Lurker Central

This is my very favorite ficathon:


intoabar

The concept is that you pick a character, any character, and then anywhere from 1-4 fandoms. The mods then use the magic of random dice rolls pick which character from one of those fandoms your first one will walk into a bar (or tavern or inn or Starbucks or whatever) and meet. It is genius. Sign ups end May 13th!

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It's for a new OMGALLTHEDEADLINES post, because I can't keep dates straight otherwise:

crossbigbang: Rough drafts due June 3rd, 10K minimum.
intoabar: Last posting day June 21st, 500 word minimum (ha!)
deancasbigbang: Rough drafts due August 15th, 20K word minumum.

And I still have to write something for Kink Bingo amnesty if I want to grab a card this year. I should to check what the mini challenge is for this month.

(I still have NO FRACKING IDEA what I'm writing for DCBB. I'm seriously considering grabbing some of my WiPs and putting up a poll. Would anyone vote in that? That sounds pitiful, doesn't it? Sigh.)

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Tomorrow is spn_j2_bigbang claims day! Hold me, internets!

Okay, so my DCSS story is safely in aerilex's capable hands and I'm taking a quick break from working on my cc_exchange fic, which God willing should be done tonight. I hope!

Once those two are out of the way I should finally be able to catch up on comments (so behind omg) and on fic, because there's been been some awesome fic posted lately from spn_reversebang, including the dragon AU and the sniper AU ones, both of which were on my list. (I still have the outline for the sniper!AU I put together while waiting for claims to open, but it would probably be bad form to write it now with an official story posted, especially one that looks so good.) And axilet finished my birthday fic, the 2014!Cas switch one! I've been using getting to read that as motivation to meet my exchange deadlines.

Soon, lovely fics! Soon I will be able to read you all!

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The Christmas Card post is still open! If you'd like a card from me, just leave a comment!

Managed to get in my spn_reversebang draft in on time and without any power loss shenanigans! Victory! \o/ (ammo, if you want a look at a really rough draft and see this before I email you first, just give me the word!)

This means I have now met all of my October deadlines! Double victory! (Technically, I still have a couple of scenes to write for one of my polybigbangs, but I met the rough draft deadline.) Now of course come a whole new set of deadlines - three things due the first week of December! - but I have a little breathing room to finish the polybang and finish outline my dc_dystopia.

Frankenstorm wise, my batteries have been purchased and the air conditioners are removed and the garbage cans are all in the basement, so I'm decently prepared. I'll do the whole fill the tub thing tonight just in case but my area is usually pretty good when it comes to storms. I haven't flooded during past few and didn't lose power for more than a few minutes during Irene, so let's hope that string of good luck holds. *crosses fingers* (I'm always more worried about something landing on my car during storms than anything else.)

How is everyone? Hatches all battened? What the hell was wrong with the Jets today? And who out there is going to write me Digg/Ollie fic from the new Arrow show? :BIG EYES:

So, I um...may have signed up for Round 3 of dc_dystopia. /o\ I blame how competitive I get with claims.

So it's time for a bookkeeping post, just so I have all the due dates for the holiday exchanges or what have you I've signed up for or will sign up for shortly rolling up in Nov/Dec nice and orderly and in once place.

cc_exchange: 1K minimum, due Dec. 5th
deancas_xmas: 1500 minimum, due Dec. 3rd
dc_dystopia: 5K minimum, due Dec. 8th
Yuletide: 1K minimum, due Dec 22nd

It'll be fun to see what those word counts actually wind up clocking in as. Kind of betting higher than the minimums, especially since I don't have the exchange assignments yet.:)

So I went and signed up for the spn_gen_bigbang (minibang version) after all because willpower, it's something I do not have. It's wee-chesters with a TFW twist - a monster that attacked Sam and Dean when they were children, one that can only be perceived and defeated by children, comes for them again in their dreams. Hopefully I can stretch a nightmare to 5K.

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So, now with that done, let's have another round of Overcommitment Theater!

sncross_bigbang
Final draft due date: May 25th
Status: Back from beta, working through edits.

spn_j2_bigbang
Posting date: July 10th
Status: In the final stages of polishing to make it ready to send to betareading.

deancasbigbang
Due date: August 15th
Status: Still trying to figure out what happens between two plot points in the last act. Real work begins June 1st. (whooo!)

dc_dystopia
Due date: June 23rd
Status: Fic is started and plotted out. Hopeful the idea has 5K in it, because I'm terrible at judging that kind of thing.

Avengers/SPN Crossover
Posting Date: June 2nd (for Reasons!:)
Status: About 2K in, plotted out. Coulson Is Unhappy.:)

spn_gen_bigbang
Due date: July 9th
Status: Idea is had?

Time to update the list of things I've signed up for and dates I'm dreading.

super_disney
Posting date: May 4th
Status: Done and betaed. Title remains elusive.

sncross_bigbang
Due date: April 17th
Status: Rough draft done at ~32K. Up to elbows in editing. Dreading summary time.

spn_j2_bigbang
Due date: May 1st
Status: In progress and about 1/3 of the way done at ~9K. Poor Cas.

deancasbigbang
Due date: August 15th
Status: Mostly plotted out. Realized how little I know about carpentry.

dc_dystopia
Due date: June 23rd
Status: EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Y'know, written out like that it really is starting to look like I should be kept away from the internet for my own good.

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It's already clear to me that I'm not going to survive waiting for the dc_dystopia art claims. (EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!)

jimmybigbang progress:



Whoooooo! It's not very good and still needs work but there are words and it's sent in and doooonnnneeee!

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morganoconner did this to me. I was supposed to be safe! She posted about how she was picking The Little Mermaid and was going to write Dean/Cas but changed her mind, and I commented with a Dean/Cas idea (my usual: Dean and Cas meet, Cas gets into trouble, Dean goes to save him, you know the drill) but that was okay because the prompt was taken.

But then I went and looked at the prompts and Flight of the Navigator was there and guys, I loved that movie so much when I was a kid. And it works so well as a Dean/Cas prompt, with Cas as the alien who kidnaps Dean and brings him back eight years later not realizing what a big deal that is, and there's guilt and misunderstandings and stupid, stupid risk taking! Cas skulking around disguised as a human! Dean saving Cas from the bad guys even though he still kind of hates him! Bonding because Cas is the only one who don't treat him like a freak!

You all are supposed to keep me from doing things like like this!

At least it's not another big bang?

jimmybigbang progress:



Whoo progress! I'm a little over half way through my outline and should definitely break 10K tonight. My extension deadline is the 28th, so if I can keep this going I should definitely be able to make that.

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Also, I signed up for spn_j2_bigbang. That's two new ones, now. For the love of fuzzy kittens, people, please don't let me sign up for anything else. I cannot be trusted to act in my own self-interest on this.

jimmybigbang progress:



Ugh, I hate asking for extensions. Final drafts were due yesterday but I couldn't grab anything close to the amount of writing time I'd hoped over the holidays. Also, signing up for three different challenges with due dates in Dec-Jan probably wasn't my brightest moment. Four, actually, counting fandom_stocking. God, it's like a sickness.

Speaking of, I did manage to write four little things for that, so I'll post one of those tomorrow night. Maybe the angsty one. And the deancas_xmas reveals are Saturday! *dances*

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Now that I've admitted I have a sickness, sncross_bigbang sign-ups are Friday and I am tempted. If I sign up I think I'll go with my White Collar idea, where Neal's sold his soul and it causes all kinds of problems. Although Doctor Who is also tempting. And Human target. And ooh, my L4D2 idea I've rambled about where it's 5.04!verse and everyone goes to hell.

Seriously, if I was on the Legion of Superheroes my name would be Indecisive Lass and my power would be to baffle villains with my inability to make decisions.

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Can someone come over and do my dishes? Please? What if I make puppy eyes? {puppy eyes}

I signed up for GISHWES! At least, I think I did; I had to edit the email and resubmit it, and there's always the possibility I failed the essay portion of the exam. But nothing is being announced until the 18th from what I gather, so we'll see if I managed to do this right.

These two were my favorite of Misha's countdown tweets today:

@mishacollins: Registration closes in 4 hours. i'm afraid, very afraid. A sh*t load of people have signed up. it's going to be mayhem.

@mishacollins: Less than 3 hours to register. This was a bad idea. it'll take hundreds of hours to review submissions. I have a family.

<3

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It is killing me that dc_dystopia's time frame is exactly the same as jimmybigbang's (the rough drafts are literally due within days of each other) because it hit me that would be the perfect excuse to write the SPN/24 crossover I've been kicking around the past few months.

OR! Or my 2014!Cas-does-drugs-because-Lucifer-keeps-walking-through-his-dreams idea! That would also work! Why does everything cool have to go on at the same time?!?

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So last night I had a dream where I was watching Human Target (God, I miss my show) where the case wound up taking a decidedly supernatural turn. The team all brainstormed what to when Guerrero walked in, heard the story, said, "I know a guy" and called up Bobby (because Guerrero and Bobby both know everyone.) Bobby sent in Sam and Dean with Cas along for the ride; when they all walked in Guerrero took one look at Cas and said, "Hey bro, been a while," just as cool as you please. Apparently Guerrero had pulled a Gabriel, only instead of an angel pretending to be a trickster he was an angel slumming it as a human assassin.

That was as far as I got before Lexi in all her grace knocked something over and woke me up, and I'm not sure how I feel about my brain coming up with that. On hand, the concept that Guerrero essentially fell for Chance the way Cas fell for Dean amuses me, and I like the image of the two of them sighing over their pain in the ass humans. On the other hand, one of the things I like most about Guerrero is that he has a kid, and I don't even know if vesseled angels can do that. I mean, Jesse Turner being conceived in a demon-possessed body made him the antichrist.

Although the idea that Guerrero's son might be the Second Coming is hilarious.

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Back to writing. I will have this deancas_xmas fic done and in beta shape tonight if it kills me.