I'm running out of time to post today, and I'm tired, and I have lesson planning to do, but I am not copping out of a journal entry for the day! It will just have to be a short one ( Read more... )

FINALLY. This chapter has required me to create a general Theory of Magic in Merlin and go through two major revisions. My eternal thanks go to my beta, Bethany, for holding my hand through all that. And for not being afraid to point out that what I was saying initially didn't make sense. :)

Nerd Jokes!: I looked up the blostma spell Merlin uses in ( Read more... )

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Today has been a successful day of teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the second section was pretty much a Morgan le Fay party, which was awesome) and finding out that one of my students is also a Merlin fan (professional fangirl squeeing is professional... or perhaps not). Now I want to get one more chapter of this story posted before ( Read more... )

Major, major thanks to Bethany for being my beta reader and primary audience for this.

I've been working on this fic for a while, and I hope to keep working on it for quite a while, because it makes me happy. Don't judge me. I've always wanted to try an AU in which nobody goes horribly out of character (hopefully). This is my first earnest attempt.  ( Read more... )

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My original plan was to do one huge icon post for the over fifty icons I've accumulated and not posted yet, but then I thought maybe I'd like to link some of them to communities, and that isn't really something I want to do with these. These are for my own amusement and that of my friends. Because the last thing I want to do is make the author of ( Read more... )

This is really the last part! Whoohoo! You know, apparently Mr. Gibbs really does have a sister named Margaret. It's in The Pirate's Guidelines, which I could not resist buying from Wal-Mart.

Meanwhile, on board the Flying Dutchman, Will was concerned. To his many eager questions, his father had only responded, "Yes, she's well," and, handing him ( Read more... )

And we're back!

The euphoria Elizabeth felt on discovering she was pregnant lasted for about a day. In the night, more confused feelings set in. The truth was, she was afraid-- when she let herself dwell on it, she was terrified. Women died in childbirth every day. Her mother had died giving birth to her. Something could so very easily go wrong. She ( Read more... )