My internet is down at the moment (BT! GRAWR!) so I won't be able to get online very often. Hopefully I'll be able to persuade my mam to let me come home this weekend and stay for a bit, but I'm not sure if I can stand the nagging ;).

At least the computer base at the library has a 24/7 access point, I suppose.

Anyhoo, if I'm slow doing ... anything ... you know why.


Oh - and to those dropping hints about Silver Service: I'm trying! Those boys just won't be my friends. I'd get my whip out, but I doubt they'd even enjoy that! Grrrrrr.

I invested in a webcam (that was FUCKING EXPENSIVE) and it came with 'fun filters', so myself and holyfrell decided to test them out. Our favourite was the distortion one ...

[Cue copious usage of the 'Print Screen' button]

See the many faces of Silver ...

Shhhhh this is sekrit!


My friend/cheerleader/personal Hamster Enthusiast holyfrell has just nipped off to bed, so I'm going to post this in the hope she will find it in the morning and be pleasantly surprised.

She just got diagnosed with Tietzes Syndrome, which is an agonising swelling and inflammation of the cartilage that joins the ribs to the breast bone and causes her a lot of motherfucking bastard wankshite pain and discomfort, as well as being potentially a lifelong ailment.

I would very much appreciate it if you guys could all take one second to give her a hug!







*HUGS* TOTAL!
give HolyFrell more *HUGS*

Get hugs of your own




I want you all to click away so that that counter is up nice and high when she logs in tomorrow!

Remember: holyfrell makes it her business to force me to write fic. If she's not feeling well, she won't be forcing me and fic shall not be done. SO HUG HER AND MAKE HER FEEL BETTER!!! [ye shall be rewarded] XD




Much love,



Silver
xxx

Heya folks!

I promised an update to Another Life last night, and it sort of never happened. This chapter has turned into something pretty epic, so I thought I'd share this with you now to give you something of mine to read ^_^.

I mentioned a week or so ago that I was setting up a joint journal for darker or incomplete fics. The layout is ... definitely not finalised, but here it is, with a fic ready for you to read: damaged_silver. The first fic is unlocked, but it is going to be a Friends Only journal. Comments worshipping my Friends Only banner are more than welcome, though stealage without credit is not.

A note on the fic posted there: As some of you may now, I took part in NaNo last year. As you may also remember, I had to get a new laptop a few weeks ago, and as a result I've lost over half of it. Anyway, to pander to you all for my lack of updates, here is a nice, long, fluffy(ish)(okay, there's barely any fluff) first-half




Title: Untitled NaNo
Chapter: This is only half of it!
Author: a_silver_story
Genre Angst, Romance, bits of smut.
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: ManOnMan. Nom.
Disclaimer: If I owned anything in this, I'd be a rich rich rich bitch. However, I am not a rich rich rich bitch so you may all, therefore, assume I own nothing. Which I don't. It all belongs RTD and the BBC, in case any of you didn't know.
Summary: Set after Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but before Sleeper, I wrote this for NaNoWriMo 2009 but lost half of it when I was forced to get a new laptop. I have what was saved in my google.docs, which is less than half, but better than nothing! It's AU, and it's a 'let's make Jack suffer!' fic, really. It's Ianto P.O.V, and I promise everything will work out fine when I get around to re-writing the second half.


This way, please ....

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OMG OM GOMGMOGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMOGMOGMOMGOMGOMOGMOMGOMGOMG!


I'VE GOT SHERLOCK HOLMES!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DINOSAURS IN WHITECHAPEL! NOWAI!





*calm*


Update later! Currently have 4,728 words.


... did I mention I GOT SHERLOCK HOLMES???



Don't read the comments if you don't want to be spoilered!


I've probably be making iconnage soon XD

Well ... I ... I don't honestly know what to say.

The response I had to my previous post, where I mentioned that I was honestly, seriously thinking about leaving this fandom has been ... overwhelming. I had absolutely no idea that people liked my writing enough to miss me should I choose to stop, never mind beg me not to or buy me balloons or draw rather fantastic pieces of artwork in the hope of making me stay.

When I hoped for cheering up, I hardly expected videos of penguins shopping - never mind slashy masterpieces with my actual name written on in a pun and in actual dedication and with hearts and stuff! And then ZsaZsa offering to grow a plot bunny that involved Ianto calling me up ... and just let your imaginations run wild with that one ....

I just ... *gah* ... I'm at a loss for what to say. I had no idea so many people would actively discourage me from leaving. I mean ... some of you were rambling, some of you were talking pure sense - one of you was drawing Ianto riding a T-Rex! I don't think I can put into words how your comments made me feel - I think I actually had a little cry. A good type of cry, though. It put all thoughts of giving this up out of my head and you all made me remember why I loved writing for this fandom to start with.

I tried thinking of something to say to each individual commenter, but I'm just struggling to put it into words right now. Thanks for the artwork, the video recs, the fic recs, the group hugs, the words of encouragement and, yes: even the .gifs of painfully adorable felines. All of them worked together to put me in the most positive mindframe I've been in for a few weeks now.

In regards my darker fics that I mentioned writing and hating, I have decided to follow advice here and post them on a separate journal. When that's set up properly I'll let you all know - it'll be friends only, and have strong adult warnings. No rape or anything like that - just insane!dark!Jack bile I found myself writing. I'm sure the previous sentence definitely enticed you into reading any of it ....

Anyways - I've decided that this signals the end of a chapter in this journal's life. As such, there shall be a new banner and a totally new layout [aka a facelift XD], as well as my newly-reinvigorated energy for writing.


( Behind the cut are the pictures that got drawn for me, in case you didn't see them in the thread and because I want everyone to know I got them! - NSFW )







Thanks and much love to everyone in the world ever,



Silver
xx

AHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM BACK!




So after yesterday's fiasco, I've finally got my internet sorted and brought back to life. It more sputtered than John Barrowman© full on gasping, but we got it back.

What annoys me though is that I told the guy FIVE TIMES on the phone what the problem was, and that I could nip to the shop and get a new ADSL cable and simply give them the receipt to reimburse the cost of the new cable. They told me not to do that until they were absolutely certain that the cable was the problem, and that they'd be sending a handy man round to look at the hardware.

So he comes around, he looks at the router, he tests a couple of things ....... "Your ADSL cable is having trouble transferring the information."

... yah. No shit Sherlock.

I wouldn't be too bothered by their caution, had Roy not had the exact same problem two weeks ago and they let him sort it out the way I suggested - hell, I was the one that pointed out the problem, what the problem was and how they had to fix it!

One thing that pisses me off about IT guys - and I've got this a lot - is the assumption that because I'm a girl, I don't know anything about computers.

Hello? I have a t-shirt with the slogan 'No, I will not fix your computer' for a reason!!

In other news, I had the most surreal experience of my life today. I was in town looking at ADSL cable prices, wearing a white t-shirt that I'd used a permanent marker to write "I am one of 9 hysterical women on the internet" on the back of. I was just happily minding my own business, when this lovely young lady comes over and asks if I'm part of the Save Ianto Jones campaign, to which I reply, "Yes, to an extent."

She tells me she is too, though she's not really an online-y sort of person and mainly sticks to Twitter rather than LiveJournal, and do I have a Twitter account? I say yes and I tell her my username is "a_silver_story".

... now I know what a full fangirl squee looks like in person, and so do several innocent people in PC World, Chester.

Apparently she reads my fic *waves* and loves it to the point of refreshing her page every hour or so to look for updates even when she's in lectures. I rather ungracefully turned beetroot red by this point, mumbling a couple of thankyous and stuff with no idea what I'm supposed to say.

She did ask me a couple of questions though, that I shall reproduce and answer for you all here:



How are you?


Fine, thanks.



How did you come up with that immortal!Ianto theory with the Timey Wimey and the axis?

I was lying in bed, contemplating that if Jack was fixed point in a Timey Wimey ball (as presented to us in 'Blink'), he'd have to be in the middle of said ball in order for Time to flow smoothly and work in order with no problems. So I thought to myself: what if he wasn't? What if he moved?

And the basic science of the axis behind it present in my mind for ... er ... reasons I can't go into here gave me the blatant answer.

Someone would have got this theory eventually, I just ... got there first.






How can you manage to write such long updates and post them so often?


Insomnia. I'm an insomniac. I go for about three days without sleeping at a time, and need something I can do without waking the SO. So I write stories.

My updates usually average around 7,000 words for Silver Service, and usually about the same for prose entries of IM. My recent 'Hallowe'en Treat' was 16,455 words, and was started on October 31st, finished on November 3rd. If was taking part in NaNoWriMo, I'd be wayyyyy ahead. 50,000 words a month? Easssssy. I've been doing that since about July.

I've also finally started working on my book, which I hope to finish within about six months with as little damage the flow of fic as possible .

I post often because I have the internet. If I don't have the internets, people get hurt.







What are you doing here?

I'm looking for a cheap ADSL cable. Mine's broken, but the guys who're supposed to look after our broadband don't believe me because I'm a woman-kind.




Have you seen Shark Attack 3?


Yes. One day I might come to terms with that.

... or stop randomly laughing to myself.





Will the IM series ever end?


Yes.



How will it end?



Badly.

Ianto dies, Jack flies away on Myfanwy's back and gets shot down over the Bristol Channel, Gwen takes over as head of Torchwood and Rhys and Andy never discover that they are, in fact, meant for each other (in a very homosexual way).



Oh .... you ... you are lying, aren't you?


Yep.




How will Silver Service end?



Badly.


Ianto and Lisa die, Jack flies away on an RAF plane that gets shot down over the Bristol Channel, it turns out that Barbara is called Janet after all, Toshiko and Owen lose their baby to gremlins and Gwen and Rhys take over as the main focus of the story.




Are you going to tell me any true plot lines?


Nope. Stop asking.








I've actually told the plot line for Silver Service to one person, and one person only and shall share it with no more. Unless you bribe me summit good.

I'm desperate for cash. Totally dried up thanks to those stoopid £350 bank charges after I got overdrawn on my CoE pre-order ... that I couldn't cancel because the BBC moved the release date from the 27th to the 13th and had already taken my money by the time I decided I didn't want the bastard DVD any more (coincidentally, on Day Four I reached this decision ....)

Anyhoo, thank you Jenny for the little PC World chat, it means a lot to me that my writing has made you laugh, cry and squee in public quite so profoundly.


Love to you all; whether thee be minions, readers or floaters just drifting by.


Silver

xxxx

Okay .. I've got a game for us all!




Myself and griza were chatting on MSN, when we accidentally made up a little game. Now, me - being the genius that I am - forgot to save the conversation and lost pretty much the entire [and rather hilarious] thing.

Anyhoo .. the game is basically called "I bet _______ saved the screen caps for Lonely Nights." Basically, you fill in the blank of the sentence with a name.


Here are the caps. See how lovely and tight JB's suit is, and how little it leaves to the imagination ..


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Here's some that I can remember to start us off:




I bet Scott saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet John saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

[for the fangirls/boys in all of us:] I bet GDL saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Janet saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Sauron saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet he emailed them to Voldemort, who saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet my hamster saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet me, you and everyone else saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet our mothers all saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet the Supreme Dalek saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Barack Obama saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Bernard Black saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet R2D2 saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet R2D2 and the Supreme Dalek had robot wanks together over those screen caps on Lonely Nights.

The Cult of Skaro are R2D2's and the Supreme Dalek's misunderstood middle children, and have many screen caps saved for Lonely Nights.

I bet Margaret Thatcher saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Osama Bin Laden saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet the spidery-mouse things saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet the entire cast of 'Hollyoaks' saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Chuck Norris saved those screen caps for Lonely Nights.

I bet Ianto is in Fictional Character heaven, going through the Fictional CCTV, screen capping it all and emailing it to GDL for Lonely Nights.






.... o kay ... I think you get the picture ...


Add your suggestions below - the best one gets a special prize!

Continued Here

Just so you're not all up waiting (pfft?), I'm really sorry but there's not going to be an update tonight. I had written a massive chunk of Silver'Verse, only for my computer to crash and then not believe me when I told it I *had* saved it. *grumbles incoherently*

"Cannot Locate File" my fookin arse!

If I find, I shall post. If not, I'm going to have to start again.


¬_¬ stoopid laptop.


In my last fic update, an number of you expressed concern over my being hit around the head with a book. I urge you all not to worry: it was my useless but rather evil boyfriend checking to make sure my headache was still there.



He is now caressing his balls in regret.






:P