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Fics in alphabetical order by fandom, then title. (Heroes fics also categorized according to word count.) My personal favorites are bolded.

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Facts about "Kara's Coordinates":

1. It's epic and awesome. I can't listen to it without wanting to scream "JUMP!" at the appropriate moment, which is kind of a bad thing when I'm listening to it at 3:00 am and everyone else is asleep.

2. They could have done a slightly better job of naming it, though. "Kara's Coordinates" just sounds kind of innocuous and pedestrian. The music for such an epic moment deserves an epic name. I'm thinking something like "Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace Finally Fulfills Her Epic Frakking Destiny That Everyone Has Been Going On About For Like The Past Three Seasons." Catchy, amirite?

3. As fun as it is to just listen to the music by itself, it's Even More Epic in its proper context. (Warning: if you haven't seen BSG WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR and you think you might want to someday, don't watch this video, because this sequence is pretty much the climax of the entire series.)



Man, I miss this show.

Making fanvids: it is rather addicting.

Not so addicting is all the gruntwork that goes into it--painstakingly poring through three seasons' worth of DVDs looking for just the right clips (and trying to find that one scene where they had that one conversation becomes a lot more difficult when your fandom's episode titles consist of stuff like "8 am to 9 am" or "2 pm to 3 pm"), slowing your computer to a crawl every time you have to rip an entire five-minute-long chapter when you only need a thirty-second scene (and then you only end up using two seconds of that anyway), and so on. But you do get to spend long stretches of time looking at hot people angsting at each other and making out!



And just in case YouTube pulls it, since they have a tendency to do that sort of thing, it can also be downloaded here. The file is 68 MB since I'm still too much of a vidding novice to figure out how to make it smaller without losing quality--but I have to say I was pretty pleased with how the quality came out.

Disclaimer: On the off chance anyone notices the song in this vid is the same as the one in sache8's BSG vid that I recced not long ago: yes, this vid was inspired by that one, and yes, I okayed it with her before I got far into production on this one. Hers is much better! < / vidding noob >

So the winners of the heroes_het_fic awards were announced today, and first and foremost: my flist CLEANED UP. Congratulations, all you awesomely talented people! You all deserve all your winnings!

( My awards, along with varying degrees of surprise )

Many many thanks to everyone who voted for me! ♥

AAAAAAAAH OMG.

I was just sitting here in my bedroom in my apartment, innocently reading some fannish meta on the internet when all of a sudden I spotted on the wall something dark and moving in my peripheral vision.

I glanced over and IT WAS A CENTIPEDE. CRAWLING ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY HEAD.

For those of you who don't know, I am DEATHLY afraid of centipedes. Spiders I can take, but centipedes? Uh-uh. Centipedes make me lose my will to live.

I knew there was no way I was going to be able to sleep with a hairy evil monster of death running around my room, so before I could psych myself out I chased it all around the room with my shoe. I lost it a couple of times (whose brilliant idea was it to make the carpet in this room lightish brown with darker brown spots?!) but I finally found it and smushed it and killed it.

I KILLED A CENTIPEDE. BY MYSELF. WITH MY SHOE. This is a major accomplishment. Every other time I've found a centipede in my room, I had to get someone else to kill it, even if everyone else in the house was already asleep.

I'm still not going to get any sleep tonight, out of the fear that where there is one there might be others, BUT STILL. This is a milestone in my life.

So I did finally end up watching the Lost season finale, and since it aired over a week ago and everyone has already beat me to the requisite exclamations of "OMG" and "WTF" and "We have to wait eight months for season six?!" and so on, I'll just settle for pointing out my absolute favorite scene, likely to no one's surprise:

( Vid under the cut )

Because it's not often that one gets a geek!spazz of glee and a moment of fangirlish glee all in one fell swoop! Darlton have done some things this season that displeased me greatly, but I do have to give them props for taking a moment straight from my Lost wishlist. I hereby decree that Richard should never be allowed to speak English again; he should just talk in Latin all the time. With subtitles, of course.

Snippet of a conversation my parents had while watching the third season of 24, which is the season Zachary Quinto was in:

Dad: "That guy looks so much like Spock. He should play Spock in the new movie."
Mom: "Honey, he is."

I LOL'd when my mom told me about it. My parents are both long-time Trek fans, so it's good to know they approve the ZQ-as-Spock casting choice. My mom said "he even walks like Spock!"

I am well and truly floored! If anyone had ever told me that I would win a fanfic award for a character study of Elle, of all people, I would have asked what drugs they were on. I was surprised enough just to be nominated--considering I was up against hugely prolific, popular authors in that category, I never thought for a second that I would win. If anyone is reading this who voted for me, thank you so much! And congratulations to my flist members who won awards as well!

As far as my fic goes, I have to give all the credit to Euripides, for writing his awesome play Medea which I blatantly ripped off. *innocent look*

Title: Namesake
Fandom: Heroes
Characters/Pairing: HRG, Gabriel, Angela, Elle. Implied Gabriel/Elle.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,955
Summary: Noah Bennet's thoughts on his two least favorite killers reproducing. AU.
Notes: Since the show never really gave us an answer on how exactly the 3x04 timeline came about--why Sylar's son was named Noah or why they were living in the Bennet house--I thought I would take a crack at how it might have started to play out. Because I hate leaving loose ends just dangling like that. This also marks my first real attempt at writing HRG, let alone from his POV. *bites nails* Oh, and in this fic, Sylar actually is a Petrelli, since he seemed to still believe it in 3x04.

( Trust a couple of psychopathic killers not to use contraception. )

I haven't forgotten about the Christmas ficlets I still need to write, but this plot bunny latched on and wouldn't let go. *hides*

Title: Comeuppance
Fandom: Heroes
Characters: Audrey, Gabriel, wee Noah
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,978
Spoilers: 3x04, "I Am Become Death"
Summary: "Gabriel Gray, you're under arrest for the murders of..." AU for episode 3x04.
Notes: Apparently I'm incapable of writing Heroes fic unless it involves a) Sylar, b) a female character who's been in 7 episodes or less, and c) an alternate future timeline. Go figure. Oh, and my knowledge of law enforcement procedures is based entirely on watching way too many CSI episodes which...obviously is not the most accurate thing in the world. So hopefully this isn't too farfetched.

( Comeuppance )

You know what's awesome?

The Imperial March.

BOM BOM BOM BA DA DAH DA DA DAAAAAAH.

(Yes, this is me not working on my NaNo. Suddenly I don't want to do anything today except sit down and watch the entire Original Trilogy back to back. Screw this stupid writing thing.)

Now that I've finally been to both, I can definitively say that Cedar Point is WAY superior to Kings Island.

Of course, Universal/IOA is better than both of them.

Last night I managed to wrench my back pretty badly, resulting in extreme pain and a sleepless night. This morning, I could barely move or stand up straight, let alone drive or sit in a straight-backed chair for six hours, so I called in sick to the museum and spent all day languishing in bed. On the plus side, it gave me the time to finish this fic I've been working on the past couple of days. My first ever Lost fic, I might add. I know I have barely any Lost fans on my flist, but I finished the darn thing and I'm gonna post it.

On a related note, I saw the Time Traveler's Wife trailer the other day, and it reminded me so much of Daniel/Charlotte (which I'm thinking was probably not a coincidence, given a few comments I've seen online). I haven't read the book, but I think I'm going to see the movie for exactly that reason. And because Eric Bana is hot, of course.

Anyway, fic.

Title: Shatter
Fandom: Lost
Characters/Pairing: Daniel/Charlotte. Charlotte-centric.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,852
Spoilers: Up through 5x14, "The Variable"
Summary: His fingers stretch towards her and stop, trembling in midair, like she’s one of the shiny glass sculptures on the mantelpiece that Mum and Dad never let her touch.
Notes: I believe this is the first time I've ever really written a British character. Gulp. Hopefully there aren't too many Americanisms in here. Oh, and I know there was a bunch of ridiculousness about Charlotte's real age thanks to the writers forgetting their own canon, but I went with the first age she was given, since it just seems to fit better in my opinion.

( Shatter )

I think I've got this creativity thing figured out. When I'm in fanfiction-writing mode, I don't make icons. When the fanfic is just not happening, the urge to make icons returns. That might also explain why this is the first icon post I've made in a year and a half.

Some of these icons have been sitting on my hard drive for months, some of them are new. I meant to put them in order by episode, but that didn't happen, so they're a little jumbled.

And no, they're not all of Sylar. :p

32 Heroes icons (all season one)
2 headers (one Sylar, one Zachary Quinto)
1 Sylar wallpaper



( Haven't I killed you before? )

Fandom meme snagged from sarahetc:

1- What was your first online fandom?
2- Do you have a fandom related 'guilty pleasure' ?
3- Is there anything besides bad technical execution that consistently throws you out of a story?
4- Unpopular fannish opinion?
5- Is there a work of fiction you *wish* had a (or a bigger) fannish following?

( Probably no real surprises here, but hey, memes are still fun )

Title: Father's Footsteps
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Characters/Pairing: Uhura, Sarek, cameo appearance by Kirk. Implied Spock/Uhura.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,224
Summary: For just a moment, it was like she was looking at Spock again, the son’s grief reflected in the father’s stony eyes.
Notes: Inspired by the prompt from table #2, "She would have approved."

( Father's Footsteps )

Title: Things Unspoken
Fandom: Star Trek XI
Characters/Pairing: Spock/Uhura
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,982
Summary: On the first day of Advanced Phonology class, Nyota Uhura is one of the only students willing to look Spock in the eye.
Notes: I haven't claimed any of the prompt tables at the spock_uhura community yet, but as I was looking through them, the prompt "non-verbal communication" caught my eye, and out came this plot bunny. This is a bit looser an interpretation of that prompt than I had originally intended, but hopefully it still works. Many thanks to altahe for helping me make a bit of dialogue sound more Vulcanesque, and also for not killing me for writing Spock-fic without having seen TOS.

( Eyes, actions, touch )

I'd had the same LJ layout for such a long time that it was starting to drive me insane, so yesterday I finally renewed my love/hate relationship with Photoshop and made myself a few new headers. I was actually fairly pleased with how all of them turned out, which was surprising since I haven't done anything in Photoshop in forever.

The most awesome thing, however, was that I managed to get the layout changed by myself, for the first time ever. I'm pretty HTML challenged, so I've always had to wheedle my sister to get her to do it for me help me. Granted, I didn't actually change the layout itself this time, just the header and the colors. But still, having thirty pages of code to deal with is kind of intimidating, so I'm proud of myself.

I might still do some tweaking with the header (especially the text) and the colors. (I tried SO MANY different background colors before I finally settled on this one, haha.) But overall, for the moment I'm fairly pleased with how it looks.

Super quick drive-by post to say that Latin poetry is EVIL.

Seriously. I can't even understand poetry in English, how am I supposed to be able to figure out poetry written in a long-dead foreign language? BLARGH.

...I wonder what "DO NOT WANT" is in Latin? Probably "nōlō" (literally "I refuse/am unwilling"), but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

On the plus side, I've only got seven more days of class before finals: the rest of this week and four days next week (we get Monday off because of Memorial Day, woot).

Off to get a shower now.