| Star Trek XI: "Speed" (Kirk/Sulu) |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|09:53 pm] |
Title: Speed
Author: Jain
Pairing: Kirk/Sulu
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 1249
Summary: Kirk and Sulu achieve terminal velocity.
( Speed ) |
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| Star Trek XI characters |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|10:42 am] |
There's a certain conversation that I've had with approximately nine-tenths of my real life friends, and that is: "Which characters from Star Trek XI would you have sex with?" The answers have been surprisingly varied (though I'm the only one so far who's answered Keenser), and, because I am nothing if not indulgent of my prurient interests, I thought I'd create a poll asking the same thing. And, no, Keenser is not on the poll (stupid length limits), but if there's anyone else out there who finds him rather attractive, please feel free to let me know in the comments.
( Poll behind the cut ) |
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| Fic challenges (mostly Star Trek-related) |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|01:46 am] |
My last week or so of thesis writing went something like this: "Write a couple of pages. Skim a book I should have read three months ago. Write another page. Check lj. Notice all the millions of things I'd rather be doing besides working on my thesis. Sign up for a fic challenge. Go back to writing my thesis."
The upshot of this is that I'm now signed up for three and a half new fic challenges, including two big bangs. (The "half" represents a challenge that doesn't have formal sign-ups, but for which I've submitted prompts and that I intend to participate in.) And, in an effort to spread the terror joy, I thought I'd post links.
The one multifandom challenge is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) polybigbang. Currently, most of the participants are from Torchwood or bandom, but there are no restrictions on your chosen fandom. (For the record, I'm planning to write Kirk/Uhura/Sulu.) This is also the big bang challenge that I have some confidence that I might finish, since it only has a 10,000-word minimum. Sign-ups for writers close July 18.
Then there's startrekbigbang, which I noticed a number of you have already signed up for. 15,000-word minimum. (Aka, nearly twice as long as my longest story to date. Yikes!) Sign-ups for writers and for artists both close July 15.
The Star Trek Genderswap Ficathon is taking prompts until July 8. It's inspired by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) liviapenn's Genderswap Recasting--which is a thing of beauty, if you haven't yet seen it--but the ficathon allows you to envision your own characters, as long as it's a fully genderswapped cast (e.g. you couldn't pair a male McCoy with a female Kirk). Anyone can contribute prompts, regardless of whether they plan to write a story for the ficathon, so if you have any great ideas, please throw them that way.
Finally, I'm participating in cliche_bingo. Sign-ups for that one are already closed, but you can see my bingo card behind the cut. The gold squares indicate stories I've already started writing, and the purple ones are squares for which I've gotten ideas, but haven't written anything. You'll notice that the combination of colored squares makes no acceptable bingo pattern. If anyone has story ideas to suggest for some of the other squares, feel free to share.
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| Star Trek XI: "Five Times Jim Kirk Was Jealous of His CMO" (Kirk/McCoy) |
[Jul. 5th, 2009|04:08 pm] |
Title: Five Times Jim Kirk Was Jealous of His CMO (And One Time He Had Nothing to Be Jealous About)
Author: Jain
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Rating: G
Word count: 1968
Author's notes: Written for deepsix, who asked for Kirk/McCoy in which Kirk is jealous. (If she even remembers requesting it, given that it took me a month to finish this story. Sorry for the delay, V!)
( Five Times Jim Kirk Was Jealous of His CMO ) |
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| Jdrama remix exchange and a poll |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|03:17 pm] |
Sign-ups for jdrama_remix close in two and a half four and a half days, and so far one person's signed up besides me. This is...troubling. I know that a couple of people on my flist were waiting to see who else signed up before committing to the exchange, but that strategy doesn't really work if everyone's doing the same thing. If you're in that position, I'd suggest (or maybe 'beg' would be a better word) that you sign up now, and if you don't like your chances in a couple of days, just delete your comment. I'll be using the comments that are in the post at midnight on June 22nd to make the assignments.
In other news, I've been faffing about instead of actually writing, despite having a number of WIPs. (Though I do have a couple of Star Trek stories completed that my beta reader has promised to get to eventually; she just finished writing a novel and is too busy editing her own work to look over mine.) Care to weigh in on what you think I should write?
Poll #1418685
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhat should I work on next?
ETA: Thesis is done, so there's no point in voting for it anymore. (Well, until I get the comments back from my committee so that I can write the final draft. But that won't be for a while.)
ETA2: And the Kirk/McCoy kitten story is off to beta.
ETA3: And Kanjani8 exchange fic has been submitted. |
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| Japanese Drama Remix Exchange |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|07:58 pm] |
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The jdrama_remix sign-ups are now open! See this post for further details and to sign up. The challenge produced some really great fic last year, and I hope to see some of you there as participants and/or readers this year. |
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| Japanese Drama Remix |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
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jdrama_remix sign-ups will open in five days. In the meantime, there's a poll up regarding whether remixes should be eligible for remixing. Please fill out the poll if you have an interest in the question, either as a writer or a reader. |
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| Dear femslash09 writer: |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
This is my first year participating in this exchange, so I'm very excited and can't wait to see what you come up with! I'm guessing you're either a Firefly or Star Trek XI writer, based on the sign-ups, but I've included a few details on all of my chosen fandoms, just in case.
Generally speaking, things that I don't like to read include breathplay/asphyxiation, character-bashing, death, abuse, betrayal, PWPs, non-con, coercion, and violence.
I personally tend to prefer more direction rather than less when I'm writing for a fic exchange, but if you like things more open-ended, that's fine. Just avoid my squicks and I'll be very happy. If you're like me, though, and want further suggestions, some of the story elements I particularly enjoy include:
Happy (or at least hopeful) endings; friendship; family (either biological or chosen); female competence at computers, electronics, cars and spaceships and other heavy machinery, or go; eating (but no foodsmut, please); sharing beds; kissing; first-time fic; established relationship fic (especially if there's some sort of shift in the dynamics of the relationship); and mild angst with an eventual happy ending.
( Fandom-specific details: Firefly, Hikaru no Go, Nobuta wo Produce, Star Trek XI )
I hope this letter was helpful. Either way, please have a lot of fun writing your story. I'm really looking forward to seeing the end result. |
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| Star Trek XI: "Stress Relief" (Kirk/Uhura) |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|11:23 am] |
Title: Stress Relief
Author: Jain
Pairing: Kirk/Uhura
Rating: G
Word count: 544
Summary: When conventional relaxation techniques don't work.
Author's notes: Written for the st_xi_kink meme.
( Stress Relief ) |
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| PSA for all the younger sisters out there |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|03:28 am] |
When you're spending the evening with an older man whom you don't know very well, do not 1) stay out until past 2:30 a.m., 2) without calling home to say you're okay, when 3) your cellphone's battery has died, so that the very worried people who are trying to reach you get to imagine terrible things as they listen to your voicemail message for the sixth time in half an hour.
My brother just drove me and my sister's friend to the guy's house so that we could make sure my sister was still, you know, alive, and she was perfectly fine and sitting outside chatting and hadn't realized how late it had gotten. Still, that was a not a fun time. |
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| Le Corsaire, Remix cubed, and Star Trek |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|02:31 am] |
I went in to New York for the ballet with my mother Saturday night. Things that you don't notice when you see a ballet as a fairly oblivious teenager but that are really obvious a decade later: those pirates have a pretty, half-naked male slave. Gee, I wonder what his job description was before the pirates acquired some female slaves for him to protect from villains, rescue, etc. Besides that revelation, it was a good performance, but not quite as impressive as the first two times I saw Le Corsaire. Possibly I'm just getting jaded in my old age.
jentfic_remix is gearing up again, though I'm thinking I might sit out this round. I already have four other fic exchanges I've committed to this summer, plus forty or so pages of my master's thesis left to write. Not to mention that the last round just ended a month ago, and that seems a bit recent even for my remix-loving self.
However, there are other remix exchanges I'm definitely doing. A heads up to people on my flist that jdrama_remix will open sign-ups in a couple of weeks. It's running a bit late this year to give remixredux09 and jentfic_remix participants some time to recover between deadlines (and also to accommodate me completing my thesis). I'm planning to have assignments sent out around June 25th and stories due August 25th.
( Further details on the Japanese drama remix )
Finally, Remix Redux has opened sign-ups, and DBSK, JE, bandom, and popslash have all been added to the list of qualifying fandoms. (Which means I really need to get to work on updating my website, including shifting all my old popslash stories over there.) There are fewer animanga fandoms among the qualifying fandoms due to the paucity of animanga writers participating last year, but of course you can still submit them as additional fandoms and offer to write them, as long as you have at least one qualifying fandom to submit and offer.
And my newest shiny obsession is also on the list of qualifying fandoms! I'm definitely going to offer to write it, but it would be nice if I could also have enough ST:Reboot stories that I could submit it as one of my qualifying fandoms. Unfortunately, I'm still two short stories or three drabbles short of that goal, so, prompt me? I won't write breathplay or non-con, and I'm a little scared of writing Scotty or the parents, but most other prompts should be okay. |
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| Star Trek XI: "Matched Set" (Kirk/Uhura) |
[May. 27th, 2009|02:49 pm] |
Title: Matched Set
Author: Jain
Pairing: Kirk/Uhura
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 2717
Summary: All of the members of Starfleet were issued five tunics, three pairs of trousers, and five dresses.
( Matched Set ) |
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| Star Trek XI: "Tequila Sunrise" (Kirk/McCoy) |
[May. 25th, 2009|04:13 pm] |
Title: Tequila Sunrise
Author: Jain
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Rating: G
Word count: 147
Summary: McCoy expands Kirk's horizons.
Author's notes: Repost of a ficlet written for Journey to Drabble.
( Tequila Sunrise ) |
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| Star Trek XI: "Second Impressions" (Kirk/Uhura, Spock/McCoy, Spock/Uhura) |
[May. 22nd, 2009|09:50 pm] |
Title: Second Impressions
Author: Jain
Pairing: Kirk/Uhura, Spock/McCoy, Spock/Uhura
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 7970
Summary: Four perspectives on three relationships.
Author's notes: Based on my interpretation of TOS and new movie canon, I'm assuming that Uhura refers to herself by her family name and reserves her given name for intimate partners/situations.
( Second Impressions ) |
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| More on Star Trek XI |
[May. 21st, 2009|08:22 am] |
( My thoughts on ST:Reboot fanfic, with lots of references to the movie (mostly regarding Kirk, Uhura, and Spock) )
And in non-spoilery news, am I the only person who's a little...disconcerted by the excess of bad language in some of the recent stories? I mean, it's not that I have problems with colorful language, when it's in character. But I can't see Kirk or McCoy casually using the word "fuck" three times in a single sentence. Yes, McCoy curses a fair bit in TOS, but it's generally when he's angry or frustrated, not just as punctuation in his ordinary speech. And Kirk's characterization makes him a better candidate for using bad language on occasion than most of the characters, but I just can't see him doing it to such an extreme. He's an adult--one, moreover, whose career requires him to speak with a fair amount of clarity, precision, and intelligibility--not a performative, rebellious teenager. |
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| Star Trek XI and beta request |
[May. 19th, 2009|10:57 pm] |
I saw the movie last week and, like most of the people on my flist, loved it to pieces. So much excellence contained within two hours of film! I even loved Kirk, which I did not believe would happen to me ever. The upswelling of fic produced in the past couple of weeks has been awesome, too, especially since several of my favorite authors are writing in the fandom.
And I've also been writing: a Kirk/McCoy ficlet for the Journey to Drabble challenge and a longer story that I'll be posting soon. My usual beta reader hasn't seen the movie yet, though, so would anyone be willing to volunteer their services? The story's 7500 words, NC-17 rated for het sex, with the pairings Kirk/Uhura, Spock/Uhura, and Spock/McCoy. |
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| KAT-TUN/NewS: "Comforts of Home" (Yamapi/Kame/Maki) |
[May. 8th, 2009|01:14 pm] |
Title: Comforts of Home
Author: Jain
Pairing: Yamapi/Kame/Horikita Maki
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 2328
Summary: There's more to life than work.
Author's notes: Written for spiritdream for je_whiteday.
( Comforts of Home ) |
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| First (and last, at least for a good while) crosspost |
[May. 2nd, 2009|02:59 pm] |
I'm on Dreamwidth as jain. (Which is painfully obvious to all of the people reading this post on DW. Crossposting is weird.) My current plans for the site are to use it mostly for reading and commenting to people who've switched to using DW as their primary journal, while I'll continue using lj as my primary journal. If/when most of my friendslist goes DW, then I'll use it as my primary journal and start crossposting all of my entries to livejournal.
I've been automatically giving access and/or subscribing to everyone I recognize from my lj friendslist to keep track of you. Anyone who ends up crossposting regularly I'm going to only read on one site, so if that describes you, I wouldn't mind a comment letting me know which site you're going to be using as your primary journal (if you haven't already made that clear elsewhere). Also, I'm pretty sure there are several people on my friendslist whose transitions to DW I've missed and whom I haven't given access/subscribed to there, since I wasn't paying attention to everyone who switched in the early days before the surge of interest in DW. If anyone fitting that description on my friendslist is interested in having me stalk you across two journals, you could also drop me a comment.
And, finally, I have five four DW invite codes going begging. Comment here with your email address if you want one. |
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| Remix Redux |
[Apr. 29th, 2009|09:28 pm] |
One of my very favorite fanfiction exchanges is starting to gear up, and there are some changes this year that hopefully will make it even more appealing to some of you. The official community is remixredux09, but nothing much is happening there yet. All the action is here, where there's a poll to determine which RPF fandoms are popular enough to be included as qualifying fandoms. (Meaning that if you've written five 500+ word stories in one of those fandoms, you're eligible to participate. Stories from other fandoms can still be remixed during the challenge, but it makes it easier to match participants if everyone has written in at least one popular fandom. Here's the list of last year's qualifying fandoms, though this list is obviously subject to change.)
JE, DBSK, bandom, and popslash are all on the poll, among other RPF fandoms, and there's the option of adding write-in fandoms in the comments. It's really a great exchange; I've received some amazing fic in previous years, and musesfool and the others who've been responsible for running it have always done a top-notch job. Check it out if you're interested (and, please, vote in the poll if you even think you might be interested; I'd really love for JE and DBSK to be counted among the qualifying fandoms, and both of them need more votes for that to happen). |
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| NewS: "Together, Alone" (Koyama/Shige) |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|12:10 am] |
Title: Together, Alone
Author: Jain
Pairing: Koyama/Shige
Rating: PG
Word count: 1845
Summary: Shige makes a mistake.
Author's notes: Remix of When It Hurts by talisa_ahn for jentfic_remix.
( Together, Alone ) |
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