Fic: Written for Unsent Letters (2023)

Thu, 11 May 2023 08:26:03 GMT

Now, then; Unsent Letters opened earlier this week. My contribution this year was a Stargate/Indiana Jones fusion, thusly:

Studies in (Relatively) Contemporary Egyptology
Written for: Huntress79
Fandoms: Stargate SG-1, Indiana Jones movies
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~3200
Relationship: Daniel Jackson & Indiana Jones
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Cassandra Fraiser, Janet Fraiser, George Hammond, Indiana Jones
Additional Tags: epistolary, stealth crossover, multiple crossovers, Easter Eggs, footnotes

Egyptology is one of those academic disciplines in which everyone inevitably knows everyone else. Sometimes this is a good thing...and sometimes, it makes one's life inordinately complicated.

This was, as the additional tags indicate, my excuse to stuff all of the Egyptian pulp adventure cross-references I could conjure up into one manuscript; I put a warning in the introductory notes that readers wanting to find the Easter eggs for themselves should skip the footnotes on the first pass. (If there were a tradition of author-guessing in Unsent Letters, sanguinity would certainly have pegged this one as mine from that warning alone, let alone the footnotes themselves.)

This particular set of footnotes, though, differs slightly from my usual style - most of the footnotes included links to in-universe sources for the cited persons or canons. I did that for two reasons: first, it seemed appropriate to the scholarly voice in which I was writing the footnotes, and second, some of the references are to material I couldn't be certain my gift recipient was familiar with. (That said, there's one case where one needs to follow all the way through to a footnote in the linked fic to get to the actual punchline.)

Fortunately, my recipient expressed sufficient enthusiasm in the response (the term "tacklehug" was used) that the effort appears to have been justified. ;-)

Next official deadline is Holmestice, although I've also been noodling at one of the multiple delinquent intoabar stories I've managed not to post over the last several rounds, and at a fic project that's been percolating for more than fifteen years (!) but is finally within shouting distance of actually being finished.

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Fic: Odds and ends

Mon, 08 May 2023 23:32:42 GMT

While prowling through my files this afternoon, I ran across a couple of small things from an old LiveJournal discussion of crackfic that I realized I'd never thought to upload on AO3. This has now been remedied....

Getting Things Started
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Muppets
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: 160
Characters: Buffy Summers, Dawn Summers, Kermit, Scooter
Additional Tags: crack, crossover, commentfic

"Tell me again" said the frog, "why we got such a good deal buying this theater."

Gargoyles, She Wrote
Fandoms: Gargoyles, Murder She Wrote
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: 300
Characters: Owen Burnett, Jessica Fletcher
Additional Tags: crack, crossover, commentfic, murder, triple drabble

It was almost refreshing when the hostess of the present banquet ran screaming into the dining room and straight into Owen's arms, gasping out an urgent cry for help between inarticulate wails.
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As the Cardinal Flies

Fic: Written for Unsent Letters (2023)

Fic: Odds and ends