Title: A Position to Negotiate
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Pairing: Hamilton/Lindsey
Summary: Hamilton helps Lindsey plan for the future.

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Title: Grounding
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Pairing: Cordelia Chase/Gwen Raiden
Summary: Cordelia catches Gwen in her trailer looking for the magical source of Reese Witherspoon's fame and fortune. Birthday!verse.

AO3 Link.

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This is how it works. Whoever started this meme left five "clues," which were passed onto me via multiple flisters (I don't care if it's DW, they're still flisters). I've responded, below the cut, with the five fics that meet the criteria of the clues. You can do so too, should you wish, and/or leave a clue for me. The clues can be anything from "Your favorite fic" to "Fic in which the most characters died" to "A fic that includes both a threesome and a wrench."

1. Your fic with the closest word count to 1,662 words.
2. Your fic in the rarest fandom you write in.
3. The longest fic you've ever written.
4. The fic that's title starts with the last letter of your user name.
5. Fic written for your favorite prompt you've ever gotten.3

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I have a whole collection of links and memes I wanted to post, but I'm on my way out the door, so I'll simply post what I'd consider the most important: yvi is considering running a Buffyverse RPG on Dreamwidth. That's something I've always wanted to participate in, so if you're interested, check out this post with a poll looking for input.

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Title: It Isn't Even Past
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Willow Rosenberg, Jesse (BtVS), Amy Madison, Xander Harris
Summary: Willow relives a memory from her middle school days.

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Title: A Good Deed
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Faith/Amy
Summary: Faith and Amy tale over Wolfram & Hart.

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Title: I Don't Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Wesley/Xander
Timeline/Spoilers: Post-"Graduation Day"; spoilers through BtVS Season 3 with foreshadowing for AtS Season 1.
Summary: A meeting and a parting.

A03 link.

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There are new things under the sun.

I've posted before about how all the hits on Google for "Cuckoocest" were for me, or for "Marscest" were either me or Ari. (For that matter, the fact that all the hits for "Alixtii" are me is itself worthy of note.) I like to google for other phrases that may or may well be uniquely mine, and find out whether they are. As of right now, "cest goggles" is only said by me (although of course many journals aren't indexed).

There are a number of people--although unsurprisingly, most of them are on LJ, ranging from people on my flist to ones I've never heard of before--talking about unabbreviated "incest gogles," though.

Apropos of nothing, you know that you don't have to wait for Yuletide to write one of my Yuletide requests for me. Well, apropos of the fact that I've been updating that list recently, I guess. I'm really sort of intrigued by just how clear a picture of my narrative kinks that list creates for me. It's a little disturbing, actually, but hey, I own my kinks, so it's all good.

And of course I have eight months to decide which four of those prompts I actually want to submit to Yuletide.

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Does anyone remember the name of the sidekick of Lucy, Krysten Ritter's character, on Gilmore Girls?

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Re: juice817: [in audio_by_juice] Questions, I has them! I ended up in a m

My naive intuition is that podfic falls somewhere between remixing or otherwise writing fanfic of fanfic (which I most strongly maintain does not require permission) and archiving fic (which does, generally). Now while all the podfic meta I've ever read stresses the transformativeness of podfic, that's not necessarily at odds with my naive intuition. After all, I don't think I've ever heard anyone's describing OTW's mandate as including unlicensed audiobooks.

So I don't know.

And so, in the spirit of the original discussion post, a poll.

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I don't have a tag for femslash meta in particular, in much the way I would presume most boyslashers don't have a tag for boyslash meta; being a femslasher is the point from which I approach all my fannish meta.

I have compiled the following list of posts, however, at the request of carolyn_claire, with metafandom-style blurbs, as posts of mine which do address femslash as a genre in a fairly direct way, however. Altogether it's too large for a LiveJournal comment--although not, I'm fairly certain, for a Dreamwidth comment--so I'm posting it here. The list is ordered like a flist; the top post is the most recent and some posts link to some of the posts below them.

alixtii: Femslash and the Lesbian Experience. Which Is Clearly Not My Experience.: my impression has always been that in more or less exactly the way that m/m slash isn't actually about real-world gay men (in a way that some interlocutors have found problematic, to say the least), femslash isn't about lesbians.
alixtii: Meta: Girlslash OTPs: One "difference" that has never been quite so easy to demonstrate, however, has been my claim that femslash fandom is le...

By "usage" I mean all the times I used a fe/male character tag on a fic at A03. If I use a character in three different fics, that counts as three uses; there's no weighting for the length of the fic or the size of the role the character plays in it. There were a total of 240 uses of male character tags and 408 of female character tags. (Go here to see how many times my more popular character tags each got used. Also the breakdown by genre.) N.B. Faith still isn't being counted in these numbers, for reasons discussed in the previous archive stats post.

If we look only at the number of (canonical, in the Archive tag wrangler sense of "canonical") characters of each gender (of the two genders I've written) I've written (i.e., Dawn counts only once instead of 51 times), then we get this chart:

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Mixing up "i.e." (id est, "that is," "which is to say") and "e.g." (example gratis, "for example"). Don't do it.

WRONG: I want to go somewhere, i.e. the mall.

RIGHT: I want to go somewhere, e.g. the mall. ("The mall" is an example of somewhere I could go.)

RIGHT: I want to go the place where they have many stores connected by an indoor promenade, i.e. the mall. ("The mall" restates "the place where they have many stores connected by an indoor promenade.")

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Give me one character and I will tell you:
1. OTP/favorite pairing for them.
2. Runner-up pairing.
3. Honourable mention(s).
4. Crack pairing(s).
5. Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.

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The breakdown of my fic output by genre, as categorized at the AoOO:

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So my reaction to the big m/m meta discussions going on has been basically, "Well, I'm glad I write alongside queer female writers about queer female characters for the benefit of a queer female audience." (Part of the reason for this is that I'm in the middle of a job search, so I don't have the time or the energy for a real opinion. If anyone knows of opportunities in the Philly/South Jersey region, do tell.) Not that the position I do occupy is unproblematic, but it's sort of problematic in fairly obvious ways we can all agree upon and don't require massive amounts of discussion.

But then my fellow femslashers have spoken up and the conversation has mutated in various ways and suddenly, I have thoughts. Because obviously m/m slash and femslash are different than and similar to each other in many complicated and different ways (many of which I've discussed repeatedly before), but my impression has always been that in more or less exactly the way that m/m slash isn't actually about real-world gay men (in a way that some interlocutors have found problematic, to say the least), femslash isn't about lesbians. (Obviously, the corollary to that is that femslash is about lesbians in all the ways m/m slash is about gay men. My purpose isn't to erase queerness.)

Obviously, I am not at all remotely qualified to speak to whether femslash accurately reflects The Lesbian Experience. So this is your invitation to tell me that I'm totally wrong. This post on femslash and the lesbian experience (eta: now locked, presumably in response to accusations of biphobia, although still much discussed throughout the LJ-meta-sphere) by ...

Return of the alphabet-fic meme! I have fics for every letter 'cept for K, X, and Z, which is two more letters filled than last time I did the meme. How I managed to write fic for six years and still never use a title beginning with K, I do not claim to know.

A is for The Art of the Possible (VMars, Veronica/Logan)
B is for Bullshit (RPF, Michelle/Summer)
C is for Camp Camelot (Merlin, OT4)
D is for Divine Interventions (BtVS, Ensemble)
E is for Experience (RPF/Firefly, Jane Espenson/Kaylee)
F is for Fairest of Them All (Firefly/AtS, Lilah/River)
G is for Glories Stream (Dar Williams)
H is for The Hurricane (The 4400, Maia & Kevin/Tess)
I is for In Soviet Russia, Femslash Writes You (RPF, Kristen/Hayden)
J is for Just Skin (BtVS, Amanda/Vi, Faith/Dawn)
K is for ---
L is for Last Day on Earth (Ender's Game, Val & Peter)
M is for My Girlfriend Is a Telepath (XMM, Kitty/Mindee)
N is for Not Quite Queen of the Damned (BtVS/VMars, Ensemble)
O is for ...

Title: Fatherhood
Fandom: The Parent Trap (1998)
Characters: Nick Parker, Hallie Parker, Annie James
Rating: Worksafe
Word Count: 564
Summary: Sometimes Nick Parker feels like the caricature of a bad father; he can't even tell his children apart.

( Fatherhood )

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Title: Pre-Frosh of Miskatonic U
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures
Cast: Clyde/Rani/Luke, Maria
Summary: While visiting an American university in New England, the trio makes a discovery.
A/N: Thank you to ionlylurkhere for the beta.

( Pre-Frosh of Miskatonic U )

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CAMERON: You sent [Derek] back to wait for us. (in "Queen's Gambit")

This reaffirms the notion that Derek and Cameron come from the same timeline. (Or does it?) But when and why did John send Derek back?

If Derek was sent back to 2006+, then he would have been wiped away when Cameron changed history in 1999, and wouldn't appear in the new timeline The Sarah Connor Chronicles takes place in--unless both John's send back Derek: the first so that Cameron can remember it, and the second so that Derek can actually reach the destination. The thing is, they'd have to send John for different reasons: the latter John would send Derek back knowing that Cameron would cause Sarah and John to jump forward in the future, and the former John would send Derek back because--the thing is, I can't figure out a coherent reason why John would send Derek back.

He'd have to have known that Cameron was going to change history, because presumably he wouldn't have remembered meeting Cameron as a teenager. (I toyed with the possibility of ignoring T3 and assuming that John did remember meeting Cameron, and having it all be one big causality loop--but no, Sarah's death by cancer screws up that theory.) So it'd be silly to send Derek back to any point in time after he sent Cameron. So he either didn't think things through--and I'd hate for the fanwank to only work by assuming the characters are stupid--or else he sent back Derek to before 1999. But that doesn't seem to work--surely Jessie would have noticed if he was suddenly a lot older? (We can assume that Derek jumped back and then jumped forward, but now we're getting to truly massive amounts of fanwank.)

Maybe there's some way John could send Derek and Cameron back at the same time (but to different temporal destinations) so that Derek would be protected from the effects of Cameron changing history? Call it the Starga...

The AO3 tells me I have 97,575 words posted in the Watcher!verse (divided among 50 fics). It's really hard not to read that as a challenge.
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Title: Quartet for Two Voices
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Rupert Giles/Kennedy, Dawn/Faith/Giles/Kennedy
Summary: It's strange and not strange at once. Not strange because Kennedy and Giles must have shared a bed dozens of times; strange because it's the first time Dawn or Faith or both isn't in it with them, and at the end of the day, he's a guy and she's, you know, really damn gay. (She's not straight they just love each other.)

( Quartet for Two Voices )

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1.My character tag at the Archive of Our Own. (I don't believe you need my permission to write RPF about me, but you certainly have my blessing. Just don't out me if you know my legal persona.)

2. SCC 1x02 strongly implies that Derek and Cameron come from the same future (the date that Cameron provides for Judgment Day is the combination for the safe). Thus, in the future that Derek comes from, John doesn't skip any years. (Presumably, in the future Jessie comes from, he does.) In short, Timelines B and C are the same.

That would mean any appearance of Cameron in Derek's flashbacks would be an appearance of our Cameron, and the differences between the future of, say, "Dungeons and Dragons" and T3 would be the same as between Cameron's future and T3--the main difference we know of being the date of Judgment Day. (I'm not quite sure I understand the mechanics of T3, though--at first glance it looks like a causality loop, but on further looks it become clear that history is being changed, although I'm not sure what it's being changed from--so it might be better to just ignore it altogether.) Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything problematic about this (other than one would expect his and Jessie's timelines to be more wildly divergent, but we already have weird parallelism existing between timelines: Judgment Day itself, of course, but also the fact that Cameron and Jessie both remember the conversation about Jessie's unborn child despite both coming from different timelines) or any detail to contradict the theory. Can anyone else?

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The I Saw Three Ships archive is live! I received The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which is Merlin/Morgana/Nimueh and has reincarnated!teen!Nimueh as Morgana's handmaiden-with-benefits. There is nothing which is not guh about that scenario.

If you can guess which fic I wrote, I'll write you a ficlet. Screening's on; I'll unscreen non-guesses unless told otherwise.

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