This is a list of all the stories I have posted to my LiveJournal or to the various LJ communities I belong to.

All the stories I've posted to my personal LJ should be tagged, but if you're searching for one story in particular it is always easier to simply browse a list rather than scroll through pages and pages of tagged entries. Additionally, things I've posted to comms have not always been posted to my personal LJ as well, so this is a way to keep track of everything. 

IMPORTANT: Some of my stories are romantic in nature and others aren't. I don't write smut, I don't write m-preg and I don't write incest.

Most stories are rated PG-13 or less, anything that I feel deserves a higher rating has been marked as such. Consider this your warning.


Now then, onward to the stories!

( Story Masterlist )

Playing with a couple of renae_k 's suggestions this time. :)


( Chris and the zombies - Story 2 )

General mooching around the internet has led me to this.    (Alternate link is here.)

Someone decided that Merlin bears a striking resemblance to The Princess Bride in some ways and made a video to prove it. I know most of you aren't really Merlin fans, but I seriously like this video too much not to share it. :D

It contains footage from both seasons of Merlin thus far, including some minor spoilers for season one but no real spoilers for season two (unless you're either incredibly observant or really, really picky about what constitutes a spoiler). You don't have to be familiar with the show to 'get' the video, but if you're unfamiliar with the both the show and the movie then you might still enjoy it but probably not as much as someone who is more familiar with the source materials (and you will have to have a very good excuse for not having seen The Princess Bride).

I wish I could use more than one icon at once - this deserves the Amelie!squeeface but that also means I can't use a Merlin icon (and I don't think I've currently got any TPB icons).



Unrelated:
New stories will be up in the next couple of days, as long as I don't slack off typing them up. :)

Hooray! I finished it! And I've got a second one with some of the same characters mostly written. :D

Thanks a bunch to everyone who gave me suggestions, a lot of them were brilliant and I'm pretty sure I'm going to be using several of them. This particular story was inspired by motley_sis although it bears very little resemblance to what she actually suggested.


( Chris and the zombies - Story 1 )



In other news: my dad came by today and helped me put up the window boxes we made a few weeks ago and more importantly, he got my air-conditioner working! It's not the best air-con in the world, but it's a damn sight better than having none. :D

This is a public service announcement. :D








In unrelated news, the forcast high today is 29C which is a lot more livable. The breeze coming in through the open windows is actually cool, which is nice, although it does seem to be picking up a bit which is less nice. Why is it so windy this year?

Current temperature is 38C (100F).

To make matters worse, my generally insufficient airconditioning that I need to get fixed or, preferably, replaced isn't even usable at the moment, because someone who knows what they're doing (ie. not me) needs to climb up on the roof and start the pump up again.

I am Hot.

I also need bread, but it's too hot to walk to the bakery. *grumbles*

I was away lat week visiting my friend in Canberra, and then on the weekend I went to Victoria with my family to a festival which involved a tour of some very nice gardens. I got lots of nice photos. :)



( Picspam under cut )
My own garden seems to have mostly survived while I was gone, but there have been a few casualties. Hopefully the summer won't claim too many, I don't plant plants just to have them dry out and die. My veggie garden on the other hand is currently an explosion of green, and I have edible strawberries, which taste very nice. :D

National Zombie Writing Month is finally here! \o/

I will be writing as many zombie stories as I can manage, and posting links to zombie related stuff. I encourage you all to join in and see how many zombie stories we can complete before the end of the month! Pictures also are encouraged, in fact, anything you can come up with that has anything whatsoever to do with zombies will be awesome - fics, art, cakes, recs, costumes, even somehow creating your own zombie, let your creativity loose on all things undead. :D

On that note, here are a couple of actually half-way decent zombie stories I managed to find on FictionPress (my goodness there's some crap over there):

A Bright New Dawn

Autumn Rain




On a related note:

Best of luck to everyone doing NaNo. :)

The new issue of SSBB is out and the theme is Pirates vs Ninjas!

I know what I'm doing this afternoon. :D


(And a couple of job applications, but those are less fun)

I know some of you read manga, and I'm idly wondering what you all like, so I figured I'd share some of my favourites and anyone who wants can share their own. :)


Favourite Complete Series: FAKE or DeathNote. I can't decide. They're completely different to each other, but I got seriously addicted to both series and still love them both. And I got my dad hooked on DeathNote too, it's just that good. :D

Favourite Incomplete Series (discontinued or still being finished): Off*beat - I'm seriously pissed over this one, it's a three-part series and absolutely adorable, with nice realistic characters that the reader can relate to, and bloody Tokyopop yanked the chain a few months before the third book was set to be released. Grrr.

Favourite One-Shot: Can I say Future Lovers? No? There are two books, so I guess that makes it a short series really. My favourite actual one-shot, of the ones I have, is Paradise on the Hill, which I didn't expect much of and wound up utterly delighted with. It has a few little flaws, but this is one of my absolute feel-good bedtime reads.

Popular Series or One-Shot you read but didn't like much: Not a series so much as an author (artist? I'd say manga-ka, but the internet has caused me to associate that word with pretentious fangirl Japanese) - Fumi Yoshinaga. I have actually got a whole bunch of her works, because I kept seeing them being touted as 'classics' of the yaoi manga genre, like they were must-haves. I can categorically say I am Not A Fan. I'm not overly enamoured of her artistic style or storylines (such as they are), but they're not so bad that I couldn't overlook them. The real kicker for me is that pretty much everything of hers I have - and I'm extrapolating from those to get an indication of the rest of her work - has some degree of non- or dub-con and a rather alarming (to me) degree of messed up teenagers being taken advantage of by older men who bloody well know what they're doing. And these stories are considered 'classics' of a genre? I know these themes crop up often in yaoi, and that they appeal to some people, but to my mind classics of a genre should be brilliant examples of the best of that genre, or at least represent more than just one small part of it.

Series/Author/Artist you'd like to see more of: Ellie Mamahara. I've got Alley of First Love and am most fond of it. I find her art style kind of quirky, but not in a bad way and I really enjoyed the story. I'm pretty sure this was her first BL manga, but I know she's got non-BL stuff out there. Definitely want to see more of her work.


I ought to provide links for all of these, but I can't be arsed. If anyone wants to know more, just ask. :)

My scarecrow finally has a head!

( Picture under cut )

This is quite popular on my flist right now. Ask however many questions you like. :)


The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

I expect most of you already know about this, but for anyone who doesn't mechante_fille  recently made a post about the upcoming vote in Maine, USA which will determine the future of a recently passed law allowing same-sex marriages in the state the same legal status and rights as heterosexual marriages.

The vote is coming up in just a couple of weeks, and while many campaigners supporting marriage equality seem quite confident that they will win, the outcome is of course unknown and unguessable. Anyone wishing to donate money or volunteer hours, or just looking for more information, can go here. Sadly, there isn't really anything much those of us outside the US can do to lend our support, but if you think you know someone who might want and be able to help, do please spread the word.

Just got a call letting me know that I didn't get the job, it went to someone with experience in the same sort of position.

On the plus side: I won't have to worry about having to work on Boxing Day or my monthly SCA-bash days, and I'll be able to visit my friend in Canberra in a couple of weeks and go to Victoria with my family at the end of the month.

On the absolute bummer side: I still have no job.


I think I'll go sign up with one of the job agencies, maybe they'll be able to find me something. :(

I have written a drabble to go with the lovely fanart grimm_psyke  made me. It's set fairly early on, during basic cadet-type training, probably a couple of months after Rae and Noah first met. Enjoy. :D

( Training )

Hee! She made another one to go with the drabble. :D

Okay, this is yet another reason why that whole 'people should be free to keep guns in their homes for their own protection' is an utterly bull-shit excuse for lax gun laws. I know I have no place to pass judgement on another country's laws and habits, but when people accidentally kill their own loved ones thinking there's an intruder in the house, there is clearly a problem.

My parents had guns when I was a kid. They were kept unloaded, dismantled, locked in a carry case, locked in a gun-safe, which was in a locked room. They were for sport only and were never loaded while at home. There are better ways to defend your home, your family and yourself than keeping a loaded gun on hand and shooting at will. I admit I don't know any statistics, but I'm willing to bet that loose guns cause more deaths and injuries to innocent parties than actually save any lives and every time I see a story like this I wonder how anyone can in good conscience argue that law-abiding citizens have the right to keep loaded, unsecured guns in their homes.



(On a completely separate note: I just learned that 'fiance' was masculine and 'fiancee' feminine, whereas I'd always thought the former was the only term and was gender-neutral. Huh.)

grimm_psyke  drew me Gifted fanart! It's Rae and Noah doing some martial arts training. This is the first fanart I've ever recieved, and is very exciting. :D            Edit: Now in colour!


THANK YOU GRIMM!!

Check this out.

While looking for something else entirely I stumbled across this art site, a lot of it's just sketches, but they're good sketches, and there are several finished pieces amongst them.

*goes back to clicking*

I finally got the long-awaited message from the bookshop yesterday that my new Dave Duncan book had arrived, and given that I wanted that book already several weeks ago and I also had bugger all to do today I took myself off to Wagga to get it. On the way into the bookshop I walked past a display of 'Unseen Academicals', the newest Discworld book, which was just released this week and I didn't know. So I bought that too, even though I perhaps ought to have waited until the price went down slightly.

Mmmmm lovely, lovely books. If you don't hear from me much over the next few days, you know where I'll be. :D

Not hugely fond of this one, mostly because nothing really happens in it, hopefully the next one will be more exciting and action-packed, whenever it gets done. :)

(Completely unrelated: I really love the internet sometimes)


( Evidence and coffee )