Stories in the works

I'm cruising along on that Lorne/Sheppard what-the-heck-this-is-fun-whee! story I've been writing in comments to auburnnothenna. Sheppard, naked, pissed off and chasing Lorne down a beach on the Atlantis mainland-? My idea of a good time.

The Lorne/Heightmeyer? Let's not mince words. This story sucks donkey dick. Each attempt to repair it has made it slightly worse. filenotch, I fear to send it to you, if only because I want no evidence of how badly I can write when I'm writing badly. I am digging a hole in the back yard to hide the bodies. This is not mere writerly neurosis. I have had one beta say, "There are good things about this story" (the ever-sweet amothea) and two others tell me various gentle versions of "wow, um, do we get salvage rights?" (_inbetween_ who wisely bailed, and enname who has bravely stuck it out). I'm still working on it out of sheer bloody-minded stubbornness, to see if I have the ability to fix it at all. I suspect enname has stuck it out due to a delighted fascination with train-wrecks.

Out Of Bounds, I'm just writing snippets to The Playground people as I try to work out a major plot-hole and re-write my outline according to the reality of the skating season. roaringmice's suggestion is still my best option.

P.S. Is there something wrong with me that my Out Of Bounds outline is in an Excel spreadsheet?

The Lost & Found

You all have them.

Stories that you posted that somehow fell through the cracks. You wrote them the week everyone was away at a convention. Or else your story canon was jossed three days after you posted them. Or they're a weird pairing that no one likes. Or else the story's gen and everyone who reads you only cares about slash.

I was rooting through my list of stories that just... fell off the radar.

The Albatross - HP Fandom - Snape/Percy
I wrote this the day before Half-Blood Prince came out, with full knowledge that canon would probably joss it and it would likely be missed in the squeeing over JKR. It also has a title that doesn't grab. I always thought it was rather sweet, which is strange in a Snape/Percy.

Liar's Chair - SGA Fandom - John Sheppard
I just wrote this one, but know? I'm not usually a gen writer and it sort of... slipped by. I really like this trip inside John's neurosis and self-doubts.

The Stars Look Very Different Today - SGA Fandom - John/Rodney
This is a gut-punch I wrote and then never posted anywhere until waaaay after the fact. I'm surprised, but I come back and re-read it for the imagery. Read the warnings, because this is the kind of story I don't usually like to read, especially if I'm not warned.

First Time A Soldier - SG-1 Fandom - Jack, Daniel
This one had two strikes against it: 1) it was written nearly a year after my active involvement in the SG-1 universe (and shortly before the cancellation of the show), and 2) it's gen, which I don't often write. It's introspective with a tight structure and comes close to "literary" fiction, whatever that is.

The Metronome - HP Fandom - young Lucius Malfoy, Tom Riddle
Here is another example of that same problem: written long after my daily involvement in HP, and it's also gen. I posted it, too, at the end of the year, in the middle of the flood of Smutmas fics. Lucius as an uncomfortable young man, arrogant, but not sure of himself.


What stories do you have in your Lost & Found? Post them.

Aha! Another little tidbit buried in a random folder.

I don't know what I planned to do with this either, but I thought you might enjoy it regardless.

Title: Welcome Home: The Metronome follow-up scene
Author: Icarus
Rating: PG
Fandom/Pairing: HP, Lucius
Summary: Not a story, just a ficlet. The scene when Lucius returns home after his first meeting with Lord Voldemort.


( The question was as soft as melting butter. )

So I have a lot to do tonight to prepare for tomorrow, and I've asked WG to hog the computer, please. Of course, I'm staying at school for as long as possible, because I picked a really tough subject for my Lotus Sutra class. What do I know about Japanese poetry?

In the spirit of avoiding work (and continuing to spam my f-list before I give up on distracting myself), here are hpshortfics drabbles, unedited, written in roughly 30 minutes apiece.

( Our theme was 'weather' and Narnia crossovers. Thunderstorm! And must include soap. Bonus points for het and/or Percy (goseaward) )

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( The theme was missing scenes from the HP books - Remus, waking up in the woods after running loose in PoA )

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( The theme was missing scenes from the HP books - Severus and Draco, right after their escape )

Thank you to underlucius for the beta review.

This is goseaward's fault. We got on the subject of music and piano months ago, and I wound up with the image of Lucius Malfoy, practicing on the harpsicord, surrounded by his life of privilege. I wondered... why would he give it up? Why follow and be humiliated by Voldemort? He already has everything.

Title: The Metronome
Author: Icarus
Website:
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Lucius, Tom Riddle, Gen
Warning: None
Summary: To everyone else, Lucius had everything. But he only saw what was out of reach. An unknown dark wizard makes him an offer.


Read the rest here: To everyone else, Lucius had everything. But he only saw what was out of reach. An unknown dark wizard makes him an offer.


(  Snippet: The Metronome, Lucius/Tom Riddle. Gen. PG-13. )


Read the rest here: To everyone else, Lucius had everything. But he only saw what was out of reach. An unknown dark wizard makes him an offer.

Shortfics written last night for hpshortfics. Unfortunately, goseaward's Remus/Charlie challenge broke me, so I've promised a John/Rodney fic instead.

( Fics entirely composed of letters - Challenge: War letters, Percy/anyone. 402 words. )

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( Fics comprised entirely of letters - Challenge: Minerva/anyone, rejecting a person's advances. 281 words. )

Yep. The story that wouldn't die. Now I have to decide if I force it to dabble along in real time or allow the time-jumps it wants to do.

The Albatross is here.
Part 1.
Part 2.



( Percy/Snape. Unnamed backstory from The Albatross: The truth comes out. Or at least some of it. )

Now that everyone has gone off to The Witching Hour, those of us who are left should form a secret society.

I'll be treasurer. (Our treasury shall be packed full of porn, fics, and drabbles written behind everyone's backs, housed on my site and maybe even password locked for members only--and those who beg prettily enough.)

Who wants to chairman, huh? "Vice" chairman?


ETA:

-- We have a "Smut" Chairman (as she has agreed to wear the, ahem, mantle of authority) -- electricandroid
-- The official Cabin Boy has been sworn in, and will be serving mead (and running various untoward errands) in the underground cavern you-know-where and you-know-when -- tboy
-- scribbulus_ink is in spandex and maintaining the roster of secret identities.
-- hobbit_feet shall train us in the secret handshake (which should be pretty interesting since we'll all pretty smashed by that part of the agenda....)
-- simmysim has signed in blood as super Captain Super Pirate King and has the bandaid to prove it!
-- kaci_2005_tide has the honor of First Member Emeritus.
-- kragey is grazing the muffins while quaffing mead, while sarcastic_irony is drawing up our bylaws (oh by the way, you're in charge of bylaws sarcastic_irony) and anandangel is our official scribe (oh, you're the scribe, anandangel).
-- fer_de_lance shall shake you down collect your fics, ficlets, drabbles, art, recs, and other fantasies.

ETA2: dphearson has been sworn in as the disreputable and unreliable look-out and guard.

ETA3: winstonmom has taken on the task of flustered and frustrated foreign liaison.

Our first agenda shall be posted in my next post. :D

( Blithely, Icarus said, 'Sure, no problem!' )

Three weeks later… thank goodness for friendslists, many recommendations and people with better taste than my own. Guys, this would not exist without you.

( Filesharing is bad, bad. )

The Soundtrack:

Beg Me For It
Tool - Sober ( Scene, yes spoilerific )
The Clash – Career Opportunities ( Scene, yes spoilerific )
Nirvana - Dumb ( Scene )
Tool - Intolerance ( Scene )
REM - Losing My Religion ( Scene )
The Ramones - Beat On The Brat ( Scene )
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me ( Scene )
REM - So Fast, So Numb ( Scene )

Drabble series
Air - Playground Love ( Scene )

Death Eater Rock
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik ( Scene )
Led Zepplin - Dancing Days ( Scene ) (or if you hate Dancing Days as much as wildernessguru does, try the hotter/faster Benny Benassi – Satisfaction)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss ( Scene )
Siouxie and the Banshees - Trust In Me ( Scene )
Sade - Smooth Operator ( Scene )
Nine Inch Nails - Closer ( Scene )
Sade - Jezebel ( Scene )
Beastie Boys - Namaste ( Scene )
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Righteous & The Wicked ( Scene )
Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Lovely Man ( Scene )
Placebo - My Sweet Prince ( Scene )
The Dandy Warhols - Sleep ( Scene )

Hey You
Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days ( Scene )
Soundgarden - Head Down ( Scene )
Pink Floyd - Hey You ( Scene )
Soundgarden - Like Suicide ( Scene )
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb ( Scene )
Soundgarden - Limo Wreck ( Scene )
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? ( Scene )
Soundgarden - The Day I Tried To Live ( Scene )

Drabble: Music
Metallica - Fade To Black ( Scene )

Drabble: Clutching At Rainbows
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl ( Scene )

SNAFU
Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls ( Scene )
Metallica - Fight Fire With Fire ( Scene )
Nina Simone - Sinnerman ( Scene )
Rush - Stick It Out ( Scene )
The Ramones - Pet Sematary ( Scene )
Helmet - Unsung ( Scene )
Metallica - Enter Sandman ( Scene )
Helmet - Turned Out ( Scene )
Metallica - Trapped Under Ice ( Scene )
The Ramones - Commando ( Scene )
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting ( Scene )
Soundgarden - Let Me Drown ( Scene )
Pink Floyd - In The Flesh ( Scene )
Metallica - Unforgiven ( Scene )
Metallica - Battery ( Scene )
Metallica - Master Of Puppets ( Scene )
Metallica - Orion ( Scene )

Stand In The Ruins
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun ( Scene )
Soundgarden - 4th of July ( Scene )
The Dandy Warhols - Nietzsche ( Scene )

Celebrate Life
Cat Stevens - Ruins ( Scene )
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied ( Scene )

Scarred
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy ( Scene )
3 Doors Down - Let Me Go ( Scene )

And the credits roll....

Song editing ... ze_dragon
Music software supplied by ... ze_dragon, lizardspots
Executive music directors ... lizardspots, ze_dragon, adred, thywillbedone, and teh_music
Assistant song directors ... wikdsushi, cedarlibrarian, orionoire, dingdongdevious, alafairnadia, cyanei, bethbethbeth, jellynougat, vulgarweed, stinksap, auxphono, wolfgrin, aquatryst, clymer, tigerlilly2063, latrapdoorlover, rikibeth, kaci_2005_tide, Jeremiah, cv, Jennifer
Mac technical crew ... Jeremiah, mad_maudlin, idlerat, prillalar, quiteserious, lucciolia
Art production … lizardspots Boys Will Be Girls, Sex, Drugs & Drag, Beg Me For It, Bath Tub, and banner art.
Music critic and general whinging ... wildernessguru

Okay, I have 18 more songs to upload and the Beg Me For It soundtrack will be ready.

Because of the questionable ethics of making music publicly available for download I'm going to lock the soundtrack post to just my flist. If you want access to the files another way, email me at icarus_ancalion@yahoo.com and I'll work something out. I already have one person without an LJ account who's asked.

Now, regarding friending: normally I friend everyone who friends me. But LJ will only allow me to friend 31 more and I have 53 52 people I haven't friended since July (sorry, started new job and online time was cut severely).

I feel bad about this, I want to friend everyone back especially given the soundtrack, but I can't do anything about LJ's f-list limitations.

Comment here if you want me to friend you back. Bear in mind I never lock fics and pretty much don't lock anything. I'm thinking most people are just here for the stories and generally disinterested in anything else, which is totally cool.

angemari87, arclevel, darthcorrie, gaeta, izzybeth, jassanja, rainbowwisher, sdraevn, settiai, spoiledcat, anmkosk, morrighan_sai, julia_fractal, stentoriansista, tripoli8, _tehshush_, fandomcakes, j00j, swtalmnd, canontofanon, knight_move, mithaelin, daneffew, justholdstill, lilyayl, starflowers, actress_krissie, ishtar79, gyutto, nefernat, miladyhawke, balfrog, fourth_rose, kimberlee_miche, _janeblack, ambrosia_revels, arrua1, impetuousoddity, schiarire, thawrecka, toyniffler, whimseywisp, _inzilbeth_, calypso98, sarcarmic, xdirewolfx, snowqueenofhoth, pervert_bitch, ethereal_swan, meara_, shadows_zephyr, xikum

Go check out Lizardspots' Beg Me For It art and you'll beat me to it because I'm at work and people can see over my shoulder so I can't STARE just yet but I intend to.

Guh.

Oh lizardspots you slay me.

The Beg Me For It soundtrack is done. I just have to upload all the songs. I should have it for you to download tonight or tomorrow.