Beyond the Roundels

1. no_true_pair is gearing up for its Spring mini-round with sign-ups opening on March 12th! Given that I had such a lovely time with it in September, I'll definitely be giving it another go. I have to decide on my character list - only four characters this time! 8-o (If it's the same as the main round, you can have up to 3 lists, so I'm thinking I might do at least two and then see what I fancy writing the most. XD)


2. hurtcomfortex is still in sign-ups. I don't think I should do it, really, all considered, but I always PINE for it (I could be my own OW tag for it: "Exchange Participant/Unsuitable Exchange They Are Nevertheless Pining Hopelessly For") so I'm keeping an eye on the sign-ups and, yep, as ever with this one, I have like 1 match again. Two, depending what I offer. BUt you never know, what if something jumped out and begged me to write a SHORT thing for it and then I could sign up (but oh no all those tags)...


3. Marginal March, a comment fest for Minor Characters


4. I no sooner said that Craddock and Co had gone from BBC Sounds when I looked, than the BBC decided to repeat it and now it's there again! So if anyone prefers that method, here it is, and they've reached all three eps now (it was still only 2 yesterday): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b00d2t72


5. I reached s3 of Death in Paradise (people who know will know what that means XD) but the BBC did compensate immediately because the following three eps have had Peter Davison (grumpy writer suspect), Josette Simon (fearsome judge suspect), and Raza Jaffrey (airline pilot suspect). Raza was a wonderful surprise, because he went off to the US to be in things I don't watch, so I was just: RAZA!!!! (Spooks fans will understand, because Zaf= <3<3<3 Also he is very illegally pretty, it's true. ETA: the motive for murder was basically jealousy over Raza, which, I mean. legit.)

My resolution to stop at this point was therefore broken. I'll see how long this stint of Actors From My All Time Fave Shows continues, lol, and in the meantime, here's a very lovely, fun/cute Richard and Camille fanvid by Odessie I found on AO3.

hurtcomfortex had its author reveals today, so I now know for sure that I have theseatheseatheopensea to thank for my gift instead of just suspecting it (<3), and can now share what I wrote here.

Anomalies (11478 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Sheev Palpatine, Sabé (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Assassination Attempt(s), Non-Linear Narrative, Hurt/Comfort, Combat Injury, Captured by enemy while trying to protect the other, Character A undertakes a dangerous mission and Character B's job is to keep them alive through it, Bodyguard
Summary: Padmé Amidala is an a former Queen without a planet. Obi-Wan Kenobi is a former Jedi Padawan who never became a Knight and doesn’t fit in with the AgriCorps. But sometimes, if you put two anomalies together, what you get is a force to be reckoned with.

I got so intrigued by one of shadaras's prompts and then suddenly there was plot all over the place, which is not helpful for straight-up Hurt/Comfort. (This was how the wingfic for MayThe4th happened. I decided to try and write a simpler, iddier fic instead/as well... and then it turned into something else anyway and so I gifted it to them in a different exchange.) /o\

1. hamsterwoman has started watching Blake's 7 for the first time, is up to the end of S2 and has thoughts (and doesn't mind stray friendly B7 people wandering over for a chat if they feel inclined, because I asked before I posted this).


2. Someone made a podfic of my Miss Marple/Dracula crossover fic So We Meet At Last. (It's short enough that even I managed to listen to it and it's a very good reading of it and, you know, I can almost see for the first time why other people like it!!)


3. I have not yet watched this week's Doctor Who. I've not been feeling so great and even though I'm a bit better these last two or three days, the spoilers that met me on Monday morning made me want to wait till I was stronger. Or possibly forever. ( Cut for slightly more complaining which probably isn't even spoilery but I'll be on the safe side. But I don't like the idea, anyway )


4. Entirely related to the fact that I couldn't even find a way to type #3 till now, I have made about 8 James Maxwell gifs and so now I can. (First resulting tumblr post here.)

( Cut for JM being vaguely tired and injured again )


5. I've been working my way through the freeform tags for hurtcomfortex to find the ones I want to request and offer. It's certainly entertaining anyway. (They are like: CHARACTER A SACRIFICES THEMSELVES FOR B, CHARACTER B IS FED UP WITH CHARACTER A SACRICING THEMSELVES, and lots of people dying and then ATTEMPTED AROMATHERAPY MAKES EVERYTHING WORSE and it's a ride, basically.)

space_swap is open for sign-ups! (Fic, Art, Vids, Podfic)

And now I can talk again, I can show my ridiculous but awesome crossover tag that I nominated: "Sheev Palpatine (SW Prequels) & Servalan (Blake's 7).

(I may have done several like it, but I feel that one was clearly the best/most terrifying.)


*g*


waybackexchange is still open for sign-ups, too, till March 1st while hurtcomfortex is still in nominations till Feb 28th.

Also I wrote fic for hurtcomfortex, even if I didn't sign up. ruuger was up for pinch hit and I was struck by inspiration and wrote this little piece. However, I was really ill at the time and so didn't claim the pinch hit, so they'd get something written for them by someone who had full brain at the time. I always meant to clean it up for a treat, but was so rotten for most of last month, I nearly didn't make it, but at the last minute, I got it posted (even if not betaed alas), and here it is:

Dodging a Bullet (1550 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/River Song, Twelfth Doctor & Clara Oswin Oswald, Twelfth Doctor & Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor & The Doctor's TARDIS
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, The Doctor's TARDIS, Clara Oswin Oswald, Bill Potts, Nardole (Doctor Who), River Song
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Non-Linear Narrative, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Injury, Fainting
Summary: The Doctor's going to be injured at some point in the future. He can tell, because he's feeling the impact right now. Sometimes time travel is like that.