cornerofmadness

It did start out nice. BOTH my parents sent me Memes. Not this one but still




They made me smile with that. This was my last day of class barring the lab test tomorrow and it's a little bittersweet because two of my classes were pretty good, one I won't miss much (and I suspect the feeling is mutual)

Then I got hit with those news articles again, conservative relatives shit posting and then me spiraling and doom scrolling. Tell me to stop



For the last few years I've done getyourwordsout yahtzee prompts and always go for the trickiest, 5 stories, same character and all within 10 words of each other word count wise. tell me it's okay to cut 500 words from the ones that are 2500 words vs trying to get the two who are only 1900 words up to them.


Last Year I rewatched Emergency! a show I loved as a kid and while yes it is a bit showing it's age not surprising since it's from the 70s. What you might not know is it's a spin off of Adam-12 which was a spin off of Dragnet. So I decided to rewatch Adam-12 (on the same station as Emergency!) and that is...not going as well.

In a way it's frakking depressing because this came on the air the year after I was born in the late 60s. And everything they were worried about then, police brutality, drugs, racism etc...nothing had changed. Yes it has gotten better but we're standing on the precipice of sliding right back and that's depressing. It's also obvious we were still afraid of Nazis in the 60s (and still are because they ain't gone anywhere) and shockingly only a few episodes have referenced the Viet Nam war but I'm only in S2. I doubt I'll make it to S7.

On a show level, yes Reed is still cute (I had a crush on him as a kid) but man the acting in this is truly sub par. Malloy, the older partner is a stiff and a bore. Reed is a bit of a chauvnist (not by 60s standards but still) And a lot of the supporting actors aren't that good. This was one of the ones better in memory.


Have some community recs. I'm debating on this one summerofhorrorexchange I would enjoy it BUT do I have time.

I'm still angsting on what I could cross over with The Owl House to do intoabar because I'm not sure I'm up to another Prodigal Son/Lucifer though I could...

Then there's smallfandomfest but I don't actually have one of those but you might. Actually Ghost Hunt would probably count. Oooo I could use that for The Owl House crossover. Where are my ghost hunt manga?

First a few things I keep forgetting like

And I wanted to boost the signal for fandomtrees again. There are still a fair few entries with no or only 1 gift. I'm pretty much have written everything I can. here's the spreadsheet if you feel like making some gifts. And since I know I have Guardian fans here there are three guardian requests here. two of which have 0-1 fills Not sure if its rare pairs or what or the fact there are only 3 people interested but I thought I'd boost this (that's the biggest problem with multi-fandom projects too many small fandoms and no one writing for them that and some requests are a little bit out there)

For Day 8 of the 12_daysofficmas I have a ficlet
Title: Bullets & Birthdays

Fandom: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Summary/Teaser: Jack hasn’t shown for her birthday but Phryne hasn’t given up hope.

Click on title for the story

But before I get into that I bet you're wondering what fuckery happened to Dana today. Well let me tell you. Last night when I went to bed to read a bug was on my arm. I went to shoo him off. He flew into my mouth and I had to taste him. After that he had to die.

Today I went to town after 6 items from Kroger's, my interlibrary loan book and my meds. Came out of Kroger's with six bags of groceries (go me), got the book and the meds. Stopped at my local coffee house which was even SLOWER than usual (which is pretty turtly) and they gave me iced coffee instead of a hot mocha. They forgot to ask and I forgot to specify and I was not going to ask them to redo it. At least it only had a little ice (my biggest bitch about iced coffee is you pay 5$ just like the hot coffee and you get a huge ass glass of ice and no coffee).

I get home and put away my meds which I did check to see if I had everything. Well I didn't look in the individual bags and for some reason they gave me vial insulin and not the pens. Furious I call. Well the pharmacy back home didn't send my usual pen insulin. I don't know why, maybe it was expired. Instead they sent it, not from the nursing home which used pens, but from the HOSPITAL back in March. CVS has agreed to exchange it (I hope they made notes) so now I have to go back to town (15 miles) tomorrow. Oh well. I'll just go to the Y while I'm there.

So fannish stuff. I've been seeing some backlash again the live action Cowboy Bebop over Faye's outfit. Apparently a whole lot of misogynistic, probably INCEL fanboys are annoyed she's not dressed like a hooker with balloon boobs and a six inch waist. It's been so loud and bad (I'll link you if you want) that I'm actively reminding myself not all men in fandom suck.

I've also been seeing a lot of backlash against the upcoming Spiderman movie about how out of character it would be for Dr. Strange to magically change the world 'because a teenager asked him to.' My favorite rebuff of this was the person who posted a gif of Strange rotting an apple as he played with time. Yeah not so OOC. However, let's unpack this a little.

This is not just any teenager. Peter and Strange fought, died and resurrected together. They are comrades at arms. Setting that aside and at the risk of spoiling the ending of Far From Home (which I hated that ending) Peter's secret identity has been exposed and he's been accused of murder. He is at risk. Everyone he loves is at risk from Aunt May to MJ to Ned. The danger here is real from super villains to normal people angry of Mysterio. Canonically we have what happened to Tony when he outed himself as Iron Man. He lost his home and nearly lost Pepper.

Strange isn't caving to the whims of a teen. He's saving lives. And let's face it, he's an arrogant douche (I still love you Stephen) It's too dangerous to do this? Yeah, I can handle it. I'm still on the fence actually about this movie (Having Strange in it helps me) because I didn't like that epilogue in the last movie but I'm sure I'll see it eventually.


Speaking of fannish things, I was looking on my work computer for something and saw a folder with my name on it. I opened it and it turns out it was full of stories. I don't know if this was back when I had a floppy disc drive at work and I pulled off all my old files or when a website that still had my Buffy stories on it) One of the stories was a Dawn/COnnor Deep Blue Sky. I didn't remember it (not surprising, I'm prolific and forgetful) I printed it out. It was for the multifandom lyric ficathon. It's NOT finished. It would have been very rare I didn't finish something I was writing for someone else. I looked on the home computer. There is no file for this (so Dana go bring those files HOME) It's not on FFN. I have to assume I didn't finish or if I did it was somewhere else, probably long gone but I put almost everything that didn't contain sex on FFN and even if it did, I edited those scenes out. (I never did write too many pwps) It is curious to me. I guess I have another one for wipbigbang for next year.

And like a yutz, I looked at the Whumptober prompts and now I'm writing something for it as if I had time.

And have some fandom recs but before that, happy birthday to fauxlore

Prodigal Son

Feels Like Home Ch 9

see it through

wanted




Oher Fandoms

morning mud Superman

Quarter Past Midnight 911 Lonestar

Far Out Dust The Mandalorian

Bollocks to the Prime Directive! Lucifer/Star Trek

Love Beans Trixie Belden/Jupiter Jones

The Legacy: The Weight of Guilt Stargate Atlantis Poltergeist: The Legacy Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Hatter Through the Looking Glass Stargate Atlantis Alice (TV 2009)

(Red Alert) Out the Window Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka MagicaThe Knick (TV)

Harvest Festival: Canada Stargate Atlantis

Cheertastic Hawaii Five-0

More nonsense happened with the doctor's but it's late and I'm tired and I want to write so I'll save that for tomorrow.


Have two things I wrote

( Hearth and Home: Star Trek Picard (post S1) )


Title: The Wranglers
Author: cornerofmadness
Prompt: Gil Arroyo goes into a bar and meets…Chloe Decker!
Fandoms: Prodigal Son, Lucifer (TV)
Word count: 2069
Rating: teen and up
Contents: no real warnings needed, mentions of their serial killer-cannibal case but no details are given other than mentioning that’s what it is.
Pairings – gen fic but they are discussing Lucifer/Malcolm Bright hooking up.
Summary – Gil wanted to be sure Malcolm was doing okay after dealing with a serial killing cannibal only to find him taking the suave, handsome police consultant from L.A. home for the night. Deciding he was in dire need of some bourbon, Gil ducks into the neighborhood bar only to find Chloe has been wrangling her consultant too and she pulled up short for the same reason he did.

On AO3 here. or you can read it here under the cut

( The Wranglers )

Have fan recs

Prodigal Son

kick up the dust

blue and red lights

to dream forever

past the blood and bruise


Finding Home ch 14 WIP

Key Witness. ch 12 wip

the darkness hummed

Prospect Theory ch2 wip

Sanctify 🩸 ch 16 wip


Other Fandoms

black humours overflowing MCU - Wanda

Echoes Of The Past Star Wars

Darling T'Pril Star trek

Mom found two different Godzilla marathons and we've been watching them for days now. She has a scary love for the big lizard but she doesn't remember me having a model with glow in the dark back scales. who knows where that went.

I edited four chapters of my novel These Haunted Hills and I want some help holding my feet to the fire. There is NO reason I can't submit this by the end of the summer. It's been done for months. I have no outside editor at the moment so I'm going it alone but I've not been doing it. I need to get moving because I think this is one of the best novels I've written as Jana and I want it to have a chance.

I'm also thinking of signing up for fandomgiftbox again this year. I miss fandom stocking and this is very similar. I did sign up for the Pson trash server exchange. Also summer_of_giles is running again but I'm taking another pass on it. I have too many irons in the fandom fire.


I forgot to mention the dream I had the night before last. My mother, brother and his wife dropped me off at this hotel because I had a job there and they were going to leave my car down the street for me. Well I was there to assassinate someone in one of the rooms. I managed that (with some difficulty) and as I try to get out of the hotel, I realize Mom never gave me the keys to my car. I'm tearing through my purse to find the keys or my phone. I escape out into the street and there are tons of food trucks around and a street carnival lit with purple lights. I'm trying to call them to come back for me but I don't want to put them in danger as the associates of the dude I just killed were after me. I woke up at that point so I don't know if I lived to be extracted.

HBO Max passes on picking up Prodigal Son (even though it was the top thing they has running but whatever) We're still hoping for Netflix or Hulu. Frankly I'd rather it was Netflix. Trying to be hopeful. almost 900K tweets in a week. Also enjoy all the cancellations HBOMax because the fans are now super pissed at you.

All I really want is some good news

Instead I got an ambulance company who hasn't billed my insurance (fixed it)

An insurance company who has NOT clearly marked why my claims were denied, literally she couldn't find the ones I had in my hand. I'm like so are they paid? Am I fucked. HOW can you not know? I can't even file a grievance because I don't know what's going on.


My scar which looked so good has now spread widely at the lower end. It's hideous. Just peachy.

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


It's been a long time since I had a new fandom and canon that I wanted to talk about. Last year I got it back with Prodigal Son It's been since forever since I've found a show that I love and could write for. (For example I really enjoyed Lucifer but it rarely bunnies me). In one year I wrote @ 110 stories for this fandom, three of the novel length. What is it I love about this canon? For one the premise is interesting, Malcolm Bright is a former FBI profiler who is now working for the NYPD for the man who more or less helped raise him since he was 10, Lieutenant Gil Arroyo. Malcolm should have been a spoiled trust fund kid in the 1%.

However his father is the infamous serial killer, The Surgeon (and was a cardiothoracic surgeon), Martin Whitly now in Claremont pyschiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Malcolm's sister, Ainsley is a reporter and Mom, Jessica, is still locked in her NYC blue blood role, tempered with being ostracized for her husband's crimes for the last 20 years.

Malcolm is now paired with two detectives, JT Tarmel and Dani Powell who slowly warm up to him and with the medical examiner, Edrisa Tanaka who is absolutely infatuated with him. Malcolm is plagued with night terrors, PTSD, anxiety and other mental health issues.

SO there is plenty there to really dig into, not to mention we have Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Sheen, Bellamy Young, Tom Payne among others starring in this.

And now for what I find DIFFICULT about canon ( Spoilers )