keiramarcos | Entries tagged with site: rough trade

I asked myself, how many times can I bitch and complain about reader entitlement before I start to bore myself?

On a for real note, donating to Rough Trade or to the Wild Hare Project doesn't equal any sort of ownership on your part. I appreciate the much needed donations as it keeps everything running but that doesn't mean you're entitled to a fucking thing in regards to the works produced there.

For fuck's sake.

Crossposts: http://keiramarcos.insanejournal.com/1487.html

It's day 5 of Rough Trade, and I'm pretty close to 10k so I'm feeling pretty good about the challenge. I made a new list of people to kill since I didn't give them names in my actual plot document. Background character death is about to take a huge spike -- there will be a score board.

Anyways, you can read it here: http://www.roughtrade.org/category/works-in-progress/darkly-loyal-harry-potter/

Title: Iterum
Author: Keira Marcos
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Relationships: McKay/Sheppard, Lorne/Heightmeyer (background), McKay/Keller (previously)
Betas: Chris King & Ladyholder
Genre: Romance, Time Travel, Dimensional Travel
Warnings: Permanent minor character death, temporary major character death, canon typical violence
Rating: R (language, violence, and explicit sex)
Word Count: 41,464
Summary: They lost Atlantis and life on Earth is a misery. They both having nothing left to lose and gamble everything on an untested device for an opportunity at a second chance.

I considered doing a whiny-ass NANO DIARY PODCAST every single day this month but I thought I might drive my listeners away with my incessant complaining about how I feel like I'm trapped in a box of my own damned making. What made me think it was a good idea to do a single pov challenge during a 50k challenge? (Don't answer that)

I've reached 40k already so I'll make the national goal but I know I'm going to fall short of my personal goal of a 100k for the month. I'm just all blah and blah and blah some more (you can just imagine how that whole nano diary podcast thing would've gone, right?).

You can read my WIP (very rough draft project) here as long as you're not an asshole: http://www.keiramarcos.com/roughtrade/?cat=1359

In other news, I'm all blah.

It's often said that "The Sentinel" is the little black dress of fandom. You can stick the theme in any fandom and make it work. Sentinels and Guides just spring up full grown in any fandom you fuse with the Sentinel. The challenge for July is to write 3 short stories (10 to 15k) in three different fandoms all using the Sentinel/Guide fanon.

To sign up for the challenge please reply with a comment on the sign up post including your three titles and the fandoms you'll be writing in. The challenge is to create three stories between July 1 and July 31st. So you must submit three titles/fandoms when you comment. Do not ask questions or make comments on the sign up post. You can ask questions here. To give you an example these are my three titles:

1. From Blue to Green (Stargate: Atlantis)
2. A Delicate Balance (Criminal Minds)
3. Ten Years After the War (Harry Potter)

You must be signed up by June 15 in order to participate!

(you must be a member to read, sign up and participate)

This is how I feel when someone complains about how I run Rough Trade:

This month's challenge is Soul Mate Bonds and the ramifications of such. We have entries in mutliple fandoms among them: Harry Potter, Stargate, Teen Wolf, Avengers, & NCIS. There are also several original fiction projects in the works!

You can browse by title here:

http://www.keiramarcos.com/roughtrade/?page_id=14899

Fandom is listed with the title. Once you click on a post archive -- just scroll down the very bottom to check out the project file the author posted at the start of the challenge.

My own project is called: With Your Heart on Your Sleeve and I'm writing in the Avengers fandom this month.

Title: With Your Heart on Your Sleeve
Author: Keira Marcos
Fandom/Genre: Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man
Relationship(s): Tony/Steve, Pepper/Phil
Content Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Violence, explicit sex
Summary: A soulmate was the last thing Tony wanted and when the fall of Thor's Hammer woke ancient and long dormant soulmate magic on Earth, he did what any rational man would do. He broke up with his girlfriend, started wearing long sleeves, bought ten pairs of really nice gloves, and refused every single opportunity to meet, greet, touch, or fuck every single person on Earth. He's fine with his hand, thank you very much.

The day after the Battle of New York, Tony wakes up with a soulmate mark. He hates everyone but fuck S.H.I.E.L.D and any plans they might have about keeping his soulmate.

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