We have fested, and it was good!

( 12 Days of Cliche Masterlist )

( Thoughts on Fests )

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/337973.html.

Are you sad? Here we are at the end of the fest... it whizzed by so fast, didn't it? But, wow, what a lot of stuff we made!

To finish things off, I'm posting my favourite of all the songvids I've made to date. It's about Jack, the essential factness of Jack. Oh, Jack. (If you're interested in the technical side, there are some more thoughts behind the cut.)

If you'd like to play with us by sharing a cliche -- a ficlet or art or whatever fanwork takes your fancy -- link it in comments here before Friday, and I'll add it to my round-up post. There's always room for more cliches, people! :)

Thanks for coming on the journey with us. Hope and I have had a ball and we hope you have too. And now, onto the vid of ultimate Jackness...


Title: Wake
Author: cupidsbow/cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: No Pairing
Rating: PG-13
Music: 'Juliet' by Russ Nixon, and The Tempest IV.1 read by Joseph Fiennes (from When Love Speaks)
Summary: We are such stuff as dreams are made on...
Note: Thanks to Hope for the beta.

Download: FileFront (7.84 MB).
Streaming: You can stream this from FileFront -- just click on the 'streaming' button.

( thoughts on 'wake' )

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/337754.html.

Hi:

I'm coming out from lurking to promote a favorite author who's been nominated for the Preditors & Editors Poll in two categories.

Patricia Morrison (who's written as Patricia Kennealy and Patricia Kennealy-Morrison) has been nominated in the Mystery Novel category for her latest book, California Screamin', and also in the Author Category. I'm drumming up interest and promoting votes for her.

If the name is familiar, Patricia is the author of The Keltiad series--The Copper Crown, The Throne of Scone, The Silver Branch, etc (all published through Harper Collins and Roc). And she also penned an autobiography, Strange Days: My Life with and without Jim Morrison through Plume. Patricia is now self-publishing through Lizard Queen Press, writing her Rennie Stride, The Rock and Roll Murders series, which are absolutely great.

To vote for her book: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelmys.shtml

To vote for her: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/author.shtml

Thanks...and back to lurking. :-)

Wow, we are so close the end of our fest. I'm feeling a bit sad. But, on the other hand, there's this fantastic timey-wimey, romantic piece of perfection from Hope! I defy anyone to feel bad after reading it. :)

ETA: Also, how ironic is it that my timey-wimey story ended up full of porn, and Hope's is PG-13? LOL.


Title: Golden Ratio: DreamWidth, LiveJournal
Author: Hope
Fandom: Torchwood and Doctor Who
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, plus the Doctor
Rating: PG-13
Notes: My final work for 12 Days of Cliché. Thank you to cupidsbow for cheerleading and beta!

Summary: Some things are constants. (A canon-compliant fixit, spanning several centuries.)

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/337434.html.

Title: Time Management
Author: cupidsbow/cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/Lisa, Jack/John
Rating: NC-17
Warning: Spoilers for Children of Earth
Summary: The Agency taught Jack the rules of time travel. Some of them no longer apply.
Note: Thanks to tesserae_ for the awesome beta. I also owe a debt to sapphirekeep for her wonderful Torchwood timeline.
Companion Songvid: Tango: DreamWidth, LiveJournal

Cover: Finally, a huge thanks to Hope, who read, watched and betaed it all until she was heartily sick of this whole 'verse, and then still made the most awesome cover ever. <3 (You can tell her how awesome it is on DreamWidth or LiveJournal.)

( Time Management )

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/337258.html.

Today's songvid is a teaser for tomorrow's story...

Title: Tango
Author: cupidsbow/cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/Lisa, Jack/John, Ianto/John
Rating: PG-13
Music: "El Tango de Roxanne" by Ewan McGregor and Jose Feliciano, from Moulin Rouge
Summary: Time to change your partners!
Note: Thanks to strifechaos and Hope for the beta.
Companion Story: Time Management: DreamWidth, LiveJournal

Download: FileFront (13.55 MB).
Streaming: You can stream this from FileFront -- just click on the 'streaming' button. BAM isn't uploading at the moment, so I'll add it there later.

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/337120.html.

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I love how Hope goes places in her fiction that I would never have thought of; and they work so well.

Title: On the Mend: DreamWidth, LiveJournal
Author: hope/angstslashhope
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Hurt/comfort of a different sort.

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/336787.html.

Did you miss me?

Hahaha. I know, I know, I didn't even tell you I was going away. But I did. I went bush to my parents' farm for most of the week, and it was lovely. Not too hot, surprisingly, and my mum spoiled me rotten. I also napped a lot.

It is very nice to be back to a place with Real Intertubes though. Hopefully I can catch up on everything now -- there are about a trillion unanswered comments in my inbox.

So, did you all have a happy new year?

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/336482.html.

Title: Five Times Torchwood Has a Close Encounter with a Sweet Young Thing
Author: cupidsbow/cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "I see," said Ianto, who, sadly, was beginning to see, and was rather wishing he was still too drunk for rational thought. "You don't pay me enough for this."

( Five Times Torchwood Has a Close Encounter with a Sweet Young Thing )

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/336383.html.

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Prompt claiming for the mistletw fest will close at the end of the year, so in just a few hours' time.

Anyone is welcome to claim a prompt and take part in the fest, and prompts can be claimed more than once. So come on over to the prompt post to check out the possibilities. Posting of fic/art/vids is from 1-10 January.

All pairings and preferences welcome.

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/336010.html.

Hope has indulged me today, by writing this gorgeous character study of Jack, based on my songvid, '1941'. It's made of win! I love the way she writes this Jack -- self-absorbed and hedonistic. *happy sigh*


Title: Kiss the Boys Goodbye: DreamWidth, LiveJournal
Author: hope
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Pairing: Various implied
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack is a glutton, and the 1940s on Earth are his feast of choice.
Notes: This is a companion ficlet to cupidsbow's constructed reality vid, 1941: The Year That Never Was!

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/335706.html.

This is by far my most ambitious songvid to date, using source footage from the 1940s in addition to that of Doctor Who and Torchwood, and cut to the fastest song in the world. OMG.

The driving force behind this was pretty much that I wanted Jack to have an adventure in the 1940s, so I built a constructed reality in order to give it to him. There are some more notes behind the cut, if you're interested. Otherwise, here's the masterpiece! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. :)


Title: 1941: The Year That Never Was!
Vidder: cupidsbow/cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood and Doctor Who
Pairing: Jack/Tosh, Jack/realJack, Jack/Tosh/realJack
Rating: PG-13
Music: "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman (1987 remaster)
Summary: What if Jack had never met the Doctor?

Download: FileFront (16.03 MB).
Streaming: You can stream this from FileFront -- just click on the 'streaming' button. BAM isn't uploading at the moment, so I'll add it there later.

Companion story: 'Kiss the Boys Goodbye' by Hope: DreamWidth, LiveJournal


( The Making of 1941 )

Hope has posted today's fest item -- a fantastic Left Turn story...

Title: Proxy -- DreamWidth, LiveJournal
Vidder: hope
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Lisa/Ianto, Lisa/Jack
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Role reversal.

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/335280.html.

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Today is a happy day, as Hope and I will both be posting for our fest. Hope has written an awesome story about Jack and Ianto getting kinky with first aid supplies. I know, I know, that was my reaction too. :)

And then I thought to myself, "Hey, I bet I could vid that!" So I did.

Title: First Aid
Vidder: cupidsbow
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG-13
Music: "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls
Summary: Jack has a first-aid fetish... or maybe just an Ianto fetish.
The Story: This was inspired by Hope's awesome story, "First Aid," which you can find on DeamWidth and LiveJournal. It's is NC-17 and smoking hot.

Download: FileFront (7.14MB).
Streaming: You can stream this from FileFront -- just click on the 'streaming' button. BAM isn't uploading at the moment, so I'll add it there later.

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/334856.html.

I swear junk food taste better to me now that it did back before I knew I was gluten and dairy intolerant. In fact, a lot of things taste better now.

I think it's down to a) my body not being poisoned all the time, and b) my new philosophy of eating. Basically, as there are so many, many things I cannot eat, I am now allowed to eat anything I want, any time I feel like it.

It is awesome!

It sounds simple, doesn't it? But it took a while for it to really sink in. I'd keep looking at cherries at $26 per kilo or salmon at $10 per 200grams, and think, "No, it's too expensive, it's special occasion food." And then I'd wander the aisles full of stuff I can't eat without poisoning myself, and then go back and get a kilo of cherries and three serves of salmon. What the hell else am I going to spend that money on? A doctor's bill when I poison myself with crap? The car I don't own? The synthetic high fashion clothes that make me break out in hives?

No. I have to eat, but I don't need any of that other stuff. So why not eat things I actually like? Asking that question has changed my whole outlook on what's expensive and how I feel about food.

Like, just now, I had the munchies, because vidding uses the same mental muscles as writing, so I burn up fuel like crazy. And what I really wanted was junk food. So I ate junk food, by god! Of course, junk food for me in this instance equalled plain corn chips and homemade guacamole. NOM NOM NOM.

Later, I might have my current favourite: a salmon salad as big as my head. Then I might have nectarines for desert. I might have two or three of them!

Seriously, I love this philosophy of eating, and I've actually lost weight since I started it. I don't suppose it would work very well if I could eat lashings of butter or cheese or cream, or sauces, or potatoes, or deep-fried foods, or... pretty much anything with cholesterol or calories. But as things are, it's freedom. I love it.

And speaking of junk food, I had a thought the other day. I have a supply of delicious gluten free bread now, and I was wondering if I could make garlic bread using garlic aoli. I might have to try it.

And now? I will have tea, and then make more of my vid.

This entry was originally posted at http://cupidsbow.dreamwidth.org/334841.html.

As soon as Hope's "12 Days of Cliché" idea was expanded from being a fiction fest to something more multimedia, we started throwing around ideas for types of fanworks we like to make.

I don't usually think of recommendations as a fanwork -- not in the same way as fiction or art. But you know what occurred to me during that brainstorming session? They sure are a lot of work! And I only go to the effort because I'm a fan. I would guesstimate that if you squashed all the time I spend making recs back-to-back... it would take up maybe two or three weeks a year. (crack_van alone takes up a week: the best part of a day for each set.)

That's really quite a lot! So, after that rather stunning realisation, I decided to celebrate both all that work, and the love of fanworks that drives me to make all those recs.

In keeping with our fest theme of "clichés," the result is a set of favourites about born and unborn children, or mpreg and kidfic in our evocative fannish vernacular. :)

I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

( Musing on Mpreg )

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