dynamite with a laser beam

Thanks for the support on the "want to leave town and wander around in an Airstream" thoughts I was having in my last post. We should all get a tour bus and...hello, road trip!

tw_femficfest ! I am so excited and happy nancybrown  thought of this!)   I've got my prompts and am jazzed about them. :D

amalnahurriyeh has written some great meta for the LadiesBigBang.

So the question is, then, what is woman-centric fic, if it is not feminist, or any fic with a woman in it, and if it excludes fic that is outright sexist? It would seem to be a piece of fic that puts a female character at its center, and lets her dominate the not just the content, but the shape of the story. She's not just the person on the page the most, she's the person in control of the narrative. I mean that in a Doylist sense--she's not the person who makes everything in the story happen from within the story's framework, but, for the writer, she's the reason that the story exists, and it's shaped around her.

Check out: On Being a Writer of Woman-Centric Fic

And on that note, neifile7  and I are posting some Gwen-POV fic later today. \O/  It won't pass the Bechdel test, but hopefully it'll pass the hot test, since it's from a kinkmeme prompt. Ohoho.

Okay, I loved 5x10, the most recent episode.  I cried my eyeballs out towards the end.  And then I watched it again today and did the same thing.

And such_heights  has written a missing scene which is just perfect.

( cutting this; the pairing might be spoilery... )

Thanks to whomever nominated my het and humour and rare pair stuff (and the Doctor/Jack story co-written with Sam and Shane) for CoT awards.  I feel very surprised and honoured and I squeed (a lot!)  Ditto for the nom for the Forbidden Awards, which unfortunately went into my spam filter -- which I never check -- and I responded too late to accept. I'm sorry, but really appreciate the nom.

Rec!: Madrigal dei Traditori by nancybrown  is part of her Rabbit Hole series and it sucked me right in like a Hoover.

This weekend: Gallifrey!  More squee!  Can't wait. Yes, as expected, I failed to make that River Song costume, since work and other things have been kicking my ass. So I'mma admire everyone else instead. Oh man, I bought a red velvet evening bag, which is fuckin' gorgeous. I can't wait to use that bad boy.

I think I know which of you are going, but you wanna check in in comments?  There will be much IRL meeting. Yays!  

 

I'm not doing one of those end-of-the-year rec posts. I'm sure to leave someone out!

So I'll do a thank you post instead. (AND I'm re-writing the whole thing because LJ hates "LJ user" code. *THWAP*)

BETAZ: To everyone who allowed me to stick my fingers in your frosting and beta-read more than 60 stories in 2009, THANK YOU. I'm looking at you, nancybrown, andreth47, amand_r, cruentum, copperbadge, neifile7, cookiesofkarma, stuffphile, verasteine, iamshadow, golden_d and the Yuletide writers I can't mention yet.  I don't rec your stuff afterward because it's a rule, I do it because it's great.    

Cheers to andreth47 for coming up with the whole naughty Porn Battle concept, and crue for jumping in to co-host, and everyone else for taking part.

Thank you to amand_r for bringing sexy back with touchyerwood .

My thanks to snaxcident and the rest of the Askverse crew for making me laugh so much, and xtricks and the Torchwood Three RP company for making me think.  

AND I want to publicly snuggle my Torchwood Secret Santa for being INCREDIBLY AWESOME. <3 <3 <3

The story written for me, Wonderful Life, has everything I love in fic: great dialogue, a little drunkiness, and HOT THREESOME ACTION.

lionessvalenti, you're brilliant for coming up with the twsecretsanta  exchange. There isn't a bad story in the bunch. 

Like John Cleese, I'm ringing in 2010 with "a song in my heart, a skip in my walk and a hair of the dog", and I'm adding a faintly horrifying song cover by William Shatner.  *TOASTS YOU*

Liked this planet so much I put a ring on it. Har. Um.

I just read a Rose/Gwen story well, I really liked it. I think those two would get on. Check out All That Hopping (A Multi-Dimensional Love Story) by magicallaw .

WTF, why didn't I know there's a dw_femslash comm? *joins*

From cruentum : John Barrowman on the Vernon Kay show. It looks to me like he's stealing Gareth's shirts.



I have RP to catch up on, and owe betaz.

Then I'm going to the mall because I need some black flats and I'm craving Cheese On A Stick. (Shut up.)

The omnijaxual fic fest has begun! (Jack/everything besides humans). So far I've read Jack/Risen Mitten and Jack/Ianto's suit and they were awesome!

This fest rocks.  I'm writing Jack/Pris (from Blade Runner).  Eventually!

ETA: OH! YAYS! iamshadow 's Jack/TARDIS story, You Carry It With You (a burden, a blessing) is up. I'd been nagging her to post it because I didn't realise it was for the fest. :D It's fab!

So, I'm using Google calendar, and it's SPOOKY. It's like it knows me. Except yours says this too:



amand_r is in England. I'm so envious!

OKAY, THREE...fer?  FOUR,  OKAY

I'd like to rec a lovely Tosh fic I had the privilege to beta-read recently. golden_d  penned They Still Write Poetry in the Fifty-First Century for the femgenficathon community. Check it out... it's so her and just... really nice.. :)

Second, thanks to crack_van for reccing Asleep At The Switch. I was very happy... If you don't know the comm, it's awesome for finding fanworks of all kinds. Man from U.N.C.L.E fanfids! Woo!

tadeudz just pointed X-Philes to a MULDER ANGST CROSS STITCH. But there are Spike and Buffy and others. Pretty great. Everybody Hurts, by Stacia Yeapanis, is here.

And this NCIS  vid is bitchin'. This song has been in my head for two days. Happy Tuesday!

cyus  (aka cruentum ) has posted his lgbtfest story, Prince of the Apple Towns, in which he vividly envisions Ianto's past during the go-go dot-com era.  While working in a gay café , the tailor's son seeks to redefine himself far away from home in an atmosphere of casual work, casual sex and casual lies:  

Last night's shag had asked for his number, accent and blond hair and screaming God in Swedish or Norwegian, and Ianto had fumbled out digits with a sleight of hand and a winning grin, a nod and the promise of another night, but the number wouldn't work, had never been his.

(As I have promised, everything I beta-read now gets lipstick kisses. It's like the mark of Zorro, without the jabby sword. *Mwah!*)


As if you need another reminder, the Comment Porn Battle is coming this weekend. Rule clarification: no RPF/RPS. It's already multifandom, though mostly Torchwood and Doctor Who-related, so we don't want to lose the original focus of this thang.

In other news, the sound driver in my laptop has apparently died. I'm a YouTube addict enthusiast so this is kinda tragic unfortunate.

( You do the 'in bed' thing with fortune cookies too, right? )


ETA: spoggly  has a DEBBIE HARRY PICSPAM up.   Awesome.  *flails*  *licks screen* *adjusts icon*

Read some tasty fic this morning. Sharing is caring.

Title: Eyes Demanded Light
Author: truemyth 
Pairing / Character: Mulder/Scully  (X-Files)
Rating: NC-17

Now she names the unrest that plagues.

Beautiful. Post Unruhe, which is one of my squicky episodes.  Because. EYE SOCKET LOBOTOMY DOCTOR. 

Title: Ear To The Ground
Author: shapinglight 
Pairing/Character: Spike/Giles (BtVS)
Rating: R

Fabtastic character voices. Not normally my pairing but I likey.

Unrelated: I wish someone would make a TW Tosh-centric video to "Clever Girls Like Clever Boys..." by Pelle Carlberg. (Which could be good theme-age for Scully, too. And me. Heh. Not that I'm clever, but you know what I mean. Geek.) Also. oletheros  has a new chapter of Oceanus Procellarum for us. Because it's FRIDAY.