burning with the spirit of courtesy and kindness

Because I now have all my fanfic archived here (and holy crap what a lot of fanfic I have), I'm keeping the General Business post from my LJ account.

The official disclaimer: Unless tagged "original fiction" or otherwise indicated to be my intellectual property, I do not own the characters or series featured in stories or artwork here.

I realise that certain concepts and actions depicted in stories can trigger readers, or otherwise cause them great discomfort. If there's something you need to be warned about, please let me know about it here so that I can be better equipped to cater to your needs. The last thing I want to do is cause anyone unnecessary trauma.

Beyond writing, I also draw, though I rarely scan, and make icons, which are posted infrequently. I can also be found on Livejournal and Twitter.

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I am not always immediately able to read my flist. If something important has changed with you - say, you've switched accounts, moved to another website, gone through life-changing surgery, become president of your country - feel free to let me know here.

Things I Have Bought Recently:
- suspenders
- The Indomitable Iron Man
- curry ingredients

Things I Have Not Bought Recently:
- breakfast
- lunch
- Siege #2
- The Question Blackest Night tie-in
- my textbooks

Now, friends, I want you to pause whatever you're doing if possible, get your ass down to your nearest comic book store, and pick up Indomitable Iron Man. It's a single issue, with stories by Paul Cornell, Howard Chaykin, Duane Swiercynski, and Alex Irvine, and black and white art by Will Rosado, Howard Chaykin (he wrote and illustrated his), Manuel Garcia, and Nelson DeCastro.

The first story, "Berserker" by Paul Cornell, is a very clever parallel for Tony's personal life, and Cornell writing at his best. (He really does Tony well. Forget Bendis and JRJR, let's get Cornell and Kirk on the Avengers title.) Ostensibly it's a ripping yarn of Tony's chickens (in space) coming home to roost, but there's far more to it than that under the surface.

The second story, "Multitasking!" by Howard Chaykin, seems to branch off from a throwaway line from "Berserker", which might very well just be crazy random happenstance. It starts off as an entertaining story about Tony and Pepper talking on the phone while Tony fights robots (always fun!) with cameos by some of Tony's more notable connections -- but ends with a rather heartwarming twist.

"Brainchild", by Duane Swiercynski (who wrote the second half of Immortal Iron Fist, which I really enjoyed right up until the last issue), is something of a What If tale -- the second panel features a great big sign proclaiming a World Without Tony Stark. So what if Tony Stark stopped being anything but an inventor? It's a tragic tale, a very interesting take on the character, and features a really cool original character. And I absolutely loved the ending.

The final story, "It's Raining Tony" by Alex Irvine, is just pure hilarity. All Tony wanted to do was have a goddamn online question-and-answer session. But the internet is the internet, and things are just not going well for him. I laughed out loud, and you probably will too.

So that's that! Have you gone out and bought it yet? No? Why not?

In other comics-related news, I read Siege #2 and grinned like an idiot. (The Steve and Bucky page! NEVER CHANGE BUCKY NEVER CHANGE. YOU'RE THE BEST AT WHAT YOU DO AND WHAT YOU DO IS PRETTY AWESOME) I am looking forward to MOAR YOUNG AVENGERS. Also, MARIA HILL IS A BAMF. This is Bendis at top form, and it's a thing of beauty.

Also, I fucking love Renee Montoya, and am writing that fic where she and Rictor are drinking buddies post haste.

This geekery was brought to you by the letters A, S, K, D, L, and a semicolon.

ETA: I picked up Red Robin #9, because I love Tim way too much and the preview was intriguing, and. I think I might have yet ANOTHER title to read. FML and all, but on the other hand, HELLO THERE MOMENT OF GREAT GAY. I'd write fic about it, except I really don't know the backstory and it's sort of relevant. That said, if anyone has written Tim-centric fic based on this issue, please do let me know, because DO WANT.

Bidding at help_haiti closes tomorrow at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, so it's fairly unlikely that I'll be awake for that. THUSLY. NOW IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR BIDS IN. My offers are at $15 (art) and $17 (fic), which isn't much compared to some, but still rather exciting. That's $32 to charity that I couldn't otherwise have given.

I am offering any fandom I've ever had experience in, which is quite a fair few (Merlin fen, that's fair game, and the same goes for you, CLAMP fen!), not to mention for fanart any character I can get visuals of and personality summary. This goes for your (or my) original characters, too. I will also draw real people, or write original fiction.

Fic will be 1,000 words at bare minimum and much likelier at least double that; fanart will be lines and basic colours, and I am aiming at silly fanart more than anything else. If bids get up past $20 I'll draw two characters instead of just one, or a four-panel comic of your subject matter of choice.

BID ON MY ART HERE.
BID ON MY FIC HERE.

( cut for I SWEAR THIS WAS SHORTER IN MY HEAD )

So Vienna Teng, on her Twitter account, offered to call and thank anyone who donated money to a Haiti fund. Which I did, in support of ontd_startrek's UNICEF fund. So I sent her my number, and she CALLED ME. We chatted about rollerskating and the way it's hard to have routines while touring and our mutual proclivities to spend all day in front of the computer when we get the chance, and oh my god my face is just about ready to split clean in two, I'm grinning that hard. (Not to mention, she remembered who I was without me identifying myself, oh god I really am such a groupie.) So that's what's going on over here.

Also, congratulations to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, who are getting married. Good for them. I've been a fan of both of theirs for a while now, and they seem really happy, and I am all about happiness in real life.

( cut for oh hey this entry exploded, and also Marvel spring release spoilers )

help_haiti is a charity fundraiser based in fandom, where people offer services, art, writing, etc to the highest bidder. The bidder will pay the amount specified to a Haiti-disaster-relief-related fund of their choice. My offer is here, and I am offering original fiction, fanfiction, poetry, or beta services. Please come check the community out, and offer your time, your spare cash if you have it to spare, or at least your supposrt. I understand that not everyone can afford to help financially, but even signal-boosting will help. Everything helps.

For those out of the loop, there was a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti last night. Port-au-Prince is devastated, many have lost their homes and their lives, and it's a pretty dire situation there. There's more information at help_haiti.

ETA: holy crap people are actually bidding on my offer. I know this is about charity, but man, I feel so validated as a writer. (2 bids! kgjskg!)

can you guess what movie I've been watching a lot?

Title: Something Approaching Everything
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Rating/Warnings: PG-13/enthusiastic description of extensive physical injury
Wordcount: 1,723
Summary: spoilers for the film. Supposing Watson was more grievously injured in the factory scene -- how would things have changed?
Notes: So this got way schmoopy in the end, and I have no idea how that happened. What the hell, self. What the actual hell.

( Something Approaching Everything )

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the net
Every flist was growing quite still and quite dead
Fangirls and boys everywhere off with their folks
And their families and loved ones, eating well, cracking jokes.
The Yuletiders all waited impatiently
for the small-fandom fanfiction they would receive.
They'd all worked their butts off whole season long
Now for one last night they would have to stay strong.

Down under, they're already opening gifts
Going on picnics in the lack of snowdrifts.
And I here in Mediterranean climes
Am envying elsewhere their White Christmas rhymes.
For the rain is not falling, the blue sky is bright
A Golden State Christmas will never be white.
But so long as there's joy and there's fandom and squee
The spirit of Christmas is as it should be.

And so let there be flailing as the hours tick down
Let all who write Yuletide exult in the sound!
Let the Doctor Who special be worth all the wait
Let the wank be forgot, let us shelve all the hate.
Let our heroes and loved ones and friends all survive
In the warmth of our hearts, if not in real life.
And to everyone reading my journal tonight --

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Two things:

1. I am looking for Holmes/Watson fic recs. (Or art recs or whatever. Recs.)
2. I want to write something full of angst and UST and am not sure what to write. Suggestions would be taken well.

And the WIP meme.

( some of these are repeats because I have MANY MANY OLD WIPs )