inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (missionimpossibledive)
So, posting fic notices to LJ a couple of weeks late is apparently how I roll now....

Fandom: Mission: Impossible (inclusive of all four movies and the TV show, but mostly the MI4 team)
Rating: PG
Pairing/Characters: Ethan Hunt/William Brandt, Jane, Benji, cameos from all over the canon
Word Count: 28394 (whaaaat)
Summary:
After their meeting on the pier in Seattle, the team goes their separate ways. But Ghost Protocol left the IMF in turmoil, so Will, Ethan, Jane, and Benji team up to take on the Syndicate, a mysterious and widespread criminal organization. Will has to adjust to being a field agent again, and learn how to work with his team when the world isn’t on the line -- all while dealing with attack cheetahs, unexpected amnesia, train robbery, master thieves, and more.

Falling in love was not part of his scenario.

Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] smallfandombang Round 3. A ton of thanks go to [livejournal.com profile] ignipes for her wonderful beta, and to [livejournal.com profile] doitninetimes for all the cheerleading! I would also like to thank [livejournal.com profile] spatz for being fun to co-write spy shenanigans with, but especially for not strangling me in my sleep over the hyphens argument. ♥

And thanks to Tarlanx for the awesome big bang art! She made us not one but two different pieces, available as cover art and wallpapers; I especially love the photo manip, in which she managed to make use of a set photo from MI:4 that I adore. You can find them all here.

( on AO3 )
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (mfuillyashhh)
Have I mentioned that [livejournal.com profile] spatz and I signed up for [livejournal.com profile] smallfandombang? We decided to commit to finishing off our Mission: Impossible monster. So it's kind of hilarious, because we're just shy of 15,000 words and it's not even the first check-in yet, and five months until final draft.

There are at least seven more largish scenes/sequences to write, so it's going to be looong. It sort of resembles MFU more than M:I in tone, but I'm okay with that, because M:I4 was also a little more MFU than M:I.

Apparently I'm really in the mood to write spy shenanigans, because I just finished Dungeons & Hawkeyes and have been poking at an old MFU draft (which, hilariously, ALSO starts in a dungeon; that was not intentional), and we've got wacky shit going on in the M:I story (SO many tropes. SO, SO MANY).
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (avengersclintquiver)
Oops. I just realized I forgot to cross-post this here! I was basically falling asleep as I posted AO3, though, if that's any excuse.

Fandom: Hawkeye (comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe-ish
Rating: G
Pairing/Characters: Kate Bishop, Clint Barton, Phil Coulson; Clint/Coulson-ish, but largely ampersand-fic
Word Count: 5519
Summary: In which this whole dungeon thing really isn’t working for Kate Bishop, there are far too many nicknames from the Victorian era, socks are vitally important, and Clint insists he is Han Solo in this situation.

Notes: This was written using only canon through Hawkeye #7, so apologies if anything clashes horribly for you. I am also ignoring all of Secret Avengers. So it’s basically Hawkeye, plus some MCU, plus whatever random Marvel trivia I’ve absorbed by osmosis over the years. *jazzhands* A million thanks to my beta extraordinaire, [livejournal.com profile] spatz, who is my very own Katie-Kate. ♥

Written for [livejournal.com profile] bendingwind for New Year’s Resolution 2013, because I defaulted last Yuletide (OH THE SHAME).

( "Okay," Kate Bishop muttered to herself. "This looks bad." )
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (missionimpossibledive)
You know what sucks? When you get done with work at 2:30am (12 hours after you started being on your feet non-stop) and start doing your checkout and start realizing that somewhere, something's gone terribly wrong. As far as we could tell, it was nothing I did, and I'm pretty sure I know who fucked it up, but I walked out with NINE DOLLARS in cash tips after a VERY busy night, knowing I made more than that in tip off my last tab alone, and I really was having trouble not just bursting into tears. I'll probably get some of it back once our manager sorts things out, but a lot of I just won't, because there's not going to be a way to account for it.

So I'm going to go make myself a drink and take a shower and eat birthday cake (courtesy of my dad turning 61) for dinner.

And also do a meme:

1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.


From mine and Katie's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol fic, which is at almost 12k words, thanks to being largely fueled by our frustration with the fandom to provide lots of clever spy shenanigans or awesome team interactions. So we're writing our own.

"[...] .But, it’s just-- Ethan was a big part of why I became a field agent in the first place. After the thing in Shanghai with Julia, I just kept thinking, how what I was doing wasn’t just on the computer or in the lab, that it was people’s lives, and I’d known that before but it hadn’t been real like that, you know?”

Will nodded, thinking about the first time he’d run up against it, the feeling of living something he’d only read reports about before. He’d read the report on Shanghai, as well as Ethan’s personal statements about Benji’s “invaluable assistance and integrity” in an operation that neutralized a highly-placed traitor and saved an innocent civilian life.

“I didn’t know that was why you started training for the field,” he said.

“Well, basically. I hadn’t thought about it before then. [...]"


I'm kind of sad this missed the best parts of this conversation, and instead hits the exposition paragraph I am plan to fix, but damn is it fun writing Benji dialogue. ♥
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (smoke)
1. I wrote two stories! There was the Sherlock Holmes (/Due South/Numb3rs/House/Psych/Castle) fic The Sincerest Form of Flattery back in September, and then I wrote Life fic for Yuletide: Taking The Stairs, which has received many lovely comments that stroke my ego. I also wrote a smattering of Twitterfic in February for a whole bunch of fandoms.

Speaking of Yuletide, I also beta'd my sister's Life fic, Precession, which is excellent (and hilariously the only other Life fic to come out of Yuletide other than mine). I also received two gifts: In Uniform (B13) by faviconVal Mora, and A Madcap Proposal (Lost In Austen) by favicon7iris, both of which are wonderful and make me super happy.

other things )

...I guess that's it. This year felt like it went by pretty fast, or at least uneventfully. 2011 seems to have been The Year of Mediocrity for me. I'm not particularly happy, but life isn't awful. I'm just sort of drifting, is all.

I think I might take a break from the internet for a while, just FYI. We'll see.

in bed!

Sep. 30th, 2011 09:50 am
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (gknatesmile)
I have decided to invent a meme, because I am wretched and bored and feel like writing. So:

Go here and find a fortune cookie message that pings your interest. (Or, if you're feeling ambitious, make up your own ridiculous fortune, or use one you remember from a real cookie, or google one.) Then comment with the fortune and a fandom/pairing/character, and I will write you commentfic.

Feel free to add "in bed" to the end as necessary. It is traditional, after all. :D


I am pretty much a fandom free-for-all, so ask for whatever your little hearts desire.
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (holmeswatsonnewspaper)
1. I saw this collection of James McAvoy gifs on tumblr, and a) HIS HANDS, and b) okay, Sports Night fans, be with me now: doesn't he look uncannily like Dan Rydell here? Complete with impassioned, hand-gesturing speeches about integrity and principles and all that. ♥! I kind of want a Sorkin-esque XMFC AU now. Like, Erik and Charles as anchors on a political commentary show, or something. Raven is their badass producer! Hank is their Jeremy! Darwin is the best damn editor around! They all argue about politics and public policy on mutants together! COME ON. IT WOULD BE SO GREAT. :D?

2. Hey, so I wrote fic the other day! That was pretty exciting; I haven't finished anything in about a year and a half. Of course, I'm pretty sure only about half a dozen people are going to read it, because of the six different fandoms and massively nerdy meta-ness of it all, but I guess that's the curse of being multifannish. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, though, and I had a great deal of success using my typewriter to pound out the last remaining bits.

3. I put my name in the hat for one of the league soccer teams around here recently, and was just emailed by one of the captains! So I've dragged out my old cleats and soccer ball and sports bag, and will hopefully someday soon get to embarrass myself on the soccer field with my lack of cardiovascular fitness and hopelessly rusty ball-handling skills. It's only been six years since I last played....

4. I would really rather focus on the above than think about the many and various ways that my body is currently screwing me over, because apparently now I might get to add "autoimmune disease" on top of the already-teetering pile. Yet more appointments and labwork lie in my future, hurrah.
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (holmes221B)
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes, Due South, Numb3rs, House, Psych, Castle
Rating: G
Pairing/Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Charlie Eppes, Larry Fleinhardt, Dr. Gregory House, Dr. James Wilson, Shawn Spencer, Burton Guster, Kate Beckett, Richard Castle
Warnings: discussion of pediatric cancer; rampant abuse of Sherlock Holmes quotations
Summary: All detectives are Sherlock Holmes, and they all have their Watsons. Six iterations of Holmes moments in six fandoms.

Notes: In addition to the cited quotes at the beginning of each section, each title is also from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories -- the first obviously from A Study In Scarlet, the second from The Valley of Fear, the third from "The Retired Colourman," the fourth from "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client," the fifth from The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the last coming full circle back to A Study In Scarlet. The second section was inspired by the POV character's own quote. The article mentioned in the last section is a real Victorian-era article, but is likely both anachronistic and not to be found in any publication Watson would actually read. No particular spoilers, but the Due South section is set sometime during season 3/4, the House section sometime during season 6, and the rest are scattered throughout their respective canons. Title from the Charles Caleb Colton quote. Enormous thanks to [livejournal.com profile] thespatz for putting up with me while I dragged her through my millions of rounds of revisions, and for giving me good advice along the way.

Also posted here on AO3.

The Sincerest Form of Flattery )

1. Study In Scarlet (Due South) )

2. The Professor and the Crime (Numb3rs) )

3. The Side Door of Music (House) )

4. Respect For Your Brains (Psych) )

5. If The Earth Told A True Story (Castle) )

No Crimes and No Criminals (Sherlock Holmes) )
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (Default)
Pictures of my typewriter! It is my current favorite thing right now. I found the serial number, and have determined that it is a Royal KMG manual typewriter made in 1950. It's in astoundingly good condition, enough so that I wonder if it was just never used, or if someone got it serviced right before I bought it. That, or it's just a really excellent piece of machinery that was treated well all it's life. I just think it's funny that I now own a typewriter that is the exact same age as my mother. :)

I spent a couple of hours yesterday scrubbing off the type settings with an old toothbrush and some rubbing alcohol, and then adjusted the key touch control (which changes how hard the type hits the paper relative to how hard you hit the keys), and now the letters come out beautifully.

I am turning into such a crazy person.

the lady herself, a message, and the writer hard at work, Myspace-style )

The subject line, by the way, is something P.G. Wodehouse said when asked how he wrote. ♥
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (b13leito)
I am rather bored -- all the excitement of learning that anesthesia makes me nauseated + enormously sleepy was yesterday, it's below freezing outside, and my twin is occupied. So, let's play a game!

I had a lot of fun with this last time, so how about the Twitter Comment Fic Challenge, Part II! It's like those "tell a story in 10 words" memes, only with 140 characters instead. Y'all comment giving me a fandom, and a prompt/pairing/character/mood word/whatever if you like; then I write you a mini-fic of 140 characters.

Anything is fair game! I've mostly focused on ridiculous fandoms like B13 and Primeval recently, but I'm also game for the million and a half other things I've seen or read over the years, so feel free to throw out something random. I like a challenge. :D

Okay...go!
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (Default)
Hi! I would really appreciate being distracted right now, please:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level.

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inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (southlandlydiashotgun)
[livejournal.com profile] ethrosdemon has written a very interesting post about Southland, and issues of perception and being a storyteller when you're a woman.

it’s something new...—not a show made by men for women, but a show made by women for everyone (but mostly other women).

Southland isn’t a cop show so much as it is a digital, serialized piece of cinema verite about these certain human beings. I suppose I would compare it to The Hurt Locker, another work called "gritty" by men who then boggle that women were involved in making it. Here, the word "gritty" means that men think women don't comprehend complex emotions/aren't interested in seeing them in media/they're really surprised that women are subtle.

Not just that. Men don’t just boggle that women made it—they boggle because women made the work, and they can relate to it.
Very thought-provoking! I recommend reading. I've already gone and given my two cents, although it turned more into a quarter... *thumbs up*
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (m7whiskeyandcards)
Meme yoinked from this lovely Middleman fic:

The iPod Challenge: Put your MP3 player on shuffle and write a flashfic (I refuse to call these drabbles; I am a term purist!) about each of the first ten songs to come up. The catch? You only have the duration of the song to write it in.

I haven't really looked at these since I wrote them at 5am, so hopefully they're not terrible. I also cheated on the rules for a few of them (you will likely be able to tell which, because they are significantly longer).

Also, I have no idea where the serial killer one came from. I kept trying to figure out who the character was, but I don't think she's anybody I've met before. Whoops, accidental original!fic?

1. Fringe )

2. Generation Kill )

3. not sure; any female lead + serial killer, I suppose )

4. Supernatural )

5. The Pretender )

6. Sherlock Holmes )

7. Primeval )

8. Sports Night )

9. Middleman )

10. Magnificent Seven )
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (middlemanfightingevil)
Katie was bored at her job the other night, so I ended up making her fic-text with me.

I blame the following on my current obsession with Sherlock Holmes, and the fact that I was rewatching The Middleman episodes while texting. :D?

a transcript, for your entertainment )
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (southlandcopcarbw)
I had a few things piling up in tabs, so here's some clean-up sharing:

1. Have y'all been reading Ben McKenzie's celeb guest blogs about Southland over at TVGuide.com? He's writing one for every S2 episode, and they're really quite good. He has a clear, direct style, gets his points across succinctly, and quite obviously understands what the show is trying to do, and what he's doing as an actor. I find them very interesting.

Entries for: 2.01 "Phase Three", 2.02 "Butch and Sundance", 2.03 "U-Boat"; all entries listed here.

2. I'm pretty sure most of you have read the AfterElton interview with Michael Cudlitz already, but have the link again. It's not the most highly intellectual interview out there, but is rather blessed with a practical, down-to-earth point of view that I enjoy.

I thought this exchange was of particular interest: short Q&A excerpt )

and then I tangent into Sherlock Holmes again, some more )
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (southlandcooperpatch)
HEE. I'd forgotten how completely awesome this scene is. A completely non-spoilery clip from Homicide: Life on the Street; watch it, and your life will be expanded in new and beautiful ways.



You know what's awesome? This actually worked in real life. I love it. :D

(Also, I kinda want their phones' ring for my cell phone ring tone. Then I can make the Star Trek communicator my text message notification, and I will be set for life.)

Also related to my recent library book selections (and to detectives investigating things, for that matter), I have written almost 2000 words of fic for A Study In Emerald. Unfortunately, Watson hasn't even been clued in yet, and there's still that whole "plot" thing to figure out, plus I have no idea when to stop writing, which is awesome because Conan Doyle-canon Holmes and Watson's relationship only spans, oh, several decades, fifty-six short stories, and four novels, not counting all Watson's maddening references to other stories and cases. *sigh*

But I have learned a good deal already about the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the geography of London, the construction of Victorian theaters, Victorian-era laws regarding sexual misconduct, techniques for writing a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and several new points of interest in the battle between American and British English. For what it's worth.
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (happypinkpartysombrero)
Oh, what the heck. From [livejournal.com profile] thespatz and [livejournal.com profile] yahtzee63:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character/prompt of their choosing, in any fandom I am familiar with. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or dirty limericks or something instead.) I'll even write you a dirty limerick, if you prefer that to a drabble.

For the record, I recently got into Generation Kill, re-watched all of Lie To Me and Fringe with my twin, and am having a Southland renaissance, so I'd be particularly thrilled by prompts in those fandoms. But I'm really really easy if you want to pull out something random like, say, The Pretender. :D
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (Default)
Ugggghhh. Home stretch on the thesis, and I have lost all will to write...

FML

Dec. 15th, 2009 12:03 pm
inmyriadbits: oranges on blue (ohnoswhothATAV)
Continuing motivation-fail! I have moved on to paper #2, at least. Which is due, oh, today.

Not helping: Brendan Hines. I say that with love.

Also not helping: Write or Die not working. D: WHATEVER SHALL I DO???

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