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Minimum word count for the entire fic is 8k words, of which 3500 (500 outline) should be done by September 30th. This and more information can be found in our bang info and faq.

So funny you should ask that mm8fic, just yesterday the blog was backed up and exported and a community on pillowfort was set up - it’s just called Huxloween. We’ll probably post across the various platforms for the next event but tumblr and pillowfort are the places you can find us for now. Thanks for asking!

“I’m sorry, Master... but I’m not coming back.”

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“Ahsoka Leaves” (Star Wars:  The Clone Wars) Icons

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there’s a rec there

also : 

A Match of My Own by beetle

The Way You Looked Tonight   by  blue_jack                

Love in Black  by Slackersunite    

So Much the Better by blue_jack            

it looks like you might be one of us  byscarlett_starlett 

Could You Stop? by  Vixen13

Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch  by  blue_jack            

Oh, dear! :O

Um. Hmmm. Here are five fics that don’t actively embarrass me when I think about them, in no particular order (with one to grow on).

1. Desperate Measures (The Dresden Files, Bob/Harry) - Complete

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5000647

This is the first fic in the Forged Series, which I think is all right, considering it’s a mash-up of the books and the TV series. The reason I’m reccing this fic alone is because I’m still proud at how this feels like it could stand-alone as well as being the start of a series. A lot of times in recent years, I’ve started fics that inevitably lead to series because I love reading series myself, but the trouble is, I end up running out of steam from time to time, so the series languishes unfinished, and someone in the wilds of the internet is sad that I can’t follow through like I used to.

So, really, when I can write a fic that can stand by itself, as well as being the beginning of a series, I’m kinda proud of that.

2. Finding Out the Wrong Way (The Hobbit, Dwalin/Ori, modern AU) - WIP/Complete at the moment

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5398412

Written for a fic exchange challenge, and like Entry #3, it really shows. I was literally writing this at work minutes before it was due, and I was two minutes late in uploading. When I discovered other people were able to post theirs after the hard deadline, I was headdesking pretty hard, but such is life.

The beginning drags, but is definitely from life experience. The rest of the fic isn’t quite so bad? It’s very fast, but given the circumstances, I think it’s forgiveable. Since the person’s request had mentioned they had liked mermaids and they didn’t mind AUs, I thought it was a lovely departure, and it didn’t take long to come up with the worldbuilding (even if not a lot ended up in the posted fic), once I got over my writer’s block.

I keep meaning to go back and edit this, because I remember actually wincing at how much material I had to cut, but whenever I read it over, I have trouble remembering what I had intended to edit back in, so it seems vaguely acceptable? At least the recipient liked it, which is really the best result from a fic exchange.

3. Merry Christmas, Jeeves (Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves/Wooster) - Complete

http://archiveofourown.org/works/758286

I wrote this one for a Yuletide fic, and there are parts of it that really show how rushed it is. The ending still makes me cringe, and I keep swearing that I’ll go back and really give this one a solid edit.

The reason I’m reccing it is because I’m proud of Jeeves’s family. They’re all OCs, but they feel like the kind of sensible people that Jeeves would be related to, even if he’s the the second-eldest child, and the oldest son of the four. The way that the relationship is broached doesn’t actively make me cry, which is a plus, because the canon itself feels very innocent to me, and it’s hard for me to write anything above a passionate kiss or two for these two. Jeeves is a formidable sort of man, really.

4. The Unnamed Vampire Series (Star Trek AOS, James Kirk/Leonard McCoy, Scotty/Chekov) - WIP

http://darktrent182.dreamwidth.org/tag/star+trek:+xi

I like this one for two of the fics in it.

One of my things about writing is that I want to show, rather than tell, emotions and narration. The trouble is, sometimes, I can’t think of the best way to show what’s going on, so I end up telling, which makes me feel like a hack. In the two fics I mentioned, I really felt like I was able to communicate how the characters felt without it being “Chekov felt X. Scotty felt Y.” (In “Head to Head”, I feel like you can feel the tension between the two in the fic, understand their reasons for why they each feel that way, and it makes sense. I’m also proud of it because it feels like a complete fic from beginning to end, and it’s short.)

I’m especially proud of the smut in “One Little Bite” because it really does feel like a turning point in the relationship, and when a fic feels that way to me, I’m really proud because then I think that the readers will feel that way about the action going on too, and that’s what I really like. (Another thing I really like is when two characters have a conversation on multiple levels, the characters understand all of those levels, and the readers do too, but I don’t know if I’ve ever managed that in a fic yet.)

5. The Respectable Rogue (Gotham, eventual Oswald/Ed) - WIP

http://archiveofourown.org/works/10921176

I like this one because it’s a Regency AU. I have more that I wrote, but I need to really go through and edit. There are some canon elements from S2, and there’s a bit of jostling in terms of when characters meet each other and at one time. Still, I’m proud of what I’ve posted, and I don’t think it would need much editing if it turns out that I need to overhaul something later.

+1. Fantasies (Lupin III, Lupin/Fujiko, Lupin/Jigen, Lupin/Goemon, Lupin/Zenigata) - Complete

http://darktrent182.dreamwidth.org/35036.html#cutid1

I happened across this one while looking for other fics that were ported to my Dreamwidth account from my fic LJ, and I have to admit that I like this one. Short, doesn’t require a series, Lupin is a horndog even in his sexual fantasies, and yet we can see a bit of how he cares about Zenigata in his more detailed fantasy of him. (Yes, I’m a Lupin/Zenigata shipper, as @slettlune can attest. No, I won’t apologize for it.)

There’s something to be said for revealing how one person feels for another by really showing it in the fact that the fantasy is so much more vivid and detailed, as well as the fact that it’s left unsaid in the fic, but not misunderstood by the reader. :D

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I still don't understand how people can say that the white box is Deadpool, his boxes are yellow as well as his speech bubbles.

Leading characters in the book usually get their custom boxes, usually just a box with the drop shadow of whatever color the characters associated with, but Deadpool is always yellow

Now