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Wednesday Morning Thoughts

2013-09-25T15:36:43Z

I’m still trying to sort out my feelings about all of the TV I crammed into my brain last night, which is, for the record:

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Agents of SHIELD
• New Girl
• Person of Interest
• Chicago Fire

Tuesdays are going to kill me. Mostly because those are all shows I like to watch right away (with the exception of AoS, maybe) and now they’re all together and I’m not going to have a free Tuesday for a while. WHICH IS OKAY.

First up: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

( Huh )

Keeping with the comedy: New Girl

( DO NOT KILL THAT CAT, WINSTON )

And Now For Something Completely Angsty: Chicago Fire

( Oh, Cruz, you traitor )

Speaking of Sarah Shahi: Person of Interest

( My Love for Shaw, LET ME SHOW YOU IT )

And finally, Agents of SHIELD:

( Overall Okay )

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[fic] The Horrible Hawkeye Essay, The Magic of Tumblr, Girls' Night, The Rocketeerman

2013-09-23T19:08:59Z

Title: The Horrible Hawkeye Essay
Fandom: Hawkeye
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Pairings: None
Characters: Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Kate Bishop
Word Count: 364
Summary: Clint whines. Natasha makes him do it anyway.
Author’s Notes: I had an open prompt night on my Tumblr and I’m archiving some of the stories here. The prompt was to write any of my characters having difficulty with a writing assignment. This is what happened.

( “Why does Coulson even need to know about things like childhood pets? Mine were elephants because of the circus. That’s not that interesting. ‘When I was nine, my pet was Bobo the elephant. He was big and gray. I liked him but he smacked me with his trunk. The end.’” )

Title: The Magic of Tumblr
Fandom: Captain Marvel
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Pairings: Carol/Jess
Characters: Carol Danvers, Jessica Drew, Natasha Romanoff
Word Count: 281
Summary: Carol and Jess introduce Natasha to something very, very complicated.

( “Who else is going to send you fourteen asks about bathing products?” )

Title: Girls’ Night
Fandom: Chuck, The Avengers
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Pairings: None
Characters: Carina Miller, Jane Foster, Sarah Walker, Lady Sif
Word Count: 340
Summary: Four very unlikely friends meet up for a girls’ night. It probably won’t end well.

( “Is this not a feast we celebrate tonight? I wore my finest helm.” She tapped the silver at her brow. “Was I not supposed to do that?” )

Title: The Rocketeerman
Fandom: The Avengers, The Rocketeer
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Pairings: None
Characters: Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Cliff Secord
Word Count: 434
Summary: Natasha is captured by Loki. Cliff is about to die saving her. Tony Stark is not helping.
Author’s Notes: I think somebody typo’d, but I’m an awful person that couldn’t resist.

( Tony couldn’t decide if the more impressive thing about him was the streamlined gold helm—with the rather large dent in it—he wore or the rocket pack strapped to his back, but either way: “Seriously?” )

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Transformative Works Policy

2013-09-21T14:54:14Z

Frea’s Transformative Works Policy:

If you’re going to do any of the following based on any of the stories I’ve written, non-fandom specific:

Meta Commentary
Podfic
Sequel**
Prequel
Missing Moment
Translation
Remix
Fanart
And much, much more

I require a pony.*

*I do not require a pony. I embrace all of these things happily and would love to see them exist and would be incredibly flattered by their existence. All I ask is that you credit the original work and contact me (here is my email, and you can PM me on ff-net, LJ,and Tumblr) to send me a link when you’re done so that I can faint and upon being revived share the link with all and sundry.

** One note on sequels. I will, of course, be happy to pass the link on to all fans of the original work and probably write you a glowing write-up if you choose to write a sequel to any of my stories. With some stories, though, I may choose not to read any sequels written (**coughcoughFATES**) because I simply have a terrible head-space around those stories and need to look after my own mental health first.

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All Of the Valentine's Day Promptathon Posts Just Because

2013-02-08T22:39:08Z

( They are varied and very, very full of lyrics to songs I have never heard )

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2012: A Year in Review

2013-01-03T19:20:33Z

( Chuck and Greater Stuff )

Now on to the meat of the post: I didn’t make resolutions for 2013. Resolutions, I feel, should be between you and your conscience, so I was disgusted to have mine from 2011 thrown in my face by a total stranger. I’d love to see some great things happen this year to people I love and people I know, I’d love to watch some awesome movies, read some wonderful stories, and make fantastic memories. But that’s as far as I’ll go with resolutions.

Now, a look at the year 2012 in writing and other stuff, as best my memory goes:

( January - March )

( April - August )

( September - December )

Looking back on 2012, I made so many good friendships, met so many awesome people, got the chance to write some fun stories, and experienced some wonderful things. It had its down moments, but it had its good times, too. And I think I’ll choose to remember more of the good than the bad this year.

( Some Statistics )

What a good year. Here’s to 2013! And another 1k a day year, I guess!

- Frea

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2012: A Year in Memes

2012-12-31T22:33:43Z

2012 draws to a close, so here are some memes to celebrate it in its final breaths. Memes stolen from my friend sabra_n. Man, it would be so cool if I knew how to do dreamdwidth tags.

( I don't know where #6 went, either. )

( the most depressing 2012 survey you'll read )

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Chaos, Control, and the Color Red 2/?

2012-10-04T18:12:24Z

Title: Chaos, Control, and the Color Red, 2/?
Rating: PG-13 for Violence, Language, Possible Sexual Situations
Fandom: The Avengers (Movieverse), Chuck
Pairings: Carina & Natasha, Natasha/Clint
Summary: It’s a partnership that shouldn’t work and yet somehow does. Mostly. Sometimes. Okay, not usually, but it’s so much fun that Carina Miller doesn't give a damn.
Complete: In progress.
Length: 1,571 words.

Read the first part here.

( In which things have gone, predictably, to hell. )

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Talkin' About My Book and Nanowrimo

2012-10-03T16:24:07Z

So for those of you who don't follow on Tumblr/Twitter/all of the other insane places I hang out, Harper Collins is doing this thing where they're accepting unagented manuscripts for two weeks for science fiction, urban fantasy, fantasy, and other genre type stories. You can read more about it here, but the gist of it is that they're looking to expand their online catalogue by printing some exclusive ebook titles.

I have a few completed books under my belt that aren’t fanfiction, but only one that I felt would meet the criteria. My idea was to not sleep for the past three weeks (when my friend brought this to my attention) and revamp my book with my 2012 writing style, a better villain, and a more ambiguous central relationship. Unfortunately, real life has a way of laughing hysterically at me and, having gotten only three chapters redone, I decided to hand in my 2008 version instead. I think I'm being pragmatic rather than pessimistic when I say there's really not a chance in hell they'll want to publish this book, but it was nice to finally sit down and write a query letter and a synopsis for it (though I'm sure I drove my friends nuts last night).

If they decide not to publish it, here's the deal: I'm going to publish it myself. I've got some experience making ebooks, thanks to you lovely people, and the best beta reader on the planet. I don't want to jinx myself with a definite release date, but I am hard at work on the revisions for it.

Here's some details:

It's a full-length novel, clocking in at about 80,000 words.
It's in first person. Pretty much everything I've written that everybody has seen from me has been in third person, so here's the hilarious part: I'm most comfortable writing in first person.
It's sci-fi/fantasy.
The main character is a smart-ass.
There's romance, there's action, there are people falling off of buildings, and other people that can fly.
The name is really long.
It's the first in a trilogy.
Max already ships two characters that aren't a canon ship and has promised to write the first fanfic.
You'll see where I got Gwen's name in Fates.

Hopefully in the coming weeks, I'll be able to point you to this great new author you'll have never heard of who's somehow releasing snippets of a book that fit exactly everything I just listed, which'll be weird because her name isn't Frea O'Scanlin but it'll be crazy how much she sounds like me, you know? ;)

In other news, it's October, which means the panic for November begins now. Is anybody doing Nanowrimo? Is anybody interested in doing Nanowrimo, but is terrified about what it is, what it entails, and needs a pep talk? If you're in St. Louis, I'll be bopping along to all of the events because the ML is a friend of mine, and I've done Nanowrimo so many times, I can offer tips, advice, and support.

Anyway, that's the news for today!

Frea

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SHIELD Characters

2012-10-02T13:51:30Z

Let the fanfiction commence.

Joss Whedon announced his characters, and I'm pleased to see that he has addressed the serious shortage of characters named "Althea" on TV. Such a giving fellow.

I'm gonna need a Jossed! icon.

- Frea

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Pardon Our Dust

2012-09-28T17:36:40Z

Fixing my other blog, which you can find here.

Upcoming Changes I'm hoping to make:

A set of regular graphics to denote what type of post each will be (aka, each post will be framed with icons similar to LJ and DW)
A better, more comprehensive tagging system
A unified theme throughout my blogs
More cowbell
A directory of junk I'm up to, which includes the free short story I will be releasing to celebrate Halloween next month, under my official pen name
More posts on writing, as that has really fallen to the wayside. Maybe I'll even finish that Vonnegut series.
An unprecedented show of unholy narcissism, aka more personal "What is Frea doing?" posts, including cross-linking to other stuff I'm doing on the web (*coughNiceGirlsTumblrMyOtherPenNamecough*
Fan Recs/Vid Fridays/Suggestions

( Read more... )

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I was going to make a header...

2012-09-28T05:28:05Z

So of course I made icons instead.
( Avengers icons because of reasons or stuff )

Care to guess who my favorite Avenger is? Yeah, it's totally Bruce Banner.

Watched the season opener for Scandal tonight and the premiere of Elementary. A solid night of television, all together. Liked both shows, though some of the writing in Scandal consistently makes me roll my eyes. Rapidly talking about politics does not make one Sorkin, Scandal writers. But keep dreaming. Maybe someday you'll get there.

FRINGE. TOMORROW.

Which is really all I need to say.

- Frea

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Chaos, Control, and the Color Red 1?

2012-09-27T18:28:27Z

Title: Chaos, Control, and the Color Red
Rating: PG-13 for Violence, Language, Possible Sexual Situations
Fandom: The Avengers (Movie Verse), Chuck
Pairings: Carina & Natasha, Natasha/Clint
Summary: It's a partnership that shouldn't work and yet somehow does. Mostly. Sometimes. Okay, not usually, but it's so much fun that Carina Miller doesn't give a damn.
Complete: In progress.
Length: 2,060 words

( In which Carina Miller meets her new partner )

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Outpost GKW DVD Extras: Deleted Scene

2012-09-26T21:20:32Z

Testing the cross-posting of the possibilities by posting a random scenelet found in my extras file.

Title: Outpost GKW Deleted Scene
Rating: G
Fandom: Chuck
Pairings: Chuck/Sarah, Bryce/Sarah
Summary: The inhabitants of Outpost GKW adjust to having two secret agents convalescing in their private little corner of paradise. Some handle it better than others.

( Read more for the deleted scene that should probably never see the light of day )

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