Welcome To The Celtic Dragon's Lair
This site opened: 09 May, 2005
Last Updated: 1st December, 2009
Hiya, My name is Ceridwyn (okay, so not my real name, but there goes it) and this is my world of sci-fi & fantasy, friends, & other things. There are many things that you'll be able to see here, so sit back and watch as things change. I've got many science fiction & fantasy interests. I'll have some links to various people's sites as to favourites (which also have links to some pretty neat stuff).
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1 December 2009
- Personal News: On a personal note, I'm opening up a new photography business, under my own name, JL Stapleton Photography. I'm hoping to have it all finalized in the next few days to be open for business.
- Otalia Virtual Season: Since the demise of the daytime serial, Guiding Light on CBS back in September 2009, I became involved in the Otalia Virtual Season. Otalia being the same-sex relationship between Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera. I started out as a beta-reader for one of the episodes in the first arc (Family) of stories. When the second arc (Faith), pitches came around and one of them hadn't been claimed, I thought about it and decided to pitch for ep 12. The general idea of where things were going had been figured out, but nothing claimed or storyline developed. So I jumped in.
- Fan Videos: my first fanvid in the Guiding Light fandom, "Ode To A Friend". Info & links available at my Fan Videos section.
22 February 2009
- Fanfiction: At Christmas time, I completed two new fanfic stories for online fandom fiction challenges. One was an ER story ("Of Tears & Joy"), and the other a Fried Green Tomatoes story ("Seeking Comfort"). They're both located at the Fanfiction section of the site.
28 September 2008
- Over the next couple months, this site is going to be undergoing a redesign. Not necessarily of content, though some of that may change as well, but as part of an effort to streamline sections and make the content easier to read. That will include some of the fanfiction stories which currently have light text on black or dark background. Rather than take whole sections down in the interim, they'll be left up as I work through the changes.
The first change that I've already completed is the Fan Fiction section, Fan Videos section and Bad Girls section. The design structure is something that I've been working on with the Fast-Forward online newsletter for the FSFS. The original design source ideas were compiled from a few sites: Passion & Perfection, Battlestar Wiki and Survival Instinct, then adapted to fit my interests
New: 15 May 2008:
- Fredericton Science Fiction Society: Fast-Forward - Updates on main page and in Member Recommendations, Movie & DVD News. I also added a new section available through the Member Recommendations section to old recommendations in case folks are interested in seeing other things we've looked at and wanted to share. May's contributions include favourite online role-playing video games, favourite alternate history books, favourite websites, and music recommendations.
New: 14 February 2008:
- Fan Videos - for Battlestar Galactica, Spooks, and Beauty & The Beast added to the collection.
- Fan Fiction - updated with recent addition to the 2007 Yuletide Treasures fic exchange.
New: 19 February 2007:
- Fanfic Section: Added two stories completed in December 2006 as part of fanfiction challenges. "Losses" is a Witchblade story about the losses that Sara Pezzini has faced. "Finding One's Way" is a Wire in the Blood story based on Val McDermid's series (set post-The Torment of Others), "A Retreat of Truths" is a Spooks story set post ep 505, but Ruth is still present.
- Bad Girls: Updated the links on the fanvids. Majority of the vids are located at Ralst's Passion & Perfection site. Thank you muchly. :) I've also provided YouTube links to the fanvids.
New: 15 October, 2006:
- Bad Girls - Added the first fanfiction story in this fandom that I wrote to the Bad Girls Section. This story was part of the Fragments of Sappho Challenge-A-Thon, in which requests were submitted for various fandoms and pairings, and then folks could claim the requests and write a story. There were prompts to set your story around, and then you were given a fragment of a Sappho poem in which to incorporate indirectly into your story. This was my contribution to the challenge.
New: 13 September, 2006:
- Bad Girls - Added a new fanvideo - or rather a link notice to the vid, "My Skin" - focused on Pat/Sheena , has been added to the Bad Girls section.
- Index Link Frame - Added link to the Fredericton Science Fiction Society in the link frame above. I've been a part of this group for the past twelve years. Currently I'm also the web designer for the site, so any comments/questions etc., just drop me a line at the contact link above.
New: 23 July, 2006:
Bad Girls: A new video, entitled, "One Moment" has been added to the Bad Girls section. Inspired by Hannah Waddingham's performance in Bad Girls - The Musical in Leeds, UK this past spring (May 27-July 1).
New: 13 May, 2006: Website was temporarily down for a week til I got the payments fixed. There's a couple changes in layout, but not by much. I wanted to get a lot of this stuff in order before I go away so I can upload trip pictures to the site.
New: 24 April, 2006.
- Bad Girls - Due to not being able to put up files larger than 10MB each, I've had to convert the BG fanvids to XviD AVI format.
- ER - Vid below. Again, having to only have files under 10MB I've kept up the small avi file. If you want the larger files, just send me a note and I'll put them up on You Send It, or some such file sharing. Or via MSN.
- UK Trip - Heading over across the pond next month for 2 1/2 weeks. Will be putting up pictures of my trip as I go (taking camera & laptop with me). Will be posting notices of such up on My LiveJournal, so keep an eye out. :)
New: 07 January 2006: Bad Girls - Added a newish Bad Girls fan video. Located here.
New: 31 December 2005: ER Fanvid. Here for right now, as I haven't got any other section to put it into at the moment. This was actually done a few months ago. I had uploaded to the server but not made a direct link to it. It had been linked to through the LiveJournal Vidding Community as well as my own Live Journal account back in the fall. This ER vid is primarily centred around Kerry Weaver and Susan Lewis, though also has more footage of other female ER staff. The music "From Where I Am" is by Enya. Hope you like it. :)
From Where I Am - Small File: 3.68MB (AVI Format)
New: 28 December 2005:
- Ceri's Bad Girl's Collection
- I've put up a new Nikki/Helen Fan-Video. Enjoy!
- Various & Sundry Photographs
- In an effort to make room for the aforementioned fanvids, I had to take some stuff off the server. So the older photographs of my trip home a couple years ago, as well as the ones of the local flood back in April I have removed.
Changes: 23 September 2005: Ceri's Bad Girl's Collection
Removed the larger and smaller versions of the fanvids, in order to conserve the server space. I WILL be leaving the middle-sized (mpg) copies of the fanvids there. I will also hopefully be increasing the server space, so will likely put them up again.
Added 30 June 2005: Fan Fiction Images
Added three images to my ER stories, Insurrection and Night of Surrender & Strength. Actually two to the former, and one to the latter. The two picture images were put together by Aria, and used with her permission here.
Added 17 June 2005: Fan Fiction
Updated the Fan Fiction section with a couple of my ER stories, which I wrote a few years ago. "Night of Surrender & Strength" is a seventh series set story, and "Insurrection: The Other Side" is story set in the eighth series. Both are somewhat episode based. Stories here
Added 11 June 2005: Pet Pictures
I've added pictures of the animals in the house - a cat and two dogs. Just because they're cute & cuddly. And occasionally showing off.
Added 10 June 2005:
- Fan Video.
I've added a new Bad Girls fan video that I've just completed. It's called "I Know". Located in the Bad Girls section. The singer/songwriter, whose music is used for the vid, is a friend of mine
- BG Links.
I've added some new links in the Bad Girls section.
Added 02 June 2005:
- Photographs.
I have updated the photographs section to include some sunset pictures and photos of the 2005 flood in and around the Fredericton downtown. I've also fixed a few broken links.
- Fonts.
To view a couple of the fonts in the Celtic typeface of headers that are on the index page, I've included the CelticMD TrueType font for your usage/interest.
Added 01 June 2005: Navigational Tools.
I decided to re-arrange the outlook of the front page here, with links to the subpages - see table above. Played around a bit with the tables section of the Amiasoft SiteAid program til I found something I was happy with. The front page will just have notices of what's new and stuff, with links to various things. So, let me know what you think. If it's easier to navigate or worse. :)
Added 27 May 2005: Academic Article.
I will be putting up various articles or papers up that I've written for school/journals that folks might find of interest. These ARE NOT to be taken and distributed for plagueristic purposes. These took considerable research and time to write, and may not be copied under any circumstances - Academic article
Added 19 May 2005: Fanfic Index
New story added in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer section, called "Full of Grace." It's a story I originally wrote several years ago for a fanzine I published. First time in online format. Fanfic Index.
Added 08 May 2005: Bad Girls Section
- This section was actually added first before my index page was finished, because I had some stuff that I wanted some folks to see the project that I'd been working on. Bad Girls
** Updated: Fanfiction Review: 11 May 2005
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