schmevil

Business Or Pleasure
Harry Potter, het, ~2500 words
Eddie Carmichael conducts business in the library. Cho does not approve.
outlawpoet likes to call this Hogwarts Underground.

Wolf Like Me
Supernatural, femslash, ~4000
Meg takes Bela off the rack.
For darkmagic_luvr by way of spn_fs_exchange.


Business or Pleasure isn't the kind of story that has a built in audience, and I couldn't figure out where to advertise it. Does anyone know where I can post a No-Name-Ravenclaw/Cho Chang noirish short? I mean, really.

Whenever I sit down to write these things, I get interrupted by work. Grr, life. Anyway! I offered ficlets of ~500 words, but the first one ran a leeetle bit long. I'm now hard at work on the second one. Hopefully it won't be quite so, er, over budget.


Title: Only Hold Her
Fandom: Y: The Last Man
Summary: 355 teaches Yorick to knit.
Characters: 355/Yorick
Word Count: 4669
Notes: For goobalicious as part of Help Haiti

My Help_Haiti ficlets are first on the list. They keep getting interrupted by work. Grr.

Y: The Last Man, Yorick/355 (If they got together fantasy).
Harry Potter, Snape (I might do Snape in Gotham for this).
Avengers, Steve/Tony (Tony takes Steve to a farm. There's a pony).
Avengers, Jan/Hank, Wanda/Simon (Possssibly a double date. Or an evil quiz show. Maybe both).


Then there are my holiday stories. One of which needs a scene and some editing. The other still needs to be written.

Avengers, Steve/Tony (Stephanie Rogers is pulled out of the ice and has to adjust to the brave new world. This is like... more complicated than it sounds because I have to remake the MU to adjust for a female Captain America in WW2. Think about it).

Kill Bill, Beatrix, BB/Nicki Green (Nicki goes looking for revenge. I think I'm going to do this in the style of the movie, with pics, footnotes, asides and musical interludes).


And my other stuff. There's lots of it. I'm going to give you the ones that are at the top of my priority list.

Avengers, Clint/Bobbi, Steve/Tony, Rhodey (Clint finds out that Steve and Tony are maybe-dating. First he freaks out, then he tries to enlist Rhodey to help things along). For Scotty.

Supernatural, Dean, Sam, Bobby and Castiel (During the final battle Castiel died. Now he's back as a human. Bobby adopts him, havoc ensues).

Supernatural, Castiel and Dean (Castiel is a fallen angel guarding the city of Dis. He pulls Dean out of hell, but not for altruistic reasons).

Supernatural, my SPN Femslash assignment, the details of which I can't reveal.

Harry Potter, Lily/James, baby Harry (The Potters face isolation, cabin fever, and a baby, in the house in Godric's Hollow).

Avengers

Little Deaths: Steve/Tony (explicit sex and kink)
When the Levee Breaks (100)
Die Easy (1,034)
Let Me Down So Low (1,349)

Any Star: Carol Danvers (100)

If Death Were A Good Thing: Janet Van Dyne (150)

C12H22O11 (Or, The Science of Candy): Carol, Wanda, Tony, Vision (1,430)

Sexy Sexy: Jen/Jazinda (700)

Harry Potter

Here Is No Place: Lily, Sirius, James (2,992)

Love, Marriage, Dating, Children, Dating (Again): Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny (12,800)

To The River: Snape (3,216, violence!)

Y: the Last Man

Weather Eye: Yorick Brown (1,513)

Buffy

Five Loves (Ab Uno Disce Omnes): Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike, Buffy, Giles, Dawn (9,978)

Imbrication: Giles (6,660)

Supernatural

Texas 349 to Midland: Sam, Castiel (1,109)

A Hell For Angels: Castiel, Ruby (1,455)

Spa Day: Sam, Dean, Castiel (553)

Invictus: Sam/Ruby, Azazel, Dean (3,328, sex and violence!)

Grace Too: Dean/Castiel (3080, suggestive!)

In Truth: Anna, Uriel, Castiel, Dean (500)

The World's Biggest Snow Globe Emporium Is Haunted: Dean, Sam, Castiel (2,065)

I'm not actually sick, but apparently work prefers that I stay home, rather than spread my hypothetical germs. I have no problem with this, because I've been catching up on some much needed sleep. Well, maybe I'm a little sick, because sleeping all night and half the day, every day for a week? Is obviously not of the normal. Anyway. Home tired, if you will.

Which has given me some time to fiddle, and wonder, and plan. One of my primary mental defaults, when I'm home sick/tired/whatever, is fic.

So SPN people, weigh in, should I write the story of college-age Sam Winchester taking a series of part time jobs? It would go like this:

One day, in all his Winchesterian wisdom, Sam decided to get a part time job. Maybe it was a way to feel normal, after an adolescence spent hustling pool and cards. Maybe it was a way to ensure a constant source of beer money. Maybe he did it because all the (not so) cool kids (of which he was one) were doing it. Sam no longer remembered.

Instead, after six months of toiling in retail, food service and shady bars, all he could hold on to was the vague inkling that somewhere, there was light at the end of this tunnel; that someday, he would be free from uniforms, the smell of old grease, and midnight shifts. That in some other life, he hadn't been contractually obliged to accept the abusive whims of customers, clients, and jerks of all shapes and sizes.

He held onto that inkling like it was his very life blood; through being drenched in soda; through being called a 'maniacal yeti $*&%'; through being kicked in the shins by uncountable children; through being pawed by drunk soccer moms; and even through being pawed by drunk soccer dads, too many of whom looked like his actual father figures (namely his dad, and Bobby).

He held onto that inkling so that one day, he could stoke its tiny spark into a blaze of righteous fury; so he could stand up and declare, "I quit! I *$&@ing quit!"

Unfortunately for Robin Brady, today was that day.

Chamber of Chills reveals are posted here. I wrote two ficlets for the fest:


Title: Sexy Sexy
Summary: Jen and Jazinda go shopping for Halloween costumes.
Characters: Jen/Jazinda
Word Count: 700

Title: C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ (Or, The Science of Candy)
Summary: Science can make things taste really, really good. Tony and Vision set out to prove this by making candy. Carol and Wanda play lab rat.
Characters: Carol, Wanda, Vision, Tony
Word Count: 1430

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canuckians!

On this day of thanks (ok, last night through to this morning), I wrote a story about a demon. LOLWUT SELF? I've been working on an overdue story, and it's driving me nuts. I thought, ok, I'll just fiddle with something else. Write some drabbles, take my mind off it, and then I'll finally be able to finish the damn thing. Then this fell out.

Title: Invictus
Summary: That wasn't the lie; she remembered being human. In better detail than she liked, really. The lie was everything else.
Characters: Sam/Ruby, Azazel, Dean
Word Count: 3328
Warnings: ADULT for violence and implied sex. Also, there's Sam, through Ruby's eyes. Be warned. :/
Spoilers: All of S4

Don't let that Sam/Ruby tag fool you, this isn't a romance, and this isn't a particularly sympathetic Ruby. It's a really nasty Ruby, and one I think that I'll return to. Now that I've done demon!Ruby, and sketched out the beginnings of a back story, I think I have to write that story - how she got that way.

Let me tell you some things I've decided about Ruby.

She lived through the Black Death, not the Great Plague of London (which was the last time that the "plague was big," as she put it, iirc), and she is from Italy.

She was very influenced by the stirrings of the Renaissance around her: she was educated, and she studied alchemy, necromancy, and ancient religious texts, in addition to local witchcraft. She might have been a scientist, had she been born a man.

She was one of the most powerful witches of her time. She was also, as her time ran out, increasingly desperate to find ways to kill demons. This meant dipping into darker and darker magic.

Title: Spa Day
Fandom: Supernatural
Summary: See title.
Characters: Sam, Dean, Castiel
Word Count: 553
Notes: TOTAL CRACK. NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. For Tammy. :p


Oh, and Icarus wrote me a drabble. A young Ruby gets a warning from on high.

I'm looking for a good place to post/archive my Buffy fic. I've actually managed to accumulate a whole three stories! This latest makes it three:

Imbrication
S8 | Giles | Word Count - 6660
"We had this vital, and glorious duty: to train the Slayer, and guide her in her mission. But who were we?"

I seem to be ass-backwards in my fannishness. Lately I've been writing in established fandoms like Buffy and Harry Potter, and not giving my attention to shiny new fandoms. As crazy as I am about Mad Men and True Blood, I have no desire to write for them. So far. Huh.

Five Loves (Ab Uno Disce Omnes) [also @ Remix 09]
BtVS/AtS (S8/AtF) | 9,978 | Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike, Giles, Dawn
Five people Buffy loved.
Remix of Five Loves, by confusedkayt. outlawpoet beta'd.

Those five people she loved being Angel, Spike, Hank Summers, Giles and Dawn. Kayt's story is five linked true drabbles about Buffy, and how she loves. Mine is 20 times longer (eep!) but still a character study about Buffy, and how she loves. I originally considered writing about five different characters who Buffy loved. Instead I kept the characters and looked at their relationships from a different angle.