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I haven't completed a bingo, but it's amnesty now, so nothing gets you actual points, and since I have now written 11 things for it, I decided that was enough, never mind getting five in a row!

In the last couple of days I added two things of pretty much no interest to anyone:

Public Service? : Public Eye meta (~1200 words. Non-spoilery.). Meta on the character of Frank Marker from Public Eye and how much he can and can't be said to prostitute himself (metaphorically at least). (For the bingo square "prostitution".)

I was contemplating possible bingos and that I could possibly use "prostitution" for Public Eye in relation to Frank, and then wrote this in almost no time at all. (I like the strips I made with my icons, but that is probably the only bit worth looking at.)

Fic: Human Development
(Teen, David Neville/Colin Webster). “A geneticist is always disturbed… look at your development. It’s quite extraordinary.” They’ve known each other forever, or near enough, but it’s a long road from there to here.

You may or may not recall that time I made a picspam of Children of the Damned and how I got myself through the film (it was a wee bit tedious, but it had more Alfred Burke and that was what I wanted at the time) by making up random ships and backstory, and... then I realised that that hypothetical backstory would fit really well into the earnest moral, and then I scribbled fic, and then I realised it would fit a bingo square... and yes. I paid for my folly, though. Not only did I have to watch whole scenes again, I also wasted far too much time trying to work out from Colin's scarf which Oxbridge college he (and presumably David Neville) went to. This, btw, via net and a black and white screencap is not possible. Little knowledge of anything beyond the picspam is needed to read this, but I can't imagine why anyone should want to. (I was, at that point, still contemplating a bingo.)

My final result on the card looks like this:
bodyguards sacrifice tentacles substance addiction theft
panic attacks forced soulbonding trust issues prostitution cages
alien abduction sexual extortion WILD CARD (Dystopia) torture loss of vision
bullet wounds unrequited pining branding accidents plane crash
trapped between realities natural disasters tyranny / rebellion surprise sexswap runaways


Looking at it, I realise this probably qualifies as wilful refusal to achieve a bingo or something (a horsehoe shape should be a bingo, right?!), but I thought it was time to move on. The challenge finished two months ago now, and all I needed therefore was one fic to post in amnesty and I'd managed 10 and my first bit of meta. In all seriousness, though, I really did get a lot out of it. And that's what counts, rather than trying to finish that tentacles fic, or even dashing off a ficlet about theft.

So then of course I signed up for the March Amnesty challenge, to make 15 recs between these three prompts - incorporating 1, 2 or 3 of them, but 15 recs in total:

insomnia poisoning unrequited pining


Should be interesting... (There's no penalty if I don't make it, and I do like recs posts.)

Date: 2 Mar 2014 10:14 pm (UTC)
aralias: (six and peri)
From: [personal profile] aralias
YOU WERE SO CLOSE! and theft seems like an easy one - though possibly not from a h/c angle. i assume the idea is that someone is sad because something has been stolen from them... not that you are hanging out with the thieves and going 'woo hoo! we are so clever and amazing'.

i love your story about accidentally writing some fic, and then cursing yourself as you have to watch bits of something you don't even like.

Date: 3 Mar 2014 01:14 am (UTC)
clocketpatch: A small, innocent-looking red alarm clock, stuck forever at 10 to 7. (Default)
From: [personal profile] clocketpatch
I'm impressed at how many fics you wrote even if you didn't manage to achieve a traditional bingo (horse show should be... a special achievement, or something. The "filled more than 30% of card with no bingo" achievement"!)

Date: 3 Mar 2014 06:21 pm (UTC)
liadt: Close up of Oichi drawing her sword close to her face with a sword blade meeting hers (DW First I wonder...)
From: [personal profile] liadt
The horseshoe shape looks nicer than a line and the two solo squares make it look like a face, so why ruin it all with a line?:)

Children of the Damned slash will be the next thing, mark my words(!).

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