My Yuletide fics! (2012)
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Well, for my first Yuletide...I may have gone overboard and I regret none of it. \o/
Love Doesn't Have Restrictions (2,000 words, Twitter robot fandom)
As soon as this got suggested as a nomination I knew what I wanted to write. The love story of two automated Twitter accounts, one of which only counts numbers upwards from one, and the other of which retweets random pairs of Tweets that happen to form iambic pentameter couplets. So we get interactions like "one hundred fifty thousand eighty two/Love doesn't have restrictions, people do" The fic quotes a lot from the "canon" (such as it is). As bizarre as it sounds, but approved by the creator of @pentametron. Truly a great honor on my part.
Liberty and Justice and Shit (2,000 words, @mayoremanuel)
Speaking of Twitter and the 2012 election...it's more from everybody's favorite profane mayor! I had started this early last year but gave up when OpenOffice started making the wrong suggestions on all my other documents. This is extremely out of character for me; there is probably more profanity in almost any line of this than I have ever used in all the rest of my life. However, even if I never said anything like "I need a motherfucking “Avoid Panhandlers” route on my Google fucking Maps," that doesn't mean I don't believe it.
The English Opening (1,000 words, Chess (musical))
First we have women in math...now we have women in chess. A pre-canon glimpse of Florence meeting Freddie (or The American depending on your preferred version). And speaking of dusting things off, this inspired me to pick up my old Chess fic, so hopefully I'll be able to explain more of where this headcanon comes from soon!
I'll cross-post them to FFN over the next few days. :)
Here were my fics (the first two for my assigned recipient, plus treats!)
Galois Theory (5,000 words; Murry-O'Keefe families, Madeleine L'Engle)
After rereading some of the books in this series I had more plot bunnies than I knew what to do with. So my sincere thanks go out to the #yulechat crew who reassured me that literally going with "five times stuff happened with these characters" was a legitimate strategy. Of course, I like my mathematics a little more intricate than counting to five; hence, a crash course in field extensions.
To Play The Story To A Glorious Finish (2,000 words: Mistborn series, Brandon Sanderson)
A pre-epilogue missing scene from the third book in the trilogy, and hinting at what might lie beyond. The author wants to "give you, the reader, the power and authority to bring to the characters the ending you wish," which as a fanfiction writer I very much take to heart! The title is from Sonnet 10, by L'Engle.
Love Doesn't Have Restrictions (2,000 words, Twitter robot fandom)
As soon as this got suggested as a nomination I knew what I wanted to write. The love story of two automated Twitter accounts, one of which only counts numbers upwards from one, and the other of which retweets random pairs of Tweets that happen to form iambic pentameter couplets. So we get interactions like "one hundred fifty thousand eighty two/Love doesn't have restrictions, people do" The fic quotes a lot from the "canon" (such as it is). As bizarre as it sounds, but approved by the creator of @pentametron. Truly a great honor on my part.
Liberty and Justice and Shit (2,000 words, @mayoremanuel)
Speaking of Twitter and the 2012 election...it's more from everybody's favorite profane mayor! I had started this early last year but gave up when OpenOffice started making the wrong suggestions on all my other documents. This is extremely out of character for me; there is probably more profanity in almost any line of this than I have ever used in all the rest of my life. However, even if I never said anything like "I need a motherfucking “Avoid Panhandlers” route on my Google fucking Maps," that doesn't mean I don't believe it.
The English Opening (1,000 words, Chess (musical))
First we have women in math...now we have women in chess. A pre-canon glimpse of Florence meeting Freddie (or The American depending on your preferred version). And speaking of dusting things off, this inspired me to pick up my old Chess fic, so hopefully I'll be able to explain more of where this headcanon comes from soon!
I'll cross-post them to FFN over the next few days. :)
