amathela: ([oc] julie)
Be cool, Gail. Be cool. ([personal profile] amathela) wrote2009-09-19 12:07 pm

Put out the fire on us

(I feel like I'm maybe posting way too much lately? Or maybe that's just because I spent last month being a complete LJ hermit. But I keep having stuff to say, and then forgetting to stay other stuff, until it's just this big pile of ... whatever, this is getting out of hand already.)

Numbered lists, so I can pretend to be organised:

01. [livejournal.com profile] remixthedrabble sign ups are officially closed. I think this is going to be an awesome round already, and now I just need to actually, you know, match people up. But I already have a spreadsheet! So I feel as if I'm at least a little prepared in that regard.

02. [personal profile] oxoniensis is once again hosting the awesome Fall Fandom Free-For-All. Basically, you can go over there and leave a list of up to ten fannish things (fic, vids, art) you'd like, and then go looking through other peoples' comments to see what you can give in return. And other people volunteer to make stuff for you. It's totally fun and joy-inducing. Anyway, my wish list is here, so if you have one already, or you end up posting one, link me to it? There may be something I can do.

03. I think I may already be inclined to write a sequel to The Night Moves. Even though it's really just a PWP. Like, it occurred to me while writing it that there was this whole plot with the possibly-evil professor that was necessary for the fic to happen, but that kind of got swept under the rug in favour of porn, and ... I actually do know what was going on there. And I feel like maybe I want to write it? With actual plot this time, and Justin and Alex dealing with the whole closet thing and maybe hooking up again. Mostly, it was just a fleeting thought, but then I was idly sort of thinking about it, and I thought, "If I wrote this, it could totally be called The Shake Up." (For anyone who doesn't love season four of The O.C. as much as I do, which is maybe everyone, they're both episode names.) And then it had a title, which ... means it's already kind of a thing in my head?

And, okay, so I know it goes The Shake Up > The Night Moves, but, that could be kind of quirky? To title them out of order? And basically, I love The O.C. S4, and random cross-fandom references that nobody but me cares about, way too much not to write this now. And also, like, Alex and Justin were supposed to be at Wiz Tech all summer (setting aside what that does to the timeline, because, well, Justin meets Miranda about eight episodes after their first kiss, so), and we only saw ... maybe a week of that, or something? I really feel like Further Adventures At Wiz Tech is a rich and mostly unexplored source of potential fic.

... One day, I will write post-movie fic, I swear.

04. I really was looking forward to the [livejournal.com profile] apocalyptothon bonus round this year, and I have just started to realise that maybe that's not going to happen? Which is a shame. I do love apocafic, despite my general aversion to angst. (Although, to be fair, two of the three [livejournal.com profile] apocalyptothon fics I've written were not particularly angsty.)