kangeiko

The Yuletide authors have been revealed, whee!! I wrote 8 fics this year (overly excitable, I know), but I blame the folks over at #yuletide irc, who were so bloody encouraging it was difficult to stop. Anyway:

Yuletide fic

- Sold Under Sin, Transmetropolitan
My assignment; written for numinicious. Spider rants about the economy, at some length. I hand-wrote the first draft of this on the train up to Edinburgh a few weeks ago, and spent a ridiculous amount of time poking it. And then three days agonising over the title. Sometimes it's the silliest things...

- Apocrypha, Carnivale
Pinch-hit for thedeadparrot. Sofie and Ben and Apollonia, S1. There was a bit of a mad scramble on this one, as I am much more familiar with the California side of things than the Carnivale side, so a frantic rewatching of source took place.

- Nor the Battle to the Strong, Gone With the Wind
Yuletide Treat for Maidenjedi. The Tarletons go to war. As the film has about 3 seconds of the Tarletons, I shamelessly plundered the book for source instead. (100fandoms #93, can.)

- Fable, Fairy tales (trad)
Yuletide Treat for WhiteCat. A riff on Liz Lochhead's Men Talk, which is one of my favourite poems. I started using it as source for something else entirely, but this sorta fell out almost by accident. (100fandoms #95, crowd)

- The Fair Gals of Dakota, Deadwood
Yuletide Treat for Suburban Noir. One of the things I love about yuletide is that I can try new things. And this is - God help me - a barn dance, telling the tale of Alice Isringhausen.

- Civility, Deadwood
Yuletide Treat for Sweeney Agonistes. A drabble wherein Al Swearengen makes an effort, set early S2.

- Contre-jour, Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy
Yuletide Treat for Ellen Fremedon. Sax pays a visit to the Antarctica training grounds post-Blue Mars. (100fandoms #25, salt)

- Seven Days, Bible - Hebrew Bible or Old Testament
Yuletide Treat for kastaka. Miriam spends seven days outside.

***

I'm up to 75/100 for my 100fandoms claim. This makes me ridiculously happy.

***

I read 52 books in 2008, 2 of which were re-reads. No reviews for them, though, as I slacked off this year. I have a million books mid-way through, so when I do the same thing this year - and try to get through another 50 - I'm gonna make more of an effort to comment on them.

***

NYR and book lists for 2009 to follow. At the moment, I have a lovely clean house, tomorrow off from work, and I owe people lotsa fic. So - cafe, notebook, pen. Yes.

For bluerosefairy, for her request: two dangerous women named Irina, to my offer of fic for Xmas/Channukah/Yule.


Title: Nopheth
Fandoms: Alias/Carnivale (mainly Carnivale, to be fair)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: 22 March 1943, eight years to the day before Irina Derevko is born, the entire population of Khaytun, Belarus, is burnt alive by occupying forces. Not quite eight years later, her namesake comes to Moscow.
Characters/Pairings: Iris/Justin.
A/N: many thanks to selenak, for answering my Carnivale S2-questions.

*
( Read more... )

bluerosefairy, honey, I doubt whether this was what you had in mind, but I hope you enjoy it anyway! Merry Christmas!

I'm back! Didja miss me?

Real life = TEH SUCK, except that it's over now and I am not worrying about it NO NOT AT ALL. monanotlisa is here and we are having the bestest time, my dissertation is finished and handed in, and I am back at work tomorrow and very relieved to be there, to be honest.

SO! catching up on the memes:

For likeadeuce: ( 5 things John Sheridan does that drive Delenn nuts, that she's way too polite to ever mention )

*
( 5 possible futures that Sir Nicholas Fury was accidentally sent to at the of 1602 )

For leyenn: ( 5 things Michael Garibaldi knows but can't tell himself about )
*
( 5 times Susan Ivanova wished Delenn would just learn to read a textbook, already )
*
( 5 rituals John Sheridan really didn't mind going through. )

For bluerosefairy: ( Five actions Iris Crowe does NOT regret (besides setting the fire). )

For eye_of_a_cat: ( Five things Londo Mollari regrets saying while drunk )
*
( Five things Sawyer doesn't miss about life pre-mysterious island. )

*

Anyone else want anything (they're being written in the manner of ficlets), request one here.

Title: Noose
Author: kangeiko
Fandom: Carnivale
Summary: Sometimes, Dora Mae can't breathe. Set pre-Babylon, but knowledge of it is probably helpful.

*

( Read more... )