Whispers

Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax and Cabbages and Kings

2019-11-10T18:24:26Z

Lots of things on plate, starting with I have a strong tendency to disappear when I'm not feeling well. And that happens far too often.

But I'm alive and thoroughly into my new fandom, each more obscure than the last, but seriously, I am in love with Accelerator as a character and have eaten up all the anime for A Certain Scientific Accelerator, most of A Certain Scientific Railgun (I got impatient getting to the Sisters storyline, what can I say?), and all of A Certain Magical Index, then poked around in the manga for a bunch of Accelerator bits, and am now inhaling every bit of the LNs that feature him (I'm currently in the middle of Volume 15; no, I did not read all the non-Accelerator bits and I should, I know).

That said, I'm gonna have to rewrite my first completed treat for Happy Belated Treatmas and still want to write 5 others. I gotta get some good writing time, which is tough with me always having work-related stuff to do on the weekends. It's possible I should not run Freeform Flash at the end of the month, though I was looking forward to it. Now it feels stressful. We'll see if next week gets better.

And I think of stories way too fast, faster than I can write them. I've got three full grown stories in my head that happened in a week or two but I haven't had time to write them and am worried I'm gonna lose some of them before I have enough time to get them all down. Gah, why?

I also need to develop a better system of getting stuff distributed. I'm doing better at logging new writing, but it's still work and I'm behind. I've got first access on the patreon, but it means I need to do a better job at putting things in first access, telling people they exist, then moving them to general access. System creation, this is a thing I need to do and am good at doing when I have the time/energy— See the first sentence of this post.

Hope everyone's doing well! What's going on in your world? How's the writing? How's fandom? Reading/watching/otherwise consuming anything new and great?

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K: Kingdom of Red

2019-03-10T03:47:41Z

I've just got to say that reading K: Kingdom of Red, the light novel, really puts into perspective how Kusanagi and Mikoto and Totsuka relate to each other and society and it's a fantastic story of how Homura happened, which was mostly by accident. I really love it.

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Everything and Sundry

2018-12-28T15:34:29Z

So we wrapped up the Bungou Stray Dogs Rolling Remix, Christmas, and I'm utterly buried in work, which put a crimp in all my late treat plans when they didn't come together on first (or tenth) tackle.

That said, highly recommend all the stories from the remix. There are eight, including mine, and I read the whole collection. It was so, so good, even the stuff for a ship I'm not normally into. I love how they all delved into the characters and relationships, and you should go read if you haven't.

I am halfway through commenting because I was raring to comment and realized that I would de-anon if I did so at the time, so I waited and then was in the thick of the buried at work stuff. And I'm more interested in writing good comments that express how I really feel than Loved it! Not that there's anything wrong with a Loved it! but seriously. I've been doing a lot of that lately what with everything that's happened.

We made it through Christmas. It's hard, and it hurts, and I'm spending a lot more time than I can afford with my family just because it helps raise my grandfather's spirits and that's priceless right now. It was a good Christmas overall and that was more than I truly expected, so I'm grateful. I haven't sent out cards this year and I reserved my funds for gifting family members, but if anyone does want a fic / ficlet, feel free to comment and I'm going to try and do a little January treatathon. Maybe the fic that doesn't want to be written will come together as something better than snippets and snatches in the interim. (I was going to do a lot of Fandom Stocking treating, but the way it's all rolled out has just made it impossible to retain enthusiasm for that project.)

I'm maybe a quarter of the way through my Chocolate Box letter, and I think I'm going to keep my exchanges this year down to Chocobox and Multifandom Drabble, which I run, so not skipping that one.

I've had a really successful Lexember, a month-long challenge to coin a word a day for your conlang. I went with Akachenti because I finally got somewhere on the protolanging business this year when I was grieving hardest and found that fiction wouldn't come. I haven't coined words every day, but I've coined lots of words several days, and so am way ahead on the average.

There's been so much good new content coming out for K Project, lots of delightful or heart-wrenching shorts and K Seven Stories is already live and available and free—and in Japanese. I need to learn it so I don't have to keep waiting for translations.

I'm almost to the need for a year wrap up post with an indication of what I challenged myself to write, what I actually wrote, and all that good stuff for the year, but I didn't do quite as good a job at logging things as I ought to have, so I'll probably be a few days late with that. But on some fronts, I was surprised at how productive a year it was considering how bad the year has been overall. I started off having a meltdown in January, barely keeping head above water at work through the middle, and lost my grandmother towards the end, who's pretty much the most important person in my life, alongside my sister. And yet, it wasn't all bad either. I picked up new fandoms, made new friends (whom I adore), better reconnected with old friends (whom I also adore), wrote roughly 700 poems and more than 100 drabbles and actually committed original fiction again. Didn't finish that novel, but did finish a 15K novelette I'm still itching to write the sequel to. Not horrible everywhere.

I hope you all are doing fantastic and have an excellent last weekend of the year!

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I've Got Goodies

2018-09-25T09:42:50Z

And I seriously owe a rec post of all the lovely gifts (♥ ♥ ♥!) I’ve received during this time (when I had to default on a lot of stuff to keep my sanity with everything going on with the family right now).

Soon.

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Crossposting

2018-05-15T18:48:10Z

Crossposting is hard.

My old fanfic is on FF.net. Some of my MCU made it there and most of my MCU fic is on AO3. Everything since AO3, namely the growing pile of exchange fic, K and BSD drabbles and fic, etc. is all on AO3. The poetry and some of the more recent drabbles are on tumblr. The original fiction is… a mess. Let’s leave it at that.

Crossposting is really hard.

I’m partly tempted to knock off with FF.net, but that’s not a great idea and I’d like to get back to it, but if I just pick up where I’m at now, it’s going to get hard to figure out where I “left off” crossposting and ever gap fill. Maybe I’ll just schedule time blocks to get these two archives synced.

:headdesk:

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Marvel Is Marvel 2017 - Sign Ups Open!

2017-10-18T14:36:07Z

banner by broadbeam

The idea here is to organize a gift exchange designed for Marvel and its many branched runs, authors, related and unrelated fandoms. The idea is to include the X-Men side and the Avengers side and every other side that non-Marvel fans don't realize is Marvel. The idea is to include any timeline you want, any world you want, any character you want, so long as it's Marvel.

NOW OPEN FOR SIGN UPS

Dreamwidth Community | LiveJournal Feed | 2017 AO3 Collection | 2017 Tagset

Nominations: Sunday, September 24 - Saturday, October 14

Sign Ups: Tuesday, October 17 - Sunday, October 29

Assignments Out: Monday, November 6

Works Due: Saturday, December 9

Works Revealed: Sunday, December 17

Authors Revealed: Sunday, December 24

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franzi's and gecko's friends letter 2017

2017-08-02T18:09:30Z

Dear wonderful writer!

Thank you for writing me a story, and please don’t mind the wall of text. Read what’s useful, ignore what isn’t. I will love pretty much anything you write for me. Thank you so, so, so much!

General squicks, triggers, and loves by category.

General:

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Tropes:

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Kinks:

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Fandoms:

Divergent Series

Four/Tris

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Mission: Impossible (Movies)

Brandt, Jane Carter, Luther, Ilsa

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Brandt/Carter

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X-Men (Movieverse)

Rogue

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Erik/Mystique, Charles/Raven

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Shadowcat/Pyro

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Leverage

Parker, Eliot

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Bourne (Movies)

Bourne, Nicky, Landy

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Aaron/Marta

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Marvel Cinematic Universe

Clint/Natasha

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Fic Positivity

2017-07-31T02:36:51Z

COME PLAY @ THE [ FIC POSITIVITY FEEDBACK MEME ]
my thread here

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Be the First

2017-04-20T19:05:02Z

I actually am not very happy with what I got written, but hey, it's written and out of my head and in the nick of time.

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Andromeda Promptathon

2015-07-19T19:11:59Z

Prompts can be:

Quotes from the beginning of the episodes
Quotes from the actual episodes/characters
Prompts for the characters/world
Prompts for fusions/crossovers
Prompts for original characters in the Andromeda world

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Prompts and Drabbles

2015-07-06T17:12:46Z

I'm getting ready to read about 100,000 words of canon review for the collaboration, which is no small chunk, and before I do, I kind of wanted to write some drabbles. Any prompts?

fandom or canon - tagset of fandoms
character(s)
fluff or angst
one to three word prompt

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