To my reader in Portland, Oregon: you were my 60,000th visitor since I've been tracking visits! Thank you so much!

To everyone: I am hoping to get HBM 32 out to the betas tonight. I will also post some more of the novel in sugared_limes sometime this weekend. I did not make the 50,000 words but I now have a clearer idea of the way the book(s) should go.

Thanks!

DiNovia

Title: Hide Beside Me (Chapter 31)
Author: DiNovia
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Olivia/Natalia
Rating:  Chapter=PG-13/Overall=NC-17
Archival:  P&P, Kimly, and AUSXIP of course.  Everyone else, please ask.
Spoilers:  None
Summary:  Phillip Spaulding has returned to Springfield with a vengeance.  Olivia Spencer, afraid that Phillip will take their daughter Emma from her again, flees Springfield with the help of her assistant, Natalia Rivera.  Can they stay one step ahead of Phillip?  Will they ever be safe again?
Content Disclaimer:  This is an AU story--based on a drabble I posted in February--that splits off from the "I can trust you with my life!" scene on 2/16/09.  All canon after that does not exist in this story.  Also, the Phillip Spaulding that returns in this story is still bat-shit crazy and evil. Graphic depictions of love between two consenting adult women are contained within, obviously, but not in this chapter since I have split the girls up.  Yes, I am evil.  Thanks for noticing.  ;)
Source Disclaimer:  I do not own Guiding Light or the characters therein depicted.  I do not seek to profit from this story. 
A/N:  I tried to remain as close to character as humanly possible but as I have only seen YouTube clips of Otalia and no full episodes, I cannot guarantee the results.
Style Note:  As some of you have noticed, I am switching POVs for every chapter.  Natalia, Olivia and Emma will tell their stories in their own words, first-person present tense.  Any other exposition needed will happen in third-person past-tense.  This will cover the urgency I need and will also allow for omniscience for exposition with multiple characters.  I am very interested in knowing whether this style works how I have intended it, so let me know.
Thank You:  To mightbefound  and bldy_destini and fewthistle for beta-ing this story.  Thank you also to Tiff for helping me to figure out the major plot problems I'd been having and for being on call when I forget them and need to review.  ;)  Thank you to djshiva for your comments and general enthusiasm for this story. 

( We'll see how brave you are...We'll see how fast you'll be running....  )

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DiNovia

Title: Hide Beside Me (Chapter 30)
Author: DiNovia
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Olivia/Natalia
Rating:  Chapter=PG-13/Overall=NC-17
Archival:  P&P, Kimly, and AUSXIP of course.  Everyone else, please ask.
Spoilers:  None
Summary:  Phillip Spaulding has returned to Springfield with a vengeance.  Olivia Spencer, afraid that Phillip will take their daughter Emma from her again, flees Springfield with the help of her assistant, Natalia Rivera.  Can they stay one step ahead of Phillip?  Will they ever be safe again?
Content Disclaimer:  This is an AU story--based on a drabble I posted in February--that splits off from the "I can trust you with my life!" scene on 2/16/09.  All canon after that does not exist in this story.  Also, the Phillip Spaulding that returns in this story is still bat-shit crazy and evil. Graphic depictions of love between two consenting adult women are contained within, obviously, but not for a while.  
Source Disclaimer:  I do not own Guiding Light or the characters therein depicted.  I do not seek to profit from this story. 
A/N:  I tried to remain as close to character as humanly possible but as I have only seen YouTube clips of Otalia and no full episodes, I cannot guarantee the results.
Style Note:  As some of you have noticed, I am switching POVs for every chapter.  Natalia, Olivia and Emma will tell their stories in their own words, first-person present tense.  Any other exposition needed will happen in third-person past-tense.  This will cover the urgency I need and will also allow for omniscience for the longer bits of exposition.  I am very interested in knowing whether this style works how I have intended it, so let me know.
A/N*:  I should have mentioned this before.  I know that this is not canon, but I have chosen to place Springfield in Ohio, mostly to make my research life that much easier.  Yes, I am obsessive about my research, which is why Natalia was able to make it to Overland Park, KS in one night to be present for it's sunrise at 6:54am (7:54am Springfield time) on 2/23 (roughly when chapter 2 took place).  No, really.  I looked all that up.  And more.  I'm that much of a fact geek.  Sad, but true.
Thank You:  To mightbefound and bldy_destini and fewthistle for beta-ing this story.  Thank you also to Tiff for helping me to figure out the major plot problems I'd been having and for being on call when I forget them and need to review.  ;)  Thank you to djshiva for your comments and general enthusiasm for this story.   

( So if you meet me, have some courtesy.... Have some sympathy and some taste.... Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.... )

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DiNovia

Title: Sleep is for the Dead
Authors: Fewthistle and DiNovia
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Olivia/Natalia
Rating:  R
Archival:  P&P, Kimly, and AUSXIP of course.  Everyone else, please ask.
Spoilers:  for 9/10/09
Summary:  Pregnancy hormones + 18 months of sexual tension + Olivia Spencer in her bed = the Natalia that nobody knows.
Source Disclaimer:  I do not own Guiding Light or the characters therein depicted.  I do not seek to profit from this story. 
A/N:  Fewthistle told me this little plot bunny she'd been having.  We then spent an hour laughing and coming up with the rest of this story.  This is all Fewthistle, especially the best, best lines.  I am just her overqualified typist.  And very, very lucky to be that.  Oh.  And yes, I'm watching the show again.  The bastards got me back. 
Thank You:  To fewthistle for telling me about this plot bunny, for giving me all the best lines, for trusting Tanked Muse and I to write it and, finally, for beta-ing this story.  You are seriously the bestest friend a woman could ask for.  Love you to pieces!

( Knock knock! )

Thank you, Fewthistle!  This was an absolute blast to write!

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DiNovia

Title: Hide Beside Me (Chapter 28)
Author: DiNovia
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Olivia/Natalia
Rating:  Chapter=NC-17/Overall=NC-17
Archival:  P&P, Kimly, and AUSXIP of course.  Everyone else, please ask.
Spoilers:  None
Summary:  Phillip Spaulding has returned to Springfield with a vengeance.  Olivia Spencer, afraid that Phillip will take their daughter Emma from her again, flees Springfield with the help of her assistant, Natalia Rivera.  Can they stay one step ahead of Phillip?  Will they ever be safe again?
Content Disclaimer:  This is an AU story--based on a drabble I posted in February--that splits off from the "I can trust you with my life!" scene on 2/16/09.  All canon after that does not exist in this story.  Also, the Phillip Spaulding that returns in this story is still bat-shit crazy and evil. Graphic depictions of love between two consenting adult women are contained within, obviously, coincidentally in this chapter, too.
Source Disclaimer:  I do not own Guiding Light or the characters therein depicted.  I do not seek to profit from this story. 
A/N:  I tried to remain as close to character as humanly possible but as I have only seen YouTube clips of Otalia and no full episodes, I cannot guarantee the results.
Style Note:  As some of you have noticed, I am switching POVs for every chapter.  Natalia, Olivia and Emma will tell their stories in their own words, first-person present tense.  Any other exposition needed will happen in third-person past-tense.  This will cover the urgency I need and will also allow for omniscience for exposition with multiple characters.  I am very interested in knowing whether this style works how I have intended it, so let me know.
Thank You:  To mightbefound  and bldy_destini and fewthistle for beta-ing this story.  Thank you also to Tiff for helping me to figure out the major plot problems I'd been having and for being on call when I forget them and need to review.  ;)  Thank you to djshiva for your comments and general enthusiasm for this story. 

( Here's someone who really loves you, don't ever go away, is what these walls would say.... )

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Title: Hide Beside Me (Chapter 27)
Author: DiNovia
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Olivia/Natalia
Rating:  Chapter=NC-17/Overall=NC-17
Archival:  P&P, Kimly, and AUSXIP of course.  Everyone else, please ask.
Spoilers:  None
Summary:  Phillip Spaulding has returned to Springfield with a vengeance.  Olivia Spencer, afraid that Phillip will take their daughter Emma from her again, flees Springfield with the help of her assistant, Natalia Rivera.  Can they stay one step ahead of Phillip?  Will they ever be safe again?
Content Disclaimer:  This is an AU story--based on a drabble I posted in February--that splits off from the "I can trust you with my life!" scene on 2/16/09.  All canon after that does not exist in this story.  Also, the Phillip Spaulding that returns in this story is still bat-shit crazy and evil. Graphic depictions of love between two consenting adult women are contained within, obviously, coincidentally in this chapter.  ;)  
Source Disclaimer:  I do not own Guiding Light or the characters therein depicted.  I do not seek to profit from this story. 
A/N:  I tried to remain as close to character as humanly possible but as I have only seen YouTube clips of Otalia and no full episodes, I cannot guarantee the results.
Style Note:  As some of you have noticed, I am switching POVs for every chapter.  Natalia, Olivia and Emma will tell their stories in their own words, first-person present tense.  Any other exposition needed will happen in third-person past-tense.  This will cover the urgency I need and will also allow for omniscience for exposition with multiple characters.  I am very interested in knowing whether this style works how I have intended it, so let me know.
Thank You:  To mightbefound and bldy_destini and fewthistle for beta-ing this story.  Thank you also to Tiff for helping me to figure out the major plot problems I'd been having and for being on call when I forget them and need to review.  ;)  Thank you to djshiva for your comments and general enthusiasm for this story. 

( How I love you, every square inch.... Love your brown eyes, your forgiveness.... )

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DiNovia

For about two months I've been hosting weekly radio shows at the Internet site Blogtalkradio.com. The overall theme of the show is general femslash discussion, since it's something I know pretty well and no one else seems to fill this niche on that site. I've been tackling individual fandoms I'm familiar with, but lately I've been trying to expand into the broader femslash world, and next week will be no exception.

Episode Eight will air LIVE on Thursday, July 23rd, in a special hourlong episode from 10-11 PM EST.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/allaine/2009/07/24/DiNovia-Fewthistle-and-DAx-Shine-a-Guiding-Light-on-Otalia

DiNovia, Fewthistle and DAx Shine a "Guiding Light" on Otalia

As "Guiding Light" approaches the end of its run, after over seventy years of broadcasting, the Internet fanbase is more energetic than ever, mounting its last-ditch efforts to save the venerable soap opera. Plus, of course, there's "Otalia". The canon lesbian romance between Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera developed slowly over the past year and captured the hearts of fans. And now it's expanded well beyond the show's core audience as brand-new fans watch show clips on Youtube, listen to the Big Purple Dreams podcasts, and read fan fiction at the Incandescent Fire website. We'll discuss the exploding popularity of Otalia in a special hourlong show with DiNovia, author of "Hide Beside Me", her fellow fanfic author and co-creator of the Burning City fanfic Livejournal community Fewthistle, and "The Courtship of Emma's Mother" writer DAx.

Anyone wondering what kind of show to expect can go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/allaine and download any previous episode. The most relevant episodes Five-Seven, which are all interview shows. And anyone who cannot listen live will be able to download it beginning July 24th.

I'm extremely excited to be doing this show. All three authors were incredibly gracious in agreeing to make time in their schedules, and while I'm extremely new to GL - my only experience in soaps was watching All My Children throughout the 1990s (I lived through Bianca, Otalia fans, I feel your pain) - I've already grown to like the couple very much and the fanfic very much as well.

I hope you will attend.

Sincerely, Allaine

Title:  Coming Undone
Author: DiNovia
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Olivia/Natalia
Rating:  NC-17 for language and sexual activities between two consenting adult women.
Archival:  P&P, Kimly, and AUSXIP of course.  Everyone else, please ask.
Spoilers:  None
Summary:  It's amazing what one good pair of jeans can inspire.  Olivia's POV.
Content Disclaimer:  This piece was requested specifically and the parameters I was given were "DOOR SEX DOOR SEX DOOR SEX."  So...here's the door sex!
Source Disclaimer:  I do not own Guiding Light or the characters therein depicted.  I do not seek to profit from this story. 
A/N:  The Natalia in this story is not a virginal saint.  Instead, she has a spine, a sexuality, a passing acquaintance with profanity, and is hopefully more like the Natalia we remember.
Thank you: to malapropses, who did this brilliant Otalia fanvid from which I took the cut text.
Dedication: to Jules and Xan.  Two of the best friends an aging Otalian suffering from flirtation issues could possibly have.  I <3 you both.  ;)  Also, to fewthistle, who approved the title, beta-ed this, and who is generally a dear friend who buys me things like purses and lesbian porn.  I hope the Olivia who lives in her head likes this one!
Additional note:  A late and completely unexpected addition to ralst's International Day of Femslash celebration, 7/18/09.  Sorry, Captain!  I had no idea I'd have something ready today! 

( Oh. My. God. She's so hot! She's so flippin' hot! )

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DiNovia</p>

Hello all!  Something a little different for this chapter.

I've been asked, as a moderator of Burning City, to post chapter 26 of Hide Beside Me there exclusively (just one chapter!) to promote our (fewthistle, flying_peanuts, and me) new Otalia fanfiction community.

So please follow the link below to read the next installment of Hide Beside Me.  And if you feel so inclined, please join the community.  Read the user info for information about the premise and sign on up!

You really want to. Really. I promise. ;)

I will go back to posting the chapters regularly with chapter 27.

Until then, enjoy!

DiNovia