thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (trust me)
Okay, so sometimes comfort fic involves indulging yourself. For anyone who might be interested, I present to you the following fic snippets which, if I ever get around to writing more of Trust Me, might make an appearance. If not, well here they are anyway.

No particular rhyme or reason to them, other than they take place months apart from one another and, as you'll see, follow a bit of a theme.
Angel gets ready )
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Connor gets ready )
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (trust me)
Got another charity fic done! This one is for [livejournal.com profile] wolfling who requested "a Wes/Angel story in the Trust Me universe. Something dealing with adjusting to having both sets of memories and/or something with them and the kids."

Other charity fics can be found here

Not long after Trust Me ends... )
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (trust me)
Another charity fic. This one for [livejournal.com profile] illiadawry, who asked for a "1k-words Trust Me-verse story" in exchange for a donation to Doctors Without Borders.

Other charity fics can be found here

Set the fictional wayback machine for 1997 )

Ooooooooo!

Dec. 2nd, 2004 09:48 pm
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (trust me)
[livejournal.com profile] kirkes_island made a cover for Trust Me.

Neat!

Note to self: get a move on trying to figure out what you want your new website to look like, so this can be up on it.

Also, [livejournal.com profile] mamadeb wrote Angel/Wes fic for my birthday!

It's good to be king. =)
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (trust me)
They said it couldn't be done! They said, far more accurately, that it probably wouldn't be done! But lo, they were wrong!

Trust Me is finally polished and posted to my website. So anyone who was cursing my name for making you slog through my LJ memories for all the posts now has handy-dandy one-stop shopping for the whole thing. Plus, thanks to [livejournal.com profile] wolfling and her mad beta skillz, parts of the story which were used to be adorably confusing now actually make sense to people who don't live inside of my head. Plus there's easily at least 80% less spelling errors. (Not 100% though. Gotta have that Persian flaw, after all.)

Link if you like, reread if you care to. There weren't insane changes to the plot or anything, but a couple of things got a slight tweak for clarity and/or my own anal retentive nature about word choices. But there it is for what it's worth.

Ta da! =)

Brr. Argh.

Jan. 14th, 2004 10:15 am
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (holy fuck me)
Apparently we're getting Siberian chills here in the land of TBQ. Since clearly Canada's weather didn't hate us enough.

3 degrees, not including wind chill, at the moment and beyond that the weatherfolk are basically taking all the guys aside, patting them on the back in a comforting manner, and saying "Well you might see them again next week. We'll let you know."

Supposedly we'll be getting snow with all this too but who knows if we believe that? They swear 3-6 inches by tomorrow morning but I'll believe it when I see it.

Of course the ironic flip side is that I really could use more milk. Think the folks at the grocery store would mind if I added to the chaos if I included a picture of my fridge to show that no, really, I'm out?

In other news there's a new Angel tonight and ain't nothing wrong with that. I hope to have the influx of new Wolfram & Harty goodness will help me with my goal to do at least a part or two of Pet before I fall prey to the brainstorming of other bunnies again.

Speaking of which, if you want to see my brain strip its gears you can watch it as I flip back and forth between Pet thoughts and Trust Me ones. Smoke actually comes out of my nose. It's funny.
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (French Treatment)
Enough people said they'd be interested in Trust Me author notes. Other than "so highlight all that foreshadowing, would you?" is there anything in particular you'd like me to be sure to touch on?

Lemme know here. Thanks! =)

TBQ, always happy to blather on about herself.
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (gay pants)
I glance out the window after being awake for maybe an hour and discover that it snowed last night. Or possibly this morning. There's white stuff on the ground, is my point. Neat, if unexpected. And it does give me new reasons to try to get out the door a bit early when I'm on my way to work. Because we all know I love leaving early for work.

After eating it three times I've decided I still can't tell if I like baked oatmeal or not. I think what's throwing me is the texture. I feel like it should be wetter, like proper oatmeal, but since it's baked I assume the end result is supposed to be more like something you could eat with a fork. Plus it retains heat strangely. On the flip side it does taste good until the point at which it goes cold, so I have no idea what to make of it. I feel like I should keep making it because we all know that proper oatmeal is about the healthiest thing you can eat ever, and if it can be made in a recipe that's got 200 calories a serving and manages to not taste like wallpaper paste then more power to it, but on the other hand it still has strange heat retention.

I babble about all this in case anybody's got any ideas. It'd be really funny if all I needed to do was add a smidge more milk to the original recipe or something ;)

(And yes, I realize there's cooking groups that I could babble this too, but that'd require the effort of posting twice and I'm all lazy and stuff right now. Esp since I'm full of oatmeal. Which sounds like a euphamism for something but isn't.)

In other news Trust Me is finished, at least in terms of the "parts posted to LJ" stage. Now comes the stage where I go over it again and again with a fine tooth comb because I am that picky about word choices sometimes, and then I give it to [livejournal.com profile] wolfling to go over with a fine tooth comb because for all my pickyness I still miss plenty of errors, and then I'll actually post the whole thing to mailing lists, archives, and my web site. I mention that in case anybody wanted to know if there'd be a handy-dandy one stop shopping type link for it in the future. The answer to that is yes, yes there will. Probably by the end of the week at the latest. (Note how happily I assume free time in [livejournal.com profile] wolfling's schedule. Generous of me, no? ;) )

But since that's all fiddly clean-up stuff I find myself in the sort of post-coital place with regards to getting a story done, where I can sit and bask in afterglow and wonder if it was good for you. I've been tempted to do a post of some author notes, since some people were asking about the foreshadowy bits and others swear that they're not bored by me blathering on about the writing process. But OTOH I'm not sure if that wouldn't be too much of pointing out where the smoke and mirrors are so you tell me. I'm never shy about talking about myself so if there's interest let me know.

I also find myself enjoying a moment where I don't have an immediate writing deadline (as I had given myself one for this because I didn't want new episodes of Angel to start while I needed to keep my inspirations firmly in the land of AU), so now I'm all "la la la! freetime!" which, of course, I realize ignores all the other stories I need to be working on but shhh! Give me my moments!

And speaking of schedules I may take some fun classes in the upcoming weeks. Further bulletins on that as events warrent.

And I think that's about it. Now to dress for work, clean off my car, and try to find that new station that LIR moved to.
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (trust me)
In BNF Smackdown [livejournal.com profile] theboobiequeen is up against [livejournal.com profile] mr_prezimident in a fight to the death which is so appropriate on so many levels that I honestly can't breathe. Love. Love it with a love that is very close to Spoiler for Angel 5.14 ) but it does not go over because nothing can surpass my love for Spoiler for Angel 5.14 ). I'm sad that way. (And for anyone worried that my opinions on Angel 5.14 would, in and of themselves, be a spoiler believe me when I say that there's no way you could predict this one. I promise.)

Cracked open Word, started to work on the next part of Trust Me, hit all the plot points I wanted and yet still heard Buffy in the back of my head singing "Going Through the Motions". Methinks I didn't wait long enough after the week of tiredness to try engaging the creative side of my brain again. Yarg. I hate that. Especially when I really do feel awake enough to write. But maybe I've lost my ability to judge right now. Ah well. At least I've got off tomorrow.

Finally, Dean's Blog wants your comments on the sushi-eating ad. If you can actually manage to scroll through all the replies you might notice a familar one. Though now that I've blown my wad I'm sorry I didn't also think to suggest that if they do an actual ad it should be "Hi, I'm Howard Dean. Did you know that lattes are just coffee with milk? It's true! That's just a little tip from me to you. Have a nice day!" and then that's it.

And with that I shall now scurry away from the computer like the frustrated little writer I am. Stupid motions and the going through of them.
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (cooking)
Thanks to the magic of TiVo I've got 24 on pause right now. I started watching it as it aired then realized the wisdom of giving myself a little leeway time so I could fast foward through anything too painful to watch. Like Kim. ;)

Once 24 is over it's a hot shower and then I'm going to bed. Screw this tired shit.

Tonight I had some new recipes that I wanted to try, and what with being tired and all I wavered between attempting that and just ordering something in. Then as I left work it started to snow, and if that's not a sign from above that I needed to be BBQing I don't know what is.

(For the record the new marinade I tried was okay but not great. Still, it's a change of pace.)

I keep debating the Trust Me thing (for those who for some reason don't memorize the transcripts of my internal dialogues, the debate is on single, albeit long, story vs. series). As I see the original point where "The End" was going to go I find myself debating it more and more, and if this was really a story about that end or about getting the characters to that place and then seeing what they did with it. Still not sure yet, but there we are.

Either way I'd be writing boysex now if only I'd gotten a good night's sleep. The lack of a good night's sleep was only partially my fault, btw.

Finally, in happy news, come this March I shall be eating at Fifteen, aka Jamie Oliver's restaurant, thanks to the most marvey [livejournal.com profile] cin1607 who snagged us reservations. I keep wondering if I should order things I've never had or at least try one or two recipes that I've made myself just to taste the difference ;)

(Also, for thems who are interested, Cin's computer is currently pushing up the daises so anybody wanting to chat with her might want to try a phone, or even smoke signals)

And with that I bid you adieu for the evening.

(PS Is it possible to watch an episode of West Wing without crying or am I just that much of a chick? Just checking. Also for the record I now know why everybody hated that one woman in s1 with the brillo hair. For weeks now I've been wondering why every FAQ I could find followed her name with "We hate her". I wonder no more.)

(Going away now, really)

(poof)
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (anti-drug)
Huzzah! Thanks to the magic of comfort fic and, again, [livejournal.com profile] wolfling's invaluable beta skills, I present unto you Trust Me, Part Four.

Wherein the monster evil plot bunny from HELL shows us what the gang likes to do on a Sunday morning. )
thebratqueen: Captain Marvel (priest wes)
I forgot to say yesterday that Part Two was betaed by [livejournal.com profile] wolfling. Part Three was also betaed by [livejournal.com profile] wolfling so thanks, Wolf!

Part Three of the evil monster plot bunny from HELL, in which walks are had, jobs are discussed, and various things like that there. )

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