So a few things today. I have three or four chapters ready of Daughters, I’ll probably post them later tonight if I’m up to it when I get home from the pub. The next chapter of a Few Words Too Many will be posted tomorrow morning.

I’ve posted a preview chapter of the rewritten Mad World, which came into my head as I was rewatching Elizabeth’s original rape storyline from 1998, making me fall in love with my originial Liz & Lucky. My first love was Lucky Spencer, and I never thought anyone else could be as perfect for her as he was. Of course, then they recasted him with Jacob Young and killed everything I ever loved about him over the next decade, but even before JY came around, I had already seen the beauty of Jason and Elizabeth, and like Elizabeth, I was ready to move past my own first love 😛

So please read the preview and if you’d like to see Mad World sooner rather than later, let me know in the poll. You can still change your vote 🙂

An awesome reader (Carla) answered my prayers, and sent me a copy of Surviving the Past, a fic I wrote back in September of 2002. I was going through a lot of things, and that story was my answer to dealing with some tough issues a friend was dealing with. It was a darker story, about surviving child abuse, and while there are things I might do differently if I wrote it today, it’s one of my few early stories I don’t want to set on fire. So if you’re interested in having me repost it (it’s over 25 chapters and it’s complete), let me know by replying to this. It’s a dark, and not always happy fic, but it’s close to my heart and I’m relieved to have it back in my possession.

By about June of 2003, I had written almost a hundred stories, most of them short little episode tags and short stories, and nearly half of them were lost in a combination of computer crash, domain data loss, and board bannings. If you ever come a cross a story that is not posted here, but is by me, let me know. I have a folder full of lost fics I need to add from Liason Undergound.

We’re going to say I updated on Monday as  I had planned, since it’s 11:30 PM London time, and that’s close enough. I was looking at a calendar and realized that April 28 is only three weeks away, ha, and it turns out that I have a 12 page paper and a 15 minute German presentation due on the same day. Why I scheduled my German presentation the same day is beyond me, but such is life. I’ve only kind of dabbled in starting either, so tomorrow is being spent at the British Library researching the Permanent Court of International Justice before coming home to clean my room, hopefully get my LL2/Liason DVD edits in the mail before going out to pub quiz with some friends, whom I haven’t seen since we got back from separate vacations last week.

That entire spiel was to explain why I updated Daughters and A Few Words Too Many tonight rather tomorrow morning as normal. Chapter 3 for Daughters is online, and Chapter 5 for A Few Words Too Many is ready.

I don’t have anything else fancy to add, other than I can’t wait for my LL2 edits to come in. They cover August 1997 through November 1998, which is Liz’s rape storyline. I had those on VHS almost fifteen years ago, but they were lost in a fire, and I ordered the Liason DVD that covers August 1999 through April 2001. I will be one happy Liz fan this week 🙂 Expect a new Liz-focused layout once I get them in, rip them to my computer and screencap them.

All stories in the Alternate History/Alternate Universe sections have now had characters and couples added, so if you’re looking for a Patrick/Robin or Jason/Elizabeth story, you can now pick which one you want to read.  I had removed them, hoping I could utilize tags for this function and improve the layout of those pages, but it doesn’t appear to be possible at the moment.  I’ll be updating the Coming Soon page the same way.

Tomorrow, I’l be updating A Few Words Too Many, and hope to have finished another set of chapters of Daughters on Tuesday.

A few weeks ago, I previewed the opening scene for No Angel, profanity-laced revenge fic in which Lizzie Webber fixes the annoying paternity mess from 2006. I finished the story today, and have now posted it. It’s in the Alternate History section because it was supposed to be longer, and already had an image created, so I figured why not 😛

Other than posting the final part of Aurora Dawning tomorrow, I don’t plan any other updates until Monday.

I just wanted to note a change in the way you can comment on posts. In an attempt to prevent spam, I installed some plugins that required you to do math (which is annoying, ha since I have to get the questions right to log in, and God knows that’s been a disaster), as well as requiring everyone who wanted to comment to post their names and email. I’m removing both, hoping that will make things easier 🙂

Don’t you love London time? I’m in the middle of my morning here, at quarter to 10 AM and the rest of you lucky bastards are still asleep. Boo! Anyway 😛

Aurora Dawning has been updated through Day 5. There are two parts left, so this story will be finished on Saturday, and for the first time in many moons, all stories I’ve written and that still exist will be archived in one place.

I’ve started posting the new revised version of Daughters, so the first two chapters of that are up. I am nearly finished with the next two chapters, and may post them over the weekend or early next week.

Chapter Four of A Few Words Too Many is posted. The next new chapter is due on Monday.

In case you missed it, little Elizabeth ficlet, I Love The Way You Lie.

My writing and posting may slow a bit, as I have a lot to get ready for this month. I have a 13 page paper due on the influence of cosmopolitanism principles on early international law (which is about as much as fun as it sounds), and it’s due at the end of the month, along with a 15 minute German presentation. Oy. I also still have to write this silly dissertation due in September.

I’m home from vacation, but I don’t think anyone had time to miss me 😛 I wrote a little ficlet from a prompt in writing book and decided to plague you with my little Elizabeth story: I Love The Way You Lie.

I’m a bit sad, since they killed AJ off on GH this week. I knew it was coming, but it was heartbroken to see one of my favorite characters ride off into the sunset. They killed AJ off in 2005 during a period I was working and didn’t have a DVR, so I barely knew it happened. I have a few favorite characters to whom my loyalty is boundless–that’s AJ, Elizabeth, Dillon and Patrick. That’s it. I go through periods where I loathe characters (I always tell my mother that if I ever wrote the show, on my first day I’d blow up Sonny. I used to say Sonny and Courtney, then they killed her, and now I think I’d send Sam, Silas, Kiki and half the cast with them. But Sonny for sure), but these four can do no wrong. I will always find a reason to love them anyway. AJ was so deliciously damaged that there was nothing to do with him but build on it, but nope. Sacrifice him on the almighty altar of Sonny and Carly, even make his death all about them. I love Carly, but mostly because I write her in my head the way I want her to be, not how she is.

ANYWAY! The point of the above was to say the decision to kill AJ has actually spurred my writing a bit in some aspects, so it’s not all bad, but still…

I’ll resume reposting Aurora Dawning tomorrow, as well as add a new chapter of A Few Words Too Many, and the first two new revised chapters of Daughters.

For some reason, I wrote a ton of short stories in 2006, and four them were posted either at my LiveJournal or on my Yuku board but never made it the main CG site, so I, sitting on vacation and can’t sleep because this is my life and it sucks, figured I’d pass the time by collecting them and posting them here. I think I’m going to have to reorganize the short stories page. There’s too much going on.

Also, haha, the poll results have taken a sharp turn. The Best Thing is maintaining its lead by as small margin, but Counting Stars has supplanted Slide on the list, so the top three are: The Best Thing, Counting Stars and Mad World, but Damaged is coming up from behind and I probably wouldn’t count out Slide just yet.  I have no idea what I’m writing this summer 😛

I have got to learn what it means to be on vacation.

Also, because I have issues, I posted Chapter 3 of A Few Words Too Many

Precipice – Maxie/Georgie fic about grieving. Written before Georgie was killed in 2007.
Worth – Diego prison ficlet posted long before the fucker killed my beloved Georgie.
Two Strikes – Patrick/Elizabeth friendship fic in which she reveals her pregnancy woes.
Bad Taste – Jason/Elizabeth fic in which Elizabeth learns the sad truth about the man who fathered her child. Um, this is not a happy story. You should probably read at your own risk.

So I woke up at 6 AM to get a bus to get across London and to my coach stop by 7:15. Somehow, despite doing this, I still miss my 7:30 bus. I figure out what I did wrong, get another bus at 8 AM, but it’s a half hour late. By the time I get to Oxford, I’m exhausted, but still can’t check in until noon.

And for some reason, I spent the entire bus ride daydreaming about the new version of Damaged, which was originally slated to be an AJ/Elizabeth story, in the wake of him being cleared of Connie’s murder. It’s now clear that the morons that work at GH don’t love my beloved AJ nearly as much as I do (which I understand…because most people don’t) and he will not be cleared while he is alive. I can’t deal with writing about another character that got shafted, since I so regularly have to explain away Jason and Elizabeth in my stories over the last decade, and their moronic choices. (I can’t be with you or ever have a family. Ever. Except the moment our son is dead, the whore that watched him get kidnapped and threatened him can get her surgery, so we can go make a baby together we’ll raise. Whatever, Jason. Fuck off.) *cough* Ahem. Anyways.

So I updated that story description, as well as Mad World and Counting Stars, which I had finished plotting since I posted the poll. Those are the last stories that weren’t all together planned, so I shouldn’t have to update the poll again. If you’ve already voted, but like one of the new choices better, you have the option of changing your vote. Haha, I am super nervous Slide will win since I have done very little planning on that, but once you give readers the power 😛

New Descriptions:

1. Counting Stars – Set in 2000, after Jason leaves Port Charles the first time. Elizabeth asks Sonny to bring Jason home because she has something life-changing share with him. Once Jason returns, not everyone in Port Charles is happy to see him back in Elizabeth’s life, and may be willing to resort to drastic measures in order to keep him away. Would mostly be Jason/Elizabeth. Other characters/couples: Sonny/Alexis (friendship), Luke, Laura, Emily, Nikolas, Bobbie.

2. Mad World – Set in 2004. A huge ensemble story that begins with the rape of Ned and Lois’s daughter, Brook Lynn. Suspicion quickly falls on a specter from the past, which causes cop Lucky Spencer to wonder if he has what it takes to do this again, while Elizabeth struggles with her own memories in the wake of a difficult relationship with the father of her child. Jason is exhausted being who his friends need him to be, and Alexis learns that danger to children comes from everywhere, no matter who their father..  Jason/Elizabeth, Nikolas/Emily, Lucky/Original Character, some old-fashioned Jax/Alexis/Ned friendship, teensy Patrick/Robin (how could you have doubted me?), Ned/Lois, and some teens.

8. Damaged – Set in 2014. After AJ’s murder, Monica and Tracy struggle to put the fractured pieces of the Quartermaine family back together, beginning with Elizabeth’s son, Jake, and AJ’s son, Michael. Michael begins to believe that Sonny murdered his father, while Ava Jerome has an elaborate scheme to get what she considers her rightful inheritance–no matter who she destroys to get there. Characters/Couples: Michael/Starr (I loathe Kiki more than anything else in this world), Monica, Elizabeth, Tracy, Ned, Ava, Sonny, Carly, Todd (because no to Franco as well), Sam, Julian, Alexis (and others….who cannot be listed because you know…spoilers) Oh, and obviously I will be changing the crap out of the show. Jake never died  (because…just…no. I cannot write a world where my beloved Liason baby is dead.) Silas, Kiki and Franco do not exist. Morgan was never aged, because I have plans for Morgan and Cam to be BFFs. So…yeah…this story is going to be my FU to the entire last year of the show.  Will Jason end up being alive? I dunno. Maybe Ava’s plan involves the Cassadines. You just never know in my head.

Please vote in the poll if you haven’t already or would like to change your vote!

Hey. I was thinking about trying to post this Monday or Tuesday, but I’ll be in Oxford, and I may not have the opportunity. My plan is post it Mondays & Thursdays until it’s completed. Theoretically, that’ll be about the third week in May, at which point either These Small Hours or Tangle will start being posted, depending on which one is further along at that point.

I also added an updated story status post, if anyone is interested.  Day Three of Aurora Dawning and Chapters 8-10 of Yesterdays was moved over as well.

– A Few Words Too Many: Chapter 2
– Aurora Dawning: Day 3
– Yesterdays: Chapters 8, 9, 10
– Story Status Update