aleathiel

I am going to be away and without internet for the next week (not that you'd necessarily notice given my hugely prolific posting schedule) so I'm not just ignoring you :)

I'm hoping to return having sorted out some of the problems in one of my current fics, so I will just have to type it up and polish it for posting. Fingers crossed.

Have a fun week!

Are any of you willing to do a quick read-through of the first scene (about 5k) of my Marcus/Esca/Cottia fic?

I'm not looking for a thorough beta (it's not at that stage yet) but for someone familiar with the characters and setting to give me comments on why it isn't working yet.

Or for someone not in the Eagle fandom who is willing to just point out why I'm writing badly this week.

I can add you to the googledoc or email it in word, whatever works best.

This is an experiment in crossposting from Dreamwidth to LJ. I'm not leaving LJ (my fandoms are here!) but I'm getting bored of this.

I'm aleathiel on DW too.

I absolutely did not intend to break my writing hiatus with something like this. I had a resolution and it was about posting a deep, plotty, meaningful fic. And then lizardspots posted this and wanted fic. And what can I say, I am weak.

So, consider this to be an abberation. It's short, unbetad and totally without shame, and does not in any way consitute my return after the hiatus. Really.

( Why Merlin had to clean Arthur's favourite jacket )

Help!

Someone on merlin_finders is looking for a fic that I know I've read and I can't remember the author or the title. It isn't in any of the places I thought I would find it, which means that one of you must have recced it to me (in fact, I think I remember that happening, but not who!)

The fic was a one-shot told from the perspective of a king of a tribe who were involved in a battle of some kind which was turned in their favour by Arthur and his knights. Interactions with Arthur and Merlin are then related, which include the king using a translator to pretend that he can't speak the same language as Arthur. I remember it because it was different, and a cleverly told version of an outsider's view, including magic (I think there was a woman who could do magic?) and Merlin and Arthur's relationship.

HELP! Does anyone else remember this fic and who wrote it - and which of you recced it!?

Okay, tell me about Dreamwidth (looks at ineptshieldmaid in particular.

I like the sound of it in terms of its policies and how it has managed to try and do right all the things LJ has done wrong. A while ago a core group of my flist moved over the InsaneJournal when they couldn't stand LJ anymore and while I try and keep up with both, it's frustrating. But better than losing them. I heard DW has a facility for cross-posting too... (someone will have to explain this to me in very basic terms, lol!)

So how does DW work? Me = poor student who doesn't like paid accounts, is there a free equivelent on DW like there is here? Am I right that I need an invite?

I got runner up for Best Kink Fic for The Joye of Sexe in the Spring 09 MAFAs. Until this moment even my nomination had passed me by.

Thanks guys! (I had assumed that my hiatus had made my fics unknown pretty much. It's lovely to discover I was wrong)


EDIT: The category also amuses me.

Since I am now actually almost functioning as a human being again (and therefore can contemplate the idea of fic), and because mariamme and I have been talking about it:

What fandom cliches do you feel are ignored/under-represented in the Merlin fandom?

(I'm thinking I might write a few short fics while working on my boxofmagic fic. And they might be a bit silly, to counter the serious fic)

Ideas I've had so far:

wingfic (WHY? I DON'T LIKE WINGFIC, BUT BUT BUT... this cliche as been beautifully done by fortassetu with Arthur as an avenging angel, and there's that lovely drawing by draykonis, but both were back in the fandom's youth and it might be time to get this cliche out again...)

Forced to be together/bound together.

Stuck in a small space together.

Pretending to be a couple for some reason.


(Also have been talking about AUs. HIGHWAYMEN and Memoires of a Geisha. So feel free to weigh in on that too)

Basically I want to generate ideas for discussion. Anyone who wants to is free to steal an idea too, obviously.

What's that slightly ridiculous fic/cliche that you just wish someone would write?

PS: YES I am still writing all those other things I've talked about. I'm just a bit of a butterfly about projects. Flower to flower and all that

Update on the below: I have signed up for boxofmagic. Don't know yet what I will be writing, but I'm sure it will be fun!

(I signed up for section four = 35 000 words)