Aletheia ~ Veracious Reality

Three crossovers:

1. Like an Onion Inside Out (The Doctor, the Queen, and the TARDIS Remix) by spiralleds
(Narnia/Doctor Who, The Doctor/Susan Pevensie, PG-13)
Summary: Sometimes endings are just the beginning.
Spoilers: Inclusive of the entire Chronicles and through series 4 of the new Doctor Who.
Warning: character deaths, talking animals

Author's meta

Includes Nine, Ten and Thirteen. And it WORKS. Also, even though it's character death, it's Narnia, after all =3

2. Congrats, You've Met Your Match (The Space Captain Remix) by roga
(ST:XI/SGA, Kirk/Sheppard, R, 3000 words)

Ridiculously hot even without the sex. The original reads as the missing sex scene ;-)

3. Ten Synonyms for Sensational (The Dragon/TARDIS Overdub) by nopejr (Doctor Who/HP, Ten, Draco Malfoy, PG)
Summary: The Doctor pouted. Draco wasn't impressed.

Cuuuuuute *_* And funny. With fanartzes!

And three non-crossovers:

1. Still Waters (Hypothetically Speaking Extended Dub) by cimorene [LJ]
(ST:XI, gen, mentioned Spock/Uhura, implied Kirk/Spock, PG)

Author's meta

The original is an always-a-girl!Spock genderbend. The remix is Jim's pov, and his finding out (via his slutty ways myriad charms) that Spock is practically royalty. I love how the remix shows the differences of the Kirk/Spock dynamic when Spock's male instead of female.
tl;dr: Am deeply impressed, read it!

2. Art Appreciation (Boxed Wine and Crackers, or the Decline of Public Funding, Remix) by eyebrowofdoom (Smallville, Clark/Lex, PG)
Summary: If you can do this, you must be morally old enough for a drink.
Spoilers/Warnings: adult themes.

Leeeeeex, you're so cute. Only Lex would have a fantasy life as a starving art student X-D

O/T: In other news, Michael Rosenbaum's Adina/Adam is the only 3-D character in Sorority Boys. I wasn't expecting anything but a stereotypical slapstick comedy (w/ bonus crossdressing Rosenbaum!), so his acting really impressed me =D (believable character, inner conflict, repress repress repress, deny deny deny)
Also, he looks SO YOUNG in that movie.

3. Free Range Subjects (The Scientific Method Remix) by suaine
(Merlin, Merlin/Arthur, R)
Summary: No one ever said science was easy, and alien scientists are only human, after all.
Spoilers and/or Warnings: non-con (an alien made them do it)

It's an AMTDI fic from the aliens' pov =DDD \o/

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

1.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. [...] Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you've ever had them. [...]

Fandom is love for characters you didn't create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn't create. [...]

Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak. [...]

Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

--hesychasm's "in lieu of life."

♥ Hard to not c & p the whole thing *_*

2.

"I'M BRILLIANT. MORE MILK, MORE MILK! NOW SCOWL, I WANT FIERCENESS. GROWL AT THE MILK! HATE THE MILK! GRIMACE! I'M SUCH AN EPIC ARTIST I SHOULD JUST CHOP MY EAR OFF NOW"

-- ifyouweremine channeling the photographer of that video of milk being "flung suggestively" at Zachary Quinto X-D

...you'll have to watch it yourself. I recommend the "I'm Too Sexy" alternate soundtrack. (The milkshake thing is overdone, really.)

3.

Mr. Spock [...] holds the valid belief that he shares a bloodline with Mr. Holmes. The relationship at first seemed easy to explain; While Mr. Spock exhibits the physical characteristics and upbringing of his native planet Vulcan, he is in fact half human. His mother, Amanda (neé Grayson) was American, but the name Grayson is of English extraction.

[...]

[T]he Graysons can only trace their family back as far as Professor Jeremy Grayson of Boston in the year 2045. Spock cannot know, then, that his mother's family tree includes a Holmesian branch. At this point, we have eliminated one possibility: the only other one, that Spock gets his Sherlockian ancestry from his father's side, must by Spock's and Holmes' own rule be true. But this is an audacious possibility, because we know from Spock's World that the marriage between Spock’s father Sarek and Amanda Grayson was the first interracial marriage between human and Vulcan, and that genetic engineering was needed to produce Spock. If Holmes was Spock's ancestor, then, it follows that Holmes was a Vulcan.

--Scott, David M. "Sherlock Holmes: Visitor to a Small Planet"

Not only does Spock descend from Sherlock Holmes, he's related to Dick Grayson, twelve years old >=D Oh wait, actually it's not a good thing to share Nightwing's genes.
Genetic engineering --> Spock ~ Conner Clark Luthor? X-D

[ LJ | IJ | DW ]

(Or, lilian_cho's criteria for favourite characters)

Question: What do these characters have in common?

Draco Malfoy [Harry Potter]
Robert Chase [House, M.D.]
Val Toreth [The Administration series]
Lex Luthor [Smallville]
Arthur Pendragon [BBC Merlin]

Answer: ( privileged prat with daddy issues )

In conclusion, Arthur is not enough of a prat to qualify as my favourite character. Sorry Arthur, I love Merlin more. But I like Bradley better than Colin =P
And awesomely enough, there's BradleyJames/Merlin fanfic out there \o/

X-posted @ LJ

(...and AUs Have I Loved)

No matter which fandom it is, I always have a soft spot for well-written AU fics.

There's the medic!Merlin-and-crownprince!Arthur contemporary fic (Merlin),
the Wooster-is-a-girl fic (Jeeves and Wooster),
the Hikaru-is-a-Private-Eye fic (Hikaru no Go),
the Roy-is-the-Elric-brothers'-slave fic (Full Metal Alchemist),
the Tezuka-and-Fuji-own-a-brothel-in-ancient-Japan fic (Prince of Tennis)...

- the one in which Aziraphale and Crowley are Ezra and Tony, two Jewish h00manz:

Ordinary People by daegaer

I also adore daegaer's WW1!Crowley fics. She also opened up the possibilities of Hastur/Ligur for me >=D

- the one in which Lex Luthor has numerous superhero identities:

Elseworlds (or Five Secret Identities Lex Luthor and Clark Kent Never Had) by bagheera_san
Part One: Old Friends (Xavier!Lex & Magneto!Kal-El)
Part Two: Two Sides Of A Coin (Two-faced!Lex i.e. w00bie ;_;)
Part Three: I Shall Become (Batman!Lex, Nightwing/Robin!Clark)
Part Four: Escape Velocity (Flash!Lex)

bagheera_san also wrote a GreenLantern!Lex snippet.

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Anyway, I've been hankering for some HP fanfic that's SRSLY AU for days now. I'm gulping down lomonaaeren's Inter Vivos but it's nowhere enough to appease my AU yearnings.
Serious AU, folks, not just this EWE business. You're not going to let me resort to reading Saving Connor, are you? D:

There's my BoyWhoLived!Draco plotpanda, but it's not the same when it's the product of one's own brain. Besides, the notebook in which my dracolives notes live is currently MIA *makes sad faces*

Any AU fic? Preferably Draco-centric? *shakes fandom hopefully* Please?

X-posted @ LJ

First, Clark was not completely, 100% heterosexual, contrary to prior evidence, which included some truly pathetic behavior on Lex’s part. Thus, Clark had rejected Lex himself, not Lex’s equipment. Lex actually felt himself moving through Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief: denial (she can’t be right; she’s never met Clark’s boyfriend; there’s no actual reason to think he has a boyfriend—except for what Clark says about his boyfriend’s eyes, moron), anger (wondering how hard it would be to run the Kent farm into the ground and get Clark kicked out of school), bargaining (maybe he’s changed his mind and would like me now), depression (Dad was right; no one could genuinely want me, and certainly no one like Clark), and finally acceptance (a mélange of all these feelings, with a thin candy coating of calm).

1. Read rivkat's "Rainbow Sign" (Smallville, Clex) and her DVD commentary =DDD

2. Months and months ago, rivkat wrote "No Such AU" (Clex) for my Thief!Lex prompt. It ended up being Spy!Lex, but close enough!

3 a. mahaliem wrote this hilarious Clex drabble: "A Cherry"

3 b. and Things I Love About Smallville - Post 4 (Warning for b00bies and nekkid Lex chest)

X-posted @ LJ

Remix...Redux VI Signup
We Invented The Remix...Redux is a multi-fandom fic challenge where participants rewrite one another's stories. Make sure you read the rules before you sign up! By signing up, you are committing to writing a story of at least 1000 words, following specific guidelines.

Deadlines
Signups are open from February 18, 2008 through February 23, 2008.
Assignments sent no later than March 1, 2008.
Stories are due April 12, 2008.
Archive opens April 19, 2008.

( My Qualifying Fandoms and Offered Fandoms )

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Last year I lucked out both for the fic I remix and the remixed fic I received \o/
I love the idea of remixredux (in comparison to hd_remix, where you remix an H/D fic you've probably read for an author you've probably interacted with before. Dunno, just not as inspiring to me.)
It's an excuse to write gen, a pairing you never write before, or a fandom that you usually don't write in =)

My past remix is: "The Silent Son (The Unutterable Words Remix)" The original is Sirius gen, my remix is Regulus gen. The story coagulated in my brain for weeks, then I wrote the whole thing in one day =)
And my Draco (dm1980) gen drabble was remixed into "Brewing the River Styx (From Styx to Lethe Remix)"--which I adore <333

I'll have to write as many drabbles as possible by March 1 to give my remixer more choices \o/ And I'll try to have "Love Hopes All Things" rewritten by March 1 too so it can qualify to be remixed *g*

Ahaha, and melfinatheblue, I see that you caved in and signed up too X-D


(X-posted @ LJ)

1 a. slytherin_100's third prompt is Game, open until January 5, 2008. Bonus points if you include Tom Riddle/Lord Voldemort.
The second prompt, maze, is open until December 29 (bonus points if you include Blaise Zabini).

1 b. My response: "Mind Games"--(Padma Patil, perceived H/D, 100 words).
I might have written Ten Things about Padma Patil too >_> Will expand it to 20 Things.

2. The two-week special writing_game is up here. This is also the trial run for our new Post Secret feature =D

3. Psst! Snamione fans! Match the story to the quote Christmas quiz.

4. FYI, Americans, the British do not use the word "cooties." I changed "Gryffindor cooties" to "Gryffindor germs" in my 20 Things about Score.

5. I'm only 2/3 done with the fic that is due on the 23rd. Haha. Ha. 1000-2000 more words to go... @_@ And still need last-minute beta too. Shoot.

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Some arguments against fanfic (with refutations) @ LJ and IJ

If fanfic is indeed more about social interaction and acceptance than it is about dollars and cents…
And if fanficcers are truly interested in taking the authors wishes into account…
And if they just want to have fun without hurting anybody…
Then perhaps we need to create a technological version of the video store’s back room, with thick red curtains and a sign that says “Anyone who gets creeped by Kirk and Spock fondling each other should stay the hell out“. If it’s compartmentalized, I doubt many people would object.
--Ed Bartlett

Bring on the thick red curtains! \o/

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1. herohunter wrote Clex discussing Harry Potter for me, me, me. MWAHAHAHA.
"Of Wizards and Hobbits" (Lex/Clark, G, DH spoilers, 838 words)
Summary: Lex and Clark have deep discussions sometimes (I'm not sure this is one of them...).

2. rivkat wrote me an amazing thief!Lex too, but I am horrible and haven't read or commented ^^;;
Will rec after I properly go supernova fangirly on her.

3. It looks like I'll be writing the Lex-Luthor-is-sorted-into-Slytherin and becomes Malfoy's muggleborn pet HP/SV fic(let) myself. =P
Will try to keep it at 750-1000 words.


(X-posted @ LJ and GJ)