Lizardbeth's Tale

 While I wait for Yuletide matching, I'm trying to figure out what I should do for NaNo (yes, I probably should figure this out sooner!).  Basically it comes down to a Supernatural Romance, or a YA Fantasy (with a bit of romance) and I have no idea which I should go with. The Romance one is more plotted, because I've actually written some of it already, and it's an AU with the serial numbers filed off so the characters are a bit easier. And it's a romance, so I know how it ends. :)  the Fantasy one ties into the same 'verse as a previous NaNo project, but I don't actually know how that ends. Because, I guess, I don't know the story. So I should figure that out. *sigh*  Or just fuck both ideas and do the Mer vs human fantasy that's sitting with 5K in my drafts folder. I DUNNOOOOOO.

I suppose, to be ruthlessly practical, I should do the romance first, because that can be an e-book more easily. And that could serve as  a gateway to others. So maybe that's how I should approach it.

I've also written some Crimson Peak fic, which is either going to be my recipient's story if the Yulegoat is kind or I'll find some requestor to give it to for a treat, because, yes. how could I not? That movie is like FIC CITY  I suppose it proves the adage that imperfect things draw fic more than perfect things, but it's certainly true in this case. Things sketched broadly long to be filled in and things that are tragic want to be fixed, that's kind of a given of fandom/fanfic imo.

A lovely stranger actually said that I should change Last Contract into a non-fanfic story. And granted it's not that close already - if I changed the names I'm not sure anyone would guess (and they'd probably guess the wrong canon anyway, since "Loki" isn't even brothers with "Thor" in this 'verse).  The real "issue" and it's not really one I guess would be to change it from a thinly-disguised Norway to a more-disguised Norway probably. 

One of these days I will have to talk about tv.

All this dithering brought to you by Yuletide, Nano and BEARS.

First of all, I am SUPER RIDICULOUSLY behind on tv, thanks to travel (and this the doldrums of August!) I've only seen the first ep of Outlander and most of the second, I think it was, but anyway, not all of it. I've not seen any of Twelve yet. I'm trying to figure out what we did watch in Hawaii and coming up with not much. Community reruns and baseball I think. It was quite a bit more stressful "vacation" than any of us had planned, with police and lawyers. Not quite an episode of H50 but not quite fun either. Though it was a tiny bit fun when D managed to forget to transfer his pocket knife to the checked luggage on the way home: good news, TSA found it in his carryon. Bad news, TSA found it in his carryon. oops.

Today was meant to be a catch-up, because kiddo went back to school finally, but I ended up doing about 5K of Crocus, so that was a good trade-off. I still have two major scenes to fill in, but I finally wrote the conclusion. Plus my Marvel_Bang fic was art claimed, so \o/-- Ice Demon 3 is a go. So back to work on that tomorrow.

Aaand tomorrow/later I will FINALLY post Ice Demon 2. Because I wrote it for Mother's day and I'm just that timely!

So I was going to post Monday. Yep, that worked out perfectly.

I finished off Camp NaNowrimo with the Choose Your Own Goal of 25K for July. Which was achieved, split over four different fics. Two was necessary since one was the ficathon fic that had to be finished, but I'm not sure it was super wise to split over the other three. Okay, no, it was UtS that was stupid to do 5K on. Espectially as I've now realized that my two Big Bangs are basically supposed to be done their drafts at the same time. Norsebang is probably close enough but the other one isn't especially close yet (it's started at least but I need to crank out some words) but the problem is that I leave on the 18th for our family vacation and I am notoriously terrible about writing on vacation. But perhaps I'll be able to do words. I also really need to watch First Avenger again, because I've now seen lots of pieces of it again, thanks to it being on cable, but the order is now all messed up in my brain.

I haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy, and I may not at all, since I'm really trying to keep that for a reward if I finish at least one of my projects. So far this isn't really workng as the lure I meant it as, since i basically wrote fucking nothing the last few days. ugh, WHY, SELF, WHY???

I did watch the preview first episode for Outlander, and liked it. I never read the books so that part doesn't matter to me, but it's beautifully filmed and I really like the actress playing Claire (and I've liked Tobias Menzies since ROME, so that's a plus). Definitely checking out more.

In more personal things that anger and upset me, our Little league field where my son plays, was terribly vandalized last weekend - gear stolen, things smashed, toilets stopped up, the whole thing tagged up. just, awful. thousands and thousands of dollars to replace and repair, just for a bunch of jerk thugs to have fun for an hour. SO INFURIATING. and sad that anyone would do this to a place kids play. humans suck. :(

however, animals are lovely, and we spent two delightful weeks taking care of the school's science lab guinea pig, the adorable Flash. Who is an Expert Begger of treats, as one can see from both his cutie pie whistles AND his round butt. But now I do miss having him around, cuz he was just adorb. Kiddo built a loop for him out of shoeboxes, so he could get some exercise (his traveling cage is much smaller than the pen he gets in the science lab, so he gets kind of bitchy about getting out, especially if it's not clean to his standards). yes, I'm afraid he was rather upset at both housekeeping AND the room service staff not jumping quite quickly enough. like, WHERE IS MY PARSLEY PEASANT?? very demanding rodent.

OMG the (old) Yuletide Archive is actually moving to AO3!!! Finally. At long last.

(I'm fairly sure this is a sign of impending apocalypse, so beware of zombies Real Soon Now.)

I only have three little fics left there that need transfer, since I imported the longer ones already, but it'll be interesting to see how it works. I find it pretty funny that the old archive still has the old date of 2010 as when they were hoping to move it. Also, wow, that also makes me realize how long AO3's been around. I think they should probably take AO3 out of "beta", heh. (also hm, my AmerPsycho fic for Yuletide 09 which was, IIRC, the first year it was hosted at AO3, was, for a long time, my most hit fic at AO3, but has been left in the dust. Though it's still fourth for comments).

Speaking of old fics, I was poking through my WIP file and found about 5K of an old SPN fic of Dean, Lisa, and Ben on a road trip running from angels. It was actually really fun to read and now I'm disappointed I didn't write more of it. If it weren't basically 'Legion' it'd make a good candidate for serial-number-scrubbing (since LOL, who's going to look at that and say "oh yeah, that's totes SPN") , but maybe if I change the bad guys after them and make some other tweaks... I just really like my Lisa-voice in the fic. Anyway, shall stick it into my - 'this needs something to happen to it" folder.

Got a mournful "you writing Comes the Hurricane Nao plz?" today. I really need to sit down and fix it - the timing is all fucked up. I think it's time to pull out actual index cards and lay it out. This is what happens when people on three different planets need to do stuff. ACK BRAIN ASPLODE.

So that's tomorrow/today's project... in addition to posting new parts of the fics. At least there's no baseball today (though I've been playing 2048 instead. I hate when you know you screwed up a move and it's all downhill from there....)

I want to write little holiday/new year fic gifts for flisters, like for fandom_stocking but I'm totally failing at ideas. So I thought I'd cheat and ask for more specific prompts.

If there's a missing scene or continuation you'd like to read from something I've written, that's probably the most likely thing to get written. But if there's something else you'd like to read from me, let me know. I mean, no promises, because, even ideas don't translate to fic all the time, but least ideas are a place to start.

Prompt me! :D

Thanksgiving was busy, and the busy doesn't stop really as the holidays get going, plus soccer won't end until kiddo's team gets kicked out of the playoffs so practice and games are still sucking up a lot of the free time. but they finished the season in second place in their division!

My avengersfest fic posted, though I'll have to link to it when it's not anon anymore. My recip seemed to like it, so that's good.

Plugging away on my Avengers/crossover big bang- got 10K left for NaNo which should finish the story. Then ... revision, because good heavens this thing. Not that it's especially terrible since I think the plot is decent, but it needs some work. (like, if you have someone who can walk through walls - he probably doesn't need a door, right? argh. stupid mutants.) But heh, Nick Fury swears a lot more in my fic than he does in the movies. It's Sam Jackson, I just can't not hear it.

Next up: Yuletide and the Clint/Natasha exchange. I haven't started either, but at least I know what the Yuletide fic will be since US Weekly handed me the perfect inspiration for it. heh.

Ugh. I need to sit down and write. I've had a lousy couple of days where I haven't done any at all.

I think part of it is that I enjoyed writing Poison Rain so much. Other fic seems sort of ... dull and pedestrian by comparison. I didn't even use anything overly Shakespearean, but it's still a more formalized style than I use most of the time and I got to use language like "fell influence" (one of the best phrases in English!). And where every character in it uses words like weapons. It was challenging, but really fun and different. But I can't just roll around in it forever, I have to get to work and write some other stuff!

I put in my nominations for yuletide, filling in some characters for Alphas, Arrow, and then the video for Paradise (coldplay), because my crack request this year is someone write me a story about that elephant. Such a cute (and beautiful) video. That's one thing about that video and watching Strike Back that's also filmed in South Africa - SO GORGEOUS. And if I play my cards right it'll be a story kidlet can read too, since he also loves that video. That's my hope, anyway.

Anyone available and want to beta my Loki, Frigga, generally Asgardian family shenanigans fic? It comes with the caveat that it follows directly on Understanding the Storm, so you have to have read that already and also this one is much longer.

But this means I'm done with the draft! Understanding the Storm 3: Poison Rain is ready for the next step. 35,000 words of messed up family dyamics, talking, and a mom being pretty fucking awesome (though Thor is pretty useful this time, too).

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Less than a week before we leave for our trip to Japan. Looking forward to it - my MIL is going with us to take us to the ancient family stomping grounds (not kidding - the family mausoleum goes back at least the 17th c.) I was there years ago as a teenager, but didn't get far out of Tokyo, so this trip will be cool, especially the train through the mountains.

But I'll also be glad when we're back since it's been a constant overhanging thing about getting prepared for months now, between getting passports ready for everyone, new luggage, etc.

But that week means I'm trying to get some writing things done as well before leaving. I'm taking the tablet but not the laptop, so writing will be more of a pain and I don't know how much time/availability I'll have for it anyway. Plus I need to finish some 12c projects before going away. (it's silly because it's only two weeks, and only one in Japan, so it's not as if we're planning to go the moon), but still, it's a good deadline to work with.

So the draft of UtS-3 will be done. WILL BE. More damn trouble with this fic than I have EVER had before. But it's coming back together, I think, but still, 27 K has never been such a pain in the ass. it is Thanos interfering clearly. frakker.

REVIEW LINKS: My review of a fab ep of Alphas and the Season finale of Longmire