Because I epically fail at writing things at the moment (hopefully the whole 'being at uni' thing should wear off soon) but could probably do this if anyone cared...

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Three drabbles!

Dead Like Me {Mason, George, Daisy}
(Because I can't write for the show, but this popped into my head)

Merlin {Arthur/Gwen}
(Episode tag for 2x02)

Torchwood {Owen, Ianto}
(A nasty exchange because... oh, boys.)

Title: Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
Fandom: Britannia High
Pairing: Jez/BB
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5100
Genre: Slash
Copyright: Title is a Scissor Sisters song.
Summary: BB and Ronnie are touring Europe. Jez is trying to rebuild bridges with his father. And no one knows where Lola is...
Author’s Notes: Written in December, believe it or not. I dug it back out again and edited it to a degree that I’m happy with; it may still be silly, but hopefully it will be less so than it was to begin with. Written before I went interrailing, and therefore in no way based on my experiences. With lots of Ronnie because I love her.

( Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ )

Title: Yes; We Were, Once
Fandom: Desperate Romantics
Characters: Fred, Gabriel, Annie [slightly Gabriel/Fred, other pairings hinted at]
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4000
Genre: Gen [het/slash]
Summary: “I did not destroy your soul,” Gabriel scoffs.
Author’s Notes: Set eight years in the future after the series ended. I’ve read the book so I know how it all turned out, and I’ve referenced a few things in here. So it’s sort of like a series two of DR, only with stuff I want to happen in it and not nearly as good. Finished because Amazon have sent me an email to tell me my Desperate Romantics DVD has been despatched; OHMYGODFUCKINGYES. Ahem. So I am undoubtedly going to spend the next ever holed up watching the boys and girls all over again.

( Yes; We Were, Once )

Title: He Closes Early On Thursdays
Fandom: Being Human
Characters: George, Annie, Mitchell
Challenge/Prompt: paliphrase, “Never”
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2520
Genre: Gen
Summary: This is the part where he runs, you know.
Author’s Notes: Fifteen things that didn’t happen in the season finale. I have no idea where this idea came from, but come it did, and I was running a temperature at the time of writing, so... just read and enjoy. Contains various permutations of major character deaths.

( He Closes Early On Thursdays )

Hi all

I'd really appreciate your help!

I'm part of a writing competition on Waterstone's online, and it would be really helpful if any of you felt like clicking here and voting for me! I would be all kinds of appreciative! And it's only like ten seconds out of your life ;)

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Title: Release The Stars
Fandom: Star Trek (2009 reboot)
Pairing: McCoy/Uhura (and McCoy-Kirk friendship)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 17,000 (yesyes I know I need to be institutionalised)
Genre: Het
Copyright: Title is a Rufus Wainwright song. And album too, actually.
Summary: “Don’t worry,” he tells her. “Jim sometimes makes me want to go out and attack innocent bystanders too.”
Author’s Notes: I must’ve been the one person alive who left the movie and felt the need to write het! Ah well. Begun on the train from Amsterdam to Brussels, and then written in various places in Belgium and Luxembourg, and finished when I got home. I do love Star Trek but there will probably be canonical mistakes anyway, please feel free to point them out so I can fix them. And how half of this ended being about McCoy’s perceptions of Jim, I’ll never know. Also, I was slightly drunk while writing the last 5000 words; please feel free to point out typos/grammatical errors/nonsensical bits. So possibly if it’s terrible there may need to be a sober!rewrite.

I’m still fucking around with character voices, so please be gentle and patient with me!

( Release The Stars )

Title: In Shining Armour
Fandoms: Chronicles Of Narnia/Torchwood
Pairing: Caspian/Tosh
Challenge/Prompt: crossovers100, 017. Brown
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4200
Genre: Het (and somewhat cracky, what with the crossover and all)
Timeline: Between Something Borrowed and From Out Of The Rain, & post-movie.
Summary: “Well, whatever it is, it looks good wet,” Ianto observes.
Author’s Notes: I don’t know what possessed me, honestly. I liked the idea of Owen and Ianto shamelessly encouraging Tosh to let loose a little, because yay. This is a fic that is crack, and knows that it’s crack. So it’s not particularly literary, but it should hopefully be fun. Although it was super weird writing an Owen and Ianto dynamic with no UST in it at all. *shudders*

( In Shining Armour )

Just to prove that I am vaguely in the process of doing things, in spite of writer’s block, a new laptop I spend more time buggering about with than actually writing stuff on, and real life getting a bit intrusive, here are snippets from things I am actively trying to get finished. Consider this as me trying to placate you, but also to give you shiny previews.

( Featuring: Ashes To Ashes, Britannia High, Desperate Romanics, Doctor Who, Gossip Girl, Heroes, House, Merlin, Narnia, Primeval, Star Trek and Torchwood. )

Title: On Futons And Casual Domesticity
Fandom: Britannia High
Pairing: Jez/BB
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1305
Genre: Pre-slash
Summary: “Yes, BB,” Jez replies, tone thickly sarcastic. “I want you so much that I dragged you furniture shopping with me so I could jump you in public on a cheap futon.”
Author’s Notes: I am actually currently working on a very long and very silly BH AU, but I found part of this on my harddrive and thought I would tidy it up and make it pretty and stick it online in the meantime, because the world always needs more of the boys, especially since ITV axed the show, just like they axe everything I like ever. Ahem. Anyway, set somewhere in the middle of the series.

( On Futons And Casual Domesticity )

Title: Don’t Linger Love, Come Take My Hand
Fandom: Hamlet
Characters: Horatio, Ophelia; Hamlet, Laertes
Challenge/Prompt: paliphrase, “Never”
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7300
Genre: Gen [het]
Copyright: Title is from Ophelia by Jon Boden.
Summary: Horatio looks down at the trembling woman encircled in his arms and feels something break, something that he did not know that he had until now.
Author’s Notes: Not that I expect anyone to read this, I just wanted to write it and I’m very proud of it. I’ve fucked with the timeline a little, but plausibly so. I saw Jude Law’s Hamlet, which inspired me to write this. Ophelia’s appearance here, and her death, are inspired by the painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais (I’ve a renewed interest in it because of Desperate Romantics, but it’s always been one of my favourite paintings). Slightly Horatio/Ophelia if you squint, but it’s not meant to be that sort of story, though there is a very creepy Polonius/Ophelia undercurrent that you may try to ignore.

( Don’t Linger Love, Come Take My Hand )

Title: Bring Your Own Sun
Fandom: Desperate Romantics
Characters: Lizzie; everyone [Gabriel/Lizzie]
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4310
Genre: Gen [het]
Copyright: Welcome To England by Tori Amos.
Summary: “Tell me, Johnny; when will I start to feel blessed?”
Author’s Notes: Set between episodes six and seven. I don’t expect anyone to read this, I wrote it for me in about three hours on squared paper. But I’m very, very pleased with this anyway. And although it’s not overtly there, I found a Johnny/Lizzie undertone developing that I enjoyed a lot. Hmmm. I did so enjoy writing crazed, drugged, unhappy Lizzie.

( Bring Your Own Sun )

I got bored and cleaned out my USB drive and so here are 14 drabbles, if anyone is interested.

Ashes To Ashes, Batman, Demons, Doctor Who, Don Giovanni, Gossip Girl, Heroes, Law & Order: UK, Neverwhere, Primeval, Torchwood.

Title: Like There’s A Part Of Me That I Want To Get Back Again
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Owen/Ianto
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7385
Genre: Slash
Copyright: Deep by Nine Inch Nails (yesyes I know, shush)
Summary: Gleefully AU. “Ianto still believes he’s been in a coma the last couple of years and has been re-recruited to Torchwood One following his awakening.”
Author’s Notes: As with most things O/I that I write, this is sort of fluffy in a brutal way. Well, fluffy by my standards anyway. I came up with the plotbunny in Berlin, but then I watched Torchwood on my ipod on the train to Munich, and got all upset and angry, so I thought I would wait until I got home to actually write it. The plotline is basically personal crack and is therefore kind of silly, but I quite like it anyway.

I have not yet watched CoE as I don’t feel emotionally ready yet. I don’t think it’ll come up, but please bear this in mind in any comments you may choose to leave!

( Like There’s A Part Of Me That I Want To Get Back Again )

Title: You Don’t See Me
Fandom: Iron Man (movieverse)
Pairing: Tony/Pepper
Challenge/Prompt: 100_women, 083. Here
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2650
Genre: Gen/Het
Copyright: Title is a Keane song.
Timeline: Pre-movie
Summary: Years of this sort of thing have taught her discretion if nothing else.
Author’s Notes: Set pre-movie. These two are just… cute. I couldn’t resist it. Though this is practically gen, I’ve accidentally prevented anything of a relationship-type nature happening. *shocked face* I’m not really achieving anything with this either, it’s just… a few moments tied together.

( You Don’t See Me )

Title: Saving The World (And Other Extreme Sports)
Fandom: Primeval
Pairing: Becker/Connor
Rating: NC-17 (though you’ll need to read 13,000 words to get to that rating)
Word Count: 14,000 (yes, really)
Genre: Slash
Summary: He’s tempted to say something like this is not a fucking first date but then gets the feeling that that will create all kinds of awkwardness.
Author’s Notes: Basically, let’s say that Becker offered Connor a place to stay instead of Lester, yeah? Known in my head as The Potentially Out Of Character Becker/Connor Epic That Wouldn’t End, because I kept adding things to it. Loose season three spoilers in a couple of places, but it’s essentially AU so: *shrugs* And I don’t care if no one ever reads this, because I just wanted to write it, and it was awesome fun. And I’m using what ITV claims is Becker’s actual real first name so apparently he isn’t actually called “Captain Pretty”, which is sad, along with all sorts of my own personal Becker canon since we know hardly anything about him and now never will. And you get smut, because I felt after 13,000 words of angsting there should be payoff. *nods*

( Saving The World (And Other Extreme Sports) )

Title: Don’t Broadcast This Bit In The Saturday Teatime Slot
Fandom: RPS [Primeval/Merlin]
Pairing: Ben Mansfield/Bradley James
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2060
Genre: Slash
Disclaimer: If this actually happened, I would die of squee. But it didn’t. Please don't send ninjas to break my legs.
Summary: “Ok,” Bradley says, “That’s it, you do not get to visit this set again. You can fuck off back to Dinosaur Land.”
Author’s Notes: I’m fully aware that this interests no one in the world but me, since it’s badly written and Special Hell inducing. But seriously, have you seen the boys playing Frisbee together?! It’s adorable, and I’ve wanted to write this since before I even knew who Becker or Ben were, and I was just like “look at that sensationally pretty man who is apparently going to be in Primeval hanging out with Bradley James!” (Seriously, where do you think I got the name Captain Pretty from in the first place? I called him that because I was hardly going to remember “Captain Becker”, was I?) And also, it’s only a minute and a half of a video clip, and the guys spend a good third of it gratuitously touching each other. I’m only human, and ever so easily led.

Oh, and just in case anyone does actually want to read this, apparently Ben was auditioning for the role of Arthur when the casting people were all “hey, go be Captain Pretty instead”. So that’s what I’m going on about.

( Don’t Broadcast This Bit In The Saturday Teatime Slot )

Title: avec mon coeur plein de lumière
Fandom: RPF [Merlin]
Pairing: Bradley James/Angel Coulby
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2910
Genre: Het
Copyright: Title is from Ojala by Pink Martini (and means with my heart full of light)
Disclaimer: This didn’t happen. I mean, it would be squishy and adorable if it did, but I do get that it didn’t. Really I do. *virtuous nod*
Summary: “‘There is no cure for Bradley James’,” Colin repeats. “I may have that put on a t-shirt.”
Author’s Notes: Sequel to car sans toi il n’y a pas de chanson, because apparently I just can’t get enough of the squishy cuteness that is Angel and Bradley. I am so going to the special hell. Written largely in overwhelming heat in Naples, though I did finally finish it in Vienna.

( avec mon coeur plein de lumière )