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Reposting Old Blake's 7 PGP Blake/Avon Fic

2017-09-17T17:24:28Z

I have finally put my old Blake/Avon fic "Mnemonics" on Ao3. It is an AU (i.e. the last episode was different) future fic and has the distinction of being my only B/A slash fic.

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X-Men Fic: Reflections on the Life and Meaning of David Haller

2014-02-10T04:54:16Z

(Probably my last fic before my kids arrive from Haiti and there is no fic time for years!)

Fandom: X-Men, Movieverse with comics insertions

Summary: Reflections on the life Charles and Gabrielle's mentally ill son, David, through the relationships among Charles, Erik, and Gabrielle. Set during the first X-Men movie, around the year 2000.

Notes: This story is a hybrid of various canons and my own ideas. David is my own version: readers of the Legion stories will note right away that my conception of his life and powers is quite different. However, I've tried to be consistent within the fanon of my own fic, which is why Moira shows up late to Muir Island: she would have been going back to school when David was first placed there. I feel I should subtitle this fic, "People Have Lunch."

"The Calling or the Whale": Read at Ao3

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Because It's Been Forever Since I've Memed...

2013-06-19T04:51:16Z

From astrogirl2:

Pick a fic of mine and a question (or questions) and I'll tell you:

1. What part was most difficult?
2. What are you most proud of?
3. What's a reference you made no one has picked up on yet?
4. What's a bit that sums up your take on a character?
5. Favorite line(s) of dialogue?
6. Favorite lines(s) of prose?
7. Were there any points where you were trying to do something specific with sound, vocabulary, or rhythm?
8. How many drafts did the work go through?
9. Were you listening to anything while writing the fic? If so, what?
10. Imagery that is important to the fic, either while composing or in the fic itself?
11. What were you most worried about during the composition?
12. How do you want readers to react to this fic?
13. What did you want them to take away from it?
14. What inspired this fic?
15. If you used a beta, what did you agree or disagree on?
16. Did anything surprise you during the writing?
17. Were any parts written under the influence?

Older list of my fic (also includes some non-fic memories)
AO3 List

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General Update

2013-03-02T02:44:13Z

Many thanks to astrogirl2 for a very thoughtful review of The Hour before Morning.

In HBM movie news, we finished our Kickstarter interview video, which I hope to have posted soon (a bit before the Kickstarter itself). The movie is in picture lock and off to the audio guy (for another round).

In other writing news, I seem to have moved toward posting my fic directly to AO3 and bypassing DW and LJ. For anyone who's interested, my first fic to get this treatment is "On Liberty and Love", a slashy Les Mis gen fic of about 3500 words.

In reading news, I got a Kindle and am loving it so far!

In life news, I'll be moving in a few weeks (just across the river) to the house where I intend to settle in and nest for some years with the kids once they arrive from Haiti (another several months hence). I also got a local class to teach this spring, which makes me happy. :-)

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A Les Mis Fic (God help me)

2013-01-22T06:02:59Z

Fandom: Les Misérables
Title: "Bricklaying"
Characters: Enjolras, Grantaire
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Awkwardness and alcoholism.
Summary: An embarrassing situation leads to a serious conversation--with a side of Lamarck (not Lamarque).
A/N: Inspired by Ao3, I set myself the challenge of slashing Enjolras and Grantaire. But Enjolras resisted, and I failed. Ce n'est pas possible. So this started out as a sex fic and ended up being about alcoholism instead--sorry. Honestly, I feel a bit guilty about ficcing Les Mis. It's not something I ever imagined doing in the first 25 years of my acquaintance with the story, and I confess it feels both trivializing to the original and like an excellent way of showcasing one's own literary inadequacies. But darn if it's not kind of fun. For sixish.

( Bricklaying )

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Small Trigun Fic--Knives & Legato

2013-01-11T03:05:12Z

It's been a while since I've written fic, and this one's been simmering for a while...

Fandom: Trigun (manga)
Title: “Fear”
Characters: Knives, Legato, OC
Rating/Warnings: R, violence, dark themes
Words: About 800
Summary: Knives and Legato find a baby Plant.
Spoilers: through volume 7, and this story won’t make sense without vol. 7.

( Fear )

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Trigun Mega-Drabble

2012-07-28T06:10:29Z

Title: "J. A. N."
Fandom: Trigun
Characters: Vash
Rating: PG for themes
Spoilers: Plant powers
Summary: Vash has women living in his arm.
Words: ~200

( J. A. N. )

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Trigun Incest Fic--Merging

2012-05-31T07:15:52Z

Fandom: Trigun
Title: "Merging"
Characters, Pairings: Vash/Knives, mentions of Vash/Meryl, Wolfwood
Rating/Warning: R for themes, incest
Summary: Vash and Knives have different ideas about how close brothers should be.
Length: about 2700 words
A/N: This is mostly manga continuity, but the series ending is a hybrid of manga and anime, and Vash/Meryl is taken from the anime. Spoilers for the whole series. I have made up some Plant pseudo-science jargon.

( Merging )

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More Gungrave--A Small Crack Fic

2012-01-27T00:07:02Z

Title: "Advantage"
Fandom: Gungrave
Characters: Tokioka, Brandon
Rating/Warnings: R for themes.
Summary: Tokioka spent thirteen years alone with an unconscious Brandon.
Genre: Humor, crack
A/N: I'm assuming the Land of the Yule is a parallel universe to ours close enough to have some of the same books, etc. Apologies if this fic comes off as homophobic in a Robert Holmesian vein. That's not my intent; it's just where the material went.

( Advantage )

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Rather Randomly, I've Written a Blood+ Fic

2012-01-11T08:01:13Z

Title:: "Espoir et Désespoir"
Fandom: Blood+ (anime)
Characters: Hagi, Solomon
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for themes
Summary: A slightly AU filler fic: what if two chevaliers struck up a correspondence while their queens slept?
A/N: I've grappled with the title. My poor French tells me it ought to have articles, but I prefer the phonetic effect without, and I found at least one French blog without, so it can't be too bizarre? Speaking of French, in "reality," I'm virtually certain Solomon would write to Hagi in French, but since that is beyond my powers, he is introducing the conversation in English: maybe he noted that Hagi's English was really good?

( Espoir et Désespoir )

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X-Men First Class Fic Recs

2011-10-01T20:57:15Z

I put together a list of fic recs for a friend and thought I'd share it here. It's Charles/Erik oriented.

sasha_b's work in general.

"And Miles to Go before I Sleep" by Dee: A slashy C/E fic, prior to the Divorce.

"Leitmotiv" by Zetaori: Erik can't describe what Charles is to him. A nice metaphor, nicely followed through.

"How Much I've Been Touching You" by Sinuous_Curve: How to use a sex fic to generate excellent character development.

"Not a Good Man" by Tacky_Tramp: very short fic but nicely sums up their falling in love.

"Libertad" by Ariadnes_String: Erik, pre-Charles, gen. One of the best X-Men fics I have read. Erik goes to Temple in Argentina.

"Big Fish Little Fish" by Lilacsigil: Erik-centric. This is an AU splicing comics canon with movie canon. This fic explores how XMFC would play if Erik were pursuing Shaw with his daughter in tow. Necessarily, this diminishes the C/E focus, which is the only reason I can't take this on board as my fanon, because it is sooo well written.

"Our Fallibility" by Lyceumidence: This is an extrapolation on Charles's XMFC/comics backstory, positing that, as a child, he unintentionally screwed his mother up by controlling her telepathically. From his mom's POV.

"Savage Love" by Renata_Kedavra: Satire, based on the Dan Savage advice column. Very cute.

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X-Men: Drabble

2011-09-21T05:06:20Z

Title: "Paint Job"
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Length: about 180 words
Ratings/Warnings: PG for angst
Characters: Erik, Raven
Summary: How come Erik's helmet is a different color from Shaw's?

( Paint Job )

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X-Men Fic: Charles/Erik, Post-Divorce

2011-08-24T05:42:09Z

Title: After the Love Affair
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters/Pairings: Charles/Erik (mentions of Charles/Moira, Erik/Raven)
Words: 8500
Rating/Warnings: NC-17 for sex, possible triggers surrounding ableism and heavy moralizing about war, with a side of racism. Also evolutionary discourse.
Summary: (1967) When your true love is your arch enemy, sometimes you need to take him on vacation.
A/N: This is something of a sequel to "Scenes from a Love Affair". Though long, it's another "scenes" fic and can be read bit by bit. For more on how Moira pops up doing doctoral studies, see "Reinvention". Thank you, Google books for these Wagner lyrics, which are stuck in Erik's head. The musical passage he refers to is here, about half way through the clip.

( After the Love Affair )

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X-Men Fic: Charles and Jean

2011-08-08T05:26:26Z

Title: "Daughter"
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters: Charles, Jean
Word Count: 960
Rating/Warnings: PG for angst, discussion of parental neglect, yet also kind of fluffy
Summary: Trying to cheer up a depressed pre-teen Jean, Charles reflects on their relationship.

( Daughter )

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Raven, Erik, Charles Fic: Revised

2011-08-06T08:34:58Z

Title: "A Dash of Truth Spread Thinly"
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters/Pairings: Erik, Raven, Charles
Word Count:~5700
Rating: PG-13 for sex, language, and themes
Summary: Who is Mystique if not Magneto's follower? A reinterpretation of the end of X2 in the light of Raven as Charles's sister; implied AU for X3.
A/N: This is a heavy revision of a story of the same title I posted earlier. The title is from Tori Amos's "Pancake," my new X2 Erik and Raven song.

( A Dash of Truth Spread Thinly )

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X-Men Fic: Erik & Charles, Angst, Gen

2011-07-16T21:12:03Z

Title: "Blemish"
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters: Erik & Charles (gen)
Rating/Warnings: R for Holocaust.
Word Count: ~1000
Summary: In the midst of a pleasant evening, Charles says the wrong thing.
A/N: This fic is an attempt to explain what seems to my eye a casting discontinuity in XMFC (but perhaps my eye is deceiving me). The Nazi bits (minus mutants) are based on historical information, which makes me feel rather ill.

( Blemish )

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X-Men Fic: Erik/Raven, with a bit of Charles

2011-07-13T06:47:08Z

Title: "A Dash of Truth Spread Thinly"
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters/Pairings: Erik/Raven, Charles
Word Count: 3500
Rating: PG-13 for sex and themes
Summary: Set after X-Men: First Class and after X2, implied AU for X3. Erik and Raven: Forty years together, and it does seem a day too much.
A/N: The title is from Tori Amos's "Pancake," my new X2 Erik and Raven song.

( A Dash of Truth Spread Thinly )

More A/N: I am not best pleased with this fic, maybe it wanted to be in Raven's POV. Or maybe it just covers so much territory, touching on so many characters' lives that it needed to be a novel. Or maybe I've come up against the fundamental ideological conundrum that drives The X-Men: there is no easy solution and thus no real space for narrative closure. Or maybe I just need to revise more...

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X-Men Fic: Charles/Moira

2011-07-05T05:01:03Z

I have written Charles/Moira fic. Why? Nobody knows.

Title: "Reinvention"
Fandom: X-Men (movieverse)
Characters/Pairing: Charles/Moira
Word Count: ~5700
Rating: R for sex, talk of sex, disturbing themes.
Warnings: Reference to domestic violence and sexual violence and ableist triggers. (This is the most heavily warned story I've ever written.)
Summary: Charles and Moira's arduous journey to sexual friendship.
A/N: This story comes from a desire to find some continuity between movieverse Moira and comicsverse Moira. To that end, I've spliced pieces of comicsverse backstory onto movieverse Moira. I lightened up her past of abuse a lot, yet it still manages to remain rather shocking.

( Reinvention )

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Another X-Men Fic

2011-06-16T04:37:07Z

I am still exorcising the X-Men bug. More fic...

Title: "Scenes from a Love Affair"
Fandom: X-Men (movies)
Characters: Charles, Erik
Rating/Warnings: R-ish for tame sex and infrequent swearing
Spoilers: X-Men: First Class
Summary: Young and in love and recruiting in Mexico.
A/N: Songs courtesy of Tom Lehrer and the Kingston Trio. There is political incorrectness in this story, particularly in Lehrer's humor, in defense of which I can only say it was 1962, and I don't mean to say it's not problematic.

( Scenes from a Love Affair )

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X-Men Fic: "Observance"

2011-06-11T00:34:46Z

Title: "Observance"
Fandom: X-Men (films)
Characters: Charles, Erik
Rating: G
Spoilers: mild, for X-Men: First Class.
Summary: Every year Erik wrote Charles a letter.
A/N: My first X-Men fic, despite having been attached to the fandom one way or another for, oh, 20 years.

( Observance )

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That AO3 Meme Everyone Else Did a While Ago

2011-04-27T06:10:34Z

From astrogirl2 and others: my 10 most read AO3 stories, and my guesses as to why...

1) "Exorcising the Demon" (Mirage of Blaze, Naoe/Takaya)--If there's a fandom I have any modest (and it is modest) celebrity in, it's MoB, and this is one of two times I've actually written Naoe/Takaya, which is everybody's OTP, so this stands to reason. Give 'em what they want.

2) "Patterns of Life" (Mirage of Blaze/Mushishi, Naoe/Ginko)--This surprises and pleases me. I have a lot of affection for this story, but I'm surprised that a long, multi-part crossover between MoB and a relatively small fandom, that (gasp) pairs Naoe with someone not Takaya should be so widely read. I guess it plays off the MoB love and Naoe love. Maybe it's a good read.

3) "And after Honesty?" (Farscape, Scorpius/Sikozu)--Damn, this is an old fic! My oldest on AO3. I guess it speaks to Farscape's enduring popularity, and probably to Scorpius'. It certainly can't be Sikozu's! Though I'm not alone in wanting a better explanation for Sikozu after PKW. Also a long one, also surprising people sat down and read it.

4) "Hope" (Blake's 7, Avon/Cally)--Well, B7 is well-loved, and Avon/Cally has a niche in many fans' hearts, even if it can't compete with Avon/Blake, and the fic is short, so that's probably it:) It makes me feel like posting my Blake/Avon fic, just to see what would happen.

5) "The Guilty" (Death Note/Monster, Tenma/Nina, Johan, L, Light, Watari, etc.)--Again, I'm a little surprised a long crossover picked up so many readers, but Death Note is a huge fandom. I do find it interesting, though, that this story scores way above its prequel: maybe I scared people off by slashing (sorta) Watari and Tenma?

6) "Addiction to Hands and Feet" (Texhnolyze, Ichise/Toyama)--Now, this surprises me! Texhnolyze is almost nil as a fandom, and this fic was written extremely fast and off-the-cuff. On the other hand, it is short and it is competing with very, very few other Tex. fics:)

7) "The Hammer" (Gungrave, Brandon, Harry)--Same as Tex., I expect: it's short, hence not scary, and Gungrave has picked up so few fics that it doesn't have a lot of clicky competition.

8) "Love Letters" (Banana Fish, Ash, Eiji/Sing)--It makes me smile that 19 people (or iterations) actually chose to read this 31,000 word fic from an old and, thus, rather quiet fandom (and a fic that doesn't even pair Ash and Eiji, well, not sexually). I worked really hard on it; I poured a lot of myself into it, so I'm glad it's pleased someone.

9) "Sons and Lovers" (Death Note/Monster, Tenma/Watari, L, B)--The "Guilty" prequel. Not picking up many readers, but I'm glad someone likes it. Again Tenma/Watari is scary? They only kiss.

10) "Love in a Finite Place" (Banana Fish, Ash/Eiji, Eiji/Sing)--The "Love Letters" sequel. I'm a little surprised it's read less than "Love Letters," given that my notes advertise it as a stand alone. It's shorter and it has the principals actually meeting in person. Maybe people are scared off by the "60 years later"? Maybe a lot just won't read a sequel till they reach it, and they don't make it through the 31,000 words?

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And the boobie prize, with a grand total of 0 hits, goes to "Present Friends" (Mob, Naoe/Haruie)-- Boy, talk about an unpopular pairing:) It breaks people's minds so much they can't even bear to click:-)

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Blake's 7-Doctor Who Crossover Fic

2011-04-10T05:55:53Z

Fandoms: Blake's 7, Doctor Who
Title: "Sacrifice"
Characters: Avon, Ten, Orac, Slave
Rating: PG for traces of angst
Summary: A quiet moment on Scorpio is interrupted by an annoying visitor.
A/N: This is my help_japan story, won by kerravonsen, who gave me the prompt: Avon and Ten having an argument in which each is partially right. My wonderful beta reader, vilakins observed that I might not be entirely on prompt; I'll let readers be the judge. Many thanks for the excellent beta! I'm a little embarrassed that the arc of this story is identical to my Avon/Cally story, but Avon's life just lends itself!

"Sacrifice"

With four hours remaining until Scorpio arrived at Xenon Base, Avon reclined in his seat and ruminated.

He ought to have known better. The ambush, inevitably, came the moment he let his guard down. The clank of a hatch, a maintenance door growling open, and out stumbled a character with a manner reminiscent of Vila, and like Vila, rather too inept to be believable.( Read more... )

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Banana Fish Fic: Ash and Eiji Meet (2047)

2011-03-30T05:11:43Z

Title: "Love in a Finite Place"
Fandom: Mainly Banana Fish
Characters: Ash, Eiji, Sing
Pairings: Ash/Eiji, Eiji/Sing
Spoilers: All of BF, light spoilers for Death Note and DN-Bodyverse
Warnings/Rating: References to physical and sexual violence, swearing, light sexual content; cautious R.
Summary: After 60 years, Ash and Eiji meet again.
A/N: This story is a sequel to "Love Letters", but you don't need to have read it to understand this one with a few spoilers: due to magicky, Death Note stuff, Ash is now 12 years younger than Eiji; due to life in a rough Russian prison, Ash has lost his two index fingers. Plotwise, this story crosses with a mainly Death Note story louderandlouder is writing that will address Ash's employment. Kokoro translation by Edwin McClellan. New York: Dover, 2006, p. 188

Teaser: "Now, I feel such self-righteous fury over losing you," Ash went on. "But underneath all that, I feel fury at myself 'cause I let it happen."

( Love in a Finite Place )

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Banana Fish/Death Note Crossover--2047 (end)

2011-03-28T00:54:49Z

Title: "Love Letters"
Fandom: Mainly Banana Fish
Characters: Ash, Eiji, Sing
Spoilers: All of BF, light spoilers for DN and DN-Bodyverse
Warnings/Rating: References to physical and sexual violence, swearing; rated R this section for reference to bodily injury.
Summary: Ash escapes and contacts Eiji.
A/N: The friends Ash escapes with come from the universe of The Body, Death Note fic. Ash, of course, codes their names.

Teaser: Eiji: Part of me has trouble writing this and not yelling at you for going away again, for coming back to go away again, like my heart believes you will. But I won't pay attention to that part.

Letters 1987-1990 and Author's Notes
Letters 1994-1998
Letters 2003-2004
Letters 2006-2010
Letters 2020
Letters 2025-2026
Letters 2031-2032
Letters 2036
Letters 2038-2044

( Letters 2047 )

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Banana Fish/Death Note Crossover--2038-2044

2011-03-27T05:52:40Z

Title: "Love Letters"
Fandom: Mainly Banana Fish
Characters: Ash, Eiji, Sing, cameo by Yut-Lung
Spoilers: All of BF, light spoilers for DN and DN-Bodyverse
Warnings/Rating: References to physical and sexual violence, swearing; rated R this section for angst.
Summary: Eiji falls; Ash gets dumped; Russian politics take a turn for the worse.
A/N: The reference to weirdness in Colorado is from The Body, Death Note fic.

Teaser: Ash: I was willing to sleep with him. I even enjoyed it sometimes. I told him so, even though he never believed me. What the hell did he want?

Letters 1987-1990 and Author's Notes
Letters 1994-1998
Letters 2003-2004
Letters 2006-2010
Letters 2020
Letters 2025-2026
Letters 2031-2032
Letters 2036

( Letters 2038-2044 )

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