| Frolicon: call for panel ideas and panelists |
[21 Dec 2009|02:21pm] |
So I'm organizing the writers/writing Think Track at Frolicon this year.
Frolicon is a convention that is a lot of fun; it's a crossover between a science fiction convention and a BDSM convention. You can see why I'm an appropriate person to be putting together some programming for it, no?
So if you're a writer and can get yourself to Atlanta April 1-4 2010, please drop me a line if you are interested in speaking on panels and include any panel or workshop ideas you might have.
The con website: http://frolicon.net/
Livejournal comm: http://community.livejournal.com/frolicon/
Last year we had panels on:
How To Write Sex in SF & Fantasy
Erotica & Sci-Fi, A Perfect Match?
Ask The Writers (Q&A session)
Slash Fiction 201
(as well as a great panel/community roundtable on Race/Ethnicity and Cultural Appropriation -- which was a pretty heavy topic for Frolicon, but went amazingly well. The track I'm organizing is more on the writing/fantasy/BDSM intersections, though.)
Drop me a line in email at ctan.writer AT gmail DOT com with your suggestions for panel topics and your bio if you're interested in speaking at the con.
Panel suggestions from fans & readers are welcome, too! And feel free to point interested parties to this post.
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[14 Dec 2009|12:26pm] |
Hello insane journal, nice to meet you? How long has it been?
Mah. It's the time of the year when I get fidigty and want to join an RP. I'm not exactly in one now, but my last experience in one has me going "no, it'll just end the same" so I'm staying away. How sad is that?
Lots of stuff went on since I've updated. A bunch of friends and I have started a cosplay group that we'll be doing for a few years. So excited about that~ Starting it off next year at AFO (anime convention).
I graduated, but I'm still in my somewhat shitty job. I have an interview for a better one on the fifth, but I'm not sure how that'll turn out. Kind of nervous, but blah all at once. If I get it, it'll be easier to do said conventions. If I don't get it, I'll be in a financial rut for the rest of my life. Oh well.
Two of my very good friends sent me emails and just decided to cancel our friendship (two days before my birthday, might I add). Twas already a bad day at work and that didn't help. Neither has emailed me back after I basically asked them "why?" but oh well. They gave their very one-sided reasons and didn't listen to mine. That's fine, it's okay. I understand that sometimes things just happen and people go away and friendships stop. Doesn't mean it didn't hurt any less, but whatever. I'll be okay eventually (still hurts, okay?).
Gracie, darlin, we still need to go on a Disney date~
How is everyone else?
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| Snowflake Fic #4: Snarry for sra_danvers! |
[14 Dec 2009|02:33am] |
Okay, I know I must have lost my mind. Because if I'm reading the time stamps on my last 3 posts, I've written four fics in 24 hours. !?!?!?! I've been feeling sick today and therefore unmotivated to do "real work" but... four fics??? Four pairings?? I thought I was going to write a few drabbles today, but each fic has been longer than the previous! Yes, I am nuts. However, I'm also going to sleep now. Enjoy the insanity while it lasts! :-)
Snowflake Fic #4: Hind Sight
For ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sra_danvers
Snape/Harry, NC-17
Word Count: 1938
Summary: A few years after the war, Snape is living on a remote mountainside alone when he gets a very unexpected visitor: Harry Potter.
I wasn't supposed to survive. I know this. I was supposed to sacrifice myself just like the boy was. Meanwhile we would be saving the lives and souls of the likes of the Malfoys. Why did it never occur to me that Dumbledore's plan ensured the life of the purebloods and the expense of all the half-bloods? I count myself surprised now that Hagrid survived as well, though perhaps his survival had less to do with Dumbledore's plans and more to do with his own resourcefulness, much like mine.
It took Potter a few years to find me. ( Read more... )
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| Snowflake Fic #3: Harry/Draco for winnett! |
[13 Dec 2009|11:57pm] |
OMG, this started out as a drabble and ended up a full-blown fic! I'm sure I won't be able to do that for all of these, but this plot bunny just ran away with me! Enjoy it, winnett!
Snowflake Fic #3: True or False Question
For winnett
Harry/Draco, NC-17
Word Count: 1800
Summary: Has Draco finally invented the potion that Harry Potter hoped that he would when he set him up in a secret, underground lab?
Draco charmed the door open with his wand in hand. No such thing as too careful, even though he knew it was Potter at the door. Potter himself set him up in this secret lab; no one else knew of its existence.
Potter, too, had his wand in hand, and his hair was even wilder than usual. His eyes, too. Draco frowned. "What's wrong?"
"Who said anything's wrong?" Potter shoved his wand into the Ministry-approved sleeve holster. "I came because I got your owl."
Draco slipped his own wand into his sleeve with a bit more grace, wondering--hoping--that perhaps it could be the proximity to Draco himself that had Potter so flustered. ( Read more... )
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| Snowflake Ficlet #2: Ogata/Touya for painless_j! |
[13 Dec 2009|01:15pm] |
Snowflake Ficlet #2
For painless_j!
Ogata/Touya, NC-17
Touya has this idea that sex is one of these things that will eventually happen without any effort on his part. He is too busy to think about the process, much less the goal, between his match schedule, tutoring, interviews, and so on. His parents are off in their own little world these days, traveling, living in China for months at a time; he knows at the very least he is years away from arranged marriage or any obligation like that.
He has idle moments from time to time when he wonders how different life will be once he's done it. Everyone says it will be--everyone being manga and movies he also has no time for but he can't help but absorb the cultural messages in them. He has no reason to doubt this. He simply cannot imagine what it will be like, either the sex or life afterward. Mostly he does not try, but there are those moments when he looks at his peers and wonders who is, who isn't, who has, who hasn't.
Shindou hasn't although Touya has heard his one attempt was a complete disaster with the girl next door. Shindou refuses to talk about it beyond blurting it out one day as an excuse for his poor play in a match; Touya had refused to speak to him for a week after that. Touya doesn't tolerate excuses.
Since he can't imagine what it will be like or how it will happen, when it does happen, Touya is completely caught by surprise. ( Read more... )
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| December Recs |
[13 Dec 2009|09:58am] |
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Possibly will manage this once more before the end of the month, though I'm not going to guarantee it. Most of the fics in this batch are from before the fests started.
All Merlin-fic on the non-adult post, here.
Merlin Fic:
See You on the Other Side - devilluck
Arthur/Merlin. Merlin helps Arthur prepare for his coronation. - PG
Underneath the Haze, One Thing Still Remains - Thoughts_artist
Arthur/Merlin, Arthur/Vivienne. Spoilers for season 2. Arthur doesn't understand why it feels as though something is missing. - PG
Visiting Hunith - Rurounihime
Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot/Gwen. Hunith sees them change each time they visit. - PG13
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| Snape/Draco ficlet for sabathea |
[13 Dec 2009|02:44am] |
Sooooo... I promised myself after I finished writing the first draft of the novel I owe to my publisher, that I'd write some fanfic. The "flurry" of v-gifts I got over on Livejournal has inspired me to write some for the folks who gave me snowflake cookies and such!
This one started out as a drabble and ended up an actual ficlet/scene! Happy hols, sabethea! (Um, and no, I'm not totally sure why I chose this pairing for you, but I hope you like it!)
Snowflake Ficlet #1
For sabethea!
Snape/Draco, EWE, NC-17
714 words
Severus hated being nursemaided, but on the list of things needing repair after Nagini's bite, his pride was rather far down. ( Read more... )
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