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I haven't done a good meme in ages and the AO3 one that is going the rounds looked like fun!

1. Most Hits - Not Quite Elsa (NCIS, Nick/Ellie)
2. Second Most Kudos - Legitimate Excuses (Criminal Minds, Garcia/Luke, AU meet cute featuring Roxy and Henry)
3. Third Most Comments - Four Moments - Harry Potter, Fred/Hermione
4. Fourth Most Bookmarks - Better Together (NCIS, Nick/Ellie, the single parents AU)
5. Fifth Most Words - Circle Unbroken (CSI Miami, Speed/Calleigh, an AU where Calleigh goes back home when her dad dies, using her backstory from the original CBS bios - remember them? A fic so old it can drink alcohol on both sides of the Atlantic)
6. Fic with Fewest Words - Things that Don't Change (word count 40) The Flash, Joe/Caitlin. A one sentence fic, which I usually don't do but there we are!

Quite interesting to me that out of 6 different criteria, I hit on five different fandoms. Not so big a surprise that the fandom with two stories is NCIS Nick/Ellie - it's the closest I've got to a canon pairing in a very long time (and no, I will not discuss how they ended it, instead I will be forever bitter and that's just fine with me) and it is/was a fandom/pairing with fans who shipped it and fans who wrote for it and that really is a rarity for my pairs!

Not had too many writing wins this year but

allbingo had a drabble challenge (for fills of 100-500 words which is not a drabble but I digress) and I decided to make my life a little harder by ensuring all my fills were on either hundred or the fifty word count. I got a blackout on a 5x5 card by the skin of my teeth so yay me!

Links are I hope under the cut… fandoms are Law and Order SVU, RFDS, Magnum PI (2018), FBI/NCIS Los Angeles crossover, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist

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Ok so I'm not trying to be a bitch, OK. I'm trying really hard.

But I just opened my gmail primary email folder, the one I only check every few days because all the fandom stuff gets usually diverted into the "social" tab?

And I find 4 reviews from Fan fiction.net for 4 of my Warrick/Sara stories.

Copied and pasted so you know I'm getting the quote right.

Story: Walls Falling
Chapter: 1. Default Chapter

From: Wanda (Guest)
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Wanda:Nice try. But the episode will forever be remembered for its 'chalk' scene! It's Sara and Grissom, as simple as that.

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A new review has been posted to your story.

Story: Home Truths
Chapter: 1. Default Chapter

From: Wanda (Guest)
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Wanda:Warrick ruined the story totally. He's never anything more than a colleague to Sara.

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Story: Ordering the Chaos
Chapter: 1. Default Chapter

From: Wanda (Guest)
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Wanda:Sara was half of the GSR. Grissom would have been the right one in this story. Not Warrick. It didn't work. Not one bit.

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Story: Dollar Thoughts
Chapter: 1. Default Chapter

From: Wanda (Guest)
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Wanda:Knowing how Cathetine felt about Warrick, Sara was too smart to get close to Warrick, but more important reason was Sara only had eyes for Grissom!

Warrick had a cordial working relationship with Sara. Nothing more.

Now, I've just checked on far fiction.net because it is literal ages since I have posted anything there and all those stories were posted in 2002 or 2003. They are buried DEEP in the bowels, y'all, this girl had to LOOK for them. Who does that for a ship they're not in to? And actively anti, what's more? Do you not have a life? Friends? A job? A family? Fic of your own to write for a ship/the ship you enjoy so much? Why waste so much of your time being so negative, so small, that you post reviews like that to stories that are SIXTEEN YEARS OLD?????

And of course, since she doesn't appear to be a registered user so there's no right of reply, I can't say any of this to her so I'm venting here about it!

But seriously, if you don't ship the ship, don't read it! What's so hard about that?

And if you do read it and it doesn't convince you of the worthiness of the ship? Click that little X in the corner and block me from feed, don't search for the ship and live and let live!

Crossposts: https://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/567054.html

Not complaining really because I love getting reviews on fic I write, especially older fic that’s been around for years.

And yes, I get that I ship uncon ships. I get they’re not everyone’s up of tea. I get that people have their OTPs and that’s fine.

But when I get a review on Chapter 22 of a 22 chapter fic that 92,000 odd words in length and what it says is “for all the work you had to do, it doesn’t matter. Grissom and Sara forever” or words to that effect ...

I just have to go, “Really?”

I mean, that’s what you have to say? After 92,000 words, that’s it? Did you even read all the chapters or just go to the last one to comment?

And who invests the time to read that long a fic, obviously doesn’t enjoy/like it, and then post a comment like that? What happened to if you can’t say something nice, say nothing?!

I probably sound more upset than I am, but I’m low on patience tonight - full of cold, I had yard duty today, then my own personal Riverdance with Herself at Irish dancing and I am just wiped and then to read that?

On the bright side, I know that back in the day when I originally posted that fic, a lot of G/S fans read it and gave it really positive feedback and wrote lovely things about it, so that helps. Off to read those now!

So I haven't posted a huge amount of fic here lately but I'm posting the link on AO3 to the one I've just posted because I think it's worth commemoration...

late to the party (but catching up fast) (2336 words) by helsinkibaby
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flying Doctors
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom Callaghan/Chris Randall
Characters: Tom Callaghan, Chris Randall, Geoffrey Standish, Dimitris "DJ" Goanidis
Additional Tags: Romance, Het, Canon Het Relationship, post ep, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

When Chris turns down the job of a lifetime, Tom finally figures something out.

This fic? Puts me over the TWO MILLION WORDS mark on AO3.

Which, yes, it's not all the fic I've written, there's a hell of a lot on the old Band Gazebo site which has now vanished off the internet (but is all on a hard drive, waiting to be uploaded if I ever get around to it) so I know there's tonnes more words published by me out there.

But for once I'm unashamedly blowing my own trumpet here!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/566463.html

So I decided to drop out of the Het Big Bang for this year. It's been a pretty shite year at work which sapped a lot of my mojo for anything longer than a comment fic piece and the 9k of words that I have will never be stretched to 25k by the end of August. Which sucks because I hate dropping out of things, I love the Het Big Bang challenge and I actually know exactly how I want the story to go - it's just that every time I sit down to write anything on it, my brain goes "Nope" and I end up staring at a blank screen.

On the other hand, I started a completely different fic yesterday, just writing out a snippet of something that came into my head and I now have *checks word counter* 7,127 words of angsty fluffy plot with a few other scenes in my head that will need to be written to make it work as an actual fic that makes sense and stuff. The irony that I could have just pulled a switcheroo and declared this for the Het Big Bang Mini Bang option is not lost on me, alas I had already filled out the poll by the time I realised that I'd written 5000 words in 12 hours. Plus it's a literal fandom of two, but hey it is making me happy and not much has done that this year so yeah.

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/565221.html

Again trying the mobile app because I can.

After the pity party that was yesterday's post, I woke today to the universe apparently trying to make me feel better. 5 comments from AO3 about X Files fics (Doggett/Reyes) that I wrote earlier this year in the midst of our X Files rewatch and season 10. And not just short "this is great" type comments but actual paragraphs about stuff that worked and that they really liked. All comments by the same person and it really made my morning! I thought comments like that were gone the way of the LJ! (Not that I don't like short comments! Short comments are great! I love short comments! Please don't think I'm complaining!)

There's an Outlander con on in London today that I considered doing (could have staffed it) but didn't because of various issues...kind of glad now because after the week I had, I'm so not in a party for three days and be nice to the fans who may be newbies and quite entitled kind of place. (Saw FB post from J who I'd have crewed with, it might have been Friday night excitement but they seemed quite ...em... eager? according to her!)

Have five year old birthday party to go to later - with a bouncy castle. Oh the fun...

Trying out the new LJ mobile app, just for fun to try to get me back into posting here again... Shame there's no way to cross post to DW from here. If there is and you find it, let me know!

Last Friday of the summer holidays today and I would like to say it's been lovely but honestly can't. Parental health woes, husband health woes which is an ongoing saga, Nimoy is clingy because I've been here all summer with her so going back to school is going to be fun and as if all that wasn't enough, I got word on Tuesday that one of my past students, a little lad going into his final year in our place, passed away while on his summer holidays. Funeral not til late next week. Wednesday and Thursday I was violently ill with a migraine and spent the two days basically in bed - still not sure if it was an actual migraine or my body just going, "You know what? Nope!"

My Het Big Bang fic is posted, ready for reveal. There are a couple of scenes I wanted to add in but never got a chance to write (see above, two days bed bound) but may end up writing them as standalones at some point. It's 42,839 words so I don't feel too badly!

And also, GIP, thanks to sallymn!

Do people still do GIPs? (Mind you, considering my history of late, the question should rather be, do people still post?) Anyhoo, here is a GIP, courtesy of the lovely thtwzjustadream who is far more talented with the photoshop than what I am!

In nice news, I have done a word count on my Het Big Bang (writing all over the story, in separate files to make the separate pieces easy to find) and I have hit the magic number! Yay! I am, in fact, over 27k, with two major sections still to go which will total at least 5k, so I should be good. Now if I can get it all written by deadline, I'll be fine!

Now, a Question of Most Import for Ye Olde Friends' List.

Ghostbusters. The new one, that is.

Nimoy, being six and a half (and yes, I am scared to write that sentence too) has seen the two original Ghostbusters films and enjoyed them greatly. No nightmares, the odd "huh" moment and she kinda tends to watch a lot of stuff on the tv wandering around the living room anyway, but she likes them. Nimoy, being a girl, is very looking forward to seeing the new All Girl Ghostbusters. Which is rated 12A over here - and she's tall for her age and all, but she's not going to pass for 12 or anywhere near it. (The old ones were both rated PG but then, there was no such thing as 12/12A back then. Now I'm thinking they would be too?)

So, my question, Ye Olde Friends List. Being as there is a plethora of *cough*options*cough* available to us in this wondrous day and age in which we live, those of you who have seen Ghostbusters, what are your thoughts on its suitability for a 6 year old who has seen the others and liked them?

All thoughts and advice gratefully received, spoilers not a problem!!!

Oh Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom, you are your own crazy beast. I filled a couple of Steve/Darcy prompts at comment fic this week... Tonight's one has been up a little over an hour, I literally wrote it and posted it and currently it's at 127 hits and 20 kudos, one comment. The one I did on Monday? Is a one sentence fill. It is 69 words long. Current stats? 502 hits, 38 kudos. Compared to things I have slaved over, like the one I did for The Flash Big Bang (I still like my Mama West head canon more than the shows!) which is 13k words, 89 hits and 5 kudos!

This is one of those fandom things that I guess could make you crazy if you looked too deep into it, right?

In other fandom news, RTE are getting X Files the day after the States which makes it easy to be spoiler free for it... We just looked at the third ep tonight (Himself was out last night) and ( thoughts )

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/558002.html

Here I am again, having been hideously remiss in posting here. I think I say this every time I post here now, don't I?

I miss LJ based fandom!

I have been writing, though my stuff goes up at AO3 these days... I think it's because at the moment I seem to have time to either write and post to AO3 or put stuff up on LJ/DW but not to do both. Though I have a love/hate relationship with the hits counter there, it provided interesting reading this morning, as I filled a lonely prompt for comment fic yesterday - MCU, Steve/Darcy, two blue lines - with 200 odd words of fluff. Waking up this morning, less than 12 hours after putting it up, it has 608 views and 53 kudos. I honestly believe if you added up the hits/kudos of my last ten stories, you would not get those numbers!

Nimoy is currently 6 and up to high doh over Christmas. The Elf on the Shelf has been faithfully moved every night and is currently sitting on the tree, waiting for Santa. Himself is working tomorrow, assuming he can shift the bug he has. (I have a cold, his is so much worse. He says.)

I have not seen any of season 2 of The Flash (but am spoilered!) since I watch that with Himself and we're doing an X Files rewatch before the miniseries in January. Just got to the end of season 8 and I still wish the snow had ended on that shot! Finding myself enjoying the MSR more than I did back in the day. I still adore Skinner and love Doggett, and have a new appreciation for Krycek... How they kept bringing him back and you never knew who he was really loyal to, apart from himself.

I have seen Supergirl, up to ep 7 and am really enjoying it. Some of the writing can be a bit clunky but Melissa Benoist is charming, they're doing a good job with Cat and Kara/James, I am all in for. I thought Lucy would annoy me but not so far. Winn, on the other hand... Yeah. Especially after the end of ep 7. *seethes*

That much said, I hope everyone has a very happy Christmas!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/557199.html

Stolen from many! :

I currently have 672 works archived at Ao3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 672 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

I don't know what scares me more, the number or that it is but a drop in the ocean of the number of fics that I have written that have disappeared off my old site and may never be updated on AO3!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/556479.html

So, I just posted a fic to AO3 that I did for comment_fic. It's MCU, Rhodey/Maria and I don't expect anyone to rush off and read it.

I mention this, however, because I check my stats page every so often, especially with updating counts for one_million_words and this fic?

Puts me over 100,000 posted words for the year.

*boggles*

I also have 11k of a Case Story Big Bang to post and I'm working on two longer Flash fics, one of which I know I can get to 10k for The Flash Big Bang, the other I am now thinking will sail pretty close to, if not well over, the 25k I would need for Het Big Bang,

*further boggles*

Which means I should not type the next sentence, but if anyone wants to prompt me for anything? Apparently there are words in my world and you might get something!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/553570.html

So... This is going to be a thing, The Flash Big Bang. Which I think I may end up signing to because I have a notion that I spoke of last week ( spoilers for ep1.15 out of time and potential future eps IDK behind here )

Sign ups open tomorrow for anyone interested. Not sure how it'll all work out on the tumblr end of things but that may be because I personally am tumblr illiterate but let's see what the interest is!

Then there is Het Big Bang/Little Bang running again. And I have to ask because I just saw The Odyssey in my Arrow season one rewatch and seriously, how do you watch that and not ship Diggle/Felicity, I do not understand, it literally made me wibble to see their ArrowCave interactions.

So yeah, question.

Is there anyone out there who would read a season one alternate events type thing that may or may not tie in with the timeline on the show I'll let you know when I rewatch it, that would be either 10k or 25k of Diggle/Felicity realising they are meant for each other? Because I kinda want to write it (and without having a piece of paper in front of me to throw ideas at, I think I can get to 10 pretty ok with it, what is my life, help me) but I'd like to know that someone, even one person, will read it!

Why do I do this to myself?

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/550930.html

It is done and I did it!
or at least the first draft is.

Case Story 5.0, Sleepy Hollow, Frank / Jenny, 11,642 words of erasing season two from canon.

Achievement unlocked!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/550673.html

So Himself is all virusy and went to bed at the same time as the child. Which left me sitting downstairs and I did not do my paperwork for work, oh no.

Because a couple of days ago I got plot bunnied thanks to tumblr for a plot that would do me for Case Story Big Bang 5.0 - basically and this could get Jossed so badly in a few hours while I'm sleeping, it's Sleepy Hollow having history rewritten, and the opening scene is literally Frank and Jenny having a Bobby and Pam in the shower moment, and I have currently written 1556 words with no actual case written yet...

So yay?!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/545505.html

More from comment fic...

Any Space Fandom, any/any + any, "You know? How do you know?" "They do say that gossip travels faster than light."
a dream I never gave up on, ST TNG, Geordi/Tasha

West Wing, Leo/Ainsley, reuniting during Santos' campaign.

I also, instead of doing my monthly reports last night, apparently wrote 2000+ words of Jirving coffeehouse AU fic, and am currently writing a fill for a comment fic prompt that is way too long for comment fic that is for The Flash... so that happened!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/543682.html

So back in the day, ten or so years ago, someone asked me to rewrite the Jake 2.0 episode "Middleman" through the prism of my Kyle/Diane series.

I started it and never finished it, until now.

The fic in question is Agent Green Eyes and that's the AO3 link.

I also have all the other stories uploaded to AO3 and that link is here

This is what I've been doing as well as current writing projects, ie the NCIS LA Big Bang which is only 5000 words and I have 3000 done and nowhere near the meat of the story so yay?

I also have a plot bunny for a The Following fic as Himself and myself are finally looking at season two, and I'm looking at a 21 Jump Street fic for smallfandombang.

I have also mainlined season nine of Criminal Minds and am having all the JJ/Cruz feels. I'm currently going through season one of Sleepy Hollow which can be summed up thusly OMFG I love it so much, why did I wait this long to watch the whole season, Ichabod never leave me! Abbie is awesome - can I retrospectively name Nimoy after her? And after the scene in the Thanksgiving episode where they are interrupted by his BitchEx, I would ship Jenny Mills and Frank Irving like FedEx!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/537569.html

So, Himself is away for the weekend and I've been going over my AO3 account and uploading older stories to it (lots of West Wing stuff, the whole of Novembers Past, some stuff from LJ, and tomorrow I'm planning on taking a punt at Tests of Faith) and something made me click the statistics button tonight and momentous moments ahoy....

I have over one million words of fanfic up on AO3 and there are I don't know how many stories that I put up on my old site that are not there.

I'm kinda staggered.

So with that in mind...

Anyone who wants a particular story put back up on AO3? Hit me in the comments and I'll shoot it up to the top of the queue!

And...

PROMPT ME! - give me a show, a pairing/character and a prompt and I'll see what I can do!

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/534189.html

Stolen from

leobrat ... a little something to keep me posting as I seem to have fallen off the wagon on that a little bit!

Give me a character I will tell you:

* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
* Something about them I consider true, though it's just head canon/fanon

In other words, have cracked 7000 on my Case Fic Big Bang story - I need to get to 10K and there's a few vital scenes that still have to be written so I'm cautiously optimistic about it. Which is normally the rock on which I perish but drafts (I'm not sure if that's full draft or 80% thereof) have to be in on May 1st so I'm trying to chip away at that as much as I can.

I also signed up for the April challenge on 1_million_words and got three songs to write fic on. I've got two of them done and ideas for the third but am still running it through my head to see which angle I want to take on it... there are a few notions there and I'm trying to work out if they're all the one story or a few different ones. We shall see. (They're all The Following, the first two are definitely Mike/Debra and the third will either be that or Deb gen/backstory, depending on how things go.)

Crossposts: http://helsinkibaby.livejournal.com/525058.html

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