Bordertown
Changelings
Feels exactly like a missing scene from _Finder_.

Bourne Identity (Damon film series)
Behavioural Software
This is just gorgeous--captures the feel of the films, and Nicky's character perfectly.

Dexter (tv series)
Brother's Keeper
Lovely in-character look at Harry trying to control the future, and give both his kids a chance.

Forever Knight
Afterimage
Brilliant Nat, and just an excellent look at her and Nick, and their future.

Gosford Park
Of Letters
I can see this so clearly--gorgeous, gorgeous look at such a delicate relationship built on might-have-beens.

Almost Home
This is the story I have wanted for so long, and it's exactly what I needed.

Jake 2.0
Every Day Feels Like Sunday
This just absolutely breaks my heart.

Jem
Superbowl Showdown
Yays my gift! There is just not enough Lin-Z fic in this fandom.

Mairelon The Magician
Foreign Liason
Gorgeous gorgeous Renée and Kim. Just a lovely light touch with both the characters and the situation.

MirrorMask
With Tremulous Cadence
Beautiful Helena and notValentine, post-movie.

Spooks
Not to Fear Infinity
This just nails all the characters--particularly Ruth, and the dialogue is superb.

Sunshine
Hands and Heart
This feels like it was lifted straight from the novel.

Sneakers
Exercises in Latitudinal Thinking
I LOVE THIS STORY LIKE PIE. Seriously.

SciFi's Jake 2.0 site is up!

(yes, I am using an o5 icon, cos all my j20 icons at the mo are spoilery)

Jake 2.0 on SciFi Channel...?

ETA: CONFIMED!

ZOMG.

I'm sending out the Jake 2.0 Ficathon 2.0 assignments tonight.

Here's the list of folks who have signed up:

taraljc
halcyon_shift
misspamela
roseveare
starborn_scribe
kattahj
krazykipper
calystoantonsen
voleuse
natmerc

If you still wish to sign up, go here and sign-up NOW. Just a reminder--you have to confirm your form data for it to be sent. If you did not click "continue" and get taken to the "Thank You" page, then you have not submitted your request for a ficathon story.

Chris Gorham and Charisma Carpenter and Nicky Brendon all in the same MOW. I think my head my explode.

Just a reminder for folks joining the Jake 2.0 Ficathon 2.0--

You have to confirm your form data for it to be sent. If you did not click "continue" and get taken to the "Thank You" page, then you have not submitted your request for a ficathon story.

Due to me being unexpectedly out of town in April and May, the Jake 2.0 ficathon sign-up/writing deadlines are shifting.

Here's the deal: Everyone who signs up will have a story tailor-made to their request, and in return, will answer a challenge from a fellow fan.

Stories should be a minimum of 1000 words long, with no maximum word limit.

The sign-up period is April 1 - May 31, and assignments will be sent out via email June 1. Stories will then be due August 1.

Sign Up HERE.

If you signed up in April, then you do not need to sign-up again--your sign-up is still on file. Participants thus far are:

roseveare
taraljc
kattahj
misspamela
starborn_scribe
halcyon_shift
krazykipper

Stories will be posted at the JMD August 15. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up to get a story and give a story!

And if you're in the mood to read, check out the results of the first Jake 2.0 Ficathon from 2004!

Spread the word!

Just a reminder: Jake 2.0 Ficathon 2.0 sign-ups still open until 15 April

Thanks to roseveare's lovely Jake 2.0 obsession, sign-ups for the Jake 2.0 Ficathon 2.0 are now open.

Here's the deal: Everyone who signs up will have a story tailor-made to their request, and in return, will answer a challenge from a fellow fan.

Stories should be a minimum of 1000 words long, with no maximum word limit.

The sign-up period is April 1 - April 15, and assignments will be sent out via email May 1. Stories will then be due July 1

Stories will be posted at the JMD July 15. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up to get a story and give a story!

And if you're in the mood to read, check out the results of the first Jake 2.0 Ficathon from 2004!

Spread the word!

So I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to get ready to leave on trip, and I just picked up the post.

There's an envelope from Chris Gorham's reps, with a signed photo from Out of Practice and a business card (also signed, God love him) with OOP's airdates (it comes back from hiatus March 22). The photo reads "Tara, Love love love the site! thank you, CG"

Now, bear in mind:

a) I haven't written to Chis since January 2004, just before or possibly after Jake 2.0 halted production (tho I did sent flowers and chocolate to the Vancouver prod. office to cheer up the crew)

b) I am not 100% sure which site he's talking about, as I have, erm... 5? Ish? the j20fans site, the Jake/Diane site, the Jake fanlisting, the JMD, and the Odyssey 5 site (which, coindicentially was updated recently with the link to pre-order O5 on DVD).

c) the j20 site hasn't actually been updated in over a year, due to me not actually updating much at all since being laid off 2 years ago. Becasue I SUCK.

Still, I am vastly entertained. And hope for his sake his new series gets better writers, and stays on the air long enough to be syndicated, for to put his and Anel's adorable babies through university. In the meantime, I am posting him back a set of the "save j20" postcards (and multiples of the "put my show out on dvd" postcards) cos I think they may amuse him.

P.S. speaking of the JMD, roseveare is in the first blush of new fannish love, and she and I were talking about a 2nd j20 ficthon--and I can't remember if I posted and asked who all would be up for it? I'll post a sign-up when I get back from Florida-la.

For profshallowness, for reminding me how much I really miss these people.

( Jake 2.0 - Tactile )

very very late jake 2.0 recs!

and to those who had expressed interest... Since only two of you have responded, should I extend the sign-up date for the Odyssey 5 ficathon?

Interview with Javier Grillo-Marxuach (i.e. the man who brought us "The Good, The Bad, and the Geeky", "Whiskey - Tango - Foxtrot" and "Get Foley" as well as Jake's love of Rush and White Castle) is up at j20fans!

Okay, I knew that The 4400 had moved into the old Jake 2.0 stages.

What I hadn't realised, however, was that they'd kept the SatOps set and just redressed it.

I haven't had whiplash like this since Witchblade recycled the Section One sets from Nikita.

I miss my goddam show.

*whimper*

A little R-rated Warner/Dumont written for the postcoital "Afterglow" challenge. (Spoilers for "Upgrade.")

( Cause and Effect )

( The Talk )

Look what konstantine03 did! She wrote a lovely lovely Jake/Diane coda to "Upgrade"!

squeee!

The following contains spoilers for (and won't make a heck of a lot of sense unless you've seen) "Get Foley"

( Sense Memory )

Okay, thanks to a crash course in PhotoShop's custom actions and batch processes (I wish I'd known how to do this before, by the bye. Woulda saved me a LOT of time in the past) I've re-sized and re-iploaded my Jake 2.0 mood theme.

If you wanna use it, please download it and upload the images to your own server.

Instructions on how to create a custom mood theme are here, and to get a template for the lines to input into the console, download this file and replace the ID and URL with your own ID and URL of where you've uploaded the pics.

( The Art of War - Part 2 )

( The Art of War - Part 1 )

Question for PhDs on my flist (or lurkers)...

Still poking Prince and the Revolution missing scene story. And have a research question...

After you submit your doctoral thesis, what's the time-frame usually, before you get your PhD? Is there a review board? Do you have to present a printed and bound copy? Does it differ depending on the school/field of study? Can you present your thesis while on an internship? Also, would you do your master thesis on the same subject as your doctoral thesis (in the same field of study)?

(for arguments sake, let's say that it's Nanotechnology in Biomedical Research at MIT, roughly 3 years ago... And your name is Diane Hughes, and you're fictional...And we won't even get into the part where she appears to be a medical doctor who attended med school as well as a nanotech expert, because that's too... messy. Not that I don't think it's possible. It's that I don't think it's possible for a 26 year old to have done....)

ETA: ooooooh, this answers some of my questions. Nifty!

Need help with doctors/nurses/medical geeks with a j20 story...

I posted to fanfic_med, but I know I've got some nifty docs around here, so...

Okay, I've been working on a "Jake 2.0" story set during "Prince and the Revolution" in which Diane is managing to freak herself completely out over all of the potential ways Jake could be hurt/die if he's out there alone, unmonitored.

Basically, I'm looking for a nice long laundry list of stuff that logically *could* go wrong with the nanites. The sort of stuff that's feasible and logical, considering how these little guys supposedly work.

According to the show, they way they function is by positioning themselves along his central nervous system, establishing contact with the brain via electrical impulses. When Jake's in trouble or danger or just thinks about needing to go faster/be stronger/jump higher, the nanites trigger his adrenal glands, and "his adrenals [go] up 300% instantly." Diane tells her bosses that "Jake's muscles are not any different than yours or mine, but you hit him with this much adrenaline, and, I mean, their performance just increases tenfold, and the same for his sight and hearing."

So I've got Addison's Disease on my list. I figure, if JFK had it and did okay, that's probably pretty treatable and not so huge a deal. Jake would just need to take lots and lots of hydrocortisone to keep from, you know--falling down from exhaustion and such.

But what else theoretically could/will go wrong? At the time in the series when the story is set, Jake's had the nanites for less than six months. So they have no idea what the long-term effects could be. Canonically, she's told Jake that some of the lab mice in the project experienced muscle spasms (which Jake has as well, early on--I'm assuming having to do with o2/co2 levels in the blood and lactic acid build up in the muscles), blindness, partial or full paralysis, and when the nanites reject the host, they've died.

So right now, I'm just trying to think along the lines of what happens to someone who goes from a couch potato to an Olympic sprinter over-night, and who *remains* at that activity level a sprinter normally only would for maybe a few minutes at a time, for extended periods of time. I mean, if Jake goes from a normal person with 50:50 spread of fast twitch to slow twitch muscle tissue to suddenly 80:20 fast:slow, in a short period of time, what would the physical side-effects would be? Would his joints give out from the stress? How would his red blood cell production be changed? How would his kidneys be affected by the stimulated production of erythrocytes?

And with the nanites being directly hardwired into his brain, is there an increased chance of stroke or seizures?

( Status Quo, pt. 3 )

( Status Quo, pt. 2 )

(story is also available here...)

( Status Quo, pt. 1 (erm... again...) )

Okay, just because we're not getting "Get Foley" tonight, doesn't mean that we can't have a little Jake/Diane...

( Status Quo - part 1 )

( Balancing Act )

Because I tend to come up with dialogue that cracks my shit up while walking home from work, and yahtzee63 dared me to do it, and merryish and octopedingenue egged me on from the sidelines...

( Odds Are )

( 'Peace of Mind' 1/1 Rated PG-13 )

( The Cure For the Single Syndrome )

( jake 2.0: Geek of Steel )