I posted my first fanfic* TWENTY NINE YEARS AGO TODAY. My most recent fanfic† was posted less than a month ago. And today I am finishing up a fanfic‡ I started in 2011.

* The X-Files
† Star Trek
‡ Stargate Atlantis

I can't... spikedluv has died very suddenly on the same day as her last post here, Feb 2nd. ride_4ever linked to her obituary here. I've known her as a fandom friend for years and always enjoyed her chatty posts and pics about day to day life. And oh hell, her poor family, with all they're going through at the moment.

Goddamnit.

 And I heard your voice clear as day / only if for a night

 King's Blessing

Had a dream I was in a drugstore and Bad Bunny was sitting up in the balcony and he threw a bottle of aspirin at me and I ran across the store and scaled the wall to get up in his face about it.

 one day you wake up and nothing's the same

So many WIPs - I never used to read the damn things, but HR has corrupted me! The advantage of having several WIPs on the go is that something updates every day, often more than one. The main downside is remembering which plot or AU storyline the WIP is about. I often reread the last chapter, esp. if it's a few days since the fic updated.

I know where to draw the line by magneticwave (wrote the great AU where Shane's a surgeon). It's a new WIP (10,000 word 1st chapter) and is really excellent, with a mature 26 y.o. Shane with a trick knee who's in the Metros with 22 y.o. hotshot Ilya. Lots of hockey detail, great writing & characterisations, a closeted oblivious Shane, and Ilya on the prowl.

My two other main fave WIPs are Basingstoke's Lovers, or English is a damn funny language which continues to be brilliant, and Glittercity's Never Been Bitten, the vampire AU with interesting power dynamics (rich obsessive club owner vampire Shane who's nervous of the ingenuity and aggression of humans and Ilya, the chaotic bartender who's trying to seduce him.)

I've also been charging through all CorvidCordelia's works.

I read Half Agony, Half Hope a while back - it's a longfic based on the premise that Ilya gets traded to Montreal about 3 years after Shane breaks it off after the tuna melts hookup, so they're now on the same team. A great mix of angst, drama, lust, and of course, the requisite happy ending!

Careful Fear and Dead Devotion is another longfic, a complete AU in which Shane and Ilya are young actors looking for a break who are cast as Finn and Dane in the TV series "Ember and Ice". It uses the Quinn audio-erotic story as the plot of the drama they're starring in, so if the mention of Ember and Ice as a "fandom" put you off, don't be - no knowledge is needed of E&I and the inherent ludicrousness of that work doesn't intrude. Scott and Kip are the showrunners! It's kind of analogous to Hudson and Connor in HR, without being in any way RPF. It's a great story, and I loved it.

And Walking Through Windows a fork in the road AU where Ilya fucks up the Tampa All Stars reconciliation (after Shane accepts he's gay), and they then only see each other on the ice when their teams play, for ten years. Which is inherently very sad, but the story starts then, when they're both recently retired and Ilya learns that Shane's about to marry a man. You can imagine what happens, and I was unsure if I'd like it as I dislike partner betrayal, but CorvidCordelia is a bloody good writer and absolutely sold it to me, with a wonderful story that I couldn't put down (gave myself eyestrain again, damn it!)

Onward to the fandoms!
I'm real easy to please, so if you've had a fic you've been sitting on aching to write, I want it.

Original Work
Go alien! That's why we're here, right? Worldbuilding and character building, let's dig in. Male or female, I'm not picky.

Rebel Moon
Some of these are self-explanatory, like worldbuilding for the races or Arthelais/her lover, but some others-- the Queen Issa mythology, the parallels between the mythological Queen Issa and the Princess Issa, the baffling obsession with teeth for the holy procession...?
I would love to see some more about that. The Director's Cut gave us more for Aris and the mythological/royal culture of the Empire in general, as well as byplay between the main cast and backstory for them, and hooooly cow did Jimmy really get played out in the extended version, but I am so hungry for more.
And the Samandrai Bennu riding culture? Someone with more experience in husbandry, I have a mighty need--

Outlander
Outlander! "Your ship crashed here?" "Yes." "This is a lake!"
Please please please, Kainan learning and interacting in this new world, the traumas and PTSD and lost love he's bringing into his relationships, Wulfric surviving! Wulfric deserves to survive! He went out like a boss but him and Kainan being friends, Freya deciding the king doesn't have to be her husband or making two kings or just in general everybody getting the Happy Ending?
Except also I desperately want the Outlander culture and speculative Morwen worldbuilding; please don't hesitate to go AU or Future or anything you want, I promise I will Eat It Up.

Bloodsuckers
Vampires in space! Aliens are all vampires! Humans are intruders into an otherwise well-established order!
Tell me about about Vampire Sanitation. Tell me about the crews. Tell me how vampires worked before humans hit outer space.
Churchill/Phleg: They Spent Time Together during the war, one another's captive. What happened there?Churchill/Muco: Churchill's resurrection! Bringing Churchill to heel!
We know how/why Damian lost his military career. We know his wife is gone. Let's talk about him. Let's talk about his life, his family, how that trauma coming into the crew makes the tensions that much worse?

Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi
Pre-Jedi, Pre-Sith, Force Hounds and early Force culture! The Despot wars! Adepts vs nulls! The raw potential of cross-species culture clash! PTSD! All the things!
Okay I just love this comic line so much. So Much. ;_; join us, they're precious.

Mass Effect Trilogy
This is pretty much what it says on the tin. Tell me about the worldbuilding, tell me about the characters, write Shep/Garrus, ship anybody else on the tags, give me something juicy. I'll love you for it.

Crossover Fandom
I love, love, love X in Y world. I love unlikely friends. I love lovers. Crossovers are top of the line for me. Let's see what you can do!

Star Wars Crossovers
See above! I'm not picky with which era/canon you pull from, so have a little fun with this.

 no door bars the way

Just in time for Valentine's Day, fancake's theme for February is Inept in Love! This round is for all those dingdongs who just do not know what they're doing when it comes to romance or even expressing their feelings for a best friend or family member.

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!

Remember how my boyfriend from when I was 17 turned up out of the blue? Well, he dropped in again after doing his NZ tourist trip, and left me a bunch of memorabilia so I could scan it then mail it back to him. The letters (mine) are... written by an over-dramatic teenager with poetic delusions, so I quickly noped out of reading them. The pics are kind of fun, though, despite my terrible hairdo.

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The usual sample of some of my seasonal cards. Hopefully they've all arrived by now, or will very soon. This year I decided to paint people freehand (which means they're all a bit wonky) and then name them after less well known minor deities - it's called the Small Gods series. I had fun, anyway - it's always good to get back into watercolours again (although I use them more like gouache), after mostly working in Procreate the rest of the year. Embellished with metallic paint in various colours, gold, and silver, for a festive touch. Hopefully you can see the sheen a little in the way I've photographed them.

God of Circuses	God of Ink	God of Extroverts
God of Dramatic Entrances	God of Jump Scares	God of Drizzle
God of Sweaters	God of Naps	God of Woad
God of Flirts	God of Sparrows	God of Nostalgia