So far, there's been interest in seeing the Ianto Whumpage fic (already posted), the Jam Jar sequel, the Due South Ray Whumpage fic, and the SGA Banished Rodney story. So far, no one has said Boo about the Ianto Whumpage fic, suggesting that is is Not, in fact, Anything. Next up is the Jam Jar sequel.

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And I'll stop being a tease and just post all there is this time.

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Villeinage asked for more of the Ianto Whumpage "Is this anything?" I deliver.

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Genagirl requested Torchwood Option One, the Ianto-whumpage story. Let's see how much of it I can fit into one post....

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There are about 15 more pages--should I post them?

I think it may be time for a round of "Is This Anything?"  But I'm not sure which fragment to post.  Here's what I've got:

Torchwood/Who:

1.  Ianto-whumpage fic where Ianto has disappeared through the Rift and comes back in very bad shape.  There's quite a bit of this one.  Edit: On reflection, I have realized that this is essentially "Pencils" with Ianto instead of House and aliens instead of lawyers.
2.  Post-cyberwoman AU where Jack keeps Ianto locked up in the cells and only lets him out to work.  Not coming out as dark as I meant for it to be. 
3.  Jam Jar Sequel.  There's only a short bit of this one so far.  The Doctor appears.
4.  The Doctor (10th) finds an alien baby.  Also short.

Due South

1.  Untitled Ray Torture Fic.  Sort of similar to the first Torchwood fragment, now that I think of it.  

SGA

1.  Rodney insults an alien leader and is Banished.  THis one would be long and plotty if I ever got round to actually finishing it.  At the moment, it's just the setup.

I think those are all the WIPs I have on the hard drive, except of course for Pencils, of which everything that's been written has been posted, and the Due South Time Travel Story which I know is definitely Something, but am stalled on.  

Does any of these sound like it might be Something?  Answer with what (if anything) you're interested in seeing, and I'll post it.  Edit2: If you ask to see something, please let me know what you think of it!

Does anyone have experience selling on eBay?  I have a question. 

I listed some Stargate magazines (found 'em at the library sale for twenty cents).  One girl won all of the auctions (5 magazines for prices ranging from 99 cents to $5.50).   The auctions ended toward the end of last week.  Yesterday I contacted her to remind her to pay.  She just wrote back saying sorry, some things came up, and she doesn't have the money but will pay me in two weeks.  Fortunately, I remembered to wait until payment came in to ship the items. 

My question is, is that considered normal and appropriate behavior by eBay standards?  My impulse is to say "Oh hell no," and relist them.  Now that I lokok at eBay's policies, it's a little more complicated than that, and will end up taking a couple of weeks anyway.  So I'm not sure what to do.  Ideas?

So my dog was splayed out on the floor in this weird pose, and I couldn't figure out why.  I petted her; she thumped her tail and didn't move.  After messing about on the computer a bit I got their food, and then she finally tried to get up, revealing that she had somehow gotten her dewclaw stuck in the leash-ring of her collar, the wee daftie.  God knows how long she'd have stayed stuck like that, without saying anything, if it hadn't been breakfast time.  

I've decided to wait and watch the new Torchwood when it comes on BBCA (which will be Monday the 20th).  It takes me forever to download stuff, and I prefer watching TV on the TV anyway.  Plus that way I'll have to watch it on successive nights, as one is supposed to, rather than the whole miniseries in one greedy gulp. 

But one consequence of this decision is that I've had to stay away from people's posts about it, so I have no idea whether it's any good at all.  Hence, this poll!  I have carefully written the questions and answers so that they shouldn't be able to spoil anyone.  I'm OK with general squeeing or meh-ing in the comments, but nothing specific, please! 

Poll #1427613 TW Series 3 Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Is the new TW miniseries any good?

How Slashy Is It?

I've got the local Fox affiliate's evening news on, because there's supposed to be something exciting in the weather, and right now they are doing a story about the new English-language all-news station in Iran.  See, it's actually run by the government, but presents itself as a legitimate news source.  The Irani station, I mean. 

Now, the local Fox affiliates are fairly tame compared to the Fox News cable station--they've even reported somewhat positively on labor issues in my county.  But I still say it takes enormous brass balls for them to be casting that particular stone from their glass TV studio. 

How in hell did I miss that there was a Doctor Who special on in April?  I mean, honestly.  You'd think someone would have told me.  

Quite possibly it was mentioned and I didn't notice.  I blame whoever picked the title.  We've had a "Planet of the Ood" and a "Forest of the Dead."  I wonder if they had it on BBC-America and I missed that, too, or if it hasn't been on here yet.  In fact, I think I may sort of remember Telya mentioning it, and I wondered why she was going on about an old episode.  **pounds head on desk**

Friends, I throw myself on your mercy.  Hook me up, please!

Edit:  I used to have an account on thebox.bz, but I haven't used it in ages, so I think they got rid of it.  I'm unsure whether I'm allowed to create another one--there are dire warnings against trying to make a new account when you've been disabled, or creating duplicate accounts.  They use a different term--"pruned"--for when your account goes away because you haven't used it, and I can't find anything on whether you're allowed back if they did that.  Their help and support is only available on IRC (which I never learned to use) or their forums--which you can't get to without an account.  If someone has a valid account and can check into this for me, that would be equally as awesome as helping me get the episode on a more direct way. 

If you're like me, and you're too young to have lisened to Michael Jackson before he was a giant trainwreck of a freakshow, you might want to do like I did and look at some of his videos and stuff on YouTube.  I decided to look at some because, in my family, that's what you do when a musician dies, you listen to their work (I'm sure my dad's listening to Thriller today--I think that's the only Jackson record he still has).  If you try to put all the crazy out of your mind and just watch/listen, they're surprisingly compelling.  I started here. 

Warning:  tl: dr customer service rant ahead.


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My "Teddy House" story has been nominated over at the House Fic Hall of Fame (now called the House Fic Meta Library, for reasons I decided not to bother finding out about).  It isn't scheduled to come up for review until October (mark your calendars!), but in the meantime, I thought I should go over it and clean up any typos.  If you're bored or something, please consider helping out by re-reading the story and commenting with any mistakes you find.  Thanks! 

As I'm sure everyone knows, last Sunday week Dr. George Tiller,  one of the US's two late-term abortion providers, was assassinated by an anti-choice wingnut as he (Tiller) stood outside of his church performing his duties as an usher.  Today, a racist wingnut walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and shot up the place, fatally wounding one museum guard. 

These acts are nothing short of domestic terrorism.  You have to wonder what's going to be next. 

OK, so there's this pet-sitting client.   First off, he's an asshole--the first contact he made with me, he started the email off by criticizing my web site for not having my business name anywhere on it.  (It does, of course.)  I went out there today to meet him and the dogs, and he kept me there almost two hours, talking my ear off about stuff I didn't need to know (stories about the dogs, showing me pictures of them when they were puppies, etc.).  One of the stories involved him beating the crap out of his wife's dog for "attacking" the new puppy.  (He says that the older dog was really tearing into the puppy, not just warning him off.  This may be true--I wasn't there and can't say.)  So, asshole. 

During out meeting, he asked if I had a cell phone (I don't), and why not, and how he could get in touch with me if I wasn't by my house phone.  I said, well, you can't, but I do check my messages regularly.  He said he'd buy me a prepaid phone so he can reach me.  I thought that was kinda creepy--he'd be hiring me to let his dogs out twice a day on occasional weekend days when he goes somewhere for the whole day, not to be at his personal beck and call 24 hours a day--and said something noncommital about it.  (I wouldn't be allowed to use the "free" phone for anything except recieving and returning his calls, either.) 

He's interviewed several pet-sitters, and has now emailed me saying that I can be his "back up pet sitter," if I can do another (free) visit, so that he can leave the house when I'm there and see how the dogs feel about it, and reiterated the cell phone deal. 

I am not taking this deal.  I don't like the guy, plus it's a huge amount of hassle for a small potential amount of money.  I knew before I went there that he was an asshole, and decided I'd put up with it for the money--but that was before I heard about the dog-beating and the cell phone thing (which just sets off all kinds of freak alarms for me--I can't really spell out why, but it seems like a red flag for future trouble).  I'm certainly not putting up with all that for the off chance that he'll call me if the other pet sitter he chooses is unavailable. 

My question is, what do I say?  His email isn't asking me if I would like to be his back-up petsitter and come out again for free and haul around his cell phone--it's telling me that I can have this great opportunity.  I'm at a loss for how to write back and say Thanks but no thanks.  I don't want to offend the guy and risk having him bad-mouth me to everyone he knows, but I do not want to work for him.    Suggestions of phrases or sentences that I can use would be greatly appreciated. 

 

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Back in November, I posted a partial draft of an Ianto-centric post-Cyberwoman fic as an installment of "Is this Anything?"  Today, I finished it!  Yeah, I don't know, either.  I read a couple fics, watched a couple of episodes that were knocking around on the oldTivo, and banged this puppy out.

I'm posting again from the top; about the last half is the new stuff.  Here's the blueprint:

Title:  Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Rating:  R-ish for language and themes.

Summary:  Obligatory post-Cyberwoman Janto.  My attempt to answer the question of "How did Ianto get from calling Jack a monster in "Cyberwoman" to suggesting sex games in "They Keep Killing Suzie"?"  Because what the fandom really needs is more of those.  Anyway, here's my take. 


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I've been checking my archives and tagging the due South stories that I forgot to tag when I wrote them.  For the sake of completeness, I thought I'd also link to the flashfic stories that never got posted here.  My regulars have probably already read them all, but I wanted to have everything accesible through the Due South tag.  (Some of these I didn't even remember writing until I found them!)

(In other news, I'm re-reading all my due South stuff.  I might be gearing up for another major fic...either the "The Reaching Out One" sequel (where I deal in depth with Sergeant Pervert from Fraser's Depot days) or the long-hiatused Time Travel Story.  (If anyone would like to be emailed the draft--which is fairly substantial--the price is that you must gush over it and encourage me to continue it.  Unless you read it and think it's crap.))

Anyway, there's "Hunting Season, or Oh Deer" from the episode title challenge,

And Eclipse, parts One and Two, also from the episode title challenge,

Heroes of Chicago, for the rent challenge,

Hatless in Chicago, for the superpower challenge,


On the Seizing of a Low Moment, for the GotR challenge,

Who's got the Button? for the 2008 Amnesty, button challenge,

Another Roadside Attraction, for the Road Sign challenge,

and finally,

There's No Stopping Her, for the  Refusal Challenge.   

After that was Match, and I didn't write for any challenges since then.  I have started something for the Theatrical Challenge--Dief takes part in a sheep-herding trial--but I don't know if I'll finish it in time.)

The Cover, by wihluta .  wihluta Made It.  Whee for Wih!