Wishes come true, not free

I'm struggling like hell with my story this year. I did last year too, and, hell the year before that. This is a trend that sucks, and can see itself out the same way it came in.

In other news, I'm mad at SHIELD (which is part of my problem with my NaNo, actually), and am prepared to fall in love with The Witches of East End based on the pilot alone.

So far this season The Voice is the best TV I'm watching, what is my life.

I don't even watch television.

I demand the fic where Natasha is in Korea during the war and ends up at a M*A*S*H unit. I'd like to see her meeting the Other Hawkeye.

Someone should write me that.

I'm stealing this idea more or less wholesale from lar_laughs.

I'm going to send out holiday cards this year. If you would like to receive a card from me, drop a note in the in the comments (all comments are screened, but if you're more comfortable feel free to drop me a PM.)

ALSO -- if you would like a short ficlet/drabble-thing in your card, please reply with one of the following fandoms. I promise you something unique and holiday themed. (Notice that I am not also promising you quality.)

Fandoms on offer include: Harry Potter, Marvel Avengers Cinematic Universe, and Lord of the Rings. (I thought about also offering Firefly and NCIS, but I'm not sure I'd do either justice.)

A meme! Gacked from damn near everybody.

Name a fandom and I'll tell you which character I most likely:

Want as my mentor:
Bake cupcakes for:
Lend my books to:
Put thumbtacks on the chair thereof:
Have a crush on:
Pack up and leave if they moved next door:
Vote for President:
Pick as my partner in a buddy movie:
Marry:
Want as my boss:
Sue:
Want as my best friend:

Gacked from all of the places...

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious but you have no idea about, or something obscure you just have to know. Ask away. All topics, within reason, are open for discussion.

If something is too personal, I reserve the right to vague my answer up or straight-out not answer. But you'll never know what I'm willing to say with the anonymity of being on-line if you don't ask!

Title: Can't Get Warm
Author: kadollan
Disclaimer: This work is a piece of fan-fiction that is intended for entertainment purposes only. James "Bucky" Barnes and Steve Rogers are owned by any number of people who are not me.
Primary Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes and Steve Rogers
Rating: Teen
Type: Gen
Warnings: Cold, Feels, Major Character Death (or not)
Word Count: 1358
Summary: Bucky wakes up cold on a table in a German camp, and he can't get warm.

Events in Captain America: The First Avenger from Bucky's POV.

Notes:

As always, many thanks are due to my dear betas, cybermathwitch and jessofthebugs. Thank you darlings! Any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own.

I've had a lot of feelings about Bucky Barnes ever since I first saw Captain America.

Before, Bucky always saw himself as Steve’s protector.

(Also on AO3)

I'm worried that I've lost my mojo. Such as it was.

I'm doing NaNo in two weeks and I haven't the least clue what I'm writing. I asked for prompts two weeks ago and my brain just freezes up whenever I go to write one.

WTF is the matter with me?

MOJO WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?!

(I apparently have not lost the ability to be melodramatic.)

GRRR.

Okay, anyway, right now I have two major contenders for my NaNo novel.

Option #1 is an idea I first came up with in 2010, I think. To wit: Harry Potter Post Epilogue (Next Gen) story. James has cast a spell that prohibits Lily from dating until after Albus does (ala 10 Things I Hate About You/Taming of the Shrew). James thinks he's terribly clever because he knows Albus is too shy to date. Lily actually IS very clever, and knows that Albus isn't just shy -- he is also in love with his best friend Scorpius. I initially thought that this story would be from Albus' POV (as is traditional in the other versions, where Albus = Kate)... but this is totally Lily's story.

OBSTACLES: I need the boy that Lily wants to date. He needs to be an OC, and worthy of our girl. Also, I'm in the middle of a different Lily-centric story, and I want to not cross my streams (neither of these are really obstacles. I'm such a whiner).

Option #2: Avengers fandom. I talked about this a little bit when I wrote my Steve Rogers character study. Steve/Bucky. Steve and Bucky never got together before the war -- there was some interest from both parties, but neither of them realized that the other one would be open to the idea, so unrequited UST of a fairly sweet nature. Then Bucky ships out, and gets captured and Steve changes before they find each other again. In the months that they are raiding together as Howling Commandoes they very nearly have a Moment, but end up having a fight instead. Then Bucky dies. Then Steve dies. And that's really where my story would start. (The story would be mostly in the "now" of story time, modern day after the Winter Soldier is found. The rest is told as flashbacks and memories.)

So, tell me Oh Wise Flist -- which should I write? Please to cast your votes in the comments (preferably with a word or two saying why you'd suggest one over the other). Please bear in mind that I have to date written only about 1500 words of Avengers fic. I've done 4 NaNoWriMos worth of Harry Potter fic (plus some). One could argue that fact in favor of either option above, depending on which way it was spun.

Well, look who is actually catching up on her backlog of memes? I've done a couple more character studies, and an un-betaed drabble (you wouldn't think that it would take a month to write 120 words.)

I kind of figure that if I don't get it together and actually answer my memes and prompt requests, no one will play with me anymore. I lack credibility. :\

In real life news, I'm hosting a baby shower this weekend for one of my besties. I need to get my house clean, decorate, go to the grocery store, make food and (oh yeah) get her a present. The party is on Saturday, and I hope that she enjoys it. I'm avoiding most of the more kitschy sweetie-poo aspects of the traditional baby shower. She's not a particularly girly-girl, and I'm pretty sure she'd punch me if I suggested we play "guess how big mama's tummy is."

And rightfully so.

Anyway, look for continued updates on the character studies and drabbles (not that anyone but me still cares at this point.)

And also look for a fair among of hand-wringing about NaNoWriMo. I'm still not sure what I'll be writing. At this point it's a toss up between a Harry Potter post-Epilogue story, finishing my Neville story (which is what I thought I'd settled on, but apparently not), or doing something Avengers related.

It's that "something" part that has me worried.

I'm feeling itchy to start writing again, but nothing sounds like what I want to write. It's like I have literary constipation.

(Is that too much? That was too much, wasn't it?)

Anyway!

I'm asking for drabble prompts! Drop me a prompt in the comments and I will do my best to write you something that we will be somewhere between 100 and... more than 100 words.

I'll accept Harry Potter and Avengers fandoms for sure. You're welcome to prompt for another fandom, but I make no promises as to the results.

So, remember that post I made last week about how I'm slow and I'm still working on that meme?

Yeah, so I'm still slow. And still working on that meme.

I spent Labor Day weekend cuddled up on the couch with my kids watching Alton Brown and knitting. That's pretty much the life right there. My eleven year old son is a major Alton Brown fanboy -- he loves the science in Good Eats as well as the general level of wackiness. I got him to help me make no-bake cookies on Monday.

And a good time was had by all.