Maru's Mun Journal

I wrote a Milliways fic about Hannibal playing chess with Dracula and remembering his first visist to Paris that is pertinent to all the things, among them the de-aging plot that started in Milliways tonight.

It contains headcanon which is just an open invitation to be Jossed, but never mind...

Spontaneously, an idea fell into my brain, and I picked it up and wrote it:


Ignominiously Incognito Among Ignorants

X-Men, post X-3, past Erik/Charles

After losing both his powers and Charles, Erik Lehnsherr is condemned to go on living as a nobody.

I wrote (and finally posted) more Avengers fanfic:

I put up the third chapter of 'Bag Of Cats', my Loki/Tony fanfic, and yesterday, I spontaneously wrote a sequel to my spontaneous Darcy/Loki fanfic 'All English', entitled 'Blue Monsters'. It comes with special acknowledgements to ashen_key and innerbrat for valuable inspiration.-

I'd brought my Yakalskovich twitter account live* in order to follow the AO3 updates and to participate in the Friday twitfic challenge that some of the Milliwaysers have been doing. As an afterthought, I followed the usual B-list celeb fandom gods: Stephen Fry, Wil Wheaton, Tom Hiddleston, Neil Gaiman, Misha Collins.*

They are amusing, of course, and it's fun to see how they work their reach. This is how it goes. It can't be faked, really. You have to be the real thing for that kind of attention. All marketers (including my future job, which is part of why I'm suddenly so interested in twitter) will just be regarded as noise.

But the real point is connecting to my online friends and the Milliwaysers in general via this interesting semi-fleeting near-realtime medium, and part of this is #FicFriday, in which I took part for the first time yesterday.

( Prompts and fics )

And I spontaneously ran the DE yesterday (not a twitter thing, though, but a Friday thing, for me), and it was rather lively. Things seemed to come from it. People were having plot ideas for their charries through that. Note to self: repeat once a quarter or so. Also, now that 'Fremdschämen' succeeded, I'm going to try and export the word 'Kummerkasten' next.


*If you have a twitter account and would like to connect with me, leave me a comment!
**Isn't there a woman of that status? Why are all these blokes? Why are four of the five Brits? So many QUESTIONS!!

The second chapter of my Avenger fanfic ‘Bag Of Cats’ is now online at AO3. This time, we’re looking at the plot unfolding from an entirely different pair of eyes.

Which fall into the eponymous bag of cats, metaphorically speaking: - hook, line, and sinker…

I put most of my fic backlog on AO3 just now, right from back in the 90s, thus rescuing it all from the Pit of Voles where it was languishing uselessly.

I'm yakalskovich there as well.

Poor AO3 is all put out at the moment, though.-

ETA: OMG, they are piling into 'Mastery', compared to the other ones. It is very odd for one's ego to be able to see the hits. But really, why do they all want to be hammered over the head with a large clumsy Aesop??

I finally took a deep breath and started a Fat Acceptance blog in German.

I already got referrers from Twitter. Let's see where this leads...

Special thanks to saphyria for the user name I am using over there...

They accepted my submission -- yay!

It really pisses me off that putting up an advertisement like this is still thought a) acceptable and b) funny. The post I link vigorously protests against it, but an ad agency came up with the bullshit, that organisation is paying for it, and thousands of people are probably finding it funny, not only thin people, and people that 'successfully' fight their own body to stay thin, but fat people of varying degree as well, because they of course (almost) all internalised that they shouldn't be what they are, and all ridicule heaped on them is their own fault.

I have left that building a while ago, and never really looked back.

( Where did I go? )

( What did I learn? )

( Where am I now? )

I feel good and ethical: I just wrote an article on Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov for the Wikipedia.


Now I half expect a gaggle of enraged royalists, historians, and others with a vested interest to roll over it and tear it to bits. Unless it's so not interesting  to the public any more that nobody bothers. Quite possible, what with the take general history has on poor Dmitri....

Of course I did it because I disliked the Dmitri-less state of the Wikipedia (there were actually red links with his name, calling for someone to write an article), but that is why anybody does anything in Open Source, after all.

And thanks to schiarire, a discussion with whom spurred my impulse to do it!