aneas

Have you ever had the kind of week that's so crazy and cruel you just want to curl up under a table and cry yourself to sleep? The kind of week where everything is horrible, people are especially stupid and you can't find a single reason to get out of bed?


That's not the kind of week I had. Last week was amazing. AMAZING.


I finally posted the second installment of my Mer!verse, The Taming of the Shrew. It was a lot of work, and without the help of my lovely, lovely betas cookie, jerakeen and akavertigo, the story would have been a lot worse. They've been so patient, so gracious, so supportive I don't know what I'd have done without them.

And then, to make the week even better, the lovely diane_mckay made a Podfic of Too Mer to Woo Peacebly! How lucky am I, really? The luckiest!!!


By now you all know how I think Podfics are kind of the best invention since the apparition of chocolate covered pretzels. I'm in awe of the work podficcers made, of all the care and the time they give us. A good reader brings out things in a fic that sometimes you pass over. They make fics alive in a way that allows you to savour the words, to really enjoy them in a new and different way.

I think we don't thank them enough for all the love and time they spend in their works. And that's why I decided to thank them, one artist at time.

Let me tell you about my crush on podklb. She's a true artist. Her voice is fantastic, and she has a way with her intonation that it's truly magic. She's also, one of the most consistent readers out there. Her work is so cohesive that it doesn't matter if parts of her work are weeks apart, you won't be able to notice it. It's truly gorgeous experience to hear her reading, because her cadence is mesmerizing and her voice is delicious. A joy to your soul.

I was so in awe with the work she made with passe_simple's Forever, Now that I made a cover for her Podbook of the story. She was pretty pleased with it, so I made her another one, the cover for her incredibly amazing Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology. Before I knew it, I was amking her covers for almost everyone of her podfics to have them all shiny in my library, because I'm anal like that and she's gracious enough to let me play in her sandbox.

Well, she decided to post a cover everyday for a week ending with a masterpiece, her rendition of bexless's hilarious non-fic, This Never Happened. It's a terrific work, go and download it, and then tell podklb what a wonderful time you had with it, because let me assure you, you're going to spend three scrumptious hours with it. Trust me, you will.

I'm not going to bore you to tears with my rambling, so just let me show you what I've been doing lately, okay?

( Her voice, my covers. )

So tell me, was it last week the best week ever, or what? I posted the fic, and people seemed to like it; I have diane_mckay's lovely Podfic of my Mer!verse to squee over, and there are Podfics covers all around!

I'm flailing like Gerard in an Arts Supply Store!

And the third round of kradamadness is now over. The first time I made some art, the second time I made some...thing, an hybrid between fic, mix and art, so this time I decided to be traditional and try to write a short piece. Little I knew that if the prompt is by akavertigo, then the result is going to be kind of excentric.

So here it is, my cracky little baby, please be gentle with it, it's shy.

Title: Too Mer to Woo Peaceably.
Author: aneas
Word-Count: 8 500.
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Adam/Kris.
Disclaimer: This portrayal is entirely fictional. Not for profit, just for our entertainment.
Warnings: Another Mer!fic. I’m starting to worry. Also? Incredible levels of crack.
Betas: My delicious cookie57 and cleverboots. I’m the luckiest girl ever for having them in my life.

Notes: So, there was a time when akavertigo was in the mood for some Mer!Adam trying to recover his Long Lost Mate, and moirariordan thought the world needed some Mermaid-Courtship Rituals, so they prompted me, not realizing that I’m so easy it’s a shame, really…and a few weeks later, this fic happened.


Summary: `Adam bites his lip, sheepishly. “Under normal circumstances, we’d have five cycles of courtship to get used to each other, but these are not normal circumstances. We’re actually on a very strict timeline, Kristopher. Excuse me for being a little anxious this courtship seems to be going nowhere,” he says, defensively.’







( Oh, please, not again. )



ETA: GUYS! akavertigo wrote Comment Fic! for us, and it's gorgeous and amazing, and funny and delicious! Don't miss it!

Title: 100 hours.
Author:aneas
Artist: 3whiteroses
Type: AU
Word-Count: 31 100.
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Adam/Kris.
Disclaimer: This portrayal is entirely fictional. Not for profit, just for our entertainment.
Warnings: AU. Mmm...Possible embarrassment squick in some places?
Betas: The delicious jerakeen and forsweatervests. They’re goddesses, and I worship them. Without their work, Architect!Adam wouldn’t make any sense at all. Thanks to lire_casander and cookie57, you’ve helped me so much…


Summary:

“Lil said he had to look both professional and reliable for the hearing and when he nodded, she added, ”And that means no leather at all, Adam.”
“When you say no leather . . . what do you really mean?” Adam asked, intrigued.”




( 100 hours. )

Title: The long, hot summer.
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Adam/Kris.
Disclaimer: This portrayal is entirely fictional. Not for profit, just for our entertainment.
Word-count: 10 575
Warnings: None.
Betas: The deliciouslire_casander, jerakeen and forsweatervests. They're goddesses, and I worship them.
Notes: This story is loosely based on the film with the same name. You don’t need to watch it to be able to understand this fic; you just need to know that Adam plays Paul Newman’s character, a bad-tempered drifter with a reputation as a firebug. He arrives in a small town that belongs almost completely to a wealthy family, the Allens. When he meets Kris’ father ands asks for work, Mr. Allen gets the idea that Adam might be a good match for his son. He invites him to stay the house, not caring that Adam and Kris barely manage to be civil towards each other. Besides, Kris already has a beau, and he’s determined to fight the attraction he feels for Adam.

The first phrase Adam says out loud is a quote from the original film.


Summary: “People in town will say: ‘Look at poor Kris Allen. His father forced him to marry a useless excuse of a man that just happened by,’” Kris wrinkles his lips in distaste, and Adam leans towards the net, his voice rough and hot. “But let me tell you something, honey. I’ll make you wake up in the morning smiling.”




( The long, hot summer )