tielan: SG1 team at the Stargate in Window of Opportunity (SG1 - team)
Monday, May 16th, 2016 03:42 pm
Eurovision on Sunday morning. Best fun ever going around to a friend's house (5 mins drive at 5am, apparently there was broken bottle glass on the driveway thanks to drunk teenagers we heard rousting on Saturday night and, honestly, we have a cop who lives two doors down. Unless it was his daughter.)

But. Eurovision was completely hilariously awesome, from Belgium's disco opening "What's the Pressure?", down to "Love Love Peace Peace" which is the most meta-y delightful thing ever. My sister howled with laughter watching it, and we're not even Eurovision die-hards!

hockey ramblings about the team and coaching )

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Today, I had to disappoint someone - tell them I wasn't going in with them on something big. I angsted about it for most of the weekend - lots and lots and lots of angst. It was nerve wracking, but they ended up being good about it. Thankfully. Because the other thing that's a problem right now is my health which is stressful enough.

health, tooth, operation on Wednesday )

Finally, the Maria Hill Comment Fest is up and going! If you have any love for Maria (in any universe, any incarnation) then please come along, prompt, and fill! (I'm going to need something to keep my mind off the pain after Wednesday.)
tielan: (AVG - maria)
Sunday, May 15th, 2016 10:45 pm






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tielan: (AVG - maria)
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016 10:09 am
Sign-Up Post at [livejournal.com profile] mcu_aufest.

I know nobody likes being 'wrong', but come on, we need more people to write Maria-centric stuff...

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[community profile] femmeremix - all women, all remixed!

Stories can be GEN, HET, or FEMMESLASH - it's not just for femmeslash fans - so long as the focus is a female character.

Nominate the fandoms in which you're eligible today! (And for the next week or so.)
tielan: (AVG - maria)
Sunday, April 24th, 2016 01:58 pm
[livejournal.com profile] mcu_aufest is closing sign-ups in less than 48 hours. If you want to write ALL THE AUs EVER then I recommend this one!

(Particularly anyone who wants Steve/Maria - other people have such interesting ideas for them!)

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And [community profile] femmeremix is taking nominations for fandoms. This is a remix exchange for people who write a lot about female characters - the female-remix. Het, gen, and femslash stories are all welcome!

To make matching easier this year, we're asking people to nominate their fandoms before signing up, so we don't end up with anyone who's unmatchable. (This happened last year.) So don't forget to get your nominations in - particularly if you're in a niche or small fandom! Tell your friends and fellow authors from fandom!

And go and nominate for the Femme Remix 2016!
tielan: (AVG - maria)
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 09:33 am
It's amazing how many people don't seem to realise that Maria Hill isn't in the MCU event which made her name in the comics. I guess they just assumed she'd be in it, because why introduce Maria Hill and then not include her in Civil War?

And damn I hope she's going to be in the Infinity Wars.

Still hanging to write the version of Civil War that has Maria and Pepper moving the plot along. Not sure if it'll be for [livejournal.com profile] heroinebigbang or [livejournal.com profile] marvel_bang yet.

Also, [livejournal.com profile] het_bigbang or not?

Plus, we're running [community profile] femmeremix again in 2016 - a remix focused on your favourite female characters and their relationships. (Note: [community profile] femmeremix is for all female characters, and can be done gen, and het, not only femmeslash.)

I've mentioned the [livejournal.com profile] mcu_aufest and possibly [livejournal.com profile] not_primetime?

Oy, the calendar is getting busy.
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tielan: (MCU - Maria/Steve)
Monday, April 18th, 2016 09:57 am
[livejournal.com profile] mcu_aufest is taking sign-ups until next Monday!

But how on earth did we end up with no Maximoff pairings/friendships at all? Or am I just blind? I did a search/find but cannot seem to spot a SINGLE Maximoff pairing/friendship, although there are a couple of Maximoff-centric AUs in the AU list.

Also, nobody seems to want Maria Hill friendship except me.

And Thor/Jane isn't in the tag set. Jane/Loki, however, is.

IDEK.


Okay, looks like that's the 2015 list. WTF.

Anyway, you should go and sign-up for the MCU AU Fest, because ALL THE AUs. Srsly.
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tielan: Hulk angry (AVG - wtf)
Sunday, April 17th, 2016 12:43 pm
I've turned up on the Pinch Hit list for the Smut Swap.

Pinch Hit #42:

MCU - Maria/Steve, Bucky/Sharon
Pacific Rim - Raleigh/Mako, Duc Jessop/Kaori Jessop
Agents of SHIELD - Skye/Grant Ward, Jemma Simmons/Antoine Triplett
Star Wars - Finn/Rey

Also, there are a bunch of other smut swap pinch hits still out there - I saw a Star Trek (AOS) request (slash and het), and two Stargate Atlantis requests (slash), and I know there might be a few people still out there who write these things.

Frankly, I'm a little boggled that they've had over 40 defaults! Forty! That's nearly 1/4 of the participants.
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tielan: Avengers team (AVG - team)
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 03:27 pm
Soooo... [livejournal.com profile] mcu_aufest is up and running again!

Nominations have begun and there is a week to go. Yes, one week to get your AUs and your pairings in!

No guesses for what I'm nominating:
Maria/Steve
Bucky/Maria
Bucky/Maria/Steve
Maria & Pepper

I'd like to see a lot more het pairings and femme friendships in the pairing list - and you don't have to double up, either - there's a co-ordinating nominations post where you list what you've nominated so other people don't repeat nominate.

My current AUs are:
AU - Pern
AU - Pacific Rim/Jaegers
AU - Psy-Changeling (Nalini Singh)
AU - Narnia
AU - Young Wizards (Diane Duane)
AU - Black Jewels

Any thoughts?
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tielan: Avengers team (AVG - team)
Monday, March 14th, 2016 09:38 am
Not quite the traditional porn battle - with the splintering of fandom from LJ/DW, it seems many things have gone the way of the dodo.

However, over at [community profile] pbam - the Amnesty site, they're running a "Prompt Stack": which is pretty much like a mini PB, allowing new prompts to be added, so we can update on all the shiny new fandoms of the last couple of years!

Timetable
Prompting Starts: Sunday, March 13, 21:30 GMT
Prompting Stops: Friday, March 18, 23:30 GMT
Posting Starts: Sunday, March 20, 21:30 GMT
Posting Stops: Saturday, March 26, 23:30 GMT

Leave your prompts here.

It's only available over at DW, although LJers can participate through OpenID should they so wish.

And then, let the smut begin!
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tielan: (AVG - agents)
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 12:03 pm
So, I got an anonymous ask on Tumblr, asking for a Steve/Maria AU to the lyrics of Hozier's 'It Will Come Back'.

Sometimes an idea just co-opts your brain and you have to run with it.

title: you should never know how easy you are to need
summary: She’s the paperwork, the duty, the chore – not someone that anyone seeks out. Responsibility isn’t fun, necessity isn’t glamourous, and nobody ever wants to stay around for clean-up. She does her job and she has all the interest factor of a grey cloud in a blue sky – people are mostly hoping she’ll go away.
tags: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, relationship, angst

title: don't take me in with no intention to keep me
summary: He signed up for an army that didn’t want him, for a chance that would change his life, and earned a one-way trip into a future he never imagined, and a war that could never truly be won. And the part of him that wasn’t a soldier didn’t make it out of the ice.
tags: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, relationship, angst, Civil War, Ragnarok, happy ending.

Those 1.2K of words have taken me the better part of a week to write, and nommed all the other words I had in my head.

things to do in MCU fandom )

For those of you with a strong femme-focus; the February Halfamoon Challenge is up again this year - mostly over on Tumblr, but also here on [livejournal.com profile] halfamoon! Get your gifs and your fics and your meta ready to go, because the more the merrier!
tielan: (AVG - maria)
Thursday, January 7th, 2016 10:52 am
Okay, I pretty much cut out the fandoms and just put the characters out there.

MCU Ladies Exchange

Both fic and art can be requested and offered.

Don't forget to sign up before it closes on the 11th, and if you care to signal-boost, I'd really appreciate that.
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tielan: (AVG - Natasha)
Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 01:11 pm
Okay ppls!

MCU Ladies Exchange 2016 - all the women in the MCU, Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and any of the Marvel one-shots.

Sign-ups: 2nd Jan - 12th Jan
Assignments Due: Friday 26th Feb
Archive Opens: Monday 29th Feb - the Leap Day
Reveals: Sunday 6th March

Hopefully the tagset has all the requisite characters in there, although some of the associations are a bit odd. Anyway, fiddle with it to get the characters you want, and if you can't find the one you want, then let me know and I'll see what I can do about adding to the tagset.

Issues with the sign-up. Sorry, going to have to close it for about 12 hours while I get it fixed.

FIXED! Sign-up at will!
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 01:00 pm
[community profile] fandom_stocking is taking stockings!

The more the merrier - there's only two weeks to sign up!

Also: those of you who know my hotbuttons - you ask for my rare ladies, you're very likely to get something in that vein...
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tielan: (AVG - agents)
Thursday, November 12th, 2015 09:43 am


Sign-ups: 11th - 15th November
Assignments Out: 17th November (latest)
Assignments Due: 21st - 24th December

Requirements: 1000 words for a fic, a good drawing / set of graphics for art, or a 2-minute video if you’ve offered vids.

If you’d like to participate (fic, art, or vids) then please PM me with the following details:

Tumblr/LJ/DW: [tumblrusername]
Email: [something @ mailserver dot com]
Fic/Art/Vid: [whether you’re willing to write fic or make art or make a vid]
Request: [what you want to receive]
Offer: [what you’re willing to give]
Notes: [any extra details, likes, dislikes, things that your gifter should know]
tielan: (PacRim - Mako)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 08:09 pm
And we're on, once again!

All the characters, all the pairings, all the fic (or art, I suppose, but mostly fic)!

Pacific Rim Secret Santa 2015 sign-ups at Ao3
tielan: (AVG - maria)
Monday, October 12th, 2015 12:38 pm
Is there anyone with the time this week to put together 8-10 graphics for Maria Hill Week over on Tumblr?

One graphic for each day with the theme, quotation, and song,
One 'master post' graphic with the schedule.
One or two 'promo' graphics. (Slightly smaller)

They can be static images, they just need to be high-quality, and the design style should be uniform - similar fonts and formats.

Yes, I can do it myself, but if there's someone else with the time/inclination/skill to do it, I'll happily farm it out and pay in fanfic or something. I've just managed to find the rhythm of a practical acquaintance of bees and I need to get through to the end of the mission. (And a kiss! A KISS! I'm excited for the kiss.)
tielan: harry from wizard of Azkaban looking grim (HP - not strong)
Monday, June 22nd, 2015 05:39 am
For [community profile] femmeremix, we're still looking for someone who knows Haikyuu!! But now we're also looking for someone who knows Dexter. Anyone able to help? PM me or [personal profile] theladyscribe over at DW, please!

All found and settled. And assignments are out!

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[livejournal.com profile] mcu_aufest: I've been sent to the PH list. Quite possibly because my writer threw up their hands in disgust at my letter? I was very specific. It turns out she got flooded, but is personally okay. :( I'm always anxious about my letters after the Yuletide Letter Issue of 2012...

At least I finished my own assignment. Not entirely satisfactory, but I'll polish it in the next couple of days.

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It's too early for this...
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Friday, June 19th, 2015 08:35 am


[community profile] femmeremix | [community profile] femmeremix | [community profile] femmeremix


Your friendly Friday reminder that sign-ups close Friday midnight US EST!
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 05:17 pm
Don't forget the [community profile] femmeremix sign-ups! They close THIS FRIDAY 19th at midnight Eastern US Time!

Currently, we're looking for more offers in the following fandoms - That is, you can write for one of these fandoms:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
Doctor Who (2005)
Supernatural
Angel: the Series
CW Network RPF
DCU (Comics)
Dexter (TV)
Divergent Series - Veronica Roth
E.R.
Elementary (TV)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
HEYER Georgette - Works
Henry IV Part 1 - Shakespeare
Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott
Lizzie Bennet Diaries
New Girl
Parks and Recreation
Star Wars - All Media Types
The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
The Hollow Crown (2012)
The Tomorrow People (2013)
The Unusuals
Torchwood
Veep
White Collar
Thor (Movies)
Batman - All Media Types
Burn Notice
Firefly
Galavant (TV)
Greek and Roman Mythology
Haikyuu!!
Hannibal (TV)
October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
Poltergeist: The Legacy
Sherlock (TV)
Sinbad (TV)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Stargate Atlantis
The Hobbit - All Media Types
The Mindy Project
The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire
Veronica Mars - All Media Types
Welcome to Night Vale
Whip It (2009)
X-Men (Movieverse)
X-Men: First Class (2011)

You don't have to have five remix stories in the fandom, though - you don't need to change your requests. Just change your offers for the fandoms you'll write for!

Check the sign up summary for more details, and if you haven't already then you really ought to sign up!
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