I hate when OTPs take you by surprise. Also sudden snowstorms.
Voting is open at reading221b for Round 3. It's a super close race at the moment in the AU category, with three fics tied at first place, and another three fics tied at second (fourth?) - including Mise in the scrum. The Heart in Him is in the running for Omegaverse, and winning, of all things, though that's a close race as well. I am being very good and not looking at who is voting for what, not because I don't want to know (I really, really want to know) but mostly because it doesn't matter, and I don't want to see if people I know and like are voting for fics not written by me.
Anyway, voting is open, I'm not going to know if you love me or don't love me, so go vote. If both Mise and Heart win, I will likely fall off my chair in shock. (I had my money on another fic entirely in the AU race. Which still might win, though.)
In other news, I woke up yesterday with a powerful hankering for Bagginshield - which makes no sense whatsoever because I haven't even seen the third movie, so I am still living happily in a world where Certain Characters Don't Die and Everyone Lives Happily Ever After. I found a delightful story on AO3 (The Good Earth, by The Feels Whale, which has the most awesome way of getting mpreg babies without the mpreg ever), but I need moooooooore. And I've discovered that while I love a good Sherlock AU where Sherlock and John are in another occupation/time/location/universe, I'm not so fond of the same for Hobbits and Dwarves, because I spent most of the story wondering if they're still Hobbits and Dwarves or if they're humans with Hobbit and Dwarf names, which is really distracting. Apparently, I am strictly canon-divergent when it comes to my LotR fanfic - who knew? Anyway, suggestions for fics appreciated, thank you!
(I don't think I'll start writing Bagginshield anytime soon, though. For one thing, I know squat about the Tolkien-verse, and Tolkien fans strike me as only slightly more scary than Holmesians when it comes to canon accuracy.)
Editing the Alphaverse is going slooooooooooow. Mostly because Alpha 2 is a mess, omg it's such a mess, it's the biggest mess you have ever seen in your life, I keep telling five stories at once and then I end up telling it a sixth time when I try to draw them all together and omg, I want to bang my head against the wall. I'm going to have to print it out and do this one by hand, except I don't know when the heck I'm going to be able to do that, because it snowed this morning, which means Andrew's school is cancelled for the rest of the frickin' month, because his school administrators are complete morons who really ought to just go and relocate to the Bahamas or something, for all that they're scared of a little cold weather.
(I was talking to another mom at gymnastics yesterday; she said she saw someone in the grocery store stocking up because of the Extreme Cold Air that we had the other week. Seriously. There wasn't any hint of snow or precipitation, just a lot of Very Cold Air, and thus, she needed to stock up on essentials. She explained this to the cashier, and was totally serious. I'm from Arizona, and even I thought this was ridiculous.)
But, I'm going to do some tweaks on the Soulmate AU, and then post it - probaby not tomorrow, because I now have Andrew all day today and he's already been out of school for a week (omg Mother Nature why do you hate me so) but hopefully next week. And I shall continue hunkering down with the Alphaverse and trying to form it into a cohesive story so that I can get on with writing Alpha 3 (which I think a large chunk of Alpha 2 is going to end up being Alpha 3, so that's partially done) and eventually I'll get the comments back from the betas on Fornicatio autem (which is the Medieval Omegaverse) and I can start editing and posting that.
It'll be nice to be able to post things again. I miss the days when I could post something new every single week. *happy sigh*
Right, things to do before Andrew wakes up and does not go to school. *sigh* DAMN YOU, MOTHER NATURE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS, DAMN YOU ALL STRAIGHT TO HELL.
Anyway, voting is open, I'm not going to know if you love me or don't love me, so go vote. If both Mise and Heart win, I will likely fall off my chair in shock. (I had my money on another fic entirely in the AU race. Which still might win, though.)
In other news, I woke up yesterday with a powerful hankering for Bagginshield - which makes no sense whatsoever because I haven't even seen the third movie, so I am still living happily in a world where Certain Characters Don't Die and Everyone Lives Happily Ever After. I found a delightful story on AO3 (The Good Earth, by The Feels Whale, which has the most awesome way of getting mpreg babies without the mpreg ever), but I need moooooooore. And I've discovered that while I love a good Sherlock AU where Sherlock and John are in another occupation/time/location/universe, I'm not so fond of the same for Hobbits and Dwarves, because I spent most of the story wondering if they're still Hobbits and Dwarves or if they're humans with Hobbit and Dwarf names, which is really distracting. Apparently, I am strictly canon-divergent when it comes to my LotR fanfic - who knew? Anyway, suggestions for fics appreciated, thank you!
(I don't think I'll start writing Bagginshield anytime soon, though. For one thing, I know squat about the Tolkien-verse, and Tolkien fans strike me as only slightly more scary than Holmesians when it comes to canon accuracy.)
Editing the Alphaverse is going slooooooooooow. Mostly because Alpha 2 is a mess, omg it's such a mess, it's the biggest mess you have ever seen in your life, I keep telling five stories at once and then I end up telling it a sixth time when I try to draw them all together and omg, I want to bang my head against the wall. I'm going to have to print it out and do this one by hand, except I don't know when the heck I'm going to be able to do that, because it snowed this morning, which means Andrew's school is cancelled for the rest of the frickin' month, because his school administrators are complete morons who really ought to just go and relocate to the Bahamas or something, for all that they're scared of a little cold weather.
(I was talking to another mom at gymnastics yesterday; she said she saw someone in the grocery store stocking up because of the Extreme Cold Air that we had the other week. Seriously. There wasn't any hint of snow or precipitation, just a lot of Very Cold Air, and thus, she needed to stock up on essentials. She explained this to the cashier, and was totally serious. I'm from Arizona, and even I thought this was ridiculous.)
But, I'm going to do some tweaks on the Soulmate AU, and then post it - probaby not tomorrow, because I now have Andrew all day today and he's already been out of school for a week (omg Mother Nature why do you hate me so) but hopefully next week. And I shall continue hunkering down with the Alphaverse and trying to form it into a cohesive story so that I can get on with writing Alpha 3 (which I think a large chunk of Alpha 2 is going to end up being Alpha 3, so that's partially done) and eventually I'll get the comments back from the betas on Fornicatio autem (which is the Medieval Omegaverse) and I can start editing and posting that.
It'll be nice to be able to post things again. I miss the days when I could post something new every single week. *happy sigh*
Right, things to do before Andrew wakes up and does not go to school. *sigh* DAMN YOU, MOTHER NATURE AND SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS, DAMN YOU ALL STRAIGHT TO HELL.