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hoping to reinvigorate this comm
Hoping to reinvigorate this comm. Thinking it would be awesome to have a new dS_shakespeare challenge for the 20th anniversary of dS this year. -
Coming Unglued, by akamine_chan
Title: Coming Unglued
Author: akamine_chan
Challenge: ds_shakespeare
Fandom: Hard Core Logo
Characters: Joe Dick
Rating: R
Prompt:
There's daggers in men's smiles.
MacBeth Act II, Scene III.
Length: 2,141 words
Notes: Thanks to sageness for the initial push in the right direction and to sisterofdream for sounding board duties. verushka70 made me feel better and soothed my nerves and shared some ( Read more... ) -
Don’t Tell Me ‘Cause it Hurts
Title: Don’t Tell Me ‘Cause it Hurts
Author: mizface
Fandom: due South
Pairing: RayV/Irene Zuko
Rating: PG
Prompt: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow
Than a man swear he loves me.
Much Ado About Nothing
Word Count: 1581
A/N: A few lines lifted from Juliet is Bleeding. I cannot thank akamine_chan enough for her beta work on this. She really helped make ( Read more... ) -
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Title: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Author: mizface
Fandom: due South
Pairing: F/K/V
Rating: PG
Quote: My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Hamlet
Word Count: 1120
Author’s note: Many thanks to waltzforanight for the beta, and for thinking this was the good kind of quirky! And mucho thanks ( Read more... ) -
The Visit
Title: The Visit
Characters: Zero, Jeb
Fandom: Tin Man
Rating: PG
Summary: Jeb visits Zero in his cell.
Prompt: Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
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Better Days (Fraser's Version)
Title: Better Days
Pairing: RayK/Fraser
Rating: T
Word Count: 384
Quote: “True it is that we have seen better days” - As you like it - Shakespeare
Summary: How Fraser feels about Rayk and the death of Stella - A Sestina
Notes: (\Yes this is a kind of sequel but not really, they're two sides of the same story but it makes more sense if you read the other ( Read more... ) -
Better Days (Ray's version - read first)
Title: Better Days
Pairing: RayK/Fraser
Rating: T
Word Count: 605
Quote: “True it is that we have seen better days” - As you like it - Shakespeare
Summary: How Fraser helps Ray after Stella is Killed - A Sestina
Notes: It's a Sestina which if you're unfamiliar with I have given an explanation for at the end (suffice to say watch which order the end ( Read more... ) -
"All In" (Due South)
Late! So very, very late! But my final entry for the challenge. Heh.
Title: All In
Fandom: Due South
Pairing/Genre: Gen-ish, with reference to established Vecchio/Fraser
Rating: PG-13 for language mostly
Words: 2100
Summary: The only constant in Vegas is losing.
Quote: 50. I am constant as the northern star. - Julius Caesar, III.i.
Warnings/ ( Read more... ) -
Fic: Desperate Times
Deadline? *blinks* What deadline?
Title: Desperate Times
Author: hurry_sundown
Fandoms: Due South/Slings & Arrows
Pairing: Ray Kowalski/Geoffrey Tennant
Rating: R
Word count: 4874
Note: Post-series dS, pre-series S&A, no real spoilers for either. Beta'd by the estimable spuffyduds.
For the prompt, “Tempt not a desperate man.” Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene iii.
Can ( Read more... ) -
In a Place Like This, F/K
It's short, but it's done. And only a little bit late. I mean, I'm in the right month, at least.
Title: In a Place Like This
Pairing: F/K
Rating: PG-13
Length: 1200 words
Notes: Thanks to slidellra for smacking this into shape. She, as always, rocks.
Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.
Coriolanus, IV. i.
In a ( Read more... )