Have been unavoidably detained by the world

Title: from what we cannot hold the stars are made
Fandom: B∆STILLE
Pairing: Dan Smith/Kyle Simmons
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1000
Summary: It's been one hundred days.
Notes: As per usual: please for the love of god and all of our dignities do not share/send this to any of the people depicted within. That would just be embarrassing for everyone involved. On a similar note: don’t google yourself, kids.

This is a fake picfor1000 story because I didn’t have my shit together and totally missed signups, but I love doing it so I picked a photo that fit within the parameters of the challenge. (I swear it’s 1000 words—google docs never seems to match up with AO3 for whatever reason.)

A million thanks as always to lynnmonster for never failing to make my writing infinitely better. Thanks also to maladyofthequotidian for helping me figure out some verb tense stuff. It’s all written in present tense because I’m trying to be ~experimental~. Lynn wanted me to change the scenes that take place in the past, so if they don’t work, it’s entirely my fault.

Devin is an original character, because I have no idea who the other half of Tyde is and like to imagine that they’re a queer black woman.

I listened to a few songs obsessively on repeat while writing this, and they pretty much set the mood for the entire story, so if you’re interested, I made a playlist on soundcloud.

The title is a line from “Youth” by W. S. Merwin.

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For Yuletide I wrote:

the backside of the world (1795 words) by unfinishedidea
Fandom: Sunshine (2007)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Robert Capa, Mace (Sunshine), Cassie (Sunshine), Searle (Sunshine), Corazon (Sunshine), Trey (Sunshine), Harvey (Sunshine)
Additional Tags: Ensemble Cast, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
Summary: We're more than stardust.

I was actually REALLY excited when I got matched on Sunshine; I really, really loved this movie, mostly for the quiet moments and the stark beauty and existentialism that always comes with sci-fi space films, so I was really pleased that my recipient wanted something along those lines.

This was my first gen/ensemble fic that I'd ever written, and writing it made me realize how difficult it is for me -- I'd never previously thought of myself as a romance writer, but apparently it is REALLY hard for me to write when there isn't a main pairing. I'm pretty happy with what I turned out, though it was mostly under the panic of BEARS. It's a lot more lighthearted than I thought it would be initially (I mean, it's a Nobody Dies AU), but that's the kind of head space I was in.

I've been pretty much working from the end of last year until now, surprise, surprise, and I've had one day off, spent rearranging my entire room, which was EXCELLENT and I am now very pleased with how it looks.

For Yuletide, I wrote:

she won't let me in there (3291 words) by unfinishedidea
Fandom: Push (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes
Characters: Nick Gant, Cassie Holmes, Hook Waters
Summary: It’s a stupid mistake, Cassie knows. It’s a stupid mistake, but Nick doesn’t let it go.

This story has the dubious honor of being the first het story I've ever written, aside from some Hermione/Draco I have jotted down in a forgotten Word file on some long lost computer from when I was in middle school. It is also the longest story I have ever posted, so I'm pretty happy with that. I'm much more pleased with how it turned out than I originally thought I'd be, since I was panicking over plot and pretty much finished it riiiiiiight before the archive went live. Oops.

I already posted about the story I received, but I'm going to post about it again because it is just that fucking excellent.

Some Unexpected Properties of Wood (6897 words) by Fahye/fahye
Fandom: Brave (2012)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elinor (Brave), Merida (Brave)
Summary: Elinor remembered the slow drift from humanity to wild animal, like falling asleep listening to music until only the drumbeat remained.

Seriously, I'm sure it's been recced all over the place already, but go read it if you haven't yet.

I saw The Hobbit some weeks ago with care_says and yeah81 and another friend of ours, and, um. This review (via toft) pretty much perfectly describes how I feel about it and is also conveniently hilarious.

It would be unbroken Jerkinshield, except that Thorin is handsome. You can't tell from the promo photos, where they tried to make him look more dwarfly, but the movie knows what it's doing. And though he is already being played by the chisely-yet-determined Richard Armitage, which would take care of most of your handsomeness needs, the movie doesn't want you to ever forget how smokin' the Dwarf Lord is, so it spends all his shots licking his face with light. In the forest? Dappled flicker! Goblin cave full of fire pits? Perfect amber glow! ("It's a trap! I can't believe it! I am so handsome about this.") This comes in handy as a distraction when he's a rampaging jerk, or when he's telling Bilbo to get his whiny ass back to the Shire, or refusing to go to the elves for help because elves are the worst and if you are a wizard who brings him to Rivendell for shelter he's going to be pissed as hell. ("I am so handsome at you right now, Gandalf.")

Other things have happened that I would like to write about, but I need to go be an adult and cook things for myself now so that I don't starve to death.

1. One more for the porn meme from a while back.

surexit requested Steve/Bucky, "SIZE DIFFERENCE KINK? BEFORE STEVE GETS EMBIGGENED?" I kind of failed at that, sorry. /o\
Original thread on DW | On AO3

2. I only discovered this a couple days ago, which is TRAGIC, because it means that I've unnecessarily gone two months without the preview button on LJ. soph wrote a Greasemonkey script to get the preview button back and using LJ is that much less annoying.

3. This poetry tumblr is great: eating-poetry

4. OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG:

Title: (with a spin leap alive we’re alive)
Fandom: The Avengers (2012)
Pairing: Clint/Phil
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1000
Notes: Written for picfor1000. Prompt photo here. Thanks as always to the fabulous lynnmonster for betaing (and beer advice *g*). Title is from "if everything happens that can't be done" by e.e. cummings.
Summary: Like everything else that’s ridiculous about his life, it’s Tony’s fault.

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( (with a spin leap alive we’re alive) )

I've posted three stories in less than a month; what is this sorcery.

Title: Contingency Plans
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Pairing: Cougar/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: canon-typical violence
Word Count: 1747
Notes: Thanks to the eternally wonderful lynnmonster for betaing and making this story way better. All remaining mistakes are my own. This was originally going to be my picfor1000 story, but I failed at staying under the word limit. It's still inspired by my picture assignment. I totally based Jensen's niece on this girl, who's the bamfiest four-year-old you'll ever meet.
Summary: “This place is a shithole,” Roque says in disgust.

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( Contingency Plans )

Holy shit, guys, I wrote something for a fandom that I'm currently in -- TRY NOT TO DIE OF SHOCK. This is the first thing that I've started and finished in the same year since, hmm, 2007. \o/ For cesperanza's Canadian Shack 2011 challenge.

don't hold your breath underwater (1254 words) by unfinishedidea
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen, Franklin Clay, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Aisha al-Fadhil
Summary: “I hope this works, for all our sakes,” Pooch says.

Way more than 500ish words. Woops. I used to be able to write just 500 words. In fact, it was just about all I was capable of. Guess I'm over that.

Okay. I started this fic in JUNE OF 2007. That's right. OVER THREE AND A HALF YEARS AGO. Jesus. And it's been longer than that since I've posted fic.

Disclaimer: I am no longer an active participant in bandom, but I desperately needed to get something off my hard drive. Maybe now I'll post fic more often than once every two or three years.

Title: the world owes us nothing
Rating: pg-13
Pairing: Patrick/Pete
Word Count: 1,392
Warnings: potentially disturbing imagery
Author's notes: This fic makes no sense. *facepalm* I completely realize this. Idea inspired by the june 02 07 we_are_cities prompt. Mood inspired by basingstoke's brilliant dS fic Their Faces Resemble His., which is one of the few fics that's stayed with me despite the fact that I haven't read it in years. Title modified from Joyful Girl by Ani DiFranco. Unbetaed, all mistakes mine.

Also posted on AO3.

the world owes us nothing (on LJ)

Okay, this totally started as a short, short comment-fic idea, and now I've written 1000+ words of Patrick/Spencer, and I am not sure how this happened? I am currently just a little bit obsessed with the idea of Patrick/Spencer, okay? (Don't worry, Patrick/Frank is still my OTP for life, I'm just taking a minor detour.) I know the timeline's screwed up -- e.g. I'm pretty sure Pete signed GCH before Panic, and there are a few other minor things -- but whatever, it just popped into my head, it won't leave me alone. Unbetaed.

( Untitled, Patrick/Spencer, 680 words. )

P.S. This is only the first bit, there is more stuff which I will flesh out later, because, see, I have this thing called school and it kind of owns my life and I kind of need to get cracking on the work for it.

P.P.S. Probably an unpopular fandom opinion, but: I did not really like the Heroes finale. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of things I loved about it. But overall? Not really impressed. [waits for the hate]

1. Happy New Year, all. I have nothing of any real substance to say, whether pithy or verbose, but I hope everyone's enjoying their holidays.

2. Thank you to everyone for the congrats. :)

3. Once upon a time, I used to write.

I know, color me shocked.

First time writing Stargate: Atlantis; done for 15minuteficlets.

( 214 words of John, gen. )