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I wrote a little thing, as a treat for myself since I've been writing so many Big Things.

Title: An Understanding
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation; Vorkosigan Saga
Wordcount: 1200
Rating: PG
Characters: Lwaxana Troi, Alys Vorpatril, Deanna Troi, Ivan Vorpatril
Summary: Two kindred spirits meet at the Barrayaran Embassy on Betazed. (No big spoilers for either canon.)

An Understanding (on AO3)

( Well, everyone else is doing it and I love rambling about myself... )

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Leeds United - Amanda Palmer

Festivids was really exciting this year! I got not one but two vids, both of them fabulous, and both of them by the awesome Nancy Blackett.

This absolutely perfect and wonderful dinnerladies vid, and this cute and fun and fabulous Nyssa vid.

I made a MASH vid, which was quite a challenge because it's a big canon and I'm not as familiar with it as I used to be, but I worked hard on it and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. It's here. I may make a proper vid post for it at some point.

Fandom Stocking was lots of fun too! I got an adorable Ace/Mel drabble, a delightful Team Crawley Sisters ficlet, fabulous Cybill icons, and cute beautiful happy-making DS9 fic that makes my pupils turn into little hearts! (Cleo and others still watching, don't click, may be spoilery!) Plus lots of nice good wishes! :D

I wrote eight ficlets in Deep Space Nine, Next Gen, Doctor Who, Vorkosigan Saga, Downton Abbey and SJA, and they're here.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: On My Radio - The Selecter

Song: I Am What I Am, Linda Eder
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters: Lwaxana Troi
Length: 3.05
Size: 66 Mb
Download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/378d3j
Warnings: None

Current Mood: cheerful

( A Rundown of Fic from 2011 )

I also wrote some thoughtful stuff here about vidding and how I didn't do that much but I felt I'd learned a lot from watching other people's vids in the last year and I'm excited to apply it all and vid lots in 2012, but LiveJournal nommed it. Hmph.

Current Mood: aggravated

Since I'm supposed to be spending this time doing aaaaall the things, here is a procrastinatory post! I just wanted to rec a few of my favourite fandom things from 2011 - bearing in mind that I will probably forget a lot of things and the list will be weighted in favour of the last few months, but yes, anyway, here is some awesome stuff that I liked this year!

Fic:

Sanity Will Be Graded on a Curve (M*A*S*H) - BlueMorpho - I don't read a lot of M*A*S*H fic these days, but this wowed me. I suspect it's probably still quite interesting even if you don't know the show, but it especially is if you do!

I Get That Line All the Time (Star Trek) - Thistlerose - OK, so, this one's cheating a bit because it's a remix of my own fic, but I love the way Thistlerose took the brief scenario I'd written - Uhura and Lily Sloane meeting - and ramped the awesome up to eleven.

Mutual Attraction (Star Trek) - Oparu - I. Just. Lwaxana Troi. And Kate Pulaski. This story makes me ridiculously happy.

Theoretical Principles (Star Trek) - sophiegrace - This story not only has one of my favourite pairings (Seven/B'Elanna), in it they work exactly the way I see them working - they're funny and snarky and hot and adorable.

Before I Go (Star Trek) - carawj - Yeah, I know she's my girlfriend but Cara writes awesome fic. Doctors! Worf impressions! Enjoyable drunkenness! :D

Vids:

Born Too Late (ST: DS9) - Bironic - This vid is the soundtrack to my life right now. It is absolute perfection when it comes to the folk of DS9 being adventurey and teamy and wonderful.

If You're the Captain (ST:VOY) - thingswithwings - I giggle every time I watch this because it so perfectly explains the way Captain Janeway and her crew work.

Suddenly I See (Firefly) - purplefringe - This is just a ridiculously lovable and joyful and sweet Inara/Kaylee vid and it makes me smiiiiile.

Suzanne (Doctor Who) - such_heights - Of all the flurry of Doctor/TARDIS stuff that came out this year, this for me is the one that feels the most true. It's the perfect mixture of wistful and loving and delighted.

Christmas in the Delta Quadrant (ST: VOY) - touchdownpossum - This is just super-cracktastic, awesome Christmas fun!

So, I've been thinking about Deanna's accent. How it starts out with this cool Eastern-European-y vibe, and then by the end of the series it's this sort of American-ish thing. Sometimes it's even hard to imagine early-Deanna saying the things that late-Deanna says. And I think I've figured out why.

As a child of two cultures, Deanna could well have been raised bilingual, learning English from her father and a Betazoid language from her mother. When it sounds to viewers as though she has an unusual accent, that's when she's speaking English, but with a Betazoid accent since she's lived there for so long and was very young when she stopped having regular contact with English-speaking relatives.

At some point, for some reason, Deanna decides to stop speaking English and speak Betazoid, letting the Universal Translator do the work for her. This sounds to viewers as though she's speaking in a fairly neutral accent, similar to what the UT normally provides. She's also speaking a little more freely and easily, and is happier to use colloquialisms.

This could even explain Lwaxana's comment that Deanna's accent sounds like her father - Lwaxana is presumably speaking Betazoid all the time, so to her ears Deanna's accent sounds different than it does to anyone else.

Anyway, that's what I've been pondering, on this day when I have a million more important things to be getting on with...

Current Mood: busy

Song: Secret Agent, Melissa Etheridge
Fandom: Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT)
Characters: All the ladies!
Length: 3.34
Size: 22.5 Mb
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=54U69L5D
Notes: This was my premiere for

vidukon this weekend.

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Current Mood: accomplished

Song: Lullabye, by Vienna Teng
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Characters: Ensemble, various child characters
Length: 3.01
Size: 17.49 Mb
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E4C9B9QZ
Spoilers: Nothing significant
Notes: This was made for

bironic, for

festivids, for the prompt all the kids who've encountered the crew and were rescued or held their hands or saved the day or were pen pals or being babysat or what have you
Warnings: A little flashing near the beginning

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Song: I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek 2009
Characters: Women of Star Trek
Length: 3.03
Size: 18.49 Mb
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R7XK4FD5 (let me know if it expires!)
Spoilers: Nothing significant

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- Reply to this post with the word ICONS! and I will pick six of your icons
- Make a post (including this info) and talk about the icons I chose
- Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts
- This will create a never ending cycle of icon glee

( My icons )

Also, on a related note, I still haven't run out of icon space. I have yet to find my perfect Kira squee/happy-face icon, I want more Cagney and Lacey ones, Doctor Quinn ones and maybe some travelling ones or literature ones. The search continues.

I'm so pleased with how the Day of not-Classic Trek went! Loads of people took part and some really awesome stuff got posted.

If anyone hasn't yet checked out

eponymous_rose's Introduction to DS9, you totally should. Even if you're familiar with the show already, it's a really fun read. And if you're not familiar with the show, you should get familiar with it, particularly if you're looking for something to fill a BSG-shaped hole in your life, but with slightly more dressing up and wacky hijinks.

Also terrific is this story about Naomi Wildman by

carawj. I'm not even just saying that because she bought me flowers last week, it's genuinely awesome. ;)

There were some great icons posted, too, like these ones and these ones and these ones. Not to mention essays, femslash for Enterprise and Deep Space Nine, a drabble, a picspam and a clipspam.

And that's not even all of the cool stuff that got posted! If anyone missed it and still wants to go back and see, the post is here.

Song: The Way I Am, by Ingrid Michaelson
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Characters: Kate Pulaski, Deanna Troi
Length: 1.51
Size: 11.86 Mb
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75FFPF2E
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None

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1. FYI, Deanna does not actually crash the ship in Star Trek: Generations. She does a very good job of flying the ship in the middle of a battle, and by the time it starts crashing she’s lost helm control and Data is the one who eventually gets control of the thrusters. Also in this movie she wears sailor drag and is all perceptive and in charge of things. Why have I not seen this more times?
2. I am TIRED.
3. Remember Kerry Weaver on ER? Wasn’t she AWESOME?!
4. One of my Christmas presents was a cookie jar in the shape of a certain Doctor Who character. Now when people come over and want biscuits we ‘fetch the Davros’. This tickles me.
5. On a similar note, used our lovely new teapot from

bunnyvon for the first time the other night, to much acclaim.
6. Strategies for passing time at work becoming sillier. This morning M and I chose new names for everyone in the office.
7. I have new glasses! They are red. I am told they make me look like a crime-fighting librarian.
8. These new headphones are not as good as my old ones. My old ones are, ALAS, broken.
9. I want January to end soon, please.
10. There is nobody in the world like

carawj. She is incredible and I love her WAY MUCH. I know this is soppy but I don’t care, the world should know how amazing she is.

So, we're still on our massive Star Trek kick. We watched Phantasms yesterday, and I really enjoyed it, it's always been one of my favourite episodes. What really gets me about it is Deanna at the end - like, for serious, she just got stabbed a bunch by her friend (ok, so he was in an altered mental state and not responsible for his actions, but still), and it was clearly really traumatic, so at the end of the story she bakes him a cake, and takes it round to his place, along with a big fucking knife that looks just like the one he stabbed her with?!?! I mean, that woman has some serious self-control, I wouldn't be going near him after that.

I also love that she actually is cake earlier in the episode, and Riker's weird moment of being oddly Irish, and Picard trying to get out of going to the banquet. And having his head turned by a pretty ensign. Fun fun fun.

In other news,

carawj and I have tickets to see Bonnie Langford in Chicago, oh hells to the yes!!! Rather excited! Very much looking forward to having over a week off work. It snowed here loads but it's already turned into gross slush. Hmm.