Welcome to my journal!

In all other aspects of life I am messy and disorganised but I am obsessive about filing, tagging and indexing my work, (apparently even when not at work,) so in deference to my anal retentiveness I give you my contents page. 

Currently all my fiction entries (and most but not all of the non-fic posts) are open to everyone, (if I ever write anything that is NC-17 I will friend lock it, just for peace of mind. Some of these have slash/yaoi pairings and some are het, the pairings and ratings are listed as a guide, read what you like ignore what you don't.

The disclaimers and an explanation of my ratings and tags are here

If you are interested in fic recs check out my links on delicious.com here.
 

( Gundam Wing )

 

( hikaru no go )

 

( Crossovers )

 

( Bleach )

 

( highlander )

 

( Magnificent 7 )


( Charmed )


( Prince of Tennis )
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This post started as a post for my own reference to satisfy my anal retentive need to be consistent with my tagging.

Just in case anyone wanted some guidance in navigating my 'system' I decided to leave it open, (but if i post this right it won't appear on your friend pages). Then I got carried away and it can now be considered a list of policies and disclaimers as well as an explanation of tags.

( Disclaimers )



( Ratings and warnings. )

( LJ tags )

( delicious tags )



Hmm not exhaustive (yet) think this shall have to be a WIP too as I add more fandoms or tags.

Sudden onset curiosity had me signing up for Twitter yesterday. At the moment it has the 'shiny and new' factor, and I've found a few people in a mostly haphazard way. I have no idea whether or not I will really use it but the link is here in case anyone wants to follow me.( I don't like that phrase it makes it sound like stalking).

I've been doing lots of writing in the last few days, both for the GW/xmen novella I've been working on and a rather experimental HL fic ( a different one to the one I keep complaining about and really should finish). I have also been attacked by yet more plotbunnies but I am ruthlessly ignoring them, I just need to make a quick list first.... that way lies madness and procrastination.

It's my nephew's 1st birthday today so I'm going over there later. I like being an Aunty I get to buy fun kids toys and take photos. And give the kids back when they start to cry.

I've just watched Torchwood children of Earth... all of it. I like my TV as marathon runs.

I just have to say... actually I'm not sure what to say really except why do that to us? I wanted to give Jack a big hug and maybe hit him a few times as well.

I have been writing though, been working on my prequel to zero X (I really should figure out a name, writing that fic with the things is pretty cumbersome)  this fic I've started in the middle for, it just seemed to be the scene my muse wanted to play with today. Am really enjoying the new small GW novella writing comm, thank you terravayne 

I feel like I ought to finish off the HL fic I have so very nearly done on my hard drive too, I just can't seem to work out how to round it off for the last couple of paragraphs. I hate feeling rushed at the end, where it just looks like you've run out of things to say. 

I keep accidently hitting my caps lock and having to rewrite things, it's driving me nuts. That what you get for typing lying down with your laptop balanced on your tummy.

I still have DW invite codes if anyone else wants one.....

despite the fact I haven't got rid of any if the last batch dreamwidth has given me yet more invite codes. I now have 5 going spare. If anyone would like one please reply to this comment.

I'm fic writing again (or perhaps more accurately still) and just trying to work out some details.

I know Methos has and Duncan hasn't (ignoring the contradiction that is endgame) but is there any canon references to whether Amanda has ever been married? (Whether for real or as part of a con)

As pinched from lil_1337  to distract me from unpacking, which is about hallf done, she says optimistically.

Meme time! You can go with any body of work you know I'm familiar with, even if it's not an active fandom anymore.

Comment with a character or fandom and I'll give you three facts that are my personal canon, then post this in your journal so I can do the same.

Body of work meaning series, movie, book, manga ect...

Am hijacking someone elses internet, (a guys coming this morning to put ours in, priorities).

I has moved...... Yay..... have to unpack now.... no

*Dies of heat exhaustion and dehydration in a puddle of sweat*.

I'm moving in a week, my life is boxes..... and tape, packed up another seven boxes so far today. Urgh I'll be happy when I'm all in and sorted.

It's official I watch too much anime, I was watching Wimbledon today and Federer hit a round the pole shot (I don't think I've ever  seen one in the real world before) and all I wanted to do was shout 'Boomerang Snake' at the TV. It's not like the shot really resembled the boomerang snake anyway, I'm just an obsessed fangirl.

My latest highlander fic is soo nearly done (of course it has been nearly done for a good week) it's just missing something, I feel like it needs another paragraph (or even two) just to make it work but I've run out of ideas ... Then this completely different fic bunny decided to come join the party so I may end up writing that first (which is very stupid of me).

Must write Zero X even if it is basically a long technobabble chapter. I can do technobabble especially as it's biochemical technobabble (that's my job after all). Wow though when you get Heero and Henry McCoy in the same room talking about science they won't shut up ^_^.

Hey everyone, as I am about to move house again I'm trying to get rid of some of my duplicate or unwanted stuff on ebay. I bought a copy of Angel Sanctuary online awhile ago unfortunately when I opened it, it was in a different language. I think it's Spanish but it could just as easily be Italian or other similar language (I only learnt German and French at school, so not very helpful here). Could someone tell me if they recognise this language so I can work out how to list it. Even telling me what it isn't would help narrow it down.

( cut for words that could mean pretty much anything. )
 
If you need more written out to be sure just tell me. I don't need a translation or anything just someone with enough knowledge to recognise which language it is.

Thank you all.

I'm watching the tennis on the BBC from Queen's Club, some lovely tennis from Murray and Fish in the last match. I'm now watching a battle of the serves, Roddick and Karlovic it's a list of aces, yay they actually had a rally ^_^. Wimbledon starting soon....

Watching tennis is great for doing other things, like packing or writing. Watch a point, write a bit, look up to catch another interesting point and then go back to writing. I'm half way through my zero X chapter ^_^, I'll be working on highlander fics once the active round of ficfinishing starts later. Lots to come in the next few days I think.

Shockingly I have another gundam wing ficlet for you all, written for the gw500  women of summer prompt Relena. I'm a couple of weeks early really, but it so epitomises summer for me and it seems very like Relena.

Title: Strawberries and Champagne
Characters: Gen- Relena, Heero, Duo
Warnings:Short and totally plotless. This fic is unbeta'd.
Rating: G
A/N: For the gw500 'women of summer' prompt 270 - Relena. I've never actually  written a Relena fic before you can probably tell ^_^.

( Strawberries and Champagne )


Right back to the fics I'm supposed to be writing.

As stolen from ithildyn  because it made me smile: My journal in LOL cat ^_^.

Well it has been 3 months since I last posted a gundam wing fic but here, finally is an update for one of my WIPs.
Title: Learning to communicate part 4
Pairing: 1x2 with a side of 3x4 and 5xS
Warnings: Yaoi pairings, and the occasional shameless descent into cliche. This fic is unbeta'd.
Rating: R perhaps (this section's PG)
A/N: Duo and Heero's POV, set after EW. The new administration has found a nice peaceful occupation for the pilots. Previous parts are available here: part 1, part 2, part 3 I'm going to try and get the next chapter of this one out in a couple of weeks, this was only supposed to be about 3 parts long. It keeps growing.




( Part 4/? )

That's all folks, for now. I'm working on another Zero X chapter, a Charmed/SPN crossover and a highlander fic this coming week. So maybe another fic update next week (not sure which one yet).

Yay I have finished the first draft of the next chapter of learning to communicate, shall edit it and post it tomorrow, then get working on Zero X, whilst my gundam wing muse is playing ball.

I owe it all to a wondeful little internet based program : write or die. Depending on the settings you use it prompts you, plays annoying music or deletes your writing when you stop writing for a period of time. It lends itself to quantity rather than quality of writing, but it helps me get stuff down and then with a bit of polishing it ends up reading as well as anything else I've written.

I still have the Charmed/SPN fic of doom to finish and I am working on two different highlander stories (one of them wants me to wirte two different versions too) and then there are highlander/DrWho and Mag7/DrWho plot bunnies that won't leave me alone. This is particularly bad because I am fairly sure I would have to rewatch several series of Dr Who before I could even start to get the voices right and I'm already doing that for supernatural ^_^. It's a hard life.

Ha, I actually managed to do 527 words of chapter 4 of learning to communicate today. My GW muses have been on strike for ages, but they appear to be back at work. 'please don't go away little muses I have to finish this chapter and then I want to write the next chapter of zero X. I can feed you Ben and Jerry's icecream'. the spell check is insisting ice cream is two words, have I been spelling it wrong all this time?

It is amazing what having something more annoying- like packing- does for my motivation.

OK what is it with me today? This is the third post I've made today (including comms), sorry everyone. I usually average about 3 a month :-).

Now a serious question :-) Should I post  half my charmed/spn fic as another WIP once I've polished a bit or hold onto it until I have finished the whole thing? These life and death dilemmas are very trying.

OK am going to go away and stop filling up space until I have something worth reading to say.

Yikes I'm going to be busy this month. I'm moving, again. Which I hate, I'm starting on the packing in the hope it won't be too rushed at the end. I really hate doing all the paperwork and cleaning and trying to get the bills sorted. It will be nice to be in a nice new house, I think I'll miss this one though. I'm still trying to find the third person for our house too, *stress*.

In LJ land I'm doing the highlander crack_van and signed up for another round with ficfinishing to finish off some of my highlander fics (anyone wiith unfinished fanfics should pop over and see if any of their fandoms are part of it. I got soo much done last month). Then I want to do the fixchange challenge too. Busy busy busy. No one come up with any fun ideas or absorbing fics until next month ^_^.

I should have a fic update ready this week, I hope.

I'm doing the highlander </a></b></a>crack_van  recs for this month, it seemed an excellent excuse to run around reading fics again. I've never done it before so it should be fun... wonder if I'm supposed to ask authors before reccing or just get on with it.

Spent this afternoon at a sort of question and answers session with Phillip Pullman which was interesting. Apparently he writes without plans and only vague ideas about what's going to happen beyond the scene he's actually writing, that's how I write too, with slightly different quality of results :-).

I've been having fun this month, I joined </a></b></a>ficfinishing  to help me write a charmed/SPN crossover I've been playing with for ages. Not that I actually finished it, yet, because I'm crap but I got loads done.

Even better they've added highlander to their list of fandoms this month (if anyone has any projects they're working on and want help or want to read other peoples fics you might want to go have a look). I've got a couple of highlander fics I keep adding too but haven't really progressed much that I think I'm going to use as a goal, for June.

In other news... my GW fics umm yes I haven't forgotten them I just haven't done anything about them for awhile will get another chapter out ... soon (really). Wow I'm going to busy on LJ this month

Hi everyone,

Awhile ago I posted asking whether people would be interested in a new comm to 'swap' unfinished fics. auberus  has set up the new comm: fixchange, enjoy. The welcome post with the rules is here
You have until June 10th to register a fic.

Hi everyone,

auberus  had an idea for a fic challenge which I said I would help with :-).

The idea is to dig out any abandoned stories sitting on your hard drive, whether they are currently 500 words or 50000. Stories that you like but just haven't been able to complete.

Then they can get picked up by someone else who will finish them off, as close to the original style as they can manage but choosing their own direction and plot. You can supply a synopsis of what you originally planned if you like, but whether to adopt that would be up to the new author.

The idea is to make it a multifandom, crossover free for all. If we get enough positive interest we'll go ahead and make a comm so let us know if you are interested whether it be in donating your unfinished fic, picking up someone elses or even better both.

Also if you can pass on the word to your flists too that would be great. Reply here or at the original post here.