I'm pretty sure this is a promo picture from Sisters but if anyone knows better, let me know.

Promo Sisters

Did the chambermaid in SPN's 5x07 episode The Curious Case of Dean Winchester have an actual name?

If no, tell me so and I will use my piddling imagination to create a name.

Perhaps Alager, am I right?

WHAT IS THIS SHIT WITH THE FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS!?!?!?

Apparently EasyJet doesn't want to give me back my Karo. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

I was lame and quite severely broke this year, so I didn't get a chance to do cards properly. My ridiculous substitute:

( holiday card for all! )

I'm home for a bit, and relishing the quiet and the good food. Right now I've got an afghan and coffee and my books, and am hoping for fic inspiration to strike. Keeping an eye out for turkeys, but I have the feeling that Rodney has mastered the cable and they're all inside, watching daytime TV.

I was lame and quite severely broke this year, so I didn't get a chance to do cards properly. My ridiculous substitute:

( holiday card for all! )

I'm home for a bit, and relishing the quiet and the good food. Right now I've got an afghan and coffee and my books, and am hoping for fic inspiration to strike. Keeping an eye out for turkeys, but I have the feeling that Rodney has mastered the cable and they're all inside, watching daytime TV.

Title: Second Chance To Make a First Impression
Author: Santa
Recipient: leesa_perrie
Pairing: Gen.
Rating: PG 13 (for bad language)
Disclaimer: SGA isn't mine. Though it would make a nice Christmas present if anyone's still looking for something to get me....
Author's Notes: Huge thanks to betas kriadydragon and wildcat88. Their time and patience were invaluable, their ideas fantastic, and their edits life-saving. Thank you!
Summary: The mission had started out so well.

( Second Chance To Make a First Impression )

Someone just stole my yuletide Christmas.


UPD : Dearest pinch-hitter, I am EASY, okay? And you are my HERO.

Title: It's Good To Be King
Author: Santa
Recipient: dogeared
Summary: These things just always seem to happen to John, and he never sees them
coming.
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1450
Spoilers: None
Author Notes: My unending praises for my beta readers (who shall remain anonymous
until the reveal).

( It's Good To Be King )

Title: Mend
Author: Santa
Recipient: let_fate_decide
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Rating: R
Disclaimer: If they were mine, they’d still be on the air.
Author's Notes: let_fate_decide asked for McShep angst and hurt/comfort...hope this fits the bill, and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it!
Summary: John Sheppard landing in the infirmary was nothing new, but when he finds himself sidelined by mysterious injuries he can’t recall receiving it's a race against time to find the cause...and save his life.

( Mend )

I thought writing fiction was narcissistic, but it has nothing on vidding!

You know that old adage about writing the stories you want to read? I do that, a lot of the time (although not always). And once enough time has gone by, I have been known to go back and read those stories as though they were written by someone else, and they are so satisfying, because they hit all of my buttons and none of my squicks.

Vidding is like that, but taken to eleven, and without needing the cool-down period.

I honestly had no idea how much I was yearning for a certain kind of vid about Jack Harkness. Until I made it. Well, more than one vid, actually. Now I can't stop watching the bloody things. It doesn't even matter that I'm still a beginner, and I can see all the rough places in the vids. It's like... it's like having new episodes of my favourite show to watch!

I've been thinking about the timing of my foray into vidding, and how much it was driven by this want for a particular type of vid. Honestly, I was so spoiled by SGA, which gave me every type of vid I could ever want. There was just no need for me to try and make those kinds of stories myself. And now, I'm not only vidding, I'm creating soundtracks to vid to, because the music I want doesn't exist either. Necessity really is the mother of invention! Hahaha.

I wonder if it's like this for other vidders? <-- See what I did there? I said before that I don't think of myself as a vidder, but I'm starting to. I just love this thing: remixing so many different elements at once. Love it. I've yearned to make a multimedia story for a long time, and finally, I feel like I have the tools within my grasp to do so. It's so exciting!

Anyway, I wonder if other vidders got started because they wanted certain stories; so they made them, and then rewatched them over and over (the way I used to watch my favourite SGA vids, now that I think about it).

I'm not sure I even need to post the vids I make. There isn't the same kind of response to vids as there is to fic, in any case, so it doesn't feel like anyone is particularly waiting for the next thing I do. And that means that affirmation really isn't the driving force (not that it's the only driver for fiction either, but it's certainly a factor). I'm starting to understand why kiki_miserychic says she mostly makes vids for herself and doesn't post them.

It really is a strange new world!

*goes to rewatch my latest Jack vid*

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/333082.html.

Title: Trust Issues
Author: Santa
Recipient: enviropony
Genre: Slash; Episode AU; Action/Adventure; Angst
Pairing: McShep
Rating: Adults recommended for violence and language
Word Count: ~20,000
Disclaimer: So not mine, although Syfy et al doesn't deserve them anymore.
Thank Yous: to adonnchaid for a very last minute (as in I needed a day's extension) save to my reputation.

( Trust Issues - Part 1 of 2 )

( Trust Issues - Part 2 of 2 )

Title: Trust Issues
Author: Santa
Recipient: enviropony
Genre: Slash; Episode AU; Action/Adventure; Angst
Pairing: McShep
Rating: Adults recommended for violence and language
Word Count: ~20,000
Disclaimer: So not mine, although Syfy et al doesn't deserve them anymore.
Thank Yous: to adonnchaid for a very last minute (as in I needed a day's extension) save to my reputation.

Notes: So, I got one of the prompts I was most concerned with. While the quantum mirror as canon makes AUs a snap, I found I didn't want to write a 'through the looking glass/mirror, mirror' thing -- from either side. And Crimes Against Humanity has already been done to a much greater effect than I could ever hope to accomplish. Before the following happened, I started three other stories to answer this request, and just couldn't get there. What has happened could have easily turned into a fifty thousand word story, and is something I may come back to, as I simply ran out of time. My apologies enviropony, I'm only picking and choosing bits of what was requested, and I doubt it's anywhere near as Dark as it should be. I am sorry that I couldn't be the writer you wanted.

Summary: The SGC meets John Sheppard.


( Trust Issues - Part 1 of 2 )

( Trust Issues - Part 2 of 2 )

Title: Fata Morgana
Author: Santa
Recipient: starry_haze
Pairing: John and Teyla
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine. I just borrow their characters.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to yappichick, foxyinthecity, and wedjatqi. They were my saving grace. *smooch* THANK YOU...However, I've edited more since they looked at it, so all faults are mine. I'd also like to thank Alyse for her patience, kindness and understanding. Inspiration was simply not there and well, it came in a big whopping number at the very last minute. To starry_haze, I hope you like this because it was the only thing that came to mind. :)

Summary:This was the future, he kept telling himself. This was what it felt to be alive in a galaxy where miracles and wonders happened inexplicably on an everyday basis.

( Fata Morgana - Part 1 of 2 )

( Fata Morgana - Part 2 of 2 )

Title: Fata Morgana
Author: Santa
Recipient: starry_haze
Pairing: John and Teyla
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine. I just borrow their characters.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to yappichick, foxyinthecity, and wedjatqi. They were my saving grace. *smooch* THANK YOU...However, I've edited more since they looked at it, so all faults are mine. I'd also like to thank Alyse for her patience, kindness and understanding. Inspiration was simply not there and well, it came in a big whopping number at the very last minute. To starry_haze, I hope you like this because it was the only thing that came to mind. :)

Summary: This was the future, he kept telling himself. This was what it felt to be alive in a galaxy where miracles and wonders happened inexplicably on an everyday basis.

( Fata Morgana - Part 1 of 2 )

( Fata Morgana - Part 2 of 2 )

I'll be leaving shortly for a festive roadtrip across the Midwest: or, as A. and I are terming it, "fleeing eastward in advance of the Ice-pocalypse." I'll be spending Christmas with A. and her family, so doubt I'll have much time to spend online between now and the new year. I will still be reachable by email, but might be slow to respond.

Have a wonderful year's end, everyone! Ath bhliain faoi mhaise dhíobh go léir. ♥

"Life Stress," SG-1, gen, humor. Set (mostly) immediately post-season 8. ~700 words.

Summary: The ordinary scale may not apply.

( Life Stress )