Posted on December 6, 2020 by Sam

I finished that little fluffy wedding oneshot yay! 🙂

Opened AO3 as I had an idea for a title but I had a vague thought I’d used it before (it’s ok I hadn’t) and then I noticed the date I last posted … Dec 23rd 2018!

Almost two years.

Like I knew I hadn’t done much writing but wow. I hadn’t realised it had been radio silent for quite that long. To be fair I think 2020 just didn’t exist, I mean it did because it sucked, but did anyone manage anything really? Singularly most awful of years.

Now I just need to decide when I post this fluffy nonsense.

I think I need to preface it with a “yes I did research.” “yes I might have done too much research as in places I feel like some parts are a bit of an information dump” but also “this is probably not accurate” because I’m fairly certain there was more to the wedding service than the vows but oh well.

So do I post this fluffy nonsense before or after my epic slow burn reconciliation fic? During I’m thinking during. So I drop a few chapters and then drop this oneshot and then drop a few more chapters.

Anyway, now I need a new thing to write. I’m not quite sure what. I’m a tiny bit tempted to continue this fluffy AU. I have headcanons for it, building on some of the canon holes I filled in Our Darkest Hour. Only they are pretty much just headcanons, I’m not sure how I’d spin it into any kind of fic.

I will think on it 🙂

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Sam

Ok I split Our Darkest Hour into 14 chapters in the end.

The christmas flashback is in chapter four. So I’m currently pondering. If I post twice a week then that chapter would go up a week before christmas. Hmm.

Also I was doing a ramble plan for this wedding oneshot and I started on this long thing about John’s dad – guy was never mentioned on the show. How do I have headcanon’s about him???

Anyway, I think the detail I’m struggling most with at the moment is who Helen would have as attendants. Given she didn’t have much use for gendered nonsense I’ve always figured she didn’t really have any female friends. Her dad was an only child. Perhaps her mum had family? That could work.

I particularly like the detail about Victorian weddings which say that the best man has to go ahead to “look after the luggage” for the couple’s honeymoon and is the only one that knows where they are going. So helpful for James seeing as he’ll be going with them bwahaha 🙂

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Sam

Ok I’ve spent the last couple of days revising Our Darkest Hour.

and I just spent the evening making a promo gifset for fun. I didn’t much like the cover I made in the end and I thought this was cooler.

Now I just need to decide whether I drop the whole 61k thing in one go like a boss, or post it one chapter at a time for a while. I mean nobody is probably going to read it anyway so it’s just what I feel like doing.

Maybe I should split it up into chapters first and see how many I have. When I’ve done long fics in the past I usually try and make chapters a similar kind of length, average them 3.5k-4.5k. Which *does math* on an average of 4k would be 15 chapters. I could post a couple of times a week for a couple of months I guess.

I was considering doing an illustration of the fluffy christmas flashback. Although I’m thinking of writing the fluffy wedding oneshot this weekend and an illustration of that would also be cool. Shhh nobody tell me I suck at drawing (I know I do) and my imagination definitely far outstrips my ability buuuut it could still be fun I don’t know.

Anyway I should decide if I’m going to commit to a boatload of drawing because if I am, then I should probably sync up when the drawing will be ready to post with the fic. Considering I haven’t done any drawing this year that could take a while.

Help this ship is taking me over haha.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Sam

I haven’t updated my theme since tumblr broke and auto-removed my last one what 2 years ago? I figured I would because I felt like it.

SWEET MERLIN TUMBLR IS FUCKING ANNOYING!!!!!

It let me save the theme but now it won’t let me save it again. It insists there’s http assets being referenced. It won’t let me update a single damn thing. So I can’t correct the links on the sidebar

I have tried everything I can think of but the second I open it to edit it won’t let me save it again, even if I do nothing. HOW IS IT WRONG IF I DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING?!?!?!

Tearing my damn hair out. This is beyond frustrating. I just wanted to link to my own tumblr – internal fucking links! But no something is just wrong.

I hate everything.

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Sam

galactic-pirates:

Ugh I was wondering why my new gifset wasn’t showing in the tags. Tumblr doesn’t like the first gif apparently :/

hmm what to do about it? I don’t know.

You know what I’m not going to fix it.

Mostly because I can’t work out how to without picking a completely different scene or making it look awful. Tumblr just doesn’t like the shoulder curve. I checked to see if I could appeal but it’s not a flagged post (it’s just an invisible one).

It’s annoying that it’s not in the tags but hey I’m doing this for fun. I like to share, and obviously I hope it’ll make someone smile, but I’m not going to bang my head against a brick wall for it.

Seriously though tumblr it’s a shoulder. What is your problem?

The NaNo Report: THE END

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Sam

THE END! THE END! THE END!

Seriously!

/dies

I had to write 5 scenes to get there. I wrote more today than I have any other single day this month, more than I have in any single day this year and probably for quite a while before that too. It was a mammoth effort but I wanted to do it so bad because I wanted to reach THE END this month.

AND I DID!

/dies

Haha.

What comes next? Oh merlin I don’t know. I have to do other things tomorrow really as I did nothing but write today. I don’t want to take too big a break from writing though because I want to try and keep any momentum I might have gained. So I want to revise this story and post it, and then maybe work on another one. Perhaps that fluffy wedding day oneshot I threatened.

Phew. I made it. I can hardly believe it but I did. And I owe it all to Sanctuary and my beloved Nikola Tesla, Helen Magnus, James Watson and John Druitt. My favourite character and my ship. I’m all about The Five 🙂

Words Written: 6,106 (why I’m dead)
Current Total: 66,804 (and THE END!!)

#now that’s over maybe I’ll have time to make some of those gifsets I want to do#and also you know maybe watch the show some more#because clearly it’s inspirational and I should get ideas for more fic haha

The NaNo Report: Day Twenty-Nine

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Sam

So Helen, John and James know the truth now. The question is what are they going to do about it? Truthfully I’m not sure because it’s been a hundred and twenty years and you don’t get over that quickly. Trust takes time. I need to decide what they would think they should do, so that it feels believable.

I’m hoping I’ll finish and type ‘The End’ tomorrow. I’ve got all the big emotional conversations and flashbacks to do so it’ll be a lot. But it’s Full Moon Madness at WriYe so hopefully that’ll be a good word count boost. Here’s hoping tomorrow I can gleefully announce the end! (one can hope) 🙂

Words Written: 2,398
Current Total: 60,698

The NaNo Report: Day Twenty-Eight

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Sam

Ok so we’re into the endgame now. We’ve back in Praxis and oh wow a previous good guy has turned into a cold-blooded killer, how did that happen? Bwahaha. They are very close to finding out the truth ala Haunted, so close. Oh this ship is pain. It’s going to be a lot for them to process.

I thought I would hurtle more to the end in a kind of frantic downhill way (that’s what has happened in the past) but it’s still being more slow and steady. Perhaps when I get even closer it’ll happen. I’m still hoping I’ll finish by the end of the month, maybe type ‘The End’ on Monday. I’d like that 🙂

Words Written: 1,979
Current Total: 58,300

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Sam

My metric as I tweak dialogue in fanfic

“Can I hear the character saying it in my head?”

I always wonder whether a) other fanfic writers can hear it when they are writing and b) whether when people read my fic they can hear it/think I got it right, or whether I did in fact get it wrong.

I really hope I don’t get it wrong. I mean just because it’s not canon ‘canon’ doesn’t mean it’s necessarily OOC right?

*mumbles* I still think my OT3 could be actual canon, I mean I’ve not seen any proof that’s it not yet, just saying. Not that it matters because I will row this ship myself. I haven’t felt this much love for anything since my Rumbelle heydays. I came close with Bering and Wells. I probably would have gone there with Bering and Wells but alas the stars were not aligned. Who knows if I pick up Warehouse 13 again it may well happen.

Apparently 150+ year old Victorians make for excellent ships haha.

The NaNo Report: Day Twenty-Seven

Posted on November 27, 2020 by Sam

So eagle-eyed readers might have noticed I missed 2 days. What can I say I didn’t feel well. I actually had naps and I never sleep during the day so I must have been pretty bad. I did manage to write a few sentences to keep my “update every day” badge on the NaNo site but that’s it. I couldn’t even do the 4thewords streak (that’s 444) but I cheated with that and just fixed it as *cough* I’ve done for most of the year but let’s skate over that.

Ok what I’ve written now is the last wrap-up plot scene. I started this next scene with “three days later” and we’re into the endgame. The return to Praxis is happening, things will be made clear (hopefully) and then it’s not a happy ending but it’s the road to one. I really hope I will be able to finish it in the next three days. I’d love to be able to write ‘The End’ before the end of the month.

I’ve been thinking about my tags for this when I post it (after I’ve cleaned it up obviously). Is slow burn reconciliation a thing? because it’s definitely that. I also need to work out how to tag for “written before I watched past 3×15″ in case that’s important. I also don’t know whether I should tag it as AU or just canon-divergent. To be honest I don’t think it is AU, anything I’ve made up could be canon as I just think it explains things canon didn’t, but then I haven’t seen the whole show so that might not be true.

I will think on it.

Words Written:
Day 25: 74
Day 26: 158
Day 27: 1,762
Current Total: 56,321

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