jedibuttercup

All fic are listed in alphabetical order. Fic NOT set in the Buffy and Angel-verse are split into a separate post, linked here; crossovers between the Buffyverse and other fandoms will show up in both.

Most links go to the story on Dreamwidth; those marked with an asterisk go to the AO3 archive.

Updated through October 10, 2024.

( Jedi Buttercup's Buffyverse Fic )

T; Sense and Sensibility (novel); Marianne/Colonel Brandon, 10250 words.

Marianne Dashwood was well aware, however much she feigned not to notice, of the wonder and tentative hope with which all around her seemed to observe her behaviour since their return to the cottage at Barton.

Perception and Satisfaction

(For Jen_814 in fffx)

So, I only made it about half-way through the Snowflake Challenge this year before getting derailed. (Although I will at least finish answering comments!) Part of it's due to RL being exhausting thanks to family injuries and a massive current work project, but part of it is something extra and unexpected.

Tripod (the website hosting site) appears to be finally dying. I've had a site there since at least 2002, maybe even 2000, I think before it was owned by Lycos; the public-facing parts of my page hadn't been updated in years, but I still used it for things like image hosting all the time, and I kept a few things there (scraps of original fiction and poetry, for example) that had never been added to any other archive. But this month I got a weird email notice that the monthly credit card billing had failed, and that if it wasn't corrected within 16 days I'd lose my subscription features. This was the error referenced:

The error message is 'Batch Submitted No Results,Cleanup'.

Which ...has nothing to do with my actual credit card info, as far as I can tell. But I still tried to log in to check. Well, I'd noticed that my paid jedibuttercup domain name had been intermittently having issues forwarding to the underlying tripod web address before, but now it only gives "This site can't be reached" errors. Direct HTML links to my shellpatine tripod site still connect, but when I try to access the admin side of the site at all (to check the aforementioned financial info, or see what files actually are saved there that are not linked on the public webpages such as the photos), all I get are 500 errors that claim "There has been an error with one of our scripts".

It doesn't seem like Lycos is answering support requests, either. I think it's going the way of the dodo.

And then, of course, there are recent developments with LJ going full Russian... and there are a lot of old Dreamwidth posts here that were scraped over when I first transferred that still contain a lot of internal LJ links, photos hosted there, and so on. (I can't see those at work at all; our IT company now filters LJ out entirely for, well, being Russian). I'd like to go ahead and completely purge my old LJ, but I am a little wary of doing that until I've checked all those links (especially photos &etc.).

So, two birds, one fix, although more urgent for one reason than the other. I've started opening every post on my Dreamwidth in the evenings, beginning with the oldest, and have been working my way back through them fixing or eliminating LJ links; grabbing any link that went to my private site, modifying it to use the tripod address, and seeing if it linked to something I want to save; and so on. It's ... a lot. I've still got several years' worth to go through.

It's not all terrible, though. I get to look at all my old photos from when I posted them regularly, and I've found some of that original work, now being rehomed on AO3 under the college pseud behind the name of the failing site: shellpatine. :)

2007 - 100 Books (avg. 408.57 pages)   2008 - 80 Books (avg. 385.50 pages) 2009 - 67 Books (avg. 338.03 pages) 2010 - 129 Books (avg. 378.75 pages) 2011 - 133 Books (avg. 375.98 pages) 2012 - 144 Books (avg. 398.92 pages) 2013 - 130 Books (avg. 397.36 pages) 2014 - 130 Books (avg. 391.13 pages) 2015 - 122 Books (avg. 364.18 pages) 2016 - 100 Books (avg. 433.06 pages)

2017 - 104 Books (avg. 413.24 pages) 2018 - 108 Books (avg. 377.99 pages) 2019 - 125 Books (avg. 389.52 pages) 2020 - 266 Books (avg. 306.32 pages) 2021 - 255 Books (avg. 312.65 pages) 2022 - 251 books (avg. 328.91 pages) 2023 - 240 books (avg. 337.88 pages) 2024 - 236 books (avg. 399.28 pages) 2025 - 273 books (avg. 336.71 pages)

Starting my reading list for 2026! Another year of my most OCD New Year's Resolution. :)

I set a new high-water mark for total book count this year, but 2024 remains my record for total pagecount (at 94,231); this year's books were generally shorter, for a total of 91,921 pages. That's 250 pages per day. Probably still too much, but I tend to read/watch more in exhausting RL years, and 2025 was definitely that for me.

The rough genre counts bear that out, lots of distraction material: 78 narrative non-fiction; 25 post-apocalyptic fiction; 39 mystery or thriller; 32 LitRPG; 23 Jane Austen variations; 35 other scifi; 21 other fantasy; 5 poetry collections; and only 15 historical or literary fiction.

In other stats for 2025: 8 were re-reads; and 10 were graphic novels. 127 were ebooks, the rest physical, 32 of which were borrowed from the library. 7 were YA. And my work book club completed its third year and planned for a fourth! So, on to Year Twenty of book tracking! I record books here as I start them, and remove them if I don't finish.

Books for 2026: 206 including 5 rereads, 50 nonfiction, 1 poetry collections, 6 ya, 107 ebooks, and 13 graphic novels. Library count: 50.

( Books Read in 2026 )

At some point I may just have to admit that writing motivation and energy is not the same in my late 40s as it was in my 20s and 30s. But not quite yet. My 2025 total was a tiny bit higher than the year before (by 1 fic and 1,600 words); and I have signed up for getyourwordsout yet again.

For the first time in quite awhile, I had no crossovers in the list; but I did manage to write three fic outside of exchanges. Three were slash, three were gen, four were poly, seven were het, and the plots included a lot of canon divergences, fix-its, soul mates, get-togethers and other tropey indulgences. Also, something I just noticed - all but one were movie fandoms this time. Huh.

Anyway, in March, it will be twenty-four years since my first published fic was finished; my goal for the next two years is to finish my last four WIPs before I hit the quarter-century mark as a fic writer. Might as well dream big!

( On to the list of fic! )

PG-13; Logan Lucky (2017), Mellie Logan/Joe Bang. Post-movie, 1,100 words. #3/4 for Yuletide 2025.

If she hadn't got him out of her system yet, Mellie was starting to think she might not want to.

Some Days Really Are Diamonds

(For anr in yuletide)

PG-13; Twisters (2024), Kate/Javi/Tyler. Post-movie, 2,200 words. #1/4 for Yuletide 2025.

Somehow, that rollercoaster of a day had given Kate back more than she ever could have expected.

nearest to being alive

(For Arsenic in yuletide)