Original Fiction Bingo Challenge

Hi, I'm Lis; when rename tokens come out I'll be staranise and my writing journal will move over to loveandwar.

I wrote Stargate fanfiction until an unfortunate (?) confluence of fandom and creative energy produced an AU that ate the world my brain, to the point that several people have asked me why I don't just file off the serial numbers and make it original. (Answer: because then it loses all the awesome resonances!)

But beyond that, I was raised in the Canadian West and dragged to rodeos as a child, so I've written a couple of Western stories that could loosely be filed under "romance", though one of them's about the difficulty of hiding a longstanding semi-incestuous poly triad in late 19th-century New Mexico. They're known as "The Ridiculous Cowboy Story" and "That Other Cowboy Story".

All the Years After is a story in larval form. I know it's about a young woman named Magritte whose home is destroyed in a bombing, who joins her country's army to combat an invasion, and after the invasion, works as a saboteur and underground resistance fighter. It's steampunk-ish, but inspired more by Japanese fantasy than Victorian literature, and draws a lot of resonances from World War II.

By Our Old Hands is an old story I still haven't quite dealt with, in a fantasy society somewhat like post-Reformation Germany; a duellist finds himself helping an exiled princess-of-the-blood navigate the alliances and politics she inherits when her father dies, and she unexpectedly discovers she's been set up as her grandfather's rival. This one is very informed by my studies of how people viewed human nature over the years, so none of the characters have twenty-first attitudes about who they are, what love and fidelity mean, or what loyalty is.

I also have an unnamed story set over a thousand years after the magical apocalypse, in a nordic gender-egalitarian society, which is a shared project with recessional and celeloriel, detailing the formation of special police investigators who can breach the culture's strict taboos of privacy. But that won't be public.

I like going for really psychological plots, and surprise myself every time I turn out cotton candy fluff. I'm also studying psychology of aesthetics (read: psychology of art) this term, so who knows what I'll come up with.