To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

[Note: I am icepixie across LJ, DW, and AO3.]

Dear Yuletide Writer,

THANK YOU for writing for me! I love all these fandoms and characters dearly, and I know I'll love whatever you come up with for them. I'm offering specific prompts for each fandom if you're the kind of writer who prefers them, but please don't feel constrained by them if you're not.

( General likes/dislikes )

( Northern Exposure )

( Robson Arms )

( Corner Gas )

( Shall We Dance (1937) )

( The Cutting Edge (1992) )

( Figure Skating RPF )

Fandom stockings have been revealed! Yay! I received some lovely graphics and recs for poetry and books which look interesting indeed.

I volunteered as a pinch-hitter (pinch-stuffer?) and thus ended up doing more than I thought I would for this fest; specifically, I wrote twelve fics and made one vid. Here's everything I wrote/vidded, with links to the AO3 because it's simpler than chasing down comment threads, especially for those that are broken into multiple comments. (Unless otherwise stated, these are 1,000ish words or fewer. All are, at most, PG.)

Babylon 5
And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall for perverseparagon – Londo's life is full of mazes now.

If Equal Affection Cannot Be for rivendellrose – Five poems Marcus Cole knows by heart. One-sided Ivanova/Marcus.

Soldiers for bessemerprocess – In which Susan Ivanova and Olivia Dunham meet in a bar. Angsty and apocalyptic. Crossover with Fringe.

Castle
...In an Elevator for debirlfan – Castle and Beckett, stuck in an elevator. UST.

Murder Most Kindergarten for soobunny – Five-year-old Alexis writes a story. It gives her father cause to worry.

Corner Gas
Baby, Baby for livii – Someone leaves a baby on the steps of the Dog River Police Station. Chaos ensues. Everyone appears, but it's Karen- and Davis-centric. (3,000 words; also at LJ.)

Doctor Who
Second Star to the Right for jenavira – Eight, Charley, and a low-gravity planet.

Follow the Fleet
Side by Side for idharao – Sherry and Bake are having a trying Christmas, but they make the most of it.

Fringe
Soldiers for bessemerprocess – In which Susan Ivanova and Olivia Dunham meet in a bar. Angsty and apocalyptic. Crossover with Babylon 5.

Northern Exposure
I Feel the Sky Tumbling Down for oxoniensis – An alternate explanation for Maggie's vertigo in "I Feel the Earth Move." Joel/Maggie, Ruth-Anne.

The Reality of Experience for juniperphoenix – Roslyn and Cicely share a life lived through books.

Slings & Arrows
All in a Day's Work for wiliqueen – An all-too-typical day for Anna Conroy.

Sea-Changed (vid) for loneraven – A vid about Geoffrey, the theater, and even Oliver. Set to "Full Fathom Five," by Hem, feat. Audra McDonald and Anne Hathaway. 1:30 long, 19 MB Quicktime file.

X-Files
The Heart of Saturday Night for ruuger – "John Doggett requires a cautious, quiet approach, like sneaking up on a bird or squirrel to take its picture." Doggett/Reyes UST.

Yes! My cunning plan worked!

Title: Shine On, Harvest Moon
Author: icepixie
Rating: G
Summary: Karen's first year in Dog River, she and Davis go to the Harvest Dance together. UST. Double drabble.

( I figured with a name like 'Harvest Dance,' it would either be formal or, you know, overalls, so I took a chance on formal. )

Because god forbid I actually do any work this weekend¹, I watched the Very Last Episode of Corner Gas. I haven't seen anything since the end of S4, but it's not like this show is serialized or anything, so I was able to follow as well as ever. It was a pretty good send off, all things considered. I liked the toast at the end. Oh, and this part was entertaining:

( Cut for spoilers )

¹ I'm about three-quarters of the way done with a very rough draft of the pedagogy paper, which I'm crossing my fingers I'll be able to finish tonight and clean up tomorrow. We shall see. Technically it doesn't need to be completed for a while, but I'm a bit worried that my Victorian paper is still but a 500-word proposal and a few pages' worth of quotations. I hate the end of the semester.

Huh. I just now found out that Janet Wright plays both Emma Leroy of Corner Gas and Sgt. Sam Thorne of dS's "Mountie on the Bounty."

Why yes, I believe that would be the sound of every single Canadian production I have ever seen having at least one actor in common with another Canadian production I have seen. Hee.

Dear Self,

Really, it's time to start putting the backpack in the backseat or the trunk. The passenger unbuckled bell is getting annoying. (Tonight it was four tomes of criticism about Coleridge and Volume 33 of Studies in Romanticism. All except the periodical are mine until JANUARY SEVENTH MUAHAHAHA. Or, y'know, until someone recalls them. Er. Anyway, YAY GRAD SCHOOL.)

Speaking of those books, I'm pretty excited about this presentation/paper. I'm going to write about Coleridge's "The Nightingale," which very few people have even mentioned, much less written articles about. I think it could make a decent conference paper (which is the assignment--doesn't have to be submitted anywhere, but it should be ready to be). And I won't feel like I'm repeating people, yay!

*

Over the past week, four unfinished Corner Gas fics seem to have appeared on my hard drive. I, of course, am at a loss to explain this. All four of them also seem to involve Karen and Davis in some kind of awkward USTful situation as well. Really, I have no idea how that happened. *whistles*

*

The weather has been awesome for the past few days. Thanks, Ike! ;) I've had all my windows open, and I have a lot of windows. It's wonderful. I went for a walk by the river and took pictures the other day. I'd post them, except my webhosting company has, apparently deleted my website. When I still had eight months left for this year. And they aren't responding to e-mails.

Good thing I keep a backup on my computer.

Yeah, I won't be hosting with them anymore! (It's HostOnce, for the curious. They were fine for five years, but no longer, apparently.) I think I'll take this opportunity to pick a different domain name--one that's less "I was eighteen and feeling uncreative" than my old one.

So, um, I was thinking about my last post, and the following lines of filk came into my head:

Saskatchewan is really, really flaaaat.
(For corn*!)
It's got a lot of farmland, good soil and things like thaaaaat.
(For corn!)
It grows all day and night
(The corn!)
Under the bright sunlight
(The corn!)
I'd say this province really is just riiiight!
(For corn!)

...So if I drank, this would be the moment when someone hauls me out of the bar, right? (Please say someone would.)


Dear Canada,

...I'm sore-y sorry.

Sincerely,

Me


* "Corn," of course, being used in the European sense of "grain," because of course wheat is Saskatchewan's biggest crop. Everyone knows that. *goes to delete incriminating Safari history*

I ended up hunting for Corner Gas fic tonight (I think it had something to do with listening to "Prairie Town" on repeat), and...huh. I did not expect it to skew so heavily toward Davis/Karen. Or at all toward Davis/Karen. I can't say as the thought of that ship had ever crossed my mind. They're buddies! And partners! And she's like twenty years younger than him!

And yet...it's still kind of cute. I'll just try not to think too hard about the age thing.

(Oh, and this is kind of adorable. And hilarious.)

"Prepositions are fun!"

I heart Wanda. (And Emma. And Oscar. But especially Wanda.)

It appears that WGN is airing Corner Gas at 7 PM Central on Mondays. Woo! They showed the first episode this past Monday, but if anyone wants to get into it, it's fairly episodic (from what I've seen), and you won't be missing out on BSG-style arcs or anything wherever you start watching.

(Synopsis: Quirky characters. Small-town Saskatchewan. Canadian jokes. It's a bit like what Northern Eposure might have been had it been a sitcom. Kind of, anyway. Oh, just watch it! It's funny!)