Everyone Willow's ever met, including all of us, are in the audience

I just woke up from the Actor's Nightmare.

It was opening night, We were doing Godot, the Life of Thomas a Beckett and Jean-Batiste de Lasalle. I had all the lines, and only knew the second sentence of the first line: "His name was Thomas Bellingsworth Becket, but it should have been trouble." Br. Armand was in full cassock (Lasallians are a lay brotherhood) and dashing about backstage. I had just picked up a script in a vain attempt to memorize a few more lines when the production assistant hustled me out on stage, book in hand.

Here's the punchline:
We're between productions.

Notes for myself

The female form of Han is Hana and she's 5'8"
The female form of Luke is Lucia and she's 5'2".
The male form of Leia is Lane and he's 5'3".

To save me recalculating every time I decide to genderswap.
Looks like a femHan/post-RotJworld is the next stop. Need to get the Princess Lucia segment proofed and up.
(Wonder how he'll take his counterpart being pregnant?)


Speaking of (sort of), I have a bodyswap going, and can't decide what to with the characters now that Luke is in Leia's body and vice versa. Am considering having a crisis come up that only Luke can handle. Or alternately, having a punchline to it. Wondering, if at some point, Leia will try out this interesting new body on her husband. (Han is NOT bisexual in this, for a rare change)

irene_heron's package got in safe and sound. Others should be starting to arrive.
walkerminion, your package still hasn't been mailed. I'm digging for your address in my copious archives. (Help me out?)
gblvr yours hasn't gone out because I'm a lazy sod and scared of my printer.

Holiday Feedback

pun ran a Feedback challenge.

I drew plumsnickety for the fiction side.

Plum writes in several fandoms, primarily Smallville and Everwood, but with some misc. weirdness thrown in.

Have you loved your Fellowship today? is absolutely fall-on-the-floor funny. It's a sort of Giles PoV piece about watching the slayerettes watch FotR, and answers the eternal question of "Why the heck is this movie so utterly gay?" I think my favorite bit is the idea that they gag Andrew before they will let him watch. I can just see him geeking out all over them.



The Gloves is a very short Smallville piece that packs so much history into its few words I don't know where to start. Chloe has a pair of gloves. But the very fraughtness of the item comes through in a few tense sentences. "They were driving gloves made of supple leather, the same color as coffee with a milk and two sugars – her favourite. She only drank black coffee for appearances – black coffee was hard core, but she much preferred the creamy color and less bitter taste of the diluted version. No one but her father and Lex knew her dirty little secret."

It's all very tense, very mysterious, and doesn't resolve itself. An excellent Chloe characterization carries it off.


Plum is a mistress at humor, and nothing showcases this better than Chloe the Dragonslayer: Or How to Save the World With Rice Balls or Scones, Whichever is Handier. When the Kents tap Chloe to be the virgin sacrifice to the Smallville Dragon, wackiness ensues. Chloe's voice is spot-on through the story. Gems like
Mrs. Kent took the lead. "Clark's told us that you keep a sort of file on all the strange things that happen in the town."

"Uh, yeah. I call it the Wall of Weird, but right now it's more like the Box of Weird. I had to take it down when I thought I was moving. But what --"

are typical of her work. And wait until we see the Dragon.

Her Martha is an idealist, and poor Jonathan is just about over the brink of sanity. And he has gay cows. Go read it.