I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

A month ago, I wasn't sure if Justin/Alex fandom was big enough to sustain an entire kink meme (but screw it, it was an awesome idea).

Since omgjustinalex went live, people have left 97 prompts, and written 36 fics. And it's still going on. (This may not seem like a lot, compared to other fandoms, but we're teeny tiny, so I think it's totally impressive.)

SO, BASICALLY WE'RE AWESOME. ILU GUYS SO MUCH ♥

I've written seven fics for it so far, and, yeah, more are probably on their way.


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Also, it looks like both Wizards Of Waverly Place and Disney RPF are qualifying fandoms for yuletide! Which is awesome; you guys already know I'm totally requesting WOWP fic for that, right?

And speaking of yuletide, I'm thinking my other requests will probably be Miss Match (again; I swear I'm going to keep requesting this fandom until somebody ever writes fic for it, you know you want to), Greek (also again), and maybe Centre Stage? Ooh, or She's The Man, yay! Disney RPF is tempting, but I'm thinking about requesting that, even as a wild card fandom, for prettylightsfic, so we'll see.

(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. 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. 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 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 apocalyptothon fics I've written were not particularly angsty.)

I got a Dreamwidth invite! I'm amathela over there as well, so stop by and say hi, and let me know if you have an account there already. I'm not planning on leaving LiveJournal, but new and shiny things never fail to excite me, so I think I'll at least give Dreamwidth a chance (and it seems fairly compatible with LJ, so that's a plus).

So far, I've imported my journal, and I have a sticky post up here, if you want or need to get in touch with me.

And sabaceanbabe, I swear I haven't forgotten about your birthday fic! It's mostly finished (I admit, I've been distracted and dragging my feet), but hopefully it should be posted soon.

[testing the cross-post function ...]

I really can't believe BSG is over. I wasn't caught up on it until tonight, but now I've watched the final episodes, so ...

( Battlestar Galactica )

In honour of the occasion: community recs!

bsg_pornbattle. Prompting is open until the end of the 23rd, so you should all go leave some prompts. Because what's more cathartic than porn, really?

bsg_refrak. What better way to deal with the show ending than to start it all over again? The rewatch of the miniseries is beginning this week, and god, the nostalgia! Like, do you remember when Helo wasn't going to be brought back for the series? (No, seriously.) Or when Lee and Adama didn't get along? When Adama and Roslin didn't get along? When Kara and Lee were Starbuck and Apollo? When the entire series was so full of promise, and we had no idea how it was all going to end up? Come along for the ride!

I signed up for thelittlebang. I'm really excited - I've had this story idea and notes sitting around on a list of Things I Should Write for ages, so this should be an awesome motivation for me to, y'know, actually write it. Plus, this will be the first Big Bang (or, well, Little Bang, obviously) I've participated in, and 15,000 words sounds like a manageable way to try to ease into that.

Writers need two betas, and people writing in small fandoms need to bring at least one of their own. I've already asked talumin if he'd be willing to do it (which went something like -

amathela: Would you be willing to beta a femslash -
talumin: Yes!)

But if anyone on my friends list would be interested in beta-ing a 15,000 word She's The Man (Olivia/Viola) rom-com, that'd be awesome.

And the writing period doesn't start until March, which is good, because it gives me time to plot and outline and stuff, plus to finish up a few of the fics I'm currently working on before that.


Also, since it's February, I figured now would be a good time to check in with my Fannish New Year's Resolutions.

( Progress, updates, etc. )

Stuff I want to do in fandom in 2009:

- Leave more feedback. This is number one, because, honestly, I'm usually really bad at this. Which sucks, because I know how much I cherish every single comment I receive. So, I'm going to make a concentrated effort to leave feedback on stuff I read and love, even if it's just "I loved this!" or something equally inane.

- Write longer fics, even if it means I write fewer fics. I have quite a few plot bunnies/outlines/ideas for longer fics that I never get around to finishing because, well, I'm lazy, and writing something I can finish in a few days instead of a few weeks or months appeals to my desire for instant gratification. I still do want to write those fics, though, so this year I'm going to try to focus less on short, single-session fics and more on putting a sustained effort into plotting, outlining, and actually writing longer fics. Quality > quantity, and I'm sure that, in the long run, I'll appreciate having written one or two long(ish) fics a lot more than a score of quickly-forgotten drabbles.

- Sort through the unfinished fics and fic ideas I have laying around my computer, in notebooks, and on scrap pieces of paper. Organise them, and type up what needs to be typed, or at least work out some better way of keeping them that isn't "lying around in a loose heap on my floor." Finish the fics I still want to write, and trash the ones I don't.

- Finish at least one vid. I've started a couple, and have ideas for a few more, but none of that really means anything if I don't ever finish one. Realise that I'll never get to make that really awesome, epic, good vid if I don't finish at least one or two possibly crappy vids first.

oxoniensis and pheebs1 are hosting a Fall Fandom Free-For-All. Leave a fannish wish-list of up to ten items, and see if you can get the fic/vid/icons/etc you've always wanted; browse the comments and see if you can fill somebody else's wish. It's a totally awesome concept, and if you haven't stopped by already, you should definitely think about it.

My list is here, if anybody's interested. Link me yours, if you have one; I'm off to see what I can offer to make.

We all have them, right? Those pairings we love, or maybe are just a little interested in, but which - for whatever reason - simply aren't popular. Maybe it interferes with a fandom's OTP, maybe it features one or more minor characters, maybe it's a het pairing in a primarily slash fandom (or vice versa). Maybe it's completely cracktastic - the two characters have never actually met in fandom, or there's no good reason to ship them other than just because. Or maybe the pairing is actually canon, but is pretty much loathed (or simply ignored) by fandom in general. And sometimes you just wish someone would come along and say, "Hey, I can write that for you!"

Well, why don't we give it a shot? Comment here with any or all of your favourite unpopular pairings, in any fandom you like, and see if maybe there's somebody out there who will write it. Check out other peoples' wish lists, and if there's a fandom you're familiar with, and a pairing you're not completely opposed to, have a go at it. It can be comment!fic, a snippet, whatever - but come give it a shot, try something new, and help spread the love of unconventional pairings.

[What qualifies as an unpopular pairing? As a general rule, if you couldn't compile a rec list without a) including every fic you've ever read, or b) at all, it probably belongs here.]

Fandoms currently represented: Farscape, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Roswell, Sports Night, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, The West Wing, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls.

As per a slightly random conversation in talumin's journal:

Daniel Jackson/Lara Croft: Awesome pairing, y/y?

( On RPF, and specifically *why* )

Now, off to keep typing up my BSG crack!fic of doom, which is finished but still sitting in my notebook. It would be so much easier if I wrote directly onto my laptop, but I have this thing about writing on actual paper, so this is just what I have to deal with when I end up writing twenty pages' worth of fic.