Punk-Ass Book Jockey

My Summer of Giles entry, A Choice of Several Deaths (fic, Giles/Ethan, NC-17), has been nominated for three Bodice Ripper awards!

I've never been nominated for any fanwork before! This is awesome!

Voting isn't open yet, but I will absolutely proclaim it to one and all when it is.

ETA: In my moment of flabbergast, I forgot to say thank you to whoever nominated me. Consider yourself thanked! I'm honoured.

The last entry should've read "I'm taking a break from lj.... just as soon as I post this here West Wing up-against-the-wall PWP."

There was an entire page of multi-fandom wallsmut, okay? I have no defenses against that, job-hunt or no job-hunt. It was like plot bunnies had invaded Toronto, and they knew I was hoarding carrots.

I'm taking the month off (mostly) from the interweb. Will be back, with pR0n, in September.

Title: Sailing off to a Warmer Country
Fandom: The West Wing
Pairing: Josh/Donna
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Length: ~2000 words

Feedback is the best thing ever.

No beta; all mistakes mine.

Set vaguely post-Noel, S2.

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( Josh has taken to standing against the wall in his office. The only clear spot is behind the door, so he’s also taken to putting a wire hanger on the outside doorknob before he stands against the wall, so Donna knows what he’s doing and doesn’t accidentally open the door and smack him in the face. )

One of my stories from two years ago, Good in the Latin, has ended up on a rec community board, and I'm suddenly getting all kinds of lovely feedback. It's almost enough to make me... start... writing... fic! (again) (maybe)

Ever since reading Buffy Season 8, Vol. 1, I've been thinking about Buffy/Xander. In the canon we had previously it always seemed like a trainwreck, for whatever reason. And they knew it, too--even when Xander wanted it he knew it was a trainwreck, and therefore managed to gracefully get hisself off the tracks.

But now, here they are--the world is totally different, Giles is elsewhere, Dawn is a big-head, Willow's missing, The Immortal thing was a bad comedic farce--and it's BuffyandXander trying to keep everyone's shit together. They're a team. They've always been a team, but right now it seems to be just them. (And Dawn, but she's busy hiding her two-storey self in the basement.) The time is ripe for Buffy/Xander. Ripe, I tell you!

I just dunno what to write about them.
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Apropos of that "stuck in a castle in Scotland" thing, hey you guys! They're STUCK IN A CASTLE IN SCOTLAND.

I think this would be an excellent time for Buffy/HP crossovers, don't you? More Remus/Giles! Someone?

I need someone to do a quick beta for me. The story is Harry Potter fandom, R/S ship, Spans All Eras. It's not done yet but should be finished by tomorrow, and will (I think) top out at 3500 words. And I've double-checked most of it against the HP Lexicon and HP Wiki, so the beta-ing is less about fact-checking and more about pointing out when my syntax is awkward.

kabeyk? s1ncer1ty? alicefortea? expositionary? Please to be helping?

A while ago, musesfool wrote [when recc’ing Sleeping with Ghosts (The I'll Have What He's Having Remix) by Lady Goodman] “actually, what this makes me want is for Tonks to meet up with Dawn and River, two other girls who know a little something about being not-there.”

And I thought, I know how to do that.

So I'm in the middle of it, but it's gonna be huge, possibly the biggest thing I've ever written, not counting the Monica Hughes rip-off novel I sweated over for months at age 15. And god, I'm going to have to do research, because there are all kinds of fandom details that I need to watch season 6 of Buffy in order to corroborate (is that a word?). Also, putting glossaries at the back of fantasy novels? Really Good Idea.
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In other news, two of yer garden-variety nerds came into my store on the weekend to buy copies of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages, and I had to hide my sekrit, "you're so a fanfic writer" grin, because I'm not outing myself at work. The vast number of inappropriate suitors I have to deal with every Saturday morning when they come in to buy their copies of the Jewish/English/Ottawa papers are enough of a co-worker-teasing-inducing burden.
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And lastly, after months of crushing over a guy at [edit - My Local Vid Rental Place], I suddenly had a friend of a friend of my roommate call me and say that he knew him and that he could totally hook us up for drinks this afternoon. Which, of course, made me completely panic and I am at home and not there. Nothing says elaborate set-up like having some girl whom you totally know nothing about tag along with you to a bar at 5 in the afternoon for no discernible reason. It would be like having a first date with three people all at once, and even I, aware of the writerly possibilities inherent in awkward situations, felt like that was a horrifying prospect.

Bah!

Most recent posted in each fandom posted first.

Buffyverse

When I Was Three, I Watched The Salem Fire
Genre: episode tag (I guess?)
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Summary: Giles is in England, and a seer in Devon calls to warn him that a dark force is rising in Sunnydale.
Notes: My 2008 summer_of_giles entry

A Choice of Several Deaths
Genre: pre-canon, early-days, first-time
Pairing: Giles/Rayne
Rating: NC-17
Summary: "It wasn't a walk down the garden path." Ethan wants Rupert to keep moving from his old life. Set post Rupert quitting school, and prior to the Eyghon demon cult.
Notes: My 2007 summer_of_giles entry

She Leaves With The Morning
Genre: crossover (Buffy/Jordanverse/Firefly/HP), gen
Pairing: none
Rating: G
Summary: The ring was in a corner of basement storeroom. Dawn was down there, because God, she wasn’t going to wait for Buffy upstairs in The Magic Box, where Anya said things like “No, little girl, you don’t get to touch the money.”
Notes: WiP. musesfool wanted Dawn, River and Tonks to meet. I do too, but I'm not there yet. I threw in the Jordanverse because the Eye of the World books have some useful devices. I do realize, however, that this makes it really hard for anyone other than me to embrace the fic, which is why I've been so slow about finishing it. But I kind of love it, so will continue... maybe next weekend.

Firefly

NB: All pieces are post-Serenity (the movie, not the Firefly pilot ep.)

AirWaterFire
Genre: Romance-ish
Pairing: Mal/River
Rating: R
Summary: River learned the ventilation shafts early.
Notes: Sequel to Ripples

Ripples
Genre: Romance-ish.
Pairing: Mal/River
Rating: R
Summary: "Mei mei." River insists; it's important that Inara understands. "I'm mei mei, not bao bei." But even as she says it she thinks of Mal shifting under her, and it might not be true.
Notes: Followed by AirWaterFire

Ear To The Keyhole Part One and Part Two
Genre: PWP
Pairing: Jayne/Simon, Jayne/Kaylee, heading towards Simon/Mal
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The sounds were incoherent. Jayne had clearly found the starter button, Kaylee thought, staring at the door, her cheeks flushing. It made sense, she supposed. Jayne was crude but gorram breathtaking, in a basic kind of way. And he got things done. Suddenly she wanted to see him get Simon done.
Notes: WiP. Right about here is where I got bored with Firefly slash, and this might never be done, I'm afraid.

Good, In The Latin
Genre: Gen
Pairing: Wash/Zoe (past)
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Life persists, even in the black, even when you're hollow. (Hint - wouldn't it be nice if _someone_ had a baby?)
Notes: Written to make myself feel better after the pain of the BDM (which was really hurty, despite Sean Maher being in attendance). This continues to be my favourite of my Firefly fics.

Complicated
Genre: Romance
Pairing: Mal/Inara, first time
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just a back massage, thought Mal, keeping his eyes frantically glued to her shoulders. Just a back -- Wait. Is she ...purring?
Notes: This was my first fanfic ever, which is why there's a canon pairing and also why (ahem) it's not really that great. I like some of the details, though (Canary-class workships!).

Harry Potter 'verse

What To Keep
Genre: post-OoTP, grieving!Remus, grieving!Harry
Pairing: Remus/Sirius (past)
Rating: G
Summary: It was just peeking above the white cotton, but Remus knew what it was, knew where it had come from, and he couldn't believe Harry had taken it, was wearing it here, in this room, at this table where Sirius had been sitting only two months ago--
Notes: fandom_pillory wrote an exponentially hot fic called The Collar, and I started to wonder what happened to it that particular accessory after Sirius fell. I helped clean out my grandparents house, after they passed, and the experience was very sharp and hard. I wanted to see how Remus would deal with it.

Found You For The First Time
Genre: romance-ish, long drabble
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: G
Summary: Some people might say it still didn’t happen, but it did.
Notes: This is me bitterly trying to reconcile fanon with canon. I crossposted it on remusxsirius and was totally innundated with feedback, which still surprises me.

SGA

The Alien Ritual Equivalent of Switzerland
Genre: AMTDI, slight non-con
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Rating: R
Summary: "You must reach fruition," the (frankly, quite stoned) priestess had explained, after Rodney had said, yes, yes yes, fine, just give John the anti-histamines, already. "You must show that openness brings you joy.".

The West Wing

Sailing Off To A Warmer Country
Genre: first-time
Pairing: Josh/Donna
Rating: R
Summary: Angsty wall smut.