A Moment in Time (1273 words) by Alixtii
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Phineas and Ferb
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Vanessa Doofenshmirtz & Stacy Hirano, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro & Stacy Hirano
Characters: Stacy Hirano, Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Ginger Hirano, Milly (Phineas And Ferb), Gretchen (Phineas And Ferb), Candace Flynn, Perry (Phineas And Ferb)
Summary: When Stacy, Vanessa, and the Fireside Girls are the only ones not affected by Dr. Doofenshmirtz' freezinator, they must work together to save not only themselves, but the entire Tri-State Area.


I signed up for Phineas and Ferb offering only female characters (I think it was Candance and Isabella?). It's a fandom which really frustrates me with how often it fails the Bechdel test, so it was really important for me to include as many female characters as possible and focus on their homosocial relationships. (wneleh asked for gen, even though I was really tempted to throw in some Stacy/Vanessa femslash, because guh.) My original plan was to write an angsty introspective fic split into three sections, with about 350 words each from Stacy's, Vanessa's, and Isabella's perspectives. But I quickly realized that their canon characterizations are so totally wrapped up in their relationships to the male characters on the show that I didn't really have anything to write about. Thus I decided to write a slightly more plotty fic (in that there's...

Kick at the Darkness (14754 words) by Anonymous Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Push (2009) Rating: Mature Warning: Underage Relationships: Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes Characters: Nick Gant, Cassie Holmes Summary: Cassie and Nick go on a Division-sponsored road trip. Cassie kicks at a few things.Meaty and epic, this slow build towards Nick/Cassie really shows off the dynamics of their relationship really well. Somebody had to write this (so why not me?) (189 words) by Anonymous Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: AO3 Tags, Meta - Fandom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary: This is a stupid fanfiction and I shouldn't have written it. I have no shame. Don't like, don't read. // Abandon hope all ye who enter here . . . // (A little piece of silliness, wherein the above summary, dubious poem below, author notes and accompanying tags are entirely composed of existing AO3 freeform tags.)Um, yeah. This exists. Suri Cruise Live Tweets Haute Couture Noel by Anonymous Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Suri's Burn Book Rating: General Audiences Warning: No Archive Warnings...

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This yuletide, I've received Here's My Breast; Strike Home, which is the High School AU of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore you all know I've been wanting for a while now. It's told from Annabella's POV and is delicious and 'cesty, just like I wanted. Serious guh.

I wrote two fics this year for Yuletide. One's in the main collection, the other's in Madness. They both have pretty clear signs of my handiwork, one of them--ahem--perhaps especially so. If you're interested in guessing which I wrote, comments are screened. I'll unscreen any comments which aren't guesses unless you tell me not to.

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Midnight in Arkham(1401 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Sarah Jane Adventures, Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft
Pairing: Maria Jackson/Luke Smith, Rani Chandra/Maria Jackson/Clyde Langer/Luke Smith
Characters: Maria Jackson, Luke Smith
A/N: Sequel to Pre-Frosh of Miskatonic U (1094 words) by Alixtii
Summary: Maria wakes up in the middle of the night and shares a moment with Luke.
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So . . . any votes as to what I should nominate from this list? 


OTHER than The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy, I mean. That one's definite. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/351235.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID, or here.

The Fall of Rome (1264 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Raven Darkholme/Emma Frost, Raven Darkholme/Emma Frost/Angel Salvadore
Characters: Raven Darkholme, Emma Frost, Angel Salvadore
Summary: Emma and Raven relive a moment from the summer of '69, but the events of X3 have given Raven a new perspective. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/351177.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID, or here.

So wait, there was a show where Darla was Mesektet's mother?

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So tinypinkmouse linked some of her podfics of my stories to my originals on A03, including some she did over the summer--and which I'd had no clue even existed! This post at amplificathon includes links to podfics (and, of course, my original texts) for "Four Times Tony Stark Met Erik Lenscherr (And One Time He Didn't)" (Iron Man/XMM, Tony & Erik, minor het pairings), "Master and Commander" (Sarah Connor Chronicles, John/Allison), and "The Myrrh-Bearer's Gospel" (Biblefic, Mary Magdalene/Joanna). I'm especially excited about that last one, because I don't even know how to describe it, but there's something about tinypinkmouse's reading that just works for me (I think part of it is the congruence of her non-American accent with the non-American characters), and I'm not ashamed to admit that I choked up at a couple places as I listened to the podfic.

Plus she recorded Road to Emmaus (Firefly, Book, gen), which I did know about before, but can't remember if I mentioned in this journal or not.

And which reminds me that eosrose also recorded a couple of my stories over the past year, and even though I did know about those, looking over my recent entrie...

January

Conjugal Visit (1054 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel: the Series
Relationships: Darla/Faith
Characters: Faith (BtVS), Darla (BtVS), Lilah Morgan
Summary: Darla visits Faith in prison . . . in the conjugal trailer.

France's Queen: Two Fragments (110 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: King Lear - Shakespeare
Relationships: Cordelia & Kent (King Lear)
Characters: Kent (King Lear), Cordelia (King Lear), France (King Lear)

Kissing (1075 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Firefly
Relationships: Kaylee Frye/Simon Tam, Kaylee Frye/Malcolm Reynolds/Simon Tam, Kaylee Frye/Malcolm Reynolds, Malcolm Reynolds/Simon Tam
Characters: Kaylee Frye, Simon Tam, Malcolm Reynolds
Summary: Mal stops kissing Kaylee once she and Simon are a couple; Kaylee's less than thrilled by that state of affairs.

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Nostalgia Chick Must Die! (4149 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Nostalgia Chick (webseries), That Guy with the Glasses
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nella & Nostalgia Chick, Nostalgia Chick/Todd in the Shadows, Obscurus Lupa/Todd in the Shadows, Todd in the Shadows/Original Character
Characters: Nostalgia Chick, Nella (That Guy with the Glasses), Makeover Fairy, Cochram Block, Coquette Tease, Todd In The Shadows, Lord MacGuffin, Original Characters, Mignon (Nostalgia Chick's dog), Kelly Ripa, Justin Bieber, quasi-demonic intergalactic force of evil, Lindsay Ellis, BFF Inc.
Summary: When the Makeover Fairy uses Block and Tease to construct a Nostalgia Clone from Lindsay's DNA, Lindsay finds herself out in the cold--and vowing revenge. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/349991.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID, or here.

According to IMDb, the actress playing Lily Arwell is nineteen years old. Now, I didn't get the impression the actual character was supposed to be that old. So I'm turning to the wisdom of the all-knowing flist: as a rough guess, how old do you think Lily was supposed to be?

ETA: There's a video on the BBC website where Holly Earl describes her character as 14 years old.

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Yuletide is upon us! I received Lead Me on a Merry Chase, a Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? fic which pairs Player and Carmen. While I was originally thinking of Carmen as an A.I., my Yulewriter had the interesting idea of re-considering the cartoon as more of a MMORPG with Carmen being played by another human--out there somewhere. Plus, the fic takes the chance to do some interesting things with disability, since we never actually see Player walk (or do anything other than sit in front of a computer, really). But most importantly, the fic captures that flirtiness between Player and Carmen which interested me in the pairing in the first place and spin it out into a full femslash relationship.

I wrote two stories of larger than 1,000 words. It's possible I might still write some treats before Madness closes, but at this point I'm beginning to doubt it.

If anyone is interested in guessing which stories I wrote, comments are screened. I may or may not provide prizes to those who correctly guess. If you leave a comment which is not a guess, I'll unscreen it immediately unless you specifically tell me not to.

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I just put together a rough outline of my assigned Yuletide story.

The outline by itself is two-thirds the required length of the entire story.

Also, it's frelling awesome.

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(N.B.: Portions of this letter have been lifted from previous years' letters: 2010 2009 2008 2007.)

Thank you for signing up to write a story for me! You're one of 4 people who offered to write for Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? and/or one of [x] people who offered to write for The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy , and I love you for that alone. It looks like I was the only one to offer for Tart, sadly, but I'll leave that part of my letter in too in case you decide you'd like to give that a try, or you are a pinch hitter or a treats writer. (The movie's available for free on Hulu, and is embedded below.)

If you check out my userinfo, you'll find a 'thon policy which implores that you be true first and foremost to the prompt and your muse, and to consider whether I'd like a story as, at most, a secondary concern. I stand by that, but I also recognize there is a sense that a yuletidestory is explicitly a gift in a way which most 'thon fics aren't, so feel free to surf through this journal to get a feel for me, and here's a little bit more, if you are interested, to help you understand how I relate to the specific texts and characters in the fandoms I've requested and what I might like. OTOH, don't be intimitated; this letter might demonstrate that I've thought long and hard about why I want what I want, because I'm full of myself and like to navel-gaze so you can get a feel for my tastes, but the specifics of what I'd like are intentionally vague even in my own mi...

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It occurs to me that the new nomination process actually allows me to very usefully apply an adapted version of the Bechdel test in deciding what to offer, come signups: if two or more female characters don't appear among the nominated characters, I probably shouldn't offer to write it. Whereas before I would have to guess whether someone requesting The Illiad was more likely to request Achilles/Patroclus or Briseis/Chryseis, now I should be more able to figure it out based on what was nominated. (Not that there was ever any doubt in my mind concerning that particular example.) Between that and the "Women Being Awesome" freeform tag, I should be able to ensure I get to write something nicely female-centric, despite the deeply pervasive bias for male characters seen throughout the nominations. For the record, my nominations are:Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? Carmen Sandiego The Player Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson Miss Portinari Tart (2001) Heather von Strum Cat Storm Grace Bailey Eloise LoganSince the Where on Earth player will always be female to me, this year I nominated absolutely zero male characters. I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority.. (Although, it's also true that the only character of color I nominated is Carmen, so it's not like my moral high ground is particularly high.)

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Anything by Robert A. Heinlein
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgeson Burnett (someone is considering nominating The Secret Garden, though)
Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw (although The Devil's Disciple is going to be nominated!)
Firefly RPF
Buffy/Angel RPF
Dollhouse RPF
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (and I'm not the only one wishing for it, either)
Parent Trap (1999)
Parent Trap II (1986)
My Summer of Love (2004)
Truman Show (1998)
Anything by Mark Twain
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
Into the Woods - Sondheim/Lapine
D.E.B.S. (2004)
D.E.B.S. (2003)
D.E.B.S. RPF
Gray Matters (2006)
Winter Passing (2005)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
Brides of Christ
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Sunshine Cleaning RPF
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1995)
Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
She's All That (1999)
She's All That RPF
A.I. Gang - Bruce Coville
The Man in the Moon (1991)
Mars Attacks (1996)
Small Wonder
The Guild RPF
Ghostwriter
Freaks and Geeks
Freaks and Geeks RPF
American President (1995)
Boy Meets World
Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
She's the Man (2006) (this one really breaks my heart)
Tart (2001)
Triple Dog (2009)
Camp (2003)
Adventures of Pete and Pete...

Apparently Yuletide nominations will open in the very near future. I'm still agonizing over what to nominate; two of my nominations (and later, requests) will be for Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (I've requested this every year I've done Yuletide) and The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy. Both fandoms either got no or very few offers last year, so I figure that if I pick a fandom which is only semi-obscure as my third choice it is virtually certain to be written--which is of course it making me agonize over the choice all that much more. Or I could pick another ultra-rare fandom and see what happens. I haven't decided yet.

Whatever I do, it is more or less certain to be taken from this list of options, so feel free to provide me with input if you want. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/348312.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID, or here.

So they turned The Taming of the Shrew into 10 Things I Hate About You (of which I am so not a fan, even despite the presence of the gorgeous Larissa Oleynik), and Twelfth Night into She's the Man (which is sublime).

Am I the only person who thinks what the world really needs is a high school AU version of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore?

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So, apparently I'll be attending New York Comicon? I'll be going with a couple of friends. We'll be there Saturday, the 15th.

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I know that my updating lately is inconsistent, and a large part of that is how I position myself in fandom; I still think of myself largely as a Buffy fan, and of course since I'm not up to date on the comics or anything (and don't seem to be able to find the time to participate in femslash_minis) there isn't much to be said. But these are the shows that are currently airing which I do make a point of keeping up-to-date with:

Bones
Doctor Who
Eureka
The Guild
In Plain Sight
Sanctuary
Torchwood

I'm pretty sure that's pretty much the entire list.

And all of this is more or less an introduction to my saying . . . I think last Sunday's In Plain Sight (which I finally watched today) might well have contained one of the greatest scenes in the history of television. Love love love.

ETA: Obviously Sarah Jane Adventures would be on this list too were it not for Liz Sladen's sad death--although Wikipedia claims that the filmed episodes of Series 5 will air this fall.

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So, the actress who played Mezoti (the Borg little girl) on Star Trek: Voyager? Apparently played "Girl Student" in Serenity. Which, if you remember, was also the name of the role played by Demetra Raven, aka Jenny Grimaldi, aka the baseball girl from "Chosen," the Buffy series finale. What, did Whedon only hire extras for that scene if they had the appropriate geek credentials? (Except not, because the actors playing the other kids don't have anything interesting to be said about them.)

(Also, !Mezoti's IMDB page picture? Guh, although not exactly subtle. If only there were a way to AU canon enough to get aged-up Naomi/Mezoti. But Naomi's accelerated aging would be a pain in trying to get that to work, not that canon ever really remembered that detail anyway, not to mention that when the relevant subpart of canon ends, they're in opposite quadrants of the galaxy. Maybe one could abandon the pretense altogether and just write Scarlett/Marley RPF. I don't know, at a con or something. Whatever.)

(And Demetra's web site makes me wince. Just, no. Please, God, no. Jenny Grimaldi would have better sense. And also be too busy fighting vampires and/or playing baseball.)

(Now I really want to buy Scarlett's EP, because, I don't even know why. I do love one of the reviews, though: "I must say that she isn't well-known here in germany and the place where i live." Yeah, and everywhere else on the planet where people don't have encyclopedia knowledge of Star Trek: Voyager. Well, either Star Trek  or Reba. So pretty much everywhere.)

Rescuing myself from the parentheticals, this reminds me that ...

Title: For Thou Art With Me (2/?)
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Pairings: John/Savannah, John/Cameron
Summary: As Savannah grows up and explores her sexuality, John must come to terms with his own desires. Psalm 23-verse, timeline "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," sometime in between Unfulfilled and The Funeral of Sarah Connor.

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Title: For Thou Art With Me (1/?) Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Pairings: John/Savannah, John/Cameron Summary: As Savannah grows up and explores her sexuality, John must come to terms with his own desires. Psalm 23-verse, timeline "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," sometime in between Unfulfilled and The Funeral of Sarah Connor.

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Sovereignty (169 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian X & Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Caspian X, Lucy Pevensie
Summary: Caspian forgets himself. Ficlet. Gen. Set during The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/346303.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID, or here.

Speaking as a het male, when I use a female character as a partial self-insert (and I prefer doing so over male characters) I generally want her to do double-duty as lust object as well. This creates absolutely zero cognitive dissonance in me. (Whether that's because I can keep the roles of self-insert and lust object separate in my head, or because I'm assuming that if I were going to be a fantastic woman than of course that would include being the sort of woman I as a het man desire, I can't say.)

At the end of the day, it's absolutely true that we need to retire the term "Mary Sue" as a term which has moved beyond the limits of redeemability. But it is equally important to continue to try to redeems those characteristics (other than bad writing simpliciter--and hey, if you want to try to redeem bad writing simpliciter, power to you) which at times the term may have been understood to denote.

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