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I saw this meme at snacky's journal, and I want to do it too!

WIP buttkick: these are titles/brief descriptions of my active WIPs. Pick one and I'll write you 100 or more new words for it. (I offer no guarantees, but I'll do my best!)

1. ASOIAF, post series. Daenerys is Queen, Tyrion is her Hand, nobody is happy. This started out as a Myrcella story but I think will end up as a Tyrion story.

2. ASOIAF, post ADWD. Davos goes on his mission to Skagos, and succeeds. But on the way back he's blown across the Narrow Sea to Braavos. Hijinks and reunions ensue.

3. ASOIAF AU, Catelyn and Lysa's marriages are switched: Lysa married Ned and Catelyn married Jon Arryn.

4. I am thinking seriously of writing more of the Roman history story I wrote for Yuletide.

5. Lymond Chronicles/Dr. Who crossover. Marthe runs off with River Song mid-PiF. (Tentative title "not in our stars but in ourselves")

6. Complete crack crossover, in which some set of characters from Spooks are magically transported to Westeros. This has mostly been abandoned while I try to figure out what a philologist would make of Westerosi and Valyrian.

7. While looking through my files I also discovered a story working off an old kinkmeme prompt, in which Arya is the daughter who stays in King's Landing, and she's married off to Lancel. I don't even know. I guess I could finish it?

I need to do some writing! Although I now have an exchange story due, an article to finish, and a talk to write. The more, the merrier, right?

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The AO3 uploader hasn't been working for me recently for LJ (I understand that this is a general problem), so I have been uploading some old fic from my webpage, which does not work as smoothly but does work. This mostly means some older XF fic -- and of course I reread as I go. I had forgotten how frequently I used the Balkans as a setting (although it was generally justifiable for plot of character-related reasons); I didn't post one or two things last week, because of the news about Radovan Karadzic. It just seemed weird and tacky.

I am also remembering my issues the X-Files. Wow, do I have issues; I can't even watch an episode now. Anyway, the short version is that although I kept watching, canon and I parted company definitively after Two Fathers/One Son: nothing after that made any sense to me at all, and frankly, given how little sense most of the stuff that happened before then made, that's pretty damning.

The next thing I think I should post is Parallel Catastrophes (which for those of you who joined this journal after 2003 or so is a crossover between XF and Harry Potter in which WMM is Pansy Parkinson's grandfather and Marita Covarrubias and Narcissa Malfoy are sisters. Obviously, this was all before OOtP came out.) The problem is that there's a huge plotty story which I have never posted, because I don't like how it starts, and I haven't even looked at it in a couple of years -- but it needs to be there to make the fragment I wrote back when I did that big crossover meme.

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Speaking of which, I saw this meme at rhi's journal:

Give me two fandoms and I will tell you about their crossover OTP(s).

Like Rhi, I'll add a plural, since there may be more than one, and add that my OTPs may be gen.

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As seen on yahtzee63's lj --

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc.). I will then explain what story from that fandom I would AU in that era.

It looks like fun, and I am here all afternoon -- meme me!

The results of the meme I did the other day: here's my list of characters!

1. Jack Bauer (24)
2. Kate Somerville (Lymond Chronicles)
3. Irina Derevko (Alias)
4. John Winchester (SPN)
5. Frank Pembleton (Homicide)
6. Lauren Reed (Alias)
7. Kaylee Frye (Firefly)
8. Alex Krycek (XF)
9. Sarah Connor (SCC)
10. Al Swearengen (Deadwood)

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That was so much fun!

Seen everywhere:

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I'll give you either (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason he/she sucks, (c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.

Fandoms: Alias, SPN, Deadwood, Firefly, XF, Lymond Chronicles, Rome, Jericho, Homicide, Highlander, and probably Buffy and Angel. ooh! And those Dalziel and Pascoe novels. And you know, if you think I know it, just ask. Especially if its something I've written in.

In other news, homemade macaroni and cheese is the best comfort food in the whole universe.

I see the list of "ten signs I wrote this story" meme is going around again, and cannot resist navel-gazing. I did this meme back in January of 2006, which is not all that long ago except in fandom terms. Here it is, with additions in parentheses. Bold parentheses!

10 signs a story is by Vanzetti:

1. Shameless overuse of the "then + verb" construction. Must break this habit! (I think I may have moved on to out-and-out asyndeton, which at least means that I've left the "then" out)

2. There will be little description of persons, although there may be some description of the location. (True. This is something I don't really care for in other people's fanfic -- the whole point of the exercise is that we already know what these people look like! -- so I tend to leave it out of my own stuff.)

3. The plot is carried forward by conversation, rather than action. (This was already less true -- I was moving out of the stories driven by dialogue -- but it's still the case that I like to get important stuff done in conversation, rather than narration or internal monologue.)

4. No one is in love. (I don't think this was true even then, and in fact I see that I contradict it in number 6 below. It would be fairer to say that I don't write romance. Romance may occur, but it won't be the focus of the story.)

5. No one has sex. An exception might be made for femslash. (And, apparently, for John Winchester.)
5a. Fade to black!

6. If characters do have sex, it is likely to be because they have a deep and true love which can overcome a thousand betrayals. No one will admit this to themselves, let alone the other person.
6a. If not a deep and true love, than at least a deep and true understanding.
6b. I am a huge fan of homophrosune (likemindedness). Odysseus/Penelope OTP!
(This is all still so very, very true. My characters are chronically incapable of saying "I love you." They express love in all kinds of ways, sometimes involving guns and explosions, but most of them would rather gnaw off a limb than actually say it.)

7. The main characters in the story are unlikely to be the main characters in the source. (Yep. And now, they are also likely to be dead at least some of the time.)

8. The characters will travel long distances in the course of the story.
8a. Exotic locations!
8b. I hate airports!
(This is less true now than it was then, and even then it may have been due to the characters and genres -- Alias characters travel all the time, especially with their special travel powers, and both Krycek and Marita act in an international world. Winchesters drive around a lot, but they don't use airports much. These days, my characters are more likely to travel between Hell and the world than anything else. I guess that counts as an exotic location.)

9. The characters will be adults, and will act like adults. (Still true. Boys are boring. Girls moderately less so. But I teach young adults; I don't want to read about them, too.)

10. There are unexplained classical allusions and the title has something to do with graves or stones. (I've gotten better about the title thing, although I still find coming up with titles hard. But the unexplained classical allusions are still leaving their nasty pawprints all over everything.)

Is there anything I'm missing?

So I am at work, and marking exams, as happens at this time of year. Remind me of why I want to know whether my students are actually learning anything, again? And I know that I still have a couple snippets to go from the last meme (working on them!), but I require short-term distraction at the moment.

Ask me about any character whom I have written, and I will tell you three pieces of personal fanon about them. It is fanon, rather than "personal canon," isn't it? You can try characters I haven't written, but I can't guarantee that I'll have the same kind of knowledge about them.

A sort of self-involved meme, from the_grynne, because I want to:

What would you say are the trademarks of my writing? What themes or quirks or turns of phrase have you noticed? What is it that makes a story by me -- well, a story by me?

I don't suppose I can tell my TA that I don't have the exams ready for her because I spent yesterday wanting to thwap idiots on the internet, can I? No, didn't think so.

At least I didn't end up participating in the real drabble meme! Instead, from minisinoo, 3 fandoms, 3 characters: the first 6 (3+3) people who comment may request a drabble.

SPN: John, Ellen, Bobby
Alias: Jack, Irina, Sark
Firefly: River, Zoe, Mal

You may ask for up to 2 people in the drabble, but no more. You may request a crossover, though. Please? If you request something, you must offer up yourself to write in turn.

I make no promises about when this will get done -- I have stacks of marking, and feel really sleepy, too. And they may be snippets, rather than drabble proper.

As seen everywhere, the list of books other people say they haven't read. The best part about this is learning that many, many people share my loathing of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

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