Soledad's Journal

I've just realised that I've hardly posted anything else but update alerts since we came back from our holidays - which is mosty because I was having fun with the delightful ladies of picowrimo. It was an intense 2-months-session for me, as you could see from all the update alerts.

But there were other things happening, too, and now that I've actually survived the annual carpet washing insanity (which includes the complete emptying of various cupboards, so that they can be moved from their allotted places) I finally have both the time and the energy to pay attention to other things.

Be warned: this is going to be an ungodly long post, as I don't want to write several entries. You'll get it all in one, intimidating heap, assuming you want to read it. Hence the tags. *g*

( Starting with the Classic!Who wishlist )

I've found this little ficlet among a few loose, hand-written pages. It has never been posted anywhere - now it's up on FF.Net and the welovezelenka LJ comm. It's really short, perhaps the shortest piec I've ever written: less than 600 words. Have fun!

Cos I'm on sick leave, although the sickness has passed, and feel like babbling a bit, yo!

The telly - or why I might end up spend my hard-earned cash on shows that I cannot watch, even though everyone says they're rubbish.
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Procrastinating - or the pain of too many choices after finishing a story.
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Baking - yep, I did some of that, too!
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Other than that, I'm lazing around and wishing I had people I could discuss silly fannish things with. But you can't have everything.

Chapter 07 - Cui Bono? has been posted to hiddenrealms. What can I say? After a whole year of creative pause, I seem to be on the roll with this fic. I'm actually beginning to see how it would end - and why.

Enjoy, and if you liked it, please feed the muse. She's in serious need of nourishment. Thanks! :)

As some of you might remember, I've done an awful lot of research for my Ninth Doctor/Tosh story, Travellers' Tales, which can be found on FF.Net and otherworlds_lib. *hint, hint*
Tis particular episode takes place in 12th century Japan, of which I've never known a thing before - well, save from a short mentioning in Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series at the Battle of Dan-no-ura.

Anyway, I was doing the sort of internet research when you start with one keyword on Google and then walk from link to link in Wikipedia. What I found was very interesting - in many ways, but I only want to talk about the so-called in-canon writing.
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My very first site is gone, now that Geocities has been shut down. It was a fairly primitive site, only stories, nothing else, and I haven't updated it for ages, but I'm still a little sad. I do have the new Otherworlds1 and Otherworlds2 sites, managed by my generous friend Kim, but not being able to manage my own site isn't the best thing, so I've only posted to FF.Net and LJ lately, save of my Tolkien fic, which also went to SoA or TFF.

I really ought to try and create a site that I can deal with on my own...

On a more delightful note, I've finally finished A Touch of the Wild. It only took me eight months, which, for a story of 12 chapters and 58,725 words isn't half bad. Especially considering my track record with never-eending WIPs, some of which have been on the back burner for six to eight years!

So yeah, I'm happy to have finished it. It doesn't have many reviews - 14 so far on FF.Net and not a single one on hiddenrealms - but I never really expected it to have. It's a very special story about Criminal Minds' Spencer Reid's encounter with the supernatural (i.e.=vampires), with no ship, a lot of horror and even more background detail. I can understand that it isn't the cup of tea of an average FF.Net browser who probably wants some fluff or some smut or some old-fashioned adventure. But I like the story, I've enjoyed writing it immensely, and at least the existing reviews are very positive.

It's a very good feeling to have it finished, though. Now I might turn my attention back to The Web of Darkness, which is also just a couple of chapters away from being finished.

Wish me luck!

I've decided to give IJ a trial run re: tags, hand-coding and stuff. For that purpose, I've just posted Part 01 of my very first Criminal Mind fic, "A Touch of the Wild", to my IJ.

The hand-coding thingie seems to function, despite my in-born idiocy when it comes to everything even remotely technical. As I decided not to post this particular story to FF.Net or LJ as long as it isn't finished, this is the only place you can take a peak, in the rather unlikely case you'd be interested.

Oh, and before you send the lynch mob my way, the actual CM characters will only appear in Part 02 - which is already written and only waiting to be typed up.

Yeah, I know, the last thing I needed was another fandom, especially as I didn1t even like the show at first. But AXN is running it five days a week, and while their cases still gross me out, I've grown very fond of the characters, especially Spencer Reid.

So, which are the fandoms you've given up on because the creators took a turn you could not agree with?

Mine are:

- Angel, starting around the end of Season 2, when Joss brought in that stupid demon universe storyline. I stopped watching the show somewhere mid-season 3.

- Buffy, after Season 5, although I was seriously tempted to give up on it as soon as at the beginning of Season 4, when Buffy suddenly became an idiot. The last straw for me was the appearance of Dawn. I forced myself to watch the show to its bitter end, but honestly, I regretted having done so.

Andromeda, after mid-season 2, when Gold Trance came into the picture and Kevin Sorbo turned the show into Hercules in Space. I kept watching till the end of Season 4, but it just got worse and wordse. I never bothered with Season 5.

SG - Atlantis, after the Season 3 episode "Sateda". I liked that one. I bought Season 3 on DVD, but I seriously doubt that I would even bother to watch Season 4 and whatever might yet come on German TV.

Stargate SG-1. Stopped watching after Season 8, when O'Neill left and the annoying new guy entered the picture. The whole thing stopped being a slightly self-ironic sci-fi show and turned into some sort of stupid science fantasy. Oh, and I do hate Vala Mal Doran.

Earth: Final Conflict, after they killed off Boone, to get in the young Marty Stu, castrated Da'an and made Zo'or a stupid and incompetent villain. Watched sporadically till the end of Season 4, though, then stopped.

Queer As Folk, at the moment when Brian hit Michael, just because Michael said something "mean" about that annoying little slut, Justin. As if a piece of blond boy a§§ would be more important than a deep friendship of 14 years. Again, I watched the show to the bitter end and was shocked by the increasing badness of it.

Enterprise. I gave the show a chance, just because it was Star Trek. I gave up somewhere during the very first season. I even deleted the recorded episodes from the videotapes, it was so very bad.

These are just the fandoms in which I've invested much time and energy, and in which I also write. I've given up many, many more. *g*