Fic up through about 2011: http://www.adamao.org/minim/

Anything since and some from before is at [Unknown LJ tag] except for a few things that only exist in http://minim-calibre.tumblr.com/tagged/stuff-I-wrote

Older Yuletide Stories (possibly not crossposted):
http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/26/screenwritersblues.html (Harold and Kumar)
http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/72/tigerbeaten.html (Arrested Development)
http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/46/movingright.html (Dark Angel)

Stories I don't think I ever crossposted to my journal:
http://community.livejournal.com/spn_summergen/6942.html
http://community.livejournal.com/choc_fic/47101.html (Gunn/Wes)
http://community.livejournal.com/femslash08/24421.html (Cordelia/Anya)

Stories and snippets from this year's Porn Battle
Gladiator, Dark Angel, Alec/Normal, sides, fantasy

Hidden Depths, Batman, Alfred/Lucius, dedication
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I think I have to finish the Dottie/Nat I started *just* so I can use the tag "Schrödinger's Dove."

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1. Still thinking about the last few five things to know about certain characters. It's surprisingly hard for some!

2. Working on a PBAM prompt that refuses to actually go to the P part of it, a fact I have now complained about in three separate chat channels, on Tumblr, and on the DW/LJ world.

3. Took the 8th off SRS BSNS social media. I included FB on that, not because I use it for a lot of SRS BSNS, but because other people do and the temptation to respond defeats the purpose of my personal version of a strike, seeing as I don't have a job to not go to and all.

4. No, seriously: it refuses to go to the P part yet. It's like slow burn in short form, given the degree of sexual--tension's not the right word here, but it's close. The interactions between them are highly sexualized in a power play sort of way, basically.

5. On that note, I think I need to crack open some sapphic erotica and go curl up in my bed for a while as I think through this story. If I can find where I put it. It's all probably too wholesome, frankly, and I'd probably be better off looking into the happy fun world of 19th century filth.

6. Before I do that, though, time to put on the ring and perfume from the USSR.

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Name a character I do some kind of creative work about, and I will tell you the five(ish) things I think are fundamental to understanding them.

Have at it!

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No, seriously.

I mean, I am on Twitter all the damn time, but that means I am connecting with a dozen fans and a lot of politics.

What's up with me: I cosplayed all four days of ECCC, three MCU and one Doctor Who (the latter my only new one of the year) and now my feet are filled with rage. I went to a whopping one panel--weren't a lot that I wanted to attend, sadly. The MCU meet up was dude-heavy and filled with Deadpools, though I did meet a teen kiddo who admired the Fourth Doctor scarf I was knitting and who shared my affection for the Seventh Doctor, though he was too young to like Happiness Patrol, sadly. It doesn't really work if you aren't Thatcher-familiar, I guess.

Saw Logan. Was awesome. Before the con, saw Get Out. Also awesome. Watched all of Timeless. Less awesome, but Rufus!

Unemployed still and unproductive fannishly. Outside of knitting the damn scarf, which I hadn't touched in 2.5 years and am almost to the halfway mark on now.

I am filled with meh, have graduated therapy (well, kinda), and I suspect I am having some post-convention malaise. But I am also feeling disconnected in general. Not getting out enough or seeing enough people. Lack of funds, lack of time, parenting stuff, and when I feel disconnected, I tend to drop out of life even more because I lose social skills fast. Whee? (Every single time I say something online and it goes into the void because I am saying it at stupid o'clock, it provides food for the brain raccoons, too. Ahahaha.)

I miss conversation. Basically. Also, I have comments to reply to and now that I know there is a new series of Broadchurch, I know why, so yay?

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I am trying to funnel all my political talk to Twitter these days, so I have been basically lurking everywhere else. Tumblr, more than usual, is annoying me: it's Twitter on a time delay with no context and things deleted for incorrect info stay up there and the circular firing squad is worse and I have so much blacklisted or blocked via xkit that it barely loads.

So.

Trying to motivate to talk elsewhere. Other than occasionally in Yuletide IRC, that is.

Which is to say...

What's up?

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coffeeandink guessed what I wrote for Yuletide and thus a ficlet was owed.

Spoilers for the season finale of The Good Place! Avoid if you haven't seen it! In part because it will make not a lick of sense without context!

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For Act 1, I'm spreading the word of the 100 Words drabble community on DW for its lovely creator.

I have no idea what my additional acts will be, but I'm sure I'll think of something.

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Well, the number and type of private bookmarks I have are certainly... telling, to say the least.

(The FF rec was a private bookmark I decided to take public. Let's just say that those bookmarks are the sound that comes after the doves stop crying and are shoved in a bag in the fridge.)

::facepalm::

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Skipping Day 4, as I left a comment on a stranger's journal already.

Fandom Snowflake 2017 Master Post

Day 5

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well, this is going to be... assorted. And I do mean that. I am linking to stories from my AO3 bookmarks not written by friends or regular IRC chatmates (the latter of which eliminates the bulk of my HTP recs) and (I think) not recced here before. Four recs, gen, femslash, slash, and het.

The Show Must Go On
(19434 words) by Pargoletta
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Rogers, USO Tour Dancers (Marvel), Senator Brandt
Additional Tags: Theatre, Dancing, Backstage, rehearsal, showmanship, Singing
Summary:

Steve Rogers struggled at boot camp to master physical discipline, learning to climb, crawl, run, shoot, and fight. But the rigors of boot camp are nothing compared to his first post-serum assignment, in which he must learn to act, sing, and dance.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Excellent gen piece that fills in the gaps in the First Avenger.

If You See Kathy Bates, Run (5527 words) by meh_guh
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Daria (Cartoon)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jane Lane/Quinn Morgendorffer
Characters: Jane Lane, Quinn Morgendorffer, Daria Morgendorffer
Additional Tags: Kidnapping, Stalker, Fuckbuddies To Lovers, Women Rescuing Each Other
Summary:

Jane's getting worried. Mostly about Daria's strange disappearance, but also by her growing feelings for Quinn. Does Quinn feel the same, or is she just using Jane for sex? And can they track Daria down before something happens to her?

Bookmarker's Notes:

Like Dashiell Hammett came back from the grave to write hot, plotty Daria femslash.

Half Glory (1622 words) by sinuous_curve
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fantastic Four (Movieverse)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ben Grimm/Johnny Storm
Characters: Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm
Additional Tags: Community: kink_bingo, Verbal Humiliation, Suicidal Thoughts
Summary:

Johnny looks up at him from his knees, hands clasped behind his back so tight he can feel how bloodless his knuckles have gone. Ben’s hand is cool and solid and unyielding. Johnny swallows hard, and doesn’t say anything. Then, “I’m Johnny fucking Storm,” after a beat of silence.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I read this possibly more frequently than is healthy but I really like it and I like it even more having rewatched the first of the 2005-2007 movies recently.

make me (1575 words) by nereid
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Community (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annie Edison/Abed Nadir
Characters: Annie Edison, Abed Nadir
Summary:

There is a game of sorts, that Abed and Annie play.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I... <3<3<3<3<3<3

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Leading with the stuff: I volunteered to write a deployment guide for someone and OMG, I am now a bucket of "I WILL FIND AN ALIBI AND QUICKLIME IF YOU DON'T JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTIONS I'M ASKING. I DO NOT NEED TO KNOW EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE VARIABLE RIGHT NOW." which is a difficult bucket when the person in question is your spouse.

I have a tension headache from trying to do this in a very compressed timeframe so I have a writing sample I can actually use that's not lost to NDAs and internal documentation.

MEME!

Grab the nearest book, flip to page 117, the second sentence is your life in 2017.

My desk is next to a bookshelf so determining closest was difficult and I went with "easiest to grab" as my tiebreaker.

"And the writer is willing to spill everything."

Seems legit.

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Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2017

Day 3: In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

Fannish? My goal is to remember to write. Ideally, I'd like to write at least two net-new completed stories for public consumption per quarter. We'll see.

Otherwise? Resilience. Resistance. Remembering to love.

Also, getting rid of my yarn stash through the clever method of making a lot of hats.

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For the Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2017

Day 2 In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul



Austin City Limits #1411: Leonard Cohen.

Dad and I happened to be watching Austin City Limits on PBS the night this first aired, something we only occasionally did. I was a freshman in high school (Grade 9) and I was transfixed. It was like finally seeing the point of music after thinking I got it. Hell, it was like finally seeing the point of language. (It's funny: I'm usually fairly articulate, but I entirely lose my ability to word when I'm talking Leonard Cohen. No words seem right enough to describe his music and impact.)

It pales in comparison to having seen him perform live and in person, which I was fortunate enough to do twice during the Grand Tour, but if it weren't for catching this episode of Austin City Limits almost 28 years ago, I wouldn't have known to make that pilgrimage.

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Have decided to, for the second year in a row, do the Snowflake Challenge. (Note: I will be doing the image-free linkback on all entries.)

I figure, me having been semi-silent for months and comment-neglectful, it's a kick in the rear to actually post daily for a bit and get back in the habit. Also, excellent procrastination technique!

Day 1: Self Recs

I feel like I should just link back to last year's post. It was very thorough. But I also feel like that would be cheating. So, hey! This year, let's do POV varieties! One first, one second, one third. Apologies for the lack of any gen.

Body Shots (2502 words) by Minim Calibre
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Angel: the Series
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Winifred Burkle/Faith Lehane
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Screenwriter's Blues (1150 words) by Minim Calibre
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Neil Patrick Harris/Harold's Car
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There Was, There Wasn't (13521 words) by Minim Calibre
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
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So that's it, that's my three! Now to go see what else I need to catch up on...

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So, on the heels of a Yuletide where I wrote a lot of words between two completed stories, I am diving back into the Push WIP, which I set aside in frustration last March and have only poked at occasionally in a desultory fashion since.

At some point, as part of the initial restructure effort (I decided to remove one subplot, change where critical developments took place, and some other stuff), I actually tore a few sections out and threw them into their own Scrivener projects, so I actually have no fucking clue how long this thing is. Over 90k.

That part's important.

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For the record. And stuff.



Literally me since October.

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You Might Think I'm Crazy (32363 words) by Minim Calibre
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: What's Your Number? (2011)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ally Darling/Colin Shea
Characters: Ally Darling, Colin Shea, Daisy Darling, Ava Darling
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Family Dynamics, Love, Bad Relationship Habits, Canon-Typical Sexual Content, Romance, Holidays, Canonical Terms For Genitalia, Actually Ever After
Summary:

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Any way you want it/That's the way you need it"
- Journey

From Dear Author letter: "I really want Colin and Ally to be happy--I feel like Ally especially deserves to be happy, to be treated like a queen, and Colin is just the guy to do it. But that said, the road doesn't have to be smooth if you have something you'd like to explore with them, there are so many places you can go with exploring this. (You can kind of see what I like about them in the fic I wrote for this fandom last Yuletide, or in the other stories written last year as well.)"

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So, hey! Who has two thumbs and wrote the third-longest story in the collection? OH YEAH, THIS SQUIRREL!

You may ask, how the hell did the Slowest Writer in the World bang out 32k in time for Yuletide?

You may ask, who the fuck has 32k of story in them for What's Your Number??

You may ask a lot of perfectly reasonable questions about this, most of which are gonna boil down to what-the-actual-fuck??? I cannot promise that any of these questions are going to be answered below the next cut. Or any subsequent cuts. Despite this being over 3k of reveal post.

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If you're not interested in story tl;dr, but are interested in things like musical musings and the perfume choices made, I'm putting that below a separate cut.

( Notes, musical and base.Collapse )

And now to wrap it up!

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If you managed to read the whole thing (honestly, either this or the story itself), I salute you.

Y'know, I suppose I could have just summed it up as "gwyn is awesome, I really like and overthink this movie, and damn, that's a lot of words."

I mean, seriously.

Speaking of summaries, the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote was intended as a placeholder, as my usual method of quoting something from the story wasn't working for me. Then I decided that it would be hilarious to pair it with some sort of utterly unpretentious song lyric, which took longer than expected (why I didn't just START with Journey is beyond me), and actually, this says as much about my process as anything. (Also, I think it totally works as a summary for the damn thing.)

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You're Gonna See, It's Our Destiny (1534 words) by Minim Calibre
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Android "Rock Paper Scissors" Commercial
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Rock (character), Paper (character), Scissors (character)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Bullying, Friends to the Rescue
Summary:

"You know in some way you're a lot like me/You're just a prisoner and you're tryin' to break free"

From Dear Author letter: "I don't have much to add to the Details but in general, what I love about this commercial is how charming and goofy it is and I'd love to see that in fic."

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Written after the assignment, because I thought this was a fandom gwyn really wanted and also because holy shitballs, I wrote something fucking long for the main assignment and thought I needed a backup plan, I don't have a lot to say about writing this expect that I dashed it off in the writer's version of a motherfucking sugar high, complete with WHEE!!!, during a series of word wars in the Yuletide IRC channel, so thank god she liked it.

And she did! Apparently. Do you know how hard it is to keep a straight face while someone is telling people about their gift you wrote and you are sitting RIGHT NEXT TO THEM? Neither did I! But now I do! Sorry about the mac & cheese? :D

The closest thing I had to A Plan about this was "some sort of superhero origin story?" and then it became sort of that, but mostly an exercise in me going hog wild with the puns. I am not kidding about the earworm mentioned in the author's note, by the way. I did a lot of canon review in the two or three hours of word wars, so "Man in Motion" was stuck in my head that whole day.

Which isn't bad. I mean, it's the only time in the last month that it hasn't been The Cars or related. So, hey! And I'm going to go more fully into that other one in the next installment of Min Overthinks the Universe.

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[Yuletide] Pay no attention to the Min behind the curtain... (REVEALS!)

So I wrote two things this Yuletide for the main collection, as I did last year. Unlike last year, they were both for the same recipient, gwyn.

You know, this isn't the first time I've been assigned a friend. I was assigned a friend my very first Yuletide, ten years ago! (And my second, actually. It was smaller back then.) It is the first time I've been assigned someone who knows where I live. (Look, I apparently accidentally gamed the system by offering a five minute fandom she'd requested because it looked cute and I needed another thing to offer on my sign ups, okay?)

Issues discovered on receiving assignment

1. Sudden need to be Extra Sneaky with someone I usually text with about Fic Anxiety, Yuletide, and Fandom.


2. Local write-ins become an exercise in making sure nothing you're doing is at all visible.


3. OMG, PRESSURE! PRESSURE! PRESSURE!


4. Cannot suggest we watch assignment chosen source when hanging out, though it would have been a good choice.

Texts sent about this situation include!
Also, I got a good friend as my recipient. Eep. Ack. OMG. Though I knew this to be possible, we have been texting about Yuletide a lot and I can't talk about my recip now to her!!!
Guys, you should help me decide on a fake Yuletide fandom I can complain about to my actual recipient!
... I am thinking something she's not into so I don't have to add too much detail to my lie.
(this was before a party we were both going to be at)
I’m also totally overplanning because I got Gwyn and I want to make her Yuletide bright and happy


This is going to get... long, so I'm breaking reveals up into three posts this year.

Post 2: the Yuletide treat
Post 3: the assignment

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Again, I think it's totally obvious, at least one of the stories.

(Will attempt a drabble of sorts for anyone who *does* manage to guess.)

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