some people see the revolution

 is it actually 2021? is this really the 14th year of the exchange? oh wow. 

oh god it's already 2022 and i am a deeply lazy person. i've done some more specific prompts/requests in the form this year but will re use this letter for my general likes and dislikes.

how the actual fuck is it 2023

i give up, time is a weird soup and i don't understand how it keeps happening

the time does just keep happening somehow


I love a truly wide array of stories and story types, so please just find whatever in my interests Sparks Joy for you in writing and have fun <3. If it fulfills even one of the "things I like" then I'm going to be happy. I love a good Narnia story.

Narnia Specific Dislikes: please treat the Problem of Susan with sympathy for Susan and her siblings and no vilification of any of them if it should come up. I personally don't like Aslan portrayed as benevolent all kindly god - he's not a Tame Lion, after all, and gods work in mysterious ways. 

Narnia Specific Likes: this place has so much weird mythology and history that we don't really get to see explored, and I'm here for all of it. I love Susan and Edmund together as kind of the shadowy siblings, I'm fascinated by how the Pevensies built and maintained the Golden Age. I think my interests these days tend more Narnia centric in terms of setting but that is not to say I'm opposed to England stories, especially AU's (Susan and Edmund both survive and cope together is a fave, but there are SO MANY good options). The women of Narnia don't get enough centrism in the stories, so I'm particularly happy whenever stories make them the main character. Charn is so weird??? What the fuck is up with stars? How many gods are there hanging out in Narnia? The fuck is up with the Wood Between Worlds? we have SO MANY unanswered questions and I love stories that try to answer them, or just world build some back story. Sentient Cair Paravel is a concept I love and anything kind of similar is probably also going to land very well for me. Recently I've become fascinated by Swanwhite as the last Queen of Narnia before the Telmarines invaded and also just the general time frame of the Telmarine invasion! Genuinely there is so much lore going on in this place and I would be delighted for a story that explores any of it. 

General Things I Love In Stories: character studies, worldbuilding heavy stories, competency, codependency, I do love a good crossover, banter, happy endings, bittersweet endings, there is always some hope, lgbtq+ people being just a normal facet of life. Also, when I say I love a good crossover I mean it, please do not hesitate to do a crossover if that's something you like. I've done or read crossovers for Narnia with Doctor Who, BBC Merlin, Supernatural, The Book That Wouldn't Burn, Leverage, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Inception, The Dark Is Rising  - probably more. Narnia works so well as a crossover. Narnia crosses over so well with so much - Arthurian mythology! Lewis' weird space trilogy! Mythology of all kinds! I don't even know, just know that as long as I have a vague knowledge of the given fandom I'll be happy with it. This is not to pressure you into a crossover, I just want it to be clear that it's genuinely fine.

This poem is one of my biggest Narnia feelings. Also this one.

Things I Do Not Want: truly grimdark stories (i love tragedy but i also like some hope). No explicit noncon. 

First up! There were some beautiful things written for me recently.

( written for me + two vid recs + comic rec )

( stuff I've written recently )

And while I don't feel like tracking down all the stuff I wrote this year, I figure I might as well answer the end-of-year writing questions meme because why not?

( talking about fic )

Um, I'm also going to declare this free-for-all on asking me anything about anything I've written. I kind of doubt there are questions, but if there are feel free to ask, or tell me that I got something wrong, or other stuff.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Today: assorted everythings. (Technically it is the morning of Day 5. It's still night time for you guys so there! :P Day 5 post will come later.)

Susan!

( recs and link to vid. )


Cassandra Cain

( friendship! )


Artemis Crock

( clip and comic panels )


Martha Jones (who was technically my Day 3 additional lady but I forgot halfway through that I needed to do two extra ladies because I was doing two days)

( some recs! )


Ginny Weasley

( a little bit of talking. )

MORE COMING TONIGHT. :D

 First, some recs!

Vialethe wrote some gorgeous Last Battle AU Susan/Edmund travelling the world. 

Beccatoria did a lovely DCAU Wonder Woman vid, "I'm Holding Out For A Hero."

settiai did a fantastic Doctor Who Rory/Amy vid, "You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate". THEY HAVE PERFECT FACES.

Someone wrote me a lovely Ramandu's Island fic for the Narnia Fic Exchange, This is not an ending. I've been bad and neglectful and am only now commenting on it, but I really enjoyed it.

Stuff by me that I never mentioned here! My Remix fic.

Secret Virtues (the Blackmail and Bars Remix)
Highlander: The Series. Amanda, Methos. Pretty much gen. 1,003 words.

Amanda and Methos are definitely my favorite two characters from Highlander, and I love their interactions in canon, so this was quite fun to write. It's a little bit silly. :P

I'm currently speeding through reading the Alex Rider series. (The school library has all of them but the second.) You guys, the level of psychological damage this kid is carrying after just four books is INSANE. I shudder to think of how totally broken he's going to be after 8. 

Communication levels here where I work: MINIMAL. We had a meeting three weeks after I got here where we were finally given a list of specific instructions for our jobs. Yeah. Before that we'd just been doing whatever we'd been told to do and not really knowing what we were supposed to do. I know. There was something on the list of specific duties about "checking the dorms every 30 minutes". I asked about it because I'd never been told to do that or seen anyone do that (including the two people telling me to do it), and they both looked at me and were like "Oh, nobody's told you that?" ... NO, okay, no, because nobody tells anybody anything in this hostel! 

But mostly work is going okay. I may be coming down with chicken pox? Aidan had shingles and I've been feeling kind of bad the past few days. Tomorrow I have all day off so I'm going to sleep a lot and drink a lot of water and hopefully feel better. (It probably hasn't helped that my stomach has once again hit the "oh dear god this food is awful" spot and can't take most of it. I'll have to go to the grocery store today after lunch and see if I can find something decent to eat.) 

Downloading takes so long on this connection.

I sort of love being pretty independent. :D And having money regularly. (Though I am trying to avoid spending most of it. My pay goes straight through to my card, and I try to only use the cash I get from vacuuming a lady's house on Friday's. :D)

I'm writing! I feel really happy about that. I think I'm going to do a "works in progress" meme sometime soon, because I keep fluttering between them and I could use the incentive to finish them. (It's kind of a bizarre list.)

 okay I have been a whiny twerp most of today. this is partially because I am cramping before my period (lol body thanks for stooping to new lows of putting me in pain) and I am still feeling restless and I am tired of cleaning house even though I have done very little of it this summer. any house cleaning feels like too much right now. (I literally spent a large portion of my junior year cleaning house for my mom. and a lot of that summer. and a lot of last fall.) 

I'm also having a lot of trouble concentrating. and still utterly failing at crushes. 

BUT NEVERTHELESS. between yesterday and today, I have managed to write almost 3K of X-Men fic (ANON ALL ANON SO ANON). it is on two different fics. so far only the first one is embarrassing, but the second one is fast approaching embarrassing too. 

and I also suddenly feel a desire to work on that Edmund/Ianto sequel. It's set in the gap between Torchwood S1&2. Edmund takes a temporary job at Torchwood while he's on the run from something. There is Time Agent shenanigans and memory loss and I think Susan might come into it! It... will likely never get finished because there is a LOT of story to it.

which reminds me that I think Charles Xavier and Lucy Pevensie would get along SMASHINGLY. (he reminds her of Tumnus. something in his smile, bright and open. or maybe it's the blue of his eyes, or the tilt of his head. she's a regenerative mutant former queen of a fantasy country, he's a paralyzed telepath mutant professor. together with her sister they fight crime/prejudice/fear/hatred!)

also that I want all the icons.

and my new shiny laptop, even though I haven't ordered it yet. (tomorrow, I hope.)

oh snap dishes time. 

this has been Betsy being utterly ridiculous. signing off for the next - uh, half hour? then I'll be back and writing again probably, because i am incorrigible and apparently can't go to sleep before like 1 in the morning and only then because that's when my mom goes to sleep and therefore checks on me.

I FEEL LIKE COMMENTFICCING WHO WANTS TO COMMENTFIC

firstly, happiest of happy birthdays to Lass! I was going to post that, y'know, yesterday, but I didn't want to until the fic went up. <333333333333334569101 YOU ARE MY SUNSHIIIIIIINE, YOU MAKE ME HAPPYYYYYY WHEN SKIES ARE BLUUUUUE.

secondly, and this is kind of RL important - I need advice on buying a laptop. I don't like Macs, for starters. (I don't like working on them or their set-up style, and would need a really convincing argument to buy one.) I need a laptop that's good for graphics, is very sturdy, and as lightweight as I can get it. I want a pretty large screen, but I also need to be able to travel with it easily. I guess a 13" or 15"? And it needs to either have a lot of space on the harddrive or there needs to be an easy way for me to get more room to put stuff on. So - advice? What laptops have you found are really good? Which ones fail all the time? Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!

LASTLY AND ALSO TOTALLY IMPORTANT. This Sunday (EST) afternoon, probably starting around 2 but maybe later, I'm going to be rewatching all the Narnia movies. Timing depends somewhat on who else can be there when. I should definitely be around all afternoon anyways. I'll be on Skype and the NFFR chat rooms and Tumblr and Twitter and pretty much everywhere and would love company.

This brought on by me having a really bad headache Monday night and rewatching bits and pieces of all three movies, and continuing to do so today. (oh my god, how come the last bit of LWW always makes me cry? SO BEAUTIFUL, SO HAPPY, SO IN CONTROL and then it is all just STRIPPED AWAY FROM THEM LEWIS I HATE YOU FOREVER.) like - I don't even want to fic, there are too many feelings to fic them. TOO MANY FEELINGS. ALL I KNOW IS FLAIL AND SQUEE. 

as reference, here are the Tumblr posts I made:

( ALL THE FEELINGS FOR NARNIA )

BUT YOU LOVE ME ANYWAY. AND I LOVE YOU. 

(rewatching VotDT again: nnnnnnnngh boys in chains why is this cast so pretty.)

Also Doctor Who this week was spectacular. Oh, Gaiman. Thank you. I do not like all your stuff, but you did well. 

I have seen Dawn Treader, and I loved it. Bit of a hurry, so I'll just copy-paste what I wrote over on NFFR.

Loved loved loved it.
( Spoilers. )

In other news, my dad is apparently going to have "minor surgery" to clear up an infection? I don't know! Nobody tells me anything around here. FML. Off to park, perhaps running around and throwing things will help.

 random mini fic! 

the birds and the bees
Narnia. Edmund, Eustace. PG-13. 271 words.

( Edmund has a frank talk with Eustace )

Title: In Some Dreaming State
Vidder:be_themoon
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (
Music: "Blinding" by Florence + The Machine
Spoilers: For both movies.
Summary: No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love with the wrong world. Susan, and the wrongs done to her.
Streaming/Download: Streaming at Vimeo and download at FileFront.
Notes: I'm annoyed at some timing issues that won't go right, and definitely annoyed that I wasn't able to get copies of the movies that were both full-screen or wide-screen, rather than one of each. But in the end, this is the Susan vid that I really wanted to make. I wish I could do a full-length version of the song - maybe someday I'll be able to, if I use outside sources as well. In short - oh, Susan. This is my version of meta on the many, many ways she got screwed over by the narrative.


( Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state. )

I'm off! Be back Sunday.

Things I may or may not have done before I left - compiled a primer for myself on Major League Baseball rules, just to make sure I've got things right, and a list of all GK characters.

oh my god, you guys, and this is on top of the 2K of Edmund/Ianto sequel I've been poking at ever since I wrote the first one, and then Remix (which I should really get started on, obviously).

I'll have a lot of time in the car?