What I Wrote for Yuletide
Yuletide was the only thing I participated in this year. I didn't do Fandom Stocking, and I managed to completely miss the crossover-a-thon. Doh!
I wrote:
o Another Day, Another Whipping. (707 words) for LateToTheParty
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeon Keeper (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dark Mistress
Summary: A day in the life of a Dark Mistress.
I love Dungeon Keeper. I especially love the Deeper Dungeons expansion set. I play some of them over and over.
The Dark Mistresses have always amused me. They're the only females in the default set of characters, so of course (yay, sexist game programming) they're wasp-waisted with big boobs and they enjoy pain -- when not occupied they're in the Torture Chamber getting whipped. Geez!
But train them to top level and they're awesome fighters. They're also the only character that can work in both of the rooms where skills and items are made for the dungeon.
I also loved the idea that since they're obviously "just women" that they'd have dippy girly names. So here come Bitsy and Fluffy to kick your ass. Watch out.
o Harvest Festival (2201 words) for Niki
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Captain Apollo, Lieutenant Starbuck, Lieutenant Athena, Commander Adama, Cassiopeia, Boxey
Summary: Harvest Festival: Family and friends, the past and the present.
I started re-re-(nth) watching the BSG box set (in the Cylon head box, of course!) to try to come up with ideas. One of the things that struck me was during the start of Lost Planet of the Gods, when people are having dinner together, it was prepared by the Serina and Athena. Yet there's all this to-do in the episode about women becoming Viper pilots, something that had been mostly male dominated. When Apollo gets pissy that his fiance is going through training, she points out that is own sister is "a pilot and a Warrior" (Athena is seen piloting a shuttle at least once in the show.)
So I thought, let's see some of the guys making the food for a change. Niki has a fondness for Starbuck (and can you blame her?) so it went from there. I loved the idea that Starbuck knows a family secret, and his past is still partly a mystery.
o The Madame Karitska Files (5728 words) for Gray Cardinal
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Clairvoyant Countess Series - Dorothy Gilman, Ellery Queen (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Madame Marina Karitska, Polonius Faber-Jones, Laurie Faber-Jones, Simon Brimmer, Lieutenant Pruden
Summary: More Tales of Madame Marina Karitska
Gray Cardinal had requested an Ellery Queen fic centered around Simon Brimmer and something based on the Clairvoyant Countess books amongst her requests. I love both and was dithering what to do until I read her DYA letter which said something like, "I love a good crossover." Boom.
The Ellery Queen tv series of the '70s was awesome. Some of the plots were adapted from the Ellery Queen stories written by Dannay/Lee. You really were given all the clues to solve the mystery before the end. Ellery was played by Jim Hutton, as a bit airheaded genius. Jim Hutton was the father of Tim Hutton. If you watch Leverage and saw the episode "The 10 Li'l Grifters" set at a costume ball, where Nate says he's dressed as "The world's greatest detective", this is what he meant.
Simon Brimmer was a rival amateur detective. He was self-involved and snobby but Ellery was so flighty that he just took Brimmer in stride. If Brimmer was involved, you could count on him coming up with some solution to the mystery that Ellery would simply show wrong, and then give the correct answer. I loved the idea that even in his old age, Simon is still poking his nose into mysteries and getting the answers wrong!
(The show is available on DVD. Go get it You will not regret it.)
The Clairvoyant Countess is my favorite Gilman book. I've always liked it better than the Pollifax books (which I do like). It wasn't until I read Gray Cardinal's DYA letter that I discovered there was a sequel! I had no idea! I immediately got my grubby paws on Kaleidoscope and read it to shreds.
It's hard not to like Madame Karitska. As a child she was punished for her psychic gifts. She'd been rich, she'd been dirt poor, she'd been everything in between. She'd once been told that to use your gift for profit meant risking its loss, but she saw herself in a dream living in the place she now lives.
The original book was written in the mid '70s and it shows itself, although not so much that it detracts from the stories. The sequel was written in 2002 and time has moved on, although it takes place not long after the original book. I tried hard to do the same, keeping the general feel the same while adding in things that exist today.
Kaleidoscope may be the last book Mrs Gilman wrote. She died last year from Alzheimers.
This entry originally posted to http://infinimato.dreamwidth.org/7855.html but cross-posted on LJ just to piss off the universe. You can comment here, you can comment there, or you can comment in your underwear [but I won't see it if you do that].
I wrote:
o Another Day, Another Whipping. (707 words) for LateToTheParty
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dungeon Keeper (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dark Mistress
Summary: A day in the life of a Dark Mistress.
I love Dungeon Keeper. I especially love the Deeper Dungeons expansion set. I play some of them over and over.
The Dark Mistresses have always amused me. They're the only females in the default set of characters, so of course (yay, sexist game programming) they're wasp-waisted with big boobs and they enjoy pain -- when not occupied they're in the Torture Chamber getting whipped. Geez!
But train them to top level and they're awesome fighters. They're also the only character that can work in both of the rooms where skills and items are made for the dungeon.
I also loved the idea that since they're obviously "just women" that they'd have dippy girly names. So here come Bitsy and Fluffy to kick your ass. Watch out.
o Harvest Festival (2201 words) for Niki
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Captain Apollo, Lieutenant Starbuck, Lieutenant Athena, Commander Adama, Cassiopeia, Boxey
Summary: Harvest Festival: Family and friends, the past and the present.
I started re-re-(nth) watching the BSG box set (in the Cylon head box, of course!) to try to come up with ideas. One of the things that struck me was during the start of Lost Planet of the Gods, when people are having dinner together, it was prepared by the Serina and Athena. Yet there's all this to-do in the episode about women becoming Viper pilots, something that had been mostly male dominated. When Apollo gets pissy that his fiance is going through training, she points out that is own sister is "a pilot and a Warrior" (Athena is seen piloting a shuttle at least once in the show.)
So I thought, let's see some of the guys making the food for a change. Niki has a fondness for Starbuck (and can you blame her?) so it went from there. I loved the idea that Starbuck knows a family secret, and his past is still partly a mystery.
o The Madame Karitska Files (5728 words) for Gray Cardinal
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Clairvoyant Countess Series - Dorothy Gilman, Ellery Queen (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Madame Marina Karitska, Polonius Faber-Jones, Laurie Faber-Jones, Simon Brimmer, Lieutenant Pruden
Summary: More Tales of Madame Marina Karitska
Gray Cardinal had requested an Ellery Queen fic centered around Simon Brimmer and something based on the Clairvoyant Countess books amongst her requests. I love both and was dithering what to do until I read her DYA letter which said something like, "I love a good crossover." Boom.
The Ellery Queen tv series of the '70s was awesome. Some of the plots were adapted from the Ellery Queen stories written by Dannay/Lee. You really were given all the clues to solve the mystery before the end. Ellery was played by Jim Hutton, as a bit airheaded genius. Jim Hutton was the father of Tim Hutton. If you watch Leverage and saw the episode "The 10 Li'l Grifters" set at a costume ball, where Nate says he's dressed as "The world's greatest detective", this is what he meant.
Simon Brimmer was a rival amateur detective. He was self-involved and snobby but Ellery was so flighty that he just took Brimmer in stride. If Brimmer was involved, you could count on him coming up with some solution to the mystery that Ellery would simply show wrong, and then give the correct answer. I loved the idea that even in his old age, Simon is still poking his nose into mysteries and getting the answers wrong!
(The show is available on DVD. Go get it You will not regret it.)
The Clairvoyant Countess is my favorite Gilman book. I've always liked it better than the Pollifax books (which I do like). It wasn't until I read Gray Cardinal's DYA letter that I discovered there was a sequel! I had no idea! I immediately got my grubby paws on Kaleidoscope and read it to shreds.
It's hard not to like Madame Karitska. As a child she was punished for her psychic gifts. She'd been rich, she'd been dirt poor, she'd been everything in between. She'd once been told that to use your gift for profit meant risking its loss, but she saw herself in a dream living in the place she now lives.
The original book was written in the mid '70s and it shows itself, although not so much that it detracts from the stories. The sequel was written in 2002 and time has moved on, although it takes place not long after the original book. I tried hard to do the same, keeping the general feel the same while adding in things that exist today.
Kaleidoscope may be the last book Mrs Gilman wrote. She died last year from Alzheimers.
This entry originally posted to http://infinimato.dreamwidth.org/7855.html but cross-posted on LJ just to piss off the universe. You can comment here, you can comment there, or you can comment in your underwear [but I won't see it if you do that].