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A bunch of things going on otherwheres that I've been meaning to mention here and haven't:

sophinisba did a podfic of that fic what I wrote where Spike and Dru make George Bailey into a vampire and they all live happily ever after. My first time being podficced, and it was awesome! I love the way she even managed to make the bits of wording that I cringe at every time I read it sound amazing.

*snuggles it*

(Although it is weird to be listening to that fic now, it is such a Christmas fic for me. Not because It's a Wonderful Life, but because when/where/why I wrote it. And because of the Christmassy themes of bleakness and loneliness and despair, and rebirth into death, and taking joy in the nasty and horrible, and what family is and isn't. Oh and birthday presents.)

I posted something over at starry_sea, my poor lonely Star Trek paracanon community.

Specifically I posted the FST to Diane Duane's novel The Wounded Sky, which I've only been messing with for about a year, and which is possibly the dorkiest fanmix I have ever thrown together. (It has a track which encodes the protein structure of spider dragline silk. Yes, that dorky. And two tracks featuring the musical styling of Stephen Hawking.)

So here it is for you guys to find too: Anentropia.

(And I know I said something about doing longer commentary for it, but that turned in to a general 'how Melannen does fanmixes' post with special notes on those tracks, so it might be awhile.)

I posted a tour of wild edibles in my yard + a plea for help with shade gardening in common_nature (which yay for my little community which stays not-lonely even when I leave it alone for awhile! And is full of helpful people!)

I posted 101 Asexy Sex Scenes to asexual_fandom, which is just a list of 101 prompts for sex scenes involving asexual characters, and it seems to have been a hit.

But I also made up a non-existent fandom to use in the prompts (involving asexual Ash and Alex, bisexual Bailey, pansexual Pat, etc.) and they seem to have been even more of a hit. ysabetwordsmith has written an entire TV show, Schroedinger's Heroes about them, OMG.

I have to say, it is so very weird to have someone take a story premise you came up with and go in entirely different directions with it than you would - weirder than I expected, maybe even weirder when it's as barebones as Alex and Bailey's story intentionally was, because there's nowhere to point and say, 'actually, this'. I have mostly been staying out of the way on that because I don't want to step on toes, and also, risk of dripping the weirdness feelings where they don't belong.

But also, awesome! OMG I can't believe she actually wrote fanfic of my nonexistent fandom! \o/

(I am also finding it unexpectedly difficult to take seeing people assign those characters genders and gendered pronouns. There was a story I started writing back in high school where the protagonists refused to identify with a gender (okay, two stories, but Spec eventually admitted to being what I would call trans, although he still gets squirrelly about pronouns sometimes), and I guess playing with Jamie, who won't even let me use a gender-neutral pronoun because of considering that lazy language when Jamie does just fine without any at all (even when insisting on being written in third person), has convinced me that agendered is agendered dammit even when I didn't actually mean to be writing agendered characters.

...someday I will actually post that epic post that is hiding on my hard drive about me and my genderqueer&trans original characters, but that will not be today.)

Also asexual_fandom ran another asexy prompt meme!

I have two fills up there so far:

Untitled Charlie and Roxy fic, an HP story about mentorship and family and legacy and expectations when you're asexual, which came out kind of unexpectedly personal (because my mom's family is much like the Weasleys, only larger and stranger.) I kind of want to write a bunch of sequels to this now, about Uncle Bilius and Uncle Charlie and (eventually) Aunt Roxy. And dragons.

and Love Letter for the Truthy, which is very silly blackboard!diagram for a prompt about character!Stephen and Glenn Beck!Jon (oh Beck!Jon, why do I find you so wildly attractive?)

There's a bunch of other great fic on there! And unfilled prompts! (Including some I still half-want to fill: there's the ace!Gregor one, dammit, and I suddenly got bunnied to write the first prompt on there as "Four and Romana visit Torchwood Three". Feel free to borrow that idea, anybody!)

Also, it is the six-month-ish anniversary of the Ace Manifestos Project! Come celebrate and help us come up with more ideas for characters! (And also claim somebody - you know you want to.)

And finally, kink_bingo round three is ending; long live round four! I didn't ever actually make an amnesty post to the comm, even though I did get one fic finished during the original period, because I lived in hope of finishing something else (I did write a lot of kinky fic, but most of my energy went into prompt memes over this last year, and k_b doesn't allow stories written for other prompts, so...)

I did do a prize though, and apparently that's enough to qualify for the next round! I don't know what k_b's policy is for linking to prizes before the official prize post is up, but if you would like to see more Captain Rachel Maddow of the U.S.S. Bill of Rights (back when she was just a lowly Ops officer on the S.S. Susanoo-no-mikoto) you could look on my AO3 account.... ;)

Now I have to decide if I'm signing up for the next round...

(There will probably be a large-ish AO3 update coming once 3W4DW is over, by the way, featuring the fic linked here + a bunch of anon meme stuff back to my first story on the lolitics meme a year ago today, btw. Need to decide if I'm going to backdate it all first...)

also it is my birthday and as we speak Mom is decorating a cake for me. With feathered dinosaurs on it, so I am told! I decorated one for the vaguely-birthday-ish friends gathering on Saturday that said "Ars longa, vita brevis" on it with human skeletons, because we are old and will die soon, and also if you've carefully trained your friends to expect that kind of stuff from you, you might as well take advantage.

ETA: Also, almost a year late to be relevant: I can totally remove the orangey bit intact from the middle of a Jaffa Cake. It's way easier than peeling the cream filling out of an Oreo. You British people must be spoilt.

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Happy Birthday, person on my reading list who shares my birthday! Thank you for the reminder that I really need to get hold of The Wounded Sky. I hope you enjoyed your dinosaur cake!

Happy birthday!

NONE OF YOUR PICTURES ARE FUNCTIONING ]-:

That's because your stupid webspace seems to have rewound itself to February! They were working yesterday, what did you do? D:<

Happy birthday! I am skipping Kink Bingo this time in hopes of catching up on the nine million things I want to write instead.

ugh, I didn't do ANYTHING! Am I going to have to drop this host??

Oh no, the mix isn't there either!

k I submitted a trouble ticket and told them to cc you on any updates.

ARGHHHHH

Stuff uploaded before Feb 2 is fine; post - Feb 23 and later is all gone. Did you lose anything?

I am debating one way or another - some of the nine million things I want to write instead are stuff I wanted to do for last year's kink bingo, so perhaps it would actually help...

Thank you!

Everyone should read The Wounded Sky! :D

NOt this time, I think. I have kind of been ignoring my website this semester ... when it happened in august I lost a HUGE fandom update though.

WHY HELLO THERE SARA

Yeah so I think his question means he wants to know which backup to restore to. If they have backups from the morning of the 16th, or possibly sometime over the weekend, would that bring everything (or almost everything) back?

.. we should prob start doing regular backups ourselves. cpanel has an option for that but I don't think you can automate it, alas.

Oh, yeah. I think the last thing I uploaded was early morning of the 15th, so any time after that would be fine (really anything from the past few weeks would be fine, I just am not going to be able to remember everything I put up there in the past three months.).

...you can take over communicating then, clearly you are more awake than I.

ahahaha I am so not, I am basically asleep right now (and also always, stupid real jobs), I have just probably dealt with network backups more often.

if he has another question and I don't answer quick, please go for it!

Yay they fixed it! It was a DNS issue, everything should be fixed now.

Hooray!

I suspect I'd actually write more kink if I picked your asexy sex scenes and went from there, lol.

>>I posted 101 Asexy Sex Scenes to asexual_fandom, which is just a list of 101 prompts for sex scenes involving asexual characters, and it seems to have been a hit.<<

It really is a cool prompt list.

>>But I also made up a non-existent fandom to use in the prompts (involving asexual Ash and Alex, bisexual Bailey, pansexual Pat, etc.) and they seem to have been even more of a hit. ysabetwordsmith has written an entire TV show, Schroedinger's Heroes about them, OMG.<<

I couldn't resist. Several folks seem to be getting attached to that. I've been asked about crossovers, most recently. It's an unexpectedly tight match for Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series.

>>I have to say, it is so very weird to have someone take a story premise you came up with and go in entirely different directions with it than you would - weirder than I expected, maybe even weirder when it's as barebones as Alex and Bailey's story intentionally was, because there's nowhere to point and say, 'actually, this'.<<

I figured that I would just start at GO, pick a direction, and take a walk. Other folks may come up with totally different ideas and that's fine.

>> I have mostly been staying out of the way on that because I don't want to step on toes, and also, risk of dripping the weirdness feelings where they don't belong.<<

I won't push, then. I am glad that you noticed though. I really appreciate the initial inspiration you provided.

>> But also, awesome! OMG I can't believe she actually wrote fanfic of my nonexistent fandom! \o/ <<

It wants to exist. Also, I want for television like this to exist. I want to have a cast with all different orientations and backgrounds and smart people doing exciting things. I want it to be okay to introduce sex into a show, without the show being about sex. Well, nobody is putting that on the air, so, I'll just amuse myself at the keys.

>> (I am also finding it unexpectedly difficult to take seeing people assign those characters genders and gendered pronouns.<<

Yeah, sorry about that. I like the nongendered aspect of the original prompts. I couldn't figure out a way to maintain that through the size of material I wanted to create, for human characters of (vaguely) ordinary backgrounds. So I compromised by randomly generating genders and then working with different versions of some characters.

>> There was a story I started writing back in high school where the protagonists refused to identify with a gender <<

I've had it happen to me repeatedly that a character won't specify their sex/gender. Sometimes it even happens that I haven't tagged a character's sex/gender and I don't even notice.

>> has convinced me that agendered is agendered dammit even when I didn't actually mean to be writing agendered characters.<<

Just recently I found someone mentioning that they don't strongly identify with any gender. That was new and interesting. I guess it makes sense. So I'm starting to keep an eye out for it.

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