Beta community seeks old fics!

[shamelessly stolen from blade_girl]

You remember those fics you wrote a loooong time ago, back when you were a mere budding artist instead of the accomplished unpaid professional you are today?

Well, I was wondering if we could sorta... borrow those charming fics of your yesteryear.

See, I'm working with several friends from the Tin Man fandom to create a beta community, and we want to be able to test prospective beta readers to ensure that we are choosing people with really top-notch skills. To accomplish this, we want to give beta candidates a test fic; they'll read and return their feedback to us. And we need as many stories as we can get our hands on for this purpose.

We'll be posting the fic to a separate testing community; the beta candidates will post their feedback in comments, which will be screened until such time as the candidate is accepted. We won't be actively promoting the test comm, but it's definitely going to be visible to anyone who cares to go look at it.

If you have some old stories, I urge you to consider letting us put them to this very worthwhile use. If you prefer, we would leave your name off the fic, but we kinda like the idea of keeping the names on - it demonstrates that everyone had to start raw and unpolished before they reached the heady heights of skilled wordsmithery.

I really hope some of you will be able to help me out! Any fandom is welcome, and the more the merrier; it's hard to find "old" fics in a fandom that's less than four months old. ;) Consider this a way of giving something back to fandom by helping others to raise the overall quality of fanfic writing.

And a thousand thanks for your help!

ETA: If you could see your way clear to pass this along in your own journal, we'd be very grateful. :)

Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf

Le Pacte des Loups, a.k.a. Brotherhood of the Wolf, was a pretty cool movie, though about an hour too long IMHO. TODS had seen the first twenty minutes on the plane to France and then they didn't have it on the plane on the way back, so we made a point of renting it. We watched it in French with English subtitles.

The hero reminded me of Stephen Maturin from the Patrick O'Brian books - not physically, but in his scientific approach to things. His Iroquois sidekick suffered from some "noble savage" stereotyping but in the fight scenes, he was poetry in motion. Mm, mm, mm. The plot didn't make a lot of sense, but it was fun to watch. There was an interesting inversion of the usual association of chaos/evil with wilderness and cosmos/good with civilization, and a very peculiar perspective on the Revolution (the film takes place about one generation before).

Challenge Drabble: Preposterous

Title: Preposterous
Author: Amedia
Rating: G
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Imagiquest Entertainment. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Challenge: Challenge 06 - Laugh. Originally posted here.


The Witch laughed as DG sang that ridiculous nursery song about the two little princesses. What did she hope to accomplish by such foolishness?

She was still laughing as DG held out her hand to Azkadellia. How could such a simple gesture have any effect at all? How could two little princesses holding hands thwart her carefully-laid plans for plunging the O.Z into eternal darkness?

Floors below her, she knew her servants were taking care of that ragtag band of upstarts who imagined they could destroy her machine.

Then Azkadellia reached out her hand, and the Witch laughed no more.