neveralarch

Reveals are up! So now I know that the extremely excellent Lost in the Fire was written by honeynoir, and I can post the header etc for my remix:

Constellations (The Thirteenth Take Remix)
Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: pg
(kissing, swearing. Let me know if you need details.)
Characters: Cecil/Carlos.
Wordcount: 2,900ish
Summary: The night sky is dark, an empty void except for the pinpricks of dancing starlight. “Are stars supposed to dance?” asks Carlos. “I thought that was a, uh, metaphor.”
A/N: A remix of sabinelagrande's You're My Moon. Betaed by the excellent einzwitterion! The fic is a mixed audio/written work, but can be read without audio or listened to as a complete podfic.

Read it on the AO3.

I haven't gotten a chance to dig through the rest of remix because LIFE, but I'm looking forward to it. If you want to rec remixes or pimp your own remix, this would be a good place to do it at me? I really would appreciate pointers at what to look at, as I'm currently in a pit of baseball RPF (don't look at me like that, I know), and it may take me a while to look at the remix entries on my own.

But first - my giftfic! Joanne_c wrote One Night In A Castle for me and I ADORE it and maybe you will love it too. It is Lion in Winter rpf. If you have not seen A Lion in Winter you should definitely see it. If you are not aware of the ridiculousness of the actors involved in the movie (including the late greats Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn) you should check that out also.

Here is what I wrote:

Team The Best Team (5715 words), for defcontwo
Elementary (TV), Teen. Marcus Bell/Ms. Hudson/Alfredo Llamosa, Joan Watson and Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Marcus gets along really well with Holmes' friends.

My assigned fic! I wrote it in like... four days, and lyryk was super awesome and beta'd it for me. It was a lot of fun to focus on the side-characters, and it was interesting to write reasonable, practical characters who can actually just decide to go on a date instead of having to angst about it forever, haha. Also I am glad I finally got a full-sized Elementary fic off the ground, I have three in my WIPs. (Aaaand this fills my M/F/M threesome square in my idfic bingo, because I can make yuletide work for me.)

And then I wrote my 10 treat-fics on the 23rd and 24th:

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And that's the lot! Going to start replying to comments tomorrow, it might take a while. Hopefully I'll get some recs in soon-ish - I'm maybe half-way through the archive right now, so it'll probably be mid-January before I'm ready for recs.

Reaction fic to episode 32 - Yellow Helicopters! There are definitely spoilers. This does not fill any squares in my idfic bingo, alas.

And the Cables Break
Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: gen
(canon-typical weirdness. Let me know if you need details.)
Characters: Kevin and Cecil
Wordcount: 1,900ish
Summary: This isn't a retraining session.

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I wrote this during my first week without computer, scribbling it on loose notebook paper and trying to pretend that I knew what I was doing with the style. I think it turned out okay! Even though it was surprisingly hard to code! This fic fills the hair kink square on my idfic bingo. Sort of.

Run Like Sand
Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: teen
(character injury and reeducation, hair kink, canon-typical weirdness. Let me know if you need details.)
Characters: Carlos/Cecil, Night Vale ensemble
Wordcount: 4,000ish
Summary: "Today the City Council announced that all citizens will be taxed progressively, based on the number of times they utter the word 'cheesecake.' In related news, the Chamber of Commerce has announced that five new Cheesecake Factories are being opened in Night Vale. Attendance at the grand openings is mandatory. You will be expected to make a speech."
A/N: beta thanks tonarwhale_callin , my awesome Night Vale buddy.

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So I was going to start a two-day drive today, but instead I waited around for my air conditioner to get fixed. Leaving tomorrow instead! And I wrote this thing while I was waiting, in like three hours. I'm about to lose internet/computer access for possibly a while, so I figured I'd just post it now. This fic fills the height difference and cybernetics squares on my idfic bingo.

I Was Dreaming Restless
Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: pg
(swearing, canon-typical weirdness. Let me know if you need details.)
Characters: Carlos/Cecil
Wordcount: 2,500ish
Summary: It's late or maybe early and Carlos is exhausted and his mind is wandering. Because he can't sleep, because Cecil is terrible at sharing a bed.

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I was gone for a weekend again! This time the power went out and we had to do a faire day on a generator (awful) and then Saturday night I somehow managed to ruin my shoulder/neck muscles and then had to work with it for my normal 12 hour day on Sunday (awfulest)! My neck etc is still very tight so I can't type much - it's loosening up and I have high hopes for tomorrow, but I'll have to keep this short.

Two main things I would like to talk about besides my stressful weekend:

I am in another zine! 'Welcome to 616' is a Marvel fanzine put together by grey_bard, and they asked me if they could put Afternoon Stroll in there. It's a cool zine with some good art and fic, and you can find a pdf of it at this post. (A friend of mine is also talking about doing a podfic of Afternoon Stroll, which will mean that you can find it as fic, as a comic, in print, and as audio. This is either awesome or ridiculous or both.)

Welcome to Night Vale! Just - just Welcome to Night Vale. I'm in awe of how quickly it's taking over the internet and even my meatspace friends. If I haven't talked to you about it, are you listening to WtNV? If not, can I persuade you to do so? My brother has, and now we just talk about it all the time. He occasionally changed his hawking line this weekend from 'I scream, you scream, we all scream for apple dumplings with ice cream!' to 'I scream, you scream, we all scream at the meaninglessness of existence!' It was beautiful. This could be you. (Except without having to sell apple dumplings for 9 hours.)

So, yeah. Zine for download, talk to me about WtNV (or let me talk to you). I think that covers it.

It took me three days to write this post! I have been... doing things, I guess. Prep and the first weekend of my summer ren faire. Research-type stuff. Submitting IRB proposals. But I have also been thinking about podcasts!

I listen to podcasts (and their older/less internetty cousin, radio plays) while driving and while working and while getting ready in the morning. I need something to concentrate on so I can multitask, honestly - otherwise I get lost in my own thoughts or start wasting time because I'm bored. That's how I devoured the first 100 or so DW audios and got super into Gallifrey. And as I'm getting consumed by the latest tumblr discovery (ie Welcome to Nightvale), I thought I'd type up a quick surprisingly long post of my Thoughts on the podcasts etc that I've been into over the last two years or so.

( I made this whole post just so I could talk about Welcome to Night Vale. )