Dira Sudis

For riverlight, who asked for Nate/Brad at a party. Title from the Josh Ritter song "Right Moves" which is possibly even more apt for this pairing than I thought, now that I actually look at the lyrics.

Nate/Brad. Not very explicit. 650 words.
Brad knows guys who would play chess like this.

( All the Right Moves )

Because canon het pairings and Canadian (well, probably South Barrayaran) shacks go together like... maple mead and bug butter.

Til Death Do Us Part (500 words) by Dira Sudis
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gregor Vorbarra/Laisa Toscane Vorbarra
Characters: Laisa Toscane Vorbarra, Gregor Vorbarra
Summary:

"Where are the Armsmen going to sleep?"

So brewsternorth posted a request for a Lewis crossed over with Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel, over at the prompt meme on lewis_hathaway.

I think the only surprising part of what happened next is that I managed to get the resulting story in (just, literally, within a few characters after I had eliminated all double-spaces after periods) under the Dreamwidth comment size limit. I think you can probably read this knowing only one half of the source; feel free to ask questions if you try it and then have no idea what just happened. *g*

Many thanks to iulia and missmollyetc for cheering this along.

Gen, probably. James Hathaway, Robbie Lewis, Ned Henry, Verity Kindle, Kivrin Engle. 2700 words.
"This is worse than maths, Sergeant," Lewis said darkly. "This is history."

Alibi

Title once again from Naming of Parts, this story is for browngirl, who requested Ray and Navi's puppies. This follows on a couple of months after What to Do After Firing.

Many thanks to everyone who listened and helped brainstorm names!

January 2001. Ray, Navi, puppies. Gen. 425 words.
"Don't do this to your Ray-Ray, Navi."

( Today We Have Naming )

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

It was also the most diverse Cabinet in history.


...That sounds a bit promising.

21 days from fandom-inception to first fic--that beats Generation Kill by a full five days!

Many thanks to lamardeuse and missmollyetc for encouraging me and helping me sort out my ideas about Hathaway and generally aiding this fic into existence.

Title is from T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding," because I have finally found a fandom that actively encourages that sort of thing.

Episode tag for "The Point of Vanishing". Hathaway/McKendrick, Lewis/Hathaway.
Not explicit. 2500 words.

"He's gone now," Fiona said softly. "Was that enough, do you think, or is he expecting me to keep you all night?"

( Being Between Two Lives )

Happy 2012! Neil Gaiman's New Years wishes made me go huh and I've been keeping them open in a tab to remember, so I commend them to everyone as well as linking them for my own reference.

I had two stories in this Yuletide.

My main assignment was Not the Last Unknown for jai, Oxford Time Travel. Not only did I get to write for someone I know (and someone whose fic tastes I could check on via mutual friends), but I got to write the Colin fic I've been wanting ever since I read All Clear, about ( All Clear spoiler )

I kind of gave up on being particularly sneaky about anonymity with this one, and in addition to naming it from the same song as the Kivrin story I wrote two years ago, I included the puppy I gave Kivrin in that story two years ago. *g*

I also wrote a treat, Waking for misslucyjane, Fairy Tales/Sleeping Beauty. To be honest, I'd already written it before Yuletide--it's missing scene original character gen for no particular version of Sleeping Beauty, addressing the question of what regular people did for a hundred years while their royal family slept in a thorn-covered palace. I decided that I wanted to give it to someone for Yuletide, and happily found it a recipient who enjoyed it. *g*

Sooooo on the 20th lamardeuse recced a lovely Lewis story called "The Hermit Crab" and, having read one or two of her squee posts about Lewis I read it. And then downloaded the first two episodes. And then drove to my parents' house, which meant A LOT OF HOURS IN THE CAR TO THINK, and then spent some time carving out alone-time at my parents' house by watching more Lewis and then MORE HOURS IN THE CAR and the upshot is: yeah, I'm probably going to write Lewis/Hathaway kidfic. It's all plotted out! It's very nearly totally finite in scope! I've mostly already done all the research I need to on UK paternity law thanks to watching Single Father last year!

Also Hathaway may actually have been invented just to make me happy, idk. He's a seminarian-turned-cop who responds to his manpain by despondently playing guitar alone in his flat. His crush on Lewis is visible from space as impeccably color-coordinated sparkles in the vicinity of Oxford. (OHAI OXFORD I MISS YOU.) This is the only adorable clip of them I can find on YouTube, but it is extremely adorable.

So, now that that's out of the way: here is a fandom-year-in-review meme that I swiped from... somebody.

Your main fandom of the year?
Stargate SG-1 dominated the first half of the year, overlapping slightly with Generation Kill which took over from then on. And the Vorkosigan Saga has been thrumming away patiently throughout.

Your favorite film you watched this year?
Captain America, I think, although I guess fannishly speaking X-Men: First Class wins out on actually having compelled me to write fic.

Also I feel I should make special mention of having finally for the first time, after about eleven years of active resistance, watched The Big Lebowski, which was pretty great and not at all the embarrassment-squick-farce-thing I was flinchingly anticipating. iulia was, as usual, right.

Your favorite book read this year?
A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, and One Bullet Away, by Nathaniel Fick--weirdly pretty much equal amounts of physically hugging the book because I adored it so much for each of those. And Mira Grant's Deadline!!! And The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan's unfortunate personality notwithstanding. And all of Fables. And The Princess Curse and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and The Persian Boy and Born to Run and and and.

Your favorite tv show of the year?
Castle is the only full-network-season show I've kept up with all year, and I continue to enjoy its goofy, good-natured approach to cop drama. Critically speaking, Game of Thrones and Southland were both brilliant (and heart-wrenching), and I eagerly anticipate the next seasons of each.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Generation Kill, which in my experience encompasses the chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter breakthrough of adding A Companion to Wolves to anything, but especially GK. Also, as of this week, Lewis. ♥

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
White Collar, where the show actually objectively seems to have changed, and Doctor Who, in which my view of the show changed.

Your fiction boyfriend of the year?
Brad Colbert.

Your fiction girlfriend of the year?
Sam Carter. (Now I really want Sam and Brad to hang out and blow shit up together. ♥)

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
I am pretty terrible at remembering these, but the one that leaps to mind is this moment in maybe the third episode of Lewis, when it has become moderately plot-relevant for Hathaway to reveal to Lewis that he plays in a group that does "world music plus jazz and medieval madrigals", and Hathaway says off-handedly that he will get Lewis some of the music to listen to. Lewis seems about as enthusiastic about this prospect as any sane person confronted with that description.

At the end of the episode, Hathaway pulls out an iPod and offers one earbud to Lewis, telling him it's that music he does, and Lewis gamely pops in the earbud while Hathaway pops in the other and they walk down the street in perfect sync, listening together. ♥__________♥

Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?
CAPTAIN VORPATRIL'S ALLIANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I guess the actual Avengers movie is going to come out this summer so we can write movie-verse fic based on Steve and Tony actually interacting in movie canon? That's going to be neat.
But mostly, IVAN! HIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the story that sprang into my head when I beheld my lovely santa-hatted Brad icon. So thank you howarethosenuts for bestowing the hat on Brad (and thank you dontcockblockme for the lovely original icon which cried out to be santa-hatted). Um. Which is not to imply that this story is in any way your fault.

Title is from Sufjan Stevens's Come On Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance.

Many thanks to riverlight for beta, and thanks to everyone else who audienced and listened while I was figuring out what to do with a story whose entire premise was "Brad wears a Santa hat for some reason and has sex with Nate."


Brad/Nate. Explicit. Ridiculous. 6200 words.
"I don't know why you're even fighting me on this. Santa is the most recon motherfucker who ever lived."


( Santa Is Here, Sleighbells Are Ringing )

1) Have some Christmas type music!

I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas with a Dalek (I found this online somewhere--the file info says the artist is "The Go-Gos", but I don't actually know if that's accurate. Anyone know what the provenance of this is?)

And assorted awesome people singing in French:
Bruce Cockburn - Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes
Josh Groban - Petit Papa Noel
Annie Lennox - I'l Est Ne Le Divin Enfant

If you are looking for holiday music that is not in French or concerned with Daleks, feel free to ask! I have lots, and if I happen to have something you're looking for I'd love to hook you up. If you have some you'd like to share, please post a suitable sort of link!


2) So I have this eight-hour solo drive to my parents' house coming up in a couple of weeks (ETA: by which I mean a week from Wednesday. I ... really need to get on my Christmas shopping. o.O), and though I generally do not listen to audiobooks or podfic (I have the right combination of attention span and auditory processing fail to just ... zone out a lot) I have been stricken with the impulse to try again. Specifically, I'd like to listen to some audio non-fiction. (Yes! Yes I do know about the audiobook of One Bullet Away read by the author. I am just not ready for that particular... thing.)

Anyway, so--recs for engaging non-fiction audiobooks? I mostly read pop history and pop science, I think--not memoir or biography as much--but I'm a generally inquisitive person, so if you have something awesome to recommend I'd like to hear about it!