State of the everything

[sholio]

We're at least a week ahead of where autumn would normally be - the fall colors already look like mid-September. This is the view out of the window of my office (technically the spare bedroom) right now:



I get to have a rachelmanija next week, and I'm crossing my fingers we don't get a fall windstorm so all this brilliant gold will still be there for her to enjoy!

I drove about 15 miles up the Elliot Highway yesterday evening (otherwise known as the Haul Road, it's the trucker road that eventually, in 500 miles or so, ends at the Prudhoe Bay oilfields) and took some more pictures, which are posted on Facebook. They're not locked, but you might need an FB account to view them. Because Facebook.

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The Jump Scare Exchange is a flash exchange taking simultaneous signups/nominations right now. (AO3 collection | tagset; signups end on the 4th, and the writing period is through the weekend.) I was going to do this, at least partly because one of the freeform tags is "Character Comes Back A Little More Wrong Every Time They Return From The Dead" and c'mon, this is actual canon in the Defendersverse, but I've changed my mind and decided to sit it out; I'd rather work on treats for AU-Ex and Fandom Giftbox. But if you feel like writing some quick Halloween/horror fic, it's there for you!

I also decided not to do the Netflix Originals exchange (signups now closed) and am skipping Multifandom Tropefest (signups thru the 7th), essentially for the same reason: nobody is really asking for or offering any of my fandoms, so rather than Being The Change I think I'll just focus my attention on other projects. I mean, it's not like I'm dropping out of the exchange-o-system entirely, or suffer from any particular lack of things to write.

As well as being signed up for Unconventional Fanworks, I am currently participating in the purple round of the Writing Rainbow flash exchanges, and plan to sign up for:

• Marvel Femslash Drabble Exchange (signups open on the 8th). It's only 100 words!
• trickortreatex (they're taking nominations now; signups open on the 11th)
• spook_me despite my abysmal record of actually finishing things for that. And I had a good monster last year, too! Maybe this year I'll requests ghosts and write that fic I've been kicking around in which Harold's ghost torments Ward and he doesn't know if he's hallucinating or not.
• Yuletide, probably with mostly rare book fandoms (totally asking for Matt Scudder fic)

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

Lovely autumnal colours!! That is one great office view!

[sholio]

Thank you! :D It's a nice thing to be able to look at.

[yhlee]

Oh, what a lovely view!

I have some trickortreatex nomination spots open since most of my requests/offers are already in the Eternal Tag Set; is there anything you'd like me to nominate?

[sholio]

Ooh, thank you! Let me check. :D All the Defenders shows are under the same umbrella fandom in this one, so 6 nomination slots are DEFINITELY NOT ENOUGH and I already had someone help me get some more of those in, but I'll have to look and see if there's anyone else missing that I might want to request.

[copperfyre]

Ooh, lovely photo. We seem to be having an early autumn too (though having just moved from central Alberta to southern Ontario it's not really registering as early to me, but the local Ontarians have informed me it is!).

[sholio]

Oh, it's interesting that it's not just us! I wonder if the shifting weather patterns are bringing early cold down from the Arctic or something like that.

[sartorias]

Oh I hope there are still some pockets of fall colors for R's visit next week!

[sholio]

Me too! Fingers crossed. They can go so fast, but there's still enough green that I'm optimistic there will still be plenty of color if we don't get a windstorm.

[timespirt]

Pretty, I'm so ready for fall.

[kore]

I'm trying to see what I could do for treats....

• Marvel Femslash Drabble Exchange (signups open on the 8th). It's only 100 words!

Yay drabbles! The MFD really gets my mojo going. Maybe I could do treats for this.

• [community profile] trickortreatex (they're taking nominations now; signups open on the 11th)
• [personal profile] spook_me despite my abysmal record of actually finishing things for that. And I had a good monster last year, too!

I love both of those, but I washed so bad out of spook me it was embarrassing. I had a great prompt too, and the idea was Nat and Baba Yaga. sigh. ToT is always fun.

• Yuletide, probably with mostly rare book fandoms (totally asking for Matt Scudder fic)

O RLY. (And I was going to ask you, did you see the graphic novel adaptation of 8 Million Ways to Die? It's really gorgeous)