Happy reading time!
Dec. 26th, 2019 08:34 pmI got "Echoes of the Fall" fic for Yuletide!
Bone Dance (2803 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Echoes of the Fall - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maniye Many-Tracks, Hesprec Essen Skese, Asmander | Asman, Venater | Venat
Summary: After the war with the Plague people, the most difficult task is to maintain peace among the peoples of the Crown of the World. When the bones of a Champion are found, who will wear this shape of power?
Fun post-canon fic with a reunion of my favorites and cool worldbuilding about Champions :D
I've been reading a lot and making notes of stories to rec, but now that I finished my Yuletide fic I suddenly want to write something else again, and maaybe if I try I could finally manage to finish a line for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hc_bingo? We'll see how long the motivation lasts.
Bone Dance (2803 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Echoes of the Fall - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maniye Many-Tracks, Hesprec Essen Skese, Asmander | Asman, Venater | Venat
Summary: After the war with the Plague people, the most difficult task is to maintain peace among the peoples of the Crown of the World. When the bones of a Champion are found, who will wear this shape of power?
Fun post-canon fic with a reunion of my favorites and cool worldbuilding about Champions :D
I've been reading a lot and making notes of stories to rec, but now that I finished my Yuletide fic I suddenly want to write something else again, and maaybe if I try I could finally manage to finish a line for
hc_bingo? We'll see how long the motivation lasts.Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 31st, 2019 08:10 pmHi! Thank you very much for writing a story for me! :D
Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they started out enemies/opponents/are in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, and related tropes.
* Canon-divergent AUs and time travel stories are great.
* Hurt/comfort in its many variations is wonderful. The focus can be on either but I like it best if there's a little bit of both.
* Some other things I love: competent characters, plot, happy (or at least optimistic) endings, hugs…
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes, or PWP without character development
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
( Inheritance Trilogy – N. K. Jemisin )
( Bloodrights – N. Lee Wood )
( Echoes of the Fall – Adrian Tchaikovsky )
Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they started out enemies/opponents/are in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, and related tropes.
* Canon-divergent AUs and time travel stories are great.
* Hurt/comfort in its many variations is wonderful. The focus can be on either but I like it best if there's a little bit of both.
* Some other things I love: competent characters, plot, happy (or at least optimistic) endings, hugs…
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes, or PWP without character development
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
( Inheritance Trilogy – N. K. Jemisin )
( Bloodrights – N. Lee Wood )
( Echoes of the Fall – Adrian Tchaikovsky )
Yuletide recs part II
Feb. 13th, 2019 02:53 pmSix more recs from Yuletide 2018 – better late than never.
The Realms of the Immortals by nirejseki (Tortall, Immortals Quartet)
57k, Rikash/Daine
Summary: Rikash knew he was signing up for a lot when he became Lord of the Stone Tree Stormwing nation.
But joining forces with the extremely dangerous, mysterious, and oddly intriguing Veralidaine Sarrasri, the famous Stormwing Killer, on a road trip through the Divine Realms to assassinate those immortals stupid enough to risk the destruction of the world by working with Chaos?
That's - unexpected.
Why I love it: I do this rarely, but when I finished reading this fic I immediately read it again and then had to leave a comment on every chapter pointing out my favorite parts because there were so many. The characters and their relationships are fantastic, the plot and adventure and action are great, and it's frequently hilarious. It's been a while since I read the books so I'm not completely sure how much of the worldbuilding is original, but the Stormwing culture etc. are also very well done.
Canon knowledge required: probably yes
( + Temeraire, Punisher, Venom, French History RPF, Sengoku Jidai RPF )
Yuletide fic: To You
Jan. 1st, 2019 02:19 pmWhat I wrote for Yuletide this year:
To You
Fandom: To Whatever – Shaenon Garrity
2k, Ethan/Whatever Lives in the Walls, monologue
Additional tags: canon-typical eldritch abominations, interspecies relationship
Summary: You really could have told me that the runes on the window need to be aligned to the phases of the purple moon for you to actually hear me.
Ethan and his roommate grow even closer.
I really enjoyed writing this, and it was probably the most relaxed I've ever been about writing an exchange story because I knew I wanted to write flirting/a romance in monologue/one-sided dialogue format from the beginning. (Except near the end, when I suddenly became anxious about writing romance. How do.) The source canon even had an audio version, that was very helpful.
I also wrote The Tower With the Orbs, a drabble for the same fandom but more in the horror direction (Summary: Of course Ethan meant to let Willem go. Eventually.) I posted it anonymously a few days earlier instead of in Madness so that the fandom would get wrangled sooner, in hindsight not sure if that was necessary but whatever.
I still have so many more Yuletide fics to read! …aand other things I should be doing. Fingers crossed I'll find time for both. The last year ended and the new year began with lots of good food and several hours of boardgames yesterday, clearly that was a sign of good things to come.
To You
Fandom: To Whatever – Shaenon Garrity
2k, Ethan/Whatever Lives in the Walls, monologue
Additional tags: canon-typical eldritch abominations, interspecies relationship
Summary: You really could have told me that the runes on the window need to be aligned to the phases of the purple moon for you to actually hear me.
Ethan and his roommate grow even closer.
I really enjoyed writing this, and it was probably the most relaxed I've ever been about writing an exchange story because I knew I wanted to write flirting/a romance in monologue/one-sided dialogue format from the beginning. (Except near the end, when I suddenly became anxious about writing romance. How do.) The source canon even had an audio version, that was very helpful.
I also wrote The Tower With the Orbs, a drabble for the same fandom but more in the horror direction (Summary: Of course Ethan meant to let Willem go. Eventually.) I posted it anonymously a few days earlier instead of in Madness so that the fandom would get wrangled sooner, in hindsight not sure if that was necessary but whatever.
I still have so many more Yuletide fics to read! …aand other things I should be doing. Fingers crossed I'll find time for both. The last year ended and the new year began with lots of good food and several hours of boardgames yesterday, clearly that was a sign of good things to come.
8 Yuletide recs
Dec. 29th, 2018 10:01 pmThis is shorter than planned because my wrists are hurting again but have some Yuletide recs. ( Elemental Logic, Discworld, Kong, Ocean's 8, Versailles, Venom, Nimona, Temeraire )
So much good food
Dec. 26th, 2018 12:35 amI hope all of you had as good a weekend as I did :)
On Saturday I went to two beautiful Christmas markets with my flatmate and her mom – no snow since it had 12° all weekend but I did see a rainbow – and bought myself a plush squirrel that was too fluffy to resist. Then half of our D&D group played a Christmas one-shot that featured zombie suicide pigeons, a reindeer with a breath weapon, and a +2 Good frying pan. We also took out the bad guy's minions with blankets. I played a swordfighter, which was slightly frustrating occasionally because it's way less versatile than playing a spellcaster but by the end (almost 3am) I appreciated the advantages too.
On Sunday I went to three more Christmas markets and then went to a birthday party where we had a lot of fun playing board games. MSZ, who is a very good cook, decided that she wanted to make authentic Ramen so she and LK spent half the day preparing the broth and porkbelly and eggs and so much other stuff there was barely space left on the table, and it was delicious. I ate so much.
On Monday I spent slightly more time than planned reading fic, and In the afternoon I made a 30-seconds-video for the retirement party of my favorite teacher in high school: it was quite difficult to put into words just how much I admire and respect her and how much she meant to me, but I tried.
In the evening I celebrated Christmas with my parents, which means good food and a lot of singing. I got (among some other things) a puzzle, I haven't solved a puzzle in years and I look forward to it.
On Tuesday, more good food, and Yuletide! I requested "Elemental Logic" for three years and this year I got an amazing fic for it. It's so good, it's such a great Medric character study and has such good Medric/Emil and so much wonderful family feelings :)
Oh Good, He's Nineteen (7304 words) by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
nimblermortal
Fandom: Elemental Logic - Laurie J. Marks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Medric/Emil, Zanja/Karis, J'han/Norina
Characters: Medric, Emil, Zanja, Karis, J'han, Norina, Leeba
Additional Tags: Found Family, parenting, Introspection
Summary: It's winter in Shaftal, and Medric and Emil's pleasant getaway is disturbed by the arrival of their.. family? Perhaps?
Medric thinks of his affair with Emil as an Autumn Romance, two soldiers broken by war finding comfort in each other's arms. The arrival of their - husband and wives? - forces him to come to terms with whether he is a soldier, just who Leeba is to him, and how it can be possible that he is, in fact, nineteen.
Canon Knowledge Required: probably yes
My recipient liked their story as well, so all is good.
Tomorrow we're meeting with family friends for more good food, and I also have plans for the rest of December that I'm looking forward to (apart from the studying, and the cleaning, etc. etc.) Maybe we will even get a few snowflakes again, who knows.
On Saturday I went to two beautiful Christmas markets with my flatmate and her mom – no snow since it had 12° all weekend but I did see a rainbow – and bought myself a plush squirrel that was too fluffy to resist. Then half of our D&D group played a Christmas one-shot that featured zombie suicide pigeons, a reindeer with a breath weapon, and a +2 Good frying pan. We also took out the bad guy's minions with blankets. I played a swordfighter, which was slightly frustrating occasionally because it's way less versatile than playing a spellcaster but by the end (almost 3am) I appreciated the advantages too.
On Sunday I went to three more Christmas markets and then went to a birthday party where we had a lot of fun playing board games. MSZ, who is a very good cook, decided that she wanted to make authentic Ramen so she and LK spent half the day preparing the broth and porkbelly and eggs and so much other stuff there was barely space left on the table, and it was delicious. I ate so much.
On Monday I spent slightly more time than planned reading fic, and In the afternoon I made a 30-seconds-video for the retirement party of my favorite teacher in high school: it was quite difficult to put into words just how much I admire and respect her and how much she meant to me, but I tried.
In the evening I celebrated Christmas with my parents, which means good food and a lot of singing. I got (among some other things) a puzzle, I haven't solved a puzzle in years and I look forward to it.
On Tuesday, more good food, and Yuletide! I requested "Elemental Logic" for three years and this year I got an amazing fic for it. It's so good, it's such a great Medric character study and has such good Medric/Emil and so much wonderful family feelings :)
Oh Good, He's Nineteen (7304 words) by
Fandom: Elemental Logic - Laurie J. Marks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Medric/Emil, Zanja/Karis, J'han/Norina
Characters: Medric, Emil, Zanja, Karis, J'han, Norina, Leeba
Additional Tags: Found Family, parenting, Introspection
Summary: It's winter in Shaftal, and Medric and Emil's pleasant getaway is disturbed by the arrival of their.. family? Perhaps?
Medric thinks of his affair with Emil as an Autumn Romance, two soldiers broken by war finding comfort in each other's arms. The arrival of their - husband and wives? - forces him to come to terms with whether he is a soldier, just who Leeba is to him, and how it can be possible that he is, in fact, nineteen.
Canon Knowledge Required: probably yes
My recipient liked their story as well, so all is good.
Tomorrow we're meeting with family friends for more good food, and I also have plans for the rest of December that I'm looking forward to (apart from the studying, and the cleaning, etc. etc.) Maybe we will even get a few snowflakes again, who knows.
Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 10th, 2018 10:49 pmHi! Thank you very much for writing a story for me! :D
Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they started out enemies/opponents/are in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Hurt/comfort in its many variations is wonderful. The focus can be on either but I like it best if there's a little bit of both.
* I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, and related tropes.
* Canon-divergent AUs and time travel stories are great.
* Some other things I love: competent characters, plot, happy (or at least optimistic) endings, hugs…
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
( Tales of the Otori – Lian Hearn )
( Bloodrights – N. Lee Wood )
( Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks )
Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they started out enemies/opponents/are in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Hurt/comfort in its many variations is wonderful. The focus can be on either but I like it best if there's a little bit of both.
* I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, and related tropes.
* Canon-divergent AUs and time travel stories are great.
* Some other things I love: competent characters, plot, happy (or at least optimistic) endings, hugs…
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
( Tales of the Otori – Lian Hearn )
( Bloodrights – N. Lee Wood )
( Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks )
Yuletide recs 2/?
Dec. 31st, 2017 01:31 pmMore Yuletide recs, most of them post-canon.
( Suradanna and the Sea, Bartimaeus, Tales of the Raksura, Nimona, Murderbot Diaries, Dinotopia, Galavant )
( Suradanna and the Sea, Bartimaeus, Tales of the Raksura, Nimona, Murderbot Diaries, Dinotopia, Galavant )
Yuletide recs
Dec. 27th, 2017 07:21 pmHappy Yuletide!
The first of probably several Yuletide rec sets:
( Nirvana in Fire, Punic Wars RPF, Krabat, Winnetou, Integrate, Pod Save America RPF, 12th century Historical RPF, Murderbot Diaries, Magnus Chase, Critical Role RPF )
The first of probably several Yuletide rec sets:
( Nirvana in Fire, Punic Wars RPF, Krabat, Winnetou, Integrate, Pod Save America RPF, 12th century Historical RPF, Murderbot Diaries, Magnus Chase, Critical Role RPF )
Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 6th, 2017 03:50 pmHi! Thank you very much for writing a story for me! :D
Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they're in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Related to that, navigating relationships: how do they deal with daily life, how do they support and comfort each other at the end of the day, how do they solve conflicts, what happens if there are conflicting loyalties? I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, (self-)sacrifice, and related tropes in general.
* Some other things I love: h/c, competent characters, hugs, plot, happy or at least optimistic endings, …
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there. What-if AUs are cool.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
( Spiderlight – Adrian Tchaikovsky )
( Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky )
( The Bright Sessions (Podcast) )
( Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks )
Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they're in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Related to that, navigating relationships: how do they deal with daily life, how do they support and comfort each other at the end of the day, how do they solve conflicts, what happens if there are conflicting loyalties? I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, (self-)sacrifice, and related tropes in general.
* Some other things I love: h/c, competent characters, hugs, plot, happy or at least optimistic endings, …
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there. What-if AUs are cool.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
( Spiderlight – Adrian Tchaikovsky )
( Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky )
( The Bright Sessions (Podcast) )
( Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks )
2017, day 1
Jan. 1st, 2017 07:56 pmHappy 2017!
I celebrated New Year's Eve with Lio&Maria and Lisa&Nati, and Maria tried out about ten or so different cocktails, yum. Three other people showed up for a while and drew Lio into a discussion on politics, and I hated that on the last day of 2016 while I wanted to play a game and enjoy myself I couldn't help but hear someone argue on the other side of the room that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were equally bad options. Bleh. Fortunately they left before midnight. We sang a bit (including to Level Up and This Year), and after midnight we played four rounds of cards and I won all of them :) I came home so late that I narrowly missed OT of the Pens-Habs game, but the Pens won so that was good too.
I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year:
See Your Silhouette for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lilacsigil
Fandom: Gladiator – Dami Im
1.3k, background White Warrior/Princess
Summary: She hadn't seen the Princess in fifty years.
My assignment. It was pretty frustrating because the prompts were good and I had ideas, but it was hard to put them together into a story, and at some point I planned something much longer and more complex before I condensed it to its current length. It probably made the story better, but there were a few elements I'm sorry I lost.
Step Forward foralessandriana
Fandom: Nirvana in Fire
1.6k, gen, canon-divergent AU
Summary: Jingyan had known this day would come, but for years xiao-Shu had done him the favor of allowing him not to think about it.
The first time I actually finished a Yuletide treat! Jingyu dies from natural cases and so there is no conspiracy. I'd started sketching this AU before I even saw![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alessandriana's letter, and when I saw that she prompted it it gave me the push I needed to finish. I really like this AU, and there's a possibility that I'm not done with it yet because I keep thinking of more things that would be interesting to explore in it.
There are many Yuletide stories I still want to read (thanks to everyone who recced stories), but I decided to put those aside for now and try to write something forfandom_stocking.
I also still need to do my 2016 year review, aaand I decided to try and do at least half of thesnowflake_challenge this year, so at least 7 days.
Day 1: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Huh. I think I'll cheat a bit and refer to "Step Forward" above, because I really like the concept of this AU and I feel like I wrote a good look into it.
Dark Blue Skies, a Steerswoman fic: "In the third year of Willam's apprenticeship with Corvus, Abremio came to Wulfshaven." It's one of my longer works and I'm quite proud of how it turned out.
Assuming Shape, a Young Avengers fic, Teddy Altman's mom's backstory. (I can't remember if her name is from canon somewhere or if I took it from another fic.) I wrote it because I wanted to make her more real (which makes canon even sadder) and I feel like I succeeded.
I celebrated New Year's Eve with Lio&Maria and Lisa&Nati, and Maria tried out about ten or so different cocktails, yum. Three other people showed up for a while and drew Lio into a discussion on politics, and I hated that on the last day of 2016 while I wanted to play a game and enjoy myself I couldn't help but hear someone argue on the other side of the room that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were equally bad options. Bleh. Fortunately they left before midnight. We sang a bit (including to Level Up and This Year), and after midnight we played four rounds of cards and I won all of them :) I came home so late that I narrowly missed OT of the Pens-Habs game, but the Pens won so that was good too.
I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year:
See Your Silhouette for
lilacsigilFandom: Gladiator – Dami Im
1.3k, background White Warrior/Princess
Summary: She hadn't seen the Princess in fifty years.
My assignment. It was pretty frustrating because the prompts were good and I had ideas, but it was hard to put them together into a story, and at some point I planned something much longer and more complex before I condensed it to its current length. It probably made the story better, but there were a few elements I'm sorry I lost.
Step Forward for
Fandom: Nirvana in Fire
1.6k, gen, canon-divergent AU
Summary: Jingyan had known this day would come, but for years xiao-Shu had done him the favor of allowing him not to think about it.
The first time I actually finished a Yuletide treat! Jingyu dies from natural cases and so there is no conspiracy. I'd started sketching this AU before I even saw
alessandriana's letter, and when I saw that she prompted it it gave me the push I needed to finish. I really like this AU, and there's a possibility that I'm not done with it yet because I keep thinking of more things that would be interesting to explore in it.There are many Yuletide stories I still want to read (thanks to everyone who recced stories), but I decided to put those aside for now and try to write something for
fandom_stocking. I also still need to do my 2016 year review, aaand I decided to try and do at least half of the
snowflake_challenge this year, so at least 7 days.Day 1: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Huh. I think I'll cheat a bit and refer to "Step Forward" above, because I really like the concept of this AU and I feel like I wrote a good look into it.
Dark Blue Skies, a Steerswoman fic: "In the third year of Willam's apprenticeship with Corvus, Abremio came to Wulfshaven." It's one of my longer works and I'm quite proud of how it turned out.
Assuming Shape, a Young Avengers fic, Teddy Altman's mom's backstory. (I can't remember if her name is from canon somewhere or if I took it from another fic.) I wrote it because I wanted to make her more real (which makes canon even sadder) and I feel like I succeeded.
I've mostly made muffins and cupcakes for so long that I forgot how annoying it is trying to find cake recipes that are slightly fancy but not too complicated. LB's birthday party is tomorrow, and he wants something with chocolate. Usually I like experimenting with new cakes, but this time I might just make a cake I already made once. (I think it was two years ago though so it'll be fine.)
I'm invited to his birthday party even though I know very few people who will be there. Half of his friends are mathematicians and half of them are musicians. So when he decided he wanted to do a quiz, he made up questions that are half math/half music knowledge, some of them I don't even understand. I'm curious to see how that will go ^^
I got my Yuletide assignment! It's a prompt I'd been thinking of writing a treat for anyway :) Not that I ever managed to write a treat before. This year there are a few letters I like, so maybe I'll manage at least one or two?
For my assignment I already have a (very rough) outline. Though now that I think about it, it maybe kiiiinda skirts close to one of their DNWs. (A matter of definition, really.) I'll have to revise it a bit.
Sidney Crosby has another concussion -.- Sucks. Hopefully it's not severe.
The season hasn't even started yet and I already am reminded why I watch less TV in winter: just keeping up with hockey news takes a lot of time. It's fun too though. Pens season opener on Thursday, middle of the night but I'll stay up for that one. Pens-Caps is always great :) (though it would be more fun if Sid were playing...)
I'm invited to his birthday party even though I know very few people who will be there. Half of his friends are mathematicians and half of them are musicians. So when he decided he wanted to do a quiz, he made up questions that are half math/half music knowledge, some of them I don't even understand. I'm curious to see how that will go ^^
I got my Yuletide assignment! It's a prompt I'd been thinking of writing a treat for anyway :) Not that I ever managed to write a treat before. This year there are a few letters I like, so maybe I'll manage at least one or two?
For my assignment I already have a (very rough) outline. Though now that I think about it, it maybe kiiiinda skirts close to one of their DNWs. (A matter of definition, really.) I'll have to revise it a bit.
Sidney Crosby has another concussion -.- Sucks. Hopefully it's not severe.
The season hasn't even started yet and I already am reminded why I watch less TV in winter: just keeping up with hockey news takes a lot of time. It's fun too though. Pens season opener on Thursday, middle of the night but I'll stay up for that one. Pens-Caps is always great :) (though it would be more fun if Sid were playing...)
Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 5th, 2016 10:26 pmHi! Thank you very much for writing a story for me! :D
Things I like:
* I love friendship/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they're in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Related to that, navigating relationships: how do they deal with daily life, how do they support and comfort each other at the end of the day, how do they solve conflicts, what happens if there are conflicting loyalties? I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, and related tropes.
* Some other things I love: h/c, competent characters, hugs, plot, happy or at least optimistic endings, …
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending, explicit rape
* Character bashing
* Stories focused on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex. If you want to write low-key flirting or romance that's fine.
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
Natsume Yuujinchou – Natsume's Book of Friends
琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks
Natsume Yuujinchou – Natsume's Book of Friends
Characters: Natsume Reiko, Natsume Takashi, Madara "Nyanko-sensei"
If you don't know what it is: ( Natsume Yuujinchou )
Prompts: ( Prompts )
琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Characters: Xiao Jingyan, Xiao Jingrui
If you don't know what it is: ( Nirvana in Fire )
Prompts: ( Prompts )
Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks
Characters: Medric, Emil Paladin
If you don't know what it is:( Elemental Logic series )
Prompts: ( Read more... )
Things I like:
* I love friendship/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they're in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Related to that, navigating relationships: how do they deal with daily life, how do they support and comfort each other at the end of the day, how do they solve conflicts, what happens if there are conflicting loyalties? I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, and related tropes.
* Some other things I love: h/c, competent characters, hugs, plot, happy or at least optimistic endings, …
Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending, explicit rape
* Character bashing
* Stories focused on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex. If you want to write low-key flirting or romance that's fine.
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there.
Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.
Natsume Yuujinchou – Natsume's Book of Friends
琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks
Natsume Yuujinchou – Natsume's Book of Friends
Characters: Natsume Reiko, Natsume Takashi, Madara "Nyanko-sensei"
If you don't know what it is: ( Natsume Yuujinchou )
Prompts: ( Prompts )
琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Characters: Xiao Jingyan, Xiao Jingrui
If you don't know what it is: ( Nirvana in Fire )
Prompts: ( Prompts )
Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks
Characters: Medric, Emil Paladin
If you don't know what it is:( Elemental Logic series )
Prompts: ( Read more... )
Steerswoman fic: Dark Blue Skies
Jan. 1st, 2016 07:34 pmFor the first time this winter, we had snow in Vienna today! According to the radio it started around 6am and when I got up (around 11) there was a thin layer of white outside and it was still snowing lightly for a short time. Finally :)
For Yuletide this year I wrote Steerswoman fic: Dark Blue Skies
Summary: In the third year of Willam's apprenticeship with Corvus, Abremio came to Wulfshaven.
Thanks toisis and sholio for the help. It's not perfect, but I'm proud of this one. 9.8k! My second-longest published fic, and the longest since 2011. It's in the smallest fandom I've written in so far and especially at first it was a bit disappointing that so few people read it, but I got some lovely comments which made up for it :)
( More about the writing process )
For Yuletide this year I wrote Steerswoman fic: Dark Blue Skies
Summary: In the third year of Willam's apprenticeship with Corvus, Abremio came to Wulfshaven.
Thanks to
isis and sholio for the help. It's not perfect, but I'm proud of this one. 9.8k! My second-longest published fic, and the longest since 2011. It's in the smallest fandom I've written in so far and especially at first it was a bit disappointing that so few people read it, but I got some lovely comments which made up for it :) ( More about the writing process )
Presents for me!
Dec. 25th, 2015 09:13 pmI got very lucky this year, I got two amazing stories!
For Hockey Festivus:
Battle Ready bydownjune
Relationships: Marc-Andre Fleury & Jeff Zatkoff, Sidney Crosby & Marc-Andre Fleury
So many goalie feelings! Goalies supporting each other, goalies in eyeliner, goalie & captain hug… goalies <3
For Yuletide:
Navigational Aids bygenarti
Steerswoman series, post-canon epistolary
I love this fic a lot, instant new headcanon. The relationship between Willam and Rowan and Bel is great and so warm, I just want to hug the story and the characters too.
Some people liked the stories I wrote, so I'm happy :)
I spent Christmas with my family, it was nice. I even went to evening mass, which I originally didn't intend, but mom said she'd really like it if I came to listen to her and LB and also she needed someone to turn the pages for her on the organ. (The sermon was okay, but the mass as a whole emphasized that church is currently not for me. I am proud of the parish for taking in a refugee family.)
Among other things I got a cupcake recipe book from my parents, I'm looking forward to baking a lot! LB said he thought about what I might need now that I live in my own flat and got me a "Minions" DVD xD He's the best.
For Hockey Festivus:
Battle Ready by
downjuneRelationships: Marc-Andre Fleury & Jeff Zatkoff, Sidney Crosby & Marc-Andre Fleury
So many goalie feelings! Goalies supporting each other, goalies in eyeliner, goalie & captain hug… goalies <3
For Yuletide:
Navigational Aids by
genartiSteerswoman series, post-canon epistolary
I love this fic a lot, instant new headcanon. The relationship between Willam and Rowan and Bel is great and so warm, I just want to hug the story and the characters too.
Some people liked the stories I wrote, so I'm happy :)
I spent Christmas with my family, it was nice. I even went to evening mass, which I originally didn't intend, but mom said she'd really like it if I came to listen to her and LB and also she needed someone to turn the pages for her on the organ. (The sermon was okay, but the mass as a whole emphasized that church is currently not for me. I am proud of the parish for taking in a refugee family.)
Among other things I got a cupcake recipe book from my parents, I'm looking forward to baking a lot! LB said he thought about what I might need now that I live in my own flat and got me a "Minions" DVD xD He's the best.
Dear Yuletide Author
Oct. 20th, 2015 10:43 pmHi! Thank you very much for writing a story for me! :D
( General Likes and Dislikes )
Soviet Hockey Players RPF
Characters: Alexei Kasatonov, Slava Fetisov
If you don't know what it is: ( They were some of the best hockey players in history, and some of them hated their coach. )
Prompt: ( The great betrayal )
The Steerswoman series – Rosemary Kirstein
Characters: Rowan, Bel, Willam
If you don't know what it is: ( A fascinating SFF series currently at 4 books )
Prompt: ( (post)book 4 fic )
Krabat | The Satanic Mill – Otfried Preußler
If you don't know what it is: ( a myth-based novel about the apprentices to an evil sorcerer )
Prompt: ( trapped )
( General Likes and Dislikes )
Soviet Hockey Players RPF
Characters: Alexei Kasatonov, Slava Fetisov
If you don't know what it is: ( They were some of the best hockey players in history, and some of them hated their coach. )
Prompt: ( The great betrayal )
The Steerswoman series – Rosemary Kirstein
Characters: Rowan, Bel, Willam
If you don't know what it is: ( A fascinating SFF series currently at 4 books )
Prompt: ( (post)book 4 fic )
Krabat | The Satanic Mill – Otfried Preußler
If you don't know what it is: ( a myth-based novel about the apprentices to an evil sorcerer )
Prompt: ( trapped )
Babylon 5 5x05 – 5x10, and other
Oct. 17th, 2015 08:19 pmMore Bab5, and I didn't even have to wait months, this is great!
( Learning Curve )
( Strange Relations )
( Secrets of the Soul )
( Day of the Dead )
( In the Kingdom of the Blind )
( A Tragedy of Telepaths )
People are already publishing their Yuletide letters and I enjoy reading them. I know which fandoms I'm going to request, I'm not sure yet about all that I'm going to offer. No Hockey RPF this year because I want to try something different, and I'm contemplating a few fandoms that would be a bit of a challenge but could be interesting.
Pens vs. Leafs tonight! I'm definitely not staying up to watch it. What little self-control I have should at least be sufficient for that. I need sleep. Tomorrow I'll go with friends to an all-you-can-eat jazz brunch, it would be a shame if I fell asleep in the middle.
My mom finally started listening to "Hamilton", and I got LB interested too. I started reading the biography by Chernow, so far it is very interesting.capsized compiled some great quotes from letters Hamilton and Laurens wrote to each other here.
And for the less entertaining parts of life, I need to figure out how to get back to working on my thesis. I haven't done much the past few weeks and it's past time.
("figure out how to" instead of just "get back to" because I'm back at that stage where it feels like it just... doesn't work. >.< "I just have to do it" is so easy to say and so hard to, well, do.)
( Learning Curve )
( Strange Relations )
( Secrets of the Soul )
( Day of the Dead )
( In the Kingdom of the Blind )
( A Tragedy of Telepaths )
People are already publishing their Yuletide letters and I enjoy reading them. I know which fandoms I'm going to request, I'm not sure yet about all that I'm going to offer. No Hockey RPF this year because I want to try something different, and I'm contemplating a few fandoms that would be a bit of a challenge but could be interesting.
Pens vs. Leafs tonight! I'm definitely not staying up to watch it. What little self-control I have should at least be sufficient for that. I need sleep. Tomorrow I'll go with friends to an all-you-can-eat jazz brunch, it would be a shame if I fell asleep in the middle.
My mom finally started listening to "Hamilton", and I got LB interested too. I started reading the biography by Chernow, so far it is very interesting.
capsized compiled some great quotes from letters Hamilton and Laurens wrote to each other here.And for the less entertaining parts of life, I need to figure out how to get back to working on my thesis. I haven't done much the past few weeks and it's past time.
("figure out how to" instead of just "get back to" because I'm back at that stage where it feels like it just... doesn't work. >.< "I just have to do it" is so easy to say and so hard to, well, do.)
Leise rieselt der Schnee
Dec. 31st, 2014 01:51 pmSnow! Snow everywhere. It's been snowing since Monday, when we drove here. We were very lucky, with the route we chose and our timing we avoided at least three or four major traffic jams. The list of traffic jams and accidents on the radio traffic service became longer each time.
Then we got stuck because there was too much snow on the road upward. Fortunately we could roll down to a petrol station not too far away and they lent us a hydraulic car jack so we could better put on the snow chains that we fortunately brought with us, even though we were sure we weren't going to need them.
Today in the morning my dad decided to show me how to do it (one of the chains had become loose) with the mechanic car jack from our trunk. I was only wearing my pyjamas for breakfast, but I just put on a thick sweater and ski pants (English word?) because I thought it'd just be ten minutes in front of the house. Only then he remembered we still had to go shopping, and I'd wanted to try driving in the snow anyway, right? There's no shop in the small village here, you have to drive three villages further.
So I drove with snow chains for the first time and at first it was fine. Only later the road was already cleared of snow, which made driving with chains more difficult. After one turn I started to spin and ended up with the car turned about 100 degrees to the right in the middle of the road (and another car closely behind, fortunately in sufficient distance.) Not a lot of fun, but the most important part was not panicking. The car safety training I recently did probably came in useful.
Everything is white outside! Almost incredible, after how green it was at Christmas. It's still snowing, and right now there's even a little bit of sun behind very thin clouds. Yesterday we went for a long walk with the dogs, and Pierre (I think) already built two snowmen in the garden.
( Pictures (sadly not very good quality) )
Pierre is a very good cook and dinner tonight will be delicious. LB is coming in a few hours and a few other people too. I hope we'll be able to see the fireworks well.
Two more quick Yuletide recs before author reveals:( Jurassic Park, Asimov's Robot series )
Guten Rutsch!
Then we got stuck because there was too much snow on the road upward. Fortunately we could roll down to a petrol station not too far away and they lent us a hydraulic car jack so we could better put on the snow chains that we fortunately brought with us, even though we were sure we weren't going to need them.
Today in the morning my dad decided to show me how to do it (one of the chains had become loose) with the mechanic car jack from our trunk. I was only wearing my pyjamas for breakfast, but I just put on a thick sweater and ski pants (English word?) because I thought it'd just be ten minutes in front of the house. Only then he remembered we still had to go shopping, and I'd wanted to try driving in the snow anyway, right? There's no shop in the small village here, you have to drive three villages further.
So I drove with snow chains for the first time and at first it was fine. Only later the road was already cleared of snow, which made driving with chains more difficult. After one turn I started to spin and ended up with the car turned about 100 degrees to the right in the middle of the road (and another car closely behind, fortunately in sufficient distance.) Not a lot of fun, but the most important part was not panicking. The car safety training I recently did probably came in useful.
Everything is white outside! Almost incredible, after how green it was at Christmas. It's still snowing, and right now there's even a little bit of sun behind very thin clouds. Yesterday we went for a long walk with the dogs, and Pierre (I think) already built two snowmen in the garden.
( Pictures (sadly not very good quality) )
Pierre is a very good cook and dinner tonight will be delicious. LB is coming in a few hours and a few other people too. I hope we'll be able to see the fireworks well.
Two more quick Yuletide recs before author reveals:( Jurassic Park, Asimov's Robot series )
Guten Rutsch!
Yuletide recs
Dec. 27th, 2014 01:21 pmHave some Yuletide recs in no particular order.
( Fandoms: NFL RPF, Galaxy Quest, Fail_Fandomanon RPF, Great British Bake-Off RPF, Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy, The Maze Runner, Chess )
( Fandoms: NFL RPF, Galaxy Quest, Fail_Fandomanon RPF, Great British Bake-Off RPF, Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy, The Maze Runner, Chess )
