This is my life

In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created.

Oooh, this one is always tough. All one fandom? All one pairing? Recent works vs favorite works?

I guess I'll rec things I'm proud of that I feel didn't really hit their target audience, for whatever reason.

The Grace Machine. Supernatural, Wincestiel, Explicit, 53,726 words. Summary: Sam closes the gates of Hell. Metatron kicks the angels out and closes the gates of Heaven.

When Sam's turned back from the pearly gates, he becomes something no one could have expected.

I like this story a lot. I worked really hard on it, spent a lot of time thinking through the worldbuilding (it's SPN canon, so we all know how many holes there are in that) and I just really, really like how it turned out. But for a number of reasons, it never hit its target audience, I think. I've always been sad that it lags behind my other Wincestiel stuff.

... and I can't actually find the other things I was thinking missed their audience, so here's some of the stuff I don't talk about much, or see in my kudos often anymore, I guess?

Secondhand Lions. Stargate: Atlantis, McShep, Mature, 7,652 words. Summary: John has the strangest way of showing up when Rodney least expects him.

Probably because it's not a super happy fic, in the end, this one gets skipped a lot. I like to think of it as bittersweet, but there's not a lot of love for non-straight up happily-ever-afters, particularly in SGA. I still love it a lot. (Be sure to read the warnings!)

The Games People Play. The Losers, Cougar/Jensen and Aisha/Clay/Roque, Teen, 4,013 words. Summary: A series of vignettes based on popular board game titles.

I dunno, I just really like this one. It's cute and the structure just turned out perfectly. It was one of those whizbang things that wrote itself in like, a couple hours, and I really enjoy it. *shrug*

I had not believed such a thing as WAGFAPE existed in the world, and I am so glad I chanced upon it in my galavanting around the internets.

First off, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING SOMETHING FOR ME OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I AM SO EXCITE. I am sure I will love WHATEVER you make, and I have no opinions about things in or out of podfics (intros, music, sound effects, or straight up, nothing but words), so GO WILD. Do whatever your heart desires!

Second, I am super easy to please. For one, my number one favorite thing is your happiness. I want you to enjoy reading this story, and enjoy it enough that listening to it again and again while you edit is not (too much) of a chore. So I'd best prefer if you found a story you adored to record so that you get just as much enjoyment out of this as I do. I'd also love for you to read me one of your favorite stories - I feel like that really comes out in a reading, and it's one of my very favorite things in podfic.

Third, I love EVERYTHING. Seriously, just... I love all kinds of stories, all kinds of kinks, tropes, ratings, pairings (or not pairings)... I just love everything. I have a standard list of many many things I love, and another one that changes season to season, but the thing I'm looking for is a story that touches me in some way. Makes me laugh out loud. Makes you laugh out loud! (Some of my most favoritest stories to record were the ones were you can hear the laughter (or tears, gah, so many tears) lurking in my voice. I love those stories.) I'm not afraid of tears, so dark!fic is welcome, but I love laughter and love and cuddles too, if dark isn't your cuppa. I love to see loyalty and steadfastness, mistakes being made and then efforts to fix them (redemption fics are a huge fave), teaching of any sort (teaching in porn is a favorite), found family/team/brothers in arms, all those things are huge buttons of mine.

I like sexy fics, but if you are uncomfortable reading that, I'm happy to receive things that are lower on the ratings scale and/or gen. I prefer queer pairings, so for this fest, if you're going to do sexy times, I'd really rather see F/F (or multi-F/F/F), genderfluid characters, trans! or ace! characters, pretty much anything other than cis het. I love love LOVE platonic het relationships though (god, Olivia & Charlie (red or blue) FOREVER, or Red!Olivia & Red!Lincoln, or Dean & Charlie, I could eat them up with a spoon - as long as it stays completely platonic).

I'll put the few DO NOT WANTS up front here before I go into a bit of detail with my canons. There's only a few, and they are: character bashing, scat, mpreg. I am not super fond of A/B/O, though I must admit a female-centric A/B/O story where the political structure and history and just everything are dealt with does sound interesting. I'm okay with the rest of the normal biggies, though, so if you can do sad or scary or disturbing, I am happy to receive that!

Supernatural

This is a tough fandom for women and genderqueer characters, I will grant you. The women that are there are AMAZING, though, so let my name a few of my favorite characters and pairings. Charlie - ALLLLLLL THE CHARLIE, Dean & Charlie, Sam & Charlie, Dean & Sam & Charlie, Donna, Jody, Donna/Jody, WAYWARD DAUGHTERS, Claire, Claire & Castiel, Abbadon, Linda Tran, Jo, Jo & Ellen, Ellen/anyone, especially crossovers! (I've written Ellen/Aisha (The Losers), and I just stumbled across an Ellen/Buffy the Vampire Slayer. OOOOOOOOOH.) I've heard about Charlie/Jo and I love the concept but haven't read any - I'd be happy to get some of that!

I read a fic a while back that had genderfluid!Sam and I absolutely adored it (I think the pairing was Sam/Cas). I love Sam as genderfluid, or Cas as agender (which is canon, really, despite Castiel's current male (albeit lovely!) meatsuit), and I think there's a fair amount of fic about non-cis versions of Sam or Cas that would make for some lovely reading. I do any and all pairings in SPN, so no worries about stepping on toes there.

Leverage

PARKER. I love all the Parker. Here is, I grant you, one het couple I could take - Parker/Hardison. I love them together and would make an exception for fic about them. I love Eliot and Parker/Hardison/Eliot too, but unless Eliot is genderfluid or agender or something, I'm not really thinking that's for this particular challenge. I love casefic featuring Parker's skillset or introspective vignettes where she looks on her team with love, or pretty much anything about Parker, ever. I do like Sophie, too, but usually more as half of a F/F pairing - Sophie/Tara or Sophie/Maggie are both favorites of mine. I really prefer Parker with Hardison, so unless it's pre-series (or pre-Parker and Hardison getting together), I'd rather not have Sophie/Parker. Genderqueer Parker would be super-mega-awesome!

The Librarians

Cassandraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Seriously, every woman she's ever met (INCLUDING EVE, IN THE FAIRYTALE EPISODE) has fallen deeply in love with Cassandra, mostly at first sight. I love Cassandra, and every F/F pairing with her that exists. Cassandra/Lamia (particularly in that alternate universe) is a fave, as is Cassandra/every female minor character she's been on screen with. Gen fics about Cassandra and magic or becoming part of a team or her brain grape also welcome. I wouldn't turn down OT3 (Cassandra/Ezekiel/Jake) if one of the boys was genderqueer in some way, too. But focus on Cassandra would be preferred. That said, now that I've thought about genderqueer Ezekiel, I would totally go for a story about that, too, that would be brilliant.

Fringe

SO MANY AWESOME WOMEN. Olivia, Bolivia, Astrid (every Astrid, I love EVERY Astrid), Elizabeth (I love every iteration of her too), Nina (love every iteration of her too), Etta, and I'd be into genderqueer versions of Walter, Astrid, Lincoln, Olivia, or Broyles. Fringe is a fandom where I have read almost nothing, so I trust your judgement if this is the fandom of your heart! I'm not terribly into pairings, but I like the canon ones well enough, and mostly the aspect I like about all these folks is the team/family aspect.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Oh, Phryne is wonderful, to be sure, but my heart is with Mac. I love Mac SO MUCH, and would love it if there were a story out there about the fling Mac and Phryne had pre-series. They just seem like they might have had a good time one night (or one week). I love Dot, too, and this fandom really hits my teaching kink pretty hard, so I'd be okay with just about anything as long as it features one or more of these delightful women (OR JANE! I LOVE JANE!). I'd love to see genderqueerness with regard to Mac, or even Jane, maybe, but I'm not particularly interested in any of the men in this fandom, even if they were genderqueer. I like Phryne/Jack and Dot/Hugh as pairings in canon, but I'd rather not have fic focused solely on that.

Day 2: In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

Oh, man, so I have a lot of things I really would like. Here's just a short list:

1. Check in on fandom_stocking to see if there are any wishes you can grant? That is one of the other great fannish outpourings of the season. You can post stuff up to and after reveals (January 6).

2. Someone to kick my ass for the next week about my rarepairbb story that's due on the 10th. I'd love to have an alpha reader/cheerleader for it, too, but they don't have to be the same person. I just need to write the ending and having someone kick my ass/cheerlead would help. (It's Supernatural, Wincestiel, alt!S9 fic.)

3. Leverage OT3 recs? (Parker/Hardison/Eliot)

DUUUUUUUUUUUDE. This is the best idea EVER. 300 words or a sketch not on lined paper. Plus the ability to write treats. Sign-ups through January 7th.

( I'm soooooooooooo easy. )

This one's easy; still taking a pass on Day 13 because I'm still tired and it's going to take a lot of gushing and finding links and stuff.

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've done a lot of recs over the course of the fest, so I think here I'm just going to rec three vids that bring me great joy.

I Need a (Supernatural) Hug, a vid about Sam and Dean hugging by ash48.

This vid just makes me grin so big. I love it so so so much. Probably because jeez, if anybody in the world needs a hug, it's the Winchesters.

( Embedded under here )

My Brilliant Idea, McShep vid by lim (who has wonderful wonderful MCU vids, too).

This vid! OMG seriously, it is my very favorite McShep vid EVER. It is SO GOOD and SO PERFECT and SO THEM. I love them so much, and the song just makes me fucking laugh, EVERY TIME. I love it.

( Embedded under here )

Parachute, Parker/Hardison/Eliot vid by thingswithwings.

This is such an amazing vid. It is so perfectly blocked and paced and makes me just so happy every time I watch it (and I rewatch it ALL THE TIME). It is the perfect reduction of canon I have ever seen and just so so so happy-making.

( Embedded under here )

My character list cut in case you want to give me a prompt before you know who's who.

( My fifteen characters. )

From grammarwoman:

( Given the group of 1, 3, 7, 9, and 14: who fills each role in their 5 man band? What role does their group serve? )

( 2, 8, 10, 13: when they get together, is it for a book club, stitch'n'bitch, RPG/boardgame group, or potluck gathering? Depending on which is chosen, what's their favorite book genre/craft/game/cuisine? )

( 4 & 6 play a game of Marry, Shag, Cliff with 5, 11, and 12 as the options. What are their choices? )

( Which person on the list is 15's best friend, and who is their worst enemy? )

From recessional:

( One and nine end up with custody of a small child for twenty four hours. How does THAT go? )

From synecdochic:

( if 5 and 11 met for coffee and it wound up with 11 dumping coffee in 5's lap, who would it be and why? Accidental, deliberate, klutziness, etc? )

( 6 and 9 go on a road trip! what happens next? )

( what's 3's favorite type of cookie? )

From bethctg:

( 8 and 12 start a business together. What kind of business is it, and what is the role of each of them in it? Which of the 15 characters would call upon their service? )

From clavally:

( If 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, and 15 go to an amusement park; who is who's coaster buddy? Also, is there someone that refuses to ride the roller coaster and goes and hangs out in the arcade? Does one of them drag the others to the live shows? Does one of them like the water rides more than the other rides? )

From ilthit:

( Monster AU: What kind of supernatural monsters would 2, 5 and 13 be and how would that change them? (If the character is a monster, reverse this to make them non-supernatural.) )

( 15 is faced with a crime mystery. What do they do? )

( 10 and 11 have accidentally got married while drunk. Now what? )

( 1, 14, 8 and 3 are playing poker for high stakes. Who wins? Did they cheat? How do the others react? )

+ OH MY GOD, THIS DANCE ROUTINE (The Company at Vibe XIX 2014). O_____O I've never seen a crew so synchronized, and this isn't just five or six people, it's like, thirty. AMAZING.

+ You Have the Right to Remain Anon collection at the AO3. Now you don't have to orphan your works, you can leave them anon forever - you'll still see them in your works, on your dash, and get notifications for them. Neat idea. ETA, from melannen: There are apparently several collections like this, and anonymous is much larger, so probably easier to make it more anonymous than the one I originally linked there.

+ Looking for a Leverage podfic to record so that it will overtake LOTRIPS on my dash as one of my top five fandoms at AO3 (not that I don't like LOTRIPS - I just never wrote in it that much or was attached to my writing and I would be embarrassed for folks to see most of what I wrote these days). Found The Not Your Teaching Tool Job by BlackEyedGirl, Parker/Eliot/Hardison with biromantic asexual Parker wanting them to just understand and stop asking her questions and trying to fix her, okay? Brilliantly written, can't wait to record.

+ While I have given up on posting most of my podfics on amplificathon, I have discovered the submission page for the Audiofic Archive and submitted all my podfics, so now all my podfics are available in two different places. Have to figure out how to do that with my fic. I've been collecting my completed works for a while now (hat tip anatsuno for making me realize that it's problematic to have your content in only one place), and just need to figure out where to put them and how to organize them. I think I'll likely put them on my wife's site and link to indexes on my AO3/LJ/DW. Seems easiest and most straightforward, I think. Gonna have to put headers on them, though, none of them have that (or even titles, I think). HRM.

- Went to see Million Ways to Die in the West last night. soleta and I were going to see Maleficent but she wasn't feeling up to it, so I went to the movies by myself. I never remember who Seth MacFarlane is, he just... I don't think about him, so his name is just out there in my consciousness as a comic that exists and it doesn't tie to any particular brand of comedy, or TV shows or movies. Well, that was unfortunate (since once I found out what stuff he was attached to, I would've known his humor is not for me at all). I hated it. So much scat humor, and penis humor, and racist humor. The only thing that made me smile was watching Charlize Theron laugh. She is so lovely, and watching her laugh made me so happy inside. The jokes about how awful life was back then were amusing too (the running joke about being unable to smile in photographs was mildly amusing the first time or two), but I could've done without the awful romance plot. BLEH.

+ Going to Maleficent tonight, I hope! I have high hopes for this movie and am very excite.

So, many many years ago, I wrote a Supernatural ficlet when I had only seen a single season. I was prompted with "Radio" and well, of course I wrote Sam singing along to pop music while Dean was sleeping. So, imagine my surprise when rabidly watching all the following seasons, that Sam and Dean do actually sing in the car, and also Sam listens to non-hair metal music. I gloated gleefully in each of those moments.

Right now I am making my posts for the night and then I'm going to settle in with one episode of SPN - 6.15, The French Mistake, which I hear is amazing. I saw about 2.3698 seconds of it in the previews of the last ep and decided to save it for tonight (as it was after midnight last night and I was already going on 36 hours without sleep). Also, a fic bunny with teeth the size of dracula tore into me, so I'm expecting to finish the ep, turn off the iPad, and write my third SPN fic ever.

Oh, right. I wrote my second SPN fic as a SPN/Losers crossover for elliemuraski's fandom_stocking. Femslash, and I'm really rather proud of it. I like the other two things I wrote too (and the Arrow/The Voice not!fic I ruminated on for celli), so here's links to those.

( Details on two Losers stories and one Losers/SPN crossover story under here. )

And now I get to gush about the AMAZING presents I got.

I got several lovely graphics for good wishes and IOUs (man people are clever!) as well as just general happiness and recs (multifandom vids and Leverage OT3) and a link to Steve/Tony/Pepper at the AO3 and then...

I got a gorgeous podfic cover for Fill All My Bones with Aches by somehowunbroken, a lovely piece that really captures the mood of that fic and is so so so perfect.

I have no idea how I got so lucky, but I got this amazing Clint&Natasha buddy art from astridv - look at that! It's amazing! Just another day at the office, hahaha, it's so perfect!

Then there's this amazing Cougar/Jensen artwork by the lovely tarlanx, with Cougar's gun and the coloring and the brushstrokes and gaaaaaaah! It's a shared gift with amaresu, and I'm pretty sure we're both pretty much floored.

IDRIS ELBA GIFS. From maharet83. I mean, seriously. SERIOUSLY. That man is more good looking than any two hundred people. And with the licking his lips. These are amazing, and perfect, and I absolutely did *not* drool on my keyboard, nosiree.

This lovely Hardison/Lucille fic, Frost, by jenna_thorn, is just such a lovely and sweet and perfect depiction of Hardison and his van, with a lovely Eliot thrown in for good measure.

merryghoul wrote a delightful little Leverage/Top Chef crossover ficlet that stars Tara and Sophie! Top Chef Quickfire. This is the most perfect quickfire in all of history, because they have a history and it all comes out in two teenie weenie amazing ficlets.

And if that wasn't amazing enough, anonymous_sibyl made me JESSICA SORROW FIC. I had to scrape my chin off the floor. And it's perfectly voiced - it comes right out of the Nightside, and the ending (Suzie) will make your heart clench. The Teddy Bears' Graveyard. Gorgeous.

Oh, but that's not all! moonlettuce wrote me an amazing Phil/Clint five things fic! It's heartwrenching and heartwarming and just amazing, and man, I am just over the moon, what can I say. A Laundry List of Trouble, awesome.

As if the Idris gifs weren't enough, the lovely maharet83 made me eight gooooooooooooooooorgeous Leverage icons that I cannot tell you how much I love. SO MUCH. I would've used one for this post, but...

clavally made me five Supernatural icons starring Castiel and Sam's hair. I can't even... I just. *cries*

And on that note, I've done all the work, read the dwircle, put my Fandom Snowflake Day 9 on hold, and am going to settle in with my one ep of SPN tonight. There may or may not (likely not) be fic tomorrow.

ETA: And that was the biggest build-up to nothing. It won't play on the iPad. I can get it to play on my computer, but there's no sound. Apparently someone doesn't want me to watch this.

Randomly, I had three invites to link my work to other works on the AO3 tonight. Nothing could make me more happy! :D :D :D

tinypinkmouse posted her two podfics of my stories and hwinter translated one of my ficlets into Russian! :D :D :D

Fic: June from White Collar (from my International Women's Day ficlets
Translation: Джун by hwinter

Fic: The Clusterfuck Job (Criminal Minds/Leverage crossover: Reid walks into a bar and meets... Hardison)
Podfic: Podfic of The Clusterfuck Job by tinypinkmouse

Fic: by faith ye stand, (Constantine (movie): post-movie, Constantine helps the human Gabriel)
Podfic: Podfic of by faith ye stand by tinypinkmouse

Ooops, missed these yesterday!

Team Play: Goal, a delightful World Cup AU where Rodney is the coach of the US Team and John is their star player. I'm a sucker for sports AUs, so this was great fun.

Team Work: History on the Run, another delightful AU where Rodney works for the Department of Energy and John is a reporter for CNN. Clever premise, wonderful Teyla, loads of fun.

Non-McShep Match:

Let's do some other fandoms, shall we?

In Supernatural, here's a wonderful body-size kink fic with a terrific OFC from the awesome busaikko.

In the Losers, and I cannot believe I have not recced this before: The first eight don't count, by storm_petrel, Jensen is a werecat! :D :D :D And it's not just cracky, it's awesome and strangely touching, too (and not just the Cougar/Jensen bits - the bits with his sister and niece are lovely). Plus Jensen as an honest to god action hero! It's just delightful fun.

I have reced this one before, but I can't help reccing it again, it's SO GOOD. White Collar/Leverage crossover by the amazing fiercelydreamed. I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal (and I Just Don't Get Any Respect). Pitch perfect Hardison voice.

More White Collar: Quid Pro Quo by scribblinlenore. Kissing, yay! OT3, yay!

Also, by the lovely shaenie, Contractual Obligations: A Love Story in Three Traffic Lights, a lovely beginning to an OT3 story that I enjoy so very much.

So, you all got that Leverage started this week, right? I have no idea where to find it if you missed it, but I'm sure you all know about stuff like that (I am an internet moron, make no mistake - soleta often wonders how I have survived as long as I have).

So You Think You Can Dance tonight (MORE MARK, YAY!!!) and Top Chef, too! Dancing and cooking, two of my favorite things!

I'm busy like a ridiculously busy thing, but I'm helping people out with their resumes (I've done enough now that I feel pretty confident about it). If you need help, give me a shoutout, eh? I will walk you through building a better resume in one evening. Or possibly one day, if you do not live in the US. Or some combination thereabouts.

What do you all think about The Losers, huh?