Arctic Light

... I got my au_challenge bingo card!

Circus AU	Military AU	Dark Academia AU	Role Reversal AU	Single Parent AU
Vampire AU	Tattoo Parlor AU	Online Dating AU	Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies ‎AU	Fashion/Model AU
Royalty AU	Different Powers ‎AU	Free Space	Gender Changes AU	Merpeople AU
Ancient History AU	Fantasy AU	Shifter AU	Thriller AU	Lifeguard AU
Sugar Daddy AU	Victorian AU	Dragon AU	Modern AU	Space AU

You get the option of swapping some of them out, and I can definitely see some on here that I either don't want to write or don't want to write for the specific characters in my current fandom, but I'll think about that in the morning.

Some of them are amazing, though. Along with a few of my perennial choices (shifter AU!) just imagine them as squabbling academics. Or Erich as the single dad next door. Or what roles they'd all have in a circus .... Now distinctly tempted to send the canon characters undercover in a circus.

... and it arrived with a light frost that took out most of my herbs. Alaska, I love you, but we might have to see other people if this keeps up.

I (a fool) decided to kick off June by signing up for tasty-looking bingo cards I probably will end up not writing anything for. I have requested two of them, first of all for July Break Bingo (instructions at the link), which looks really fun and features a wide variety of prompt types and customization options, and the other for scaldinghotcibingo (dubcon/noncon prompts) - I'm genuinely unsure how many of these will be relevant to my interests, but since some of them definitely are and there's nothing to lose, I thought it'd be fun to give it a spin.

A poll:

I have a bingo card and now must contemplate it. Suggestions are welcome, including combining multiple squares. It doesn't necessarily have to be for Biggles, though it helps.

Snakes on a plane	A mysterious coded postcard	Islands	Lost in a blizzard	Land mines
Passing out	Camel chase	An unconvincing disguise	Dinner invitations	Lost city
Sleeping together	A curative nip of brandy	WILD CARD	Besieged in an abandoned fortress	Downed behind enemy lines
Drugged hallucinations	Naked and dripping wet	Castles	Pirates	Secret rendezvous
Chased by wolves	Kidnapped	A quiet holiday for shattered nerves	Prisoner of war	Storm

hc_bingo is back, and I'm really happy with my card! Two versions of it under the cut, because I really didn't like their background this year at all:

( My hc_bingo card - original version )

( Modified version )

Because I obviously need more bingo cards, I got one for tic_tac_woe, the marvelously named apocalypse mini-bingo challenge.

Reality is a dream	Human error/accidents	Sentient hostile planet
Psychic storms	WILD CARD	Doomsday device
Buried by garbage	Flooding/erosion of land mass	Super volcanoes

I can't help thinking this one works remarkably well for superhero fandoms.

I posted another fic tonight (finishing up something I'd been working on for awhile).

Jumping Without a Net (Agent Carter, 3400 words, Peggy + Jack gen w/background Peggy/Daniel; Peggy has a parachute malfunction.)

This is for my h/c bingo "protection" square, and I have now finished a line on my h/c bingo card! \o/

Under the cut is my card with all 13 currently-completed fills, in case you missed something. (Which you may well have; I got kinda sloppy the last couple of months about properly cross-posting/putting up notifications of my fic. I'll aim to be better about that in the new year.)

( Filled-out bingo card )

For the first time ever, I didn't sign up for an h/c bingo card last year (too much to doooo!) so I decided to do the February mini-challenge, where they give you a square of 4 prompts (one is a wildcard) and you have to do a fic that incorporates ALL of them.

Uh.

WILD CARD	orphans
panic attacks	confession in desperate situation

It's the "orphans" part that really throws a monkey wrench into things, because the last two go together really well, and I can of course insert anything I want into the wildcard slot. But. Orphans.

(Though, come to think of it, I can think of a possible way around that one ...)

I have now completed a bingo on my h/c bingo card! At this point you can either do a new bingo on the same card, or request a new card.

I decided to request a new card.

This may have been a mistake. *g*

( New card! )

They've changed some of the rules and opened it up to everybody, even if you didn't complete a fic for the first round. Signups are here (on LJ) or here on DW.

( My card and some comments )

ETA 9/1/11: And that's a BINGO!

Title: Regroup and Recover
Word Count: 1600
Rating: PG
Pairing: Basically gen; brief mention of canonical Rodney/Jennifer and Ronon/Jennifer
Spoilers: Missing scene for "Enemy at the Gate".
Summary: A little Ronon & Rodney wrap-up for the events on the hiveship. Written for cliche_bingo square "Episode Tags & Missing Scenes".

( Regroup and Recover )