femgenficathon

Title: Starting Over
Author: snorkackcatcher
Fandom: The Sarah Jane Adventures (with Classic and New Doctor Who references)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word Count: ~5100
Prompt: #61 Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. -- Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), American educator and civil rights activist; founder, in 1904, of a school for black girls which eventually became Bethune-Cookman University, a black university in Daytona Beach, Florida; and advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Vaguely used in the development of one character, but not the main theme.
Summary: Moving to America was supposed to be the end of Maria's alien- investigating activities. It was hard for her to forget them though. And sometimes it seems as if the universe so arranges itself that things just happen to some people ...
Author's Notes: Apologies for the last-minute nature of this! Light-hearted, but hopefully canon-compatible (and I note with relief that nothing in the first episode of the new series today actually contradicted it). In the SJA canon timeline, takes place shortly after Mark of the Berserker.

( Sarah Jane had a theory that things simply happen to some people )

Title: Blood Lines
Author: snorkackcatcher
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~ 2,200
Prompt: 61. A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. --Ariel Durant.
Summary: 'On the Recent War, the Purity of Blood, and the Historical Context': text of the keynote speech given by Griselda Marchbanks to the Ministerial Conference on the Development of Magical Society in the New Millennium, March 2000.
Notes: Many thanks to lazy_neutrino for betaing this fic and for a number of very helpful suggestions, including the title. Any remaining problems are my own fault.

( They have only themselves to blame )