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It's Not Exactly The Finish-a-Thon Master List, But It's Close Enough for Now.

I've received word via

watervole and

kalypso_v that

kerravonsen, your finish-a-thon mod, has suffered a major computer meltdown and is going to be offline for a while. The finish-a-thon must go on, however, and she's asked me to stop in here and ask people to please post their stories.

Now, bearing in mind that I have absolutely no moderatorly authority whatsoever (and thus can't do anything official, such answer any of your ficathon-related questions or grant you an extension because your dog died), I'm happy to collect story links right here until she gets back. Just leave 'em in the comments to this post.

I'm looking forward to reading what everybody's come up with! And here's hoping

kerravonsen is back with us soon.

[ETA: The official master list can now be found here.]

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There are no extensions, even if Rover bought the farm.

There are *exceptions* which means that you are let off the hook entirely without censure, provided you have a better excuse for not doing it other than 'couldn't be arsed' and are polite enough to give an explanation.

None of which changes the fact that I cannot grant either one. :)

Any certificates you issue would be null and void. :^)

Precisely. :)

I'm wondering whether I should post a list of links, by the way, or just let people find them here in the comments. I'm leaning towards the latter... I'm not sure exactly when

kerravonsen will be back, but I don't want to step on her toes.

If twas me, I'd just leave it as is.

I think that's what I'll do. She can certainly read all these comments herself when she gets back.

Well, I'm not quite back, only half-back, but as you can see, I've posted The Official Masterlist, and copied what I could from here to there.

Glad you're at least back enough to check in, anyway! I'll add a link on this one directing people to the Official List.

Lotions Master SNAP (Harry Potter, Harry/Snape, R)

http://kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com/509937.html

Evermore (http://entropy-house.livejournal.com/334847.html)
1,600 word Gen (suitable for all audiences) Blake's 7 story

(I had a tie in the voting and wrote 2 stories. Shall post the second in a few minutes.)

And here's mine, for the record:

First-Hand Knowledge (Doctor Who, gen)

http://astrogirl2.livejournal.com/374107.html

Persistence of Memory (http://entropy-house.livejournal.com/335320.html"). 5,500 some odd words. Gen (suitable for all audiences) Blake's 7 story.

Title: Wishing, Chapter 1
Author:

ravenna_c_tan
Word Count: 4392
Characters/pairing: Harry Potter, OCs (others come later)
Rating:PG
Warnings: Mention of drug use/addiction.
Written For: The Multifandom Finish-A-Thon!

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A/N:Okay, the plot bunny that you all voted for me to do is this one, but I knew the moment I started writing that it wants to be a whole novel and not a simple little fic. So what I present here for the Finish-A-Thon is, paradoxically, a start, Chapter One of what will be a novel when it is done. I know the Finish-A-Thon goal was to get 10,000 words done, but I am only posting the first 4400 or so, because it breaks very cleanly at one chapter here, and the next chapter gets quite hairy--and I am not cruel enough to leave you all at a cliffhanger for three months! (P.S. It needs severe Brit-picking, especially as regards the legal system...)

(fake cut to my LJ) (http://ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com/34914.html)

Title: Then Put Out the Light. (http://shimere277.livejournal.com/161209.html)
Fandom: Blakes 7/Babylon 5 crossover
Description: Having withdrawn from the B5 universe, the Shadows and the Vorlons find a universe where, as evidenced on an artificial world called Terminal, the evolution of sentient life is grinding to a halt. Obviously, their services are needed. The Vorlons decide to nurture and guide the galaxy's greatest force for order - the Terran Federation. Meanwhile, on Gauda Prime, the Shadows ask the question "What do you want?" to a desperate man named Kerr Avon.
Rating: m/m not explicit; PG-13

Title: Bloodlines
Fandom: Original fiction
Status: WIP
Word goal: 10,000
Word count: 16,397

I've listed this as a WIP simply because this was planned as a full length novel from the get-go. One day I hope to actually complete the beast without it undergoing yet more radical changes.

http://homepage.mac.com/axzanier/bloodlines/

Fandoms: Harry Potter/CSI
Description: The CSI team are witches/wizards, part of a new branch of the Aurors who are trained in dealing with magical trace elements, spell identification, etc. Now they've been assigned to investigate the scene of the battle in the department of Mysteries, to determine the exact charges against the captured Death Eaters, the culpability of any of the vigilantes who fought them, and to confirm or deny the presence of Sirius Black during the battle and his role in it.
Type: gen, though I reserve the right to hint at 'ships. Avatar fic, of a sort.
Rating: PG

WIP, unfortunately. The amount of backstory work I had to do (plus other RL things and sheer laziness) kept me from finishing this.

Find a teaser here, though: What Is Truth? (http://izhilzha.livejournal.com/130955.html?mode=reply)

I wrote Silent and Alone (http://vilakins.livejournal.com/234092.html).

Which is gen Blake's 7 - Vila is so depressed after the previous year and what happened on Gauda Prime, he withdraws and prefers his imagination to real life. All efforts to get through to him fail, and finally Avon takes him to Kaarn in the hopes that Dr Franton might be able to help him. When they get there, they find someone unexpected.

My apologies but I won't be able to post my offering in any timely fashion. Last month we found out we were being asked to move because for the second time this year our current landlords want to sell the place we are living in. This has forced us into trying to buy a house when we weren't prepared. My entire month has been spent looking for houses, trying to arrange mortgages, meeting with lawyers, so on and so forth.

I should have pulled out of the finishathon as soon as I realised we were moving again, but I held out vain hope even to today that I would be able to finish in time. The story is half written, and will one day be posted on my journal, but not, I think, before we move, which could be any day between now and March.

Again, I apologise to

keravonsen for not giving earlier notification, and understand perfectly if she wants to ban me forever from future particpation.

Best wishes to everyone else for their stories.

Again, I can't speak for

kerravonsen, but I know she was specifically asking people not to give advance notification, but just to comment when the master list went up, so I imagine you're fine. :)

(Good luck with the house, btw. I just bought one myself about a year ago, and I know what a hassle it can be under the best of circumstances.)

When I signed up, I thought I would have spare time to write it. I'm only about halfway through it. School and work (I'm a senior in college) have eaten up my free time, and my studies will definitely take priority over fandom. I do hope to have it up soon, but I cannot guarantee it.

The Agreement (http://azarsuerte.livejournal.com/318586.html)

Rodney/Anya, sequel to "The Argument" and third in my Just Desserts series, as elected. :-)

Kuroonningen (http://inkwell.estirose.net/weblibrary/viewstory.php?sid=25)
Fandom: Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Rating: 8+ (PG)
Summary: Anton Mercer and his son have dinner, discuss their lives, and deal (or not deal) with things.

The version that's currently up is the unbeta'd (but complete) version because I had some RL problems at the last moment. As soon as I have time to correct it (sometime in the next 24-48 hours), I'll post a note to that effect.

And it's now beta'd and finished. :)

In lieu of a good excuse for not finishing, I offer groveling. My non-excuses are as follows:

1) I wrote and it was awful. I don't want the two thousand words I wrote to touch my own eyes, much less anyone else's.

2) Apparently my Buffy muse has fled and won't come back, no matter how much I beg her to. The voices just don't sound right to me.

3) The lamest and truest excuse I offer is that I suck. I just plain suck. I'm sorry, and desperately wish I had a dead dog to trot out (which would be appropriate this close to Halloween), but I don't. My main reason for not finishing the Finishathon is that I suck.

I feel badly that I didn't fulfil my part of the bargain after the mods did such a terrific job of setting it all up, but I figure they were working to solicit good fic, which my offering certainly is not. Ah well, I've learned not to do this again. :(

You don't suck, babe. Your muse is just on a looooong hiatus. Besides, the person who got me into this mess could never suck. Just never. So there. (smooches jedi penguin)

I hope to have my story posted before the day is out, but I may be late because of storms going through our area. They have a tendency to knock out our power and/or internet easily.

I'm just letting you know in advance if this happens.

For the Finish-A-Thon, I am writing more of a long BtVS fic, Cuddly Predators. I've got several parts to post this evening, and have already posted the first of these (while it is the first of tonight's parts, it is part 5 of the actual story).

I hope to take advantage of the Finish-A-Thon's allowance to finish the story with a week's grace period so long as some of the story is posted by the deadline. Please let me know if, for some reason, posting now doesn't fulfill that proviso.

Here is the link to the part posted so far.

FIC: Cuddly Predators (Spike/Xander, PG-13, 5/12) (http://entrenous88.livejournal.com/482418.html)

I will update to this comment with links to subsequent entries for this story as they are posted tonight.

The second part for the Finish-A-Thon (Part 6 of the actual story) is here:

FIC: Cuddly Predators (Spike/Xander, PG-13, 6/12) (http://entrenous88.livejournal.com/482671.html)

Part 5= 1,246
Part 6= 1,706
Total Word Count posted so far specifically for the 'thon: 2,952

The third part for the Finish-A-Thon (Part 7 of the actual story) is here:

FIC: Cuddly Predators (Spike/Xander, PG-13, 7/12) (http://entrenous88.livejournal.com/483030.html)

Part 7: 1,388 words.
Total Word Count posted so far specifically for the 'thon: 4,340 words.

I havee not finished my finish-a-thon story. *hangs head in shame* But, I have posted what I have written.

The fic is titled "Sleeper."

Part 1 is here:
http://blakefancier.livejournal.com/480874.html

Part 2 is here:
http://blakefancier.livejournal.com/481275.html

I'm still in process of posting mine; between illness and commitments, I got pushed a lot closer to the deadline than I would have liked, and a lot of it is still in scribbled-on-paper format.

At any rate, what I already have up is here, at a community dedicated for the purpose:

watching_river (Book's Legacy)

The index post is here.

As of this moment, the story stands at 19,400 words; it was 14,300 when I submitted the story to the finishathon, so that's about 5,100 words of my 10,000-word committment. I should have the rest of that up some time tonight or tomorrow, and I'll comment again when I get that far.

Chapter 9 is now up; the story's up to 21,800 words, of which 7,500 were specifically writted for the finishathon. Hopefully, I'll have the last of it up by tomorrow, but I have some RL things to take care of this afternoon.

The story will still quite definitely remain a WIP even after Chapter 10 goes up; I'm thinking I may end up NaNo'ing it too, as the more I explore Mal's POV and River's role in a post-Chosen universe, the deeper the story goes, not like last year's straightforward adventure.

(Which, it just occured to me. That makes two years in a row I've written crossover stories without using any crossover characters for the finishathon. Heh).

I must to bow out as what I've written so far is unfinished. I won't go into all the excuses, the main ones being my daughter's wedding and my health problems took more of my energy than I expected, but offer my regrets. Perhaps, next time I can do better. I'm still going to see if I can finish the story and post it when it is done.

My apologies, for I too must admit defeat. Biology and Organic Chemistry have thwarted my efforts and consumed my brain. I probably should have realized that would happen before I signed up.

Man, I feel guilty about adding to the 'non-finished' pile, but...I definitely did not get 10,000 words. I wrote a lot more, but then all sorts of real life stuff piled up that could not be ignored. It's not my dog died--much happier! My uncle flew me to his wedding for a week and I had a string of house guests that required me to not ignore them while I wrote for hours.

The story is not really at a place where it would be satisfying for people to read.

Sorry :(

I want to post my apologies that I have not been able to finish my story. I wrote the rough draft out awhile back and meant to type it out/send it out for beta/revise it over the past few weeks but I wasn’t able to do that. I had a family emergency that caused me to be out of town for a week and I’ve spent the last week trying to get caught up on work and sleep because of it. Unfortunately writing and fandom have been the last things on my mind lately. I feel bad for making the commitment then backing out so I understand if I can’t sign up again. I just wanted to make sure and give an explanation.

SMEG! Lost track of this yesterday. Sorry. Emergencies happened, and I'm going to leave it at that. I'm off to post my WIP Buffy vs Jack the Ripper story, and I'll be back with the link within the hour. I did get more than the 5000 words I promised written, though!

Sigh. And someday I'll actually get Annie Chapman all dead and everything.

I've had to post over two entries...and I'm still far from done. Still, I made my goal and then some, so I'm satisfied. Hopefully, this will inspire me to keep going:

http://gileswench.livejournal.com/29393.html#cutid1

http://gileswench.livejournal.com/29484.html#cutid1

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At long last, Jack the Ripper! Well...a bit.