard compared to hoop I'm not sure if I actually like it yet, but I get the feeling silks might be a slow burn love, so I'm giving it a little more time to see if it grows on me more. I don't hate it, and it's quite enjoyable, but I just can't really see a path to doing anything I find interesting or creative with it given how complicated the set up for any position still feels.

I have signed up for Yuletide, which I am excited about, and also Nanowrimo, which I feel...a little more apprehensive about, but I'm going okay so far. I maybe need to wrangle my 5000 words of mess a bit so I know what direction wee going in...

But that's life for now.
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Hello! First of all, thank you for writing me a thing! I love you, and I'm very appreciative. I have a couple of DNWs, but overall I’m super easy to please, and everything else in this letter is super optional.

I have no serious triggers, but there’s a couple of things I’d prefer you didn’t write: soulmates AUs, daddy kink, incest, or A/B/O. Also, if you avoided plots that centre around embarrassment or miscommunication, that would be appreciated.

Likes, specific prompts, etc... )
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Getting out of bed is so hard.
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