talkingtothesky | Entries tagged with life on mars

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I'm a bit short on time to embed links, but here's the list. Mostly Person of Interest.

1. Most Hits: Call It Intelligence (PoI, Reese/Finch, Explicit)

2. Second Most Kudos: You Just Know When You Know (PoI, Reese/Finch, General Audiences)

3. Third Most Comments: Bedroom Stories (PoI, Reese/Finch, Mature, art not mine)

4. Fourth Most Bookmarks: You Just Know When You Know (PoI, Reese/Finch, General Audiences)

5. Fifth Most Words: Communion (Lost, Ben Linus/John Locke, Mature)

6. Fic With Second Fewest Words (That's Not a Drabble): Anything Could Happen (PoI, Reese/Finch, General Audiences)

7. Seventh Most Common Relationship: Finch & Root (PoI)

8. Eighth Drabble Posted: You're Too Late To Save Me (Life on Mars (UK), Sam/Gene, General Audiences)

9. Ninth Most Common Character: Lionel Fusco (PoI)

10. Tenth Explicit Fic: Get Comfortable (PoI, Reese/Finch)

11. Eleventh Most Recent Completed Fic: Scoop (PoI, Reese/Finch, Explicit)

12. Twelfth Most Recent Story in Your Sixth Most Common Tag: Middle Management (PoI, Reese/Finch, Teen And Up Audiences)

13. Favourite Title That Isn't from a Poem or Song or Shakespeare: In(sam)ination (PoI, Reese/Finch, Mature)

Day 10

In your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most.

Hurt/Comfort - and I really do like both, although whump no comfort is more common and that's fine, I'll take that. My favourite stories, though, take as much time and detail describing the recovery process as the torture/accident/injury phase. And that's difficult, I know that, as a writer, because it feels like it becomes necessary to know a little bit of medical stuff in order to fix the hurt character...but honestly, I don't mind how accurate it is. I'm not going to know in reality all the complications that might follow from a gunshot wound - but I'd like there to be complications, and all the angst that the characters go through trying to deal with that...it's my jam, okay. Ideally, I don't want the story to just end when they are rescued. (Although the rescuing part itself is always excellent. XD)

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence. SO MANY of my stories are this. Change one thing about canon and what cascade of consequences does that produce? It probably fixes things and breaks others, and navigating the choices made by canon writers and exploring the unseen paths is what fanfic is all about, for me.

Day 11

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.

LIFE ON MARS (UK). I've met my best friends through this tv show. And it has plenty of whump in canon - Sam Tyler is in an RTA in Episode One and spends the rest of the show in a coma in 2006 while still doing his job in 1973...and sometimes he feels medical effects filtering through to his body. It's so damn good, okay. And the music is heaven. It introduced me to so much music that I probably would never have heard otherwise.

Day 12

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a podfic, an icon, a sketch, a meta, or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Cross stitch. Draft an essay about a particular medium. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a book you love, a ship manifesto, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Create something.

I've been wanting to try making a fic cover for ages, so here's my first attempt, for one of my favourite Harold/Grace, Harold/John first kiss stories:

Day 2

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.

Oh gosh, so many memories! The one that springs to mind re. crazy times with fellow fans offline is the Life on Mars Manchester meetup. Six of us (from multiple countries) arranged to rent a flat for a week. We walked a ridiculous amount, searching for filming locations, and visited the police museum, and went second-hand cosplay shopping, and it was just. Awesome. I'm so, so lucky to have been a part of that. So many in-jokes! Such a sense of belonging and friendship and SO much laughter. I'm still in touch with some, have lost track of others. I dearly hope that wherever you folks are, you remember that week as fondly as I have.

Last month, I sent fannish greeting cards to my friends and they responded by taking a photo of their card and describing how happy they were to open it, and that is the bestttttt feeling.

Since 2015, I've been keeping a gratitude list in a spreadsheet and I record all my favourite comments there. If you're a writer, I really recommend doing this. When you feel less than confident about your writing, you can read through that list again. It helps. It really helps.

Current Mood: calm

Catching up on all the days I missed, minus Day 5 and Day 8, because I couldn't quite do those.

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Day 03

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Looking At The Ground
Person of Interest | Reese/Finch | gifset
Many of my favourite things I've done this past year have been gifsets. This one took about 8 hours to complete, and I was pretty much smitten with it from start to finish. Their faaaaces. It kills me. All the pining.

Soulmates
Life on Mars | Sam/Gene | gifset
This poem appeared on tumblr and I just had to apply it to synchronized policing husbands. I'm still amazed by how many notes it got! My OTP lives on. I oversaturated the colours a little bit, but it doesn't detract from the overall message.

There's A Colour In Your Hands
Person of Interest | Harold/Grace/John | G-rated fic | 1336 words
Why do I love OT3s so much? I remember being giddy for at least a day after writing this one. Completely domestic fluff, with a tiny bit of angst sprinkled on top, because Reese is a giant sad puppy.

Day 2

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

- Give me icon requests? I did these for Life on Mars ladies recently, and it reminded me how much I thoroughly enjoy the process. I don't mind which fandom, or no fandom, I'd just like the satisfaction of seeing someone use a thing I made while they are blogging. (Is that weird? There would of course be no obligation if you didn't like them that much, um.)

- Person of Interest Root/Shaw fic recs or meta, specifically those that deal with the stuff that went down in the second half of Season 4. I started a fic called For Sacrifice (spoilers) to try and fill in the gaps between episodes from Root's perspective, and then realised I just don't have a clue what to write. What is Root doing when she's offscreen? I'd love to read other fan theories on that, and hopefully get some inspiration for my own WIP too. (Doesn't have to be Season 5 compliant, although I don't mind spoilers on that front.)

- Short (< 30 mins) podfic recs. I was really into listening to podfic a couple of years ago and then I somehow lost my way. I'd like to get back into that if I can.

Day 5

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity?

I started writing and reading fic with Harry Potter, then discovered Doctor Who which I didn't properly write for but it provided a bridge to Life on Mars fandom, where I have been content writing fic for nearly 8 years now. There has been the odd foray into Torchwood, Starsky and Hutch and Cabin Pressure, but I've always come back to LoM. Just in the past six months I've discovered Person of Interest and been completely captivated by it.

My name is...I find it a great comfort that... however far away I am from people I love, barring a sudden relocation to an alien planet, we will always be under the same sky. Sky became my fannish nickname slightly by accident, but after several years I feel like I fully own it. I love meeting up with my best fannish friends and hearing them call me Sky in person.

Current Mood: awake

Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Dust Yourself For Fingerprints And Grin
Life on Mars (UK) | Sam/Gene/Annie | NC-17/Brown Cortina/Explicit | 3676 words
Because I reread this last night just on a whim and quite objectively thought...this is pretty good. The pacing is good, the characterization is good, try as I might I couldn't find a sentence that I would change if I wrote it again. I like how Annie is in control, how she divides her attention between them, their sense of teamwork. I love the shift of atmosphere from winter cold to cosy warmth.

Harold's boyfriends appreciating his genius
Person of Interest (CBS) | Harold/Nathan and Reese/Finch | Not rated (SFW)
I finally learnt how to gif in 2014 and this is my favourite thing that I posted. Finch has shot right to the top end of my all-time favourite characters list, and people praising him just makes me happy. His humble reactions to said praise reaffirm how flipping gorgeous he is.

Slow Dance
Life on Mars (UK) | Sam/Gene | G/White Cortina
Not from 2014, unlike the first two. Because I'm still not someone who can do fanart (however much I wish I could), but I'm forever proud of how this manip turned out.

I wrote a fic for

martianholiday and it turned into a bit of a strange beast for which I created an AU. In case anybody is remotely interested, I'm posting my thoughts here. This won't make much sense to you unless you've read Why Are We Running. If you wish to remain unspoilered for the entirety of Ashes to Ashes, especially 3x08, don't click on the cut.

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Aima asked for a Gene's ties masterpost. I...may have taken it a bit seriously. See also Rebel's shorter version. <3

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Will try to keep this updated with any podfics I record, and put a link in my sidebar. Let me know if the downloads don't work from SoundCloud.

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Title: Build Me A Home
Rating: White Cortina
Pairing: Sam/Gene
Wordcount: 576
Notes: For

thesmallhobbit, as she sadly missed out on one of her presents for

martianholiday. Happy Christmas, dear!

( He looked out and saw a large snowman. )

Current Mood: cheerful

20 Life on Mars icons for scifi20in20, because a) I can't stop watching this damn stupid beautiful show b) I am still such a newbie with Photoshop and c) I can't resist a sign-ups post even when I already have my work cut out. :P