O for a Muse of Fire!

Welcome!

I hope to get around to making a proper Master Post of my fic, but until then please pretend that this is one! :)

All of my fic can be found here in my LJ and at the AO3. (I also announce fics on my tumblr, and interact some - in an entirely spoiler-free way - with fandom there.) Most of my fic is m/m slash, some of it is explicit, and pretty much all of it includes a significant amount of banter.

( A little more about how things are organized )

I am writing actively now in Glee fandom (and a touch in The New Normal and Teen Wolf), but I've also written tons in Buffy and Angel and smatterings in Hawaii: Five-O, and Sports Night, as well as wetting my toes in Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, White Collar, and Firefly.

I do have a Glee Fic Index post.

I also have fic year in review posts for 2011 and 2012.

I hope you'll poke around, find some fic you like, and stay to chat! :)

I am, for the record, hugely spoiler-phobic, so please be courteous of that fact.

Statement on transformative works for my writing: I am always thrilled if people would like to turn my stories into podfics. I simply ask that anyone who wishes to do so contact me beforehand just to let me know (I've never said no), credit me as the author of the original work, and send me a link when it is finished! For fic remixes, e-books/compilations, translations, and so forth I would like to be contacted for specific permission. Art and fanmixes are always welcome; just please send me a link so that I can squee! :)

This weekend, for the first time in about a year, I've sorted through the majority of my fandom inboxes instead of just poking at them from time to time but not pulling myself together enough to answer comments in a timely fashion. It's an encouraging sign that I had the emotional fortitude to do so; this year of keeping my family going through the pandemic has left me both raw and utterly, thoroughly drained. What a hell of a year.

I was going to say something about how affirming it is to see that fandom is right where I left it... except that the fun thing about fandom is that it's always moving! It has made me smile to sort through the AO3 notifications in my inbox and see what fandoms my favorite writers are playing in now. I'm happy to see this community still going and people still creating. People finding joy brings me joy.

So wherever you are in the world and in fandom, I wish you joy. <3

It feels today like I'll be back to join you at some point. :)

I've been absent on DW/LJ/Tumblr for a while now because it has been more of a source of stress than of joy, but I realized this morning that I actually forgot about fandom for well over a month. Forgot! I didn't even think to check my fandom e-mail. That's just ridiculous. I love fandom - and you - so much! I love creative people making art and loving things! So here I am checking in, because I know what it feels like to wonder about people who just aren't around.

Long story short: we are okay. Also? This is really hard, even for introverts with means.

We've been isolated at home for over four weeks. Keeping our needs met and trying to help our parents from afar is taking up the vast majority of my mental energy; I just don't have room to think about much else. It reminds me of a trip I took to Europe where I was so focused on getting us around while speaking German (a language I only barely speak) that I didn't have the space in my head think of anything back home for over a week. There was only the here and now. That's my life day to day at this moment, too.

Other than how deeply upsetting this whole situation is, we are so far in good shape. I am grateful for that. mr. muse is working from home, and the museling (now 11!) has school via the internet. We have a big house and a big yard, so we aren't on top of each other, and I am acutely aware of how very fortunate we are.

We live right in the middle of the first New England hotspot, and mr. muse and I are operating under the assumption that we both had a mild form of the virus a couple of weeks ago. (Dry cough, painful lungs, difficulty breathing after doing something small like walking up stairs, loss of sense of smell, etc.) We haven't been tested or anything because, well, for some totally unknown reason that surely has nothing to do with the current resident of the White House there aren't tests available. *looks into the camera like Jim in the Office* We are hoping for an antibody test to come out at some point to show that we've been through it. We're both doing well now, though, and I'm grateful for that, too.

I grew up with grandparents who lived through the Depression and WWII, and I feel an extra sense of kinship with them and a gratitude to them in this time. I heard their stories of deprivation and ingenuity as a kid, and I think of them often as I fill up my freezer with food I've cooked and ponder how best to stretch the ingredients I have. It is part of the human experience, sadly. It gives me comfort to know from their own stories that there is a world on the other side of it.

I'm thinking of you and your families, wherever you are across the planet. I am determined to stay connected beyond my own real life network, because even if I can't give you a tip on which pharmacy is delivering prescriptions I still care about you. You're part of my world. <3

So I took myself to Infinity War today.

( My brief reaction, obvious spoilers for the movie )

For readers with excellent memories, this is the outline I've been working on since soon after Glee ended. I've finally come to terms with the fact that mere prose is never going to be enough for me to share what's in my head, so this is the best I can do. :)

At least maybe now I can stop crying over the songs? IDK.

And That's What We Missed on Glee: an outline for a season seven that never was (12756 words) by flaming_muse
Chapters: 14/14
Fandom: Glee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel, Rachel Berry/Jesse St. James, Santana Lopez/Brittany S. Pierce
Characters: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson, Rachel Berry, Jesse St. James, Santana Lopez, Brittany S. Pierce, Artie Abrams, Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert, Isabelle Wright, Dani (Glee), Cooper Anderson, Tina Cohen-Chang, Mike Chang, Kitty Wilde, Sugar Motta, Carmen Tibideaux, Burt Hummel, Carole Hudson-Hummel
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Canonical Character Death
Summary:

A season seven of Glee that never was, following the original Glee kids who go back to New York after a semester in Ohio in season six. Written as an outline, not a prose story.

(Also hello! I am alive, though I'm tired of snow and illness and all of the nonsense of being a parent in winter in New England.)

First Skate (1253 words) by flaming_muse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jack Zimmermann, John Johnson
Additional Tags: Jack Zimmermann's Overdose, Anxiety, Pre-Series
Summary:

Jack can't join the locker room banter before his first skate at Samwell.

I am having a super crazy busy week here to the point that I'm having stress chest pains, so in reaction I guess I've been using my daily writing time to do a polish on fics that have been lingering in my wip tabs. You know, just last week I despaired of ever finishing and posting anything... but then there isn't much left that is close to being finished, so I guess I'll go quiet again while I'm plodding along bit by bit about Jack Zimmermann. :P

Rain (3666 words) by flaming_muse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Glee
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel
Characters: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson
Additional Tags: Rain, Marriage, Arguing
Summary:

Just because they're married doesn't mean they're new people. An argument, some rain, and a resolution of sorts. A bit of newly married Klaine in New York.

I'm interested in how Kurt and Blaine deal with conflict after two break-ups and an unexpected marriage. They've both grown a lot, but they also are who they are. I wrote the first draft of this fic as a freewriting exercise one day, and I've been trying here and there since to shape it into something that made sense to people who weren't me.

Also, I feel like if there were a theme bingo for my work, rain would be one of the squares. The atmosphere of rainy days is powerful to me, I guess.

So, yeah, I really liked Hela in Thor: Ragnarok when I saw it yesterday, and I made some fic about her today. Whoops?

This is the gen-iest gen fic I have ever written, and it's in one of those massive fandoms I read in but have never written in. I feel like a proper multi-fandom fangirl!

Birthright (1009 words) by flaming_muse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hela (Marvel), Skurge
Additional Tags: Death, Not Really Character Death
Summary:

"Hela knows there’s unrest outside the doors, thousands of Asgardians not yet eager to bow to her. But she’s unworried. They will bow. Alive or dead, they will most certainly fall to their knees on the blood-soaked ground and know that she rules them."

A bit of Hela and Skurge in the throne room.

Takes place during Thor: Ragnarok.

Yadda yadda, it's the beginning of the school year, I'm still in Get Everything Organized mode (which included unpacking the TARDIS that is my office closet, and wow does it suddenly seem like I have read/written/done a lot of things when I spread it all out in piles across the floor), and my brain is still twitchy from having been full time parenting my beloved but highly interactive child for all of August. I am so far from settled into a normal rhythm that I can't even really make a normal post right now.

BUT. I've been watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in little bits since, oh, Friday, and I am feeling ALL of the Thewlis as Lupin feels and watched the scene in the Shrieking Shack like five times in a row because I'm obsessed with his performance (and Oldman's Sirius, too), and I feel like I've been fannishly zapped back about a decade to a time when my LJ friends list was buzzing about these very topics ONLY I AM THE ONLY ONE HERE. :D I wasn't even in HP fandom! But goodness, I really enjoyed revisiting those performances. I'll have to go back through my memories and see if I saved any of the great fic and meta from that time.

Fandom problems, jeez.