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The state of the Bethan: permanently psychologically and physically tired. Very tired. Trying desperately to work up the mental energy to have a go in the milliways_bar Allpocalypse before it's too late, and still failing.

THEREFORE:

What are you guys working on at the minute? Fannish or original, art or words or fanmix -- anything you're working on right now that you're enjoying. Titles, first few sentences, drafts, sketches ... anything.

I'LL START.

Firstly, I'm approximately five thousand words into what should have been my 2011 NaNoWriMo project, an update of the Enid Blyton Five Find Outers series with the cast grown up in the 1950s. Essentially, Enid Blyton with a twist of Agatha Christie meets Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and all the other classic fifties noir. (Oh God, Blyton and her ISSUES. So much fixing, so little time.)

It's tentatively called The Mystery of the Burning Bridges, and here's the first paragraph:
Elizabeth Hilton had never, ever liked Tuesdays. They were sluggishly grey days, miserably far from the weekend, with a high chance of heavy drizzle and still four days left to slog through in the company of the sulky grey- or red-faced boors who filled the newspaper offices where she worked as junior photographer #3 with an alcoholic, middle-aged haze of beer, cigarette fumes and sweat. Her grandfather had died on a Tuesday, her last angry dispute with her older brother Pip had been on a Tuesday, and she was very nearly positive she had signed the paperwork for her grub of a flat on a Tuesday, too. And all of this culminated on this particular Tuesday morning in the rattling, too-cramped lift to the fifth floor of the offices of the London Standard, and the unmistakable feeling of her chief editor’s fat, sly fingers groping without shame at her posterior as they both exited it. Betsy reacted as her mother had always taught her to: by taking deep breaths and counting in a ladylike, restrained way to twenty.

And then, since she was still furious, she threw her camera at him anyway.

Secondly, I think I have finally managed to suppress having All The Feelings at Sherlock long enough to get writing for it, and I am therefore working on something called The Emperor's Wrath (Jim Moriarty and Seb Moran leading up to and during The Reichenbach Fall), and another, which has been rather more fleshed-out, which is called Upstairs, In Baker Street and features ex-MI:6 Mrs Hudson calling on some old friends (Victoria from RED, M from James Bond, probably also Harriet Jones of Flydale North Doctor Who) to protect Dr Watson and keep an eye on Sherlock, who she knows damn well is not dead). I think I am going to deliberately turn it into a reference hunt and see if people can spot all the references to various kickass women.

Vaguely also tempted to do something with the title All Our Smiles Are Fixed, And All Our Hearts Are Broken, possibly with John/Mycroft/Lestrade/Molly reacting to the Reichenbach Fall, or maybe with Dumbledore's Army immediately after the Battle of Hogwarts.

I also really need to get around to finishing Mornington Criminals, a fic about certain of the Criminal Minds team ... well, playing Mornington Crescent, basically. It's been stuck without an ending for over a year, so I really should be able to finish the damn thing.

Lastly, I do believe I may finally get to put some work in on a long-wanted one-shot about River Song and Indiana Jones: I don't have a plot as such, but as of today it has a title (Cups and Saucers), which is generally a good sign - as a rule, if it has a definite title, I will generally finish it. Also mulling around in my brain since aaaaaages ago is a character study-type fic called To Save The World Entire about Dr Erskine and Yentzen, and about what it means to give your life and create a superhero (movieverse!Captain America and Iron Man, respectively).

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR STUFF, MEIN FREUNDES-KREIS.

This entry was cross-posted to http://splash-of-blue.dreamwidth.org/166926.html. I'd prefer it if you commented here rather than there, though.

Fic: Leda’s Daughters
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Ginny Weasley, Cho Chang, Susan Bones, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, Katie Bell, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1804
Warnings: Only what you’d expect from the Battle of Hogwarts – spoilers included.
Notes: Beta-ed by alas_a_llama. McGonagall’s Quidditch-playing past is taken from Pottermore info.
Summary: In the midst of battle, the women of Hogwarts dream of flying.

( They have all flown. They will all fly again. )

Hmm.

You know what I want? I want a meme. A crossover meme, specifically. I'm nearly certain that this sort of thing requires you to be a lot more Fandom Famous than I am for it to work, but any replies at all will make me smile, which would be REALLY appreciated right now. So, please pimp this out to your flist!

Ever wanted to see Spencer Reid match wits with Sherlock Holmes? Read Hermione Granger fighting crime with Barbara Gordon? Wondered what would happen if Sam Vimes went for a drink with Gene Hunt?
Then allow me to introduce
The Multi-Media Multi-Fandom Mash-Up Meme!

How this is going to work:

+ COMMENT with: two or more fandoms/two or more characters from different fandoms, and some kind of prompt. Please put the fandoms in the title of the comment for ease of navigation.

+ REPLY to comments with fanfiction, fanart, song lyrics, videos or anything else that fits the prompt and takes your fancy. If linking to large (over 500x500) images, please either provide a thumbnail and a link or just a link.
++++++ Creations of ANY rating are fine, but please include a rating for anything R or higher in the title of the comment and, if the adult-rated prompt-fill is artwork, link to it.

+ ENJOY YOURSELVES.

One last note: you don't have to leave a prompt in order to reply to comments (and vice versa).

PIMP:
<center><a href="http://bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com/165723.html"><strong><font face="verdana"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">The</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Multi-</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Media</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 51);">Multi-Fandom</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Mash-Up</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Meme!</span></span></font></strong></center></a>

ETA: MEME NOW HAS GRAPHICS!