Blackbirds & Crows

Oh my boys...oh my Show!!
*wipes eyes*

God damn.

And that's with no snow! It's just single-digit temps, negative digit wind chill, and no sun, no sun, no sun. Argh.

Mostly i'm freezing, and then I come home, bundle myself into fleece pyjamas, and get into bed with the electric blanket on 'high'.

Which means, of course, that i then doze off, but at least i'm warm!!

I'm turning to an agency here in the my state that will help you to winterize your house for free. I don't know if I'll qualify, or what they'll do, but anything will help. My furnace is not putting out very warm air, which is concerning (and fucking cold).

So that's why i kinda dropped off the posting radar, which I feel bad about, and haven't been talking quite as much.

I'm working on two fics right now, one of which is original (mostly, RPF but easily changed), and am enjoying it, heh. It's not even six, it's pitch-black out, it's supposed to snow, and be even colder tonight/tomorrow, and my heating bill (even with the thermostat on 62) keeps going UP.

But i'm here, I'm reading, i'll try and comment more. I really enjoyed last week's Supernatural, it was very good, felt kinda old-school.

I'm reading a book right now called Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. I like it, it has some very interesting stuff going on. BUT...there's a thing about it that bothers me. Which I'll write about next time because i can barely feel my frozen little fingers!!

Stay warm, my flisties!

I dunno about any of you, but I *could not* access Dreamwidth yesterday. It just would not load, no matter what. So annoying.

So - a belated but very heart-felt HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY! to my dearest and nearest, sweptawaybayou . I luff ya, my dear! *smishes*


Now, the last two challenges! Yay, I finished! :D

( Challenge Fourteen: Talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. )

( Challenge Fifteen: Talk about why you participated in Snowflake &/or what you got out of it. )

There we have it! Whooo! Thank you, all, for participating and being part of the challenge with me!

Whoops, yes, I skipped a day. I was really, really, really zoned, so...best to just wait. Plus, it got super-chilly here again, after being up in the sixties, so i was kinda hibernating, heh.

So, here we go.

( Day Eight )


( Day Nine )

And there we go! All caught up. Now I must go do *my* laundry.

It's the weekend, I got lazy. :D

So - ( Day Five: recing online sites. )



( Day Six: Fandom Wish List )

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

Holy gods. I'm supposed to choose one thing? HOOOOOOOOOOW?!!!!!

Sheesh. I think I'll cheat a little.

Books: Well, nothing and no one beats CJ Cherryh. I mean....this woman is so damn *good*. Her sci-fi is hard core, makes sense, and *works*. Her fantasy is incredibly detailed and draws a lot from our own myths and folklore (elvish, Russian spirits, ORCS, c'mon!!). Her humor is subtle and always in-character, her drama riveting, her characters so finely drawn....

She's one of the few sci-fi writers out there who puts same-sex couples into her work, and one of the few sci-fi writers who actually has *good* 'strong female characters' in her work.

I just can never get enough.
(Here is a review that really lays out, to me, why she is so amazing. Might be a little spoilery for this particular novel. Downbelow Station.)


Movies: Well, just now, the MCU movies, most particularly the Captain America movies. I love so much how Steve is not some quasi right-wing 'RIGHTEOUS AMERICAN' but a man who actually gives a damn about 'the other', and always, always, always, tries to do the 'right' thing (not the conveniently right thing, or the right right now thing, but the RIGHT thing). Plus, he's just so damn cute, and lost and sad and gorgeous and funny.....

And then, of course, we have BUCKY, who breaks my heart even when he's not being tortured, and who has seen the worst of humanity but is still striving, trying, *hoping*.

And SAM, oh Sam, who is not a superpowered human, but has an amazing heart. He because a pararescue, he dove into the jaws of death to *heal people*, and he is canny, and empathetic, and so brave....

I love my boys, so very much. :D

And - sekrit mention just for Snow: Bread and Circuses, bb. Bread and Circuses! :D (Hey, it's original.)

Merry new year, my dear friends!
Thought i'd pop in.... I'm doing the Fandom Snowflake Challenge again this year, so you'll be seeing me post daily, I hope. :D


( Posting News.... )


( Xmas Doings.... )



( Snowflake Challenge Day One )

And the end!! Except for the epilogue. Which follows right after. :D

Also at AO3.


( I spake—for then I had not long been dead— )


Part twenty-seven.

I finished it. I FINISHED SPACE AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUU!!! 'The World Where Yesternight You Died' is DONE DONE DONE.

Now I merely dance attendance on my dearest beta, and I hope to start posting the last two chapters TOMORROW!!!!!

*spins around and around and around*

I have had *such* a hard time, writing this last...well, half of the story. My writing-fu has just been nonexistent, and it's been *so frustrating*.

And then, if i even *tried* to do anything else, i had massive guilt, and didn't want to post other stuff when i wasn't finishing that, and so i've just been kinda paralyzed.

BUT IT IS DONE!! So done. I hope it lives up to any remaining reader's expectations.

Watch this space! :D

ETA: Lately, when i post here at DW and xpost to LJ, it does *not* use my selected icon. And yes, i have both icons here and at LJ. It used to do it all the time - anybody else having this issue?

Another update, wow!
:) So, sweptawaybayou and I were talking about writing, and about how both of us are kind of struggling with that right now. Having stress, having poor motivation, having blocks. She was telling me that her reading fluffy and fun Steve/Bucky fic was motivating her to write (yay! Snow-fic!), and I was telling her that re-watching (and reading) The Expanse was motivating me to write finish the J2 Space AU.

And I just rewatched episode 7 of season 2, and ( I don't know if anyone's watching, but spoilers!! )

I want to be able to put that into my writing, that absolute *hammerblow* of emotion, of pathos, of love and courage and empathy....
*sniffles*

Anyway - yeah. So that makes me get back to serious Space AU work.


My request! I wrote two fic, waaaaaaaaaay back in the day.
Day in the Life. Pre-series, gen, PG. The boys being brothers, John being a father, and the origin of Rumsfeld the dog.

Brightness Falls From the Air. Gen, PG-13, immediate post-season-1 ficlet. At the moment of impact, just one moment from their past is bright and clear....

Apparently, I posted them *only* to Supernaturalfic, the community, over on LJ. It has since moved (Supernaturalfic at Dreamwidth), and the comm at LJ was purged.

I do not have a *single copy* of these fics on my HD, on any g.doc, on anything, anywhere.
And they did *not* survive the move, I do not know why. Waybackmachine is also a bust.

Anybody have copies of these two fic? Or know where they might have been archived besides the comm? I would give about anything for copies.

THANK YOU! :D

ETA: HOMG you guys. yourlibrarian found both fic in like - ten seconds. HOLY CRAP. The reason I (think) i couldn't find them is in comments. DAMN. *twirls* I am so happy! Wheee!!

Brightness Falls From the Air.
Day In the Life.