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pensnest ([personal profile] pensnest) wrote2010-01-06 10:04 pm

Of MTYG and other gifts

Now that the MTYG authors are revealed, I have to say I'm a fan of Ullman, who wrote *three* stories including my own gift, Juncture, which I like very much indeed. Her other Trickyfish offering is 'Sparkly Souls Slow Dancing', otherwise known as the one in which Lance glows in the dark, which is my other favourite of this year's Lance/Chris fics.

My own story was for this world to be unbroken, a post-apocalyptic vampire AU AJ/Kevin story, which I imagine nobody would have expected of me! I confess to being utterly boggled by the request for quite some time, as post-apocalyptic anything is So Not Me, and I don't really Do Vampires. (The AJ/Kevin, fortunately, seemed quite doable, I'd sort of had a dress rehearsal for that last year as it was [personal profile] letterboys's alternative pairing.) Also, this time the recipient was someone I don't know, really, and there wasn't a lot to be gleaned by stalking her LJ—it was a quite different experience from last year, but it's all part of the SeSa fun, I spose.

Luckily I had [personal profile] nopseud and [personal profile] ephemera to offer insanely cracked ideas advise me. I think at one stage I was planning to write four different endings, a pick-your-own conclusion adventure, but happily the story that eventually emerged had other ideas. Our Backstreet Concert weekend did indeed see the birth of a SeSa story, and I mourn the loss of the original title, The Town of Tiny Vampires. This was not the story I wrote, but I was charmed to see its metamorphosis into a sprawling JuNi epic. Hee.

Well. A huge Thank You to [personal profile] nopseud for being my Story Doctor again, and figuring out the major logical flaw in time for me to put it right. Many thanks also to [personal profile] joeysdramaqueen and [personal profile] llamabitchyo for the betas and smoking out of non-American language. In the end, I found I rather liked the story. It's quite fun figuring out what day-to-day life is like in a post-apocalyptic world where there are roving vampires! And it's always good to have a go at something you've not done before.


In other news, I also participated in I Saw 3 Ships, and am pleased to be able to announce that you can now read a Nick/Lance/Chris threesome story written for me here. Sadly it is the only popslash story there—whoever it was who lured me into signing up, you've presumably figured out that I didn't write for you! I had, perforce, to write something *else*, in a fandom I haven't written in before, which was an interesting struggle. Incidentally, there is a marvellous Top Gear story in the list, unlikely as that sounds. I ended up watching a couple of Top Gear programmes over the Christmas period, and, well. Yes.

[identity profile] raynedanser.livejournal.com 2010-01-06 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh! You were gifted by Ullman, too? (How have I not "met" Ullman before?) So was I! And as a bonus, mine had an a-ha song title to boot! \o/

[identity profile] raynedanser.livejournal.com 2010-01-06 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no no! This is what you are seeking - I already played detective! :D
nopseud: (vampire brian -- notext -- nopseud)

[personal profile] nopseud 2010-01-07 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ullman is [livejournal.com profile] ullman79. :-)

I don't really Do Vampires

At some point, you know, you're going to have to stop saying that. :-)
Edited 2010-01-07 00:30 (UTC)

[identity profile] joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com 2010-01-06 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
you're quite welcome. :)

[identity profile] joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL I need to change it since it is no longer Christmas!

[identity profile] samibee.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oooo - your fic was on my "to read" list, I'm quite excited to dive into it once I get the chance.
ext_1650: (beautifulChris (turloughishere))

[identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You seem to have written quite a lot of vampire fic for someone who doesn't write vampires *g*

I read that Top Gear story. I always feel weird reading about Jeremy Clarkson having sex, and yet I keep doing so.