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Remix Revival fics are live. Someone remixed my old Mickey Smith fic from ten years ago--it's a sweet tribute to Mickey and to past Mickey x Rose and present/future Mickey x Martha. The nostalgia factor! The Mickey Smith love! I should re-up my paid account here so I can access my Mickey userpic...

It's funny: the fic I remixed is also about ten years old, at least according to its post date on AO3. (Given some other factors, I'd guess that the original story is older than that. AO3 has only been around for ten years, for one thing.) Fandom and fanwork as yet undisclosed. I will say that my remix story is the only one posted in that fandom this year, but that's not much of a hint; the remix crowd is only in the seventies this year and a lot of fandoms have one unique remix offering.

It was a stretch, trying to remix a fanfic and still do, well, everything else. I'm overdue to tackle Mount Clean Laundry, for instance.

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A few weeks ago I fell into a YouTube rabbit hole and ended up watching a video about opulence--and getting a helpful explanation about one aspect of Donald Trump's appeal. (Basically, by indulging in opulence / acting like the nouveau riche rather than behaving as an heir to wealth, Trump is more relatable to some in his audience.) Anyway, the whole video is a wild journey with YouTuber Natalie Wynn, aka ContraPoints. I've only recently discovered her channel. Language warning for her vids--I wouldn't play them aloud at work. Also, Wynn delves a bit into her own journey as a trans woman, so it could be a sensitive topic for some. Finally, this video is a year old, so a few of the people she name-checks have acquired various scandals in the meantime.

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The garden! I collected some tomato seeds from some tasty cherry tomatoes and I actually have baby plants! The race is on: will I get tomatoes from them before it gets too cold for tomato plants to be productive? As for non-food plants, last weekend I moved some irises from one side of the flower bed to the expanded edge; this weekend I plan to add some daffodil, crocus, and iris bulbs in the rest of the expansion.

title: Tomorrow Was Made for Some
fandom: Person of Interest
summary: Reese and Carter are unprepared to navigate the turbulence in their tentative relationship through a year of shocks and challenges. At critical moments, when things seem about to flame out, Fusco, Shaw, and Finch provide crucial assistance.
(shorter summary: mostly not-sappy pregnancy fic)

characters & pairings: Joss Carter/John Reese, Harold Finch, Lionel Fusco, Sameen Shaw, Taylor Carter, original characters
rating and contents: M
word count: around 38K

Note 1 blacktop50 did most of the heavy lifting on this co-written story.

Note 2: AU from just after 2X22

on AO3 (complete at 13 chapters) or on FF.net (will be updated regularly)

May post a link soon to my thoughts about collaborating on this story.

sabaceanbabe recently made this post with a list of what she viewed as her best works in fic-writing. It was interesting, the trends I spotted in her favorite stories that match trends in mine as well, such as lots of minor characters getting major roles in fic. That and not usually writing fandom's preferred pairing, whatever pair that may be. I was already inclined in that direction, but S'babe's stories were an influence in those earliest months.

So since I started off following her, I decided to make a similar post with stories I've written. ( some of my favorite fanfics back here )

Seven years of fic-writing summed up there. I still wish I wrote faster; stories that are started and done within two days are emphatically the exception.

So no one is out here, right? You're all watching Lost. I feel so abandoned!

If you watch 30 Rock, you need to read this fanfic: Settlingly Ever After, by dollsome. Liz Lemon/the more appropriately named Wesley Snipes. It's fantastically funny.

( brief blather about 'idfic' )

New topic! If you wrote something for Remix Redux 8, let me know. And maybe give me a hint if it's a fandom you've written before or not, because I'd like to try and guess what you wrote. (Not for a prize or anything. Just because it's fun.) Or make your own post for us to guess, please! Thanks!

Sadly I don't have time right now to read the stories there. I have to finish getting my place ready for guests coming over tomorrow evening for our belated Lost finale viewing party.

The Farscape pilot episode has some of my favorite set-ups for fiction. Enemies forced to bond, lost person forced to deal quickly with unfamiliar setting, the outsider. Yeah, I love the outsider in stories (in case that wasn't glaringly obvious to anyone who reads this LJ on a regular basis). Spaceships and fights, too, yay!

Oh, episodes for season one are available through iTunes, since they're out of print on DVD. I have the next episode already downloaded.

Other thoughts: Aeryn Sun is awesome. And pretty. But really, totally awesome. Ben Browder is a fantastic spokesperson for the plain white tee-shirt. The evil enemy dude is... kinda hasty to blame Crichton for the death of his brother, but I've handwaved much bigger things than that.

So, verdict is: no livejournal tag for Farscape yet, but there may be soon.
eta: tag added 5/26/08

Also, anyone know of a good place to find X-Men movieverse fic?

And lastly: why did the third X-Men movie have to be so blah in comparison to the first two?