one wound-up punch of intuition

Title: kàn wŏmen zĕnme sĭ ba
Fandom: Firefly/M*A*S*H AU
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Hawkeye Pierce + two cameos!
Summary: This isn't a pristine operating room in Capital City General Hospital. It's a cave in a valley on a mid-Core agricultural world with 372 injured, dying people shoved together; no food and no medical supplies.
Count: 809 words

Notes: Written for genarti (from the fic request post), who requested Hawkeye in the Firefly universe and probably had something more cheerful in mind (SORRY). Title means "let's see how we die." All Mandarin from here.

( They fly any lower and they'll give you a haircut. )

The printer is making death rattle noises. There are four of us currently here, in an office of 20+. None of my favorites are in. At least five of the people who aren't here are out for the entire week. So much jealousy. So much. I know my vacation is coming but I want it to come FASTER! I really miss having a winter break this year. This is the first year I've ever not finished reading through the Yuletide archive before having to go back to school/work. I am only up to the beginning of the M's in the fandom list; I'm a little over halfway there. I want to read more and more and more, but I'm trying to avoid fan fiction while at work, especially since my wireless access is no longer cutting it and I can't do internets on my laptop.

Basically, this is a pointless post about how bored I am and how cranky I am that I have to be at work today when I could be at home reading fanfic, kink meme-ing, and RPing. Ridiculous complaints are ridiculous, but I am still so happy it is a four-day work week.

(If you want a good laugh, go through Rotten Tomatoes' section for Sherlock Holmes. Some of the less flattering reviews are uproarious. I sat by myself at the reception desk this morning, as no one called and no one came in, just laughing my ass off. Bad reviews are the best! Writers always come up with their best turns of phrase in them.)

So this is a Give Me Things to Write and I Shall Endeavor to Write Them post! You all know my fandoms and what I am willing to try (for the record, a few ideas off the top of my head: Sherlock Holmes (new movie or oldschool canon), Iron Man, Glee, Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, NCIS, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, iCarly, National Treasure, M*A*S*H, Hellboy, Firefly, True Blood... there are many many many things I'm willing to try that aren't on this list, so feel free to request others if you know I am familiar with the source material). I can't write anything dreadful or explicit due to being at work, but otherwise, I'm pretty easy. Give me a character or characters, a pairing, a situation you want to see somebody in, a word or a song lyric or a phrase... Crossovers, crack, angst, romance, gen, whatever else, and general ridiculousness are all a-okay. Just give me something to jot short things about. For the love of God, please. D: D:

Title: Advances in Thermodynamics (5/6)
Fandom: Firefly/Iron Man (movie)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Tony Stark/Kaylee Frye
Summary: Kaylee doesn't think anything's ever going to be the same.
Necessary explanation: I asked for prompts, and agonistes told me to write Tony/Kaylee. I said 'MWAHAHA' at the time and happily started writing in things designed to make Sweeney twitch, but I think that she officially gets the last laugh, because this is eating my brain alive. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.

Extras: Shenanigans set sometime between parts 4 & 5. Other people have also been writing things set in this universe, which makes me shriek every time. agonistes wrote Laws of Conservation, which she is probably going to kill me a little for linking but that I consider part of canon (between parts 3 & 4) because it is fabulous, and then copinggoggles and I went back and forth on a theme that isn't quite canonical thanks to the inclusion of some Good Omens, but that I love anyway. Did I miss anything? It's been so long since I updated this story that I can't remember now. *shameface*

( Kaylee sparkles when she walks, and that delights her to no end. )

Interlude

Title: Advances in Thermodynamics (4/6)
Fandom: Firefly/Iron Man (movie)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Tony Stark/Kaylee Frye
Summary: Kaylee is settling in on Osiris.
Necessary explanation: I asked for prompts, and agonistes told me to write Tony/Kaylee. I said 'MWAHAHA' at the time and happily started writing in things designed to make Sweeney twitch, but I think that she officially gets the last laugh, because this is eating my brain alive. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.

( I'm sorry, have I done something to displease you? )

Part 5

Title: Advances in Thermodynamics (2/6)
Fandom: Firefly/Iron Man (movie)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Tony Stark/Kaylee Frye
Necessary explanation: I asked for prompts, last week, and agonistes told me to write Tony/Kaylee. I said 'MWAHAHA' at the time and happily started writing in things designed to make Sweeney twitch, but I think that she officially gets the last laugh, because this is eating my brain alive, and, God help me, there are more parts forthcoming. I'm thinking the final count will be somewhere around five parts, though I'm unsure. Part 1 can be found here.

( Machines is people too, you know. )

Part 3

You find out funny things, when researching for fic-purposes. Like that Egyptian-inspired fashions were highly popular in 1923, because of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

This is especially funny, given that I was writing a ficlet based on The Mummy. misslucyjane is running a loveathon today, at the post in that link; no strikes, no spam, just good old love! It's simple: you fill a request, you make a request. More people should make requests, so I have things to do around doing my homework.

Or you can request things of me here. I can't promise that they'll all get done, but if it's a fandom that I know, I'll probably at least take a stab at it; whether that means an icon or a full fic or a drabble or just a line or two, I can't be sure. But I just had to email my friend and say that no, I can't go have Easter dinner with her in Connecticut, because there's too much to do here, and I'm exceedingly unhappy about this, so -- distractions is nice.

My fandoms include but are not limited to: milliways_bar (if I have not seen the original canon but know the character from Milliways, I'll do my best), National Treasure, Star Wars: X-Wing, M*A*S*H, The Red Star, Run Fatboy Run, Black Books, Bones, Firefly, Watchmen, Sherlock Holmes, The Office (American), Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Scooby Doo, Final Fantasy VII. I have many, many more, but that's what I can come up with off the top of my head; feel free to request things that aren't on that list, too. I will not write: RPF, bandom, nonconsensual/incredibly iffy sex, probably graphic sex in general. Anything else goes!

(While I'm on the subject, I forgot to note last week's DE ficathon! People [people being rushin_doll, minkhollow, and bodldops] wrote me AWESOME THINGS, and I wrote several ficlets, too. My favorite, though, was for areyoumymemmy. In which Lilly Kane gets married, again; crossover with Firefly by way of milliways_bar. Alternate title: In which Lexie makes a sad attempt at Lilly Kane's voice.)

Give me prompts, people, or go to Jenna's loveathon and do it there, if you are inclined to fill a request. Please?

*looks cute*