Interstices & Liminal Spaces

Dear writer,
I get a gift for the holidays -- thank you! The thought alone is already an improvement over last year, okay?

Yes, I have a sign-up at the community. What I don't know is if you're the type of person who wants lots of prompts and ideas, or if you'd rather go, 'Huh, she asked for these characters and maybe those crossovers? That gives me ideas!' I am just fine with either. If you had fun writing it, then I'm going to have fun reading it.

So. People I'd love to see a story about, and ideas for types of stories I like are listed below the cut. I like gen, queerplatonic, or slash. I am totally good with gen if you don't want to write slash, and I'm fine with fade to black if smut is not your cuppa. I really don't want the listed DNWs -- I'll put them under a tag first,so you can just run with your own ideas if you want. But other than those DNWs, I'm just looking forward to a present.

Dislikes/DNW

Major character permanent death, non-con, incest, child abuse, kid/baby fic, mpreg, a ton of angst, grimdark in general, omega verse, extreme kink.

Preferred characters

Connor, Rebecca, Darius, Matthew, Sean, Methos, Cory, Amanda, Rachel Ellenstein, Kastagir, Haresh & Carter, Joe are all good. Also Gregor, oh gods, I forgot Carl! Terrence. Um, honestly, I like a lot of them.

Favorite tropes and themes

2. PREFERENCES: found family, fix it fic, heists and capers, slice of life. What are the other characters up to while Duncan's off heroing? Teasing, banter, humor, alternate POVs, loyalty, love, competence. AUs from crossovers or one changed event.

Would I be all right with a crossover? The answer is yes. Oh, yes.

Honestly, if you see something in my tags list, AO3 or DW, that looks like fun to write, I'll probably have fun reading it. Fandoms I love include: Leverage, Forever Knight, due South, X-Files, Numb3rs, Victor/Victoria, Nero Wolfe, MASH, MCU, Batman, Longmire (the books, not the show), Hopscotch, Buffy, Forever, etc.

I hope this helps. If you need to ask me anything, Lferion's going to have an ask post, or leave an anonymous comment here. I hope this helps!

1) What show or movie original cast would you like to see reunite for an update - where the intervening time has passed and we're getting a view of where they are now along with glimpses on how they got there?

Not my lovely Highlander, sadly. It's supposed to be about immortals, but the actors have aged. I would love to see due South again, find out how Dief's descendants are doing, what Ray and Ray and Fraser are up to, if Elaine is running her own precinct now... And I'd love a proper Leverage sequel. I'm sorry, but I want the Leverage international end of 5th season promised, with teams here and there and Parker the Mastermind. I love Sophie, I appreciate that they're trying to take care of her, but for me, Leverage: Redemption felt like fanfic, and with a lot of fan service at that. I am among the people who would watch a Xena re-airing with Gabi and Xena doing bookend 'current day in the life' content around the old episodes, which wouldn't stress their no-longer-twenty-something bodies.

For movies, I have two big ones: I'd love to see where the characters are now from either Big Trouble in Little China or a sequel to Princess Bride. (Dread Pirate Inigo? WANT.)

2) What show or movie would you like rebooted? Same premise and story-lines, but all new actors, showrunners, writers, technology, and social awareness? ETA: I'm thinking of this in terms of 'what would I want on a public broadcast or basic channel, not Disney+ or Netflix or HBO, type thing.

Okay, this one *is* Highlander, with more history and implications of how lives and mores and customs might interact, as well as the cool sword fights. Also, more non-straight, non-white, etc, etc, etc would be good. The other option would actually be Perry Mason, with more modern cases but the same willingness to help anyone who needs it applied more widely. (Fun trivia, an early Perry Mason ep was one of George Takei's early roles.)

The other questions are here or click the graphic below. Now back to my fic which is due oh holy fuck when? (I thought the 21st. Nope. the 18th.)

hl_chronicles/hl_chronicles is hosting a party celebrating 30 Years of Highlander!  By all means: come, enjoy, create if the spirit moves you, and please, post the word far and wide!

I have a meme running over here.  I've reposted the rules below and I'm taking suggestions for 15* characters in 9 fandoms, everything from serious plot to pure silly crack.  So far I have mindbogglingly strange and 'oh my gods this is fun to write' perfect.  Please feel free to come throw your ideas in:  I'm taking suggestions through whenever I get online tomorrow, which will probably be about noon CDT (Greenwich - 6, I think).  Feel free to go silly, or toss tropes at me.  I had fun writing the 'sharing a bed' one, gods know.  See you guys tomorrow with new short fic!

* I have a list of 15.  But two of the 15 are sets, and I'm using one or both from the sets as I see fit, so it's actually 17.  Oops?

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.  (Be advised:  Because this is me, there are a few OCs in there.)

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"  Silly is perfectly fine.

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

I've made my list, so if you have a moment, now it's time for you all to ask questions!

ETA:  Please be advised:  Characters in icons are not necessarily showing up in this meme!  Sometimes, I just hit 'random icon' and run with it.

ETFA:  And closed!

I feel like I'm surfacing finally -- oops?

I have no idea what to post, either, other than to mention that in about 4 weeks, we hit the 20th anniversary of the due South pilot.  There will be fanworks, there will pic spam and rec sets, people are encouraged to make new art for the event.  It's technically Weds 23rd April, but since that is middle of the week, it's kinda gonna be a week/long weekend of fun instead.  Details are over here.  I'm personally taking fic prompts here if you've got anything.  Failing that... who the hell knows what I'll write?

::contemplates the white screen, winces, and runs away again::

spook_me  is gearing up again, early and for the eighth year.  This year, they're adding a new monster to the list of prompts:  Dragons!  (What?  Look at who I'm married to; do you expect anything but caps and exclamation points there?)  So, I'm already signed up.  I will point out to the rest of y'all that we're at X-Files 20th Anniversary year, that Highlander hits voting age this year, and well, come on, folks, Halloween stories about dragons (Night Vale?), men in black (MCU), shapeshifters (X-Files), dragons (Buffy, Teen Wolf), et al?  You get the idea. 

This year, the prompts are going to be tarot cards.  You only have to use one card (you'll get two) or one monster of your choice (not even necessarily the original choice if you get a better idea) for it to count.

If you do want to sign up, go here.  It's a no pressure challenge:  no minimum or maximum length, almost two months to write, and per the rules of the challenge, if you're not having fun, it's time to stop writing.  Hope to see some of you there in a couple months!

The Methos and Natasha fic is DONE like a DONE THING.  I need to finish the footnotes for it and then scare up some betas (Sam, Ali, Devo, Mischief, any of you up for it?), but oh god, 14K left in, 3.5K started and yanked out, I'm DONE.

I'm going home to kiss my husband and write up notes.  Hardcopy beta tonight, then fic out tomorrow, I think. Oh gods, oh gods, it's DONE.  I only got the prompt 11 months ago...

The fic lists I keep for Matthew (DW LJ), Rebecca (DW LJ), and Sean (DW LJ) have been updated again and once again we have new fic for all three characters, and new authors added for Matthew and Rebecca.

Man, though.  Not nearly enough Sean fics.  Anyone else want to call February minor characters month and we'll write fic with the less-known folks?

Okay. And as long as I'm being productive, time to go redo the short-form hl_chronicles  master list*, then I can cross-post to mailing lists about a whole lot of new HL fic this year.... (hl_chronicles , hlh_shortcuts , and these updated lists). 

Okay, fine, the cross-posting might be tomorrow.  If anyone wants to volunteer for that part, please, feel free.

* Redo because damn it, I did this -- and apparently it didn't save.  The file exists, it just doesn't have the three pages of URL links.  Blast it.

I will *not* sign up for a Case Story Big Bang.  I won't!  Really!  ...help?

Also available at the AO3. ( 'Amanda. Did you actually propose that we not only steal the real Stone of Destiny -- whose location you two 'just happen' to know -- but that we then trade it out for the fake in Edinburgh Castle? Have you forgotten which way thieving works?' )

I'm not quite to the point of running around in circles... but I'm close.  I have a story due Monday, I have four possibilities partially written and not a damn one of them finished, so of course the stories my brain is telling me are not applicable to what I'm supposed to be writing.  I'm running away 'til Monday, folks.  Wish me luck.  I think I need it.

Also available at the AO3.( Losses, old injuries, & grudges. Not even time heals everything. )

Last night, I got to about, oh, 3000 words on a fic.  I woke up this morning going, "Oh, here's what's wrong with it," and started over.  5,200 words later I'm still not done. But, um, it's at least good? Better than the 3K I was beating my head again?  Oh, hell with it.  I like it.  That'll do.

Anyway.  It's also due a week from Monday, so I'm going to sleep so I can write lots of words again tomorrow and hopefully finish it.  Night, all!