Fire in the Hole

(isn't that a great word? I just found it on www.leo.org. Salmagundi. It is a word of the English language, I shit you not.)

So. I just noted down every birthday fic wish in Evernote and Google Calendar so that I can actually remember whose birthday is when and who needs to be reminded to clarify their wish a little *hugs virtual rememberalls In case anyone who'd really like fic for their birthday hasn't seen it yet, go here please. Comments are screened so don't be surprised if I don't answer. Rest assured I note everything down.

Also, for everyone who'd rather have my works in e-book file format, I started posting at AO3. I'll try to find a balance between posting new stuff and catching up with ff net and LJ in regard to old works. And yes, I know I said it before but I will get back to posting new chapters of Raising the Stakes, Odd Man Out, Big Girl and Not in Kansas Anymore.

I also finished pingulotta's prompt for the Holiday Fic Request Meme 2011 and will hopefully get around sending it to mackenziesmomma for beta and post it. I'm just not very happy with it and I'm too chicken to go back and edit it currently :S I'm probably halfway finished with mackenziesmomma's last prompt as well but honestly? Charlie and Anna apparently don't like me writing smut about them. Who would have thought. Anyway, after that it's two prompts left and I hope that my manager will clear the suckage HR sicced on me so I can get to writing those during my leave at the beginning of February at the latest. Fear not, I still have you on my mind, hanseatic_keks and apinkpanthress.

PS.: Did you know Amazon.de asks you to receive a package with NC-17 content personally, including ID and all that? I didn't, which is why I'll have to time ordering Generation Kill on DVD very carefully now *head desks

ETA: Apparently, ordering Generation Kill (which is actually not NC-17 rated but M... WTH?) from amazon.co.uk helps to circumvent this entire personally receiving fuck-up shit amazon.de makes people who order UK imports go through (also, it's 13€ less than when ordering it on amazon.de. Including shipping fees. What the flying fuck?). Which is to say, I'll hopefully get my DVDs tomorrow! \o/ Also, hanseatic_keks mentioned play.com as another possible source for UK import DVDs because apaarently, they don't add shipping fees, not even when sending to Germany. Will definitely check it out next time I'm ordering from the UK. Thanks for the hint!

So. Since the last one went a little... suboptimal (let's not talk of the still missing fics), I thought I'd start a little earlier this year. This will remain fixed here until November 30 (or until it's full) and until that you have a chance to post your prompts. This time around, let me say a couple things. Or just one. Anyway. Let's talk about crack. I don't do it. Or I do but I'm really not good at it. And I don't like to write it. Everything else is fair game. Uh. Until I say otherwise, yeah.

Also, to give you some inspiration, have a look at this:

( Holiday Fic Request Meme 2011 )

before you get to this:

( Holiday Fic Request Meme 2012 )

Title: Crazy Hazy Hue
Fandom: Stargate
Rating: T (language warning, guys. No, seriously.)
Genres: het
Recipient: sgteam14283
Prompt: Stargate, Joe Simmons/Kassandra Wilson, best/worst day of their lives
Summary: His mother will kill him. She’ll tell him that’s not how she raised him and then she’ll kill him.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. Alright, alright. I'm working on it. Really. I told my Google calendar to remind me next Friday that I wanted to have all stories done by that time. Let's see if I can hold myself to that. And look, Holiday Fic Request Meme 2012!

( Crazy Hazy Hue )

Okay, today? No fic. At least not until I got it done. This is kinda like a placeholder and will be replaced with a story once the story for today was written (and, in the best of cases, betaed). I'll give you a note when I posted it, sgteam14283. I hope this is the only story I don't finish on time and that I get back into the groove but I honestly can't make any promises. Also, next year... I most certainly will not post it only two and half months before Christmas. In fact, I will post the meme for 2012 on Jan 1 2012 and try to write the stories over the course of the year. Yes.

PS.: This is the last time ever I'll work between Christmas and New Year's Eve, if it's not absolutely necessary (meaning, should I be so lucky as to wear a uniform again and serve as a soldier, firefighter, cop or medic (which I don't believe but let's never say never), working between Christmas and New Year's Eve would at least make sense... even working on Christmas and New Year's Eve would make sense in that case), I swear.

Title: Take me Away to the Moonlight
Fandom: Stargate
Rating: K+
Genres: gen, het
Recipient: sgteam14283
Prompt: Stargate, Evan Lorne/Laura Cadman and Kassandra Wilson/Joe Simmons, Are you serious? I'm your knight in shining armor!
Summary: Evan Lorne, Kassandra Wilson and Joe Simmons were saved by the bell. So to speak.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. Oh God, I'm so going to kill whoever fucked up the LJ editor. I don't want my Word font to be transferred into HTML-tags, thank you very much. Because you know what that means? It means I have to use copy/paste about a hundred times to purge the text from the tags I don't want and then I have to go through the entire text to purge it from all the paragraph crap. Five Times Christmas Wasn't Business as Usual has eleven pages in Word. Do you, dear someone who fucked up the LJ editor have any idea HOW FUCKING LONG IT TAKES TO EDIT IT NOW? Oh God.

Okay, uh, rant over. People actually looking up the journal instead of seeing my posts on their flist might get a bit confused because, you know, it's not the 25th right now but I'll be away until the 26th, so I decied to post those fics in advance. Just a little heads up.

( Take me Away to the Moonlight )

Title: String the Harp and Join the Chorus
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: K+
Genres: gen
Recipient: rareb
Prompt: Harry Potter, Lavinia McNeil, Try me.
Summary: It's Christmas. And Christmas means going to O'Leary house. Orion Yaxley won't know what hits him.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. For everyone who has no idea what this is about: it's a little addendum to rareb's and my opus magnum Haven't Thought of You Lately (not finished yet but far along enough that this will make sense if you read it). Lavinia's a halfblood and former Hufflepuff (written by yours truly), Orion's a pureblood and former Slytherin (written by rareb). It's their first Christmas as a couple. At the house of Lavinia's family on her mother's side, the O'Learys (the wizard side). It's going to be a lot of fun for Orion!

( String the Harp and Join the Chorus )

Title: Close Encounters of Another Kind
Fandom: Warehouse 13/Leverage
Rating: K+
Genres: gen
Recipient: rodlox
Prompt: Leverage/Warehouse 13, Parker and H.G. Wells, Parker and H.G. watching Stargate Universe
Summary: Television is something that keeps fascinating Helena.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. That was fun to write! No, seriously, once I had the idea for the actual setting, it was fun but honestly? I was very tempted to make it Wormhole Extreme: Universe... What? I told you my mind is hardwired to Stargate. And I'm not ashamed of it! Anyway. Hope you have as much fun with it as I had :D

( Close Encounters of Another Kind )

Title: If it Wasn’t for Your Misfortunes
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: K+
Genres: gen
Recipient: rareb
Prompt: Harry Potter, OC, Orgy - Blue Monday
Summary: She's a Ravenclaw. This war thing... that's just not in her focus right now.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. rareb asked for a Harry Potter OC that wasn't either of the OCs we wrote before in Haven't Thought of You Lately and since I realized that we never really wrote a Ravenclaw, it was clear where the OC was in. It's been a while since I wrote anything Harry Potter, so I felt a little rusty. What do you think?

( If it Wasn't for Your Misfortunes )

Title: Sometime Yesterday
Fandom: Stargate/Leverage
Rating: K+
Genres: het, apocafic (kinda)
Recipient: failegaidin
Prompt: Stargate, Laura Cadman/Evan Lorne, I'd rather kiss you than yell at you.
Summary: Evan Lorne followed a call from Eliot Spencer. He's not sure if it was such a good idea, after all.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. I admit, not much Leverage in this (and probably the reason why I'll let myself be convinced to write at least another story for this, after all...) but Eliot does play his part and I needed a little closure, at least. We'll see about the rest. Deal?

( For a Better World to Live in )

( With the Left Over You )

( Sometime Yesterday )

Title: Someone Way Down Here
Fandom: Warehouse 13/Stargate
Rating: K+
Genres: gen
Recipient: rodlox
Prompt: Warehouse 13, the Bering family, a million thank-yous and bonus points if you can tie in Vitus Bering
Summary: You're back in Colorado Springs. Just for a few days, you keep telling yourself.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. It's been ages since I wrote Warehouse 13 fic for the last time and this is only my second fic in the fandom. I couldn't fully answer rodlox's prompt (I'm sorry!) because I still haven't caught up with everything after Love Sick but something else happened during the writing of this story. I guess it was inevitable, given the fact that Myka is from Colorado Springs and my mind is hardwired to Stargate. So, uh... this kind of turned into a crossover but not really and uh... see for yourself?

( Someone Way Down Here )