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I have made a happy vid about a Peggy/Steve/Bucky threesome. Happy, I say, despite the fact that they are only in two scenes together ever. I assert my own reality.

https://vimeo.com/165852009

Having reflected, I would say that this was not only my best con for ages but also the best con the girls have had. Because they are getting older, they were able to attend some panels and enjoyed at least one (the previews of forthcoming movies for kids). Ruby really enjoyed the children’s book reading. She told me ‘I clapped til my hands hurt’.


And they adored the children’s masquerade. I think next year they might be old enough to go to the proper masquerade (gasp!). Pearl went as the Wicked Witch of the West and Ruby was the cutest flying monkey ever.

I am so happy (and amazed) to say that the Gynaecon feminist collective won a Silver Swan. This is a *really* significant award for major contributions to WA fandom, and is an unbelievable honour.
Indeed, my first response is that we have not done enough, I am an imposter, I must do more!
I am so amazed by this award.

Hello –


I feel like the last kid at the school to become aware that there is a cool party going on, but last year was literally the first year I realized what the purpose of Yuletide letters was. I saw them on my LJ feed and I even wrote them *but I did not realise they were aggregated centrally*. I thought people just went looking for the person they were writing for, checking if they had an LJ account and if they had left a message. When I found out last year that there was a central list – after participating for about a decade - I was so excited! I wrote several stocking stuffers!


So, right of the bat, you will realise you are not writing for the brightest or most tech savvy of people. Cough, moving along.


Things I like: people working together as teams! Loyalty! Friends becoming family! People being competent! And communicating vital information to each other in a sensible manner! Also, slash!


I had heaps of trouble deciding on the fandoms I’d like to request this year because I am all about the most obscure pairings of the most tiny fandoms.


First and foremost, I would love pretty much any story around Rosemary Sutcliff’s *Simon*. This is one of her lesser known, non-Roman historical works. It’s set in the 17th century and inspired 13 year old me to try to read about that century. I managed to get a biography of Thomas Cromwell rather than Oliver Cromwell and was rather confused. But I wound up with a doctorate in early 16th century history, so the book had its impact.


It’s classic Sutcliff, with loyal best friends separated by being on opposing sides in the civil war. Yet still loyal! Anything about Simon and Amias’ friendship would please me, from their boyhood days, their time at school, up to post-war slash (or pre-war, or during the war which, after all, went on for a really long time). Other things that would make me happy: I’d like to know more about Zeal-for-the-Lord’s life; what kinds of secrets did Mouse find out with her spying habits; how did they celebrate Christmas when Christmas was outlawed (because of the actual, literal Puritans).


Zombieland is that rarest of jewels – a satisfying zombie apocalypse comedy. I’ve got to say that I really want any fic written in in this fandom to be equally light hearted and happy. No one is to be eaten in a bad way!


I have to admit to really just wanting happy fic in this fandom. I’d like anything about their created family being competent and kicking ass. And I’d be very happy to read smut about Columbus and Wichita, Columbus and Tallahassee or (ideally) both Wichita and Tallahassee sharing Columbus like the little bond-creating, anxiety ridden moppet he is.


Since this is 2015 I think it’s an appropriate time for a whole lot of Back to the Future fic. Here we are! In the future! Though sadly without flying cars or self-zipping shoe laces.


I’d like pretty much anything that focussed on the fact that Doc and Marty (and to a lesser extent Jennifer and Clara) have become cut off from the rest of their timelines. They’ve got different memories to pretty much everybody else. Anything featuring them being a group with special ties would be great.


Also, having just rewatched the movies, they are a lot darker than I remembered. They are played for comedy but the ‘happy’ 1985 that they end up with is the direct result of taking stuff (and people) away from Biff Tannen and giving it to George McFly. Not that I want date-rapist Tannen to get his horribly dystopian Trumpesque happy end, but it is still creepy. So if you wanted to go dark that would be fine.


That’s a lot of information but here is the take away message: Thank you for writing to me. Whatever you give me is fine.

Archive of Our Own name - Emma_Oz

Back to the Future (Movies)
Zombieland (2009)
Simon - Rosemary Sutcliff

I have to rec this story because:

(a) it perfectly captures the tone of pregnancy advice books; and
(b) it so chillingly encompasses the way squibs are discarded in magical society.

Title: An extract from The Witch’s Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Baby Care, by Alarica Rosier. Chapter Nine: What if my Baby is a Squib?

Author: nineveh_uk

http://omniocular.livejournal.com/151520.html

I definitely noticed an improvement in my participation in this con, compared to recent ones. I got to three panels. Next year, perhaps even more!

The girls behaved pretty well (no widdles on the hotel floor). And they definitely enjoyed the dressing up aspects. Ruby is already planning a red dragon costume for next year.

A very productive year, in which I wrote a heap of extremely short, curt fics.

Dwarven crafts by Emma_Oz
Fandoms:The Lord of the Rings
Gimli/Legolas Greenleaf
Words: 386
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The News
Fandoms:Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden
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Team Work
Fandoms:Tomorrow When the War Began
Words; 536
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eXXXementary
Fandoms:Elementary (TV)
Words: 315

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A Woman's Touch
Fandoms:Calamity Jane (1953)
Calamity Jane/Wild Bill Hickok Calamity Jane/Katie Brown
Words: 347

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Domesticity
Fandoms:Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster
Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster

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Adventurers
Fandoms:Tomorrow Series - John Marsden,
Ellie Linton/Homer Yannos
Words: 802

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And there were stars
Fandoms:Jeremiah (TV), Stargate Atlantis
Gen
Words: 2,632

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27th May
Fandoms:Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Nancy Blackett/John Walker
Words: 413

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May Thinks
Fandoms:Pat of Silver Bush Series - L. M. Montgomery
Gen
Words: 199

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Responses
Fandoms:The Lone Gunmen (TV), The X-Files
Yves Adele Harlow Jimmy Bond Kimmy the GeekThreesome - F/M/M

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First of all, check out my own fic, set in Rosemary Sutcliff's *Frontier Wolf*. Heartbeat by Anonymous for Emma_Oz It's short but hot.

I would also recommend these stories:

In the Terminator fandom, Intuition and Ingenuity by Anonymous for stars_inthe_sky. It's about Miles Dyson's son, who gets an odd job interview from some people who are interested in his father. Then someone starts stalking him and his computer gets this weird virus. It is chilling, as the reader knows more than the narrator.

I am also impressed at the way the author brings up the experience of being a young black man with an ambivalent relationship with the Police (who did, after all, shoot his dad).


And I really like Gentle Antidote by Anonymous for Nympha_Alba. It's a Lord Peter Wimsey story, where he meets Harriet Vane because they are soul mates with each other's names written on their skin. The flirting through quotes and literary references is so exactly like Sayers that it is actually hard to remember this is an AU.

I am organised enough to have signed up this year! Not like last year when the sign up came just as I reached the end of my ability to go to medical appointments happily!

1. Ruby is full of beans. The other day she was jumping up and down shouting, ‘I am fit and strong and healthy!’


2. Pearl and Ruby are both currently besotted with the cardboard box doll houses made for them by their Pop. Too cute.

3. I made songvids.