The Thelma and Louise Ficathon Has Arrived

While we have extended the deadline a bit (think of it like celebrating your birthday over a long period of time), today is the official dealine!

Please post a link to your story in the comments with the recipients name and any other comments you want to make.

And thanks to everyone for participating. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves.

ETA: Indexing as the stories arrive

rydra_wong wrote Scotoma for Sarahjane. (SG-1)

boofadil wrote Prelude for strav (X-Men)

resmin wrote Women wrote epics for pene (Harry Potter)

therck wrote Endowment for kerlin (Vorkosigan 'verse)

thehallway wrote Ordinary World for Eva. (Farscape/SG-1)

isabellesmuse wrote Of Belonging for rydra_wong (SG-1, S9 and on)

cofax7 wrote Contredanse for thassalia (Farscape/Firefly)

denynothing1 wroteLike a Diamond in the Sky for honeymink (Veronica Mars)

ksrli wroteA Little Bit of Normalcy for thenewhope (Veronica Mars)

liminalliz wrote along came a spider for cofax7(SG-1/Firefly)

voleuse wrote Anarchists Invaded for cretkid (SG-1)

And for all of you who played by the rules and posted today, I offer you simplystars fabulous "Guiness and Ponies" icon! Feel free to take, credit, and adore:)

thassalia wrote Treading on the Toes of A Grimm Reality for grav_ity (Firefly)

kerlin wrote Two Riders for iamsab(Firefly)

grav_ity wrote Cally for lomer (BSG)

sugargroupie wrote Shake Loose for resmin (Farscape)

pene wrote We don't notice time pass for leadensky (The West Wing)

alara_r wrote Mother to Mother for apathocles (X-Men)

se_parsons wrote The Good, The Bad and The Other One for finisterre (Discworld)

lomer wrote Introductions and Beginnings for voleuse(Battlestar Galactica)

florastuart wrote Repairs for sugargroupie (Farscape)

leadensky wrote Plain Song for alara_r (X-Men)

fourteenlines wrote Audrey Hepburn Gets the Clues for crankygrrl (Veronica Mars)

apathocles wrote Untitled X-Men fic for therck (X-Men)

ETA
cretkid wrote Choose Your Own Adventure for se_parsons (Harry Potter)

crankygrrl wrote Pinnochio Does Outerspace for lizzen (Alien Ressurection)

officersun524 wrote A Lesson in Tactics for isabellesmuse (Stargate SG-1)

T&L Ficathon Entry

Title: Treading On the Toes of a Grimm Reality
Author: Thea
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: So, so not mine.
Summary: For grav_ity, who requested: " River/Inara, Firefly, River knows why Inara is leaving, but makes her say it anyway."
Post-Objects in Space. Pre-Serenity.
Notes: Thank you so much to simplystars for beta, and for the icon of fabulousness. Also thanks to shaye who I conned into beta duties then abandoned:)

( Treading on the Toes of A Grimm Reality )

Ficathon Update

We've got more than half the entries in for the Thelma and Louise Do Outer Space Gal Pal Ficathon!!

And dude, the stories so far have been lovely and witty and charming and fabulous.

Go here (the original post) to access the posted stories. Please feed the authors and pimp them out! They worked hard and we've got at least three fabulous authors who've never done a ficathon before!! I firmly believe only feedback cookies will persuade them to continue to do so!!

Saturday night's all right

Spent most of today at the studio, much of it playing my new doombek which is sort of tin and plastic, but was cheap and therefore rules. It will also allow me to annoy the neighbors on a level as of yet unheard. Between the drum and M's guitar and mini-amp, we shall be the hated ones in the building.

In addition to starting my new job on Wednesday, I also started my novel writing class. And I was "that" student in class. The one who kept piping up, who had too much to say, who was just way overenthusiastic, but dude, I'm excited. I've been wanting to take this class forever and now I just have to make the enthusiasm translate to the butt in the seat effort of writing.

I'm running smack into the "I'm writing a space opera and everyone else is writing the great american novel" thing that I was so afraid of and it's not so much that I'm getting this from outside, but from my own fears - that this thing is entirely derivative, that it'll be better in my head than on paper, that it has no plot, that I've bitten off more than I can chew. I need to just breath, and I need to just write and see what happens. I know that's the key. Writing, writing and more writing. And remembering to breathe.

If I can do 1000 words a day, even crappy words, I'll feel like it's time and money well spent. And if anyone wants to encourage me in the novel writing, assignments would be more than welcome. I'm going to start the novel post in a new LJ, as well. I'll post what I have so far, but scenes and assignments and questions and prompts would be welcome.

On the fannish front, I'd consider the Thelma and Louise Ficathon to be a rousing success. The stories have all been really intriguing and interesting, exploring new facets of these characters, these women and I'm so pleased with the participants!


cofax7 wrote me a fabulous Aeryn and Zoe piece, Contradanse, and I couldn't have asked for more! Truly.

Other than that, I'm mostly trying to make myself write and reading ltlj's "Retrograde" series, which I think is just stellar storytelling and I have no interest in SGA on screen. The fic draws me in, but the show still bores me. However, I really, really think that they should send Mitchell to SGA because despite the fact that I seem to have a Mitchell/Shephard kind, it isn't even a sex kink. It's largely a two guys hanging out and bonding kink. Because they're so pretty, and guys just being guys together is a turn on mentally and emotionally. In some ways, I'm not even a huge advocate of the sex although I very much liked the porny addendum to the series. Mostly I like the reluctant bonding, and I like how nice they look together.