Lurker Central

Last week I emailed my beta asking if she was up for looking at a fic and because she's wonderful she said sure, go ahead. Then work got busy and I didn't have time to wonder why I haven't heard back (and obviously there's thoughts like "Well, probably it needs a lot of work." And I like to give a week, otherwise I feel clingy and pathetic.:)

But then today rolls around and I think, "Hey, it has been awfully quiet. Has it been a week yet? Let me check." So I go to my sent file and realize I never actually sent the fic. Because I am SO DUMB. *throws up hands*

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Otherwise on the fic-writing front, over the weekend I had a dream that crossed over Human Target and Heroes and I've been playing with the idea. So far I have 2K of what will probably be a 4-5K first chapter. It's gen casefile, the kind of thing I always get ideas for but never commit to because writing a fic that size is daunting but I'm going to try to stick this out. I've missed writing Heroes and obviously Guerrero would know Claude, because Guerrero knows everyone. (Writing this is also helping stave off the will-Fox-cancel-my-show? blues. Hand to God, I've never felt this kind of anxiety about a show before. I don't tend to fall for bubble shows; virtually everything I've really loved can be sorted into "smash hit" (Lost, Doctor Who, Heroes) or "doomed from the start" (Firefly, Threshold). And Fox has burned me so many times in the past.

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I'm going to hold off on going in depth on "Time Of The Angels" until the story finishes next week, except for this: ( spoiler )

( My crack River Song theory, let me show you it )

davincis_girl made art for Leave The Confusion And All Disillusion. No one's ever made fanart for one of my fics before and I feel all shocked and flattered and squeeful. Thank you!

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I'm putting this out of a cut because it's less a spoiler and more of an enticement: there was an honest-to-God sword fight on tonight's Human Target. A mace was also involved. Why are more of you not watching this show?!?

With that out of the way, ( spoilers for 1x11, Victoria )

Is next week the season finale already?! ( casting spoilers and spec )

If Fox doesn't renew my show I will be SO SAD. Especially if the episode ends on a cliff hanger. I need Jackie Earle Haley committing felonies on my TV every week.

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So tonight I have to edit this fic enough that I won't be embarrassed to send it to beta, then see if I can throw something together in time to make dark_fest. Wish me luck!

Or geeks, if you prefer. There's no other way to explain ( Spoilers for 1x08, Baptiste )

Show? Totally forgiven for the whole Rundown thing last week. Keep this up.

ETA: speaking of geeks and nerds, there's something called a Suvudu cage match going on and one of the current brackets is Jaime Lannister vs. Cthulhu. This inspired grrm to write fic depicting how he thinks the battle would go.:) I am not even kidding a little bit. This is the kind of isspired geekery that makes me completely okay with the wait for A Dance With Dragons.

( Spoilers for Salvage & Reclamation. That's why you don't let Guerrero come up with the plan, Winston )

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I haven't forgotten about the 5 Questions meme. I am just a loooooser. As penance, check this out:
SMALL FANDOMS FRIENDING MEME

sisabet has posted how Lady Gaga's Bad Romance might as well be the Clark/Lex theme song, but it would also work really really well for Osborn/Sentry.

I want your ugly, I want your disease....

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Check this out!

dark_fest

The multifandom fest for fanfiction with dark themes has just opened for prompt submission. We're looking for prompts in any fandom that will give a writer a chance to tell a dark and twisted tale. This is a fest about difficult subject matter, moral ambiguities, unhappy endings, no win scenarios, secrets, lies and shames, psychological messes, a look into the void, bad deeds, bad thoughts, bad decisions, twists of the canon mood or themes, pure evil, or good intentions paving the road to hell.

Prompt submission is open now until February 14th.
Prompt claiming runs from February 15th - February 25th, with finished fics due by April 8th.
For more info, check out the FAQ here

It's set up like the lgbtfest, a prompt challenge instead of a fic exchange and you can submit prompts without having to commit yourself to writing. I submitted some prompts already, and since I already have fics on my plate I'm unlikely to participate further unless I stumble over a prompt that makes a fic spill fully-formed from my brain to the computer.

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( spoilers for Human Target )

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I still have not seen Lost. Woe.