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chaila.livejournal.com

Title: Ere
Author:

chaila43
Fandom: Queen’s Thief – Megan Whalen Turner
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Discussion of canonical torture
Prompt: 136) Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask "What do you believe in?" "What do you hope for?" But most important - ask "What do you love?"-- Paullina Simons (born 1963), Russian-born American novelist, journalist and translator.
Summary: “Ere translates as love, a rather ruthless love, not mercy. . .The Great Goddess of Eddis is not known for her mercy.” Attolia would never confuse love with mercy.
Author's Notes: 3,200 words. Spoilers through The King of Attolia. Thanks to

beccatoria for the beta!

( What do you love? )

joking.livejournal.com

Title: Howl

Author:

joking

Fandom: Doctor Who

Characters: Rose, Idris!TARDIS

Rating: All Ages

Warnings: Spoilers for 6.04 "The Doctor's Wife"

Summary: "Together, we are the Bad Wolf. Separately, you're the yellow girl and I'm Sexy."

Notes: Beta read by

yamx.

At LiveJournal | At Dreamwidth | At AO3

the-alchemist.livejournal.com

Title: Dark
Author:

the_alchemist
Fandom: Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 1; historical RPF; the Christian bible
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Death by burning, rampant Catholicism
Prompt: 12) I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars Jacqueline Cochran (1906-1980).
Summary: Joan of Arc sits in her prison cell the night before she is to be executed. This is Shakespeare's Joan, who dealt with the devil for her victories. But it wasn't always that way. Tonight she receives a visitor from her past: another woman who was born in poverty and defied the conventions of her age to achieve something great, but who has come down to us with a very different kind of reputation.

Author's Notes:
This story was born of a desire to integrate Shakespeare's La Pucelle with Joan of Arc as she's perceived today.

I was also thinking about the ideas of obedience and reputation, particularly as they apply to female saints. I think Shakespeare's portrayal of Joan was basically slanderous, and I'm not convinced that St Mary's reputation today is much better - there is very little that's meek about this woman who agreed to go ahead with a pregnancy outside marriage at a time when she could have been punished with death for it, and who sang about putting down the mighty from their seats!

I dislike the saying: "obedient women rarely make history", because it seems to me that history is made by women who are selective about what they obey. Neither Joan nor Mary was obedient to the conventions of her time, but both were highly obedient to something they perceived as more important. Yet one of them has come down to us as a rebellious feminist heroine and the other as an ultra-submissive 'good girl'. I wanted to put them in a story together to draw out some of the parallels.

Huge thanks to awesome beta readers

atreic and

venta.

( She had seen a woman burnt for witchcraft once ... )

aliciadances.livejournal.com

Title: A Room of Her Own
Author:

aliciadances
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: 80) A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. -- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Belgian-born French novelist. First woman elected to the forty-member L'Académie française.
Summary: "Most days, her life had few regrets." Set post-Deathly Hallows.

Author's Notes: I loved the idea of "constructing a destiny". For better or worse, JKR didn't give Pansy a tidy ending with a marriage to someone, giving her the opportunity to go in unexpected directions. Again, all my love to S. for being a great beta and fixing my atrocious typos.

( I loathe marriage. )

zubeneschamali.livejournal.com

Title: After the Kingfisher's Wing
Author:

zuben_eschamali
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: swearing
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: The battle isn't over just because they died on the field. Ellen and Jo find some allies in Heaven that they knew while they were alive and some that they didn't, and together they're the only ones who can make things right.
Author's Notes: Written as a series of double-drabbles for extra fun. Thanks to

dugindeep and

kasman for beta reading. The title is from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets: "After the kingfisher's wing/Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still/At the still point of the turning world."

( Read more... )

xenokattz.livejournal.com

TITLE: Cho Chang & the Jasmine Code
Author:

xenokattz
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character: Cho Chang
Rating & Warnings: Teen (for strong language & violence)
Prompt #153: Of things I'd rather keep in silence, I must sing. -- Beatritz or Beatriz de Dia (born circa 1140 - flourished circa 1175), trobairitz (female troubadour), probably from a town in what is now southeastern France. Her song, A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu non volria, which is the source of this quotation, is the only song by a trobairitz which has come down to us with both lyrics and music.
Summary: (Set between Half-Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows) Before returning to help her former schoolmates in the Battle of Hogwarts, Cho Chang fought against Voldemort & his follows in a more covert manner.
Author's Notes: Special thanks to

vikingprincess for the beta as well as

zoe_chan,

lady_sarai & Rae for listening to me whine when I had had to ditch 2 previous ideas.

=^o.O^=
Gingerly, Cho set her camera on the table. It was a Muggle model, small and fragile compared to the bulkier wizard ones. Her table in this café now contained a bottle of wine, a platter of cheeses and baked figs and a shiny new copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard." The last was positioned farthest from her, upside-down with the bottom of the book sticking off the table's edge. She sipped her wine-- they didn't water a thing here in France!-- with a mouthful of cured ham, trying to look inconspicuous. Half a dozen American Muggles chattered in passable French across the street. Their cameras were even smaller than hers.

Beyond the gaggle of tourists, she spotted her contact.( Read more... )

thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com

Title: Just Another Day
Author:

thesmallhobbit
Fandom: Life on Mars UK (Phyllis Dobbs)
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. -- Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939), Canadian author, poet, literary critic, operatic lyricist, feminist and environmental activist. She's a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honor for civilians, and one of the most frequently honored authors of fiction in recent years.
Summary: A day in the life of the desk sergeant
Author's Notes: Thanks

jinxed100 for the beta

lilacfield.livejournal.com

Title: Lighthouses
Author:

lilacfield / Eve
Fandom: Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: There is no comfort in numbers. Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique. -- Arlene J. Chai (born 1955), Filipino-Chinese-Australian award-winning author.
Summary: Yuzuriha muses on travel expenses, the price of survival, and bedfellows.
Author's Notes: Post-series, possibly AU. Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas © Teshirogi Shiori, Kurumada Masami, et al.

Lighthouses

Current Mood: determined

immortality.livejournal.com

Title: (forgive my absence) though i was never really here
Author:

immortality
Fandom: The Uninvited/The Ruins
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mild descriptions of violence, attempted suicide, and discussion of mental illness.
Prompt: A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny. -- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), Belgian-born French novelist. First woman elected to the forty-member L'Académie française.
Summary: Sometimes Anna wonders if Alex regrets what they did.
Author's Notes: Post-movies, slight AU. Thanks to

aphrodite_mine for the beta.

here.

cherith.livejournal.com

Title: It's All Implied

Author:

cherith
Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Story spoilers for the endgame of DA:O (not Awakenings) - with some liberties taken, a small amount of fighting/violence and blood.
Word Count: 2,362

Prompt: #28 "The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same." -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849), Irish novelist, writer of magazine articles, and editor.

Summary: A take on Morrigan's role when she leaves the party. She heads home to see and deal with what's left of her mother's place in the Wilds and then contemplates her role in the group.

Author's Notes: This story wanted to go all over the place, and was determined to be several things at once, for which I apologize. But I wanted to do something that gave Morrigan a little more than the one side we see so consistently, because it's obvious she's got some issues to work through. Hopefully, my idea also worked. (Title from Straylight Run's "Mistakes We Know We Were Making" a sort of theme for this story in general.)

( It's All Implied )

Link to the story at AO3

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Location: United States, Edwardsville
Current Music: Lacuna Coil - Heaven's a Lie | Powered by Last.fm

lanoyee.livejournal.com

Title: Hard Things
Author:

lanoyee
Fandom: Blade of the Immortal
Rating: PG
Warnings: Uh. References to somewhat brutal canon happenings?
Prompt: 143) I hadn't been aware that there were doors closed to me until I started knocking on them. -- Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist, pharmacologist and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with George Hitchings and Sir James Black).
Summary: After all is said and done, Asano Rin is met with a proposition.
Author's Notes: MANY, MANY THANKS to the wonderful

senri, who's been patient in letting me bounce ideas off her and even letting me borrow some of her own; and to my beta

tanrien, who has been there in the nick of time. I didn't really use the prompt, but it fits in a general way. Entirely speculative post-eventual-canon fic.

( Sometimes you're caught between a rock and a hard place. )

weisquared.livejournal.com

Title: Chaff in the Wind
Author: weisquared
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: 23) You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. --Arlene Blum (born 1945), biophysical chemist, mountaineer, author, and co-founder of the Green Science Policy Institute. In 1978, she led the first all-woman team up Annapurna I, a 26,200 ft mountain in the Himalayas, in what was the first successful American attempt. She also was deputy leader on the first all-women team climbing Mt. McKinley (20,320 feet) and was the first American woman to try to climb Mt. Everest (29,029 feet).
Summary: Konoha has its own version of Godwin’s Law, but unfortunately for Sakura, just because the other side loses doesn’t mean she wins.

( Wind and water wear down mountains eventually, but Sakura was tired of nothing but incremental changes. )

delgaserasca.livejournal.com

Title: Antigone, or Bury Your Dead.
Author:

delgaserasca.
Fandom: NCIS.
Rating: PG-13.
Warnings: Allusions to violence; spoilers through season 8.
Prompt: 24. You can't erase who you are. You can't erase what you know. -- Sandra Cisneros.
Summary: Rosalind Myers, and the ends that justify the means.

( fiction. )

slowmercury.livejournal.com

Title: A Life Worth Living
Author:

slowmercury
Fandom: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: 16) We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light. -- Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), 12th-century German mystic, author, lyricist-composer, playwright, poet, botanist, healer and abbess
Summary: Violet Beauregarde knows what she wants out of life.
Author's Notes: The first two sections are set before the book begins, while Willy Wonka is still traveling the earth looking for reliable help. The last two sections are after the events of canon.

( Violet Beauregarde’s life changed forever the year she turned seven because that was the year of her first love. )

tielan

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG1
Title: How Not To Eat An Elephant
Author:

tielan
Summary: You don't bite what's gonna bite you back. Some people learn this the hard way.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1,650
Warnings: hostage situation (resolved)
Prompt: 45) 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)
Author's Notes: I didn't really use this prompt quite as I initially intended, so the connection with the story is somewhat tenuous. And there really should be more fic about Teyla and Vala causing havoc in Pegasus. Because they would. And it would be awesome.

How Not To Eat An Elephant

snorkackcatcher

Title: Among My Souvenirs
Author:

snorkackcatcher
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Words: 2,000 approx
Characters: Andromeda, Teddy, Ted, Nymphadora, a few cameos
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 (1907-1989), English author, biographer and playwright. (Kinda sorta used, in a way, but not as much as I thought it would be.)

Summary: Andromeda preserves that which is precious to her in a manner only a witch can.

Author's Notes: Thanks to

lazy_neutrino for the beta. A few further notes at the end.

( Among My Souvenirs )

ariestess

Title: Burial of the Saints
Author: A. Magiluna Stormwriter, aka

ariestess
Email: stormwriter@shatterstorm.net
Rating: PG
Focus: Lwaxana Troi
Pairings: Beverly/Deanna
Date: 9-10 August 2010
Word Count: 2221
Written for:

femgenficathon 2010 [see prompt below]
Written for:

plot_wout_porn 2010
Summary: "Time is inevitable, Little One, and it's long past my time to be the driving force of the Fifth House of Betazed."
Sequel: This story is in the same universe as Keep It Precious @ http://bdkk.shatterstorm.net/tng/precious.html
Spoilers: Post-series. Assume that the wedding in the movies never happened, okay? Additionally, consider all of the Lwaxana episodes from TNG and DS9 as fair game.
Website: ShatterStorm Productions – Not From Around Here
Link to: http://sff.shatterstorm.net/
Archive: ShatterStorm Productions & AO3 only…all others ask for permission & we'll see…

Disclaimer: "Star Trek: The Next Generation," the characters, and situations depicted are the property Paramount Pictures, CBS Television, and several other people or companies over the years. This piece of fan fiction was created for entertainment not monetary purposes. Previously unrecognized characters and places, and this story, are copyrighted to the author. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. This site is in no way affiliated with "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Paramount Pictures, or any representatives of the actors.

Prompt: I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.--Bette Davis (1908-1989), Academy-Award-winning American actress, author, co-founder and president of the Hollywood Canteen, a WWII club offering free food, drink and entertainment to men and women in all branches of the armed forces and to service people of all allied countries, and first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Author’s Notes: The minute I got my prompt, I knew I’d be writing for Lwaxana Troi. The prompt just screamed her name for me. Which is utterly awesome, because I simply don’t write enough for her. That I inserted the Bev/Deanna relationship is just kind of a given, to be honest. Truth be told, this plot was NOT my first plot. I’d started another story a while back, but that idea just wasn’t gelling for me. So, after struggling for a long time with that other plot [which will get used at some point down the line], this idea just gelled in and of itself. This was partially because of listening to Pink’s “Ave Mary-A” while on a long plane trip, but moreso because of listening to the A Perfect View CD by Bound For Severance, particularly the track “Burial of the Saints”. At that point the story just became a frantic pounding of keys for me to get it out. The tanka that opens the story was also written by me, as it’s a favorite poem form of mine, but is supposed to be attributed to Mr. Homn within the story’s context.

All text in ~italics~ denotes telepathic speech.

Timeline Notes: The basics of Deanna and Lwaxana’s storylines and backgrounds from the series stands, tho’ this story does combine information from the various novels and comic books, as well. The differences are that Deanna and Beverly got married in 2370 and had their daughter, Kestra Felisa Howard Troi, two years later in 2372. A year after this, Lwaxana’s son was born. All of the Lwaxana background information, including the name Barin for her son, comes from here and here.

Dedication: My muses, for always giving me something to test my boundaries…

Beta:

shatterpath, as usual

“Burial of the Saints”
By A. Magiluna Stormwriter

( Time is inevitable, Little One, and it's long past my time to be the driving force of the Fifth House of Betazed. )

Current Mood: cranky

dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com

Title: and we will possess
Author:

dayadhvam_triad
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied violence.
Prompt: #77, Lucretia Mott--We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
Summary: Amelia stopped praying, among other things.
Author's Notes: Title is from Pablo Neruda's "Enigma for the Worried." Alas, SPN is not my sandbox; I merely play in it. Many thanks to

kalliel for looking over this! ♥

(The angels had taken them one by one and walked in their bodies with gaits too measured to be instinctive, their voices clear and dispassionate and their eyes filled with the dimmed light of distant, unknown stars. They wore no halos of golden warmth but the cold spirit of the inevitable.)

k-e-p.livejournal.com

Title: Having Chosen, So Defined
Author:

k_e_p
Fandom: St. Trinian’s
Characters: Polly, Kelly, Annabelle, all main characters from the first film
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of domestic abuse; mild violence; some language
Prompt: 158) Wretch that I am, I can do everything I do not want, and that which I want most I cannot do. -- Clemence of Barking (late 1100s), Anglo-Norman nun, hagiographer and translator
Summary: You are always a St. Trinian’s girl, even after graduation. And you never help bring a St. Trinian’s girl down. Polly races to protect the family she chose.
Word Count: 20K
Author's Notes: There are multiple sequels to this trickling about in my head… *sigh* Many thanks to my patient beta, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], who was told she’d be betaing two different stories and got this one instead. All mistakes left are mine.

Having Chosen, So Defined

lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com

Title: Empty Vessels
Author:

lazy_neutrino
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: cruelty to a cat
Prompt: 53) Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. -- Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995), long-time Republican U.S. Senator from Maine.
Summary: After a fact-finding visit to Hogwarts, Dolores writes to Cornelius. Set at the very end of GoF.
Author's Notes: Thanks to

snorkackcatcher for a fast and helpful beta.

( Empty Vessels )

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chaila.livejournal.com - Ere (Queen’s Thief, Attolia, PG-13)
joking.livejournal.com - "Howl", Doctor Who, Rose & Idris
the-alchemist.livejournal.com - Dark, Joan of Arc, PG13
aliciadances.livejournal.com - A Room of Her Own, Pansy Parkinson, PG
zubeneschamali.livejournal.com - After the Kingfisher's Wing, multiple characters, PG-13
xenokattz.livejournal.com - Cho Chang and the Jasmine Code [Harry Potter] rated teen
thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com - thesmallhobbit, Just Another Day, Phyllis Dobbs, PG
lilacfield.livejournal.com - [Lighthouses, Yuzuriha, G]
immortality.livejournal.com - (forgive my absence) though i was never really here, Anna Ivers, PG-13
cherith.livejournal.com - "It's All Implied" [Dragon Age: Origins, Morrigan, PG-13]
lanoyee.livejournal.com - Hard Things [Blade of the Immortal, Asano Rin, PG]
weisquared.livejournal.com - "Chaff in the Wind" [Naruto, Haruno Sakura, G]
delgaserasca.livejournal.com - Antigone, or Bury Your Dead. [Spooks, Ros Myers] [PG-13]
slowmercury.livejournal.com - "A Life Worth Living" (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Violet Beauregarde, G)
tielan - tielan - fic: How Not To Eat An Elephant (SGA/SG1, Teyla Emmaga
snorkackcatcher - Among My Souvenirs (Harry Potter; Andromeda Tonks; PG-13)
ariestess - "Burial of the Saints" [Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lwaxana Troi, PG]
dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com - and we will possess (Supernatural, Amelia Novak, PG)
k-e-p.livejournal.com - k_e_p- Having Chosen, So Defined (St. Trinians, Polly, Main Cas
lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com - Empty Vessels, Dolores Umbridge, PG-13

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