SevTorian Times

 After another several years of not updating, I'm back to post that there's still a spark of life.

But also, time for some updates...

• Unimatrix Stovokor is no more.
  The site with the story that pulled me into fanfiction, Lisa Countryman's site, went dark years ago.
  Some of her work has been archived in other places - particularly "She Who Hesitates..."
  That story is archived at Ralst's site, and you'll find a link to it in the links section.
  I don't recall if her other works are also archived there, but you might be lucky and find them there.
• Old and previous "new" SevTor sites are no more; new new SevTor is in the works.
  The old SevTor went dark when my hosting account for it got stolen; by the time I got it back, the hoster went belly-up without any notices.
  The previous "new" SevTor was self-hosted, using a fancy .com domain; unfortunately humans are fucking garbage and after a few DNS attacks the domain got stolen right before I could renew.
  About half a year later, the PC that all the site's files were on suffered a hard crash, and everything was gone.
  I've tried setting up newer sites a few times, all self-hosted, but none of those really took off and for some time I just got burnt out on it all.
  But now, I'm back in the saddle and a new SevTor is in the works.
  It's on a proper server (well, shared hosting/vps) with what I think is a great domain, easy to remember - https://7t.click - which you will also find in the links-section.
  There's not much (or any) content up yet, but once I'm done tinkering with the CMS that I went with, and once I get my writing mind back in gear, that'll change.
  

After a few years of not updating, this blog comes alive again.
Even if not with a torrent of new messages, there is still a spark of life in it.
The updates in this post: 

• New(ish) domain.
  That's right, a new(ish) domain for SevTor.
  The .net76.net subdomain is still up and running, but I've set up a new version of SevTor with its own .com domain.
  So, for the time being, you can read my stories at both the old SevTor and the new SevTor.
  But in time, the old site will become nothing more than a testbed for scripts that I might want to include in the new site.
  Before that happens, I will post a notice here as well as on both the old and new SevTor sites.
• Slightly revamped design.
  Yup, with the new .com domain, I decided to also spiffy the new SevTor up a bit.
  Easier to run the site, less spam, for visitors hopefully a somewhat better (though very similar) look...
  And it has a few extra's on the administrative end, which made the switch worth it for me.
• ACOT re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-write...
  Yup, after twelve (yes, TWELVE, 12!!!) years and countless versions, there finally is yet one more re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-write in progress.
  This story truly is my life work, and will likely keep me busy well after my life has expired.
  If, by some cosmic freak accident, I do finish it before the end of my life, I'll quite likely not know what to do with my life anymore and run head-first into an oncoming freight train.
  Or the universe will cease to exist.
  But all joking aside, yes, yet another version of ACOT is in the works.
  A few spoilers:
  - Tom isn't who everybody thought he was, my bashing will be justified in this story, and possibly he will meet with a horrible end.
  - Early on, B'Elanna sacrifices an arm for Seven, which later on will be replaced with a  prosthetic arm.
  - At some point in the story, Pon Farr and aliens tampering with his brain will cause Tuvok to snap... permanently!

Well, I haven't updated the SevTorian Times in a while, so it's time I did just that.
First off, since my last entry some new work has been posted on SevTor.
So have a look...
Second, two new works are making their way to SevTor.
One short funny story inspired by a non-trek piece done by Odon long ago about Little Red Ridinghood - I've got a 6-foot-ish blonde "lil' Red" and a shorter half-Klingon Big Bad Wolf...
That piece is being checked for grammar/spelling right now, to weed out the worst screw-ups in that field.
Then there's a longer story making good progress, the story I've been sweating on for years now...
Yes, it really looks like ACOT (A Collective of Two) is finally getting completed!
My aim is to get ACOT done before the end of the year, but maybe it'll be the first days of 2010 in which it finally gets published.
And I swear, if another computer-crash or any techie crap blows this one out the window again, I'm going to physically, brutally, beat the living crap out of someone.

Third... SevTor's newsletter function has been repaired after a huge downtime.
When ACOT is done, I'm going to make regular updates here and in that newsletter.

Labels: B'Elanna, Seven, SevTor, Voyager

Still no new stories posted on SevTor - I'm still messing with the formatting of two short pieces and started re-writing another story because when I re-read it, it just didn't have a "flow" in it... the story just wasn't progressing naturally, making the characters look out of place.
But... I did put up a new link that I came across while searching for material for that story I'm re-writing.
I do intend to -finally- post the new stories between tomorrow and upcoming Sunday.

Unfortunately, I don't have much news to mention regarding SevTor.
New content is still lined up to go through final editing (spellchecking, formatting) before getting posted, but I'm a bit bogged down in work so I'm not giving any guarantees on just when it will finally be posted.
On a sidenote I've been talking to someone I've worked with, and he asked me if I'd want some additional content on SevTor - he's written a couple of stories and did some fan-art of Seven and B'Elanna.
I'm willing to post some of his stories with full credits, but he's trying to get his own corner on SevTor with his own admin access, and that's something I'm not liking.
So that stuff is still very much in the "maybe, maybe not"-stage.
And that concludes this minor non-update type update.

Labels: B'Elanna, Seven, SevTor, Voyager