Those of you waiting for a Five Times fic, it's on its way, I promise! Also coming soon(ish) are a few long-overdue updates. Won't say more in case the muses hear and vanish on me again, but I'm cautiously optimistic!

In other news: UK fans of Nathan Fillion will be interested to hear that the channel alibi starts showing Castle on April 7th! (alibi is available on Sky and on Virgin) *happy dances* I've been lucky enough to see some episodes *cough cough* and it's a great show.

In RL, my car failed the MOT so have to get a new one (well, a slightly newer used one anyway). Not happy, loved that Mazda it's served us faithfully. :-( But hey, newer car! :-)

And finally, any Being Human fans who haven't read the books yet, I heartily recommend them. There are a few bits in them that explain some questions I know the fandom have had about certain canonical issues and there's an event that provides a canonical door (pun intended) for Annie and series 3.

So it's been a while, again, apologies for that everyone but as some of you will know, RL hasn't been great lately. Anyway, here's the next part of Watcher!Abby. You can read the first part of this fic here and the rest of the Watcher!Abby series can be found here.

Thanks as ever to my co-conspirator and co-author strangevisitor7 for her invaluable beta duties. And none of it belongs to me, still, despite my frantic bidding on e-bay.

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I don't know who sent me the anonymous squirrel love (obviously, being anonymous and all), but thank you! You made me LOL. *hugs you*

RIP Corey.

Here's the first of the Five Times meme ficlets, layla_aaron asked for "Five times Methos wanted to give someone a Gibbs lovetap (smack on the back of the head) but didn't". Not sure if this is what you were thinking of, and I'm sorry there's not more to it but here it is.

As usual, nothing belongs to me.

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Snagged from jinxed_wood

Ask me for five things about a particular character, and I will respond with a ficlet. (You know the drill: "Five times Martha wanted to kill the Doctor and didn't" or "Five times Methos nearly lost his head.")

I'm going to be a bit mean and limit it to the first six to comment because I know I really should be writing other things.

Shamelessly pillaged from strangevisitor7

List all of the television shows you have on DVD, no matter how obscure or embarrassing. Even if you only own one season, list it. Let's see who has what.

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Sorry about the wait folks, had to go to Cardiff for a few days. This is Part Three of Children of Earth in the Immortal Ianto Jones series. You can read Part One here.

Thanks one more time to aeron_lanart and silvercobwebs for the beta.

Disclaimer:Clearly it is not mine or this fic wouldn't be necessary.

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Stolen from ithildyn:

Your result for The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test...

The PrioressYou scored 26% Cardinal, 54% Monk, 56% Lady, and 32% Knight!



You are a moral person and are also highly intellectual. You like your solitude but are also kind and helpful to those around you. Guided by a belief in the goodness of mankind you will likely be christened a saint after your life is over.

You scored high as both the Lady and the Monk. You can try again to get a more precise description of either the Monk or the lady, or you can be happy that you're an individual.

Take The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test at OkCupid

Confused? Then you obviously haven't seen aeron_lanart's post on Boom-De-Yada Day!

I love my flist, you've been there through some tough times (you know who you are)

I love the smell of grass after rain

I love sunsets, even if that is a big fat cliche and they sometimes make me feel melancholy they are still beautiful

I love all the mystery and wonder of the universe

I love coffee.

Spread the love people! :) *hugs you all*

This is Part Two of Children of Earth in the Immortal Ianto Jones series. You can read Part One here.

Thanks again to silvercobwebs & aeron_lanart for their invaluable help.

Disclaimer:It is still not mine, not one little bit.

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I was going to have to confront it sooner or later, so this is the Immortal Ianto version of Children of Earth. Be warned, here be angst. While it's technically a fixit, events have still played out along similar lines to the episodes as aired; as I saw it too much was beyond their control for the addition of Amanda and Ianto's Immortality to make a huge difference to events.

If I haven't completely scared you off reading, then read on :)

Huge thanks and virtual chocolate to aeron_lanart & silvercobwebs for their invaluable beta and putting up with my crazy.

Disclaimer: Not one little bit of it is mine, I think we're all aware of that fact.

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Comment and I'll pick three one (unless you want more) of your fandoms, post the answers to your journal and so on and so forth.

strangevisitor7 tagged me for this with Whoverse, Buffyverse and NCIS:

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There was a still from Alice in Wonderland up on the Empire website today and I couldn't help but have a silly thought

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Holy Crap dudes and dudettes. Watch this video, it is amazing. It is 100% CGI.

100% CG, I kid you not. Amazing or what?

I just searched Waterstones.com and discovered that Heat Wave is available to buy as an ebook or as a paperback, which I think is really cool on many levels, but as far as I know Castle has yet to air here in the UK, so it makes me wonder how many people are thinking that he's real! XD

Pillaged from silvercobwebs

Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Name a (current) show you can't miss:
Being Human

Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show:
Tim Curry (case in point, I watched Cranford at Christmas because he was in it)

Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show:
I can't think of anyone... maybe Amanda Holden.

Name a show you can, and do, quote from:
Red Dwarf, Buffy, Monty Python, The Mary Whitehouse Experience... Actually do I have an original thought in my head?!

Name a show you like that no one else enjoys:
I don't know about enjoys, but I think the fandom for The Champions is pretty small these days. The Mary Whitehouse Experience?

Name a TV show which you've been known to sing the theme song:
Red Dwarf. Or The Gummi Bears. Or The Mysterious Cities of Gold. Or... you get the picture.

Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch:
Moonlight. Maybe if enough people watch it, the execs will bring it back!

Name a TV series you own:
M*A*S*H. Stargate SG-1, Buffy, Angel, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Bagpuss, Mr Benn, Highlander, Highlander the Raven, Red Dwarf, Quantum Leap, Torchwood, Doctor Who (most new, a few old)...umm I could go on all night.

What is your favourite episode of your favourite series?
Well that's just impossible because I love lots of shows for different reasons. I do love The Innocent from Highlander.

A show you mean to watch, but you just haven't gotten around to yet:
Can't thin...

Posting mid-afternoon is never a great idea but I'm finally going to see Avatar tonight, so here's the next Immie!Ianto fic. Big thanks to aeron_lanart for a speedy beta.:

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So Being Human was back tonight

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Oh yeah, we're back baby! This is the next part of the storyline that began with Methos turning up in Renewed Acquaintances and is part of the wider Watcher!Abby series that I co-author with the fabulous strangevisitor7, who has been a wonderful and prompt beta as always.

Disclaimer:NCIS and Highlander do not belong to me, never have, never will. *pouts*

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Don't get excited, anyone (anyone?) this isn't a new chapter, I just realised I've not collected the series yet. Sorry, it is a resolution to get a new chapter done soon, I promise.

Death Takes a Holiday
This is How It's Done on Discworld
The First Duty



Cracky little asides that don't fit in the main timeline:

Methos' Adventures in L-Space
Rites of Passage

Timothy Dalton is proving that yet again he's a versatile actor

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Just to clear up any misunderstanding, I merely copied and pasted from vikingprincess. Wish I had come up with it tho.

Seen just about everywhere, but snagged specifically from strangevisitor7

I’ve no idea how many words I’ve written, I’ve not got the patience to add them all up, but it’s somewhere around the 70k mark over 50 fics/ficlets/drabbles.

Overall Thoughts: A surprisingly good year, in the end. I've brought Browncoats and Scabbards to a coda (not an end I hasten to add) and I've dabbled in some new fandoms. But I've neglected some WIPs that require much TLC in 2010. Just hope the muses are still speaking to me!

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Less than I had hoped at the start of the year, but given the crap I’ve gone through and the lack of time I’ve had to write there’s much more than I thought there’d be.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? Torchwood/Bagpuss. Never in a million years would I have considered writing that one.

What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest: Y Ddraig Goch. I know only Brits of a certain age will have even heard of Ivor the Engine, but it instantly took me back to happy childhood memories and it was such a joy to write.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them: Writing in 2nd person for A Mirror Crack’d. It was a bizarre departure for me, but I think it helped the piece work. It’s a really dark fic (another departure) and by putting in 2nd and using quite poetical language I think I managed to prevent it from being offensive, which it could have been. So, sometimes, my sense of the ridiculous can be a...

Three very silly and non-spoiler Wilf icons for your (hopeful) pleasure

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