#1 Dude! This show is awesome! Scary and twisted and angsty; and frequently LOLarious.

#2 I'm just gonna put this out there. SPOILER for the first episode. It's a core premise of the show, not a big reveal in the season finale -- but I'm putting it behind a cut anyway. ( My Red John theory: let me show you it. )

I haven't even started my Apocalyptothon fic.

But, I couldn't resist signing up for the epic awesome of the fic challenge over at stori_telling (Hee!) Plots from Lifetime Movies! Yes!

My prompt:

Wishcraft: "Brett Bumpers is your everyday high school student - until he receives a mysterious package with a wish-doling totem inside. When the most beautiful girl in school invites him to a dance the next day, he knows for sure that this magical artifact is legit. But then someone starts killing his classmates! Brett knows the murders are somehow connected to his powerful present, and that it's up to him to stop the madness."

There are prompts left, so go claim! And pimp!

My favorite ficathon is underway! Let the wild rumpus start!

I'm hoping for a Supernatural prompt this year. I've never gotten one, probably because I don't write slash. At the very least, I'm hoping for a fun prompt. Like, say... this:

Request 5 - fandom: Any
Details: Rocks fall, everyone dies!

I had to read that twice to make certain it actually did say "any."

ANY.

D8

Okay, sure. I know that means any fandom on the list of Apocalyptothon fandoms, but that means you could have a fic where The Muppets meet the Winchesters, then the Doctor picks them all up in the Tardis, and they go to Atlantis, and meet Wesley and Buttercup. Just as an example.

ETA: DAMMIT! Who do I have to kill to get some french fries a Supernatural prompt around here?!

x-posted to supernaturalfic
General SPOILERS for Season Four ( And some speculation... )

Stolen from krilymcc.

Post a single sentence (or eleventy) from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). ( No context, no explanations. )

SPOILERS through Episode 4x10, Heaven and Hell. The fic takes place shortly after that episode.
Rated R for bad language.
x-posted to supernaturalfic

NOTES: This is a very, very belated Sweet Charity Fic for innie_darling, who picked one of my old ideas out of a Plot Bunny Graveyard that I'd posted on my LJ last January. D8 The prompt involved Dean, and a time loop, and a haunted bed and breakfast. I'd always wanted to write that fic, and I'd never gotten around to it, so I was excited.

Well… it turns out there's a perfectly good reason those fics were in the Plot Bunny Graveyard. I tried to get the time loop story to go. I tried for months. No joy. It just lay there in all its dead bunny-ness. I wanted to write that story, but that story did not want to be written.

I felt horrible.

Until the day I was driving home from the Rite-Aid, having purchased a milk chocolate Terry's Chocolate Orange. That was when I got… An Idea. It involved a time loop, and Dean, and that was about all the resemblance it bore to the original prompt. But, oh… golly! I liked this idea. I liked it a lot. It was yummy. And Christmasy. And dark. I sat down with my laptop, intending to write the beginning, maybe figure out some notes, and I ended up writing all of the first draft in one day.

So, Innie… dear, patient Innie… here is your fic. Even though it's not exactly (okay, it's not remotely) what you picked. I hope you enjoy it anyhow…

Happy Holidays!

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( 'If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.' -- 1 Corinthians, 13:3 )

It's the most wonderful time of year again! No, not the holiday season. It's the time of year when the end-of-the world fics start popping up at apocalyptothon. (Including mine.)

MythBusters Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

I remixed soundingsea's Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic, "Eleven Hours at the End of the World." Here is The Memento Mori Remix.

Meanwhile, some intrepid soul alixtii remixed "Be Kind, Rewind." D8

The Second Ghost Remix is oblique, sneaky and chilling. Go read it!

The Remix Redux VI Archive is now open!

The first person to find the fic I shredded like cabbage remixed will get a ficlet.

I won't be able to confirm that you've found me until the remix authors are revealed, sometime next Saturday (April 26th). Plus, (hopefully) -- finding me won't be as easy as last year.

I shall give you one measly clue: I haven't picked a brand-new fandom. You'll find my Remix fandom listed among the fandoms in the index of my fics.

Rated PG (for one swear word)
Characters: Ash, and the kids from 3x02 “The Kids are Alright” (Ben Braeden, Ryan Humphrey, Katie and Dakota)
Word Count: 1800

Written for the spn_thur_nights Blind-Item Prompts Challenge, using prompts 3, 18, and F (respectively, Ash, Ben Braeden and holy water). Also, W00T!



x-posted to supernaturalfic

( Dirty deeds done dirt cheap. )

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A Supernatural drabble for 100_ghosts.

Prompt: Love Is In the Air

Bidding is open at Sweet Charity!

I mentioned previously that I am shopping my goods on the corner for nickels to benefit the striking writers. As an option for potential bidders, I present The Plot Bunny Graveyard.

Should you win me, you may select any one of my abandoned fics (listed below), and I will complete it for you. Please note that this is OPTIONAL. I am also quite happy to write you a fic that is brand spanking new.  (Heh. "Spanking.")  I'm open to prompts and plot bunnies from my winning bidder, and I will also consider writing sequels, codas, and continuations of my previous fics, (for example another story set in the universe of "Fish Out of Water").

Abandoned Veronica Mars Fics

1. Beyond the Sea -- the fourth story in the "Extra Credit" series (featuring Logan & Caitlin).
   
2. Last Stop -- a VM/Final Destination crossover. Starts with the bus crash and... well, you get the idea.

Abandoned Supernatural Fics

1. On a Steel Horse -- AU mid-Season Two. Sam is stolen by the Yellow-Eyed Demon, and Dean goes to extraordinary lengths to find his brother, including teaming up with Sarah Blake from "Provenance," time-traveling... and getting on an airplane.
   
2. The Winchester Brothers versus The Headless Horseman -- the title says it all.
3. Pot Luck -- Dean and Sam snag some referral business from a woman who's just bought a haunted bed and breakfast.  This one involves a time-loop, a vengeful Victorian ghost, and lots of cooking. Did I mention the cannibalism?
   
4. Dead Air -- two ghost ships break free from the Arctic ice, and a creepy radio broadcast from the 1930s seems to be following poor Sammy around.  This one is based loosely on the doomed Franklin Expedition.

I've signed up for Sweet Charity's special auction to benefit those affected by the Writer's Strike.

For Sale: One story of at least 1000 words, in any fandom listed below.

Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cthulhu (and/or H.P. Lovecraft), Firefly, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Psych, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Shakespeare, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls, & Xena: Warrior Princess.

I am also willing to write original fiction, and we can discuss your wish list.

I only write GEN (with maybe a little romance). I write crackfic, really strange crossovers, and dark fics; but again, I'm open to suggestions. I'd love to write more SPN fic, and I'm always up for VM. In particular, if you are seeking high-quality, non-schmoopy, OPJ Logan, then I am your strumpet of choice. VM, SPN and MST3k are what I've written in primarily, but I welcome the challenge of a new fandom.

Bidding opens January 18th at midnight GMT, and continues through January 26th at midnight GMT.

Much like the curse of The Monkey's Paw, I have inherited from queen_haq... a ficlet meme. *thunder crash*

"The first few people to comment on this post get to request a ficlet. In return, they have to post this meme in their journal (or they'll be decapitated - that's my twist on this meme. Heh)."

I've been hella busy lately and I haven't gotten much writing done. Boo. So, I'm open to writing Supernatural or Veronica Mars. (Always!) I'll take a stab at Bones, Pushing Daisies or Reaper. Or you could hit me with a prompt for an original ficlet.

Creepy, Halloweeny prompts would be great. Well, you know me. I think they're great all year round. But, now I have an excuse!

This entry is inspired by kwatchingoverme, who commented in Drunk's Luck: "Whoa. WEIRD! Since it was you, I kind of expected something off-kilter (in a good way)..."

Fish Out of Water was described by readers as: astonishing, blasphemous, creepy, funky, freakish, gothic, heartbreaking, hilarious, insomnia-causing, lyrical, shocking and surreal. Be Kind, Rewind actually killed one Anonymouse, who then informed me she was heading out to go coffin shopping. And _kirsty called me "madder than a tree full of sheep" for writing One True Pair.

I don't try to write weird. The weirdness just sorta... happens.

So, what's the weirdest Veronica Mars fic I've posted to date? Not the one you think is the best written. Not the one that's your favorite. What's the fic that finally caused you to question my sanity? Which fic of mine, in your opinion, would qualify as the most bizarro, neuron-frying, spaztastic, crack-addled freakfest?

(orangesky33, please be so kind as to vote in this new poll, which actually works. I hope. It does!)

Poll #1037668
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What the Fic?!

Rated R for violence and colorful language.
Written for the apocalyptothon challenge.
This fic takes place very early in Season One, so slight spoilers for that season.

Apologies to bennet_7. This is not a Killer Zombie Unicorn story. I tried, but I couldn't get your KZUs to work for me. (This time!)

x-posted to fic_from_mars & veronicamarsfic

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( 'A woman drove me to drink, and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.' -- W.C. Fields )

Gen; Rated PG
Characters: The Impala; Dean and Sam
SPOILERS: through Season Two; Futurefic
Summary: Written for the family_secret Fic Challenge, but disqualified by the mod. The two prompts I picked are this quote:

"Three can keep a secret, if two are dead." - Benjamin Franklin, and this photograph.

The challenge rules stated that, "Stories should have primary focus on the Winchesters and the secrets that can come from the lives they've led and choices they've made." Lucky us; we're all in on this secret -- the true story of the Winchesters.

x-posted to bystanderfic and supernaturalfic

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( 'History is written by the winners.' -- Alex Haley )

This is for queen_haq, the first to solve the "mystery" of which VM fic I remixed. She requested a drabble where Logan gets his spine back, and tells Veronica to fuck off.

I immediately pictured Logan stepping under a single harsh spotlight in Java the Hut, for Open Mike Poetry Night. (Like Spike in Angel, sharing his poem about Cecily with an appreciative audience, at last.) Veronica works in the college library during S3, but I enjoy pretending she's grumpily serving lattes and Chocolate Nutgasms the whole time Logan is on stage. (And he's reciting as slowly as possible, of course.)

So, here's Logan's tongue-in-cheek-pretentious free-verse poem about Veronica, featuring all lower-case letters and no punctuation. (Although, the conscious irony probably makes it even more pretentious). At exactly 100 words, it's proper drabble length, if not form. Enjoy!

( Logan's Poetry Slam )

Veronica Mars, Season Three
Spoilers: through "Postgame Mortem";AU
The original fic is The Date by pressdbtwnpages

I'm kinda curious. From the comments on my remix, it seems like nobody is catching what actually happens in the fic. At least, nobody has said so. I put in a ton of clues. I'm pretty sure I did everything short of including an answer key upside-down at the end of the story. But, it may be one of those times where something is totally clear in the writer's head, and not at all clear to the readers.

So, drop a comment here, and tell me what you think might be going on in Last Year at Marienbad the "Death By Chocolate" Remix. Or, just comment. Or, you know... whatever. :^)

x-posted to fic_from_mars and veronicamarsfic

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( Remember, walking in the sand. Remember, walking hand in hand. )

The remix_redux archive is open!

My remixer remixed "The Beach, Boys" from Weevil's POV, and did an outstanding job: "Standing by the Ocean's Roar". Check it out!

Also, see if you can find the fic I ruined remixed. I'll write a ficlet for the first person who guesses correctly. (Note: the remixers are supposed to stay anonymous until April 29th.)

ETA: I'm screening the comments, since y'all are too good at finding me! Or, maybe I just totally suck at being anonymous. :-D