If your link to Allusions or any of my stories there are not working, ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) amezri remains the greatest hostess possible and the site is still up and the stories are available, but you'll have to update. It's one of those tiny, confusing little changes that are almost invisible, but wreak havoc.
The tilde is gone!
Pause with me a moment to mourn the poor tilde. Rest in peace, ~.
No more nasalization, eh.
Allusions is now linked as http://www.eternalvox.net/auburn/
The fiction index is http://www.eternalvox.net/auburn/fiction.html
If you run into a link that doesn't work, try taking the tilde out of it and let me know so I can update the evasive bugger.
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*waves weakly*
I'm still alive. Here's hoping posting will kick start some other writing mojo. Or even answering comments. There's a meme out there somewhere, where you offer to answer questions about why you made this or that decision in writing a story of yours. I'd be willing to do that. If I remember. If I don't, I'll make something up. ☺
Of course, I'm assuming anyone cares about anything I've written, and it's been a while. Six months? I'm basically fandomless right now, so feel free to pimp new favorites at me. No promises anything will take. Supernatural never did, Merlin didn't, and I like Fringe to watch, but not to get fannish about for some reason. Hey, is there new Fringe tonight? (I actually have to ask. Sometimes the TV doesn't get turned on for days. A magical portal might have swallowed DC and I wouldn't have known.)
I did buy myself that Qosmio I've lusted after for two years and everything looks gorgeous on it.
Here's a sad fact: no matter how fast your new computer is? In a week you'll be used to it and tapping your fingers impatiently at that nanosecond wait time. Also, no matter how fast your computer is, it's still hobbled by the speed of your connection. And Gambit does not even deign to converse with dial-up, so when Verizon chokes on me, Precious still has to step in.
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Breaking radio silence to squawk: how can one day already be so annoying when it isn't even four o'clock yet?
Santa, bring me a new life.
People who I owe betas to? I owe you.
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| 2011-10-22 14:30 |
| SPN rec! Above & Below |
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Flying post to rec ![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) murron 's superb story (yes, I'm biased, don't sue, all you'd get is a turnip). This story is just so visually gorgeous, with a great, organic to canon plot, she makes me want to have her kidnapped and experimented on so I could steal her magical writing factor. And since she has the enviable ability to write a decent summary as well, I'm just going to use her words to describe the story.
Also, the art is outstanding for this story, don't miss checking it out.
Title:Above & Below
Author: </a></b></a>![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) murron
Artist: </a></b></a>salty_catfish
Fandom/Genre: SPN/Slash/AU after 6.10
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 45,344
Warnings: Explicit sexuality, graphic depictions of violence, mentions of torture, shameless appropriation of Dante’s mythology
Summary: After the events of Caged Heat Dean, Sam and Cas climb into Hell to get Sam’s soul. While they pass from one infernal circle to the next, Dean struggles with his mistrust of soulless Sam and the shadow of his own past in the Pit. In addition, there’s the matter of Cas who’s come to mean more to Dean than he wants to admit. Fighting against Hell spawn and fallen angels, passing through burned cities and salt deserts, Dean believes in the success of their mission until their luck runs out and Hell threatens to swallow Cas whole.
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| 2011-09-23 21:04 |
| Fringe! Fringe and that's...! |
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I literally exclaimed 'Oh my God!'
It was a moment of cognitive dissonance where you stop and wonder if you're actually awake or not.
( cut cause I suppose that's a spoiler )
Edited to add: This is the first TV this season and in months that excited and pleased me and made me want to watch next week. I am so glad Fringe is back.
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| 2011-08-19 19:35 |
| Will you who knows I'm a John Deere kinda girl step forward? |
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I just got a lovely gift, with a signed card -- only I happen to know three people who spell their name that way. Ooops. I want to thank the right one, because it a cool gift, very natural looking in the rest of my stuff (except nicer).
So, uhm, _______, step up and accept my delighted thanks.
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| 2011-08-18 00:38 |
| The Corpse in the Coach Meme (Hitchcock Does Cinderella) |
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Not like that, gutterbrains.
Gacked from all over my circle.
So?
If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
— Alfred Hitchcock
If I wrote a story what would you be looking for in it?
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L.A. Times article - Borders seeks approval to liquidate
Damn.
I never really liked the Borders that I've been in, but there was one very convenient to Dad's place, and I can't help feeling sad. Another tie cut, another place I'll never go again, and all those people out of jobs. There's no way to look at it that isn't depressing.
How can I complain though, about the end of Borders, when I buy almost all my books online and am planning to pick up a Kindle next month? Storefronts are less and less cost effective and no one, buyer or seller, has money to waste.
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You know the story that hobos had signs they'd scratch out to tell others whether a place was good to approach for a free meal or had a mean dog or it was easy to hop a train at the bend up the rail where it had to slow down?
I'm convinced stray cats must have something like this.
There has to be a secret sign out there telling cats that that house there? That's a sucker's house. Go on. The dopes who live there will feed you, fix you up, take you in and keep you. And if you feel like dying, they'll bury you carcass, even if you do it under the floor.
Last night another stray showed up. This one is a dirty calico with long hair and chopped off ear tip. I thought she was a living grease rag/slash burr ball at first. She simply invited herself in the open window last night, strolled over to the desk and started meowing at me. You know how strays are normally, even if they haven't been as obviously left to fend as this one. She even stood still for having all the burrs combed out (and that was a good hours work). I'm not keeping this one though. I just got Dad's cat, so that's three and that's ebloodynough. This one is friendly, so I'll take her to the humane society and hope she clicks with someone.
I kind of suspect she must have been an informal barn cat or something to the people who lost their place a month or two ago. They were looking for a cat they'd lost, though the description was markedly different. But they're long gone now and I have no way to contact them.
Humbug.
On writing.
The great thing about setting something in the past is all the research you get to do. The worst thing about setting something in the past is all the research you have to do.
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Won't find out until after five if I'm being called for the jury pool.
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| 2011-07-04 12:33 |
| To those in the US, happy Independence Day! |
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For those who aren't enjoying a holiday, maybe it'll be a good day anyway?
Meanwhile, 4th of July-ers, enjoy a great day and don't forget to keep your pets inside if you don't have a safe, fenced yard or pen for them. Fireworks are pretty (provided they don't result in wildfires - I tend to be skeptical of something that fakes war anyway), but the noise can freak out a dog or cat (or horse or bat). And, to quote Hill Street Blues, 'be careful out there'. I'm holing up at home through the entire thing.
Some day I'll have something ficcish to post about again. For the moment I'm still between revising one story and researching another, neither of which I want to talk about much. Little bits of history are bouncing around my brain, hitting each other and exploding into ideas for a plot at the moment. It's kind of a mess.
A Thompson submachine gun weighed ten pounds (I don't know if that was with a fifty-round clip or not, something else to fact check). John Dillinger loved Ford V-8s. I need more books. (I need more books like I need a hole in the head - I still have half a box of Dad's in my trunk and the back of the Explorer filled with boxes of specialized tomes, but I'm not writing about pouring concrete, unfortunately.)
I did get through Sunday without something going wrong or feeling irreparably sad, though. Possibly it was just too hot for another meltdown. Possibly because the TV has stabilized with two lost channels and I got to kick back and watch Johnny Depp rock as John Dillinger last night.
I've been watching some old episodes of Fastlane, because khaleesian's The Fast and the Furious crossover Repomen (read it!) reminded me of it, and I'm struck by how skank couture hasn't changed much since the late 80s, anymore than men's suits have since the 20s. Also, someone should write a crossover where Elizabeth Burke is actually Billie Chambers, who had to go into Witness Protection or something, simply because the character whiplash would be hilarious. *bats eyelashes at White Collar peeps out there*
And... that's all for this entry in Off on a Tangent Theatre, folks, for this week.
Secret message to sobelle : you make my email inbox a happy place lately.
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| 2011-06-28 13:26 |
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It isn't Sunday. Sunday (like the very name, if you think about it, which even sounds hot) are of the Not Good persuasion.
It's raining.
It's not Wednesday either. For some reason, it felt like it was Wednesday until I just looked at my watch.
I shall make chicken and dumplings tonight and watch downloaded TV. Among the things that make me happiest: the internet. It lets me download stuff I've missed thanks to the increasing eccentricity of my TV.
Wimbledon. It doesn't remind me of anyone or anything. It's just tennis.
This month from hell is almost over. Next month will likely be unpleasant too (it's July), but I feel like I'll have a few things back under control.
I love the rain. I don't understand why anyone doesn't love the rain. Provided they aren't sleeping outside, I guess.
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I have a little gen story I did for a zine last year that's timed out. Should I post it here? I'm iffy on it, because I kind of want comments, but if there aren't many then I'm going feel down, and then I may not feel like answering them, but maybe some feedback would kick start the writing engine. I'd like to finish the story I was working on before. I'd like to write something else. I'd like to get out of my head.
There is not enough The Fast and the Furious fic out there. I'm going to have to start rereading. And there is no Takers fic at all. In the name of slash, how is this possible? Idris Elba and Paul Walker and Zoe Saldana and Michael Ealy and Matt Dillon, and, okay, I think Chris Brown is a trainwreck waiting to happen to any woman he gets involved with, but still, why is there no fic? I could consume metric butt-tons of Gordon and John Rahway fic.
Fandom and the internet have failed me on that front.
Also, owww. I used to read in bed all the time. All the damn time. Now it makes my back hurt like hell. WTF universe, WTF?
Promo ads for Sunday night football on NBC: proven to provoke me to tears now. Also everything geared to upcoming Father's Day. I expect tomorrow to be worse. I have a family phone call I should return. I tried earlier and missed my cousin and now I don't have the will to try again. I feel like if I do I'll have to throw up. I sort of feel that way as it is, but I'm a bad relative to not call. Why doesn't she have email? I'd email. Email is easier than talking.
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So, my life is just hell right now. My father is in ICU, hovering somewhere between turning a corner and improving or the steady failure of his body after a heart attack, his kidneys shut down and aren't responding well to hydration, his liver was shocked, and of course his diabetes is shooting his blood sugar through the roof. Only medication is keeping his blood pressure high enough to supply sufficient oxygen to his organs. Through all of this he's been clear headed and aware, no confusion, and has said he wishes no one had found him in time for the hospital. I stayed in the ICU two nights, have been spending nineteen to twenty hours there since reaching the hospital after my stepsister called with the news.
It's fucking heartbreaking.
His doctor is a frustrating, brusque, arrogant ass who sees him for maybe five minutes in the morning, going, 'Umhmn, umhmn' to himself. Says dad's numbers are improving, but damn it the numbers mean shit when he won't eat enough to support a miniature mouse. Meanwhile the nurses are more honest, but even they won't commit to telling me the truth I can see myself. And I am I so very very tired of explaining everything to every visitor who shows up, because no one will give me enough information to supply a definitive one way or the other. Instead I have to relay every detail and then say, 'so we don't know yet'. Of course, I'm so, so tired anyway.
And there is one nurse. Arrrrgh. Most are wonderful, but Nurse Depressing treats my dad like he's already dead, talks over him, and just pushes the doom and gloom every time she comes in. I nearly had a fucking fit at her last night -- just because Dad won't or can't eat much is not a fucking reason to forget to bring dinner to him. Whatever. I spoke to the night shift nurse and Depressing definitely was acting differently today. Of course, the worst part is, that in some ways she is being honest, something I keep saying I want.
So, everything's fucked, I live in ICU, and if my father is alive on Saturday, I have to go home for the weekend to make arrangements so I can be away longer.
I really just want to sleep and have it all not be.
This isn't an appeal for sympathy -- I've got that from plenty of my Dad's friends and family -- I just had to vent or cry and if I start crying I don't know if I'll stop all night.
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| 2011-05-13 11:54 |
| SPN Fic Recommendation: Time On My Hands, by murron |
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murron has posted a marvelous Supernatural story. I had the pleasure of beta-ing, so I'm biased, but then I'm biased anyway, because mostly I don't like Supernatural any longer. Unless it is by murron.
In which case, well, all bets are off.
Read it. It's fantastic, with the caveat that the violence in it could be quite a bit more disturbing than 'normal' SPN violence, being of the ugly human sort.
Time on My Hands
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It's something I wonder about sometimes, how some fandoms spawn AUs, some spawn just one that is shared and becomes as big as canon setting, and others have certain tropes that seem to take over. This is based on my wide, but not by any means complete, reading habits. I've noticed a couple of trends though.
The Losers seems to call to something in many of us to write werewolf or shapechanger fic and Hawaii Five-O has shapeshifting of the selkie sort or something that involves ocean magic. Usually for Steve, but then, the fandom seems mostly focused on the slashtasticness of the Steve/Danny pairing (and why not, canon itself is one step away from them waking up in bed together naked.... wait, I want that episode, even if played for laughs, so the vidders can use it), in Due South I've read many a genderswitch, and M7 brings the seven to the present day.
Anyway, you can blame this bit of mental wandering on murron, who shares my love of 1940s era men's fashion apparently, which has lead me to this idea: Prohibition era The Fast and the Furious. Tommy guns, zoot suits, big band music and speakeasies, moonshiners bringing booze across the border from Canada, gangsters, femme fatales...
Paul Walker in a fedora and a suit with suspenders.
Do you think that counts as a kink? I could prompt it at the kinkmeme...
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The HTC Thunderbolt is mine now.
So, dear flist and dwircle, tell me what I need to put on this new phone of mine.
(btw - it is obscenely pretty.)
(btw 2 - now I need a kindle or nook because great as this phone is, it's still small enough to go in a pocket and reading too much on it is bound to result in a serious headache.)
(btw 3 - battery hog)
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| 2011-05-03 22:00 |
| pokes head out of hole |
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Still alive here.
Wow, I have a year and a half of premium DW account time now, thanks to a lovely person (you know who you are and I'm way grateful) and having bought some myself.
Now, it is a well known thing that I go to maybe one movie a year. Last year it was Inception.
This year it was Fast Five.
Two for two!
I enjoyed the hell out of Fast Five, didn't wince or cringe at it even once. (Which isn't to say it isn't ridiculous, just in a way that I could accept as entertaining rather than insulting.) It also harked back to aspects of all four previous movies and ended in a satisfying way that also offered a great tease for movie number six. (Plus, Paul Walker's still looking fine.) Finally, it hit my favorite-est of all favorite tropes: family by choice. Combine that with the good guy gone rogue for friendship trope and I was a happy, happy moviegoer.
And, I may have to double up this year. No one told me Cowboys vs. Aliens had Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford and I think that was Olivia Wilde in the trailer. Bad flist, no biscuit!
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| 2011-04-25 15:54 |
| Anyone know X-Men fic? |
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I'm driving myself crazy here, trying to find this one fic.
You know that thing you do (okay, maybe you don't do it, but I do) where you gorge yourself on every fic, good, bad, or indifferent in a new fandom (or in this case one not checked out in years) or pairing, reading so much of it that all of the stories and titles blur into one vast fanon smear in your head? Yeah, just did that over the weekend with X-Men.
And now, I cannot find this one story I read. It's driving me batty, because I can remember the story just fine, thank you: It's Wolverine/Gambit, it's probably written more about the movieverse characters than the comicverse, it also has Storm and Hank in the beginning.
In it, Wolverine wakes up with amnesia (again!) after a three story fall onto his head. Storm and Hank try to show him around the mansion, while Gambit trails along, then says he can't do this anymore and takes off. Wolverine has a lie down for a few hours and wakes up with his memory back (oh, yes, he and Gambit are fucking, no wonder Gambit was freaked out at being forgotten). He goes to Storm, she says Gambit left. But she cannily stuck a tracker on his coat. Meanwhile Gambit's provoking a bar fight, I think over being gay, but maybe being a gay mutant, and nearly killing some bigot in the parking lot. Wolverine shows up and stops him, then Gambit says something along the lines of 'When you lose, I lose, but when you win, I still lose' because he worries about Wolverine, despite the famous healing factor.
See? I remember everything but the effing title or writer!
The sheer frustration of not being able to find it, despite deploying my best google-fu, delicious-fu and scanning through the comms I was checking out is making me loony. That's too damn much detail to have imagined it, damn it.
I'm gonna go sulk, make some pudding and work on the stupid h50 story for a while. God, slow, slow going. My pov character will make it a better story, but it's goddamn hardgoing at this point and requires some finessing to be present for critical scenes.
If anyone remembers that damn story, gimme a link, point me at it, something. At this point, it's less about rereading it, than just finding what it was.
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| 2011-04-16 18:43 |
| It feels very odd to say I'm writing fic that isn't SGA |
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( Random blather )
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I knew that A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor would come in useful someday! Of course, I never imagined when I shelled out fifty bucks for it that I'd be using it for fanfic... Still, there will be tsuba and fuchi and kashira, some kabuto, kozuka knives, and no-dachi among the smuggled goodies my guys find instead of guns. This was not what Steve was thinking of when someone said arms smugglers. Must figure out someway to work some of this lovely detail at my fingertips into a story.
Also, apparently my local CBS affiliate is no longer transmitting an OTA signal strong enoughl to reach where I Iive. Annoying. Also, apparently this was my default TV station. Well, there's always Castle and I found myself watching Body of Proof last night. (Jeez, when I'd just finally settled on a broadcast TV fandom I didn't need to download!) But I finagled me a copy of H5O ep 20 and I think it's my favorite. Not for all the obvious reasons, however (though they're valid). No, I enjoyed it especially because each main character (and Kamekona) is shown as competent in their own right and no one is bumbling around in the bozo hat.
Also, H5O makes Hawaii look incredible.
This post brought to you by B for Boredom. I may have to write something soon just to entertain myself.
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| 2011-04-07 19:46 |
| Gakked from ivorygates, since I had to gall to ask a question myself |
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Ask me a question about one of my stories or my approach to writing in general. It can be absolutely anything in any fic/general writing experience and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.
No guarantees it'll be a timely answer, however.
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| 2011-04-04 11:15 |
| Why for so annoying, livejournal? |
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What in five hells is wrong with LiveJournal this time? I can't get any LJ page to load. DoS attack? Forgot to pay their electricity bill? Why the effing hell must most of the comms I'm still interested in remain with its bloated, money grubbing (non)service?
Sulks.
Make note to renew paid service with DW in May.
Have discovered the AO3 subscription service can be a little annoying when someone decides to upload their entire back catalog there and fills the inbox with do-not-replies, but not enough to unsubscribe. She can't have that many more stories left.
In other news, I am broke like a broke thing, still have bills to pay and this makes me very cross with the universe. Christ on a broken crutch, fifty-five dollars to fill the tank on my car? And that's nothing, I know plenty of people with vehicles sporting bigger tanks where it's topping ninety. Suddenly I don't want Dad's SUV quite so much. Bastards don't even need a gun to hold me up, it's not like there are any public transportation options that wouldn't involve getting in a car and driving to town to take them.
Not crossposted to LJ, for the obvious reason that it would fail like failcakes.
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| 2011-04-02 14:58 |
| AO3 Subscriptions! |
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Yes! Like many another fan of the Archive of Our Own, this is a functionality I have been wanting and waiting for from the beginning and now the first iteration is here. You can subscribe to your favorite authors and artists there now (eventually they're looking to let you subscribe to tags and other cool things I haven't even imagined).
In case you have a yen to subscribe to me, I'm at I'm at  auburn on the AO3. Subscribe to me - fandoms in the immediate queue include Stargate Atlantis, Alias, Due South, Magnificent Seven, Stargate Atlantis crossed over with SG-1, and one-offs in a couple other fandoms: Thoughtcrimes and Inception. (You'll need to log in to see the subscribe button.)
My inner pessimist just piped up, wondering how you unsubscribe, but I'm sure it's not difficult.
Somehow I don't think this will change my habit of checking my favorite fandoms for updates, because there's always the new writer you've not read before or someone you forgot, but it's great addition to AO3 and I applaud everyone involved for the continuing work to improve it.
And who doesn't like getting a heads up email about something new to read?
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After almost signing up yesterday for ABB, I had a long, unpleasant night and all day today to remind me that I just don't have the spoons for even one more self-imposed responsibility. The longing to walk away from those I already have is amazingly strong as it is. Of course, that would make me a very shitty person, because no one would step in, but it's a nice fantasy. I do feel a little better about what I manage to write these days, but not enough to commit to 40,000 words. I'm sad about it, but that's the way it is.
Everyone who commented on my previous post, thank you for the kindness and good sense you shared.
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