Dira Sudis

Three of my shorter bandom stories have been made into podfic by reena_jenkins for #ITPE which ... I gather is some kind of podfic holiday exchange! *g*

Q & A (Gerard, Pete, Pete/Mikey, Summer of Like)

Bun in the Easy-Bake Oven (Pete/Patrick, Gerard/Bob, technically it's not mpreg but an outtake/epilogue from this whole long epic story I was going to write about Pete and Patrick having a baby together thanks to this alien uterine replicator thing but anyway. There are babies with two biological daddies.)

Boys At Play (Pete&Patrick)



Also, a wholeheartedly delighted Yuletide rec from someone who read the first third of 50 Shades of Grey and then gave up in disgust:

Three Shades of Steele (11321 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 50 Shades of Grey - E. L. James
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Anastasia Steele, Anastasia's Subconscious, Anastasia's Inner Goddess, Carla Adams, Kate Kavanagh, Christian Grey
Summary:

A jinn transforms Ana Steele's subconscious and inner goddess into living people. Permanently. That's the good news.

Picked up from everybody, and vastly preferable to anything useful I'm meant to be doing right now.


( Yuletide Stories 2003-2011 )

Dear Yulewriter!

As it turns out, I find I have very little to say other than that I am DELIGHTED that you share one of my little fandoms, and please by all means remember optional details are optional and write what makes you happy! As a general rule I adore cuddles and hurt/comfort that is heavy on the comfort. I adore little mundane moments--for any of my requests I would love to see them doing laundry or washing dishes or buying groceries or trying to find two matching socks when they're not quite awake yet. And if you need other tips on things I enjoy, feel free to hit up iulia for advice; she knows what I like and is scarily good at keeping secrets from me.

If you are feeling uncertain about the thing you got matched on and want to try picking up another fandom, um, I'm sorry that three out of four of them are long book serieses. The other one--Teen Wolf RPF!--is probably the easiest to pick up, especially since I don't actually know all that much about the actors myself. If you read their Wikipedia articles and spend a half-hour clicking around YouTube you probably pretty much know what I do about them. :)

Alternately, most of The Administration is available free online, and if you don't mind near-sociopaths engaging in questionably safe BDSM sexytimes, that is also an option! Or hit up your local public library for zombies or time travel! :D

Whatever you're writing, thank you for it! I am excited to read what you come up with, and I'm delighted to know that you love something I love. Happy Yuletiding!

( My signup: Newsflesh Trilogy, The Administration, Oxford Time Travel, Teen Wolf RPF )

Yes, okay, sure, Yuletide nominations. But I find Yuletide nominations sufficiently overwhelming that I tend to ignore them until/unless I frantically nominate something at the last minute because I'm suddenly convinced that I must have it and no one else will think of it.


But right now! It is yagkyas signups time! :D Who's with me?

I am still mulling over my signup options, and meantime I note that signups are accompanied by the Good Cookies prompt meme.

I always find prompt memes sort of bewildering/overwhelming/not relevant to my interests (look, I need neither more ideas for things to write nor a venue to write very short things very quickly) in a way that usually makes me feel sort of cranky and old. But compared to the way Tumblr makes me feel cranky and old, prompt memes are full of fond nostalgia. REMEMBER WHEN WE ALL POSTED FIC ON LIVEJOURNAL? MAN. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.

So, you know. I am keeping an eye on that post while I ponder my signup choices. *g*

1) I am so totally overwhelmed by Yuletide this year that I haven't read anything since Christmas Day. I mean, also there was hectic family-holiday-ing and driving long distances and so on but also OH GOD SO MANY STORIES, SO MANY RECS, SO MUCH EVERYTHING. O.O

That said: I got a present! Just for me! And it is lovely! Carrying the Banner is Newsflesh Trilogy gen, George and Shaun taking a rather important field trip at age twelve. ♥


2) YAGKYAS! I totally failed to even post about yagkyas because it fell right on the day I was driving to Michigan and then there was a lot of family and holiday and etc. as above. So now the reveal is revealed, and I can thank cubicality for my freaky and awesome (and totally Rudy/Pappy in my heart) werewolf apocalypse story, 60 Days!

And I can also say that I wrote One to Grow On, possibly the only Doc Bryan/Michael Brunmeier story on the internet. TBH I had no idea who Brunmeier was when I got my assignment, so there was a bit of frantic running about, and searching of transcripts and rewatching and yelling at the TV every time Brunmeier had a line. I thank templemarker for beta, and everyone else I know for putting up with me flailing a lot about how to write Brunmeier. *g* I am really rather pleased with the story I wound up writing, and more importantly my recipient (hilariously, cubicality and I wrote for each other) liked it! Happy Yagkyasmas, C!

I have an assignment! I ADORE it! :D

And if you have come looking for a Dear Yuleperson letter, um, sorry! I have not written one yet. I will! Soon! Meantime, know that I already adore you for sharing one of my tiny tiny fandoms, Yuleperson! <3

I have started to see people's Yuletide icons appearing (...posting about Yuletide probably helped with that) and, as it does every year, it was making me sad that I didn't have one. So, hey! I could ask!

Could anybody put a (wiiiiildly inappropriate, yes) Santa hat on the icon below, or tell me how to do it myself on a Windows 7 PC sans Photoshop in very very small words?

1. So I was in New York this past weekend for my birthday, and met up with fangirls, as one does and, as one does when Yuletide season approaches, repeatedly pimped my favorite super-obscure media thing, Niels & Gang. It's a webcomic-ish-thing, by Humon, who does the slightly-less-obscure Scandinavia & the World (sort of a kinder, gentler, Scandinavia-focused Hetalia, judging by my fandom-osmosis knowledge of Hetalia). Which is to say, Niels & Gang has webcomic installments, but a lot of the story is told with a piece of wordless art and a blog-post explanation/caption below it. (I gather there's further canon available in comment threads, but I haven't gone hunting for it all.)

Niels is a bisexual Dane in a long-term relationship with an African-American couple, Natalie and Duncan, Uncle Niels to their young son. He's also a totally amoral criminal who gets lonely when the cop who used to be devoted to hunting him down (but now, having lost his wife, is mostly interested in not dying and being a father to his young daughter) neglects him. There's a complicated cloud of other law-enforcement and criminal types around Niels and his beloveds, but, really, here are the important bits:

Morning Glow: Niels, his lovers, and his mommy/daddy issues.
Uncle Watches Over You: Niel, kiddo, two henchmen and one very sorry criminal who threatened Niels's family. (Niels's backstory is in the blog post.)
Threeway Wedding: what it says on the tin, plus Duncan and Natalie's backstory in the blog post.
Seduction of a Boyfriend: How Niels got together with Natalie and Duncan.
Rainy Days Are Fun: more domesticity.
Stop Calling: domesticity and arch-enemies.

Aaaand in case you forgot the thing I said up there about Niels being a totally amoral criminal:
Please Don't Cry: Niels, his victim, a gun, and a box of Kleenex.

SO. LET'S HAVE SOME NIELS/NATALIE/DUNCAN FOR YULETIDE, IS WHAT I AM SAYING.

2. I was going to say some other things (because it has been pointed out to me that sometimes people, when they have a LJ/DW, they use it to keep their friends updated about their actual life in some fashion). I was going to say something about New York being awesome and fangirls being awesome and dating being weird and difficult, but it is Monday and my brain is at pretty low ebb, so. Enjoy Niels & Gang, and maybe I will try that talking-about-actual-life thing some other night. *g*

I'm not actually finished with DEADLINE but I have, crucially, read past page 338 and I need to squee NOW oh my GOD.

(That is DEADLINE, by Mira Grant (aka Campbell-award winner seanan_mcguire), sequel to the Hugo-nominated FEED--if you haven't read them I will soon be doing a pimping post because oh my god this is so on my Yuletide list! There's a pretty nifty book trailer for the books, although a) I don't think Shaun's voice really sounds like that and b) pfft, like the zombies are actually the point.)

( HAVE YOU READ PAST PAGE 338 OF DEADLINE? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SQUEE WITH ME FOREVER AND POSSIBLY ALSO WRITE YULETIDE FIC? OR REQUEST SOME SO I CAN WRITE IT FOR YOU? GINORMOUS SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST 1.5 BOOKS OF THE NEWSFLESH TRILOGY BEHIND THE CUT. ALSO ALL THE SQUEE. )

From my unsystematic ramblings through the archive so far, courtesy of the handy-dandy Share button:

( Mythbusters RPF (gen!), Hockey RPF (also gen!), Live Free or Die Hard, The Charioteer - Mary Renault, The Alexander Trilogy - Mary Renault, Pride & Prejudice/Temeraire )