I will never be done with this fandom.

Title: Scouting For Boys
Fandoms: Leviathan, The Green Fields of France (Song)
Word Count: 5000
Ratings/Warnings: Teen. No major warnings.
Ships: Deryn/Alek

Scouting For Boys at the AO3

Summary: In 1916, Lord Baden-Powell holds an encampment for specially-selected Scouts from all over Great Britain, plus ( Read more... )

Anyone still here? I finished a story!

Title: The Marvelous Fit of the Organism (To His Environment)
Fandom: Leviathan
Word Count: 5K
Rating/Warnings: all audiences/no warnings
Characters: Alek, Deryn, Bovril, Dr. Barlow. Background Alek/Deryn.
Summary: June 1915. Alek adjusts to life in London.

The Marvelous Fit of the Organism (To His ( Read more... )

Title: New-Made Honor
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Alek/Deryn, Bovril
Rating: G
Word Count: ~1550
Warnings: Set post-Goliath, with all the spoilage that implies.
A/N: Since I have to struggle to read German handwriting at work, I thought I might as well make Alek struggle to master Roman script as part of his assimilation into British society. I ( Read more... )

I missed the meet-up due to being at Bridge Day, watchin' BASE jumpers do their thing off of the New River Gorge Bridge and/or via a human catapult mounted on said bridge. (It was awesome.)

But I'm sure someone else was on the Westerforums at the appointed hour!  Details?

I did a recommendation post for period books a few months ago, but I have two very different recs for the community. Polar opposites, in fact.

I'll start off with my serious one, The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund. Has anyone else read this? I just finished it this weekend and it was incredible ( Read more... )

It came out!  I got one!

My only regret is that it did not come in some ridiculously huge poster-sized format.  I would have bought that.

Highlights for me:

• The deck cutaways illustrating scenes from the book (we see you filching breakfast, Deryn!).
• The character bio for Dylan Sharp.  I dunno, that cracked me up.
• The (presumed) death of Rusty.
• Knowing ( Read more... )

Manual of Aeronautics was oficially released today, though it seems it came out early just about everywhere ( Read more... )

I was recently involved in a wee little debate on DeviantArt about the Newkirk/Lilit ship.  Shortly after that I ran across comments on another DA thread that said, more or less, that canon was merely the jumping-off point and fans could do whatever they wanted to and with the universe.

I disagree with both of those things, and for pretty much the ( Read more... )

A short story, published online in Strange Horizons, that might be of interest:

Beside Calais by Samantha Henderson, WWI, flying beasts, and aviators.

So the new community shipswapis doing a fic exchange (in a manner similar to Yuletide, if you're familiar with that) over the summer for rare pairings in all fandoms, and they're currently in the nomination stage. You don't have to nominate in order to participate, but nominating the fandoms/ships you would be interested in writing for/receiving guarantees ( Read more... )