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Friday, May 1st, 2009
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11:04 pm - MMOM Day 01: Primeval: Halfway to Abu Simbel
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Title: Halfway to Abu Simbel
Author: ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) temaris
Fandom: Primeval
Rating: R
Characters: Nick Cutter
Summary: It's what he doesn't say that's important.
Word count: 310
A/N: Set just after the first couple of episodes of season 2. Betad by the ever stylish alyse
Halfway to Abu Simbel
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| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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12:29 am - Day 2: Magnificent Seven: In Somnia. NC-17
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Title: In Somnia
Author: ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) temaris
Fandom: Magnificent Seven (ATF AU)
Rating: NC-17
Characters: JD Dunne (/Ezra Standish)
Summary: Being on your own sucks.
A/N: This might be considered a snippet from the next bit of my Latin Series. But it stands alone reasonably well too. I hope *g*
Written for MMOM 2008.
( In Somnia )
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| Friday, December 7th, 2007
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12:08 am - Ghosts of the Federation Part 39
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Er. It's looking sort of dusty around here. Oops?
Heavily revised version of chapters 35 through 38 now up on my website. Sufficiently so that it may be worth re-reading before moving on to the next bit.
( Part 39 )
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| Saturday, April 1st, 2006
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7:04 pm - The Rest is Silence
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1:50 pm - Not Asleep, M7, LB ATF
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| Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
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7:50 pm
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If you were wondering where I am these days, take a look over here, or if you're interested in seeng what's got me writing at the moment, try here, unless you can't bear SGA, in which case, oops ... sorry! *g*
And yes, I am still writing all my M7 works in progress, and I will finish them, this year, I hope.
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| Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
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1:18 pm
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1.14 MB;
301 pages;
122,908 words,
14 thousand odd lines;
four and a half thousand paragraphs;
1 year, seven months, twenty days.
Ghosts of the Federation.
It was fun while it lasted. *g*
Now, I'm going to start proofing the damn thing. I'll *probably* post the last two parts tonight if I'm happy enough with them.
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| Sunday, February 12th, 2006
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5:25 pm - Ghosts of the Federation 38
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| Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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11:24 am
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Okay. *blinks confusedly at story*
It's got a little longer in some places, and a little shorter in others. I still intend to post this all by the end of the month though.
All these heroes and not enough villains to go around. What's a girl to do?
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| Friday, January 20th, 2006
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3:36 pm - gotf...
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Here's the thing. I have something like eleven cliffhangers to fix, and it's turning into something of a chore. So i'm doing it quickly *g* Not *that* quickly ;-) But it does feel a little like whiplash might be a problem.
And, um, when I said two parts, I didn't mean I'd necessarily *post* them in two parts. And the other other thing. I've been writing bits without my flipping concordance to hand. You'd think I would know better. So, I think I've caught them all, but if you happen to spot any multiple stars instead of names of people, places or things, when I get round to posting, do let me know *g*.
So, Eleven threads. I've ripped them all apart and scattered then to the four winds. (which is a very bad pun, btw, as Tianya=Four Winds *g* Oh i slay myself. But only so you don't slay me first.)
I've got over one and a half thousand written today, and more to come. Nearly 20,000 words all told so far. The way this damn mountain is looming in the story, I'm sorely tempted to go find out what the Chinese for 'brokeback' is *g*.
But hee! Ezra! Nathan! Chris! The Guild guys! Hee! *g*. Vin and JD are having a bit of a boring time. I think they should probably be grateful for this... Sadly, they aren't having a boring time together.
ETA: Heh. My mistake. JD's having a rather more exciting time now *g*
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| Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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10:14 pm
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This jumped into my head, oh, about two years ago. I felt like posting it now. It's not finished no. I had an idea about where the story would go today, so who knows...
Based off Vendetta, OW, LB, and eventually the teaser would look something like
... Hank Connelly doesn't think Chris Larabee is a fit man to look after any child...
( unfinished prologuey sort of snippet )
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| Friday, January 13th, 2006
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3:57 pm - Ghosts of the federation 37
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For what it's worth this really is about two parts from the end. One is half written, the other is half written. Once I get the pieces to meet in the middle then I'll be done. Another couple of weeks, with luck.
( Part 37. (3631) )
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| Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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12:04 am
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| Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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11:55 pm
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For anyone who's been paying close attention, yes, I've been quietly going back and retrofitting a couple of ideas into the story. Again. I knew that I'd need certain things to happen, but it looks like I'm going to tighten up the time frame fairly sharply. This means that if you've been playing along at home, certain things are suddenly not going to make sense any more until I get around to filing off the rough edges and smoothing out the sharp left turn at the end there. Naturally, the only version that makes any sense is mine, and I haven't tweaked any of the posted ones, well, not much. Fortunately enough time has passed between posting parts that I can looked blankly at people and say, really? You must remember it wrong. Because I would *never* retrofit a neat idea into a story when I've announced I'm going to write it linearly.
You won't tell anyone, right?
*g*
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11:42 pm - Ghosts of the Federation 36
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TodayThis week: 4720
Running Total: 11145
GotF pt 2 total: 71115
Posted: 2711
Oops. More cliffhanging. Sorry. And this is very rough draftish, but it's moving along briskly enough that I feel like posting. You wait till the next part. I can't tell if Chris needs more drugs or fewer. Either way, I don't know *what* that man is on.
Previous parts linked in my memories
General GotF warnings
My glossary
( Part 36 )
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| Saturday, November 5th, 2005
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12:35 am - Ghosts of the Federation Part 35
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| Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
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12:14 am
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Today: 2641
Running total: 4199
Posted: 0 (Sorry! Tomorrow, when I've cleaned it up a little maybe.)
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| Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
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9:03 pm - Trying again. Part 34, revised. GotF
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| Monday, October 10th, 2005
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11:10 am - I aten't dead
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okay, I'm finally updating again. I think the problem was partly that I went away for a very long holiday, followed by running a con. but mostly, the problem was that I've just not been interested in M7. SGA has sucked up my time. I'm finally emerging from a reading frenzy along with a total immerison method of watching songvids and episodes*g*. But I'm not writing over there. Not yet.
Those are just excuses really. I really didn't like that last part of Ghosts. Part 34 was a mess, and I needed to rip it apart and re-write it, and at the same time, I just didn't want to. Without changing it though, I couldn't write the rest of the story. So the lesson there is if I'm not happy with a part, don't flippin' well post it. It'll only make me miserable. Howsome'dever that may be, I actually opened the file today and started on it. I feel kind of bad, because I *have* posted it already, and it's been integrated with the rest of it. But it sucked. Really it did. It didn't move anything, or go anywhere, or add anything beyond a little gratuitous sniping. It was meant to be a confrontation and it read like a squabble.
So. I'm withdrawing part 34. It's not going anywhere, I'm not deleting it, but I am saying that it *is* part of a work in progress, and I've finally stopped feeling bad about changing it under people's feet, posted or not. I'm tweaking at it, and maybe it won't be all that different when I'm done, but I'm already happier with it. I don't offer a timetable to when the next part will come along, but I feel like writing, and I haven't felt like it in months; not since February really.
And nanowrimo is coming up. Who knows what that may bring (possibly pirates in SGA, but possibly not *g*).
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| Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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10:19 pm - What would the seven read?
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We see them reading, so... what are those books in their hands?
Books! My favourite things in the world!
I can see Josiah reading something like Mark Twain, maybe Innocents Abroad. Maybe Great Expectations or something else by Dickens. Maybe Mallory. Maybe Melville. Hmm, yes, I can see him reading Moby Dick. I think he'd find a lot to identify with, though whether with Ahab or the whale, I'm not sure... *g* Maybe some of the ancient philosophers -- Lucretius On the Nature of Things, Socrates Apologia; maybe Plato's Meno or Gorgias, or even the Republic. Or Descartes -- or something more modern except I'm not up on nineteenth C philosophers. Bishop Berkeley is about my limit, and I'm not sure about him, and then I jump to Kant and the 20thC guys.
I think Ezra would be reading Walt Whitman. I think he would love both the veneer of sophistication that reading poetry would lend, and he'd really, *really* enjoy the rather well known subtext *g*. He might read Dickens too, on reflection, Mr. Dickens was very fashionable there for a while, and Ezra *does* like to be in style *g*. And maybe some of the ancient classics -- a little Ovid; some Catullus (a copy with the *really* naughty bits annotated in Greek *g*).
I can see Chris reading something factual, a history perhaps or satire, I don't know why. Or what *g*. Possibly some Mark Twain -- I somehow think Mr. Clement's sense of humour would appeal. He and Ezra would argue over their copies.
I remember a lovely fanfic story (which I couldn't find! Wah!) where they were all reading, except Vin who wandered around listening to bits from each of their books, and Buck was reading Jane Eyre, and I won't spoil it, but I just loved his reaction and his attempt to mask it. I could really see him reading something like Clarissa or Wuthering Heights and being quite put out by the mismanagement of the various affairs *g*. I don't see him as a Pamela kind of guy. I don't know if he would have gone for Moll Flanders or not, a little close to the bone maybe -- but aha! I know what JD would be reading!
Robinson Crusoe *g*. Maybe R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island -- I think that was mid-nineteenth C. *googles* Yup, 1858, definitely JD could /would/should be reading that. And that's nothing to do with it being one of *my* favourite childhood books, honest ;-). I'd suggest Kipling but he's too much later. He'd probably like Great Expectations -- he'd probably borrow Josiah's copy and then they'd argue about whether Magwitch or Pip were the real hero. And of course, his dime novels *g* (which everyone else borrowed even if they pretended to scorn them. After all, there's a limit to the number of books available.). Or maybe JD would be reading Twain's Roughing It,, his semi-autobiographical account of life in the West. Or maybe not -- I'm not sure he'd like Twain's dry style.
Mmm. This *is* fun. Nathan, well, I'd suggest Gray's Anatomy, only that doesn't strike me as *fun* exactly. Maybe something really romantic; Idylls of the King, or Mallory (Josiah's book collection is taking a beating here *g*). Actually, maybe he'd like Great Expectations too. Or Oliver Twist. I hated the book but Nathan might rather enjoy it all. Perhaps Frances Hodgson Burnett's adult novels -- very improving, *terribly* popular, sunk without trace these days. Perhaps some travelogues, or, ooh, I know, Doctor Livingstone's Diaries, published 1865.
Going back to Buck, possibly Whitman, once he realised that the subtext was intentional. Maybe Burton's Arabian Nights (unexpurgated, of course *g*), or, and I have no idea if it was available in translation, Boccaccio's Decameron. Possibly Ezra's very discreetly bound copy *g*.
Vin of course would be reading whatever was to hand, plus, something like McGuffey's Readers to get him started.
Oh, that was way too much fun. Main sources: my head, Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg and the wonder that is Google.
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