Uncharted Desert Isle

Post the first line of the last 20 fics posted, newest first.
saw this from smalltrolven and decided to give it a try. Cheer myself up after a terrible review of Beneath the Neon Moon at Audible, maybe:) These are in order posted, not necessarily written - I posted some older stories at a03.

 1.   He's a Queen's boy: an elite 00 agent. The Queen's Boy (James Bond)

 2.   From graves and charnel houses I selected only the finest, strongest bodies to build my creation. Unhallowed (Frankenstein)

 3.   Heyes got broody over certain things. Alias Jones and Smith (Alias Smith and Jones)

 4.   So tired, but sleep won't come. Always (Supernatural)

 5.   “So what’s the solution to this troublesome triangle we have here?” Kira asked, big eyes looking at one then the other. Life on Mars (Starsky & Hutch)

 6.   Alfred never left Bruce alone. What Hurts Most (Batman: Under the Red Hood)

 7.   I would give you songs, but for this black soul. Valentine's Day Poems (Supernatural)

 8.   I have a recurring dream that’s driving me goddamned crazy. Incubus (Starsky & Hutch)

 9.   Gillian's dead. Someday After Gillian (Starsky & Hutch)

10.  So cold. What Hurts More (Batman: Under the Red Hood)

11.  It was 3:00 AM when Dick spotted the motionless body on the street outside his apartment. Sometimes They Come Back (Batman: Under the Red Hood)

12. Once upon a time a young man named Samuel forgot who he was and where he came from, or how to get home. The Witch of the Woods (based on the fairytale of the same name by Helena Nyblom)

13. He was sixteen and on his own, his dad laid up drunk somewhere, anywhere, if he wasn't dead. Beneath the Neon Moon (original work)

14. People say you can't live on hatred. The Others (J2 x The Hunger)

15. His lungs felt heavy for days afterward, and he coughed a lot. Burke's Plan (Planet of the Apes TV series)

16. Her voice worms inside his mind, writhes and shreds until his skull is soft; swollen fruit just this side of rotten. Breathe or Die (From Dusk Till Dawn: the Series)

17. Afterward, the thing that saved him was that he had no fight left in him. If Mine Eyes Offend Thee (Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon; also The Dark Secret of Harvest Home - miniseries)

18. I died in Sumeria. Curses and Brown Suede Shirts (Hercules: the Legendary Journeys)

19. Dean's clothes were in rags, black and purple bruises over his skin, smears of dried blood swooping over his body like kite tails flipping on a high breeze. Like Always (Supernatural)

20. Here I am, imprisoned with this creature I have made. A Perfect Form (Illuminated) (Frankenstein: the True Story)



uh...looking at this, I see I've used "afterward" a couple of times as a hook to get a reader (hopefully) wondering "after what?" There's some short sentences there for punch until there's...not:)

I had to think a bit about this final day - something I'm really proud of? I am proud of some of my work when I do it, but later on I pick it to death, or doubt if it's good, you know? So for me I'd say it's hard to maintain that sort of positivity over the long haul. There's a couple of stories that I like quite a bit, a couple of vids I'm fond of, but out and out proud? I just don't know. But then I remembered my second (and last) zine! A massive Starsky and Hutch anthology entitled Blood and Destiny.

I stayed up way too late for months in a row, learning layout and how to do bleeds for print, and editing (I WISH I hadn't been quite so anti-comma at the time, but oh, well) - the point is, I ended up with a 550 page (293,000 word count) Starsky & Hutch anthology: a perfect bound, paperback book.

I learned a lot, worked with a lot of talented people, including Sonja T, my lovely friend who does most of the artwork for my original fiction nowadays. She put in an incredible number of art pieces into the zine, over twenty (and she did almost as many for the first zine I did). I had some brilliant writers participate in the anthology with seventeen new stories, trivia and reprints. It was truly a learning experience, and I'm proud of the book and of the work and skill of the participants involved.

Excerpts and more

Blood and Destiny cover by Sonja -




 And that's a wrap! I did it - got all 7 days in:)

I have been into some weird little shows, many rather obscure. SPN might be the only truly large fandom I've participated in - a different experience altogether, and with so many talented writers at first I found it intimidating to post stories. Pretty much from the start, I've seen Sam and Dean as my OTP.

Something for a large fandom/pairing/character, then, is this SPN story, Sam/Dean:

Diamond Dogs is a short, kind of stylized piece, hopefully with some strongly evoked visuals. Prompt was "werewolfism - one turns and takes the other down."

( excerpt... )

The Days:
1. Something old
2. Something new - talk about a new fanwork of yours!
3. Something you made for someone else
4. Something you made just for yourself
5. Something for a large fandom/pairing/character
6. Something for a small fandom/pairing/character
7. Something you're just really proud of

got this from quickreaver - thought it might be nice to try and post a bit. We'll see if I follow through for all seven days.

Something old



A screengrab I did, nothing fancy, just warmed it up and put the character names/ship on it. From the first short season of Dante's Cove, unbearably cheesy but charming. The scenes with Toby and Kevin highlighted their chemistry - they were incendiary.  The Turks and Caicos islands, where they filmed that first year, was gorgeous and had a certain mystique - haunting and a bit spooky. I actually had a wonderful email relationship with Sam Irving, the director for quite a while.

oh, here's another I did of Kevin in the hospital (it was such a hilarious hospital, not the least bit realistic) - for if you're having a bad day!


It's either 'bad fucking day' or 'bad day fucking,' ha:)

A Supernatural Meme!

My Favourite Season Is: 

I don't have a favorite, though sometimes I think I enjoyed a greater number of S2 episodes... anyway, I like Season 1 and most of 2 for what I feel is fairly consistent characterization, pacing and a sense of purpose for the mytharc. Dislike for some episodes that are real stinkers (Wendigo, ugh, least favorite episode ever, and Bugs and Hook Man).

S3 falls short in the beginning with shallow, off-putting Dean characterization and ineffectual Samage (which continues throughout much of the season and is a disservice to the character, IMO) and a general lack of cohesion/vision/purpose for the show. Mix THAT up with diamonds like "Mystery Spot," "A Very SPN Xmas," and "Bad Day at Black Rock" and you've got a wildly fluctuating season. Still, I enjoyed most episodes even while critting them to death - the actors kept growing and the brotherly moments are always da bomb.
Add missteps like semi-regulars Bela (and a complete inability to sell her as either interesting or sympathetic) and Ruby ( I liked her more as the season went on though she was pretty one-note until the last episode of 3), both of them young 'n' pretty with neither the depth or presence of an Ellen or a Pamela, and you can call time of death on that little experiment almost before it started. 
Having said all that? The last episode in S3 wrung me the hell out and hung me out to dry. It was some really good crack shit.

S4 amps it all up. Couldn't get a handle on Sam's head in the beginning episodes, which made me unhappy (being all Sam!crazy like I am). It was like whatever was going on with him was being hidden from the viewer, which, huh? The angels were interesting until that crazy literal stuff involving Anna in 4.10 losing her grace and hurtling to the ground, etc. Waaa? The more angels I see, the less I like - I think because no one is measuring up even halfway to Castiel. Still, the show found its balls or something. Yeah, or something - I gotta give them credit for throwing all the cards up in the air. Loved Sam's one-man show in "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Dying to see if they make a serious attempt at dealing with his demon blood and the consequences for him and Dean. Dying to know exactly why Castiel brought our Dean back from the land of fire and brimstone. And please, can I just say how happy I was to see him *happy* in Monster Movie, before they amped his angst back up again?


My Favourite Episode Is/episodes are: 
I named a few I love above. Add No Rest for the Wicked, Born Under a Bad Sign, Croatoan, Metamorphosis (yes I know some of you are going huh? Croatoan, Metamorph? but yeah), Hunted, Tall Tales, All Hell Breaks Loose, OH SHIT, there's many many more I truly love even if they aren't my very favorites and who can tell from this list anyway blabbity blab...
  

I Cry everytime:
Nope, I don't.


The Religious Angle In Season 4: 
Wait and see sez me, but kinda not having faith in it. I hope very much that it works out.


The "Special Children" Storyline: 
Once they put it in there, they should have done justice to it and gave us a logical, satisfying conclusion as to their purpose and why they had to die. They just wiped them out with an explanation thin as tissue and spit and it pisses me off. It's a cheat.
  

Ruby: 
I liked Katie Cassidy all right and I liked her quite a bit in the S3 finale, but I never thought she was irreplacable. Until our new Ruby, which ouch, now I miss Katie MOAR. BUT...new Ruby, she's a crap actor and somehow I still kind of like Genevieve (even though she honestly makes me wince at times). I know, I know, shoot me. There's never been a nice straight ruler for my tastes. I like the bad, I like the good and even the embarrassing -  who knows why? 
  

Bela: 
Bela who? She just never made much of an impression.
  

Lillith: 
I liked that mean little girl with the gap-tooth smile. What a bitchy kid! Now where the hell did SHE GO? Show? Anybody?
  

The Episode(s) that Really Creeped Me Out:
I have a major eyeball phobia, as in near psychotic, so Nightmare most definitely, but only because of that. Loved the scarecrow in Scarecrow, he looked great and the orchard was spooky-ooky.  Loved Simon Said for that GREAT scene with the blonde lady in the trenchcoat dousing herself with gasoline and setting herself on fire (er it was Simon Said, right?).
  

My Theory On How The Show Will End:
Sam's not evil. Dean's gained self-worth. They drive off into the sunset in the Impala. Sam will always be a freak to Dean (who loves him). 
Okay, I like the part about driving off into the sunset in the Impala, but hope like hell they go down Angsty Road and make Sam EVIL first, make us throw up our own hearts and EAT THEM in the process of straightening it all out, show Dean he's truly the good guy and give him some healing. But how to make Sam evil and not damage him irreparably? As in how could he live with himself? No cheats allowed, but I'm sure it could be done. Couldn't it?
Hell, the show's already messed both these guys up irreparably.  I don't see how they get up every day. So.
Part of me (small small part - the same part that wrote that short, unhappy story about it) wants Sam to go so evil bad that there's no going back. But then the problem is THAT I WOULD DIE OF WOEFUL-ILITY, SADNESS AND MORBIDITY. Because at heart I'm a WIMP and can't take the sad (unless I'm dishing it out, ha).
BUT BUT BUT! Better that they end it badly than that Sam and Dean settle into suburbia with house, white picket fences and 2.5 children. Because I know the show's about horror, folks, but please no. Those guys would be total strangers to me.