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

Title: Gimme More
Fandom: Doom (Ensemble)
Music: Gimme More (Remix) - Britney Spears
Summary: Bet you didn't see this one coming.
Notes: Made for colls for festivids.

download 58MB .mp4 @ box.net

( streaming under the cut )

EDIT: Now updated with streaming and download links!

(This is still a slight work in progress. Please forgive me - I've been without internet access the better part of the last two weeks, and am desperately trying to cobble this together as quickly as possible!)

Dear author/vidder/artist:

Hi there! First of all, I'm so, so sorry this is going up late, and I hope it didn't cause you any stress - and if you've already started writing, or had an amazing idea, please feel free to go with that and not worry about my latter. If, on the other hand, you've been hanging out for some prompts, here they are!

In general: I love ensemble fics, banter, makeouts, unresolved (and resolved) sexual tension, romantic comedy, action/adventure, wacky hijinks, humour, crack, PWPs, apocafic, and ridiculous AUs. I'm not super into angst, and I prefer fics where characters interact with people and do things over introspective character studies. I really, really, love tropes and clichés, and totally ridiculous, over the top plots, the more shameless the better. I love first times, and secret relationships, and casual hookups, and ex-girlfriends and boyfriends, and rekindling old relationships. I love people being in love without having to say it, and people who are obviously in love but maybe don't realise it, and ridiculously overblown romantic gestures where one person completely embarrasses themselves, and small gestures that mean a whole lot more than they seem to. Most of all, I love characters who are genuinely really into each other. I'm happy to read any rating, and smut is welcome but absolutely not necessary. (Though if you're writing for Shipswap, please do have the characters actually hook up in some way in the story. Makeouts = <3).

You can find me on AO3 as Zhailei.

( Beyond Panels )

( Space Swap )

( Shipswap )

Dear shipswap creator:

Thank you so much for making me something! I'm sure I'll love whatever you end up creating, but in general: I love ensemble fics, banter, makeouts, unresolved (and resolved) sexual tension, romantic comedy, action/adventure, wacky hijinks, humour, crack, PWPs, apocafic, and ridiculous AUs. I'm not super into angst. I really, really, love tropes and clichés, and totally ridiculous, over the top plots, the more shameless the better. I love first times, and secret relationships, and casual hookups, and ex-girlfriends and boyfriends, and rekindling old relationships. I love people being in love without having to say it, and people who are obviously in love but maybe don't realise it, and ridiculously overblown romantic gestures where one person completely embarrasses themselves, and small gestures that mean a whole lot more than they seem to. Most of all, I love characters who are genuinely really into each other. I'm happy to read any rating, and smut is welcome but absolutely not necessary.

( DCU - Comicverse )

( Once Upon a Time )

( Doom )

( Big Time Rush )

( Crossovers )

Yuletide reveals are up! I'll be posting my fics here over the next week or so, but in the meantime: I wrote my main assignment, a pinch hit, and six treats, for The Mindy Project, Doom, Arrow, Batgirl (x2), Nightwing, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, and Super Best Friends Forever.

If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It (6160 words) by amathela
Fandom: Mindy Project
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Danny Castellano/Mindy Lahiri
Characters: Mindy Lahiri, Danny Castellano, Jeremy Reed, Marc Shulman, Morgan Tookers, Betsy Putch
Summary: They can pretend to be friends. It can't possibly be that hard. Right?

This was my main assignment, and I was super excited to get it; I really, really felt like writing some Mindy Project fic for yuletide, and had already bookmarked the request for a potential treat, so it worked out perfectly. (Also, the recipient was my yuletide author last year, who wrote me BJ/Mindy, so that was a nice bit of symmetry.) The Mindy Project really lends itself to an abundance of rom-com tropes, which was reflected in a lot of the requests and fics written this year; I had a pretty sizeable shortlist of ones I was dying to write, but I decided to go with 'pretending to be friends', which I'd wanted to write ever since the episode where they lied about being BFF, and which I thought was a really fun twist on the pretend dating trope. And I think it went pretty well? I mean, it's basically 5000 words of banter followed by makeouts, so.

( The rest of the fics )

This was definitely my most productive yuletide, which I blame on having written almost nothing the entire rest of the year. Also, if 2009 was my Disney yuletide, 2012 was definitely my comics, yay! yuletide, which was fitting, given that's what took up a lot of my fannish attention last year.

Also, ladymercury_10 totally guessed that I wrote The Thrill Can Kill, so, I owe you something fannish! Leave me a prompt/request and I'll try to make you something cool ;)

Dear festividder,

Thank you so much for making a vid for me! I'm sure it will be amazing no matter what you choose to do, so if you already have an idea in mind, go for it! I would really love any kind of vid in any of these fandoms, so don't let any of my requests restrict you - they're there to be helpful if you want them and ignored if you don't. Really, what I want most is for you to have fun with this, so do whatever makes you happy, and I'm sure I'll love the finished product!

Things I love in general: Ensemble vids. Character studies. Fun shippy vids. Vids that highlight some of my favourite things about the source. Vids that point out something I never noticed in the source. Vids that give me chills. Vids that make me cry. Vids that make me laugh. Vids that make me clap my hands in glee. Vids that use music I love, and music that's completely new to me, and music that obviously goes with that source, and that I never would have through to pair with the source but works surprisingly well. Basically, I just really love vids.

In case you'd like more information, my requests are under the cut, along with a few more details.

( Video killed the radio star )

I also have a vid recs tag, if that interests you at all, or you can check my tags for more about some of the fandoms I requested. Or you can just make the vid you want, and either way I'll love it to pieces.

IDEK, you guys. This movie took over my life sometime in 2009, which is when I first started putting these together. (There are three of them altogether. TOOK OVER MY LIFE.) And then I just ... never quite finished. But now it's only two and a half years later, and they are finally done! Um, yay?

(Also, I feel like this is kind of HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, HAVE SOME HORROR MOVIE INCEST. Clearly I am a romantic at heart.)


( I knew you well )

qldfloodauction is holding a charity auction to raise money for those affected by the floods in Queensland. (I'm down in Melbourne, so I'm not affected, but I do have friends and family up there.) Right now, you can go check out other people's offers at the community, or sign up to offer something yourself.

I'm offering at least 3000 words of fic, with a minimum bid of $5. Het, femslash, or gen, AUs and crossovers are fine. You guys pretty much know what I can write, but here are some details anyway, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

My thread is here.

Fandoms/characters/pairings I've offered to write:

[Better Off Ted] Ted/Veronica
[Covert Affairs] Annie/Auggie
[Diplomatic Immunity] Leighton/Leilani, Kirsty/Leilani, Leighton/Kirsty
[Disney RPF] David/Selena, Demi/Selena, Chelsea/Nicole
[Doom] John/Sam
[Gilmore Girls] Chris/Lorelai, Finn/Lorelai
[Greek] Ashleigh/Rebecca, Evan/Casey
[The Guild] Codex/Fawkes
[Hawaii Five-0] Danny/Kono
[JONAS] Joe/Stella, Nick/Stella, Stella/Macy
[Legend of the Seeker] Cara/Kahlan, Richard/Cara, Richard/Kahlan/Cara
[Make It or Break It] Sasha/Payson, Payson/Kelly
[Miss Match] Adam/Kate, Michael/Kate, Kate/Victoria, Nick/Victoria
[The O.C.] Ryan/Taylor
[The Office] Ryan/Kelly
[The Office RPF] BJ/Mindy
[Princess Protection Program] Carter/Rosie
[She's The Man] Olivia/Viola
[Snow White: A Tale of Terror] Will/Lilli
[Sonny With a Chance] Sonny/Tawni
[Tin Man] Cain/DG
[Valentine] Danny/Phoebe
[Veronica Mars] Lamb/Veronica
[Wizards of Waverly Place] Justin/Alex

I'm more than happy to write gen in any of those fandoms - particularly ensemble fic, or fic that features the characters listed. I can work with a specific scenario, a prompt, or whatever you feel like providing. If you're interested in a fandom, character, or pairing that isn't listed, just ask and I'll let you know what I can do :)

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.

( End of year fic meme )

( 2009 fic masterlist )

After having written nothing since March(!), I finally posted fic this month - six, to be exact, in five different fandoms, plus a crossover. I also updated As You Like It, which has been languishing since 2007, taking my total word count this month up to about 10,000 words - something I'm definitely not unhappy with.


Love's Not A Competition (But I'm Winning) (Dark Angel - Alec/Max - R - 1487 words) A little friendly competition never hurt anybody, right?

Homecoming (Doom - John/Samantha - R - 2216 words) He doesn't sleep.

Should Fall Apart (The End Is The Beginning Is The End Remix) (Firefly - Mal/Inara - PG-13 - 100 words) It isn't at all the way she imagined it. Spoilers for the entire series, including Serenity. A remix of Should Fall Apart by trialia.

Is There A Box For "I'm Totally Gay?" (The Cover Girl Remix) (Gossip Girl - Blair/Jenny - PG - 100 words) She thinks about kissing the gloss right off Blair's lips. A remix of Not Your Girl by sionnain.

Confessor (The Intergalactic Communication Remix) (Stargate SG-1/Farscape - Cameron, Aeryn - PG - 100 words) She is only a soldier. A remix of untitled by kernezelda.

Boredom Fades, But Infidelity's For Keeps (CW RPF - Alona Tal/Danneel Harris - PG-13 - 1348 words) She fucking hates these things, she really does.


Coming up: Doom meta! I know you're all really excited about that ;)