Declining Dreamily

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There be a pimpathon ongoing, so you should have seen this all over the place. But it's still well worth pimping still_grrr, the second challenge community I joined and by far my most active. Icons, fanart and fic all welcome. Pairing neutral; ratings vary; come and be yourself! Weekly prompts! Monthly themes! Pretty prizes for many! They are also happy to take reposted material, so you can furbish up your past work for new audiences.

My latest effort is a repost, in fact The Sum Of Their Parts a gory drabble on reincarnating Buffy.

In other news, does anyone have a B/A prompt to suggest? I have half an idea for iwry_marathon, but no more than that. (Please, nothing post-NFA. I'm doing Spuffy and Spangel season 8.5s already... There's pairing agnostic, and then there's pairing hussy.)

Lastly, a PSA. While peacefully sitting eating breakfast out this morning, I managed to do seriously bloody damage to my toe. Watch out for tables: they bite.

Title: Facing the Future
Rating: PG
Prompt: Destroy (at The Jossverse)
Character: Giles
Words: ~1500
A/N: this is a standalone, but it acts as a prequel to my Plot Without Porn fic Learning the Ropes

Facing the Future

1) England unexpectedly beat India by three runs and are still alive in the Twenty20.

2) Play Winifred For Me (Buffy/Fred, R) has been nominated in the Round 18 Sunnydale Memorial awards for best plot, post-series and drama. As I almost never write plot, post-series, or drama, it's especially nice to be nominated for a fic where I tried to use them!

3) Slightly perversely, in Plot Without Porn weekend, I also wrote for Porn Battle. I'm lousy at writing porn, hence the self-challenging decision. Even so I wimped out of this rather, but if you're interested Needed (Cordelia/Xander, NC17) is here. It has a tiny hint of a plot, even.

Bye all - I'm off for a much needed break in deepest Staffordshire and southern Derbyshire, staying in a couple of fabulous old buildings courtesy of the Landmark Trust - also custodians of the building in the mini-at-the-Almonry pic that's my favourite new icon.
 
I shall be without internet, or TV or phone come to that, and the directions for these two properties have more than the usual number of 'take the third unlabelled track on the right, NOT THE SECOND which has killer Alsatians' directions. But if I survive, I'll probably be back with fic in a week or so!

*turns back to writing Giles/Illyria/Spike smut with happy sigh*

I reckon it's about a year since I started to think I might write fic, though I didn't post till July. And that, together with Dreamwidth not importing memories, means I've finally decided it's time for the Fic Post

From this we learn that:
1) I still can't code and will have to add separate posts for ficlets and drabbles in due course because that was long and painful

2) Dreamwidth crossposting works like a charm (ETA so does cross-editing when you realise you really should have cut that very long list...)

3) I write a lot of Giles, but unless directly prompted I write him alone (except there's a crack Giles/Spike/Illyria I'm noodling with which may yet scandalise summer_of_giles if I can make it go anywhere)

4) I use the words 'two' and 'shadow' too much in titles. I like Xander coming out, and Giles and Spike cheerfully amoral about sex. I should write more Darla (two in the pipeline), Anya and possibly Faith. I've written lots of Buffy shorts, but very little longer fic about her.

5) I've written A LOT. 34 longish fics (meaning over 500 words - not exactly saga material, me) - all posted since November. Plus dozens of drabbles and ficlets, not to mention the recent poetry spasm. Never thought I was a chatterbox, but in fic terms that's virtually spamming.

6) I'm still loving it!

Dreamwidth: yes, I'm there, same name (there is no competitor B out there, it seems. Eeeexcellent).

Now, if I can just go far enough back my flist to when the real pioneers were trying out exporting journals and telling us how to do it, I shall be nicely set.

I also seem to have IE8 installing, which is odd as I didn't know it was out yet. This is not the kind of pioneer I like to be, but I shall report any horrible bugs it brings. *is grudgingly helpful though incompetent*

Melancholy confession - nothing posted to fantas_magoria this week, for the first time. I am sad to lose my 100% record, but my excuse is this week's ep is Killed By Death, which is not just a least-favourite ep, but one I just don't have any thoughts about. I am empty and uncreative.

A little less extreme posting this week:

My second and last grazieprego fic, this one a fun 'historical' Spangel, The Adventure of the Concealed Closet

Undertones(Mal/Simon, h/c) for maleslashminis

Also, kindly allow me again to pimp kinda_gay_award, where nominations are coming in fast, but some categories still need entries - and where some categories have split, giving us the opportunity to nom even more favourites.

I'm going to be offline quite a bit of the week - look forward to seeing what new and exciting things await when I get back.

Yay!

(and woe to my continued coding duncery. This is my third attempt)