1. I have turned in two, uh, ultra short rough drafts for inception_bang! But that is okay, for I should still be on track to finish since I'm not participating in claims. My artists, motetus & yjudaes, have incredible patience for putting up with me.

2. In other news: Star Trek Into Darkness trailers are out. ST, long dormant fandom of my heart: return to me!

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1. I've finally gotten through a major block in This Thing of Ours that has been confounding me for months. Now that the first few difficult scenes are done, I'm finally gaining some traction on the rest of the next part. It's tricky because there are a lot of plot related machinations I have to keep track of, but equally important is hitting all ( Read more... )

1. i_reversebang claims are this Saturday! We got 50 art submissions, a little more than half of them being Arthur/Eames (29). And a surprising amount of Eames/Fischer (7 pieces).

2. It looks like the voting period has ended for insearchtion. Regardless of which team 'wins' I know I put a great deal of work into my submissions, so I'll be reposting all my metas, rec ( Read more... )

1. Gangstermoll Act III Part 2a (try saying that three times fast) is off to the betas! The last part I posted was in, good god, November, but to be fair, I was traveling during December and churning out 40,000 words worth of musical culinary romance in the form of Amuse-Bouche during January. I also spent the better part of February and March ( Read more... )

1. A chat convo between me and a laria_gwyn about Gangstermoll, after I've been rambling on for an hour about what gifts Arthur & Eames should get each other for Valentine's Day.

bauble: I also need to figure out what to do with balal and arthur for V day.
EXPONENTIALLY MORE GIFTS TO FIGURE OUT
laria_gwyn: lolol. Your writing life is very hard
bauble: It's true. This is why I ( Read more... )

1. I'm currently searching for one or more alpha readers/cheerleaders. This can be distinguished from a beta reader in that you won't be doing edits/corrections, but will instead be reading lots of drafts of my works in progress and providing feedback to me on the characters, how the plot is unfolding, and so forth. As implied by the cheerleader ( Read more... )

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1. I have returned from my travels and am currently recuperating from the slight sore throat I seem to have picked up from one of the airplanes. Also adjusting to the fact that my body is on a completely reversed day/night cycle than here; the fact that there's absolutely no sun to be found on this utterly grey and cloudy day isn't helping to ( Read more... )

1. Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother has returned to the internet of Tom Hardy's full naked glory:


2. I'm not part of any small fandoms currently, but for any on my flist who are and might be interested:


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1. Question: I'm looking to donate a lot of lightly-used, clean purses. Anyone know of any places that accept them?

2. Longer Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy longer trailer:


3. An interesting article in the WSJ on all the layers of underwear that Victorian women used to wear (including a slideshow and video) - How to Undress a Victorian Lady in Your ( Read more... )