So, trying to crank out more who_reversebang fic and decided to try an online tarot spread. (I'm not at home with my own decks.) Of all the decks offered at http://www.facade.com/tarot , Tarot of the Cat People seemed the most appropriate for a Doctor Who related query.

Spread wasn't terribly helpful, more of a "well duh, I knew that" which is cool but, again, not helpful. Amusing, though, was seeing the Queen of Swords and Queen of Cups show up. That ... fits quite well indeed.

/cryptic

Finally have draft #1 done for my first deadline. Am brainstorming on the 2nd and chipping away at the third. If I can keep going on 5_for_five, even after the current round ends next week, I should be okay. *crosses fingers*

*shows off sticker*

I didn't make the 5_for_five goal this week, more like 5 for four, but that's still 2000+ words written! All of that was on my tw_classic_bb and prior to getting my bowtiesnblasters prompt for Mistletoe & Hallucinogens.

This week's goal is to get M & H fic done, as that's the shortest (or at least shortest word requirement) of the lot. At least a draft, maybe even beta-ed. Definitely hoping to submit it prior to Nov 16, the prompt-claim date for who_reversebang. If I can also manage another couple thousand words on the tw_classic_bb before picking up that other prompt, so much the better, but small steps.

Squeee! My gift posted, and it's Vastra/Jenny, and I love it!

Title: Simple Observations
Author: templemarker
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Vastra/Jenny
Rating: PG-13
Why you should go read it right now: If the fact that it's Vastra/Jenny isn't enough, the author has also done an excellent job setting the tone with a narrative voice that puts you into both the Victorian timeperiod and Vastra's head very effectively. And it's sweet and understated in a way that totally fits these badass sword-wielding interspecies lesbians who solve crimes in Victorian London.

There has been lots of good fic posted. The masterlist is here and my Parker/Tara (with a hint of prior Parker/Maggie) Leverage fic is here. Mine never got quite as shippy as I'd hoped to make it, but my recipient seemed to like it, which is a relief.

In other, less squeeful, fannish news, unless I manage to pull a rabbit out of my hat in the next two days, I'm going to have to drop out of Torchwood Big Bang. Work is just sucking the life out of me (which is also why I haven't posted in weeks), and while I desperately want to write the bunny, reaching 10k words by Friday's rough draft deadline is, while not completely impossible, highly unlikely.

For the first time in months, I managed to write 500 words a day for at least 5 days out of the week. That included finishing off the fic that got posted, making some headway on my wintercompanion fic, and entirely too much puttering around with TFTWSD.



Now if the thing that's actually got a due date looming would just show some sign of where the hell it's trying to go. :-D

Also, I made it through the "watch a gazillion videos" and "be shown a gazillion forms you will never remember" days of orientation and am on the floor tomorrow shadowing. Meep!

Title: Progress
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Snape/Hermione
Rating: G
Summary: It can take a long time to heal the aftereffects of a war.
A/N: Written for psyfic who won this with a very generous donation in the lightning round of the qldfloodauction. I'm so, so sorry it took me this long, and I hope you enjoy it! Thanks to laiksmarei for beta-reading and melusin_79 for Brit-picking.

( Progress )

Yesterday was graduation. Yes, I graduated in December, but we only had the pinning ceremony then. This was the cap-and-gown deal. Due to having used up all my pool time (mostly on just getting through school in the first place without collapsing from exhaustion, but most recently brought the total down to near-zero by going to Aeternitas), I took off neither the night before nor the night after. Thus, the day is mostly a blur, though I do vaguely recall seeing and hugging classmates I'd not seen since December or so, so that was nice. Relying on others for pics though, as I did bring but did not use my camera at all.

Oh! One very memorable bit was seeing the prof I've been known to call Canon!Snape as grand high poohbah or whatever the official term is for the person who gets to carry the college's mace and pound it on the floor to punctuate things. That was ... very fitting. :-D

Fun was getting the voicemail after that work would like me to come in at 8pm please. I returned the call, pointed out I hadn't been to sleep yet since my previous shift, which they actually knew, and thus if they wanted me remotely functional, they'd muddle through and I'd be in at midnight as scheduled. Fortunately, the per diem who was on until 8 was able to stay till midnight. Well, fortunately by some lights. One of these days, I'd like my boss to actually have to fill in one of these gaps, as he is actually required to do but has never, ever done.

Did watch "The Rebel Flesh." Am very WTF about it. ( Spoilers! )

Thanks to a tweet from The Moff (Only matters to me, but today is the 6th anniversary of the broadcast of my first Dr Who. Blimey! But it's not the end of world ... oh!!), I also rewatched The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances at work last night. That's always fun, and I finally caught the explanation of something that I'd thought was a continuity error all this time. Jack is never shown seeing the outside of the TARDIS, so it always seemed a bit weird when he finally entered that he commented about it being "much bigger on the inside." He did, however, comment on it to the Doctor when Rose first introduced them, mentioning that he'd seen it when he'd thrown the Chula ambulance in front of them as bait and complimenting the paneling on their "capsule." Huh. Love finding little stuff like that.

Have this week off from tutoring. Plan is currently to dress all interviewy, grab a stack of resumes and the Yellow Pages, and apply in person to every nursing home within driving distance. After that, I think I'm left with making paper airplanes out of them and launching them at utter random.

Stopped at the local comic shop after graduation, ostensibly to check my folder (which had the latest DW comic, yay!) but mainly to follow up on a convo I'd just had with dawnrune about the possibility of a fic-writer meetup-and-write group along the lines of a wrimo whilst not waiting around for November. Turns out, there's already something in the works, which is kinda cool. Emphasis will, understandably, be on writers and artists who do manga/anime and gamer stuff, but open to whomever. That could be cool. In other news, I'm hoping that the added free time this week will see me finally a) trying to expand at least one or two of the drabbles I did at Aeternitas and b) trying out some of the spreads and concepts from ceciliatan's workshop on using the Tarot with writing.

Also need to write up something about Thargelia for the HTAZP blog. *winces* It's been a week already. Oops. And I need to get cracking if I'm going to do an additional choreography for Philokhoria on top of the troupe choreo I'm teaching the others. I'm thinking "Fireflies," though "Sandansko" and "Graovsko" are also possibilities. So just a few things on the to-do list then.

Hugs to all that want them, and have a great week!

I may have lost my mind, but I've just offered up to five drabbles/ficlets over at qldfloodauction in the lightning round.

A little more info: The main auction (which I haven't worked up the courage to offer for yet, as that'd be a larger fic offering) runs through January 26. The "lightning round" is quicker version running through Monday, most offerings being smaller drabbles and ficlets, and done as a sort of "buy it now" setup. (Sort of like the "incentive drabbles" sometimes offered in other charity auctions, except they're handling it as a separate post with a different timeline.) The official charities designated for the auction are Queensland Government Flood Relief Appeal, RSPCA Queensland Flood Appeal, and The Australian Red Cross.

So, the goals I set for 2010 included a writing goal, physical goal, and spiritual goal, plus one big main goal.

I did manage to complete the main goal, which was to finish nursing school. Yay!

( Other Old and New Goals )

And that's that for that.

Happy New Year, everybody!

My "usual suspects" are either traveling or already partying in the new year, so I'm tossing this out there. Anybody up for giving a short-short a quick once-over?

It's Doctor Who genfic, about 550 words. Mostly I need to know if it makes sense, but also if I'm making Jack sound too British, oddly enough. (I don't even know what to call that. Reverse Brit-pick?) It's for the spoiler_song One Night of Writing, so I have until midnight PST, hence the "quick" part of the request.

Pretty please with cinnamon sugar on top?

ETA: I think I'm covered! Thanks!