Dear Yuletide Writer,

I am so excited to actually participate in Yuletide this year! Usually I forget until just before everyone starts to panic about their story being due and end up as a beta, but this year I'm all in. (My name's the same at A03, SlowMercuryThings I want ( Read more... )

So ever since I became aware of it, way back whenever, I've pretty much thought Yuletide was the coolest thing since ever.* And I thought, Well, you too could do Yuletide! But then I never did, because... what if I volunteered for a tiny fandom and got matched for it and then suddenly realized I hated that fandom after all, and then I wrote a bad ( Read more... )

So, there seems to be a lot of hatred for fanfiction.net out there on the internet. I've never really shared that hatred for one good reason*: if you're not logged in, fanfiction.net lets you claim to be anyone at all when you leave reviews. This means that whenever I felt like it, I could say I was "Clobberin' Moll," "Farfignewgin the Far ( Read more... )

So, I have once again been on the late side for Femgenficathon. And by "on the late side," I mean "actually missed all the deadlines." All of them. I was late to sign up, and I was 24 hours and 3 minutes late to post (even after the extension). Clearly I am a marvel of organization ( Read more... )

Title: My Mother, Kyoko
Author: slowmercury
Fandom: Black Cat mangaverse
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Prompt: 91) To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike. -- Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566), French courtier and favorite mistress of Henri II of France. - Prompt unused ( Read more... )

Femgen! Let's see if I can remember how to do this. Also, I am once again running late, as also seems to be normal for me. This was harder to write than I expected... xP

Title: A Life Worth Living
Author: slowmercury
Fandom: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: 16) We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world ( Read more... )

And by "win," I mean "not-winning." My explanation of Gakuen Alice is missing words, phrases, sense... um. Yeah. I swear, I did look it over before I posted it, but clearly the once wasn't near enough.

I wonder how often you can edit a post before the mods come after you with pitchforks?

Title: In The Dark
Author: slowmercury
Fandom: Gakuen Alice
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None, really, but it might spoil chapter 62
Prompt: 17) I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist and essayist ( Read more... )

So, basically, I forgot about Femgenficathon this year, and I had to beg and wait for someone else to drop out to get to add an entry. This means that I wrote the story in more of a rush this year, and there are a few reasons I'm less than satisfied with it, but Time Has Run Out. I mean, this is 12 days past the general extension for femgen, and ( Read more... )

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