Fire in the Hole

Title: Protect and Survive II: Raising the Stakes (3/11)
Fandom: Stargate
Rating: T
Genres: action/adventure, drama
Summary: Laura Cadman is caught between a rock and a hard place. Or maybe rather between her heart and her head? Anyway, it's never easy when a certain Doctor and Major are involved.
A/N: Right. Err. There was something I should have remembered. Yes. Which means, no, I still haven't given up on trying to get all the PAS stories over to LJ as well. *sighs Also still promoting my Holiday Fic Request meme! (and hurry up or  mackenziesmomma will have claimed all the remaining days)


( Raising the Stakes 1/11 )

( Raising the Stakes 2/11 )

( Raising the Stakes 3/11 )

Title: Not in Kansas Anymore (4/23)
Fandom: Stargate/Star Wars
Rating: M
Genres: crossover, romance
Summary: When Laura Cadman and Evan Lorne woke up in a storage room, they never thought it would be in a galaxy far, far away. And now they need to find a way back home, past Special Operations agents and stormtroopers, between the fronts in a war they thought they knew (from television, mind you). But no one ever said it would be easy.
A/N: So, weekend's over and I decided I really want to get this story posted completely as soon as I can. Which is why you get yet another chapter today. Also, am still promoting yappichick's fanart! And please don't forget to claim a day in my Holiday Fic Request meme!

( Not in Kansas Anymore 1/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 2/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 3/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 4/23 )

Title: Not in Kansas Anymore (3/23)
Fandom: Stargate/Star Wars
Rating: M
Genres: crossover, romance
Summary: When Laura Cadman and Evan Lorne woke up in a storage room, they never thought it would be in a galaxy far, far away. And now they need to find a way back home, past Special Operations agents and stormtroopers, between the fronts in a war they thought they knew (from television, mind you). But no one ever said it would be easy.
A/N: Still on sick leave, but really better now. Trying to translate this into German and just not in the mood... but I promise, I'll get into it as soon as I can! Also, still promoting yappichick's fanart!

( Not in Kansas Anymore 1/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 2/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 3/23 )

Remember that sore throat I mentioned when I said I'm back in Germany? It turned out to be tonsilitis. One that sent me to the ER on Sunday (I was a walk in, don't worry) and got me some pretty heavy antibiotics that apparently weren't only heavy on the tonsilitis but also on me (I never reacted to antibiotics like this before, I swear), made me sleep the entire Monday (mostly because the antibiotics and the jetlag wouldn't just let me sleep at night and gave me one of the worst nights ever), made me nearly faint in the bathroom on Tuesday (which was one of the creepiest things ever because I don't do fainting. Except when having someone drawing blood and even there it only happened once because I was stupid enough to look so no, still don't do random fainting) which probably was because I was still dehydrated and had low blood sugar from Monday and then ended me with new antibiotics on Tuesday from my regular ENT doc.

In the end, I also slept almost the entire Tuesday but at least I kind of could eat something in the evening and almost slep through the night so that's probably a plus. Throat's still sore but it's waning. And at least I don't have to sleep the entire day anymore. That said, expect story postings again. I'm hoping to do them in the next couple of days. And if you find any good Leslie Knope/Ben Wyatt stories, don't be afraid to tell me. Ever since that one ep of Parks & Recreation on the plane, I've been kind of binging on fics about them (when I wasn't sleeping, that is).

Writing a blog entry for today, that is.

It was mackenziesmomma's and my second day at the Rosewood and it was spa time today. We both got a full hour massage and man, was that good. Seriously, that was awesome and I kind of want to have another one already, you know? We then took the car back to San Francisco and wanted to see the Golden Gate Bridge but it seems it's avoiding mac (I know it's not avoiding me because I actually got to see it on Tuesday and a bit of it on Wednesday, too) since it's the third time it was hiding from her in the fog (yes, fog, not mist, dear).

So instead we took the scenic road back to SF (the one from Take You Higher, just without the cops, you know) and returned the car to Hertz. We also got back into SF for lunch (which was kind of dinner, actually) and wanted to take the F Line to Fisherman's Wharf but there's this slight unfortunate detail that my hostel's neighborhood is... erm... interesting and I kind of didn't want to have to walk to it after dark so I bid mac goodbye at the BART station (yes, the Bay Area Rapid Transportion is abbreviated with BART) and then... well... headed off to Walgreens to get something against the sore throat I seem to have developed (probably a side effect of the A/C at the hotel and in the car... A/C and I apparently do not get along and I kind of forgot about that so it's not your fault, mac, just so you know). Let's hope it goes away in the next couple of days...

Anyway. Bunnies. Lots of goddamn bunnies. Most of all the aforementioned shower smut bunny and champagn bottle bunny and there's also a hot tub bunny (Tom and Maureen insist on it, I'm afraid) and a spa bunny and yeah, you get what this is about, right? Ngh.

Title: Five People Who Remember Nine Eleven
Fandom: Stargate
Rating: K+
Genres: gen
Summary: "We all need to know that those attacks did not only kill thousands of Americans, but they also hit the entire world," Dr. Peter Struck said on September 12 2001. What's the world saying today? (five OCs, in Atlantis, on September 11 2011)
A/N: This is a spontaneous Five Things fic that came to me earlier today. I'd like to include trigger warning for this, both for past real world events and for current real world events (that is, stuff that happened this year). I'm a little nervous about this story, seeing as this includes stuff a lot of people are senstive about. If I did it wrong... please tell me so and I'll improve it.

Also, this one isn't betaed because I wanted to post it today. Hope it's still okay.

( Five People Who Remember Nine Eleven )

25k!

I just broke 25k on the big bang story!

\o/

I also now know that I'll need five to six (or maybe seven, depending on how the chapter after the current one will work) eight more chapters to finish it which while it's certainly tough actually not impossible to do within the deadline of September 25th. I just hope I won't break down on the home stretch as I'm usually wont to do (not breaking down but nearly breaking down and saying "Ah, just fuck it all, I'm gonna quit." I never did it before and I don't intend to now but the home stretch really is the hardest part in any thing I do for me) and oh God, the beating. And the formatting. And oh God, I think I'll just go back to finishing my chapter and try to get this story done. Eeeek!

I really tried to talk myself out of this one because of the topic of the question but mackenziesmomma wouldn't let me chicken out so I figured I should just get it over with write it and be done with it. Also, until now I tried to find a fitting song for the aformentioned story tag for ancient_leah but I feel so alone without my laptop and my music and most of all my playlists (oh God, the playlists! They were so many I actually had to scroll, even in half screen size oh God) and last.fm isn't really helpful, either so I can just as well write another "30 Days" entry until I get a new laptop (hopefully in the next two weeks because seriously, I don't think I can make the big bang otherwise). So here we go.

( First eleven under cut because the list of answered questions threatens to become longer than the actual answer... )


And the newest one:

12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you’d like to share?

( Brave new worlds... )

Anyway... any of my verses you'd like to have included this? Any verses you didn't like, regarding world building? Give it all to me!

First of all: OMG LIVEJOURNAL YOU'RE BACK OMG I MISSED YOU SO MUCH! Let's hope you're working again on all computers I use.

Second: following a couple discussions I had on the actual definition of fanfiction in regard to what to write I think I need another meta post. The thing that started the discussion was my review on a drabble that had a totally OOC Sam Carter (without it having been declared as AU, that is) and the comment another reviewer made, saying that he thought that "fanfiction means you can write whatever you want". I told him that no, this is called original fiction and went on to explain that fanfiction actually means adhering to a specific set up rules, defined by the 'verse you're writing in.

( Color me cofused. )

PS.: Because I never said it before and because I vowed to do it as soon as LJ is back up running again; thank you, English speaking fandom, for being what you are. Thank you for being big enough that everyone can find their niche and thank you for holding canon in such a high esteem that even in AUs, "they're so in character!" is still the biggest praise you can get. Thank you for making "Do your goddamn research!" a valid point in criticism and thank you for shaking your head about people who don't do their research because they're too goddamn lazy because you can't imagine research not being an actual part of the writing process and fun. Thank you for being you.

PPS: And what the hell is going on with fandomnews? Is it ever coming back? Because I'd love to post this there...

Okay, so I just hacked another couple of words into the keyboard and am now at a little over 10k words for my het_bigbang story. I still have until mid-September to finish the story, with at least 25k of words (because I'll be in California for most of the second September half). I'm quite confident that the story is big enough to make it actually past the 25k but quite honestly, even though I'm at 10k now, I still don't know if the story works like it's supposed to be and if it's really as good as I want it to be. It's Stargate/Star Wars with Lorne/Cadman (what, did anyone really expect something different?) and OMG I'M NOT SURE IF I'LL EVER FINISH IT AND IF ANYTHING ACTUALLY MAKES ANY SENSE OMG! 

Because, see, Laura and Evan are actually the only Stargate characters in we get to see in the story (or at least will get to see for a very long time) and they aren't even together for the biggest part of the story (or at least for the biggest part of the story that has been written yet) and there are Star Wars OCs popping up in every corner and I'm afraid they'll be just cardboard cutouts and I think I want more romance in there than just Evan and Laura and I don't feel any real connection to my OCs yet and I think I'm going to sit in a corner, take a couple of deep breaths and then just plow on writing that story. Even though I'm mortally afraid just going on is the biggest mistake I could make. EEEEEK!

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