schmevil

Yes, it's true. I'm writing HP again, and now that the springtime_gen stuff has been revealed, I finally get to share my story with you. *twirls* It's weird, I've had daily_snitch on my flist for years, and haven't paid it much attention, but recently I've been noticing challenges and exchanges again. I've signed up to do a story for weasleyfest, and I've got another Marauders story in the works. Lily pov, natch.

Anyway! I signed up as a pinch hitter, not as a participant proper, but I did still receive a gift. chibitoaster painted Sirius for me. *smooshes Padfoot*


Here Is No Place
Characters: Lily, Sirius, James
Summary: A housewarming party The Greatest Party Ever, yields a quiet moment between friends.
Word Count: 2992

remixredux08 is no longer anonymous. This year I wrote Mighty Dark to Travel (Full Fathom Five), in X-Men Movieverse. The story I remixed is Frosted World, by ms_jvh_shuh.

Reposted to my fic journal:
Mighty Dark to Travel (Full Fathom Five)
Fandom: X-Men Movieverse
Summary: After John is shot, Bobby loses control. (mid X2)
Character(s): Bobby/Rogue, Bobby/John
Word Count: 3333
Notes: I know medicine doesn’t work that way. Roll with the comic book science.

I really enjoyed writing this remix. The original story has several different povs, and I wanted to keep that but make it more explicit - really colour the situation differently in each part. So I added the perspectives of one of the cops who shot at Bobby, John, Rogue and Logan, and Bobby's brother Ronnie. I had the most fun writing the cop, an OC, and writing Rogue, who's in an ugly position in this story. The title comes from an old American blue grass song, and the funky remix title is of course from The Tempest.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that does fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong,
Hark! Now I hear them – Ding-dong, bell.

The idea being that the road that John takes in the film, and that Bobby considers in this story is (duh) a dark one to travel, and this story, with five different povs, goes fully five fathoms deep (in that direction), or attempts to fathom five characters. Not too corny, I hope?

I was also surprised, though not so surprised in retrospect, to find that musesfool was the author of Packing for the Crash (The Black Brothers Variations), the remix of my Salt the Earth. Go read Vic's story, because it's great. It's funny, something about it was so familiar, but I couldn't quite figure out what. ;)

In other remix-y news:

Hijack Me HP is THE BEST THING EVER. Well, you know. Here's the deal: ( Read more... )

I have, of course, subscribed to the feed and am waiting for a special and unique snowflake to fall into my greedy and corrupting hands. Mwa ha.

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I made two Director of SHIELD posts to scans_daily and the comments were mostly free of Ironhate and Civil War wank. It's a Christmas (in spring) Miracle! What continues to bug me, is how hard I as the OP, have to work to keep everything cool when wank threatens to explode. I had a couple of moments of pure, concentrated Intarwebs WTFuckery and just managed to resist the urge to respond with a flame the size of Australia. The community does okay much of the time, but the hand of mod is imo, just a wee bit light. There are times when I just want to share my squee, and don't want to spend the next three or so days a) justifying my squee; b) defending people who share my squee; c) defending people who DON'T share my squee; and d) soothing the savage, mouth-breathing beasts.

No one's twisting my arm - I could technically post and run (and watch the wank roll in), but the whole point of posting to a comm, and not my own journal, is sharing the love. And that's hard to do when posters are calling each other out over a fictional political dustup that happened two years ago. Or questioning each other's morality, based on their taste in fiction.

Not to say that my behaviour is perfect in every which way. There was one post, a month or two back, where I responded to all the constitutionality-of-the-SHRA comments with "LOLZ!1!1111"until they stopped commenting. *g*

And not to say that this is exclusive to scans_daily, because I swear, it's like this almost everywhere online. One second you'll be talking about the latest issue of She-Hulk and the next, the thread's devolved into a panel by panel dissection of Amazing Spider-Man, issue number whateverthefuck, and what Peter said, what Tony said, what Luke Cage said, in a comic that was published TWO YEARS AGO AND HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH SHE-HULK NUMBER 28. And ok, I think that's enough capslock rage for now.

So yeah, more modding on scans_daily. It would be good.

Packing for the Crash (The Black Brothers Variation), a remix of Salt the Earth
Harry Potter, Gen, Regulus Black
If he lives through this, maybe Sirius will be happy to see him.

I went and reread Salt the Earth, after the reading the remix. I wrote it four years ago, so you have to forgive me for not remembering the exact details. *g* Holy zombie Jesus - I'm making it my project for the summer to edit my old fics for typos. Yikes.

So the remix is fab. My remixer shifter the pov to Regulus, and took a look at his own leave taking from Grimmauld Place. I like how it works as a remix - it's both a sequel, and another take on the original story. And it's just a nice read. S/he's got a great Regulus voice, and has their relationship down.

I've only just started reading the stories, but so far I've liked:

Goldfish Bowl (Glass Houses remix)
X-Men Movieverse, Bobby/Rogue
It's hard being normal in the goldfish bowl.

Sweet, with good Bobby characterization.

Weasleys Wizard Wheezes: The Ministry Disapproved Edition (The Liability Remix)
Harry Potter, Gen, Percy
From the Desk of Percival Ignatius Weasley, Concerning the twins' latest product line.

Ok, seriously - hilarious. Percy takes a look at his brothers' catalog.

Double Act (The Straight Man Stand-In Remix)
House, Adult, House/Foreman
Whatever it was, it wasn't with Wilson.

Understated, despite how these two can bring the drama. And hot.


I completely forget everything else I was going to write about. Huh.