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ranaloreI meant to announce this earlier, but: Signups for Remix Redux 9 are open! Only through this Saturday, so you might want to hurry if you plan to participate.
In an attempt to make life easier for whoever gets assigned to remix me, I've been uploading stories like mad to Archive of Our Own. I've got nearly all my work on there since I started LJing; my two J2 comment pieces aren't there yet, and I may be missing a few other such things. I'm also now working on adding all the stories I wrote prior to getting an LJ. Since I no longer have the raw text files for those, they'll take a bit longer. They're also all getting dated as published January 1, 2000, because the email messages with the relevant dates were lost probably about ten computers ago. If you think you remember a story by me, but don't see it up on AO3, give me a shout and I'll see if I can find it. I've already got 345 stories up there, many of which I'd forgotten I'd written, so. It won't surprise me to hear there are more.
As additional Remix prep, I'm pondering taking prompts. See, Dark Angel didn't make the qualifying fandom list, which means I have the same things to offer as I have for the past several years. Since I don't currently have the heart to write DBSK and my knowledge of Saiyuki canon is many years out of date, this means that, practically speaking, the only fandom I really have on the qualifying list is Yami no Matsuei. And while my numbers on AO3 confirm that it's the fandom of my heart, the number of other YnM authors who participate in Remix is finite, and I'm pretty sure they're all sick of getting remixed by me at this point.
I've been lamenting to Cass and Eliza that, if I were still as prolific as in 2005 to 2008, I could whip out seven drabbles in another qualifying fandom and neatly circumvent the issue. Despite being almost certain I couldn't do it, I've nonetheless been wracking my brain for ideas. Unfortunately, since Cass has been working on a few Inception pieces, I somehow got stuck on that as the one fandom in which I could attempt this. This morning, I woke up headdesking myself because it's not. There's another fandom on the qualifying list in which I've been wanting to write, and which I think is more compatible with my approach to drabbles: Avatar: The Last Airbender.
So, if you're so inclined, leave me a character and word or phrase, and we'll see if I can get my brain to churn out some words. No pairings, as I haven't the spoons to get into which ones I dig and why, so they'll show up in the drabbles if the prompt takes me that way.
Happy St. Paddy's Day! Though I forgot to take the corned beef out of the freezer yesterday, so probably we won't celebrate our food holiday until tomorrow. :-/
Oh! Also, the whole run of Murder: She Wrote is currently available via Netflix Instant Queue, so Cass and I went ahead and checked out JGL's episode. We had braced ourselves for someone's wide-eyed, winsome grandson or great nephew. The episode starts with several people getting off a bus somewhere in Texas (I can't remember which town, now). Among them are a mother and her two sons, one fair and one dark. The fair one whines about something his brother is doing, and their mother scolds said brother for teasing him. We never see either kid's face clearly, and the brunet has no lines. Turns out, those are the only kids in the episode, and JGL is billed as "Boy #Whatever," so we're assuming he was the brunet. How's that for anticlimactic?
In an attempt to make life easier for whoever gets assigned to remix me, I've been uploading stories like mad to Archive of Our Own. I've got nearly all my work on there since I started LJing; my two J2 comment pieces aren't there yet, and I may be missing a few other such things. I'm also now working on adding all the stories I wrote prior to getting an LJ. Since I no longer have the raw text files for those, they'll take a bit longer. They're also all getting dated as published January 1, 2000, because the email messages with the relevant dates were lost probably about ten computers ago. If you think you remember a story by me, but don't see it up on AO3, give me a shout and I'll see if I can find it. I've already got 345 stories up there, many of which I'd forgotten I'd written, so. It won't surprise me to hear there are more.
As additional Remix prep, I'm pondering taking prompts. See, Dark Angel didn't make the qualifying fandom list, which means I have the same things to offer as I have for the past several years. Since I don't currently have the heart to write DBSK and my knowledge of Saiyuki canon is many years out of date, this means that, practically speaking, the only fandom I really have on the qualifying list is Yami no Matsuei. And while my numbers on AO3 confirm that it's the fandom of my heart, the number of other YnM authors who participate in Remix is finite, and I'm pretty sure they're all sick of getting remixed by me at this point.
I've been lamenting to Cass and Eliza that, if I were still as prolific as in 2005 to 2008, I could whip out seven drabbles in another qualifying fandom and neatly circumvent the issue. Despite being almost certain I couldn't do it, I've nonetheless been wracking my brain for ideas. Unfortunately, since Cass has been working on a few Inception pieces, I somehow got stuck on that as the one fandom in which I could attempt this. This morning, I woke up headdesking myself because it's not. There's another fandom on the qualifying list in which I've been wanting to write, and which I think is more compatible with my approach to drabbles: Avatar: The Last Airbender.
So, if you're so inclined, leave me a character and word or phrase, and we'll see if I can get my brain to churn out some words. No pairings, as I haven't the spoons to get into which ones I dig and why, so they'll show up in the drabbles if the prompt takes me that way.
Happy St. Paddy's Day! Though I forgot to take the corned beef out of the freezer yesterday, so probably we won't celebrate our food holiday until tomorrow. :-/
Oh! Also, the whole run of Murder: She Wrote is currently available via Netflix Instant Queue, so Cass and I went ahead and checked out JGL's episode. We had braced ourselves for someone's wide-eyed, winsome grandson or great nephew. The episode starts with several people getting off a bus somewhere in Texas (I can't remember which town, now). Among them are a mother and her two sons, one fair and one dark. The fair one whines about something his brother is doing, and their mother scolds said brother for teasing him. We never see either kid's face clearly, and the brunet has no lines. Turns out, those are the only kids in the episode, and JGL is billed as "Boy #Whatever," so we're assuming he was the brunet. How's that for anticlimactic?
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Date: 2011-03-17 07:10 pm (UTC)Also, a prompt: Suki, my mouth blooms like a cut
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Date: 2011-03-18 04:07 am (UTC)~~~~~~
When a tyrant threatened her people, Avatar Kyoshi split the earth to stop him. Suki can't earthbend, but then, the Fire Nation have come by sea. All she can do is split wide her red-painted mouth and shout her defiance with her sisters. All she can do is fight in the ways passed down from Kyoshi, who admittedly knew how to beat back an enemy before resorting to turning her village into an island.
It's the more practical knowledge, really. No need to move the land when you could move a man more easily. It only took a little push.
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Date: 2011-03-18 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-17 10:09 pm (UTC)Toph; actions speak louder than words
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Date: 2011-03-18 05:36 am (UTC)~~~
Toph engages in the trash talk of the arena because it's what the spectators want. She personally would rather get right down to the fighting, because it doesn't matter how good you are at telling someone you can beat them up, what matters is when you actually do it. The arena master tried explaining to her once that it was a way to gain a mental edge, shake an opponent's confidence. Toph thinks that if your confidence can be shaken by someone talking at you, you shouldn't be in the ring.
Of course, the world's a ring, and you don't get a choice about being in it. And while the Boulder could spend half an hour describing all the ways he'd squash her like a bug and it wouldn't impact her certainty that she was going to take him down, the disdain in a snooty stranger's voice comparing her to somebody's pet is harder to dismiss. She's beaten the Boulder in the arena. She doesn't even know what her weapons are in the kind of skirmish these girls have started.
So she goes with what she knows, drops the ground out from under them, and hears Katara wash them away down the river. Later, Katara calls her pretty, which is nice, but unnecessary. Katara's already proven that she thinks Toph is worth fighting for, and that's all Toph needs.
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Date: 2011-03-18 08:07 am (UTC)Edited because I fail at typing.
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Date: 2011-03-19 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-18 07:27 pm (UTC)~~~~
"So," the Dowager Fire Lady says, when all the forms of introduction have been observed and Azula has recited the ritual greetings of the court, "you are Zuko's younger sister."
"Yes, Lady Grandmother," Azula says, keeping her head bent at precisely the correct angle to show respect without subservience. Her grandmother looks at her consideringly. Azula simply waits. She is six, a full year younger than Zuko, who was only introduced to their father's mother last season, and she knows she has done everything with precise perfection.
At last, the Dowager Fire Lady says, "You favor me in the eyes, a little."
"You pay me a great compliment, Lady Grandmother." Of which I am not worthy, is the correct completion of the phrase when speaking to a superior, but this is a Fire Lord's exiled mother, and Azula is a Fire Lord's only daughter, and she believes that puts them on equal footing. Besides, she is worthy, and her grandmother is correct: they have the same striking eyes.
Finally, her grandmother rises and holds out her hand. Azula straightens and takes it, carefully schooling her expression to show no triumph when the Dowager Fire Lady says, "Come walk with me in the gardens, child. My fire lilies are in bloom, and I think you will appreciate their beauty."
Zuko, Azula knows, received no such invitation. Then the Dowager Fire Lady says, as though speaking idly, "Your father is my youngest surviving child. No one favored him for the throne."
This sense of triumph very nearly overwhelms Azula's control, but she waits until she can speak evenly again and says only, "Yes, Lady Grandmother."
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Date: 2011-03-19 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-19 02:59 am (UTC)~~~~~
Roku has loved any number of times and ways. The nation of his birth, the wife who proved his equal, the monarch who had always been his best friend. Each of those loves was lost to him eventually, as the world changed and his friend did, and at last death separated him from his beautiful lover.
This love, though, this love that he's attempting to explain to Aang, the Avatar's love for the world and its people, but also for balance, is not one that can be lost. It's the love, as much as anything, that holds the Avatar to the line of reincarnation. It's the love that pushes the Avatar to do what must be done, or watch the whole world suffer the consequences.
Roku can only hope that Aang is better at honoring that love than he was.
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Date: 2011-03-20 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-03-22 07:20 pm (UTC)Aang; stars will lead the way