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Title: A Fine Spur
Rating: PG-13, for violence? I guess.
Characters: Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner – I think this is gen, but I dunno, he has sexy thoughts about her.
Disclaimer: Doesn’t belong to me.
Summary: Uninterested in being an Avenger, Bruce goes back into hiding. Once more Natasha is sent to recruit him, but she has an agenda of her own. There's this total McGuffin action plot, and then this totally meta discussion on whether Black Widow is allowed to show emotion, cf multiple fannish discussions on the subject.
A/N: This uses two prompts I saw on the kinkmeme. One is that Natasha is afraid of the Hulk and hangs out with Bruce in order to overcome it. Another one was Bruce tending Natasha’s wounds. So there you go.

Fear is a fine spur; so is rage. ~Irish proverb

( A Fine Spur )

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New chapter of Captive Prince.

Holy shit, you guys. You guys, holy shit. It's even better than I thought it was going to be. Holy shit!

Guys! guys guys guys!

ETA: That was even better than I could have possibly imagined. OMG I am soooooooo late for work right now. OMG OMG OMG.

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So . . . ever since seeing Avengers, I've been thinking about this movie. I have a not-so-secret crack love for it (and write a lot of fanfic for it in my head). I wish it had been better, but there are parts of it that are truly priceless, and this is one of the few scenes in all of filmdom that has never ever failed to make me smile.

Watch it for Mark Ruffalo, even if you're a hater who HATES being happy.



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Okay, so where is the main Avengers fic comm? And I can't even find the anon kink meme. Little help?

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So I went to see Avengers, and this is the shortest reaction I could write.

( This is a fun movie. Hulk wins. )

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Title: Ginny Weasley: Dragon Slayer
Rating: PG-13 for dragon slaying
Warning: meta, first person, some dragons were harmed
Disclaimer: HP belongs to Rowling, dragons belong to everybody, and the song used toward the end isn’t mine. It’s from Merrie England, by Basil Hood and Edward German. I have no idea how appropriate it is to use it as a quote, but hey, the copyright is up, and I’d’ve treated it like an epigraph, if this was longer.
Summary: Ginny Weasley slays the fuck out of some dragons.

A/N: 1. See above for important note about the song!

2. alaana_fair had this dream about a dragon killing Charlie. And at the time, quinara was asking, “Where’s the dragonfic meme?” and I was all, it’s here!. Then I started thinking about Ginny Weasley and the treatment of her agency in HP and girls and dragons, and then someone asked, Why do you care about Ginny Weasley? This is why. I’ve been wanting to tell you for a year and a half.


( Ginny Weasley: Dragon Slayer )

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I also posted The Eighth Tale on AO3 here.

People say I suck at summaries, so I probably didn't adequately explain that fic. It deals with timey-wimey and time paradoxes, possible futures that might also be possible fanfics, Harry/Draco sex, and then a sad ending. The fic was actually the summary of a fic that I'm not actually going to write, so I think it does have some problems, but I'm quite happy with it as a fic in its own right.

I'm going through and trying to make sure I put all my fics in the places they should go (which sometimes takes forever!) Sometimes I can't tell whether a fic I write lacks visibility, which means I should try harder to put it somewhere, or whether it lacks appeal, which means I definitely should stop trying. What do you do in a situation like that? I feel like the window where people might read your fic is usually gone in about 3 days, unless it gets linked elsewhere, and what if in that time, not many people read it? Did that mean it was no good, you just posted at the wrong time, a catastrophe was happening, your header sucked, people just don't know your name, or what?

It's an interesting fandom phenomenon that sometimes I care way too much about, I admit. However, I can't even count the number of times (especially in HP fandom!) I've seen people say things like, "I thought I knew all the good writers out there!" . . . which is a sad thing for new and old writers to hear, and "If you haven't read this fic, you're not really in this fandom!", when it's a fic I've never heard of . . . which, I guess, you know, means I'm not in that fandom! I don't think it's meant to be for serious, but it's still a weird and somewhat confusing thing to hear.

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The Pure and Simple Truth is now available on Archive of Our own here. This really is one of the things I'm proudest of having written. I'm having trouble figuring out how to categorize it. It's about how Draco, Harry, Pansy, Hermione, Ron, Goyle, Blaise, and Luna all became friends, but it's based on a fic where Draco and Harry hook up. There's a definite love story there, but I don't feel like that's the focus. There's no sex or making out, and very few other elements of the "romance" genre, and large parts aren't about the Harry/Draco at all. Does anyone think it would be wrong to post this story in a gen comm? Because I think many people who don't like Harry/Draco would still like it, and it's possible some people who like Harry/Draco won't like it because it's not really centered around H/D. But I don't want to false advertise. Anyone got any ideas about this? Help would be so appreciated!

It's also available on Dreamwidth:

Author: lettered
Title: The Pure and Simple Truth
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, but this fic might as well be gen. Besides Harry and Draco, mostly canon pairings
Rating: PG
Warnings: No porn. No plot. No, really!
Summary: Harry, Draco, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, and Pansy go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Pansy, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione and Ron go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, and Pansy―you guessed it―go to a pub. I could go on. In fact, I did. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Pansy, Ron, Blaise, Luna, Goyle, Neville, and Theodore Nott go to a pub. In various combinations.
Word Count: 70,000 It happened by accident.
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter, in case you didn’t know, and talekayler wrote Nunquam Securus
Author's notes: Nunquam Securus is a short fic about how Harry and Draco navigate romance amidst their entwined circle of friends. This fic is the back story about how that circle formed.

Thank you so, so much talekayler for writing this fic, and for signing up for remix, giving me the opportunity to write this story. Thank you to stultiloquentia for her quick beta, to ravenclown for some points of crit and enthusiasm, and the mods for their patience and kindness. And even though she will never see this, thanks to my_daroga for putting up with me while I wrote this.

The Pure and Simple Truth

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Title: The Eighth Tale
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: meta, sex, and sad (don’t say I didn’t warn you)
Summary: Draco Malfoy tries to fix the past, but instead mucks it up some more. For Harry, it all becomes quite clear.

Go to: part 1

( The Eight Tale, part 2 (the end) )


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Title: The Eighth Tale
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: meta, sex, and sad (don’t say I didn’t warn you)
Summary: Draco Malfoy tries to fix the past, but instead mucks it up some more. For Harry, it all becomes quite clear.
A/N: Hahaha so, snickfic and ships_harry, if you end up reading this (don’t feel obliged), I bet you can guess what SPN author I was reading when I started this (thus the abuse of parentheticals). I’m so easily influenced.

I wrote this for curiouslyfic’s not-fic-athon. At more than ten thousand words, you might be saying, “That’s a fic!” However, you might also be glad I saved you the 70,000 words of meta, sex, and sad that would have happened had I wrote the “actual” fic.


The Eight Tale

There is a tale between every event that occurs, and a tale between written words. There is a tale whose ending isn’t set, but that tale can’t be told.

( It hasn’t happened yet. )

Go to: part 2

Tags: character: draco, character: harry, fandom: harry potter, fic, fic: hpverse, genre: au, genre: meta, length: multi-parts, rating: nc-17, ship: harry/draco

Speaking of doing things, I can't believe what I did today. Because of the lovely ships_harry, I read some great h/c (sort of?) SPN that made me feel a whole lot better, and then she and I got to talking about SPN, and she mentioned "Season Seven: Time for a Wedding," and I realized I had really wanted to write an Afterword 6 about that for The Chuck Writes Story, and I never did.

So I got to work on that, and realized . . . there were some other things that would have happened in the universe of Chuck Writes, if all of Season 7 is "true", as it is in the world of the story. So then I got to work on those other things, and . . . ended up making a sock named hobbes_is_here. Hopefully those of you who are well read and watching season 7 can guess where this is going. Anyway, I realized in order for the sock to work the way I wanted it to, the sock has to have written fic.

And then I wrote three fics. N.B. I wrote these three fics "in character". They exist, believe it or not, solely for the purpose of another fic I mean to write. If you comment on the posts, I'd like to comment back to you "in character" and possibly use your comments in a future fic. If you don't want to participate in something like that, but want to comment on the fics, comment here. Thank you!

Please mind warnings! The second two are pretty much smut, and the first one isn't very good, but I'm actually inordinately please with the way they turned out. Here they are:

(1)
Title: Stairway
Rating: G
Length: 300
Summary: This is what it's like inside Dean's head.

Stairway

(2)
Title: We're Just Like You
Rating NC-17
Warnings: incest, age-play
Length: about 1,800
Summary: Just a PWP, but Dean/Sam work through some issues, and . . . they role-play, so you know. Maybe they aren't who they say they are.

We're Just Like You

(3)
Title: Slash Fiction
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Incest, though it's actually the leviathans, rimming, sex, dirty talk and homophobia
Length: around 2K
Summary: Leviathans discuss what it's like to be in Sam and Dean's minds and bodies, except with sex.

Slash Fiction

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Title: The Way Down
Rating: this chapter, pg
Length: this chapter, 4.6K
Warnings: sex
Characters: Harry/Draco, past Harry/Ginny
Epilogue: not epilogue compliant
Summary: Malfoy’s all, “Come out of there,” the way you say to a cat who is badly behaved. And Harry’s all like, “No, what, I’m a hermit! And I have a chest-monster! And I am crazy magically powerful!” and Malfoy’s all, “We all have problems, bub.” (thoughtfully) “You are crazy though. I’ll give you that.”
A/N: Well, I finally posted it all. Thank you so, so much to everyone who helped me with this, including alaana_fair, kjp_013, fat_teaspoon, lusiology, bowdlerized, RR, and most of all, scabbyfish. I miss you, hon.

Thanks also to everyone who waited so long.

Go to: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8

( Chapter 9 (end) )

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Title: The Way Down
Rating: this chapter, pg
Length: this chapter, 7.5K
Warnings: sex
Characters: Harry/Draco, past Harry/Ginny
Epilogue: not epilogue compliant
Summary: Malfoy’s all, “Come out of there,” the way you say to a cat who is badly behaved. And Harry’s all like, “No, what, I’m a hermit! And I have a chest-monster! And I am crazy magically powerful!” and Malfoy’s all, “We all have problems, bub.” (thoughtfully) “You are crazy though. I’ll give you that.”
A/N: I finished this last year, but felt something was wrong with the ending. Since then, kjp_013 (I think? It's been a really long time!) and bowdlerized and a friend, R, have all looked over it and offered various comments. Thanks so much to all of you.

Go to: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9

( Chapter 8 )

Go to: Chapter 9

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I haven't done my taxes. I'm terrified of doing them. I'm supposed to have a W-2 and I don't have one. Are they supposed to send one to me? Why didn't I get one? Did they get it at the place I used to live and rip it up, like they did my parking ticket and first paycheck? I wrote a book and got paid for it in 2011. Am I supposed to claim that? How?

Usually I freak out every year in April, because I'm bad at this stuff and don't know what I'm doing, so I wrote myself a guide in 2010. It tells me what web site to go to, what I need, what all my user names and passwords are, how much I made last year, how much I got for my return last year, what a W-2 even is, how and where to save the pdf I get from Turbotax, and how to prepare myself for next year.

But it doesn't actually tell me how to live real life and I find that short-sighted and very frustrating.

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A friend of mine from work died last week. She died of strep throat. It was quite sudden. She was 25. I've never experienced someone I knew so well dying so unexpectedly. While we didn't hang out outside of work, I'd hoped that we'd get to the point in our friendship where we would. She was one of my favorite people at work.

I didn't want to talk to people at work about it at the time; I still don't want to talk about the shock or horror of it, the why why why. And yet I do find myself wanting to talk about how vehemently she despised the term "fro-yo," how she insisted upon the banana terms in Bananagrams, her experiments in English muffins, our discussions about art versus illustration versus craft, how often she needed to eat, how persistent she was in reminding me about the whale song activity without ever becoming frustrated with me, and how she looked when she smiled.

I don't want to speak of her death, and yet I do want to speak of that I cannot speak of her death. I don't want to express grief, only discuss how other people do it. It didn't comfort me when I cried (later, alone); it only comforted me that I was able to cry, like other people do. I consider mortality all the time, and yet I have never been able to fear it like so many other people seem to. Now I do, and yet this, too, will pass. Sometimes I worry about how distantly I am tethered to reality.

When my boss told us, there was a bowl of Clementines on her desk. I thought it would be the wrong time to ask for a Clementine, but it was all I really wanted.

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I wrote The Pure and Simple Truth in hd_remix. I'm . . . not putting the header here because lots of people said they wouldn't have read it, based on the header. Guess plotless gen is a turn off? Or something.

Even though I remixed a Harry/Draco fic, this story is mostly gen in a lot of ways. There isn’t any sex, it’s mostly about a bunch of friends getting together, and the romance there is is more about friendship than romance.

Sometimes when I write Harry Potter fic, I wonder what I’m trying to achieve. When I wrote this fic, I felt like I’d achieved it. I don’t mean that I won’t write HP fic again or anything; I just mean I could quit satisfied now, and I never could have before. I’ve rarely written something that’s made me quite so happy.

The story I remixed mentioned Gryffindor and Slytherin Houses had become friends—I wanted to know why and how. The only story I could come up with was about a bunch of people trying their absolute very best in a better world than this one.

So, I guess this story is about friendship, effort, and forgiveness. There aren’t any warnings, but the link takes you to the header for credits and notes.

Have you ever written a fic that got a bigger response than you were expecting . . . and you're not sure why? You wrote it really fast, you just don't think it's that good, it had huge plot holes . . . but you got more comments on it than you were expecting? More nice things said about it than that fic you poured your heart and soul into--you know, the one that got that one lonely comment that was like, "This is good. I guess . . ."? I don't mean you were necessarily unhappy with the fic, or that you thought it was bad, just that you were surprised by the response, especially in comparison to what you expected, or what other pieces you've written have gotten.

If this has ever happened to you . . .

What fic was it?
Why do you think you got a bigger or better response than you thought you would?
Do you think the fic got more praise than it deserved?
If yes, what didn't you like about the fic?

If you haven't had that happen to you, or even if you have . . .

What fic do you wish more people had read, or wish had gotten a better/bigger response?
Why do you think it didn't get the response you wanted or feel it deserved?
Why do you like this fic/what do you think is good about it/why are you proud of it?
If you could let a potential reader know anything about this fic, what would it be?

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Title: The Pure and Simple Truth
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, but this fic might as well be gen. Besides Harry and Draco, mostly canon pairings
Rating: PG
Warnings: No porn. No plot. No, really!
Summary: Harry, Draco, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, and Pansy go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Pansy, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione and Ron go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, and Pansy―you guessed it―go to a pub. I could go on. In fact, I did. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Pansy, Ron, Blaise, Luna, Goyle, Neville, and Theodore Nott go to a pub. In various combinations.
Word Count: 70,000 It happened by accident.
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter, in case you didn’t know, and talekayler wrote Nunquam Securus

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Title: The Pure and Simple Truth
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, but this fic might as well be gen. Besides Harry and Draco, mostly canon pairings
Rating: PG
Warnings: No porn. No plot. No, really!
Summary: Harry, Draco, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, and Pansy go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Pansy, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione and Ron go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, and Pansy―you guessed it―go to a pub. I could go on. In fact, I did. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Pansy, Ron, Blaise, Luna, Goyle, Neville, and Theodore Nott go to a pub. In various combinations.
Word Count: 70,000 It happened by accident.
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter, in case you didn’t know, and talekayler wrote Nunquam Securus

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