femgenficathon | Entries tagged with femgen 2010

bluflamingo.livejournal.com

Title: Life Less Ordinary
Author:

bluflamingo
Fandom: The West Wing
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: 82) I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. -- Nikki Giovanni (born June 7, 1943), African-American author and poet.
Summary: Amy Gardner's the one who first puts the idea out there
Author's Notes: I did my best with the presidential election system (with huge amounts of help from my friends list) but errors may remain, for which I apologise.

( Life Less Ordinary )

annearchy.livejournal.com

Title: Years To Learn Her Trade
Author:

annearchy
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: PG
Length: 5,055 words
Warnings: A couple of swear words and some implied violence. Spoilers through episode 307.
Prompt: 86) You are about to begin the hero's journey. Travel well on the quest. A life of More is your birthright. Know the vast resources that reside in you and are provided for you in the world. You have raised the battle cry of There Must Be More Than This. -- Judith Wright (1915-2000), Australian poet, environmentalist, critic, and advocate of aboriginal land rights.
Summary: Before there was a Leverage Consulting & Associates, there was a girl who called herself Parker. This might be the story of how she became The Thief.
Author's Notes: “Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade” - Japanese proverb

Includes a recognizable quote from the movie/TV series KUNG FU and several lines of dialogue from Leverage Season 1. This is my version of how Parker got to be Parker. While most of the story takes place prior to The Nigerian Job (ep 101), the catalyst for much of my take on Parker was The Inside Job (ep 303). Certain things may be recognizable as Leverage canon, while others come strictly from my imagination. Thanks to

avidbeader for beta-reading and to Beth Riesgraf and the writers of Leverage for creating such a wonderful, quirky character.

( ”Years )

noblealice.livejournal.com

Title: Days Are Passing By
Author: noblealice
Fandom: His Dark Materials
Character: Lyra Silvertongue
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: #26 "We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest...might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before." --Daphne Du Maurier
Summary: Lyra lives in a world of memories, afraid to fully engage with the present. She is slowly healing, forgetting her promise to Will and instead retreating within herself. It takes the interference of the Church to wake her from her hesitancy to participate in life.
Spoilers: for all three books in the HDM trilogy (Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) and Lyra’s Oxford
Author's Notes: Title is from the lyrics of Diane Birch’s song "Rewind". Apologies, this is un-beta'd and all mistakes are my own. More notes at the end of the fic.
Word Count: 6,000+

( Lyra and Pantalaimon are left to go forward simply because they are not allowed to go back )

elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com

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 )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly

chaila.livejournal.com

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 )

seta-suzume.livejournal.com

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. )

vjs2259.livejournal.com

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.

catsintheattic.livejournal.com

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 )

miss-morland.livejournal.com

Title: Vessel of Hope
Author:

miss_morland
Fandom: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Rating: PG
Prompt: 20) A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. -- Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), Swiss-born explorer of North Africa and author.
Summary: I force away the memories from before, of sun dresses and naked legs, of lipstick and alcohol, of freedom that never did me any good.
Warning: Contains a spoiler for the book
Word count: 1106
Author's Notes: One of the lines are lifted directly from the novel -- bonus point if you spot it! Written for the 2010

femgenficathon. Many thanks to my skilful beta reader,

kellychambliss.

These girls, my girls, they are soldiers, risking their bodies to give life, letting their flesh be shredded for the sake of others.

kellychambliss.livejournal.com

Title: Missive
Author:

kellychambliss
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Griselda Marchbanks, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3900
Prompt: 37) Someone will remember us / I say / even in another time -- Sappho, (born 630-612 B.C.E., died circa 570 B.C.E.), Greek poet.
Summary: "As a rule, it's easier to write what one feels than to say it. But it's always a good deal harder than one expects." Griselda Marchbanks writes a letter.

A/N: This story is not the one I started out to write -- that one, as per the prompt, was going to be set in another time. But my mental time-turner got stuck near the end of Order of the Phoenix, when McGonagall gets hit by four Stunners and is taken to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. So I wrote about that time instead of "another time." Many thanks to

tetleythesecond, beta-reader extraordinaire.

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In Potter canon, we don't know Griselda Marchbanks's exact age, but when she comes to Hogwarts to supervise the O.W.L. exams in OoP, she's immensely old, and we learn that she administered Dumbledore's N.E.W.T.s. Canonically, Albus was born c. 1880; I've taken the liberty of birthing Griselda in 1870 (making her 27 at the time of Dumbledore's exams -- young for an examiner, perhaps, but that’s a story for another

femgenficathon).

~*~*~*~*~

( Missive )

ctquill.livejournal.com

Title: White Knight (Pt 2)
Author:

ctquill
Fandom: Robin Hood BBC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, death, language.
Prompt: #61: Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. - Jane Addams (1860-1935), founder of the settlement house movement in the United States. Laid the foundations for social work as it is now practiced. Her writings and speeches influenced the later shape of the United Nations. Second woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first American woman to win it.
Summary: Marian is presented with an opportunity, but the price may be too high. Set just after 2x11 and during 2x13.
Author's Notes: Expect historical inaccuracy. A huge thank you to

jagnikjen and

roh_wyn for beta reading. Any changes I've made that have messed this up are entirely my own fault. Thanks to the participants of the rewatch at

roh_fics and to allthingsrobin's transcripts at Hoodwinked . I used both sites for reference. This version of Robin Hood belongs to Tiger Aspect and the BBC.

( White Knight Pt 2 )

roh-wyn.livejournal.com

Title: Book of Secrets
Author:

roh_wyn
Fandom: Robin Hood BBC
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Mild allusions to battlefield violence/death
Prompt: 2) Whatever fills the human mind with uncommon and honest delight is fitting for a human woman – Anna Maria von Schurman (1607–1678), 17th century Dutch scholar, poet, linguist and artist.
Summary: Djaq reads Lambert's ledger and reflects on her own life.
Author's Notes: Despite my best efforts at research, much of this is of questionable historical accuracy. Advance apologies for any mistakes with respect to (a) the cultural setting of this story, i.e. the Levant of the 12th century, and (b) transliteration of Arabic terms which I know only from friends and the internet. A huge thank you to

wenrom31 for her amazing beta work and general cheerleading skills. Any errors are entirely mine. Robin Hood belongs to legend, Djaq belongs to Tiger Aspect and the BBC.

( Book of Secrets )

magglenagall.livejournal.com

Title: Chargée d'affaires
Author:

magglenagall
Fandom: Vorkosigan saga
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A
Prompt: 40) There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. --Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), Pulitzer-prize winning American author, journalist and political activist.
Summary: Missing moment from Diplomatic Immunity. With Miles and Bel in cryostasis, it's up to Ekaterin to prevent Barrayar and Cetaganda from going to war over the lost haut infants.
Author's Notes: Thanks to my beta-readers

katieay and

govcampbell.

DISCLAIMER: Lois McMaster Bujold owns the Vorkosigan universe and everything it encompasses. This is a work of fan fiction, and thus derives no profit or material benefit therefrom.

( Read More... )

ctquill.livejournal.com

Title: White Knight (Pt 1)
Author:

ctquill
Fandom: Robin Hood BBC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, death, language.
Prompt: #61: Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. -- Jane Addams (1860-1935), founder of the settlement house movement in the United States. Laid the foundations for social work as it is now practiced. Her writings and speeches influenced the later shape of the United Nations. Second woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first American woman to win it.
Summary: Marian is presented with an opportunity, but the price may be too high. Set just after 2x11 and during 2x13.
Author's Notes: Expect historical inaccuracy. A huge thank you to

jagnikjen and

roh_wyn for beta reading. Any changes I've made that have messed this up are entirely my own fault. Thanks to the participants of the rewatch at

roh_fics and to allthingsrobin's transcripts at Hoodwinked. I used both sites for reference. This version of Robin Hood belongs to Tiger Aspect and the BBC.

( White Knight )

opheliet.livejournal.com

Title: Blood and Memories
Author:

opheliet
Fandom: The Hollows series
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: dark themes, violence, vampires (hey, I know some people have had it up to their ears with them, though these most assuredly don't sparkle), allusions to and results of an emotionally abusive/manipulative relationship
Prompt: 13) If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.--Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883), African-American abolitionist, women's rights activist, advocate for prison reform, anti-capital punishment activist, lecturer and saint of the Episcopal Church.
Summary: Ivy can't tell which way is up anymore.
Author's Notes: First of all, massive, enormous, truck-full-of-cupcakes thanks to

tearlit , my amazing, wonderful beta. Without her this would probably just be scrawlings on a napkin. Her magic beta brush is awesome, and any mistakes in here are most certainly mine. Love, thanks for everything ;)
The quote in the beginning is from the song Tightrope by Art of Chaos.
Also, many many thanks and cupcakes to

gehayi for running this amazing fest every year.
In case it's important to anyone, no spoilers for any of the books within.

( Blood and Memories )

magentabear.livejournal.com

Title: What Comes After
Author:

magentabear
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Dark themes, self-harm, mentions of death. Please don't read if any of that will upset you.
Prompt: 149) The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. -- Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615)
Summary: Molly Weasley has survived the weight of two wars. She's not about to let their aftermath crush her.
Author's Notes: Huge thanks to

gehayi for running this wonderful fest, to

slam_girl for being such a helpful beta, and to the friends who acted as cheerleaders while I wrote this fic. And finally, thank you to any and all readers. I hope you enjoy this look at Molly.

( What Comes After )

joyfulfeather.livejournal.com

Title: Desert Rose
Author:

joyfulfeather
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG
Warnings: Slavery
Prompt: 128. "Go to school and fight, fight. Fight in the courts, fight in the law." -- Mary Brave Bird (born 1953), Sicangu Oyate author and activist.
Summary: There are no slaves in Atlantis. Lady Elizabeth Weir, governor of the desert city Atlantis, gives a mistreated woman an important choice.
Author's notes: Set in the same AU as "Shifting Sands". I spent a lot of time toying with (and discarding) ideas for this prompt. I finally decided not to attempt something with a long plot and went with this -- which isn't long, but I reserve the right to write a sequel later.

( Desert Rose )

venefica-aura.livejournal.com

Title: The Fable of the Escape Artist
Author: Cendri (

venefica_aura)
Fandom: ICO (video game)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Darkness and death
Prompt: 155) Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honor and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (1555 - 1592), Venetian protofeminist and author of chivalric romance, narrative religious poetry, and dramatic dialogues.
Summary: Yorda's whole life had been a cage; but she had always been a bird meant to fly. An exploration of her thoughts during the game and the Queen.
Author Notes: I recently finished the game and quite fell in love with Yorda, so I decided to try and get her POV on things. Speculation on the Queen also happened. XD Massive spoilers for the game.

Crossposted: DW // AO3

( stay in the shade )

redsnake05.livejournal.com

Title: A world for the seeking
Author:

redsnake05
Fandom/characters: Chronicles of Narnia (Voyage of the Dawn Treader), Citlali (Ramandu's Daughter)
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Other content: Mentions of Caspian/Citlali
Wordcount: 2000
Summary: The life of a star is all in the fixed dance they tread in the sky and on earth. The life of a daughter is in duty and endless labels and days. Citlali finds a new purpose when the Dawn Treader comes to land, and remembers things she has long wanted and thought of. She's willing to take things that are less than perfect to escape a life even less palatable.
Prompt: 122) ...it is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. One-sided people are particularly annoying. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion. -- Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973–c. 1014 or 1025), Japanese courtesan, diarist, author and poet. Her book The Tale of Genji was published in the early eleventh century, and is considered by many to be the oldest novel in the world.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction
Author's notes: I chose the name Citlali for Ramandu's daughter, since she is never mentioned by name despite appearing in two books. Thanks to

miss_morland for the beta.

Read it on dw>>>>read it on lj

skylar-inari.livejournal.com

Title: Sleep Walking
Author:

skylar_inari / Killaurey
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of death.
Prompt: 33) It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist and essayist.
Summary: Hinata is lost in her own mind. Ino goes to find her.
Author Notes: Future-fic. Post-mission!fic. Done for

femgenficathon. Prompt used. I don't own Naruto or any of the characters from Naruto. Kishimoto does. Thanks to the amazing

rushin_doll for the beta!

Sleep Walking