Soledad's Journal

Hereby I announce the birth of gaheris_lives, a new community that artemis10002000 are planning to use as a place where crack!RPG and/or crack!Round Robin set in an alternate Andromeda universe can take place. We've taken upon ourselves the heavy burden to play/write Tyr Anasazi and Gaheris Rhade, respectively, so it will be a Nietzschean-heavy thing, no aspect of which ought to be taken seriously.

We're looking for other participants at the moment, as well as for suggestions about the entire stuff. If you want to have part in some absolute, disrespectful silliness, hop over and join. :)

After more than a year, we finally managed to make a one-day-trip to our beloved Vienna again. We were supposed to go there last summer, but Mum got into the hospital just a day before. So, we were both very happy about it.

The day was great, although very exhausting. Stupid trains were late by almost an hour, it was very cold in the morning and in the evening, so I might get ill yet (hope I won't, though - took aspirin and will bake tomorrow, which provides a nice, warm environment).

In any case, we had fun. And I got a real Easter treat by Saturn (the electronics shop). I found the boxed edition of Atlantis' 5th season, which was the primary reason why I wanted to go. Aside from that, Babylon 5 and Andromeda seasons were on sale, so now I'm the proud owner of the B5 episodes I lacked from the 5th season. Granted, I had to buy the whole 5th season for that, but I got it for a third of the original price, so I call it a bargain.

The usual pre-Easter insanity was largely over already, but it wasn't so bad, honestly. We got a handful of small chocolate bunnies and bees (they're freaking cute), bought a raisin bread at Anker's (the best bakery chain in Austria), so that I won't have to bake it, too, tomorrow... and it's actually better than mine, the dough isn't that heavy.

So, I'm a happy camper. Easter decoration (painted eggshells) is ready, Easter eggs are coloured, Easter ham is cooked, Easter bread is bought - all I have to do tomorrow is to bake Ischler and Russischen Zupfkuchen, and the feast is being cared for. Yay!

It's a good thing, actually, as I've finished the next chapter of "Atlantis Café" and need to type it up.

I've just put it up to otherworlds_lib. One more chapter to close the current Atlantis arc, and then I can finally let them met with the Andromeda crew.

It'll be posted to FF.Net, too, as soon as possible. Hope erinnyes is still willing to do the beta. He's such a gem.

It's been posted to otherworlds_lib and to FF.Net.

To my great delight, I got the first truly helpful piece of concrit in a review since I hit the Net, eight or so years ago. This Mackon person put his/her finger at the exact spot of the chapter I felt a bit off myself, without knowing exactly what was wrong with it: Harper's characterization, that he had changed perhaps too fast.

Now, I know that most people don't like their favourite charcters to change at all, but IMO, one of the greatest flaws of Andromeda's 2nd season was (aside from Saint Dylan taking over instead of the full cast) that it didn't deal properly with Harper's Magog infestation and what that might mean for him. Aside from that little scene in "Exit Strategies", he mostly went on the same cheerful, slightly manic way as always. I just don't think that he would have.

That said, the reviewer was right. Harper's mood shifts were too sudden in this chapter. And while it can be expected from a person waiting for an extremely painful and messy death in the near future, I'll have to deal with that mistake somehow in furter chapters. If I can.

In any case, it was very nice to get some concrit from a person who actually likes the story and has proper knowledge of the source material.

The third chapter of Out of Legends has been posted to otherworlds_lib. Enjoy!

Title: Out of Legends
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Andromeda crossovers
Genre: Action-adventure
Rating: Adult, mostly for violence and other disturbing stuff.
Series/sequel: None, so far.
Archiving: my website and Otherworlds. Everyone else: ask, please.

Disclaimer: don’t own them, no money made. All borrowed from various TV-shows, save from a few OCs
Timeframe: early Season 2 for Andromeda, end of Season 1 for SG-Atlantis.

Summary: Trying their luck with Hasturi’s map once again, the Andromeda ends up in the Pegasus galaxy, 3000 years in the past. Will the Ancient knowledge stored in Atlantis help them get home again?

Title is linked to the index page at otherworlds_lib.

This story is not yet completed.

Or, to repeat Dr. McKay's elegant phrase, a certifiable whackjob. Yes, I've signed up to the Zelenka ficathon at fic4radek. As if I didn't have enough unfinished WIPs. Well, the advantage of a ficathon is that they want finished stories. And Zelenka is adorable.

Also, I joined the notshep comm. It's a small one, but we few people who despise Sheppard need a place, too. Not much going on, actually. But since my Atlantis fic isn't very Sheppard-friendly (to put it mildly), perhaps I'll find people who actually would like it.

Oh, and I joined andromedafix, too. Found a few excellent stories. Might later add them to my fic rec page, once they are finished. So, it's mostly sci-fi time nowadays. Since 2007's first piece of so-called concrit (read: bitching without reason) killed off any indication I might have felt towards writing Tolkienfic for a while, I need greener pastures.

Oh, and by the way, classics_slash is a great place to find new and different reading material.

If the most exciting thing you can write about is a domestic report, then you surely do have a dull life. On the other hand, having an interesting life is something of a Chinese curse, isn't it?

In any case, I finally finished posting Birthright 2 - The Gathering to otherworlds_lib. It was interesting to re-read the whole thing (I had to, because of the hand coding) again and finding that I still liked it.
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School's starting into the usual mid-term madness, so I thought I'll write a quick update before the horrors swallow me entirely.

Alrighty, I made a glorious step towards actual online efficiency today: I discovered how I can edit the files already posted to my own website with the help of Geocities File Manager. Hah! Took me only three years or so! Am so proud of myself!

Also, I realized that after having scanned the programmes on German TV meticulously for weeks, I still managed to miss the re-start of Andromeda. *curses* Stupid RTL II always brings sci-fi series on workdays, late in the night, so overlooking The Big Sci-fi Event (TM) on Saturday afternoond is understandable - but still annoying. Missing the two-hour pilot, of all things, plus Stargate, dammit!

But sorting out old videotapes I actually found four other episodes of Andromeda's second season - and which's even better, among them the one featuring Über-hottie James Marsters as Nietzschean Archduke Charlemagne Bolivar! *does happy dance*

Now, I'm still not impressed by the show very much, but as I said before, studying the characters helps with my writing, even with German dubbing.

Nothing new on the writing front. Still working on Birthright 2, although some readers have been asked when am I going to update Crossroads, Kansas and Alternate Caretaker. Not to mention the countless Tolkien WIPs. I so hate to disappoint anyone, but I'm permanently exhausted and just can't kick my brain into creative mode, it seems. :((