enemyofperfect | Entries tagged with fanfic: mine

In addition to my assignment fic, I wrote one treat this Chocolate Box, for

amovingtarget.

I didn't mean to -- I was hoping to write at least one treat this time around, but I thought if I managed it, it would at least be for a fandom I'm in. Except then I was skimming her prompts and vaguely regretting I couldn't write for any of them, and suddenly I couldn't sleep for the opening paragraphs assembling themselves in my head.

For the record, I have never played Dishonored myself, but I have watched cut scenes from all the games, entirely due to

amovingtarget's influence. And Billie was always a favorite of mine, and the series does end on an intriguing note, and, well...

Title: the dream of a waking man
Fandom: Dishonored
Characters: Billie Lurk & the Outsider
Rating: Teen
Contains: Bone-weariness, fragile hope, and series spoilers all the way through DotO.
Word count: 676
Summary: "Old habits," Billie said, "go down fighting."

( He looked like a body pulled from the river, pale and soft-skinned from time underwater. )

This year's Chocolate Box assignment was very exciting for me, because the fandom I matched on was an adorable four minute long music video about a James Bond-like spy and his nemesis. And I'd never written for a canon so tiny before, or one without dialogue or even names for the main characters!

In some ways, it was very freeing, because the canon was incredibly easy to review as many times as I needed to (and somehow I never did get tired of it); in other ways, it was a fascinating challenge, because I needed to fill in whole areas of the story space that most other canons would have provided for me, making it almost like a midway point between the kind of fanfic I'm used to and original fiction. It was both nerve-wracking and incredibly fun to work on!

Plus, I had the supreme pleasure of joining the fandom trend of incorporating the song's lyrics into story titles, bit by bit.

Title: And Dip Into When We Need
Fandom: Genghis Khan - Miike Snow (music video)
Pairing: Gold Nose Villain/Secret Agent
Rating: Teen
Contains: Action, combat, heists, sinister plots, accidental telepathy, angst, enemies to lovers, and a happy ending.
Word count: 2103
Summary: It was all in a day's work, really -- until it wasn't.

( It was all in a day's work, really. The fight in the lobby, the sniper in the stairwell, the race to rewire the elevator followed immediately by assassins dropping in through the ceiling as it ascended to the roof. )

Last month, on a whim, I signed up for an Imperial Radch gift exchange run by the excellent

venndaai, and I'm so glad I did! Admittedly I always get a little frazzled writing on a deadline, but it's always fun to revisit this universe, and the gift I got was just beautifully written.

For

nerdywyrds, I wrote:

Title: Beneficial
Characters: Athoek Station, Sword of Gurat
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 1,345
Additional tags: Missing Scene, Book 3: Ancillary Mercy, POV First Person
Summary: "You were trying to cut into my Central Access and replace me. I did wait until your lieutenant was out of the way before activating the fire suppression."

And from

UrsulaKohl I received:

Title: The Rat and the Moon's Daughter
Characters: Basnaaid Elming, original characters
Rating: General Audiences
Word count: 957
Additional tags: Music, Tea, Bad Poetry, Cake
Summary: Basnaaid has reserved a table in a tea-garden and ordered three of every kind of cake. In gratitude, her twelve-year-old guests perform a duet. Basnaaid knows the lyrics only too well.

I'm only slowly working my way through the rest of the written contributions, but I'm definitely enjoying the journey so far, and the fanart on the #Ro2SID exchange tag on tumblr is gorgeous. I really do love this fandom so much!

I had hazy dreams of writing far more treats than just the one, but if I could only manage one, I'm glad it was for

phoenixfalls, who wrote for me my first Chocolate Box lo these several years ago!

Title: Couples
Fandom: Person of interest
Pairing: Sameen Shaw/John Reese, but like, as bros?
Rating: Teen and Up
Contains: Snark, bad jokes, Shaw's frustration with civilian pastimes.
Word count: 663
Summary: The good thing about getting a number who's on his way to a couples retreat is that it narrows down the possibilities for violence. The bad thing about it that Shaw has to go to a couples retreat, too.

( read on DW )

I do wish I'd finished it just a few minutes earlier, so I could have come up with a better title before the collection went live -- but I did have an awful lot of fun writing it!

I don't know what's been up with my energy level this past week, but hey, I wrote three Finch/Reese snippets for

dorinda for Chocolate Box!

Title: Intrinsic Motivation
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Harold Finch/John Reese
Other characters: Bear
Rating: General Audiences
Contains: No kisses, but loyalty kink in spades.
Word count: 300
Summary: "Foei! No!" There was an urgent scuffling over the line, and then, despairingly: "Oh, Bear." Finally resignation set in, leaving Harold's tone almost philosophical when he said, "Why is it always the rare editions?"

( read on DW )

Title: Without Saying
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Harold Finch/John Reese, past Harold Finch/Nathan Ingram
Rating: General Audiences
Contains: Grief, emotional hurt/comfort, still no kisses, devotion.
Word count: 300
Summary: "You two were close," John said when Harold's voice failed him.

( read on DW )

Title: Painstaking
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Harold Finch/John Reese
Rating: General Audiences
Contains: Tending wounds, canon-typical peril, kisses finally.
Word count: 300
Summary: "That was far too close a call, Mr. Reese."

( read on DW )

It was really good to be back in this old fandom writing my OTP, I have to say. Maybe I'll even be able to translate the inspiration into finishing some old WIPs that have been languishing, who knows?

So here's a little fic that I wrote almost three years ago, revised more than two years ago, and only just got around to uploading this week. Story of my fannish life, I guess. But better late than never!

Title: Data Collection
Fandom: Person of Interest
Characters: Harold Finch, the Machine, Grace Hendricks
Rating: Mature Themes
Contains: Inanimate pronouns for artificial superintelligences, canon-compatible matchmaking, awkward conversations with a Machine that sees everything.
Word count: 1,241
Summary: The first time the Machine flagged explicit pornography for Harold's attention, he thought it was confused by the use of handcuffs and floggers.

Read on the AO3, or ( here! )

That I recently remembered and dug out of my notes:

( What if it wasn't Finch who built the Machine and recruited Reese, but Root? )

Sadly that's about all I came up with at the time, and I'm not really sure where it would go -- I think I'm more interested in the question of what could get Root to that point than in what she and Reese would get up to once she did. But it was fun to revisit!

This entry is awfully belated, given that the fic in question went up on the AO3 way back in February 2016 for Chocolate Box, but it occurred to me the other day that this is the only one of my published fics that isn't stored anywhere but the AO3, and since I'm fond of redundancy -- here it is!

Title: My Mother Said
Fandom: Imperial Radch
Characters: Breq, Sphene, and various associates thereof
Rating: General Audiences
Contains: Snark, space politics, poignant memories, discussion of popular entertainments, non-Breq first-person narrator, trilogy spoilers.
Word count: 1082
Summary: A quiet evening in the life of two busy ships.

( "Admit it, Cousin," I said, at the close of a joint committee meeting that had stretched on a great deal longer than anyone could reasonably have desired. )

( Although this is a POI crossover, it has nothing to do with 3x09 The Crossing. )

Current Mood: asdfghjkl

I have uploaded a Valentine's fic to the AO3! Because I am just timely that way. In my defense, I did put it up on Tumblr back in February; it's just that the feat so exhausted me that I had to go huddle in a corner for some time afterwards. Anyway, without further ado!

Title: ERROR: TOO MANY FEELS
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairings: Finch/Reese
Other Characters: The Machine
Rating: Teen and Up
Contains: Doggerel, technobabble, invasion of privacy, vast and abiding ridiculousness, matchmaking.
Word count: 1250 (although a ton of that's email headers)
Summary: In which the Machine sends valentines, privacy is disregarded, and things get interesting.

The AO3 fought me so much on the formatting for this, I can't even -- all my HTML tags kept rearranging themselves inexplicably on preview, until I eventually had to just post it and hope. I can only conclude that the AO3 felt jealous. But it really has no reason to be!

Archive, if you're reading this, you don't have to worry that my affection for the Machine will come between us. Whatever fanfic I write about other digital entities can only serve to bring us closer together. I just hope you realize that. Kisses!

I threw a tiny ancient little ficlet of mine on the AO3. Hurrah, my account there is no longer empty!

Title: v is for
Fandom: White Collar
Characters: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke
Rating: General Audiences
Contains: (skip) Vampirism! Also, no more spoilers than any commercial for the show ever.
Word count: 255
Notes: This was inspired by a kink meme prompt. Several years ago. Arguably, I fail at kink memes.
Summary: Neal knows Peter half suspects him.

( Read more... )

Maybe next I'll put up the Person of Interest fluff of ridiculousness. Definitely not tonight, though; I have this peculiar ambition to get to bed at a semi-reasonable time.