Things I made (and hid)

[thisbluespirit]

Here's another long overdue post: some things I have made but never posted here. (I'm like the opposite of one of those people who will only post to their own LJ. I scatter things about the place and get too tired to put them here as well. Or they're so obscure that few people would be interested. So, you know, you shouldn't get too excited at this point).

They weren't all recent, I should add. One of them I finished a year ago, and then buried and the rest are all somewhere in between.


Sandcastles (879 words) by lost_spook
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel
Characters: Sapphire (Sapphire and Steel), Steel (Sapphire and Steel)
Summary: In one small section of a beach, summer is absent.

Written for June's 'summer vacation' challenge at element_flash. (Continuing the 'look, I can totally write S&S fic without Silver, honest' theme.)



New Hero, Now Here (1326 words) by lost_spook
Fandom: Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones, Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Polly Whittacker, Eleventh Doctor
Summary: Polly meets another hero.

I started this after Diana Wynne Jones died last year. When I came back to it, it had been magically finished. (I think I must have done it in a burst of 'what the hell' after I knew I'd done my head in writing Prospero's Daughter, last May/June.) I then buried it in an invisible post on my LJ, but I decided it was worth rescuing. It isn't spoilery for Fire & Hemlock, but I don't know how much sense it'll make without knowing both. (And, S5/6 DW & Fire & Hemlock - there really, really is a much more complicated crossover/connection that could be played with in those two things. But this was all I had just then.)



there was a darkness, call it solitude (4470 words) by lost_spook
Fandom: Wolves Chronicles - Joan Aiken, Midnight Is a Place - Joan Aiken
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julian Oakapple/Denzil Murgatroyd
Characters: Julian Oakapple, Randolph Grimsby, Lucas Bell, Denzil Murgatroyd
Summary: Julian Oakapple returns to Midnight Court for the first time in twenty years.

I needed something to type up as practice for Yuletide last year (if I couldn't do that, I couldn't sign up), and fished this one out of my notebook. I really like it, actually, so I posted it to AO3, despite it being so obscure. (It was amusing me for having my lowest hit rate - 2 hits - but a 100% approval rate, with 1 comment and 1 kudos - but now it has 3 hits, so it's no longer true.) I finally did the editing for it when I was really down a few weeks back, because it was suitably gloomy. (It has warnings on it, but the Teen rating is for suicidal thoughts and contemplation of murder. And that, and the slash relationship really is all in the book if you're reading with proper attention.)

I intended it to be accessible if you don't know the book (because it is obscure, I know!), so hopefully it is. It's set 10 months before the start of the book, but there are still some spoilers for the back-story. (And one day I'm going to type up the longer one that gets Bonnie and Sylvia from Wolves in, too. Blame the Brontes for giving me a thing about Victorian governess/tutor type stories).



Malfunction (1780 words) by lost_spook
Fandom: Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Vila Restal, Zen (Blake's 7), Silver (Sapphire and Steel)
Summary: The teleport's broken again, and Vila's alone - but that's just business as usual. The really worrying thing is that someone's turned up to fix it...

Probably unnecessary to post this, as it was written for b7friday so most people who'd want to read it will have done already. But, for completism's sake, here it is.

Watch on YouTube

Various - Beat of Your Heart from lostspook1 on Vimeo.

(Password: dance) Dancing, and not-dancing.

I made this, and then took against it (but I think it's okay(ish) again now). But I suppose I should have realised that if I was going to make something that I vaguely categorised in my head as 'lights and dancing and pretty' (which wasn't really how it ended up), it was going to get terribly soppy. But I suppose it is all right, and if I hadn't got so cross with it, I could have tweaked the couple of clumsy bits.

Clips from (and do not judge me, I literally ended up with every clip of dancing I could get my hands on. Some were intended all along, some were acts of desperation): Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Emma (ITV 1996), The House of Eliott, I Capture the Castle, Life on Mars, Mannequin (1987), Mansfield Park (1983), North & South (BBC 2004), Northanger Abbey (BBC 1986), Northanger Abbey (ITV 2007), Phantom of the Opera (2004), Press Gang, Pride & Prejudice (BBC 1995), Primeval, Star Trek: Voyager, The Way We Live Now, Wives & Daughters, and The X-Files.

(It's on YouTube here, if you prefer, or Vimeo gives you any problems: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5gWq0HfruQ )


Apologies for the mass posting, but I think that really is it. \o/

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Discovered I hadn't subscribed to your AO3 account - so I've put that right!

I read three of the four fics (the JA one was the one I didn't read, if you're wondering).

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks! (And don't worry, I don't expect many, if any, people to read that one.)

It's probably just as well - I've been putting all my Teaspoon fics on there. I haven't finished yet, but I have now added my drabbles. Otherwise I'd have clogged your inbox!! :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes I saw you had vast numbers of fics up there already.

I confess, I only upload my non-DW fics there. My DW ones are on my LJ and at Teaspoon, so I figure that's sufficient archiving...

[thisbluespirit]

I wasn't going to, to begin with, but it was handy when I signed up for Remix Madness these last two years. And as I get more passing reviews there than Teaspoon these days, it seemed sensible to start adding everything. Gave me something simple to do as well, when I was bored.

And I know! The number of my fics is truly scary!! And there's still a few things not over there yet. 0_o

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Heh, fair enough.

I must admit that the number of DW fics I have on my LJ is part of the reason I've not uploaded them - I wrote, well, probably hundreds, back in the days before other fandoms stole my plot bunnies!

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

I've not read the fics yet, but that vid is really lovely - I'm glad you posted it. You've got an excellent sense of movement going on: very balanced, not dizzying at all, but also not at all clumsy / choppy or boring. :D I like it.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you. I have been so cross at the last three fanvids I've made (I think it must be mostly something to do with how I'm feeling at the moment, really), but now I've finished with this one, I'm thinking I do quite like it after all. I'm glad you did. :-)

I think it's just, it was much, much better in my head. Reality can be so disappointing. :lol:

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Dancing! That was lovely. And I completely forgot about that Life on Mars bit <3

Also... I don't think I've told you this before, but you do these fanvids very well - I mean the editing bit! The cuts look really natural, which isn't something you see often in fanvids. Or maybe all I've found is crappy fanvids, I dunno! But yours are decidedly not Crappy Fanvids :D

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you. I always think of that bit from Life on Mars - it and the Press Gang clip were what made me know I wanted to extend it beyond period drama. (That and Mulder and Scully not dancing, bless them. I love that bit where everyone in the room is dancing and kissing... and they're so sure that their friendship is way better. ♥)

:-) That is good to hear. I rate myself as a non-crappy vidder also, so I'm glad I'm not just being arrogant. But I think you are looking in the wrong places. I keep finding ones that leave me with my mouth hanging open, wondering how they did it! :-)

Anyway, I mean to try and not be grumpy at my next one, whatever it should be. Whenever it should be.

[thisbluespirit]

I mean, like this, which you probably have seen: http://fan-eunice.livejournal.com/309947.html

And many, many others. :-)