Fic wrap-up 2/4-2/17

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I skipped last week as there was just the new chap of TKWIA and no new complete things, and the main point to these wrap-ups is to make it easier for me to find stuff later.


Fic Wrap-Up 2/4-2/17/08

• Chapter 19 of TKWIA. I still can't believe it took me almost eight weeks. I mean, I can, because there were the holidays and then there was back to school and other stuff. But still. Eight weeks!
• True Love? (BtVS, Xander/Buffy, G) This was fun, doing a pairing I'd never written before. Also, it made me look a lot more closely at comic #3, and I do think something very much like that happened, because there is this look of startlement on his face in that one frame.
• Song of Mourning, Song of Hope, Song of Joy (HP, RL/SS, RL/NT, SS/LE, PG). No more rambling, as I've already done that here. The last of the ficathon/fest thingies for the next little while, I think.

still_grrr Shinies
I definitely didn't expect a participation banner for December, as I only entered during the "free for all" week. But due to the holidays, they decided to do banners for everyone who posted at least one thing, and so, I have this:


I also got one for the Oz/Willow fic I wrote for the surrealism prompt, Is This Weird?


Also, Marked Men was nominated for Best Angst and Christmas Visit for Best Ficlet/Drabble at the Shades of Grey Awards.



Marked Men also got nominated for the "Beam Me Up Bitch" award at the Forbidden Awards for best crossover.




The Week Ahead

• Get cracking on chapter 20 of TKWIA. With other deadlines out of the way, there's no good reason not to have this off to the betas by the weekend.
• Work on prompts from camillo_1978 and laiksmarei.
• The Faith/Remus thing may finally come off the back burner for the "crossover pairing" challenge on still_grrr. Yes, I know it's a weird pairing. The image for it popped into my head in the middle of a yoga class last spring, of all the bizarre things. I think I finally have a bit of context for it that might make it come off a bit less wtf. Definitely referencing the comics, which help by having Faith already in Britain, and possibly giving a reason for her to run into Remus in the first place. Not sure it'll be romance-y enough to fit what they're going for. There may also be a glimmer of another Ripper/young DE!Snape ficlet.
• It'd be nice if I could come up with something for lmb_challenge. The challenge I came up with for this week is weird and awkwardly worded, so if I want anybody else to take a crack at it, I really should. I have some vague "miracle of the Daughter" idea, but not enough to go with it yet.

A Peek at the Back Burner
In no particular order, and quite a few just copied from the year-end wrap-up so I don't have to keep going back to that one to find them.

• Willow/Hermione fic. No plotbunny, really, just wanting to see more of this, ergo hoping to write some.
• Karla/Bel. Need to work out the logistics of fem/herm if this is to be explicit or else develop a plot if it's not.
• Hermione/Tonks, possibly as a DH missing scene.
• Post-DH Hermione/Remus, fairly vague
• Kaylee/River, circa "War Stories." There's something really compellingabout the innocence-that-isn't with these two, especially in that ep.
• Lily-didn't-die AU. Has the potential to blow up into an epic monstrosity. Very rabid plotbunny. Chomping on the wires of the cage, it is. But I refuse to play with it (much) until TKWIA is done. One epic monstrosity at a time!
• Another Ripper/YoungDE!Severus fic or possibly a postwar sequel to "Marked Men." If I do this, it'd probably be for summer_of_giles
• Possibly something along the lines of SS/HG/RL in a long-term poly relationship. I actually started to write a snippet of this for the Snape's Birthday thing on snapedom, but it didn't come together enough at the time. This may involve hitting up one or more of the poly folks on the flist to run things by.
• More in what I've started calling the Song-verse. I'm finding myself more and more intrigued by Remus' character and how he got to the point we saw in DH and that I played with in Song of Mourning ... as well as the dynamic between him and Severus. I have a feeling this may involve playing with how they were together as Hogwarts students, as colleagues in PoA, and as Order colleagues. I might also play with the relationship re-building that happens between the resurrection and the "epilogue" in Song.

Some of those feel a bit stale already. It'll be interesting to see which ones eventually get written and which don't. The Lily-lived AU and the Song stuff are the ones nibbling hardest at the cage right now.