Two End of Year Memes

Because it's already February, and I feel ridiculous not having posted them yet.

( 2013 in 37 Questions )

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Review of what I wrote in 2013

Fic

Wrestling:

Repeating Image - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/864512.html - Orton, Jericho/JBL, written for 50KinkyWays

A Short Week of Long Days - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/841108.html - Gail Kim 'n' Petey Williams gen-fic

Better Things - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/807143.html#cutid1 - James Storm gen-fic

Sherlock:

Better Man - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/848438.html - Not exactly Watson/Holmes.

X-Men - First Class:

The Mind Is A Fortress, And Life Is A Siege (Part 1 of the Becoming series) - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/846336.html - Emma Frost gen fic which sets up a series about Mystique (why do I do this to myself?!)

Romeo and Juliet:

Laugh At Love - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/843186.html - Mercutio gen-ish fic. That narrowly avoided being called "Shut Up, Mercutio".

Buffy The Vampire Slayer:

The Power of Words - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/835231.html - Giles gen fic written for the lgbtfest. Which might explain why I still call it that instead of it's new name.

Star Trek:

One For All and All For One - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/829194.html#cutid2 - Reboot-verse Jim Kirk-centric Team Enterprise gen fic. Set after the first film but before the second one.

Kill Bill:

My Brother Bill - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/815937.html - Gen Budd fic.

Fic-bits

Inception:

Excuses - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/829194.html#cutid1 - for the prompt "99 Words - Inception, Eames/Arthur, together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been"

Avatar:

Presents From Home - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/829194.html#cutid3 - Porn Battle fic for the prompt - "Grace Augustine/Miles Quaritch, Presents From Home"

Avengers:

Guarded - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/829194.html#cutid4 - For Such_heights's Avengers's kissing fest for the prompt - "Steve & Coulson, adoration"

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Only 9 proper fics, which is down on what I was aiming for, but c'est la vie.

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Best Thing To Wake Up To On Sunday

Glorious Austrian victory in the men's downhill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-olympics/26056243

Is he not just the most beautiful and lovely person right now :) (I am hideously biased. Ridiculously biased.)

I admit I'm more tickled pink because I'd totally written the Downhill off. I didn't even expect a medal, especially after I saw Graham Bell's ski-through yesterday. Because it looked very technical, especially the top section, and the snow looked like the hard ice you get on the Italian hills, which doesn't really suit the Austrians. Or so I thought, because I was thinking of Klaus Kröll and Romed Baumann who both belong to the Herman Maier school of "point skis down the hill, attack the mountin, win or bust" skiing*.

Because of this I was expecting Svindal and the Italians to do well. I think guessing 2nd and 4th place shows I wasn't too wrong, I was just working on out of date info about the Austrian skiing team.

Obviously this will be over-shadowed in the UK by Jenny Jones getting a bronze in one of the new events I refuse to acknowledge but I will spend lots of time on the Die Presse and Der Standard websites instead. The plus points of knowing other languages ;)

So far this weekend is going well sports-wise. Austrian victory in the men's downhill, Bjoerndalen victory in the biathlon (with an Austrian in second place :) ), Ireland beating Wales. All I want now is a Russian win in the team skating event and either a Kasai or A.N. Austrian victory in the men's 90 m ski-jumping. Scotland losing miserably to England has been the only thing that hasn't gone in a way that I could at least be happy with.

*Bodie Miller is also a member of this school. That was why he didn't like the look of the course. He was just getting his excuses in early.

Doctor Who Meme - Day 15 - Favourite Who-Related Tumblr

I'm very fond of the 'I Like Doctor Who' Project - http://ilikedoctorwhoproject.tumblr.com/ because they cover a wide range of Whovian topics.

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