Cedar

I decided I was going to do this this year, then promptly missed the first day. Woo! It's meant to be low-pressure, right, so I'm completing Days One and Two on Day Two. Take that, complicated and busy life!

So, Day One: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Okay, let's see. Let the navel-gazing begin!

That Dear Octopus (PG, Severus/Remus, Eileen/Tobias, Minerva/OFC, AU- post-war)
Summary: Severus has cultivated a life isolated from his family, but now his estranged mother and grandmother have rescued him from the brink of death. Oh, and then there is Remus...

At least right now, this is the piece I am most proud of. It was the one I wrote when I felt the most like I was finding my own voice and didn't need to be derivative of any other fics I'd read. Also, the characters were speaking loud and clear to me in my head, and I managed to get them to speak out on the page just as clearly as they spoke in my imagination. It also contains some of the best lines I've written, at least according to me. It is one of the last long pieces I wrote in what I think of as my "heyday" as a fandom writer, and I still re-read it when I'm in a mood and need to cheer up. Plus, I really do love Eileen and Leo, and wish they would come visit me again.

An Ecstasy of Fumbling (NC-17, Severus/Remus, Remus/OMCs, Remus/Sirius, Remus/Charlie, AU- WWI, warning: open-relationship infidelity)
Summary: After eight years together, Remus needs something or someone to shake up his relationship with Severus. In the aftermath of war, how do two people find themselves, and each other, again?

This fic was such a joy to write, at the height of my beta partnership with blpaintchart. We talked every day and worked through every detail of life during the post-WWI era, and had a blast doing it. I am particularly proud of responses I got to this one in regards to historical detail and historical views of homosexuality. Also, I do love Charlie Weasley, the undergardener...mmm, yes. I know the infidelity keeps readers away from it, but I like to think that this is not so much about infidelity, as about finding fidelity again when it has been lost, if that makes sense. Anyway, in my current state of brain melt and parenthood, I look at this one and can't believe that I once wrote it. I did? Wow. I'm proud of myself!

You Can Run but You Can't (NC-17, Charlie/Viktor, Charlie/OFC, Bill/Fleur, warning: infidelity)
Summary: Charlie's life veers off course, but Bill and Viktor are there to set him, um, straight.

I had to include my other favorite pairing to write, Charlie and Viktor. It was hard to select one from my various fics about them, but I think this is my current favorite. There's that blasted infidelity again, but here it is all about Charlie panicking about his sexuality and unable to deal, and Bill being an awesome and honest brother, and Viktor being a hot slab of man. Yum. Charlie makes some bad decisions in this one, but they are also good decisions in the end, and I love a conflicted Weasley trying to deal with life while being a bit of an ass. They do that so well! :)

On to Day Two!

Hi y'all.
Sometime in the next 24 hours I will complete the story I'm working on, and then I could use a lovely and wonderful beta. I'm in need of a SPAG check, a canon check, and if possible, a Brit-pick. It will probably be around 5000 words. Thought I'd see now if I can line one of you helpful humans up so I know who to send to as soon as I get this thing finished!

Thank you in advance, my dears. *hugs*

Hey kids!

I am almost finished with my story for this year's Snupin Santa, and I am really pleased with it, finding myself so nostalgic and hoping some more writers might make a return appearance after long absence. IT IS NOT TOO LATE! The link above takes you to the sign up page for claiming prompts. There are so many AMAZING prompts there, just waiting for someone to give them some love. I know much of the Snupin crowd has dispersed over the last years, but if you are tempted at all...Join me! You can still have a few weeks to submit and post in the fest.

In other news, I have a completely plotted story for Kinky Kristmas in my head, but it has not yet emerged out onto the computer screen. Eek! Deadlines. They loom. I can do it, though. *nodnod*

Random observation about life...now about half the technology in my life has a touch screen and the other half does not, and it is damn confusing! I keep poking at my laptop's screen, wondering why it is not loading, or even worse, jabbing on my students' computer screens trying to help them when they do not have touch-screens. They love to laugh at me.

How are you? *hugs*

Hey there friends. Still going to keep trying with posting more often. Trying!
SO. Also, I'm participating in things. Here are some of the things:

( hp_halloween, fests, and how Torchwood is eating my brain )

On Friday I went to a potluck picnic and when I got home I could tell that something had bitten my ankle, something of the insect variety. Now, three days later, my ankle is an achy, hot, red puff still, slightly better today so I'm not panicking, but still...what am I so allergic too?? I felt nothing!

Basically, I've failed recently in my appreciation of ankles- the mobility they give me, the range of motion, the support- until this one has been stiff and immobile for days. So here's to ankles! *cheers*

In other news, it was the return to school day for us teachers today...meetings only, but still, I cannot deny anymore that summer is ending. Boo. I love denial.

*hugs* I'll aim for fandom posting again next time. Until then, a Jack/Ianto icon will have to do!

Title: Forgiveness
Author: westernredcedar
For: aunty_marion
Characters: Severus/Remus, Lily
Summary: Lily invited all of her friends to visit over summer hols.
Prompt: Severus/anyone, dancing in the garden
Rated: PG
Warnings: angst, underage drinking and smoking
Words: ~1,300
Notes: On April 27, 2012, I posted a ficlet offer, had several requests, and then never wrote a single ficlet. UNTIL NOW. Bwahahaha!
Also, this happily fits with the current "What I Did on my Summer Vacation" challenge at lupin_snape! Even though it is weird, vague Snupin teen angst confusion. Whee! Before you read this, remember that Snape's Worst Memory takes place at the end of fifth year, but the prank not until sixth. Just remember that.

( Forgiveness )

Hi again! I know! Three times in one summer! What is this world coming to...

My dear magnetic_pole has suggested joining in a challenge to try posting regularly again here, fannish or non-fannish. I'm going to give it a go. I don't know that I can do every day, but I have a little plan in hand for the sake of trying, and it is this:

Maybe I can post even if it is boring, just like a real journal, and then maybe by practicing writing again, I will be less boring soon!

So that is the plan and let's see how it goes.

Today, to start, I will continue on the theme that I am plowing through Torchwood fic like a bulldozer, totally ignoring other important aspects of life like sleep and prepping for the on-coming school year (which is bearing down on me, freight-train metaphor and all). So, since it is what I'm doing anyway, here are a couple of fics I've adored (again, years late) all found in various ways due to rose71, my Torchwood fandom hero! So here's some fic. All Jack/Ianto.

Amazing Jack/Ianto CoE Fix-It Fics
The Rose of Jericho by kaydeefalls
Intersecting Geodesics by nancybrown
From Here to There and Back Again With You by blue_fjords

A Fic to be Read because Ianto is Affected by Some Alien Truth Serum and Writes Everyone Letters
Signed+Sealed+Delivered=Toujours by amand_r

A Rollicking Good Time was Had By All Fic, Including Ianto and More Than One Jack in the Distant Future
A Matter of Time by demotu

I've also made major progress in finally watching Doctor Who- getting acquainted a bit, and then watching all the Harkness episodes and then going back and catching up with the rest. Finished all of ninth doctor, and am in mid-first season of the tenth. Reading up on background and all like a proper obsessive.

Now, to post! *hugs flist* I'll try to be less boring again tomorrow. No promises, though!

Hello anyone still out there!
*listens for echo*
It is my summer break from teaching, which means that I am...posting something. Woo! I actually am still here reading all the time, just lurking like a creepy little lurker rather than the grand participant I used to be. Oh well. Here's some stuff:

Fandom-wise, I have been all over the place recently. I was entrenched as a reader and fledgling writer in BBC Sherlock fandom for many months when RL totally derailed that direction. I still have most of the unfinished second chapter of the thing I was writing, and I dream of being able to complete it this summer...maybe? I simply cannot promise. Then I spent a sweet month or so just reading any decent The Voice RPF and thinking this was pretty odd, even for me (*ahem*, snegurochka_lee, recs further down, keep reading...). Now this summer has been entirely consumed by catching up on Avengers and the Marvel Universe movies and fic...damn, it has been a fun few weeks of cheesy superhero goodness. I saw The Avengers back when it came out last summer, but only just watched Thor and Captain America, and Iron Man still waits for me.

I also just enjoyed magnetic_pole's most recent round of lgbtq_recs and have a list of books to order when I finish making this post!

I thought maybe I'd rec a few things I've enjoyed? I don't know. I am confident everything I'm going to mention is a classic and super well known in their individual fandoms already, seeing how my search criteria on AO3 usually starts with "Kudos" or "Bookmarks." But who knows, and I want to make a record for myself as well, so here are some various recs of things that are generally from the above listed fandoms. Or something.

( Recs! )

Hey all,
I'm really behind I know, but I'd like to get all my work archived at AO3 and I still haven't even joined...anyone have an invite sitting around? I'd be so appreciative.
Thanks! Cedar

Title: The Steep and Thorny Way
Author: westernredcedar
Summary: Remus is married now, soon to be a father. So why can't he stop thinking about a man who is a traitor and murderer?
Rated: R
Warnings: not exactly infidelity, but not exactly fidelity, either
Length: ~2300
Notes: Repost! Written for omni_sama at Snupin Santa 2011. Based on this prompt- Canon-compliant (as much as any non-canonical pairing fic can be) heart-breaker fic taking place during the Second War, after Severus has killed Dumbledore. Two souls that were meant to be, if the world had spun differently, but can only brush past each other in the blinding darkness of their personal hells. An attraction never before admitted, a love never to be spoken. Make it hot, make it hurt.
This fic was vaguely inspired by this part of Good Omens: "The ducks in St. James' Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction." The title is from Hamlet.
Thank you to islandsmoke and celandineb for the inspiration when I needed it!

( The Steep and Thorny Way )