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update - warning for discussion of death/depression(ish)

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:42:45 GMT

1. I'm in grad school now. I think it's going pretty good. Politics of Literacy is already pissing me off because of so much stuff I didn't know.

2. I'm back as assistant editor at the place I worked last May to November. They're also paying for me to go to grad school. I won't actually get a paycheck until Feb 21, though.

3. So, I created a tumblr awhile ago that I did nothing with. I'm now posting pictures to it. Every picture is one I took, though there are hundres more I'm not posting. *shrugs* After reading and writing, photography is my favorite thing.

4. I hurt my knee in late November 2012. The doctor told me I had tendonitis and prescribed weight loss, so I joined weight watchers at the end of the year.

5. I bought Teen Wolf for myself earlier this month because so many of my favorite authors write fic for it, and the gifs intrigued me. I've spent the past week devouring fic on Ao3. Stiles is awesome. (I haven't started season 2 yet, though.)

6. No, really, Politics of Literacy is severely pissing me off. Also, I'm going to have to read Hunger Games for Fantasy and Folklore and I really don't want to.

7. I haven't been writing much. The closest thing I have to a grandmother is still dying. I spend some days in a haze of what I think might be depression; that apparently runs in the family. I'm passive-aggressive a lot and should work on that. I sometimes think about driving my car off the road and into the creek I pass over every day, to and from school/work. *shrugs* (I might be in a funk right now.)

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what I've written 2012

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:57:06 GMT

I may come back and edit this into the correct format. I may not. There's a bunch of shit in my personal life right now and I might need the escape.

I'll be posting about the shit later. *sigh* December... worse than October and November. And January might be worse still.

January
Books:
Harry Potter (1)
Mythology
Greek (1)
Norse
Movies:
Inception (1)
TV:
Avatar the Last Airbender (1)
Glee (2)
Highlander (4)
Sherlock (1)
Supernatural (4)
Crossovers:
Glee/X-Men (1)
Inception/White Collar (1)
Inception/RED/White Collar (1)

February
Books:
Harry Potter (1)
TV:
Glee (4)
Highlander (2)
Supernatural (1)
Crossovers:
Addams Family/Glee (1)
Supernatural/Thor (1)
Avengers/Glee (1)

March
Movies:
Ten Inch Hero (1)
Crossovers:
Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
Glee/Princess Diaries (1)
Glee/Supernatural (1)

April
Books:
Fairy tales
Diamonds and Toads (1)
Harry Potter (2)
Movies:
Inception (1)
TV:
Highlander (8)
Supernatural (1)
White Collar (1)
Crossovers:
Inception/RED/White Collar (1)

May
Books:
Harry Potter (1)
Movies:
Avengers (5)
Batman Under the Red Hood (1)
TV:
Glee (1)
Highlander (1)
Supernatural (1)
Crossovers:
Glee/Sky High (1)
Highlander/Inception (1)
Supernatural/X-Men (1)

June
Movies:
Avengers (10)
Inception (1)
TV:
Highlander (2)
Glee (1)
Merlin (1)
Supernatural (2)
Crossover:
Norse myth/Supernatural (1)
Chuck/Inception/White Collar (1)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians/White Collar (1)
Angel the Series/Leverage (1)
Avengers/Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (1)
Avengers/Supernatural (1)
Harry Potter/Merlin (1)
Avengers/Highlander/Norse myth (1)
Avengers/Norse myth (1)
Supernatural/Thor (1)

July:
Books:
Mythology
Greek (2)
Black Jewels series (1)
Movies:
Avengers (9)
The Dark Knight Rises (2)
TV:
Merlin (1)
Crossover:
Supernatural/Avengers (1)
Highlander/Avengers (1)
The Covenant/Avengers (1)
Norse myth/Avengers (1)

August
Movies:
Avengers (4)
The Losers (1)
Dark Knight Rises (2)
Push (1)
TV:
Psych (1)
Political Animals (1)
Crossover:
Highlander/Avengers (1)
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol/Bourne Legacy (1)
White Collar/Avengers/Norse myth/Chuck (1)
Avengers/Norse myth (1)

September
Books:
Mythology
Norse (3)
Harry Potter (1)
Movies:
Avengers (9)
TV:
Political Animals (1)
Kings (1)
Highlander (2)
Supernatural (3)
Merlin (1)
Glee (2)
Criminal Minds (1)
Crossover:
White Collar/Inception/Rock n Rolla (1)
Avengers/Norse myth (1)
Avengers/Highlander
Original:
Prose (2)

October
Books:
Mythology
Greek (1)
Movies:
Avengers (1)
Inception (1)
TV:
Highlander (1)
Glee (4)
Supernatural (1)
Crossover:
Supernatural/Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)

November
TV:
Merlin (1)
Glee (1)
Crossover:
Glee/Merlin (1)
Glee/Biblical (1)
Original:
Prose (2)

December
Books:
Harry Potter (1)
Mythology
Greek (1)
Movies:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (1)
TV:
Glee (2)
Merlin (1)
Highlander (1)
Crossover:
Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1)
Inception/Arthurian legend/mythology (1)
Criminal Minds/White Collar (1)
Leverage/Glee/Supernatural (1)

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Avengers unfinisheds

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:15:19 GMT

So, here is all (but one, and not including I was thinking of a son or a taste of lightning) Avengers fic I have in the works. And these are ones I'm really pretty sure I won't be coming back to.

( Dark Angel crossover )

( random Steve/Bucky angst )

( Loki vs the world )

( Winter Solder waking up )

( Bucky’s family is all Steve has left. )

( Loki the god )

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Leverage/Glee/ Supernatural - future!fic, AU

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:38:39 GMT

Title: shadows yawn and stretch to the east
Fandom: Glee/Leverage/Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: future!fic for all fandoms; AU for Supernatural after season 5
Pairings: (implied) Hardison/Parker/Eliot, (pre) Ben/Molly/Trevor, Kurt/Blaine, Nate/Sophie
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 770
Point of view: third
Notes: written for my own prompt (Leverage/Glee, author’s choice, 15 years in the future, Kurt Hummel is the grifter of Hardison’s team) and the ensuing discussion
More notes: this may be the start of a ‘verse… or I may never come back to it. Either way, it’s been sitting on my laptop for almost a month. *shrugs*
Still more notes: everyone except Ben and Kurt are from Leverage canon; see if you remember who they were *hee*

( This is not where Kurt Hummel saw his life going, back when he was trapped in Ohio and wishing for the stars. )

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comment_fic 771-775: Inception/Arthurian legend, Criminal Minds/WC, HL, Greek myth, Merlin

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:39:42 GMT

Title: King of the heavens before there was time
Fandom: Inception/Arthurian legend/mythology/fantasy
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Twila Paris
Warnings: reincarnation
Pairings: Eames/Arthur
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 365
Point of view: third
Prompt: Inception, Arthur/Eames, "Kill me again."

( They’ve met before. )

Title: secrets
Fandom: Criminal Minds/White Collar
Warnings: implied murder
Pairings: Spencer Reid/Neal Caffrey
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Criminal Minds/White Collar, Spencer/Neal, discovering one another's darkest secrets

( Couldn’t be hidden forever. )

Title: death's time
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 170
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, While a goodbye is said, cities crumble and are forgotten (quote from Einstein's Dreams)

( Joe Dawson dies on a Saturday. )

Title: sins of the father
Fandom: Greek myth
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: implied bad things happening to kids
Pairings: Cronus/Rhea; Zeus/Hera
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: Greek mythology, Zeus with any combination of Poseidon + Hades + Hera + Hestia + Demeter, Mother Rhea always liked me best

( sibling rivalry )

Title: undo
Fandom: Merlin
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 120
Point of view: third
Prompt: Merlin, Merlin +or/ any, Merlin swallows back his tears

( redo )

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2 things

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:02:46 GMT

1. Happy birthday, tigris_lilsis! You're getting so old, dude.

2. I'm in a degree program now! So my previous place of work may hire me back and pay for grad school. *dances* I've gotten into grad school twice!

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their voices soft as thunder

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:55:15 GMT

So, I’ve never liked the song ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ from Les Mis. Like, never. I’ve heard the original Broadway version (via CD), Susan Boyle, a local production, Rachel and her mom from Glee – and I haven’t liked any of them.

Then I heard Anne Hathaway in the Les Mis preview and I shivered. I’ve wanted to cry every time I see a preview for that movie because of how haunting that song is. tigris_lilsis said it’s because Anne Hathaway is acting the song, not just singing it. She’s not doing the big, sweeping thing – she’s dragging that song down into her pit of despair, and it works. It really REALLY works.

And then I saw a little TV spot about the movie, and it turns out? That’s how every song in the movie is performed. Not lip-synching to previously recorded songs they did. No, they’ve performed every take live, so each song is acted.

Dudes. Les Mis is pretty much my favorite soundtrack ever. I can listen to pretty much every song over and over and over again.

This movie is going to kick ass.

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comment_fic 766-770: Glee, BtVS/SN, HP, Percy Jackson

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:19:09 GMT

Title: one day
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: bullying/violence; pre-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Kurt + bullies, "Mean" (Taylor Swift)

( Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city and all you're ever gonna be is mean )

Title: Xander's type
Fandom: Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU for both series; post-BtVS and I know nothing of the comics
Pairings: pre-Jo/Xander
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 85
Point of view: third
Prompt: Buffy/Supernatural, Xander/Jo, the need to fight evil things.

( Xander's type is girls not even half his size who can kick his ass. )

Title: moonbright
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU pre-series
Pairings: Remus/Sirius, James/Lily
Rating: PG(13)
Wordcount: 515
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius, Remus was the Potters' secret-keeper

( He takes the secret and he runs. )

Title: dessert
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: fluff; future!fic
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PG
Wordcount:100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, comfort food
Note: if I'd been allowed more than a hundred words, they'd have been turned into serial killers.

( Kurt's mom used to make chocolate cupcakes that she'd ice with a peanut butter glaze. )

Title: daring the sea
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: future!fic AU; movieverse
Pairings: Luke/Percy
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 220
Point of view: third
Prompt: Percy Jackson & the Olympians (movieverse or AU), Luke/Percy (&others), when he said "I'd turn to the dark side for you," he never dreamed he'd ever be faced with the choice

( Percy is given a choice. )

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sighs

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:27:22 GMT

So, it turns out that November wasn't much better than October. Here's hoping for December.

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Merlin/Harry Potter part 2 - gen, AU

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:25:10 GMT

Title: were you lost, I would be
Fandom: Harry Potter/Merlin (BBC)/Arthurian legend
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Dickinson.
Warnings: AU for Harry Potter; future! and reincarnation!fic for Merlin; has not been picked through for Americanisms
Pairings: Emrys’ mom/Emrys’ dad; Arthur’s mom/Arthur’s dad, totally preslash for Merlin/Arthur
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1920
Point of view: third

Year 1

( Because it was easier for wizards to go to muggles than for muggles to go to wizards, Emrys and Arthur had planned to meet at Emrys’ house. )

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Glee/Biblical - where no shadow stays - Klaine, AU, PG

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:44:58 GMT

Title: where no shadow stays
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: AU; dub-con elements, maybe; I play around with Biblical mythology; mentions of past violence; character death
Pairings: Blaine/Kurt, Burt/Mama Hummel
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1700
Point of view: third

( Kurt Hummel’s mother was an angel. )

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WIP paragraphs

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:29:31 GMT

Here are the first paragraphs of fics in the works.

...

The first time Blaine touches Kurt’s hand, that very first day, the innocent spy on the stairs, he wonders, What do you think I am?

If Arthur had the choice, he'd lock himself in his grandfather's library and teach himself magic.

Kurt Hummel is possibly the least fragile person Sue Sylvester has ever met. He’s got this core of steel in him, tempered in the heart of a volcano, and the way he looks at people, sometimes, like he could rip out their throats and keep walking – well.

All Lucy ever wanted was to be beautiful and lovely and happy. Of those three, beautiful was the most important, so she worked hard and begged her parents and remade herself as Quinn - beautiful Quinn all the boys want and all the girls want to be.

Because of his bloodline, Blaine was allowed to wear a hat in class. He usually didn’t; at his old school, he hadn’t been able to because of the equality laws. Before high-school, he hadn’t needed to. It wasn’t until the bullying really took off, right before the Sadie Hawkins’ dance, that his bloodline kicked in.

The first class with Professor Umbridge went well enough, Emrys thought. He copied down the course aims and read the assigned chapter quickly. No one wanted to draw Professor Umbridge’s attention because her shouting match with Harry Potter had already made the rounds.

“Let me guess,” Blaine says, slumping down next to Kurt on Alec’s couch, “this week, we’re, uh, stealing the Crown Jewels to feed orphans in – um, some war-torn country somewhere?”

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