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Wooooo! Cloudbusting got nominated for the Sunnydale Memorial Awards! Thank you so much!



Also, here's a little what-if from BtVS7/AtS4, for open_on_sunday's prompt "Last".

Enemy Of Every Enemy

In the end, it's a simple choice. Quick trip to LA, a few stakings, and crank up the TV stations. (Not like she's never killed him before.)

The First Evil would have ended the world; the Last Evil made that impossible. Buffy's not sure why only she can see Jasmine's true face, but her friends are happy. Well, they smile a lot. That counts, right? The world is still here, she can touch it. Almost feel it.

But if one more empty-eyed zombie tells her how fantastic Jasmine is, she may just have to touch them hard upside the head.

Point the first: kinda_gay_award is open for nominations. Go here to nominate your favourite femslash! Two of mine have been nominated:
Cloudbusting (Willow/Illyria) for Best Future (which admittedly sounds a bit odd since it's a Very Bad Future they find themselves in, but hey)
Strawberries (Willow/Fred) for Best Lighthearted

So thanks a lot for that!

Point the second: letsgetitdone seems to be up and running, though it's still not too late to sign up. Should be fun. I have a few ideas I'm going to throw at the wall and see what sticks. Deadline in December. If nothing else, I may have a vid idea or two (it's been way too long since I vidded).

Point the third: snickfic should be posting a crackficathon any minute now. In the meantime, I'm watching what's allegedly an olympic basketball match between the US and Nigeria, but must surely be some sort of odd Britcom making fun of perceived American superiority. 130-64 right now... yeah, right.

Point the fourth: I've managed to stay away from Avengers fandom so far, but this makes me want to write incredibly snarky Jane/Natasha. It's probably a good thing you don't have enough of a handle on the characters for that, self.

Point the fifth: Ah, here we go: CRACKFICATHON! Go forth and crackficate!

First of all, YAY!


Big thanks, and congratulations to all the other winners!

Second, here's the 2011 roundup:

( Fic and meta I wrote )

( And a meme )

First of all, I just discovered that I won some stuff at wicked_awards! Check out all the winners here - I'm proud to be in such illustrous company.

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Also... I hesitate to call this meta since I'm not exactly sure if it's fully thought through, but what the hell. So I'm watching Buffy s6 and I'm reading N. Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman (which is interesting, especially if you're into cyborgs and Neal Stephenson and perception of reality and the nature of humanity as encoded information and so forth, but very heavy on theory). Anyway, I stumble onto this section on entropy which got me thinking.

Things Fall Apart. The Centre Cannot Hold. Should It?

( Season 6 is the season with no Big Bad, no huge arc, no outside disturbance, all conflicts turned inwards... And so on. Thoughts on 'Entropy', entropy, storytelling, and also there's a song at the end. )

I won an award at the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards! Look at the pretty. I should write more Kennedy fic. Thanks so much, and congrats to the other winners! (Seriously, check out some of the other winners, there's some amazing stuff there.)



Also, a couple of my fics got nominated at wicked_awards. Thanks a lot for that too!



The Moment I Wake Up is up for Best Drabble
Gonna Make You Bark (there's a blast from the past) is up for Best original plot, Best AU, and Best romance/fluff (possibly the first Angel/Mr Gordo fic ever in that category).
Welcome To The Slaughterhouse is up for Best dark.

There's still time to nominate people for that one, btw. And no shortage of great writers - for starters, everyone should check out stormwreath's amazing The History of the Watchers' Council, which tracks the last 8,000 years of history and how the Council influenced it. A must-read.

Also, I know there's a lot of tension in the fandom right now, but keep this in mind: At least we're not that other Twilight fandom.

It's been a good couple of days award-wise. First of all, "Dawn Of The Dead" won stuff at c2c_buffyawards, as did many other excellent writers - congrats, folks!

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Second of all, "Five By Five By Five By..." is nominated at the Chosen Two Awards and "Morning Is Broken" at the Sunnydale Memorial Awards (which has a very nifty Felicia Day banner, btw, I really need to write some more Vi).


Huge thanks to everyone involved!

Also, a meme that's been doing the rounds and looks like fun since I haven't done a fic commentary for a while:

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions! (Or use this to ask your flist to ask you questions).

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.

Fic masterlist here.

I'm nominated for some more awards - huge thanks to the almight nominators!

Pull Out The Pin is nominated for Best Fluff and Best Crossover at the SunnyD Awards.


Dawn Of The Dead is nominated for Best Comedy and Best Oneshot (a 48-chapter oneshot!) at c2c_buffyawards.


Also, a little drabble for open_on_sunday's prompt "Copy". Oh, the intricacies of dating people with supernatural abilities.

Super Calisthenics
Post-series

Thump. "Ow."

Kennedy winced as she kneeled by the undignified Willow-heap in front of the bedroom mirror and helped her on her feet. "You OK?"

"Hey, it takes more than a bump on the brainpan to -" Willow almost keeled over, but Kennedy held her up. "Woah. Head rush. No fair, those one-handed hand stands look so easy when you do 'em."

"On the other hand, I don't levitate every morning like some people."

"Promise you'll wear a helmet if you try? 'Cause... OW."

"And a parachute." Kennedy kissed the top of her head. "Let me get you an icepack."

Wooo! Nominated!

Acts Of Self-Conscious Behaviour... is nominated for Fanged Midget {501 - 1000 words}, and The Moment I Wake Up for Angelcakes {101 - 500 words} at rwsawards. Thanks a lot!

Also, two drabbles:

For still_grrr's prompt "Queen", here's a missing scene from "The Puppet Show":

( The Show Must Go On )

And for open_on_sunday's prompt "Direct", one from "Chosen":

( You are watching FETV: First Evil Television. )

First of all: Woah, it seems LJ is almost working this morning. Definite step up.

Second of all: Weee! Thanks so much!

As always, banner by the ridiculously fantastic xlivvielockex

Third of all, a little something I whipped up for the open_on_sunday challenge "Move".

No Souvenirs

It's about 48 hours after Sunnydale collapses, after the shock starts to dull, after they've refueled the bus and loaded up on necessities, before they remember things they left behind.

Books. Clothes. Rings. Stuffed pigs. Photo albums. Everything they'd have packed in boxes marked 'FRAGILE' and brought along if they'd known they weren't coming back. It's silly, really. It's just stuff, hooks to hang memories on. Not really important.

Dawn could tell them that, she's sorta used to travelling light. Instead, when nobody's looking, she quietly slips the last existing picture of Tara from her wallet into Willow's new purse.

Awards stuff: The Return of the Son of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons is nominated for Best Comedy (Non-Spuffy) at c2c_buffyawards. Thanks a lot, o kind nominator/rix/on!


Also, voting is open both at c2c_buffyawards (here) and the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards (here). Go forth and supporteth the fandom! ...eth.

Finally, here's a fun meme gakked from shinodabear:

Take 10 songs and run their opening lines through Bad Translator. Make a post with the translations and see if your f-list can guess what songs they’re from.

ETA to add answers to the ones nobody got. Oh, and youtube links, obviously.

1. "In addition, in 1955, in the beginning, I know it does not show that music is rock n'roll and jazz, and all" "Let There Be Rock", frogfarm
2. "I remember I remember my house with two black lightning" "I remember how the darkness doubled/I recall, lightning struck itself": Television, "Marquee Moon"
3. "Hey, my husband bongo man singing competition, I did not sleep, no place to go" "Mr Tambourine Man", rebcake
4. "The same way every night, and with the opposition and struggle" "Going Through The Motions", alwaysjbj
5. "You know you have a beautiful face? You know, another piece of land?" "Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? Do you realize we're floating in space?": Flaming Lips, "Do You Realize?"
6. "My heart is not my girl under the bridge" "I lost my heart under the bridge to that little girl, so much to me": PJ Harvey, "Down By The Water"
7. "In the doc, and Sally, was reduced to 5" "Duck and Sally inside, they're cooking for the down five": Velvet Underground, "Sister Ray"
8. "I was a girl form the blood fountain" "Bachelorette", frogfarm
9. "There is a new game, we want to see the reality of the game" "There's a new game we like to play, you see/A game with added reality": Depeche Mode, "Master And Servant"
10. "Jesus Christ died on the offense, but I" "Gloria", ravenwings_7