Despite wishing that I could be hugely prolific in the fic department, I'm not. But I do have a hugely varied bunch of fic from all different fandoms. This is my masterlist. You can also always check my fic tag.

Bones
Office Romance
Brennan/Angela PG ~2000 words
Summary: When Hodgins asked Angela out in "The Girl With The Curl," there was more about her rejection than was stated.

Castle
Tactical Heat
Beckett/OFC PG ~1200 words
Summary: Beckett is out on a date when Castle appears.

Criminal Minds
Possibilities
pre-Hotch/Rossi/Prentiss G ~2800 words
Summary: Rossi knows he's attracted to both Aaron and Emily. As he watches the way the three of them interact and sees the attraction between Aaron and Emily, he starts to wonder if they can start something between the three of them.

CSI
Jealousy
Sara/Sofia PG
Challenge: passion_perfect Sassy Ficathon. Sofia unbuttoning her blouse in "I Like To Watch"

Unexpected Family
Sara/Sofia PG-13 ~2500 words
Summary: Sofia discovers an entirely new side to Sara.

Haven
Thoughts On A Woman
pre-Audrey/Nathan, unrequited Audrey/Duke G ~1400
Duke considers his place in Audrey's life and how Nathan effects that. Post-S1 Finale. Spoilers for all of season 1.

Hawaii 5-0
Kiss You Or Kill You
Steve/Danny+Grace PG ~7400 words
Summary: Steve and Grace are kidnapped by a vindictive man from Danny's pre-5-0 days. While the team rushes to find them, Steve and Grace must rely on each other.
Podfic: lunate8, link with fic

Leverage
Waffles
Hardison/Parker/Eliot NC-17 ~1200 words
Summary: Parker wants waffles and a little sweetener

Sanctuary
Someone To Keep You Warm
Helen/Nikola, brief mentions of Helen/James, James/Nikola PG ~1400
Summary: During WWII, Helen and James have evacuated the UK Sanctuary but stay behind. One night, Nikola shows up.

Stargate SG-1
Calculus
Sam/Janet PG
Summary: Janet notices that Sam is taking a lot of notes during a routine briefing.

Coming Together
Cam/Teal'c/Sam NC-17 ~1300 words
Summary: While the Odyssey is trapped in the time dilation field, Cam, Sam and Teal'c find themselves drawn closer together.

Stargate Atlantis
You Could've Waited A Day
Weir/Caldwell PG
Summary: Steven realizes just how important his arguments with Elizabeth really are.

Vampire Diaries (TV)
True Colours
Damon/Elena/Alaric NC-17 ~8200
Summary: When the team think they've found another clue in the Aztec curse, Damon, Elena and Ric head off to find it. They don't find exactly what they were looking for.

Note in regards to transformative works:

I am not only okay with podfic, but would think you are the awesomest person in the world if you wanted to podfic any of my stories. I would prefer that I get to listen first mostly so I can squee in absolute delight and hug it to myself for a listen through. Unless you've somehow managed to record the wrong fic, I won't not like it. Also, my name is tricky and I want to make sure that you pronounce it correctly. I'm going to also give an initial okay for adding dialogue tags or contractions or other things that make listening/recording a bit easier. If there is more than a sentence and it makes things really hard to read, just pop me a message and we'll see what we can do. As far as reducing a fic's rating, I would rather not. I put sex scenes in my fic for a reason and would prefer to keep them there.

I'm also okay with translation. I'm a bit of a linguaphile and would be tickled to death to see my words in another language. Definitely send me a link and I'll add it to the masterlist with lots of credit and not a little bit of excitement.

If you would like to do any kind of graphic work, be in fanart, icons or vids, then I just want a heads up. I will link with reckless abandon and manic giggling.

Tags: fic, fic: masterlist

Last time, my career goals changed about nine months into 101 in 1001 and I didn't get anything done. Plus, the crap I was dealing with, I just couldn't get motivated to do anything. Now, that's changed. Hopefully. Definitely.

( 101 in 1001 list )

Tags: 101 in 1001
Current Location: home
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: NCIS marathon

First of all, let me wish you all a happy new year! Hope people didn't get too drunk. Not gonna lie: I rung in the new year watching the NCIS marathon on USA and I think I may have actually fallen asleep. But, oh, well.

2011 was a hard year for me, especially toward the end. It started kinda meh. I was happy where I was for the moment, but knew I wanted to move on. Just after Mother's Day, my grandmother took a bad fall that messed up her back and I started looking for jobs in Austin so I could be there to help. That didn't work out too well.

By summer, she had been in and out of the hospital three times and we could see her quality of life getting worse. I have to admit: we were getting really frustrated because we didn't realize how bad her back was. Turns out it was a compression fracture that, because her osteoporosis was so bad, had basically pulverized two vertebrae. Looking back, I feel like a terrible person because I kept thinking that, yes, it hurt, but that was part of physical therapy and she should just buckle down and deal with it.

In September, she had a procedure that basically was an attempt to put a resin around the vertebrae and fuse them in place, thus reducing her pain and maybe making it possible for her to walk again. Unfortunately, the anesthesia fried her brain. Her grasp of reality after that was tenuous at best and downright wrong at worst.

She started to decline rapidly after that. My grandmother, matriarch of the family, died 11 November 2011 at 11 am. Yes, that's 11-11-11 at 11. I think she was trying to make it to 11:11, but she just didn't have the strength.

Some of you may have noticed that I have been...distant of late. Now you know why. It was hard. I loved her, but for a good portion of my teen and college years, I didn't like her. She was the kind of person who thought everyone should do things her way because her way was best and, because of that, she could be...not kind. I have a distinct memory from my teen years of talking to her on the phone, crying silently because she had gotten on a tear where she just kept telling me that I would be so pretty, such a beautiful girl if I would just lose some weight, if I would dress like a normal girl, if I would do this and that. I know now that she was trying to help, but all I heard was "you're not good enough, you're ugly, nobody wants you the way you are, so you should just be someone else."

In the end, though, I managed to find it in me to forgive her because I do know that she didn't mean to be cruel, but she just didn't know any other way to be. Personally, based on what I know about her own childhood, I really think that's how she was raised and that she never learned to express love. But that doesn't mean that I don't still feel the sting when I think about it.

But that's not what this is about. I loved her and I miss her but I move on. And move on, I have. Even though that whole time was made even worse by us losing our beautiful Ninja Kitty about two weeks before to bad kidneys that she'd apparently had all of her short life.

I graduated in 2009 with a BA in Criminal Justice and Political Science. I thought to go into either law enforcement or go to grad school and study international affairs. Both of those things have proven impossible for various reasons. I took a step back, I reevaluated and I decided I needed a new direction.

In 2012, beginning 9 January, I will be attending Culinary School at the Art Institute of Austin. That's right. Culinary school. I'm excited. I'll never stop loving criminal justice or political science (or linguistics or history or any of the other things I considered), but there's something about culinary that calls to me. Because I have a degree, I'm looking to get my diploma in about a year, with the possibility of continuing on to get another BA if I decide that I want the management portion.

As far as my writing, with everything happening with my grandmother, that all kind of stalled out. I had to push myself pretty hard to get the three stories for ficathons that I did this year (Lewis Secret Santa, yuletide and 3_ships), but I think it's been enough to really push me back into gear.

I'll be looking to finish writing stuff for help_japan as soon as possible cause I know people are waiting for it. The Sherlock fic for marill_chan is likely to happen first just because I have a lot written on that already. Granted, it's all handwritten and needs to be typed and edited and I need to get past the block that I wrote myself into, but I have ideas again.

The Sanctuary OT3 for nomorefrostbite got a huge inspirational boost from the Season 4 finale (and OMG, how about that?!?) mostly from a single line of dialogue. Thank you, Helen, for telling me more about where you were during WWII.

The Haven and Constantine fics will come after that. The two Moleskine's worth of fic that I'm doing are coming slowly but surely. I just watched a bunch of NCIS and that gave me some more fic fodder to play with so I just have to make sure I actually write it down instead of getting lost with the two epics that are happening right now.

2012 is looking better all around. I'm giving 101 in 1001 another shot (my list is here if anyone is curious. I have quite a few writing goals, some huge reading goals, and a long list of things that simply couldn't be categorized.

I hope everyone else is as psyched about 2012 as I am. But now it's time for me to get some sleep. Love to you all!

Tags: 101 in 1001, a real job, family, life, rip, school, work, writing
Current Location: home
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Sirusho - One & Only

( Should be the final Dear Santa letter for the year...just keep on walking... )

Tags: santa letter, yuletide

Well, my lovely flist, it's that time of year again. The time when, despite the fact that I'm terrible at updating, I suddenly give you a whole bunch of Dear Santa letters.

( Just keep on walking... )

Tags: 3_ships, santa letter
Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Food Network

This is my Master Post for 101 in 1001, put in a forwarded dated sticky post so that people can easily see it as the first thing in my journal. Also, since I'll be finishing up on 29 September 2011, I figured it was apporpriate. I'll update this post as things are accomplished instead of reposting my list every time.

00. These are things yet to be started
00. These are things that are in progress
00. These are things which have been completed and their finish date.

( And this is the list of 101 things I want to accomplish... )

Tags: 101 in 1001
Current Location: work
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: LaFee - Lass Mich Frei

Title: Kiss You Or Kill You
Author: maekala
Reader: lunate8
Fandom: Hawaii Five-O (2010)
Pairing: Steve/Danny + Grace
Rating: Teen
Genre: H/C, angst, first kiss
Length: ~7400 words
Challenge: pod_together
Notes: This fic was written for the pod_together challenge wherein I wrote a fic specifically for lunate8 to record as a podfic. I got into H50 in a big way because equusentric kept talking about it and, when I asked, she told me about some awesome sounding moments. I've been hooked on it ever since, though it is not lost on me that she has since broken up with H50. *puppy eyes* You know you want to...there's not even a tiny mention of the finale.

Anyway, for those wondering what the hell happened to those help_japan fics I'm supposed to be working on, I am still working on those. But this was shorter and had a stricter deadline. Since finishing this fic, I've written a couple thousand more words on marill_chan's Sherlock epic and I'm plotting the others. There's been an ongoing family emergency, so I have been slowed considerably, but this definitely got me back in the groove.

Summary: Steve and Grace are kidnapped by a vindictive man from Danny's pre-5-0 days. While the team rushes to find them, Steve and Grace must rely on each other.

The fic and podfic are all at AO3. Podfic can be downloaded as MP3, M4B or streamed because paraka is awesome and hosting everything on her site. Links at AO3.

Tags: fic, fic: hawaii 5-0, podfic
Current Location: home
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Ruslana - I'll Follow The Night

Hello, my lovelies! Everyone been good? Nothing too catastrophic going on? I promise I've been watching y'all's journals. At least, you know...when LJ let me. *grumble*stupid Russian hackers trying to end free speech*grumble*

*cough* But, yes. Other than that. Me? I've been working mostly. And training. And teaching every trainee that if they blow their traffic whistles downstairs, I'll punch them in the face. Did I ever tell y'all what came of that? No? Well, first I had a doctor try to tell me it was sudden onset TMJ. Personally, I have no problems believing that I have TMJ of some unknown severity, but I have a hard time believing that was the cause. Especially when I kept trying to ask if a loud whistle blast could have aggravated it and her response was: "were you stressed when you were doing traffic? Were you clenching your teeth?" Yeah, you try directing some 20,000 people who all seem to want to come through your intersection and tell me you don't get a tiny bit stressed. Especially when the person you're doing traffic with is an idiot.

But, ANYWAY...went to the audiologist and they did a hearing test and said that I have excellent hearing. Duh. I could've told you that. But at least there was no hearing *loss*. Then the specialist poked around in my ears, used a little gadget that was weird because it blew air in my ears and said that it was definitely not TMJ. Basically, that tube that connects your ear and your nose? I forget what it's called. There's a flap thing on the ear side that keep stuff from randomly going down that tube. Cool, huh? Apparently that flap was pushed in a bit, probably from drainage. I was probably already having minor issues, but the sharp whistle blast magnified all my issues by about a million. Solution? Pop my ears. I know, I stared at him for a minute when he told me that, thinking "you were doing so good up until you made that suggestion." But I did. And BAM! Problem solved.

Note to self: next time there is a problem with your ears, pop them before spending the $50 in copays to see an idiot and a specialist.

Other than that, my time has been taken up by fic. Yes! Fic! Real fic that I have to write because people have paid for it! No, sadly, they have not paid me personally, but they have donated to various charities for help_japan, so I absolutely can't plot it out and then not write it. Because that would be wrong. But I've needed a kick like this to get my juices flowing again and it helps people. What more could you want? Besides a paycheck and not having to train morons anymore....but that's neither here nor there.

I'm about to go into a bit of detail about what I'll be writing (but without any major spoilers) and I would love it if you would follow behind the cut and tell me what you think. Or better yet, tell me you wouldn't mind listening to me ramble from time to time and bounce ideas off of you. Because I'd much rather someone else tell me something sounds stupid before I put it before my winners and have them lose all confidence in me.

( Follow me down the rabbit hole...Sanctuary, Sherlock, Constantine, Haven, NCIS, Leverage, Rescue 77, The Sentinel, SGA, New Whoverse (DW, TW, SJA) )

( So I rambled about the how and the timeline, but this is basically what the fics will entail if anyone wants to be a sounding board along with the bidders themselves... )

So...anyone interested in getting minor sneak peaks and helping me plot? Or getting the chance to tell me that what I'm considering if stupid?

Tags: fandom, fandom: constantine, fandom: doctor who, fandom: haven, fandom: leverage, fandom: ncis, fandom: rescue 77, fandom: sanctuary, fandom: sga, fandom: sherlock, fandom: the sentinel, health, help_japan, help_japan: update, life, work
Current Location: home
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Ørnen - Forgiveness

So, my dear friends, let me ask you a question. Hypothetically speaking, say you're learning how to direct traffic in your awesome new job as a parking officer. Say you were issued a traffic whistle and have been taught how to use it (you'd be surprised how much teaching I do on that subject) and say, for example, you're talking to a supervisor and one of your training officers. The subject of traffic (and an upcoming traffic assignment) comes up. You are all in the conference room where you have briefings, in the basement of a parking garage. Do you demonstrate your whistle problems by blowing the freaking whistle indoors? If you said yes, I'm going to shoot you at the same time I shoot my trainee.

In case that last didn't tell you, yes, this happened. I was the training officer in question. It wouldn't have been quite so bad, I don't think, except I then went and had to do traffic that night (this happened Friday afternoon) and then again Saturday (yesterday) morning. Traffic, as in I was blowing my own whistle for about four hours total and I actually know what I'm doing so the damn thing is piercing.

At this point, my ears have that full sensation you get when there's a lot of drainage or something trapped in there, but I know there's little if anything there because my equilibrium is fine (dead giveaway for me). But sustained humming noises, especially deep ones (ice machine, trucks, freezers at the grocery store, coke machine, even the damn box fan I use to keep air circulating in my room) are killing me. And this is where it gets weird. I don't get that sharp pain down into my skull, but it's like the sound causes pressure to build in my ears. Yesterday at the grocery store, it was so bad I wanted to cry. Apparently I looked like I was about to cry, too.

I talked to another supervisor yesterday and he said that other supervisor who was in the same room when it happened had the same "hearing things as if underwater" sensation I was having for much of yesterday. I talked to my supervisor who, thankfully, sent me home instead of using me to do baseball traffic because I looked so bad. We have the last of a three game series today and I honestly don't know if I'll be able to do it.

When I take control of an intersection, I stop all traffic by stepping into the middle and blowing my whistle in one long, loud whistle. I'm terrified I'll do that today and be on the ground in agony because I just busted an ear drum.

It's Sunday, so regular doctor is closed but I may call one of the urgent care places and see if they have the proper equipment to tell me if anything is damaged. If not, I'm going to regular doc tomorrow to find out just how badly trainee fucked up. Also talking to my supervisor (wonderful person that he is in his understanding) to find out exact wording about any note on not doing traffic for awhile that I may have to get. Because HR is bitchy and will send me home if even the smallest word is wrong. Seriously. Sometimes I think they get off on sending people home for commas out of place or dangling participles. Fuckers.

Ugh...time to go work and take out my frustration on the dumbass students.

Tags: health, work
Current Location: work
Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: do you know how much freaking humming there is an office environment? Too much

It's sad how much I've thrown myself into Eurovision and it's awesomeness. It makes sense in a weird way when you think about how much I like international music (I don't *hate* American music, I just get bored with it very easily...or maybe that's just American radio that plays the same 20 songs over and over, ad infinitum), because it's basically this fest of awesome European music. Seriously. After last year's Eurovision, I started listening to music from the Icelandic, Azerbaijani, Greek, Latvian, Slovakian, Moldavian, Bosnian and Albanian artists. And that's only from the first semi final. So, as more and more of this year's artists and songs are announced, I thought I'd put in my two cents, er, two euros?

I've embedded YouTube clips for the artists I like and talked about everything. Yes, I like to see myself type.

( Come this way for awesome European music... )

There you have it. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who'll ever read this post since it is so long. But, because it amused me so much and I thought it was rather clever, I give you, outside the cut, my impression of the Swedish entry: "It's Adam Lambert meets Justin Timberlake in a gay bondage scene with nightmares of the X-Files theme." You know you want to at least peek now!

Tags: music
Current Location: home
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Hera Bjork - When Everything Is Gone