Dira Sudis

Which is to say lots, although I will cop to being slightly embarrassed by the fact that I am so bad at paying attention to audio fic that I can only actually listen to stuff I wrote myself without losing track of what's going on. Anyway.

NEW PODFIC!

susan_voight has just posted a 7.5-hour podfic of Jigsaw, my multi-death OT4 Stargate SG-1 bigbang fic from last year.

She also kindly reuploaded the Jigsaw playlist I made when writing, which was otherwise lost with the rest of the Megaupload goodies.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

inkjunket has posted podfic of Which in Your Case You Have Not Got and When We Used to Sing, the two wolf-verse stories (so far) that are actually set during the timespan of the miniseries, in Iraq.

As inkjunket mentions in her posts, and as I think I have been remiss in mentioning before, luzula has also posted podfic of What to Do After Firing, the wolf-verse story about Ray and Brad, so you can now listen to about half of the existing wolf-verse stories!

21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?

Short answer: Yep! Because there was another story that I thought I would like to write that followed from the first one.

Longer answer:

So, here's the thing. I didn't start out overthinking this question, but I did start out thinking that this question had a very specific meaning. Intuitively, I read this question as meaning, Did you ever, after having written a fic and being all finished with it, then write another fic that was of roughly similar size and seriousness which followed sequentially and necessarily from that fic while also being a complete story in itself?

To which the answer is, yes, about three times, and one of those isn't posted yet. So as it turns out I have all these IDEAS about what the word sequel means.

To me a sequel is something different from a series-planned-as-a-series, in which case while each separate story is--hopefully--a sufficiently standalone story that people will not do themselves or me an injury while waiting for the next bit, the reason I keep writing subsequent stories is because the story isn't over yet. That's not the same as "the story was done and then I wrote another story that followed from the first one." So, in my head, the GK wolf-verse doesn't count, nor does The World That You Need, nor Brothelers, nor all those Hawks & Hands prequels, even if they do make me the internet's most prolific Kowalski/Gardino writer.

Speaking of which, The Future in Five Conversations also doesn't count. It's not a sequel to Hawks & Hands, even though it follows necessarily from H&H while also sort of standing on its own as a story because it's not the same magnitude of story. It's a coda, a (five years) belated epilogue tacked on at the end. If I had ever written the epic OT3-trapped-in-Ancient-Egypt story that With the Dying was setup for, it would have been the same thing in reverse.

So, as far as I can tell from a cursory look through my works on AO3, the only stories that do count as sequels in my head are:

Rumored, sequel to Unannounced (House/Wilson outside POV), and
Tell, sequel to Common Language (Stargate SG-1 Bechdel fix-its for the pilot).
Arguably also Spades, which doesn't have to be a sequel to Hunde (Spy Game, Muir/Bishop), but might as well be.

Plus, of course, The One I Haven't Posted Yet, which is a (GEN) sequel to Signals That Sound in the Dark.


( All 30 questions under the cut )

9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

Right, so, obviously we are once again going with the top ten fandoms I mentioned on day 3.

( Under the cut, trios of favorite pairings. Or trios. Or etc. )

Go look at your blog/journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

My last fandom-related post was the story-announcing post for Jigsaw, SG-1 teamfic, so ... I'm pretty sure I'm going to be just fine. Juuuuuust fine. And so is the entire planet. This team does not fuck around.

(Amusingly, the last different-fandom-related post before that was the one where I was all excited about Mira Grant's DEADLINE, whose protagonists have all grown up in the aftermath of the Zombie Apocalypse. So I would have to say, if they're on my team--or rather, if I am on theirs, a Fictional hunkering down in safety while the Newsies run around dealing with the actual zombies--then I am also going to be fine. Although in that case I am kind of worried about the rest of the planet.)

Soooo I'm about six days away from posting my SG-1 big bang, and I thought I'd let people get an idea of what it's actually about, courtesy of pairings, warnings, and the blurb I had to write when I turned in my rough draft:

( But I still can't tell you the title because I am weird and superstitious )

And if anybody wanted the [Title Redacted] Big Bang Playlist, there it is. Forty-one songs in a mix of m4a and mp3 formats, hosted at megaupload. This is the playlist I've been using to get myself into the right mindset for writing my story (i.e. a collection of all the songs that make me go "This is totally about Jack!" and "This is totally about Sam!" and "This is totally about [redacted]!" I listen to it on shuffle, so there's no specified order (I considered trying to arrange all 41 songs into an order that reflects their correspondences to specific moments in the narrative arc of the story, and then I realized that would mean never, ever getting around to sharing the playlist).

But if you want to get approximately the right feel, I would suggest listening to "Another New World" and then "Furlough" first, and "Solsbury Hill" and "Never Quite Free" last. Also, listen to "When U Love Somebody" followed immediately by "Sax Rohmer #1" just because the juxtaposition makes me wave my hands a lot.

( Mostly alphabetical track listing & lyrics snippets )

Someone, somewhere wrote a story, or a semi-story meta post, or something, about the extra gear various members of SG-1/the SGC take along with them on off-world missions. I seem to remember there were tampons. And I need to read it again so I know who/what I'm maybe or maybe not shamelessly ripping off paying homage to, in this bit of this thing that I am writing. Rewriting. Frantically procrastinating about writing. Etc.

Ahahahaa oh god, less than three weeks now. SOMEONE PLEASE REMOVE GENERATION KILL FROM MY BRAIN FOR THE NEXT TWENTY DAYS. USE A TREPHINE IF YOU HAVE TO.

quintenttsy has recorded a podfic of my Doctor Who story, "The Box Below"!

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And in a totally unrelated development, tonight's work on my SG-1 bigbang story has taught me this valuable lesson:

Any time you think that you can simplify a story by sending Jack O'Neill to Narnia, even just for a few minutes, you should probably look down and identify the very narrow ledge you have wandered out onto, and then you should move expeditiously back to the nearest window and get the hell inside. Because, in fact, no. No you can't.

So a few weeks ago my external hard drive--where I kept all my music--started dying. I managed to get all the music onto my laptop (and thence onto my shiny new 1TB backup drive), but this also required me to re-import everything into iTunes from the new location (which I dodged doing when I got a new computer thanks to having all the music on the external--I guess it was bound to happen eventually), and in the process I lost a few slowly-accreted playlists including my Aral/Jole playlist. I managed to remember a few obvious songs (the two all the titles come from and Jole's embarrassing country music anthem) but that's about all I've got. It's the saddest playlist ever.

So, if you've read my Aral/Jole stories, rec me a song or two that you think fits them? My SG-1 epic playlist has 38 songs, and Aral and Jole are going to start thinking I don't love them if this keeps up. *g*

(I tend to put songs on playlists of this kind because of lyrical resonance, so don't feel that you have to find something that actually sounds ... Barrayaran. Good God, now I'm trying to imagine Barrayaran pop music. o.O)


Also! In case you are interested in knowing more about my ~FEELINGS~ about any of the characters people requested, my answers to the feelings meme are linked below:

Peter Burke
Colby Granger
Jack Harkness
Daniel Jackson
Ianto Jones
Ray Kowalski
Amy Pond
Gregor Vorbarra
Aral Vorkosigan
Cordelia Vorkosigan
Miles Vorkosigan
Mark Vorkosigan
Ivan Vorpatril

From philomytha, "Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!"

( I'm up to five WIPs, which leaves me feeling almost like I'm actually writing.... )

Two days after sending it off to beta, I have just realized what exactly the whole point of my Stargate SG-1 story is. Um. I guess better now than after I'd posted it and couldn't go back and make all the little edits necessary to make it seem like I knew all along?