elementalv

So, yes, a bit of spam/pimpage. My friend Emmy Jackson wrote Empty Cradle, and yours truly designed the book. I helped with a few other odds and ends very early in the process, which is why I'm so damn proud of him for finishing it and putting it up for sale.

It's a good book, well worth the read. Go forth! Buy!

IN A FUTURE WHERE NATIONS DON’T EXIST AND LIFE HAS A SPECIFIC VALUE, A YOUNG WOMAN LEADS A PERILOUS JOURNEY ACROSS THE FRAGMENTED REMAINS OF A ONCE-GREAT COUNTRY

Ivy Aniram can't afford to make stupid mistakes. A scavenger in a post-apocalyptic America, where long-distance travel can be deadly to the few who attempt it, Ivy is a rare commodity—a fertile woman untouched by the epidemic “Empty Cradle." When she's ambushed and nearly killed thanks to an offer of trust she shouldn't have extended, the villagers who save her demand a hefty price in return—a baby born of her womb. She may have tumbled out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Corey Sanderson, a farmboy who's eager to escape his bleak rural existence at all costs, proves to be Ivy's salvation. She agrees to take him on a treacherous 2,300-mile trek through hostile terrain to deliver a mysterious piece of cargo. For the injured Ivy to complete this nearly impossible task, she's got to trust Corey, but his youthful enthusiasm makes him both an asset and a liability in a world of scarce supplies, determined bandits, equipment-stealing gleaners, and mutated, half-human “biters." The other passengers Ivy takes on—a traveling historian with a mysterious past, a cheerfully abrasive mercenary and her deer-shapeshifter companion—add their own unique complications. Though she's the driver and travel-master, Ivy quickly learns that getting her cargo to its destination isn't going to happen without their help.

Now available for purchase.

I have one fic most of the way written, and I have a pretty good idea of where I'm going with the other fic. Also, I made my donation of $150 to Doctors without Borders, and as soon as I remember to grab the screenshots of my donation and the match request from my work PC, I will post both to show that my fic winners' donations were tripled. Yay!!!

Yay! sherlock_flashfic isn’t limited to the BBC series -- it will take entries based on the 2009 movie, the Granada series and canon as well, and it goes live today! Go check out the profile page, which has all the info you could possibly need (until we find out that it doesn’t, anyway).

[twirls you all]

Title: The Altar of Dean Winchester
Author: elementalv
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
kink_bingo Squares: worship, exposure/striptease, tattoos/tattooing, dirty talk (a postage stamp)
Notes: This goes AU just before the end of 5.16: instead of finding a liquor store and drinking it, Castiel finds a different way to cope.
Summary: Castiel was made to worship.

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( The Altar of Dean Winchester )

For those of you who don't know me, I've been active in fandom since 2002, though not so much lately, because I'm working toward a master's degree in written communication. I'm currently taking a class called "Community Communication," and for the most recent assignment, we were asked to identify a communication issue in community with which we are very familiar. I chose to look at racism within fandom, based on RaceFail '09 and, more recently, Big Bang RaceFail of '10.

The follow-up paper (which is due a week from tomorrow) is to develop an action plan on how to use communication tools to address the given issue. Below the cut is a list of questions about perceptions of racism in fandom as well as questions about how we respond to such incidents. Anonymous commenting is permitted (though I'll be logging IP addresses), but if you would prefer to respond privately and receive an answer, please feel free to PM me.

I want to thank amazonziti, who was extremely helpful in both reviewing and answering the questions below, and bossymarmalade, who also provided assistance. Finally, if you think this is a worthwhile survey to complete and conversation to have, please give it signal boost at your own journal.

( Survey: Racism in Fandom )

If you have anything to add, please include it in a comment below or in a private message to me.

Thank you.

Note: This poll has been crossposted from LiveJournal

Title: Mirror, Mirror
Author: elementalv
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Notes/Spoilers: Missing scene from SPN 5.18. Written for kink_bingo for the prompt of mirror.
Summary: To be honest, Dean hadn’t thought it through, which, again to be honest, was like saying fish lived in water. Dean never thought shit like this through.

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( Mirror, Mirror )

Title: That NCIS Thing
Author: elementalv
Rating: PG
Characters: Gibbs/Abby
Notes: I started this a few months ago then kind of lost interest in NCIS. Ah well. It was fun while it lasted. Posted as part of wip_amnesty.

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( That NCIS Thing )

Title: “In January, It’s So Nice...”
Author: elementalv
Rating: G
Notes/Spoilers: A very brief Wee!chester based on a line from 5X13, “The Song Remains the Same”
Summary: Dean reads, Sam argues.

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( “In January It's So Nice...” )

This is actually something I can do that's relatively pain-free, now that my Web site is updated. Am I bragging about that? Um...yes. Not that I have much right to, considering it was my own fault it fell so far behind to begin with, but hell. It was a lot of work to get it updated, and even though I still need to do more work, the worst of it is over.

Note that the links below (38, all together, which is kind of weird, because I didn't think I was that productive in 2009) lead to Elemental Vision rather than to LJ or Dreamwidth. This is a mirror of a post at LJ.

2009 Fic Round-up

( Buffy: The Vampire Slayer )

( Crossovers )

( due South )

( Stargate: Atlantis )

( Supernatural )