the wrong end of the telescope

Title: Every Word Rang True
Pairing(s): Z/Charlotte
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None.
Word count: 1020
Summary: Z didn't stop talking to Charlotte when she left the band. She couldn't. Slight AU (Z isn't dating Ryan).
A/NFor the Sex Is Not The Enemy Challenge. Prompt: this picture. This is the version of Z and Charlotte with less angst. (It's possible I'm also working on the other version.) The title is from "Tangled Up in Blue" by Bob Dylan and this is also partly for redbrickrose, who wanted it first.

( Every Word Rang True. )

no_tags reveal!

Um, as always, I bring shocking news. I wrote All That's Best of Dark and Bright, which, yes, it has girls and quiet moments of emotional intensity and an authoritarian regime and magic. I'm not predictable. *grins*


Title: All That's Best of Dark and Bright
Pairing/Prompt: 57, The Like (gen or any pairing--Z/Tennessee), college shenanigans OR Brendon/Spencer, supernatural creatures.
Summary: Z had been waiting for months. A story of werewolves, love, and the beginnings of rebellion.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None besides implied violence.
Word count: 1100
Notes: It appears I wrote both the prompts. Kind of. A little bit. The title is Byron's.


( All That's Best of Dark and Bright )

Title: Letting Them Win
Pairing(s): Panic GSF
Rating: R/NC-17
Warnings: Mild s/D dynamics, hair-pulling.
Word count: 1306
Summary: Jon has no idea what his band mates are up to, but he’s beginning to think he might like it. An unauthorized sequel to fictionalaspect’s All In.

A/N: This is for fictionalaspect, obviously, because when she posted that story I said something about how Jon Walker needs to get what’s clearly coming to him, and she told me to write it, which--I couldn’t figure out how to get it right, not then. Partly because I'm very bad at writing porn. But then I was writing her a different story in October (yeah, there are two more coming eventually, but they will be much longer, my darling, so they’re not done yet, and also they involve no cheating and riffing off of your stories) when I thought of this. It has been missing about three paragraphs for the last month, so I wrote them now. Hi. Love you and stuff.



( When Jon wakes up, the bed is empty and the cabin is quiet. )

I went to mom's choir's Christmas concert today, and cried my way through at least six of the songs because, oh, one of the choir members did a sign language interpretation of "Silent Night" and one more song, and I can't get over her face, how expressive she was and how she was the very incarnation of joy and it was so beautiful, I can't adequately convey how beautiful it was. I'd never have thought you could recreate music with your hands, but she did. And I really liked the inclusiveness, obviously.

(Side note: when I was younger, they thought my hearing problem would get worse and I would have to learn sign language. It didn't, it went away instead and I put my hearing aids away at twelve, but I still--sign language is high on my list of things I want to learn.)



I feel like writing short-short things, so I thought I'd do one of these. It's been a while. I'll do the first five or six, depending on if my Yuletide grabs me again.

Prompt: a pairing, an AU or a crossover and a first kiss. Fandoms: BTVS, Panic, The Like, Bob, Brian, Mikey Way, Veronica Mars, DCU, Vampire Diaries, etc. You lot know what I write.

Instead of going to the university library like I should have (I have a late book and a late fee to pay), I went to a feminist/queer bookstore and bought books and a pin of a Russian turn-of-the-century female poet. The two clerks, oh man. I'm pretty sure they were dating and I'm pretty sure I'm smitten. The light was warm and the air was cold as I walked home after; I like my city right now, I like it so much. It's dark already, too dark, but in the daytime everything is yellow and golden and the light is so gorgeous.

So prompts! Because I'm free of thesis and I finished the female characters prompts from forever ago and I mostly finished the first times prompts and the midsummer night's dream ones.

( as wide a variety as ever I did write )

Prompts! Fall-related, please, pairing or gen. The Like, Lyn-Z, assorted other bandom people (TYV, PATD, possibly others), Bob and Brian, Veronica Mars, BTVS, VD, Leverage, DCU. Crossovers are encouraged. I'm not sure how many I'll do, but probably around ten (if I get a later prompt that I love, I might do that one too). One of them is reserved for airgiodslv. ♥

Stay warm, darlings.

Title: Try Imagining A Place
Author: harborshore
Recipient: marginalia
Fandom: Buffyverse
Pairing: Tara/Dawn preslash
Rating: PG-13 (barely)
Word count: 1400
Disclaimer: I am not Joss Whedon, I promise. I intend no copyright infringement, merely an exploration of alternate possibilities.
Warnings: References to Tara's canonical shooting, a magical coma, and hospitals.
Summary: AU. Tara doesn't die, but as it turns out, surviving a gunshot is the easy part.
A/N: Thanks so much to torakowalski and anoneknewmoose for looking over this for me; you are both amazing. The title is from Bob Dylan's "Shelter from the Storm." Written for femslash10.


( Try Imagining A Place )

It's fictionalaspect's birthday! Dearest cowriter, light of my life, I hope you have the day you want today. I believe I've told you before that I think you're marvelously talented, that it's ridiculously easy to write with you, that you make me kind of happy just in general too, not just because you agree that rare pairings can be the most fun ever. I just love the way you think, loveling, and I love how kind you are, and I love that I found you. ♥ Anyway. You'll never guess what I wrote you--no, you totally will. I hope you like, a little bit. All my love, yeah?


Title: Why Wait Any Longer
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Annie/Laena
Summary: Annie pines. High School AU, an outtake from an, um, bigger verse. Also, sort of a barista!AU with awkward girls instead of boys.
Warnings: None, really.
Word Count: 2800
Disclaimer: This particular incarnation of The Like did not go to school together, ergo, this story did not really happen.
Author's Notes: For fictionalaspect on her birthday. ♥, darling, you are a joy, and I hope this is a little bit like how you imagined it back when you first told me to write it. Thanks to blindmouse for looking it over for me and fixing my silliness. The title is from Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay."


( Why Wait Any Longer )

So it's been a while since I did one of these. I'm working on a number of original fic prompts that are making me very, very happy, but I also feel like writing short things. So. This month is female characters month, I've decided (partly because I signed up for ladiesbigbang, partly just because, you know).

Guidelines for prompt: Leave me a female character, note if you want gen or femmeslash, and a prompt, preferably a crossover or magical scenario but ordinary ones are fine too. So, for instance: Z had no idea what made her knock on the door of that blue telephone box. Or: Veronica Mars was tired of being woken up in the middle of the night to go deal with things the local Sheriff's office couldn't handle, but this time the case was a little more challenging (aliens are not Neptune standard, even if it might sometimes seem that way).

No genderswap this time, please, and no repeats of characters (unless it's one prompt that is Lyn-Z/Stephanie Brown and one that is Lyn-Z gen or something along those lines). Fandoms I'm okay to write: MSI, The Like, Greta Salpeter, other bandom ladies, Leverage, BTVS, DCU, Veronica Mars, the other usual suspects (you're welcome to try asking for someone else if you think I'm capable).

Title: When the Shadows Appear
Rating: R
Pairing: Bob/Brian
Disclaimer: To the best of my knowledge, none of what happens in this story (or immediately preceding its beginning) is true.
Summary: Jesus, this band's fucking hard on their drummers. California, present day.
Warnings: Uh, none. Angst, but things get better.
Word Count: 2330
Author's Notes: Thanks to torakowalski and desfinado for looking at this, and to thesamefire for hand-holding and reminding me how to write sex. Brian's opinions as a POV character are not necessarily the same as mine.



( when the shadows appear )

I'm going to start by I rec the one lyo wrote for me, Space Where We Meet Is Different From The Rest, because it is a girl!Mikey/Alicia and a boarding school AU, and it is sweet and achy and sharp and fair to the characters and god, I love it so so much. She captures the confusion of figuring out your sexual identity when you're a teenager so well, and how pressure to conform can fuck you up, and I fell more than a little in love with her Mikey. Go read, go read.



This post is also a belated no_tags reveal--not that it is all that necessary, because as at least three of you guessed, I wrote the one that had talking fish and Lyn-Z being a Real Girl. *grins* There were two things I wanted to do: one was to not write anything too over-the-top (my contrary self wanted to see if I could make them kiss in a way that actually wasn't super-romantic, even if the story was clearly heading toward a place where they fell in love), and the other was to make damn sure I didn't reduce Lyn-Z to a muse (that was mostly an ending problem, feel free to tell me if I managed). Mostly, I had so much fun writing this story, especially because I cunningly figured out that it was for wasoncedelight (it took no great stealth, her photobucket name is somewhat revealing) and therefore got to write for a darling of mine, at the same time as I could be reasonably sure she would like it. So, dear all, here is a story about Gerard and a mermaid. Sort of.



Title: See You In The Morning Light
Pairing/Prompt: Gerard/Lyn-Z, based on this photo.
Rating: PG
Warnings: No warnings needed.
Summary: What would you do if a strange girl washed up on shore and demanded a kiss?
Notes: Written for no_tags, originally posted over here. Thanks to anoneknewmoose and novembersmith for looking it over and making me fix the ending.

( It was dusk when Gerard got to the beach. )