Writing fest! Other things!
Feb. 10th, 2013 06:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritI don't think I really did anything I expected today, mostly because aralias is evil awesome. (Depending, there might be another post that's her fault later or tomorrow, because she is.)
Anyway, first things first: she's set up a panfandom ficathon where you take a Mills & Boon/Harlequin romance summary and use it for your favourite pairing and hilarity ensues (or possibly actually romance if you feel like it). Where can you find this wonderful thing and sign up etc.? It is here:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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I might have made some banners for it. Some of them are only useful if you are me, but I was having slightly too much fun. There are more banners on the comm for pimping. But you can use any of these if you like them, too. (You can find them all here.) That was what occupied quite a bit of my day.
In other flist news,john_amend_all wrote first Passenger for the Steel/Jet prompt i left in his 500 prompts post (which was unexpected and entertaining and involves Steel, Jet and a motorbike ride in the 1920s) and then Field Repair with Silver and Iodine, which is marvellous and uses one of those settings that are v clever for S&S but I can't tell you before you read it. (Several S&S fics are like that. It's v annoying. You can't rec them properly.)
And a vid, which wasn't made by anyone on my flist, but is lovely:
(The State of Dreaming by niyalune (Clara, DW - so spoilers for Asylum of the Daleks & the Christmas special).
I'm sure there were about ten other things I've meant to share with people, but never mind. (I must go have dinner now.)
ETA: Had dinner and remembered!
1. Happy birthday to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vila_restal! (Okay, I know, but it makes me happy that I have Vila on my flist. He's quiet now, but rebels sometimes have to go into hiding.)
Also, other stuff happening that is fun/interesting:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
halfamoon (ends on the 14th), rarewomen and shipswap.
aralias is Anyway, first things first: she's set up a panfandom ficathon where you take a Mills & Boon/Harlequin romance summary and use it for your favourite pairing and hilarity ensues (or possibly actually romance if you feel like it). Where can you find this wonderful thing and sign up etc.? It is here:
unconventionalcourtshipI might have made some banners for it. Some of them are only useful if you are me, but I was having slightly too much fun. There are more banners on the comm for pimping. But you can use any of these if you like them, too. (You can find them all here.) That was what occupied quite a bit of my day.
In other flist news,
john_amend_all wrote first Passenger for the Steel/Jet prompt i left in his 500 prompts post (which was unexpected and entertaining and involves Steel, Jet and a motorbike ride in the 1920s) and then Field Repair with Silver and Iodine, which is marvellous and uses one of those settings that are v clever for S&S but I can't tell you before you read it. (Several S&S fics are like that. It's v annoying. You can't rec them properly.)And a vid, which wasn't made by anyone on my flist, but is lovely:
(The State of Dreaming by niyalune (Clara, DW - so spoilers for Asylum of the Daleks & the Christmas special).
I'm sure there were about ten other things I've meant to share with people, but never mind. (I must go have dinner now.)
ETA: Had dinner and remembered!
1. Happy birthday to
vila_restal! (Okay, I know, but it makes me happy that I have Vila on my flist. He's quiet now, but rebels sometimes have to go into hiding.)Also, other stuff happening that is fun/interesting:
halfamoon (ends on the 14th), rarewomen and shipswap.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2013-02-10 08:26 pm (UTC)gotta be something b7 related, though?
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Date: 2013-02-10 07:02 pm (UTC)Do eat. It's very important!
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Date: 2013-02-10 07:28 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2013-02-10 08:02 pm (UTC)It's like 'Can you NOT die on me every time computer?? PLEASE?' I need a Liz Shaw type to kick it's ass into touch or someone whose good with tech drama... seriously.
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Date: 2013-02-10 07:51 pm (UTC)I just put their names into the summary and it's already v funny. Probably much funnier than the fic will be.
You're right, though. I used to work in a library and searching through the M&B for a request for The Pregnant Princess, you find The Pregnant Policewoman instead. (I kind of get some of it, but not all the pregnant people, although obv. an understandable consequence of being in M&B. 0_o)
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Date: 2013-02-10 09:46 pm (UTC)(I have never read one. This may be readily apparent).
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Date: 2013-02-11 12:20 pm (UTC)I think they have been getting racier, or at least some of the different series have more sex in? (I did have to tidy and sort through them in the library, as I said. It was one of those things where you look on an alien world from afar.)
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Date: 2013-02-10 07:57 pm (UTC)And I see what you mean about the banners being addictive :-)
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Date: 2013-02-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(Sorry).
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Date: 2013-02-11 11:55 pm (UTC)"Doc-tor!" My voice was hoarse, even more staccato than usual, and the lights on the top of my casing went wild with passion. As he moved ever nearer, I could feel my spheres beginning to vibrate...
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Date: 2013-02-11 07:23 pm (UTC)Looking at the list of prompts, I recognised the name of Portia Da Costa and wondered if her Eight/OFC romance was on the list — and if so, whether it might be an idea to do it but with the rôles reversed, so that Eight finds an amnesiac Charley, or Lucie, or Dalek wandering into his life. But I think that was a different publisher.
ETA: Having taken another look at the prompts, my imagination seems to be casting them like Storytime, finding a pair of unshipped characters who approximate the descriptions rather than (say) substituting Jamie's and Victoria's names into number 92 (or, Heaven help us, numbers 133 or 138).
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Date: 2013-02-11 08:27 pm (UTC):-)
Your Dalek covers are v amusing, too, yes. ;-)
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Date: 2013-02-11 09:03 pm (UTC)Oh, my goodness - Tarrant and Servalan in a M&B scenario (again)? 0_o
I'm really looking forward to this ficathon - even more now. :lol:
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Date: 2013-02-11 09:59 pm (UTC)They do seem like a good couple to write in a not-completely serious fic. Writing them seriously would be harder, I think.