Just the start of it all

Fic: Days Like Crazy Paving, PG-rated metatastic post-Time-War Mel/Ace fic for glinda_penguin in the femslash09 ficathon.

Meme: Now that I have Free Time once more, I'm going to do another go round of the DVD commentary meme, because I am a bit in love with rambling on at length in a pretentious and self-involved way.

Request any fic of mine and I will provide you with a commentary/annotations, like a DVD extra.

(In previous iterations, I have covered Going Forward, In All Her Beliefs, The Turn of the Universe, Hardly Moving Yet and Do You Remember the First Time?)

Twice, in fact, for the henriettastreet ficathon:

• Origin Stories which is about Iris's bus.
  
• Mixed Signals which is me writing down a wodge of mah Time War fanon for the first time ever and shoving Compassion into the middle of it, on account of she is awesome.
  

(The rest of the ficathon is here and you should totes read it, just like I'm planning to now that I can without feeling guilty.)

I haven't been completely obsessed with tardis_bigbang lately, I've also managed to produce something for lgbtfest too. It is 3000 words on the prompt "Romana and Ace after the Time War" and can be found here.

It is quite Gallifrey-audio-orientated. Is there a comm for those I ought to be posting it to, but am clueless of/joined and forgot I ever had?

Title: Grading on a Curve
Author: ionlylurkhere
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Willow
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 2200
Summary: The prompt says it best: "Buffy/Willow: pre-Tara and post-Oz, Buffy is having trouble comforting a distraught Willow".
Notes: Written for mrsdrjackson in the One Night Stand ficathon (for which it is rather late; sorry). Thanks to livii for a very helpful beta; any errors that remain are, of course, my fault.

( Even if it is a B, it's a B-plus. Look, cheery plus sign! )

Title: Ten of the Sword/Sufficiently Advanced Technology
Author: ionlylurkhere
Characters/Pairing: Ace/Shou Yuing, Seven
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1800
Summary: Ace and the Doctor's POVs, post-Battlefield.

( You go ahead and enjoy yourself, Ace, I'll be fine. )

Things I was tempted to spam you about in the last week or so, all in one handy post.

1. I know it's deeply tedious to LJ about having trouble getting onto LJ, but the servers are significantly less robust since the move, y/y?
   
2. I liked the remake of Terry Nation's One Other Good Idea Survivors, myself. ( minor spoilers for the opener, haven't seen #2 yet )
   
3. I have been thinking about the tendency of bad fic to drive out good, which is a pattern I've seen in pretty much every comm I'm familiar with that's even slightly active. ( Cut for length and a biggish image )
   
4. I'm going to cop to this one publicly rather than on my filter because I'm quite proud of it: I wrote TARDIS/Sapphire for the kink meme and here it will be on Teaspoon. (YAY! The 'spoon lets you do colours! I'm so glad I have any sort of self-restraint at all, or all my fics would turn into rainbows or something.)
   
5. I am thinking about rewatching S1 of New Who properly all the way through soon to see how it holds up. I liked it at the time for being new Doctor Who on the telly but I have always hated Nine's inability to take the tough choice, which is pretty much his defining character trait as far as I'm concerned and the thing that gets him killed. And also the arbitrary "this person > that person" thing which I had issues with ever since Mickey in Rose. If I do should I post about it, or would it become tedious and be too likely to be hatey? (I may rediscover all the things I enjoyed first time round, or I may notice lots of stuff that prefigures RTD's patterns of fail that weren't obvious as patterns at the time.)
   
6. I keep getting in fights on who_anon with people who tell me I'm an emotionless drone who cannot appreciate any modern TV, just because I think the emo in new Who is overdone. ( cut for length again and spoilers for Spooks and Survivors and all sorts of stuff )
   
7. Manufactured American girlpop seems to be having a very good run at the moment. Or my ability to have any discernment whatsoever has jumped straight out of a twentieth-floor window. One of the two. The worst part is that I really like Katy Perry's new song and am now trying to work out whether Kissed A Girl is really objectionable or not.
   
8. OTOH: oh, god, James Blunt is so annoying. His songs are bad enough but when he's being interviewed he's so vapid. He's just saying all the standard "I just do my thing and if anyone else likes it that's a bonus" stuff, but he comes across so smug. I should know better than to watch E4 Music when they're not just putting videos on.
   
9. Comics! Angel: After the Fall has finally started to make something resembling sense, inasmuch as we've found out what various people are up to. I am bloody well going to have to reread it from the beginning, aren't I? Also, there are lots of good comics coming out tomorrow. I'm a bit grumpy that the release schedules of Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy have aligned, as it means I get all my Cosmic Marvel at once instead of nicely spread out through the month. Also, there is new Blue Beetle! I still can't believe that's been cancelled. Woe. Does anyone know many more we're getting? (My one Blue Beetle icon, let me show you it.)
   
10. I am going to catch up on SJA now. ( Cut because I am talking about a spoiler I know in advance )
    

Title: I took the one less travelled by
Author: ionlylurkhere
Pairing: Romana/Duggan
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2500
Summary: "Romana is stuck on Earth with a burned out Time Ring and running Torchwood while she waits for the Doctor to come rescue her."
Notes: For netgirl_y2k in the Doctor Who Cliché Swap Ficathon. Thanks to neadods for the excellent prompt and encouraging words and who_anon for suggesting the pairing and some of the technobabble. Eternal gratitude to a veritable army of betas: wishfulaces, livii, peeeeeeet, ravenskyewalker and silly_cleo.

( I think the constant improbable danger is about the only thing our two relationships have in common )

This is (or will be, assuming it gets validated) a Teaspooned version of a fic about Ten and Martha having wibbly wobbly time sex what I wrote for sizeofthatthing the other day. (Ten/Martha is by far my most actively shipped ship, but there are several that I feel more strongly about. It's a bit of a paradox.)

And this is my thread at that anon feedback meme thing (I am not going to do the giant text, sorry). I do feel like there's a general Cult of Nice vibe in fandom that prevents proper concrit outside of the beta-reading dynamic, and to be honest there are a lot of bad or at least very lazy things about my writing, so go on, be mean constructively critical mean.

who_anon implied I was Cult of Nice the other day. This has been preying on my mind.

Here is a random list of things I want to say, in one big chunk in your flist rather than six separate spammy little posts:

( cut for length; it includes my (lack of a) reaction to the Who news, but that's not why I'm cutting, because goddammit It Is Not A Spoiler )

Outside the cut, but still flist-related, I just added a couple of you, and would like to draw your attention (and that of anyone who missed it) to this flocked post about filters.

Not just here, but at the Teaspoon. With pornography. (Sorry, whoever's been modding tonight!)

Excessive which is a cracktastic pinch hit for dw_femslash (here's the LJ version, if you're more LJ- than 'spoon-oriented); I am well pleased with all the references

Teacher's Pet which is Ten/Martha teacher/student which I wrote for the kink meme and am now copping to publicly (original version here)

C-and-P-ing those links has made me realise the story IDs are only 3 apart; and to think, once upon a time I had a little rule I'd made up for myself of not posting more than one fic per 24 hours.

(ETA: Heh. At the current rate of progress, Teacher's Pet will have had more reads on the 'spoon in four hours than the last transplant from the kink meme [which was Ian/Barbara] has had in four months.)

Brave Hearts, what I wrote for dw_femslash. It has Nyssa and Tegan and Leela and Rodan.

(I bet I won't be able to do the formatting on the spoon.)

Title: Imbalanced Indiscretions
Author: ionlylurkhere
Pairings/Characters: Three/Rani, Jo/Liz, Brig (a little bit of implied Three/Brig)
Rating: R
Warnings: drug-related dubcon, people get tied up.
Word count: 5000
Summary: The UNIT family vs the Rani and her neurochemical expertise. (Oh, for crying out loud, it's porny crack. Or cracky porn. Something like that.)
Notes: Written for pimpmytardis in the Fall Fandom Free For All, and also a contribution to Day O'Classic. Huge thanks to biichan and peeeeeeet for beta-ing.

( You realise you're not even being terribly original. )

Title: The Appliance of Science
Author: ionlylurkhere
Pairing: Gwen/Tosh
Rating: NC-17 for sex and swearing
Word count: 2500
Spoilers: Vague allusions to Greeks Bearing Gifts but that's about it. Set somewhere around the end of S1/beginning of S2.
Notes: written for fajrdrako in the Fall Fandom Free for All. (ETA: Thanks to who_anon for acting as a sounding board.)

( But you're so good at technology, Toshiko my dear ... )

The Assistant, which I wrote for pie_is_good in the very shiny bluesuit_fic ficathon. I am very much looking forward to reading the other entries.

C&P for the daily:

<a href=http://community.livejournal.com/bluesuit_fic/3450.html>The Assistant</a> by <lj user=ionlylurkhere> [G | Blue Suit Doctor, Rose, various others]

(is that OK, guys? Who else is in it is sort of a spoiler)

Title: The Moment Has Been Prepared For
Author: ionlylurkhere
Rating: G
Word count: 800
Summary: Donna's granddaughter comes home to see her gran one last time.
Characters: Donna, ofc
Spoilers: for the Donna plotline in Journey's End

( How many words a minute can you do? )

Title: Bowing to the Inevitable
Author: ionlylurkhere
Pairing: Ten/Donna
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Everyone thinks they're married.
Word count: 1,100
Notes: Porny Ten/Donna insta-fic.

( Let's just get married and then they'll be right. )

1. I blame magicallaw entirely.
2. I normally abominate smoosh names, but: Madonna, Y/HELL Y?
3. There is a cameo at the end that lets me make a very tenuous claim for this being my contribution to Day O'Classic.

Title: Girls' Night Out, Girls' Night In
Author: ionlylurkhere
Pairing: Martha/Donna (with mentions of Martha/Tom, Martha/Ten and Donna/Ten for good measure)
Word count: 2700
Rating: somewhere between a hard R and a light NC-17 (for the obvious and a tiny bit of exhibitionist stuff)
Spoilers: Mild ones for everything up to "The Poison Sky".
Summary: Martha and Donna go out for the evening. Set between the main bit of "The Poison Sky" and that final TARDIS scene, if you squint quite a bit.

( When the Doctor told me you fancied him, I thought you must be blind. But thinking about it, it's definitely him who's the blind one. )

I hardly ever use the LJ "mood" thing, but I definitely do feel "accomplished" right now. I've written two companion-centric fics for two of my favourite eras of Who for ficathons. (Having deliberately chosen Bank Holiday Monday in both cases, I now end up being a bit spammy, but that's not the end of the world.)

• "Fitz Kreiner and the Chronology Protection Conjecture" (Fitz gen, set somewhere between Escape Velocity and Adventuress, for the EDA ficathon on henriettastreet which seems to be going OK, cross your fingers)
  
• "Hardly Moving Yet" (shortly after Survival, the Doctor takes Ace on a magical history tour to help her come to terms with her sexuality, for lgbtfest)
  

Title: Mysterious Ways
Author: ionlylurkhere
Fandom: His Dark Materials
Pairing: Will/Lyra
Rating: PG
Summary: True love always finds a way. Post-Amber-Spyglass fixit.

( Rainbows danced where the light met the serrations. )