Otter's Rock

A listing of all my fic.  My personal favorites are marked with asterisks.





Crossovers:
*    Parallels.  Babylon 5/Star Trek: Deep Space 9.  “Surely you’ve heard enough stories of glorious triumphs to recognize the pattern.  And to know of the horrors you don’t see on the surface.”  Vir on Minbar, before Sic Transit Vir.
     An Apocalypse in Metropolis.  BtVS/Superman Returns.  Faith, Andrew, and a newbie Slayer get sent to Metropolis when the Council's seers predict an apocalypse.
     White House Slayer.  BtVS/West Wing.  "Chosen" has repurcussions for Donnatella Moss.
     What She Wants.  BtVS/Atlantis.  Faith gets what she wants, and she wants McKay.
*    Witching Hour (the Oops Remix).  A find-your-soulmate spell goes wrong (just prior to Lover's Walk, during the whole "clothes fluke" thing).
     Reboot: the Chase.  Star Trek: the Next Generation/Stargate: Atlantis. 
     Stranded.  (Drabble)  BtVS/HP.
     1969.  (Drabble) BtVS/SG-1.
     A Quick Snatch and Grab.  (Drabble) BtVS/Atlantis.
     Reflexes.  (Drabble) BtVS/Atlantis.

Stargate: SG-1:
     Settling In.  What was it like for Jacob, in the early days?
     Do Not a Prison Make.  Her mind had been a trap for too long. Sarah, after Osiris.
     In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (the Neighbors Remix).  What Jack fights for.  Post-season 8.
*   Pale Battalions.  Teal'c goes home after a glorious battle in Apophis' name.
     Consequences.  Broca AU.  It's sequel is New Lives.

Stargate: Atlantis:
     Arrows.  A mission gone wrong.  John/Teyla.
     Smooth.  Mensa-verse AU.  What Rod didn't notice at the time.
*    Adrift.  Misbegotten missing scene.  To fly a Wraith hive ship, you must be a Wraith.
     Scribbles.  What Kaleb Miller thinks about his wife's math and the events of McKay and Mrs. Miller. Note that Jeannie is the one who calls it 'scribbles.'

Batman Begins:
     Legacy.  After the funeral of Thomas and Martha Wayne, Alfred and Lucius have a quiet talk.
     A Night at the Manor.  Black-tie parties aren't really Jim Gordon's thing.

Battlestar Galactica:
*   Four Times Saul Tigh needed a drink (and one time he didn't).  Spoilers for Crossroads Part II
     Alone in the Silence.  Post-Resurrection Ship 2.  Lee Adama is a Cylon.

Buffy: the Vampire Slayer:
*    What a Father Is (the DNA Remix).  "I realize you’ve a dearth of male role models in your life, but a father is more than just an older man who happens to be around or who just happened to supply half your DNA." What the monks didn't tell about Dawn.

Star Wars:
*   Lessons Learned.  Anakin and Obi-Wan.  Third birthdays, in the temple creche and a slave ship.

Honor Harrington:
     A Picture of Happiness.  Honor and Paul visit home. Missing scene from Field of Dishonor.

Terminator:
     the end of the world as we know it.  Post-Terminator 3.  Their first night in the bunker, having to learn about each other.

I've been a member of fandom for over ten years now (and boy, it sure doesn't feel like it's been that long). Over the years, there have been numerous wanks, flame wars, kerfluffles, fails, etc., etc., on a wide variety of subjects, some of which seem to consume the entire online fandom, not just bits and pieces of it. Currently, the issue is warnings. A few months ago, it was race. I usually try to stay fray-adjacent, even when it's an issue I care deeply about. (I really don't like conflict, and fandom is my safe space away from conflict, among other things.) Over the years I've noticed some patterns that I think will be useful to more people than myself.

( First, while people come to fandom for various reasons, they stay because fandom is a safe space for them. )

( Second, every major fail or wank I've ever seen was caused by one basic thing: a failure to recognize when you're stepping on other peoples' issues when those issues are opposing, compounded by a failure of basic courtesy. )

( Let's take the current warnings argument as an example. )

( How to make fandom safe/unsafe )

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So, this is weird. I always have lots of angst about remixes, and it's usually because I can't find a story I can remix (I always do, it just takes me a while to find an angle). This year, it's been because my June was filled up with ficathons, and I knew I wouldn't have time to start looking at my remixee until July, which would be cutting it really close. So, June ficathons turned in, I turned to my remixees ficlist. And found a list of ten fics I could remix no problem, and four I really wanted to. And now I'm half done with the one I chose, and wondering if maybe I can do two remixes this year, because I've got some cool ideas I'd love to use. And I'm wondering wtf this is all about, because seriously--I'm never this far along at this point.

( In other news, I've decided that Question by the Moody Blues would be a perfect song for a Doctor and Jack Harkness fanvid. )

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Title: Unwilling Oracle
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandoms: Farscape/Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Characters: John Crichton, Kira Nerys
Word Count: 1869
Written For: Multiverse 2009 (multiverse5000), June 25
Summary: John Crichton has wormholes in his head. On Bajor, this makes him an oracle whether he wants it or not.
AN: I don't think I really did this prompt justice, not least because I had problems writing Crichton's voice. I would love to see what someone else could do with it.

( She’d worked with the Emissary for seven years; she could handle this. )

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So I'm home for the summer, right? Grad school, not college. Our washing machine broke and a tech came out to fix it. Parts will have to be ordered, so he'll have to come back tomorrow. Mom and Dad will not be home tomorrow, but I will. Tech guy says "I don't like being alone with minors."

I'm closer to thirty than twenty.

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So, I've been saying since the movie came out that if you want to understand Vulcans, you need to read Spock's World. And people have been replying that the books aren't canon, and I've been replying that Spock's World may not be technically canon but it's been influential for generations of fans and showrunners, but I lost the link to the main article (for reboot purposes) that mentions that, but it was sent to me again. Kurtzman and Orci consider the novels to be canon, particularly Spock's World and Best Destiny, both of which were very influential on them.

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I majored in history in college, so preserving history is important to me. But fandom's history is pretty much ignored by people outside of fandom, and even within fandom it's often forgotten in the continual waves of newbies as fandoms are born, grow, change, and decline. So it's awesome to me that OTW and the University of Iowa are working together to preserve fan cultural history. Right now it looks like they're primarily interested in 'zines and/or con programs; if you've got some you're willing to donate, please contact them and see if it's something they can use. I'm sure if you've got something else particularly interesting related to the fan experience, they'd love to know about it. (Note that we're not talking signed cast photos and things like that; people tend to keep those things, and there are lots of them, and they're official merchandise. OTW wants things fans do and create.)

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This is an awesome vid by Rob P Rocks.



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You've probably heard that Geocities will be closing down its service later this year.  While some geocities sites will probably be making the move, a lot will simply be lost, and if you're like me you'll want to save copies of your favorite stories/pages/whatever.  If you're like me, this is a major task because you have a lot of bookmarks and can't remember off the top of your head which ones might be geocities.  (I have 1249 bookmarks on Delicious.)  And while you can sort by tag on delicious, I couldn't find any way to sort by address.

In the top left corner of Delicious, right under your name if you're logged in, are three little icons.  They're easy to miss.  They consist of one, two, and three stacked horizontal bars.  These control how much information you see for each bookmark.  The default is the middle icon, with two horizontal bars.  If you click on the right one, with three horizontal bars, you will get more information for each bookmark, including the url, and then you can use your browsers search function to find "geocities" on that page.  But you still have to go through each page one at a time.

If you have Firefox, the process is easier.  Bookmarks--Organize Bookmarks or ctrl-shift-b brings up Organize Bookmarks, and then you type "geocities" into the search box in the top right corner and it brings up all the webistes with geocities that you have bookmarked in Firefox.

Yeah, sure, these are both pretty simple, but for someone not necessarily tech-smart, I was pleased to figure out a way to do it without having to ask.

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Title: Unreal Things
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandoms: Battlestar Galactica/Stargate: SG-1
Spoiler Warning: BSG in its entirety
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Ellen Tigh
Written for: multiverse 2009, June 17
Original Prompt: Battlestar Galactica/Stargate Universe: BSG's Daniel turns out to be Daniel Jackson.
Word Count: 2312
Summary: Daniel knew what his mother looked like. He’d seen her in pictures. He saw her die. But he didn’t see her in his dreams.
Rating: PG

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The treknovelfest is now taking prompts.  Do you love the Star Trek novels?  Ever want to know what happened to your favorite OC's?  Want to know what happened after the adventure is over?  Want to know what happened differently in the Reboot universe?  Now's your chance!  They're currently taking prompts.  You do not need to volunteer to write a story to submit a prompt.

Looking at what's already been suggested, I'm really excited!

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I need a beta for a short (~2k) piece about life in the future shown in the series finale.  Any takers?

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I don't go into any ficathon with my heart set on receiving one particular thing. I do ficathons because I like writing things I otherwise wouldn't. This is particularly true of remixes, where I've already written the stories I want. I mean, this isn't about what I want them to be or how I'd like to see them; if I wanted that, I could re-write them myself. This is about what you, the remixer, see in them. I don't want to read my story again. I want to read your story. So go wild. Have fun. Take something that's here and make it your own. Don't worry about what I might want to see. All I ask is that you treat the characters with respect. (I.e. no bashing.)
BTW, if if helps, I have three more stories that will be written and posted by the end of the month. One post-finale T:tSCC and two crossovers (SG-1/BSG and DS9/FS). This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/136132.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Day before yesterday, I was making dinner--chicken rice bake, easy recipe, tastes great.  It calls for a can of cream of mushroom soup, and one of cream of chicken.  You know those pop-tab lids Campbells has gone to the last couple of years to make them "easy to open"?  And are approximately ten times harder to open that just using a simple can opener?  Yeah.  I sliced my finger open when that sucker finally came off.  It bled a lot, but I got a band-aid on it and didn't think much about it.

This morning I took the band-aid off, and decided I needed to see the doctor.

Definitely should have been stitched.  (It's bigger than I thought it was.  There was too much blood to see the cut clearly.  Looking back, maybe that should have been a clue.  Possibly.)  It's deep.  It'll take a long time to heal.  Because of where it's located, if I move the finger too much it's likely to come open, so I'm not to move the finger.  Nor do anything that might get it dirty.  So no yardwork or washing pots by hand for the next few weeks unless I can do it one-handed.  (Did I mention that my "rent" for living at home over the summer is a certain number of hours of yardwork per month?)

Oh, and if that's not enough, the reason the tip of that finger feels slightly odd is that I probably cut through a few of the surface nerves.  But I still have full range of motion and feeling (it feels weird, but I can feel), so it's probably very slight nerve damage which will heal. 

From opening a %$&! can of soup.

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Title: No Place Like Home
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandoms: DCUniverse/Star Trek.
Word Count: 2,346
Written For: Multiverse 2009 multiverse5000, June 11
Prompt: Kal-El, Amanda Rogers—Stop me if you've heard this before: an alien child with superpowers turns up in Kansas as an orphan, and is raised by humans until learning of their true nature as an adolescent...
AN: In the course of writing this, I realized that another DC/Star Trek crossover that absolutely cries out to be made is Q and Mr. Mxyzptlk. Please tell me that this has been done somewhere.

( The first time Clark Kent met Amanda Rogers, he didn’t pay much attention. )

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Check out treknovelfest modded by nestra and ellen_fremedon!  There are so many great characters and plots in the novels, and they simply don't get enough fannish attention.  I'm really looking forward to it.

If you want to participate but don't have a DWJ, fear not--registering an OpenID at DW will allow you to not only comment, but use that OpenID to post to the community.  Or if you want a DW of your very own you could try and get an invite code (try googling) or pay the $3 for one month of paid DW time, and let it lapse to a free account after the first month.
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So, I didn't post anything about/during Racefail '09 because I'm pretty much generic whitebread middle-class American and had nothing to say on the subject that other people weren't saying far more eloquently and didn't want to add to the signal/noise ratio. Also because I'm lazy and don't like conflict.

But you know what? Racism and productive/constructive ways to deal with it and (as much as possible) prevent it are ordinary, everyday situations that should be thought about constantly, not just whenever it happens to blow up. That way, hopefully, we can make things better instead of worse. I still don't have much to say on the subject that others haven't said better, but I do have a rec: Go read the Spock/Uhura Racefail Prevention Post. It's concise, it's positive, and it's got good advice for how to talk and think about issues of race particularly in the fannish realm but also in general.  With links you can follow which lead to lots of other places where racism in life and in fandom are discussed in helpful ways.

For those of you who don't know, in the new Star Trek movie Spock and Uhura (a character of color) have a romantic relationship. This has led to a whole lot of fiction and fan attention for Uhura and to the creation of a community dedicated to the pairing. Within two months of its creation, spock_uhura has had at least one major incident of racefail.  The mods then publicly apologized on behalf of the community to the person who'd gotten attacked, put together a post on how to prevent such things from happening again (and then on how to respond appropriately when they inevitably do), and generally serve as an example of how to be responsible human beings.

I swear.  If the anti-racism training they'd given us in school had been even 1/4 as sane and reasonable and reality-based as the stuff you can learn through fandom ...</user> This entry was originally posted at http://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/134942.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

So, we've got an exchange student from Taiwan living with us for the summer to work on her English before starting school in the fall.  She's got classes this summer, plus living with an English speaking family (us).  Last two weeks, she's been often saying she was sick and staying home from school.  This is suspicious since we haven't seen any symptoms except a runny nose and sleeping a lot.

What's probably been happening: she's been staying up all night IMing her friends back home, and sleeping during the daytime.  So now, not only does her computer stay out in the living room, but I'm going to be disabling wireless in the house when I go to bed.

Mom chose not to directly tell her we know she's almost certainly been lying and staying up late IMing, but she's not stupid.  Nor was she happy about having to leave her computer out in the living room, and she wasn't getting ready for bed when Mom knocked on her door at bedtime, so she may be thinking of coming out here after the household is asleep.  Hence disabling wireless.  But she didn't directly try to challenge anything.

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Title: Some Way Out
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Boomer, Cavil
Word Count: 592
Summary: If all this has happened before and will happen again, what does that say about God?


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