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Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fiction
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FANFICTION:

General Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by other people and corporations. I make no money from this borrowing of intellectual property, and intend no copyright or trademark infringement.

Organization: This list is organized primarily by fandom; within each fandom, it's arranged first by associated story cycles and then by date. Word counts and writing dates are approximations.

Warning Policy: Any story with explicit sex or other potentially problematic content (mostly death, torture, or various forms of psychological, familial, or societal dysfunction) will be marked as such; otherwise all stories are equivalent to PG-13 at most -- i.e., there may be some darkness, violence, or mentions of sex, but it will either be off-page or non-explicit. I do not use any content rating system unless I am posting to a site or community that requires or encourages ratings, because I think movie-style ratings are counterintuitive when applied to written fiction, and because I have never found ratings particularly useful for anything other than denoting the presence of explicit sex, which I am already warning for.

Quality Rating System: I've marked my favorite stories with asterisks, on a scale of 1 to 4. The more asterisks, the more I like the story. This doesn't necessarily mean that stories without asterisks are bad, just that I don't like them as much. Also, I am not claiming to be an arbiter of taste; you may love stories I dislike, and vice versa. I am just providing a heads-up about the ones that I think are best written and/or most interesting.

Harry Potter Fanfiction

Naruto Fanfiction

Angel Sanctuary Fanfiction

Chronicles of Narnia Fanfiction

Homestuck Fanfiction

Minor Fandom Fanfiction
(currently includes BtVS/A:tS, The Dark Is Rising, FF7: Mercverse AU, Inception, and Star Trek)

Miscellaneous Fanfiction
(currently includes American Gods, the Bible, the Black Jewels series, the Bourne trilogy, Captain America, Code Geass, The Darkangel, Death Note, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Glee, Gormenghast, Hexwood, The Homeward Bounders, Labyrinth, Lucifer, Merlin, Ranma 1/2, Rise of the Guardians, Saiyuki, Seaward, X-Men, and Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Crossover Fanfiction
(I do not cross-list crossovers under their component fandoms; this is the only place to find them)

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ORIGINAL FICTION:

These stories are all mine! *grin* I use the same warning policy and quality rating system as for my fanfiction.

All Original Fiction

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/683927.html

I am over the minimum wordcount for my Ladystuck Dark fic, but I am not finished by a long shot. I have... *checks outline* ...three more scenes to write. Maybe four, depending on how the last two play out in practice -- they are the ones that start to break the previously established pattern so who knows what might happen when the words hit the page!

This story is definitely in line with the dark!fic theme of this Ladystuck iteration, but I can't help finding it utterly ridiculous as well, if only because it is stolen lock, stock, and barrel from a hodge-podge of things I've previously written -- and which I will gleefully link to once authors are revealed.

Ah well, back to the salt mines!

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ETA, 1:15am - Success! Okay, so I missed the deadline by ten minutes -- I threw up an almost finished version ten minutes to 1 o'clock and then wrote the last 250 words or so in a frantic rush (and fixed some of the previous ones while I was at it), but hopefully that is close enough.

I think I may have ended up with more "creepy" than "dark," but again, that should be close enough.

Now I shall reward myself with milk and cookies, since I've already had quite enough alcohol for the night, whoops.

Current Mood: ever-so-slightly tipsy
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/691455.html

As seen in many places:

I currently have 66 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recently posted) to 66 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/690961.html

I have achieved 3/4 of the minimum wordcount for my Ladystuck Blind entry, which is due tomorrow night. I also have a general pattern for the not-yet-written sections, but fuck it, I am tired and cannot brain. I will finish the fic tomorrow.

(I think it will be stupidly obvious which story I wrote, but then, I say that with the perspective of someone who has of necessity read every damn thing I've ever written -- including all the things that aren't fanfiction, let alone Homestuck fanfic -- so probably it is more obscure than I think it is.)

And now to bed.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/690785.html

Today's achievements:

1. One old filling removed, one new filling put in, left upper lip and half my nose numb for nearly three hours

2. Three very full totes of books checked in and shelved; three roughly half-full totes returned (yay, we sold some stuff!)

3. Boss Lady left for her mini-vacation, which means I am officially IN CHARGE until Tuesday; here's hoping nothing goes wrong

4. Storm front finally blew on through after a few days of sporadic non-events; no thunder, but we got wrath-of-god downpour for a good half hour and then intervals of moderate-to-heavy rain for several hours thereafter, and the temperature is dropping like a rather humid stone

Current Mood: slightly damp
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/690511.html

Today was the local school district board election/budget approval vote. I was vaguely aware that it was approaching -- the Ithaca Times (our weekly free newspaper) ran a cover story on that subject last week -- but I never got a card telling me to mark the date. In fact, I only got the explanatory budget mailing yesterday! Dear ICSD, your organizational skills need work.

There were three slots open on the board, and the only three people running were the three incumbents whose terms just ran out. :-/ Last election there were a bunch of new candidates and some actual campaigning and competition. This year's lack of options is just sad. I wish some of the candidates who narrowly lost the last time had run again, partly because they seemed like reasonable candidates, and partly so the results wouldn't have been foreordained. Ithaca is very much a one-party town and while consensus is nice, the lack of variety is not good for governance in the long term.

I approved the budget and filled out a little exit survey on which I complained about the tardiness of the explanatory mailing. I doubt that will have much effect, but at least I said something. :-/

(School district votes always have the most appallingly dismal turnout rates. That is one reason I feel very strongly about participating in them! And one nice side effect of our reduced hours at the smoke shop is that now I can vote after work instead of having to start my shift twenty minutes late -- the school district voting time period is 12-9pm, you see, which has historically tended to exactly overlap my work shifts.)

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/690389.html

It has taken me over two damn years to put intention together with opportunity and actually do something, but tonight I finally registered with TCAT and bought a passcard. I put 30 rides on it -- which is the maximum you can purchase at a time -- since that carries a discount such that each ride only costs $1.33 instead of $1.50. Also I won't have to worry about having exact change for two bus rides (there and back again) every time I need to go grocery shopping. Victory is mine! \o/

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Hey, being a functional adult is hard and thankless some days. I take my triumphs where I can. *wry*

Current Mood: productive
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Current Music: Värttinä - Liigua (from Ilmatar)
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/690006.html

AKA, Liz's continuing adventures in RE arts-&-crafts. *sigh*

The top drawing was meant to be a picture about love -- either an illustration of the concept of love, or of a specific thing (or person) that I love. Except it seems to have turned into a variation of my old depression sketches. (Of which the bottom drawing is the only example I still have saved; I threw most of them out because who wants to dwell on that shit?) It's mostly open sky instead of jagged mountains closing off the horizon, but the weird color choices and the rhythmic repetition of forms are similar and rain is not what I'd call a cheerful subject.

(It can be a peaceful subject! Which is what I suspect I meant to draw -- soft gentle rain over trees and water -- but yeah, not quite what I ended up with.)

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I think I need to get more sleep. :-/

Current Mood: gloomy
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/689843.html

Fandoms: Bleach and Merlin (BBC version)

Conceit: The reason Excalibur destroys the undead? It's actually a zanpakuto.

Source: So yeah, this was a crazy dream I had last night. I don't remember much about it except that zanpakutos were a known phenomenon among the living, but were suspect in Camelot for being too close to magic, so people who had them generally hid the fact and Arthur didn't realize his sword was special because nobody had ever told him about zanpakutos for fear of pissing off Uther.

Also Gwen killed Nnoitra, either with a sword or something like Orihime's powers, because Gwen is awesome and women beating Nnoitra never gets old.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/689632.html

I hate multi-state lotteries. Hate them, hate them, hate them.

The Powerball jackpot is currently at at ridiculous heights. It has jumped twice since the last drawing on Wednesday night -- from $475 to $550 on Thursday, and then again up to $600 million by 1pm on Friday. I fully expect it to jump again before the drawing Saturday night.

Lotteries are interesting from a psychological/sociological experiment standpoint. At low jackpot levels, only regular gamblers and a few people saying "What the hell, why not?" buy tickets, so jackpots climb fairly slowly. But as they get higher, people seem to reach a mental tipping point where the potential gain outweighs the ridiculously terrible odds of actually winning. The first tipping point is somewhere between $100 and $150 million, but things don't really start getting nuts until around $200 to $250 million. In other words, the higher the jackpot, the more people buy tickets, so the faster it climbs, so the more people buy tickets, etcetera ad infinitum. (Or until someone finally wins, anyway.) It's a self-reinforcing cycle, aided by news organizations drumming up interest.

The frenzy brings hordes of people into the smoke shop, many of whom have no idea what they're doing and so eat our time in return for very little money, since lottery tickets have a profit margin of only 6%. (That means for every dollar we sell, we only get to keep 6 cents... or in other words, in order to earn a dollar, we have to sell $17 [okay, technically $16.67, but you can't sell 67 cents worth of lottery, so in real world terms it's $17].)

It's crazy and I hate it.

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Nonetheless, I duly chipped in $2 for our workplace pool. We won't win, but I think of it as purchasing hope. *wry*

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Location: ithaca, ny
Crossposts: http://edenfalling.livejournal.com/689340.html

the deep moans round with many voices

Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fiction

wherein Liz may have had slightly too much hard cider but is writing like a fiend nonetheless

[Meme] AO3 works

writing, bah

nothing really notable happened today

democracy inaction?

it's the little things that count, you know

landscapes of depression

free plotbunny seeks good home :-)

on lottery jackpots

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