Yesterday Stats

1. I updated the ficlist.


2. Finished the first draft of my MCU Ladies Ficathon piece and shipped it to beta. Last chapter is riddled with typos. Oops.


3. Matched up a scene with a prompt from geckoholic's birthday meme and finished "Babysitting Requires Babies and Other Rules of SHIELD Agent Training."


4. Wrote a Trope Bingo piece, "The Road to Sweden," by randomly choosing a character from my fandom list that I don't write very often.


5. I'm making a tagset of my fandoms, characters, and pairings, so I won't always write only the ones off the top of my head.


6. Made further progress on fusion fic before realizing I don't actually write Steve and Bucky interacting that often and it shows. Trying again today.

Pseuds

Just realized one of my favorite writers has multiple pseuds and I'd missed that, so decided to do a brief heads up about my pseuds:

First, the original, scribblemyname on Fanfiction.net.

A ton of Rogue/Remy work that's not crossposted to AO3 because I had a TON before I decided AO3 was viable for crossposting. Also WIPs. This year, my resolution is to knock off one or two of them, especially Son o' de Guild, if possible.

On Archive of Our Own (AO3):

• I Used To Be an Artist (scribblemyname)

  9 works

  
  

  Fanart, icons, etc.

  
  



• Remember When (scribblemyname)

  23 works, 76 recs

  
  

  Experiments and potentially inclined to be orphaned.

  
  



• scribblemyname (scribblemyname)

  179 works, 863 recs




• WriteItSmall (scribblemyname)

  275 works

  
  

  Most of my stuff under 300 words. Trying to give readers a heads-up about the tiny stuff now that I'm crossposting it.

  
  

Driveby Journaling: Grammar Edition

From Wikipedia (and attested by any good grammar book):

A run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction.

I do not write run-on sentences. I write long, complex sentences that Nabokov puts to shame.

As you were.

Fandom Promo Post: Razor Sharp (2006) - Short Movie

Let me begin by saying I love this little movie, I love the comic book vibe of it, I love the banged up operation, I love the characters, and I love the dialogue. I nominate it almost every exchange I participate in and it's short enough I beg you to watch it and decide whether it's your own cuppa.

Less than 30 minutes, but it packs in the characterization of a small crew with a lot of history, backstory with a sleazy but fun fence, and an interesting plot. It feels like the pilot of a half hour tv show to me with a banged up operation like Firefly, thieves and grifters like Leverage (minus a tad bit of the altruism), and a fun comic book feel without the superpowers.

It has hilarious dialogue, like, "Just wait while I reboot my brain here."

The Characters

Veronica Sharpe: a thief/corporate grifter with a code of ethics. She'll steal software or hardware, but not art and certainly not what Dex just dropped in her lap. Played by Cassidy Freeman, aka Tess Mercer in Smallville. She's a little clumsy with a lot of heart and a knack to keep going and get the job done creatively and humorously despite a whole lot of problems along the way.

Bryce: the Russian mastermind who worked with her father and provides the banged up gear they use. Veronica's clearly like his daughter and he has some of the funniest lines in the film—and a computer he calls her sister. Priceless.

Dex: the fence with the stack of jobs and the "fruity lapels." Dex found Veronica after their last disagreement and parting of the ways by tracking her Macy's card. Somehow he's endearing while simultaneously offputting. Played by Michael T. Weiss, aka the Pretender. Yeah, that pretender.

Isis: A hacker kid who doesn't know what to make of Veronica's "unprofessionalism" but quickly gets with the program, turns helpful, and is no damsel in distress. She hits Veronica upside the head before she figures out they're allies. Played by Skye McCole Bartusiak.

If I yak any more here, I'm going to spoil the whole thing. Just watch it?