Galvanizing

The Big Blue Box Problem (1645 words) by Castiron
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Peg + Cat (TV), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peg, Cat - Character, Eleventh Doctor, Richard
Additional Tags: Screenplay/Script Format
Summary:

Peg, Cat, and Richard go looking for their lost toys and meet a man in a big blue box. Then there's a Really Big Problem.

The fic I wrote for this year's Yuletide was Ars Longa, an In This House of Brede fic for tryfanstone looking at the friendship between Stefan Duranski and Abbess Hester Cunningham Proctor.

ITHoB is definitely a rare fandom when it comes to fic; there's only one other fic for it on AO3 at present, and that one was written for me ten years ago! Journeys, by Fabrisse.

Via nineveh_uk: When you see this, share 3 random lines from 3 WIPs.

More like Works In Deep Hibernation, and none of these are likely to be finished, but one never knows.

1. When he was a college freshman, Mitch had thought that Dr. Hathaway had taught him everything he needed to know about unintended consequences to one's actions; then he'd learned that Kent was applying to medical school because Jesus had told him to.

2. A very small child accepts their family as given; if Mummy speaks French to him, or if Daddy practices the piano six hours a day, or if Mycroft sits in the rocking chair shredding pieces of paper until his lap is full of confetti, that is simply the way things are.

3. Alys finally admitted that while Ivan was a good enough boy, and would clearly be an acceptable cog in ImpMil -- and while he was supposedly the first to tackle Vodrodza and save Gregor from assassination, a rumor she treasured -- he was never going to be the leader she hoped for.

Whee! Someone wrote me Pushcart War fic! It's a nice look at General Anna's earlier life, and it should make sense even to people who haven't read the book.

Via half my friendslist; I think I saw it on tweedisgood's journal first.

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fanfic at AO3

Thanks again to Qikiqtarjuaq for the enormously fun Without a Clue fic, The Bloody Revenge of Jefferson Hope.

The fic I wrote, for Velvetmouse, was His Master's Voice, a Lord Darcy fic.

If you've never read Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy stories, they're worth a look. (Baen still has them in print in pbook and ebook format.) In a universe where magic exists and the Anglo-French Empire rules a large chunk of the world, Lord Darcy, the Chief Investigator for the Duke of Normandy, solves crimes with the help of his colleague Master Sean O Lochlainn, Chief Forensic Sorceror. The prose is nothing special, and the characters aren't particularly deep; what makes these stories worth reading is the world, where magic is a science and is treated as a science, and of course the mysteries themselves.

I went with a prequel to (most of) the stories, in which Lord Darcy meets a person who appears again later in Garrett's Too Many Magicians. It was great fun to write, though it turned into Zeno's fic for a while there (I have half the fic left to write! Oh no, I still have half the fic left to write! Oh no, I still....).

Someday I might try another Darcy fic; there's aspects of that universe that I'd like to dissect a bit more (gender being a big one -- we know female magicians exist, but we see very little of them in canon. Agent 055 is the only one we see actually working, and there's a reference to a female Healer who does midwifery; Mary, Duchess of Cumberland *has* the Talent, but it's never really made clear what she can *do* with it).

Done. Posted. Will edit if a beta reader finds anything really embarrassing, but overall, I'm satisfied; I believe it fits the recipient's wishes, and while the writing isn't my best effort at making something read like canon, it at least has a lot of canon characteristics.

Now I can finally get back to The Fic Currently Titled Not Dead Yet and to reading other fic. But first: sleep.

Recent 60-word fics posted to the LJ community sherlock60 for "The Devil's Foot" and "The Dying Detective".

( fun with ACD canon )

Title: A Study in Squawking
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 27K words

Also on AO3.

Chapters 1 and 2 on DW
Chapters 3 and 4 on DW
Chapters 5 and 6 on DW
Chapters 7 and 8 on DW


( Chapter 9 )

( Chapter 10 )

Chapters 11 and 12 on DW

Title: A Study in Squawking
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 27K words

Also on AO3.

Chapters 1 and 2 on DW

( Chapter 3 )

( Chapter 4 )
Chapters 5 and 6 on DW
Chapters 7 and 8 on DW
Chapters 9 and 10 on DW
Chapters 11 and 12 on DW