This was my first Yuletide, and where at first I was worried that I'd have to write one fic to a deadline, I ended up writing three fics! Two full-length
Lewis fics (Lewis/Hathaway Gen. Yes, gen, although I totally ship these two) and a
Computer Anthropomorfic treat.
A Quantum of Solace for Lalaith was my assignment. I was flailing a bit at first as I didn't feel very inspired. I didn't find the fourth season overly exciting, and going by the dwindling activity in the Lewis comm, I'm not the only one. So I re-watched the first three seasons, and boy, am I ever glad I did! All the love and excitement came back full force! I got the general idea for the fic surprisingly fast. Since it could have worked both as a friendship fic or a shippy fic, I asked the mods what my recipient would prefer; hence me writing gen ;-) I was very quick to write the first draft (well, quick by my standards), but I got stuck a little at fleshing out some parts. I'm actually glad for the pressure the deadline provided so that I had to kick myself, come up with some ideas and finish the fic; I would probably have given up much to easily otherwise. Overall, I'm satisfied with the fic.
Still head over heels in love with Lewis, the dkwilliams' prompt regarding Hathaway's opinion about homosexuality, based on the episode Life Born of Fire, kept nagging me, resulting in
Simple. At first, I envisioned a longer, shippy fic surrounding that scene, but I got seriously stuck halfway through. I think to make my original idea work, I a.) should have written in Hathaway's POV, which doesn't come as easily to me as Lewis' POV and which would have changed the nature of the scene in Simple completely, and b.) would have needed quite a few thoughts about religion and Catholicism. That's probably not my story to tell. Luckily I realised that the dialogue scene between Lewis and Hathaway could stand on its own if given a new intro and conclusion. I quite like how the result turned out.
Now for something completely different: My madness treat
if [ $FLAMEWAR ]; then make love; fi. I got that plot bunny as soon as I saw the fandom on the nominations list; the story practically wrote itself. Making jokes about naughty-sounding Linux commands isn't a new idea, but I've never seen fic about it. Although I love this fic, I'm surprised about its popularity; after all, the fic is very geeky and I wouldn't have thought there'd be such a large audience for that.
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