Thoughts of a late night knitter

Fandom: Merlin
Character: Arthur, Merlin,(pre-slash) Gwain
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 300
Comment: I wrote something! Only a drabble, but something. Very much influenced by a small scene in the last episode of Merlin and stuck in second person POV as usual.

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“It’s Gwain!” Merlin says, with that happy lilt in his voice and you roll your eyes in exasperation.

You know he will not pay any attention to your caveats. He never does. He just goes merrily on his way trusting everyone that he talks to.

At least Gwain seems better than most. He is courageous, can fight well and though you do not entirely trust him, he appears to be loyal.

You are well aware however, that his loyalty is not really focused on you. You are just an adjunct. The man is devoted to Merlin.

And Merlin…though he never greets you as he does Gwain, will follow you anywhere; do anything you ask, summon up all his ridiculous courage and lay down his life for you. So while you resent, to the very fibre of your soul, Gwain’s appearance at Merlin’s side; you will rely on it.

Because should you be absent, should your manservant get himself into serious trouble, you know he will be protected and cared for. Gwain is a formidable opponent and will pay no attention to legalities or rights and wrongs. You believe him aware of Merlin’s abilities, (really how could anyone ever miss them? Merlin is far from subtle) even if he does not speak of them. Love does strange things to a fellow. No matter how much he tries to avoid it.

Shrugging, you accept Gwain’s offer to assist, and exchange glances with him behind Merlin’s back. You are both relieved and regretful when he nods, you dislike sharing Merlin’s attention with anybody; particularly someone who could take him away from you. But you would dislike Merlin hurt even more, so you swallow your pride, nod back in acquiescence and hope that your manservant never has to turn to anyone...other than you.

Hey there flist! *waves*

I've been away Friday and Saturday night and most of Sunday and have just booted up LJ. I'm at skip 150 and you're still going!!! And there's lots of nice fic too *bounces* It'll take me days to catch up :DD

Hi there flist! Long time, no ramble.

Though I think that may be changing. After two years of fuzzy brain and general failness, I think we have my pernicious anemia under control! Woot!

I've had the second of my B12 injections (they hurt like crazy) and with a combination of natural remedies seem to be on the up and up! Maybe I'll even be able to finish some fics - wouldn't that be nice? It would make me feel 100% anyway :D

In other news - The LG's football team went down 26-12 in the grand final. They were disappointed, but boy did they play well. And it was 30 degrees! (86 in farenheit) At 9am in the morning! And it's not even summer yet. The kids are already planning next year's campaign :D

With the end of football, surf club starts next week and we're onto our next wave (joke) of sporting contests. We've done our pool swims and I was pleased that I managed the 8 laps in way less than 9 minutes. Yay! Though I'm vowing not to do 70 hours of voluntary patrol this year! I'm getting too old...

Fandom wise -

The first ep of Merlin S3 screens today!!!! Eeeeeeeeee! I'm hoping someone on my flist will upload it before I drown in the squee. Why do we have to wait more than six months? *pouts*

Star Trek fandom continues to eat my brains, and I'm labouring away at the reel_startrek fic. Even with my labouring, the fic will probably come in at under 10000 words. This in a fandom where 30000 + fics are common. *sigh*

Anyway flist, that's enough about me. What are you all up to? I'm dying to know! :D

Do you know how long it is since I actually completed a meme someone gave me?

I take this as a sign that maybe I'm finally getting my brain back...

Anyway I don't actually expect you to answer this if you don't want to.

Tagged by the lovely sparrowverse.

* Reply to this post with the phrase I LOVED YOU ACROSS TIME and I will pick six of your icons.
* Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose.
* Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
* This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee :D

( icons behind the cut )

I notice I still have an inordinate number of Firefly icons in my userpics. I have been thinking of an overhaul, maybe even change my default icon...

when I actually wrote things? Things I liked and a few others did too. Things that were in character and weren't boring. Things that transformed from scenes floating in my head to a reasonable approximation of a story...

Yeah I remember them.

Right now I'm not happy with my reel_merlin story, and unless a miracle occurs, won't be posting on the 7th. *pouts*

The last half-way decent stories I wrote were Chuck/Casey experimental 2nd person POV. Since then there's ideas and nothing much else. It depresses me. Maybe I should just give up?

So in an attempt to cheer up myself (and you now I've depressed you) I shall rec this fic - Collateral damage by mrasaki. In which Jim Kirk's command chair sort of takes over the Enterprise - Read and enjoy.

Stolen from oddmonster & tygermama. The first line from six of my WIPs - pray I finish the reel_merlin one, 1st draft is due 17th May.

1. Through the view screen, space stretched out in front of her; magnificent, silent and…totally empty. The Out of Gas AU that was supposed to be my bigbang fic.

2. Sometimes I wish I’d made my journey sooner and never met Mr Ketchum again, but what’s done is done and we can’t change that. Mag7 fic - Obediah POV

3. He’d always wanted to come to Mars, and now he’d got his wish. reel_merlin au, my movie is Total Recall

4. “It’s not fair,” Percy’s voice broke the post-practice silence and they all looked up expectantly, eager to hear the latest litany. Merlin fic - the knights as 'red-shirts'.

5. “I’ll be taking my leave then,” I blurted it out afore Mal could keep talking, but nearly took it back when him and the others stared at me. AU from the middle of Serenity the movie. Jayne bails out at Haven.

6. Dear Ma, Got me a new job. I'd love to finish off Letters and Corresponding notes, if ony I could figure out how :D

I now have holidays for the next three weeks! *jumps up and down* One of those weeks is State Titles week for the LG, so technically not a holiday, but still I'll be on a break.

Hopefully during that time, I'll be working like crazy on my reel_merlin fic. I can actually hear it in my head. It's a long time since that happened.

I can never understand anon communities. ( Read more... )

It's nearly time to go out to the garden and slash at a ton of trees. One disadvantage of living in the tropics is that everything grows insanely fast and I spend half my life outside cutting down vines and tree branches.

Another disadvantage is that chocolate must be kept in the fridge. This makes hiding Easter eggs extremely difficult. Of course the LG, now 12 and not so little, doesn't really need the eggs to be hidden, but it's tradition!!!

The last couple of days a lovely person has been commenting on some of my old fic. This bolsters my faltering fic writing ego and is so encouraging. I really have to stop lurking and comment on people's stories. I used to comment on everything Firefly, but have become quite the stalker in the Merlin and Star Trek fandoms. In fact I might go comment on some of those Star Trek fics which people are bashing *sticks out tongue at bashers*.

See you soon! :DD

Title: As the sparks fly upward
Fandom: Chuck
Author: bookaddict43
Pairing: John Casey/Chuck
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Chuck and all related characters are the property of NBC
Warning: Mentions of character death
Word count: 906
Comment: Thanks to the majorly awesome evilmaniclaugh, who is cheerleader and beta all rolled up in one :) This is a continuation of sorts of All the things that led to us.
( So you return to work and go through the motions so well that no-one notices you were ever compromised. )

Someone answered an ancient prompt of mine at comment_fic. The prompt was Firefly, Jayne/Kaylee - blue eyes and big hands and Here is the fic.

Twelve days of Christmas was favourited at ff.net again. This pleases me because I wrote this soooooo long ago in the heady days when I could write coherently every day. And because it's the first real fic I ever wrote :) Now that I go back to read it I'm so tempted to edit it, and maybe will one day. The other thing I'd love to do would be to produce a banner for the story. Most of my other chaptered fics have banners courtesy of my wonderful flisters and now I can actually do graphics I'd love to try :DD

I finally managed to get some mangoes that either the birds or bats haven't eaten! They're yummy too *mmmmmmmm*. Even though the crop isn't half as good as last year, I'll still be freezing some in the end. Mangoes for a whole year! *bounces* I still have some frozen from last year and am contemplating making chutney with them...because I have 4 glorious weeks off!!!!!!!

So maybe I'll catch up with the beta'ing I owe poor tygermama & sparrowritings. I feel so guilty ladies, that I haven't finished this. Life has just caught up with me the last few months :(

But right now I'm madly trying to finish my big bang fic - there's two days left of the week I'm supposed to post it in! Cross your fingers for me? *begs*

This year I am waaay too broke and disorganised to be sending cards :( But I love my flisters, so post a prompt and fandom I write and I'll write you something.

And just to remind you...behind the cut is the serenity_santa info. We have 4 or 5 sign-ups so far but could do with more :D ( Read more... )