Welcome to my El Jay.

My website is where (very nearly all) my fiction lives.

Below are drabbles (stories of 100 words exactly), snippets (100-1000 words) and commentfic (things written for fun in comments) what have not been archived anywhere else (yet).

( Drabbles and Commentfic )

( Dear Yuletide Santa... )

Drive-by trekrec: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination is an awesome wee Pike and his yeoman ficlet that also has an AWESOME OC that reminds me of the good ole days of TOS novels where we had Hortas on the bridge, and properly alien aliens, and stuff.

FYI, Chicago folk, Brella is looking for freelancers for short term projects and for several month gigs. All levels of talent are needed as options. Specifically:

After Effects Animators
Avid Video Editor
Flash Designers / Programmers
Copy Editing and Proofing (Educational or Medical)
Medical Writers
Graphic Designers (Print and interactive)
Fluent Native Speakers (Japanese, French Canadian, Portuguese)
Testers (interactive projects)

If you're interested send a resume and link for samples to jobs@brella.com

It's daytime! And I'm (sorta) awake. And I wanted to remind folks of three comms I run which could use a little love.

The first is thebigstore, a multi-fandom comm dedicated to our inappropriate love of conmen, grifters, and thieves. We plan on stealing a ficathon in January. Also, the community encourages posting of helpful research links for writers, as well as recs.

The second is gosfordpark a wee tiny comm for fans of the film Gosford Park. Since Gosford fandom usually perks up at yuletide, reminding folk of its existence seems timely. The masterlist probably needs updating, but it's your one-stop-shopping for Gosford fanfic.

Lastly, you may have noticed I pretty much live at pike_numberone. It's my happy place. But being my happy place, sometimes I am the only person posting there. This makes me sad. Please share your fic, discussion, icons, recs, fanart, etc. for Pike and Number One in all their incarnations! TOS, AOS, novels, comics, you name it, we're interested. Especially as the DVD of Star Trek (2009) comes out on Tuesday, I except a lot of folks who haven't seen the film might be wandering around, wondering where all the awesome Bruce Greenwood love is found. Okay, technically, it's found at pike_2009. BUT there's ♥ at pike_numberone too!

Fellow Chicago TARDIS-bound folk! ragdoll is looking for volunteers for a Merlin panel.

it's been a while since I've done this one, so I figured, why not?

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite	of yourself

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: Currently uploaded: 194

OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: out of 200.

IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Yes

DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Well, they are a shortcut visual guide to me and my fandoms, in a lot of ways. One glance at my icons gives you an almost exact reverse-date order look at my fannish joys and loves from the last 10 years.

WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Star Trek (TOS/AOS) (51)

AND THE SECOND MOST: The Middleman (15)

WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Pike/Number One

DO YOU MAKE YOUR OWN ICONS: Yep.

ARE THEY SHAREABLE?: With one or two exceptions, no. An LJ icon is meant to represent you, and be a quick way to identify a poster at at glance. So don't really like to share them out. Tho I do make custom icons all the time for people, based on mine. And some of these were originally in up for grabs icon posts. But the majority I made for me and/or my close friends, and don't share.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

(eta: I altered some of the questions, so above is the original meme code)

zomg you guys, I am insanely in love with The Brothers Bloom. I saw the first half on the plane home from Hurricane Who, and finally tonight watched the rest when I got the dvd inna post. Watching The Sting in the middle was kinda surreal? But somehow fitting.

( If I worked for Simon & Shuster making Star Trek covers... )

Am I weird that I am deeply amused that, in the novel coming this spring about Carol Marcus and Leila Kalomi, the image they're using on the cover is from the soap opera Love is a Many Splendoured Thing?

Answers (thus far) to the dvd commentary meme:

( for possibly_thrice )

( for boosette )

( for girl_wonder )

( for rubynye )

The third in my series of "tiny rare fandoms I hope to pimp the hell out of for yuletide" I give you ( everything you need to know about Probe )



Previous small fandoms pimped: The Man from Atlantis and Shell Game

meme snurched from boosette:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Trekrec of AWESOME: alis volat propriis [she flies on her own wings] by boosette is a stunningly gorgeous Number One story.

So once I realised that I had neglected to nominate my beloved The Thomas Crown Affair for yuletide, I got to thinking... Well, I got to thinking like Nate Ford.

I think we should steal a ficathon. (Sorta.)

Since it's tis the season of yuletide, and everybody's still all jazzed about tiny fandoms they only ever get to read and write this time of year, I think we should have a wee comm where we can post fic and recs and maybe even post-Yuletide, have a ficathon specifically for stories of con men and grifters and thieves while we're all still on a total small-fandom HIGH.

So I'm thinking it would be stuff like White Collar, Leverage, Burn Notice, Hustle, The Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean's Eleven, Sneakers, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Three, The Sting, American Gods, Catch Me If You Can, The A-Team, Shell Game, Remington Steele, The Saint, the list goes on and on. Hell, even standalone characters like Selina Kyle as Catwoman, Amanda from The Raven and Highlander, and Fawkes from The Invisible Man.

Basically any story where someone's run a game on a greedy mark, evaded a brilliant insurance investigator, or walked out of a museum with a priceless painting right under the noses of the police.

And I think it should be thebigstore. And we can pool resources and share insane book lists, and be total dorks together.

Scarecrow & Mrs King coming to DVD!

Continuing my quest to get more folks to potentially nominate it for yuletide here ( everything you need to know about Man From Atlantis )

Drive-by Trekrec: A Tide Taken at the Flood by lindmere is a gorgeous look at Pike post-movie.

In the spirit of "Here is possibly the nichest niche fandom that ever niched that I am hoping qualifies for yuletide" here is ( everything you need to know about Shell Game )

Next up... Man From Atlantis!

The Accidental Arab is an interview with Alexander Siddig (Siddig El Fadil) by author Jamal Mahjoub that goes into depth about both of their experiences growing up in mixed families, and how their lives have changed post-9/11.

Trekrec: The Orion-On-Vulcan Method by anodyna is Spock Prime/Gaila post-movie fic OF AWESOME.

First batch of drabbles from this meme.

for infiniteviking: ( Abby Sciuto )

for medie: ( Pike )

for sinkwriter: ( Timothy McGee )

( Edison and Theora )

( Gibbs/Abby )

for thistlerose: ( Stormer )

for boosette: ( Pike/Number One )

for syredronning: ( Pike/Chapel )

for corellianjedi: ( Hodgins/Abby )

for mechturtle: ( Uhura )

for possibly_thrice: ( Pike/Gaila )

for thepouncer: ( Gibbs )

Drive-by Trekrec: Towns Unstormed and Battles Yet to Come by boosette is Pike/Number One goodness that makes me SO HAPPY.

sinkwriter asked me if I have a writing process, and if it varies from project to project. My response was too long for a comment, so I'm throwing it out there as its own entry.

( my brain: let me show you it. )

( Paradigm Shift, 2/2 )

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Television / Desilu Productions 1965. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Television / Desilu Productions 1965.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

Author's Note: Written for the treknovelfest. Based on DC Fontana's Vulcan's Glory. Thanks to my betas B, calapine, possibly_thrice, and leftarrow.

( Paradigm Shift, 1/2 )

Title: Empirical Data
Author: LJC
Pairing(s): Pike/Number One
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: Pike convinces introduces Number One to a time honoured tradition. Written for The Pike/Number One Prompt Table prompt #15. "discovery".

( Empirical Data )

Disclaimer: Star Trek and all related elements, characters and indicia © Paramount Television / Desilu Productions 1965. All Rights Reserved. All characters and situations—save those created by the authors for use solely on this website—are copyright Paramount Television / Desilu Productions 1965.

Please do not archive or distribute without author's permission.

Author's Note: Written for the Matri-thon: The Pan-Fandom Women 40 And Over Ficathon. Thanks to my betas leftarrow and calapine.

( No Small Dreams )

Drive-by Trekrec:

Welcome Interruptions by celebros is OMG SO AWESOME I COULD CRY. It's Winona Kirk and Cadet Pike and just so much more than I could have imagined, when I put out the prompt way the hell back in June. Jim is so his mother's son, WOW. Just a gorgeous look at the Kirk family, and Winona in particular. And PIKE. There are lessons he's learning here that he may not even realise he's learning until it's him on that shuttlecraft heading over to the Narada, and I LOVE IT SO HARD OMG.

I need a Winona icon, now.

(want. take. have.)

Please remember to read all the comments first, to make sure no-one has asked for exclusive use of an icon. If you are willing to share, mention that when you claim it.

NOTE: Please do not claim more than 3 icons.

Samples:


( la la icons la la )

Drive-by Trekrec:

Why Didn't They Ask Lewis? by chaletian is AWESOME "Lower Decks" fic. Juts a lovely slice-of-life aboard the Enterprise, from the POV of a redshirt I want to adopt and feed cookies.

( Not a VividCon Con Report. Also, a Week Late. )

Guess who just realised she never posted this here? *facepalms*

Title: "T'Kay Stories" (Excerpted from From The Terran Coyote to The Klingon K'Ortar: Tricksters of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants)
Series: Star Trek (All)
Author: LJC
Characters: T'Kay
Rating: PG
Summary: Written for treknovelfest prompt #93: Uhura's Song - Vulcan stories -- A story of T'Kay, the trickster of Vulcan

( T'Kay Stories )

Eventually there will be a vividcon con report type post. I have half of one written. Honest.

In the meantime, look! javi and Jeremiah Chechik and The Middleman video commentary on "The Sino-Mexican Revelation" at o2stk.com!

woot!

Do YOU remember Sargasso Planet?

( for kattahj )

( for tzikeh )

( for cereta )

( for musesfool )

( for corellianjedi )

( for nestra )

( for anr )

( for thespatz )

( for rubynye )

( for ancarett )

( for amilyn )

( for redeem147 )

( for grinninfoole )

( for konstantine03 )

( for faithfulpuppy85 )

( for promisemewings )

( for rashaka )

stolen from EVERYONE.

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

Title: The Size of His Dream
Author: LJC
Characters: McCoy, Pike
Rating: PG
Summary: Leonard McCoy was not what Christopher Pike expected.
Notes: Written for waxbean for trek_exchange.

( The Size of His Dream )

Eyes without a face!



when you see this, post a random quirky Middleman exclamation in your lj.

Drive-by Trekrec:

That Monogamy Thing by silverlining_99 (Kirk/McCoy, WIP but the parts stand alone)

thehoyden and I are wanting to host a Leverage room party at vividcon in two weeks (I have dvd box set so we could watch special features and one episode from either s1 or s2 depending on what folks would like to see), but we're aware that dinner breaks Friday and Saturday are kinda wacky, so I HAVE A POLL!



Poll #1438356 The VividCon Job
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19

Which time would be best to engage in some quality "Leverage" geeking?

We can order food, or I can do what I did last year for the The Middleman party and get food from Dominick's and folks could chip in $5 to cover it. Food would most likely be in the form of sandwiches, and thematic popcorn, and Orange Soda.

Drive-by Trekrecs:

Lensflare Lover by leftarrow
Is Pike/Enterprise, Pike/Number One AWESOMENESS, an AU loosely based on a concept from Tanith Lee's "The Silver Metal Lover" which I have not actually read. However, think June from Sol Bianca. Or, if you are so inclined, the idea of Sovereignty*. Only, you know... where the land is a ship.

Shooting the Moon by miss_porcupine
This story has no anthropomorphic personifications! It does have some really lovely Kirk and Pike re-film awesomeness.

Undercover Series by silverlining_99 (McCoy/Chapel)
Whereas this series has the Hawt Sex. But really, I am all about the first bit, which was written for the kinkmeme, and OH HOLY GOD IT'S HOT.


* Okay, it suddenly occured to me that the notion of Sovereignty is something I'm probably more familair with than lots of you. But basically, the living land was often represented as a woman, and in order for the king to be a true king, he had to do wed the land, specifically the anthropomorphic personification of the land. And his physical health reflected that of the land. So if he was maimed, he had to step down because he had to be whole or else the land and the people would suffer. That's why in The Book of Invasions, Nuada Argetlámh was given the silver arm--so he could stay king. And it's how Ireland got her name--three sisters named Ériu, Banba and Fodhla greeted the Gaels when they arrived, and the poet Amairgen had to pick one of them. He picked Ériu, and so the land was named Éire. And it pops up in Celtic mythology in western Europe all over the place for a really long time (if you've ever read "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", you know what I mean). And it's a concept I take for granted, and forget is foreign to erm... just about everybody who isn't also pagan, a folklore geek, or a classics major.

As part of International Blog Against Racism Week, rawles has an excellent post about the significance of Uhura and Spock's relationship precisely because Nyota Uhura is not a white girl.

( HOORAY! )

Have your boxset? Post a photo of yourself and your shiny, shiny dvds to middlefan or to the Event on Facebook! Don't have your boxset yet? Well, what in the gosh darned heck are you waiting for?

(It also makes a great gift for family members, loved ones, spouses, significant others, your third grade teacher, or random waifs you might meet in the street who need a hot meal and 9 hours of continuous awesome adventure and fun balanced with touching personal drama...and trout-craving zombies.)

But wait... there's more!

SDCC TABLE READ GOODNESS!!!!

Streaming at Blip.tv
Megaupload link #1
Megaupload link #2 (mirror)

Other Mirrors (Requires hjsplit) :

MediaFire Mirror Folder: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1639289419419f1408a634469d2feadd83bd03d8ff53d963

Sendspace Mirror:
Part 1: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yk8c35
Part 2: http://www.sendspace.com/file/v0y7s1
Part 3: http://www.sendspace.com/file/g1gqjo
Part 4: http://www.sendspace.com/file/4b2urg
Part 5: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ed2dnk
Part 6: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ug11yn

priscellie's images from SDCC, including The Wendy Trifecta of Unstoppability!

Mitchell from Being Human. Preferably the Guy Flanagan version, for comical emo hair and LOOMING.

CBR's Coverage of the Middleman table read, with pics! In addition to Himself and the cast, the handsome fellow in the !!!! shirt is Andy Reaser, the two lovely ladies are Sarah Watson and Margaret Dunlap.

More MiddleCoverage from SDCC, and yes, that appears to be a pork-pie hat Natalie Morales is sporting (which is unsurprising, given her well-documented adulation of Buster Keaton).

I stole a meme from maidenjedi!

Lots of pillows or just one?
I have 4 on my bed, but when I go to sleep, I take the squishy flat one and ball it up under my head. But I still need the one slightly firmer one, to be there. Just in case. I don't know why.

What kind of books do you read?
Oh golly. Lots of book. Media tie-ins, chicklit, and good YA paranormal romances and trashy lame paranormal romances of the LULZ, and urban fantasy, and hard-boiled detective novels (but mostly Chandler, cos Cain and Hammett make me lose faith in the idea of basic human decency), and only Margery Allingham's Campion novels, but sometimes the Maisie Dobbs novels, and non-fiction (particularly if I'm researching something like the OSS, Ivor Novello, the Royal Navy, life in domestic service between WWI and WWII, or, erm...autobiographies of actors) and fairy tales and folklore and retellings of fairy tales, and OH OH OH PULPS! Like Tarzan and Mike Hammer and Honey West and The Saint and when I am RICH I am going to get THE ENTIRE The Shadow that Maxwell Grant wrote and read them IN ORDER. NO, REALLY.

What are your most awesome skills?
I can whistle almost any tune, and I am very good at introducing people to other people.

What's your occupation?
Web developer, graphic designer, former journalist, and part-time editor.

What's really creepy?
CLOWNS.

What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
Fandom: Star Trek (2009) and TOS
Obsession: Pike/Number One
Addiction: McCoy/Chapel and McCoy/Kirk

What flavor ice cream would you choose right now?
ben and jerry's peanut butter cup or baskin & robbins peanut butter & chocolate

What websites do you always visit when you go online?
el jay, hotmail, twitter, facebook

What was the last thing you bought?
Comics, sushi, and pecan pie

What was the cutest thing you've seen today?
Natalie Morales tweeting a pic of Wendy Watson in The Middleman: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse

Do you get cravings?
Yes.

What do you do to change your mood?
Listed to Moxy Früvous' "King of Spain'

What is your zodiac sign?
Virgo

Do you want to learn another language?
Yes. I used to be fluent in French and Spanish, but I would really like to learn ASL

Five things you can't live without.
My mobile, my Ida (Acer AspireOne netbook), my stuffed bear Pookie I've had since I was nine, my Dansko clogs, and my glasses.

What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
I see what you did there.

What are you looking forward to?
PAYDAY ZOMG.