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[Sanctuary Fic] To The Moon

15 Feb 2011 3 Comments

by Nikkiin writing Tags: fanfic, gen, helen magnus, james watson, john druitt, nigel griffin, nikola tesla, one-shot, sanctuary

To The Moon
Fandom: Sanctuary
Genre: Gen
Characters: The Five
Word Count: ~650
Rating: G
Summary: The Five contemplate the distance to the moon on the cold night of a lunar eclipse.
A/N: So apparently it can take me nearly two months to write 700 words.  Good to know.  Thanks are greatly owed to jackwabbit – without her, the ending would have been quite weak indeed.  Though this fic would have been posted before Christmas….

“I wonder,” John mused as The Five formed a lopsided star in the snow and lay back to observe the cloudless heavens.  They had determined that, after missing the lunar eclipse in April, they would get prime seats for the one on the fourth of October.

It was a decision that had been in no small part influenced by Doctor Edward Moreau, the man declaring himself Helen’s rival, who had spent much of the spring months regaling anyone who would listen, and even those who would not, about how absolutely marvellous the April eclipse was.  For her part, Helen was quick to deride the barbaric doctor; despite her own experiments, which often pressed the boundaries of ethical science, she abhorred her colleague’s techniques.  Vivisection on abnormals, Helen had heatedly argued on many occasions, was an unnecessarily cruel procedure.

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[Megamind Fic] Red

31 Jan 2011 No Comments

by Nikkiin writing Tags: drabble, fanfic, megamind, megamind/roxanne, romance, roxanne ritchi

Fandom: Megamind
Characters/pairing: Roxanne, Megamind, Megamind/Roxanne
Genre: Romance, fluff, drabble
Word Count: 100
Summary:  Roxanne is surprised to learn that a certain song by The Police isn’t in Megamind’s extensive collection.
A/N: Exactly 100 words jsyk.  Title thanks to ObsidianJade and the inspiration to actually write (and post) a drabble instead of letting it sit in my mind is probably from jackwabbit.  Thanks guys – you’re both awesome.

“You’re missing a song,” Roxanne said, a small frown on her face as she pursued her boyfriend’s iPod.

“Hmm?”

“The Police – you’re missing one of their songs.”

“Oh, you mean Roxanne?  I had to delete it – I couldn’t bear having a song about a prostitute that shares your name on my iPod.”  Megamind shrugged and turned back to his schematics.

“Megamind?”  Roxanne carefully crawled her way across the organised chaos he had spread across the couch between them.

“Hmm?” Megamind murmured, distracted.  Roxanne brushed a light kiss on his cheek and he glanced up, green eyes wide.

“I love you.”

Sanctuary Bingo!

05 Jan 2011 No Comments

by Nikkiin writing Tags: bingo, fanart, fanfic, i'm an idiot, sanctuary, sanctuary bingo

So, yeah, in a fit of insanity, I’ve decided to sign up for the Sanctuary Bingo.  Cuz clearly the flash fic comm wasn’t enough for me.  Oh god what am I doing I can’t focus on one fandom for more than a few months at a time and I’m so crap about writing fic anyway ahhhhh!  But, wait, art is allowed!  I… I can do art!

So, yeah, I have until July 1st to bingo this scorecard.  And any others that I may request.

Thomas Edison?

He’s going to be so much fucking fun. Tesla vs Edison!!!

And, for myself, this is the list of easy ones: Disney, ozone beatle, the main lab, gen, Edison, Ford, 1990′s, Bigfoot (abnormal), lizard creatures, WWI, The Cabal, Helen’s room, For King and Country, Will’s office, fluff and shape shifters.

And, awww, Twain and Steinbeck?  I’m so not a fan of Twain and, for Steinbeck, I’ve only read Of Mice and Men.  Gunna have to use the modern cast for those prompts.

[Sanctuary Fic] Coffee

03 Jan 2011 1 Comment

by Nikkiin writing Tags: barney, fanfic, gen, helen magnus, humour, james watson, one-shot, sanctuary

Fandom: Sanctuary
Characters: Helen, James, Barney
Genre: Gen, humour
Word Count: ~750
Rating:  G
Prompt: First Times
Summary:  Exhausted from days of straight research, Helen tries coffee.  It goes as well as could be expected.
Notes/Thanks: Thanks must be given to @puffandruffle on twitter for promptly answering my question as to where that scene with Will and Henry (though it was actually Ashley) watching the video with the protégé before Will was.  Say what you will about twitter, but it, and hashtags, make for an excellent source of ungoogleable information.  Written for the Sanctuary flashfic comm and, as I’m just using this comm as a writing exercise (ostensibly to write the Sanctuary characters I’m not as obsessed over, which I clearly just failed at), this is completely unbeta’d.  Feel free to point out anything wrong with it! Other than the lack of proper spacing between the first and second paragraphs – I have no fucking clue what’s up with my blog.

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For over a century, Helen Magnus proudly avoided coffee.  She was quite derisive of the dark drink too, and was rather vocal about her distaste, initially much to the annoyance of her second protégé.  He was quite happily addicted to the swill and, in response to Helen’s unsubtle barbs, his intake had vastly increased.  He quickly took pleasure in tormenting his occasionally stuffy boss by going about the Sanctuary with a large coffee mug perpetually in hand and gleefully kept at for more than twenty years.  It had led to frequent debate between the two with Helen provoking Barney by stating that the smell of the bitter liquid was enough to give her a headache, and he would quickly reply with a snarky one liner and then the two would be off.

James, long used to their squabbling, simply blocked it out.  In two decades he had not heard a new argument from either party and, after unsuccessfully attempting to join in the first time he caught them bickering, he just sighed and carried on.  Clearly it was just one of their things and the detective was not one to begrudge Barney for staking that claim on Helen; he and her had an intimidating amount of shared history and quirks as it was.  From day one, it had been difficult, if not impossible, for outsiders to squirm their way into The Five’s circle and James was impressed at how deeply Barney had integrated himself into their lives.  Especially since it started with something as mundane, and loathed, as coffee.

So the time James and Barney caught Helen in the kitchen with a coffee mug at her lips came as a great surprise to all parties.

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If you can’t find it, why don’t you write it?

16 Dec 2010 7 Comments

by Nikkiin writing Tags: fandom, fanfic, fuck you anon

The title seems like a fairly innocuous and even an encouraging question, eh?  And, hell, maybe some people mean it like that – I mean, you’ve clearly found a void in fandom so you may as will fill it, right?

Yeah, no.  Fuck you anon.  Or non-anon.  Basically, fuck you to anyone who says that.

Why?

Because wanting to read a certain type of fic does not mean in the slightest that you want to write it.  The other day I was bitching about the lack of sick but not pregnant fics on the internet but it’s not like I actually wanted to write it.  I have no inspiration to (though Beckett with food poisoning and the guys thinking that her biker boyfriend knocked her up would be kind of funny).  But I was rather happy when @wabbit89 wrote a fic in which T’Pol was rather under the weather.  Cuz, yeah, I wanted to read, not write.

And there is a huge difference between the two.  Especially the motivation behind why one writes rather than reads.

When I write, it’s because I have (or at least very strongly want) to.  The story won’t leave my head so, dammit, I just force it out onto paper/MS Word/my iPod.  I need an entire idea and the sense that the story is going to go somewhere, not just a trope to fill/subvert.  Not to mention the sense of satisfaction I get from writing a fic is a completely different emotion from the enjoyment I get from just reading one.  I enjoy both activities, but only one of them requires me to use my brain.

When I read, it’s because… well, I always read.  My default state of being is reading.  Hell, even while watching tv (NCIS, currently), I’m reading.  That’s part of the reason why I absolutely detest streaming video – too much of it is flash based and you can’t really fullscreen a flash video on one monitor and read on your second – it just bumps out.

In short, writing is time consuming.  Reading is not.  I can read a 1500 word fic in two minutes for chrissake.  You know how long it’d take me to write that?  Two, maybe three, hours – that’s seventy-five times as long.  Sure, it might take me an hour during NaNoWriMo, but I don’t do any research, editing or, hell, even thinking during a word war!  There is a complete and utter difference in time commitment between reading and writing.

So yeah, the next time you go to say that, just do us all a favour and stfu.  If you’re trollin’, you’re not being particularly ground breaking – get some new material.

(Oh look, I wrote an entry without Sanctuary as one of the tags!  Damn, broke my three post streak.)