Ximeria's Journal

Dear lysanatt,


You know how to make the BEST care package XD - for the spring troubled people especially (and the Pichu's ears are very relaxing to rub).

This is how I feel currently about spring and about trees:


I feel like shredding my face and my eyes several times through the day. If anyone else says to me: "Isn't it lovely, it's getting warmer and the trees are going green." I. Will. Kill. Them. With. Fire!

This has been brought to you from those of us who are allergic to the fuckers. Don't ask us how lovely spring is. Just hand over the tissue when we start sneezing. At least I'm not allergic to grass. Those who are allergic to both tree pollen and grass pollen? You have my deepest empathy.

Done!

Dark side of the universe (26126 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), James T. Kirk, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Spock Prime, Sarek (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Conspiracy
Summary:

Fifteen months into their first mission an unscheduled return to Earth for repairs prompt trouble for the Enterprise's captain. Trouble that Spock has to figure out what is as he and McCoy set out to find a missing Captain Kirk.

I hope you are all doing well.

What are you all working on? If anything?

I'm quietly enjoying posting the twice-a-month X-men stuff - still having far too much fun with AUs *g* - I have a GDoc with ideas - and it keeps growing O.o - though one has been pulled back out of it. Not because I don't like the idea after all, but because I realized that it might actually have more than just that one scene, short-story idea that the whole project is based on.

Even with the 2014 writing project where I wrote and posted one fic-a-week, I realized I didn't do any sci-fi - as in, space sci-fi - which is sort of strange, because it's one of my all time favourite genres.

Well, some time this year that will probably change, because I've been bitten by a Star Trek fusion bunny for x-men - not that it hasn't been done before, but I haven't done it before and the more I went over the idea in my head, the more plotlines turned up.

So, aye, gonna write a trekfusion this year XD

The big-ass Warehouse 13 fusion is still in beta.

I might also dig an old actual Star Trek fic out of the drawer - it has needed editing so hard that I've kept just stuffing it back in, but I sort of miss the idiots (Kirk, Spock and Bones). So I might just go back and have another go at it at some point.

Apart from work, of course, which is bonkers as always (I do love my job, but currently we know we're moving the store physically farther into the gut of the Uni (good thing, don't get me wrong, but MOVING XD ) - and of course because it's the university, getting a schedule is like pulling teeth (actually, pulling teeth is probably easier).

I have so many projects currently it's not even funny - arts and craft, writing, gutting the kitchen cabinets and re-ordering them (that's on for tomorrow) - and I've been playing pokemon go since it was released last year - and having a blast for the past 24H as new pokemons were released *g*

I hit the corner of the big 40 this year (still feel mentally like a twenty-five-year old with the sens of humour of a twelve year old - five years on the weirder days *g*).

ALL DONE!

Angry telepath in need of crafty lawyer (with questionable ethics) (16188 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Raven | Mystique, Hank McCoy, Alex Summers
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers, Imprisonment, Mutant Rights
Summary:

The only reason Erik will even consider taking the case of one Charles Francis Xavier is because he owes Raven a favour.

Now one must know of Raven Darkholme and Erik Lehnsherr, that neither would ever lightly owe anyone a favour - least of all each other.

Pack Mentality (2736 words) by ximeria
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Edie Lehnsherr
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Alternate Universe - Still Have Powers
Series: Part 2 of 2017 Bimonthly Shorts (x-men AUs), Part 2 of Werewolves are people too
Summary:

Erik struggles with telling his mother that Charles isn't just a mutant, but also a werewolf. A problem that will seem insignificant when he brings Edie home and can't find Charles or Sherman anywhere.

So, as always I have vague plans for the new year fannish wise, and I always feel like I stumble straight into the first week of the year without anything set in stone. This year, however, I think I'll adjust my 2014 fic-a-week project to a twice-a-month fic - and do like Night Vale does - post on the 1st and 15th of the month.

I'm fairly sure I'll stick with my usual OTP of Charles and Erik and doing it every other week will allow me to actually do it without killing myself.

And it'll allow me to spend some time on the arts and craft that I have fun fiddling with as well while still getting something written.

Plan is for stories between ~1K-2K *shushes people* while I know that some of them will grow fangs and drag themselves into longer ones, I want the stories to go where they want - and with the fic-a-week I was limited to being done in a week - no matter where real life tried to derail it. This time, I might adjust for 1st/15th plus minus days depending on real life - can't always be sure that I have access to post on those days, though I'll do my utmost to hit the dates.

And I'm not getting into how sucky 2016 has been to us, how many people we've lost, Anton Yelchin, Carrie Fisher (and her mother as well, today), Alan Rickman and so many others. Not to mention Brexit and the joke of the American election (and I mean that, what the everloving fuck happened there?). So here's to 2017 being better, we'll be stronger, we'll fight the shit that hits us (or the fan). And we'll bloody well be creative in any way, form or shape that we can.

I'm back *eg*

I'm actually going to try to post here more often. Why? Because, like someone on tumblr said, we sort of miss the LJ/DW format.

So I'm going to keep throwing shit into the blog again *g*

What you might ask? Well, tonight it'll be a bit of real life stuff.

Maybe tomorrow night it will be fannishly related. I've finally managed to edit the Warehouse 13 fic and have handed it over to butterynutjob to get their judgement. After 51-52K words, I have no real feel for if the story works or not. The brain has turned to mush at this point.

I have, however, a bunch of ideas/prompts etc in my GDocs and I'll probably unload them over here as a wip platform.

We'll see if I can keep that one going this year. I've tried for ages to get back to this blogging format but my brain often refuses to agree on getting anything done.

So, aye, that's what I'm aiming for. So a little fannish, maybe, tonight. I've been making boxes for the gifts I'm giving that are too small for my taste (one is a gift certificate, the other is a refurbished smart phone). So one box is now pitch black with team mystic's logo on it while the other one looks like one of the journals/books from Gravity Falls.

Speaking of Team Mystic - my own team as well - I've been enjoying Pokemon Go and still am. Caught a pikachu with a xmas hat today *g* - I wonder if they keep the hat when you evolve them?

Still going at it, but as my vacation week draws nearer, I watch the wordcount with worry. I'm out of the country for a week - and I'm not expecting to get anything done writing wise that week.

The good news is I'm chipping away ever so slowly and I'm a good deal ahead, at the moment at least. I've as of tonight, passed the 30K mark *cheers self on*

The title of tonight's post is linked to the fact that I'm not sure there's enough meat on this for 50K - mind you, I've just let the villain get away, so it's not like I can't keep writing *g* - and considering it's a fusion with the Warehouse 13 universe, which is a series, I guess I can just keep going until I hit the magical 50+K.

It's been surprisingly easy to fuse the x-men characters and world into the idea of a Warehouse that deals with artifacts - and using mutants for it actually proved quite logical. That at least is something, so I don't have to worry about my ideas and good intentions falling apart halfway through (although famous last words, there's still 20K to go - it could go wrong yet).

*\O/*
*cheers everyone else on*

Anyone else doing the nano? Yes? No? If so, how is it coming along for you guys?

*bounces*

I may have had a little too much coffee today. And I think I just broke Alex. I'm going to have to make up for that but having passed 8K words I think I still have time for that.