Dear Trick or Treat Creator,

Halloween is my favorite holiday and fall my favorite season, so Trick or Treat is an awesome mix of things I love combined with fandoms I adore. I had a blast last year, and I can’t wait to see your creation.

Below, I’ve provided some general likes and Do Not Wants, as well as a few thoughts about why I like specific fandoms and characters. If there is a discrepancy between the general likes and DNWs and the fandom-specific information, go with the fandom-specific information. I like both fic and art, and my prompts generally work for both. Feel free to mix and match tricks and treats, within a fandom or across fandoms, or to ignore my prompts completely.

My absolutely favorite things: werewolves, crossovers, and monsters and magic.

You can find me on DW, LJ, and AO3 as escritoireazul.

Likes:

+ girl slash, gen, and het more than boy slash, mostly because I really love stories about women
+ women being awesome and competent and smart and funny and sexy
+ werewolves and werewolf packs as families and women being amazing werewolves and werewolf alternate universes in any canon and full moons over the ocean
+ chosen families being loving and protective and a little snarly with each other because they trust each other to always be there and adoption stories where adoption is treated as totally normal and not a BIG DRAMATIC SECRET to up the tension and siblings as friends and friends as family
+ Halloween and horror movies
+ roadtrip stories and motorcycle rides
+ crossovers, the more twisty and complicated the better.

Do Not Want:
+ disrespect for characters of color, queer characters (particularly bisexual and trans* characters), fat characters, or characters with mental illness
+ character bashing
+ rape and non-con and dub-con (including as backstory)
+ use of "crazy" to mean bad or dangerous or scary, etc.
+ stories set at mental hospitals, whether currently active or abandoned
+ embarrassment/humiliation
+ animal cruelty or death
+ incest
+ spiders. Especially in art, but sometimes even the word is enough to get to me.

( Emelan - Tamora Pierce )

( Jurassic Park series )

( Cursed (2005) )

( Tortall - Tamora Pierce )

( The Breed (2006) )

( The Librarians (Tv 2014) )

( All 10 Days )

Day 9 - Two things you wish you could do

Have career success without my mental health falling apart, but clearly that wasn't something I could do. I was amazing at it, right up until I wasn't, and now I can't seem to do anything at all. Fuck bipolar, dudes. Fuck it.

Space travel. I want to see the stars, touch the sky and beyond, all the planets, all the worlds. That or have a raptor pack, complete with a Blue of my own.

While I haven't yet watched Mockingjay part one (I tend to watch the Hunger Games movies when they're available on Blu-Ray, though I may make an exception for this one if I can work it in tomorrow between car repair and leaving town -- so probably not), this version of the hanging tree gave me chills.

I'm giving The Flash a try. Missed episode one being available on Hulu+, but so far, it's kind of adorable. In particular, I love ( slight spoilers )

Watched the latest WWE pay-per-view, Survivor Series, and overall came away pleased though ( spoilers )

The Jurassic World teaser trailer does nothing but annoy me. I WANT THE ACTUAL TRAILER NOW. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER. MORE DINOSAURS DUDES DINOSAURS FOREVER.

Still source reviewing for my actual Yuletide assignment, but one of the treats has now reached 8500 words oh my god it just won't stop. It's paused for the moment, and I need to do a little more source review for it, too, but oh, man, this treat is ridiculous and out of control. I'm so excited about it and my assignment. (I'll be excited about the other treats I started, too, once I get to work on them again.)

Unrelated to media, except in that it falls into my garage and mechanic love, I tried some minor repairs on my car, which failed, alas. I think the battery is just dead, due to not being able to start it for a week in the cold weather while I was waiting on a part, and J and I have now joined AAA, so I'm calling them in the morning. Here's hoping the jump will be it, because I really need to be on the road fairly early tomorrow. I have a four hour drive down to J's, and I don't really want to do it in the dark with the weather we're having. Plus I'm off to pick up a friend at the train station on Tuesday, and that will be an easier drive if I've made it to J's on Monday. So looking forward to friend's visit.

Friending Meme

kouredios is having a friending meme here on Dreamwidth and here on livejournal, and it is awesome. I am finding so many people to add to my reading list. Hi, new people!

Here is what I said:

1. name: escritoireazul (DW, LJ, AO3, Tumblr, Twitter)
2. age(ish): early 30s
3. primary fandoms: I've posted fic in more than 50 fandoms, mostly Yuletide eligible. I am multifannish beyond belief, but mostly I love werewolves and crossovers and awesome women and families of choice. I'm keeping up with OUaT, Grimm, Castle, Bones, and Criminal Minds, will catch up on Sons of Anarchy over Christmas, and just finished a rewatch of season two of Fringe and am on to a rewatch of season three. (Partial rewatch, I had to stop watching partway through because of life issues.)
4. other stuff you're into, but maybe don't blog about (unless you find more people who'd want to hear about it): My motorcycle, my dad and my amazing siblings (my mom died recently, so I don't know how much I'll be talking about her any time soon), long-distance bffs (all my bffs are long distance now, alas, some longer than others), queer books, ya books, my mental illnesses (bipolar and ocd), and adoption. I rarely talk about my jobs, because I have a non-fannish journal for that. (Which I will tell you about if you ask, but I try not to link them too publicly.)
5. non-fannish interests?: See above.
6. my journal reads like...: Joy and babbling and anger. And werewolves.

This reminds me I should do a new about me post soon.

Fic Rec

conversations about government interference (1088 words) by sandyk
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Thor (Movies), Marvel Avengers Movies Universe
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jane Foster/Darcy Lewis
Characters: Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, Natasha Romanov
Summary:

Jane leaned close. "I'm really excited about seeing you naked," she said.

Written for me for Femslash 2012, and I love Jane and Darcy, and the way they use their words, and the delightful give and take between them.

TV on DVD

We've had a lot of family stuff going on since I moved, and so I've been out of town more often than not (and mostly at work when I am in town). Therefore, I haven't had the chance to get my internet set up yet, and have had a lot of time to watch things while unpacking and/or having insomnia, so much insomnia.

I started with a rewatch of Gilmore Girls (which, let me tell you, BEST IDEA right after Mom died) (and wow, yeah, those last couple seasons, what even was that?), then a rewatch of Teen Wolf season one while writing my Femslash 2012 story, mixed in with Veronica Mars season one. I've now moved on to Fringe after a quick break for a Creature Feature (Jurassic Park 1-3, Tremors 1-4, and Rogue), and just finished a rewatch of season two. I've seen at least the first half of season three, but I stopped watching at some point during season three because of life stuff. (Season three was my final year of grad school, I think, and there was a lot going on.) I have seasons one through four thanks to Amazon's big recent sale. I'm not sure what I'll move on to after that; maybe Community, which I also grabbed in the sale. Maybe it's time for another Buffy/Angel rewatch.

TV on DVD. It is the BEST. (No sarcasm this time.)

I had to do a bunch of website design tonight, and some very boring paperwork sorting, and I'm waiting for some news from my family, so I needed entertaining comfort movies. I ended up watching the Jurassic Park trilogy (I'm just about to start the third one now), and it has made me realize just how much these are the comfort films for me. (These and the Tremors quartet.) I think it might be because I've never written fic for them, so I don't approach them the same way I do movies (or any source material) for which I do write fic. No matter how much I love, say, Fast and the Furious, or how comforting it is, I'm always looking for any detail off which I can build a story. It's not a conscious decision, it's just how I approach texts with which I have worked in such a way before.

So JP is still only comfort and entertainment. I hadn't realized there was such a difference between the two.

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Since I was doing professional website coding, and it was frustrating, once I fixed the problems, I decided to update my fic website, which is not frustrating because a) it's an automated archive and b) thestalkycop deals with it for me.

Escritoire Azul Automated Archive

So all the new fics from the summer and fall are now up there, too.