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

Fannish things I am doing right now:

1. help_haiti auctions are ongoing until January 20th. I love fandom for doing stuff like this. I'm offering to write a fic of at least 5000 words - especially in Wizards of Waverly Place, Disney RPF, etc. but I'm open to requests from other fandoms. The current bid is $20, and my thread is located here if you'd like to bid on fic from me; there are hundreds of things on offer, so you should definitely check out the community if you'd like to help out. (Sadly, I cannot bid on anything right now, but I'm doing what I can.)


2. purimgifts is open for sign ups until January 19th. I was planning to pare down my ficathon involvement this year, but purimgifts is my go-to low-stress ficathon - three ficlets (300-1000 words), in any fandom, focusing on characters who are Jewish and/or women and/or persecuted by evil viziers. Anyway, it's always super fun, so I signed up for that again.


3. chaos_thon is a ficathon based on that fictional TV show meme that was floating around. Which - I had so much fun with that thing, so I'm seriously considering signing up. I'm not entirely sure, yet, if I want to use the one I already did, or come up with something new for the ficathon - help? If you guys wanted to leave any scenarios for fictional TV shows in the comments, I would totally appreciate that. You can also sign up to write something based on your own fictional show (until January 24th), or leave prompts or put your shows up for adoption.


4. I'm (barely) resisting the urge to sign up for an episode at planetside_c. Also: finishing my apocalyptothon fic (at least, the WOWP one - the Disney RPF one is, I think, not going to happen this round), writing fic I owe pirateygoodness and yo_mtvraps, and putting together a small fandom primer for Diplomatic Immunity. I'm totally on top of things. And not overcommitted in any way. Totally.

Had a safe flight, am alive and well. Also, it is cold here. Would somebody please tell New Zealand that it's the middle of summer?

(Today it hailed. A lot.)

I'm tempted to sign up for au_bigbang. I could do the knight!Demi/princess!Selena fic? I'm still on the fence about it, though. The fact that all fics have to be posted directly to the community seems a little counterintuitive for a big bang - I'll have to remember to stop watching the community before the posting period.

Somebody should run a Disney big bang, I would be all over that.

Also, I found Diplomatic Immunity on DVD, yay! I should do a pimp post later, since it's awesome and you guys should be watching it. I should also be writing, so ... maybe I'll go do that?

yuletide author reveals are up! I'll be reposting my fics here over the next couple of days, but in the meantime, I wrote:

Mnemonic Devices To Help You Remember How To Spell 'Mnemonic Devices' (Wizards Of Waverly Place, Justin/Alex)

Everything Is Not What It Seems (Disney RPF, David/Selena)

To Face Unafraid The Plans That We've Made (Disney RPF, Demi/Selena)

Our Faces Split The Coast In Half (Princess Protection Program, Carter/Rosie)

SO, THIS YEAR'S THEME, APPARENTLY, WAS SELENA GOMEZ-SHAPED PEOPLE. AND DISNEY, BUT THAT IS HARDLY SURPRISING. I kind of feel like all my fics were really obviously written by me, but, it's Yuletide? With, like, a billion fics, so I'm probably not as obvious as I think I am.

... but, then again, two of my fics were accurately guessed before the reveals, so.

On that note: pirateygoodness and yo_mtvraps both guessed correctly, so, THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU GET TO TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO WRITE. (Except, well, okay, I'm pretty sure I know what I'll be writing for pirateygoodness.) Fandom, pairing, prompt, scenario, whatever - in this case, specificity is probably good, so go crazy.

Fandoms written in 2009

Andromeda, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Brothers & Sisters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CW RPF, Dark Angel, Dead Like Me, Disney RPF, Dollhouse, Doom, Farscape RPF, Firefly, Glee, Gossip Girl, Greek, Heroes, Legend Of The Seeker, Merlin, One Tree Hill, One Tree Hill RPF, Psych, Star Trek, Veronica Mars, Wizards Of Waverly Place, plus a couple of crossover fandoms.

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I broke 1000 words on my yuletide fic! After I got a solid idea for it, it was actually pretty easy to write, so that's good. And I wrote 1000 words of Demi/Selena fic which is SO COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS, it even has the cheesiest summary ever, like, it could be a blurb from an actual harlequin novel. I'm not sure if should keep it like that or change it to something less cracky, hmmm. It was supposed to be a snippet, but is turning into an actual fic, like, I'm not sure the premise actually warrants it, but whatever. Also, I realised that this is my first ever ridiculous AU, I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF.

Anyway, I'm past the minimum word count on both my holiday ficathon assignments, so I'm feeling good about those. I still need to work a lot more on my apocabigbang fics if I want to be on track for the halfway point check-in at the end of the month, but I'm pretty confident about the first one, and I can deal with the second one once I have a few less things to worry about. And I'm having a lot of fun with them (especially the Alex the Vampire Slayer fic), so hopefully it shouldn't be too hard.

I wrote seven fics in November, around 13,000 words, in five fandoms. Three I'd written in before (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wizards Of Waverly Place, Disney RPF), two I hadn't (Glee, Greek).


Burn, Don't Freeze (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy/Faith - PG-13 - 100 words) It's easy to keep warm, at first.


All The Better To See You With (Glee - Puck/Quinn - PG - 100 words) It's not like he watches her. Spoilers up to episode 1:8 - Mash-Up.

If I Could Talk I'd Tell You (Glee - Artie/Tina - PG - 100 words) There's a lot she wants to tell him. Spoilers for episode 1:9 - Wheels.


I Want To Hold Your Hand (Greek - Ashleigh/Rebecca - PG - 150 words) It's pretty much the same thing they do every night.


Don't You Forget About Me (Wizards of Waverly Place - Justin/Alex - PG-13 - 7005 words) All Alex wanted to do was to make Justin forget. (In which case, the spell could be called a success, but ... maybe not so much.) In which magic is used without permission, Justin gets amnesia, and Alex is definitely not his girlfriend.


Not-So-Good Titles For Murder Mysteries (Disney RPF - David Henrie/Selena Gomez - PG - 5335 words) In which David Henrie kills Joe Jonas (but not for real, probably).

Paparazzi (Disney RPF - Demi Lovato/Selena Gomez - PG - 467 words) Sometimes, when they're in public, Demi walks in front of her.


It's a lot less than the past couple of months, but I can live with that, especially since most of what I'm writing now isn't due for another few weeks or months, and because at least I finished the couple of major fics I was working on more or less around their deadlines. I'm also planning on taking it easy, a little, since I'm still recovering from that whole hospital thing, and because the last thing I want to do is burn myself out on writing just before my holiday ficathons and big bangs are due.

Goals for December: finish my prettylightsfic and yuletide fics, get more words my apocabigbang fics (including nailing down a plot for the second one, which is kind of giving me a headache), keep working on To Wish Impossible Things. Maybe write some Yuletide Madness, kink meme, and/or prompt fics if I have time for it.

It's a little late for a mid-month check-in, but whatever, I'm doing one anyway.

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So. I don't want to jinx it, but the Fall Fandom Free-For-All fic is finally going the way it was supposed to. Already there have been things that could possibly qualify as wacky hijinks! A reboot was definitely the way to go, I think. (It's still a lot later than I intended to have it finished, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to work on To Wish Impossible Things as much as I wanted, but still. I'm just glad it's actually going somewhere now.)

I'm still keeping up with wrisomifu, and in the past week I've made progress on four of the six fics I'm working on. So, yay.

I got my yuletide and prettylightsfic assignments, yay! Which is to say: OMG YULETIDE ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥. You guys, I am SO EXCITED about my holiday ficathons, I can't even. (And I've even started writing my prettylightsfic fic, I AM SO ON TOP OF THINGS.)

In case you're looking for them, my prettylightsfic letter is here, and my yuletide letter is here. And, okay, I realise that they are insanely long, so I'm sorry for that! But basically, they are just ridiculously rambly ways of saying that I will love anything written for me, so.

I am so psyched about my assignments, I'm suddenly overcome with a rush of wanting to finish up the stuff I'm writing that's still due so I can feel less guilty about jumping straight into my ficathons. Because, AWESOME, SERIOUSLY.

It's (roughly) a quarter of the way through November, so, fic check-in time! The only thing I haven't made progress on is my Disney RPF big bang (excluding, of course, my prettylightsfic and yuletide fics, since those assignments haven't been sent out yet). And I've managed to write something every day for wrisomifu; so far, not counting random ficlets, I've written 6256 words, which ... is not extraordinary, but considering I was majorly blocked on one particular fic for most of that time, it's not horrible.

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Fall Fandom Free-For-All


Oh, Alex and Justin, I missed writing you two so much! It feels like I haven't written in this fandom in forever (probably because I spent the past ten days freaking out about my spook_me fic, ugh, do you have any idea HOW FREAKING GLAD I am that's finally finished?), and I almost forgot how much I love it. And how easy it is, OMG, I never again want to have such a hard time writing a fic, ever! And this fic is so much fun - there's banter, and wacky magical hijinks, and makeouts (probably), and all the things I love most. (No Max, so far, but sometimes that can't be helped - I tried really hard to fit him into my apocabigbang outline, but mostly only managed to have him be present and not really a focus in a couple of scenes.)

Also, this fic will probably end up being longer than 5000 words, because I suck hard when it comes to reasonable estimates of my Wizards Of Waverly Place fics. (Other fandoms, I can generally manage, but I tend to wildly undershoot with my guesses in this one.)

Why isn't writing this much fun, always?