Supernatural

Dean/Castiel: (organized alphabetically)

As You Wish - written for deancas_xmas

Aurora - written for the Fusion challenge

The Day We Saved The World - Dean gets everything he ever wanted.

Dionysus - written for the Renegade Angels challenge

A Hole in the World - written for dc_fireplace

Many Times, Many Ways - written for dc_fireplace

Too Much Eggnog - Unrepetant Christmas schmoop involving mistletoe and eggnog.

Welcome to Oz - AR series set before S5.

Commentfic:

Dean & Cas eating cookies by the fire - written for the Spreading Holiday Cheer Dean/Castiel Commentfic Meme

The Coming Storm - written for the Thanksgiving Quickfire Challenge

Slow Dancing - series written for the Castiel Commentfic Meme

Other pairings:

It's a Love Story - Sam/Jess AU

Gen:

O Death, Where is Thy Victory - No one meets the angel of death and walks away unscathed.

Ellen and Castiel meet for the first time - commentfic

Harry Potter

Parallax - Remus/Sirius

*I welcome all feedback and constructive criticism. I would strongly appreciate, however, concrit being directed to me in lj private message.
**A blanket warning for all my fics: may involve dark themes and events. Also, may include graphic sex and some kink.
***Broad disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, nor am I making any profit from these stories.
****My transformative works policy: all of my works are free to be podficced and remixed though I would appreciate a link to the final product.

Alright! I successfully got my Big Bang draft in on time. It is dreadfully short, rough, and pretty much incomprehensible. On the bright side: the revised summary seems to have done the trick! My story was snapped up within the first ten claims comments, so yay! It will not be wholly sad and unloved. Now I have to work on writing more of it so the person who claimed me will not regret doing so.

I have also come up with a concept for my Help Haiti fic! I'm gunning to finish it this week before Thursday if I can, but we'll see if that's even possible. If not, I'll just have to finish it by the real due date, Feb 14.

I need to finish writing my APBB by... let's say Feb 25. Then I can send it to my betas and while I'm waiting for their edits, really drill down to write the remix of trinity's story. That's a pretty self contained story with a plot already laid out for me so, barring any unexpected hiccups, it should not be terribly difficult or time consuming to write. Hopefully, it should not be too difficult to beta either and I can get both Remix & APBB in under the wire for the deadlines (sigh, so close together).

Thank goodness I didn't sign up for Secret Angels. I am committed up to the gills and if I had, I probably would have had to drop it. I doubt I'll even be able to pinch hit this round.

February 14: My help_haiti fic is due.
Feburary 10: rec_hymenated Wednesday - NC-17/PWP
Feburary 21: rec_hymenated Sunday - Post interview with uselessplayback
Feburary 23: rec_hymenated Tuesday - G-R


March 4: My second dc_fireplace. Will be remixing trinityofone's story for this.
March 5: apocabigbang final draft is due.
March 9: rec_hymenated Tuesday - G-R
March 25: My angstfest challenge story with uselessplayback is due.
March 28: rec_hymenated Sunday - Interview day
March 30: au_bigbang story summary is due.

April 6: au_bigbang rough draft is due.

Poll #1522611 Commentary
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

I would be interested in bauble doing a commentary

Which story?

If Oz, which chapter(s)?

Meme:

Today has been declared lurker amnesty day! Have you read me but never commented? Do you surf by occasionally? Here for the fic? Say hello! You are under no obligation to ever comment or delurk again, but here's a chance to do so in a post just for that.

I re-posted my one and only substantial piece of Harry Potter fic, a Sirius/Remus story called Parallax. I wrote it in the summer of 2007, and unbeknownst to me at the time, it has a wordcount of 32,000. Which, man. I love ze words, apparently. Anyway, it was originally posted a website that I've since taken down, and while I did a cursory review while posting to make sure it looked mostly right and was in order, some of the formatting may still be wonky or whatnot. I haven't had the chance to go through the whole thing and make all the edits I'd like yet either. I do have to work on Hallelujah today, the fourth, and the fifth to get a draft of at least 10k in, so who knows when I'll get to the edits, though.

If you are reading this entry right now, it is likely you also participated in the polls I posted up here and here. I love polls and try to make use of them whenever I can, which is part of the reason I posted them. The other reason is genuine curiosity about how other people select what to read in a community and pairing as prolific as D/C. There can be literally hundreds of fics posted to deancastiel in a month, so it's clear that most people need a way to filter those many entries down to the fics they have time to read (although some people who voted apparently have much more time to read than others--5 people said they read upwards of 16 fics a week!).

I know that my methods for deciding what to read are rather idiosyncratic in that I don't actually look at any of the header information except for the Author field, and occasionally the Summary. I have literally no time to read in between writing and RL, so I have a stable of writers that I'll read basically anything from (a tiny stable). Then I have authors who I will sometimes read depending on whether the summary sounds remotely interesting or not (a slightly larger group). And then there are all the other authors who I don't know and whose work, sadly, I will not read. The only exception to that is during challenge season; I will read at least the beginning of each and every single fic posted in a challenge and in order to harvest new writers to follow.

I like challenges because they indicate that the writer, at the very least, has the discipline to complete (mostly) a story and adhere to a deadline, which has a positive correlation with quality. Obviously, it's not a perfect relationship, as the overwhelming majority of challenge fics--depending on the challenge--are ones I don't particularly enjoy reading. But the quality does tend to scale up alongside the difficulty of the challenge--ie, the Big Bang fics. Writing 10K or more words is definitely a challenge, and it speaks to a certain point in a writer's skill and development if they can sustain a story and plot (however weak it is) for 10,000 words, or 20,000 words, or etc. I will also occasionally read based on recs from a few trusted advisors.

I know most people probably have less Draconian methods of deciding what to read--which is a good thing, for I would probably have no readers at all if everyone were like me--and so I was curious to find out what those methods were. I should preface my results by saying that this is an informal poll made up of mostly D/C readers, with a tiny sample size (approximately 20 participants) who are probably skewed in several ways due to the fact that they are reading my lj, and etc. So this is hardly a comprehensive cross-section of SPN fandom at large or, even the D/C corner of SPN fandom. Nevertheless, the results are interesting.

Results ( behind the cut. )

Parallax

Chapter 10: The Boy Who Lived
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

Sirius found himself in Hogwarts again. But this time he was standing alone in front of the closed double doors leading ( to the Great Hall. )

Parallax

Chapter 9: Farewell
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

The images and the cell had vanished. Sirius was standing in Grimmauld Place with the thirty-four year old Remus, and it felt every bit as cold and oppressive as the cell he had left. (  I'm in Azkaban.  )

Parallax

Chapter 8: Azkaban
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

The Fidelius Charm went off without a hitch. Peter was shaking so badly he could hardly say the words, but in the end it all worked. James and Lily were safely away and Peter had been hiding for a day now. For the first time in a while, ( Sirius allowed himself to smile. )

Parallax

Chapter 7: Godric's Hollow
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

"That's not how it happened." Sirius and Remus were standing on the side of the grassy hill again, no longer nineteen and foolish. (  That's not what happened.  )

Parallax

Chapter 6: Memories
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

(  That's the last of it?  )

Parallax

Chapter 5: Revelations
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

"Where are we going?" Sirius was having trouble keeping up with Remus, who was walking straight down a road in ( Godric's Hollow. )

Parallax

Chapter 4: Prophecies
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

Sirius dreamed he was being chased. It was the strangest thing too--he was vividly aware of being trapped in his sleep and ( yet he couldn't escape. )

Parallax

Chapter 3: The Memorial
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

When Sirius woke up, Remus was already awake, ( inches away. )

Parallax

Chapter 2: The Man in the Mirror
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

The trip to Paris was long but uneventful. After the floo, Sirius flew over the channel on his beloved old motorbike, ( relishing the chance to take it out again. )

Parallax

Chapter 1: The Dream - The Beginning
Master Post of all the chapters: here.

( Harry. )

Parallax

Total Wordcount: 32,000
Thanks to: pensnest for the Britpicking, and Denise for the beta.
Harry Potter: Sirius/Remus. I finally got around to posting this again!

Chapter 1: The Dream - The Beginning
Chapter 2: The Man in the Mirror
Chapter 3: The Memorial
Chapter 4: Prophecies
Chapter 5: Revelations
Chapter 6: Memories
Chapter 7: Godric's Hollow
Chapter 8: Azkaban
Chapter 9: Farewell
Chapter 10: The Boy Who Lived

par-al-lax - noun

1. the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.
   
2. Astronomy: the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth (diurnal parallax or geocentric parallax) or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun (annual parallax or heliocentric parallax).
   
3. the difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture-taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a separate viewfinder.
   
4. an apparent change in the position of cross hairs as viewed through a telescope, when the focusing is imperfect.
   

Alright! Birthday related shenanigans should be pretty much done for the month, so I can finally find the time to be more productive. Of course, I adored and enjoyed every second of my birthday shenanigans, but the writing has definitely taken a back seat. Only 4 more days to write my Apocabigbang! Must churn out (and type) many words of Hallelujah!

Stories in progress:

• Hallelujah: for apocabigbang. Work work work! Feb 5.


• Help Haiti gift fic: Concept?


• D/C Roadtrip: This is set 10 years after Dean's saved the world. Castiel's been ferrying back and forth between Heaven and Earth, and Dean becomes convinced that Castiel's finally going to leave him for good. So he goes on a road trip, and Castiel decides to tag along.


• The Furies: Gonna write this dystopic AU for au_bigbang in order to give me more time to fully develop it into the epic I want it to be (closer to 30k-40k).


• Make the Man (the Corporate Douchebag remix): My remix of trinityofone's story. Should be on track to write it for for March 4th in dc_fireplace.


• Cask of Amontillado AU?: I read the Poe story again and have some ideas about what I'm going to do with it.


• Film noir AU: I've been talking this story over with kadriel_krieger and have started to get some of the plotting figured out, finally.


• Doppelganger: Still at the bottom of the list, even though I've developed an OMC I'm quite fond of for this story.

O Death, Where is Thy Victory
Words: 1800
Thanks to: uselessplayback for the looksee.


"How wonderful it is to finally meet the two you, in the flesh and ( above the ground. )

Sample Header for Dean/Castiel story Y:

Title: River of tears, blood, and feathers
Author: bauble
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 15000
Warnings: Non-con/rape. Torture. Character death. Wing motorboating.
Spoilers: all of S5
Summary: Someone gets hurt. Someone else comforts him with cuddles and magic peen.

Castiel's wings used to be a glorious white. Dean stroked the parts that had been burnt to an ashy grey and promised to never let his angel go, ever again. Click the link to read the rest. (pretend there's a link or lj cut here)

Poll #1518227 More things that suck... you into a story.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

If you had to choose ONE part of the header that's the most important for deciding whether to read a fic, which would it be out of the options listed below?

Choose your SECOND most important part of the header:

Choose your THIRD most important part of the header:

When stories are posted anonymously as part of a challenge, do you:

When stories are posted anonymously as part of a challenge, how do you decide which stories to read (while they are still anonymous)? If you don't read while they're still anon, skip this question.

When stories are posted anonymously as part of a challenge, do you try to guess who wrote what?

Do you ever guess right?

Do you love radio buttons?

If you have any thoughts or wish to explain your choices, please explain in the comments!

Sample Header for Dean/Castiel story X:

Title: Sexytimes abound
Author: bauble
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 5000
Warnings: Graphic sex. Rimming, blowjobbery business.
Spoilers: all of S5
Summary: Dean and Cas have lots of sex!

This is a story that begins with Dean on top. It ends with Dean on the bottom. Click the link to read the rest. (pretend there's a link or lj cut here)

Poll #1517978 What sucks you into a story?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

I've included a sample header above for a hypothetical fic posted in a community. Which parts of the header do you actually read regularly?

If you had to choose ONE part of the header that's the most important for deciding whether to read a fic, which would it be?

Choose your SECOND most important part of the header:

Choose your THIRD most important part of the header:

Are there authors for whom you will read absolutely everything they write regardless of summary/title/etc?

How many NEW fics (as in, you've never read before) do you read per week on average?

Do you read based on recs? (from a community, friend, or someone else)

Do you love ticky boxes?

If you have any thoughts or wish to explain your choices, please explain in the comments!