Sophinisba Solis

Thank you all for the lovely wishes and pictures and gifts yesterday. I've enjoyed my birthdays a lot more since I came into online fandom than I ever did before, and I always thought I had an especially good birthday since it's so close to Frodo and Bilbo's (so I could pretend all the hobbit fic getting posted around that time was really for ME), and then this year I got the season premiere of Merlin as a present. I had a good day offline too but I guess I will talk about that in a friends-locked post. Here in public though I want to point to some of the wonderful things people made for me:

-julchen11 wrote Questions and answers about Zeke and Casey.

-claudia603 shared a Gwen/Morgana ficlet from her Mermaid AU.

-mews1945 did a great happy-making picspam.

-baranduin made me a beautiful Gwen/Morgana/flowers birthday card.

-The BBC made a new episode of this show I might have mentioned that I like. :D

-briar_pipe made a comment thread for me at the camelot_fleet party, and just before I went to bed miarrow posted A Promise To Return - The Cylon Side of Things, a new Cylon!Merlin continuation of her Merlin/BSG fusion.

Thank you, lovelies. I had a great time!

I want to rec two remixes that I loved for pretty much opposite reasons, to the extent that I feel weird mentioning them both in the same post, but still:

Grounded (This Is Not My Beautiful Life Mix) (Harry Potter: Ginny/Luna with Ginny/Harry) because it was so real and sad and made me think about canon and the world and broke my heart; and

Free Range Subjects (The Scientific Method Remix) (Merlin: Merlin/Arthur with OCs) because Aliens Made Them Do It from the POV of the well-intentioned but hapless alien scientist is such good wacky fun. (OMG browngirl, I know this is not your fave fandom but I think you would like this alien!)

Chasing Boys (The Grown Up Extended Mix) (The Faculty: Casey/alien!Delilah and ensemble) could still totally use some love!

And speaking of Faculty fic, hyel wrote Stokely/Marybeth with Stokely/Delilah for femslash09: More Than Nostalgia.

People are starting to post at hbpchallenge as well. So much to read and enjoy these days.

More fics are up at remixthedrabble, including Firefly and Doctor Who fandoms. The index posts are at the top of the page and there are fandom tags in the sidebar.

Here is something else neat: the Drabble Tree at slytherin100. There are more than 100 100-word drabbles (all involving at least one Slytherin character) in the comments. To join in, take the last phrase of any of the drabbles and use it as the start of a new drabble (which can be about the same characters or other ones). I'm not that much of a Slytherin fan but I love the idea and I've written one so far, have started a couple others. The game is open through June 21st, and next month there will be a multifandom one at drabbletree on Dreamwidth.

I wrote a few Faculty ficlets for old times' sake: a drabble and 2 150-word ones (3 paragraphs of 50 words each). The prompts are from this post at writing_game.

( Slow Ride – 100w, Casey/Zeke, PG-13 )
( Limits - 150w, Casey/Zeke, PG-13 with consent issues )
( Chicago -150w, Stokely/Stan, angsty G )

Here is a meme about the fandoms we love!

The meme and questions: RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

Here are my answers for the fandoms rubynye gave me:

( Lotrips )
( The Faculty )
( Merlin )

Here is my ficlet for the C/Z Xmas Box! My prompt word was tree and I tried to keep it to a drabble but that didn't work out. Thanks to aliensouldream and honeyandvinegar for organizing the fest!



Title: The Dead Tree
Fandom: The Faculty
Pairing: Casey/Zeke
Rating: PG
Word Count: 250
Summary: Casey brings Zeke a Christmas tree

( The Dead Tree )

Here's the favorite fic meme that's been going around.

Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most.

These are not in order. I really suck at picking favorites, actually! But these are five fics of mine for which I have some special affection. ( fic links )

And while I'm talking about my own fics, here are five songs I've quoted in them, which you can download if you'd like (at least for the next week). I've shared a couple of these before. ( music and fic links )

Title: Antibodies
Fandom: The Faculty
Pairing: Casey/Zeke
Rating: PG
Words: 400 (four drabbles)
Summary: Zeke has the flu
Notes: Thanks to mews1945 for the prompt.

( Antibodies )

Fandom: The Faculty
Rating: PG-13
Words: 100
A/N: My prompt was "lightning". The title is from the Paul Simon song "Hearts and Bones". Thanks to honeyandvinegar and aliensouldream for putting this together!

( Love Like Lightning )

Title: Homecoming (8/8 – Conclusion!!)
Fandom: The Faculty
Pairing: Casey/Zeke
Rating: PG-13
Words: 2248
Summary: Casey and Zeke go back to Herrington for their five year high school reunion.
Notes: Love to layne67.

Previous parts: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven.

( Eight )

Authors' names were revealed at remixthedrabble last night. I wrote four ficlets and had four written based on my stories, adding up to seven different authors I interacted with in eight different fandoms! I believe all three of these authors were writing in fandoms they haven't written in before, and they did a fantastic job. I enjoyed this round so much.

exeterlinden wrote
- Five Secrets About River (The Just Beneath Surface Remix), Firefly, 176 words, remix of "Five Things River Tam Secretly Knows about the Serenity Crew".
and
- Spring (The New Leaf Remix), LOTR: Frodo/Merry, 100 words, remix of "Family and Friends"

ibonekoen wrote
-Never Figure You Out, The Faculty: Casey and Zeke, 500 words, remix of "Nobody Else".

And lady_smith wrote
-The Mandrake's Tale (Selfish, Stubborn Remix), Pan's Labyrinth, 101 words, remix of "Clean Up This Mess".

I wrote
-Fragments (The Tattered Pages Remix), Heroes: Nathan and Peter, 102 words, remix of these tattered pages by takethesky87.
-My Kind of Dream (The Sharing Is Caring Remix), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Faith, 200 words, remix of The Kind of Dream You'd Never Share by sinandmisery.
-Witness (The History of Violence Remix), Harry Potter, Augusta and Neville, 200 words, remix of A History of Violence by amathela.
-His Hands (Returning Remix), M*A*S*H: B.J./Peg, 300 words, remix of Hands by iamsab.

One of the most amusing parts of this whole thing meeting iamsab in the AIM chat room set up for remixredux08 participants and not giving away that I'd been reading and remixing her for this other challenge. :D

Speaking of which, I need to rec a Doctor Who (Ten and Martha) fic and two remixes I had nothing to do with. For the full effect, read all three. (Don't worry, they're short and full of awesome!)
-Savile Row by iamsab
-Threads (The Backstitch in Time Remix) by eve11 in remixthedrabble
-Savile Row (The Glass Menagerie Remix) by anonymous in remixredux08

ALSO. There is probably going to be a mini-round of remixthedrabble sometime soon in which we will remix the remixes. It will be open to people who have participated in past rounds and it will be confusing and fabulous.