Oh, forgot.

parlophone has posted our guesses of HD Wordcup fics authorship. Look at us making fools of ourselves :)

I'm made of stupid and fail. I never should have posted about things that clearly invited you for discussion on the night before the day of layout end at my work, when I don't really have time to pee, let alone type a response or hundred. So after working until 7 o'clock in the morning and then sleeping all day, I had a huge headache (again, as usual after a layout) for another night and day, and now am feeling distinctly shaky and the discussion has petered out by itself by now :( Meep.

I've read all the comments though, then repeated with separate threads. Thank you very much for speaking your minds! Your opinions give some nice food for thought!

Not to become too serious about ourselves and our own opinions, the part of the discussion that was about concrit is summarised by frantic_mice. As for me, hilarious and very observant :)

Taking a break from writing today so I can focus on the outstanding requests I have. I have a few more icons to make for some peeps, and the three stories that were requested (which will end up being two, since I combined two requests :D). So, in clearing my schedule, I bring you... 36 icons from the show that brought the word "MILF" to prime-time! :D

Yep, 36 icons from Season 2 of 30 Rock! From all over the season, pre- and post-strike... from the beginning to the end. I was alllll over the place with these. :D So some spoilers looooom. Be warned!

Want, take, comment, have!

TEASERS:
.........

( Get the gun away from the dog! What is the matter with you people? )

Today's Updates for WIP's

Death's Dominion by MMADfan
Rated: M(R)
WIP Updated to chapter 18/19
Summary: Severus Snape’s life was changed when he was hit by an errant spell, and he comes to a decision that defies Dumbledore’s wishes. Even the fate of the wizarding world is altered by this one ill-cast curse and Snape’s subsequent resolve. Long after the spell itself has dissipated, its effects continue echoing in the lives of Severus, Albus, Minerva, and Hermione, and they bring with them a shadowy figure whom Snape does not trust and whose motivations and influence on Minerva are murky. AU post-August/September 1996. Not HBP- or DH-compliant. (Partially HBP-compliant.)

Sky is Falling by Angel Mischa
Rated: M(R)
WIP Updated to chapter 29
Summary: Hermione, having been Imperiused during the War, commits several murders that lead to her being abandoned by Ron and Harry. During her imprisonment in Azkaban, she becomes connected to Draco and Severus whilst they all wait for trial. When all three are acquitted, they go into business together, as no one else will work with them. However, Hermione Granger is no longer the same person she was at Hogwarts, and she refuses all contact with her former friends. When Ron attempts to break into her life, a terrible disaster follows, leaving only Severus and Draco to pick up the pieces. With Harry, Ginny, and Lavender now attempting to find her, Hermione struggles to maintain the small amount of peace she has built up for herself after Azkaban, but will she find herself back there for life?

Unrequited by Leraiv Snape
Rated: T
WIP Updated to chapter 3
Summary: At Minerva McGonagall's funeral, Ron Weasley reflects on the fact that his wife was never really his.


Artsees

Flight Of The Slytherin Redeux by Sempraseverus
Rated: Work Safe

Slytherin Kiss Redeux by Sempraseverus
Rated: Work Safe

Guess the Author/Artist. Team Rosters have been updated to reflect current participants. Please note that one participant could very well have submitted two works due to pinch hitting status.

( Team Canon Poll )

( Team Epilogue Poll )

( Team EWE Poll )

( Team Fanon Poll )

 Fandom: Angel the Series
Title: 'Viva Las Vegas'
Music ' Viva Las Vegas'  - Elvis Presley
Rating: G
Small 11mB WMV Zipped   or  Medium 29mB WMV Zipped  Go here  and streamed soon....
Description:  Episodic of 'The House Always Wins'   - This was the first ever vid I made back in August '04.  Vidders Notes 

Well, I finally did it - I posted the revised Ordained and the sequel promised at the end of the originally posted story. They are both archived at 852 as well as at my fiction-only journal, alysbasement.

Ordained can be found here at my journal with cover art, or here at 852 Prospect.

The Long Run (its sequel) can be found here at my journal with cover art, or here at 852.

I feel so accomplished. ::snort::

All polls are now closed. We will be tabulating the votes and announcing on the 21st of May!

In the meantime - we are opening the prompts up for comment pr0n! Authors and Artists are more than welcome to fulfill a prompt or three :D.

Today's prompts are:

The Fool
The Magician
The Empress
The Hierophant
The Lovers
The Chariot
Strength
The Hermit
Wheel of Fortune

To clarify - Artists can respond to the author prompts and authors can respond to the artist prompts!

Finally - a "Guess the Author/Artist" poll will be coming. The coding is 75% done and should go up soon!

Title: Own Little World
Vidder: vaeltaa
Fandom: Heroes
Artist: Celldweller
Category: Character study, tribute, action.
Warnings/spoilers: Spoilers for all aired episodes.
Summary: We will never die.
Format/size/length: WMV/64 MB/03:37 min.

Links at my journal.

I have an urgent request for a second beta.

Due to real life I haven't heard from my first beta for a while and I have no second beata reader at all.

I have a feeling that this may well be because I am doing a Carson/Radek story. I would really like to get a second beta and wondered if anyone knew how I go about it!!

I'm not looking for anyone doing the BigBang itself to help me out just some suggestions as to where I may go for help!!!

Thanks

Title: The One
Author: Kathie
Rating: FRT-13
Disclaimer: I don’t own CSINY and I don’t own New Amsterdam.
Pairing: John Amsterdam/Don Flack
Summary: It was Omar who had brought it up first. “What if it’s not a woman you’re looking for?”
Authors Notes: Thanks to Ginny and Dee for everything. I forgot that I forgot this prompt, sorry for being so late. Thanks again to Ginny for everything you did. You're awesome.
Written for the Rounds_of_Kink challenge, May 3rd:
Prompt: Doubts and fears

John Amsterdam/Danny Messer or John Amsterdam/Don Flack
New Amsterdam/CSI:NY
kink:
Seduction, courting
(prompted by silentflux)

~*~*~
( The One )

As many of you know, the Organization of Transformative Works launched membership to the org at the end of March in six different languages.

As the Membership committee has previously reported, OTW now has over 400 members from 14 different countries and together, we have raised over US$12,000. Thank you so much for your support! This means we can start the process of purchasing dedicated, co-located servers for our various projects, including the Archive of Our Own.

While the membership drive itself is over, it's never too late to join OTW. Please see the linked entry at the beginning of this entry for more information.

OTW and the Community Relations committee have some fun things planned for the following few weeks; watch this space!

And finally, thanks to our Finnish volunteer translator, we are very happy to be able to bring membership information to you in Finnish.

(If you would like to join our current team of volunteer translators, please email the Volunteers committee - volunteers @ transformativeworks.org to find out more!)


Jäsenyys

Olet ehkä joskus halunnut lukea suosikkitarinasi tai silmäillä tuttua suositussivua ja napsauttanut linkkiä vain huomataksesi, että sivu on kadonnut. Arkisto menee nurin, sivun omistaja päättää poistaa kaiken fanisisällön -- ja lukemattomat videot, tarinat ja yhteisöt menetetään.

Mutta mitä jos olisi olemassa arkisto, jota ei rahoitettaisi mainoksilla? Arkisto, jota rahoittaisi fanien tukema ei-kaupallinen järjestö, jonka pysyvään ylläpitoon voisi luottaa? Tällainen visio meillä on Meidän Arkistostamme, monien fandomien arkistosta, jossa kaikenlaiset tarinat olisivat

turvassa sattumanvaraiselta tuhoamiselta ja jossa sinun ei koskaan tarvitsisi pelätä, että luomuksesi tuottavat voittoa jollekulle toiselle.

Meidän Arkistomme on projekti, jonka ympärille Organization for Transformative Works - OTW (Transformatiivisten teoksien järjestö) syntyi. Me olemme ei-kaupallinen järjestö faneilta faneille.


( Viimeisten kymmenen kuukauden aikana olemme rekisteröityneet ei-kaupallisena järjestönä... )


( Jäsenyys: UKK )

Title: Let Go
Author: bionic
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Song: "Let Go" by Gabriel & Dresden
Summary: Captain Jack Harkness, the past, the present, and how hard it is to let go.
Spoilers: all of TW, seasons 1&3 of DW.
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Jack/everyone

download and links here

In five minutes I'll be able to say that I officially went to bed during the PM hours. TINY STEPS, PEOPLE! TINY STEPS!

On one hand there is a certain awesomeness to concept of the following exchange:

"Late night?"

"Yeah."

"When'd you finally make it to bed?"

"Noon."

"..."

See? Appealing.

On the other hand? Holy crap I miss sleeping at night and I really need to GET THINGS DONE tonight but sleeping while it's light out without blackout curtains isn't as restful as one might like. Also I cannot decide if my allergies are getting worse or if I'm actually kind of sick. /whining.

Catching up on comments and emails tonight. Also. Work. For reals.

p.s. Have watched an entire season of Gilmore Girls. Urge to talk at top speed and be incredibly ungrateful, rising.

ETA: HA! MADE IT! I BITE MY THUMB AT THEE AM HOURS. I BITE MY THUMB.

Wee baby BUTT. He is STICKING IT OUT. GOD. I am perving. SO. HARD. Do I still need to upload this for anyone, or are we all good to go?

So, I'm trying to beta two big bang fics at the moment, and one of them is RIP-YOUR-HEART-OUT angsty Wincest, the other's ROT-YOUR-TEETH schmoopy J2. I'm starting to feel bi-polar.

DEAR JENN, WHERE IS MOAR FIC?

<3, YOUR KEEPA.

eta. Uploading the Young Macguyver pilot as we speak! I might be flocking it, so if I don't have you friended and you want it, comment here with an email address and I'll hook you up when it's ready.

You who are Beta Extraordinaire, a Woman of Many Talents, A Gem of a Friend and A Swell Kid--

Have a lovely day, and some goodies!



and

It's been such a crazy several months and it seems as if I rarely have time to get on here and update everyone on what is new in my life. The past few weeks have been very busy with baby stuff and calming down issues floating around my real life. Then of course, the last week has been spent in an email argument from hell with my mother.

( But let's start with the scary and dangerous, though far less annoying issues. )

Okay, so I wrote this last night and it's not my best. It's kind of hard to write when you're feeling off. But mysticalweather was dying for some Sam/Barrett and I promised. So I hope it was good enough to satisfy her.

Title: When The Time Is Right
Author: Moonshayde
Season: Post-series
Category: Ficlet
Spoilers: Just where Sam is post series
Pairing/Character: Sam/Barrett
Summary: The right time finally arrives.
Warnings: none
Rating: PG

Disclaimer: Stargate, Stargate SG-1 and all of its characters, titles, names, and back-story are the property of MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, Gekko Productions, SciFi Channel, and Showtime/Viacom. All other characters, the story idea and the story itself are the sole property of the author. This story cannot be printed anywhere without the sole permission of the author. Realize this is for entertainment purposes only; no financial gain or profit has been gained from this fiction. This story is not meant to be an infringement on the rights of the above-mentioned establishments

( When The Time Is Right )

Woke up to all sorts of fun this morning!

First up, Neil Gaiman's take on Dr. Who as Hamlet:

"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"

HAHAHAHA! Spot. On. From here.

Then, babygotbass linked to Justin's recent appearance on Ellen. It's a continuation of their mutual love fest!

Part I | Part II

I've seen a few people mention books they hate. Here are some books I hate:
* Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Yes, I know. But I didn't like it at all. There are very specific things I want out of a vampire book and Twilight didn't deliver for me. If it's any consolation, the movie casting looks fantastic. Edward Cullen. Mmmmmmm.
* The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. I haaaaaaaaaate this book. I thought it was manipulative and contrived and I was angry when I finished it.
* Anything by Melville. Again, sorry. But he bores me to death. Melville is an example of an author who's ideas I like but who's execution doesn't work for me. Same with Tolkien. I love the idea of Middle Earth but I'll never care that much about one tree and there's far too much wandering for my taste.

Books I hate aren't all sorts of fun but letting loose on my distaste sure is. Another thing I like very much? G'Kar and the Narn. I'm about 1/3 of the way through season 2 of Babylon 5 (and I'm taking a break until you can catch up, carta), and I'm completely taken with G'Kar. I find him oddly attractive in a bald, spotty (but strong & noble) sort of way.

The show is old enough that, in searching for a G'Kar icon, I inadvertently spoiled myself for a plot point I haven't seen yet. No more icon searches for me until I finish the series!

It looks like it's going to rain pretty soon so I'm going to try to get my run in before the downpour starts. Week 5, Day 2!