Fire in the Hole

Okay, so since I realized that the amount of fics I have in my LJ has increased surprisingly (and not just because of Fanfic100), I decided to do something I've seen in a few other journals: Give you a post where all of them can be found with title (plus link), summary and short additional info such as pairing or content warnings. Also, all of them are posted in correct reading order, not necessarily writing order and I decided to break them up by category, so here we go:

( Stargate )

( Star Wars )

( Battlestar Galactica )

( Leverage )

( Warehouse 13 )

( EUReKA )

( The Lord of the Rings )

( Firefly )

( Harry Potter )

( Disney )

( Crossover )

PS.: Wholly unrelated to the stories but... if you friend me out of not quite obvious reasons for me (i.e. not being member of one of the communities I'm member of or being a friend of a friend or sharing interests with me), please have the decency to drop me a line why you friended me. Otherwise, I might feel compelled to think you're a bot and I really don't like bots, you know.

Important note regarding my posting policy: 

As of now I actually have a new job and because I'm probably even more paranoid than Fox Mulder, I will post more or less all entries regarding personal issues as friendslocked. I might even decide to f-lock the journal in general and only post the fannish entries as public. Anyway, if any of you lurkers would like to read the personal life entries as well, please notify (either here in the comments or via private message) and friend me.

Title: Not in Kansas Anymore (9/23)
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: Damn, I'm sorry. Really, I am. I kind of hadn't planned for such a long absence of this fic from the journal. Work is kicking my ass and draining all my creative juices at the moment but I'm resolved to at least post all the stories still in the buffer. Maybe that'll help with the writing, too. Also, am still promoting yappichick's fanart!

( Not in Kansas Anymore 1/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 2/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 3/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 4/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 5/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 6/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 7/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 8/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 9/23 )

Title: Had the Guts, Got the Glory
Fandom: Star Wars
Rating: K+
Genres: gen, slightly het
Recipient: yappichick
Prompt: Star Wars, Delvin Sandwalker, anything with him being a badass
Summary: ( spoilery for Not in Kansas Anymore )
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. Well. Some of you will probably go "Huh?" at this, mostly because I'm not done with posting chapters of Not in Kansas Anymore, the big bang story. But you have met Delv already in chapter seven of said story and those of you who read the entire story here (or are one of the people who read the entire story during the writing process :D) know who he is. Everyone else who doesn't like spoilers and is following Not in Kansas Anymore here in LJ: don't read it. Everyone else: enjoy. And look again at yappichick's awesome fanart, while you're at it :D

( Had the Guts, Got the Glory )

Title: Not in Kansas Anymore (7/23)
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: As mackenziesmomma pointed out, I'm a leeeeettle behind on posting so... have a new chapter! It's introducing one of my new favorite OCs. We're very much alike. Okay, I wish we were. But he does resemble me when I'm really irritated and hate the world enough to take it out on just about everyone. Sadly, I don't kick ass as much as he does. Also, what happened to starwars_fanfic? Is there still a moderation queue? Will I ever be able to post anything there again? Questions over questions... Also, am still promoting yappichick's fanart!

( Not in Kansas Anymore 1/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 2/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 3/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 4/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 5/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 6/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 7/23 )

Title: Not in Kansas Anymore (5/23)
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: Righty-o, let's keep posting chapters. And I apologize for them being so short. They honestly looked and felt a lot longer when I wrote the story (probably because I kept thinking "25k, OMG, need to make 25k, OMG will never make 25k"...). This really isn't my usual style... I'm sorry :S Also, am still promoting yappichick's fanart! And please don't forget to claim a day in my Holiday Fic Request meme (because otherwise mackenziesmomma will have claimed them all)!

( Not in Kansas Anymore 1/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 2/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 3/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 4/23 )

( Not in Kansas Anymore 5/23 )

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 )

Title: Not in Kansas Anymore (1/23)
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: Ohmigod Big Bang fic! Inbetween at least two computers dying on me, work, a trip to San Francisco and about a million other times I got this fic for het_bigbang finished! Thanks to everyone who cheered me on, gave constructive criticism and gave me a kick in the ass when I needed it. Special thanks to mackenziesmomma, my beta who betaed this in record speed and ancient_leah and pingulotta who were first readers and cheerleaders and yappichick who did the amazing artwork for this story of which I included the cover in this post. Thank you, everyone!

( Not in Kansas Anymore 1/23 )

After being bullied into signing up by tinyshinysuka suggested to me to sign up for het_bigbang I did exactly that with the following:

A Lorne/Cadman Stargate Atlantis/Star Wars crossover I still owe myfloralbonnet and that I will need a lot of ass-kicking for.

Word requirement is 25k and fic and art due date will be September 25th and OMG THIS IS SO LITTLE TIME FOR SOME MANY WORDS OMG! So, um, guys. Please do give me a good ass kicking once in a while (and if anyone is willing to do art, that would be a double incentive, you know...) so I don't forget about the deadline and do my usual "OMG DEADLINE OMG!" thing three days before fics are due. Help would be very much appreciated (because then mackenziesmomma also wouldn't have to do all the work alone...) so... um... I'm counting on you!

A few days ago, someone (no, you won't get names because I protect my sources) pointed me to a story where I still don't quite know if it's absolutely hilarious or horrific. It's Stargate, and it probably contains the worst Stargate Sue (or maybe even Sues) I ever came across. Okay, usually, I steer clear off Sues in general (with a very special exception... the person in question knows who I mean ;)), so that's probably not saying much but seriously... Worst. Sue. Ever.

However, I felt quite content with simply reading it and oscillating (isn't that a great word?) between laughing my ass off and visibly flinching in horror. But then I came across a detail that played into one of my areas of expertise (well, hobby expertise) and that's everything that has to do with characters with a military background. I tried to tell the perpetrator suethor aspiring author that if she includes characters with a military background she should damn well do her research right but she kept telling me stuff that didn't have anything to do with my observations and dared to tell me I didn't pay attention to her excuses explanations. And yes, I couldn't help getting a little bit acerbic in my last reply (yes, a little... when I flame, it looks totally different, believe me).

Today... I got called on by a mod that "everyone could write as they please and GOD FORBID SOMEONE CRITICISES SOMEONE ELSE INSTEAD OF FALLING ALL OVER THEMSELVES WITH PRAISE (okay, not in that exact wording but you get my meaning, right?). People... what happened to growth as an author? What happened to accepting someone's exhaustive advice and maybe even asking for more information on a matter I obviously am not quite as firm in as I thought (or simply abandoning a part of my characters' background that doesn't interest me instead of stubbornly going on as if I knew everything about it when I clearly don't)? And what happened to first go through your Sue phase and then start publishing?

Anyway, with that in mind... let's see what I can think up to the next "30 Days of Writing" question.

The first three were:

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)?

And here we go with the new question:

4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!

( "A Mary Sue (sometimes just Sue), in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as a wish-fulfillment fantasy for the author or reader." )

until I started my first "30 Days of.." meme, I mean. I really tried to keep away from them, you know, but... oh well. Today I found a "30 Days of Writing" meme in Corinne Duyvis' blog (who said she snagged it from Mercedes M. Yardley) and decided that this was one I could actually do because it allows me to ramble talk about one of my favorite topics of all times: writing. So... here we go:

30 Days of Writing Questions

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.

( "I don't have favorite writing projects. Parents don't have favorite children either, do they?" )