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I currently have 146 works posted on AO3. Choose a random number - no peeking! - between 1 and 146, and I will tell you three things I currently like about that story.

Wow. Just wow.

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Hey everyone. Here's a couple of silly little SPN ficlets that have been cluttering up my hard drive for a while. No spoilers for anything. Rated Teen. Obviously nothing is mine:

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Last Exit to Nowhere are having a 24 hour sale so I just bought a Highlander shirt, an Aliens shirt and a Withnail & I shirt. Now feel slightly guilty as even with the discount it still came to £45 but I just couldn't resist!

Our sweet, loyal, clever, funny, stubborn and infuriating dog has left us. RIP Holly. The house isn't going to be the same without her. It's too quiet.

There are many things happening with me at the mo, both of the good and the bad, but mostly I'm so busy that my default setting is currently "knackered/meh"

Of the good- my best friend since school is getting married May 4th, Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness are out soon, work is going well at the moment, went to Cardiff for a great few days with my sister running around castles and the Doctor Who Experience (which was great but expensive). Enjoying new Who so far and have discovered the joy of Game of Thrones and main lined the first two seasons so I can pick up at season three - loving it. I am writing, both fanfic and original stuff, though flitting between different ideas rather than staying focused on one so nothing finished yet.

Of the bad- my mum isn't getting much better, my dog is very ill and getting worse (I suspect she doesn't have much longer), my best friend is getting married which is serving to remind me how not attached I am plus the wedding is in Hackney which is going to be awkward to get to and cost me at least £100. I love her and how often does a good friend get married? so I do want to go, but I'm starting to wonder if it is really worth it. And last but not least, my contract is up in a few weeks so I'm currently waiting to hear if it will get renewed or not and looking for other work in case it doesn't. Any of which on its own is stress I could do without but all together I'm a little ... frazzled to say the least.

So yeah, that's the state of me at the mo. also very very cold, so going to make a hot chocolate and watch Game of Thrones now :)

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So next week we get episode 12 of the current season, and it will be a first for the UK - it will have an interactive ending. Intriguing and exciting as this is, I'm also curious if the same thing happened in the US?

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Hi folks! Reports of my demise have been blah de blah :)

Seasons Greetings to you all, hope that whichever festival of light in the dark you celebrate that you had a great one.

So to the good: I had five whole days off, which I know isn't a lot, but I got used to only getting Christmas Day off so this was a real luxury! I got the new Dresden book and I am loving it, as always. MILD NON-PLOT SPOILER Just when I think I can't love Harry or Jim Butcher more he goes and quotes Pratchett :)

Santa also delivered unto me the Firefly A Celebration book, which is the anniversary edition of all three Firefly Companion books. And it is shiny :)

Doctor Who was great, I really enjoyed the new Companion. I have a few niggles but I also have faith that Moffat will see it right eventually.

Downton Abbey has annoyed me. The Christmas special was wonderous until the very end when Mr Fellowes wrote something so cliched and hackneyed that he's actually spoiled the entire series for me. But maybe that's just me.

The Hobbit was made of all kinds of win, can't wait until next year for part 2, and really hope I get to see it in the cinema again.

So that's it from me, hope you all have lovely New Year. 2012 has been a bit rubbish for a lot of us, so he's hoping to a better 2013 xxx

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First a huge thank you to you lovely people on my flist for birthday greetings and v-gifts, I love you all *hugs*

Bit of a mixed back this year - went to Wales Comic Con the weekend before my birthday and had a blast - met Anthony Head and Craig Parker, bought a set of Rocky Horror figurines, aeron_lanart was there and, most importantly of all, met the delicious silvercobwebs for the first time and had a lovely time with her (and she gave me a Lego Deadpool, which was possibly the best moment of the weekend).

So, that was awesome.

Birthday was quiet but nice - took the day off work and watched DVDs with my mam and sis - Chuck and Northern Exposure mostly. Got a War Machine bobble-head that made me grin like a loon,and got Avengers Assemble on DVD. And that's where the disappointment began. Disney are complete arses! The DVD has no extras apart from one pathetic five minute featurette - no commentary, no gag reel, and no promised deleted scenes. Worst of all, for some inexplicable reason they've edited out the point of Loki's spear from a certain person's chest - WTF? It hasn't altered the rating at all, so I don't understand why. My only flicker of hope is that it's a plot reason, that they're opening up doubt surrounding that event for his return? (I expect most of you have seen it, but I'm skirting just in case)

Then when I went back to work on Thurs, nobody even bothered to give me a card and I found out I hadn't got the promotion I wanted. So the week started well but ended on ...

Written for the Timestamp prompt for hl_chronicles, this is a flashback set in the Browncoats & Scabbards universe. Just why does Richie want the Operative's head?

Huge thanks to aeron_lanart for beta duties.

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Hi gang, here's my first contribution to hl_chronicles's celebration of Highlander. The prompt was 'Twenty Years: The Immortal Perspective'. PG-13 for mild swearing and a world-weary viewpoint.

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A few weeks ago, I got my first shiny wage packet so what did I do with it? Why, naturally I went to the Build a Bear Workshop and purchased a dog and an Iron Man outfit! So, I'd like to introduce you all to Tony Bark, aka Iron Pup

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Just a fly-by from me to say that the hours I'm working make getting online difficult - I'm too tired when I get home, and I only get up early enough if I've got RL errands to run! So I'm only really going to be around at the weekends *pouts*

I know I've not been around much lately anyway, but I just wanted to let everyone know that if I don't reply to something immediately, I will try to get to it on the weekend.

Other than that, loving the new job so far although it's a little frustrating at the moment because we've kind of finished our training but don't have full systems access so can't get on and do the job. It's good because we're basically getting paid to do nothing, but it's also more than a little boring.

Also, epic holiday of awesomeness with aeron_lanart and strangevisitor7 and her boys begins in one week *happy dance* (And yes, I am completely aware that I'll probably have forgotten everything about the new job after the holiday *g*)

This story is my explanation for Richie being alive. It’s not quite Denial, more resurrectionist. I wrote it as part of my first ever fic, The L World. In that Richie and Duncan develop a slash relationship, and whilst I’ve nothing against that (I did after all write it) I don’t want to set every single Richie fic I write in that universe. It’s a separate ‘verse to everything else I write. Also, I’ve developed as a writer in the last five years (I hope). So, this is the platonic re-write which forms the starting point for all my non-L World Richie fics.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highlander or any of the characters of Highlander, and I’m not making any money out of them, I’m just doing this for the love of the shows involved. All rights and ownership belong to Davis/Panzer and Rysher Entertainment and anyone else who actually owns them, I’m just trying them on for size and I promise to return them good as new.

Huge thank you as always to the ever-wonderful aeron_lanart for beta duties.

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I've got a new job!!!!

Those of you that follow me on Twitter and Facebook will already know this, but I hadn't announced it properly because there were several background checks involved and I didn't want to jinx anything by celebrating too early :)

It's only a year contract and not in a field I particularly want to work in, but it's a paid full-time job so it will do for now! I start June 11th, so I've got a couple of weeks to muck about before I go back to the real world :s

This is going to be my first full-time job, I've only had part-time ones before now. Not sure how I feel about that, except it's very grown-up.

This is Tony's 1984 design on a 'Starkintosh' (which looks suspiciously like a 1984 Mac!):

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I'm loving that I got to see it a week ago, seen it twice in fact, so I've had my initial emotional reaction and now I get back to sit back and enjoy reading all of your reactions. It's almost as entertaining as the movie! :)

I wrote Kismet for the prompt: Steve/ Female SHIELD Agent
I want to see the SHIELD Agent from the end of Captain America come back and appologize for her part in the deception. And maybe they become friends.(If you want to call her Sharon Carter I'd love that but if you want to call her something else that's good too.)

What the hey, everyone else is doing it! *bleats* My top ten AO3 fics based solely on hit count with their summaries for anyone interested (in case anyone doesn't know, I'm subcircus on AO3). I've taken out drabbles for a better idea of what people are reading:

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RIP Peter Wragg

BBC VFX legend, the man who built the first models of Red Dwarf and Starbug, has passed away aged 65.

More Lj-versary fic, this time for jolinar_rosha who gave me two prompts and since they are only drabbles I did both of them!

Nothing you recognise is mine. Apologies for anything OOC with the Heroes characters, and I am sorry I've not done more with such great ideas, but I only watched season 1 so I didn't feel confidant to do any more.

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Nothing on the job front yet, just applying for what I can and crossing fingers! I think I'm going to have to do a mass CV mailout and see if any stick. And start looking at volunteer work for something to do in the meantime.

On the good news front, my Mam is finally home from hospital *happy dance*. She still has a vacuum pump attached to her foot so the district nurse has to visit every few days to change the dressings, but it's so great to have her home again even if it isn't quite 'normal' yet (whatever the hell normal is!!). Also a relief because the hospital she was in is ten miles away so we were travelling forty miles every day to visit her and with the petrol strike causing shortages it could have become a problem.

Fic is being written, those of you who gave me prompts please have patience, I swear I'll get there eventually! :)

The first of my anniversary fics! Better late than never, right? This one's for aeron_lanart who gave me this slightly wordy, but completely magnificent prompt:

John Watson thought Harry had been doing well to stay sober so when she contacts him in hysterics about little blue men drinking beer he's disappointed to say the least, until he has to face the truth... there actually are little blue men drinking beer.

Nothing belongs to me, it's all property of Sir Terry of Pratchett and Moff/Gatiss & Conan Doyle.

Thanks to silvercobwebs for beta duties and to aeron_lanart for the prompt and to both of them for being awesome ♥

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