Googling Dollhouse is such a waste of time if you do it in Germany. (my first result, nsfw).

Thesis is handed in! Yaih! Back to the important things in life.

Like writing fic.

Gimme prompts and I'll write you ficlets. BSG or Dollhouse. I'd prefer gen. No problem if you want something very specific- I like palpable prompts better anyway, though I'll take everything.

Happy birthday, safenthecity! Have a wonderful day with lots of cake. :)

Oh look, opera in Klingon.

The actual music starts after like three minutes.

*is off listening*

(EDIT: How weird!)

Off the meds. Am procastinating. Wanna talk writing meta. I haven’t done that for too long. I used to write essays, you know? I miss that about my old fandom. I want to do that again.

Let’s talk drabbles and other short fic, since there seem to be so few people on my flist who write them and so many who have mentioned they aren’t any good at writing short fic. Writing short fic is easy. There are some few basic principles which you discover over time, or are shown, and then you just walk around picking up ideas and attaching them to the right writing principle. Easy as pie.

For me, writing short fic is about having a good last line and making sure the rest of the fic leads up to it. I’ve written many a drabble by writing the last line first, then the one before that and so on.

So here’s how I do it. I’ll write it all snotty because it’s most efficient but I'm not meaning it to be eternal truth. (but also I’m right so listen and learn :p )

( Five Kinds Of Short Fic I Write A Lot )

Taken from kappamaki33

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Hit me! I'm at work, I'm procrastinating, I'm bored.

I'll be moving to my new apartment tomorrow. Theoretically, I should have an internet connection right away but as these things tend to go wrong, I might be away for a couple of days. I know you'll all miss me and my sunny spirit terribly but I'm sure you'll manage somehow. ;)

Happy Birthday, millari! Hope you're spending a great day with lots of good fic and cake, and without people you dislike! I meant to write you a story but it exploded and evolved into an epic, so I couldn't. If I ever get to write it though, I promise I'll make up for it by adding porn. ;)

Taken from puszisty.

I'll post the first line of all my full-length fics. You choose one and comment with a drabble/ficlet starting with the same line, unrelated to the original story. Ready? Go!

I added a couple ficlet/drabble openers for variety.

I wrote a Gaeta drabble for tin here, and a Tigh drabble for puszisty there. Both are short and cracky.

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Taken from kappamaki33.

Let's see what I've got to offer...

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Alright, here's my remix documentary.

Original: Limn by rebelliousrose
Remix: Fade Away

( about that )


Original: Eighteen Hours Later by nicole_anell
Remix: Tools of God

( and about that )

All in all, I participated in the remix by writing two fics and beta'ing two fics by others. I wrote two gen fics about Sharon which pleases me, I wrote about women for a change and I got to know two new characters, Sharon and Head!Six! All those things are good things. They make me glad. It was a fun challenge. :)

Now the remix written for me, Farewell Symphony by kappamaki33? Is a work of genius and if you haven't read it yet, you have to read it right away. Especially if you like music! It's about Dee and Gaeta and Hoshi and Tyrol and Helo! And Hot Dog making a list! And Chuckles writing porn! Basically it's about everybody important (well alright so Kara is important too but she gets mentions! Crucial mentions!). As you can see, it's a great fic. With an excellent score.

As a side-note, my Kara/Tyrol friendship fic How the Viper Jock Met The Choirboy was rec'ed on crack_van. That was a lovely surprise. I'd never have thought anybody would rec that fic. Then again, I wouldn't have thought Lilacs would get rec'ed either and yet it was.

Title: Tools of God
Author: trovia
Summary: Everybody is a tool to Six.
Characters: Head!Six, Baltar, Athena, Gina
Pairings: the canon pairings are implied
Rating: teen
Warnings: talk of rape
Title, Author and URL of original story: Eighteen Hours Later by nicole_anell
Beta Thanks: Thank you very much, lls_mutant! :)
Author Note: Set after “Resurrection Ship”. Written for bsg_remix


( Tools of God )

Title: Fade Away
Author: trovia
Summary: "She can’t even curl up into herself on her rack. The guards would think she’s malfunctioning. She doesn’t know if they’d be wrong."
Characters: Sharon, Gaeta, Helo
Pairings: Sharon/Helo
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Hera's supposed death, so please beware possible miscarriage triggers
Title, Author and URL of original story: Limn by rebelliousrose
Beta Thanks: Thanks very much to ebuchala!
Author Notes: Written for bsg_remix.


( Fade Away )

I'm dismayed that I'm not managing to comment as many bsg_remixes as I want to. So many of them are lovely and I want to acknowledge that but I barely have the time and energy to read them all, no matter comment. I usually print them out and read them on train rides so I can't write a comment directly like I usually would.


I'm also curiously waiting for the fic written for me. Since I've written a lot of fic, I don't have the next clue which of it could have been remixed (well that's untrue, I have a suspicion but I'll keep it to myself and I might be wrong anyway). Either way, I bet it's gonna be a blast. I'm also especially curious what the comments will say for my pinch hit. In my first remix, I tackled a character that I don't write a lot but in my pinch hit, I tackled a character that I've never written before and that I never would have considered writing otherwise. I don't even have a clue who will comment because I don't know who cares about this character and the subject matter. And I should shut up now, otherwise I could just tell you the name of the fic, it would be so obvious. ;)


Two fic questions.

Hoshi's eyes are brown, right? I should know this. But I can't remember and I can't find a good picture that shows.

What's a proper way of addressing a priestess? It's Gaeta talking to Elosha, so he'd pay lip service but he's not a believer. Would he "sir" her or is there a special honorific?

So how often does it happen that an American football player has to be brought to a hospital with a broken cervical? I mean, holy cow. It looked like such a tame sport all through the first half.


Meme time, as promised:

List five fics that you'd really like to read but that haven't been written yet. It doesn't matter if they are fics you've tried to write yourself at some point, or if they are just fics you think could make a fun read. Share as many details as you like. You could give only a pairing or outline a whole multi-part, whatever you've got will do.


( Here are mine, all BSG )

I'd like to propose a meme.

What I'd like you to do is,

List five fics that you'd really like to read but that haven't been written yet. It doesn't matter if they are fics you've tried to write yourself at some point, or if they are just fics you think could make a fun read. Share as many details as you'd like. It could just be a pairing or an outline of a whole multi-part, it doesn't matter, whatever comes to mind will do fine.


I won't tag anybody because I want to read as many answers as possible! I'd also suggest that you answer the meme in your own LJ because that way, more people will read it and somebody might want to actually write one of those fics. That would be a nice bonus. But if you just want to comment here, be my guest.

I don't know about you but if I know that somebody would like to read something, and if an opportunity comes up to write it, I usually do. I like prompts but the problem with prompts is that sometimes, I feel people have those very specific fic ideas when they give those prompts. I want to know those ideas, too! While I have enough fic to keep me occupied right now, I still like to know what you'd like to read. You never know, after all. Exciting new plotbunnies might surface. Regard it as a survey on supply and demand in fandom. ;)

I'll post my own answers later.

Off to watch an American football match! (without knowing the rules!)

This ficlet was posted at the bsg_pornbattle originally but I have to repost it here because it didn't fit the rules. It's for the prompt "Hot Dog/Roslin, bet, rash" and I should warn that this... hasn't been written to please fans of Roslin. ~ 300 words, teen, crack.


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