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Fic Masterlist

This is a masterlist of my stories. Listed in order according to when I posted them, with the more recent stories first (apart from where I've organized it according to verse). ETA: this is woefully out of date, unfortunately--follow the fic and ficlets tags for the more recent stories. Sorry! It'll be updated when the crazy dies down.

( Bandom and adjacent fandoms )

Ficlets from my monthly prompts posts:

( MCR )
( Other bands )
( Crossovers )

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).

It only took me twelve days...and now I'm really tempted to come up with a wretched pun on partridges in pear trees. I fear I am far too sleepy, though.

Here, darlings, the ficlets--there are superheroes, stories about music, awkward high school AUs, rare pairings, gen, lots of alwaysagirl, gen, Gotham City, and random crossovers. In order, we have the following:


The Right Music, Z/Tennessee, for softlyforgotten. Z's pretty sure it's her turn to be brave.


One More Time With Feeling, girl!Bob/girl!Brian, also for softlyforgotten (the trick is to leave me a first prompt and then have the second one be my favorite pairing in all the land). Bob glows when she plays.


I Should Refuse You, Bob/Mikey/Alicia, for fleurdeliser. Bob isn't used to having epiphanies in the kitchen.


Ready To Go Anywhere, Mikey/Ray, for antihysteric. Ray has a crush. Frank knows about it.


Temptin' You To Defy It, Lyn-Z/Z Berg, for unlurkster. This is set in a verse where Z and Lyn-Z go to the same high school, and Z sings in Kitty and Lyn-Z's band. She also happens to be dating Lyn-Z, and prom is coming up.


Should I Wait?, Frank/Gerard, for ciel_vert. Frank is definitely thinking too much about that one time when Gerard kissed him and they weren't on stage.


In Time, Patrick and William gen, for airgiodslv. Patrick isn't sure how to do this coming out thing.


Not Afraid To Look At Her, possible future girl!Bob/Frank, for jrho. Bob is not down with this shit.


Cast Your Dancing Spell My Way, Z and girl!Ryan, for blindmouse. When Ryan woke up, she'd figured it out. Superpowers!au.


Take The Dark Out Of The Nighttime, Bob/Gerard/Lyn-Z, for crowgirl13. More of the Bob/Gerard/Lyn-Z in Gotham AU; more epiphanies for Bob.


Stay While The Night Is Still Ahead, girl!Brendon/girl!Spencer, for bayleaf. Set in the same verse as the Z-and-Ryan one above. Spencer wants Brendon to stay.


Not Alone In The Dark, Kon/Veronica Mars, DCU/Veronica Mars crossover for jamjar. Kon has been at Neptune High for a while now, but it's kind of lonely.


Stuck Inside A Mobile, Jon and Tom gen (and a random AU), for halflinen. And off they go, down the rabbit hole...

I had two posts to make today; this one is the one I shouldn't need to make. Today is the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women. It's a long name for a day and a hefty undertaking, unfortunately, because this is a world where women get hurt. And I can't actually write a post about this, because the terrible things that happen to women, it's the thing I carry and don't know what to do with because it hurts so goddamn much.

And by that I mean I know too many women who have been hurt by somebody, I've taken too many phone calls, you know how it goes, but I can't stop taking the phone calls or hearing the stories, even when I have no idea what to say. Really, there isn't much you can say except "I'm so sorry someone did that to you" and "I'm here" and "I love you."

So here is a story of mine. A ficlet, really. It'll have to stand in for meta, today. Let's just all agree that this fucking bullshit needs to end.



Title: On Your Marks
Pairing: Alicia gen.
Warnings: reference to past rape and violence.
Word Count: 975
Summary: AU. Alicia is fighting a revolution and she is a former prisoner of war. She wasn’t expecting to see one of her jailers again, let alone as one of their prisoners, but that's okay, she has things she needs to say.

A/N: Technically, this is set in my Big Bang verse, but all the context it needs from that is in the summary. Also, this is in no way intended as a commentary on what victims of sexual assault should do/need to do/or what closure should look like, this is a story I needed to write and something I need to post today. ETA: And I forgot to say, thesamefire looked at this for me back in June when I wrote the first half, and she told me the thing I needed to fix the ending. Thank you again, darling.

( Oh, yes, she knows this man. )

I'm done! At last, at last. I kind of had a little too much fun with these, let's just put it that way, and therefore they are All Over The Place. We have superheroes, a weird sort of fairy tale, a ball (complete with stupid shoes), steampunk, a crossover with ATS, Bunny!pov (yup, I wrote a story in the pov of Mikey's cat, feel free to laugh) and a lot of other strange little universes. No warnings, I don't think, apart from very vaguely implied off-screen violence in the girl!Gee/Amanda ficlet and past original character death in the Bob/Gerard/Lyn-Z one. Oh, and Alicia is dead in the one where she is a ghost. Obviously.

Also, in terms of pairings, we have, in no particular order: girl!Gerard/Amanda, Lyn-Z/Alicia, Lyn-Z/Alicia/Jamia, Alicia/Mikey/Pete, girl!Bob/Gerard, Cash/Ian, Kitty/Lyn-Z, Bob/Gerard/Lyn-Z, and Frank/Mikey/Pete.



Title: Kick Your Shoes Off
Pairing: Lyn-Z/Alicia
Word Count: 1242
Summary: Lyn-Z hates balls. And dresses. And the shoes she's wearing. Luckily, she meets someone who can distract her.

Notes: For airgiodslv. Prompt: costume party or masquerade ball and LESBIAN GHOST PORN.


(  Lyn-Z worries at her sleeve again. )


Title: Got To Get To Her Somehow
Pairing: Alicia/Lyn-Z/Jamia
Word Count: 381
Summary: AU. A member of their team is kidnapped, so Jamia and Alicia are putting together a rescue effort.

Notes: For fleurdeliser. The prompt was trick or treat, so of course I wrote about superheroes.


( Alicia hates Halloween. )


Title: Takes One To Know One
Pairing: Alicia/Mikey/Pete
Word Count: 376
Summary: Alicia dares Mikey to dress up for Halloween.

Notes: For iamsupernova. The prompt was Alicia dares Mikey to dress up with her and go to some club on Halloween and they see Pete there and HOT DANCEFLOOR SEDUCTION HAPPENS.


( Mikey isn't sure about this wearing a dress thing. )


Title: Ghosts In The Machinery
Pairing: Gerard/Lindsey, implied eventual Bob/Gerard/Lindsey
Word Count: 853
Summary: AU. Gerard and Lindsey bought a boat to live on and do their art, but they keep finding odd things.

Notes: For mahoni. The prompt was Bob/Gerard/Lindsey, in which there are GHOSTS of some sort.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about boats bigger than a three-person sailing boat.


( Gerard snaps awake and hits his head on the bunk. )


Title: Some Day I'll Make It Mine
Pairing: girl!Gerard/Amanda
Word Count: 681
Summary: Gee can't find her brother, and the forest is too fucking deep.

Notes: For softlyforgotten. The prompt was this video, which is Heads Will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.


( It's been three days since Gee last saw Mikey. )


Title: The Wind Began To Howl
Pairing: Cash/Ian
Word Count: 440
Summary: Cash has a new bass. It's haunted.

Notes: For colouredmango. The prompt was Shingai Shoniwa!!!! Haunts some one!! Anyone!!! Bonus points if it is Cash/Ian. Shingai Shoniwa is the super-talented and seriously hot lead singer/bassist in The Noisettes, which, if you haven't listened to them yet, what are you doing?


( Poke. Poke. Poke. )


Title: Take Me Disappearing
Pairing: Gerard/Oz
Word Count: 366
Summary: I'm just going to use the prompt: Gerard fills in as lead singer for "Dingoes Ate My Baby" (Devon injured himself in a bizarre apple-bobbing incident?) at a Halloween night gig at The Bronze.

Notes: For morebliss.


( Gerard's nervous. No, scratch that, Gerard is really fucking nervous. )


Title: The Loneseome Organ Grinder Cries
Pairing: Lyn-Z/Kitty
Word Count: 460
Summary: Lyn-Z isn't sure about this.

Notes: For yan_tan_tether. Prompt: Lyn-Z and Kitty on a ghost train! The other installment in this verse is over here


( Investigating a ghost train may not have been the brightest of ideas. )


Title: His Pointy Shoes And His Tail
Pairing: Implied Frank/Mikey/Pete
Word Count: 607
Summary: Bunny wants revenge.

Notes: For turps33. Prompt: buying costumes for all the pets, because they so would! Um, this turned out quite differently from what I intended.


( Bunny scratches irritably at her left ear. )


Title: Look Out Tonight
Pairing: girl!Bob/Gerard
Word Count: 592
Summary: Bob is really over this tall dark and brooding thing. If he wanted to be impressive, he shouldn't have named himself Angel. Also, Gerard is being a pain.

Notes: For turloughishere. Prompt: getting attacked by demons in LA somehow leads to getting involved with Angel and his gang.


(  Bob stares at Gerard mulishly, pointedly not taking the towel he's holding out. )

And I'm almost done with my technical translation, even though there were a lot of prompts and a lot of difficult technical terms. I also finished my website editing, realized I have half of the project plan due in two weeks written already and the rest outlined, wrote an abstract draft and did a teeny-tiny translation. Those were some productive four days.

I also managed to make time go to dinner with a friend yesterday, where I got embarrassingly tipsy on one glass of wine (these days, I am what they call a Cheap Date), but the funniest part came before the eating/drinking: we got carded. In Sweden. Where you can drink alcohol at 18. *dies laughing*

But the commentfics! There are a lot of stories about soup, a few about leaves, one about tea, one about a blanket fort, one about a lobster, and one about a tough day at work. I wrote, in order:

Gerard and Mikey gen for giddy_london. Mikey wakes Gerard up before noon. Gerard is not happy.

Bandom/BTVS, Bob/Willow for crowgirl13. The Hellmouth is a lousy place to live but sometimes it works out okay.

Bandom/Criminal Minds, Alicia/Mikey/Reid for iamsupernova and absenteye. Mikey meets someone at Starbucks and takes him home.

Bandom/Veronica Mars, Veronica and Gerard gen for strange_bt_true. Veronica receives some unexpected help.

Bandom/BTVS, Brian/Gerard for brilligspoons. Gerard thinks the Slayer is awesome and Brian is jealous.

Bob/Frank, Halloween for anoneknewmoose. Frank has decided that Bob and him are going as Dr Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster for Halloween. Bob is not a fan of this plan.

Bandom/DCU, Bob/Bruce Wayne for mahoni. Bruce is roasting pumpkins and Bob is amused. This one has a whole backstory of Batman rescuing Bob from things and Bob figuring out his identity, etc etc.

Bandom/Veronica Mars, Lyn-Z/Mac for antihysteric. Mac is nervous and Lyn-Z builds a blanket fort. This one might be my new favorite pairing.

Bob/Patrick, raking leaves for morebliss. Bob and Patrick get conned into dealing with the leaves in Patrick's parents' yard and I almost write porn.

Amanda Palmer and Gerard gen for enhendi. Set in my big bang verse where they're all revolutionaries, and sometimes Gerard can't sleep.

Cash/Ian, vegetable lasagnas for colouredmango. Wherein Ian likes to watch Cash when he cooks.

Original fic, Kit/Aria/Rick for unlurkster and softlyforgotten. On why soup can be magical, even when life is awful. Or part of a modern fairytale, if you will.

Gerard and a lobster gen for blindmouse. Gerard talks to a lobster.

Title: Die Happily Ever After

Rating: PG-13
Summary: MSI go to a mansion to do some writing for their next album. Unfortunately, this mansion has ghosts. Initially, Steve finds it interesting, but after a while, not so much. Otherwise known as my story about Lyn-Z and Steve being BFFs.
Warnings: Ghosts, general scariness.
Word Count: 4000
Author's Notes: For thesamefire on her birthday. ♥, darling, I really, really hope you like it. This was not the birthday story I meant to write you, but these things happen.

This story is inspired by this interview, in which we learn that MSI once spent the night in a haunted Japanese hotel. This story is also what happens when I try to write horror: it comes out mostly like comedy. Thanks to colouredmango and nokomis305 for helping with the horror-esque parts, and my undying gratitude to wasoncedelight and softlyforgotten for looking it over. Any remaining errors are not their fault.


( Steve's not scared, exactly. This mansion's just fucking weird, is what it is. )

According to my mother, I currently look very waif-like, as I am wont to do when I'm ill, so if you could all imagine me looking pretty pathetic and plaintive and pale, you will all go here and vote for Bob, right? And Mikeyway, but he doesn't need any help at this point, so that's more okay. Look, it's Bob, okay? Also, throw in a vote for Siska while you're at it.

ETA: Darlings, darlings, no need to bash Spencer! He's pretty fabulous too.

Or tell me in comments how you're protesting against this poll because there was no MSI. I definitely get that. Hey, gimme my lady bassist! And drummer! >:(

Just so this entry isn't just me confessing my well-known love for Bob Bryar/demanding more MSI in bandom, and because I need distracting from my virus and I'm too tired to read, ask me my fannish Top Fives. Or literary. Or feminist. Or something.