Um. Wow.

You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While), read by [livejournal.com profile] revolutionaryjo in mp3 and m4b. I'm in the middle of downloading it now. I have never been able to read it straight through, so this will be new world to be able to listen to it.

God, this is cool. No words.

Thank you very much, [livejournal.com profile] revolutionaryjo. I can't wait to hear what you did with it.
Hmm, okay, [livejournal.com profile] the_moonmoth suggested I do a post on racial balance and diversity in War Games, since the story, in probably every important way, was influenced heavily by Racefail last year, and I tried to write a story that worked with a lot of different discussions that came up and worked very deliberately to diversify the ensemble cast. What I'm not sure of is a.) the level of success and failure and b.) if readers would feel comfortable critiquing it on those points with me or in my LJ, since I think it should be also called in how it failed and where on those points or how it could have been done better. Nor am I entirely sure that if that discussion occurs anywhere, if I should be involved at all, since by nature that's kind of inhibiting. I also think that me pretending it was all a happy accident in casting the characters because I am just that organically good at diversity is kind of ingenuous of me, because it really was something I had to think about and more importantly, remember to keep doing. The character list I added was also at one time my notes and reference guide so I couldn't forget and default to what I'm used to, and even then there were points of failure, one of which still annoys me in retrospect even though it worked very well as a compare/contrast later.

Anyway, for now, [livejournal.com profile] the_moonmoth discusses it with me in this thread where I--clumsily--explained what I was doing with that and how. Anyway, if anyone does want to critique it for that, I'll only enter the discussion at invitation since I really, really would like, if anyone has a problem with it or how it was written, for people to be comfortable saying how it didn't work and why it didn't work without worrying about author interference or excuses. Or tantrums.

If anyone wants a more formal entry on what I was attempting to do with it in terms of racial diversity, colonial/class attitudes, Bechdel, and using xenophobia as a stand-in for racism, I can do that, or I can answer questions on points of uncertainty or failure here, either one, or you know, both. I mean, War Games is not like a seminal work of art here, but since [livejournal.com profile] the_moonmoth had such good questions and made me think a lot about what I was doing and for that matter, what I wasn't, I thought I'd toss this out.

Also, for [livejournal.com profile] kernezelda regarding Sorin, go here; you may feel a little better about what I was doing. This would have been my email to you when you expressed concern, then I was in deep editing and rewrites and then pretending the story didn't exist for a month.

ETA: Clarification--if anyone wants to critique, etc somewhere not my LJ, I won't wander over uninvited to defend/excuse/tantrum whatever. And even at invitation, I'll honestly have to consider if it will affect any discussion negatively or inhibit criticism.
There is the probability of being MIA for a couple more weeks while I finish 1.) my three [livejournal.com profile] help_haiti fic, one of which is mostly done but I keep picking at, 2.) War Games, which actually is done but I've gone beyond picking at it and am now engaged in cosmetic surgery on, 3.) work (I know! Why? Why do I have to work when I have one hundred and seventy five thousand accumulated words of fic to finish and post! Why?), and 4.) Child has a meeting with a behavioral psychologist and whatever this week. I feel this will be productive.

However, in lieu of content--seriously, I spent a week angsting over (This Is) Not a Statement because I had a bad feeling if I didn't finish it in one fell swoop it would enter WIP hell and I made a resolution after SGA that I'd never, ever post anything I wouldn't finish, and I can no longer call this a flirt fandom when I'm throwing out novellas--I have instead an ode to [livejournal.com profile] girlnamedpixley

So back in November, I asked [livejournal.com profile] girlnamedpixley to help me get a few pictures together for War Games since I ended up with a cast list a bit larger than I expected and some not entirely canon-compliant. If you want to see the horror I achieve when trying to do pics, go to my website under covers and wince. So you see why I went to an expert.

...there's like, a folder of art now. IDEK. It's like magic. Every time we talked, she had new stuff done that I'd gape over for a week while she swanned her way out. Then apparently, she thought that You'll Get There in the End was feeling neglected and sad that it did not have this much attention paid to it.

So. Below, the (very partial) fruits of [livejournal.com profile] girlnamedpixley's labor.

Expandcover: war games )

And because she was worried about the first fic.

Expandcover: you'll get there in the end )

She also created a PDF file for download, which I uploaded to my site after much fighting with Filezilla, and also fighting to remember my password--I forgot my password.

You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While), PDF, 1.15 MB. She also is doing one for War Games when I send my final draft to her (she only looks at me now while I explain there is an important page one hundred seventy sentence that must be fixed! Because yeah, that sentence has issues. Or rather, I do.)

I like [livejournal.com profile] girlnamedpixley. I ask for like, a picture, and I get a gallery. It's like Christmas! But no one tries to give me tube socks or snuggies, so really, it's like Christmas with a pony. A pony with magical art skills.

ETA: edited for size, wow. Sorry!
You know, I seriously wish I had something more interesting to report than like, I still exist in the universe, but no, that's about the extent of my new things to share. However. Two things, which are not things I am doing, but amazing things other people are doing. God, I wish I were them.

1.) [livejournal.com profile] ronnachu is translating You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While) (also archived at Archive of Our Own here) into Spanish here; she's up to four parts, and because she is awesome, she posted the fourth part on my birthday, which was, as stated, awesome. And I can almost follow along, as long as I keep a copy open in English to refer to. I don't know if this is improving my Spanish, but it's serious fun.

Direct links to the first four parts: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 out of a projected twelve parts. I admit it; I squee.

2.) Cruising Altitude by [livejournal.com profile] astolat, Adam/Kris/Tommy. It involves an airplane. I mean, if you need more than that--well, do you really? Probably not. Enjoy yourself!

Quick thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes. Last week turned out really weird and I appreciate it immensely, as the day was far less than what one would call successful, but OTOH, I watched Child play Gears of War and it was kind of hilarious. Also today, the gas furnace had to be disabled due to a gas smell that seems to indicate something has gone terribly wrong, and we're living like pioneers with heat coming from a centralized location known as a fireplace. I am so hardcore Little House on the Prairie. I had to go get wood! Myself! Granted, it was like five feet away, but I just want to state, that's five feet I never had to travel before to assure we do not freeze to death. Sure, it's not freezing here, but what I'm saying is, if it did? We're good to go.

Er, okay. Just from curiosity? Stolen from everyone on my flist and then some:

Who on LJ/DW do you ship me with? Bonus points for outlining the ridiculous AU fic that you would write about us.


ETA: Okay, I regret that I mocked my Fall Out Boy playlist and really want to go back to singing Hum Halleluja with gleeful abandon.; The Fray is music you die in the middle of the street at night in the rain to. God. Why on earth did I think listening to this was a good idea? Die at night in the rain in the street surrounded by dying puppies or something.
Actually, I did mean to crosspost, then got distracted with italics that didn't close. I do not pretend I'm actually that great with details sometimes.

Title: You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While)
Author: Seperis
Fandom: Star Trek Reboot
Codes: Kirk/Spock, various
Rating: NC-17
Summary: "Spock. Just say 'I don't trust Starfleet not to mess up the only captain in the fleet who I can train up to my expectations and enjoys running into danger wearing a blindfold as much as I do'."
Author Notes: Thanks to [personal profile] svmadelyn, who pre-read, beta'ed, and maybe browbeat but just a little, [personal profile] shinetheway, [personal profile] drlense, and [personal profile] grammarwoman, who beta'ed and encouraged, and [profile] transtempts and [personal profile] winterlive for reading in progress and getting confused when I forgot where I'd left it the night before. After all of that, all mistakes are seriously mine, and extremely determined ones at that.

You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While) in four parts.
Title: You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While)
Author: Seperis
Fandom: Star Trek Reboot
Codes: Kirk/Spock, various
Rating: NC-17
Summary: "Spock. Just say 'I don't trust Starfleet not to mess up the only captain in the fleet who I can train up to my expectations and enjoys running into danger wearing a blindfold as much as I do'."
Author Notes: Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] svmadelyn, who pre-read, beta'ed, and maybe browbeat but just a little, [livejournal.com profile] shinetheway, [livejournal.com profile] drlense, and [livejournal.com profile] grammarwoman, who beta'ed and encouraged, and [livejournal.com profile] transtempts and [livejournal.com profile] winterlive for reading in progress and getting confused when I forgot where I'd left it the night before. After all of that, all mistakes are seriously mine, and extremely determined ones at that.

I just realized I have a playlist entirely devoted to songs about rain. No, there is no rain in this story. I just noticed is all.

Expandrebootfic: you'll get there in the end, 1/4 )

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