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I’m slacking on these post posts but here is a link to my unconventionalcourtship fic:

You Can Find It on Craigslist (1020 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rhea Ripley/Shirai Io | IYO SKY
Characters: Rhea Ripley, Shirai Io | IYO SKY
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic, Witches, Craigslist, Movie Night, mentions of other wrestlers, Movie: Terrifier (2016), Mild Gore

Summary: Iyo Sky is in a precarious position for a witch--isolated from her coven and regretting a lot of her choices. Keeping herself from her sisters is the only way she can protect them from a threat only she knows is coming. Iyo bides her time until she's able to distract herself with a job offer from Rhea Ripley. Handsome, surprisingly sweet and filthy rich, Rhea needs Iyo's expertise. Spoiler alert: The solution is almost always late night snacking and smooching.

I wrote this for unconventionalcourtship and I'm not satisfied with it. I was all set to write a pirate AU but duh, merryghoul, searching for Age of Sail research in a short time frame isn't going to go well. So I went with "merryghoul revisits 2019-20 WWE...again." Don't worry, I'm not doing every wrestler that was active in WWE from 2019-20.

Over the summer I hope to expand this fic using an old femslashficlets table while pondering what I might do with Iddy Iddy Bang Bang, if anything at all. I had this idea but I have no idea if I'm going to do that one idea. Probably will write down all my ideas. Anyway,

Title: Kabuki Girls
Author: merryghoul
Fandom: WWE
Pairing/Characters: Asuka/Kairi Sane, Paige
Rating: Mature
Length: 1378
Summary:
Asuka has a long way to go. She's got a fresh start playing in SmackDown's women's tag team division, but getting her wrestling career back on track is going to take more than a change of scenery. She's got to shut her past out and focus. On the matches, not on her new teammate, a recent call up from NXT with a sunny disposition--and annoyingly distracting good looks.

All Kairi Sane ever wanted was to fight on the main roster, and she's not going to waste one single second of her time on SmackDown. Exercise keeps her head in the game. But her teammate keeps knocking her off track. Maybe it's just that Asuka's been grumpy lately. Or maybe it's something else, something Kairi doesn't have a name for yet.

Asuka and Kairi spend all their time together--in the ring, in catering, in hotels--and ignoring their unspoken feelings isn't making them go away. Acting on attraction is one thing, but turning a fling into forever would mean facing the past--and redefining the future.
Notes: Summary is from Game Misconduct by Ari Baran.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56291596

I think my intention with this fic was to take out the art and repost all over and I never did that. I’m going to stick with the AO3 version for this story only, as it’s the least wonky-looking when it comes to the missing art.

Call a Cab (10009 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood, Luther (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Suzie Costello/Alice Morgan
Characters: Suzie Costello, Alice Morgan, John Luther
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Canon, Gunplay, Knifeplay, Murder, Attempted Murder, Serial Killers, Risk Aware Consensual Kink, Community: casestory
Summary: When a serial killer emulating a hoax emerges in London, John Luther reluctantly seeks help from Alice Morgan and Suzie Costello.

I said months ago I was going to edit and repost this fic on my journal, thinking I’d be able to post it to DW and LJ, but ha ha ha ha that didn’t happen. With LJ’s crossposting issues, LJ being in Russia at this current time, and the fact this fic was posted at a time DW’s HTML was different, I’m just going to link to this fic for posterity and take down the original DW and LJ links. Fic is also available on Teaspoon.

Fic originally written in 2011 for the dead reel_torchwood challenge, a challenge for Torchwood movie fusions and crossovers.

Child of Torchwood (2963 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Gwen Cooper/Rhys Williams
Characters: Gwen Cooper, Jack Harkness, Toshiko Sato, Owen Harper, Ianto Jones, Rhys Williams
Additional Tags: Community: reel_torchwood, Alternate Universe - Canon, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Pregnancy, Alternate Universe - Movie Fusion
Summary: Team Torchwood (and associate) drive across the Welsh countryside for a special delivery.

Title: If... | AO3
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Wordcount: 100
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Bayley/Sasha Banks
Contains: sexual content
Prompt: fic_promptly: Any, any, (423): pretty sure if my vagina had a mouth, it would have been smiling afterwards. | femslashficlets: The Lovers
Notes: Written before they broke up in canon.
Summary: A celebration after beating Tegan Nox and Shotzi Blackheart in NXT.

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Still working on cleaning up my Torchwood stuff. Which is hilarious because I still am in the process of vetting stuff actually dealing with the police I’ve written or used an icon for. I don’t think I ever reposted my Torchwood tw100 drabbles to my journal, but here they are. I guess only here since reposting is still borked for me.

Originally for Kink Bingo, taken out of the collection, reposted for consistent hyperlinks.

Title: stupid bird | AO3
Music: (in order) "Main Theme" from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), David Shire; "Szamár Madár," Venetian Snares; "Beep Street," Squarepusher
Length: 3:47
File size: 75.13 MB
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: R
Character(s): Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, "Torchwood Tracker," Rex
Summary: The Tracker torments Gwen and Jack for information about Jack.
Content notes: violence (character death)
I should tell you Rex is bleeding because a pole passed through his body in the first moments of the miniseries--he's okay because of the Miracle Day curse.

The title of this video comes from the translation of the second song from Hungarian--somewhere around the ballpark of "Stupid Bird" in English.

Video is posted on Vimeo (for AO3). Summary of the video's contents below.  Mediafire download available.


On Tumblr.
0:00-1:33 "Main Theme" (no dialogue)
1:34-3:17 "Szamár Madár" (no dialogue)
3:17-3:24 No dialogue. Music briefly stops; gunshots going into the The Tracker's body can be heard.
3:25-end (Over "Beep Street")

GWEN He was just about to tell us!

REX Thanks? Anybody? Thanks?

GWEN And you shot him in the throat.

REX Hey, well, dead is dead.

Additional notes (originally presented as a footnote before this post was edited 6 February 2015): If you're new to this particular installment of Torchwood, at the start of this miniseries humans are unable to die. Had Gwen died in this clip (not like she would, since she's Russell T Davies's viewpoint character of the show), she would've bled until her body had no blood in it and/or lost the ability to think. It's because of this mysterious curse (and, apparently, someone knows who Torchwood is, but wanking about how people know Torchwood when they're supposed to be a secret agency is another matter) the last 40% of Torchwood Three reunited to find out what is causing, according to this show's news junkets, "Miracle Day." Meanwhile Jack, who was made immortal by the Bad Wolf during his first stint on Davies's Doctor Who, has lost his ability to stay immortal. If Jack gets killed before Miracle Day is solved, he's a goner.

The Walk Home (516 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Walking, Chefs, Shapeshifting, Werecats, POV First Person
Series: Part 1 of Janelle Monáe Quotes for femslashficlets: merryghoul’s general claim
Summary: A werecat walks home to get back to her love.


lend me more than an ear (473 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Copper
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sara Freeman/Eva Heissen
Characters: Sara Freeman, Eva Heissen
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Season/Series 02, Past Rape/Non-con, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Infidelity, Implied Sexual Content
Series: Part 2 of Janelle Monáe Quotes for femslashficlets: merryghoul’s general claim
Summary: Set during “Home, Sweet Home:” Sara thinks back about how she shared a bed with Eva.


A Bear Made Up of Flowers (300 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Annihilation (2018 Garland)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Josie Radek/Anya Thorensen
Characters: Josie Radek, Anya Thorensen, Lena (Annihilation)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Escape, Flowers, Bears
Series: Part 3 of Janelle Monáe Quotes for femslashficlets: merryghoul’s general claim
Summary: The story of a bear-shaped flower sculpture in the Shimmer.

Title: how easily the pit opens
Fandom: Call the Midwife
Wordcount: 2000
Rating: Mature
Characters: Delia Busby/Patsy Mount, Trixie Franklin
Pairing(s): Delia/Patsy
Contains: sexual content
Prompts: written for the femslashficlets “language of flowers” table
Notes: It’s probably safe to call this a canon divergence AU, since CTM skipped over Delia and Patsy’s disappearances to move on to Barbara and Tom getting a proper sendoff. It’s set in 1962, around the time of a smog incident in the UK at the time, just before the Big Freeze later in December that year. An explanation of the titles of the ficlets are in a separate comment.
Summary: Patsy and Delia decide to move into their own place. But a dangerous December fog stands in their way of their future.

AO3.

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Title: Champions | AO3
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Wordcount: 480
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Ashildr | Me/Clara Oswald
Contains: knifeplay
Prompts: For the 2016 femslash_kink meme, prompt "Ashildr | Me/Clara, swords/knifeplay" (my prompt), femslashficlets (prompt "Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps - Much Ado About Nothing" for the Shakespeare quotes table), and dw_allsorts, prompt "Aliens made them do it" for the 3 Tropes table
Notes: I'm seriously thinking of expanding this by a few thousand words and posting that as a standalone. It might take a while, because Yuletide.
Summary: Clara is separated from Me and forced to take on a mysterious sword fighter.

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