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Friday, May 1st, 2009
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11:46 pm - [Doctor Who: like a ruthless force]
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Title: Like a Ruthless Force
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13 to R
Word count: 3860
Notes: A very long time ago I posted No Sleepers Must Sleep, and mentioned that it was the first of two connected stories about Lucy Saxon. This is the second, dedicated to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) enevarim, who convinced me to dust off a long-abandoned draft and finish it :)
It'll make a lot more sense if you've read Sleepers. The title comes from the same poem: Whitman's Beat! Beat! Drums.
Somewhat to my surprise, an awful lot of Lewis Carroll found its way in here; some of the references are rather oblique, but if your childhoods were half as Alice-influenced as mine was, you'll probably have fun spotting them.
( Their empire is ushered in with music and with music it continues, much to Lucy's pleasure. )
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| Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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6:57 pm - [Merlin: miss the train before (2/?)]
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| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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10:08 am - [original fiction: eyaiverse 101]
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Title: Fortuna Fugit
Rating: PG
Notes: While I'm working on the next chapter of the heist AU (which I am! as we speak!), here's something a bit different: it was brought to my attention that I'd never actually posted my favourite original story to this ficblog, for reasons that seemed logical when I first posted it to fahye but now seem...less so.
So here it is. This began as a one-off short story, and then there was the director's commentary, and then a few other people started writing stories and drabbles set in the same universe (the master post is here; I recommend them all to you without reservation, and suggest reading in the order that they were written), and my beloved ariastar adapted this first story for a chapter of the infamous dwseason5.
And now I'm working on my second eyaiverse story and have a couple more ideas up my sleeve, and it's become one of my favorite fictional playgrounds.
I hope you enjoy it, even though it's probably not quite why you're watching this ficblog :)
( "The creation of life," you say, "would that fall under the definition of fighting entropy, or increasing it?" )
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| Monday, March 30th, 2009
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10:53 pm - [The History Boys: when our falsehoods are divided]
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Title: When Our Falsehoods Are Divided
Fandom: The History Boys
Rating: probably a hard R
Word count: 8486
Notes: This is for schiarire; things I stole from her include Buber's idea of I-thou relationships, and les didascalies. Things I stole from the Magdalen College website include the existence of the Florio Society, which meets and critiques the anonymously submitted poetry of its own members.
I have done my best to recreate what Ji calls the PERFECT STORM OF SEXUAL TENSION that exists in the film. This is a Herculanean task no matter which way you look at it, and I am always suspicious of fics when the writing process feels like eating chocolate mousse with a silver spoon (indulgent and guilty-pleasurey), but I hope you enjoy it.
I am a highly unsuitable person to be writing in this fandom because a) I usually write in speculative universes, and b) I took a single semester of history in Year 7 and haven't touched it since, so I know extremely little about the history of anywhere. Through sheer force of will I have (mostly) managed to avoid mentioning science, choosing instead to wallow around in Shakespeare and Auden and French and a whole lot of other lovely things that I also wish I were better educated in. There is now a director's commentary which explains all the references in more depth, but read the fic first :)
This was supposed to be all intellectual and stuff, but it surprised me by becoming one of the dirtiest things I've ever written. Not extensively, but...intensely.
( Et pourquoi mentir, à qui mentir? )
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| Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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11:44 pm - [Merlin: miss the train before (1/?)]
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| Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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7:15 pm - [Naruto: the anatomy of need]
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| Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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9:41 am - [Merlin: quickening days (3/3)]
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9:38 am - [Merlin: quickening days (2/3)]
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9:28 am - [Merlin: quickening days (1/3)]
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Title: Quickening Days
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: R
Wordcount: 22,174 (HOLY SHIT)
Notes: In which dragons & ghosts & prejudices are confronted, Merlin wears a hat (twice) and a dress (once), Arthur breaks some crockery (lots), there are more pranks than pillowfights but at least one of each, and many secrets are revealed.
This idea jumped me one day, sunk its teeth into my jugular and refused to let go until it was written. Apparently I have a burning need to contribute to the infamous fandom subgenre known as 'Merlin wears a dress'; I just didn't expect it to grow (and grow, and grow, and grow) an actual plot. For everyone who's wondering where the kissing is: it happens eventually! I promise!
This is the longest thing I have ever written in my entire life, and in a grand Antipodean fuck-you-too to the sudden proliferation of winter-themed fics in the fandom, it is a summer story.
The title is drawn from the fact that another name for the rowan tree is the Quicken. Bless you, Wikipedia.
( Isn't it fortunate that I have such a deep and abiding interest in the effects of storage mildew on the price of barley )
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| Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
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4:22 pm - [Merlin: meteorology]
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Title: Meteorology
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 4596
Notes: Uh. Look. My big scary PASS THESE OR FAIL OUT OF MEDICAL SCHOOL exams are in less than a week, and watching Merlin was meant to be a nice joyful way to spend my study breaks, but...that didn't exactly work out. Because this show makes me want to squeal in a high-pitched manner and have caplocky conversations about DESTINY and, obviously, write fic. Much love to ariastar for reading this over and making excited noises, and for helping me fill in some gaps.
This is a fic about Arthur's pratliness, because I miss it when it goes away, and I wanted an excuse to go on at great lengths about it. I suspect I also wanted an excuse to make up at least three different variations on the word 'prat'.
Set...between 1x09 and 1x10, I suppose. It was meant to be a lot slashier, but instead it is just about as slashy as the show. Which is still pretty damn slashy, trust me.
( So what did they do, give you a spiked rattle and encourage you to whack your innocent toys with it? )
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| Saturday, October 25th, 2008
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10:42 am - [Narnia: so great and beautiful]
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Title: So Great & Beautiful
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 8514
Notes: FINALLY DONE. I started writing this the day I came home from seeing PC at the cinema, and like most of my fics written for movies it became less a sensible narrative and more a complex scaffolding on which for me to display what I thought of the movie/Caspian's character/Narnia as a concept. I'm not quite sure what it is with me and second voice when it comes to male protagonists; I think the act of addressing them helps me settle into their thoughts.
This is based on movie canon. Ergo: everyone talks slightly less like they stepped out of an Enid Blyton Special, and Caspian is not nine years old. Susan was meant to have a lot more screentime but then my Caspian developed a raging crush on Peter as well, so I had to radically readjust what the emotional drive of this story was.
Enormous thanks are due to liminalliz, who looked over my first skeleton-draft and told me what needed to be fixed. Without her this would have been a much poorer story.
Final notes: yes, I nicked a line from Peter Pan. Yes, my Heaven is less creepy than everyone else's Heaven -- I had to do this so that I didn't depress myself into oblivion. The epigraph is from Viva la Vida, around which the heart of this was woven and written -- be my mirror, my sword and shield -- oh, who would ever want to be king? -- and the title is from The Last Battle.
( You laugh to hide the echo of Peter's voice in your head, telling you about death and mistakes. )
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| Monday, October 20th, 2008
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7:56 pm - [Dexter: ask me how]
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Title: Ask Me How
Fandom: Dexter
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 4727
Notes: I just realised that I never posted this, which was my entry for last year's Yuletide, to my ficblog! So here it is, extremely belatedly. It took me a lot of frantic hair-pulling to write, but in retrospect I'm proud of it: I adore the twisty dynamics between Dexter and all of the other people in his life, and I adore playing around with life and death and fiction.
Set between S1 and S2, so obviously there are spoilers for the first season.
( We haven't met, but I killed someone you passed in the street once. )
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| Saturday, September 27th, 2008
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9:52 pm - [Avatar: to cover a bruise]
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Title: to cover a bruise (the rainy days remix)
Fandom: Avatar
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 3953
Notes: This is a remix of Reign Within, which is a fantastic semi-AU Avatar fic by the inestimable rawles. I have been obsessed with that fic for ages, so writing this remix was a delight. It turned out EVEN MORE DISTURBING than I thought it would, which is a real accomplishment, but apparently Azula is one severely fucked-up little cookie (yeah, who knew, right?).
The title is a mixture of Fake Palindromes, which is the One True Azula Song, and Electrical Storm, which is the song for Azula in this fic.
( In the darkness of her chambers Azula splits the story and splits it again. )
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| Saturday, July 26th, 2008
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3:26 pm - [Naruto: anchored in dust]
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Title: Anchored In Dust
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: R
Wordcount: 9758
Notes: This was my entry for the latest anon challenge at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) oh_shit_santa and it appears that I have learned nothing from The Listening Sky, because Sasuke remains a bitch to write and I remain unable to stay within a sane word limit once I start getting excited about my own invented mythology. (Well, in this case it is a pastiche of mythology that I stole from other places and then chucked into the Naruto-verse and stood back to watch what would happen.)
In case this is not glaringly obvious: I have something of a Thing for desert stories.
( The sand is like a thousand tiny fingers all scratching and pressing against his skin. )
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| Sunday, July 20th, 2008
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6:07 pm - [Doctor Who: uncertainty principles]
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Title: Uncertainty Principles
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 4592
Notes: As...promised? threatened? this carries on vaguely from Mendelian Inheritance and Resonance Structures -- having covered biology and chemistry, I felt duty-bound to write something about physics, even though this one contains fewer metaphors and more dialogue. The linguistics, however, remain untouched. If I start one about maths, SHOOT ME.
Yes, the physical concepts raised by the subtitles are all referenced in the subsequent vignettes, because I'm a crazy person who did too much science in high school and now hangs out with too many academic physicists.
This is for Aria. I suspect she knows why.
( Every time he doesn't leave, every time he makes a choice, he feels the universe splintering under his hands. )
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| Monday, July 14th, 2008
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12:02 am - [Doctor Who: resonance structures]
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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11:36 pm - [Naruto: triage]
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Title: Triage
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 7838
Notes: Ohgodfinally *collapses*. I started writing this quite a few weeks ago* as an idle experiment, because I love OT3s and I wanted to see what I could do with the Sasuke/Naruto/Sakura dynamic, but it turned out to be more fiddly and time-consuming than I would have liked. Also rather more centred around the Sasuke-Sakura dynamic than I thought it would be, largely because of my perverse wish to see their relationship written in a way that didn't make me want to rip my own hair out.
This fic was meant to contain porn, or at least a lot more kissing, but it didn't work out :( This is entirely Sasuke's fault.
The title is a rather silly pun.
*Ergo: it is blessedly and shamelessly AU from recent manga developments.
( Sakura has grown adept at recognising the point at which a fever teeters between recovery and fatality. )
current mood:  tired
current music: Sarah McLachlan -- Elsewhere
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| Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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6:47 pm - [Naruto: solfege]
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Title: Solfege
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 7720
Notes: So there's an old fic challenge where you take a fandom and add the apocalypse, and stir, and see what happens. I have always wanted to try it, and I figured a world occupied by ninjas was as good a test subject as any :D The only explicit pairings are Sasuke/Naruto and Shikamaru/Temari, though I suppose you could read a few others into it if you squinted. Warnings for character deaths both implied and explicit, gratuitous favouritism on the part of the author when it comes to POV characters, and, of course, the end of the world as we know it.
(for the curious: solfege @ wikipedia)
This one got. Um. Not just longer, but wider than I expected.
( When the land turns against you, what do you do? )
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| Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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11:02 pm - [Naruto: gloss]
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Title: Gloss
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: R. Very R.
Wordcount: 2844
Notes: So much for my post-Listening Sky hiatus from Naruto, huh. This one wasn't planned: it started to write itself in my head during a dull lecture, growing from the rather cracktastic idea that along with the jutsus, Sasuke might have picked up Orochimaru's habit of doing weird things with his tongue. So it began life as a rather pointless examination of oral fixation, and grew a few deeper ideas as well, even though it's still pretty much all about sex. It's the porniest thing I've ever written and it was a lot of fun, because I've discovered that one can do quite a lot even when one has an irrational entirely valid aesthetic aversion to using genitalic nouns. Due to what I suspect is a combination of overcompensation and self-indulgence, there are too many adjectives in this story, but I like them too much to take them out.
It's set at an indeterminate time in the future; I think they're about seventeen, if that helps.
The title is an incredibly geeky pun that I don't expect anyone to get.
( It begins with the way Sasuke reaches out and picks up Naruto's hand )
current mood:  surprised
current music: Regina Spektor -- Us
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| Monday, March 3rd, 2008
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9:47 pm - [Naruto: the listening sky -- part 2]
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relieved