( 2012 text version coming soon | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 )

New fic is posted to ishieland on DW and LJ on an irregular basis.

Some fic archived to ishie on AO3, after a fashion. Older fic can also be found on on ff.n (lol ff.n)

( 2012 fics, chronological order )

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/5399.html. Comment here or there!

New fic is posted to ishieland on an irregular basis.

Some fic archived to AO3, after a fashion. Older fic can also be found on on ff.n (lol ff.n)

( 2011 fics, by fandom, alphabetical )

New fic is posted to ishieland on an irregular basis.

All fic archived to AO3, after a fashion. Older fic can also be found on on ff.n (lol ff.n)

( 2010 fics, by fandom, alphabetical )

New fic is posted to ishieland on an irregular basis.

Older fic is archived in this journal under this tag, or on ff.n (lol ff.n)

( 2009 fics by fandom )

Waiting for news from a college admissions office is a lot different at this ripe old age than it was at 16, I'll tell you what. Most of the time I'm annoyed when they call with another question or hoop to jump through. Whereas the first time I would have sold my sister for one of the schools to call me.

But in the interest of eventually getting into classes again where I'll be expected to turn things in and whatnot, I'm trying to actually write something. The first step is to try to get out of the habit of being so obsessed with every syllable being exactly what I want it to be. It's ... not going great. But! I'm doing some fic amnesty dumps with old stories that have absolutely no chance of being finished.

Two in the last two days, both Doctor Who, though totally different eras. I mostly just got rid of the too-ambitious notes about where they were supposed to go eventually:

• Ebb, Flood, and Ebb; Second Doctor, Susan Pevensie
  
• Never Break the Chain; Martha Jones

And I think I never mentioned that I'd done another BBT & ASOIAF fic each? I probably did. Idk. Linking again anyway because it's late and my embarrassed-about-self-promotion filters are broken:

• Through the Looking Glass; BBT AU collection with genderswap and whatnot
  
• Come The Morning (The Once More for the Ages Remix); Cat/Ned! This was my fic for remixredux and I really liked how it turned out :D

And I signed up to do a couple of fics for reverse remix. Fic me! :D? :D?

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/8145.html. Comment here or there!

I've been clicking around in tabs for like half an hour trying to figure out what I was doing, and it only just occurred to me that I was ... reading a book. So, that's new! Well, mostly the reading of a book instead of the internet. Completely forgetting what I was doing is not new at all. Might be time to admit to an online addiction?

Nah.

Um, who's on hondagirll's anonymous love meme? my thread's here and I've seen a couple of you already I think. Where are the rest of you!

Ugh what a pointless post. There was stuff here before about ASOIAF and GOT and expectations and backlash vs criticism and wrongshipping and willful misreadings of the text blah blah but no one needs to be subjected to my unsolicited nonsense. BE VERY GLAD.

Anyone read any good fic lately? I keep expecting to go on an Avengers binge but it just hasn't grabbed me like I thought it would. Maybe it just needs another viewing or seven. Like Thor! Maybe it's time to rewatch that about forty times. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/7814.html. Comment here or there!

I am going to bed for real because I have a stupid amount of irl stuff to do tomorrow and because otherwise I'm never sleeping again because G A M E  O F  T H R O N E S. I literally don't want to/can't talk/think/care about anything else. So. If anybody wants to talk about it? This probably should have waited until morning to post, lol how do you blog /o\

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm finally going to see Avengers tomorrow afternoon though! ...bets on how obnoxiously fast I try to turn the conversation to GOT/ASOIAF when we get out of the theater?

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/7645.html. Comment here or there!

Uhhh so today started out pretty awesome! Work is good for a change and I got a great annual review. I was excited about some writing I planned for this afternoon. And it was a beautiful, warm, sunny day! Then at lunch I found out about Adam Yauch, and it all kind of went off the rails. The Beastie Boys meant more to me than I'd realized, and he was the driving force behind so much of what I admire about them, and. Yeah.

Anyway. Favorite video's a tough fucking pick, but favorite track is always and forever ( Sure Shot )

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/7321.html. Comment here or there!

Y halo thar eljay! I owe people some things probably from forever ago when last I was here, right? But let's move on for the moment.

Because PANIC TIME. I picked up a remixredux pinch hit that's due tomorrow night. I'm ... there are words on the page. That's about all I can say. IT'S MY FIRST REMIX EVER. WHY DID I CLAIM THIS PINCH HIT. WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY IMPULSE CONTROL. EVERYTHING IS THE WORST.

Have any of you done remixredux before? The story I'm remixing is paired vignettes, basically, so one is from one half of the pairing and the other is from the other, &c &c. If I keep the pairing intact but rewrite the story from only one of the original POVs, is that kosher? You're supposed to keep characters/pairing & plot points, but it doesn't have to be, like, a shot for shot remake where you use the same POVs, right? I HOPE?

Okay, okay, now is the time for sleeping and staving off the panic until the morning. See you again when next I slip the surly bonds of Tumblr addiction xoxo

(Also today I snagged the mayorship of the county dump on Foursquare so obviously I am doing lots of things right haha!)

eta
oh lol it's been so log I apparently forgot I was posting everything on DW now /o\

son of eta
LONG. L O N G. I CAN SPELL AND TYPE.

This is that seven questions meme thing that's been going around. Basically if you want me to ask you some, comment to say you're in and ... I'll give you some questions. There's probably a much more exciting way to say all that, huh.

The lovely ndnickerson ( asked: )



Uhh, shallow pop culture updates: hooked on Once Upon a Time, perpetually hoping it will be/get better than it is (no more CGI please god stick to the low budget and outdoor old school FX okay); can't stop MapCrunching (if somebody combined it with Pandemic I think it would be THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD); Castle has been kind of disappointing lately; and gooooooooood lord do I need to get back on my writing game. What's up with y'all?

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/6739.html. Comment here or there!

I know everyone's missed it. But don't worry. It's here now. Everything's fine.

( see? )

We're all fine.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/6292.html. Comment here or there!

All right, I'm trying to sort out where I am with owed auction fics. (The answer is: not in a good place. I'm so sorry these are as overdue as they are.)

If you're no longer interested in what you prompted originally, or if you'd just like to change it to something different, or if you didn't prompt anything COUGH EM AND JULES COUGH COUGH, you can hit me up here on DW or LJ or via PM or on Twitter or Tumblr or email or whatever! Probably not via telepathy; that will probably not work. I will accept messages personally delivered via Hiddleston and/or Cumberbatch and/or Loo Brealey and/or Chris Evans. Cough.

Here's what's still outstanding according to my notes:

• SPN; Dean/Ruby; 1k - __hibiscus
  
• Calvin & Hobbes; 1k - middle_cyclone
  
• HP; Harry/Luna or Neville-centric; 1k - courtney_beth
  
• 30 Rock/Parks & Rec; Leslie/Wesley; 1k - muir_wolf
  
• Leverage or Alice; Eliot/Parker or Alice/Hatter; 2k - galfridian
  
• Black Books; ensemble; 1k - jazzfic
  
• ___?; ___?; 1k - damalur
  
• ___?; ___?; 8k (one or several fics) - sohotrightnow

Did I miss anyone?

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/5962.html. Comment here or there!

Work is work. My to-do list is really light and as per anxiety I'm trying not to read too much into that. (So not happening.) We're gearing up for our annual reviews (lakjdfs is there anything worse than annual reviews omfg) so I'm compiling projects for the survey and it's hilarious how putting this together always makes me concentrate on the ones that got fucked up rather than the ones that came off flawlessly. I know I do a good job, sometimes a great one, but I spent so long on a team that got undermined at every opportunity that it's almost impossible to try to have any confidence in my work.

Welcome to my issues, basically.

Anyway, irl, we've officially owned the house for one month! I keep promising myself I'll do a proper post with pictures and everything but let's get real. Instead here's ( some before and afters of the kitchen/dining room )

So that's that.

In the only Sherlock news I'm going to share here today (you're welcome; unless you're on Tumblr and I'm so sorry), thank god for Twitter DMs and the sympathetic shipper stylings of howtoswim, that's all I have to say. #tinhatttttt

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/5803.html. Comment here or there!

Okay can I just CAN I JUST talk to you for a minute about how I'm rewatching Reichenbach and I get to ( spoiler spoiler spoiler god seriously don't even click this open because I am just rambling like a crazy person )

Hot damn I need to find something else to talk about except Sherlock all day long. Somebody come and punch me in the face.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/5189.html. Comment here or there!

It's pretty much all Sherlock all the time over here, even when at work. Especially when at work. Especially today! Why I thought running a full boot scan of my ENTIRE SYSTEM was a good idea during the day, we may never know. Except we do know: it's because I'm an idiot. Nearing hour five! D:

We did both versions of the Sherlock pilot as viewing parties the last couple of nights and wow have I missed having viewing parties. &memestalgia; It's also terrifying how many details I've just noticed for the first time on every single rewatch. GOD TV SHOW BE LESS GOOD. Except for the unaired pilot, which really didn't have much more less-good to go.

At some point I may even branch out to reading things that aren't starring Molly Hooper, aha!

Pretty good on the writing front so far this year, fingers crossed it keeps going:

Just Like Notting Hill; 30 Rock; Liz/Wesley; PG; 6600 words (AO3 | DW)

"I need you in London," Jack said. "England, Lemon. The land that gave us Colin Firth."

"Long may he enunciate," Liz breathed.

When No One Can See; Sherlock; Molly Hooper; G; 1000 words for picfor1000; post-Reichenbach (AO3 | DW)

She has to remember to leave that Molly behind. Mousy Molly, squeaking and dreaming, with stars in her eyes and awkwardness rippling in her wake.

Just as an FYI on the Liz/Wesley fic, apparently I am the first person to ever use the Tom Brokaw tag on AO3. I am so sorry.

All right, now it's time to sob into some grilled cheese over this Molly(/Sherlock-ish) video that I refuse to quit linking at people all day every day. And this one which isn't Molly/Sherlock at all and I want to lie down in a vat of ice cream and never get up again oh god.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/4877.html. Comment here or there!

Why yes I probably should be doing something work-like before my meetings start, but no I'm just sitting here reading Sustain again for the ... third? fourth? time. It's the Sherlock/Molly babyfic you may have seen me squirming in delight about all over Twitter. (Oh my godddd especially the Mycroft POV parts how did they hit so many of my trope buttons all in one fiiiiiiiic) I hate myself. I love it. Go read it. GO.

[INSERT INCOHERENT SQUEALING ABOUT THE NEW SPRINGSTEEN TRACK]

The house is coming along nicely! One of these days I might even transfer the pics off my phone and show y'all what we're doing to it. Tonight I'm stripping the last of the wallpaper downstairs and then it's finally wall-knocking-down time aw yeah.

We were planning to go to the Olympics this summer with Grandma, because she went the last time they were in London as a girl. Her aunt worked at the pool where some of the swimming competitions were held so she was able to get tickets to a lot of the aquatic events and weaseled her way into track and field as well. My mom spent a couple of months chasing the official ticket drops, but I think now that Grandma's gone we're going to drop the whole trip. We've only ever been to England with her, and I know I won't be able to handle it without her just yet.

I'm finally nearing the end of one of the charity fics I owe. One of the millions. I'm really sorry about how long they're taking. If I still owe you one and you want to request something different than you originally did, or if you're not sure if I owe you one/what you requested, feel free to let me know or ask in comments.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/4783.html. Comment here or there!

Actual content and replying to people like they deserve at some point but for now let's just go with the fact that I've been doing virtually nothing but trying to eat my shirt/hands/face/cat/life and shrieking about Molly Hooper since Sunday night.

Yes yes John's face and Moriarty's face and SHERLOCK'S FACE ALKJDF;LJ and I wanted to literally gnaw on Moriarty when he came to 221B (...I really don't know, but yes. I want to gnaw on his face with my face) and Mrs Hudson and Martin Freeman and Benetton Cucumberpatch how do you do those things with your faces and your voices and your mouths oh my god. I have hunches about how Sherlock fell--one much more embarrassing and ill-formed than the other--but:

MOLLY HOOOOOOOOPER

Here, rj_anderson says it much better than I do. MOLLLLLYYYYYYYYY

So for the last 36 hours or so, I seem to have read almost every single Molly Hooper fic in existence? My favorites so far are in pinboard. WHERE ARE MORE. GIVE ME MORE.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/4368.html. Comment here or there!

The topic: how we're creative/ly influenced.

And the moderator was all HAY GUYS LET'S TALK ABOUT THE STUFF WE DO IN REAL LIFE THAT ~INSPIRES OUR CREATIVITY~ which is an A++ discussion for our group but which I don't want to take part in because of the following things I didn't admit:
( blar blar blar )
So that went about as well as expected! Ten bucks says my supervisor asks me why I didn't speak up in our next one on one session, which will lead to another ultimately fruitless attempt at trying to explain to him that I'm as engaged with the team as it's possible for me to be. Hahah why can't I just be a robot :|

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/4122.html. Comment here or there!

It would be so nice to make plans at the start of a workday that didn't get torpedoed by noon. Or: I hate everything tantrum tantrum tantrum.

All I really needed to accomplish today was drop everything for Newly Urgent Project which no one mentioned last week as the slightest bit urgent, but by the time I opened my email on this fine Monday had escalated to "we have to have this done by the end of today". Lovely. And then after dropping everything else (all of which was also meant to be done by the end of today, only with more notice than seven or so hours) and being well on track to having it completed in time, the database I need to use to test it in the final stages went completely apeshit and stopped recognizing commands altogether.

Apparently the tech dudes made some "enhancements" this weekend. Ha ha ha good job thanks.

Anyway.

This weekend I spent a ridiculous amount of time in cars, and it turns out that my patience for Michael Ondaatje is practically nil while surrounded by relatives and bags. So, I'm not going to try Coming Through Slaughter again until I'm not at all annoyed by anything. Lol, so never, then.

I'm doing the 52 books in a year challenge at Goodreads again, and this time I swear I'll finish with more than half that. :| I'm here if you want to friend! Last week I finally finished the two volumes of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (ugggghh) and When She Woke (pretty good! until it fell apart, but still a fast, engaging read).

But ugh every time I look at my to-read stack or turn on the Nook, nothing looks good at all. Anyone read anything spectacular lately?

OH SHIT. I totally forgot: this weekend I got a copy of A Train in Winter as a belated Christmas present so that's up first. As soon as I find some tissues for all the crying all over my face that's totally about to happen.

Originally posted at http://ishie.dreamwidth.org/3950.html. Comment here or there!