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 )

What the hell is with LJ these last couple of days? Everything I try to do doesn't work properly. Or is it some special mess-up with my own connection or something and everyone else is fine?

First I couldn't make cuts properly. Then I couldn't make links. And now when everything seems to have been behaving itself I make changes to my Masterlist which wind up deleting chunks of it! I am Not Pleased. >:(

I want to tinker with it and try to replace the stuff that got deleted, but I'm a bit worried about what that will actually achieve. Grrrrr.

Both Chris and Darnell's stories are about half done and I will be doing my best to get them up while it's still November.

But in the meantime, for your reading pleasure:

fluffy_goddess wrote a most delightful story about some of the difficulties presented in dating a zombie in this day and age.

And I have written the following drabble, featuring your classic monster!zombie horde (heads up: I was trying for an 'ohgodwe'regonnadie' feel):

( Welcome to Sunnydale Daycare Centre )

Well, sort of. Studying one subject by distance ed isn't quite the same as actualy going back to uni properly (does anyone else really like the whole actually going to class and attending lectures and interacting with your classmates and lecturers aspect of the learning experience? 'Coz I do).

But I got into my course! Woo! \o/

I'm all excited now. :D

I don't expect I'll actually be getting my course materials until next year, especially given that the semester doesn't actually start until March, but I can't wait. It's gonna be awesome. I like learning things. :D

Excuse me while I go dance about like a loon and then try to get some actual writing done. This has made my day, and it's not even 11 yet.

I haven't been getting much exercise lately, so today I figured I'd go for a walk by the river in the morning, for maybe a half-hour or an hour at most, then in the afternoon I'd nip down to the squash courts for half an hour of that's-not-how-you-play-raquet-ball, and in the evening armour up for a little while, to get used to the weight and practise my sword work a little bit. Only my nice little walk turned into a two hour long trial-by-flies. I just got home and I don't want to move again all day.

I have to go finish my job application NOW, seeing as it's due tomorrow. But after that I'll hopefully get some writing done and you'll have another Chris story by the end of the week. Hopefully.

In the mean-time have some more zombie links. :D

grimm_psyke wrote a most enjoyable zombie-hunter drabble the other day (and where's everyone else's zombies, huh?)

And she also pointed me in the direction of this zombie-hunter fic on DA, which is kind of funny, and kind of off, and probably a good estimate of how people would psychologically deal with a zombie apocalypse. Or some people anyway.

Split Reason has some very fun zombie T-shirts.

And ThinkGeek has a rather unusual toy (and also the shirt I got my icon from).

Pudding Day!

( Click here to see one of last year's puddings )

And the weather forecast for today is for 43C with a 90% chance of rain (which means it's highly unlikely to rain, but will instead be nasty and humid). I sure have good timing, eh?

So today's checklist:

• Wash dishes and tidy kitchen
• Assemble ingredients, making sure I have everything I need
• Mix ingredients together and put in pudding bowl
• Wrap and boil for 6 hours
• Make sure it doesn't boil dry and burn!

While it's cooking I can't leave the house, except to go just outside. But it's gonna be 43 degrees and humid, so actually going anywhere (even just outside) is a No in any case.

In the meantime I intend to:

• Write some zombies
• Work on my latest job application
• Send a couple of emails
• Tidy up a bit
• Probably waste spend a lot of time reading online (although the heat will probably mean I'll have to turn the computer off in the afternoon)

Also! I nearly forgot to mention, my mum bought me a present yesterday. A muffin-tin with Christmas tree-shaped wells. My Christmas baking list just gained another item. :D

Anyone else gearing up to do any holiday cooking? I know Nae was talking about making a Christmas pudding herself, and it's probably too early to be thinking much about any other cooking for holidays in December, but Thanksgiving in the US is soon, isn't it? And I have no idea what holidays any of the rest of you observe/celebrate.



EDIT: Pudding is DONE. :D

People can continue voting in the poll if they feel so inclined, mostly because I'm curious to see what the final counts will be. :D
But at this stage I'm pretty well settled on what I'm going to do.

Chris will get a guy, Darnell will get a girl, both will be alive but very much part of the 'zombie community', and hopefully it will all be very funny, or at least kind of funny.

Also sort of vaguely on the cards, if I can get to them, will be a zombie love story (both zombies) and possibly some sort of 'zombies as mindless, soul-less monsters' fic, because I like those.

Thanks again everyone for voting and commenting, it was very helpful. :)

Now I'd better get writing or I'll have a lynch mob on my hands. :D

It means I can get other people to do the thinking for me. :D

I want to write another 'Chris and the zombies' story, and although this wasn't my original intent when I started, I think maybe he deserves a romantic interest. I've got the basic premise more or less worked out, but I thought it might be fun to get public opinion on some of the details. And what better way than with a poll! Assuming I remember how to do one.
If you'd like to give more detailed suggestions, feel free to do so in the comments. :D

Sydney Morning Herald

Herald Sun


Not exactly a huge victory, and not quite as good as they were going for, but if it doesn't get overturned it will defnitely count as a step in the right direction. Sadly I think that's a pretty big 'if'.

Also, I am a bad Australian for these reasons:

a) I found this out by accident just now.
b) I didn't know there were any openly gay politicians in Australia.
c) I always forget that the ACT has its own Government, like the other states do (it makes sense but sounds like it doesn't).

Well, it's more of a drabble really. This isn't a Chris story, it's set in an entirely different version of reality and was inspired by one of mee_eep 's suggestions. :)  Oh, and warning for swearing.


( Just because it's Natural, doesn't mean it's good for you )

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 )