wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([national treasure] skeptic)
Title: Small Blind
Fandom: National Treasure
Rating: PG
Characters: Riley Poole, Ben Gates, Ian Howe
Count: 884 words
Summary: The members of the Charlotte expedition are playing poker. Riley hates the short jokes. He isn't even that short!
Notes: Set before the first movie. Written for [livejournal.com profile] starfishchick, Yuletide 2009.

Wow. O-kay, funny police; feel free to keep being nasty and humorless. )
wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([national treasure] skeptic)
OKAY SO, I wrote the following things for Yuletide this year:

A Very Serious Matter (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency), for [livejournal.com profile] lydiabell
More Than Kin and Less Than Kind (Sons of Anarchy), for [livejournal.com profile] fated_addiction
Two of a Kind (The Red Star), for [livejournal.com profile] rushin_doll
Stars Are Born (Hellboy movies), for cimera
Small Blind (National Treasure), for starfishchick

Most of my recipients found and seemed to like their stories, so I am very happy! My Yuletide experience in general this year was just excellent, and I didn't really even think about comments or recs; I have no idea why this changed (as last year and the year before, I felt very liiike meeee, please like me!), but it made Yuletide a lot more relaxing. It was really nice to just enjoy Yuletide and not fret over things that I couldn't control. But I did get a lot of really wonderful feedback and several recs (including recs from one or two people who recced more than one of my stories, which always makes me laugh and wonder if they had any idea that the same person wrote both), and I have many people to go forth and thank.

And now, some notes on each individual story!

A Very Serious Matter (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, TV; 6524 words), for [livejournal.com profile] lydiabell
"No!" Mma Makutsi's voice railed. "No, no, no, you silly man, that is not what has taken place here! It is a crime!"

Mma Ramotswe stepped through the bead curtain and into the former Kgale Hill Post Office. Inside, Mma Makutsi was pacing vigorously, her heels clicking with each step, and she gestured wildly with a stapler. BK sat perched on the edge of the desk with his arms folded; he looked exasperated. "I know that it would be a cri--" he said, and then his eyebrows rose and he stopped. "Mma Ramotswe." She wiggled her fingers at him in a small wave, and he began to smile.

"Yes," said Mma Makutsi fervently, her back to the door. "She would know what to do, but she is away on a very important case, and we cannot disturb her."

Mma Ramotswe gently cleared her throat. Mma Makutsi spun around and her face lit up. "Mma!" she cried, taking several quick, skittering steps toward her. "Oh, Mma, I am glad that you are back!"

Spoilery notes )



More Than Kin and Less Than Kind (Sons of Anarchy; 5740 words), for [livejournal.com profile] fated_addiction
Jax was perched on the concrete front steps of St. Thomas with his knees draw up, shoulders hunched, and his chin low. He looked so small, so unlike his usual gangly swaggery self, that Tara paused for a long moment before quietly coming down one step, then two. Her sneakers made next to no noise as she sat down beside him, hip nearly brushing his.

Jax held the familiar top rocker in his hands, his thumb running across the TELLER patch just above the one that read PRESIDENT. Dried blood flaked off the leather under his hands. Tara wrapped both her arms around his near one and held on tight.

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Two of a Kind (The Red Star; 906 words), for [livejournal.com profile] rushin_doll
"Yeah," hollered Urik Antares sarcastically, ducking a high-flying chair and rolling across the top of the bar. He hit the floor behind it hard enough that he knew he'd still be feeling the impact in his shoulder in the morning. "This was a great idea, Goncharova!"

Alex Goncharova, on the other hand, was laughing like a maniac. "Wasn't it?" she shouted back, and she popped over the top of the bar long enough to hurl a heavy beer stein in the general direction of the knot of combatants. She was grinning like a wild thing when she came back down, but she held an enormous bottle of blue-ribbon vodka in hand, which immediately made her a remarkably more suitable companion in Urik's eyes.

Spoilery notes )



Stars Are Born (Hellboy movies; 684 words), for cimera
"My God," said one of the three judges seated up front. "It sounds like a herd of elephants back there." He raised his voice. "Can we have some professionalism backstage, please! We have a bloody television program to put on!"

Four stagehands carried on pushing a digital screen across the enormous stage. One worker followed along behind them, keeping an eye on trailing electrical wires. Just as the screen reached its place, a huge shaggy gray werewolf entered, stage left. Hellboy burst onstage a half a second behind.

There was a very long moment in which no one moved and no one said a word.

Hellboy and the werewolf stared out at the audience. Three-thousand four-hundred and one audience members -- and three judges -- stared back at them.

Spoilery notes )



Small Blind (National Treasure; 884 words), for starfishchick
Rolling his eyes, Ian shoved two cards over to him across the rickety card table, and then his eyes slid to Ben, who had, Riley privately thought, the single worst poker face in the history of the game ever. He was currently frowning at his cards, like doing so would make them magically give up their secrets to him the way that historical artifacts seemed to. "Gates?" Ian prompted.

"Oh," said Ben, looking up. "I'll take, uh -- no, I'll take none. Thanks."

"You're really bad at this," Riley said, sitting with his feet up on Shaw's empty chair.

Ben glanced at him sideways. Dryly: "Thank you, Riley."

Riley tipped his invisible hat to him.

Spoilery notes )
wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([band of brothers] grawwwr)
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:
wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([actors] smile)
Posting some old meme responses; the slightly-longer-than-drabbles that I particularly liked and thought stood well on their own (and were not entirely centered on in-jokes, which, in retrospect, a lot of my drabbles are).

Title: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Fandom: National Treasure
Rating: G
Summary: [livejournal.com profile] twobit requested National Treasure + Fenway Park.

Sweet Caroline )



Title: Treat
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Rating: G
Summary: [livejournal.com profile] cassildra requested mustard and Father Mulcahy.

The Army doesn't do unnecessary seasonings )



Title: When Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops
Fandom: Run, Fatboy, Run
Rating: PG
Summary: [livejournal.com profile] gypsyjr requested Dennis, Jake, and bluebirds.

That's where you'll find me )



Title: Retreat
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Rating: PG-13?
Summary: [livejournal.com profile] newredshoes requested Nixon and orange.

Nobody likes it )
wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([mentalist] not so great)
If you'd like one of your characters to jump into bed with one of mine, leave a comment along with a prompt and I will write you a drabble/ficlet.

I listed my characters just a couple days ago; I'd link it again here, but A) I am lazy, and B) I don't like pulling up RP journals on work internet. I am not backlogged with cases, for the first time since arriving back here! The woman who I work with is out of the office! I am running out of things to do! Please give me things to write while I'm on my lunch break. That would be awesome.

You can consider this a drabble post in general, too, if that particular meme doesn't interest you. Give me a character or a pairing and some kind of a prompt, and I will take it from there. I don't always finish these things, but I try, and hey, you never know, maybe you will give me a prompt and I'll wind up writing thirty pages of fic for it ([livejournal.com profile] agonistes, I'm lookin' at you)! Look, I'll even make this post public! My fandoms are a matter of public record by now, I believe, but here's a random assortment of things that I will write for; if you see something missing from the list and want me to write it, can't hurt to ask! If you know I've seen or read something, I'll probably be willing to at least take a crack at writing for it.

Burn Notice, How I Met Your Mother, Leverage, Bones, Hellboy (movies or Hellboy and BPRD comics), Iron Man (movies or comics), Deadpool, Cable and Deadpool, Black Books, iCarly, National Treasure, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, The Red Star, M*A*S*H, Firefly, Princess Tutu, Run Fatboy Run, Watchmen, The Office (bearing in mind I never saw the end of the last season), [livejournal.com profile] milliways_bar, Sherlock Holmes, Torchwood (I have not seen series 1, but I've seen Children of Earth and most of series 2), True Blood (I've only seen the first six and a half episodes and read the first book, but I'll give it a shot!), Star Wars: X-Wing, Hot Fuzz, Star Trek (nu!Trek; you can request original series, Next Generation, Voyager, or even Enterprise if you want, but it's been years and I make no guarantees of the greatness of my memory)

I will write crossovers, crack, and basically anything else; I can only write sexy or gross things that are mildly sexy or gross (I am at my desk at work, pls remember. This is a worksafe space, darlings).

I inexplicably have the Next Generation theme stuck in my head. I haven't seen that show since I was 14 and obsessed. What, brain?
wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([misc] hard at work)
So ages ago, I asked for ideas for writing prompts, and then I never did anything with them. I am working through them now! In the meantime, I am taking more suggestions. My brain is being eaten by Iron Man (either the movie or the comic is fair game, bearing in mind that my comic-knowledge is not exhaustive and is focused from the late seventies through the early nineties. Also fair game: the 2006 or 7 Invincible Iron Man animated film), it is true, but I can also write in a lot of other fandoms. Hot Fuzz, Star Wars: X-Wing, Run Fatboy Run, Indiana Jones, Bones, The Office, M*A*S*H, Firefly, and The Red Star immediately come to mind, though I have a bunch of other fandoms that I feel comfortable in; if you think I'll write for a fandom, chances are excellent that you're correct!

'Suggestions' can be pairings, situations you've always wanted to see, a word, a color, a character... I am easy. I will write anything as long as the idea doesn't make me run screaming from the computer, which would be a very hard thing to accomplish, and it might have to win somebody points of some sort if they actually manage it.

Look, I am even making this post public!

Save meeeee.
wakeupnew: two bunnies sitting in a pair of shoes ([misc] bunny shoes)
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. [livejournal.com profile] 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: [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] rushin_doll, [livejournal.com profile] minkhollow, and [livejournal.com profile] bodldops] wrote me AWESOME THINGS, and I wrote several ficlets, too. My favorite, though, was for [livejournal.com profile] areyoumymemmy. In which Lilly Kane gets married, again; crossover with Firefly by way of [livejournal.com profile] 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*
wakeupnew: Joshua Chamberlain staring into the distance, with caption "brains are sexy" ([national treasure] skeptic)
[livejournal.com profile] dictator_duck got me babbling good and proper about National Treasure last night, and I thought, 'Why not have a look at the trailer for the sequel again?' So I did that, and then I thought, 'Why not make a few icons for Riley now, since I have the high quality trailer open and I'm going to have to re-icon to some extent thanks to the haircut?'

67 icons later, I think it's safe to say that I am overexcited for what is going to be an utterly ridiculous movie, and that [livejournal.com profile] jothra is probably going to rue the day she ever agreed to see it with my squeeing self.

Icons: National Treasure: Book of Secrets, theatrical trailer & teaser trailer
Characters: Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), Patrick Gates (Jon Voight), Agent Sadusky (Harvey Keitel), Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren), Jeb Wilkinson (Ed Harris)

No spoilers beyond what's shown in the trailers; main focus on Ben and Riley. Not numbered, because I am lazy and I like the aesthetic better when they're all in a block. They are bases; feel free to edit. Please do credit, and let me know that you liked if you take any?

Preview:


What're we going to do next, shortsheet the Pope's bed? )