Who the heck do I think I am?

Gakked from dodger_winslow. Because I'm a glutton for punishment feedback.

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, what would you love to see me write? I'm not promising to write any of these (unless something strikes me), but I am curious.

Fannish, original, any pairing or group...

Show is over. Apart from Thursday night (opening night), we were sold out each performance. Yay.

I had a costume failure each performance. Boo.

I got rear-ended on the way to the first performance, too! But not too seriously. It was raining, I was at a light, her brakes locked and she slammed me. Her car was FAR more damaged than mine. My trunk will open and close, though it sticks something fierce now. And she tore the shit out of my "Nimbus" sticker, but since I'll probably only be hanging on to the car for another 6 months or so? Not sure about replacing it / putting in a claim / getting anything fixed.

For the last performance, the props people inexplicably struck costumes that were meant to stay on the stage through intermission. Argh. This led to a moment where I lost my concentration and jumped ahead one line (dummy!) and then I got flustered and blundered into both the tripod (which was holding a device we shall not name) and Lois in quick succession in the dark. I also left my "dance bag" downstairs for the end of the show, but that's less critical.

However. Overall the show was very successful. I believe we made money. People liked it a lot. Yay.

Lo, I am a zombie, however. Thank heavens Thanksgiving is this week and I can a. sleep and b. clean.

Sunday morning I had breakfast with the lovely and awesome kitsune13 over in Back Bay and we talked about HP, SPN, and theatre. And fangirled Henry Jenkins, cause Yo.

All this activity does not mean I neglected fic. Two pieces are off with the betas: "The Big 1-0" - Dean has a little trouble getting Sam a 10th birthday present - and "Five Times...Dean Didn't Get There in the Impala" - a fic that needed a one-sentence tweak to bring into canon compliance thanks to Thursday's SQUEETASTIC episode.

I've decided to participate in the fic exchange over at spn_thur_nights, but I fear I left a rather vague entry. I really need to do a "Master List" post one of these days.

And I posted Monday Meta about Sam's speech in "Fresh Blood" because damn. It gave us great information to play with.

I've also decided I need to learn how to cap for a new mood theme. I really want to post a special mood theme for the wee_chesters community. Any suggestions on how to start this process? Remember I'm a Luddite.

Oh, and I'll be using the hiatus to re-view all seven episodes and update the contact matrix for this season. Heh.

And there will be more fic coming. In addition to the two above, I've got on tap:

BUMP IN THE NIGHT - Dean and Sam learn that there are things to worry about besides ghosts, demons, and witches.

FIVE STATES, FIVE DAYS - "Remember that road trip I went on about eight or nine years ago? While you and Dad were finishing up that banshee thing in Florida?"

FIVE TIMES...DEAN DIDN'T DO WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF HIM - Um...self-explanatory?

THE DATING GAME - Sam discovers that girls are unpredictable.

RESCUE ME - A party doesn't pan out as advertised, and Sam calls Dean to pick him up

EVERY, EVERY MINUTE - Sam tries out for the school play

TEAM SPORTS - Dean and Sam have very different reactions to their gym coaches' attempts to draft them.

UNTITLED - A short scene that arrived full-blown in my head the morning after I'd watched "Fresh Blood": Sam at 4 and Dean at 8, domesticity. At the moment it's just the dialogue I jotted down at 8 in the morning, but has potential to be a little more fleshed out.

There may be another SPN fic in there that I can't think of at the moment (the large folder is at home).

And a non-SPN fic, but I have to finish my short story for the second Bad-Ass Faeries Anthology. Danielle also sent me one to review for consideration.

Now I must eat breakfast lunch before going into three hours of meetings this afternoon. Oy.

Lookit my new spiffy background! It's by elethoniel and it was one of my Treats from fic-or-treat! I have tweaked my LJ layout in honour of its gorgeousness.

I also received icons from her and others:

By elethoniel:



By afrocurl:



By kari_bob:



By doomette:



By meagan868:



and by heartfelt_angel:



There was also fic:

From teffy - A John Drabble

From starxd_sparrow - A Dean Flopsy

and from seedyapartment - A very cute Crowley/Aziraphale Flopsy

And finally, a kind of nifty .mp3 from aliaspiral: "The Raven," read by Christopher Walken

I shall post all the fics I handed out momentarily. Meanwhile, hugs and "No worries" to erin2326, whose hard drive died at just the wrong time to be posting like a madwoman with fics and treats.


ETA - I missed some due to Yahell and its stupid spam filter settings.

From quiet_rebel a little Dean flopsy

and from etakyma, part 3 of a six-part ficlet!

Title: Leapin’ Lizards (3/4)
Author: Gwendolyn Grace (gwendolyngrace)
Rating: PG
Characters: Sam Winchester (age 8), Dean Winchester (age 12), Dr. Sam Beckett, Adm. Al Calavicci, OFC.
Pairings: None
Genre: Gen (Quantum Leap / Supernatural Crossover)
Wordcount: 18,560 give or take
Summary: Happy Birthday, ficwriter1966! This is set sometime within the first year or so of Project Quantum Leap (because the first season of QL is the only one I have on DVD currently!). The Leap Date is July 8, 1991. Dr. Sam Beckett Leaps in to save a life, which is not unusual…what’s unusual is that he’s saving it from an angry spirit.
Author’s Notes: About a month after venturing hardcore into the SPN fandom, I got to reading some fics by ficwriter1966. I have tremendous respect for her interpretations, and shortly after beginning to comment on and friending her journal, she answered some questions about writing for TV and being a published author. She revealed that she wrote two of the Quantum Leap tie-in novels. And thus this idea was spawned. I feel a little like I’m putting my head in the lion’s mouth—only because she knows the QL-verse much better than I! I’ve spent the last few months surfing QL sites, trying to jumpstart my memories of the show, and borrowing my mother’s Season 1 DVD set (Season One feels way short!). At the time I thought it would be easy to get this written before her birthday; boy, did I underestimate the rate of plot bunny attack in this fandom! Also other commitments, getting into a show…etc. But here it is, and it’s dedicated to Carol.
Crossover Note: As with most of my crossovers, if you are minimally familiar with either fandom, you will be able to enjoy the fic without needing too much knowledge of the other fandom used herein.
Researcher’s Note: The July 11 eclipse, Minnewaukan, Devil’s Lake, the reservation, the drainage project, and the National Guard training facility are all real. The MotW is not. I don’t speak Lakota; I cobbled together some vocabulary found online to create the name of the creature.
Disclaimer: Quantum Leap was created by Don Bellisario and is owned by NBC TV. Supernatural was created by Eric Kripke and is owned by WB / CWTV. I was created by a rare act of silliness on my parents’ part and am (entirely) owned by my obsessions.

Chapter Two

( Leapin' Lizards, Chapter Three )

Go on to Chapter Four

Title: Leapin’ Lizards (1/4)
Author: Gwendolyn Grace (gwendolyngrace)
Rating: PG
Characters: Sam Winchester (age 8), Dean Winchester (age 12), Dr. Sam Beckett, Adm. Al Calavicci, OFC.
Pairings: None
Genre: Gen (Quantum Leap / Supernatural Crossover)
Wordcount: 18,560 give or take
Summary: Happy Birthday, ficwriter1966! This is set sometime within the first year or so of Project Quantum Leap (because the first season of QL is the only one I have on DVD currently!). The Leap Date is July 8, 1991. Dr. Sam Beckett Leaps in to save a life, which is not unusual…what’s unusual is that he’s saving it from an angry spirit.
Author’s Notes: About a month after venturing hardcore into the SPN fandom, I got to reading some fics by ficwriter1966. I have tremendous respect for her interpretations, and shortly after beginning to comment on and friending her journal, she answered some questions about writing for TV and being a published author. She revealed that she wrote two of the Quantum Leap tie-in novels. And thus this idea was spawned. I feel a little like I’m putting my head in the lion’s mouth—only because she knows the QL-verse much better than I! I’ve spent the last few months surfing QL sites, trying to jumpstart my memories of the show, and borrowing my mother’s Season 1 DVD set (Season One feels way short!). At the time I thought it would be easy to get this written before her birthday; boy, did I underestimate the rate of plot bunny attack in this fandom! Also other commitments, getting into a show…etc. But here it is, and it’s dedicated to Carol.
Crossover Note: As with most of my crossovers, if you are minimally familiar with either fandom, you will be able to enjoy the fic without needing too much knowledge of the other fandom used herein.
Researcher’s Note: The July 11 eclipse, Minnewaukan, Devil’s Lake, the reservation, the drainage project, and the National Guard training facility are all real. The MotW is not. I don’t speak Lakota; I cobbled together some vocabulary found online to create the name of the creature.
Disclaimer: Quantum Leap was created by Don Bellisario and is owned by NBC TV. Supernatural was created by Eric Kripke and is owned by WB / CWTV. I was created by a rare act of silliness on my parents’ part and am (entirely) owned by my obsessions.

( Leapin' Lizards, Chapter One )

Go on to Chapter Two

Title: Men of Good Fortune
Author: gwendolyngrace
Rating: G
Genre: Gen
Characters: John, Dean
Summary: John reflects on how Dean came to be a living Hoover. Set pre-series, while Sam is at Stanford, with a flashback to wee!Dean.
Wordcount: 554
Author's Notes: The idea for this came to me while I was waiting in an airport recently and had to get dinner there. Wrote it longhand on the plane that evening, and decided it needed no larger context, which is odd, because usually my stuff is longer. However, this is just a little scene out of their lives. Thanks as always to betas relli86 and my own beloved etakyma who pointed out the things that needed clarification. For those of you who can't read my mind.
Disclaimer: Words = Mine. Characters = Theirs.

( Watching Dean attack his plate, it was hard to believe he had started out a picky eater. )

I just finished, and posted, a 26,000-word teen!Chester fic for the spn_boc challenge.

I'm insanely proud of it. Please go read!

It's a Sandman crossover, but you do not need to know anything about Sandman to enjoy it.

A few of the facts:

Title: Harvester of Eyes (6 chapters, complete - internally linked)
Author: gwendolyngrace
Rating: PG-13 for mature situations, language, violence.
Category: Gen
Wordcount: 26,000 (4,100ish per chapter)
Spoilers: Pre-series for Supernatural, post-series for Sandman (so spoilers there) You don't need to be familiar with Sandman!
Summary: Supernatural / Sandman crossover. John gets wind of a hunt that he doesn’t want the boys anywhere near. But taking them far from danger actually puts them in its path, when they stumble into an open doorway to the Dreaming.

Harvester of Eyes, Prologue & Chapter 1: John didn't deal in serial killers, as a rule....

A while back I posted in my LJ with the first three of what have turned out to be a series of thirty little vignettes on Snape. They are all drabbles or double-drabbles (i.e., exactly 100 or 200 words each) and they are my take on the new, canonical Snape we're given in HBP. (SPOILERS for HBP, of course.)

I'm pretty happy with how they came out. The challenge was fun in and of itself, to tell the beginning of his story in drabbles. I have a sneaking suspicion this Snape has more to say, but I want to leave him here for now.

Anyway, enjoy.

Title: Snapeshots
Author: gwendolyngrace
Rating: PG to PG-13
Spoilers: All books
Category: Genfic
Wordcount: 4100
Summary: Portraits of the Death Eater as a young man.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement is intended. Characters belong to JK Rowling.
Archive: Please ask, but generally yes.
Feedback: is my drug of choice.

( Snapeshots )