Otter's Rock

Title: Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix)
Characters: Anastasia Dualla, a Six, Bill Adama, Lee Adama
Pairing: Anastasia Dualla/Lee Adama, Six/Lee Adama
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: assault, Cylon mindgames.
Summary: Dee is on Pegasus, finding her place. A Six is on New Caprica, learning what she doesn't know. Lee Adama is a Cylon prisoner, but this is not his story. A New Caprica AU.
Original Story: Give You All by nicole_anell 
Author's Notes: Many thanks to lls_mutant  for the beta
Word Count: 32,560 words

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( Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix) )

The main Remix just went live, and here are some recs.

First off, the story written for me is awesome, you should all read it.  What You Know (The Devil in the Details Remix) is a Deep Space 9 story about the whole Sisko family dealing with the knowledge of what the Prophets did to ensure that Benjamin Sisko was born.  A very haunting look at the things the show didn't consider which takes my story and amps it to the next level.

Buffy
One Who Lights the Darkness (The Bedtime Story Remix) When you're the slayer, what do you do when there's a monster under your bed?  Remix of 5 Scoobies Who Didn't Curse The Darkness And On Who Lit A Candle.  I love the different reactions to monsters and beds. On its own, it is a great remix. It's also a great remix concept, taking the whole Scoobies-at-night idea and giving it a twist.

Avengers
The Captain and the Man of Iron, a Saga by Thor Odinsson, beta by Loki Laufeyjarson (Steve Rogers Must Die: the In Tony Stark’s Arms Mix) The title says it all.

Buffy/Doctor Who
Watching the Watchers (the Oncoming Storm Remix) Ethan Rayne and the 9th Doctor.  A storm, a Doctor, and a judicious application of chaos.

Harry Potter
About Her (Candlelight Mix) .  Luna had always taken a shine to fantastic things, and Cho definitely counts as one of the most fantastic.  I love the way the author writes an adult Luna, it's just pitch-perfect.

Stargate SG-1
The First Rule of Anthropology (The Missed Chances Remix).  Nine years after Daniel leaves the SGC, the Stargate goes public.

Star Trek
Second Star to the Right (The Chartered Remix) Spock was drowning and Nyota didn't know how to save him.

X-Men movieverse
Homeschooling for Mutants (a Midnight's Child Remix).  Magneto sets Pyro a reading assignment. Unlike past literature assignments, it turns out to be relevant to his interests.  I love the way the author shows us the power of literature, and why all these people are doing what they do.

I have to rec the fic I got from medie.  It's everything my little TTH drabble series wanted to be when it grew up. It is awesome.  The original is an Angel/Dark Knight crossover, where Gunn moved to Gotham and became an assistant DA who moonlights as a demon-fighter, and then Batman gets turned into an actual bat.  Gotham (the Just When You Think You're Out Remix) is about 1000x more awesome.  Kara!  Zatanna!  Stephanie Brown as a slayer!  More bat!Batman!  Demons in the ceiling!  Seriously, it's awesome, and you must read it.

The Remix Duello is open!  (Basically, you say what fandoms you're willing to write, and get assigned a story and have to remix it whatever it is.)

I wrote: A Collection of E-mails from the SGC Archives (the Wanky Wormhole Remix).  It's about Wormhole X-treme, and its fandom.  When highly intelligent and motivated people get bored, things happen.

The fic written for me is In Battle's Fury, Silence (the Meditations on the Past Remix) by skieswideopen , a remix of my fic Pale Battalions.  Teal'c goes to war in the name of Apophis.  This is a beautiful fic, and compliments the original well.

Other great fics to check out:

That I Would Be Good (The Live To Tell Remix) by lls_mutant.  On New Caprica, a Two took an interest in Felix Gaeta. The difference between a Two and an Eight meant a huge difference in the way Gaeta's life turned out.  Creepy in just the right way, and realistic about Stockholm Syndrome, and yet ultimately hopeful.  Very well done.

Mnhei'Sahe (The Rihannsu Remix) by medie.  About Sulu, and the Romulan Commander (TOS).  Very well written, a Sulu who's out of his depth but still smart and savvy, and a wonderfully well-written Romulan Commander.  Bonus, the author uses Diane Duane's version of Romulans, which I love.

Naming of Parts (The Strange Charm Remix) by naraht. One fresh October morning when the wind was whipping the dark blue water of the fjord into whitecaps, Stenak arrived at the spaceport in Trondheim and realized that she had learnt the wrong language.  About language, and cultural differences, and the difference between tolerance and acceptance.
naraht 

The Remix is revealed!

I wrote What You Are (The Certain Point of View Remix).  Three people look up at the stars at night in the Tatooine desert, in three different eras.  It's a remix of Rynne's A Certain Reverence.

medie wrote Autumn (The Ashes and Roses Remix) for me, remixing Summer Experience, and her fic only has one comment on it which is a terrible shame.  I think you do have to read the original to get the remix, but the fit together so well, I really like it.  Go, read, review!

(And while you're at it, go read all the other great remix stories!)

If we're starting to think about fandoms for the Remix ... Redux, I suppose I should get off my tail and finish the three stories that are almost done, right?

One is a Spock/Uhura post-movie fic that needs betaing by someone who knows Vulcans.

One is a TOS Spock and McCoy fic about racism that needs to be finished (probably another 500 words or so, is all, knock on wood) and then betaed.

One is a pre-series BSG fic that needs one final scene and betaing.

Then I need to go through the list of fandoms I almost qualify for and see if I have a short plot bunny or two that can be whipped into shape in time.

Also, I really need to take a closer look at my bsg_remix remixee and pic a fic.  (And much as chromaticvision sounds interesting, I don't have an appropriate plot bunny floating free atm, nor do I have time to do it in addition to the two remixes.)

So, this year I wrote not one but two fics, both Torchwood: Knocking at the Door (the Things Unspoken Remix) and Hard to Swallow (the Percolation Remix). They're not exactly a pair, but they do complement each other. They have to do with Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones, respectively, and their early days at Torchwood, learning to deal with (or really, not deal with) their lives before this point. For Jack, it's about being abandoned by the Doctor and Rose, and all the abandonment issues and other issues he already had at that point compounding on one another. For Ianto, it's about surviving the destruction of Torchwood One and Lisa's conversion. Both of them are trying desperately to ignore their issues and go on as if nothing's wrong. And, of course, Torchwood isn't helping.

I was spoiled for choice this year; my remixee, glinda_penguin, has a lot of stories in three fandoms I write (SG-1, Doctor Who, Torchwood). And while the earlier stories from when she was starting out aren't very good (as she admits herself), well, sometimes that leaves more doors for remixing than wonderfully written stories do. Not only did she have a lot of stories to choose from, I had a whole list of her stories jump out at me as having great possibilities for a remix. Even with a tight writing schedule, it was easy to pick one (Unspeakable Lists) and remix it.  The story was about Jack keeping lists of questions to ask the Doctor when he finds him again, and naturally I wanted to know what questions were on the list, so I wrote it.  But it was only just over 1,000  words long, barely over the minimum,  and I just felt like maybe I should do something more for my remixee, and I had the time, so I thought I would do another one.  And it would be nice if it related, so I went to one of the other Torchwood fics that had caught my eye--a humorous ficlet about Ianto's love affair with coffee.  Which caught my eye because you know as an American, I'd always thought that Brits were all tea-drinkers.  So how Ianto became a coffee drinker might be an interesting story, particularly if you intertwined it with how he came to Torchwood Three, and then it would complement my first story.  It turned out to be longer, but no harder to write; like the first, it pretty much wrote itself.

So, this is weird. I always have lots of angst about remixes, and it's usually because I can't find a story I can remix (I always do, it just takes me a while to find an angle). This year, it's been because my June was filled up with ficathons, and I knew I wouldn't have time to start looking at my remixee until July, which would be cutting it really close. So, June ficathons turned in, I turned to my remixees ficlist. And found a list of ten fics I could remix no problem, and four I really wanted to. And now I'm half done with the one I chose, and wondering if maybe I can do two remixes this year, because I've got some cool ideas I'd love to use. And I'm wondering wtf this is all about, because seriously--I'm never this far along at this point.

( In other news, I've decided that Question by the Moody Blues would be a perfect song for a Doctor and Jack Harkness fanvid. )

gateverse_remix is open, you should all go read the great SG-1 and Atlantis remixes. butterflykiki wrote The Weight of Non-Existent Years (The Gravity Remix) for me. I wrote an almost 13k-word Sam fic.

Title: Thine Own Self (the Lady, be Good Remix)
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Samantha Carter
Word Count: 12,962
Written for: Christi (daisycm83) for gateverse_remix.
Betaed by: the awesome redbyrd_sgficOriginal story: On Your Mind
Summary: Sam’s always a good girl. Except when she isn’t.

Part One
Part Two