graculus

Gakked from siluria:

1. Go to page 7 of your most recent WiP
2. Count seven lines down
3. Copy and paste the next seven lines of text

( Read more... )

My story for the smallfandombang:

Title: All the Sinners, Saints
Author: Graculus
Fandom: Wild Wild West (tv)
Characters/Pairings: West/Gordon
Rating/Category: PG slash
Genre: dystopian AU
Word Count: 13,690
Warnings none
Summary: After the war left him horribly injured, James West made a deal with the metaphorical devil and let Inscape have access to his brain, making him the perfect super-soldier. On a mission to pass sentence on a rogue scientist on Inscape's behalf, West finds that there's much more to what's inside his head than he could possibly have imagined and that the man he's come to kill holds more answers than he could possibly want.



( All the Sinners, Saints - part 1 )

I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks at lj and thinks how little what they do would interest anyone else, all things considered. However, at the cost of people on my flist thinking I'm either buried under a pile of books and can't get up or have been eaten by ferrets, I thought I'd try and rectify that. Maybe I just need a meme of sufficient interest, as the fanfic one worked? Suggestions happily considered...

Work has been Insane with a capital I this week. Not helped by the people who thought it would be a good idea to turn the office into an adjunct of Santa's grotto, complete with mechanical things that play Christmas music. If I'd been within earshot of any of those on Tuesday, we'd be discussing how long the surgery is to remove such an item from someone's anatomy. Had I been asked 'what's wrong, [Graculus]?', the answer would have been 'EVERYTHING!!!111!!!!' with fists of doom. Fortunately people were not as stupendously idiotic the rest of the week and so I still have a job rather than pending assault or murder charges.

In ferret news, we still have no progress on the names front. Three weeks on and although there were some fantastic suggestions from you guys, nothing seems to particularly fit so I'm currently resigned to calling them The Lads and leaving it at that. Whenever they've been in the house and I put them out to let Buzz in, he is utterly incensed at the idea of weasels in his house and runs around rubbing his scent on everything.

In holiday news, I am off to Costa Rica in February, after my hopes of abandoning these inclement shores over Christmas got knocked on the head a while back. Don't worry, there will be photos! :)

As for other stuff, I am alternately so glad I didn't sign up for NaNoWriMo and also desperately in need of a big stick to actually make me sit down and write something. Anything. Just the idea of it makes me go running to the nearest pile of books or fic. Pffft.

For some reason, all the books I've tried to read have bored me so I'm currently working my way through the Vorkosigan canon as I finally managed to get my hands on it in its entirety and I know there's damn good fic in that universe waiting for me at the end of it all. :)

I've also been writing Mag7 for mag7daybook and my Mag7 Bingo card and the following prompts:

Dark!fic
'Trail-stained'
'Meanwhile, back at the bath-house...'
'Ancient curse'
'Scars'

In TV terms, still loving White Collar and desperately waiting on the season premiere of Fringe. *shakes fists at JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci*

For au_bingo - more first scenes...

Title: The Day After Trinity Affair
Fandom: Man from UNCLE
Prompt: Other: Aliens
Words: 690
Warnings: None
Summary: July 16, 1945 - more than just the birth date of the Atomic Age.

( The Day After Trinity Affair )

For au_bingo - another first scene, otherwise I'm never going to get anywhere before the round 1 prompts run out!

Title: Crossing the Divide
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Prompt: Other: Slaves
Words: 750
Pairing: Morgan/Reid (eventually)
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes it's an auspicious day for more things than you might think...


( Crossing the Divide )

I was working on my DTC story submission and decided a good way in that I didn't like how it was working out, so I've had to use it for parts. Hmm. Deadline is next weekend, so I still think I'm in with a reasonable chance of not getting hunted for sport...

In other news, we have plenty of white stuff and temperatures which might make the Canadians reading this back off for once with their whole thing about how they have real winters etc etc etc! Yes, it's been down to -17 at night although it seems to have eased up a little and we're at least seeing sunshine. At its worst we've had about 5 inches of snow here and I was heartened to see all the shops had run out of birdfood although I think one of the urban foxes has been helping himself to the fat-based element of what I've been putting out.

Still, I managed to get to work without major problems, as I live just by a main bus-route; the main issue tended to be dragging myself out of my nice warm bed in the first place!

As a relatively new manager, I seem to be coming across all sorts of issues for the first time and hope that I will feel much more ready for them next time around: this time it's the saga of K, who is excellent when she's on top of things but is currently off work with anxiety attacks and rabid insomnia. K is one of those people who takes everything personally and is also incredibly easily knocked in terms of her confidence, so the slightest inkling of her struggling with anything sees her plummet.

I'm currently dealing with the whole 'everyone in the team hates me because I'm off when I'm not really sick' and also 'when I come back to work, anything that's done to ease my transition back is going to make me feel like I can't do the job and you don't trust me any more' issues. *headdesk*

For au_bingo:

Title: The Night of the Skull and Crossbones
Fandom: Wild Wild West (tv show)
Prompt: Historical: Pirates
Words: 1900 or so
Warnings: None
Summary: Discretion might be the better part of valour, but discretion was one thing Dr. Artemus Gordon had never quite managed to master.


( The Night of the Skull and Crossbones )

For au_bingo

Title: The Night of Lycanthropy
Fandom: Wild Wild West (tv show)
Prompt: Fantasy & Supernatural: Werewolves
Words: 700
Warnings: None
Summary: For once, a certain little genius had over-reached himself...



( The Night of Lycanthropy )

More for au_bingo:

Title: Trickster
Fandom: Magnificent 7 (tv show)
Prompt: Fantasy & Supernatural: Author's Choice
Words: 1300
Pairing: Ezra/Nathan
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes it's just better not to ask...

( Trickster )