well duh

They lifted the breeding ban and I bred these then forgot. Pass on by if you're not playing and tired of clicking

Farewell Project Paranormal

Four years ago scribesds asked me if I'd like to be part of a team of writers doing an AR virtual series that would have a B/A theme and set in England. I was both flattered and intriqued by Project Paranormal. Enjoying a challenge, I agreed.

I knew most of the writers from B/A boards among other forums and knew most of them would have a better handle on the Buffy and Angel relationship than I would. While that was and still is my favorite pairing for both of them, I didn't write it all that often and usually to meet requests from ficathons.

Instead, I chose to highlight another member of the team, one that I felt a great affinity for, Rupert Giles. I loved him and found him fairly easy to write. Also, using him for this project I got to research lots of folklore of the United Kingdom, especially power spots and ley lines (even found a few tours that go only to these places in the process. Someday i need to BOOK one of them). I relied on Scribes and the others to help me with the details since I've never been to England and they're natives.

It was more of a challenge than I first thought to write as part of a group. Not all the decisions were in my hands (something that a control freak like myself had troubles adjusting to) and wow, the effort it had to take to juggle something like this for four years is pretty stunning. Whether I loved this detail and didn't like that one, in the long run the series told its story in a myriad of voices and I think it was a superlative effort.

I wasn't part of PP for it's entire run. New fandoms and original projects and a new job with a multitude of new classes to create from scratch forced me to relunctantly give up being part of the team. I didn't always get back there to give feedback as much as I wanted to either. However, over the years I did try to point the curious over to see PP as much as I could.

I can't pick out one or two authors to praise. They're all wonderful in their own rights. Go and check out the series. Like all series, it's best to start at the beginning. It's something the various Buffy scholars might like to peek at just to see what a group of fanfic writers can do together and individually. scribesds does a great job of giving props to all the writers involved, doing a much better job than I ever could so go and have a look.

Farewell Project Paranormal. You were a fun experiment that taught me a lot about the writing process and still are a wealth of wonderful Buffyverse stories.

blinks

Dear Chemistry.com

Thank you for the free 72 flirathon. It was enough to ensure I'm unlikely to give you any cash. While the whole big capatibility test is all well and good, your match parameters need fixing. I only put on a cap of 100 miles so i could include Columbus. You put matches up for Cincinatti (2 1/2 h ours and way more than 100 miles away) and Lexington KY (like 4 hours away). Did you even look at my religious and whathave you's? that you made me fillout for an hour? If the man's profile's FIRST thing is 'i believe the Bible is the living word of GOD' then he's not a match for me (the fact that he had that BEFORE his three sons made me want to run and hide)

Also, since you do the matching for me, that means i can't do a search on my own...so I'm limited to 5 men a day and given your poor ability to do a match, that's just what I needed to know to say with the free sites, so thank you.

and on a shallow note, the one guy did sound interesting but he was a dead ringer for Principal Snyder/Quark and I was never going to get past that.











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Fic -Under her Thumb

Under Her Thumb
Author – cornerofmadness
Disclaimer – no moo-moo’s here, all rights belong to Arakawa
Rating – R with sexual situations
Pairing – Roy/Riza (hints of Roy/Olivia)
Timeline – mangaverse, could be any time though, no spoilers
Summary – He loves it when she gives orders
Author’s Note – written for the fma_fic_contest, prompt ‘giving orders.’ There was no dallying around with what to write. Roy perked up the moment the prompt went up. Granted he thought this was the 251-500 word limit prompt and sulked for hours when he learned it had to be cut. However, since it didn’t win, I decided to put in the extra words (the stuff up to the asterisks was what was submitted to the contest), especially since my first readers agreed it was better longer. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta

XXX

( While he would never admit it, Roy loved listening to Riza giving his orders to his men )