The Same Watari As Always

Remix reveals are up and I realized I'd never recced my original remix because I am basically failing at LJ these days. So!

daegaer wrote You Can Call Me Al (The Clubbed to Death Remix), a spin on my own "You Can Call Me Al," a Schuldig/Crawford I wrote way back for springkink. It was really fun to see the 'other half' of the story and I laughed like hell. She also managed to portray, brilliantly, Schuldig's mental state; no small feat considering the premise.

I wrote two stories, one regular remix and one quickly written Remix Madness fic. As usually happens in these cases, the quick one has way more hits and kudos. I like the story but I wish I'd had a bit more time with it.

But! I still like them both.

Cafe de I'Europe (The à la carte remix) is my first Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji story ever, remixed from phoebe_zeitgeist's The Second of our Reign, about Ciel working very specifically to help Sebastian with...a certain problem. My remix is about Ciel going shopping.

The Madness fic was Restored (The More or Less Functional Remix) which is also the first (and possibly only) time I've written Clint/Coulson. I seem to be in a place where I will take any excuse to write hearing aid fic. I'm okay with that. The original work was Only Human. by marieincolour. I liked the way Marie worked the contrast between Clint and his superpowered teammates in the fic, but I backgrounded that in my remix and focused more on his relationships.

I also realized I never claimed my ShipSwap, where I wrote Todd/Lydia from Breaking Bad. Fuck yes horrible tasteless pairings.

The bad news about remix is that I have no new awesome author to follow, because Walks Like a Turtleduck, Talks Like a Turtlebuck was written by the fantastic ranalore. But that is the only bad news, and it's not really so bad, is it?

For my normal remix assignment I had seta_suzume and spent a good four days panicking that I might not be able to write FMA. But I dug in anyway, narrowing it down to four stories, then two, than one.

Wildflowers (The Long Way to the Light remix) is a POV switch, which I am not sure I've ever done before for Remix. The original story is from Dr. Marcoh's POV, and I wanted to see what the village would look like from an insider's perspective, and how Scar would've seen his community's restoration.

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sherlock_remix is up! Tons of stories in all kinds of genres.

I got remixed twice, which is super shiny! Both are remixes of John/Lestrade fic (THANK YOU REMIXERS I LOVE YOU TOO):

Nothing Under My Skin But Light, which is a remix of my bodyswap story Under the Skin

and

Doubles, a post-Baskerville story and rework of Whatever Gets You Through the Night.

There's some awesome stuff, and no one who participated is commenting because we don't want to give away the secret so PLEASE COME READ OMG.

One of the fun things about Remix is getting stories in fandoms you never expected. I didn't qualify in Merlin, but someone chose to remix my story Discretion anyway:

discretion (the consequences of valor remix) is a different, darker and rich take on my story.

And then someone wrote a Remix Madness story from my work!

Brutal Temperatures is a retake on my Black Lagoon fic Cold to Hot. YAY BLACK LAGOON FIC. YAY MORE BALALAIKA/DUTCH.

Life is good, friends!

EDIT: For some reason this didn't crosspost so I'm trying it again. Apologies if you see it, like, four times.

'Cause it totally is. And the anime/manga fandoms (among others!) totally need more love! COME FORTH AND LOVE, especially the fics I don't feel like I can comment on yet LEST I TIP MY HAND.

And if you haven't read any at lgbtfest yet, you are missing out on some fine stories, including this one about Calvin's Uncle Max.

Big Bang has slowed but not been forgotten:

T-minus five hours or so until Remix goes live, whee!

Also, I forgot to crosspost this, but I wrote zombie apocalypse Weiss Kreuz for queerlygen.

And last but not least, don't forget to check out the Springkink prompts, 'cause they are awesome.