sherlock // if inconvenient

Fic: Unattached, Like Me (Sherlock/Sebastian)

Well! Evidently I've stopped posting in this to some degree. Or to every degree. I'm still about on lj a little bit, but not much. And approximately 95% of that time is currently spent on the sherlockbbc_fic meme. Since it is the most chaotically prolific and enormous meme I have ever tried to navigate, read in, or write in (come back, Brooker meme! I could keep up with you with such relative ease!), and I've ended up writing two longish fills, I thought I might as well post them like real things. One of them is still a WIP, but the other one is finished! have that.

Oh also it occured to me, about 90% of the way through writing this, that what I obviously should have done for this prompt was to reimagine the Holmes/Victor Trevor relationship. Didn't think of that though so never mind

Title: Unattached, Like Me
Fandom: Sherlock
Pairing: Sherlock/Sebastian
Rating: R? I have forgotten how to rate things
Prompt: Sebastian was the type of guy who was used to having whatever, and whomever, he wanted.
A/N: I also only remembered part way through writing this that there were references in the show to them having been to what what was probably Cambridge (or somewhere similar). By this point it was too late, so I guess this is a very mild AU in which they went to a less old-fashioned Any University.

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Fic: Cross You Off My List (Merlin/Arthur)

So I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but I think it's safe to say that it's been a while since I crossed the boundary of watching Merlin purely for the lols into the worrying territory of actual serious love for this show. I'm sorry. Actually, no, I'm not. There's been no big fandomy thing on tv for me since the last series of Doctor Who, and I'm going to freaking take what I can get.

Also, it's REALLY GAY.

(eta oh my god guys, this is the fastest response I have had to any fic ever, what the hell is up with this programme and why has it sent us all so collectively insane. ANSWERS ON A POSTCARD PLEASE.)

Title: Cross You Off My List
Fandom: Merlin (oh lol)
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There is every reason in the world for Arthur to hate Merlin to pieces, and yet he can't seem to make it work that way.
Word Count: ~1,900
Notes: I have no idea where this got so srs bzns, but apparently I found it hard to imagine them falling happily into each others' arms. It's tough times in Camelot, amirite. (The coda to this fic is obviously that they eventually have a wonderful and emotionally fulfilling yet highly sexually-charged relationship, so don't worry.) As ever, boundless credit goes to lo0o0ony_lauren, without whom I would basically never write anything.
Disclaimer: Despite convincing rumours that Merlin is actually written by a big bunch of slashers, I am sadly not one of them.

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EMERGENCY DATA THAT I THINK I NEED FOR LIKE TOMORROW

Poll #1290422 lolpoll

When you type "lol"--excluding instances where you're typing a whole sentence or phrase in capslock for effect--would you usually render it in capital or lower-case letters?

lol (lower-case)
53(73.6%)
LOL (caps)
19(26.4%)

When internally reading "lol", do you pronounce each letter separately in your head ("el-oh-el"), or all as one word?

each letter separately ("el-oh-el")
17(23.9%)
one word ("lol")
54(76.1%)

If you use "lol" in spoken conversation, do you pronounce each letter separately, or say the word as a whole?

each letter separately
8(11.4%)
word as a whole
33(47.1%)
I don't use "lol" out loud, what the hell is wrong with you.
29(41.4%)
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Fic: Double Vision (Gen)

Title: Double Vision
Fandom: Life On Mars
Rating: G
Summary: One night, two pairs of eyes.
Word Count: ~1,900
Notes: Gen. For the Life On Mars Ficathon 2008. Prompt was Gene, the way it wasn't, happiness; I'm not entirely sure this was quite what was meant by the way it wasn't, and originally I was going to do something more obvious along the lines of tragic and/or wonderful things that never happened to Gene, except then I really sucked at writing that, so we've somehow ended up with whatever the hell this is.
Disclaimer: If I owned Life On Mars, I would clearly have commissioned some kind of porn spin-off by now.

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Small friends-cut. Some people I've not had around for long, some people I've had around for a while... time to move on, eh.
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Fic: Many (Many, Many) Happy Returns (George/Mitchell)

Title: Many (Many, Many) Happy Returns
Fandom: Being Human
Pairing: George/Mitchell
Rating: PG
Summary: It's the big one-two-one for Mitchell.
Word Count: ~3,700
Notes: lo0o0ony_lauren spurred me on into doing this, and was ridiculously encouraging and helpful throughout, to the point of holding amusing video links at ransom until I produced more, and sending emails with SORT IT OUT MADDIE / MADDIE SORT IT OUT in them. I would totally have never got round to either starting, continuing with, or finishing this without her. <3!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Being Human or its characters. (I only hope that BBC Three will get their heads screwed on and decide that they want to own it pretty soon.)

eta For anyone coming to this fic very late (idk, it happens), this was evidently written before the recasting, so if you want to see it how I ~saw it in my mind~, it's the old Mitchell and Annie. I'm actually very pro-the new guys, but hey, let's not forget the glory of the pilot etc etc.

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Small friends cut! You only went if we never talked or you never updated. Nobody's loss, I hope. Promise I didn't hate you or anything.
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Fic: Than Never To Have Loved At All (Dakin/Will)

HEY MOOG, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. ♥ I don't even know if anyone else wants to read a relatively nonsensical pairing with awkwardly-fitting timelines, based mostly on the fact that the characters were played by the same actor, BUT I BET YOU DO.

(Due to the ridiculously close-together deadlines of 8th and 11th December for this and martianholiday, this is the first time in my life that I have written two fics within a week! I might make myself a badge, or something.)

Title: Than Never To Have Loved At All
Fandom: The History Boys/His Dark Materials
Pairing: Dakin/Will
Rating: PG
Summary: New Year's Eve, 1999, Oxford, England.
Word Count: ~2,300
Notes: I have seen THB once, and even that time we kept stopping it and talking about other stuff, and I kept making stupid comments over the Poignant Acting (sorry Loz), so basically I have very little reference for Dakin in my head and he may therefore be totally wrong. HOORAY. (Since I'm re-reading The Subtle Knife at the moment, I sadly have no such excuses for Will.) To the best of my working-out-timelines ability, I think Will was born in 1983.
Disclaimer: I am not Phillip Pullman, Alan Bennett, Dominic Cooper, or anyone else who could possibly have a claim on these characters in any way. If you've ever seen me, the fact that I am none of these people is probably pretty obvious.

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