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15 November 2027 @ 07:00 pm
ECverse ) 
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 Behind the above cut is a chronology of all the stories relating to the universe of the fanfic "Elijah's Cup", for expediency called the ECverse. The best way to sort out all the stuff in this journal relating to that universe (progress reports, ramblings, fic!bits, and resource posts/character outlines) is to click the tag 'ecverse' at the bottom of this entry.    :-) 

 
 
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This is a universe - in need of a name - which is composed of the slight intersection of mostly separate fandoms. It began with Van Helsing, which I then stretched to include characters from Brian Jacques' book Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, and also the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, followed by the TV shows Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Supernatural. So, they are all kind of related in that my portrayal of certain characters remains true to my "canon" despite the new fandoms they are plunked down in. The Supernatural / Stargate: SG-1 crossover fics are less connected to the rest of the fandom, as indicated below by the fact that they are somewhat disjoined from the rest of the timeline.

 

Master Fic List of SG1, Supernatural, VH, Indiana Jones, & Castaways 'verse )
 
 
 
lembas7
03 July 2009 @ 11:19 am

Hey everyone!

So this is not fanfic-related, but I'm desperate. I need to somehow find 6,000 dollars for grad school for the upcoming year, plus room and board expenses. So I've entered a contest that, should I win, will get me 1,000 dollars! :) But the glitch is, I need your vote.

It's really simple; please just click the below link, which will take you to my profile on this website. There, you can see the photograph I took and decided to enter into the contest - and all you have to do is click the "view-and-vote" button on the right! :)

http://www.brickfish.com/mlb89

It's actually a picture I thought was pretty cool too, so it's not ugly to look at or anything. :)

Please, please please view and vote? (And if you feel like it, I have no objection to you spamming everyone you know to do so too . . . hehe!)

And now that my scholarship-entry-for-the-day has been completed, I'm off to write!

As of 7/5/09: Wow, some jerk totally trashed my picture (anonymously, the spineless coward), said I photoshopped it and it wasn't a reflection. I completely slapped their bitch-ass down, too. Outside of rotating the picture so that the trees are at the bottom, there is no photoshopping because my photoshopper is broked. (I really, really hope this @$$hole comes back and demands verification. I have a gazillion other pictures waiting to show his/her moronic butt.) As is said among my people, "Bite me." 
 
 
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Hello! Randomness, ahoy!

So I was watching Tin Man, which apparently is one of those love it/ really, really hate it type movies (hey, three plus hours of viewing for $15? I'm so there), which really captured me with its steampunk element. Not so much with the lead female actress, Zooey Deschanel, who for the first five viewings or so kept distracting me with her expressionless face and flat delivery. I've gotten past that now, but it took time. Also, as a Sci-Fi Channel Orginial, the effects are always a little . . . well, sometimes they forget to make some of the CGI people move, if you get my meaning.

The character who really, really got me going "I wonder what happens next?" and thinking "Oh, wow, wouldn't it be cool if . . . " was the 'villain', Azkadellia. I think I found a female character I can fall in love with and write about. Rare for me, but seriously - it's got the reel-you-in elements of angst and tragedy, but the hints of her past and who she might be in the future - in the unwritten sequel and mostly-untold backstories of Tin Man had me searching for good fanfic. I found one. And the author is unfortunately someone like me, who parcels out big clumps of fic every coupla months or so. I am saddened.

Basically, this story has steampunk (magic + tech, yay!), angst, mystery, tragedy, deciet, betrayal, prophecies, a wicked witch, and a happy ending - plus all the little winks in there to the original Wizard of Oz just make me grin. I love it.

And so between ten pm and hey, it's almost one am! I cranked this thing out.

The title is a quote from the movie itself - the Mystic Man (Wizard of Oz) is attempting to resist the mind-probe of the Witch's mind-reading lion-like creatures, and he spins out this fantastic bit of philosophy which is just twisty and brilliant and unfortunately, almost impossible to remember enough for me to quote back at you, which was my original intent. Uh.

After much blabbing, here: A Flicker of Light in the Storm


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lembas7
24 June 2009 @ 03:48 pm

While going through the files backed up on my external harddrive, I realized that this baby was 500 words from first chapter completion. (Also, I was dreaming about my S1 love and this fic last night. Yes, I'm weird. Yes, I like it. Yes, the above line is my official story, and I'm sticking to it.)  The idea was birthed a long time ago, I know exactly where it's going, the only surprise is who the characters really turn out to be.

What is this, you ask? This is Season 1 casefic, just after "Something Wicked" - everyone remembers the Striga, right? Right! So, just after Fitchburg the boys head south to Arizona and, well, this is what they find. Also, Monster of the Week, brotherly interaction, and yes. Sam's college buddies - including the black guy from the pilot that has never shown up in fic anywhere that I can find. I gave him a name and a major and a propensity for hanging like grim death onto his money, unless there's booze involved. :) You want to know more, I'm going to make you read the fic.

In other news, this is just a little bit of me having fun and trying to remind myself (after stopping watching S4 halfway through, just from the threat of maybe possibly having to see more of Geneiveve Whatsername ever again) that I do love Supernatural, and it doesn't get much better than Season 1. Though I've been horrified enough by the Bubblegum Princess (also known as brunette!Ruby) to even view S2 and bits of S3 with fond nostalgia. Anyway, enough ranting, on to the fic!

Like the Rifle


 

 
 
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lembas7
22 June 2009 @ 06:42 pm
So, I have been getting email and reviews lately. :)

They have inspired me a bit, so I've bit the bullet and gone back to the ECverse. What was stumping me in BWT has been taken care of, moving forward in the next bit of Draco's POV. The next chapter is one-fourth of the way done. I'm . . . not entirely sure who comes next, I was thinking maybe Hermione, but I'm open to suggestions.

Sticks And Stones: Gave up resisting the initial pull; the bartender is a crotchety Scot named Mac. Stereotypical. Sorry. Today he decided to tell me that he's a widower and a grandfather, and he has a surprise for the readers. And Sirius. The next POV came to me as well, given that it'll be the next day and all. I'm going to have fun meeting this character, that's for sure. Guess this means I should take a stick to the rabid frothing mass that is "To Question Why", and see what happens.

Last night got mostly through the first POV in the next chapter of "A Fire to Warm . . ."; all that needs is for it to be concluded, I think, and I'm probably going to intro the first original character in the POV that follows. Heh. House/Kid standoff, here we go. I have the feeling it's going to be war. :D Ah, but then I have to get myself back to Area 51. Um, so we could meet the girl who's throwing lightning, or one of the researchers trying not to get zapped - actually, I like that idea, but I'll put it to anyone out there who still pokes at this journal. Which one?
 
 
lembas7
21 June 2009 @ 04:53 pm

Hello!!

I bring you Chapter 3 of Echoes of a Song Half-Sung. The delay is due mostly to the death of my computer; I nearly lost the first half of this chapter, and I'm one of those people where, once I write something, it vanishes completely from my brain. I would never have been able to reconstruct it. But it lived, through a little persistence and hard work, and is debuting tonight! The rest of the delay is my utter distaste for the "differential" segments of this fic, which is turning just a bit into a casefic. I just don't have the patience for it, and I'm here disclaiming everything; the medical stuff is complete and utter BS. :)

I'm going to try to map out the beginning of the next chapter for Echoes, but in th emeantime, I've been poking at A Fire to Warm . . . , and I like the beginning of the next chapter a lot, so maybe you'll see more of that before I get back to Echoes (which needs more action, don't you think? That's what I think . . . .). Maybe.

And Happy Father's Day to everyone who has a Father to celebrate! :) 



 
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lembas7
08 June 2009 @ 04:39 pm

I have bad news, and good news.

Bad news? My computer has caught an illness that I am quite certain has landed it on its deathbed. I would much rather take the $200+ dollars it's going to cost me just to figure out and possibly fix what's wrong with it, and put it towards a new machine that, let's face it, I have school in the fall, I need a new computer anyway. There is blue screen of death, and the inability to even run the computer for longer than a minute without shutdown unless it's in safe mode.

Good news? I backed everything up within the last month or so.

Bad news? My Housefics, notes, drafts, etc., didn't make the cut. (neither did my FAFSA or Unemployment psswds, IDs, Confirmation #s, etc.)

Good news? I just spent the last two hours re-typing from the files on my dying comp (in SafeMode) the drafts of those selfsame fics into my email. The next chapter of Echoes and the differential for A Fire to Warm . . .  have been saved!! :D And the chapter of Echoes is half-done! I'm going to see now if I can move everything to - and work from - my external harddrive. I seriously, seriously abhor Vista and the 2007 MWord. I can't find anything I want in that stupid program - not even the "save as"!!

But on the whole? It could be much, much worse. :)
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lembas7
30 May 2009 @ 12:26 am


Hello all!

So, Chapter 2 of Echoes of a Song Half-Sung is complete, and posted! I was going nuts with the case that I finally picked, and it took a flowchart with bullet points to get me to keep it all straight. Seriously, the only way the show's writers get through it week after week without going insane is because there's more than one of them. I'm convinced of it.

In other news, I had really too much fun altogether writing the first segment. I did. And the last segment ended up being far longer than I thought it was going to be (but it was the differential, it's supposed to be the meat of the story, blahblah, it was more complex than I anticipated). Hopefully, however, I've got all the dominoes stacked and waiting to tip in the next chapter. Don't know precisely how I'm going to start that one off yet, but I'm optimistic. Also, every time I end up writing from House or Wilson's POV it ends up being longer than really anyone else's - excluding the differential POV, of course. Though I'm not actually too happy with that; I don't feel like I gave the character's personality really at all, so there may be some later tweaks to it. But for midnight-thirty, it's good enough for me. I really wanted to get this out ASAP, so it's up in the raw. :)

Enjoy!

And yea, I'm revelling in clean sheets tonight!

 

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Okay, everyone, this is the AlienInvasions! Housefic I was working on. I did a word count, realized I'd hit my personal chapter goal, and all I needed to do was tie the clincher line for the last segment into the last segment. So I did.

Thus, I present my crossover of House, M.D. with the 1996 movie Independence Day. A Fire to Warm the World. Now playing on an ffnet webpage near you. Why? Well, Sol said it best - because I wanted "alien-induced superpowers". What? :) You know you want them too. (Also, it has absolutely nothing to do with my other Housefic. No InternationalSpy! Wilson here, sorry. I thought what with the aliens, it might be a bit much.)

Also, yes, the title has significance. No, I'm not going to tell you. Yes, google will give it to you more completely and tell you the provenance (okay, so will my A/N, because plagiarism's bad and so are lawsuits and I definitely cover my butt whenever I go out in public in any form). No, it won't actually make sense until the very end of the story, and that's only if you have the whole quote. No, there wasn't any point to me rambling on about it now. And yes, I'm done.


Also, a note on "Echoes of a Song Half-Sung" for those who care: Someone mentioned to me they wanted to see the House/Cuddy dynamic in "Echoes" - and thus I was inspired and wrote almost 2,000 words of just that starting off the next chapter. Next POV? Ducklings! We have a case! Also, I did some hunting and was frustrated by the fact that almost every weird, rare, and unusual (but also cool, unless of course you have it) disease I clicked on on Wikipedia had already been an episode of House! I kid you not! I hit the dwarfism one, and the whole tumor-on-pituitary one, and I was for awhile really attached to a hair-brained idea I cooked up involving hemophilia, but it sort of required the afflicted individual to be an XXY male, which was the whole "gorgeous female teen supermodel is actually a boy" episode, and so I had to chuck it. I think I've found one now that works, and that I haven't seen before in fic or episode, but given that I haven't seen S5 or really a lot of S3 or S4 more than in passing, I could be wrong. Whatever, I feel like it's a new idea and I'm all excited and thus, not telling anyone anything until I post! Squeeee!!!! 

Alrighty, off to bed!

 
 
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Hello all! I has been writing!

No, this is not the AlienInvasions!Housefic I've been working on. For some reason I don't feel like I'm striking the right tone with the Independence Day (1996) characters - probably because I haven't seen that movie since my family made the admittedly belated but almost incontroversial switch from VHS to DVD, several years back. So while the first chapter of that's at about 5,000 words and all it needs is a connective piece to tie the last section (which somehow split itself in half) together, it might be awhile.

In the meantime, I give you my first House, M.D. fic: Echoes of a Song Half-Sung. It's AU, and I kindof need to disclaim a lot of what happens in the actual chapter because my BS-ometer registered high levels of (I'll be kind) utter fiction here, but if you don't read the chapter first it's a heavy giveaway. So just click that link, read, and then come back. It'll still be here, promise. 
 
More disclaiming and spoilery detail commenting under the cut )

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I've been meaning to do this for awhile. :)

I've been trolling fanfiction for (ohmygod, has it been this long?) more than six years now - it took me awhile to get up the courage to get an account at ffnet, where I started out, and I was reading through the LOTR fandom for months before I contemplated writing and posting myself. So, more than six years. At first, I was reading anything that looked even slightly interesting. Then, I got fed up and started writing my own. Then, my fickle muses abandoned me, and I went back to mostly reading. Then? I developed standards.

So, when perusing ffnet, LJ, or some other site, this is how I decide whether or not I'm going to read a fic.

1. If the author's screenname/handle/sig/whatever has a swear word, especially if it's the F-bomb, I run away. They clearly have the maturity of a kid who's just discovered the pleasure of irritating his/her parents by saying something outrageous in front of people they want to be impressing, and as such in all probability won't be writing anything intellectually stimulating enough to keep my interest for more than a few hundred words. Also, come on, people. Grow up already. Yes, I swear more than I should, but I recognize that it's crass behavior. It's not appealing. Calling yourself f$^*erwriter (this is an entirely made up example, but based in a reality I've seen more than once) is laughable and not going to win much respect. Yes, I am "racial" (is that even possible in the anonymity of online comms? Whatever) profiling. Or some rough approximation thereof.

2. Title look interesting? Okay. BUT IF ITS IN ALL CAPS, the author probably wants to attract attention because for some reason the story's presentation isn't. Because they wrote, "sry suck at summeries haha the story's better i promese" or something along those lines, quite possibly. (Note: Exceptions to this rule are rare, but have presented on occasion.) Also worthy of attention, the complete opposite, where there are no caps at all in the title, is some sort of new artistic license or something - and not what we would naturally assume to be a lack of concern or the proper grasp of English. So total lack of capitals in the title doesn't actually mean anything - it could be either someone who's good enough to feel this artistic license is merited (and they're usually either trying it out and it's merited, or possessed of enough talent to get away with it), or just someone who's really, really clueless (although the clueless people tend to give themselves away by treating the title like a sentence, and capitalizing the first letter only). Could go either way: Use Caution.

3. Summary. Misspellings? Run. The other way, as fast as your cursor takes you. Grammar goofs? Ditto. If it's ffnet, and someone wastes their few characters saying, "sorry I suck at summaries", or begging for feedback, I also sanction running. Asking for feedback or noting that your work is rough in an Author's Note is more than fine - but I feel if you can't write a semi-decent summary, enough of something to hook people in or at least give a clue as to what's going on, it's a reflection of your ability to write a story. I've had trouble writing summaries too on occasion (mostly because I don't know what's going to happen in the story, or I can't quite find a way to sum it up without giving it away), but the "sorry I suck at this" always irritates me just because it's a waste. Put down something! Anything! But not that! 

4. Math (yeah, you thought this was going to be fun? Ha!). These are the mental gymnastics I do before I click the link of something that has so far passed the first tests, and they apply to ffnet only, really. For LJ, I generally like to find something longer because it usually indicates someone's got more story to tell, but short and sweet and well-written are also more common on LJ than in the general mass of ffnet. And LJ fic posting is a bit of a quality filter itself, though that apparently tends to vary by fandom. So, ffnet:
    (a) I look at the length, and the number of chapters. If I can't divide the number of words by the number of chapters and get at least 1,000 words/chapter, then it's likely I won't click it (clearly marked drabbles being the exception). My mental ideal is approx 2,000 words/chapter, which makes it long enough that I feel it's worth investing emotion in their plot. Because the numbers say there's something there. 
    (b) The second piece of math is again, the number of chapters. I compare it to the number of reviews, and if it works out to at least 10 reviews/chapter, I've got a winner. Not only is it lengthy, but enough other people were compelled to say something about it that it's likely there's something there worth my enthusiasm. Anything more than that is golden, anything less can be a diamond in the rough (if the above three rules are held and there's length) or . . . not (if any of the above are violated, I click only if the summary is at least intriguing, and then only with extreme wariness).

5. Stalking. Or, excuse me, Lurking and Favoriting. Adding good authors to my "Favorites" lists, reading everything they've got that appeals (sometimes broadening my horizons by reading stuff in fandoms I haven't a clue about) and seeing what's on their "Favorites" lists is a good quality-control mechanism (or at least a way to possibly find more people who tend to like what I tend to like in a story). But this is more of a general rule than a sorting method. :)


And that's pretty much how I decide whether or not to read a given fanfic. So, how do you decide?

(Also, I was looking at my standards, particularly the math ones, and found it both amusing and ironic that some of the stuff I've written doesn't actually meet my own standards. *snerk*)

 
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lembas7
27 April 2009 @ 06:51 pm
Good news, world; I have been accepted to grad school, and will be abandoning my post on the East Coast and moving halfway across the country. Also, south. I'd be more excited about the whole thing if I didn't really abhor the project I'm working on at work, and if my home life was a little less "turning me into a raving bitch just to keep my sanity". Yeah, student loans! Whopee! (What have I gotten myself into now . . . . *think happy thoughts*)


Um, right. So here's the part where I tell you about my fanfiction writing progress.

I'm stuck. Apparently, my lack of visiting bars makes it slightly more difficult than I had imagined to write one. If anyone has any character descriptions of a barkeep who holds a special place in their heart, and quite possibly a name other than "Mac", and a description of a bar, do tell because I've run dry. No, that's not a pun per se, just me trying to keep in the spirit of - you know what? Nevermind.

Also, I'm kinda ~2,000 words into a House, M.D./ Independence Day crossover, all of which manifested/ was written last night, after I spent bits and tugs of my day wrassling with how to make it fit. That, and a Supernatural/Ten Inch Hero ficcie that actually has too many plot possibilities and needs to be narrowed down, if anyone feels like being a nicely bouncy rubber wall for me to throw plot ideas at (um, the hitch here is that you probably have to have seen Ten Inch Hero. I may have a link. May.). Might just finish off that first chapter (of each), post, and see if the world implodes.

Last but not least, I'm "gardening", if by gardening you mean playing with excessively heavy rocks, dirt, bugs, trees, multiflorin, snakes (haven't seen any yet, but I'm in their territory) and wasps. Ohyeah, this is why I call myself the Black Thumb of Death (so I can conveniently skate away from any and all landscapng projects. Damn my somewhat flighty love for weeping trees with blossoms); I killed the first seedling anyone ever tried to make me plant within the first fifteen minutes. Death by drowning. That should be my pirate name. Black Thumb. *cackles*

:)

 
 
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I have just discovered the most amazing thing!! So, I was searching (and am still) for a song I read about on Wikipedia - apparently the filker Julia Ecklar set the lyrics of one of the poems written by Susan Cooper for her Dark Is Rising Sequence to music. I must have it, and am searching in a tizzy. And while looking at this songwriter's stuff on iTunes, I discovered that she's written stuff that must seriously be lauded - because come on, my fellow Trekkie fans - any song with the title "He's Dead, Jim" deserves some recognition, right? It's hilarious! And there's another song titled "Tribbles"!!! And the one, "Ballad to a Spaceman", has really got me craving more. Come on, all you sci-fi fans, give it up for fanwork done in music!! :)

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lembas7
17 March 2009 @ 06:48 pm

So, I got to looking at the almost 82KB of chapter I had for the first section of To Question Why, and I really, really like lots of it - especially the one awesome (sue me for tooting my own horn here; I just really loved writing this part) chunk I am now posting as the Prologue.

Why is it the prologue? Because the rest of the chapter is pretty well dated to take place 2 weeks into classes, which puts it roughly a week ahead of the last available chapter of BWT, and two+ weeks ahead of SAS. Which would be fine, if this section didn't in my mind so clearly predate that. Yeah, chronology's enough to drive me nuts. When I cut this chunk out, it put what I have remaining for chapter one down to 61KB, which is good because I have to put stuff in between the prologue and the stuff I have (which may even be pushed back to a second chapter, depending) to explain stuff. Why is it this crazy when I've been muttering about almost being ready to post the first chapter for ages untold? Well, initially, I thought this fic was only going to be two parts long, less thank 20,000 wds. Then I got all caught up in the idea of a three-parter, and let BWT spin out of control, kindof taking SAS with it in the chronology sense, while TQW decided to stay at two parts. HAH!

Also in this chapter? The close reader will be slammed over the head by hints of the second of the two crossovers I promised with the premiereing of this series. (Reading the A/N is cheating, just so you know.) I even got source material from the library so I could brush up on it in preparation for a section I'm currently working on.

And last - the title of this fic, which (much like Elijah's Cup) probably has some people scratching their heads going, "WTF, mate?" 

"To Question Why" - stolen from the popular (I can't source it ATM) quote, "Ours is not to question why; ours is but to do or die." (Some variants have ". . . to reason why. . .", but that just didn't have the same ring to it.) Why this? Well, because the quote struck me as something the canon Wizarding World was sticking by when it came to a lot of the characters. Also, because I felt that my Dumbledore would kind of support that mentality among the "cattle" of the Order of the Phoenix (more how I see them as two steps removed from a terrorist organization - though that's pushing it a bit - later), and how the Pevensies definitely wouldn't be happy with that kind of a mentality. :) More conflict to come, needless to say.

Also, I am extremely unhappy with each and every summary I've tried to come up with for this thing - in the sense of trying to get one sentence or two, max, to convey the whole spirit of a fic I feel is going to be quite involved. I will probably be changing it in the future; for the moment I've settled on the one that makes me the least irritable with life in general.


 
 
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lembas7
13 March 2009 @ 10:13 pm
So, on the second of the three Friday the 13th's we will have this year, I crawl out of my hole to give you:

Sticks And Stones, Chapter 1.

Blame Fudge for the wait on this one, folks. I just couldn't wrap my head around his character for the longest time. I stopped then, because I'd reached the length I wanted (and seriously, could you swallow more at one clip? Not and want to come back. I don't think so.). That said, I have no idea where I'm going to start off the next chapter, though I feel I've definitely laid the ground in this one for several different plot threads that'll see through this story and connect with BWT, at the very least. I'm happy with it, especially after I changed the POV order. Originally, the Kotkins didn't show up until second-to-last, and while I wrote it the way it did because it flowed at the time (the Kotkins were creepily easy to write, for reasons unknown), on further contemplation the parts just didn't move from one to the other the way they were.  

Two things I'm aware of here that I apologize for but don't care enough about at the moment to change in the face of the 7,000+ wds of fic. ONE: There are lots of original characters here, sorry. Boatloads. And being in-tune with the earlier resource posts (which yes, I do still update on the sly, especially when I need some inspiration) will give you some sneaky clues and insight, I don't deny it. TWO. I was really vague on how much time passed across the course of the chapter, and when specific POVs were taking place. Hopefully I can find subtle ways to be more definite about it next chapter.

That said, I'm wiped. Sleep long and prosper!


EDIT (3/17/08) - It's a wonder what a thoughtless job can do. I've decided to place the bulk of the first chapter of SAS one week from IvB - that makes it August 30/31, 1994 approximately; just before the Welcoming Feast at Hogwarts (which traditionally takes place on Sept. 1, I believe). It has been edited and reposted to reflect that; if anyone sees any goofs (such as a place where it's intimated that the story is taking place 1 month, rather than 1 week, after the World Cup), please let me know so I can fix them! 


 
 
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lembas7
12 December 2008 @ 09:36 pm
So, I went to see "The Day The Earth Stood Still".   *big grin*

And The Richter Scale Measures . . .  )

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19 November 2008 @ 06:28 pm

O.o
My job is burning out my brain. I sit, and I copy-past from adobe to word, for HOURS. I want the next project to start, desperately. But the girl who's going to train us is out sick. Disease is running rampant. WILL NOT YIELD!

Also, quite possibly going back to school because no way in hell I'm doing this for the rest of my life, especially with the temp agency siphoning my salary.  

But enough of that, on to the good stuff!
 

Yeah, I missed a lot of names this time around. Including that of the episode . . .  )



 

 
 
lembas7
12 November 2008 @ 07:50 pm

*squeals* OMG, OMG, OMG Sol made me a present! And it is pretty and awesome and the music and the hinting and the vagueness is all so perfect! :)

To Question Why. It has a trailer.
Here. Go. Watch. Then go tell Sol what a paragon of humanity she is, because SQUEEEEE!!!!!! 

*bounces insanely* Wow, now I think I'mmona write some more! :)


 

 
 
lembas7
18 October 2008 @ 08:21 pm
Okay! I've been looking at how I want to break this up, and I've decided that due to timeline issues so thoughtfully pointed out to me by ElfIcarii, the first bit of SAS was really very distinct from when the rest of the story began. So it's a prologue now, and as I have no further claim on it, it's up for your perusal here:

Fic: Sticks And Stones, Prologue
Summary: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. And that is only the beginning.
Wd count: Shamefully small, as the ECverse chapter entries all tend to be around 90 - 100 KB of memory on my comp (which is what, ten pages?). I think I'm batting at 989 words, counting the silly Author's Notes and Disclaimers and Title. The next chapter will be the usual length,  probably. It's at 45 KB, for those interested. Which isn't impressive, as simply opening a word doc is 21 KB. *grumps*
Author's Notes: (see blurb above; seriously, why am I even bothering with this format?)


OKAY! 

I'm late with my SPN 4x05 squee. :( Um, I haven't actually watched it yet. I was kindof too dead on Thursday to stay up that late, which sounds REALLY lame. I didn't want to fall asleep during SPN, which would have been even lamer. I have a good reason, I promise! I have job! I have job! Lem started work this week! And, since I got the job, I also bought a car! Yeah, my commute was a fifteen minute ride to the train station, a half-hour train ride, and then a half-hour walk. It was kind of dumb, and expensive, and also, walking along a highway at rush hour is just really, really stupid. But now, there are wheels!

And me like job. I get to research, and edit, there was some proofreading for another project, but I also get to call people over the phone and harrass them when they're one and two time zones away from me! My nefarious influence is spreading across America - today, Idaho, tomorrow, the WORLD!!!

And by "harrass", I mean "inquire" regarding the museums they run. SO COOL. There is a museum in SD that houses the world's only albino buffalo. *nodnod* And all the people I work with are really nice, especially about the fact that sometimes I have to be yelling into the phone because of bad connection or hard-of-hearing old ladies. :) Or both. 

And my job has supplied me with SPN fic. I have the first line to it, and nothing else, so here:

"The apocalypse started in Hermosa, South Dakota. For the longest time, no one noticed." 

Spawned by my utter failure to get a phone connection to ANYWHERE in this town to go through. Towns around it? Yes. Anywhere in it? Not just a "screw you", but with a tagged on "and the horse you rode in on". *shrugs* "Your Google-fu is strong, young Jedi, but you still have much to learn about the ways of the internet" was another phrase resulting from my bare-but-for-neurotic-notes cubicle. :) I'm really having a lot of fun!

And there will be responses to the comments and reviews, I promise. I spent today going to the bank and getting gas and then organizing & cleaning out the (messy, cluttered) garage (with dad and annoying, yet good for labor, brother) for my car. Which needs a name. Ooooh. :P :)


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