Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Here's my ladiesbingo card:

Daily Rituals (Morning Routines / Nightly Prayers / Meal Times)	Deities and Followers	Light-Hearted	Heights and Depths	Humiliation
Dusk	Original characters	Mentors	Pre- Slash / Femslash / Het	Inanimate objects AU
Team Mates	Coffee Shop AU	Wild Card	We're all going to die!	Playground
Exhaustion	Silence	Laughter	It all depends on this one choice	Mirror, mirror: Doppelgangers, clones and evil doubles
Werewolves	Sepia	Chiaroscuro	Quantum Theory	Slow Build

Challenge #5

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.

I chose a few different fandoms.

OZ - The alliance of Kareem Said & Simon Adebisi - The two couldn't be any different, yet their underlying goal is very similar. The season 4a arc of their relationship is one of the strongest of the series and echoes through season 4b as Said needs to learn to live with his inner Adebisi.

OZ - Beecher's revenge arc - What else is a guy to do after his arms and legs are broken? The systematic revenge after the attack at the end of season 2 is incredibly satisfying and shows us a darkness inside of Beecher that he hadn't been capable of at the outset of the series.

Prodigal Son - The idea that both Dani and Malcolm were "saved by" Gil links them in ways that the job does not.

L.A. Confidential - Ed & Bud getting around to working the case together. It takes a while, but it's canon and it makes a great springing off point for future post-movie fics.

Justified - Raylan and Art knowing each other from Glynco. I like that their relationship has been established before the show even begins. I choose to look at it as "what happened at Glynco, stays at Glynco (until, of course, it doesn't)"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Tara finding family of choice with the Scoobies is one of the nicest part of the series and never fails to make me smile and cry at the same time.

Hi. I'm Cat. I'm rarely here, usually on LJ. If you scroll down a couple of entries, you can see where I did this post last year. Not a lot has changed.

Fandom-wise- HBO's OZ is the biggest one for me still. I maintain the hardtime100 community over at LJ and post drabble challenges 2x a month and long-fic challenges less regularly (used to be monthly, but this year switching over to quarterly). Prodigal Son is my newest, shiniest fandom and I'm really looking forward to the new season starting in a week. The Jossverse is represented with Buffy, Firefly, and occasionally Angel. Game of Thrones is another that shows up regularly and other fandoms make an appearance from time to time. Most of my work is on LJ, but I am migrating the older fics gradually to Ao3 and will try to pop in links to my stuff here this year.

Writing-wise- My style is fairly economical. That comes from years of screenwriting (nothing really made, although if you lived in Chicago during the early 90s, you might have seen some of my stuff on the cable access soap "Behind the Screen" that I wrote for in college). So what I write is mostly dialogue. Fluffy descriptions generally happen in someone else's work. I have done NaNo and usually by the end of November, I'm sick of what I wrote and jonesing for something different. I write a lot of slash & femslash so if you're not a fan of those, my work may not be for you.

Other- I started a new job last January which has been very good for me. I'm able to come home and not be mentally exhausted. I'm also able to read/write during downtime so that's lent itself to some good results. I'm a big fan of hockey (go Blues!) and am looking forward to the season starting, even though it, like everything else is going to be weird this year.

Thanks for reading. I'm going to try to be around more this year so if you feel like adding me to your circle, please do so.

I snagged this over at DW. It looks like fun.

1.	Be Careful What You Wish For - What you think you want isn't always what's good for you.
2.	Forbidden Fruit - Whether the literal poison apple or a temptation that's just too enticing to resist no matter how glaring the warning signs.
3.	Impossible Task - Our protagonist is tasked to surmount the seemingly insurmountable, against all odds.
4.	The Girl in the Tower - She's trapped out of reach and far away, and might be longing for rescue or escape.
5.	I Know Your True Name - Names have power, and knowing someone's true name can mean control over them, or a bond that cannot be broken, whether for good or bad.
6.	Knight in Shining Armor - A hero/ine to save the day.
7.	Liminal Time - The time in-between, when people or places or things are in the process of changing from one state of being to another. Danger and magic lurk here.
8.	Beauty and the Beast - A beauty to tame the beast, who may not be what they appear.
9.	True Love's Kiss - The power of true love can overcome all trials and tribulations.
10.	Threshold Guardians - Not necessarily an adversary or obstacle, but a being who prepares our protagonist for the adventure ahead, whether through assistance or a test of resolve.
11.	The Evil Queen - Queen, matriarch, or wicked witch, but is she bad to the bone or just misunderstood?
12.	The Trickster - The clever fox who breaks the rules and enjoys the chaos caused.
13.	The Tiger and the Dragon - Sparks fly between two spirits who are opposites yet linked together by destiny.
14.	The Granter of Wishes - A jinn or fairy godmother with motives sometimes pure, sometimes not.
15.	Into the Woods - A wild, dark place of some kind must be traversed before our protagonist can find resolution.

Well, it's been a little eventful in the world in the past week or so. I am working on adjusting to the current normal, knowing it might change any day now. The biggest adjustment has been with church- since gatherings over 10 people are not recommended, church has essentially shut down, which means no services and no choir practice until May at least.

Hockey has been done for a week. I haven't started walking into walls yet, but it's only a matter or time. On the bright side, if they decide to suspend everything including the playoffs, the Blues will be the reigning Stanley Cup Champions for another season.

I'm still going into the office. We're in the service industry so heaven forbid someone's heat or a/c goes out while they are practicing their social distancing while being cooped up with the kids. I am asking if they've been requested to self-quarantine, because I'm not sending any of our techs into those situations. (My main worry is when the two owners get back from Florida next week. They're pretty good about maintaining distance).

I'm organizing a write-in/gathering of sorts at 1_million_words on Saturday. You can find the details here. It'll be good for me because even without going out, I have not been using the time to write, so that needs to happen.

Also, someone posted about the Comfort Challenge at story_works and I thought it looked interesting.

Hope you all are doing okay despite the weirdness. We'll get through this.

Day 12

In your own space, create your own challenge.

Since I want to be held a little accountable, I'm posting here instead of to my DW journal. I'm challenging myself (and anyone else who has a "drawer novel") to take the time to work on a second draft. No rushing around to squeeze in 50K into a month, just a leisurely hour or two every so often to make that first draft better and to possibly get a wee bit closer to publishing.

Lesbian Pulp Fiction Titles (any pairing, any fandom)

01.	After Hours	02.	Alone At Last	03.	Anything Goes	04.	The Best Laid Schemes	05.	The Bitter Love	06.	Come Again
07.	The Dangerous Games	08.	Deadly Desire	09.	The Delicate Vice	10.	Detour	11.	Either Is Love	12.	Encore
13.	Fair Game	14.	Good Girl, Bad Girl	15.	Into the Fire	16.	A Labor of Love	17.	Love in the Shadows	18.	Obsession
19.	One Way Trip	20.	The Other Side of Love	21.	The Passion Game	22.	The Restless Beds	23.	Sinful Desires	24.	The Sisterhood
25.	Strange Embrace	26.	The Time and Place	27.	The Twisted Path	28.	Two Women in Love	29.	When Lights Are Low	30.	A World Divided

Fellow Ozzites! Get thee over to oz_magi to make a wish claim. I just looked at the list and there are some fantastic prompts this year. They run the range from Beecher/Keller to Kathy Stabler/Genevieve Beecher and fairytale AUs and Jossverse crossovers and even a choose-your-own-rarepair prompt. Can't wait to see what this year will turn out!