i hear the voices when I'm dreaming

I didn't get around to doing a bingo last year -- or even posting amnesty for the things I did do (because I chickened out of claiming gen knitted items as kink-focused; a purple hedgehog is only fannish by a stretch that makes sense for me but not for anyone else) -- which should have meant that I would be sitting out this round, but because k_b won't be running next year they decided not to enforce defaulting punishment, and so I could. And did, because I am hoping to lure my muse back out.


( my card, image and text )

As far as I can tell at this point, the likeliest fandoms for me to play in are ST:AOS (including alternate mirrorverse), XMFC, and possibly White Collar even though I don't think I've seen all the eps. Then again, my brain has a way of surprising me (see also previous years' results, like Minecraft kink and sestina) so one never knows.

By the way: to help jumpstart my muse, I am quite open to taking kink-meme style prompt suggestions, in any fandom I know. I can't guarantee that I will use said prompts, but I might.

Current active round of kink_bingo is over. I went into it wanting to do better than I did last year -- which, coincidentally, was my goal last year too. The previous year I'd done one story during amnesty. Last year I managed one line bingo. This year I got two!

...clearly, next year I need a blackout. /snerk/

I do still have squares or postage stamps or single-line extras flagged as something I want to write. But the last few months, most of my writing energies have been going into non-kb stuff: kinkmeme, and the merfolk ficathon story.

Not that I've actually /finished/ anything lately. The last fic I finished was a drabble halfway through September, and before that the end of August.

Sigh.

( current status )

I made a bingo on my second k_b card. Guess what fandom I used! (Shocking, I know.)

Newest fics:

and this gives life to thee. (631 words) by isabeau
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Summary: Poetry, Charles Xavier style.

Like the sound of silence calling (1528 words) by isabeau
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Summary: Magneto may be forever separate from Professor X, but Erik can't stay away from Charles

The Price of Free Will (957 words) by isabeau
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: Mature
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Raven
Summary: What is true consent when a telepath is involved? Raven gives Charles advice, and so does Erik.

An Element of Restraint (908 words) by isabeau
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Summary: Charles doesn't need any sort of bondage equipment to keep Erik tied down.

Two of these are xmen-firstkink prompts. Three are in my k_b fill. I don't seem to be writing anything these days that isn't either kinkmeme or kink_bingo. This ... amuses me to no end.

a) Have completed a line bingo for kink_bingo. ( short version here )

a.5) I am a little amused that two of the five fandoms do not yet have k_b tags.

b) aaaahflailtheyallsuckwhathaveIdone I am currently flailing just a bit because ... well, because. *hides*

c) have requested new card, because I am INSANE

d) this also means I can start working on the first card's extras: silence / whipping / temp play / penance / animal play - ace werecat!Neal in relationship with Peter and Elizabeth; penance / gender play / sex toys (under clothing) / bites / pervertibles - trek xi kirk/sulu dealing with a strict matriarchy; silence / humiliation (sit) / in public / gags / body parts - white collar P/E/N; possibly others, like the in public / gags / mirrors / roleplay postage stamp

( d.5) technically I could have been working on them already but I wanted to Finish A Bingo first )

3) Unrelatedly, except for the bit where it's about writing, Clarion Write-a-Thon starts Sunday. <Illidan voice>YOU ARE NOT PREPARED</wow joke>. Except for how I'm going to do it anyway mwahahaha. ha. ha?

Suri update: She would like me to inform y'all that she is UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY neglected and does not get ANY attention. Or laps. Or skin to lick. Or laser pointer dots to chase. Mrow mrow MROW mrow. Mrrp.

Writing update: Apparently I can come up with a sestina a lot faster and easier than a fic. *baffled look* idek. On the bright side: two things done for k/b. On the less bright side: that is not enough for a bingo. On the more bright side: I got to upload a fic to AO3 as the first fic in that fandom \o/ (well, on AO3. I doubt it's the first fic ever. *googles* Nope. almost 100 fic on ff.net

Body update: Hip hurts. Shoulder hurts. Caved and took half a vicodin last night (and yes, logically I know that taking painkillers when you are in pain is not a sign of weakness, and I can fall over myself trying to reassure other people on that point, but when it comes down to me? feels like being weak. Double standards ahoy.) Elbow hurts if I do too much with the mouse. (Amusingly, it's an ergonomic mouse. I guess it isn't isa!ergonomics.)

Brain update: Still there. More or less. Have been having a weird vague sense of omgdoom with no actual cause behind it, which I kind of hate. It's like the "hey a tiger is about to eat you" alert system is on overdrive. When there are no tigers around. Except knowing there are no tigers doesn't actually help because what if there's one I haven't seen omg. (This is just a metaphor, so I doubt it's my brain interpreting Suri!stares as tiger!stares.)

Random dragon update:

I actually got a bingo in! before the deadline! I am awesome.

I find it highly amusing that I wasn't able to write White Collar fic until after I'd written a fucking *sestina*. But hey, whatever works.

I'm also amused at hit numbers on the AO3 page. I didn't link the fics anywhere, but I'd gotten a bunch of hits (30-odd, I think) even before obliquely mentioning their existance. Current stats is 0/5/61/67/11; I suspect they will spike now that kink_bingo people have access to them, never mind that there is a flood of posts right now.

Anyway, for those that are interested:


Butterflies (Inception (2010), Ariadne with shades of Ariadne/Eames, sleepy/unconscious)
Summary: Playing around with sex in dreams leads to interesting results. Sort of Eames/Ariadne, mostly not.
Content notes: none

Gestures of Love (White Collar, Peter/Neal, sensory deprivation)
Summary: Peter. Neal. Sex. In sestina form. Yes, I am a dork.
Content notes: none

Home (White Collar, Peter/Neal/El, penance/punishment)
Summary: Peter's work interferes (again!) with a promise to El; and broken promises deserve punishment.
Content notes: none

Captain's Orders (Star Trek (2009), Pike/Kirk, oral fixation)
Summary: In the Mirror Universe, Captains can own whomever they wish -- and do anything they want with them. Pike's got a boy that likes to use his mouth.
Content notes: (skip) Dubious consent situation; both parties are willing but the dynamics of the relationship don't allow true consent.

Expectations (Star Trek (2009), Spock/Uhura, whipping/flogging)
Summary: Uhura has disobeyed Spock's orders, and needs to be punished. Spock is a little baffled by this. (Please read notes for context.)
Content notes: (skip) Dubious or lack-of- consent situation. Spock is not particularly willing, and Uhura doesn't have the option of consenting.

(card here)

... I have my kink_bingo card. \o/

(Why yes, this is almost like yuletide, except not really.)

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