Scratching Post

Yuletide!

( Letter under the cut )

Title: Reparations
Fandom: The Musketeers (BBC)
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Length: ~750 words
Synopsis: He cannot rest until justice has been sought.
Author's Notes: For the prompt "sick/injured" at ushobwri.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and am making no profit from this.

Also available at AO3.

( Reparations )

Feedback is always welcomed.

Today was setup day for CONvergence. Got the teens set and settled, got the games room prepped to be settled, got badges sorted, got packing sorted, got food in me (eventually), and got home. We don't check into the hotel for sleeping rooms until tomorrow, so tonight is paying bills and finding all the last minute stuff.

Up side: found my missing badge holder.

Down side: cannot find my copy of Imzadi and Marina Sirtis is a guest of honor who will also be doing signing. Boo.

Now if I can get some actual sleep tonight and get the giant set of hives on my arm from brushing up against something to go away so I can wear the adorable dress I found, I'll be set.

Debated not signing up this year, but the sign up post hit just as writer's block did, and it's helped so much in the past, so... Yep, another round of hc_bingo. Bonus points for being given the square I've always wanted to poke at, but never got up until now?

( Card Below the Cut )

Some repeats from the past years, some new ones, and definitely some ideas brewing at the back of my mind. Hopefully some of those will turn into actual readable stories?

Damn I love Orphan Black. So many political and social issues interwoven into an actual fast-moving plot with awesome characterization.

I need an icon for this, I know. But who would I choose as favorite? Let's be honest, it would be Helena.

Say someone writes a fic wherein it's sort of a fusion between Fandom A and Fandom B, but no characters from Fandom B are actually in the fic itself (basically, characters from Fandom A coexist in the same universe as Fandom B), does this get labeled as a crossover?

I think AO3 has a "fusion" option, but I also don't want to post something that shows up in searches for both fandoms and have someone click it hoping for characters from Fandom B where they simply are not there.

Catching up on my f-list before I attempt to catch up on the comments I am so woefully behind on for AO3. There are some truly tempting challenges and exchanges out there, such as genprompt_bingo and avengers_remix and more.

The thing is, I just wrapped up the last round of hc_bingo and I kinda made an internal goal to write more self-indulgent fic for a while, even if no one likes/reads it. I have a couple WIPs to finish up and I handful of ideas floating around for other things.

January through like March is usually kind of a quiet, non-productive time for me. I might get like one huge (usually angst-ridden) fic completed, and that's about it. I like the idea of the challenges prompting me to write more, but I also like the idea of going back to writing things outside of just challenge fics.

Thinking of passing on the challenges for right now, but keeping them bookmarked. If I get a lull or writer's block or something, I can always poke at their prompt tags, right? That's not completely against the rules?

So, yeah, kind of a pointless, rambly post. :)

Finished up my hc_bingo card with the last post. Managed to get a blackout! Also managed to screw up the post to the comm, get it locked in the mod queue, and redo everything because I'm special like that.

Anyway, the prompts and the card and the links and all that...

H/C Prompts: abandonment issues, alien abduction, amnesia, arena, attacked by a creature, bites, body/mind swap, bodyguards, bullet wounds, culture shock, corporal punishment, dub-con, dystopia, extortion, hallucinations, invisibility, natural disasters, pandemics/epidemics, prostitution, rape/non-con, shipwrecked, skeletons in the closet, therapy, unconsciousness, wings

( My hc_bingo card )

( “Fandom-Story )

9 fics had over 5,000 words.

128,411 total words.

Whoo to the hoo?

Now I get to go play with my kidfic again!

Woke up and cannot immediately go back to sleep due to far too much on my mind.

This is the first year in my 30+ in which we did not go to one of my relatives for Christmas Eve. Instead, all of the way too many cousins were doing things with their own expanding families and the like, so we got together here with wolfie74's mother and the boys' father. The boys' father usually comes over for Christmas Day, opens presents with us, then takes the kids to his side of the family for their festivities. Due to the massive amounts of snow and ice and the possibility of being snowed in, we did everything tonight instead and he left with them before it got worse. It was a little odd after so many years of doing it differently, but it does mean the possibility of sleeping in come morning for the first time in years.

wolfie74 seems to have really loved her gifts. The boys actualy actively searched for things with meaning to them this year (versus the Chocolate Fountain Year, the Operation Game Year and more) and I found a handmade doll on Etsy of her fave Doctor that she cooed over, amongst other things. She got me things for our upcoming trip and a shirt that's technically in her fandom but the art kinda makes it looks like Natasha as well and makes me both want ALL THE KIDFIC and want to change one of my last two hc_bingo stories that I'm struggling with to kidfic as well.

Her mother gave me something I am still struggling to figure out how to react to, but in a positive, heirloom, you-are-family kind of way. My mother both listened about a WWII history book I wanted in memory of my great-great aunt, and got me bracelet a friend made at a craft show because "it has stars and moons and celestial stuff you like."

And, finally, I peeked at LJ when I first woke back up and couldn't fall asleep and Yuletide has posted! Dude - I got three stories to enjoy in the morning while contemplating survival in the vast cold and white. So excited! Will post more when I am coherent and awake enough to do so about those!

Got home and wolfie74 asked if I wanted popcorn for dinner. She took the fam to see Catching Fire and, needless to say, we enjoyed it.

No spoilers.

I will say there are parts missing from the book, but both in a way that still pushes forward the storyline, and keeps it rated for the younger audience, if that makes sense. There were two minor parts that I personally wanted to see on screen that weren't there, but there was enough that was straight from the pages to make up for it.

In other news, I have a coworker who hasn't read the books, didn't know the movies were based on a book series at all, and keeps calling it "Hunger Games 2." She's been trying to figure out why there is another game and wants to see more of "the Peeta and Katniss love story." Um...