The Middle Distance

Which is apparently the first day of every month now? Oh hell yes!

Long Hard Day

(Sherlock; Sherlock/Mary/John, rated M, 221B format)

John and Mary have apparently not mastered all the nuances of Sherlock's texting style.


Every Grain Has a Value

(Lord of the Rings; Frodo/Rosie/Sam, rated M, 200-word double drabble)

Frodo's scars find some healing.



Going to try to add something new to this every month.

Ah, success. My lgbtfest fic is done and posted!

The premise of the fest is to write stories that aren't just slash, but deal with possible actual cultural ramifications of what it means to be LGBT in different fictional milieus. The prompt I chose was for characters who not only live in a very different culture, but also have a reproduction method and sexuality that probably isn't very humanlike at all. They clearly do know love, and the loss thereof, though, in a way we can try to relate to.

Lomendánar (Little Love for the Things of My Love)

Fandom: Lord of the Rings (with some Silmarillion allusions)
Rating: PG
Prompt: What is life like for a gay Ent?

Huge thanks to my betas thrihyrne and tyellas. May your Entdraught never run dry!

So, because I'm a procrastinator...

Will anyone be around on Saturday to do a quick and dirty beta of my lgbtfest fic? It'll probably be about 3,000 words (absolutely no more than 5k).

LOTR, with allusions to the Valar and events in the Silmarillion time-frame. Rating probably PG-13.

Slashy, sad, and ENT-CENTRIC. (Major characters: Skinbark, Quickbeam, Treebeard. At this point in the writing there is about a 93% chance of a brief Tom Bombadil appearance.)

I deliberately requested a posting date as close to Beltane as possible. Although it is unavoidably turning out to not be a happy-happy-joy-joy kind of story, it is still my gift to Yavanna and the Green Man.

Lessons learned from rock festivals? I don't care how hot it is, it's still physically impossible for me to stay grumpy while Sonic Youth is playing. Even if it's not one of their best nights.

Also: strapless bras are great in theory, but there must be some art to wearing them that I have never mastered, because I've never found one that doesn't migrate towards my waist, dragging my boobs down with it and making them look saggy when they aren't, and isn't that the very opposite of what a bra is supposed to do?

Appropos of nothing, from "Old Possum's Book of IMpractical Cats": I'm in love with these guys. Little cuddly kits are great but I want a Viking lynx!

I've written three more birthday drabbles, all of a crossovery flavo[u]r.

For vivien529: A GO/HP drabble (Minerva thinks that angel's got a little Slytherin in him!)

For signifier (who I get to see in August!): J.K. Rowling via J.L. Borges - Snape and the Aleph (also owes a conceptual debt to "The Three Versions of Judas")

For blueeyedtigress (who I get to see tomorrow!): GO/LOTR - Aziraphale and Crowley having a cuppa with Frodo

Productive? I think so.

Slowly but surely. Oh yes, here's more!

For forodwaith: LOTR - something on the theme of "moving house"

For machka: US Politics RPF - Kerry/Edwards anniversary fic

For amberdiceless: GO - Crowley sulking over birthdaylessness, with bonus-points DEATH cameo (And SHE wrote me one back - see comments!)

For murasaki99: LOTR - something with Our Wraithy Friends

For duniazade: HP - Snape consults Trelawney about his future

Remember now, these are all kind of really for everyone. Happy Belated My Birthday!

...and I kinda feel it too, because that's how tired I am. I'm waayyy behind on the drabbling, but that's because of the last 48 hours, I've been at home and awake for about maybe 5 of them. Yes, my friends have been feasting and feting (and other f'things) me pretty splendidly, including an 8-hour marathon of a BBQ in a beautiful yard in Humboldt Park yesterday. I woke up at 2 PM today with a huge grin on my face, feeling loved.


And someone anonymously bought me two months of paid LJ time! *squee* Thank you thank you thank you!


So here's the first five b-day drabbles, anyway. I WILL do them all if it takes me to next b-day. (And I'm doing them in the order the ideas hit me, not the order received, sorry!)

For musesfool: GO - Something with the Them and a birthday party

For kkpixie: TDS - happy, fuzzy Stewart/Colbert

For celandineb: GO - Aziraphale/Crowley, bananas

For teh_jenna: HP/US Politics - something involving Snape and George Bush

For use_theforce_em: TDS/LOTR - members of the Fellowship on the Daily Show

OK, more to come in days to come - enjoy!

...and I need to pat myself on the back a little these days.

Cut because, damn, can I ramble.

( The Five Favorites of My Own Stories Meme )

There. That helps, to remind myself of what I've done that I'm proud of. They may be trifles, but they're my trifles and I love them.

Wow, SGA is the smuttiest fandom ever!

Here's my entry #2--yes, I'm way behind, but I have two other WIPs I hope will roll tomorrow.

How about a canon het pairing for a change? It's Lord of the Rings, angsty Éowyn/Faramir.

Damn, did I just make a deadline?

ETA: Dedicated to murasaki99 on the belated occasion of her birthday! And in fine hobbit fashion, she gave me a present. Story now with illustration!

Piercing the Veil

story by vulgarweed, illustration by murasaki99
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Challenge: slodwick's Worst Case Scenario
Scenario: How to Ram a Barricade
Word Count: 1726
Rating: PG (language, very mild violence, whiffs o’wraith-slash)
Summary: You are ancient; you are uncanny; you wield a sword, a Ring, and the power of terror. You are the lieutenants of Sauron himself; the Nine Fingers of his mighty Hands. Fuck-all good this does you when the chips are down.

A/N: I decided to write my very auto-centric scenario in my only fandom in which cars don’t exist. The names of the Nazgûl here are those used by Khazar-Khum and Murasaki99 in stories of theirs (I hope we’ve shared a brain enough that they don’t mind)—except for Khamûl, the Professor never named them himself.

( There are Elves to the South of us, Spiders to the West, and flames to the North! )

On the occasion of birthdays, a double-drabble on the subject of a gift.

Title: The Gift
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Pairing: have gone by many names. We'll say Morgoth/Sauron
Rating: R, I think, for kinky suggestion
Words: 200 exactly, excluding title

( It is done. Does it please thee? )