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invisible_ficathon reveal

Thu, 27 Mar 2014 04:00:58 GMT

The story I posted for invisible_ficathon was based on Loney M. Setnick's extremely cheerful work, The Pony Party, which as noble volunteers and readers may know is a nonexistent work meant to hide the extremely dangerous terror of Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.

The Extremely Appropriate, Inoffensive, and Altogether Cheery Pony Party (1077 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pony Party - Loney M. Setnick, Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: why would you even think to look for a coded message in a fanfic, this fic is of no interest to those who are not noble, Sebald Code, Recursion, Verse Fluctuation Declaration

rymenhild's prompt said, "I know you definitely aren't writing in this fandom because you like to send coded messages. Nobody would think to leave messages for other members of an important secret organization on an Internet fanfiction board." And if they had done so, the two messages in the fic would not have revealed anything about the fate and plans of certain orphans who had left an island some time ago, and how those might intersect with a certain secret library still present underwater next to the doomed, fiery Hotel Denouement...

[Many thanks to sprocket, who performed the Herculean task of trying to beta-read without having read source until halfway through the beta job, and who valiantly counted words to make sure the Sebald Code worked out.

In other news, every person, including me, who I got to try to work out an example of Verse Fluctation Declaration while I was writing this got the wrong message, because we all seem to want to take the new words instead of the words they replaced. I was, of course, trying to work out the example in Snicket's text, and thought he was talking about pony parties instead of violet taxis. So let me just say that the message in the fic poem excerpt is not "Ponies find with parties."

Also: the comments on this story were fabulously in-character and I had a lot of fun responding to them!]

ETA: Rot-13'd, the Sebald Code message:
Ivbyrg, Xynhf, naq Fhaal unir erghearq. Zrrg hf ng cbaq ol ohearq ubgry fvgr.

The Verse Fluctuation Declaration message:
Jr'yy ohvyq va nfurf.

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dear rarewomen

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:59:58 GMT

Apparently... I... am... signing up for rarewomen, against my better judgement. (sprocket, I blame you.) But work should have either exploded or not by the time I have to get around to writing a story, I guess!

I have used the "or" matching to its fullest extent. Anything with any of these characters would be awesome!

Fandoms:

Gunnerkrigg Court (Any) - I loooooved the Yuletide fics this year. I cannot get enough of GC! Jones being her phlegmatic self! Or: Janet -- what would her father do if he learned about her romance? Why is it such a big deal? What secrets does she know, being the headmaster's daughter? Or: what mysteries about Surma do we not know? Or: friendship between Surma and Anja. Or: Anja noticing something that turns out to be important. Or: do Anja and Jones ever talk? About what? Or: show me something of the mother-daughter dynamic between Anja and Kat. For more on what I love about GC, see this post.

Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh (Ariane Emory I, II) - ARI. Let me see Ari I being her deliciously horribly-practical, super-intelligent self. Or Ari II learning to be horribly practical and super intelligent. Or Ari II learning from Ari I. Or, well, anything. I've only read Cyteen, and have not read Cyteen II. For more about what I love about Cyteen, see this post.

Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold (Lotus Durona, Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan, Alys Vorpatril) - ollipop hooked me, last rarewomen, on Lotus Durona, and I love ollipop's story very much and want more. Tell me more about Lotus' Deal with the Baron, or why she hates Lilly so much as to name her clone after her (or is it hate?). Or: I desperately want Ekaterin to be the heroine of her own story! Let her get to do something awesome, something that owes nothing to Miles (or where Miles plays second fiddle to her). Or: we know Alys is awesome already! Let's see more of it! (I don't have a post on why I love the Vorkosigan saga... it's just been part of my life for so long that it just never occurred to me to post on it... the closest is my dear author letter here.)

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invisible_ficathon

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:58:41 GMT

Yeah, um, I'm way too excited about this: invisible_ficathon, for all those works of fiction inside other works.

Things I am nominating for sure:
The Hive Queen and/or The Hegemon, Speaker for the Dead (Andrew Wiggin)
Encyclopedia Galactica
The Garden of Forking Paths, Ts'ui Pen
Ask and Embla, Randolph Henry Ash
The City of Is, Christabel LaMotte
No Skin Off Your Nose, Ike [does he even have a last name? from Fountainhead]

Things I am thinking of nominating:
...I'm going to have to reread Possession and possibly all my other nominations will be from it
Orange Catholic Bible
In My Father's House, Princess Irulan (...although I can't really see how to write fic of this without it really being Dune fic, so... I might not)
The Final Reflection, John M. Ford (...does that count, since we get the entire text of the book? Perhaps I'd better save that one for the next trek-fic fest.)
Well That About Wraps It Up for God, Oolon Colluphid
The Blind Assassin, Laura Chase

Any other thoughts? Gosh, maybe I can stick one of the many songs/media Cordwainer Smith refers to in there.

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heads-up: jukebox fest

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:01:40 GMT

Signal-boosting: songfic exchange, jukebox_fest. Brainstorm post is up here. Nominations have begun!

I am almost certainly nominating Scarborough Fair (Simon and Garfunkel), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd), and Chiron Beta Prime (Coulton). I'm wavering on the fourth. Maybe "The Plough Boy," especially the Britten arrangement? Maybe "Laid in Blood" (Mechanisms)? NOT SURE.

ETA: WAIT WAIT EIGHT NOMINATIONS? Okay, I'm doing Laid in Blood and Plough Boy for sure! Hmm. This is changing my whole nomination strategy, here.

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