Star Trek/Mad Men crossover
Dec. 21st, 2009 | 12:42 am
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sparkly_stuff
You know what I've been missing from my Sunday nights? Mad Men. Why are their seasons so short? :(
This weekend was the first epic snowfall of this winter, and I felt it was the perfect opportunity to seal myself up in my apartment and write. And that's exactly what I did. I have an assortment of half-written fics begging to be finished, so naturally I ignored them all and wrote a whole new fic from scratch. AND IT IS THE LONGEST MOTHERFUCKING STORY I'VE WRITTEN IN YEARS. It felt really good. I needed that.
A few months ago I made this cracky Star Trek/Mad Men picture and ever since, whenever I've mentioned that I feel like writing a ST/MM crossover, the reaction I got was "DO IT DO IT!" So I did it.
Title: A Beautiful Mine Meld
Rating: R
Word Count: 6,250
Notes: It's not a true crossover--there's no MM characters here. It's more like Mirror Universe!AOS, if the Mirror Universe were an ad agency in 1960s New York. Thus you don't have to be familiar with MM to read this, although if you are there's a lot of subtle goodies for you. Title is a play on "A Beautiful Mine," the theme song to Mad Men. Also, this is quite possibly the most dramatic thing I've ever written. It kinda goes with the territory.
Summary: Just another day at the offices ofSterling Cooper Starship Enterprise Advertising.
( Shut the door. Have a seat. )
This weekend was the first epic snowfall of this winter, and I felt it was the perfect opportunity to seal myself up in my apartment and write. And that's exactly what I did. I have an assortment of half-written fics begging to be finished, so naturally I ignored them all and wrote a whole new fic from scratch. AND IT IS THE LONGEST MOTHERFUCKING STORY I'VE WRITTEN IN YEARS. It felt really good. I needed that.
A few months ago I made this cracky Star Trek/Mad Men picture and ever since, whenever I've mentioned that I feel like writing a ST/MM crossover, the reaction I got was "DO IT DO IT!" So I did it.
Title: A Beautiful Mine Meld
Rating: R
Word Count: 6,250
Notes: It's not a true crossover--there's no MM characters here. It's more like Mirror Universe!AOS, if the Mirror Universe were an ad agency in 1960s New York. Thus you don't have to be familiar with MM to read this, although if you are there's a lot of subtle goodies for you. Title is a play on "A Beautiful Mine," the theme song to Mad Men. Also, this is quite possibly the most dramatic thing I've ever written. It kinda goes with the territory.
Summary: Just another day at the offices of
( Shut the door. Have a seat. )
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It could be fandom
Dec. 17th, 2009 | 09:13 am
lived: 
LMAO
posted by: mrstater
Courtesy of Neil Gaiman, an example of how an author should NOT respond to a negative review of her novel on Amazon.
Herein unfolds a saga worthy of Fandom Wank; the commenter posting as "Niteflyr One" makes a few caustic remarks about the negative review, accusing him/her of trolling to hurt her book sales and blaming the book's problems on editors, who don't work with the authors, and eventually is outed as the author of the work in question. Even after she's outed, she doesn't shut up; in fact, she gets worse and...well, you should really read the thread yourself, because it's hilarious, but eventually she claims to have called the FBI on these negative reviewers. Because the FBI, you know, was created to defend authors of space romances from the scorn of peons.
Have just read that the author is an Aggie. Suddenly it all makes sense... ;)
Herein unfolds a saga worthy of Fandom Wank; the commenter posting as "Niteflyr One" makes a few caustic remarks about the negative review, accusing him/her of trolling to hurt her book sales and blaming the book's problems on editors, who don't work with the authors, and eventually is outed as the author of the work in question. Even after she's outed, she doesn't shut up; in fact, she gets worse and...well, you should really read the thread yourself, because it's hilarious, but eventually she claims to have called the FBI on these negative reviewers. Because the FBI, you know, was created to defend authors of space romances from the scorn of peons.
Have just read that the author is an Aggie. Suddenly it all makes sense... ;)
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sixteen tons and what do you get / another year older and deeper in debt
Dec. 8th, 2009 | 10:02 pm
posted by: sparkly_stuff
1. 2010 needs to hurry up and get here, because 2009 and I are fucking done professionally.
2. WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN.
The snowflakes totally took me by surprise; I had no clue LJ even had this going on. It's like Valentine's Day come early, only unlike V-Day I actually got stuff! :') So thank you to Anonymous,maraudersaffair, revelried, so_severus, zombres, dharmavati, wheres_walnut, hilsongirl, kuro_nyoko, ziasudra_fic, clytemnestra215, almalthia, letmypidgeonsgo, zia_narratora, acacia_123, & blue_hobbit for the V-Gift spam <333
I WANT TO AWKWARDLY MAKE OUT WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.
I didn't send any to anyone, because I'm an asshole. Also I can't get over the term "V-Gift," it sounds like a euphemism for vaginas or virginity, like "Hey man I totally unwrapped her V-Gift last night *wink wink*." Ew.
3. In case you missed it, HOLIDAY CARD POST!
4. If you haven't yet, vote for the People's Choice Awards! I think it's only open a few more hours :3 Here are some of my choices, which I'm sure seem completely unpredictable and shocking:
You can vote as often as you want (I'm up to 3x so far). I actually voted for both ZQ and Chris Pine BECAUSE I COULD. I wish I lived in LA so I could attend. One of you west coast people need to go on my behalf!
5. My new job sucks hardcore. FML.
6. One of the many reasons my job sucks, though a shallow one, is now I have to work Monday nights so no more participating in awesome Twitterspam during Heroes and Big Bang Theory :( But can I just say last night's BBT was EPIC? It was one of the best episodes of the entire series IMHO. Kaley and Jim have so much chemistry it's not even funny. Except it is, because I couldn't stop laughing.
I asked for BBT on DVD for xmas so that I can use it to convert everyone I know into BBT fans ;D
7. THIS NEEDS TO BE REAL. ONLY I WOULD CALL IT "SPOCK BAND."
2. WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN.
The snowflakes totally took me by surprise; I had no clue LJ even had this going on. It's like Valentine's Day come early, only unlike V-Day I actually got stuff! :') So thank you to Anonymous,
maraudersaffair, revelried, so_severus, zombres, dharmavati, wheres_walnut, hilsongirl, kuro_nyoko, ziasudra_fic, clytemnestra215, almalthia, letmypidgeonsgo, zia_narratora, acacia_123, & blue_hobbit for the V-Gift spam <333 I WANT TO AWKWARDLY MAKE OUT WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.
I didn't send any to anyone, because I'm an asshole. Also I can't get over the term "V-Gift," it sounds like a euphemism for vaginas or virginity, like "Hey man I totally unwrapped her V-Gift last night *wink wink*." Ew.
3. In case you missed it, HOLIDAY CARD POST!
4. If you haven't yet, vote for the People's Choice Awards! I think it's only open a few more hours :3 Here are some of my choices, which I'm sure seem completely unpredictable and shocking:
You can vote as often as you want (I'm up to 3x so far). I actually voted for both ZQ and Chris Pine BECAUSE I COULD. I wish I lived in LA so I could attend. One of you west coast people need to go on my behalf!
5. My new job sucks hardcore. FML.
6. One of the many reasons my job sucks, though a shallow one, is now I have to work Monday nights so no more participating in awesome Twitterspam during Heroes and Big Bang Theory :( But can I just say last night's BBT was EPIC? It was one of the best episodes of the entire series IMHO. Kaley and Jim have so much chemistry it's not even funny. Except it is, because I couldn't stop laughing.
I asked for BBT on DVD for xmas so that I can use it to convert everyone I know into BBT fans ;D
7. THIS NEEDS TO BE REAL. ONLY I WOULD CALL IT "SPOCK BAND."