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2023-10-26 06:32 pm

Fic: The Master Strategist and the Goddess

Fic: The Master Strategist and the Goddess
Fandom: The Untamed and my Dark Goddess Quartet novels
Rated: Teen
Summary: When Nie Huiasang learns of the existence of vampires, he does what any cunning young man would do; invites them into his home.

Chapter 1 )
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2023-09-10 08:34 am

I think I'll stop

I've been using my sleep app to record myself, mostly to see how much I'm still coughing at night on my preventative asthma medication.

On Wednesday, I forgot to turn it off until 3:30 PM.

Today, I woke up making weird crying sounds because I dreamed I dropped my grandfather or uncle's baby and hit his head against a table.

I think I'm going to stop recording myself.
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2023-03-04 07:04 pm

Oh God

Sarah Wayne Callies is playing William Fitchner's daughter in a new show. I... I never wrote it, but I once planned to write a an extremely spicy threesome fic between Michael, and Sara in Prison Break fandom. I swore I'd go back to it once I got up the nerve.

This is terrible. Age appropriate casting? Why?
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2023-03-03 05:49 pm

What Smallville Slash Fandom Needs

I'm listening to the Talk Ville podcast with Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling, and I love hearing the behind the scenes perspective of the show. But I also really, really want to hear about the fan experience as it was all those years ago. Both "normal" fans and slash. So, I think there needs to be two more pod casts.

My dream hosts for the Slash Ville podcast would be me (of course), [personal profile] rhiannonhero [profile] pepperjackcandy and [personal profile] sabershadowkat. But, that's only if LaT and thewitchqueen have their own (obviously) superior podcast. I'm not smart enough to be with them.

(But, of course, I'd listen to anyone who actually did it, save a few former BNFs).

(Also I am very sad I no longer have my Clex icon reading 'If I promise to leave, can I keep you?' I lost it several laptops ago.)
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2023-02-27 05:57 pm

Think anyone would mind?

I know people on A03 can be picky and cantankerous about people doing things like this, but I was rereading Lex Luthor, Ace Reporter and Metropolis Confidential (out of order, because I read the prequel first, which is not how it's supposed to be read) and the fact that the Clark/Morgan story doesn't match really bugs me. But if I fix it, I think the story will be bumped up like it's been updated.

Do you think people will mind?


(Also, not saying I ever will, but if I ever did, which I won't, but if I did ever continue COTW, I'd cross it over with the MCU and not the Nolanverse like I was originally gonna. Not that it's going to happen.)
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2023-02-25 06:57 pm

Lost Fic

Does anyone remember that one really early Clark/Whitney fic where they bonded over Walt Whitman poetry and the homoeroticism of the Great Gatsby? It was called "Smoosh" or something like that that. Is it on Ao3?
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2023-01-22 06:36 am

Another story idea

I had yet another dream that's turned into a story idea. This time it's for a mixed gender romance, but it's still queer because the female love interest is a bi woman whose wife has recently died and the male love interest is demisexual. The woman's gay bff works at a boarding school; in my dream it was a girl's school, but now that I'm awake, I'm not sure how that works and have to do research. He gets the woman a job there (in the dream it was "teaching self-defense" which is awesome, but I think there needs to be more to it; physical education maybe?). The male love interest teaches history or English. Everyone but FLI and GBFF thinks he's gay because of Stereotypes, but he's just really shy and introverted. FLI manages to crack his awkward exterior and they fall in love.

There was one scene in my dream where she running on the track and he was watching her as he ate his breakfast, which happened every morning even though he pretended he didn't. She came in and sat to talk to him. At the end, she took the last strawberry from his plate because she knew he always left one piece of food/fruit on his plate and wasn't going to eat it. He was shocked she's noticed.

So, now I've got my paranormal series to write, my pirate romance, Wildflower, and this. And I have to re-edit the paranormal story and despite saying it was never ever going to happen to me, I hate that story so much because I've read it too many times and I now believe it to be absolute and utter crap.
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2023-01-21 10:10 am
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:(

I lost the copyedit file I'd worked on for months to send back to my editor. The one that I struggled with after me PE because I'd lost my sense of self and motivation. I'd finally finished in October or November sometimes and thought I sent it to her, but when I got my new computer, there was a mix-up and the file was lost. Only I didn't realize it, so I sent her an old one and now I can't find the original because the old laptop is such a mess.

I am so demoralized.
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2023-01-02 09:01 pm

Fic: The Master Strategist and the Goddess

My cat died, I'm sad, so I'm posting fic that I swore I wasn't going to post. But only here.

Title: The Master Strategist and the Goddess
Fandom: Untamed (crossover with my as yet unpublished original novel)

Chapter 1 )
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2022-12-18 08:12 am

I Could Have Danced All Night

I went to a ball last night!! It was a fundraiser for a sort of local Pride organization. I decided to go last minute after someone posted it to a Facebook group I'm in. I'm so glad I went. I had a fantastic time. I got to get all dressed up, I got to dance, and I remembered how nice it is to hold hands with a girl. There's nothing between the girl and me (I kind of find her annoying, but fun enough to be friends with), but she did have nice hands. :)



Woman with short hair wearing burgundy taking a picture of herself with her phone in a mirror
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2022-11-12 08:04 pm

NaNo Update

2,631 words! Not all at once. I did about 200 this morning, then a little more in the afternoon after my book club, and then the rest right now at a Zoom write in. It was great being with people who believed they are writers again, because, lately, most of my experience of being around people in my area has been, "I want to be a writer, but I don't think i can because [instert excuse]". And that's a drag.

Today's snippet )
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2022-11-09 07:54 pm

NaNo update

About 1500 words today! Yay!

Gay pirate novel. This is the secondary romantic couple having a moment, being overheard by one of the leads.

Snippet )
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2022-11-07 07:18 pm

Not NaNo, but a New Bunny

The Dream:

Last night, I had a dream I stumbled across and alternative retelling of "Bridget Jones Diary", where it was told from Darcy's POV, only he was Hugh Grant's brother and just beaten cancer. Hugh Grant was still a sleaze, but his brother's biggest cheerleader and supporter. And I was baffled that the movie/book wasn't always told from that angle. And then, somehow I was in the story, only there was a lake and a bunch of weird animals (like platypuses and Loch Ness and otters) were in it and they wanted me to pet them because, you know. It was a dream. And dreams are weird.


Then, I started thinking, and my motto played in my head:

Keep it Gay

Which led to the Bunny:

A shy, reserved man (Grant?) with a playboy brother has just beaten cancer (Non-Hodgkin lymphoma?). The brother (Blake?) can be a sleaze, but he genuinely loves his brother. They are rich. I think their family business is music production, but while Blake is in the talent management side, Grant has always handled finances. He's not worked for several years while he's been ill. Now he's reentering the world, but finds his interest has waned. His mind drifts and he finds himself lost and dissatisfied. Meanwhile, Blake discovers "wild child" Sean at an open mic or open call or something. He starts grooming him to be a rock star, but their relationship quickly becomes unprofessional. The thing is, Blake completely misreads Sean, who, at heart, is sweet, naïve, and deeply romantic. Grant is at first repulsed by the façade Blake is forcing on Sean, but as he gets to know Sean better, begins to fall in love. The pivotal scene between the two of them is when Sean writes lyrics to a melody Grant composed and sings it to him while they sit side by side at the piano. Blake sees this and realizes that his "wild child" is really a "wildflower" and he needs to remarket. Because I haven't outlined it, I don't know if this scene goes in the middle or the ending quarter, so I'm not sure if Blake does the noble thing and steps aside or the asshole thing and tries to change so he can keep Sean.

Anyway. Back to my gay pirate novel.
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2022-10-19 07:23 pm

And...

Moderate sleep apnea.
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2022-10-16 05:46 am

And the Hits Keep Coming

Now, I probably have Celiac Disease.
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2022-07-25 08:45 pm

Google is Profiling Me

It's been 16 years and when I type "m" into Google, it still automatically suggests midazolam.

...

And it was right. (But not because I'm writing Prison Break fic).
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2022-07-23 07:34 pm

Interview With the Vampire



So I, like many young, impressionable teens, was deeply influenced by Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire". While way too chicken to watch the movie (remember, I was the girl who was frightened of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie), I devoured the novel over and over, carrying it around in my letterman's jacket because it had an inside pocket that allowed me to keep it near my heart. It sparked my imagination, my love of vampires, and characters that have stayed with me to this day and now live and breathe in my still unpublished novel.

I had really, really hoped the TV show was going to be a faithful adaptation of the novel, and I'm kind of mad at myself for ever thinking that. I mean, even as I was trying to articulate to my sister my deep desire to see Louis's brother in his religious mania, I immediately came up against the first major problem: who the fuck wants to watch a show where the sympathetic protagonist is a plantation owner? So, yeah, I get the changes. And I think, overall, the show looks amazing and I can't wait to see it.

And yet... the little teenage girl in me still longs for something a little truer. Somehow. But, whatever. It's not to be. Bring on October 2.