Whispers

The awesomest article on reality in a superhero universe ever.

I know I've said it over and over, what's with all these mutants thinking the only paths available are terrorism or vigilantism? Makes me want to pull together Rehab, but I'm having trouble with the research and cast selection.

Writer Seeking Beta
I'm looking for a shredder: someone that will shred my work apart on a functional, grammatical/spelling, structural, character, world-building, and canon-building level. I have clarity issues. Big ones. Knowledge of X-Men fandoms and possibly Roswell preferred. Also, occasional brainstorming when I can't make my threads work.

I blame lithiumlaughter and xenokattz. They've converted me and I'm considering a crossover. :headdesk:

Also, I've simply decided I don't want to do nonbeta work much more. Most of my writing has gone unbeta'ed and I have a huge amount of X-Men movieverse backlog. I had a queen beta that knew the 'verse and English language awesomely well, but she's AWOL. I have a queen beta that knows 'verse and characters but doesn't shred for me.

So, either/or/both:

• X-Men: movieverse extraordinaire (shredder/brainstorm/language & canon genius) - please good knowledge of other X 'verses, particularly comic canon.
• X-Men/Roswell geek (same as above, but only asking conversant vs. fluent knowledge of Roswell TV shoe)

LJ Notifications
Some reason, LJ, you can't send notifications to my LJ inbox anymore?!? My new email addy is a pain to log in and out of and it's not telling me when friends update. I'll do my best, y'all, to keep up anyway. :growls unhappily:


FicSpam
So I'm up to about twenty chapters of Whispers, four of Humanity, and two of Moments. Can you tell I'm starting on the drabbles? After I get Whispers and Moments taken care of (seeing as they're FINISHED and 100 chapters each, then I'll move on to the others like Pedestal and Like Day Follows Night, etc.


A Map in the Rain
Extending this story to second chapter. It's been in my head for a while, but I'm just now thinking I'll actually write it. :shakes head at self:


Journal Spamming
I love my LJ friends/fam. Please let me know if you ever do feel spammed with my posts or there's ever something you'd rather not read about. Walking that teetering line between transparency and TMI is...tougher than I thought. We'll leave it at that.


Summers Sister
Would anyone mind a story with an OC Summers sister? She showed up several years back in my brain as a possible lab creation of Sinister's but well aware of her relationship to Scott and frankly, one ruthless gal (but for good reasons). But she didn't spring from canon and I hate a poorly devised OC when perfectly good canon characters are available.


X-Men First Class
Anyone know who's in the first class per Marvel movies? I'm writing a fic where that would be good to know.


Reading Habits

Read a book I love, 'cause of the character. More on that later. :winks:

:growls: I find another resource.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_English

So let's just say that doing this job app for transcription has melted my brain cells and I'd like to rebuild. Nothing does that for me better than planning a story. [Note: not working on a story.]

So enter Broken Time.

The amazing luciademedici liked "Entertaining Angels" and wanted more. [I'm still getting over the shock. Someday I'll tell you about the AMAZING writers way better than me that have bowled me over by saying they like my work.]

So, I immediately pulled out my notes and reviewed how much research I'd need to do to make this happen.

First of all, I'm founding the Guild, so that means 300 years of history [did I mention I've never cared for writing historical fiction?] and figuring out what was what in New Orleans at that time. [Note to self: I. Am. Nuts.]

Here we go:

From Wikipedia: "Recognizing the importance of the Mississippi River to trade and military interests, France made New Orleans the seat of civilian and military authority in 1722. From then until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase on December 20, 1803, France and Spain traded control of the region's colonial empire."

Very interesting. Especially as Broken Time starts sometime around 1700. And that means the Guilds might play an interesting part in the primacy of New Orleans.

"France ceded most of its territory to the east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the aftermath of Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War or French and Indian War, as it is known in North America. It retained the area around New Orleans and the parishes around Lake Pontchartrain. The rest of Louisiana became a colony of Spain after the Seven Years' War by the Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1763.

"In 1765, during the period of Spanish rule, several thousand French-speaking refugees from the region of Acadia (now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada) made their way to Louisiana after having been expelled from their homelands by the British during the French and Indian War. They settled chiefly in the southwestern Louisiana region now called Acadiana. The Spanish, eager to gain more Catholic settlers, welcomed the Acadian refugees. Cajuns descend from these Acadian refugees.

"Spanish Canary Islanders, called Isleños, emigrated from the Canary Islands of Spain to Louisiana under the Spanish crown between 1778 and 1783.

"In 1800, France's Napoleon Bonaparte acquired Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso, an arrangement kept secret for two years."

I think I'm going to go nuts. This is a bit of history that could make everything messy. Unless...

Spoilers!

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Updates

All of Moments is on the site! Yay. 08.19.10

New header on The Rogue story arc. Plotting more like it for the other story arcs. 08.18.10

All of Whispers on the site now. Last fic not fully on here is Moments. Only 55 chapters to go. 08.18.10

Like Day Follows Night, chapter three. 08.18.10

Gave the Bibliography section an overhaul. Now includes Canon and Resources and Image Gallery page. 08.17.10

Like Day Follows Night, chapter two. 08.15.10

Additions

New section in Image Gallery: Echo/Ronin. Very important for The Burning story arc. 08.18.10

New page of Image Galleries. More to come on "Comics." 08.16.10

New overall and Gambit/Rogue resources on Bibliography. 08.15.10

New Echo resources on Bibliography. 08.13.10

Forthcomings

Did a bunch of research for Ember, which led to more resources on the "Bibliography" page. 08.13.10

Okay, so as most of y'all know (or ought to), I write a lot of Remyness. I happen to be in love with the character of Remy LeBeau. But I have unearthed some unusual things in my research for a couple fics I'm writing and it's driving me nuts.

First (and more minor): Apparently, Marvel never established his middle name as Etienne. That came from an enormously popular set of fics by Lori McDonald (sp?), her Gestalt Arc. Go figure. Makes me want to scream.

Second (and vital): Gambit's ages for his own and for Etienne's Tillings, in my mind, conflict.

According to Marvel canon, a Guild Thief has to shepherd each new Thief through his Tilling, or rite of passage. Etienne chose a fifteen year old Remy to shepherd him through his. However, Remy was seventeen years old, four months away from marrying Bella Donna, already having trouble with his powers, when he had his Tilling.

?!

How is a Thief who has not passed Tilling supposed to shepherd someone else through his? Very confusing.

Thoughts anyone?

Please. Someone.