femgenficathon | Entries tagged with femgen 2009

rose-griffes.livejournal.com

Title: Kingdom Come
Author:

rose_griffes
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: barely PG, for themes
Warnings: er... vague, minimal references to racism and classism (mostly set during 3.08/3.09 "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood")
Prompt: 148) If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever. -- Diana Wynne Jones (born August 16, 1934), English novelist and non-fiction author.
Summary: Martha Jones sees the ~~world~~ universe
Author's Notes: Spoilers for season three of new Doctor Who. (I haven't watched series four yet.) Lines in bold italics are quotes from Ten (and John Smith) throughout series three. Thanks to

daybreak777,

millari and

persiflage_1 for all kinds of help.

Kingdom Come

tree

Title: A Prudential Light
Author:

tree
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Prompt: 34. I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody. -- Lena Horne
Summary: Charlotte Lucas at seven, seventeen, twenty-seven, and thirty-seven.
Author's Notes: I am indebted to ali972, Anghraine, hele and Tulina for their encouragement and pointy quills.

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lls-mutant.livejournal.com

Title Chavelle's Primrose Mystery
Author:

lls_mutant
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (new)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, swearing, talk of past child prostitution/sexual abuse
Prompt: My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. -- Trieu Thi Trinh (225-248), 3rd-century Vietnamese revolutionary who led a rebellion against Chinese invaders. Known as "the Vietnamese Joan of Arc."
Summary: The last cosmetics vendor in the universe has turned up dead. Ellen Tigh needs to figure out who killed her, before she's accused of the crime herself.
Author's Notes: Thanks to

rebelliousrose for the brilliant comment about a murder mystery centering around the last bottle of perfume in existence.

( 'It's the last bottle of Dolce Veritas in the universe.' )

tree_and_leaf

Title: Silence Beyond Words
Author:

tree_and_leaf
Fandom: Star Trek (AOS)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No
Prompt: 12. Could I write all, the world would turn to stone. -- Caterina Sforza (early 1463-1509), Italian warrior-ruler of Imola and Forli.
Summary: Nyota Uhura is a communications officer, which means she’s good with words. So why can’t she find the right words to talk about what’s happened?
Author's Notes: Capt. Robbins isn’t really an OFC; it’s one of the names used in some of the spin-off material for Number One (while I normally have a great deal of respect for DC Fontana, I hate the idea that Number One really is her name; and wouldn’t that get confusing once you get promoted past XO anyway?) At any rate, Number One is awesome, despite how little we see of her in canon.
I have taken the prompt rather loosely; I wanted to write about things that can and can't be said. Alas, I struggled with it a bit, and I'm not entirely satisfied with the results. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

I do not own Star Trek, in any of its forms, nor am I making any profits.

( Robbins bought her whisky, the Scottish kind, with a reek of smoke on the nose. Uhura winced, and thought of burning circuits. )

lareinenoire.livejournal.com

Title: As brittle as the glory is the face
Author:

lareinenoire
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Characters: Blair Waldorf, Vanessa Abrams, Jenny Humphrey, Serena van der Woodsen
Rating: PG
Warnings: Footnotes, excessive quotation, and dodgy interpretations of Shakespeare, monarchical theory, and identity politics.
Prompt: 3) Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. -- Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist.
Summary: "I am Richard II, know ye not that?" Where better for a dethroned queen to gain some perspective than from a dethroned king?
Author's Notes: I had more trouble than I would have anticipated in coming up with a response to this prompt, and the fic may well reflect that, so my apologies in advance. Michael Boyd's production of Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company sadly never made it to the United States, but the fic presupposes a short run in New York. Takes place during 2x25 The Goodbye Gossip Girl; spoilers up to that point. Title comes from Richard II, IV.i.288. Many thanks to my beta-readers

angevin2 and

rosamund.

( Spotted: Blair Waldorf taking in some Shakespeare. Where better for a dethroned queen to gain some perspective than from a dethroned king? )

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: Desk
Current Music: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway

magentabear.livejournal.com

Title: This Is Not A War Story
Author:

magentabear
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Nope
Prompt: 142. The facts are always less than what really happened. -- Nadine Gordimer (born November 1923), South African author, anti-apartheid and anti-censorship activist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1991).
Summary: This is not a story of death or killing or blood or horror. These things happened, and they happened in a fight that was called a war, but they don't come together to make a war story. At least, not the way Luna Lovegood tells it.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to

slam_girl for helping me with this fic. She is, as always, a most excellent friend. Along with my given prompt, I was influenced by Tim O'Brien's wonderful book The Things They Carried so with that in mind I'd like to dedicate my story to all the women soldier out there, who do not, I fear, always get the respect they deserve.

( This Is Not A War Story. )

kellychambliss.livejournal.com

Title: Majesty
Author: Kelly Chambliss kellychambliss
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, HRH
Word Count: 6000
Prompt: #60 -- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. --Amelia Earhart(July 24, 1897 -- missing July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939), American pilot and author; first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean; first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a great queen and a powerful witch. . .
Author's Notes: I've interpreted the prompt very liberally. Courage is here, definitely, along with a bit of fear (since there can be no courage without it). And I think you'll find loneliness as well (though not connected to fear, I don't think). Peace? I believe so, but you may decide for yourself. // There are several shifts in point of view; I hope they aren't too confusing. My thanks to my excellent beta readers,

therealsnape and

mountainmoira.

---///---

( Majesty )

slowmercury.livejournal.com

Title: In The Dark
Author:

slowmercury
Fandom: Gakuen Alice
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None, really, but it might spoil chapter 62
Prompt: 17) I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist and essayist.
Summary: Aoi Hyuuga spent two years in a basement, blind and with amnesia, and when she finally gets out she is angry.
Author's Notes: I really didn't think the way that Aoi was treated was fair - she suffers a lot over the course of the story and no one seems to care, aside from how it affects her heroic brother, and that just seemed... cheap. This story may make more sense if you read the background blurb.

( Gakuen Alice Background Information )

( She thinks she’s sick, at first, and only gradually realizes that she’s not sick at all, she’s bone-deep furious )

Current Mood: anxious

anna-bird.livejournal.com

Title: Those Who Favor Fire
Author:

anna_bird
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some violence and swearing.
Prompt: No. 79: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller (1880-1968), deaf-blind American author, lecturer and political activist. She campaigned for women's suffrage, pacifism, people with disabilities, the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, or the "Wobblies"), socialism and birth control, and helped found the ACLU.
Summary: AU, after Enemy at the Gate (series finale). The City of Atlantis and inhabitants have returned to Pegasus from their heroic rescue of the planet Earth at the hands of the Wraith. But something is wrong.
Author's Notes: Roughly 17,000 words and posted in three parts! I strayed quite a bit from the original prompt, but I do think it serves as a good quote about the character of Teyla and her people in general. Boatloads of thanks to the best betas money cannot buy,

sasha_feather,

were_duck for their time and insightful comments/criticisms, and especially

taste_is_sweet for her big damn overhaul, helpful comments and a better, much more interesting title (which comes from this poem). Thank you, ladies. I really appreciate it. Any inconsistencies or errors are mine alone.

( Those Who Favor Fire, pt. 3 )

anna-bird.livejournal.com

Title: Those Who Favor Fire
Author:

sasha_feather,

were_duck for their time and insightful comments/criticisms, and especially

anna-bird.livejournal.com

Title: Those Who Favor Fire
Author:

sasha_feather,

were_duck for their time and insightful comments/criticisms, and especially

seta-suzume.livejournal.com

Title: Go the Way of Destiny (3/3)
Author:

seta_suzume
Fandom: Suikoden III
Rating: PG
Prompt: 108.) If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. -- Margaret Thatcher (born October 13, 1925), first and so far only woman to lead the Conservative Party (1975-1990) and the first and so far only woman to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979-1990).
Summary: Tielle was determined not to give in. The story of Queen's youth in Harmonia.
Word count: roughly 24,900 words. Whew, I've never written anything long enough to merit three posts!
Author's Notes: Thanks for

effaced, who encouraged me, and DJ, who helped with the title.
Throughout the story, Queen goes by her given name (Tielle), since these are her pre-HSFDF days.

( She was going to become strong. )

seta-suzume.livejournal.com

Title: Go the Way of Destiny (2/3)
Author:

seta-suzume.livejournal.com

Title: Go the Way of Destiny (1/3)
Author:

kirsteena.livejournal.com

Title: In Memoriam
Author:

kirsteena
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Prompt: Prompt #49:
Someone, I tell you,
will remember us.
We are oppressed by fears of oblivion
yet are always saved
by judgment of good men. -- Sappho
Word Count: 3859
Summary: Jack, Gwen and Ianto discover something she has left behind.
Author's Notes: Thanks to the wonderful

verdant_gt for beta reading.

( In Memoriam )

velvetmouse

Title: Paradise Lost
Author:

velvetmouse
Characters/Fandom: Christine Chapel, Star Trek XI (Reboot)
Rating: PG, for mild language and innuendo
Warnings: Spoilers for the movie; references to TOS
Word Count: 6461
Prompt: 29) Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry / And in pleasure many a grief endure / My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged / All at once I dry up and grow green -- Louise Labé (circa 1520/1522 - 1566), 16th-century French poet of the Renaissance.
Summary: Sometimes hell can sneak up on you; other times, it announces itself with bells and whistles.
Notes: Many many thanks to my awesome betas,

fringedweller, who patiently corrected my newbie mistakes, and Sherry, who is, as always, the other half of my brain.
-------------------------------------------------
( Paradise Lost )

catsintheattic.livejournal.com

Title: A Choice of Life and Love
Autor:

catsintheattic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: Hard R
Warnings: torture, original character death
Prompt: Promp no. 35: It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly...'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need. Olga Ilyin (1894-1991), Russian emigré author of memoirs.
Summary: Sometimes, a woman has to decide whether to follow the path of love or to set out to fulfil her life-task. Few, like Bellatrix Black, manage to achieve both. Whatever they do, the path is never easy, until the last shred of doubt is finally burned away.
Word count: 6,242
Author’s notes: Just like last year, I managed to turn a lovely, positive prompt into something dark and twisted. Do I see a pattern emerging? Is it the number 35 that makes me do it? ;-)
Bella’s vow during her Marking was inspired by the Lord’s Prayer – I mean no offense, but I want to be clear about my sources. I really struggled with Bella’s story and had a hard time of getting under her skin or into her mind. So I thank

celta_diabolica and

paragraphs not just for their beta-reading and the POV guiding, I also thank them for their support and encouragement, for their questions and impressions, and for helping me to find my way through Bella’s night.

( A Choice of Life and Love )

zeldaophelia.livejournal.com

Title: Deceptions (1/2)
Author: Zelda Ophelia (

zeldaophelia
Fandom: CSI:NY
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mild cursing, mention of violence
Prompt: 120.) The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route. -- George Sand (1804-1876), French novelist, playwright, critic, political writer and feminist.
Summary: A costume ball isn't supposed to end with murder.
Author's Notes: Long enough I had to break it into two to post. Huge thank you to

eternal_sadist for betaing. <3

( Deceptions, part 1 )

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zeldaophelia.livejournal.com

Title: Deceptions (2/2)
Author: Zelda Ophelia (

eternal_sadist for betaing. <3

( Deceptions, part 2 )

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amathela.livejournal.com

Title: And She Was
Author:

amathela
Fandom: Brothers & Sisters
Characters: Rebecca
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: 8) Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. -- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Summary: Justin discovers a time capsule video Rebecca made in high school. Set during early season two.

Sex, lies, and videotape

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rose-griffes.livejournal.com - rose_griffes, Kingdom Come, Doctor Who, Martha Jones
tree - A Prudential Light, Charlotte Lucas, G
lls-mutant.livejournal.com - Chavelle's Primrose Mystery, Ellen Tigh and Helena Cain, PG-13
tree_and_leaf - (no subject)
lareinenoire.livejournal.com - As brittle as the glory is the face (Blair Waldorf, PG)
magentabear.livejournal.com - This Is Not A War Story, Luna Lovegood, PG-13.
kellychambliss.livejournal.com - "Majesty" (Minerva McGonagall, HRH; PG) by Kelly Chambliss
slowmercury.livejournal.com - In The Dark, Aoi Hyuuga, PG13
anna-bird.livejournal.com - Those Who Favor Fire (3/3) Stargate: Atlantis, Teyla Emmagen, Jennifer Keller, PG-13
anna-bird.livejournal.com - Those Who Favor Fire (2/3) Stargate: Atlantis, Teyla Emmagen, Jennifer Keller, PG-13
anna-bird.livejournal.com - Those Who Favor Fire (1/3) Stargate: Atlantis, Teyla Emmagen, Jennifer Keller, PG-13
seta-suzume.livejournal.com - Go the Way of Destiny (3/3) (Queen, PG)
seta-suzume.livejournal.com - Go the Way of Destiny (2/3) (Queen, PG)
seta-suzume.livejournal.com - Go the Way of Destiny (1/3) (Queen, PG)
kirsteena.livejournal.com - kirsteena In Memoriam (Torchwood, Toshiko Sato, PG)
velvetmouse - Paradise Lost [Star Trek XI; Christine Chapel; PG]
catsintheattic.livejournal.com - A Choice of Life and Love (Bellatrix Black, Hard R)
zeldaophelia.livejournal.com - Deceptions (1/2) Stella Bonasera, Jessica Angell; PG-13
zeldaophelia.livejournal.com - Deceptions (2/2) Stella Bonasera, Jessica Angell; PG-13
amathela.livejournal.com - And She Was (Brothers & Sisters, Rebecca, PG-13)

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