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Only a bit late ;)

January - End of Year Social Media (and related items) Round Up
February - Fic - Twenty Years Later (1/1, post Blade: Trinity gen fic)
March - Formula 1 - Belgian Grand Prix 2024
April - Mini-book review: To Die For by Janet Neel
May - 30 Days of Star Trek - Day 27 - Character You Would Date
June - 30 Days of Star Trek - Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series
July - Formula 1 2025 - Austrian Grand Prix
August - Formula 1 2025 - Belgian Grand Prix
September - Formula 1 2025 - Dutch Grand Prix - A delayed accidental live blog experiment
October - Saints Ahoy - Game 29 and the 2024 Season to Date
November - Fencing
December - Formula 1 2025 - Qatar Grand Prix

Memes and F1, looks about right :)

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( Wrestling: )

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Fics unstuck = 1

Fics added to the never going to be finished pile = 1

It's not unstuck as many as usual but the one it's really unstuck is one of the longest lingerers so ...

1) Give me a pairing.

2) Give me an AU setting.

3) I will try to write you a three-sentence fic.

Spot the addition I made ;)

Pinched from

idleleaves

I've bolded the ones that I still haven't finished from the time I did this in 2016. Several of these have "real" titles they have developed as I've written them but they're not the title of the file.

Untitled Crossfire Fic
Untitled RDJ verse fic
CommentFic2017
Untitled Blade Trinity Fic 1
Untitled Star Trek Into Darkness Fic
X-Men First Class - gender swapped Is actually 3 fics, one both women, one each of the inevitable horror if only one is.
Swings_and_Roundabouts
Untitled GI Joe Fic
Dreamers Awake
The Woman That Walked The Earth
Replicants Fic
Sabin's Knees
3 First Times and 1 Time They Didn't
Untitled James Bond Fic
Blade Runner 2
Untitled X-Men Fic
Before the Impossible Planet
CastleAU
Doctor Who MPREG
Skip to the End
lgbtlist2007
lgbtfest2012
lgbtfest2011
lgbtfest2009
lgbtfest2009b
Henry V
Untitled Moulin Rouge Fic
Untitled Buffy Fic
ttss
Thor 2
Headmistress
lgbtfest2007
lgbtfest2010
lgbtfest2013
lgbtlist2010
lgbtlist2011
lgbtlist2012
OPI
Pornbattle
10candlewax
22Blindfold
32branding

Give me a pairing, and a situation, and I’ll write you 5 ficlets on 5 times that situation occurred Timeliness of replies not promised ;)

This is impossible.

There's some it's easy to discount:

Discovery and everything after it, I haven't been able to see because of the ridiculous streaming system

Enterprise and I never gelled due to their instance on making the Vulcans the bad guys way too often.

Voyager never had enough consequences for me to like it.

So that leaves me with three: TOS, TNG and DS9

And I refuse to choose between them. Utterly. Because they offer me different things, but they're all necessary things in TV shows.

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Normally I go with "Space... The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."

Because yes, to go out and find the new and see afresh is something I want to do and inspires me.

But recently, I've been thinking about the bit in "The Measure of Man" (or, "Data is not a toaster") where Picard says:
"Now, the decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this... creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of a people we are, what he is destined to be; it will reach far beyond this courtroom and this... one android. It could significantly redefine the boundaries of personal liberty and freedom - expanding them for some... savagely curtailing them for others. Are you prepared to condemn him and all who come after him, to servitude and slavery? Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life; well, there it sits! - Waiting."

Because right now, we have people trying to tell us that other people are "not us". And I think we need to say that people are "us" unless there's some pretty strong evidence that they're not. Different language, different faith, different way of coming into their present state, none of that makes people "not us".

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I am naming my starship after Dorothy Hodgkin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin Sorry, I remain a structural biologist.

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Neelix.

He can cook, he's cheerful, he once outsneaked Starfleet's best and brightest to rescue the woman he loved.

I am not sure why you would choose anyone else.

(Looking for photos for the tumblr version of this, I found this lovely article which explains my feelings better than I can - https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-neelix-leaving-the-vogayer-perfect-ending/)

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Given I have been running a fencing competition over Easter, Risa, definitely Risa. Even though I know it is not my sort of relaxation and I'd prefer doing historic touristy things because that's what I do (see also, half day in New Orleans which I spent in the Museum of Historical Pharmacy).

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I think I promised you all a rant for this one.

I have never seen an episode of Discovery, or Picard, or Lower Decks, or Prodigy or Strange New Worlds.

Why is that?

Well, it used to be that the shows would debut in the US and then 2 years later, they'd be on UK TV. Later, that changed to a year, or half a year. So you waited and, as long as you avoided spoilers, it was fine.

Nowadays, everything is on streaming services and never gets onto terrestrial TV so I have no chance. I don't have the money for twelve different streaming services so I don't bother with any of them. They don't release DVDs (or if they do, I haven't seen them anywhere) so I have no chance of watching them.

Desperately wanting to watch the recent Netflix version of The Count of Monte Cristo means I now have a new ahem-ing source (not that I could find a torrent for that Count), but when the only way most people can watch a show is by illicit means, that's not a good sign for television as a whole as a mass art form.

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I have already given my answer to this in "day 3 - Favourite Starship" because she my beloved NCC-1701 owns my heart. I presume they included this for the people who wanted to say DS9.

I must say, how 3D they made Yorktown feel was one of the reasons Star Trek: Beyond was my favourite of the new films.

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Given I'm now regularly spending 5+ hours at the weekend travelling up and down the UK, you'd think I'd go with the transporter, but I just cannot get past the replicator. If we could do that, we could cure hunger.

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Star Trek VI - Undiscovered Country

I think the three Next Gen films are solid, and I'm fonder of Insurrection than most people. (I refuse to acknowledge Generations, despite the better efforts of Malcolm McDowell and the Duras Sisters)

I am not a huge fan of Frat Trek, as you might have guessed from my nickname for it, but I blame the writing because the cast are doing their best. The third film, most removed from JJ Abrams terrible lack-of-vision, is by some way the best.

Two of the Star Trek films make me cry (the Slow Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan), I am the only person that doesn't really like Voyage Home, and I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Search for Spock because it was the first one I saw.

But I just love Undiscovered Country because it contains my favourite crew, lots of Spock being Spock, some fun aliens, and a superb amount of Klingon nonsense.

And the best possible ending for my favourite crew.

"Second star to the right and straight on till morning."

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I'm not sure quite what they mean, because even horrible characters like Gul Dukat are at least interesting. I think the nearest is Kivas Fajo in Most Toys (https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Most_Toys_(episode)) because he's got no good reason for what he does and what he does is so soullessly mean.

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Yes, I've only just got round to finishing them ;)

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My Year In Fic

Fics

A Man Who Trusts (1/1, TNA gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1379443.html

The New York Incident (1/1, Marvelverse gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1361675.html

Now I Turn Unto My Calling (1/1, Marvelverse Gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1365639.html

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent (1/1, AEW wrestling gen fic) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1372366.html

Out of the Ice (1/1, Captain America Gen) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1373734.html

Whiskey, Hotel, Echo, November (1/1, Torchwood and Captain America Crossover) - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1375889.html (Sequel to 'And yet they say you should never meet your heroes' - https://archiveofourown.org/works/34127452)

And a whole bundle of 3 Sentence fics - https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1366982.html

6 fics, at least two of which are expansions from the 30 AUs meme (https://redfiona99.dreamwidth.org/1333150.html). Not as much as I might want but justifiable I feel.

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I want to say Spock. I <3 Spock, he is my favourite and I wanted to grow up to be a scientist just like him. And I give a mean arched eyebrow.

Or Neelix, who is just the loveliest.

But I have to acknowledge, and the older I get, the more I get like McCoy. Who is science and curiosity too. Just there's a certain level of irascible I have to admit to.

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I could never really get into Enterprise, because they seemed to be determined to waste an interesting idea on "the Vulcans are always the bad guys".

I am not blaming the actors, because Scott Bakula has been good before and since, and Jolene Blalock was good in the episode of CSI (Vegas flavour) that she was in.

Some of the ideas had real potential, like Mayweather and the difference between planet-born people and spacers, and the-barely-into-the-Federation Earth still has a class system and how that changes. And then they do nothing with it.

I mean, I love Hoshi and Phlox (and Reed is my people to an impossible extent), but no one gets given anything to work with. (Actually, having a quick google about Hayes the MACO, Steven Culp said something really interesting - "It [Hayes's character and motivation] was sketchy at first. There wasn’t a lot on the page and I know that the second episode I did, I was kind of like 'why am I here?' Because he didn’t have much to say, but I took that as my clue. Man of few words – man of action. It was kind of an experiment with me, almost like a David Mamet kind of character. Someone who is totally defined by his actions.")

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I have to admit to not being quite certain what they want here. I'm presuming they mean "not Federation", "not Klingon", "not Romulan", "Not Cardassian", which doesn't really leave many people left over. There are some fantastically interesting people all the various ships meet, so I'm calling this one unanswerable.

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Unfortunately the summer I spent reading TV spin-off novels at the local library ended before I got around to Star Trek.

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