...and this is mostly because I helped.

You're Too Blind to See by niqaeli (Penny Arcade, Rated R) -- Gabe is being really, really nice to Tycho, but in that violently disturbed Gabe kind of way.

I suggested many of Gabe's, ah, gifts that appear throughout the fic, but niqaeli brought them to life in a cracked out way beyond my own hopes.

ETA: In other news, Leverage completely rocks me out. "It's a very distinctive sound." *hugs entire cast* Never, ever stop putting plans together, guys.

That's right -- a full ten months after the last part, here comes a new bit for my Doctor Who/Supernatural crossover.

Title: Right Place, Wrong Time
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Fandoms: Supernatural, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Supernatural through 2x03 "Bloodlust" and Doctor Who Season 3 (general).
Summary: It would be an average hunt for the Brothers Winchester if it wasn't for the weirdo alien with the massive attention deficit.
Previous Parts: 1 2 3

( 'An honest-to-goodness motel, Martha! Look!' )

My Jack Harkness post-Parting of the Ways ficlet (thoroughly Joss'd now, of course) "To the Last" as a Wordle: Wherein I'm actually surprised at how often the word Time shows up.

We have a title! Taking on Supernatural Season 2's habit of naming episodes after either rock songs or horror movies, I went with Dr. John's Right Place, Wrong Time (a song which I am admittedly not terribly familiar with). Don't read too much into it -- depending on your viewpoint, the characters are either in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time. No mixing and matching. Anyway, here we go with Part 3. Standard disclaimers apply -- this hasn't been beta'd and I haven't seen anything past "The Usual Suspects" in Season 2 of SPN.

Title: Right Place, Wrong Time
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Fandoms: Supernatural, Doctor Who
Spoilers: Supernatural through 2x03 "Bloodlust" and Doctor Who Season 3 (general).
Summary: It would be an average hunt for the Brothers Winchester if it wasn't for the weirdo alien with the massive attention deficit.
Section Index: 1 2 3 4

( The TARDIS... about two hours ago and three hundred years in the future )

Bonus points for anybody who makes me an icon for this fic.

Previous part is here. Still no title on this one. I'm thinking it's set just after Supernatural 2x03 - Bloodlust and a still-undetermined point in Doctor Who Season 3.

( The Doctor didn't say a single coherent or useful thing for the entire car trip back to the motel. )

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Part Three

This is unbetaed and given that I have terrible history finishing fics, likely to be the first in one of those WIPs that just continues to be IP. Still, I kind of felt the need to write it. Setting is somewhere in Supernatural Season 2 and Doctor Who Season 3.

( Neither Sam or Dean thought that the lanky man bent over the bloodied corpse looked much like a police detective. )

--

Thoughts?

ETA: Part 2

Yay fic. This is my yuletide story. I'm reposting it here for archivey purposes (and will also be throwing it on MonkeysWithJetpacks.com at some point).

Title: Out of the Chicago Loop
Fandom: Ocean's 11 (2001)
Rating: PG
Genre: Heist (what else?)

Characters: Danny and Rusty are the main ones. Others pop up as the story progresses.
Pairings: None, although some read it as Danny/Rusty and who am I to argue?

Summary: Most of the gang unites for a Christmas heist, but what is Danny not telling Rusty?

Notes: Written for Killa in the 2006 Yuletide Challenge. Thanks to Erin for the quick beta and the Internets for all the keen information. I had a lot of fun with this one.

( Rusty was freezing his ass off... )

Cleared out most of the living room in the new place yesterday. Hope to finish up tonight, get some vacuuming done since Mom's allergic to the apartment for some weird reason. Going to IKEA at some point this weekend to get a dresser for the roomie and additional DVD storage for me (I'm running out of space, especially with the addition of midnightfae's DVDs to the mix).

Still need to finish up my room. I can pretty much live out of it as-is, but I still have a few boxes worth of miscellaneous crap to sort through. Additionally, there's a good chunk of my stuff still at the old place, including all of my kitchenware and my clothes hangers (the things you forget...).

Gearing up for Comic-Con ridiculously early, partially because I don't want to be situated so far from the convention center again and partially because I (emo tear) miss my Comic-Con friends a lot. Like moreso than usual.

Classic-Horror is sludging along, slowly but surely. Posted a review last night, will post another on Thursday. Neither is mine. I haven't written a review since October and I need to rectify that. I have something like six unfinished reviews going right now (Mad Love, House of Wax '53, It's Alive, Satan's Playground, The Mole People, and Terror at Red Wolf Inn, the latter being the best cannibalism film nobody ever heard of). Also slowly but surely moving everything to the new dynamic format, which rocks and will save me so much time in the long run.

Working on Yuletide... meant to get this started earlier, but oh well. Going to finish it over the weekend and have it beta'd in time for submission on the 18th.

Oh and just got some contracted web design work. Go me.

Er, that's all from this corner. I lead an exciting life.

For coltsbane:

( Five careers Jack Bristow pursued after Fandom High. )

( Five ways Jack Bristow showed just how much of a bad-ass he is. )

For sarakat:

( Five hairstyles Angel should never have tried. )

For midnightfae:

( Five all-time FH OTP. )

( Five all-time non-FH OTP. )

( Five other careers JD considered. )

For bellatemple:

( Five ways Weiss and Marshall passed the time when Vaughn and Sydney were on a mission. )

( Five ways Weiss wants to leave his mark on Fandom High. )

( Five things Weiss always wanted to say to Vaughn but never did. )

For liminalliz: ( Five times Jack couldn't stop thinking about Irina. (slighly NWS) )

For ladybug218: ( Five people Weiss totally needs to hook up with at FH )

For freedomfry: ( Five times Principal Bristow almost had a facial expression. )

For midnightfae: ( Five things Jack Bristow could do with a kitten. )

For invisionary: ( The Doctor's five absolute favorite places and times to visit. )

For timjr:

( Five ways Jack Bristow can't kill a man. )

( Five times Spike wondered why the hell he let Clem hang out at his crypt. )

( Five things Rose Tyler hated about the TARDIS )

I never write porn. I never write slash. I really don't understand the Spander 'ship. Yet alcohol and some sort of weird neural co-mingling with airawyn produced the following 250+ words:

( Spike/Xander. NC-17. Porny, but character-oriented. In no way safe for work )

Uh, feedback appreciated. Beta'd in the sense that airawyn looked it over very late at night and didn't point anything out, flaw-wise.

ETA: I also have a non-porny new Doctor Who icon based on the recently released Season 3 promo pics (it's so hard to keep spoilers out of this kind of text). It's not enough to constitute a new post over at jetpackvampire, so here it is:( Cut for spoilers, unless you don't count casting as spoilers, in which case never mind )

Drabble/ficlet for midnightfae, who wanted Wonderfalls and zombies. Rated PG-13/R-lite for violence.

( We're bobbin' along in our barrel... )

Getting my fic on, because I asked hjcallipygian to do the same:

The first 10 people to comment on this post get to request a drabble on a subject/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal.

( My fandom list of doom )

Oh, and as a personal caveat -- I have veto rights on crossovers. There we go. Let's do this thang.

Title: Charles Gunn Explains How It Is in 70 Questions or Less
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Charles Gunn somehow survives the whole being perilously close to death thing and decides to hook up with the Watchers' Council. Their psych eval might give him second thoughts.
Disclaimer: Charles Gunn belongs to Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt, Mutant Enemy, and Fox Television. He does not belong to me.
Author’s Note: This is all nemo_gravis's fault.

( Word, up )

I've decided to drop the occasionally confusing Dylan Adams penname (Is he Dylan? Is he Adams? Is he Seymour Krelborne?) in favor of... Jetpack Monkey. I'll be updating my fics as appropriate.

First of all, Britney Spears has apparently reserved a hospital room in Scottsdale, of all places, to shunt out Pimpdaddy Spears-Federline. So, like, the plagues start here.

I can't recall if I've already done this or not, so... ( WIP, wild inuit pornography )

Just a silly little thing I whipped up while I should have been working.

Title: To The Last
Rating: PG
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Character(s): Jack
Wordcount: 699
Summary: Never give up, never surrender.
Spoilers: Everything through The Parting of the Ways.

( To The Last )

Meme gacked from liz_marcs. The idea is to take the classic spoken word hit "Sunscreen" and rewrite it in the voice of your favorite fandom icon. I present mine courtesy Jaye Tyler of Wonderfalls.

( Ladies and Gentleman of the class of 2005... listen to the talking animals. )

My favorite quote of yesterday: "I hate picking up the phone [at work]. I either want to strangle the person or beg their forgiveness. Sometimes I want to do both, and I throttle their ankles."

Made a v. v. minor flist cut. Just removed some journals that I don't have the time to give my full attention to.

I've been really tired lately. Admittedly, I'm only getting seven hours a night, but wanting to crash at work every afternoon shouldn't be happening because of that.

Veronica Mars season finale tonight. I'm uber-excited. I'm pretty sure I know who killed Lilly Kane, but I'm dying to see how it plays out. I'm so glad that booster17 and airawyn tuned me into this show. In a world without new Whedon television, this is a nice surrogate.

( Connor & Xander Drabble )

Title: Full Text Search (2/??)
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Rating: PG
Summary: Dawn and Angel hunt down a valuable book that was accidentally returned to the Los Angeles County Library.

Author's Notes: Written for the Angel Ficathon Two. Challenge from neversleeps: Angel/Dawn, gen. Featuring Illyria. To involve the line "So this is where heroes end up?" and to not involve anything post-Not Fade Away.

Part One

( Of librarians and god-kings )

Title: Full Text Search
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Rating: PG
Summary: Dawn needs something from Wolfram & Hart. Unfortunately, it's been misplaced.

Author's Notes: Written for the Angel Ficathon Two. Challenge from neversleeps: Angel/Dawn, gen. Featuring Illyria (not there yet). To involve the line "So this is where heroes end up?" and to not involve anything post-Not Fade Away.

This part's short since I was on a deadline. Completed story could run anywhere from 5000 to 10000 words.

( Prologue and Chapter 1 )

...for Wes with a shotgun commands it!

I'm working on a multifandom fic site for myself, which is to launch when my current Buffy WIP-in-beta gets to a point where it can be a public WIP.

Trouble is, I have sections for Farscape, Firefly, and Lost, despite never having written in any of those fandoms.

So, if anybody has some interesting plotbunnies that can be drabbled, ficletted, or written in under 20 pages, please send them my way. I work well with the dialogue ficlet, not so well with smut or anything like that.

Firefly: Have seen entire series.

Lost: Have seen everything through Numbers.

Farscape: Burned out after getting a third of the way through Season Three. I'm just far enough to have seen Aeryn's mom bite it.

I wrote this because I designed a kickass multi-fandom fanfic site for myself... and I've only ever written BtVS and Angel fic.

Title: Eating Lunch With Jonah
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Rating: PG
Pairing: None, references to Syd/Will and Syd/Vaughn
Summary: Two old friends have lunch at a diner. Set after The Index.

( This is unbeta'd, so comments are not unwelcome )

Got an account at The Pit of Voles. Blame airawyn for breaking me down on that one.

Do you find first-person present-tense narratives an enjoyable read? Would you read one? I'm writing a fic right now, and it just feels like a first-person present-tense narrative. I've been intrigued by the style since my introduction to the work of Dave Eggers, but if it's not something that people will find readable, then I'd rather not waste a lot of time on writing that way.

This is a little something I wrote a few months ago after reading airawyn's initial draft of The Quartet. I finally get to parade it out now that she's making the fic public.

Title: Empty Veins
Author: Jetpack Monkey
Rating: PG-13 (nearer the R side)
Summary: Xander is her heart. Dawn is her blood. Buffy can't save one for the other. AU, set during "The Gift."
Author Notes: Different perspective on the prologue to The Quartet by Airawyn.

( She knew what Giles was capable of... )

Decided to put all my Buffyverse fic down in one place.

Voila - Doin' Time on Revello Drive.

The links page currently has a single link (Effulgence - I host the site, so I might as well).

If you would like your Buffy fanfiction site added to the links, please comment here. If you can think of a Buffy fanfiction site that is not yours that I should be linking, comment here. If you like monkeys, comment here.

I just found the Day After Tomorrow fic challenge. Lots of folks writing pre and post apocalyptic fics about what happens when nature turns on us all...

Funny thing is, I've been writing something like that (not anything like Day After Tomorrow, mind you, in the actual details of the end of all things, and probably not terribly scientific, either) since, oh, late February/early March. It's Buffy fandom, features two characters who I never name, and what they do at the end of the world...

I'm rather fond of it, but I've never gotten around to finishing it. And now it's so amusing that so many other people are also doing it, and doing it faster than I am. Bastards. The whole lot of them. :D

Anyway, after I get finished up with my Angelathon entry (read: get past the first couple pages/re-envision the whole thing as much less epic), I'll probably finish that up on the shiny laptop that will be delivered to me on Friday.

So look for my pre-apocalyptic non-DAT-related fic sometime in the future.

Oh, also, if you happen to be passing by this and are not on my friendslist, this is the first public notice that I'm going to be running a Minor Buffyverse Character Ficathon here soonish, so get your brain geared up for that.

I'm not even through Act II of Slay No More, etc. and I get another great idea...

I was discussing with my mother, who is something of a nascent Buffy fan, the difficulties inherent in bringing Buffy characters into Shakespearean text. The least of these, honestly, is the language. 16th Century England, 21st Century California - they may be as far apart as you could get as iterations of the same language go, but they're both pretty foreign to what one would call "Standard English" so honestly, not so much a problem.

No, the problem I was bemoaning was the difficulty of writing Buffy into these plays. The first impulse, of course, is to make her the female romantic lead. Which works until you realize that it makes her subservient to the will of men, demure, and kind of flaky - three things which Buffy Anne Summers is most assuredly not. While qkellie has it somewhat easy because she cast Buffy as Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, I've had to struggle with making dear Buffy into Hero, because Hero is really, seriously weak. Which was okay for ol' Willy, but Joss would have none of that.

So I'm discussing this problem with Mom, and she brings up her deep, eternal love for all things Jane Austen. Briefly, we try to suss out whether Buffy would be a good fit for, say, Sense and Sensibility, but to no avail. Austen's works are too bound by the rules of propriety. It's a concept that would need far too much work for a trifling fanfic.

Then, I wondered about other authors who have female characters who, if not exactly strong, are stronger than Shakespeares. The Bronte sisters came to mind, and a devil of an idea came to me.

Jane Eyre. With an all-Buffy, twisted ship cast. Buffy as Jane. Giles as Rochester. Drusilla as Bertha. Wesley (or possibly Ethan) as St. John.

Obviously, the characters would have to be paired back a bit, the novel condensed to something manageable... But damn. Potential city.

Also, Wuthering Heights with Spike (or William!) as Heathcliff.

Anyway. Crazy thoughts.

I have the first few pages (index, playwrights, plays) up, however mostly non-functioning, for Buffy and the Bard: All the World's A Hellmouth - http://bard.flamingturtleneck.net.

Your cast for Much Ado About Hellmouth

( Because I care )

What's worse than a ficbunny?



A ficsitebunny.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I want to open the first fic repository for Shakespeare-influenced Buffy fic.

All the World's a Hellmouth, and the People Merely Scoobies.

Or something equally Shakespearean.

Oh, shoot me, I'm applying for the subdomain now.

Would that be Joss Shakespeare or Will Whedon?




*snerk* get it? Will Whedon? I -- janeway216 would get it.

ETA: http://bard.flamingturtleneck.net - coming soon to a deranged brainspace near you.

Who wants to cast Romeo & Juliet with all Buffyverse players? Great, great. Been done I'm sure.

I actually started writing the damn thing. I stopped halfway through Act 1 Scene 1 because the level of geekery inherent in mounting the project in full is beyond even me. But still, here's the cast I whipped up.
( My geek is like woah )
Color me dorky. :D