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talesofspike
Date: 2008-05-16 12:35
Subject: Thank Yous and Congratulations
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Thank you to everyone involved, all the judges and admin at the site and especially alwaysjbj for remembering I exist even though I've been more or less AWoL and doing the nomination fairy thing. Congratulations to all the other winners on my FL, especially zanthinegirl for her enormously deserved cheerleader award.

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talesofspike
Date: 2008-01-30 04:58
Subject: Pretties!
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Thanks to all involved!

Full size pretties under the cut )

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-11-19 08:53
Subject: Taking the Initiative - Chapter 4
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The final chapter is here. Enjoy...

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-11-16 13:13
Subject: Taking the Initiative - Chapter 3
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I'm having technical issues so I'm afraid I'm going to do this the quick and dirty way rather than cutting and pasting and changing formatting and doing LJ cuts etc. You can find the next chapter at http://www.he-s-no-angel.net/9TI/TI3T.htm. Hopefully, the next bit will be up on Monday. If it isn't some of the cranky IT equipment has probably died a final death or I'm waiting for hubby to get back home and fix it.

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-11-14 06:40
Subject: Taking the Initiative - Chapter 2
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Well Geyer's birthday came and went and I didn't manage to finish this in time, but it's finally ready for public consumption. Somewhere around five years on from events in 'Angels and Demons'...

Taking the Initiative - Chapter 2 )

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-11-11 10:59
Subject: And the story continues...
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Well Geyer's birthday came and went and I didn't manage to finish this in time, but it's finally ready for public consumption. Somewhere around five years on from events in 'Angels and Demons'...

Taking the Initiative - Chapter 1 )

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-10-31 11:56
Subject: Thank You!
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I just wanted to let you know I had a pleasant surprise this morning and say 'Thank You!' to those involved in any way. Would you believe that this is the first time 'Ring of Fire' has won in its own right rather than as part of the series as a whole?

I did notice at least a couple of other people on my FL (cough, Slaymesoftly and Pfeifferpack, cough) but I'll stick to saying a general congratulations to all the other winners just in case I missed anyone else as I've been known to do.

I also discovered when I updated 'He's No Angel' that when the results from the previous round came out I downloaded the pretty and saved it so that I could do the update later, only it looks like later didn't arrive until this morning... Oops! So thanks yet again (if rather late) to all involved.

Other news: still working on the final chapter of my beta's birthday fic. Once it's complete [info]geyer will beta it for me and I'll start posting, but progress has been intermittent. If I'm not managing to do myself some sort of injury, I seem to be catching every bug going. This week, if it wasn't for the fact I haven't had a recurrence since I was about ten, I'd swear I have tonsilitis, but I'll get there in the end, albeit more than a month behind schedule.

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-07-23 10:05
Subject: Wishing <lj user
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To a true friend and loyal reviewer, to someone's whose posts make me laugh and occasionally nearly cry and whose taste in music makes me feel I'm not alone, to someone whose consistent encouragement has helped to keep me writing, from the very first fic I ever wrote, even when I switched fandoms. If I ever doubted the power of the internet, just knowing you would be justification enough to make me change my mind.

Wishing you the very best of days, weeks, months and years

A thousand hugs,

Sandy

Happy Birthday, Barbara! Hoping you have a wonderful day!

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-07-11 13:49
Subject: Birthday Wishes...
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Just want to say hi to [info]appomattoxco and wish her the best of days. Happy birthday, honey!

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-06-27 11:40
Subject: Torchwood is gone. Long live Dr Who... at least until the next time.
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Hee! I changed my layout again, but I probably wouldn't look if you're on dial up...

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-06-19 11:02
Subject: No less true because it's late
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... which is true because of all of you!

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make yourworld a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-06-14 11:22
Subject: I really shouldn't leave Whedonesque on my FL...
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I was really just going to have a look... It's not as if I've not seen them before. After all, there's a site in the US that has loads of different Serenity T-shirts rather than just the boring old logo. It's just the shipping ends up costing more than the shirts... but the b*st*rds had a 20% off offer on that ends today. So not fair!

So do you think I came away with just one T-shirt? Of course not. I only just managed to not get the "Hello, My Name is Inigo Montoya, You Killed My Father. Prepare to die" one. And I was quite tempted by the Monty Python Killer Bunny one, but the ones I caved on are under the cut... )

Okay, six mile cycle - done. Bath to stop me catching pneumonia because it started raining on me three miles out - done. Money I can't afford - spent. Writing - Better get onto that... Physio exercises - they can wait until my legs start working properly again.

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-05-02 12:09
Subject: Quick Thank You!
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I just wanted to say thank you to whoever nommed "In the Underworld" at The Rogue Poet Awards. I was going to be lazy and I sent an email to 'The Usual Suspect' but she's denying culpability, so whoever you are... Thank you!

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-04-08 08:38
Subject: A very important birthday!
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Happy Birthday, Jerusha! Hoping you have a wonderful day!

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-03-09 15:44
Subject: Stolen from <lj user
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Search You Tube for the year of your birth and post a video from that year. Well, I`m greedy and vids 2,3 and 4 all have the year pop right up on the screen so not any good if anyone wants to guess, so I sort of kept going till I found one that didn`t tell you... Vid 2 might tie in with a certain fic I wrote a few years ago. Vid 3 is a song I remember being taught as a kid by the guy who was in the hospital bed next to my dad when dad had one of his hip replacements, who I had to keep turning round and pretending to visit every time the nurse came round to check visitor numbers. He seemed to think my education was somewhat lacking since I didn't know the words... In the long run, it's probably just as well he taught me it, since it later became my home country's national anthem.

Cut to save people from flares etc. )

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-02-25 10:03
Subject: Any Outlook Express Experts Out There? Assistance Required...
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Theoretically the rebuild on the PC is done although I still have a bunch of software to re-install and stuff.

The big email problem that I really need some help on )

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-02-24 16:37
Subject: Just so you know...
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Just wanted to add a line or two to let you all know that both my primary email account and my Yahoo will be down for an unspecified period of time while the resident IT guru does a rebuild on my PC. I'll try to check the message centre fairly often, but since that only tells me about comments in my own LJ, I may not get replies to comments I've made for a while. In the meantime those of you who have my msn address can use it if you need to catch me.

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-02-17 09:16
Subject: Just in case anyone is interested...
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Answers to the song meme I posted a while back )

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-02-14 20:18
Subject: Thank yous... and random kindness.
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I'm pretty sure most everyone on my FL will already know about [info]enigmaticblues' proposal to celebrate Valentine's Day with acts of random kindness. I just wanted to wish everyone a day where, be it touched with romance or not, it should be touched by love of one form or another.

I'd also like to offer special thanks to my own personal benefactors, [info]fredsmith518, [info]spikereader, [info]curiouswombat and [info]slaymesoftly for their virtual gifts and kind words.

Unless anyone happens to like Harry Potter fic, in which case you'll find a Valentine's Day fic (not a fluffy happy one) here, then my own offerings will be a little late, but when my image files are reinstated and I'm a bit less zombie-ish, I'll hopefully make some sort of contribution.

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talesofspike
Date: 2007-02-07 20:42
Subject: Wheeeee!
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I think, if there's one finished fic of mine that I'm really proud of, it has to be 'In the Underworld'. (Of course, there's also the SWBD series but I was really still learning the trade when I began that one and, to me, though not necessarily to everyone, there are places where that shows.) For a relatively short fic, ItU is highly charged emotionally. In a lot of ways I went outside of my normal comfort zone to write it... and, in my opinion, it worked but, until now, it's never even been nominated anywhere simply, I suspect, because so many award sites cater exclusively to Spuffy and Spike/Other or want the main characters to be vampires or simply want there to be a pairing (which is ambiguous in this particular case) or for one reason or another have requirements that mean it's not eligible. To be honest, with things quiet on the SotHA front I'd more or less resigned myself to the fact that this was one fic that would never get its moment in the limelight.

That's why I'm really glad that 'the usual suspect' has gone to all the trouble to find an award site, where my little no-Spike fic fits in.


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In the Underworld - has been nominated in the Angelic (AtS ensemble cast fic), Metamorphosis (Best Episode Stealer) and Sundown (Best Dark Fic) categories


Thanks, honey!

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