Many many many thanks to rubynye for her unflagging enthusiasm and encouragement and gently-setting-right-when-I-went-astray and generally helping this story to exist somewhere outside my brain. Thanks also to toft for writing Normal Working Relationship, which finally shook this loose from the spot where it had been stuck in my brain since summer.

And, of course, thanks to iulia for not killing me in my sleep even though this is so, so very not her birthday fic, which, as of today, is now actually overdue instead of just never-going-to-be-finished-in-time. Sorry! I am going to get right on that!

Ahem. Anyway, story!


Kirk/McCoy. NC-17. 5,000 words.
Warning and/or enticement: BDSM

What Leonard was about to do was undeniably crude--maybe one step up from bleeding to balance the humors--but in this case the science was sound.


( The Care and Feeding of Your Starship Captain )

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For those of you who may have read and enjoyed a particular fic I may have recced behind a cut tag a few weeks ago, I will simply link to this picture Adam Savage tweeted earlier today and say nothing further.

Ahem.

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Picked up from misspamela:

1. I write down a list of 10 characters.

2. You choose however many of those you like and ask me a question about them. Examples: "What happens when 5 and 9 are forced to take care of a baby?" or "1, 4, and 8 walk into a bar. What happens next?" or "What does 3 do when s/he finds out that 10 is pregnant with 7's child?" You get the idea. :D

3. I tell you about these scenarios!

Hit me!

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"Solitudes" is a hard episode to fix, Bechdel Test-wise, because Sam is the only female character who speaks. So I had to get a little creative with this one, but I think it worked anyway.

Thanks to iulia for loving this idea and then waiting seven months for me to actually write it and still loving it when I did.


"Solitudes", Sam Carter, gen. 600 words.
"We're not going to get out of here."

( Solidarity )

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It just now occurred to me that I could/should have written A "Grace"/"Grace Under Pressure" head-injury-stress-hallucination story for the Visions/Hallucinations square on my Cliche Bingo card.

This realization brought to you courtesy of the 'Hallucinations' tag that auto-completed for me while I was uploading Off to See the Wizard to AO3.

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Gacked from slodwick, the "Be Pete Wentz" Poetry Meme works thusly:

1. Put your music player of choice on shuffle.
2. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

For bonus points, see how many sources you recognize!

( It's Gonna Be Too Hot to Breathe Today )

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I just realized I would rather be reading this 600-page book about the WPA than the Kirk/McCoy porn I have open in tabs. /o\


Harry Hopkins just showed up! HE'S DREAMY.

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So, hey, Southland! It's kind of a novel experience watching this show one episode at a time with weekly intervals (I got hooked on it after S1 ended). So, here, a little post-ep fic. With thanks to iulia for keeping an eye on my tenses and general encouragement. :)


Sherman and Cooper, gen. 1,166 words.
post-"Unknown Trouble." Ben realizes something.


( In an Instant )

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1) From BLDGBLOG, a post entitled "Nakatomi Space", which starts by describing Die Hard as "one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years" and just keeps getting more fascinating and awesome from there, including diagnosing in architectural terms just where the Die Hard sequels went wrong. Man, now I really want to see the architecturally appropriate versions....

2) I just finished reading Mary Gentle's Ash: A Secret History (in its undivided 1100-page glory-or-something), and ... has anyone else read this? Could someone please come help me figure out what I think of it in the comments? I'm pretty sure I liked the ending, I think I just wish it had gotten there about four hundred pages faster.

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Happy Southland TNT Premiere Eve! I come bearing fic! (Funny story: I was determined when I started writing it in July to have this story posted before season two premiered. And then I kept getting ... extensions.) This was--I don't know if you remember this, it was kind of a thing in the last decade, but this was a cliche bingo story. What's that, you say? I already posted a telepathy story for cliche bingo? Months ago? I was supposed to write a hallucination story in Southland? Yeah, you're not helping.

Anyway! Fic! With many many thanks to iuliamentis for beta and omphale23 and missmollyetc and a lot of other people for listening.


A Little Mental Yoga
Sherman/Cooper. Explicit. 17,000 words.
post-Season 1. Telepathy and prescription drugs.

John was abruptly angry, the special anger that was reserved for the obviously guilty, because Ben had Yeah, I did it written all over him.


Available on Dreamwidth, at the AO3, or at my website.

Having read (and reread, and reread) ( a fic whose very existence at least three people I know will find upsetting ) I kind of just want to sit down like Alexander and cry. There are no more worlds to conquer. I HAVE FINISHED THE INTERNET. WHAT ELSE IS LEFT?

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1) Hey, so remember when I did a whole bunch of polls for the Fanon Horrible Childhood Showdown, and then it was Christmas and I never mentioned how that turned out? Yeah.

The winner of the winners' bracket (UNSPEAKABLE TRAUMA): to the surprise of no one, Severus Snape!

And the loser of the losers' bracket (Cheer up, emo kid!): Jess Mariano, from Gilmore Girls!

So there you have it. SCIENCE.


2) Oh my God, I finally finished the Southland telepathy fic. That's only been since JULY. And now I am DONE. \o/


Hahaha, wait, I am writing epic birthday fic for iulia's birthday and it's when? Ahahaha.

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Words cannot express my totally unhealthy love of this story, which I wrote over Christmas after having lovingly plotted it out weeks earlier. Killing Patrick Jane six times = happiness! Um. For me. Everyone else may find it kind of creepifying and/or depressing.

Many thanks to missmollyetc for her enthusiasm and beta assistance!


Gen. Explicit violence. 4400 words.
Warnings: Murder, Suicide

A good performer knows that how he gets off the stage is as important as everything he does on it.


( Five Ways Patrick Jane Hasn't Died Yet (And One Way He Never Will) )

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Somewhat belated, as I spent the last few days with iulia, watching movies and going places and spending a lot of time between doing other things repeatedly rehashing Doctor Who, but more about that later.

For now, ( My 2009 in fic. )

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Happy New Year! And let me join the chorus hoping that 2010 treats everybody a hell of a lot better than 2009 did. (Not that 2009 didn't have its moments!)

The main point of New Year's Day every year, of course, is that it is Yuletide Reveal Day!

My beloved Curse of Chalion gift story, Life, stripped of all luxuries, is by keerawa! Caz/Palli at Gotorget of my dreams! Thank you, keerawa!!

The story I wrote this year was for akamarykate, Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel series: The Season of Grace.

This assignment absolutely terrified me for a moment--I read Doomsday Book at a highly impressionable age, which may come as no surprise to people who are familiar with that book and the general trend of my writing. But I very quickly went from Oh God I have to write Kivrin to OH GOD I GET TO WRITE KIVRIN!!! Better yet, when akamarykate put up her Dear Yulewriter letter, she asked something along the lines of "Would Kivrin ever go back?" and I thought Of course she'd nev--OF COURSE SHE WOULD and this story was born. I wound up rereading all of the Oxford Time Travel books/stories, so the story inevitably also contained traces of "Fire Watch" and To Say Nothing of the Dog.

I can't remember when I have so much loved writing a Yuletide story and so much loved the result, so THANK YOU, akamarykate, for the prompt!

Thanks also, of course, to iulia for beta, and everyone else who listened to me go on and on about this story. Title is from Vienna Teng's "Atheist Christmas Carol" - It's the season of grace coming out of the void, Where man is saved by a voice in the distance - which I provisionally retitled "Kivrin's Christmas Carol" after listening to it while working on this story. No seriously, Kivrin's theme song, srsly!

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Could you rec some ST:Reboot Kirk/Spock stories? Not for me. For a friend.


(No, literally for a friend.)

(I mean it.)

(Look, look at my icon! For a friend! I swear!)

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I cannot seem to get a comment box open, but I just managed to hide from the nieces and nephew long enough to read my Yuletide story, Life, stripped of all luxuries!!!!

OMG, it is the Chalion story I had decided I was going to have to requests forever! Caz and Palli under siege at Gotorget, developing beautifully--if grimly--into Caz/Palli under siege at Gotorget. And Cazaril is so very almost our Caz, slowly broken down until he's ready to invite the Gods in, and so proud of all his men. (And I am so glad I had already eaten breakfast before I read it or I expect I would be writhing in sympathy.) It makes me feel like I just found the missing prologue to Curse of Chalion, and now I need to go read the rest! THANK YOU, YULEWRITER!! ♥

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Draco Malfoy and Jim Kirk have gone down the pub to bitch about how their childhoods WERE TOO unspeakably traumatic. Han Solo and Spock have shrugged off the whole silly competition, cheered up, and gotten on with being emo only occasionally and when it serves their purposes.

This brings us to the ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN for the worst of the worst and the least worst horrible fanon childhoods!







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Okay, Harry Potter fandom, OKAY.

Ahem. Departing after the quarterfinal round from the Winners' Bracket for having really pretty unspeakable trauma but not being written by Jo Rowling or JJ Abrams: Lex Luthor, Daniel Jackson, Xander Harris, and Alex Krycek.

Departing from the Losers' Bracket for being altogether too hard to cheer up for the emo kids: Ray Veccchio, Seamus Harper, Vin Tanner, and Ezra Standish.

So! The semifinal round! Feel free to guess, vote against, and/or bribe your friends:







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