Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Welcome to my journal. I don't update often except in the early part of the year (by June you'll be lucky to see a post). Most of it isn't friends-locked so feel free to take a look around.

I'm here and can be found on LJ, Ao3, & Twitter by the same handle. I'm on LJ & DW about the same amount now, but some things are only updated in one place. Twitter rarely gets updated and it's usually just me responding to someone else's Tweets. There's a fic list accessible through the sidebar, but it's not entirely up to date, so just search through tags or come see me on Ao3.

Fandoms I'm currently writing for:
All for the Game (Nora Sakavic), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (occasionally some Angel might find it's way in), Desert Hearts, Firefly, Game of Thrones, Gotham, Hockey RPF, Indiana Jones series (specifically Raiders of the Lost Ark), Justified, L.A. Confidential, Life, OZ, Prodigal Son, Queer as Folk (UK), Resident Alien, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Big Bang Theory, The Departed, The Fast and the Furious series, The Godfather, and Top Gun: Maverick

I'm hoping to start writing for Star Trek: Enterprise at some point in 2025.

Transformative works statement is here.

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Thanks for stopping by!

A category-3 tornado ripped through my city last Friday. Fortunately, our apartment wasn't in the path of it. I went out to the north side of the city yesterday to drop off some donations and the devastation was incredible. I got lost on the way to the donation site and was driving around a park in the area and it was just tree after tree that had been uprooted in the storm. The other amazing thing was all of the people who came out to help- there were people on street corners handing out meals and water and the line of cars heading to drop off items at the donation site was quite long. There were already roofers up at the community center making repairs. It was great to see so many people working to make things a little easier. They were asking for donations of tarps today as it is raining here tonight with the possibility of another tornado as well.

In all my years in the Midwest, I have been around my share of tornado warnings, but I can't remember a storm like this in my lifetime. It was a beautiful day until around 2pm, then it started to get dark and grey and the wind picked up. It blew the power out at my office and the wind would rattle the doors and windows. The building the office is in is like a storefront and the front wall is mostly big windows, so not ideal to be sitting there when the wind picks up like that. There were no sirens, the cell phone warning never went off, and even the radio didn't have a tornado alert. That's how fast it happened, and it was over just as quickly.

Everything else is going okay. I haven't written much of anything. I've been reading a lot. I'm now working on "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley. It's not too bad. I'm a little miffed that there only seems to be one team worth cheering for left in the NHL playoffs. My favorite team, the Ottawa Charge, has made the PWHL finals and I'm thrilled about that. It'll be nice to watch that for the next week.

That's all I've got for now. Hope you all are doing well.

halfamoon will be underway from February 1-14. Please consider joining us either as a creator or a cheerleader for this 14 day fest celebrating female characters. The daily themes are in a pinned post on the community page so you can jump right in or get ahead of things or be a rebel and do something completely different.

Hope to see you there.

Challenge #12 Create a Rec Countdown.

5 movies I recommend:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Brown Sugar
Jaws
Mulan (either version)
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

4 Dreamwidth communities that I'd recommend:
allbingo - runs bingo challenges each month
halfamoon - focuses on women characters in fandom, runs February 1-14 (please feel free to join)
hardtime100 - drabble & fic writing community for the HBO OZ fandom
sweetandshort - offers different challenges for icons or works of 500 words or less

3 of my fics that I'd recommend
Another Time, Another Life - L.A. Confidential - I turn the subtext at the end into text
Five Times Giles and Anya Could Have Met - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Giles knew Anya long before Sunnydale
One Tear - The Departed - experimental poetry told in second person about Costigan & Dignam's relationship (BDSM so not for everyone)

2 museums in the U.S. where I could spend a day
National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio - planes, missiles, and space craft spread out in five different hangars, you may need more than a day to get through all of it
National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee - The museum recommends planning at least 90 minutes to enjoy it. That is nowhere near enough time if you are someone like me who follows all the links and listens to the songs. Very interactive and educational experience.

1 Website to Check Out
Astronomy Picture of the Day - If you want to cultivate your fascination with space, this is a great place to look. The pictures are interesting and there's always a short explanation by a professional astronomer.

Here's my bingo card for the Public Domain Bingo running at allbingo

Dynamo	"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue"	"How Am I To Know?"	Those Were the Days	Dawn
"Do Something"	"Jealous"	"I May Be Wrong"	"After A Million Dreams"	"Stardust"
"Am I Blue?"	"You Were Meant for Me"	Relics and Angels	The Talisman of Happiness	Speedy Death
"Can't We Be Friends?"	"Nobody's Sweetheart"	"Waiting At The End Of The Road"	"Lovable And Sweet"	"Why Can't I?"
"It Had To Be You"	The World Below	"I'm a Dreamer	Aren't We All?"	"Just You

Is anybody else going to be writing 50000 words in November? And if so, are you going through the NaNo site or elsewhere?

Written for the Weekend Challenge prompt "when I fly toward you". Title a play on a line from "Both Sides Now". Entirely dialogue.

( Memes and Dreams and Circus Clowns )

Here are some more icons made from pictures I took on my Chicago trip. (Basically, if it looked interesting, I took a picture of it so there's lots of street art that I captured on this go-round)

( Here be icons )

Still chugging along. Not much happening. Here's the rundown.
( Update )