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It's Not A Secret, I Never Said; It's Not A Lie, You Never Asked (27507 words) by Fox
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio/Stella Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio, Stella Kowalski, Francesca Vecchio
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Established Relationship, Lack of Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Past Relationship(s)
Summary:

You think you know a guy.

Reposting the complete story for folks who might have been, you know. Busy over the weekend. A zisn Pesach, happy Easter, hope your Ramadan fasts are continuing to be meaningful, y’all. This story is nothing to do with any holiday. <3

It's Not A Secret, I Never Said; It's Not A Lie, You Never Asked (25167 words) by Fox
Chapters: 9/10


Chapter 9! If I can manage it, I'll post chapter 10 later today, so we'll be all complete by the weekend.

It's Not A Secret, I Never Said; It's Not A Lie, You Never Asked (19396 words) by Fox
Chapters: 7/10
Fandom: due South


chapter sevennnnn

It's Not A Secret, I Never Said; It's Not A Lie, You Never Asked (14069 words) by Fox
Chapters: 5/10
Fandom: due South


I haven't done a notification each time I've posted a new chapter, but now that I'm back at my desk, here we are. Please continue to enjoy. :-)

That is, "Accessible Archive of Our Own" :-D

AO3 allows both straight and curly quotes. Is there an accessibility-related reason to prefer one or the other?

1. I posted a new fic last night! \o/

2. If you see my kid today, he will almost certainly tell you, and probably more than once, that he is wearing underpants. \o/

I read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child finally this weekend and enjoyed almost all of it very much. ( bit spoilery )

I am knitting things for the baby. I'd say I'm about 3/5 through the thing that generally flies when I bother to work on it, but I finally had the needles and the yarn and the markers in one place and the time to begin working on the second thing, which it turns out takes forever. I have 15 weeks left before the baby comes and I'm already thinking the idea that this blanket will be done on time is laughable.

I've been in a protracted argument at work, apparently, about capitalizing things that aren't proper names. (I'm against it.) Everybody I actually work for is on my side, partly because I'm right and I have no fewer than three style guides to back me up but mostly because I'm the one they pay to know this stuff and the people arguing with me are not. Like I have all these good defenses for doing it my way plus the concept of my letting you get on with what you're an expert in and your letting me do the same. Fun times.

Back to the first point, even before I read Cursed Child (by the way: we're pronouncing that "Cursèd," right? I certainly am. The whole title flows better that way), I was inexplicably back again in a HP place. I have this sort of six-page draft of the beginning of a thing in the HP world I was writing - comprehensively non-canon-compliant now, of course, but it is what it is; the one where Harry ends up with Snape, Bill Weasley ends up with Remus Lupin, Hermione marries a boy she met at university, and Ron's long-term girlfriend is a descendant of the Borgias - where eventually the Weasleys find out what happened to Random, who was between Charlie and Percy, which Bill has known all along but it's a protected secret and he hasn't been able to tell but Remus worked it out and they end up having to tell the family because Reasons. It's been sitting there on my hard drive for at least five it looks like about nine years, with a major overhaul maybe five-ish years ago, and hanging out in a gmail draft since last summer because I don't feel as comfortable having fan stuff on this computer as I've felt at other jobs. Anyway, lately I've been trying to achieve the velocity to get back to it. Maybe soon I will.

So as you may have heard, the Archive of Our Own goes into open beta tomorrow. Here's the blog entry on the subject, in case I am the first person on your flist to be pointing this out. From that very entry:

How do I get an invitation for the Archive?
You can get an invitation in two ways:

• You can add your email address to the invitation queue (opens Saturday 14th November; see world clock for the launch time in your time zone). We'll send out invitations to addresses on the queue on a first-come, first-served basis, depending on how many new accounts we can support at a given time. This way, you won't have to know someone who already has an account in order to have a chance of getting one.
  
• Users who have an account on the Archive will be given a certain number of invitations to hand out to their friends. We know that people like to share the fannish glee and to build their networks on new sites, and we want to give people a chance to do that. Extra invitation codes will be issued to users periodically depending on how many new users the site can manage.

I have one (1) code available to the first known-to-me (for general fannish values of "known"; thanks for that standard, Beth!) person who comments here^[1] asking for it. I may have more in future, or of course the queue is open to all. I am in the (glacial, because hi, have we met?) process of moving (well, co-lodging) my stuff to the Archive, and I am a big fan of it from concept to execution, or as they say soup to nuts. So this is an endorsement and an invitation!

^[1] "here" is defined in this case as this entry on Dreamwidth. I don't normally disable comments on LJ and force comments over on DW, but in this case I'm going to, as I don't want to get into who was first in the unlikely event I'm inundated with requests and the first comment on one side comes later than the first comment on the other side - or the even less likely event that such comments are made simultaneously. So if you want the AO3 invite code, please comment on Dreamwidth, which you can do even without an account (side note: I have plenty of DW invites, too!) using OpenID.

I should point out that my level of hand-wringing over this thing may have led some people to think I was coming out with a magnum opus of some sort. Let me assure you, before you read it and go "All that over this?", that I know this was not the case. It's eleven thousand stupid words. But, but, hardly written a thing in the past who knows how long that wasn't for yuletide. So, you know, I'm a little out of practice.

:-)

Okay, so some months ago, ellen_fremedon made an off-hand remark that got me thinking about crossing over Torchwood and SJA, which may not even technically be a proper crossover, really. This is therefore all her fault. It has been jossed twice (by Exit Wounds and Stolen Earth/Journey's End) and fixed, and I'm not dragging my feet any longer lest it be jossed again by SJA S2.

With thanks to the above ellen_fremedon, and also sanj and dsudis. Further mistakes are my own, etc. I am not now, nor have I ever been, Russell T. Davies.

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@11,100 words; adult
Torchwood/The Sarah Jane Adventures
"We do have our moments."

( Ianto tapped his earpiece. )

Part 2/2

So, the Torchwood fic is 9/10 really and truly done. I'm going through it with a fine-toothed comb, and after that it's just slapping a title on the sucker. The question, then, is when to post it.

A number of years ago, bethbethbeth told me she'd worked out that the best time to post fic was Monday through Thursday, about 4pm Eastern (1pm Pacific, 9pm in London ... 6am in Sydney, which I admit is a little less wonderful, but why don't we call it "first thing in the morning"). Careful scrutiny showed that this was sheer genius: the east coast would be about to head home (or else they'd see it when they got there), the west coast would still be on their lunch break, Europe wouldn't have gone to bed quite yet, and Australia would soon be up the next morning but possibly not yet on the way to work, and who else is there? other time zones with likely audiences (Central and Mountain, mainly, although of course there are others) are near enough to one of these that you'd stand a good chance of catching them too. bethbethbeth is brilliant. 4pm it is.

But whether to post today, or to wait until next week when everyone is back from Vividcon, that's really the question. (Or to say screw VVC and post tomorrow or, even more foolishly, Thursday or over the weekend, or next Monday, when everyone will still be traveling and decompressing and so on.) I don't have time before this meeting to create a poll -- actually I'm already late -- so, votes and thoughts in the comments, please! :-D

I was stuck mid-draft for several days when my Jack Harkness voice was eluding me.

Now I've got that back, and I'm running into a wall trying to write a conversation between Ianto and Sarah Jane.

My life is so hard.  :-P