this person is a WIP

So 2020 is over. It's been a shit year generally and won't be missed by anyone, I doubt.

( cut for discussions of health and bereavement... )

In some ways going back into lockdown in England feels like it's happening all over again, but I'm definitely aware that my support networks are actually functioning remotely now with additions to the two very supportive Facebook groups I relied on earlier. We've now got a regular Vampire Dark Ages game happening almost every Sunday afternoon, I have a "long distance breakfast" twice a week with two different friends, and have a new counselling thing going on via Zoom. All in all, much better the original lockdown. The new thing is setting up Discord - GYWO has embraced Discord for 2021 and some other friends are playing AD&D on it, so we'll see how that works out.

One thing which did look up last year was the writing. It was my second year of GYWO, and I wrote almost 100k last year, so that was pretty cool. I've pledged for 150k again this year so we'll see if I can beat the 100k mark. I also need to finish off some of the UFOs (un-finished objects) both written and knitted which are hanging around still. The knitting also went very well last year, I taught myself basic Fair Isle over Christmas which was fun, so I need to complete the cardigan and three pairs of socks promised to other people so I can have a good play with it. Also so I have space to buy more Jamieson's of Shetland wool, 10 colours is obviously not enough and the balls come in little 25g size, so obviously there'll be space for more...

(I have no more space for wool or fabric. Seriously, no matter how much I keep drooling over the 225 colours of Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift I can't buy more till I make space for it.)

Title: Hydromancy
Fandom: Lewis / Rivers of London
Rating: Gen
Word count: 14197
Warnings: N/A
Characters: (primarily) Robert Lewis & James Hathaway
Author's Notes: Okay, so this is another catch up on a story I failed to link here. Case fic.

Chief Inspector Lewis has two dead bodies found in or around the river already when Detective Sergeant Hathaway is attacked and almost drowned. Lewis can’t find any connection between the two bodies and the intervention of two weird detectives from the Met is not helping Lewis' blood pressure at all. He can only hope that evidence comes up that will make sense of the situation before anyone else dies.
 

Title: The Other Man (Series link)
Fandom: Harry Potter/Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen
Word count: 7,077 (so far)
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Sirius Black, James 'Bucky' Barnes
Author's Notes: Okay, so this is a catch up on the stories I completely failed to link here! Sirius takes the Winter Soldier with him when he breaks out of Azkaban...

( Links to individual stories... )

The absolute hardest thing about writing Winter Soldier fic (for me at least) is that before he gets back to being more Bucky Barnes, he lacks so much personal agency that I can't help but automatically write my potential sexual partners for him as having MASSIVE worries about his ability to consent to sex. I mean, I'm writing nice people here, or at least generally nice. Mostly very clever, often sexually experienced, DEFINITELY aware of consent issues. Poor Winter Soldier, however horny you get, people still doubt you.

Title: Hermione Granger, Animagus
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: Gen
Word count: 882
Warnings: None
Characters: Hermione Grainger
Author's Notes: Written for themagicrubbish inspiration post: the best kind of fox news by highlander_ii . Also posted on AO3 (link above)

( George had, unsurprisingly, started a betting pool on what her animagus form would emerge as... )

Title: Due Diligence
Fandoms: Moonlight(TV) / NCIS
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 21300
Warnings: Violence/combat, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Characters: Anthony DiNozzo/Mick St. John, Josef Kostan | Josef Konstantin, Anthony DiNozzo Sr.
Author's Notes: Written in response to NimueOfTheNorth’s awesome artwork  in the Every Fandom Reverse Bang 2019. It was the crossover I didn’t realise I needed until I saw the picture! Definite proof of “Elaiel’s complete inability to wrap up a story in less than 10k words”. Takes place after the end of Moonlight series and is AU for NCIS from mid S5 Ep18 (Judgement Day pt1)

“I got a large number of people for you to look into.” 
“How many?” 
Josef shrugged. “At the moment? About twenty, but I can prioritise. That one’s the first.” 
Mick opened the file. The front page was a basic info sheet with a head and shoulders ¾ angle portrait shot of an older man, grey-white hair brushed back off his face, california tan and broad smile. The file listed him as Anthony DiNozzo Snr, businessman and investor, laying out a series of known associates, former business partners and listing a next of kin in Anthony Dinozzo Jr, adult son.

Title: Like Tears In Rain
Author: Elaiel
Rating: Teen
Warnings: non-major character death, terminal illness (canon specific)
Characters: Rodney McKay, Alternate Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Author's Notes: “So the simple answer,” Keller told them, “is he’s not human." [...] Keller pressed her lips together for a moment. “He says he’s a “replicant”, a synthetic being made in the image of a human. He was made as a copy of their Dr McKay to work in their outer planets mining industry.”


A short, written because I liked Tarlan's sadly unclaimed SGA reverse bang art. Written hurriedly in my lunch hour and currently unbetaed as I wanted to post it ASAP.

So, I'm writing again. Reasonably prolifically. The prompts for the bingo, the HC bingo in particular are definitely speaking to me.

*starts writing*

Okay, this is cool, yep 500 words, I can do that, oh and that prompt will work with...yeah, okay and this one follows on nicely...

*Cues up series of 15 fics and counting in Numb3rs fandom*

*Starts writing fic 1....and writes, and writes, sets up plot, counts words....*

Damn, 1750 words. Half way through. Maybe.

*Watches plot bunny go tearing past and picks up shot gun*

Okay, everyone sing along "Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit, kill da waaaabit!"