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I think I've done this meme before. Anyway, I hope everyone does it so I can catch up on the stories I've missed!

In 2010 I wrote 14 stories, totaling 32,400 words (plus Yuletide, but I'm not counting that yet, or WIPs).  So. Fewer stories, but more words than last year, but there is a lot of shortfic. The things I co-wrote, with XT, Shane, Sam and Anya, were the best and the most fun.  <3  I also loved beta-reading for so many awesome writers;  thank you for letting me read your stuff first involving me in your fiction-writing process.

My first femslash and a ton of threesome action. (You have to say action like Alicia Bridges. ACK-SHON!)

January:
Connected - Torchwood - (canon pairings)
It took almost dying to make him realise what living really meant

At the Still Point - TW/Doctor Who - (Ten/Jack) with copperbadge and shane_mayhem 
On the eve of regeneration, the Doctor has one last gift for Jack. (Go on, guess what it is.)

March:
Keep It Like A Secret - Torchwood -  (canon pairings)
Who'd have thought?  Drabbles about everyone's filthy little secrets. So I guess this is a quintuple-drabble.

April:
Different Strokes - Torchwood - (Jack/Ianto, both genderswitched by alien tech) with xtricks 
6,000 WORDS OF PORN  <3  Seriously, this came from an RP and is part of a larger, plotty arc. It makes me wonder if Jack/Ianto would be a huge pairing in fandom if they actually were women.

99:00 - Torchwood (Ianto/Gwen) - written for dark_fest 
The more things change, the more they stay the same (This ate my head for a month and I'm sorry my friends had to endure my interminable whining over it. Still the longest story I've ever written.)

( cut for length, said the master tailor  )

Am reading Illuminating Torchwood:  Essays on Narrative, Character and Structure in the BBC Series by Andrew Ireland at the moment.

Has anyone else checked this one out?   Snippet from the 'Love The Coat' chapter, from Christopher Pullen:



Ignoring for a moment the fact that Suzie's name is spelled wrong, this is interesting.  Hells's bells, I am meta-starved.

Will probably post a review next week.

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Doctor Who or Torchwood.

A Time Agent!

From IO9 via starwars.com

Inexplicably awesome image of the day: Torchwood with Muppets and light sabers.

Yup. Both inexplicable AND awesome.  What sort of Charlie's Angels thing is Naoko doing there? (I think I've seen this before. Am I high or has this been around?)

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I've been watching too much Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, so what I'd do would depend on how much protein the jailers were throwing my way.
 
Did you see the Halloween episode where he served his party guests Masai-style cattle blood cocktails? The idea does gross me out, but you know, the Masai have a very low rate of heart disease.

Title: No Rush
Recipient: pocky_slash 
Author:  51stcenturyfox 
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Tosh/OFC
Wordcount: 1,950
Spoilers and Warnings:  Series 1
Summary: Written for the tw_femficfest for pocky_slash's prompt: "After Mary, Tosh begins a relationship with another woman."
Beta: Mr Foxy  *cough*



( I'm bringing a friend. A date, actually...  )

I made Giada De Laurentiis' Greek Caponata tonight.   Recipe here -  and damn, it was so good.  Especially the hot eggplant chunks.

This recipe made the house smell fantastic less than ten minutes after it went into the oven.  I did replace the sourdough with toasted Italian bread, which I did in a skillet, Texas toast-stylee.

THANK YOU, GIADA.

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I cannot tell you how weird it is to see my journal title as the title of the Writer's Block for today.  It's really messing me up!  :D

That said, Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison calls to mind clubbing back when I wasn't TOO OLD TO BE IN THE CLUB.

(I'm not old, just too old to be in the club.)  I don't particularly yearn for the past, though.

Blogger Courtney Stoker recently posted an entry on Geek Feminism addressing female characters and the misogyny sometimes displayed when people don't connect with them.  I linked this on twitter the other day, and I do agree with many of the points made in the piece. Whether you do or not, it bears thinking about why no male characters in our fandom are the subject of hate comms.

I came from Buffy fandom and X-Files fandom, I tend to love and give the benefit of the doubt to the female characters in my shows, and I simply do not buy the argument that a faily action in the first season/series makes a character unlikeable rather than interesting -- or that the spite and vitriol have nothing to do with shipping.

A screed of my own is sitting on my notepad, but character hate just makes me itchy, and I don't like to focus on negative things or waste any more time thinking about Gwen or River or Uhura (or Sara on White Collar or Gwen from Merlin) bashers. They creep me the fuck out. End of.  I simply don't care about your lengthy list of justifications for disliking these characters, because they're similar in every fandom where this exists. If you're a basher, you creep me the fuck out. 

I do, however, also feel a bit of pity for those who make negativity or hatred such a huge focus of their fandom experience.

Have a picture of Eve and Naoko (and a bellman -- what is he thinking here? ) instead of reciprocal rage.

neifile7 's retconbookwrite  story is up!   Recitative and Duet is based on the Torchwood novel Into The Silence and Ianto and Jack are  brilliant here. It's just vividly drawn, and you don't have to read the book to get the fic.

Anya also went to the Toronto Film Festival last week and saw Never Let Me Go.  I hadn't even heard of the book, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains of the Day)  since I apparently live under a massive boulder, so I read it and loved it, but can really see that I'll really like the film, not... more than the novel, but yeah, actually, perhaps more than the novel, because I see things I read on a mental projector. 

Here's the trailer. NOTE: it's an incredibly spoilery trailer. I'm not sure I'd have given this much away in a preview, Fox Searchlight!

There's an idea I've been brewing for an original story and I think it needs to be a screenplay. I read so much, but I think/create mostly in dialogue and actor business and images.  My descriptive abilty feels weak when it comes to prose.  If I ever do finish a novel and I luck out to an unimaginable degree and someone else gets to write the screenplay... oh. WHAT. Sadface!

There are quite a few books  I would like to adapt for the screen, though! 

So how about you? If you haven't written original fiction yet, or if you have, would you rather write a book or a play or a film, and why?