aria: ([aria] the writer)
( Feb. 10th, 2011 09:49 pm)
I have realized that my to-do list for the foreseeable future looks a lot like:

+ read the rest of the Vorkosigan Saga
+ read lots of Patrick O'Brian
+ read various manuscripts for my internship
+ write languishing WIPs
+ write slightly-less-languishing original fiction

All I'm saying is, if I unexpectedly disappear, it's probably because I have DROWNED IN WORDS.

In extremely related news, I've decided that I obviously don't have nearly enough writing to do already! Because I'd really like to write some Valentine's Day ficlets. Comment here with a pairing (from any fandom you know I know/write) and I will write them having a (first) kiss. I won't reply in comments; it'll all go up in one post on the 14th. But I think this would be fun! Have at it. :D
The latest in SurveyFail: Ogi Ogas' journal is either flocked or baleeted. I'm now kind of sad I didn't stay up all night reading frantically through all the threads, because they were for the most part extremely intelligent and articulate and a lot of the things that make me really love fandom. Despite the threads' vanishment, though, I am in an extremely good mood, both because of fandom at large's awesome right now and because, how surprising, writing sex apparently puts me in a good mood. (And does not make me feel crushingly guilty! Yes, under the happiness for fandom I may still be seething a little about some of those survey questions.) Which brings me to my second point!

I have, as [personal profile] feverbeats coined it, a Your Kink Is Okay Meme, with commentporn requests. I haven't done all of them; still to be filled out are the requests Nacio/Oliver Wolf, keys, belonging or, alternately, Thom/Roger; Fraser/Kowalski, handcuffs; Albus/Gellert, crossdressing; Fraser/Kowalski, climbing equipment; sexswapped Blackcest, presumably with whichever Black family members you'd like; Theta/Simm!Master; and Sirius/dom!Remus, collar, orgasm denial, and if everyone does not head over and do that one I will be, um, a sad puppy, because I have heretofore undiscovered depths of glee for that prompt. I list these both as an IOU note to self and also because, if anyone else fancies any of these, this does not have to just be a See Aria Write Porny Things party. Feel free to write some yourself! Also feel free to go back and add more, although I can't promise to fill any out promptly; I'm coming down the summer vacation home stretch and am beginning to have some real-life social engagements (and packing!) to attend to.

This said, since it is also a See Aria Write Porny Things party, here are the prompts I actually filled:

Fraser/Rodney, handcuffs & Sheppard/Kowalski, puddlejumper sex -- these of course take place in the same universe, which is a universe that just yesterday I had decided I should not touch with a ten-foot pole, because now I have an awkward crossover OT4 on my hands and I am absolutely going to have to write more of this universe at some later point.

Remus/Sirius, crossdressing -- because obviously the world needs more Sirius Black in a skirt and eyeliner! Or, as [community profile] kinglets rather more articulately put it: busting gender paradigms is hot important hot AND important. \o/

Martha/Rose, bondage, a bomb -- which is also almost certainly part of a larger story, that fic I mentioned ages ago name of The Care and Feeding of Your Atomic Bomb, which is Martha/Rose in Pete's World with bonus human!Ten, and I am kind of motivated to write it again. Although at some later point.

And finally, because it is neither silly comment-ficcy nor Part Of Something Larger, something I like well enough on its own to have actually posted it at the fic journal: high on a stage be placed to the view -- Geoffrey/Darren and a line-through of R&G Are Dead whilst they're at university, because I suspect at this point that the Slings & Arrows fandom has only one singular bit of fanon, and that fanon is "Geoffrey and Darren, R&G Are Dead, university" and who am I to argue with that? My god, I want to write Darren ALL THE TIME.

Instead, because I am on a roll, I'm going to run off and write some more of the monster F/K/V which does, in fact, have a looming deadline.
Okay, you know what? SurveyFail is boggling me so massively that I think it is high time I did something about it. The thing is, though, that plenty of intelligent people who are much more qualified to talk about both the scientific and the sociological aspects than I am are already all over this, so I am entirely in favour but I don't have anything meaningfully original to contribute to the many ongoing threaded discussions.

But there is something I am qualified to do, as a member of fandom and as someone who is queer and female and really, really fucking tired of all the heteronormative and gender-essentialist and generally ignorant things that the survey-makers are saying (this is probably one of my favourite threads, and by favourite I mean I read slash is kind of the female equivalent of the straight male interest in transsexuals and my brain considered going into total meltdown). I am qualified to feel as normal and un-guilty about my sexuality as I damn well please, and because a lot of the time it collides with my fannishness anyway, I declare this a comment fic request post.

But this one is specifically for porny prompts. Let's resurrect the sexual trivia meme! Throw one of your kink bingo squares at me! Tell me to tie Fraser up again! (Why yes, I am being specific about that one. Although I'll tie someone else up if that's your bag.) Anything goes, though I do reserve the right to say "what, hah, no, I'm not going to write this thing, but if you want to, totally go for it." Let's hear it. :D
A couple links, of varying importance:

i. I've been fairly quiet regarding the warnings debate in which fandom is currently engaged. (Here is a fairly comprehensive list of various posts; where would we be without delicious these days!) I really don't have much to contribute in the way of relevant discussion, mostly because I can't wrap my head around hearing someone say, "This is hurting me," and being able to respond with, "It's your problem, not mine." In any case, many people who take a similar view have already said it better than I could; in particular I'd like to link [personal profile] oliviacirce's post On Being A Village Elder, as I think it articulately covers all the things I don't quite know how to say.

ii. In much less serious news, [personal profile] wintercreek is getting married in a couple of weeks, and thus is holding an Online Fannish Bachelorette Party! Ficlet prompts are supplied, with fandom suggestions but also wild cards; as [personal profile] wintercreek says, Do not feel limited by my fandoms - the best parties are the ones where your friend brings her sister, who brings those guys who live next door with the tattoo artist, right? Right! Go play, the party's great. :D
Some completed ficlets for your reading pleasure!

For [personal profile] echoes: Medically Speaking; Doctor Who, Koschei/Theta )

For [personal profile] polarisnorth: If I Changed My Haircut I Could Apply For Alien Citizenship; due South/Star Trek, Kowalski & Fraser )

For [personal profile] wintercreek: taking it all apart; due South, Thatcher & Fraser )

For [personal profile] feverbeats: Saturday; due South, F/K/V )

And I am unsure why I create ficlet projects like this for myself, but I really want an actual excuse to write due South fusion ficlets. If you want Frannie in the TARDIS or Kowalski the Watcher or Fraser being hit by a car and traveling in time or Welsh teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts or Vecchio as the Advisory wizard for the greater Chicago area or everyone as mutants with superpowers or, um, anything really that I have some working knowledge of the canon for, I am your woman. Propose fusions, please!
Behold, a meme!

1. Go to my master fic list and pick out a line or two from one of my stories. (A full line, if you will; a speech tag with content is fine, but sentence fragments will mostly just make me repent the day I decided I like the occasional sentence fragment.)
2. I will respond with which story of mine I think it's from.
3. A drabble to anyone who stumps me. If you do stump me, feel free to request a situation and characters.


If you end up with a potential drabble, any of my fandoms is a decent bet, but (unsurprisingly) I will respond with the most promptness and enthusiasm if it's for due South. (Or Doctor Who or Lord of the Rings, actually; I am particularly up for those also.)
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