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You know what, I am just going to present this without (much) comment. Dead Bodies is a ridiculous-in-a-good-way movie that Andrew Scott did in 2003. D/s verse AUs are a thing where dominant and submissive are the rough equivalent of gender roles. Hours of conversation with

oxfordtweed caused me to combine the two. I wrote this months ago and I don't think it's ever going to go anywhere (not because I don't want it to, but because the story can only end badly and I just can't bring myself to do it), so I decided it was time to say fuck it and just throw it up on my journal already.

So! Here is a non-porny kink-based AU of an obscure movie! Enjoy. ~~If you hate it, blame Zed.~~

( Noel doesn't remember ever actually deciding to give Tommy a key to his flat. )

Crossposts: http://remindmeofthe.livejournal.com/485480.html

When I wrote "Sides of a Coin," I didn't think there was going to be a sequel, but clearly I was mistaken. This 'verse will not leave me alone! I'm not entirely convinced this story is ready for posting, but I'm tired of looking at it and I wanted to get it up before new Sherlock canon explodes everything. Enjoy!

TITLE: "Darkest Before"
AUTHOR:

remindmeofthe (Cathryn)
WORD COUNT: Approx. 5000
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Jim awoke that longing to be understood Molly had managed to stifle shortly after emerging from adolescence, and now she doesn't know how to shut it up again. Sherlock/Cabin Pressure crossover; sequel to "Sides of a Coin."
SPOILERS: The entirety of Cabin Pressure and the first series of Sherlock are fair game. Also, Molly's blog, from which I took a lot of details and some characterization ideas for Molly.
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGs: Molly Hooper, Martin Crieff, Sherlock Holmes, Anthea. Past Molly/Moriarty and Martin/Moriarty; implied future Molly/Martin.
DISCLAIMER: Sherlock and Cabin Pressure are the property of their respective owners. The author of this fic takes no credit and makes no money.
NOTES: Thanks to

splash_of_blue for Britpicking and beta services!

( Molly puts the slip of paper John Watson gave her on top of her dresser, where it catches her eye every morning when she gets dressed. )

Crossposts: http://remindmeofthe.livejournal.com/481335.html

So! In the finest tradition of students smack in the middle of finals panic, I have found my very favorite procrastination tool. Which, in this case, happens to be the Sherlock prompt meme. Naturally, I've picked up plot bunnies from browsing it, some of which are viable and some of which not so much. (Will someone please talk me out of the crossover with frigging Twilight where Anderson goes to work in Forks and, thanks to having picked up deductive techniques from Sherlock, is the only one on the force who figures out that vampires have been making kills in the area? It's not even my idea and it WON'T GO AWAY.)

Here is one that was good for a quick snippet! It's a Sherlock/Doctor Who crossover, because since when do I write Sherlock fic that's not crossed over with something? (I'm going to try to do it before new canon surfaces on the first, but I promise nothing.) Assume spoilers for everything that's aired for either show, though they're more implied than anything.

( When the air in the flat starts blowing around, accompanied by some kind of godawful wheezing noise, John's first thought is that one of Sherlock's experiments has gone horribly wrong. Or, possibly, horribly right. )

TITLE: "Sides of a Coin"
AUTHOR:

remindmeofthe (Cathryn)
WORD COUNT: Approx. 7200
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Martin thinks his luck has taken a turn for the better. Martin is wrong. Cabin Pressure/Sherlock crossover, set at some vague post-current-canon point for both.
SPOILERS: The entirety of both shows is fair game.
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Martin/Moriarty; Martin Crieff, Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Douglas Richardson.
DISCLAIMER: Sherlock and Cabin Pressure are the property of their respective owners. The author of this fic takes no credit and makes no money.
NOTES: Thanks so much to

bethan_b_bad for Britpicking and encouraging my rambling about this thing.

( '. . . I just have one, er, unusual requirement, Mr Crieff.' )

I signed up for the

tw_femficfest last month. This is what I wrote for it.

Title: "Rewritten"
Recipient:

manikineko
Author:

catslash
Rating: G
Characters: Rhiannon Davies, Alice Carter; genfic
Spoilers and Warnings: Spoilers for CoE, especially episodes four and five, and general concept spoilers for Doctor Who 5x13, "The Big Bang." No warnings.
Summary: Rhiannon Davies doesn't believe in the stars.
Author Notes: This is set in the starless AU from "The Big Bang." All you really need to know is that the universe is slowly imploding and only the Earth remains in existence, which is making the timeline fracture and causing all kinds of wacky paradoxes (including the events of this fic, since technically it occurs well after that reality ceased to exist).

Funnily enough, the one thing I absolutely did not want to do for this fest was a CoE story because I just didn't want to watch it again, but

manikineko's request for a meeting between Alice and Rhiannon grabbed me instantly, so I did it anyway. Totally worth it. :D Thanks for the great prompt!

( Rhiannon had meant to stay on the fringes at her first star believers meeting. )

Things I should have been doing this weekend:

* Class reading I fell behind on during vacation, because vacations render me incapable of summoning the brain power to even do things I want to do, never mind things I am merely obligated to do.

* Writing papers I have due tomorrow and Wednesday, because ditto.

Thing I actually did this weekend:

* Write several thousand words of self-indulgent Gossip Girl near-future fic after having spent the past month or so rewatching and catching up on everything I missed since wandering away during season three and being frankly horrified by some of the shit that went down in my absence, especially in re: Blair and Chuck. (At some point I also want to do this massive, angry meta post about Jenny's character arc, but that requires analytical power I should really be saving for those papers, so fic it was.)

This fic has spoilers for everything that has happened as of last week (5x03) and is based on some of my own speculation for what could conceivably happen given the plot threads they've set in motion thus far in the season. It will not be continued because it's frankly mediocre (except for the first scene, which I think could stand as its own fic with some polishing), and also because it becomes increasingly evident that a) I suck at writing Blair and b) that is not okay because this is her story and definitely should be from her POV, not Dan's. Whoops. But I'm posting it anyway just because it might be fun to compare and contrast later in the season. And I do like some of the character interactions. Maybe I can salvage them somehow for something else.

There are no actual spoilers for future eps that I'm aware of, because I live in a spoiler-free zone.

( click here for an example of why I don't write ninety percent of the fic ideas I have. )

TITLE: "Building Things"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (

catslash)
WORD COUNT: Approx. 2100
SUMMARY: She said flat-out three days into their engagement that she wasn't changing her name.
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Rory Williams, Amy Pond, Mels; Amy/Rory
RATING: PG for a bit of language
THANKS: To my flist for their input and a bit of Britpicking.
DISCLAIMER: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. The author of this fic takes no credit and makes no money.

SPOILERS: All of series five and six to date as of this writing, especially 6x08, "Let's Kill Hitler," and 6x11, "The God Complex."

( The entire incident had been a valuable lesson in being friends with Amelia, later Amy, Pond: Amy had no patience for the rigid ideals that had been instilled in Rory, and he could either get more flexible in a hurry or he could lose her. )

bethan_b_bad introduced me to this wonderful radio comedy called Cabin Pressure a few weeks ago, and it has become one of my favorite things to currently exist. I've been reading through the prompt meme these past few days, and this prompt caught my eye, because Arthur would be totally brilliant with small children. So I wrote this.

(I'll do the post where I try to convert people later. I don't think it will be very long, because all you have to do these days on the Internet is say "Benedict Cumberbatch" and people go, "Where do I sign up?")

( 'You're a mother,' is the first thing Martin says, 'can't you make it stop?' )

TITLE: "Someone on Whom"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (

catslash)
RATING: PG for implied violence and character death; genfic.
WORD COUNT: Approximately 2400.
SUMMARY: "It makes a considerable difference to me, having someone on whom I can thoroughly rely." Doctor Who/Sherlock crossover, set during the year that wasn't.
SPOILERS: For Doctor Who's series three finale arc; none for Sherlock, as it is set mainly pre-canon, but there are a few lines of dialogue borrowed from "A Study in Pink."
THANKS: To

mmexlibris for the quick beta and

bethan_b_bad for the Britpick. ♥
DISCLAIMER: Doctor Who and Sherlock belong to the BBC; the quotation in the summary is courtesy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I take no credit and make no money.

EDIT: There is now podfic read by the lovely

pandarus!

( The name of the man he's taking the package to is of course not written down, but he's had it memorized ever since he agreed to take this ride. )

I have to write a paper for one class by four PM tomorrow and read like a hundred pages for another class by Wednesday morning, and I haven't even looked at what I have due for Tuesday, so naturally I thought this would be the best time for another round of crossover challenge requests!

I've done this a couple times before. It goes like this: Under the cut is the list of fandoms I'm currently into/comfortable writing for right now. You pick a couple (or more than a couple, if you want), and you can also add a further prompt - a scenario, song lyrics, color, pairing (even though I'll probably end up writing it as a gen interaction because that seems to be what I write these days), whatever. If you add the prompt, I might go with it, I might use part of it, I might do something tangentially related to it, or I might ignore it entirely. And I can't promise to write for every request, because there are always some that never gel for me no matter what I try. Please don't feel neglected if yours is one of them. I promise I love you anyway.

If you want a crossover with something that's not listed here but you know I'm into, feel free to ask for that; again, I promise nothing, but one of my favorite snippets last time came from one of those requests.

( insert fandoms here )

O HAY Yuletide reveal. Yeah, that kind of got lost for me in the last few days. I wrote "All of Denmark", a modernized Hamlet AU set at the beginning of WWII and drawing a little on actual events in Denmark at the time. It was fun to write and I thank my recipient for explicitly giving me permission to go for AUs or modernizations, so that I felt comfortable getting a little out there and settling on a premise that was a bit of a reach.

In the spirit of the thing, have that fic meme that's been going around!

( Cut because I talk a lot. )

The final version to post to communities. Or, well, community. Substantially rewritten from the rough, including a different ending.

TITLE: "Fixes What's Broke"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (

catslash)
RATING: PG-13 for, of course, swearing
SUMMARY: Nicola Murray awakens at the tail end of a series of interesting decisions. Nicola/Malcolm; takes place not too long after 3x07.
WORD COUNT: Approximately 1200.
NOTES: I am from the States; I've done my best with the British English in here, but if I've made any glaring errors, or even not-so-glaring, please let me know so I can fix them. Thanks!
NOTE THE SECOND: The title is borrowed from the political satire musical The Fix, by Dana Rowe and John Dempsey; the song is, appropriately, titled "Spin." It is my opinion that TToI fans should look the soundtrack up.
DISCLAIMER: The Thick of It was created by Armando Iannucci and belongs to the BBC. I take no credit and make no money.

I'm still not sure this is ready for public consumption, but it's likely to get jossed (Iannuccied?) to hell and back when the finale airs Saturday, so I wanted to get it posted before then.

SPOILERS for 3x07.

( It's the shrilling of Nicola's mobile that wakes her, but she spends several seconds blinking at unfamiliar walls before the sound even registers. )

So one of the things I did, in the near-perfect radio silence of the last two weeks, is read Dracula for a class. And I'd read it before, technically, when I was sixteen and didn't have nearly the patience with nineteenth century writing that I wanted to have, and so didn't get much out of it. (Which is funny, since I grew up reading things like Frances Hodgson Burnett's books and Black Beauty and Heidi, so I don't know what happened in my adolescence to make me temporarily lose the ability to parse anything published before 1950. But I digress.) But this time around I saw how AWESOME it was, and as we've discussed it in class it has just gotten awesomer, and I appear to have a new fandom now. So. Have some fic. It's a coda to the novel set just after Dracula's death, in which Jonathan sees the only face in all of Romania that he is very glad to see again.

( We got as far as Bistritz before we were too fatigued, and the hour too late, to carry on. )

Today during discussion of Jude the Obscure, my professor compared Arabella to the ending of Drag Me to Hell. ♥

In other news: Look, a meme that has nothing to do with RP!

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic 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.

Answers will vary depending on the passage, my attention span, and the age of the fic. The much older stuff (like, the stuff that's so old that I have it in my memories because tags didn't exist yet) is unlikely to get good answers.

So I have often wondered, on the rare occasion I have encountered Evita fic, why it tends to be obtuse and confusing. As it turns out, this is because if you even try to interpret this shit literally enough to write a straightforward fic, you will tie yourself in knots so fast your brains will leak right out.

Which is all by way of saying that the fic you will find below the cut is kind of experimental for me; I'm of a fairly literal turn of mind and tend not to deal in extended metaphor, so writing this was new and different. It's Perón/Che, with Che playing less the role of a real character and more the meta construct he is in the play. I have no idea if it works or not. Let me know?

(Oh, and the first line is on account of Argentina being in the southern hemisphere. August = winter.)

( It's dark and cold in Perón's office, with the August chill winning out over the failing fire. Perón has been at his desk for some time, ostensibly working, though the document in front of him remains untouched. )

So, every once in a great while, I will issue a request for fic challenges.

(This is not one of those posts.)

And then I will say, "And eventually I'll gather them all into one post!"

. . . a year later almost to the day counts as "eventually," right? Because last October, I asked for challenges for kiss fics. And have spent the intervening year reminding myself periodically to make that master post, and then not doing it, because I never get to every request and I hate being like, "Yeah, sorry about that."

. . . hey, at least by now some of you are new and haven't seen these yet?

( from sotto_voice: Shaun of the Dead - David and Dianne, theater production )

( from karaokegal: Torchwood, Jack and Owen, on the beach. )

( From ashen_key: Torchwood/The Fix - Jack Harkness and Cal Chandler, hall of mirrors )

( from joanne_c: Doctor Who, Nine and Jack - somewhere unexpected )

Yeah, I can totally see why I procrastinated on doing THAT for a year.

Next up: Crossover challenges from last April!

Meme! Swiped from

misslucyjane. And this one is actually *gasp* NOT an RP meme.

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

My first non-Owencentric Torchwood fic is finally complete! Just in time to be completely contradicted in a few weeks.

TITLE: "Full Circle"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (

catslash)
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: Approximately 1600
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Rhys, Gwen, Jack. Gwen/Rhys, offscreen Jack/Ianto.
SUMMARY: Rhys had come to understand, after Tosh and Owen, that he had married into that family; now, while Gwen and Jack tried to keep each other from falling apart, he had to keep them from drowning. Near-future AU.
WARNING: Offscreen character death.
NOTES: I started writing this not long after "Exit Wounds" aired, so any resemblance to spoilers or speculation for series three is pure coincidence.
NOTES THE SECOND: Also, if you can spot the reference to one of the novels, you get an internet cookie of your choice.
DISCLAIMER: Torchwood was created by Russell T Davies and belongs to the BBC. I take no credit and make no money.

( Rhys Williams came home that day to find his wife on the floor, sobbing in her employer's arms. )

OMG. You guys. YOU GUYS. The Owen in the recent past 'verse. I THINK I FINISHED IT. I figured out where to end it (!!!!!), so then I wrote it. And now it's done.

So, uh. HERE IT IS.

TITLE: "Second Look"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (

catslash)
CHARACTERS/PAIRINGS: Owen, Ianto; Ianto/Lisa, past Owen/Katie
RATING: PG-13 for language. Genfic.
WORD COUNT: Approximately 6000.
SUMMARY: Sometimes, you get a chance to see the past through a different pair of eyes: your own. Set between "From Out of the Rain" and "Adrift," and during/after "Cyberwoman."
NOTES: Thanks to

gileonnen, who first inspired the idea during some random conversation; to

nightanddaze, for looking over the finished result to make sure it made sense; and to those two again and other folks on the flist for staying interested and thus helping to keep me interested. This fic has been a nightmare to complete (over a year from start to finish! It even got a tag of its own on my journal, the name of which I got from

supervillainess, so thanks to her, too) and I never could have gotten it done without you guys.
NOTES PART THE SECOND: Take the timeline here with a grain of salt. Since the Whoniverse timeline is so notoriously fuzzy, and I needed solid dates, I ended up just pulling a timeframe out of thin air and hoping that it would make sense.
SPOILERS: Up through 2x12, "Fragments."
DISCLAIMER: Torchwood was created by Russell T Davies and belongs to the BBC. I take no credit and make no money.

( Owen always sort of thought that something like this might happen to one of them eventually. He just thought it would be more - dramatic. )

Yeah, so. You know Chuck and Dollhouse? The shows I was grousing about the other day? No? Well. I was. So, of course, I ended up writing a crossover snippet. It would not go away.

And so I give you Chuck/Dollhouse: A crossover that makes perfect sense as long as you don't think about it too deeply. No real spoilers for either show beyond the basic premises.

( You don't need a treatment. For anything! Look at you! )

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Entries tagged with fic

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FIC: "Darkest Before," Sherlock/Cabin Pressure crossover, PG-13, pre-ship Molly and Martin

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FIC: "Sides of a Coin," Cabin Pressure/Sherlock crossover, Martin/Moriarty, PG-13

FIC: "Rewritten," Torchwood, G, Alice and Rhiannon

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FIC: "Building Things," Doctor Who, Amy/Rory, PG

Cabin Pressure fic

FIC: "Someone on Whom," Doctor Who/Sherlock crossover, gen, PG

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FIC: "Fixes What's Broke," TToI, PG-13, Nicola/Malcolm

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"Full Circle," PG, Rhys, Gwen, Jack

"Second Look," PG-13, genfic, Owen, Ianto

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