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2nd Nov, 2009

duo2

Only Bridges To 12/?

Because the last update was short, we'll spring right into Chapter 12....

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: NC17ish
Notes: Challenge fic; updates in bold.

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23rd Oct, 2009

duo3

Only Bridges To 11/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: NC17
Notes: Challenge fic. Updates in bold.

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22nd Oct, 2009

duo glasses

random Gundam drabble thing

Kind of a random AU thing...
Fandom: GW
Rating: NC17


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13th Sep, 2009

zechs3

Salude

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 6+2
Rating: G
Relevant Quote: "True happiness is to understand our duty to God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient." ~Seneca


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9th Sep, 2009

duo3

Only Bridges To 10/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: Rish
Notes: Challenge fic. Updates in bold.

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8th Sep, 2009

2x5

Chiasma 16/16

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: Rish
Notes: Challenge fic. Updates in bold.

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25th Aug, 2009

garak 'sup

(Belated) Year In Writing Meme

I usually do this in December, but I missed it in 2008 and I kept meaning to do it. So why not.

Year In Review
With the year now being January 2008 to December 2008.

Fics alpha by title.

Gundam Wing
Age Inappropriate: 13,141 words
Asylum: 22,849 words (WIP)
Brand New Day: 6,564 words (WIP)
Chiasma: 35,825 words (WIP)
Code of Conduct: 42,866 words (WIP)
History Play: 1,835 words
Properties of ZERO: 13,023 (WIP)
Six Seconds To Gone: 14,260 words (WIP)
Stay, Stupid: 12,794 words
The Year Without Trowa: 31,871
2.7 Kelvin: 13,768 (WIP)

9 drabbles: 11,013 words

Total for Gundam Wing: 219,809 words

At an average of 250 words a page, that's about 880 pages.


Harry Potter
1 drabble: 874 words

At 250 words a page, that's about 3 pages.


Lionness Rampant
We: 6,270 words (complete)


House
1 drabble: 1,284

At 250 words a page, that's about 4 pages.


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1 drabble: 1,289 words

At 250 words a page, that's about 5 pages.


Torchwood
1 drabble: 223 words

At 250 words a page, that is not a page.



Total words written for 2008: 229,749 or 918 pages


The Breakdown:

Fandoms: 6
Stories: 12
Drabbles: 13

Completed Stories: 5
Works In Progress: 7


From My Past Year Of Writing, My Favourite Was...

Favourite Story:: ????
...I absolutely cannot choose, because I worked on such wonderful stuff this year. I loved working on the final chapter of The Year Without Trowa because it really did take a year to write it, and living with something that long is so worth it. For the same reason I love Chiasma, and it's dark and intriguing and I am enjoying the challenge format. I loved We because Lionness Rampant was my childhood favourite series. I will always love Properties of Zero, because my attitude toward it has evolved and still evolves the longer it lingers, because it's a summertime fic, because it has Treize and that's always awesome for me.

Best Story: Chiasma
...because, challenge format aside, I think it's one of my most creative and possibly one of the most mature fics I've done. It's a narrative challenge and a character piece and I have some fun OCs as well, and it's my best attempt at delving into L2 culture and history.

Most Underappreciated By The Universe: the Torchwood drabble
...which is not an entirely fair thing to say, as it's from a show that is confined to BBC America for all but two or three of my lj readers. But you gotta give love to John Barrowman.

Most Fun: Age Inappropriate
...because despite the seriousness of the subject matter, it's really a comedy piece. It had wit and slapstick and silly-hot sex scenes, and Quatre married to Noin. And a gay bar on L4.

Most Disappointing: that Star Trek drabble
...I mean, read the thing. Well, don't, but if you had, you would understand.

Most Sexy: Brand New Day
...because it's about two young people who are experiencing first love together and it's vast and frightening and extremely immediate, but it's still ultimately tender.

Hardest to Write: 2.7 Kelvin
...because once we stopped working on it as frequently as in the beginning, it's always been the one that's hardest for me to get back into and to sustain long enough to write a chapter.

Most Unintentionally Telling: Chiasma

Best Written: Chiasma

Worst Written: I'm going to say Six Seconds to Gone, because I can never manage to replicate what I did stylistically in the prologue. I love the prologue. But I think it gets messier after that.


And finally, as before, you may choose any of my stories and ask me what happens after the end of it, and I shall be happy to answer.

Tally-ho, 2009!

24th Aug, 2009

wufei

Chiasma 15/16

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: M15ish
Notes: Challenge fic. Updates in bold.

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5th Aug, 2009

drabble

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 3x4
Notes: Not terrifically accomplished, but I'm tired of working on it.

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4th Aug, 2009

2x5

Chiasma 14/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: Rish?
Notes: Challenge fic. Updates in bold.

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29th Jul, 2009

treize

Treize drabble

I wrote this thing in 2001 for the now-defunct rpg "Gundam Wing Rebels", in which I played Treize for a few years. It's rough around the edges, but damn if I don't still like it.

Fandom: GW
Pairing: Treize/Leia
Rating: G
Notes: Alternate timeline-- AC 200

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26th Jul, 2009

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drabble request for [info]drich

Oh, you thought I forgot? I in fact did not, but I could never settle on the perfect zombie victim. Then I got off on a tangent and I was looking at writing an eighteen chapter zombie fic, and while that certainly has its pleasures and may in fact rear its decaying head in the future, for now I wanted just a drabble. So, for [info]drich, who won a zombie-themed drabble in response to my zombie fic request last month, behold.

Fandom: GW
Pairing: Zechs, Treize
Rating: G
Notes: Obscure references to, amongst other things, Wufei's Episode Zero, and even more obscure lore about how the zombie virus is passed.

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22nd Jul, 2009

1x2

Only Bridges To 9/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: Rish
Notes: This is a challenge fic. Updates will be posted in bold.

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8th Jul, 2009

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Drabble prize for [info]rigel66

In reward for recommending a zombie fic, [info]rigel66 requested a 1x4. To wit:

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 1x4
Rating: Mish

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28th Jun, 2009

flag

Drabble prize for [info]sevenall

In response to my zombiefic rec request, Sevenall asked for a 3x4 with the prompt "Radio Silence". I spent yesterday pondering the prompt while wandering around outdoors in a heatwave and drinking beer, so when inspiration came, it was somewhat left of the point and probably not at all what poor Sevenall is expecting, but here it is!

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 3x4
Rating: We'll just say citrusy
Notes: Very slightly AU


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15th Jun, 2009

duo hilde

Chiasma 13/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2, et al
Rating: R
Notes: Challenge fic, updates in bold.

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6th Jun, 2009

fic rec

This was just recently posted, and deserves as wide an audience as it can get. [info]octavius_x is a very gifted young author who has a unique ability to make the exotic feel both intensely personal and eminently unknowable. Her fic, Hanged Man (GW, Wufei-centric), uses that paradox to the best effect yet.

Brief Summary: The story shifts time and place, but seems rooted in the moment of Wufei's decision to join Dekim Barton's rebellion. The steps that inform that decision are woven back through his childhood with particular emphasis on his marriage and his child bride, Meilin.

What Makes It Good: This fic gives Wufei full access to his culture (both colonial and Chinese/Mandarin) that can be lacking in other interpretations of his character. It integrates the Nataku mythos with the grief of a young man who's lost everything, but doesn't minimalise either the religious reverence or the deeper spirituality he's invested in his Gundam as, he calls it, a totem and a temple. I was particularly taken with the passage of Wufei visiting the Forbidden City in China on Earth, where he comes across as both a pilgrim and a disappointed reverent. This Wufei is hardly one-dimensional even in his fits of anger. He's got a self-awareness he's rarely given, but he's also lost to himself, stuck in a whirlwind of contradictory truths that he struggles to honour and ignore. As a character piece, I loved it. But what's also so good about this fic, and what is here fully matured from her other fics before it, is the use of small details to build minutiae into significance. A visitor's brass rail at the Foridden City symbolically bars Wufei from connecting to his ancestral history. The deliberate laying out of garments-- his Barton army uniform-- as if they were priestly vestments that he dons after almost ceremoniously stripping himself of his old clothes, his old life, imbues his betrayal with a deliberateness and an importance that it lacks when perceived purely as an adolescent inability to settle into the peace. My one complaint might be the edge-of-mixing cultural and religious metaphors; Wufei's religion isn't specified, perhaps deliberately, and any clearer focus on it might have taken away from the otherwise clean immersion in his inward-focussed world, but I felt that some of the imagery hinted more at Catholicism, more Western identifications. This, however, is cleverly balanced by the use of Duo's character. I got hints that Wufei might have read up a little on Duo, bemused by his religiosity in the absence of faith, and that he starts to tinge his own identity in the encounter with the Other.

Anyway, read it. It's great. I think this is an author to be watching.

5th Jun, 2009

3x2

Drabble

Fandom: GW
Prompt: 'Gravity'

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1st Jun, 2009

duo3

Only Bridges To 8/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: Rish
Notes: Challenge fic, updates in bold. And holy hell! Eight parts already!?

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21st May, 2009

wufei

Chiasma 12/?

Fandom: GW
Pairing: 5x2
Rating: R
Notes: Challenge fic. Updates in bold.

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