neveralarch

Quick quick update to say that my laptop is fine, the keyboard is dead and I'm getting a new one to replace it, and this usb keyboard is working fine for now. Very very glad to have a mostly working computer, and I've gotten one of those keyboard covers which is supposed to prevent spills from getting into your laptop because...yeah, I'm still going to eat things in the vicinity of my computer, I only have one table/desk.

Headed out to Iowa for a fencing competition, so I'll be gone all tomorrow. Between all of the reading this week (900 pages, wtf), the computer troubles, and life in general, I'm looking forward to a day of just having to drive around and hit people with swords.

BUT BEFORE I GO, a driveby rec for Doctor Who fic - which I don't seek out much anymore, but I saw something on who_otp, and then ran into this.

Sproid has several adorable UNIT slashfics posted, which is highly relevant to my interests and possibly to your interests? I particularly liked R&R in the Lethbridge-Stewart-Benton-Yates Household (John Benton/Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart/Mike Yates, short fluff), and Benton and Yates in Daring Escape from Aliens (John Benton/Mike Yates, longer actiony fic).

Let me mention my giftfic again real quick first: A Pain in My SideKICK (The Non-Adventures of Wonderella) and Nonstarter (By the Sword), both by leidolette who is apparently a stellar human being. They're awesome.

Here is what I wrote:

Some Time Before (7080 words), for anstaar
Discworld, Teen. Sybil Ramkin/Samuel Vimes, Adora Belle Dearheart/Moist von Lipwig
Summary: The thing about being young is that it happens to most everyone.

My assigned fic! I was deeply uncertain about this as I was writing it, but people liked it and I think it must have turned pretty well after all. And it has four of my favorite Discworld characters in it, so.

And then I wrote ten treats while not writing a term paper:

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The end! Tomorrow I start replying to comments, and then I will finally stop talking about Yuletide for at least nine months.

Guess who finished their DW femslash fic? Me. It was way more done already than I had thought, although that's making me uneasy about whether or not parts still need to be fleshed out. so I'm looking for a beta - it's classic Who, about 2,000 words, currently rated teen (although the rating might go up during edits). It's not due until next weekend, so there's a relatively good amount of turn-around time. Anyone? Thanks in advance!

What have I been doing in the last tennish days? Work. All of the work. I am just keeping up with grad school and the ren faire, which I think means I'll be in a really comfortable place after this weekend, since the faire is closing. Right now is a huge pain, though - I think I'm going to have to miss a fencing practice this week, and probably some sleep too. Did I say that I started going to the club fencing here? It's fun, very chill, but with some good people. I'm still rusty from my summer doing nothing, but I'm getting more into it. Last week I fenced this guy and lost 0-5 doing dumb stuff, but I recognized that and asked him if we could fence again at the end of practice, and I won 5-0 by... not doing dumb stuff. So that's good! I worry about falling into a rut, especially when I'm tired so often.

But I do have time to do some fannish stuff! I did Yuletide nominations, with arts and sciences RPF (Kahneman and Tversky), By the Sword (obviously), and The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (because my noms needed more badass women). All approved, because I only pick fandoms that are totally out there/nonexistent.

I've stalled out a little on watching the Wire, due to lack of time, but I'm planning on picking it back up after the weekend. In the meantime, I'm reading Fullmetal Alchemist about 2-8 years late. Which is, wow, bringing back memories. Like, I hadn't read FMA before, but it was pretty much my first reading fandom way back when. I was so into Archer/Kimblee and Greed/Kimblee. Hanging out on Y!Gallery at 17, feeling guilty about hitting the 'over 18' button and compulsively searching out the Kimblee artists. He just showed up in the manga (at chapter, what, 50? Out of about 100?), and I squeaked a little.

( cut a little to preserve your flist. Basically, I have developed a theory of my own fannish attachments. )

New computer is new! And working! Although I haven't really figured out the keyboard yet. Anyway, here is a fic repost that I planned to do a month ago.

The Most Secret Diary
Doctor Who
Rating: adult
(sex, some very minor violence.)
Characters: Three/Delgado!Master and Jo/Delgado!Master, Sergeant Benton
Wordcount: 3,300ish
Summary: From a prompt: The Doctor finds Jo's very secret diary in which she's written at length about how attractive she finds the Master. The Doctor tries to prevent any sort of romantic entanglements, and some threatening aliens get involved.
A/N: originally posted here for a prompt on the best_enemies anonmeme. Part XXII of the unanoning mission!

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I am still sick, but well enough to be bored and well enough to write, so I am working on my to-do list.

This is a commentary for Common Issues in Child Care (gen Gallifrey fic)! It was requested slightly less than a year ago by aralias. I live up to my commitments! Very slowly. If you want to read the commentary, I suggest reading the original fic first, because I probably spoil the plot with my commentary, and I definitely spoil the pacing.

If, for some reason, you have always wanted to hear my thoughts on my fic, I'm always taking requests. You probably will not have to wait a year, since I currently have very little to do.

This is written DVD-style, with comments in bold and fic in... non-bold. Sorry about any weird formatting - my copy of word doesn't play well with DW/LJ.

 

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I was remixed! Someone took Adrenaline and Endorphins and turned it into Begin As You Mean to Go On. It's a really great Theta/Koschei piece with some interesting character dynamics and science tinkering and all-nighters, and I love it, oh man. Adrenaline and Endorphins is one of those anonmeme fics where I didn't quite have a handle on what I was trying to say, and I feel like the remix really teased out the main points of the fic. So, yeah. If you are a Doctor/Master fan like most of my flist, I definitely recommend checking it out.

Meanwhile, I'm starting to catch upon my life. This week I turned in my thesis (59 pages and out of my hands, yessss), turned in my last paper for one class, did my mock thesis defense, and did a presentation for another class. Now I just have the final production for my student magazine this weekend, my actual defense on Tuesday, a (probably easy) final in about 10 days, and a final paper on the 11th and I am DONE. Take that, undergraduate career! Soon I will have time for actually talking to people! And reading things on the internet! And sleeping! Ahahahahaha!

Hopefully this works, I am uncertain about SoundCloud and how it is a thing.

The Caged Cinema
Written and read by neveralarch
Doctor Who
Rating: adult
(sex, BDSM themes [sensory deprivation])
Characters: Shalka!Doctor/Shalka!Master
Length: 24ish minutes
Summary: The Doctor plays mechanic.

I recorded this at the same time as all those shorter podfics, but I haven't had time to check it over and post. But there! It is done.

(If you have read this fic before, I hope you were imagining the Doctor's voice during most of it as the default voice of the free windows screenreader, because that is how I read it and it makes the whole thing even more deeply awkward, I think.)

The Very Model
Doctor Who, Gallifrey audios
Rating: teen
(some violence and character injury, swearing.)
Characters: Romana, Braxiatel, Narvin, Leela, K-9, Darkel, Torvald, Arkadian, and various minor characters (more or less gen)
Wordcount: 10,000ish
Summary: Being the tale of how Admiral Romana kept her job, how Rear-Admiral Braxiatel fought off the empire's enemies, how Leela of the Sevateem gained an audience with the Admirality, and how Captain Narvin was irritated by just about everyone. (A Gallifrey/Age of Sail fusion, where most of the characters are still Time Lords, even though that doesn't make much sense when they're on wooden ships.)
A/N: Written for hoshinekoyasha, for the Gallifreyathon on morepolitics! It is based on the prompt 'Pirates.' I hope this is okay, even if there aren't nearly as many pirates in it as I had hoped.
Thanks to the amazing aralias for the beta, and generally for running an awesome fic exchange which is always a pleasure to take part in.

( alternative title: Narvin and the Cargo of Rice, even though that makes NO sense. )

There's this story going around about a Doctor Who/Star Trek comic crossover that sounds cool and everything. But the important thing from that link:

Doctor Who has never before engaged in any such crossover outside its own universe. The closest it has come was Dimensions in Time, the much-derided 1993 Children in Need special that featured characters from soap opera EastEnders.

LIES. The Seventh Doctor met Death's Head in Doctor Who Magazine #135! And Death's Head was/is a Marvel character who was in a bunch of books with the Transformers and the X-men and so on. His encounter with the Doctor resulted in him being shrunk by the Master's TCE, and had substantial repercussions for the character in his comic series. Obviously this oversight is a grave error that should be rectified.

(I realize I'm the only person who cares about Death's Head.)