Chatter Post!

[white_aster]

Yay and welcome! First of all, thank EVERYONE for joining the comm! We've been tickled pink by the turnout, and we hope that everyone will have an awesome time writing and reading!

In the interest of tiding us over until the bingo cards are given out on the 1st, why don't we have a good, old-fashioned introduction post! Feel free to mix and mingle, introduce yourself and your writing, talk about the weather, ask questions, or anything else that comes to mind! :D

Comments

[azuire]

hello! I'm azuire and I think I'm late to this party.

I write everything from form poetry to scripts, genre to "literary". in other words, if it's out there, I've probably tried it. most of it is running around terrorising the voices in my head (I think one is on holiday in Brazil), and the rest is housed at sushiandchai.

I signed up on a whim, let's see where this bingo card takes me :)

cheerio!

[white_aster]

You are not late! The party totally hasn't even started yet. :D

Welcome!

[asharia]

*waves* Hi, I'm Xocoatl. I'm mainly a fanfiction writer over on Livejournal but I've always played around with my own fics. I'm glad to see a bingo that caters to original fiction since all the others won't let us play there *pouts* I also write poetry when the mood strikes which isn't as often as I like.

I have no clue what I'm going to write yet, my muses are being finicky. Hopefully I'll get sparked when I see my card :D

[cade]

Thanks :) I lost one year, though. 2005 went badly and I didn't finish (sophomore slump?) so I came back in '06 to avenge myself and got re-addicted.

I AM a little worried this year because I don't have a lot of pre-writing done yet, and I always do better when I have that. But I've got a month to go and I do have a basic plot. Maybe a miracle will happen in October!

Honestly I'm just glad to be back in writing again. I left it alone for awhile when I was dealing with a very stressful move and I'm happier when I have a project to work on.

[white_aster]

I KNOW, other bingos so MEAN, not letting us play! Your friendly co-mods decided that this needed to be rectified!

Welcome! I hope you find enough sparks to last aaaaaaall year! :D

[gehayi]

*waves*

Hi, I'm Gehayi. I like AUs, history, urban fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales revisited. I need to expand on a medieval steampunk novella I wrote not long ago; I've broken it down, and I need to add about twenty scenes. Things that'll show up in my story include but are not limited to: multiple viewpoints, mad science, medieval robots, revivifiers, Macgyvering (by another name, obviously), implied robot sex, one zombie, airship battles, hot air balloons, political intrigue, family conflict, treachery and women being awesome.

Because I'm hoping to get this published, I won't be posting the scenes. I'm sorry about that, but I really, REALLY need to get this published.

[kunenk]

Seems pretty awesome! o/ I hope we all have a lot of fun!

Spacecats? :D

[white_aster]

Spacecats! Alien hermaphroditic spacecats! Alien hermaphroditic spacecats who have decided that space is shiny and traveling is shiny and asteroid mining--well, though not exactly SHINY, at least pays the bills. Piracy = also shiny, and sometimes better than mining.

My cowriter and I have a double-handful of stories and settings and such covering about a thousand years. Mostly focussing around the spacecats' semi-tradition of having a human on all their ships (said human usually scooped up because they are down and out somewhere and need a ride, and because someone on the 'cat ship is going to have kittens, and humans, the cats have decided, make EXCELLENT babysitters for spacecat kittens, and anyone who will keep tiny, furred, clawed, highly mobile, and incredibly DUMB balls of fur out of the maintenance shafts, wiring, and/or hyperdrive totally deserves a discount on passage....) ;P

[white_aster]

*_* I Really Really want to buy it off you, when you get it published! It sounds super fun and awesome. :D Good luck with it!

[kunenk]

Oooooh.

That sounds like a policy intended for immense fun! /o/ Heee, kitty sitters!

[plutokitty]

:3 Thank you!! :D *fans flames with you*

[white_aster]

:D Yeah, the spacecats turn out a surprising amount of fluff, for a race that generally is treated with very guarded respect (kind of how you SHOULD treat a race that can turn into five-foot whirlwinds of fanged and clawed mayhem when provoked...and who have a dim race memory of HUNTING something upright and apelike back on their homeworld. :D)

[gehayi]

Thank you! I can't wait to get started! This is going to be so fantastic!

[white_aster]

\o\ /o/ \o\ /o/ *\o/* :D

[bigbrasskey]

I'm Carla!

This is...well, this is my in a brand-spanking-new username because of Identity Issues, so I'm hoping to start off my new start maybe around here. I'm told I give really good gush, which I hope to get to liberally employ here! Nothing like gurgling over what you loved in a story to cheer you up.

UM. I love animals, art, simple things: being outside and just watching any kind of weather, hugs, good food, good books oh lord. I am huge on speculative fiction - on taking humans, people of any stripe or skin or sentience, and plunking them down in bizarre places and exploring who they are, what is different and what is the same, what is fascinatingly foreign to this new world and what is achingly familiar in the experience of any living thinking being. I like to explore how human humans can be when they're not really humans at all. ALSO I LIKE EXPLOSIONS. AND LADIES MAKING OUT. Really, ladies making out with anyone, I'm cool. Fantasy, steampunk (I'm just starting to actually understand the genre, and I think it's thrilling me) sci-fi, magical realism (unf) and much else.

I like...well. Tanya Huff's Valour series, Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series, the Vampire Hunter D books, Tolkien, Elfquest, Lilith Saintcrow, K.J. Bishop, Alice Borchardt, L.J. Smith, Janet Fitch, Cindy Pon. Barbara Hambly. Michelle Sagara. Many, many, many more.

I tend to write girls! Girls who love each other, girls who would kill for each other, also girls who love monsters and vice versa. (Red Riding Hood/Big Bad Wolf OTP) Girls with embroidery, girls with swords, girls who are soft and sweet and want to settle down, girls who are the destructive equivalent of a walking atomic bomb with a bad temper. (I tend to be a het 'shipper, but all of my original stories seem to turn into manifestos about how my heroines would move the earth for their girlfriends.) Fairy tales and games therein with meta. Dystopic, steampunk - ugh, sci-fi that's not quite hits so many buttons I don't even know - cities in the air, cities in the earth, cluttered eclectic magic in unexpected things - rooms full of dusty sunlight, papers and glass or bronze globes, empty intricate birdcages hanging from the ceiling, bookcases stacked with scrolls and leather-bound books and figurines of china or bone side by side with tarnished keys and leather maps, steamer trunks on the ground and richly coloured paintings half-hidden behind the very ordinary curtains - magic in everyday things, Alice in Wonderland inspired stories where things don't quite dance to our tune... Werewolves with some thought put into how a wolfish psyche influencing a human one might actually act (as in, not 'oh, he can do x/y/this atrocious thing and it's not his fault because of the ~~animal inside~~!') Dragons. Oooh, I love me some dragons. Queens. Empresses. Kings. Knights. Giant machines. Sentient machines. Mazes. Political games. (I don't know that I write them very well...) Fealty. Lovers pitted against each other for opposite causes. (I'm addicted to happy endings like woah, though. >.>)

I LIKE TO BLOW STUFF UP, DID I MENTION?

I've finished three novels (two for the same contest on different years, one finished in three days - meeting the deadline - and one in four - missing the deadline.) I want to get back into the groove of loving my writing, though.

[bigbrasskey]

Oh, and I love things-hidden-away-in-things, in the let 'oh let's explore what could be beyond/inside' sense - trees that reach past the clouds into another realm, dollhouses, trunks that hold more than they should be able to. SO MANY LITTLE THINGS INSIDE! (Mouths are probably my favorite orifice - so many interesting functional things totally hidden when closed up!)

[kunenk]

Right so uh. Hi! I'm Kunenk, and I write mostly fantasy. Probably what I'll be going for most here is this story with two girls, one of who has effectively adopted two griffin kits. They're… somewhere between piracy and running a service, because they like not being arrested. :|a

[white_aster]

With interests like that, this is gonna be AWESOME. :D Welcome!

[white_aster]

Not getting arrested should be one of the comm's interests..... :P Welcome!

[bigbrasskey]

I'm definitely really excited after seeing other people's comments!

[bigbrasskey]

And I cannot begin to express how grateful I am to you for making the sandbox!

SPACECATS. Oh, everything you hope to woo them to produce woos me as well. Mmmmm.

[white_aster]

You are more than welcome! Who knew that making up a word list and flinging bingo cards and people would make them so happy! <3!

Spacecats! <3! They were already poking me to get all their different timelines/stories written down so I wouldn't forget them just in case something pinged them, mind you....

[jadekirk]

Hi, I started out writing an original character in the Doctor Who universe but then I decided that he needs his own story detailing his life before and afterwards. Of course he doesn't lead a normal life at the best of times and I'm hoping this series can show what a bisexual polyamorous red haired chef with severe immortality issues can get up to.