WIP AMNESTY: Counting Time (master post)
Okay so Internet: here is the deal.
This WIP is 34000 words long. It is a crossover of two already-miniscule fandoms, so it was never going to have an audience if I finished it properly, but it is 95% finished-- I know there are gaps in it but I don't have the faintest idea what I was going to put in them; as far as I can tell it reads pretty much fine as it is. I haven't worked on it since October 2009, I've cannibalized bits of the story and the ship dynamic for the Sayers casefic (now almost three times as long), but I am still very fond of it as its own thing.
So I am declairing WIP amnesty for myself and posting it as is. It had a good soundtrack, and I still have the track listing, but the music itself went kaput with my old laptop; I might make an effort to reacquire it and put it up as well, but right now I just want to get this fic out in the air. It's a rather nice fic, I think, and I'm sorry it never quite got its fair shake.
Title: Counting Time
Title: Counting Time
Author: custardpringle
Fandom/Pairing: Hairspray/ A Series of Unfortunate Events; Link Larkin/Violet Baudelaire.
Genre: Crossover romance with a pasted-on plot, some angst but more fluff, and occasional musical numbers.
Length: 34,188 words
Rating: PG-13
Warning: for mentioned death of a secondary canon character
Notes: When this was going to be an actual finished work, my betas were peridium, manasseh and blue_monarch with help from bribitribbit. All the same, there is not as much love in the world as I owe them. (And not as many apologies as I owe Gene Kelly, Elvis Presley, or Barbra Streisand for involving them with this thing.)
Summary: Link took a deep breath and weighed burglar versus pretty woman in supposed distress. He concluded, in the spirit of the women's rights movement, that women were just as capable as men of being potentially insane burglars.
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4
This WIP is 34000 words long. It is a crossover of two already-miniscule fandoms, so it was never going to have an audience if I finished it properly, but it is 95% finished-- I know there are gaps in it but I don't have the faintest idea what I was going to put in them; as far as I can tell it reads pretty much fine as it is. I haven't worked on it since October 2009, I've cannibalized bits of the story and the ship dynamic for the Sayers casefic (now almost three times as long), but I am still very fond of it as its own thing.
So I am declairing WIP amnesty for myself and posting it as is. It had a good soundtrack, and I still have the track listing, but the music itself went kaput with my old laptop; I might make an effort to reacquire it and put it up as well, but right now I just want to get this fic out in the air. It's a rather nice fic, I think, and I'm sorry it never quite got its fair shake.
Title: Counting Time
Title: Counting Time
Author: custardpringle
Fandom/Pairing: Hairspray/ A Series of Unfortunate Events; Link Larkin/Violet Baudelaire.
Genre: Crossover romance with a pasted-on plot, some angst but more fluff, and occasional musical numbers.
Length: 34,188 words
Rating: PG-13
Warning: for mentioned death of a secondary canon character
Notes: When this was going to be an actual finished work, my betas were peridium, manasseh and blue_monarch with help from bribitribbit. All the same, there is not as much love in the world as I owe them. (And not as many apologies as I owe Gene Kelly, Elvis Presley, or Barbra Streisand for involving them with this thing.)
Summary: Link took a deep breath and weighed burglar versus pretty woman in supposed distress. He concluded, in the spirit of the women's rights movement, that women were just as capable as men of being potentially insane burglars.
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4