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through the relays of the magical 'verse at high warp
Oct. 22nd, 2007
10:55 am - A flutter-by
Random visitation from my dear Ephemera last night as I was getting ready for bed. Thinking about DH, and Remus and Tonks, and how Tonks' decision to follow Remus to Hogwarts was the sort of thing that would have been seen as heroism if they'd both made it. Seen by most as heroism, at least. Remus would probably have just seen the fact that she had risked her life, risked losing Teddy his mother. Which for some reason prompted this, even though I normally can't stand people who decide to ignore deaths they'd rather hadn't happened. (Warning: the cut hides the random output of my tired mind, which hasn't actually written anything more fictional than St. Mags LJ-party narrative in about 20 months.)
( What if? )
Aug. 4th, 2007
04:47 pm - The worst recommendation of them all...
Voldy 'ships H/Hr.
Does anyone really want to be on Voldemort's side, even in this?
;)
Jul. 21st, 2007
01:30 am - squee!
It's here, I have it, it's sitting on my floor right now. Eee!
Of course, now I need to go to sleep for a while before getting up to read all day tomorrow, in order not to totally mess up my body clock. Soooooo tempted to read now!
Jan. 17th, 2006
09:39 am - plus ça change...
Go figure. Things can never go quite smooth when I'm worried about them, can they? Submitted my (now-beta'd and ready for posting) story up at the Sugar Quill, and of course it shows up with random characters (’) in place of every single apostrophe. So totally not my fault, because the html file I submitted read just fine on my computer, but it reflects badly on me, and looks ridiculously sloppy. Argh!
Update, 1101 hours: all fixed! Merci beaucoup, Zsenya. :)
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frustratedJan. 14th, 2006
08:21 pm - Pern, and the mysteries of my muse
I've been on a bit of a Pern mini-binge lately. I got copies of Skies of Pern, Dragon's Kin, and the anthology A Gift of Dragons for my birthday in December, and zipped through them during the past week and a half. They were re-reads, other than the one new story in the anthology, so that helped speed me up. Then I felt the need for more Pern, so now I'm re-reading Masterharper of Pern, which is reminding me of one of the odd things about my love for the Pern universe -- I think I'd wish to be a Harper as much as a dragonrider. Okay, maybe not quite as much...but it'd be up there. It's the whole wishing I was musical thing, combined with the want to be a teacher thing. Funny.
Anyways, thinking about Pern got me thinking about something a bit odd. I don't think I've ever actual been bitten by a Pernese plot bunny. Darkover plot bunnies (or maybe plot rabbithorns ;) ), I've experienced aplenty. Star Trek, of course -- the first story I wrote that could be considered fanfic was Star Trek-based. I've even found myself writing bits and pieces based on Tamora Pierce's Wild Magic quartet.... But never Pern. Quite strange, considering that I'm quite a devoted reader of all things Pern, and have been for as long as I've been reading Darkover and a serious fan of Star Trek (and I've read Pern books more recently than I've read anything Darkover or watched an episode of Star Trek). It could possibly be because Marion Zimmer Bradley always encouraged Darkover fans to play in her literary sandbox (to the extent of editing a bunch of anthologies of Darkover short stories written by others -- essentially high-level, semi-official fanfic). Anne McCaffrey, on the other hand, has been a bit more...posessive of the Pernese literary sandbox at times, from what I've heard around and about.
On the other hand, the first Darkover plot rabbithorn that bit me showed up when I was 12 or so -- I seem to remember handing in a story in Language Arts class in grade 7 that was firmly Darkover-based, complete with a glossary. I was still busy tracking down all the public library's Darkover and Pern books at that point, and although I may have read one or two of the Darkover anthologies I don't think I'd heard anything anywhere about how Anne McCaffrey may have felt about fan fiction. So...why the Darkover writing habit, and not Pern? It's a mystery to me...and my muse is a silly wee creature (as per the first post in this LJ of mine :) )
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tiredDec. 4th, 2005
09:04 pm - Another blast from the past
I can't exactly remember when it was that I wrote this. It may have been some time in first year, or grade 12...the date on the original AppleWorks file is May 2001, but that's just when I typed it into the computer, as it was originally written by hand on random looseleaf from my school clipboard. Although my earliest stories that could be classified as "fanfic" was Star Trek-based, I started reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books in grade seven or so, and I wrote my first story that involved the Darkover universe in grade...10, I think. This one came at least a couple of years later than that, a couple of years after I'd first read Traitor's Sun and gotten hooked by Illona, a character so different from many of the other female characters in the Darkover series, and on the relationship between her and Domenic (Nico) Alton-Hastur. At some point I got bit by a rabid plot bunny involving them in the same Tower for training, with all that comes with the different moral code of Tower life, although I haven't managed to go very far with the whole arc that emerged fuzzily in my head. This snippet (okay, so maybe 1100 words is a bit more than a snippet) stands alone and fairly readable, though, and started when the beginning image popped out at grabbed me by the writing hand.
( Neskaya Life )
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contemplativeNov. 4th, 2005
07:50 pm - That was then, this is now...
Not entirely sure what prompted me to start up this LJ -- my third. So now I have one personal, one travelblog for the trip to the UK I'm just finishing up, and this for fanfic-related purposes. I think I blame the LJ Firefly fanfic community for the urge to create this LJ; I wanted to be able to comment on people's LJ-posted fics, and join the ff_fanfic community, but not with my regular LJ. And now I'm faced with the urge to actually put something in the journal as well as using it to comment on other people's posts...which puts me in a bit of a sticky situation. Not that I don't have things I could, in theory, put in here -- it's just that they aren't much worth sharing, and I'm a bit scared of sharing the things I write, in general. Especially because most of what I write never gets finished, and/or doesn't have much in the way of redeeming characteristics. I blame Ephemera (Ephy for short), my muse...she's a silly wee thing.
As for that, well...I guess maybe I do have something to post, after all. Originally written in the spring of 2000, if I remember correctly (May, perhaps?) during a fit of poetic creativity inspired by the combination of a open-ended poetry assignment for my English 12 class (the assignment being "hand in at least 15 lines of poetry by such-and-such a date" -- I went a bit beyond that, all in) and looming grade 12 provincial exams I should have been studying for.
( Ephemera )