So after writing for Yuletide for the first time ever, getting super into Sherlock, and just generally missing fandom... I am thinking it is time to reinvest. But I am also thinking it is time to possibly recenter onto Dreamwidth. I have been posting/crossposting from Dreamwidth for at least a year maybe more like two but I didn't bother to really find anyone or anything. No plans to stop crossposting, reading, or allowing comments on LJ but more just increasing reading and interacting on DW. So...

1) If you are on Dreamwidth let me know (I am the same on both sites). You can friend me of just give me your username.
2) What communities should I be reading or what exciting new people should I be following (either on LJ or DW)?
3) Is there something I should be into? (Strong preference for tv show or book series fandoms)

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4) Please make ficlet requests. Feel free to ask for anything you think I might be familiar with (or just ask) and I will let you know if I am not. Fandom and character or pairing and any additional elements/details also would be nice.

Thanks for all the e-hugs and well wishes, friends. They really cheered me up because I love you guys and it is good to be reminded that you are here for me. I would say I am going to start writing more (again) but I know that would end up somehow not happening.

For today I am going to list the books I have read in the first half of 2011:

Recommend

Deadline (Newsflesh, #2) by Mira Grant
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Alcestis by Katharine Beutner
Late Eclipses (October Daye #4) Seanan McGuire
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
Dragonsbane (Winterlands #1) by Barbara Hambly

A Pleasant Enough Way to Pass the Time

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Postmortem, Body of Evidence, and All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #1-3) by Patricia Cornwell
Young Miles (Vorkosigan Saga, #3-4; Vorkosigan Omnibus, #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Moon Called, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed, Bone Crossed, Silver Borne, and River Marked (Mercedes Thompson, #1-6) by Patricia Briggs

Conflicted Feelings

Omnitopia Dawn (Omnitopia, #1) by Diane Duane
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (re-read)

Do Yourself a Favor and Don't Read These

Serpent's Storm (Calliope Reaper-Jones, #3) by Amber Benson
Street Magic (Black London, #1) by Caitlin Kittredge

Dry Professional Texts

Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for Teaching K-12 English Learners (with MyEducationLab) (5th Edition) (with MyEducationLab) (5th Edition) (MyEducationLab Series) Edited by Suzanne F. Peregoy
Educating English Learners: Language Diversity in the Classroom edited by James Crawford
Schooling and Language Minority Students: A Theoretical Framework edited by Carles F. Leyba

Title: Courtship
Fandom: Codex Alera
Pairing: Isana/Doroga
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 1931
Written very late for beckyh2112 who asked for "Doroga/Isana. Doroga comes courting the (powerful)(dangerous)(impressive) Aleran widow" during the alera that was supposed to conclude two months ago.

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Inspired by sophia_helix, An Incomplete List of Things I Call Tiberius That Are Not His Actual Name:
The Worst
Dr. Cuddle/Mr. Bite
Bug
The Bug
Bugger
Buggy
Buglet
Buggerton
Bugasaurus
Biteasaurus
Jr. Cat
Fatty
Piggy

An Incomplete List of Things I Call Cupcake That Are Not Her Name
Pretty
Prettiest
Prettiest and Best
Angry
Your/Her Highness
Your/Her Majesty
Your/Her Grace
Queen of the Gnomes
Most Important
Judgy
Sr. Cat
Loaf

Also, Spoiler Alert: Baby Tiger Cub = Ridiculously Cute

I just talked to the head professor for that class I had such issues with last semester and apparently they got rid of the book I hated so much and restructured the points given for papers and the rubric system which I had issues with. On the one hand I am happy that it is getting fixed. On the other hand, paying like $5,000 per course to be a guinea pig gets old. Mostly, smugness of having been right wins out.

So I was looking at Goodreads and thinking about anticipation, and how a new book that comes out gets read immediately in front of the long long queue of existing books I want to get to. Here are books I am looking forward to:

This Year
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins - August 24th
An Artificial Night, Seanan McGuire - September 7th
Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files, Jim Butcher - October 24th

In Future Years
A Late Eclipse, Seanan McGuire - March 1st, 2011
Ghost Story, Jim Butcher - March 29th, 2011
Deadline, Mira Grant - May, 2011
Blackout, Mira Grant - 2012
A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin - Probably Never

What are you looking forward to?

(BTW Cow: Thanks!)

I thought I was going to make a coherent post on this, so I held off from posting the moment I got done (around midnight on Tuesday), but apparently that's not happening (at least for the moment) so disjointed thoughts below the cut.

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Title: Starships and Barbie Dolls
Fandom: Star Trek (reboot)
Characters: Unnamed Female Starfleet Officer (I like to think of her as the woman who tells McCoy: “Sit down or else I'll make you sit down.”)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2250
Summary: Equality is still a work of progress even after we reach the stars.
Notes: Written for the where_no_woman New Year Drabblefest, using prompt #2 - Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
This story has been sitting on my computer for months. I wrote it rather quickly, drawing from the questions I had about the Earth we see in the reboot, with its Budweisers and it's farm animal/hick jokes. I also drew from my own questions about Winona Kirk and the feeling that she had to choose between Jim and space. I wanted to write about how little the Earth we see in the reboot has changed. I wanted to see the soft well intentioned sexism of plenty. I wanted to write about the difference between the outward face of humanity presented by Starfleet and the every day experience of plain old folks. Star Trek is a utopian fantasy, but the world we see isn't there yet. I sent this fic to sainfoin_fields for betaing and it bothered her to say the least. I was trampling all over our childhood dreams. This was not the fic in the spirit of being a Star Trek Fan. She had some valid points, although partly the buttons pushed by the fic are part of its design. So I planned to rewrite it... but I didn't. So here it is, flawed and harsh.

( The plastic hull gleamed like it was made of something better; she liked to run her fingers over its smooth surface and imagine the real thing.  )