Moon-lines and Apple-pathways

Title: "The Woman She'll Turn Out To Be"
Rating: G
Length: ~2,000 words
Characters: Rory, Amy, Melody
Notes: It's kid!fic. So...yeah. :P
Summary: When you know your daughter's going to turn out to be River Song anyway, does it really matter if she cleans her teeth or not?

This was written for spoiler_song's "Guns & Curls" ficathon for winninghearts's prompt: "Amy + Rory + Melody. The older she gets, the more they see the River Song they knew in her."

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This is my entry for the sherlockmas fic exchange, for proxydialogue, who asked for some dark humor and a bit of psychologizing. I hope this fits the bill!

Title: "Experiment and Observation"
Characters: John and Sherlock
Rating: Mature teen?
WARNINGS: drug use
Word Count: 1,800
Acknowledgments: Much thanks to the deliciously thorough evilhippo, whose services as a beta have made this fic infinitely better!

Summary: Sherlock's latest experiment requires John's help. Will he be willing to provide it if it means putting his flatmate's life in danger? (dun Dun DUN! Honestly, I hate writing summaries. Just ignore me now!)

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The battle rages on! I sent evilhippo a special music battle challenge to come up with a list of her top five Christmas/holiday songs; I had no idea it was going to be as hard on her as it was! For an account of just HOW hard, here's the telling of her struggle at her journal. I think you'll be quite surprised as to what she came up with!

As for me, I had trouble with this challenge for the opposite reason: I love Christmas music, and whittling my choices down to five was HARD! Suffice to say, there are many, MANY more favorites left off this list, but what I ended up with is a nice little playlist celebrating both the fun, and the sentiment of the holiday.

( Song selections and music player behind the cut. )

SPECIAL BONUS TRACK!

Everyone should have "Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey" in their lives, if only for the fun of being caught singing the chorus to yourself in public. This version comes to you courtesy of New York's PS22 Chorus, a group first introduced to me by the lovely planejane.

It stars the most adorable donkey named Mohamed you will ever hope to meet!

First, I have to say that there will always be a place in my heart for ff.net, as it's one of the places where I first discovered fan fiction. There's a still a lot of awesome stuff there; it just can be really hard to find. (I tend to find an author I enjoy, then read all of their stuff and everything they've favorited. That tends to work.)

Anyway. I have an account there, and most of my (non-porn) stories end up there. The thing is, I'm used to posting my Amy/Rory Doctor Who fics, which are posted and then largely ignored. {We won't even go into how cranky I get when my stories that include The Doctor get more hits on AO3 than my (better-written, I think) Amy/Rory fics.}

Sherlock is an entirely different animal.

It hadn't occurred to me to put my first Sherlock fic for thegameison_sh up there, but when I was archiving my latest entry today I thought, why not? So I put both "Strange Bedfellows" and "Almost Anyone" (formerly called "Of Death and Dying") up yesterday.

"Almost Anyone" got two very lovely, very thoughtful reviews. I was pleasantly surprised, and responded right away to thank them. All good.

"Strange Bedfellows"? I don't know what is going on there. It's gotten about 10 "story alert" subscriptions, and the following reviews:

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It's voting time again over at the Doctor Who Rory/Amy comm she_is_to_me. This time around, there are seven fics in the running. If you're so inclined, won't you take the time to read these lovely entries and cast your vote? It's a small, newish comm that can always use the extra votes. Please and thank you very much! Oh, and

Happy Halloween!

It has occurred to me that assaulting my flist with gory pictures of me dressed as a zombie is maybe not so nice, soo...

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So, originalfic_las, a Last Author Standing competition for writers of original fiction, has started. The prompt for the first challenge is "change". I was hoping for something a little more detailed, but I can work with this. I'm getting a few ideas rattling around my brain, I'm just waiting for them the gel into something writable.

ETA: I meant to mention that if you wanted to sign up for this challenge, you still have until Wednesday to do so!

I just want to make it through the first few rounds, get some idea of where I stand and what I'm up against, and then who knows? I'll blunt my ambitions until I have a better feel for the competition.

I know a couple folks from my flist (like lovely ladylovelace) are signed up for the competition--holla back if you're one of them so we can commisserate and cheer each other on!

I'm also in the midst of writing something for she_is_to_me's latest challenge. It's an AU challenge, and I'm REALLY excited about my idea, but I still don't know exactly where I'm going with the story. I also have to write my entry for the dark!fic challenge at thegameison_sh. It's amazing how these commitments tend to snowball, isn't it?

And now, in honor of National Coming Out Day (October 11 in the US, 12 October in the UK), here is my coming out story:

( Re-posted in a cleaned-up version from my old Livejournal )

...you don't have a voice!

It's time to vote at she_is_to_me for the winners of Challenge 03. Once again I would like to request, if you liked my entry "I Thought of You", please consider voting for me.

Here's a link to the voting post; there are links to all of the other fantastic entries there. Give them a read and pick your favorites! It's a young comm, and we need voters to participate; pass it on to any Rory/Amy fans on your flist.

Thanks for your time, and HAPPY SATURDAY!!

I just signed up! Can't wait to get started. :)


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Title: "Love and Terror in Leadworth"
Rating: PG
Fandom: Doctor Who, "Nu Who"
Pairing/Characters: Amy/Rory
Word Count: 2,970

Summary: "He finds her terrifying: she’s mad, and impossible, and the worst times he’s ever been in trouble have always been under her direction." So why does he keep on coming back for more?

Notes: Written for the Doctor Who Rory/Amy community she_is_to_me for Challenge 01.

"He finds her terrifying..."