After using part of the candle scene in the Everything collab, I've gotten a couple requests for the magic talk from my WIP webisode. The project has unfortunately been shelved indefinitely due to RL keeping my co-vidders too busy to play, and I'm no good at completing things when left on my own.

music: The Burdens of Duty - Merlin OST

My part from the "Everything" co-vid.

I have the next hour or so free. And what am I going to do with that time? Probably play catch-up on missed TV eps. Unless somebody out there will kindly kick me and make me write. Pester me, prompt me, provoke me. Now's your chance to get a new chapter out of me. All I'm lacking is a bit of motivation and decisiveness as to what I should write.

I update avast tonight, and it nearly bricked my computer. I had to boot into safe mode and uninstall the program before I could start-up my computer normally again. I'm switching to AVG.

1. Merlin - Arthur's Final Battle
2. Xena - Burial
3. Legend of the Seeker - The Shar's Burial
4. Angel - Hero
5. La Femme Nikita - Always Trust Your Father
6. Buffy - One Last Look
7. Torchwood - Jack's Love Theme
8. Firefly - River Tricks Early
9. Doctor Who - Miss Joan Redfern
10. Robin Hood - Marian's Theme
11. Merlin - Merlin Lost
12. Doctor Who - Madame de Pompadour
13. Torchwood - Gray's Theme
14. Firefly - River Understands Simon
15. Xena - Xena vs Yodoshi
16. La Femme Nikita - Swinging Cages
17. Robin Hood - Robin and Marian
18. Legend of the Seeker - Richard & Kahlan
19. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Roll in the Leaves
20. Pushing Daisies - Pie Hole Holding


Some couple themes at the end for sheppardgirl, one of which claidissa should also like.

And I know that happy won the vote, but I decided to just do both. However, I'm rather burnt out and need to actually sleep at night, so it might be a (very long) while before I get those finished. I may require cookies.

1. Buffy - Close Your Eyes
2. Lost - Life and Death
3. Doctor Who - Doomsday
4. Torchwood - The Ballad of Ianto Jones
5. The X-Files - Scully`s Theme
6. Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Sarah Connor's Theme
7. Buffy - Magic Snow
8. Doctor Who - Bad Wolf Theme
9. Buffy - Spellbound
10. Doctor Who - Rose's Theme
11. Buffy - Sacrifice
12. Stargate - Sam/Jack Theme
13. Caprica - Grieving
14. Torchwood - Death of Toshiko
15. The X-Files - My Weakness
16. Doctor Who - Martha's Theme
17. Buffy - Slayer's Elegy
18. Battlestar Galactica - Kobol's Last Gleaming
19. Merlin - The Witch's Aria
20. Firefly - The Funeral


I might do a second edition (possibly uplifting/happy), but only if there's a lot of interest because this is actually a lot more work than it looks like.

I got prompted to tease Merlin S3.



And then I was informed that Morgana needed some red make-up.

I've been tagged with another of these LJ things that you're supposed to do if any of your friends do. This time it's posting the current wallpaper on your computer. So here's mine...





Which is really rather depressing and I'm going to change it right now. Because whenever I do a vid, I make a wallpaper when I start to keep me motivated until I'm done. This one is screencaps and quotes from my fic/vid about the year that never was. Basically, UNIT delivers an encrypted file to Jack that was found in the Valiant computer along with a virus. If the Doctor's plan had failed, the Valiant would have gone down due to Torchwood sabotage. The file is a video letter to Jack, pretty much a group suicide note, because none of them expect to survive the mission, fully intending to be captured and killed while aboard the Valiant.

For those of you who didn't read my last post, this fic/vid died with my hard drive. Consider the bunny up for adoption. If anybody wants it, I still have most of the audio from the vid, since I made the message track first and that was actually part of my last backup.

Just a little PSA here about the importance of backing up your files. Because it's not a matter of IF your hard is going to die, it's a matter of WHEN. Seriously, people, trust me on that one.

*takes a moment to swear to high hell* I've just coined the phrase "gorram frelling frak" and am tempted to make that the title of my journal.

So basically, my D drive died. Not C, so I'm still up and running. Yeah, lucky me, those are two separate drives and not just partitions. However, three guesses as to where I keep my fic folder... No wait, two. Anybody requiring three gets to be smacked in the head.

Before anybody asks why I didn't back-up my files, shut up, because I did so do that, I'm not a complete moron. I just did it like a month or two ago. Yeah, my lazy bad.

So here's the casualty list:

TOMM: 9,000ish words (save for a short Jack/Ianto scene I e-mailed sarahjane6, which is still in my sent folder) including some utterly brilliant stuff about fortune cookies telling the team what to do - yes, seriously - it involved aliens and psychic paper and actually kinda made sense

TCIP: all of chapter 13 (well, my rewrite of 13 due to the first version being an ADD meds disaster) - I'm honestly considering moving directly to 14 and making that the Midas ring chapter, because I really want to write that particular scene, despite it doing nothing to progress the story plot or characters and would just be random filler

Detachment: outline ideas and pieces of a few scenes

untitled fic and vid about the year that never was: fic went bye-bye, vid mostly so - wasn't much, I'll likely not bother with going back to it and trash the plot bunny

missing scene fic from COE Day 2: I actually think I may have that in my sent folder as well due to mailing it to a friend, but I lost interest in it on Day 4 and so don't actually give a damn

I think that's all. My muse says it needs this CD in order to go on living...
Songs From Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera (1993)
Why it wants that, I've no idea. Well, other than my watching PotO for the first time about a week ago. My whole life, I was so totally wrong with what I thought that story was about! I was certain it was Beauty and the Beast but set in sewer tunnels under an opera house. Whatever though, because I don't have money and am certainly not going to ask my local music store if they can order it for me.

Anyway, to wrap things up, my life sucks, and I'm now going to go kill myself in some creative and artistic way. No, honestly swear I'm not, nobody call the police or anything, please, because that really would be the answer to "how can this day get any worse?" Nothing more fun than a bunch of cops locking me up and taking away my shoe laces. I'm gonna go get ice cream is what I'm actually going to do.

The Oft-Mentioned Mile

fandom: Torchwood (maybe a bit of Dr Who crossover, maybe)
summary: the obligatory bodyswap fic
genre: likely more drama than comedy
rating: R (for swearing and sexual situations)
set late season 2, spoilers through "Something Borrowed"
pairings: Jack/Ianto (also some Tosh/Owen, Gwen/Rhys)


LJ cut: ( TOMM - part 1 )