Like Trying to Hide the Daylight From the Sun

If you haven't been watching, the spontaneous transformation of E! Online's TV's Top Couples poll comment section into a Doctor Superlock RP session is one of the greatest and most beautiful things ever.  My favorite moment?  When Jim Moriarty started flirting with Lucifer.

 I've been having trouble making cuts and such work here on DW, so this is just a place marker directing my circle members to the two fic posts I just made: the first is my first ever porn fic (and heaven help me, it's Wincest), and the second is a collection of writer's block busting ficlets I wrote for prompters a few weeks back.  Then there are my xover_exchange fics, one Torchwood/Firefly and the other Doctor Who/Leverage

The Many Forms of Comfort (Supernatural, NC-17, Sam/Dean)

Four Ficlets for Supernatural, one Doctor Who/Discworld (PG-13, Gen)

Too Good to Be True (Torchwood/Firefly, PG-13, Gen)

The Nick of Time Job (Doctor Who/Leverage, PG-13, Gen)

There's a plottier bit of this 'verse that's been going through several iterations but as I've always said this 'verse is a) timey-wimey enough that posting order is ultimately inconsequential and b) something I'm doing for fun and relaxation, I'm putting this vignette up on impulse.

Title: Recklessness and Water
Author: moragmacpherson
Fandoms: (Supernatural/Doctor Who-Torchwood)
Series: You Won't See Nothing Like Me
Genre: (pre) Slash
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,107
Ingredients include: Jack Harkness, Castiel, bickering
Disclaimer: None of the characters contained herein belong to me and no profit is sought from this venture.
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Wherein Jack Harkness finds out if angels fear to tread water. While naked.

Link to Story

To start: reena-jenkins has read a marvelous podfic of  Hellmouth High Schools Don't Have Reunions, one of my Buffy/Doctor Who crossovers --- Link to podfic -- Link to podbook (with cover art!) -- I don't know much about podfic, but it held my notoriously short attention span even though I hate re-reading my own stuff after it's been published - mostly I'll only do it when starting a sequel or trying to add to a dormant WIP.  I'm now fighting the urge to go back and completely re-edit the story to meet my current standards.  (Why didn't I use a beta?  What did I have against the word 'said'?)  Rest assured: any faults with this project fall on my side.  Thanks so much, reena, and if you still want to tackle Impossible Things, I'd be absolutely thrilled.

On that note: I'm about five days worth of postings behind on finishing my spn_j2_bigbang rec list. 
One of the reasons I don't know much about podfics is because I'm kind of a speed-reader and podfics slow down the rate at which I consume words; to wit: at the very least I started and in most cases I read through every non-D/C story published this round  (I'm not anti-D/C, per se, but my lack of enthusiasm for the pairing in general means that I'm really not qualified to judge D/C fic).  I'd do the math on how many words that is (and that's not all I was reading this summer) but I'm certain the total would be highly embarrassing. 

Anyway, the rec list will be fairly comprehensive and there's already twenty stories on it.  I just need to catch up on the ones published in the last week while I was moving back to school and then I'll post the rec list.  The reading's going a little slower now due to school things, me actually writing my own fic, and me trying to read through nominees at the Crossing Over Awards.  I'd pimp myself over there but honestly, my stories are up against some serious competition and I have no expectations whatsoever.  (The 'Best Non-BtVS/AtS Crossover' category is so incredibly strong this year, it's mind-boggling.)

After six bloody months!  And I'm rather happy with it too, albeit I haven't heard any shrieks from the general UK direction, so Booster may either be asleep or at the pub, not that I blame him.  Bear in mind that due to the rules of our fic (we must send out our next chapter before we can publish the next one so that we can't paint ourselves into a complete corner, even though we've never had to use that safety net) that the chapter that just went up was written back in December and is a little short, but posting should get back up to speed for the summer.

But, God, I love this story.  So much fun, so much trans-Atlantic taunting.

Chapter 19 - It All Looks Green to Me

My dearly beloved Roomie is not a participant in fandom, but she watches most of the same things that I do, reads a lot of the same things I do, and teases me for my fanfiction and internet addiction in general.  This leads to exchanges like this one from last night, when I finally watched Avatar on her parents' Home Theater System of Doom:

Me:  Eww... ganglia.  Do the Na'vi stick those into everything?
Roomie:  Pretty much.  They also have tails.
Me:  ::shudders::  Remind me never to read the fanfic.
Roomie:  ::grins::  Rule 34 is a cruel mistress.

( Some other fun fandom observations from Roomie in the last few weeks )
In other news, my sncross_bigbang  fic got claimed by an artist!  It's very exciting, I can't wait to see what she comes up with.  I'm also looking at the story for the first time in about a week this weekend - having given myself a break, I'm hoping I'll be able to see the text with clearer, more objective eyes.  Deadline's May 3rd for both me and the artist, it's going to be really exciting for me to see what this fic's final form looks like (and you'll all be happy that I've stopped nattering about it)

Finally picked up Transmetropolitan through the new version of the volume 1 trade.  Loved it every bit as much as everyone always said I would.  Damn, but it does make me miss Hunter S. Thompson something fierce.

One thing it does make me wonder: how the heck has the Doctor not run into The City yet?  I'm having grand fun with him there, and he hasn't even gotten out of the alley where the TARDIS landed yet.  I have no idea whether there's going to be any market for this crossover, but it's just begging to be written.

A professor of mine recently sent us that old Wired article about Six Word Stories.  I decided to try one.  It wound up summarizing most of my writing over the last year.  I'd love to see other people's stories, feel free to add them in the comments

Title: Distillation (Buffy/Doctor Who crossover)
Rating: PG-13
Content: Language
Disclaimer:  I don't own anything
Summary:  This header is already longer than the story.

I slay.  He blows shit up.

Title: Impossible Things (14/15)
Author: MoragMacPherson
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: Set during Human Nature/Family of Blood for DW, sometime in the Season Eight comics for BtVS
Disclaimer: Oddly enough, characters = not mine. Note for attorneys: if I file for bankruptcy, the only creditor who will still be able to get me is the student loan guys.
Archive: Here, TtH, & Teaspoon. If you'd like it, let me know.
Beta: The incomparable booster17
Author's Note: So I saw a piece of fanart by BuffyCharmed over at TtH and got all inspired here. Then she saw the story I wrote and made me some genuinely terrific fanart here and there (my favorite is there).
Summary: John Smith and Martha hide from the Family of Blood at the Farringham School, where Martha meets a new friend from the 21st century.

 

( Chapter Fourteen: Everyone's Life Ends But No One Ever Completes It )

Title: Impossible Things
Author: MoragMacPherson
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: Set during Human Nature/Family of Blood for DW, sometime in the Season Eight comics for BtVS
Disclaimer: Oddly enough, characters = not mine. Note for attorneys: if I file for bankruptcy, the only creditor who will still be able to get me is the student loan guys.
Archive: Here, TtH, & Teaspoon. If you'd like it, let me know.
Beta: The incomparable booster17 . Shezzi also lent a hand on Chapter 9.
Author's Note: So I saw a piece of fanart by BuffyCharmed over at TtH and got all inspired here. Then she saw the story I wrote and made me some genuinely terrific fanart here and there (my favorite is there).
Summary: John Smith and Martha hide from the Family of Blood at the Farringham School, where Martha meets a new friend from the 21st century.
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