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brumeierAnd another month bites the dust!
My big news for September is that I decided to resign from Second Job (aka the deli). My last day with be November 30th, and I’m so excited about it! As long as the child support money keeps coming in I won’t need the extra job. I can’t wait to reclaim my evenings and Sundays!
School started back up again for us. The one I work at, and my boy attends, is doing in-person instruction every day but Wednesdays, which is a remote day. So far it’s going pretty well. We’re being really cautious with anyone displaying symptoms and sending them home to get tested. Most of the kids are being good about following the new rules, though we have to give a lot of reminders to pull masks up so they cover the nose too.
I feel like I had a really productive month, with both writing and scrapbooking. I feel good when I can be creative. Helps beat back the anxiety of life in these United States.
Seventeen scrappy layouts done last month. I made a list of school pages I need to catch up on for my boy and it’s a lot. My biggest victory was finding what should’ve been a throwaway sticker from Payless shoe store from 2011, which I wanted to use on a layout. That’s either super good on me for saving stuff, or else I need to get help for saving too much. LOL!
Here’s one of the layouts I did:
Nineteen fics posted in September, most prompt fills and/or challenge fics. Wrote in two new-to-me fandoms, both of them RPF which is also kinda new for me. I also started working on something for Halloween, which I’ll hopefully be able to get done in time. ::fingers crossed::
Biggest moment was posting my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
wipbigbang fic, which was seven years in the making. Which just goes to show that even a fic you think has been abandoned for all eternity can still be resurrected.
If you’re interested, here’s what I posted last month:
Title: Slept So Long
Fandom: The Sentinel/Moonlight (TV)
Pairing: Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg, Josef Kostan/Mick St. John
Characters: Jim, Blair, Rafe, Megan, Naomi, Alex Barnes, Lee Brackett, etc.
Challenge(s):wipbigbang
Warning(s): shady vampire activities, violence, murder, psychological torture
Prompt/Summary: Blair is an anthropologist on the hunt for something that shouldn't exist: a vampire with Sentinel senses. Jim is the vampire Master of the City of Cascade. Their mutual attraction isn't smart and it isn't safe, but in the end it'll be what saves them both.
Title: Love A Farmer
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Characters: Evan, David
Warning(s): schmoopy relationship stuff
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, Evan Lorne/David Parrish, "A Farmer Wants A Wife"
In which David is anxious to make a good first impression.
Title: It Remains…Unsolved
Fandom: Prodigal Son/Buzzfeed Unsolved
Characters: Jessica Whitly, Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej
Warning(s): Jessica doing her thing
Prompt/Summary: Prodigal Son, Jessica Whitly+ any, she's been contacted by the Kindred Spirits team to do an investigation in her home
In which Jessica continues to try and control the narrative of her family.
Title: Home For Supper
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John
Warning(s): smooshy boys being smooshy
Prompt/Summary: any, any, cloudy with a chance of love
In which it's tornado season, and John and Rodney are hard at work for the Weather Channel.
Title: Fixer-Upper
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Clint, Phil, Lucky the dog
Warning(s): fluffy times for the boys
Prompt/Summary: MCU, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, workaholic Phil inherits a house/small business in a remote small town and falls for Clint, the local handyman helping him fix it up
Title: Love Comes Softly
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: Bucky, Steve, Sam
Warning(s): emotional h/c, fluffy boys being fluffy
Prompt/Summary: MCU, Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes, Love Comes Softly (2003)
In which Bucky reflects on the positive changes in his life.
Title: Blood Bond
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John, OCs
Warning(s): this is some dark shit, teenagers murdered, bullying
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Let the Right One In fusion (feel free to age them)
In which John and Rodney meet as teenagers and form a friendship that includes a bit more death and blood-letting than average.
Title: Final Jeopardy
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Jeopardy!
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John, Kavanagh, Alex Trebek
Warning(s): John Sheppard being a romantic asshole
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, competing against each other on Jeopardy
Title: Windward House
Fandom: Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators
Pairing: Trixie Belden/Jupiter Jones
Characters: Trixie, Jupiter
Warning(s): spoilers for plot points of the movie The Uninvited, spooky stuff
Prompt/Summary: any, any, going to a haunted house (real haunted or attraction, up to you)
In which Trixie and Jupiter take a trip overseas, and there's one particular house with a tragic history that she really wants to visit.
Title: Letters From Nam
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Bucky, Steve, Natasha, OCs
Warning(s): Vietnam-era chaos and violence, temporary character death
Prompt/Summary: MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Travelin soldier fusion.
In which Steve and Bucky meet the day before Bucky ships out, and develop a friendship - and maybe more - through letters back and forth. Until the letters stop.
Title: Unmasked
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Rodney, John, Ronon, Teyla, OCs
Warning(s): fluffy team Scooby Doo antics
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, ensemble, teen sleuths AU
In which Rodney and his friends are hot on the trail of a mysterious ghoul that's probably not really a ghoul at all.
Title: Nothing Was Simple
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis/Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Evan Lorne/David Parrish, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Steve, Evan, David, Rodney, John, Bucky
Series: Gay Paree, 1920s
Warning(s): feels, feels, and more feels
Prompt/Summary: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Bucky Barnes +/ Steve Rogers, Paris in the 1920's
In which Steve is taking some time for himself in Paris and gets some unexpected news about his best friend, who'd supposedly died in the war.
Title: Tender Curiosity
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: past Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange
Characters: Tony, Stephen, Rhodey
Series: Gay Paree, 1920s
Warning(s): complicated relationships
Prompt/Summary: Marvel Cinematic Universe, ensemble, 1920's speakeasy AU
In which Tony is drowning his sorrows at his friend's speakeasy, and meets someone who might just take his mind off Steve Rogers.
Title: Life Used To Be So Hard
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis/The Sentinel
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John, Blair, Jeannie, Madison
Challenge(s):sga_saturday
Series: Life in the Yukon
Warning(s): McKay family funtimes
Prompt/Summary: John is making a grand gesture, Rodney is re-evaluating his long-term life goals, and Jeannie is throwing a wrench in the works. Just another day in Lantea, Alaska!
Title: Bound For Moving On
Fandom: Trixie Belden Mysteries
Pairing: Brian Belden/Honey Wheeler
Characters: Trixie, Brian, Mart, Honey
Challenge(s):whatif_au - music, ficlet_zone - Moody Blues songs ‘I’m Just a Singer’
Warning(s): family disagreement, mentions of 1960s-era social discord
Prompt/Summary: The Belden Family Singers are famous folk artists, but Trixie is tired of singing the old standards and wants something different. Convincing her brothers will be the hard part.
Title: Missing Corpses Mystery
Fandom: Midsomer Murders
Characters: John Barnaby, Ben Jones, Kate Wilding
Warning(s): mentions of Highlander-esque deaths and disappearances
Prompt/Summary: any crime or procedural show/Highlander, any, figuring out how that "body" vanished from the morgue
In which DI John Barnaby is having a rough week, dealing with corpses gone missing and a brutal decapitation death.
Title: Showdown at the Ski Jump
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John, Rodney, Dave Sheppard
Warning(s): The Dysfunctional Family Sheppard, identity theft
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard, The Mystery at the Ski Jump (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories)
In which someone is using John's identity, and it's someone Rodney didn't even know existed.
Title: Just A Dream
Fandom: Prodigal Son
Characters: Dani Powell, Malcolm Bright, Edrisa Tanaka, Martin Whitly
Challenge(s):![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hc_bingo - family
Series: Monster Hunters
Warning(s): nightmares, dysfunctional family, demons
Prompt/Summary: Prodigal Son Malcolm Bright + any, Welcome to My Nightmare (Alice Cooper)
In which Slayer Dani and her friends get stuck in a dream. Unfortunately, it's Malcolm's.
Title: Patience Rewarded
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Characters: David, Evan, Chuck, Teyla
Warning(s): hurt/comfort, anxiety
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, Evan Lorne/Any (David Parrish preferred), "Superstition" (1973)
In which Evan has been missing for a week and David is afraid what the news might be when it finally comes.
My big news for September is that I decided to resign from Second Job (aka the deli). My last day with be November 30th, and I’m so excited about it! As long as the child support money keeps coming in I won’t need the extra job. I can’t wait to reclaim my evenings and Sundays!
School started back up again for us. The one I work at, and my boy attends, is doing in-person instruction every day but Wednesdays, which is a remote day. So far it’s going pretty well. We’re being really cautious with anyone displaying symptoms and sending them home to get tested. Most of the kids are being good about following the new rules, though we have to give a lot of reminders to pull masks up so they cover the nose too.
I feel like I had a really productive month, with both writing and scrapbooking. I feel good when I can be creative. Helps beat back the anxiety of life in these United States.
Seventeen scrappy layouts done last month. I made a list of school pages I need to catch up on for my boy and it’s a lot. My biggest victory was finding what should’ve been a throwaway sticker from Payless shoe store from 2011, which I wanted to use on a layout. That’s either super good on me for saving stuff, or else I need to get help for saving too much. LOL!
Here’s one of the layouts I did:
Nineteen fics posted in September, most prompt fills and/or challenge fics. Wrote in two new-to-me fandoms, both of them RPF which is also kinda new for me. I also started working on something for Halloween, which I’ll hopefully be able to get done in time. ::fingers crossed::
Biggest moment was posting my
wipbigbang fic, which was seven years in the making. Which just goes to show that even a fic you think has been abandoned for all eternity can still be resurrected. If you’re interested, here’s what I posted last month:
Title: Slept So Long
Fandom: The Sentinel/Moonlight (TV)
Pairing: Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg, Josef Kostan/Mick St. John
Characters: Jim, Blair, Rafe, Megan, Naomi, Alex Barnes, Lee Brackett, etc.
Challenge(s):
wipbigbangWarning(s): shady vampire activities, violence, murder, psychological torture
Prompt/Summary: Blair is an anthropologist on the hunt for something that shouldn't exist: a vampire with Sentinel senses. Jim is the vampire Master of the City of Cascade. Their mutual attraction isn't smart and it isn't safe, but in the end it'll be what saves them both.
Title: Love A Farmer
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Characters: Evan, David
Warning(s): schmoopy relationship stuff
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, Evan Lorne/David Parrish, "A Farmer Wants A Wife"
In which David is anxious to make a good first impression.
Title: It Remains…Unsolved
Fandom: Prodigal Son/Buzzfeed Unsolved
Characters: Jessica Whitly, Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej
Warning(s): Jessica doing her thing
Prompt/Summary: Prodigal Son, Jessica Whitly+ any, she's been contacted by the Kindred Spirits team to do an investigation in her home
In which Jessica continues to try and control the narrative of her family.
Title: Home For Supper
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John
Warning(s): smooshy boys being smooshy
Prompt/Summary: any, any, cloudy with a chance of love
In which it's tornado season, and John and Rodney are hard at work for the Weather Channel.
Title: Fixer-Upper
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Clint, Phil, Lucky the dog
Warning(s): fluffy times for the boys
Prompt/Summary: MCU, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, workaholic Phil inherits a house/small business in a remote small town and falls for Clint, the local handyman helping him fix it up
Title: Love Comes Softly
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: Bucky, Steve, Sam
Warning(s): emotional h/c, fluffy boys being fluffy
Prompt/Summary: MCU, Sam Wilson/Bucky Barnes, Love Comes Softly (2003)
In which Bucky reflects on the positive changes in his life.
Title: Blood Bond
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John, OCs
Warning(s): this is some dark shit, teenagers murdered, bullying
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Let the Right One In fusion (feel free to age them)
In which John and Rodney meet as teenagers and form a friendship that includes a bit more death and blood-letting than average.
Title: Final Jeopardy
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Jeopardy!
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John, Kavanagh, Alex Trebek
Warning(s): John Sheppard being a romantic asshole
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, competing against each other on Jeopardy
Title: Windward House
Fandom: Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators
Pairing: Trixie Belden/Jupiter Jones
Characters: Trixie, Jupiter
Warning(s): spoilers for plot points of the movie The Uninvited, spooky stuff
Prompt/Summary: any, any, going to a haunted house (real haunted or attraction, up to you)
In which Trixie and Jupiter take a trip overseas, and there's one particular house with a tragic history that she really wants to visit.
Title: Letters From Nam
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: Bucky, Steve, Natasha, OCs
Warning(s): Vietnam-era chaos and violence, temporary character death
Prompt/Summary: MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Travelin soldier fusion.
In which Steve and Bucky meet the day before Bucky ships out, and develop a friendship - and maybe more - through letters back and forth. Until the letters stop.
Title: Unmasked
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Rodney, John, Ronon, Teyla, OCs
Warning(s): fluffy team Scooby Doo antics
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, ensemble, teen sleuths AU
In which Rodney and his friends are hot on the trail of a mysterious ghoul that's probably not really a ghoul at all.
Title: Nothing Was Simple
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis/Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Evan Lorne/David Parrish, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Steve, Evan, David, Rodney, John, Bucky
Series: Gay Paree, 1920s
Warning(s): feels, feels, and more feels
Prompt/Summary: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Bucky Barnes +/ Steve Rogers, Paris in the 1920's
In which Steve is taking some time for himself in Paris and gets some unexpected news about his best friend, who'd supposedly died in the war.
Title: Tender Curiosity
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: past Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, Tony Stark/Stephen Strange
Characters: Tony, Stephen, Rhodey
Series: Gay Paree, 1920s
Warning(s): complicated relationships
Prompt/Summary: Marvel Cinematic Universe, ensemble, 1920's speakeasy AU
In which Tony is drowning his sorrows at his friend's speakeasy, and meets someone who might just take his mind off Steve Rogers.
Title: Life Used To Be So Hard
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis/The Sentinel
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney, John, Blair, Jeannie, Madison
Challenge(s):
sga_saturdaySeries: Life in the Yukon
Warning(s): McKay family funtimes
Prompt/Summary: John is making a grand gesture, Rodney is re-evaluating his long-term life goals, and Jeannie is throwing a wrench in the works. Just another day in Lantea, Alaska!
Title: Bound For Moving On
Fandom: Trixie Belden Mysteries
Pairing: Brian Belden/Honey Wheeler
Characters: Trixie, Brian, Mart, Honey
Challenge(s):
whatif_au - music, ficlet_zone - Moody Blues songs ‘I’m Just a Singer’Warning(s): family disagreement, mentions of 1960s-era social discord
Prompt/Summary: The Belden Family Singers are famous folk artists, but Trixie is tired of singing the old standards and wants something different. Convincing her brothers will be the hard part.
Title: Missing Corpses Mystery
Fandom: Midsomer Murders
Characters: John Barnaby, Ben Jones, Kate Wilding
Warning(s): mentions of Highlander-esque deaths and disappearances
Prompt/Summary: any crime or procedural show/Highlander, any, figuring out how that "body" vanished from the morgue
In which DI John Barnaby is having a rough week, dealing with corpses gone missing and a brutal decapitation death.
Title: Showdown at the Ski Jump
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John, Rodney, Dave Sheppard
Warning(s): The Dysfunctional Family Sheppard, identity theft
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard, The Mystery at the Ski Jump (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories)
In which someone is using John's identity, and it's someone Rodney didn't even know existed.
Title: Just A Dream
Fandom: Prodigal Son
Characters: Dani Powell, Malcolm Bright, Edrisa Tanaka, Martin Whitly
Challenge(s):
hc_bingo - familySeries: Monster Hunters
Warning(s): nightmares, dysfunctional family, demons
Prompt/Summary: Prodigal Son Malcolm Bright + any, Welcome to My Nightmare (Alice Cooper)
In which Slayer Dani and her friends get stuck in a dream. Unfortunately, it's Malcolm's.
Title: Patience Rewarded
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Characters: David, Evan, Chuck, Teyla
Warning(s): hurt/comfort, anxiety
Prompt/Summary: Stargate Atlantis, Evan Lorne/Any (David Parrish preferred), "Superstition" (1973)
In which Evan has been missing for a week and David is afraid what the news might be when it finally comes.
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Date: 2020-10-02 01:24 am (UTC)I've actually been writing this past month - a BFU fic, actually, and it's sitting at 22k right now. Whoops? It feels good to write again, and it's low pressure because I don't know anybody in the BFU fandom so there's nobody to disappoint!
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Date: 2020-10-02 01:33 am (UTC)Thanks bb <3
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Date: 2020-10-04 08:32 pm (UTC)Kudos on getting your auction fics done!