-Look you guys, themadlurker wrote me a Leverage ficlet! It has Hardison and Sophie and nerdiness! What more could you want?! "I Was an Alien Babe of the Week and All I Got Was This Avery Brooks T-Shirt" on Dreamwidth and on LJ. :D :D

-aiw_big_bang is a Big Bang for all (or at least most?) versions of Alice in Wonderland!

-femslash_land looks neat. I don't really, like, understand what land comms are, but people who join them seem to have a lot of fun, plus this one has femslash, so yay!

-I've been watching Buffy season 2! It's sort of a rewatch and sort of not. I started watching Buffy when the third or fourth season was airing and eventually caught most of the episodes in syndication but not quite all of them, and I've never watched the whole series in order, so I'm enjoying making my slow way through it now.

( I have different favorite characters now than I did when I was in college )

-I went and got a second kink_bingo card, even though I know I'm not going to get any more points, just 'cause I figure it's nice to have extra prompts, and I guess you can only request them until the 31st (and if you've finished a bingo already).

( kink-bingo card (with small sexy picture) and ideas )

Yesterday was the first check-in post at ladiesbigbang and I took the opportunity to drop out of my podficcing project. :( It makes me sad because I still want more podfics of my favorite lady-centric Merlin AUs to exist, but at the time I signed up I hadn’t realized how difficult recording was (for me), plus my summer’s turned out to be busier than I thought it would be. trascendenza, your comm is still awesome! woldy and shiegra, I will still be there for you (although less so in July)!

But also yesterday sign-ups went up for kink_bingo and I so cleverly enticed and impressed baranduin and hanarobi by showing them kink_wiki that I also got baranduin to sign up! Then today we convinced claudia603 to join in too! :D :D Yay, I’m so glad to have some old friends doing this with me. (No offense, kink_bingo kids, but a lot of you intimidate me! In a good way though! ♥ ♥)

ETA hanarobi caved yay!!! /ETA

such_heights, who participated last year, explains why she likes this challenge and I'm excited for a lot of the same reasons. Most of my fics are shippy but not explicit or kinky, but I like challenging myself and stretching my ideas of what I can do. Also, though such_heights doesn’t mention this, I think the game format will work well for me, as writing_game did for getting me to write lots of drabbles in lots of fandoms last year. I like the motivation of trying to get through the squares and the flexibility of choosing your route, without the pressure of a gift exchange. (writing_game put up a new game a few days ago, by the way! Check it out if you’re looking for some drabble prompts.)

Here is my card and some thoughts about what I could do! ( only moderately safe for work )

F-list, I'm feeling stuck on all the things I'm trying to write and would like to try doing some drabbles instead. Could you give me some prompts? I'd like just a few words including character names, rather than specific story scenarios. I'm mostly into Merlin these days but I can try old fandoms too (see my fic index if you don't know what they are), though probably not Casey/Zeke. (ETA: Also I've stopped watching Heroes and Supernatural./ETA) Rarepairs, crossovers, and/or characters of color would be especially nice. Alternately, link me to a short fic of yours and I'll write a short remix.

And now, a writing meme, gacked from hyel:

Post the first line of a story here, and I'll write the next five. No context or prompts, just a line, and if I don't twig who it is then you'll get something slightly surreal back!

If you post the next up-to-five lines, I will try to keep it going.

An exception to the no-context rule is that I'd like warnings in the subject line for spoilers or consent issues. Let's do this, I think it'll be fun.

ETA: Feel free to jump in and write more on a thread started by someone else too. Stories can branch off in different directions. I'm just in the mood for playing around and writing collaboratively.

I think I'm going to try doing my taxes today. Wish me luck!

I would love it if you'd leave me some Merlin drabble prompts, gen or any pairing, also crossovers. I've started a couple of longer fics but I'm lacking confidence and the endings seem very far off. I like drabbles as practice because I can usually tell when they're done. :)

trascendenza sent out the remixthedrabble assignments on Tuesday and gave us the option of writing one, two, or three ficlets. I love that she is so flexible. So far I've done two and a half, and they're not due until the 20th. This is a very nice feeling, as I'm usually the kind of person to put off writing until very close to the challenge deadline.

I was thinking it could be fun to write some new drabbles and other ficlets in fandoms that I share with other regulars at the comm, because that will make me more remixable for future rounds and because writing ficlets is fun.

If you would like to help me out, there are two kinds of prompts I'm looking for: three words (one or two of them can be character names), or five things (as in, five things Aragorn would like to do to Frodo in bed, five ways Zeke gets romantic with Casey, etc.).

Fandoms: Harry Potter (most likely to actually get written), Heroes, Brokeback Mountain, Pan's Labyrinth.

Last night I came across a new LJ community called fanficofcolor. It's a place to post or go looking for fics about characters of color since they too often get neglected and can be hard to find in other places.

remixthedrabble is running a lightning round in which each participant will get matched up with three others! I loved playing in the first round and would love to sign up for this one as well but I'm a little worried that I'll be difficult for the mod to match. I'm certainly willing to write in a lot of different fandoms, but one has to have written at least three fics (which can include drabbles) in at least three different fandoms. I just barely qualify since I have exactly three ficlets (including one drabble) in the Firefly/Serenity 'verse. And my having a few Faculty ficlets probably won't help her much since I don't really expect any other Faculty writers signing up. :(

I was thinking though that I have two short Lost fics written and, really, how hard would it be to add one more drabble before I sign up? That way I could list four fandoms and maybe that would help. Sign-ups are open until the 18th. I'm not really sure what to do though. I started a Sun vignette a while back but it wasn't really going anywhere. I had an idea for a Naomi ficlet this morning but it's wanting me to fake my way through some British slang, which could be a real disaster!

So! Let's see if you can help me come up with something. I would love to get some Lost drabble prompts in three words each – either one or two of the words can be character names. Maybe if I can confine myself to drabbles I can actually write several of these in the next few days while also finishing that waymeet challengefic omg.

From almostnever and oneangrykate:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

This could be a canon character, an OC, or a version of a canon character from one of my stories (e.g., NotYourself!Pippin). Whatever fandoms you like.

A fic meme from rubynye and almostnever:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

(Yes, I'm aware of all those requests from that other post. They're in progress. Really.)

Here is my fic index.

ETA: Okay, thank you for the ideas! I think I'll cut them off now and will try to do them all in drabbles.

Yes, I know I still owe gentlehobbit a drabble for the typos, and I owe gamerchick and Easterlily drabbles from ages ago, and I didn't respond to most of the prompts you gave me on the Sam post, and then there's that challenge fic, and also that other challenge fic, and the WIPs, and the prompts communities, and workshoppers, not to mention the fact that classes started yesterday and I have WORK to do, but, um...

The Five Things meme. Give me a topic and I will post responses in another post or, more likely, several other posts. LOTR, Faculty, Firefly. (And if you want to give me a prompt for another fandom, such as HP or lotrips, go for it. I just might not come through.) Go!