various announcements

Yay, it's announcement day!

Dead Letters Variations

First, The Dead Letters Challenge has been closed with a total of twenty-seven entries. My thanks to the participants, who all made me happy.

DVD Commentaries

We are now at month two of DVD Commentary Challenge being hosted at dvd_commentary. So far, participation is excellent and sign-ups continue apace.

general_jinjur and I would like to remind everyone of a few key points:

The due date is 10/1/2008, pre-midnight CST for posting. You can continue to sign up and post commentaries until that time.

To sign up to write a commentary, go here.

To give permission for your stories to be commentated, go here.

To read commentaries, a running list is kept here for 2008, and an index for 2007 and 2006 is here. All of this is courtesy of the ultra-organized general_jinjur.

Other Stuff

I--um, maybe later. Okay, the thing is, I am writing this thing and it turned into curtain fic, even though it's supposed to have at least one murder and you know, stuff, and I kinda feel sugarshocked by all the domestic goodness. Do you know why? Because I cannot make myself destroy their happiness.

I sicken myself sometimes.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Curtain fic is one of my guilty pleasures! So I am actually totally psyched to hear that you are writing some. :-)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to destroy their domestic harmony and wreck their little alternate nuclear family and community! I was so gleeful when I started setting up! And I'm at page thirty-three and nothing. Every time I start, I remember a cute domestic moment to add, and I tell myself, this will make it more painful later but the truth is? Avoidance.

God, so ashamed.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

If you are writing about the glory that is Ray/Fraser?

Thank let it be sweet and curtainy. Because they deserve it so very very much.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*sulks* Not even a tiny apocalypse.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Look, you can blow up the entire planet. But they get to have some cozy hot domesticity first! It's like, the law.

[ratcreature]

Because I cannot make myself destroy their happiness.

Maybe just write the happy end first, and then fill in the angst in the middle?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Thtas' pretty much what i'm doing. Luckily, the really *cool* angst is in flashback and at the end, so I can afford to skip.

Its' just lowering, really. *sighs* Stupid infatuation phase.

[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

I--um, maybe later. Okay, the thing is, I am writing this thing and it turned into curtain fic, even though it's supposed to have at least one murder and you know, stuff, and I kinda feel sugarshocked by all the domestic goodness. Do you know why? Because I cannot make myself destroy their happiness.

I sicken myself sometimes.

Wow. Sugar soaked seperis? I have *got* to read this.

~L

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS ABOUT ME.

[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

That somewhere in your psyche there is a fully sweetness and light story. And this is it? Once you finish writing it, I am certain that you will be able to write more CAH or rentboy!John. Really.

~L

Happiness?

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

It had to happen sometime, sweetie. ::pets you:: Don't worry, these sorts of abberations usually work their way of your system in a couple of days.


Also? Wot's a curtain fic?

Re: Happiness?

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

Aka domestic fic.

The term is derived from the (only partly) apocryphal fic (or apocryphal story about a fic?!) where the boys (whoever the boys might be) go shopping for curtains. I know I've read at least one literal curtain fic, in X-Files, Mulder/Krycek, and it was sweet and sexy and totally not really curtain fic because the boys weren't together, they weren't actually shopping for curtains, there was just a convenient store for them to duck into of the Bed Bath & Beyond variety.

Re: Happiness?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I hope so! It's very disconcerting!

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

What kassrachel said. *bounce*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*chews lip*

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Because I cannot make myself destroy their happiness

*blinks*

Well, that makes a change! What have these guys got that the others don't?

I'll just be over here, cheering on the curtains and happy domesticity.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Pure evil or bunnies or something. I dunno. I only know I am afraid of what it means.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I'm writing a DVD commentary on Raiders of the Seven Systems by ltlj. It's very long.


So very, very long.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Man. *whistles* You people who do the long ones awe me. general_jinjur did samdonne's Cowboys fic and blew my mind. Seriously, I can't imagine DVDing my *own* freaking long stories.

[thatratorpheus.livejournal.com]

Maybe if it was about actual curtains? Like Scarlett O'Hara and her dress made of curtains or Mrs. Rochester and the flaming bed curtains. Or some kind of design tragedy/jealousy angst with Sven, Thatcher's interior decorator.

Buck up, only the most cold-hearted fiend would leave Ray and Fraser with an unhappy ending, Their canon lives are already so pathetic and miserable and their hearts are so much in the right place - it would be like clubbing orphan seals. :-)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

What dead letter challenge, where?

*finds it*

Oh. I missed it.

*scuffs the ground* Maybe next year.