bluflamingo

I got three lovely stories written for me in holiday exchanges this year:
The Witching Hour (1212 words) by havocthecat
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Cadman/Teyla Emmagan, Kate Heightmeyer/Elizabeth Weir, Ronon Dex/Evan Lorne
Characters: Laura Cadman, Teyla Emmagan
Summary:

It's midnight on Atlantis and everything's all right.

Moving Day (2045 words) by tielana
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kono Kalakaua, Jenna Kaye, Danny "Danno" Williams, Chin Ho Kelly
Summary:

Kono and the guys help Jenna move into her new apartment. Except that the guys have been delayed and it's just Jenna and Kono.

Restoration (4228 words) by perspi
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chin Ho Kelly/Steve McGarrett
Characters: Steve McGarrett, Chin Ho Kelly, Mary Ann McGarrett
Summary:

Sometimes restoration comes when you least expect it.

Which means I should really link to the stuff I wrote, but that's going to have to wait for another day - I can't wrap my head around coding all the links today.

To my amazement, I don't have anything I should be writing because there's a deadline coming up (which probably means it's time I got my act together for another round of Cam Trope Fic). Instead, here's a list of things I'm hoping to get written in 2012:

Stargate:
1. The thing I started as a pitch hit for 2010's secret santa, in which John doesn't go back to Atlantis after the Return, and ends up with Cam Mitchell, with a sub-plot about how he was involved with Rodney and it fell apart because Rodney was scared and couldn't get over his insecurities about John having to keep them secret
2. Dysfunction verse future fic, in which John and Cam get their happy ending (and a dog)

Hawaii 5-0:
3. The one where Danny totally knows Steve likes him, doesn't like Steve back and knows Steve knows this, and is trying to avoid talking about it
4. The thing I started which is a post-2.10 AU in which Jenna lives and about her and Lori trying to learn to relate to each other (because to Lori, Jenna's the girl who nearly got her friend killed, and to Jenna, Lori's the girl who stole her spot on the team even if she didn't).
5. Something about Steve and Chin before Steve joined the Navy, and then the awkward conversation about what happens now they're working together years later
6. Sequel to Building Family

Other fandoms:
7. The White Collar AU where Alex is Diana's CI, and Alex and June's daughter get up to criminal high-jinks together while looking hot
8. Firefly: sequel to Gone where Bridget finds Kaylee
9. Possibly something about Ariadne and Philippa in Inception - mainly because that film has far too many men in it, and I want to write about the women
10. Something Colby/David, from Numb3rs, having just watched season 5. Possibly a post-season 6 AU in which David stays and takes over leading the team, and Amita and Colby bond through online role playing games in which she mocks him for being terrible

Plus, I've been saying everywhere that this is going to be the year in which I write my space moles novel, and get upgraded from MPhil to Phd with my studies; start a queer writers group, get paid to run a writing course, volunteer more. Be more involved in activism - I want to start a Lesbian Feminist Collective, because I feel too gay in feminist spaces and too feminist in LGBT spaces, but I don't know how or what we'd do. Of course, the trick might just be to gather people together and see what happens.

So, that should keep me busy :)

There's an anthology looking for 'swords and sorceressed' stories (original fiction) which I really want to write something for, but my brain is refusing to offer up any suggestions.

So I throw myself at your mercy: leave something in the comments (word, image, song, character name, whatever) that might inspire an idea.

And with all the ficathons around at the moment (own up, who still hasn't started their satedan_grabass fic?), maybe other people get helped out too. Or maybe you repost this in your journal for something you're stuck on, and it becomes one huge explosion of inspiration.

Or something

1. I'm not signing up for yuletide this year. I mention it here so that when I start wavering, one of you can remind me that I said I'm not. I'm way over-committed this year.

2. I am, however, signing up for sg-flyboys. I can't not! Which reminds me, I meant to ask if they'd include Lorne this year, and now it's too late. Next year (though I said that last year, and look how well that turned out!)

Deadlines list:
Cam Mitchell Ficathon fic - I know exactly where it's going, which might be why I'm not feeling much enthusiasm for writing it. But I'm not dropping out of my own ficathon, so that'll have to change! 2 Nov
Crossover exchange fic - it's going. I sort of know where it's going as well, which is nice :) 12 Nov
3-ships fic - no prompt yet 10 Dec
Sheppard HC exchange fic - I have no idea what I'm going to write for this! It's not even a bad prompt, I'm just....stuck 15 Dec
SGA Santa - no prompt yet 29 Dec

Dear John and Cam,

You're supposed to be talking about buying a house together. If you could stop having sex while discussing one of you's fantasies and get back to the big, life-changing (or not, since you already have a child) decisions, it would be much appreciated. If the word count on this breaks 30,000*, I will cry and it will be all your fault.

Much love,
bluflamingo

*Doubtful, since it's currently 12,500 - although I do have all those back story bits that are currently one sentence notes to actually write, not to mention the rest of the current day plot.

I was so sure this was going to be a low-rated fic for lack of sex. Shows what I know!

Like it's not enough that my favourite sandals fell apart, and I couldn't find my blue flip flops anywhere in my flat: when I finally find my red ones instead, it turns out that the rat that's taken up residence in my walls has been chewing on them.

It has to go.

I just don't know how to make it so - it's too clever for traps, and there's no way I'm going to be able to catch it. The rat catcher suggested poison, but, um, it's living in the wall. It'll crawl back in there and die, and my flat is 25 degrees in the summer. I do not think so.

Anyone have any brilliant ideas? The rat catcher did find the hole it's getting in through (I live on the second floor, hence, it lives in the walls) and my landlord would probably come and block it up, but since we think the rat made the hole itself, that kind of seems like it might be the start of a very long pattern of fill hole-no rat-new hole-rat-fill hole.

Also, I'm really starting to hate my John/Keller friendship fic (not because I don't like the story, but because writing it is like pulling freaking teeth). Nevertheless, I will not be defeated. (Not least because, when i finish the cursed thing, I'm going to write the damn What Happens Next sequel and not keep leaving it languishing in an actual paper notebook. That's just sad).

And to end on a cheerful note: sign-ups are still open for the second annual cm_tropefic (also on dw with the same name, but sign-ups are lj based). It's never too late to sign up to write wing fic (yes, I intend to keep banging that drum until someone does!)

Ladies Big Bang:


Whee, so close! Only six scenes to go (including the one and only sex scene, assuming I don't fade to black like I did for the other one).

Then femgenficathon fic, then, since I apparently posted the original on 30th September 2008, the sequel to What Happens Next, because I am going to finish it before the two year anniversary of this fic no matter what!

Ha! Two thirds of the way there. Actually, I think I probably have a bit more than 5000 words of story still to go, but I should be finished by next weekend, yay! Not that I'm not enjoying writing this, but I've got Diana/female!Neal kink bingo fic floating around in the back of my head, and I really want to write it, but promised myself I'd finish this before I did anything else.

Because I'm hoping that if I write it down, I might stick to it, this is everything I'm going to write before the end of this year.

Things with deadlines:
1. lgbtfest fic "The problem with having Cameron Mitchell for an ex is that he feels qualified to offer dating advice" 10 June
2. sga_flashfic fork in the road challenge, what if John didn't go back to Atlantis after The Return (Carter/Weir) 17 June
3. femgengficathon fic "I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try" 31 July
4. ladiesbigbang fic: Vega/Keller, Cadman/Brown; 1 August

Things without deadlines:
SGA/SG1: What Happens Next sequel/prequel
SGA/SG1: John+Keller, Cam's missing presumed dead (Dysfunction verse)
Criminal Minds: Emily/Jordan, JJ as matchmaker or JJ/Emily, JJ/Will sort-of threesome
SG1: Daniel/Cam psychic bond (probably for cm-tropeficathon if I remember to re-run it)
Star Trek Reboot: Jocelyn McCoy divorce fic
Generation Kill: Nate getting his heart inadvertently broken by Brad
Center Stage: Eva and Juliette post movie bonding, probably for queerly_gen

Huh. I thought there'd be more things than that.

femgenficathon is opened up for prompts again. Last year, I had what I thought was a brilliant idea for original fic for mine, which turned out not to be, so I didn't write anything for it. The year before that, I wrote Sora after the expedition lets her go, and my first year, Teyla after Atlantis is recalled for what appears to be good.

This year, my prompt is:
82) I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. -- Nikki Giovanni (born June 7, 1943), African-American author and poet.

I'm thinking either CJ Cregg/Nancy McNally making a run on the presidency in The West Wing, with a campaign staff made up primarily of the women I've loved throughout the show (Donna, Amy, Kate Harper, maybe Liz Bartlett, Joey Lucas...) or Amita, after she decides not to marry Charlie after all, and he goes off to England, becoming the main math consultant for the FBI (led by David, of course, because he becomes interim team leader after Don quits).

Care to express a preference, before I resort to flipping a coin?

I dropped out of the apocabigbang, mainly because I couldn't wrap my head around the plot, which hasn't historically worked well for me and big bang challenges, am resisting the urge to sign up for SG1's big bang because I can't think of anything to write about (trust me, I'm as shocked as you) and am not signing up for SGA's because I don't have a 40,000 word plot idea.

Which you'd think would cover me and big bang challenges, except that I'm thinking of signing up for Numb3rs' when it opens in February.

In my defence, it's only 20,000 words, and I could do my Colby takes the Washington job au. I even know what would happen. I even know how it would end, I think.

There's just one problem: I don't have any Numb3rs icons :o) Point a girl to a good place? Please?

In other news: I don't know what's happening. I'm writing het. I mean, depressing break-up het, but still. This is why I shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard when I'm down (though it is slightly better than the John thinks Cam's dead fic I nearly started).