Remix posted! And I'm sitting here thinking, how am I only #79 when it's 20 minutes until the deadline -- but I think the deadline is actually 12:00 a.m. eastern Sunday going into Monday, and I had it in my head that it was Saturday going into Sunday for some reason.

So I'm even a day early, for once!

As always, if you guess my story, I'll give you a prize. Comments screened for guesses.

So, so behind on everything else, though.

No spoons for commentary (I'm barely able to make comments), but these are stories I enjoyed.

You Are a Fever (The We Are Not Typical Remix) (1266 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Madam Hooch/Minerva McGonagall
Characters: Madam Hooch, Minerva McGonagall
Summary:

Girls' secrets are a kind of magic, endowed with power by their hidden nature, their wild potential.

Carrying out my design to shatter the enemies (The "Show him what little girls are made of" Remix) (2250 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Rape/Non-Con
Characters: Susan Pevensie
Summary:

Wise is the man who heeds this warning – cross not the desert nor the Gentle Barbarian Queen of the North.

Remix Redux is doing Remix Madness this year. Yuletide Madness is one of my favorite fandom things, so I am particularly pleased by this. You don't have to have participated in Remix to participate in this. My thread is here.

I am so tired. Theoretically I am working on story three of the marching band au, but I am so exhausted I have written about a line in the last ten minutes. Ugh.

Apparently I forgot to crosspost this last night.

My remix assignment is awesome. I wrote three pages over lunch, which is the earliest I've ever started a remix story. Go me.

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Dear Remix Redux Author,

A couple notes on organization: Most of my recent fic is on DW, LJ, and AO3. You can also find fic posted to LJ or DW tagged with "fic" as well as "fic: fandom." I maintain a Complete Works of Escritoire Azul list (currently across three posts), which is probably the most comprehensive list of fic. (It may actually be completely up to date at this point; I know I just updated it with the most recent Glee fic tonight.) (It is LJ only.) (I've just realized it hasn't been updated with all of my December 2010 fic. I will try to do that this week. Done, I think. Just hadn't posted the crossovers under both fandoms.)

A-F | G-R | S-Z

I've participated in Remix Redux for a few years now. I think most of the fic in that masterlist is marked if it has been remixed, with a link to the remix, but to make it available in one place, here are the fics which have previously been remixed. (I think this is all of them, at least.)

"Second Chances" (Lost Boys) was remixed by Bat for Remix Redux 05: "Double Down (Be Kind, Please Rewind Remix)" (Lost Boys) (Though apparently the link is now broken.)

"the man i could be" (Harry Potter) was remixed by Ion Bond for Remix Redux 06: "The Man I Could Be: The Paved With Good Intentions Remix" (Harry Potter) (Though apparently the link is now broken.)

"on the road with disposable comestibles" (X-Men Movieverse) was remixed by likeadeuce for Remix Redux 07: "Twinkie Run (The Stars & Garters Remix)" (X-Men Movieverse)

"sometimes it's better (BtVS) was remixed by resolute for Remix Redux 08: " Sometimes (I Can Make) It Better [Fangs and Fur Remix]" (BtVS/Ginger Snaps)

"Nothing's Fair at the End of the World" (Supernatural) was remixed by 42footprints for Remix Redux 09: "(Nothing's Fair At) The End Of The World (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Remix)" (Supernatural/Sandman)

"My Empire of Dirt" (BtVS) was remixed by Ruuger for Remix Redux 10: "I Would Keep Myself (Mirror Mirror Remix) (BtVS)

"Canaries in the Mines" (Firefly) was remixed by xaara for Remix Redux 10: "Until the Light Was Gone (The Frozen Earth Remix)" (Firefly)

I have loved all the stories remixing mine, and I think the important point here is that I can't wait to read your story. Feel free to tear into my story, to find a crack and shatter it into something new, to make a crossover where there wasn't one before. (I freaking love crossovers more than almost anything else, in case you aren't on my flist and haven't heard me talk about them on and on and on.) I can't wait to see what you do.

Time is running out to guess my Remix! If you have a guess, you can leave it here or on the other entry (I'm too lazy to link). The reveal is this weekend, I think tomorrow, but don't hold me to that. (And I don't know if I'll be around tomorrow anyway.)

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Interesting discussion on poly in fanfic.

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Maybe my last set of Remix recs before the reveal.

Harry Potter

Familiar and Strange is a beautiful, painful piece about Sirius trying to remember how to live after Azkaban.

No Way Back is a gorgeous, hurtful, real look at Percy during his estrangement from the family. It's a fantastic remix of the original, which looks at all the family thinking about Percy on his birthday.

How to Build a Home (Living in the Wilderness Remix) is a sweet, charming, slightly heartbreaking look at Sirius living on his own for the first time and trying to learn to create a home for himself.

Star Trek

There is Joy in Repetition (But Sometimes You Have to Break Routine Extended Remix) is an incredible look at Chapel and what it takes to be a hero and a leader and how self-doubt worms its way inside.

Care and Treatment of Psychologically Fucked Up Starship Captains (The Everybody's Fine Remix) is an excellent look at Kirk, McCoy, and Chapel and the intricacies of their personalities and their relationships.

Supernatural

Fear as an Aphrodisiac (The Horizontal Mambo Mix) is a super hot, super fun Dean/Ellen porny fic with an excellent, strong Ellen voice that made me fall in love with her all over again.

welcome to where time stands still (the no one leaves remix) is an incredible story about Risa and saving the world and the end of the world and god, it's a woman in this universe being amazing and having ties that extend so far beyond the Winchesters. This is what I want more of in the show, women being awesome, women fighting and being strong in their own ways and doing things other than being victims or villains.

Letters Home (The Echo 2/1 Remix) is a beautiful Mary/John story about John during the war and his letters home to her and it broke my heart and stole all my words.

So I thought about not reccing any fics for the fandom which includes my story, so no one could compare my recs to all the stories and then figure out which one was mine. And then I thought about commenting and reccing my own story if it came down to it, to throw people off. Then I decided maybe I was overthinking this guessing game, but it was a lot of fun. So really, I could have done either of those or both or neither.

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Pirates of the Caribbean

Dwell in the House of the Lord (The Day You Always Remember Remix) is a chilling, haunting story of stories and the monsters hiding in the world, two men sharing the story of Captain Sparrow and the stories he told.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Un/Expected (Straight Girl Remix) is a fantastic Kennedy voice, mixing all the good and bad of her in the source material in a way that is starkly, honestly, hilariously real.

Harry Potter

The Chords We Play is an incredible remix. I tend to live it up to readers whether they read the original story with the remix, but I highly, highly recommend reading both of these stories together, because this twists the original inside out and even as Peter -- who is sharp and cruel and manipulative and still oddly sympathetic here -- manipulates the characters, the remix author manipulates the story so well.

The Wolf Covers Its Tracks (All Us Human Extras Remix) is an amazing look at Fenrir Greyback through the eyes of original characters as Harry Potter hunts him through Banff, Alberta. The children here are amazing, sharp and afraid and strong and weak and just wonderful, and in particular I love Stephanie Wu, whose point of view sections frame the story as a whole and who has a nice, lovely, quiet queer flirtation in the middle of all the blood and destruction.

Inter-House Relations (The Care of Magical Creatures Remix) has an amazing Charlie, sharp and intelligent and funny and besotted with his dragons, which is reason enough to read it. That it is also funny and fun and sweet are more. And though I do not like Draco Malfoy, I'm glad I have this one a chance, because the story is from his POV and still it is wonderful, enjoyable and entertaining and for the length of it, at least, Draco was really well done, caught in his family but fighting the bit.

X-Men Comicverse, X-Men 616, Figure Skating RPF

Fame Monsters (The Twitter Remix) is hilarious. Just absolutely, flat-out hilarious and perfectly in character and has an amazing Jubilee and Johnny Weir and Northstar and the power of the press and social media and it just feels like all the awesome bits of technology coming together, you know, fandom and tech and people and the amazing ways we can interconnect. And also, did I mention hilarious?

Firefly

River Lays an Egg (Upside Down Remix) has a fantastic River and some great River and Mal interaction. I love River's voice here in particular, slightly mad but slightly sane too and completely charming.

Something from Nothing (The Gratitude Sings in Me Chorale) is a lovely River piece, set just after Ariel, about paying debts and saying thank you and created family-in-crew. River's voice is really nicely done here, too.

Friday Night Lights

We're Glad for what We've Done, Done with what We've Lost: The Sing Me Anything Remix is an amazing Tyra piece, about the people left behind in Dillon and the way she's so stuck in her life, working so hard for something she's not even sure she wants and absolutely sure won't help her, and how sometimes it takes motivating someone else to get her to step up and do what needs to be done. Tyra's voice is incredible, so painful and harsh and developed and I love her interactions with Matt Saracen in particular.

Supernatural

Above Us Only Sky (The Golden Age Remix) is a breathtaking, beautiful story about Anna as an angel that left me wordless and filled with a quiet, humming joy and sadness together. It's absolutely lovely.

I have guests arriving soon and I desperately need to go to the grocery store, but it has been pouring all day and I just can't bring myself to leave the house. I am running out of time, though, so it will happen soon.

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Life managed to become even more stressful. I am behind on answering all sorts of things -- emails, messages, texts, phone calls, etc. -- and probably won't be catching up on those or on reading LJ any time soon. If I should know about something, please drop me a note here and I'll try to take care of it sooner rather than later.

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Despite the stressful life, I finished not just draft one, but draft two of my Remix fic. I have the most awesomest beta ever for this piece and ze has made the story so much better. Depending on how soon ze responds to draft two, I may even post Remix this weekend instead of, oh, at the last freaking minute as I normally do.

(Wait, Remix isn't due this weekend, is it? *frantically checks* No! It is not! So I may be uploading early! This is amazing!)

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I am giddy about Remix, if you haven't noticed. It is a bright spot in a really stressful world.

Okay. Off to shop and then I will return to the couch and poke at Remix some more. Or maybe start answering emails.

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ETA: On the positive side, got the beta back and it a) made me feel so much better about the story and b) was a super quick final fix, so I posted it already. One thing off my To Do list.

On the negative, more stress. Big new things, but then a little thing, too: I'm catching up on Legend of the Seeker and my dvr keeps skipping on this one episode ("Vengeance"). I just want to relax with dinner and a show, damn it.

Don't forget to vote in the Absence of Light Awards. There are some wonderful stories nominated, including my Buffy/Drusilla piece "Broken" in Best Overall Dark and Best Slash. I'm also up for Best Dark Author, which still boggles my mind. I'm a dark author? Why didn't I know? Hee.

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I'm organizing ETA: my fic for the next round of Remix Redux. I'm really excited about it, too.

It's taking place on AO3 this year, and you can sign up here:

Remix...Redux 8: Magic Eight Ball

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Um. Life. *flails* Busy. Am trying to get caught up.

It's after noon, and god forbid I actually study (I just spent five minutes watching two guys try to load a picnic table into their pickup truck. Obviously studying is not my top priority right this second), so instead I'm posting my Remix fic. Some sort of commentary to come later, probably. Or maybe I'll just go back to watching The Descent and trying to get rid of this headache. I need to get some drugs, because ouch.

Title: Like a Sheep from the Fold (The Super Sweet Sixteen Remix)
Author: escritoireazul
Rating: 13+
Fandom: X-Men Movieverse
Spoilers: Through X2
Original story: "Sixteen" by likeadeuce with references to "The Busy Griefs".

Summary: Jean will never be a pretty girl, a vibrant girl, a live girl again.

( Like a Sheep from the Fold (The Super Sweet Sixteen Remix) )

"What Friends Are For (Flow My Tears Remix)"

Summary: Xander takes steps to make sure he remembers what he needs to.

The original story is heartbreaking and a good read. The remix is absolutely horrifying. I am still chilled by it.

"Plate Tectonics (The Truth From Fiction Remix)"

Summary: Lorna talks to Rachel while she waits to see how her world will end.

This is amazing, and a fantastic twist on the original story. The ending of this one was like a gut punch, a line which encompasses exactly how it feels to have something slightly crazy and uncontrollable beneath your skin. (At least, that's my reading into it, for my own, personal reasons, but it was an incredible story which hit me hard. How do you tell fact from fiction? How do you tell which monsters are real? It's amazing.)

"Protective Urges (The Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon Remix)"

Summary: Mal had always been there to protect his Kaylee, and he always would be.

The end here is particularly effective, again, with a good conversation between characters and a believable, if painful, decision.