Scratching Post

Title: Way to the Heart
Genre: Modern AU, Slash
Pairing(s): Gwaine/Merlin, hint of background Arthur/Gwen
Length: ~5,400 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Reference to injury, reference to misuse of food, sap.
Spoilers: Character names only though Series 4.
Synopsis: The one where Gwaine is a chef trying to woo waiter Merlin with food.
Author’s Notes: Written for gwaine_quest’s Jamuary challenge. Thanks go to my loving partner and her chef expertise for help with the culinary terms.
Disclaimer: I do not own this interpretation of the myths and am making no profit from this.

Read over at Gwaine_Quest

Title: Five Times Merlin Crossed
Genre: Gen, Crossover
Fandoms: Merlin, Old Kingdom, Sherlock Holmes, Leverage, Alphas, Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13 for violence and implied character death
Length: ~3060 words
Spoilers: End of Abhorsen series, general for all other series, 11th Doctor, Arthurian mythology
Synopsis: Five times Merlin has crossed the boundary to death.
Author’s Notes: I love the immortality aspect of the Arthurian myths and could not resist playing with it again. This is also a shameless excuse to cross some of my favourite fandoms (even though I did not manage to get Fringe or Highlander in here this time around).
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters and am making no profit from this.

( Five Times Merlin Crossed )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Yeah, I can already tell you I am not going to top the past few years’ of 70-something. The combo of the move, the shoulder, the sick, and the stress from not knowing if I was still going to be employed (hint: I am) took its toll.

So, without further ado...

( Merlin )

( Sherlock (BBC) )

( Fringe )

( Stargate: Atlantis )

( Highlander )

( In Plain Sight )

( Yuletide – not actually listed )

It looks like 41 this year (counting the crossovers only once). Still have the merlinreversebang one to finish and post, and have a couple other ones pending, but there is no way they will be done in the next six hours, so that’s it for 2011!

I have been gifted with a wonderful Alphas story! Binary Data is a view of Gary's world and how he sees not just everything around him, but has a fair idea of how everyone else sees it as well.

Go read. 'Tis awesome.

Have also been gifted with the most wonderful thing since the original Atari that we gave my dad when I was about ten: an iPad add-on with like 100 of the old games. Oh yeah, time be a wastin' soon. *g*

Now wolfie74 and I are off to complete our Christmas Day routine: eat Chinese food and watch Sherlock of the Holmes.

Merry Christmas to those that celebrate, Happy Sunday to those that do not. I hope your day(s) are filled with joy and all sorts of fun. :)

Now 3 am and the fire burns merrily on. Not really writing as I fear the grammar, spelling, and plot I would inflict upon others, so have another quote:

Me: Hey, it looks like the fire's down to almost smoldering. Do we need to turn it back on? Push a button to make the Yule Log go again? [reference to a gas fireplace at one place where we stayed a few years back]

wolfie74: You would never survive in the wilderness on your own, would you?

Me: Sure I would. I'd have my cell phone with GPS and be all, "Yeah, I'm here, come find me."

This, of course, led to reminiscing about the Yule everyone was sick and we took turns sleeping. She was passed out and the fire burned low. Youngest turned to me and asked, "So, um, if we keep it going with sticks and paper until Mom wakes up, it so totally counts, right?"

And he is far more outdoorsy than Eldest. Scary, huh?

It's that time of the year again, the night when I post random rumblings, growing more and more incoherent as the night wears on. Or, in other words, it's Yule!

Plans for the night include catching up at least a little on the backlog of comments, uploading fic to AO3, and, should those sites not want to work as planned (like now), maybe actually get some writing in and finish the holiday cards that have been languishing off to the side.

But for now, food. Of which Eldest has already finished his even though mine is not even done heating. Such is life.

Posted my Yuletide fic! I think! Let's hope I didn't screw it up! Yeah!

The awesome meri/meri_sefket made a pod fic for my cracktastic Duncan/Methos fic.

The original fic can be found here on Live Journal, or here on Dreamwidth.

The pod fic can be found here on Live Journal, or here on Dreamwidth.

Go listen and tell her how awesome she is!

So I have been attempting to draw on the iPad lately, with mixed results. The stuff I posted here was made using the .harmonious app, and I have since tried the one called Paint Gallery. It was okay, but has this little glitch in which it randomly closes everything without saving and pisses me off to no end (twice now when I was almost done - really annoying).

Anyone have any other ideas? I have only used the free apps to date, but would not be adverse to shelling out a couple of bucks if anyone has a particularly glowing review.