Prairiecrow's InsaneJournal

Painting to the right of me... fanfic to the left of me...

(Go here for a link to a reading of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson himself, recorded on Edison wax cylinder back in 1890. When I played it on our computer, Emmie, who had been sound asleep in one of the studio chairs, suddenly sat up and stared at the computer intently with her head bobbing up and down, licking her lips every so often. This leads me to believe that she is either (a) the reincarnation of the great poet himself reacting to the distant sound of his own voice, or (b) just weird.)

It's been a very busy couple of days.

The finished version of "Wishes", now titled "Sleepless" (in a classic example of Names That Should Have Been Obvious From The Start), is available here. Comments are sweeter than chocolate.

Off to work again, taking breaks every couple of hours to pound out the prose that's pouring into my brain from wherever creative writing comes from. Perhaps my own personal Muse. Perhaps the same dimension that swallows lost socks.

Yes, I am getting a little bit punch-drunk. Is it that obvious?

I found it, over at The ASCII Archives:

"What DID Hex put into that bomb?" Bob said miserably.

Go, and read. :-) There are some spelling mistakes and the phrasing is occasionally awkward, but the whole idea is so charmingly done that this story remains one of my favorites even though I'm no longer a ReBoot fan.

In case you don't know what the characters look like...

A pic of Hexadecimal.

A pic of Bob.

A pic of Megabyte.

And what the heck... pics of the entire cast!

I'm hoping that one of you who reads this blog can give me a hand in finding a copy of a fic that I read years ago, and which I just discovered I only have a partial archive of. It's called "Rabbits", it's Bob/Megabyte (from the ReBoot universe), and it has always been one that I remember fondly. Mighty were the cries of "OH NOES!" when I discovered that I only have about half of it backed up, and I can't find it anywhere on Teh Intarwebs.

(I know, it's a long shot. But stranger things have happened. And even if nobody DOES know where I can get a copy, I'm inclined to post what I've got to my blog because there's a chance that others might enjoy it.)

Courtesy of "flamingchords" over on LJ...

http://flamingchords.livejournal.com/212675.html

Seriously. Go read. It's deftly written, original, and very amusing.

Psst! New piece of fanfic, over here. It's DegSep (The Matrix alternate universe) and focuses on General Shepherd, the ex-Agent who heads the military arm of the Alliance.

My claim to write 30 stories for the Neo/Smith pairing (Degrees of Separation AU) has been approved over at 30_somethings. Hurrah!

I'll be using the "Flowers" prompt table, as described in my original post on this subject, here.

Now I just have to write the blessed things...

Before I go to bed, I have to point you all toward one of the best fan fiction "series" out there: The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire.

A word of advice... their effect is cumulative. The more you read, the more jokes you get.

Have fun.

The last part. Whew.

TITLE: "One Degree of Separation" Part 3 of 3
AUTHOR: Laurie E. Smith
FANDOM: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
PAIRING: Professor Hobby/Gigolo Joe
RATING: NC-17 (explicit sexuality, mild violence)
SUMMARY: After David's disappearance, Professor Allen Hobby finds himself at a bit of a loss and takes consolation where he can find it.
WARNINGS: Hobby is a scientist, so some of what follows is dry and technical. Hopefully there's enough juicy stuff to make up for that.
NOTES: I wrote this story after trying to explain slash to someone using the most unlikely pairing I could think of. Then it turned out that the pairing wasn't so unlikely after all.

You can find Part 1, including pictures of Hobby and Joe, here.

And Part 2 here.

( Joe thought he had everything figured out. )

Please, let me know what you think.

Another fan fiction dump. Hopefully folks liked the first part enough to read the second.

TITLE: "One Degree of Separation" Part 2 of 3
AUTHOR: Laurie E. Smith
FANDOM: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
PAIRING: Professor Hobby/Gigolo Joe
RATING: NC-17 (explicit sexuality, mild violence)
SUMMARY: After David's disappearance, Professor Allen Hobby finds himself at a bit of a loss and takes consolation where he can find it.
WARNINGS: Hobby is a scientist, so some of what follows is dry and technical. Hopefully there's enough juicy stuff to make up for that.
NOTES: I wrote this story after trying to explain slash to someone using the most unlikely pairing I could think of. Then it turned out that the pairing wasn't so unlikely after all.

You can find Part 1, including pictures of Hobby and Joe, here.

( How much was it worth, Joe? )

Part of an ongoing fan fiction dump from some recently discovered archives of stuff I worked on back in 2002 or thereabouts. Don't worry. I'll blog about other stuff as well, I promise.

If anyone's reading this, I'd appreciate a comment letting me know. I'm not inclined to post the rest unless I know it's being at least casually scanned by eyes other than my own.

TITLE: "One Degree of Separation" Part 1 of 3
AUTHOR: Laurie E. Smith
FANDOM: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
PAIRING: Professor Hobby/Gigolo Joe
RATING: NC-17 (explicit sexuality, mild violence)
SUMMARY: After David's disappearance, Professor Allen Hobby finds himself at a bit of a loss and takes consolation where he can find it.
WARNINGS: Hobby is a scientist, so some of what follows is dry and technical. Hopefully there's enough juicy stuff to make up for that.
NOTES: I wrote this story after trying to explain slash to someone using the most unlikely pairing I could think of. Then it turned out that the pairing wasn't so unlikely after all.

( First, some pictures of the parties involved )

You can hear samples of Joe's voice here. It might be helpful.

Ready? Here we go.

( David was gone. )

I ended up finding an online archive that has a few of my stories archived. I'll be posting them over the next couple of days.

Comments? Oh yes, please.

TITLE: "Confession"
AUTHOR: Laurie E. Smith
FANDOM: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
PAIRING: Gigolo Joe/Original Male Character
RATING: R (genteel references to male genitalia)
WARNINGS: Slash, although much more in terms of desire than of deed.
SUMMARY: A Catholic brother sent to minister to the inhabitants of downtown Haddonfield finds himself enthralled with an inhuman denizen of the mean streets.

( A brief account of my fall from grace, revealed in excerpts from my daily journal, follows... )