Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

Is it just me or is fanfiction.net always down? What fanfic needs is a good index site, not another malfunctioning archive. I don’t think a single one of my stories has shown up at Trekiverse yet, and I’ve been posting for over a year. (Ack!) Do I have to come over there and teach you people perl?

Site news: Claudia was begging in ASC so I decided to enter an old story in the Twelve Moons of JuPiter Awards 2001. The new deadline is November 4th, so it’s not too late to write your own J/P story for one of the many underrepresented categories.

I took the other award graphics off the story and made a separate page to house them: B’Elanna’s the Muse’s Award Shelf (not to be confused with the Jemima’s Trek Awards). I used a thumbnailer to make the little award jpegs - more details are available on the Technical Difficulties page. I used the “float” value for the first time, so the page may look odd in some browsers.

Aside from a little more housekeeping, that’s all that’s been updated. I have two very short stories in beta, but my beta reader has been hanging with Abby so it will be a few days yet.

To my fans who hoped or feared I would never write again: I’m back at work on the Seven Saga. I have three, count ‘em, three new paragraphs! No, I’m not a perfectionist when it comes to writing fanfiction, but research is another matter. I spent half an hour making up a Romulan word for “Borg”, with the help of The Universal Translator Assistant Project.

Most of the rest of the time devoted to the Seven Saga (my infinite retelling of the Voyager story from Seven’s perspective) has been spent on a meticulous reading of the first few relevant episodes among Jim Wright’s Voyager Reviews, along with some cutting and pasting of dialogue. I hate it when people transcribe the show and call it fanfic, without even the humorous stage directions provided by Jim, but I’m hoping that Seven’s perspective will be sufficiently different from the camera’s-eye view to avoid the Sin of Transcription. I guess it will be a paragraph-by-paragraph effort.

So far, I’ve spackled the most glaring discontinuae in Seven’s history, though her fluctuating age and the Earth question are still at issue. If anyone has picked all the nits, do email me with the details.

On to the new: I made an Enterprise page and put it up at your friendly neighborhood Jemima’s Trek site (except the Crosswinds mirror: first, they deleted my account accidentally, and now they’re in some sort of backup mode–too late–and won’t let me upload). If Enterprise turns out to be the ultimate in Trek kitsch (and it’s looking promising so far), I want to be there for every Sato screech. “Hailing frequencies open” doesn’t begin to describe it, Captain.

Scott Bakula is already failing to act. No Shakespearean actors on this one, folks–we’re back to what the p’tak dragged in. I’ve always been a pushover for the strong, wooden type. If I can’t have Kirk or Chakotay (or first-season Shouting Spock, or even Odo in a pinch), I’ll settle for Archer. You can keep Riker, though–he was just slimy.

For the first time in several months, I’ve had the free time to putter, so I made this sunshine yellow blog after a flurry of posts about blogging on CSFic. (Visit Wikifection, the C/7 home page.) Of course, I should have been working on the Seven Saga, or any of my C/7 UFOs (unfinished objects). Maybe next time…

Well, I’ve gone trendy. Before I begin to blog, I’ll transfer the State of the Site here from my overloaded home page:

Testing…one…TWO…three…