Sophinisba Solis

Well, summerpornathon ended a few weeks ago. Here are the fics I made for it this year.

( Previously linked here on my journal )

Also written for this year's pthon and posted on the AO3

Title: Live by the Sword
Ships: Annis/Gwen (other pairings mentioned)
Rating: NC-17
Contains: Reference to canon character deaths, grief, object insertion
Wordcount: 750
Summary: If ever there was a time to take a young ruler under her wing, it is now.

Title: Trading Day
Ships: Gwen/Morgana, offscreen Arthur/Gwen
Rating: NC-17
Contains: nonmonogamy, can be read as infidelity
Wordcount: 750
Summary: He can't begrudge her a kidnapping or two, not with so little else to stand out from the flatness of life on the colony. (FEMSLASH IN SPACE.)

Title: Build a Better Bicycle
Ships: Gwen/Morgana
Rating: R
Contains: slight dubcon due to mistress/servant power dynamic
Wordcount: 746
Summary: Morgana can trust Gwen to make the necessary adjustments.

Title: This Is a Recording
Ships: Arthur/Gwen/Merlin and subsets
Rating: NC-17
Contains: spanking and a teensy bit of D/s
Wordcount: 750
Summary: This is new for her, Merlin thinks. She only half believed him when he whispered that they were lovers first.

( Thoughts )

Ooh, I was just going to say I hope merlin_holidays runs again because I'd like to participate again, and it looks like signups open tomorrow! I need to think about what I want to request ack. Also gosh that deadline is going to come up quickly. But anyway yay Merlin!!!


Sign-ups for merlin_holidays begin Sept 22 at 10 am Eastern

Oh for goodness sake, I forgot the other half of what was supposed to be in my previous post:

I'm excited about the new round of camelotremix!

I was feeling a little weird about signing up when I hadn't written any new fic since last year's remix, but flammablehat and I decided that was fine, and also that I would go ahead and post those Freya ficlets, and that we would both write some other new stuff. Yay!

camelotremix/camelotremix! A comm I helped start, now modded by the fabulous venivincere and sapphirescribe, who did such a fine job with it last year. Signups are open through Saturday the 1st.

The many comments on the LJ signup and the handful on Dreamwidth are a beautiful microcosm of the fandom.

Title: Red (The Gift That Keeps On Giving Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Ship: Arthur/Percival, Arthur/Leon
Rating: NC-17
Contains: BDSM, kink negotiation, a little bit of impact play
Wordcount: 5176
Notes: Remix of Red Jacket by riventhorn, written for camelotremix with wonderful help and support by roughandtumble. (Also thinking about using it for the whipping/flogging square on my second kink_bingo card but I think that would be stretching the erotic focus rule pretty far.)
Summary: "I don't hit people I'm having sex with, or people I care about," says Percival. "Or at least, I haven't, up till now."

Read it at the AO3!

( Or read it here! )

Hey Merlin fans, remember back in 2010 when netgirl_y2k and lilian_cho and I ran a Merlin remix fest and a bunch of you participated and it was awesome? Well it's okay if you don't remember but anyway sapphirescribe and venivincere just started up a new round, and this time it's gonna be EVEN MORE AWESOME because besides fic there will be fanart!

So, a remix challenge gives you a chance to transform someone else's story by writing it another way, or by drawing your version of it, or to write or draw based on someone else's art! camelotremix/camelotremix is for fanworks about Merlin characters and actors!

Signups are open on LJ and Dreamwidth from now through Saturday and the works will be posted on the AO3 in March. Minimum wordcount on the fics is 500. YOU SHOULD ALL SIGN UP OMG!!!

I wrote two pieces for the Reverse Remix comment fest over at bessemerprocess's journal. The way this works is that you list fandoms you can write in and someone else links you to one of their fics and you try to write a quick remix!


Title: Beginning Partner Dancing (The Teacher's Always a Learner Remix)
Fandom: Community
Wordcount: 577
Rating: G
Characters: Madame LeClair, Troy, Britta
Contains: n/a
Notes: Remix of Beginning Partner Dancing by cantarina. The sensible thing would have been to remix Ca'rina's Troy/Britta fic from Britta's POV but I got sidetracked so this happened instead! Might not make much sense unless you read the original, which is lovely.
Summary: Troy and Britta's dance teacher confronts a class with more men than women.
Links: AO3 | Dreamwidth comment

Title: One Year (The Two Girls Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 1400
Rating: G
Characters: Gwen, Morgana
Contains: n/a
Notes: Remix of One Year by wintercreek, with a big old rec for that beautiful Merlin friendship fic.
Summary: During her first year as Morgana's maid, Gwen finds out she doesn't have to be alone.
Links: AO3 | Dreamwidth comment

Title: Waking Up Stories (A Dancemix with Dragons)
Fandom: Merlin
Wordcount: 4378 (same as the original! and yes, it did take me several extra hours to get that to work out)
Rating: PG
Characters: Morgana, with girl!Aithusa, Kilgarrah, Uther, Arthur, Hunith, and Morgause
Contains: series 4 spoilers
Notes: Remix of Here Be Dragons by selenak, written for Remix Redux 2012. Thanks to flammablehat for beta and encouragement, and to Selena for writing and participating in the challenge!
Summary: Each parent has their own version of this story. If they wanted their children to fall asleep, they should have talked about something else.
Link: Read it at the AO3!

Hey all, if you are participating in Remix Redux please note that the deadline is midnight Eastern time TONIGHT (four hours from now as I'm making this post), not tomorrow night as some of us sort of thought when we looked at how it was written.

Whether or not you're participating in the main challenge, you can leave a comment at the Remix Madness post on LJ if you want to participate in an informal remix free-for-all (no assignments and no minimum wordcount). Then comment here to let me know that you're in!

You guys, it's Remix time again! Remix is a challenge where you get assigned to an author and you write a new version of one of their stories, like doing fanfic of a fanfic. IT IS AWESOME! I love remixes so much that I have helped run a hobbit-centric remix, a Merlin remix, and a mini-remix challenge. They were all awesome, but the most exciting is Remix Redux, the big Remix, because you get hundreds of people from all kinds of different fandoms coming together to do this awesome thing. Besides that, this is the TENTH YEAR IN A ROW THAT musesfool and friends have put this on for us. That is pretty amazing!

I had to sit out last year because I had some other stuff going on, BUT NOW I'M BACK! I can't wait to give this another try! I hope that lots of you will also sign up because you, my friends, are my favorite authors and you write about my favorite things.

You can read more about this challenge at the LJ comm remixers_lounge (or subscribe to remixers_lounge_feed on DW), or you can sign up at the AO3 until Sunday night.

In preparation for this I've been taking care of a bunch of old drabbles that I'd never archived at the AO3. If anybody's subscribed to me or to the Faculty or LotR fandom feeds I am sorry about the spam.

The Remix rules are long and can seem overwhelming, but it's not really that complicated and I am pretty familiar with them. Let me know if you have any questions and I promise not to be like "omg it's right there in the rules!" :D

I watched Whip It last week and it was great. Even the things that bugged me about it in the middle worked out in ways that I liked. ( briefly, with spoilers ) I would ship Bliss/Maggie but I haven't found any, but I did enjoy this Maggie/Pash fic, Searching for Something That Makes Hearts Move by mazily.

Then last night I rewatched Bend It Like Beckham, which I had just seen once a long time ago. It's similar movie in a lot of ways - the girl's joy in finding out she can do something she loves with other girls, the lying to her parents so she keep doing it, the inevitability of the MOST IMPORTANT THING in her sport happening on THE VERY SAME DAY as the MOST IMPORTANT THING in her family life, and other stuff. ( Like femslash ) Anyway, that was fun. It was neat to see the girls so young and cute and, well, kind of awkward and amateurish, after years of watching Parminder Nagra on ER and so many other movies with Keira Knightley. Oh, and what a trip to realized that Jess's older sister Pinky (the sort of ditzy one who doesn't care about anything but her wedding) was played by Archie Panjabi, whom I've been fangirling as Kalinda on The Good Wife. The characters couldn't be more different and I seriously wouldn't have recognized her if I hadn't gone to look up something else on IMDB.

Hey, I think a lot of you saw Philipa_Moss's Yuletide fic Looking Behind Now, in which Tony from BILB meets Johnny and Omar from My Beautiful Laundrette, but did you see that they posted a sequel last month? Bring Your Mother to Work Day is similarly clever and adorable.

So yeah, Kalinda's pretty awesome, isn't she?! And how about that Diane Lockhart?! Actually I love pretty much everyone on The Good Wife except for Peter, and he's okay too. So much chemistry between everybody too. I'm about two thirds of the way through the first season now. The show took a little while to hook me, idk, at first I thought the way they'd do the exposition was awkward and kind of boring. But the characters have really won me over and I've also really gotten to like the balance between the case of the week plot and larger arcs. It's become my go-to show when I'm ready to be entertained (and not challenged too much) for an hour before I go to bed, the way I sometimes watch Law & Order and used to watch House.

(Is it me or has House been really bad lately? Like, a lot worse than it used to be?)

I'm also watching the first season of Community! I don't usually watch a lot of sitcoms but I decided to check this out after all the campaigning for Troy in Fandom March Madness. All those gifs etc. had led me to believe that Troy and Abed were the main characters so it was sort of disappointing to watch the first few episodes, which were so much about Jeff trying to get in Britta's pants. Still, the ensemble stuff is wonderful and Abed is the wonderfullest (I hope he wins March Madness next year!). Besides the main characters, Señor Chang and Professor Whitman make me laugh a lot.

Speaking of people who want to be the guy from Dead Poets Society, cereta had a really great post a few weeks ago on Why I hate "one teacher who made a difference". I also really liked reading the discussions over the last few days in her Grading Hell Theater: Misconceptions post, especially the stuff about what English teachers and professors do in real life and what people think they can/should do.

[A smooth transition,] I am so excited about remix_goes_wild, an open-ended challenge for writing lots of different kinds of remixes, for points! I think it'll be really good both for those of us who are remix addicts and also for folks who like the idea but have not wanted to deal with the deadlines, restrictions, and other pressures of the big exchanges. (Actually, I guess I'm a bit of both - I have done a lot of remixes but I decided I couldn't handle the pressure of Remix Redux this year.) Anyway, signups will open on April 1st and posting will be open through the end of the year. You can sign up to write and/or to make your some or all of your fic available to be remixed.

Fic rec! Last night I read the first 18 parts of a new WIP at the kink meme, The Map of Love. It's, um, Arthur/Merlin in which Arthur is a doll, but it's quite lovely and achy rather than creepy or cracky (not that there's anything wrong with crack or creepiness). It's from Arthur's POV and it has great supporting characters (FREYA!!) and in general is just very interesting and enjoyable. It just got updated with with another 8 parts a little while ago, so I'm looking forward to reading some more of it tonight. ETA: Note that it starts out with cancer and death - if you'd rather not read about that you can skip ahead to the middle of the third comment, and the story will still make about as much sense.

Podfic rec! Earlier this week I finished listening to The Student Prince, fic and podfic by pandarus, and that was also wonderful! It's a very long fic and I liked some parts more than others, but I was completely charmed by the end, as I pretty much knew I would be. I was sort of laughing at myself and how predictable my reactions were, as in getting bored with the love triangulations and the drinking, then happy with the romance and the porn, and over the moon whenever glbt issues came up. Anyway, FayJay's reading is totally smooth and fun and happy-making, and I highly recommend it.

( Podfic progress! )

( Lack of Writing Progress :( )