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Whee I love this time of year.

+ fandom_stocking is live. I have presents!. There are stories and icons and art and picspams and good wishes, thank you all so much! <3

+ 3_ships is also live! There are many stories in many fandoms.

And my story is WONDERFUL. \o/!

(I've got) Potential (Doctor Who RPF, Matt/Karen/Arthur)

SO GOOD. It's a long and completely delightful read, full of feelings and banter and a total lack of personal space and everything else I love about them. It makes great use of all kinds of details from all over the place, Confidential and interviews and Arthur's ridiculous twitter account. The character voices are really excellent, and it's by turns hilarious, sweet, and really hot.

I LOVE MY STORY. *squishes it*

Who You Are When You're With Me
Avengers ; Natasha/Pepper ; 2700 words ; PG-13 ; no content notes
Pepper felt herself begin to relax, the muscles in her back and her neck slowly uncurling from their default state of constant tension. She smiled over at Natalie, feeling a little dopey from the faint buzz of alcohol and the late hour. Natalie smiled back, warm and sympathetic. She really did have a very pretty smile.

Written for lionessvalenti in the femslash12 exchange. Many thanks to purplefringe for the beta!

Pepper had no problem admitting that she'd been very sceptical of Natalie Rushman when they'd first met.

+ I have my festivids assignment! I'm so excited! Hurray for exchange season. (My dear festividder letter, for reference.)

+ I am now a mere two squares away from getting a bingo at kink_bingo, so hopefully I can actually do that for the first time in a few years.

+ A seriously awesome-looking fannish endeavour: theatripod. Theatripod is a challenge to create multivoice podfics in the style of theatre productions, with a director, auditions, rehearsals, and a final recorded performance with minimal editing. It will take place over a six-month period.

+ Also, NaNo approaches. Eep. In my two previous attempts I didn't manage to get past 10k, but this year I have a lot more time, so it could happen? Anyway, I'm going to try and crank out 50,000 words of Doctor Who fic in a month, and if anyone else is attempting it this year, here's me on the nano site. I will gladly offer cheerleading and commiserating as required.

+ MAKE ALL THE THINGS!

+ festivids nominations close tomorrow, ie I just spent the past half an hour panicking about what to nominate.

Have finally settled on a list that includes: ( some fandoms )

+ femslash12 sign ups are open. The listed fandoms include all kinds of things and people are coming up with great wildcard requests too. I WANT ALL OF IT.

Sign-ups are open for rs_small_gifts until October 30th! The one fest that keeps dragging me back to HP.

But folks, can we quickly chat about exchange requests and boundary policing? I know, because I used to do it myself, that it's frequently standard fandom practice to put in a list of kinks that you don't like - 'the usual squicks like scat, bloodplay, watersports', 'none of that icky body fluid stuff' - etc etc.

Let's talk about a couple of the reasons why that's a problem:

1. It relies on a ridiculous premise, namely that there are all these kinky types waiting in the wings to spring on your request and write you watersports fic unless you specifically state otherwise. People want to write things that you'll like! Therefore, they are likely to work based on the things you've listed that you like, rather than assuming that anything you haven't specifically listed in your request is fair game.

Trying to make a complete list of things you dislike would be absurd, we'd be here all week. Keep it simple, specific, and mostly based on things that people genuinely might think to write for you unless you mention it, and it's all be fine. For instance, I've mentioned 'drunkenness' as a thing in my sign-up because it's a common story device in Remus/Sirius fic and one I don't personally like. Giving a long list of kinks you don't like, using derogatory language, being vague (what do you mean by 'the usual squicks' or 'kink' anyway?) or naming rare-in-fandom kinks is unnecessary and unhelpful.

2. And the reason that the above is a particular problem is because the continuous reinforcement of certain kinks as 'gross', 'icky', 'weird' etc is a method of boundary policing and holding up some pretty crappy fandom norms. It shames people who might otherwise want to request and write those things, and it shames people for whom whatever kink in question isn't just a fictional like but a real life practice or interest. By participating in that kind of behaviour you contribute to a culture in which some things are acceptable and others are not, and really we could all do without that.

femslash10 sign-ups are open for business! Sign up at dreamwidth or livejournal. Lovely.

So, stealing this wholesale off netgirl_y2k: Give me any femslash pairing and I will write you a ficlet or drabble for it.

Also! A question I have been meaning to ask: does anyone have any femslash recs? Specifically, long ones with happy endings. I have a hankering to sink my teeth into a nice drawn out relationship story. I'll take any fandom if I don't need to know much about the canon to understand the story.

+ I am signed up for my fourth year at RemixRedux! Sign-up info this way. I wonder if this will be the first year I don't get a friend to remix? Previously I have remixed glass_icarus, rian219 and netgirl_y2k, all of whom were awesome assignments. Surely my luck cannot hold so well?

+ ladiesbigbang is a really, really cool thing. You can Big Bang via a number of formats including fic, art, podfic, recs, picspam and vids, and you can also contribute a combination of different media to count towards your overall total. Which is awesome. Lots of info over at the comm about how it all works, but signups run through April and the final draft deadline is September 1st. Also, you can participate even if you don't sign up, just as long as you hit that final deadline. I am spectacularly rubbish with deadlines on big projects, as any number of people can attest to, but I may attempt this one anyway because it is just that cool.

+ Rec: Could You Be A Little Less by the_birdnest (Harry Potter, various women, PG-13, non-graphic mention of sexual assault). A wry and quietly heartbreaking look at gender in HP.

+ I didn't get the chance to reply to comments the other day, but thank you to everyone who laid down some science in my last post.

+ My rs_small_gifts and camelotsolstice gifts have both been posted! I am not allowed to read them until I've finished my own submission for the former, but I can't wait to get to them. Thank you, kind gift-making people! ♥

+ I have to say, everyone's flaily posts about Yuletide are making me feel a little better about dropping out. *g* However, I offer much cheerleading - go fandom go!

+ I have successfully made it home despite the flurries of snow that have started appearing - this is England, after all, where transport is not designed to cope with anything that might be described as a weather condition. I can't quite believe I survived this semester, and I am very, very happy to be home.

+ There have been various recent instances of fail I do have things to say about, but I just don't have the energy. I will say, however, that I am completely horrified at the BBC. Just, oh my god, Not Okay. (And, to pre-empt, please note that I am in no mood to argue about whether there's a problem with legitimising the question of whether queer people ought to be allowed to live. Not to mention that as a response to the current situation in Uganda, it's massively offensive to the people currently facing death threats from their own government. Please don't bring that 'debate' to my journal.)

+ Anyway. I am doing my best to resolutely shake off the above - I have tea, a massive jumper, I am sitting on my parents' sofa and now I am going to write a little fic and finish my Christmas cards. Speaking of, thank you to misswinterhill and avendya, your cards were waiting for me when I got home today! ♥

+ Merlin fen, you all saw la_esmeralda_'s latest vid, right? MADE OF CRACK. This is the version of Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot I want to see, ahahaha. :D Also, A+ editing that uses Arthur's ridiculous face to optimum effect.

+ Sign-ups for rs_small_gifts start tomorrow! *toddler fists of glee*

+ You know, I would love to be doing NaNo, but it's total hell with an academic schedule as I discovered last year. Alas. Next year, next year! In the meantime, I'm heading over to wrisomifu instead, which is much more where I'm at.

+ So basically I am made of fail on most fronts imaginable right now, but hopefully have at least alerted the relevant people to this situation. /o\ I am catching up this weekend, promise!

+ Lastly, some sheepery for me to do while I crack on with things: The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Holiday fest sign-up season. :D

camelotsolstice is an all-ship Merlin exchange that is hosting sign-ups here with spaces running out.

hp_holidaygen is running for another year and their sign-ups are here.

Lastly and unrelatedly, bop_radar is polling for interest in another Vidukon, a UK vidding con that was held last year. Go and let her know if you're interested and when and where suits. Me, I am THERE, whenever wherever, with bells on. Maybe literally, you never know.