femgenficathon | Entries tagged with femgen 2009

vermin-disciple.livejournal.com

Title: Mater Familias
Author:

vermin_disciple
Fandom: I, Claudius (leaning more towards mini-series-verse than book-verse)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Canon character death
Word count: 2,800
Prompt: 102) I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. -- Annie Dillard. This fit incredibly well with the original story I was writing, but that, unfortunately, crashed and burned. For this one I really didn't use it at all.
Summary: Antonia executes her daughter, and tries to live with her disappointing son.
Author's Notes: I've been threatening to write I, Claudius fic for years, due to my slightly scary love for the book, the mini-series and Roman history in general. This was a lovely excuse to finally post some. The first few lines of dialogue have been stolen directly from Episode 8: Reign of Terror, just after the fall of Sejanus. Many thanks to

dbassassin for beta-reading, and to

gehayi for running this thing so well every year. Many apologies for my incredible and inexcusable lateness.

( How long are you going to leave her in there? )

Current Mood: geeky

lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com

Title: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author:

lazy_neutrino
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Prompt: 53)"My good friend, enough of cruelty, enough;/ let brutal jealousy no more torment you,/nor let low fears your mind's peace countermand/ with foolish fantasies, with empty signs" -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), Mexican nun, scholar, poet and Baroque author.
Summary: Parvati's Boggart is unexpected. Set in the summer between GoF and OotP and in the first week of OotP. Patil twins. 1485 words.
Author's Notes: Thanks to

fpb,

ignipes and

winding_path for beta-reading and also to

gehayi for an extension.

( Read more... )

wendelah1

Title: The Things We Thought That We Should Do
Author:

wendelah1
Fandom: The X-Files
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: A couple of swear words and a questionable sense of morality
Prompt: 54) There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him. -- Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603), queen of England.
Summary: Diana Fowley contemplates her past as an F.B.I. Agent, and a member of the Syndicate, her present life as a fugitive, and her future as a woman living with breast cancer. This is an alternative universe in which, among other things, Diana does not die at the end of Amor Fati.
Author's Notes: My thanks to

hummingfly67 for her awesome last minute beta services, to our moderator,

gehayi, for her understanding in allowing me to post this late, and to

idella for her friendship, her insightful feedback, and for loving to read stories about Diana.

( The Things We Thought That We Should Do )

gehayi.livejournal.com

Please note that there WILL be stories added to this--some people who have amnesty are going to be posting when they can, and some people will just be posting late. If this is your first year with FemGen (and therefore don't know this), posting late is not something I'm going to penalize anyone for, whether they have amnesty or not. When your story is done, post it and I'll add it to the memories and master list.

That said, here are all the stories that have been posted so far--LJ-cut to save FemGen's friends-list, of course.

( Master List for Femgenficathon 2009 )

Crossposted to

gehayi

Updated October 17, 2009

Current Mood: cheerful

snorkackcatcher

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 )

scrollgirl.livejournal.com

Title: Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention
Author:

scrollgirl
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1
Characters: Jeannie McKay, Carolyn Lam, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Jack O'Neill, Catherine Langford
Rating: PG-13 for one swear word
Words: 8200
Warnings: Spoilers for "The Torment of Tantalus", "Lost City", "Reckoning", and "Threads" for SG-1, and "Rising" and "McKay and Mrs. Miller" for SGA
Prompt: 119. Authority has every reason to fear the sceptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. ~ Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), bisexual English poet, author, columnist, creator of the gardens of Sissinghurst Castle and member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.
Summary: In 2005, Jeannie McKay prepares for the trip of a lifetime: a possibly one-way ticket to the Pegasus galaxy in search of the lost city of the Ancients. Stargate AU in which Jeannie, not Rodney, as well Sam Carter, Carolyn Lam, and many more female scientists are part of the original Atlantis expedition in "Rising".
Author's Notes: With thanks to everyone who's been cheering on my girl-powered Stargate AU.

Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention

Or read it on my Dreamwidth.

edenfalling

Title: Little Sister
Author:

edenfalling (Elizabeth Culmer)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Rating: PG
Prompt: 68) Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. -- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), New Zealand writer of short fiction.
Summary: Charn is gone; nostalgia is useless. Jadis has new worlds to conquer, if she can only find the way.
Author's Notes: This is, about three times over, not the story I meant to write, though it is still about Jadis and her sister (after a fashion). Someday I will get those other stories finished as well. Thanks to

willowgreen for her speedy and insightful beta-reading!

( Little Sister )

cjmarlowe.livejournal.com

Title: San Diego, Saint Petersburg, Seville
Author:

cjmarlowe
Fandom: NCIS: Los Angeles
Rating: PG
Prompt: 133) Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. -- Marilyn French (born 1929), American feminist author.
Summary: Hetty makes three telephone calls.

[ San Diego, Saint Petersburg, Seville ]

5essence.livejournal.com

Title: Afterwards
Author:

5essence (Quin)
Fandom: Fairy Tail
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mentions of slavery, death
Prompt: #103 If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. -- Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983), American journalist, author, editor and playwright.
Summary: Creating a new life after you've led a slave revolt and won your freedom is hard, especially if you have to do it alone.
Author's Notes: ~1700 words; rating is overly cautious

( Erza had dreamt of freedom... )

opheliet.livejournal.com

Title: One Step at a Time
Author:

opheliet
Fandom: The Office (US)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Very light swearing, some feelings/expressions of depression.
Prompt: 80) You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), First Lady of the United States (1933-1945), advocate for civil rights, author, columnist, lecturer and delegate to the UN General Assembly (1945-1952).
Summary: Just one of the journeys of Pam Beesly, in lists.
Author's Notes: I always grit my teeth whenever I hear people talk about Pam not really being a strong female character, so what better place to combat that than this fest? So this is the result of exploring her character without all those silly boys in the way :P There aren't any spoilers for the current season (6) in here. Set during S3, so obviously spoilers for that. Feedback is enormously appreciated. Many thanks to

tearlit who brainstormed with me online during her grad school class, and gave me so many great ideas. I've got about five more plot bunnies hopping around from that.
Also many thanks to

gehayi , who extended this wonderful fest for us, and who puts up with a lot. I know I look forward to this fest every year, and though it's been a hard year, and I'm still trying to figure out where my muse disappeared to, I hope you all enjoy this.

( you gain strength, courage, and confidence... )

obsessivemuch.livejournal.com

Title: Priceless
Author:

obsessivemuch / Sarafu
Words: 1067
Fandom: The Big Bang Theory
Rating: G
Prompt: 130) There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds. -- Edna Ferber (1885-1968), Pulitzer-Prize-winning American author.
Summary: Memaw helps in a most unexpected way.

( Priceless )

domlandbubbles.livejournal.com

Title: And then, Ashe...
Author:

domlandbubbles
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Characters: Ashe (and the rest of the party)
Rating: G
Word Count: 1900-ish
Prompt: 19, The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. -- Ursula K. LeGuin (born October 21, 1929), present-day American author, particularly well-known in the science fiction and fantasy genres.
Summary: There are many stages of Ashe's journey where what should be or has been is now very different. Still, these unexpected changes, in direction or in thought push her toward a familiar yet altered goal.
Author's Notes: SPOILERS for pretty much the whole game. Thank you

gehayi for this great fic event and for the extensions!

"She should know..."

vegablack62.livejournal.com

Title: Sorrows and Regrets

Author: Vegablack62

Fandom: Harry Potter

Rating: G

Word Count: 4,080

Prompt: 1) The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American novelist and abolitionist.

Summary: Augusta Longbottom waits outside the Casualty ward at St. Mungo’s and thinks about her relationship with her daughter-in-law.

Author’s Note: The concept of graveside is used rather broadly here. Thank you for giving me extended time to write this story. I’ve enjoyed this ficathon. I wish circumstances had allowed me to devote more time to it. Thank you for the beta rugi. ETA: I found no less than three errors after posting. Two were missed even after my beta pointed them out. I have repaired them. Sorry.

( Sorrows and regrets )

memories-child.livejournal.com

Title: Listening to Silence
Author:

memories_child
Fandom: The X Files
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character death.
Prompt: #13 – The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn’t even occurred to you. – Anna Quindlen (born July 6, 1952). American author, journalist and columnist for the New York Times.
Summary: Scully reflects on her life and the choices she has made, and finally accepts the truth that is never easy to accept.
Author's Notes: This is the fifth time I’ve started something for this ficathon; the fifth story that I’ve tried to tell about these characters and this fandom with this prompt. The quote is so appropriate for almost every X Files character and I’ve written about Samantha, Scully, Teena and Diana. But this story was the one that most wanted to be told, so it’s the one that I’ve gone with. I hope that it’s ok. Thanks to

hankmoodyblues for the beta. It’s always a pleasure working with you.

How many times had you risen on mornings like this in some far flung part of the continent, chasing another of his monsters?

Current Mood: rushed

osmalic.livejournal.com

Title: "The Ghost of Monestario de Santa Clara"
Author:

osmalic
Fandom: Noli me Tangere / El Filibusterismo (by J. Rizal)
Rating: PG-13
Words Count: 4900~ words
Warnings: refers to off-screen rape, atrocities committed by people of the Church
Prompt: 10.) "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.
Author's Notes: Beta'ed by

blue_cage in record time. Thank you to

gehayi for holding this fest. I said I'd have this posted on October 1, but this story had me rethinking about the state of our country, so I postponed it. ~~A long(er!) author's notes will be posted in my personal journal and will be linked at the end.~~ ETA: Added!

Summary: ( In which Maria Clara enters the convent, where she and the servant Juli try to solve a mystery about a ghost. )

brennanspeaks.livejournal.com

Title: Do No Harm
Author:

brennanspeaks
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: PG-13 for medical gore
Summary: The story of a mutiny, a medic, and the three patients who stayed with her.
Prompt: 125) "Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes it does a little of both." --Grace Slick, (born October 30, 1939) American singer, songwriter, and artist.

( Sickbay was a blur )

snowballjane.livejournal.com

Title: The Mighty, Mighty Kmetkos
Author:

snowballjane
Fandom: Make It or Break It
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: 135 The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -- Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Stael (1766-1817), French-Swiss intellectual and controversial novelist.
Summary: Chloe Kmetko wished there was something she could give her daughter
Author's Notes: Beta by P (WINOLJ). Spoilers for all of Season 1.

( In the playground across the street, a group of little girls were doing handstands. )

roh-wyn.livejournal.com

Title: Life and Death
Author:

roh_wyn
Fandom: Being Human
Rating: PG
Warnings: None (some discussion of death, but nothing explicit)
Prompt: 9) "Life is full of surprises, I try to capture these precious moments with wide eyes." -- Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625), Italian painter of the Renaissance.
Summary: Annie, a ghost, reflects on the meaning of life and death.
Author's Notes: I really struggled with this, for various reasons, including having almost no time. But the prompt spoke to me, and I could not resist writing this. It was impossible to find a beta on LJ at such short notice, so many thanks to my friend "L" for proof-reading this for me.

( Life and Death )

pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com

Title: Decommissioned
Author:

pepperlandgirl4
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Rating: G
Warnings: None!
Prompt: 143. The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.-- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Summary: Set after The Undiscovered Country. The Enterprise has been decommissioned and Uhura has a big decision to make.
Author's Notes: ~1200 words

Decommissioned

joyfulfeather.livejournal.com

Title: Caged and Broken-Winged
Author:

featherjean
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied sexual abuse, discussion of psychological disorders
Prompt: 137) Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415)
Summary: The Atlantis team must save a village's women from a lifeless existence.
Author's Notes: Over 12k words, which is why I'm just linking to my fic journal. Thank you to

mnfiddledragon for reading it over for me! Thanks as well to everyone on my flist who replied to my question about psychiatric diagnoses and treatments. Any mistakes are, of course, entirely my own.

Caged and Broken-Winged