merryghoul: River sonic screwdriver comics (River sonic screwdriver comics)
Heads up: it's sex pollen.

I'm also going to use this time to use a cut, since this also has sexual content as well as issues of (fictional) consent.

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merryghoul: lagertha I will kill you (lagertha I will kill you)
Day 7

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Draft a critical essay about a particular media. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of a Broadway show, a movie, a concert, a poetry reading, a museum trip, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Compose some limericks, haikus, free-form poetry, 5-word stories. Document a particular bit of real person canon. Take some pictures. Draw a stick-figure comic. Create something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Okay, so I was planning to post this today anyway after writing this before I went to bed. All I did was change a word when I woke up because I felt the word I was using didn't exist when this drabble is set. That said, here is said drabble:

Live With Us (100 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vikings (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Astrid/Lagertha (Vikings)
Characters: Astrid (Vikings), Lagertha (Vikings)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Drabble, Hunters & Hunting, Pets
Series: Part 10 of Shakespeare Quotes for Femslash Ficlets: General Claim
Summary: Lagertha and how she met her owl.

(I promise I'll link my [community profile] femslashficlets table to my journal once it's done. Three more drabbles and I'm done with said table. \o/)
merryghoul: fivey (fivey)
It's been a while since I've done [community profile] snowflake_challenge, and I'd really like to do some of the challenges this year. I say some because day two's activity is to share something in fandom that has changed your life, and I don't feel very passionate about some of the fannish things that lead me to fandom any more. I'm skipping that day. And I won't mention day 4's friending activity here, as I'll add some people through the challenge or from something else. But right now I'm posting day 1, 3, and 5.

Day 1 )

Day 3 )

Day 5 )
merryghoul: road (parker cereal habit)
As I've said before, my Beauty and the Beast story, Enchanted Life, is one of my most popular Yuletide stories ever, and I'm still humbled by all the comments. This comment by geri_chan recently touched me:

I loved seeing Mrs. Potts standing up to the Beast in a stern and motherly fashion, and it made me think that maybe it's thanks to her that he became someone that Belle could love--sort of awakening a seed of potential in him, perhaps, though Belle is the one who developed it further and broke the curse?

I also quite liked seeing Mrs. Potts's strength as she deals with the Beast and the castle staff, and the way it's contrasted with the touch of vulnerability she shows in her sleep, which is very lovely and bittersweet. (I'm glad we know that she eventually gets a happy ending!)


I know I'm not the most verbose of people when it comes to fanworks, but I'm always grateful for positive comments on anything I do.
merryghoul: fi the best (fi the best)
Title: Back Seat | AO3
Prompt: #349, ardent
Fandom: Burn Notice/Leverage
Pairing: Fiona Glenanne/Sophie Devereaux
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 250
A/N:
This is a sequel to Sommelier.
This is also the thank you I promised my f-list during some trying times I was having last week.
And finally, this is also for Day 9 of the Fandom Snowflake Challenge.
Summary: "Besides, we didn't finish what we started."

Back Seat )
merryghoul: road (nikita finale)
 I'll attempt to tell my story of how I ended up in fandom the best way I can remember.

It was early 2011-ish.  I was an anon at the old Gossip Girl anon meme.  Someone was talking about the lack of Blair/Vanessa fic in the fandom.  I decided to make this journal to have a place to store that fic rather than to leave it alone on the GG kink meme.  That's how the fic writing started.  I quit writing Gossip Girl in mid-2011 because of frustration and boredom, but I've since moved on to other fandoms.
merryghoul: suzie and tosh, tkks (suzie and tosh)
Title: First Appearances | AO3 | Teaspoon
Rating: G
Prompt: Torchwood, Toshiko, she never expected to like Suzie
Character(s): Tosh, Suzie
Word Count: 371
Spoilers: pre-series; non-spoilery information from the novel Long Time Dead
Summary: The moment Tosh decided she liked Suzie, despite her faults.
A/N: Just something quick I'm whipping up for this challenge, since I'm going ahead and finishing a big bang fic today (hopefully). Not beta'd and may have some continuity problems as a result.  Edited 1/10: Spelling error caught and sentence restructured, but that's it.


The first time Tosh met Suzie, she came across as aloof to Tosh. She said a quick "hello" and went back to fixing a Heckler & Koch G36 at her work station.

Suzie was very mysterious, like Jack Harkness. Both had triggers about their families that would cause them to stop talking for moments at a time. Jack would stop talking if anyone mentioned the word "brother." Suzie would stop if anyone mentioned the word "father." The silences were uncomfortable.

When Torchwood went out into the field to retcon people that saw alien phenomena, Suzie would greet her retconned clients with kindness, even cheerfully saying "We're Torchwood." But sometimes, in the corner of Tosh's eye, she'd see Suzie steal something from their clients, like a few pounds or a cheque.

Tosh was convinced she'd never like Suzie after her petty theft attempts.

One day one of the wires of the mainframe burned out. The cords were last changed in 1995 by a team member that was killed prior to Jack's current team being in the Hub. Suzie was the only person who knew how to replace the cords to the mainframe without injuring herself. Therefore, Suzie had to fix the mainframe by default.

Suzie turned off the mainframe. She replaced the faulty cord and all the cords in the mainframe. When the mainframe was powered back on, Suzie stood behind Tosh as the monitors lit up one by one.

"I know I may not seem to be the friendliest person in the world," Suzie said, "but I couldn't dream of understanding a machine like this. And I'm a weapons engineer. I'm supposed to embrace computers like this, but I would know the difference between this and the Internet. I wish I could be as bright as you, Tosh."

Suzie picked up her tools and went back to her station to work on yet another alien weapon until the latest alien threat in Cardiff popped up. That was the moment Tosh decided that maybe Suzie wasn't that bad of a person after all.

merryghoul: road (Default)
Today's challenge is about sharing something non-fannish with my f-list.  Usually I'm not one to share personal details with my f-list because I'm paranoid that someone will do a Google search and figure out who I am IRL.  But I have to share something I do that isn't fannish, and here it is: I bake.

Without delving deep into information I've put elsewhere on the internet, initially I thought I was a cook.  But cooking (professionally) taxed me out.  It was too stressful and I turned into an emotionless shell.  I had to leave.  

Now that I'm far away from the world of professional cookery, I've discovered that I can make damn good pastries.  I don't have any photos to show you all, but I've made things as simple as pizza dough and as complex (not really) as pies and cheesecakes.  I regret possibly making pastries for about 1/3 of the day a career.  Then again, maybe not.

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