The Rare Women Ficathon went live.

I got a lovely Call the Midwife story as a present, about Shelagh/Sister Bernadette, called Arpeggio.

My own story offered me the chance to return to the Jossverse, where I hadn't written in for many years:

L.A. Confidential (3120 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Rating: Teen And Up ( Read more... )

State of the ficathons: having participated in both the Remix and the Rarewomen ficathons which had their posting limit last weekend and will go live next weekend, I am of course impatiently waiting for the later. And eyeing the "gifts" list at the AO3, trying to guess. Also, Remix Madness is open for business, as is the custom in the week between ( Read more... )

Dear Writer ( Read more... )

The gifts have been revealed, with author identity from the get go. Rec posts to follow in the days ahead, but for now, just what I wrote, and what I got. I was matched in The Borgias, and my prompt asked for Sancia. Who shows up only in a few season 1 episodes and has not many scenes in them, so she was a rare woman indeed. But I enjoyed ( Read more... )

Dear Author,

thank you so much for taking the trouble to write about any of these intriguing women. I appreciate it, and am good with any form you choose, gen, het, slash, any combination thereof. While I usually prefer canon settings, don't feel restrained by that: if the muse compells you to write, say, an Alias space AU, or The Wire In Ancient ( Read more... )

These last few days I was in Bamberg, pacifying Darth Real Life, and therefore rarely online. I did see both the bad news - Robin Sachs dead (though I first saw him in various minor roles in Babylon 5, it was of course as Ethan Rayne in BTVS that I think of him most; followed by the gloriously over the top evil Warlord Sarris in Galaxy Quest) - and ( Read more... )