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So, this was probably not my brightest idea, but I signed up for h/c bingo. Not my brightest move because I've got things to write already, but... I figured, why not?

Some of these are going to be tricky. We'll see how I do.

My hc_bingo card )

About Me

Sep. 14th, 2011 10:03 pm
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Nicked from various people on my flist. Ask, I'll answer.

1 Five ways to my heart.
2 Something I feel strongly about.
3 A book I love.
4 Things I want to say to an ex.
5 Five pet peeves.
6 What I ate today.
7 How important I think education is.
8 I'll put my music player on shuffle and write the first ten songs that play.
9 Five people whom I find attractive.
10 My opinion about my body and how comfortable I am with it.
11 What I wore today.
12 My zodiac/horoscope and if I think it fits my personality.
13 Something I always think "what if..." about.
14 Something that I'm proud of.
15 A problem I have had.
16 Five items I lust after.
17 My fears.
18 How I hope my future will be like.
19 Something that I miss.
20 Five words/phrases that make me laugh.
21 Something I'm currently worrying about.
22 Things I like and dislike about myself.
23 A quote I try to live by.
24 Somewhere I'd like to move to or visit.
25 Five weird things that I like.
26 One thing I'm excited for.
fae_boleyn: (killer soulmates)
So, ever since I started college, and even before, I've desperately wanted to study abroad, preferably in London. Actually, it's always been London that I focused on.

Practically... I don't think it's going to happen. I changed my goal from a semester to six weeks in the summer, but even so... I haven't entirely given up hope; there's scholarships and things so maybe I still have a shot if I do my research right, but a big part of me is thinking it's just not going to happen.

I'll get there one day, it just might not be during college.

And speaking of college... I go to school in my second hometown - by which I mean, I wasn't born in this city but I've lived here or in its suburbs for half my life now, and I identify even more strongly with this place, after all that time. I don't regret it; I love my school and I love seeing the Philly skyline every day because I love this city.

But when I was a kid, up until about midway through high school, I dreamed of New York. I wanted to go to college there so badly, I wanted to live there. I know I'm not alone in this, but still. And now, the school I belong to here at my university has started a new summer program. They had another domestic one - L.A., and I was considering it - but now they have one in New York City.

When God closes a door he opens a window? I think that's a good saying to keep in mind even if you're not religious; a reminder that even if one chance slips away there's always something else good if you look right.

Maybe this program is my new window. Or maybe the door's not closed and locked yet, and London's still something I have a shot at. But if I don't... There's a lot good about the chance to work in New York. In some ways, for my resume, it might even be better.

We'll see what I can manage, shall we?
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So, I picked this blog post up from [livejournal.com profile] _profiterole_'s LJ, and... Well, it doesn't surprise me, really. Now, I'm not going to say that every agent will reject a YA book for having a gay character or a poly character in it - the writers themselves acknowledge that.

But the fact that it could be one of the reasons and in some cases is? Yeah, that gets to me. YA books, in my view, should not have, say, explicit sex scenes or really much romance beyond kissing, but that's for any sort of pairing. And the teens who read these books? Some of them are going to be gay. Simple statistics. Don't they deserve protagonists they can identify with just as much as the straight teens?

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

It's one nice thing about fanfic, I'll have to say that. We might not always be right about how we interpret canon, and some of our pairings are quite frankly ridiculous and would never happen outside of our heads, but we can do it. We can write any kind of relationship that we want, and while I know the rep for slash fans is that we all just like writing porn of pretty boys, I don't believe that. It's in there, sure, but that's not the only thing we like - I think I can say that, having written slash and poly fics that get a fair bit of good feedback despite the total lack of smutty content.

I'm getting off my soapbox now.
fae_boleyn: (gabe and cas)
So, following on from my rather bleak Writer's Block post - which I'm still half-thinking maybe I had no right to do - here's something considerably more cheerful and returning to the usual fandom fare around here.

One of my newly-discovered favorite authors (anyone who likes Supernatural and Good Omens, I have a fic rec for you unless you're militantly against the pairings involved) did a sort of DVD commentary on several of the oneshots in a series that they did, and I'm kind of tempted to do the same. For the sake of my sanity I'd have to restrict this to oneshots or single chapters of my longer fics (especially if someone wanted Handmaid, good God...) but I was wondering if anyone might be interested in seeing it. If so, leave me some titles and I'll see what I can do. It's something I'd definitely like to try, but it seems pointless if no one's going to want to read it. Kind of like almost every non-Inception fic that I post here...

Also I apparently should not have two cups of coffee in as many hours. I'm not jumping off the walls but I definitely feel edgy. I should probably use this to clean my room, but I'd rather try to put it to writing. Or something more enjoyable than cleaning, because I hate cleaning.

There should be a "wired" option in the mood selection. Bouncy is as close as I can get and that doesn't really fit all that well.
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[Error: unknown template qotd]The odd part is that I actually do remember very specifically where I was, what was going on around me, all of that. I don't remember much from fifth grade all that clearly, so it's... strange.We'd just come back in from morning recess and we were having our English lesson, talking about James and the Giant Peach. They must have told the teachers while we were at recess, though, because the PA came on and kids were still talking, ignoring it like always. My teacher snapped "Be quiet, this is very important!" so she had to know from... somewhere. That was the first clue something was not right; my teacher was usually pretty laid-back. Anyway, they said first that we were being dismissed early and kids were all excited. I remember I wasn't; I hated my grade school so I had all the days off and early dismissal days memorized. I knew this wasn't one of them, so something was going on and it couldn't be good. But I was expecting something like a malfunction in the boiler room or something wrong in the building. 

Then they told us there'd been an attack. No specifics, which led to some confusion because my teacher thought the Sears Tower (which I want to say is in Chicago but I could be wrong) had also been hit. So, anyway, I walked home when we were dismissed, came into the house and my mother and grandmother were watching it on TV. I just... sat down on the floor in my usual spot and stared at the TV. It seemed like a movie. Still kind of does, when I see the archive footage being played again. I also remember my friend being terrified that all tall buildings were a target, and I had to talk her down. I wasn't worried about our neighborhood, because it was residential, and no one's going after random apartment buildings. But I live in Philadelphia, and I was worried about our downtown. Obviously nothing happened, but I'm willing to bet I'm not the only one from a large city who spent a good while half-expecting to hear we'd just been hit.

I've heard people say they remember where they were when Pearl Harbor got attacked or when Kennedy was shot. I never really understood that when I was little... But here I am with the same kind of story, and I know my friends who I didn't know back then do too. Hell, we've talked about it, it's actually come up in conversation and it's strange how much you really do remember. I just hope the kids who are too young to remember 9/11, who are growing up now, never have anything that proves to them just how you can remember where you were on a certain day, for a certain event.
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Heh, so, I'm doing the five icons meme again, this time with [livejournal.com profile] rodlox's choices. Well, actually, two of rodlox's choices and three of mine because there were three repeats. :) It happens. Rules are the same, I'll pick five icons for those who reply.

So...

rodlox's two first.


Anita/Eames, from my Inception fic Architecture of Your World and Mind

I don't think it's a secret that I like to cast my fics, and that was definitely true for my Inception fic where I genderbent Arthur (Anita) and Yusuf (Yasirah). I didn't come up with the idea of Summer Glau as girl!Arthur, but I think she's perfect. Mostly I use this icon when posting chapters or replies to comments for "Architecture" or for commenting on other genderbent fics.


Gabriel and Castiel, Supernatural

So, I think this might be a travesty of sorts, but... I ship Dean/Castiel and Sam/Gabriel (not really into Wincest but I see where that crew is coming from sometimes) but... I think I actually ship Gabriel&Castiel platonic brotherly... stuff most of all. We don't get it in the show, which makes me sad, and it also doesn't seem to be a common theme in fic, which makes me more sad. D: Then my response was to write some, because those boys need family who actually gives a damn, really quick. :D Anyway, I use this for commenting on the brotherly!platonic!Gabe&Cas I do find, and on other Supernatural fics where my Dean/Cas and Sam/Gabe icons don't quite seem to fit.

And my three...


Edward Seymour/Anne (Stanhope) Seymour, The Tudors

Oh God, this pairing. Historically a happy couple, on the show almost as dysfunctional as Henry's marriages, which is saying a lot as anyone who knows the "Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived." refrain for Henry's six wives. In the show Anne and Edward hate each other, but the actors' chemistry is... scorching even in mutual hatred. God, they could have been a wonderfully snarky, evil power couple, but no. I use this as my icon on fanfiction.net as well, since most of my involvement there is in the Tudors fandom. I support my ships! (And the right of everyone else to do so for theirs, no ship bashing here.)


Anita Blake and Edward aka Ted Forrester, Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter

OK, I love the Anitaverse, gratuitous, possibly IKEA porn and all. And I love all of Anita's boys, but most of all I love Edward, who is not one of them. He's Anita's soulmate, by a definition that your soulmate, your other half, is too much like you to be your lover. You're parts of a whole, but romance would be like incest. I love the concept, and I love how the Anita&Edward dynamic changes - we meet him in the very first Anita novel and Anita's expecting him to kill her one day; by the last book to date, in which he also figures prominently, he's basically Anita's best friend. These guys and Gabe&Cas (above) are probably my favorite platonic!ships, if that makes any sense, in all my many fandoms. I use this icon basically whenever the hell I want to, no particular rhyme or reason to its use. I just love it.


Katherine of Aragon/Anne Boleyn, The Tudors

Yes, the slash instead of 'and' means this is not a platonic pairing. My default icon is for my fic Handmaid, which was probably the fanfic equivalent of a top-seller (maybe not quite a best-seller, see the brilliant ReganX on ff.net for that...). Handmaid came out of someone on the Tudors forum wanting a Henry/Anne/Katherine fic that was not a triangle but actually involved romance on all sides. While those three never quite worked in my head as a triad, the three couples were definitely fun to write. And Anne/Katherine, more of a romantic friendship due to character and context, is definitely the heart and soul of one of my best fics. It's my default because Handmaid was a turning point in my writing, and I like to remember that.
fae_boleyn: (gabe and cas)
Title: A Wheel In Constant Motion
Fandom: Supernatural, vague reference to Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Series: Outrunning The Bad Luck Tailing Us
Characters: Gabriel, Castiel, references to some pagan gods, Aziraphale, Crowley, and Dean Winchester
Summary: Some snapshots of the angelic brothers through the years.
Author's Note: Jimmy Novak is not Cas' vessel in this 'verse, because, well... Jimmy would have to be over a thousand years old then, or else we'd have weird timey-wimey ball stuff. So it's his ancestor, but they look the same. Only so many combinations in a gene pool, you know. Or something. Doctor Who explains it better. Gabriel and Castiel's little obsessions are explained by Gabe being the patron saint of telecommunications and Cas being associated with travel, among other things. The John Constantine reference comes from my reading somewhere that Castiel was originally supposed to be him before licensing got in the way, hence what I hear is a wardrobe similarity?
Disclaimer: Yeah, no, not mine.

Why is it that Anansi is upset with you, but I'm the one tangled in a giant web? )
fae_boleyn: (gabe/sam)
OK, so, before I start, a minor bit of comm-pimping. I'm trying to jump-start my dead comm, [livejournal.com profile] inception_meta, and with that in mind just posted a new discussion topic over there, so anyone interested please go check it out!

Ahem. On to the topic at hand. This is also a meta of sorts, but a more general fanfiction writing one as opposed to one for a specific fandom. I'm hoping to continue with these - I have a few ideas already and I'm open to suggestions for others. But for this one, the subject is writing crossovers.

Read more... )
fae_boleyn: (gabe and cas)
Title: Mutually Beneficial
Fandom: Supernatural, crossover with Neil Gaiman's American Gods
Series: Outrunning The Bad Luck Tailing Us (series has a name now!)
Characters: Gabriel, Loki, Shadow (briefly), Castiel (mentioned)
Summary: This is how the Archangel Gabriel became the pagan god Loki, for all official purposes.
Author's Note: And the pre-canon fics continue! Well, mostly; this fic is also, technically, a bit of a pre-episode tag to 5.08, Changing Channels, but nothing major.
Disclaimer: Yeah, no, not mine.

Now, doesn't that sound nice? )
fae_boleyn: (dean/cas)
So yesterday I came home from school so I could work this weekend, and there's new clothes in my closet. New clothes like, business attire. New clothes like two pantsuits and a dress-suit (I guess it's called that since it's a blue dress and a suit jacket, rather than a skirt). Anyway, I tried them on and while they didn't all fit perfectly, well... Um...

Yeah, I'm still a bit unsettled. Because they didn't look bad. I mean, suddenly I look five years more mature (probably good since my height counts against me there if nothing else) and they actually looked pretty good, like the colors and the fit and whatnot, but, well... Ah fuck, I'm twenty years old, I don't feel old enough to be wearing freaking suits yet! It just felt strange, because I looked nice, but I didn't look a thing like me. I guess that's the point, and I'll get used to it and all, but at the moment I'm still just a tad weirded out by it all.

And then there's my writing. All these various ideas tumbling in my head, my issue is now a very different kind of writer's block. Namely, figuring out where to go first. Because I've got multiple options. The handful of pre-canon SPN things I can do (and it seems Good Omens is firmly lodging itself back in that universe; American Gods already claimed a tiny niche), my Tudor stuff, the various Inception fics, Hetalia if I can get myself to wake that one up, and my X-Men BB.

Of course, I really should be shifting the X-Men BB to top priority, seeing as the rough drafts are due Septemper 26. We'll see how that plan goes, is what I'm thinking.

Well, there's tomorrow, once I'm back at school, and then Monday is Labor Day (for the non-Americans on my flist, it's a holiday for us, so no classes). Let's see if I can get shit done, shall we?

Also, my 'various types of thinking' emoticats tilt their heads. I have Castiel-emoticats. Huh. This was not intentional, no angels were harmed in the making of? Something like that.
fae_boleyn: (gabe/sam)
So I came to an odd conclusion while I was on the train home this weekend, listening to "I'll Cover You" and "Another Day" from the RENT soundtrack. In my genderbend fic, Ariadne/Yasirah and Anita/Eames more or less correspond to Collins/Angel and Roger/Mimi respectively. One couple coming together easily, comfortable together, cheery and fun, the other having some major issues to work out, on-again/off-again... Er, well, they correspond without the HIV and the drugs and the dying. In my universe anyway; going off the theory of the multiverse I don't pretend to know what goes on in the stories never written. :D

Even so, I was a little weirded out by this one.

On another note, how creepy is it to be dating the younger (and very estranged) half-brother of your dad's boyfriend? This is for a fic, and in this case the "dad" in question is immortal and appears to be... Mid thirties, maybe? I'm so bad at guessing ages, but even so. They've also never met, and until recently she would think he was her uncle. One of my fics is being... recalcitrant, or rather one of my newest original characters is being recalcitrant as to what, exactly, her backstory is. It sounds vaguely like a soap opera, I guess, though. Meh.

Speaking of fics and being stubborn... I was reading Good Omens again. The PDF, yes, I gave in after I could not find a hard copy anywhere. And now I want Aziraphale and Crowley in my SPN oneshot series again! Bloody hell. At least this time I did come up with a logical way they could enter into the story, just... not whether they'd stick around, and in what capacity. What do you guys think? Would they step in to try and help stop another Apocalypse, or just offer background support to this go-round's active-duty people? (No, Crowley would not be the show's; my headcanon rejects that idea very hard.)

Either way, I need an overall name for the series. Shit.

Also, the Max Brown as Aziraphale image has faded as I kept reading - based off the cover art, yes, but the character, I can't quite see it. However, now I have James Frain as Crowley in my head and that idea is showing no signs of going away at all. I'm seriously convinced that, if that miniseries I heard about is really going to go through, they should consider him for Crowley.

SPN fandom, you make me sad. I know they didn't actually interact much, but I also know that's not an insurmountable issue, but for a girl desperately looking for non-slashy Gabriel/Castiel brother fics, there's just not much to find. :( Of course, I could take that as incentive to write more of it... If anyone has anything they'd like to see in the way of pre-canon shenanigans from those two (Gabe's playing pagan god, that right there's enough to cause them both a world of trouble) let me know, and I'll see what I can do. :D

Now I'm off to see if I can get some writing done. In various fandoms, as per usual.
fae_boleyn: (gabe and cas)
Title: Look To The Western Sky
Fandom: Supernatural, implied crossover with the novel Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Characters: Gabriel, Castiel, mentions of Lucifer, Raphael, Michael, and Zachariah
Summary: Gabriel's departure does not go entirely unnoticed, and a conversation at the edge of Heaven leaves a young angel with a life-changing decision.
Author's Note: This is probably the only SPN fic you'll see from me for a while, except some other Gabriel and Castiel pre-series ones, maybe. I need to do more canon immersion before I can start to AU the actual show, after all.

Oh, and extra points if you can identify what song the title is taken from.

Well, there's an easy solution to that. )
fae_boleyn: (ariadne/robert/saito)
Story Title: My Missionaries On A Foreign Field
Chapter Title: Some Assembly Required
Fandom: Inception
Summary: Mal was right, but now she needs to get Dom out. The plan? Trick Dom into waking up by sending him on a job with a team whose real mission is to break him free.
Pairings: Mal/Dom, Arthur/Eames, Robert/Saito, pre-Ariadne/Robert/Saito
Author's Note: Erm... Yes, new fic, terrible idea, but I've been tooling around with the concept for a while. First Mal was right fic I've done, let's see how it goes, shall we? Also, this is the larger fic that sets things up for my previous A/R/S ficlet Chills.

Read more... )
fae_boleyn: (ariadne/yasirah)
Story Title: Architecture of Your World and Mind
Chapter Title: Let's Just Make This Part Go Faster
Fandom: Inception
Summary: Inception's not an easy job, it takes months of careful planning. These are the planning stages. Also, genderbend, girl!Arthur and girl!Yusuf. Movie AU, begins when the movie does, but the primary focus is the pre-job months.
Pairings: past Mal/Cobb, girl!Arthur/Eames, Ariadne/girl!Yusuf (so, yes, het and femslash, no m/m in this one, I do apologize)
Author's Note: I have no excuse for this, really.

Later they'll have time to deal with this properly... )
fae_boleyn: (gabe and cas)
More meme-ness!

1. Reply to this post with "LICK ME" (or any other explicit form of consent), and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

rei17 picked five of my icons, so here goes!



X-Men: FC, Erik/Charles

I think this is the only one of the icons chosen not tied to one of my fics. Huh. Anyway, I just really liked the pairing but I wanted a slightly different look to the icons i was seeing. So I added fire. :D



Inception: Ariadne/Arthur/Eames

This one is a thumbnail from the story banner I did for my series Three Is More Than Just Company. It's the best of the various A/A/E icons I did back when I first got into the pairing, which is why it's the only one I kept.



Inception: girl!Yusuf/Ariadne

Again, it's a story-based icon. This time it's Ariadne and Yasirah (girl!Yusuf) from my fic Architecture of Your World and Mind, which features always-female versions of Yusuf and Arthur (called Anita in the fic). It took forever to find pictures that worked, as I recall.



Tudors: Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour

This is not a romantic pairing. It's an icon made for my Tudors fic Standing Outside the Fire, in which Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour are raised as stepsisters and best friends. Even though the fic surrounds the events of Henry VIII's Great Matter and his subsequent marriage to Anne, Jane and Anne - and their siblings - are definitely the main characters of the story.



Supernatural: Dean/Castiel

Heh. Sign of my newest fandom, this one. It's inspired by the oneshot series I'm working on, which goes from mild AU into major AU as time goes on, but in which Dean/Cas is going to be one of the major pairings. Besides that it was mostly just playing around with the opacity option in GIMP. (As is the icon chosen for this post, which is totally series-inspired.)
fae_boleyn: (gabe and cas)

So, I'm back at school, and I'm in a solo room this year. These are the bits of good news.

The bad news? I live right in the pathway of Hurricane Irene. It's getting weaker as it travels, but it's still much stronger than the storms we usually get here. The weird part? Right at this moment it's clearer outside of my window than it's been all day and night, at least judging by how well I can see the city skyline. (More good news, I finally have a neat view!) I'm not sure if this is a good sign or the literal calm before the storm, seeing as all reports had the hurricane striking at about this time and going through a good bit of tomorrow. Hoping for the former, honestly expecting the latter.

Now, in terms of fic. I finally threw in the towel where my X-Men BB is concerned; until I have a better idea how exactly to handle parts one and two, I am moving on to write the latter parts, where I actually know what I'm doing. I'm currently writing the epilogue, set in the beginning of X-Men 1. Tudors and Inception are in more or less the same boat, progressing slowly with bursts of inspiration. We'll see what I can do about that. Supernatural... I'm working on the opening oneshot right now and I created a banner for the main story arc.

Anyway, that's where things stand at the moment, so hopefully I'll have some fics for you sometime tomorrow, as my new school year kickoff. *crosses fingers*

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So, yet another meme, this time stolen from [livejournal.com profile] sour_idealist. Go to AO3 and list your top ten fics in terms of hit count. I'm actually tweaking it to top five from AO3 and top five from fanfiction.net, since I only have 17 fics on AO3 and I've written more than that, not to mention almost every fic there is Inception. So for the sake of balance...AO3 Fics )FF.Net Fics )
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Interesting day yesterday, overall. Earthquake, my first real business call... A most untypical Tuesday.


In contrast, Wednesday has been depressingly typical. However, I've given more thought to my eventual SPN fic, and... I've more or less decided screwing around with the latter bit of S6 is going to lead to melodrama however the hell I slice it. But then I thought, if season 5 didn't end how it did, season 6 would have been different. And then I thought of something else, something having a lot to do with my newfound love for brotherly love type of fics between a certain trench-coat-wearing angel and a certain candy-loving runaway archangel.


I've never AUed anything from a thousand years pre-canon before. I feel that, considering my tendency toward creating AUs, I should rectify this. ;) However, if anyone here who is more familiar with SPN than me has some suggestions, I would love to hear them.



In terms of my other work, I'm not giving up on it, not even close. I'm always slow in summer.
fae_boleyn: (anita/eames)
So, the past two days have essentially been about packing up to go back to school. Yesterday was the kitchen stuff and the bedding and all that jazz, today it was my clothes. Shock of shocks, I think I'm actually developing a style, when did that happen? It seems to involve printed t-shirts, solid-colored sundresses, denim, and the black fedora that my mother and grandmother hate but I adore. Feeling oddly bittersweet this year, I think it's because summer at home was less stressful than the past two have been. Still glad to be heading back, though.


Also I rearranged my CDs and DVDs in the travel cases I keep them in. All the original cases were trashed for the sake of conserving space. I'm not sure why I felt the need to rearrange, but I did, with a pattern that may or may not be discernible to anyone not me. Some of it's obvious, some of it, not so much. :D


Shh, don't scare the muses. I watched the job-prep sequence from Inception (well, actually, I watched Mombasa through job-prep, my favorite section of the film) and a section of Tudors 1.09, and I got the literal tingling in my hands that makes me think some writing will happen tonight. Please, dear gods and angels.


I have six days (well, closer to five at this time of night) until I go back to school. Third year, we'll see how this one plays out.


On another note. I keep seeing Good Omens/Supernatural crosses where the SPN Crowley is also the GO Crowley. Now, I've not finished GO (see yesterday's post) but... That... It doesn't seem to fit, especially as I think SPN Crowley's a former human who sold his soul and GO Crowley is a fallen angel (er, sorry, an angel who "sauntered vaguely downwards"). I have a different image - it basically involves GO Crowley complaining to Aziraphale about "that crossroads twat who stole my name!" And for some reason my head wants Zira and Cas to be the angel version of twins, a concept I do not understand but cannot shake.

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