Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear (eight Harry Potter women, PG)

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Title: Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear
Autor: catsintheattic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Prompt: 35) We were all developing the same stubborn pride, behind which our frightened selves hid, pretending everything was all right. Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948), Puerto Rican author, co-founder of film and media production company Cantomedia, producer-writer of documentary and educational films, and activist on behalf of libraries, teens and battered women.
Summary: It has been a trying year for all of them. A series of vignettes.
Word count: 3,947
Author’s notes: I wish I could have done more of the women in the Harry Potter universe. I also had notes for Tonks and Fleur, for Luna and Ginny. But in the end, it came down to these eight: Petunia, Dolores, Hermione, Bella, Minerva, Pansy, Narcissa and Molly.
A huge thank you to celta_diabolica for the ever excellent beta-reading and support!

( Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear )

Three Fics for Three Underappreciated Ladies

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Prompt:

59) The triumph can't be had without the struggle. -- Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994), African-American Olympian athlete. First American woman to win three gold medals in track and field...and she won while running on a sprained ankle.

Title: Never Give Up
Author: vjs2259 
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt: 59               
Word count: ~1300
Author's Notes: set post S5, pre-Sleeping in Light, beta'd by ufgator1977 
Summary: Lise was a stubborn lady.

Title: A Nice Cup of Tea
Author: vjs2259 
Fandom: Being Human
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt: 59
Word count: ~500
Author's Notes: set end of S1 
Summary: Annie knew the perfect way to end the day.

Title: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Author:  vjs2259 
Fandom: Buckaroo Banzai
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt:  59
Word count: ~1600
Author's Notes: set post-movie
Summary: Penny Priddy never finished high school.

Edifice (Fran, PG)

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Title: Edifice
Author: seta_suzume
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating: PG
Warnings: Major character death.
Word Count: 1570
Prompt: 156) ...thinking back, I saw that I had never been really calm and sure of myself. Perhaps, then, the fault was in fact mine: I had expected too much. -- Michitsuna no haha (c.935-995), Japanese poet and diarist.
Summary: There is nothing that cannot be effaced by time. Even Fran will die one day. A very post-canon story about Fran.
Notes: Only vaguely related to the prompt. I was working on another story for this prompt about Annie Barrs from Tales of Rebirth, but I just haven't been in the right mood to finish it properly, so I decided to put it on hold for now instead of rushing it and I wrote this instead.
( No one is beyond the reach of time. )

Mold a figure of me (TSCC, Felicia Burnett, PG-13)

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Title: Mold a figure of me
Author: chaila43 
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Includes discussion of canonical domestic abuse.
Prompt:
120)
You and I
Have so much love,
That it
Burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Molded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them,
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mold again a figure of you,
And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
-- Kuan Tao-Sheng (1262-1319), Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet of the Yuan Dynasty.
Summary: Mix the pieces with water and mold again a figure of you and a figure of me. The most convincing lies have a thread of truth in them. Dr. Felicia Burnett in sort of a post-ep to 2x14 “The Good Wound.” ~ 1300 words.
Notes: Many thanks to beccatoria for the very helpful beta!

( Mix the pieces with water and mold again a figure of you and a figure of me )

Giving Myself A Start [Anna Fang, Mortal Engines, PG]

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Title: Giving Myself A Start
Author: elvenpiratelady
Fandom: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Rating: PG
Warnings: mild references to slavery
Prompt: 99) My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. -- Mother Jones (1830 or 1837-1930), Irish-born American labor organizer, member of the Knights of Labor, deeply involved with the United Mine Workers, and organizer of a strike of children working in mills and mines. (The quote more aptly describes Anna’s life after this fic, but it suits her to a tee.)
Summary: With a life of slavery in Arkangel left behind her, Anna Fang is off to a flying start.
Word count: 1912
Author's Notes: This is not the Anna Fang story I started out writing for this ficathon. That fic is turning into a monster, being 4000 words long and nowhere near finished. This fic is really the beginning of a much longer story, and hopefully I’ll finish it one day. In the mean time, huzzah for actually finishing a fic on time!

So to the actual story notes – doing research about women aviators turned up some amazing ladies and I wish I could throw tickertape parades for them all, but the main inspiration is Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, the first Chinese American woman to become a pilot. This photo of her is the Anna Fang in my head because she’s clearly having so much fun flying her planes. I have to mention the Ninety-Nines because of my prompt number (although I didn’t find out about them until I started research for this fic – coincidence regarding awesome ladies, or something else?), and the Night Witches deserve to be recognised as well. What I discovered more than anything else is the distinct correlation between wittiness and women aviators. There are some great quotes here. The title comes from another quote on the prompt list and I hope whoever actually claimed it doesn’t mind me using it: 141) I got myself a start by giving myself a start. -- Sarah Breedlove Walker.

So thanks go to Katherine Sui Fun Cheung and all the other women who have taken to the skies, Philip Reeve for writing the Mortal Engines series (I have some issues regarding plots and character development, but he created Anna Fang for me so I’ll let them go) and gehayi for running this ficathon every year. Extra special thanks to my brother, who is the only other person I know who has read the Mortal Engines series and who beta’d this for me at short notice and at the last minute.


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( Giving Myself A Start )