million times and i'll say it again - [master fic list]
ALLRIGHTY THEN. Since everyone in the history of ever has one of these, it seemed like the Thing To Do. All stories are arranged within the alphabetically organized fandom by their publication date, least to most recent. Thus, all the shit is right up front.
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Arrow (CW)
ain't it fun - Felicity/Oliver pre-ship, Felicity's first year with Team Arrow | Working for Oliver Queen can mostly be summed up as a series of lessons for Felicity on how to keep her cool in situations she is completely unequipped to handle. Thanks for nothing, MIT.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Thirteen Things Katara Does Badly and Two She Does Right - Katara/Zuko, post-series | On journeys and finding love and trees. Definitely trees.
the woman with a voice of glass - Katara/Zuko, Mai/Zuko, post-series, tentative sequel to moving through the silence without motion | Mai and Katara, mother and wife and lover, are more similar than anyone would ever realize. // The price of being too close is sometimes you miss all the details.
short and sweet to the soul i intend - Katara/Zuko, background Katara/Aang and Mai/Zuko, post-series | Maybe they wouldn’t be wishing and wanting and lying blatantly and horribly to their spouses that they’re happy running the world and keeping the pieces from coming apart when, in truth, everything inside is unraveling.
moving through the silence without motion - Katara/Zuko, background Katara/Aang and Mai/Zuko, post-series | Katara, Zuko, the Southern Water City. This is how you build a life, and this is how it falls apart; not necessarily in that order.
wrong until you make it right - Katara/Zuko, college AU | And there they (Katara Hong, Zuko Hsu) meet (order tea, rabidly insult, coldly negotiate).
Drabbles
If God is Life's DJ, Do Y'Wanna Dance - Katara/Zuko drabble collection, post-finale | After they do the whole save-the-world thing, not much changes.
there is no motive for this crime - Mai and Katara, background Mai/Zuko and Katara/Zuko, post-series | Mai respects Katara, but she does not understand her.
The Breakfast Club
Reunion - the Club, background Bender/Claire, Andy/Ally, post-movie | As it turns out, being graduated for fifteen years does not make any of their classmates more tolerable.
Check, Please!
PRIMER: BITTLE/ZIMMERMANN - Jack/Bitty with background Sid/Geno and Kaner/Tazer, a semi-future fic fake primer set in six years when Jack is on the Bruins and Bitty's in Calgary | Canadian Tire reported the most important piece of sports journalism of the decade when they tracked down the guy who clearly spent his adolescence gently boning Jonathan Toews in a shack next to Lake Winnipeg, and that’s still not as great a story as the one I’m about to tell you about Eric Bittle and Jack Zimmermann.
Chronicles of Narnia
A Day in the Countryside - Susan/Caspian, post-Last Battle | He is older, she realizes. That makes sense, as Susan herself is older, but as she hasn’t thought of the King of Narnia in quite some time-no daydreams, no nightmares, no befuddled meanderings-the change is far more startling than it might have been otherwise. He looks so pleased to see her, smiling gently so his eyes crinkle in the corner, that she feels guilt fold her stomach. How could she have forgotten?
this temporary flesh and bone - Susan/Caspian, post-Last Battle | She used to be a flighty, troublesome girl, but it’s been five years since she stopped riding on trains.
to rights - Susan/Caspian | Caspian made her gentle again.
the bonds of time - Pevensie siblings, background Susan/Caspian, AU | “You did look terribly disapproving,” adds Lucy. “All horrifying and glowering.” Lucy makes a face representative of Peter being horrifying and glowering. It makes her look vaguely like a turkey.
the calm before another storm - Susan/Caspian, AU | She learns to become a queen again by demanding, in the council rooms and in the practice yard. She speaks to the Telmarines through her feet, through the arch of her wrists and the curve of her calves and the twin dimples on either side of her spine.
we are the champions (my friend) - Susan/Caspian, Mathletes high school AU | “The students of the Narnia School do not go down this easily,” she said. “We’re going to wallop St. Telmar’s. And Caspian is going to help.”
Notorious - Susan/Caspian, forties-era noir AU | The problem with John Miraz is that he has his goons everywhere. The problem with Ian is that, as she levels her gun to his chest, she can’t really bring herself to kill him for it.
i know we can make it if we take it slow - Pevensie siblings, background Susan/Caspian, AU | “Oh,” she laughs, and she flings her arms around him and presses a kiss to the top of his head-sometimes Ed can be so wise and sure that she forgets she is two years his senior-“oh, Ed, it’s called growing up.”
Drabbles
Lifeline Faultlines - Susan/Caspian drabble collection | At night, on the boat to America, Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie toss and turn to the sound of their daughter’s breathing hitching, screams caught in her throat, the choked protests against burning ice and soft black eyes and the press of lips to her collarbone.
Yellow Cabinets - Susan/Caspian, AU | They waltz to the tinny sound of the gramophone in the kitchen, the noise filtering in from the parlor; his hand catches hers and presses it to his chest and his cheek is soft as it lays across the top of her head.
Quintessence - Susan/Caspian, reincarnation!fic | Things never happen the same way twice.
i heard a rumor that you quit this day and age - Pevensie siblings, background Susan/Caspian, post-Prince Caspian drabble collection | Five times the Pevensies forgot they weren’t in Narnia anymore.
Storybook - Susan/Caspian, AU | Sometimes she wonders what makes their story romantic.
Watch Your Garden Grow - Susan/Caspian, AU | When they are married, Caspian makes Susan a crown of daisies.
Here It Comes (at last) - Susan, post-Last Battle | She is sixty when they find the tumor.
City Hunter
you're holding in my hands the two halves of my heart - Na-na/Yoon-sung post-series epilogue wherein they gather the gang together to basically become Batman | Na-na has made a home for him in Seoul. // Unfortunately, she seems to think that home necessitates them becoming some kind of private investigator cum superhero team. Of course.
Doctor Who
Looking in the Wrong Places - Rose/Ten, AU | Rose Tyler, abandoned by her wing-woman, sits alone in her favourite pub with a malfunctioning Torchwood apparatus. Along comes a man searching for his friend-acquaintance-mortal-enemy-plus-lizard and, incidentally, her.
The Rescue-Rose Arc - post Journey's End fix-it collection
Mawfulian Pains - Rose/Ten, coda to Journey's End | There will be no tearing of universes. This is it.
The Origin of the Species - Rose/Ten | "You do realize that, as you didn’t include me in your dastardly plans, this is going to end badly, don’t you?”
The Way We Were and the Way We Are Now - Rose/Ten, Rose/Ten Squared | Just because things look the same--
Fables (Vertigo)
fill the night with stories, the legend grows - Snow/Bigby, coda to 'Storybook Love' | “Bigby,” she tries to say, “something’s wrong,” except she’s not entirely sure that he can hear her.
Firefly
Vesselside - Zoe, background Zoe/Wash | When Zoe Alleyne was twelve years old, she found out that she was born Vesselside.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (film)
now we'll parade around without game plans - Makoto/Chiaki, heavily influenced by The Time-Traveler's Wife, post-movie | They make a life of intersecting roads, veering towards and away in the coming days.
don't you let them tame you - Makoto/Chiaki, post-movie | A chance in time. // “No problem, short stuff,” she says, and giggles so that her legs pull up towards her chest. “It’s good to see you, Chiaki.”
coming out of my cage, i've been doing just fine - Makoto/Chiaki, vaguely connected to don't you let them tame you | And so he steps. // Five times Chiaki rolled back his own timeline because of, it figures, Konno freaking Makoto.
Harry Potter
Little Lost Things - Ron/Luna, missing scene | The morning of Dumbledore's funeral. // People mourn in many and varied ways.
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Ginny/Draco, AU | "Weasley, when I said I'd help out, I meant play Quidditch and mock your food. I did not mean getting up at four in the morning to trek across a bloody mountain to buy chickens."
Veracity - Ginny/Draco, 20truths | Her teeth, he notices, are red from the punch.
The Road Less Traveled - Hermione/Cedric, semi-AU | The greatest couple Hogwarts ever saw--intelligent, witty, attractive, and unwaveringly loyal. The only problem is that they never existed at all. // Five ways Cedric Diggory and Hermione Granger never met.
The Height of the Social Season - Hermione/George, Regency-era AU | Lady Finnigan's annual Goblin Balls are quite possibly the single ten most loathsome events in which Hermione Granger has ever been forced to participate.
would you like some tea with that broken heart? - Hermione/Lupin | Three men who didn’t want Hermione Granger, and the one that actively broke her heart in the entire messy process.
some things slide by so carelessly - Hermione/Draco, post-series | We lost track of the time. // "You don't have to pretend to despise me," he says for lack of anything else. "We hardly know each other, it's understandable."
Drabbles
The First and Last Time - Ginny/Draco, AU | The beginning is the end is the beginning.
Too Sexy - Ginny/Draco | Illicit dark-corner shenanigans.
Hockey RPF
take a step before running - Derek/Stiles, background Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane, 2014 Sochi Olympics AU with cameos from some Hockey RPF mainstays | Stiles wants to win for America, okay? He wants to bone that constipated expression off of Derek Hale's face on a bed strewn with American flags while Bruce Springsteen plays in the background and a bald eagle watches through the window with a single tear rolling down its cheek.
cardinalis - cis-fem!Evgeni Malkin/Sidney Crosby, set during the early 2013 season in the weeks before Skates and Plates, mostly a Pittsburgh feels fest, AU | Before Geno, Sid had seen approximately three places in Pittsburgh with any frequency. They were, in order of how much time he'd spent in them from greatest to least: the Lemieux house / guesthouse, the Iceoplex, and the South Side den of iniquity that Max had called his "haunt."
PRIMER: BITTLE/ZIMMERMANN - Jack/Bitty with background Sid/Geno and Kaner/Tazer, a semi-future fic fake primer set in six years when Jack is on the Bruins and Bitty's in Calgary | Canadian Tire reported the most important piece of sports journalism of the decade when they tracked down the guy who clearly spent his adolescence gently boning Jonathan Toews in a shack next to Lake Winnipeg, and that’s still not as great a story as the one I’m about to tell you about Eric Bittle and Jack Zimmermann.
House, MD
Love Hurts - House/Chase, complete and utter crack | "Shoes," he explains, looking shifty. "He was wearing shoes."
Inception
slip back out of whack - Ariadne/Arthur/Eames, high school AU | "Controlling Eames eliminates all of his best qualities."
Iron Man (Marvel)
The Emperor of Death, Destruction, and Despair - Tony/Pepper, post-Ironman spec that's since been wildly jossed | "Once upon a time," she said, standing up a giving a little smile, "I met Tony Stark." // On beginnings, endings, and middles. But mostly just on life with Tony Stark, as read by Pepper Potts.
It Started with a Kiss
while i ignore, that we both felt like this - Zhi Shu/Xiang Qin, coda to episode 6 | Xiang Qin is far more disturbing than I originally gave her credit for.
Jane Austen
Being of True Love, Reality, and Other Fairy Tales - Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy, AU | “Yes,” he said, remembering with sudden, horrid recollection their last face-to-face encounter. “Lizzie Bennet. It’s, er . . . good. To see you.” // In which Will dithers, Lizzie dithers even more, the word ‘good’ is used far too often, and Things Are Cleared Up.
we're spinning again and again and again - Georgiana Darcy/George Wickham, college AU, vaguely connected to Being of True Love, Reality, and Other Fairy Tales | What’s your crime. // “It’s like home,” she says, “only a home that’s changed after you’ve returned. It’s like coming home to something that isn’t what it used to be.”
the trouble is my head won't let me forget - Lizzie Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Jane Bennet, college AU | This is bad. This is a degree of bad so terrible that it has been, until this point, uncharted and left unremarked upon. Lizzie is writing the damn definitive work on A Meal This Bad.
i'll write you harmony in c (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) (part v) - Mary Bennet/Henry Crawford, with background Mary/Richard Fitzwilliam and Bennet Sisters Being Fantastic, university AU | "Mum, the fact that Lydia was the first of us to end up barefoot and pregnant is honestly a source of continual surprise to me." // As it turns out, Mary Bennet’s internal checklist to Being a Good Person-go to medical school; join Médecins Sans Frontières; save lives-is a somewhat oversimplification of matters.
Labyrinth (film)
Hollywood Glamour - Jareth/Sarah, post-movie | I should probably be more worried that a territorial fairytale King of Evil Idiots is molesting me in the middle of the red carpet. Note to self: establish more thorough neural connections.
Civic Duty - Jareth/Sarah, superheroes AU | “Set me on fire,” he murmurs, “and I’ll haunt your dreams for the rest of your life.” The sad part is, this is not a hapless threat. // The life of a superhero.
Life with Derek
those eyes to tide me over - Derek/Casey, post-series | Off in the distance, she heard Derek speaking, but in the forefront of Casey’s mind was such blinding indignation that she almost didn’t feel his hand under her elbow, guiding her from the counter to a plush chair by the door. How could Derek move somewhere that didn’t even have scones in its coffee shops? What would she eat with her coffee when she came to visit?
the heritage classic - Derek/Casey | In an unprecedented third period turn-about, Casey and Derek stop fighting. Chaos ensues.
all that's best of dark and bright - Derek/Casey, post-series college!fic | P.S. I have a life, thank you very much! Just because it doesn’t involve booze and sorority parties doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I have a very fulfilling life, full of intellectual conversations and coffeehouses and poetry readings. What is your life full of, Derek? Hockey?
rattlesnakes and romance - Derek/Casey, AU 'How I Met Your Stepbrother' remix | “Frankly, Edwin and Dad certainly aren’t going to impress anyone other than the Society for the Perpetuation of Jokes Involving Bodily Functions, and Marti’s power of cuteness will only get us so far. It’s up to me to make sure that Derek McDonald approves of the Venturis.”
the sun also rises - Derek/Casey, hilarious teenage melodrama semi-AU | Every Sunday, when Casey has her advanced pottery class at the Y, Derek smokes cigarettes out by the river and thinks, which turns out to be far more dangerous an occupation than he had originally presumed.
MCU
the rhythm in rush - Steve/Bucky, Tony/Pepper, America/Kate, Sam/Nat, literally more superheroes than you can shake a stick at with Hawkeye Clint thrown in for good measure, D&D and college activism AU | Steve Rogers: anthropology major, president of Americans for Informed Democracy, in love with his roommate, exasperated dungeon master.
Merlin
the velvet sun that shines on me and you - Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, pre-series | There is a pause of a few minutes, before Morgana turns to Arthur and begins beating him over the head with her slipper. “This is all your fault!”
she's an angel for sure - Gwen, background Gwen/Arthur/Morgana, post-series | Stories begin in the mouths that feed them. Gwen writes her own legend, and it grows.
i've got this energy beneath my feet - Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, pre-series | “Gwen,” laughs Morgana, but she is not happy and her embroidery stitches are looking lopsided and large, “don’t you know that Arthur and I are as good as betrothed?”
and the hand of the watchmen - Gwen/Lancelot | “Listen,” interrupts Merlin, standing up and getting that look in his eye, the I May Actually Have a Spine expression that he bears whenever Arthur is being a prat, “Gwen and I are going to go save our friend. Past telling us where this mysterious glass castle is, you don’t have to be involved.”
pay my respects to grace and virtue - Gwen/Morgana, post season 1 AU | “Thank you, my lady,” Gwen says, and leaves before her voice cracks. She thinks, as she bows away, that she might hate this Camelot a little bit more than the one she left.
and that was the turning point - Gwen/Arthur, pre-series | “It’s just a dress, Gwen,” he says, and he firmly believes that until he comes around the corner of the changing screen and finds her, hands full of laces, attempting to tug it off.
magic soak in my spine - Gwen/Arthur/Morgana, post season 1 AU | Arthur frowns, and wishes (a bit prattishly, so maybe Merlin is right) for the days when he could give Morgana a good ribbing and she would dish it back. Now all she does is blink at him, a bit owlishly, and go back to her weaving.
Naruto
Forgetting - Sakura, post-Sasuke's desertion | She'd put in all the unimportant stuff, like how to memorize a medical text in two days, and perfect chakra control and the ability to splice in transplants, but somehow Kami had missed 'forgetfulness'. // On leaving things behind.
Red Dresses at Ayame's - Neji/Tenten, forties-era noir AU | "Mr. Hyuuga. I can pay you a lot. We can pay you a lot. More than your usual fee-because God knows, working with the Hyuugas, you'll need it." She was eyeing him rather desperately by then, and it was pure chance that had his boss appearing in the doorway. Take it, Sarutobi mouthed extravagantly. Fucking take it, Hyuuga.
Adagio - Neji/Tenten, AU | How flighty little Yuan Tiang Tiang became Tenten Young the Concert Cellist. // Neji tells Rock Lee that fate has made him a sub-par bass player. Tenten tells Neji he can take his fate and shove it up somewhere that will require a prostate examination to remove it.
leave a light on when i'm gone - Ino/Shikamaru | But with Shikamaru paying for my dinner and Ami holding my hand, I’m kind of this weird blend of content and satisfied, you know? Like, even without Spa Weekend Adventures, things are going to be some modicum of okay.
Mochalicious - Naruto/Hinata, AU, complete crack | "Hey, what's a mocha?"
The Oddity - kuniochi character study drabbles
The Piano - Hinata | Neverland - Sakura, AU | Twice-Cursed - Tsunade, post-chapter 405 | Chopsticks - Tenten
Once Upon A Time
dripping with alchemy - Mary Margaret/David with Mary Margaret/Dr. Whale sexy times, episode coda to The Shepherd | Mary Margaret Blanchard and Liam Whale have exactly two dates. The first doesn't count, because Mary Margaret has some standards, and two orgasms against a parked car do not count. Ever.
makes me feel like a madman on the run - Snow White/Charming, with the original!James hanging around and being adorable, basically AU | Snow wears the engagement ring around her neck as a pendant for her entire childhood.
shake it like a ladder to the sun - Snow White & Emma taking on the world, with big-picture Snow/James, AU | Mary Margaret Swan doesn't age, talks to birds, and bakes pies that make people do what she wants. She wins Awesomest Mother of the Year, like, hands down, every time. // Or, Geppetto finishes the chest in time and Life happens to Emma and Mary Margaret Swan.
cinder over everything - Mary Margaret/David; the affair sandwiched between 7:15 AM and Skin Deep | It's not about the sex. (But, um. The sex is really good.)
there'll be no comfort in the shade (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) - Boyd/Lydia, with background Derek/Stiles and Charming/Snow, Once Upon a Time AU crossover with Boyd as a reincarnated Lancelot and Lydia as a reincarnated Guinevere, because why the fuck not | When you start a story with "once upon a time," you are usually precluding the possibilty of someone collapsing in the middle of Beacon Hills Mall and waking up afterwards with thirty-five years' worth of memories crowding their head.
One Direction (RPF)
get another coal on the fake fire - Louis Tomlinson/Nick Grimshaw with background Perrie/Zayn being adorable, hate sex leading to feelings because apparently I have to write the same damn fic for every fandom I'm in | In Louis’ defense, this had seemed like a smashing idea with high potential for success six weeks ago when he’d first thought of it. // “I get that you’re jealous and all,” Zayn adds, “because-we all get it, yeah? Harry’s got like a million mates now outside of the band and he’s never around when we’re home-but it has never occurred to me that this problem might be solved by one of us sucking Grimmy’s dick.”
to this breathing end - cis-fem!Zayn Malik/Liam Payne with background Louis/Eleanor and Harry/Niall, mostly done because I have a huge boner both for Zayn being a gigantic lit dork and for the Hysterical Literature project, uni AU | Liam should know better, when he opens his email and the most recent message is from Louis with the subject line: YOU NEEDTO WWATCHI THIS IMEDIATELY.
it's you i find like a ghost in my mind - Harry/Louis, background Zayn/Liam and heavy Harry & Grimmy friendship, soul mates AU gone somewhat terribly wrong | In a serious, like, fit of cosmic irony, the name on the inside of Louis' wrist is HARRY.
Pacific Rim
big teeth small kiss - Mako/Raleigh, background Newt/Hermann being Science Bros in Love, another university AU that no one wanted or needed from me | It takes Raleigh three accidental meetings, two scoops of vanilla ice cream, and an economics textbook to fall for Mako Mori harder than he's fallen for anything else in his entire life. Yancy, predictably, laughs his ass off about it.
Peter Pan
wendy wendy wendy - Wendy/Peter, reincarnation!fic | “Peter,” she said, “the only way I’ll go with you is if you drug me and throw me over your shoulder. And even then, it’s a toss-up.”
Pirates of the Caribbean
Changes at Sea - Elizabeth/Will, Elizabeth/Jack | There is a rationale to why she is marrying Will. At first, it's because he isn't Jack. And later, it's because he is.
Practical Magic
when the wind is warm or the crickets sing - Lydia/Jackson, post-canon with debatable compliance, crossover with Practical Magic and basically sickening wedding fluff | Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. // Or, the wedding of Dr. Lydia Martin and Jackson Whittemore, Esq.
The Punisher (Marvel, 2004 movie)
Seven Women - Joan, character study | Seven cities, seven years, seven men.
Robin Hood (BBC)
brilla el sol, y el corazon - Robin/Marian, pre-series AU | “If I write to you,” he says in a quiet voice, between them and no one else, so quiet the wind could take the words away and never return them, “will you read my letters?”
The Runaways (Marvel)
baiting methuselah - Chase/Gert, pre-series | “Oi, Stein, care to share with the rest of the class why my parents have suddenly forbidden me from talking to you?”
school is a battlefield for your heart - Chase, Gert, high school | Chase’s best friend has a crush on Gert, despite the whole two-years-younger-than-them, reads-Virginia-Woolf, hates-the-male-species thing she’s got going on (and Chase is definitely, totally, absolutely not panicking. At all).
the rent we pay for being - Chase, Gert, sequel to school is a battlefield for your heart | Owing Gert Yorkes a favor turns out to be one of Chase’s more stupid ideas (and he’s had a lot of them). Of animal rights, protest marches, and the good old boys at the LAPD. // Gert, Chase decides, is officially psychotic.
from the mouths of babes - Chase/Gert, pre-series | Before there were names and schticks and Salvation Army dressing rooms, there were fifteen years of the Wilders’ living room and Indiana Jones and whipping cream.
you feel a burning in your body core - Chase/Gert, Victor/Gert, Gert leading the Avengers!universe | In the end, she can only blame herself, Gertrude Stein, for making a psychotic power-hungry cyborg her post-widowhood rebound guy.
Smallville
nothing i can say - Chloe/Oliver, post-Requiem AU | Chloe doesn’t make Oliver say cruel things because she thinks them first and Oliver doesn’t have to self-destruct because he has somewhere to hide.
you lost me somehow - Lois, coda to Infamous | If this were a movie, Lana would be the love interest and Lois would be the pithy, genderless boss who has five minutes of screen time and is hailed to be one of the best, if underutilized, parts of the film.
cinderella don't you go to sleep - Chloe, background Chloe/Davis | Chloe Sullivan, Davis Bloom, and the open road. // Out here the good girls die.
crooked wheels keep turning - Chloe, background Chloe/Oliver, post season 8 finale | Eventually, she learns to grow into the Chloe-shaped hole that had been left behind by pressure and expectation and love (always love).
when you run dry i'll flood your pain - Chloe/journalism, with background Chloe/Oliver and lots of Chloe and Lois broing around, AU | Chloe Sullivan might as well have a sign taped to her forehead that reads TALK TO ME IF YOU HAVE A TIGHTS FETISH AND NEED SOMEONE TO HACK THE NSA.
Stargate: Atlantis
The Five Stages of Assassination - Ronon/Keller | Jennifer thinks that someone's trying to kill her. Her subordinates despair, Ronon mocks, and a little boy majorly crushes.
And Yet the Books - (part I) (part II) (part III) - Ronon/Keller | She is stuck in the middle of the little three-room Mobile Infirmary between an irksome Rodney and panicking John and an itchy Ronon, steadily going seven kinds of crazy as parts of her brain are breaking off and dying and she can't help but feel--
when shall we three meet again - Ronon/Keller, post-The Lost Tribe | Sometime between the “Jennifer Keller, please report to Woolsey’s office” and the “Jennifer, I really don’t think this is going to work,” she knows, she knows, that this is going to be one of Those Days.
shine on - Lorne/Cadman, post-season 2 AU | Things stop making sense in Pegasus. I mean, how did I turn around one day and the man guarding my back is someone who tried to kill me a handful of months ago? But I got to tell you. If the choice for that position is between Michael and an IOC bag of air like Reiter, I’ll pick Kenmore every time. Hell, I’d probably pick Kenmore if he was still a Wraith.
tap that keyboard, monkey boy - Ronon/Keller, college AU | I agree we need to celebrate...but Teyla, I couldn’t get into the Gate if I had “free sex” stamped across my forehead.
the atlantis primary - Ronon/Keller, McKay/Keller | The day the nurses start wearing Team Edward and Team Jacob buttons, Jennifer petitions for shore leave.
Drabbles
ham and cheese sandwiches - Ronon/Keller, slight AU | Let's make one thing clear--he is not stalking her.
Supernatural
i got soul but i'm not a soldier - Claire Novak | Claire used to believe in God. (She might be able to still believe in Castiel, though, and that could be something.)
one to omega - Jo, background Jo/Dean | Jo Harvelle’s life is a) The Dean Network: All Winchester, All the Time, b) a comedy of errors, minus the actual comedy, c) complicated, d) all about choices.
i get my glory in the desert rain - Ruby | It might take centuries, but sooner or later, Hell will burn away your humanity. Every hell-bound soul, every one, turns into something else. // All demons were human once. Even Ruby.
Teen Wolf
there are rows & rows & rows - cis-fem!Derek/cis-fem!Stiles, Danny being a fabulous person, college AU | There are at least fourteen things Danny would much rather be doing right now, including sawing off his own arm and stabbing puppies with knives, and yet he’s still here, around the corner from their Econ lecture hall, coaching Stiles through asking their TA out for coffee.
que lastima pero adios (part i) (part ii) - Erica/Boyd, Reyes family feels and extensive head-canon, pre-series to post-season 2 | "Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts unconditionally--to those who hardly think about us in return." - T. H. White, The Once and Future King
tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie - Derek/Stiles with background Lydia/Jackson and Scott/Isaac, Disney's Beauty and the Beast AU | Stiles has been a teapot for 3,308 days. // Scott skids into the door breathlessly and shouts, "THERE'S A GIRL IN THE CASTLE," and promptly brains himself on one of the casserole dishes.
guaranteed to blow your mind (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) - Laura Hale/Chris Argent with angsty Hale family co-dependency, pre-series | ANYTIME // Laura is better in a crisis than Derek, but that's kind of like saying that strangling someone is less messy than stabbing them: The comparison doesn't quite capture the desperation of all parties involved.
you were there and so was i - Allison and Stiles, with background Allison/Scott and Derek/Stiles, Stiles and Allison are twins and Stiles is a magical BAMF AU | For their tenth birthday, Stiles had gotten Allison a mug from a kiosk at the mall with AREN’T YOU GLAD WE EVOLVED OUT OF NEIGHBORING CELLS on one side and a picture from their school trip to the zoo, the one where Allison was hitting a goat trying to eat Stiles’ shirt, on the other. It’s such a metaphor for their entire existence that Allison puts it on the mantle of every subsequent house that they live in, next to their parents’ wedding portrait.
tell her that i miss our little talks - Derek/Stiles, Harry Potter AU based on a Saucery post on Tumblr wherein Stiles is Luna Lovegood and Derek is a cranky werewolf auror, here lies way too much worldbuilding | Derek wouldn’t be surprised if the Argents did, in fact, have something in the works to recoup their losses from the Integrated Species Act. It’s just borderline inconceivable that they’re using time-traveling vampires on kelpies to do it.
there'll be no comfort in the shade (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) - Boyd/Lydia, with background Derek/Stiles and Charming/Snow, Once Upon a Time AU crossover with Boyd as a reincarnated Lancelot and Lydia as a reincarnated Guinevere, because why the fuck not | When you start a story with "once upon a time," you are usually precluding the possibilty of someone collapsing in the middle of Beacon Hills Mall and waking up afterwards with thirty-five years' worth of memories crowding their head.
you're the message i was heeding (part i) (part ii) - Derek/Stiles, Derek/cis-fem!Stiles, multiverses AU where Stiles ends up coaching her dead husband and her younger male self in their stupidity AU | Stiles Hale: Schrodinger's widow.
and you're behind the steering wheel - Laura, with background Derek/Stiles, human AU written for verity's birthday | Normally, Laura is perfectly willing to delicately coach her baby brother through the endless labyrinth of his emotional manpain, but Laura's dissertation is due in two days and she just flat out doesn't have the time.
the things they taught you - Boyd/Lydia, background Derek/Stiles, Warehouse 13 AU written for themadfish, who won a fic in the Wolf Charity Auction and wanted some Warehouse 13 fusion | People usually go back to their hometowns for things like high school reunions and Christmas and funerals. Of course, usual operates on a sliding scale when you work for the Warehouse.
just pretending that we're cool - Derek/Stiles university AU wherein Derek is Stiles' O Chem 2 lab TA and the former has a total boner for Scott's mad awesome chemistry skills | In retrospect, using sex to trick Derek out of stalking Scott had maybe not been the greatest idea ever? Whatever, Stiles' plans always manage to work themselves out.
when the wind is warm or the crickets sing - Lydia/Jackson, post-canon with debatable compliance, crossover with Practical Magic and basically sickening wedding fluff | Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. // Or, the wedding of Dr. Lydia Martin and Jackson Whittemore, Esq.
take a step before running - Derek/Stiles, background Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane, 2014 Sochi Olympics AU with cameos from some Hockey RPF mainstays | Stiles wants to win for America, okay? He wants to bone that constipated expression off of Derek Hale's face on a bed strewn with American flags while Bruce Springsteen plays in the background and a bald eagle watches through the window with a single tear rolling down its cheek.
may your path be the sound - Melissa McCall/Sheriff Stilinski, background Derek/Stiles, set post-S2 and debatably pre/post Alpha pack, mostly feels and lots of evidence that my OT3 is Melissa McCall/Sheriff Stilinski/Mama Stilinski | This may make Melissa a terrible mother, but things were so much easier when Scott and Stiles were unpopular and spent their weekends on either her or John's couch, playing Mario Kart and talking about all of the stuff they were never going to be cool enough to do. Scott and Stiles' weekends now mostly involve blood and Derek Hale.
we knew every line - Derek/Stiles, background Scott/Allison, werewolf symposium AU featuring separate McCall and Hale packs and Scott and Stiles as the world's best / worst fake boyfriends | What happens at the North American Lycanthropy and Leadership Symposium stays at the North American Lycanthropy and Leadership Symposium. // Or, Stiles is totally going to be the best fake boyfriend ever. According to Allison and Lydia, he and Scott rate 17/20 in believability and 19/20 in cuteness. They’ve got this shit locked down.
que tu m'aimais encore - Derek/Stiles, background Scott/Allison, magical community of Beacon Hills AU wherein Kate Argent the warlock steals Derek's love for Stiles and Stiles doesn't take it lying down; heavily features a cast of long-suffering Hales and Scott McCall | Wolves mate for life, don't they?
but my gravity's centered - cis-fem!Chris/Victoria, pre-series, for fleete in the TW Holiday exchange | Because her father doesn't really know how to do things different, he wants Chris to marry a knight like him, someone who is solid and trustworthy and unflinching. Chris doesn't want a knight, though. Chris wants another queen.
talk like an open book - Laura/Allison, werewolf college AU, for verity's birthday (<3) | Literally no one comes to Laura's office hours, ever.
borders and horizon lines - Derek/Stiles, background Allison/Isaac/Scott and Cora/Lydia for LADIES, post-series, in which Derek is cursed to ghostliness by a shitty therapist and only Stiles can see him | "Let me do this nice thing for you, Derek, no strings attached," said nobody ever.
run in the blood of the sun's hard rays - Allison & Lydia, post-3x23 sadness and misery, resurrection AU | "They say that la loba wanders the desert, gathering the bones of dead wolves. When she has enough, she--can sing them back to life."
kyle wei, tree whisperer - season 2 gen fic about the forgotten Harley and that kid trying to nuzzle a tree at Lydia's birthday party in season 2; really an excuse to explore my headcanon that everybody in Beacon Hills knows about the supernatural as well as give release to all of my feelings about high school newspapers - Harley has known Kyle Wei basically forever, just like everybody else born and bred in Beacon Hills, but she’d say that their friendship really begins the morning that Kyle comes by the BHHS newspaper office to ask Harley to help him save his tree girlfriend from Lydia Martin’s patio.
Twilight
my karma ran over my dogma - Quil/Claire, post-series | Logic dictates that Claire should go to Dartmouth. Unfortunately, her gut has chosen a really awkward time to rear its ugly, wibbly-wobbly head, and it is now dictating in a rather high-pitched, wavering voice that it doesn’t think it can manage without Quil being within biking distance.
X-Men: First Class
She's a Handsome Woman - genderswap AU collection
film the world before it happens - girl!Alex/Hank, set during the film | Alex Summers has a problem with authority.
go on - girl!Charles/Erik, set during the film | Charlotte Xavier is, often, a hypocrite. // He sees Charlotte's face, frowning as she touches the lower curve of her lip--there is a moment where the figure in the mirror trembles and shifts, the hair shortens, the face broadens, and there is the Charlotte who might've been Charles, attended Baliol, said chap, not have faced a single day of opposition in his goals of scholarship.after all the breath and dirt - Charles/Erik, Alex/Hank, Inception AU that's basically a ghost story. Erik is haunting Charles and their team is concerned | Truthfully, there a worse things a man could do after his death than haunt his husband.
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Arrow (CW)
ain't it fun - Felicity/Oliver pre-ship, Felicity's first year with Team Arrow | Working for Oliver Queen can mostly be summed up as a series of lessons for Felicity on how to keep her cool in situations she is completely unequipped to handle. Thanks for nothing, MIT.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Thirteen Things Katara Does Badly and Two She Does Right - Katara/Zuko, post-series | On journeys and finding love and trees. Definitely trees.
the woman with a voice of glass - Katara/Zuko, Mai/Zuko, post-series, tentative sequel to moving through the silence without motion | Mai and Katara, mother and wife and lover, are more similar than anyone would ever realize. // The price of being too close is sometimes you miss all the details.
short and sweet to the soul i intend - Katara/Zuko, background Katara/Aang and Mai/Zuko, post-series | Maybe they wouldn’t be wishing and wanting and lying blatantly and horribly to their spouses that they’re happy running the world and keeping the pieces from coming apart when, in truth, everything inside is unraveling.
moving through the silence without motion - Katara/Zuko, background Katara/Aang and Mai/Zuko, post-series | Katara, Zuko, the Southern Water City. This is how you build a life, and this is how it falls apart; not necessarily in that order.
wrong until you make it right - Katara/Zuko, college AU | And there they (Katara Hong, Zuko Hsu) meet (order tea, rabidly insult, coldly negotiate).
Drabbles
If God is Life's DJ, Do Y'Wanna Dance - Katara/Zuko drabble collection, post-finale | After they do the whole save-the-world thing, not much changes.
there is no motive for this crime - Mai and Katara, background Mai/Zuko and Katara/Zuko, post-series | Mai respects Katara, but she does not understand her.
The Breakfast Club
Reunion - the Club, background Bender/Claire, Andy/Ally, post-movie | As it turns out, being graduated for fifteen years does not make any of their classmates more tolerable.
Check, Please!
PRIMER: BITTLE/ZIMMERMANN - Jack/Bitty with background Sid/Geno and Kaner/Tazer, a semi-future fic fake primer set in six years when Jack is on the Bruins and Bitty's in Calgary | Canadian Tire reported the most important piece of sports journalism of the decade when they tracked down the guy who clearly spent his adolescence gently boning Jonathan Toews in a shack next to Lake Winnipeg, and that’s still not as great a story as the one I’m about to tell you about Eric Bittle and Jack Zimmermann.
Chronicles of Narnia
A Day in the Countryside - Susan/Caspian, post-Last Battle | He is older, she realizes. That makes sense, as Susan herself is older, but as she hasn’t thought of the King of Narnia in quite some time-no daydreams, no nightmares, no befuddled meanderings-the change is far more startling than it might have been otherwise. He looks so pleased to see her, smiling gently so his eyes crinkle in the corner, that she feels guilt fold her stomach. How could she have forgotten?
this temporary flesh and bone - Susan/Caspian, post-Last Battle | She used to be a flighty, troublesome girl, but it’s been five years since she stopped riding on trains.
to rights - Susan/Caspian | Caspian made her gentle again.
the bonds of time - Pevensie siblings, background Susan/Caspian, AU | “You did look terribly disapproving,” adds Lucy. “All horrifying and glowering.” Lucy makes a face representative of Peter being horrifying and glowering. It makes her look vaguely like a turkey.
the calm before another storm - Susan/Caspian, AU | She learns to become a queen again by demanding, in the council rooms and in the practice yard. She speaks to the Telmarines through her feet, through the arch of her wrists and the curve of her calves and the twin dimples on either side of her spine.
we are the champions (my friend) - Susan/Caspian, Mathletes high school AU | “The students of the Narnia School do not go down this easily,” she said. “We’re going to wallop St. Telmar’s. And Caspian is going to help.”
Notorious - Susan/Caspian, forties-era noir AU | The problem with John Miraz is that he has his goons everywhere. The problem with Ian is that, as she levels her gun to his chest, she can’t really bring herself to kill him for it.
i know we can make it if we take it slow - Pevensie siblings, background Susan/Caspian, AU | “Oh,” she laughs, and she flings her arms around him and presses a kiss to the top of his head-sometimes Ed can be so wise and sure that she forgets she is two years his senior-“oh, Ed, it’s called growing up.”
Drabbles
Lifeline Faultlines - Susan/Caspian drabble collection | At night, on the boat to America, Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie toss and turn to the sound of their daughter’s breathing hitching, screams caught in her throat, the choked protests against burning ice and soft black eyes and the press of lips to her collarbone.
Yellow Cabinets - Susan/Caspian, AU | They waltz to the tinny sound of the gramophone in the kitchen, the noise filtering in from the parlor; his hand catches hers and presses it to his chest and his cheek is soft as it lays across the top of her head.
Quintessence - Susan/Caspian, reincarnation!fic | Things never happen the same way twice.
i heard a rumor that you quit this day and age - Pevensie siblings, background Susan/Caspian, post-Prince Caspian drabble collection | Five times the Pevensies forgot they weren’t in Narnia anymore.
Storybook - Susan/Caspian, AU | Sometimes she wonders what makes their story romantic.
Watch Your Garden Grow - Susan/Caspian, AU | When they are married, Caspian makes Susan a crown of daisies.
Here It Comes (at last) - Susan, post-Last Battle | She is sixty when they find the tumor.
City Hunter
you're holding in my hands the two halves of my heart - Na-na/Yoon-sung post-series epilogue wherein they gather the gang together to basically become Batman | Na-na has made a home for him in Seoul. // Unfortunately, she seems to think that home necessitates them becoming some kind of private investigator cum superhero team. Of course.
Doctor Who
Looking in the Wrong Places - Rose/Ten, AU | Rose Tyler, abandoned by her wing-woman, sits alone in her favourite pub with a malfunctioning Torchwood apparatus. Along comes a man searching for his friend-acquaintance-mortal-enemy-plus-lizard and, incidentally, her.
The Rescue-Rose Arc - post Journey's End fix-it collection
Mawfulian Pains - Rose/Ten, coda to Journey's End | There will be no tearing of universes. This is it.
The Origin of the Species - Rose/Ten | "You do realize that, as you didn’t include me in your dastardly plans, this is going to end badly, don’t you?”
The Way We Were and the Way We Are Now - Rose/Ten, Rose/Ten Squared | Just because things look the same--
Fables (Vertigo)
fill the night with stories, the legend grows - Snow/Bigby, coda to 'Storybook Love' | “Bigby,” she tries to say, “something’s wrong,” except she’s not entirely sure that he can hear her.
Firefly
Vesselside - Zoe, background Zoe/Wash | When Zoe Alleyne was twelve years old, she found out that she was born Vesselside.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (film)
now we'll parade around without game plans - Makoto/Chiaki, heavily influenced by The Time-Traveler's Wife, post-movie | They make a life of intersecting roads, veering towards and away in the coming days.
don't you let them tame you - Makoto/Chiaki, post-movie | A chance in time. // “No problem, short stuff,” she says, and giggles so that her legs pull up towards her chest. “It’s good to see you, Chiaki.”
coming out of my cage, i've been doing just fine - Makoto/Chiaki, vaguely connected to don't you let them tame you | And so he steps. // Five times Chiaki rolled back his own timeline because of, it figures, Konno freaking Makoto.
Harry Potter
Little Lost Things - Ron/Luna, missing scene | The morning of Dumbledore's funeral. // People mourn in many and varied ways.
The Twelve Days of Christmas - Ginny/Draco, AU | "Weasley, when I said I'd help out, I meant play Quidditch and mock your food. I did not mean getting up at four in the morning to trek across a bloody mountain to buy chickens."
Veracity - Ginny/Draco, 20truths | Her teeth, he notices, are red from the punch.
The Road Less Traveled - Hermione/Cedric, semi-AU | The greatest couple Hogwarts ever saw--intelligent, witty, attractive, and unwaveringly loyal. The only problem is that they never existed at all. // Five ways Cedric Diggory and Hermione Granger never met.
The Height of the Social Season - Hermione/George, Regency-era AU | Lady Finnigan's annual Goblin Balls are quite possibly the single ten most loathsome events in which Hermione Granger has ever been forced to participate.
would you like some tea with that broken heart? - Hermione/Lupin | Three men who didn’t want Hermione Granger, and the one that actively broke her heart in the entire messy process.
some things slide by so carelessly - Hermione/Draco, post-series | We lost track of the time. // "You don't have to pretend to despise me," he says for lack of anything else. "We hardly know each other, it's understandable."
Drabbles
The First and Last Time - Ginny/Draco, AU | The beginning is the end is the beginning.
Too Sexy - Ginny/Draco | Illicit dark-corner shenanigans.
Hockey RPF
take a step before running - Derek/Stiles, background Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane, 2014 Sochi Olympics AU with cameos from some Hockey RPF mainstays | Stiles wants to win for America, okay? He wants to bone that constipated expression off of Derek Hale's face on a bed strewn with American flags while Bruce Springsteen plays in the background and a bald eagle watches through the window with a single tear rolling down its cheek.
cardinalis - cis-fem!Evgeni Malkin/Sidney Crosby, set during the early 2013 season in the weeks before Skates and Plates, mostly a Pittsburgh feels fest, AU | Before Geno, Sid had seen approximately three places in Pittsburgh with any frequency. They were, in order of how much time he'd spent in them from greatest to least: the Lemieux house / guesthouse, the Iceoplex, and the South Side den of iniquity that Max had called his "haunt."
PRIMER: BITTLE/ZIMMERMANN - Jack/Bitty with background Sid/Geno and Kaner/Tazer, a semi-future fic fake primer set in six years when Jack is on the Bruins and Bitty's in Calgary | Canadian Tire reported the most important piece of sports journalism of the decade when they tracked down the guy who clearly spent his adolescence gently boning Jonathan Toews in a shack next to Lake Winnipeg, and that’s still not as great a story as the one I’m about to tell you about Eric Bittle and Jack Zimmermann.
House, MD
Love Hurts - House/Chase, complete and utter crack | "Shoes," he explains, looking shifty. "He was wearing shoes."
Inception
slip back out of whack - Ariadne/Arthur/Eames, high school AU | "Controlling Eames eliminates all of his best qualities."
Iron Man (Marvel)
The Emperor of Death, Destruction, and Despair - Tony/Pepper, post-Ironman spec that's since been wildly jossed | "Once upon a time," she said, standing up a giving a little smile, "I met Tony Stark." // On beginnings, endings, and middles. But mostly just on life with Tony Stark, as read by Pepper Potts.
It Started with a Kiss
while i ignore, that we both felt like this - Zhi Shu/Xiang Qin, coda to episode 6 | Xiang Qin is far more disturbing than I originally gave her credit for.
Jane Austen
Being of True Love, Reality, and Other Fairy Tales - Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy, AU | “Yes,” he said, remembering with sudden, horrid recollection their last face-to-face encounter. “Lizzie Bennet. It’s, er . . . good. To see you.” // In which Will dithers, Lizzie dithers even more, the word ‘good’ is used far too often, and Things Are Cleared Up.
we're spinning again and again and again - Georgiana Darcy/George Wickham, college AU, vaguely connected to Being of True Love, Reality, and Other Fairy Tales | What’s your crime. // “It’s like home,” she says, “only a home that’s changed after you’ve returned. It’s like coming home to something that isn’t what it used to be.”
the trouble is my head won't let me forget - Lizzie Bennet, Caroline Bingley, Jane Bennet, college AU | This is bad. This is a degree of bad so terrible that it has been, until this point, uncharted and left unremarked upon. Lizzie is writing the damn definitive work on A Meal This Bad.
i'll write you harmony in c (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) (part v) - Mary Bennet/Henry Crawford, with background Mary/Richard Fitzwilliam and Bennet Sisters Being Fantastic, university AU | "Mum, the fact that Lydia was the first of us to end up barefoot and pregnant is honestly a source of continual surprise to me." // As it turns out, Mary Bennet’s internal checklist to Being a Good Person-go to medical school; join Médecins Sans Frontières; save lives-is a somewhat oversimplification of matters.
Labyrinth (film)
Hollywood Glamour - Jareth/Sarah, post-movie | I should probably be more worried that a territorial fairytale King of Evil Idiots is molesting me in the middle of the red carpet. Note to self: establish more thorough neural connections.
Civic Duty - Jareth/Sarah, superheroes AU | “Set me on fire,” he murmurs, “and I’ll haunt your dreams for the rest of your life.” The sad part is, this is not a hapless threat. // The life of a superhero.
Life with Derek
those eyes to tide me over - Derek/Casey, post-series | Off in the distance, she heard Derek speaking, but in the forefront of Casey’s mind was such blinding indignation that she almost didn’t feel his hand under her elbow, guiding her from the counter to a plush chair by the door. How could Derek move somewhere that didn’t even have scones in its coffee shops? What would she eat with her coffee when she came to visit?
the heritage classic - Derek/Casey | In an unprecedented third period turn-about, Casey and Derek stop fighting. Chaos ensues.
all that's best of dark and bright - Derek/Casey, post-series college!fic | P.S. I have a life, thank you very much! Just because it doesn’t involve booze and sorority parties doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I have a very fulfilling life, full of intellectual conversations and coffeehouses and poetry readings. What is your life full of, Derek? Hockey?
rattlesnakes and romance - Derek/Casey, AU 'How I Met Your Stepbrother' remix | “Frankly, Edwin and Dad certainly aren’t going to impress anyone other than the Society for the Perpetuation of Jokes Involving Bodily Functions, and Marti’s power of cuteness will only get us so far. It’s up to me to make sure that Derek McDonald approves of the Venturis.”
the sun also rises - Derek/Casey, hilarious teenage melodrama semi-AU | Every Sunday, when Casey has her advanced pottery class at the Y, Derek smokes cigarettes out by the river and thinks, which turns out to be far more dangerous an occupation than he had originally presumed.
MCU
the rhythm in rush - Steve/Bucky, Tony/Pepper, America/Kate, Sam/Nat, literally more superheroes than you can shake a stick at with Hawkeye Clint thrown in for good measure, D&D and college activism AU | Steve Rogers: anthropology major, president of Americans for Informed Democracy, in love with his roommate, exasperated dungeon master.
Merlin
the velvet sun that shines on me and you - Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, pre-series | There is a pause of a few minutes, before Morgana turns to Arthur and begins beating him over the head with her slipper. “This is all your fault!”
she's an angel for sure - Gwen, background Gwen/Arthur/Morgana, post-series | Stories begin in the mouths that feed them. Gwen writes her own legend, and it grows.
i've got this energy beneath my feet - Morgana, Gwen, Arthur, pre-series | “Gwen,” laughs Morgana, but she is not happy and her embroidery stitches are looking lopsided and large, “don’t you know that Arthur and I are as good as betrothed?”
and the hand of the watchmen - Gwen/Lancelot | “Listen,” interrupts Merlin, standing up and getting that look in his eye, the I May Actually Have a Spine expression that he bears whenever Arthur is being a prat, “Gwen and I are going to go save our friend. Past telling us where this mysterious glass castle is, you don’t have to be involved.”
pay my respects to grace and virtue - Gwen/Morgana, post season 1 AU | “Thank you, my lady,” Gwen says, and leaves before her voice cracks. She thinks, as she bows away, that she might hate this Camelot a little bit more than the one she left.
and that was the turning point - Gwen/Arthur, pre-series | “It’s just a dress, Gwen,” he says, and he firmly believes that until he comes around the corner of the changing screen and finds her, hands full of laces, attempting to tug it off.
magic soak in my spine - Gwen/Arthur/Morgana, post season 1 AU | Arthur frowns, and wishes (a bit prattishly, so maybe Merlin is right) for the days when he could give Morgana a good ribbing and she would dish it back. Now all she does is blink at him, a bit owlishly, and go back to her weaving.
Naruto
Forgetting - Sakura, post-Sasuke's desertion | She'd put in all the unimportant stuff, like how to memorize a medical text in two days, and perfect chakra control and the ability to splice in transplants, but somehow Kami had missed 'forgetfulness'. // On leaving things behind.
Red Dresses at Ayame's - Neji/Tenten, forties-era noir AU | "Mr. Hyuuga. I can pay you a lot. We can pay you a lot. More than your usual fee-because God knows, working with the Hyuugas, you'll need it." She was eyeing him rather desperately by then, and it was pure chance that had his boss appearing in the doorway. Take it, Sarutobi mouthed extravagantly. Fucking take it, Hyuuga.
Adagio - Neji/Tenten, AU | How flighty little Yuan Tiang Tiang became Tenten Young the Concert Cellist. // Neji tells Rock Lee that fate has made him a sub-par bass player. Tenten tells Neji he can take his fate and shove it up somewhere that will require a prostate examination to remove it.
leave a light on when i'm gone - Ino/Shikamaru | But with Shikamaru paying for my dinner and Ami holding my hand, I’m kind of this weird blend of content and satisfied, you know? Like, even without Spa Weekend Adventures, things are going to be some modicum of okay.
Mochalicious - Naruto/Hinata, AU, complete crack | "Hey, what's a mocha?"
The Oddity - kuniochi character study drabbles
The Piano - Hinata | Neverland - Sakura, AU | Twice-Cursed - Tsunade, post-chapter 405 | Chopsticks - Tenten
Once Upon A Time
dripping with alchemy - Mary Margaret/David with Mary Margaret/Dr. Whale sexy times, episode coda to The Shepherd | Mary Margaret Blanchard and Liam Whale have exactly two dates. The first doesn't count, because Mary Margaret has some standards, and two orgasms against a parked car do not count. Ever.
makes me feel like a madman on the run - Snow White/Charming, with the original!James hanging around and being adorable, basically AU | Snow wears the engagement ring around her neck as a pendant for her entire childhood.
shake it like a ladder to the sun - Snow White & Emma taking on the world, with big-picture Snow/James, AU | Mary Margaret Swan doesn't age, talks to birds, and bakes pies that make people do what she wants. She wins Awesomest Mother of the Year, like, hands down, every time. // Or, Geppetto finishes the chest in time and Life happens to Emma and Mary Margaret Swan.
cinder over everything - Mary Margaret/David; the affair sandwiched between 7:15 AM and Skin Deep | It's not about the sex. (But, um. The sex is really good.)
there'll be no comfort in the shade (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) - Boyd/Lydia, with background Derek/Stiles and Charming/Snow, Once Upon a Time AU crossover with Boyd as a reincarnated Lancelot and Lydia as a reincarnated Guinevere, because why the fuck not | When you start a story with "once upon a time," you are usually precluding the possibilty of someone collapsing in the middle of Beacon Hills Mall and waking up afterwards with thirty-five years' worth of memories crowding their head.
One Direction (RPF)
get another coal on the fake fire - Louis Tomlinson/Nick Grimshaw with background Perrie/Zayn being adorable, hate sex leading to feelings because apparently I have to write the same damn fic for every fandom I'm in | In Louis’ defense, this had seemed like a smashing idea with high potential for success six weeks ago when he’d first thought of it. // “I get that you’re jealous and all,” Zayn adds, “because-we all get it, yeah? Harry’s got like a million mates now outside of the band and he’s never around when we’re home-but it has never occurred to me that this problem might be solved by one of us sucking Grimmy’s dick.”
to this breathing end - cis-fem!Zayn Malik/Liam Payne with background Louis/Eleanor and Harry/Niall, mostly done because I have a huge boner both for Zayn being a gigantic lit dork and for the Hysterical Literature project, uni AU | Liam should know better, when he opens his email and the most recent message is from Louis with the subject line: YOU NEEDTO WWATCHI THIS IMEDIATELY.
it's you i find like a ghost in my mind - Harry/Louis, background Zayn/Liam and heavy Harry & Grimmy friendship, soul mates AU gone somewhat terribly wrong | In a serious, like, fit of cosmic irony, the name on the inside of Louis' wrist is HARRY.
Pacific Rim
big teeth small kiss - Mako/Raleigh, background Newt/Hermann being Science Bros in Love, another university AU that no one wanted or needed from me | It takes Raleigh three accidental meetings, two scoops of vanilla ice cream, and an economics textbook to fall for Mako Mori harder than he's fallen for anything else in his entire life. Yancy, predictably, laughs his ass off about it.
Peter Pan
wendy wendy wendy - Wendy/Peter, reincarnation!fic | “Peter,” she said, “the only way I’ll go with you is if you drug me and throw me over your shoulder. And even then, it’s a toss-up.”
Pirates of the Caribbean
Changes at Sea - Elizabeth/Will, Elizabeth/Jack | There is a rationale to why she is marrying Will. At first, it's because he isn't Jack. And later, it's because he is.
Practical Magic
when the wind is warm or the crickets sing - Lydia/Jackson, post-canon with debatable compliance, crossover with Practical Magic and basically sickening wedding fluff | Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. // Or, the wedding of Dr. Lydia Martin and Jackson Whittemore, Esq.
The Punisher (Marvel, 2004 movie)
Seven Women - Joan, character study | Seven cities, seven years, seven men.
Robin Hood (BBC)
brilla el sol, y el corazon - Robin/Marian, pre-series AU | “If I write to you,” he says in a quiet voice, between them and no one else, so quiet the wind could take the words away and never return them, “will you read my letters?”
The Runaways (Marvel)
baiting methuselah - Chase/Gert, pre-series | “Oi, Stein, care to share with the rest of the class why my parents have suddenly forbidden me from talking to you?”
school is a battlefield for your heart - Chase, Gert, high school | Chase’s best friend has a crush on Gert, despite the whole two-years-younger-than-them, reads-Virginia-Woolf, hates-the-male-species thing she’s got going on (and Chase is definitely, totally, absolutely not panicking. At all).
the rent we pay for being - Chase, Gert, sequel to school is a battlefield for your heart | Owing Gert Yorkes a favor turns out to be one of Chase’s more stupid ideas (and he’s had a lot of them). Of animal rights, protest marches, and the good old boys at the LAPD. // Gert, Chase decides, is officially psychotic.
from the mouths of babes - Chase/Gert, pre-series | Before there were names and schticks and Salvation Army dressing rooms, there were fifteen years of the Wilders’ living room and Indiana Jones and whipping cream.
you feel a burning in your body core - Chase/Gert, Victor/Gert, Gert leading the Avengers!universe | In the end, she can only blame herself, Gertrude Stein, for making a psychotic power-hungry cyborg her post-widowhood rebound guy.
Smallville
nothing i can say - Chloe/Oliver, post-Requiem AU | Chloe doesn’t make Oliver say cruel things because she thinks them first and Oliver doesn’t have to self-destruct because he has somewhere to hide.
you lost me somehow - Lois, coda to Infamous | If this were a movie, Lana would be the love interest and Lois would be the pithy, genderless boss who has five minutes of screen time and is hailed to be one of the best, if underutilized, parts of the film.
cinderella don't you go to sleep - Chloe, background Chloe/Davis | Chloe Sullivan, Davis Bloom, and the open road. // Out here the good girls die.
crooked wheels keep turning - Chloe, background Chloe/Oliver, post season 8 finale | Eventually, she learns to grow into the Chloe-shaped hole that had been left behind by pressure and expectation and love (always love).
when you run dry i'll flood your pain - Chloe/journalism, with background Chloe/Oliver and lots of Chloe and Lois broing around, AU | Chloe Sullivan might as well have a sign taped to her forehead that reads TALK TO ME IF YOU HAVE A TIGHTS FETISH AND NEED SOMEONE TO HACK THE NSA.
Stargate: Atlantis
The Five Stages of Assassination - Ronon/Keller | Jennifer thinks that someone's trying to kill her. Her subordinates despair, Ronon mocks, and a little boy majorly crushes.
And Yet the Books - (part I) (part II) (part III) - Ronon/Keller | She is stuck in the middle of the little three-room Mobile Infirmary between an irksome Rodney and panicking John and an itchy Ronon, steadily going seven kinds of crazy as parts of her brain are breaking off and dying and she can't help but feel--
when shall we three meet again - Ronon/Keller, post-The Lost Tribe | Sometime between the “Jennifer Keller, please report to Woolsey’s office” and the “Jennifer, I really don’t think this is going to work,” she knows, she knows, that this is going to be one of Those Days.
shine on - Lorne/Cadman, post-season 2 AU | Things stop making sense in Pegasus. I mean, how did I turn around one day and the man guarding my back is someone who tried to kill me a handful of months ago? But I got to tell you. If the choice for that position is between Michael and an IOC bag of air like Reiter, I’ll pick Kenmore every time. Hell, I’d probably pick Kenmore if he was still a Wraith.
tap that keyboard, monkey boy - Ronon/Keller, college AU | I agree we need to celebrate...but Teyla, I couldn’t get into the Gate if I had “free sex” stamped across my forehead.
the atlantis primary - Ronon/Keller, McKay/Keller | The day the nurses start wearing Team Edward and Team Jacob buttons, Jennifer petitions for shore leave.
Drabbles
ham and cheese sandwiches - Ronon/Keller, slight AU | Let's make one thing clear--he is not stalking her.
Supernatural
i got soul but i'm not a soldier - Claire Novak | Claire used to believe in God. (She might be able to still believe in Castiel, though, and that could be something.)
one to omega - Jo, background Jo/Dean | Jo Harvelle’s life is a) The Dean Network: All Winchester, All the Time, b) a comedy of errors, minus the actual comedy, c) complicated, d) all about choices.
i get my glory in the desert rain - Ruby | It might take centuries, but sooner or later, Hell will burn away your humanity. Every hell-bound soul, every one, turns into something else. // All demons were human once. Even Ruby.
Teen Wolf
there are rows & rows & rows - cis-fem!Derek/cis-fem!Stiles, Danny being a fabulous person, college AU | There are at least fourteen things Danny would much rather be doing right now, including sawing off his own arm and stabbing puppies with knives, and yet he’s still here, around the corner from their Econ lecture hall, coaching Stiles through asking their TA out for coffee.
que lastima pero adios (part i) (part ii) - Erica/Boyd, Reyes family feels and extensive head-canon, pre-series to post-season 2 | "Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts unconditionally--to those who hardly think about us in return." - T. H. White, The Once and Future King
tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie - Derek/Stiles with background Lydia/Jackson and Scott/Isaac, Disney's Beauty and the Beast AU | Stiles has been a teapot for 3,308 days. // Scott skids into the door breathlessly and shouts, "THERE'S A GIRL IN THE CASTLE," and promptly brains himself on one of the casserole dishes.
guaranteed to blow your mind (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) - Laura Hale/Chris Argent with angsty Hale family co-dependency, pre-series | ANYTIME // Laura is better in a crisis than Derek, but that's kind of like saying that strangling someone is less messy than stabbing them: The comparison doesn't quite capture the desperation of all parties involved.
you were there and so was i - Allison and Stiles, with background Allison/Scott and Derek/Stiles, Stiles and Allison are twins and Stiles is a magical BAMF AU | For their tenth birthday, Stiles had gotten Allison a mug from a kiosk at the mall with AREN’T YOU GLAD WE EVOLVED OUT OF NEIGHBORING CELLS on one side and a picture from their school trip to the zoo, the one where Allison was hitting a goat trying to eat Stiles’ shirt, on the other. It’s such a metaphor for their entire existence that Allison puts it on the mantle of every subsequent house that they live in, next to their parents’ wedding portrait.
tell her that i miss our little talks - Derek/Stiles, Harry Potter AU based on a Saucery post on Tumblr wherein Stiles is Luna Lovegood and Derek is a cranky werewolf auror, here lies way too much worldbuilding | Derek wouldn’t be surprised if the Argents did, in fact, have something in the works to recoup their losses from the Integrated Species Act. It’s just borderline inconceivable that they’re using time-traveling vampires on kelpies to do it.
there'll be no comfort in the shade (part i) (part ii) (part iii) (part iv) - Boyd/Lydia, with background Derek/Stiles and Charming/Snow, Once Upon a Time AU crossover with Boyd as a reincarnated Lancelot and Lydia as a reincarnated Guinevere, because why the fuck not | When you start a story with "once upon a time," you are usually precluding the possibilty of someone collapsing in the middle of Beacon Hills Mall and waking up afterwards with thirty-five years' worth of memories crowding their head.
you're the message i was heeding (part i) (part ii) - Derek/Stiles, Derek/cis-fem!Stiles, multiverses AU where Stiles ends up coaching her dead husband and her younger male self in their stupidity AU | Stiles Hale: Schrodinger's widow.
and you're behind the steering wheel - Laura, with background Derek/Stiles, human AU written for verity's birthday | Normally, Laura is perfectly willing to delicately coach her baby brother through the endless labyrinth of his emotional manpain, but Laura's dissertation is due in two days and she just flat out doesn't have the time.
the things they taught you - Boyd/Lydia, background Derek/Stiles, Warehouse 13 AU written for themadfish, who won a fic in the Wolf Charity Auction and wanted some Warehouse 13 fusion | People usually go back to their hometowns for things like high school reunions and Christmas and funerals. Of course, usual operates on a sliding scale when you work for the Warehouse.
just pretending that we're cool - Derek/Stiles university AU wherein Derek is Stiles' O Chem 2 lab TA and the former has a total boner for Scott's mad awesome chemistry skills | In retrospect, using sex to trick Derek out of stalking Scott had maybe not been the greatest idea ever? Whatever, Stiles' plans always manage to work themselves out.
when the wind is warm or the crickets sing - Lydia/Jackson, post-canon with debatable compliance, crossover with Practical Magic and basically sickening wedding fluff | Being normal is not necessarily a virtue. // Or, the wedding of Dr. Lydia Martin and Jackson Whittemore, Esq.
take a step before running - Derek/Stiles, background Jonathan Toews/Patrick Kane, 2014 Sochi Olympics AU with cameos from some Hockey RPF mainstays | Stiles wants to win for America, okay? He wants to bone that constipated expression off of Derek Hale's face on a bed strewn with American flags while Bruce Springsteen plays in the background and a bald eagle watches through the window with a single tear rolling down its cheek.
may your path be the sound - Melissa McCall/Sheriff Stilinski, background Derek/Stiles, set post-S2 and debatably pre/post Alpha pack, mostly feels and lots of evidence that my OT3 is Melissa McCall/Sheriff Stilinski/Mama Stilinski | This may make Melissa a terrible mother, but things were so much easier when Scott and Stiles were unpopular and spent their weekends on either her or John's couch, playing Mario Kart and talking about all of the stuff they were never going to be cool enough to do. Scott and Stiles' weekends now mostly involve blood and Derek Hale.
we knew every line - Derek/Stiles, background Scott/Allison, werewolf symposium AU featuring separate McCall and Hale packs and Scott and Stiles as the world's best / worst fake boyfriends | What happens at the North American Lycanthropy and Leadership Symposium stays at the North American Lycanthropy and Leadership Symposium. // Or, Stiles is totally going to be the best fake boyfriend ever. According to Allison and Lydia, he and Scott rate 17/20 in believability and 19/20 in cuteness. They’ve got this shit locked down.
que tu m'aimais encore - Derek/Stiles, background Scott/Allison, magical community of Beacon Hills AU wherein Kate Argent the warlock steals Derek's love for Stiles and Stiles doesn't take it lying down; heavily features a cast of long-suffering Hales and Scott McCall | Wolves mate for life, don't they?
but my gravity's centered - cis-fem!Chris/Victoria, pre-series, for fleete in the TW Holiday exchange | Because her father doesn't really know how to do things different, he wants Chris to marry a knight like him, someone who is solid and trustworthy and unflinching. Chris doesn't want a knight, though. Chris wants another queen.
talk like an open book - Laura/Allison, werewolf college AU, for verity's birthday (<3) | Literally no one comes to Laura's office hours, ever.
borders and horizon lines - Derek/Stiles, background Allison/Isaac/Scott and Cora/Lydia for LADIES, post-series, in which Derek is cursed to ghostliness by a shitty therapist and only Stiles can see him | "Let me do this nice thing for you, Derek, no strings attached," said nobody ever.
run in the blood of the sun's hard rays - Allison & Lydia, post-3x23 sadness and misery, resurrection AU | "They say that la loba wanders the desert, gathering the bones of dead wolves. When she has enough, she--can sing them back to life."
kyle wei, tree whisperer - season 2 gen fic about the forgotten Harley and that kid trying to nuzzle a tree at Lydia's birthday party in season 2; really an excuse to explore my headcanon that everybody in Beacon Hills knows about the supernatural as well as give release to all of my feelings about high school newspapers - Harley has known Kyle Wei basically forever, just like everybody else born and bred in Beacon Hills, but she’d say that their friendship really begins the morning that Kyle comes by the BHHS newspaper office to ask Harley to help him save his tree girlfriend from Lydia Martin’s patio.
Twilight
my karma ran over my dogma - Quil/Claire, post-series | Logic dictates that Claire should go to Dartmouth. Unfortunately, her gut has chosen a really awkward time to rear its ugly, wibbly-wobbly head, and it is now dictating in a rather high-pitched, wavering voice that it doesn’t think it can manage without Quil being within biking distance.
X-Men: First Class
She's a Handsome Woman - genderswap AU collection
film the world before it happens - girl!Alex/Hank, set during the film | Alex Summers has a problem with authority.
go on - girl!Charles/Erik, set during the film | Charlotte Xavier is, often, a hypocrite. // He sees Charlotte's face, frowning as she touches the lower curve of her lip--there is a moment where the figure in the mirror trembles and shifts, the hair shortens, the face broadens, and there is the Charlotte who might've been Charles, attended Baliol, said chap, not have faced a single day of opposition in his goals of scholarship.after all the breath and dirt - Charles/Erik, Alex/Hank, Inception AU that's basically a ghost story. Erik is haunting Charles and their team is concerned | Truthfully, there a worse things a man could do after his death than haunt his husband.