Beyond the Roundels

1. My family have gone home now. I saw them intermittently, but it was very nice. I drew several castles for my nephew and niece to colour, and Middle Sis was here for half the day yesterday before she got the train, did a massive lot of cleaning, and then thanked me for the fun she'd had before she left. Hopefully, I won't take too long to recover.


2. hetswap noms are open and I am reminding myself that doing exchanges in summer is not a good idea, but I had fun with that one when it ran before (in Feb/Mar/April time!) and now it allows poly and art/vids/podfic, too. I shall probably nominate but be stern with myself unless I am inspired to write a thing straight off, because I always forget just how much my PC time can be curtailed in summer. (Hetswap is usually tiny enough that gaming the system is possible, so that can work.) After all, it's not as I can write Librarian/Demon more than once in a lifetime, and I can write for paranoidangel any time I feel like it, even if, it's true, I can't demand that she write for me any time I like. ;-p*


3. A new bingo that looks like fun - crossoverbingo! Am also trying to resist that...


* We meet even more inevitably than usual in this exchange.

1. hetswap assignments finally went out last night. I have one that hopefully should be possible and fun to do (the one I guessed I'd get - it's proved to be a very small exchange this round), although my other strong suspicion that I was unmatchable myself was also true and I was in the first batch of pinch hits. However, it's okay, I've been claimed some time this afternoon, so I needn't worry that my requests for weird DW pairings involving splintered alien art thieves put anyone off. At least, not yet.


2. Talking about When the Boat Comes In reminded me that I'd scribbled out a ficlet for a genprompt_bingo square when I started S4, but saved it to type up once I knew whether it got jossed or not. So last night, I provided AO3 with its first WtBCI work, which I'm sure nobody but me wanted, but, hey, bingo square! (Plus, it's fun to make new fandoms be a thing.)

Night Jitters (583 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: When the Boat Comes In (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Ford & Bella Seaton
Characters: Jack Ford, Bella Seaton
Additional Tags: Season/Series 04, Missing Scene, Ficlet, Community: hc_bingo
Summary: Jack Ford’s not one for nerves, at least not in the usual way, but times have changed.

1. hetswap has nominations open till 3rd Feb. (I expect not to be able to sign up, but I did nominate some things just in case. It was fun last year, and this year's mod looks a little more on the ball, too, so I'm not ruling things out yet.)


2. Sign-ups are ongoing to Monday for worldbuildingex. (Which I haven't ever done because lack of brain, but seems v cool).


3. Let me pimp my own ongoing challenge comms, since I seem unlikely to be running ficathons any time soon: who_allsorts, which is basically an old-style claims comm for Doctor Who but with many mini prompt tables ranging from sets of 3-20, fairly wide and laid back options on claiming (character/ship/era or theme if you prefer to mix it up character/pairing-wise) and you can make fills in any fanwork type. And I'm very proud of my pretty prompt sets. (Some of which, of course, came courtesy of you lot.)

Also tic_tac_woe (aka apocabingo), the Apocalyptic mini bingo challenge! (Each card has nine apocalyptic prompts: get your bingo by destroying/saving the world at least three times in a row - all fandoms and origfic welcome, ditto all fandom types. The end of the world is an equal opportunity experience here. ;-p)

hetswap has been revealed now! My assignment was (in a truly shocking, astonishing, unbelieveable turn of events) for Paranoidangel.

(Although to be fair, usually she gets assigned to me, whereas I think I've only got her once before.)

Anyway, that meant I got to write some B7 Tarrant/Dayna fic (which, lol, was not super-popular over at the fest):

Ghost Lights (4930 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dayna Mellanby/Del Tarrant
Characters: Del Tarrant, Dayna Mellanby
Additional Tags: Season/Series 03, Grief/Mourning, References to canon character deaths, post episode s03e12 deathwatch, Explosions
Summary: While out on a mission, Dayna and Tarrant find the past catching up with them in a particularly dangerous fashion.

(I did write something else as well, but more about that anon, hopefully before the end of the day.)

1. I decided that there's really no point in trying to catch up with snowflake_challenge now. After all, the questions come around each time!


2. Although I didn't write anything for fandom_stocking, I did post Chapter One of the Sapphire & Steel fic I've been writing for annariel and kaffy_r since last fandom_stocking just to show it is a thing that exists (and hopefully will soon continue). Anyway, Sapphire, Steel and Copper in the 1920s, in a spooky house:

When the Lights Go Out (2797 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sapphire (S&S), Steel, Copper (S&S), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Brother-Sister Relationships, 1920s, Ghosts, Supernatural Elements, Character Death, seances, Mentions of World War I, References to Suicide, Evil Wallpaper
Summary: It seemed like such a lark, to hold a séance in a haunted house, but what human can bargain with time or death - or even Elements?


3. I was trying to write a letter yesterday for hetswap so I can sign up (because that's the only way I get my requests together for these things) and realised I might just as well start it "Dear Paranoidangel..." instead of Dear Author. Unless of course, she doesn't sign up, in which case I may be unmatchable. Heh. We'll see! First I need to get back enough brain to write requests... (I'm sure tomorrow will be betterer!)


4. Thank you for all the dw_allsorts prompts! I've updated the choice of tables now and you provided some lovely ones! It was very helpful. :-)