Fandom asks: 1, 8, 17 ❤️

*attack hugs* Thanks for the ask! 🙂

I used gifs and I went on a bit (as always) hehe

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1. Character in my fandoms that I think I’m most like.
Tricky. People on TV are a lot more put together than I am. They are good looking, cool and they have endearing quirks rather than annoying tendencies. Possibly the closest is Parker from Leverage.

I have her inability to understand people and situations. I too take things very literally and just plain don’t get it and often say things others consider odd. Unfortunately I don’t have her confidence – or at least her outward confidence. On the surface it seems like she doesn’t know, or care, how different she is. I’m not sure that’s true but it definitely isn’t true for me, I know how odd I am.

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8. Dream crossover?
Now you are talking my language! I love mashing stuff up 🙂

I once wrote a four-show multi-crossover fic in two days. It was like 15k and I had so much fun. This was *cough* at least a decade ago. It was supposed to be a part one and I ended it on a cliffhanger but when I went to write part two I realised I’d written myself into a corner. Multi-show crossovers are hard! It’s really difficult to make it reasonable that these characters interact and try as I might, I couldn’t think of a way to keep all four shows involved moving forward.

That fic was for Alias/CSI:NY, Numb3rs and Without a Trace. So it wasn’t too ‘out there’ because that was two FBI shows, a police and then the spy game. I did pretend Numb3rs was set in New York rather than Los Angeles because the location didn’t have any bearing in the show, and putting everything in the same city made it easier. I started another crossover fic for Alias/NCIS once, which again same sort of playground with federal agents and spies.

Anyway you asked me about my dream crossover! Not about some stupid fic I wrote a decade ago. I’m just prefacing my answer with this background to try and explain that it’s important to me that the crossover makes sense.

Well I think all roads lead to Agents of Shield these days.

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Can you imagine a crossover with Black Lightning? Where the greenlight was triggering potential Inhumans but their transition was unstable. So Jemma and Fitz have to stabilise all the meta-humans and they are fascinated by Jefferson and his family because they are stable and Jennifer and Anissa didn’t have to go through the mist to gain their powers.

Come on Thunder and Quake team-up, am I right?

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How about Agents of Shield and Stargate? I know, I know, impossible because Shield = Marvel and so we’ve been to space and there are no stargates, or hyperdrives for that matter. They had those waygates that ships bounced through in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Also the Asgard are waaaaay different.

So alternate reality, one where history played out very differently. Imagine fifty million years ago when the Alterans (Ancients) left their home galaxy to avoid a civil war with their brethren (who became known as the Ori) and rather than inventing Stargates on that trip, they invented the waygates. Rather than the re-origination machine on Dakaara, they became the titans that forged the six infinity stones that basically did the same thing.

Stargate crossed over with alternate realities many many times. They were always fairly close to the reality we recognised but they had hints of very different ones through the reality mirror. Not going to lie I kinda just want to see Jemma and Carter work together

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I could do this all day but I think you kinda get the picture 🙂

17. A show you used to love but eventually hated or vice-versa.


Hated is such a strong word. Sure I fell out of love with Without a Trace. I felt after the first couple of seasons something happened, the characters weren’t quite themselves and after season 4 I stopped watching. The same happened with New Tricks. It started off so strong but then the writers forgot continuity and turned the characters almost into caricatures of themselves.

I think the award might have to go to Star Trek though. I’ll do Enterprise first.

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^^ confession had it right. Although I would have been fine if they’d just stayed friends. T’Pol and Trip I think were my first absolute NoTP and forcing that relationship basically ruined the characterisation of Archer and T’Pol. I enjoyed the first season of Enterprise very much, and the second was ok but the third and fourth were like a trainwreck.

Then we come to Star Trek: Discovery. Oh boy. I was disappointed from the outset because in the two-part premiere they killed off the female Captain (Philippa Georgiou) so then it was yet another male Captain in the form of Lorca. However, I stuck with it because I utterly fell in love with Culmets (Paul Stamets and Hugh Culber).

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I also thought they were doing something interesting with Ash Tyler and PTSD, and with Lorca and the slippery line in times of war. What did we get? Culber killed off for shock value, an uncomfortable romance shoved down our throats with Ash Tyler and Burnham, with then the reveal that Tyler was really Voq (a klingon infiltrator) and Lorca was from the evil mirror universe.

Like really? A subtle, understated story exploring the realities of mental health and the shades of grey of war would have been amazing. Instead everything was made simple, flashy and shallow.

And they killed off Culber #NeverForgive

What a disappointment.

@mariequitecontrarie thanks for the tag! 🙂

Rules: answer the twenty questions and then tag twenty people you want to get to know better!

Name: Samantha (Sam)

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Height: 5’ 2”

Languages spoken: English (I know I’m terrible)

Nationality: British

Favourite Fruit: Raspberries probably (so hard to choose)

Favourite Scent: Coconut

Favourite Color: Blue

Favourite Animal: None

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Coffee

Favourite fictional characters: Wow so many but how about my absolute favourite?

There can be only one.

Dream Trip: Sailing around on a yacht anywhere that doesn’t have things that want to kill me, which unfortunately rules out most of the really gorgeous clear ocean, golden sand places.

When blog was created: May 2nd 2016

Last Movie Seen: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

Songs you’ve had on repeat: So many but today it was Dark Side by Kelly Clarkson

Favourite Candy: Dairy Free Choc-Coconut Bar (it takes like warm bounty bar icecream, so amazing)

Favourite Holiday: NaNoWriMo (what do you mean it’s not a holiday? It’s a creative holiday! Hehe)

Tagging: @rumple-belle, @little-inkstone, @jackabelle73 and anyone else who wants to do it!

theoneandonlylittlebird:

kimrossa:

VALENSOLE Lavender Fields (June 2018)

@galactic-pirates you know what I’m thinking of?

Yes I do

I’m been thinking about it every single day lately. It’s Camp NaNo this month so you never know 🙂

theoneandonlylittlebird reblogged your photoset and added: “theoneandonlylittlebird:
kimrossa:
VALENSOLE Lavender Fields (June…”

There, there, no shame intended! Just wanted you to know I was thinking of your fic. If it speaks to you, that’d be wonderful, but if not, I’ll remember it fondly anyway.

Oh merlin I hope it won’t remain just a fond memory! I’ve had an eventful year to put it mildly. I know intentions are meaningless but both back then and now – it’s always on my mind to write.

I avoided stating it earlier but you know what I’m going to risk it. Cast iron guarantee right here, etched in stone etc. there WILL be an update before the end of the month.

or at least I hope not urk heh

Tumblr stop showing me posts have been reblogged twice, and then when I delete the extra, miraculously then deciding it was only the once /headdesk

Whomever made the enhanced queue shuffle addon thing for X-kit deserves the world, or something really damn nice.

I can now hit one button – ONE –  rather than manually ordering it to avoid spamming the same thing as I don’t want you guys to hate me.

Addons developers are geniuses.

I’m so pissed that Timeless got cancelled again. I only started watching it because I figured they couldn’t possibly cancel it twice. Not on a cliffhanger.

*insert slightly hysterical laughter* they suckered me good.

So notes on the finale:

– I really don’t like Wyatt, especially that Wyatt instantly made everything about him with the “I feel so bad and this is all my fault” stuff and then the romance – yuck – that was so not the time.

– Flynn was already my fave but then he got called the “creepy uncle” of the family which reminded me of Rush being called that and gah it’s true. I do love the grey hero/villain turned hero type. Flynn is awesome.

– I can’t believe they really did THAT in the finale re: Rufus 🙁

– Connor yelling on their return, then straight after, struggling not to cry before then crying – now I’m crying!

– Agent Christopher immediately hugging Jiya. I felt that warmth and care.

– The cliffhanger, why oh why oh why couldn’t it have been FLYNN and Lucy? Maybe that’s why the show got cancelled, double Wyatt would have meant double the suck. Sorry I just really don’t like him.

Oh well, Timeless joins the pile of “cancelled shows in which I will never know what bloody happens!!!” Gah I hate that. Honestly if they are going to cancel something, they should at least have the decency to allow for some resolution first.

10 songs to which I can’t stop listening

@sarashouldbestudying thanks for the tag! 🙂

I’m going to take this as being “what I can’t stop listening to right now” as opposed to what the top 10 most played songs are.

  1. Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin (Thor: Ragnarok still heh)
  2. Is she really going out with him – Joe Jackson
  3. Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson (Princess Diaries feels)
  4. I Lived – One Republic
  5. Help! – The Beatles
  6. Dream On – Christian Falk
  7. Put Your Hands Up – Matchbox Twenty
  8. When in Doubt – Thousand Foot Krutch
  9. Nobody can save me – Linkin Park
  10. High School – Superchick

Although to be honest quite often I put iTunes on shuffle. I usually have music playing constantly while I’m awake, so this list was only the songs I’ve looked up lately to actively listen to because otherwise it would be 800 songs long…

Tumblr is like cables.

Cables get all tangled up and have a party the moment you leave them alone.

Tumblr adds tons of unnecessary <span> tags and other such styling to complete screw with your pages (aka I’ve been going over my masterlist and yikes).

I mean seriously, how? why? It’s weird. I didn’t do that. I didn’t ask it to do that /headdesk

For the fanfiction ask – 22) Do you have a story that you look back on and cringe when you reread it?

I got an ask! Yay 🙂 Sorry it’s been ages on account of how I’ve not produced anything in forever. Thank you so much anon 🙂

Do I have a fic I look back at and cringe?

Seriously I could fall over laughing because like oh man SO MANY!

In the interests of my self-esteem I’ll only look through my current masterlist. There are some fics in my past that are just beyond the pale (I know I was 11 but what was I thinking??)

As always I’ve gone on a bit *eyeroll*

The List:

  • Pretty much all my smutty fics. I wanted to add “smut writing” as a tool for my writers toolkit. It also feels like the rumbelle fandom loves their smut and I wanted to join in and be part of the “cool kids club” but I have buyers remorse on that decision tbh. It would probably be easier to list the ones I think are ok-ish, but that might get confusing. So cringe ones:
    • All We Are
    • Story as old as video
    • Hands all over (this also killed my desire to finish the actual WIP as its a future fic – seriously what was I thinking?)
    • The smut in Brighter Days (I rather enjoyed pointing out Young’s deficiencies though)
    • Highway to Hell
    • The Quest (at least this finished me as a smut writer so I’m grateful for that)
    • More than a feeling
    • Trouble Sleeping
    • Last Friday Night
    • This Afternoon
    • Once Upon a Lifetime
    • Sweet Masquerade
    • The smut in The Auction
    • Happy Anniversary
  • Swim to the Stars. (Sweet and fluffy? Yes. In character? Not so much imo)
  • Learning Curve.
  • Broken Apart (just badly written imo)

I probably should cringe at Wizard Love or Never Let the Pirate Babysit Alone but I rather enjoy the silliness. There is nothing wrong sometimes with just having a laugh.

Also (because I can never leave anything alone) the smut fics I accept on my masterlist without cringing are: Fall All Over Again, What Makes You Different, To Be Loved and The Beauty and the Tragedy because I feel like the smut adds something, rather than it just being ‘smut’ with no actual story or an unnecessary addition.

Ultimately however while I cringe and wish I had a back button so I could make it like it never happened – I learned something.

I learned what matters to me as a writer and what drives me to put pen to paper. I learned that I really should learn to just say no. The number of fics I’ve written only because I was asked, and the number of fics I’ve never written because they would be self-indulgent… why is that a bad thing? Who am I trying to make happy here. The answer should be me.

That is a thought I’m going to try and hold in my head as I go on. I’ll probably forget and have to relearn the lesson because I feel guilty writing what I want, as opposed to writing what I think others will like. I’m going to try though because those stories that burn in my veins, the ones I ignore to try and please others – those are mine and nobody else will tell them.

/steps off soapbox