5 to 50 -- 2005

[vanillafluffy]

I got really ambitious in February: I'd started a fic in mid-January and began posting a chapter a day in February. It was 75% done when I began, and although I bogged down while writing a full-scale gunfight and wrote nothing for a whole week, I was far enough ahead by that point that I *still* got it done on schedule. That was "Clockwork Mexico", a crossover between OUatiM and Silence of the Lambs.

Yeah, screwy combination, I know, but Katherine Martin (the girl in the pit) was such a pivitol character and so underused...I'd written two solo stories for her, "If You Give a Grizzly Bear a Beer" and "Twilight Reflections", and I had a good time hooking her up with El Mariachi. (foreverhermit, you'll laugh: She was a hired assassin. I also did a couple stories tied in to the Banderas movie, "Assassins". Are we sensing a theme here?!)

During the course of posting "Clockwork Mexico", I gained a fan and a friend: kukkurkurat. Our correspondence led to a lot of brainstorming, and produced several new enthusiasms....

I was still writing a lot of Depp, but other fandoms were starting to creep in: Harry Potter (where I slashed Neville and Draco, with Neville as the dominant one), assorted Vin Diesel fandoms (not much of a stretch, as I'd been picturing him as Shadow while writing "Wisdom's Gate"), and a little Brosnan-era Bond. Kukkurkurat and I both fancied Riddick, and our chatter led to "It Takes One to Know One", a Pitch Black prequel, and "Beyond Blade Runner", a crossover with guess what?

It was toward the end of the year that mojavedragonfly pointed me in the direction of Yuletide, and on October 31st, I signed up here on LJ. In those days, you had to fulfill a New Year's Resolution to join, and I ended up writing "The Twenty-five Dollar Shoebox" (O Brother, Where Art Thou) and "Feliz Navidad" (Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum).

S and T spent Christmas in Hawaii, so the holidays found me in Schnauzerland, I wrote what turned out to be my final OUaTiM story for Yuletide, and got an absolutely marvelous story based in CJ Cherryh's Merchanter/Alliance Universe.

It was a pretty good year.


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Comments

[gwylliondream.livejournal.com]

Amazing! I'm so glad you found Justified to your liking!

XO
Donna

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

The description I read of it as "a modern-day Western" was what lured me in. My daddy was an epic fan of Eastwood westerns and Louis L'Amour, and I caught that from him. I've been saying for a while that it's a sin that such a uniquely American genra has all but died out; I'll take my Westerns where I can find them. If that means blowing-up meth labs instead of robbing stagecoaches, so be it!

[foreverhermit.livejournal.com]

(foreverhermit, you'll laugh: She was a hired assassin. I also did a couple stories tied in to the Banderas movie, "Assassins". Are we sensing a theme here?!)

Indeed we are, and I love it! ;-)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I call my LJ "Confessions of a One-Track Mind". If it entertains me, I tend to fixate.

[kukkurkurat.livejournal.com]

I had really forgotten the year... *facepalm* We had the 5th anniversary of our friendship and I missed it!!!! *wails like a banshee*

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should borrow some earmuffs from Our Lady? *winks*