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Things I am particularly excited to be asking / possibly writing for: Ellen/Dean, Sam/Jodi Mills, Jared/Gen, Faith/Giles, Wes/Illyria, Dawn/Ethan. And many other nifty pairings!

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I recently received a PM from 3hours, who is new to LJ-land and to Buffydom and who wondered if I knew where she could find a beta for her Spuffy fic. She says she looked at the beta listings at some of the Spuffy archives and that they were pretty outdated.

You guys, I have no idea. Are there any updated lists around of people up for betaing BtVS fic? (slaymesoftly? I feel like you'd know this if anyone would.) Or, alternately, is anyone interested in beta-ing a Spuffy fic? If you would, then you could drop a comment here or PM 3hours directly.

3hours also asked if I knew of a place online with a timeline of BtVS. I don't know of one - all I can think of is the Buffy Dialogue Database, which is not really that at all. Help?

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My sister continues to watch SPN. She just finished up S6 and reports that it is her favorite season so far. She says it flows better than the others, by which I think she partly means that more of the episodes were related to the season arc than usual.

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What the banner says! spnbitesized, the weekly SPN commentfic comm, has a Harvelles theme this week, which I am all for. There are already several very yummy prompts.

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Y'all, I got my spn_summergen assignment, and I love it. I love it, you guys. I have no idea which of my (several) favorite options I am going to choose.

Have not watched the new ep yet. Today, probably.

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1. Artist claiming is still open over at spn_j2_bigbang. If you're interested, you can see all the prompts by joining the comm and then going here (post locked to non-members). If you see a prompt you want, sign up at the artist sign-up post and then claim. There are still intriguing prompts available! And also mine.

EDIT: Mine's claimed now! My self-serving PSA totally worked, you guys. :D

2. Over at shipswap (which mod team I have joined! hurrah!) we're looking for online resources for nominated canons. We're especially interested in resources for minor canons, but anything you can point us to - wikis, script databases, legal sources of canon, etc - would be appreciated.

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So rarewomen fics are up (including my Jo fic, for which see previous post). There's lots of yummy stuff there - SPN fic, Buffy fic, BSG fic for series both old and new, and even an Ainsley fic! W00t

But most of all there is this SPN fic written for me about how Kat, the girl in 1.10 Asylum who knew how to handle a shotgun, becomes a hunter. There's a library (always one of my favorite places) and a cameo from another of our favorite SPN ladies, but at the center of it is Kat herself, who starts out a terrified high schooler trying not to think of happened in that asylum that one time and ends up a confident young woman with a purpose.

It's the niftiest thing, basically. I wasn't sure quite what I wanted from my SPN fic request, but this exceeded all my expectations. Go read!

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Title: Women Who Run Away From Home
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Jo Harvelle, Anna Milton
Words / Rating: 3600 words / PG-13 for language
Spoilers: through 5.02 Good God, Y'All.
Summary: Jo doesn't trust the woman who appears in her motel room, but there's a storm of demons brewing that she trusts a whole lot less.

A/N: Written for the rarewomen fic exchange for latenightcuppa. Full masterlist here; most of the fics (including this one) posted to the AO3 collection here. Beta'd by the excellent bobthemole, who kept prodding me, "But how does that make Jo feel?" The story is much the better (and 700 words longer) for her assistance.

One of my recipient's suggestions was Jo and Anna on a hunt, and this is where that idea took me. I still have not managed to work out for myself all that Jo does and becomes after she strikes out and becomes a hunter in earnest. This is maybe another piece of that puzzle, though.

( Jo knew she was in over her head before she even rolled into town. )

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I promised you more number crunching, did I not? I decided I wanted to compare numbers per fandom (BtVS, SPN, SPN RPF, and other) per site to which I post fic (LJ, DW, and AO3). Here are those numbers.

( cut for tables )

( observations )

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I'm having that problem where I can't remember if the scene I'm remembered is from canon or fic.

Does an angel at some point tell the boys that they've drawn their devil's trap / angel sigil / mystical symbol wrong, but he helped design it and shows them a better one? Or is this fic? I feel like it might come from Damned, by goldenusagi? I'm not sure.

EDIT: goldenusagi confirmed that the line I remembered was indeed from her fic. Oh, well.

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I have FEELINGS for the first time since The Mentalists! Isn't there anybody who will come have feelings with me? *wibble*

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Y'all, this is the first ep since Plucky Pennywhistle's that I've felt compelled to sit down and write about Right This Minute. SHOW.

( It's a big rock. I'm gonna tell all my friends. None of them have a rock this big. )

( Also, about last week's preview - I'm really confused, guys )

Oh oh! Last thing. lexicale, this episode made me think of yoooou. "Did you know a cat's penis is barbed? I can assure you the females were not consulted."

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Today I was carrying on a conversation in my head, as one does, and in the midst of it I asked myself, "Anyone? Bueller?" This reminded that I have never ever seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and clearly if I am going to be quoting from it, I ought to see it.

Then I wondered what other bits of pop culture I'm missing. So, you tell me: what movies should a woman of 2012 with pretensions of pop cultural literacy have seen? Choose up to 3 that are 2011 or earlier, and tell me why I ought to see them. (Much earlier is perfectly fine! I just don't want anything from this year, because then I will feel like I need to go to the movie theater, and I don't wanna.) Feel free to argue with each other and stump for your choices.

I make no promises to actually watch any of these. I am just curious. I can probably be counted on to compile statistics, though.

(In this vein: rebcake! You told me forever ago I should see Clueless, and I got it from Netflix, and it quit playing 2/3 of the way through. But I enjoyed what I saw! And Netflix is supposed to be sending me another copy soon.)

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Folks, I promise I will start talking soon about something other than fics that you can't read yet. Right now, though, I'm all YAY BIG BANG (my draft came in at 21k, but I think it'll gain a couple thousand words in the rewrite) and YAY RAREWOMEN (reveals on Monday).

However. Next year, plz remind me not to move two weeks before a major fic deadline, 'kay?

In other things. Um. I've been thinking about prompts, and what works for me in a prompt and what doesn't. brutti_ma_buoni talked in her Writercon discussion on prompts last year (Brutti, wasn't there an audio recording, too?) about writing to prompts from the kink meme. She contrasted between prompts that are all about action (Faith/Dawn/Kennedy strap-ons) vs. emotion (Wesley/Fred frantic comfort sex during the Beast rampage), and how for her, emotion prompts and action prompts don't.

I think I'm the same. This crystalized for me this morning while I was looking at the prompts at the latest commentfic meme over at ohsam. It seems to me that prompts like "Sam has asthma, and Dean helps him through an attack" (not an actual prompt) functions like the h/c equivalent of an action prompt on the kink meme. Apparently I find them equally uninspiring whether they're sexy or h/c.

Now, if we add an emotional dimension with maybe some conflict built in, then I'm interested again. For example, "Sam developed food allergies while at Stanford, but never told Dean. When Dean finds out during an attack, Dean takes it as evidence that Sam doesn't trust him."

Obviously, this is very much a YMMV topic; what works for me doesn't work for everyone. It occurs to me that it also depends on just how deeply someone is invested in a particular kink. Like, you can give me a fandom, a pairing, and the word 'mpreg', and you know I'll go to town, no additional details required.

Semi-related, I'm having trouble with commentfic memes over in the more Buffy-centric corner of fandom because single words and random song phrases as prompts are in vogue right now, and those usually only work for me if I haven't written in ages and am just boiling over with writing energy. I'm much better off with a what-if prompt. Of course, then I want to write a big long plotty thing that's 10k+ words, but that's a separate issue.

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1. First, wearing my het mpreg ficathon mod hat, I must point out that lusciousxander has just begun posting her multi-part pregnant Xander fic, an S3-era fic that appears to be a Scooby friendship fic in the classic mode.

2. Meanwhile, shipswap, a rare ship fic exchange, has begun accepting nominations. As of now, there are no Jossverse nominations, although I intend to rectify that this afternoon. Also, please note that per the rules, all SPN het ships qualify except Jo/Dean.

3. Instarec: amnesia, by desertport, which is a romantic Dean/Lisa poem post-6.21. Given the events of 6.21, I tend to side-eye the romantic aspect, but as a poem this piece is absolutely gorgeous. The central image is striking, wonderfully specific to Lisa, and a really neat bit of possible worldbuilding all in one. Just beautiful. Go read.

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Inspired by Antennapedia's fic stats post, kanata's post on same, and the "top ten AO3 meme" that's been going around again, I went through this morning and looked at my top ten fics on AO3. Then I got a little carried away with the number crunching. Below the cut are my top ten AO3 fics (by # of hits since uploaded), and my top ten LJ fics for comparison (by # of hits as per Google Analytics since August 2010, which is when I set it up for my LJ).

( tables and stuff! )

Observations:
* Everybody likes Spike.
* Knotting aka alpha/beta/omega fic is popular.
* On AO3, Yuletide is a great bet (at least for popular/beloved/nostalgic canons; my Raines story continues to languish in obscurity). Crossovers also popular; my second best-performing drabble on AO3 is a Firefly/SeaQuest DSV crossover. (First is a Seraphverse drabble.)
* People are browsing AO3 some, but they aren't looking for Buffyverse fic.
* People still leave fewer comments on AO3 than LJ, but including kudos, total AO3 feedback is fairly comparable to total LJ feedback

It's worth noting that my last two Spuffy fics of any size were posted at the Seasonal Spuffy comm and therefore don't appear in my LJ stats, and meanwhile my top fic at AO3 is a Yuletide fic that's never been posted to LJ at all.

Also, I've been inclined to grump lately about the quantity of feedback I've been receiving, but per these stats, I'm still getting plenty of hits - three of my fics with the most all-time LJ hits were posted in the last six months. However, two of those are also notable for getting significantly fewer comments than the others on the list. I suspect this largely has to do with all three being related to SPN, which is a huge, sprawling monster of a fandom with presumably a lot more casual lurkers than I'm used to from close-knit Buffy fandom.

I'm also working up some stats comparing the feedback in each of my main fandoms across my three platforms. That will probably be up, ah, sometime after my big bang rough draft is in. :D

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Is there a relatively fuss-free way to take a bunch of data from, say, Excel and put it into a table or table-like format in html? (And by "a bunch" we're talking 10 rows, ~6 columns; if I have to retype it by hand I will be annoyed, but I can do it. And watch another Farscape ep in the meantime, mayhap.)

I ask because rather than doing any of the things I was supposed to be doing this morning, I have been faffing about with fic feedback statistics, and now I want to share.

EDIT: Some lovely soul on the web has created Tableizer, into which you can paste your spreadsheet data and get html code for a nice table. Yay, internet.

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* I am so excited about my big bang fic, I cannot even tell you.

* I'm reading Sunshine again, by Robin McKinley. Y'all, I still love this book so much. The baked goods and the long digressions and the world that looks like ours but looks weirder and weirder as we go. I love how she gets her power from the sun, and I love Constantine, and I love every single person at the coffeehouse. I love the prose, rich and yet not too proud for ellipses when the voice calls for it.

I think this might be another book, like Tam Lin, that becomes an almost annual reread.

* I really, really like this SPN vid, about water imagery in SPN; the editing is first-rate, and I tend to like high-concept vids generally, but also I adore the song. It's "Bottom of the River," by Delta Rae, previously indy, I believe, and just recently signed to a label. Alas, nothing else the group has done sounds anything like this song.

* Speaking of vids, ghostyouknow27 was complaining about the lack of musical variety in SPN vids; too much Adele and Mumford & Sons, she said. Well, I've thought of an Adele vid that NEEDS TO EXIST: "Rumor Has It" as a Dru-POV Spuffy vid, circa "Crush" and the FFL flashbacks. Just look at these lyrics:

"She is half your age"
"When we creep out, she ain't around"
"All these words whispered in my ear / tell a story I can't bear to hear / Just cause I said it, don't mean I mean it / People say crazy things"

SO DRU.

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Somehow this ended up being the Dean hurt/comfort recs list. It's not all about Dean, and it's not all strictly hurt/comfort, but those are definitely the prevailing themes.

( the fics )

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Breaking radio silence to say that freshly washed and not yet shaven Dean is even prettier than the usual incarnation.

The rest of the episode was all right, too, I suppose.

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Here's a thing that drives me crazy about Farscape: an ep is 50 minutes long, but they only have 45 minutes of material, max. The remaining 5+ minutes is composed of meaningful staring. The show is in desperate need of some stricter time constraints.

Also, I'm watching Durka Returns right now (1.15), and it's like everyone is stoned, including the camera. The Nebari, Durka, and even John speak at 75% normal speed, and there's all this slow motion camera work that serves no purpose I can see.

On the plus side, I guess, I've now met Chiana. Uh, I like her costuming? (Zhaan also has stellar make-up, BTW.) However, the way she's always cocking her head reminds me of Veruca on BtVS when she sings. It's weird and distracting, in other words.

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Here in the states, April is National Poetry Month. Therefore, clearly we need a meme in which we all write haiku. Clearly.

* Fills should be haiku! Loosely, a haiku is a poem of 17 syllables on three lines, divided 5-7-5. (If interested, see stricter definitions of Japanese form and English form.) I picked haiku because they're short, and also you can have haiku battles with them. I would so link you right now to a clip of possibly my favorite thing in all of Avatar: The Last Airbender, except a decent clip doesn't appear to exist on YouTube.

* However. If instead of a haiku you're struck with a pressing need to write a limerick or a sonnet or (ooh) a villanelle, I don't think anyone would mind. 'Tis poetry month, after all.

* Prompt with as many of the following as you like: fandom, character, pairing, word/phrase. Just remember, your respondent probably only has 17 syllables to answer with!

* Prompts can be filled by more than one person.

Go!

See my adorable icon! The art is by humon (at DeviantArt), and I found it here, where can be found likely the darlingest (if not the most scientifically accurate) artwork you will ever see depicting the reproductive habits of hyenas, cuttlefish, and tamarins. And also seahorses.

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If you don't like the new LJ cuts, here's a bit of code that you can put in your custom CSS section in order to see the old LJ-cuts:

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From zweiundzwei by way of nwspaprtaxis

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Author Mine,

I am so excited that you are writing a story for me! This is my first year doing spn_summergen. I tried to keep my prompts brief to leave you plenty of room to work, but I'm not sure I managed it. I completely fail at writing concise, one-line prompts. I'm sorry! However, please feel free to take them in whatever direction they inspire you to go!

That said, here are some more info about me and about the prompts, in case you find that sort of thing useful. (If not, PLEASE IGNORE. I will love what you write. I promise.)

( me and what I like )

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I see LJ is having fits again. Here, have a meme that bruttimabuoni resurrected this morning:

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.

Feel free to ask about fics in any fandom I've written in! (You know, actually written.)

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On S4 now with the sister. In news that is not news: 4.01 remains a nearly perfect piece of television, and the "Eye of the Tiger" sequence in 4.06 remains possibly The Best Thing Ever.

(Also, I noticed that in 3.16, Sam actually mentions "Eye of the Tiger," at the end of Dean's stirring speech. This amused me. Can we call that foreshadowing?)

In marginally more original discussion, ( spoilers through S4 )

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Younger sis is staying with me for a few days, which of course means continuing to enable her new SPN habit. This has involved me rewatching S3 eps that I've never rewatched since the first watch-through last year.

(Bedtime Stories is an actually an exception; it was the the very first SPN ep I ever watched, way back when it aired. AWWWW, nostalgia. Of course, it only took me three more years to actually try the show.)

Anyway, I noticed all sorts of things during the last scene of the ep.

( Spoilers through the end of S3 )

Also, in completely unrelated things, I have a rant about demons and their names ( with spoilers through SPN 5.10 at least )

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Am still watching Goong. Would like to report that Crown Prince Shin is still a colossal jerk. You gotta feel sorry for the dude, because he has basically zero control over his life and had to give up his high school sweetheart to marry a complete stranger, but still: colossal jerk.

Meanwhile, new Crown Princess Chae-Kyung (Yoon Eun Hye) continues to be adorable as she tries very hard at being princess and puts up with Shin and his snobby friends, and whenever she cries, I cry. This is a thing with this actress, I think; I have never had anyone to made me tear up at the drop of the hat the way she can. She did it in Coffee Prince, too.

However, this post has a point! Which is that I was watching along and was suddenly struck by this conversation, about the public's opinion of their new crown princess. So much female character hate I've seen could be summed up thusly (with allowances for choppy translation):

FRIEND 1: Not so fast. The Anti-Chae-Kyung Club already has 50,000 members.

CHAE-KYUNG: Anti-Chae-Kyung? What the heck did I do wrong?

FRIEND 2: There are two ways you can get haters. Reason number one, you've said something utterly offensive and it brings in haters. Reason number two, just the fact that you're breathing brings in haters.

CHAE-KYUNG: What the heck? What about me? What the heck is my reason?

FRIENDS 2: You married a prince, when you're a shabby commoner.

(Unrelated note: I'm very curious to know how much the translation of the slang captures the spirit of the original Korean. When Chae-Kyung says 'heck' and 'freaking,' just how informal/uncouth is that in the Korean? At one point she says 'motherfreaking,' and she seems shy of using this language around adults, which makes me wonder if the Korean is pretty darned rude and it's getting cleaned up for the English translation.)

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1. Two goals this month: spn_j2_bigbang (current progress 11.2k / 20k minimum) and rarewomen (currently 0/1k minimum, but I know what I'll be writing).

2. Have begun watching Goong, on penny_lane_42's recommendation. Stars Yoon Eun Hye, who also starred in Coffee Prince. This time she's a high school girl and a commoner who's chosen to marry the crown prince of the Korean constitutional monarchy. So far the admittedly cracky premise is being given a much crackier treatment than Coffee Prince. The characters are more slapstick and over the top, unlike in Coffee Prince, whose basic mistaken identity premise was totally sold by the sheer heart in the writing and the acting.

Ugh, I lack the terms to make a useful comparison. As I told Lauren, the difference between Goong and Coffee Prince is like the difference between an author who thinks mpreg is hilarious and one who's genuinely interested in the issues that come out of the premise.

All that said, I don't hate Goong; I just don't love it yet. Lauren has promised me a wonderful main ship once things get going, so I shall forge ahead.

3. Have stopped watching TVD. I'm a season and a half in - I just saw 2.09, aka the Katherine Backstory Episode), and I don't hate it. I'm just paralyzed with not caring very much. I'm having trouble articulating why. Maybe it's that I'm fundamentally disinterested in urban fantasy, with the werewolves and the vampires and all? (You laugh, my BtVS peeps, but 'tis true.) Also I'm fundamentally disinterested in teen soaps, which this still has a lot of elements of. And just... I don't know.

I'm not dismissing it for all time; it's possible I'll come back at some point in the future and be all YAY VAMPIRE DIARIES. I had the following conversation with next_to_normal in chat:

Me: I think it might be one of those things where I'm just not in the mood?
Next_to_Normal: you and your MOODS

Heh. Yes.

4. Have been rewatching M*A*S*H off and on, starting with S1. Gah, how is it possible that I hate so many sitcoms and yet I love this one so much? I think it's the underlying gritty realism that saves it for me; I really appreciate the contrast. Plus it's a great stable of actors. I'm particularly fond of Alan Alda, McLean Stevenson, and Gary Burghoff. Also Larry Linville this time around, who's so very perfect as Frank.

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I just finished watching Coffee Prince, which is a Korean drama about a girl who is mistaken for a boy and offered a job in a coffee shop (the latter meaning that of course verity needs to watch it). Only she falls in love with her boss, who's falling for her, too, despite thinking she's a guy and having only ever been interested in girls before. It's delightful and adorable and available free on Hulu. I have a lot of feelings about it, but penny_lane_42 has really already said all of them.

However, now I want to read ALL THE FIC, which... isn't going to take long. There are 14 fics on AO3 and 5 on ff.net. Phooey. Yuletide, here we come.

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Title: Rather Less Yielding Than a Dream
Fandom: Downton Abbey
Pairing / Characters: Mary, Matthew/Lavinia (can easily be read as Matthew/Mary/Lavinia if one is so inclined)
Words / Rating: 6700 words / PG
Spoilers: Through 2.06 and goes utterly AU after that.
Warnings: Mpreg. Stealth crossover.
Summary: In which Matthew turns up pregnant, Lavinia is his wife, and Mary is the glue that holds everything together.

A/N: Written to penny_lane_42’s prompt for the Het Mpreg Ficathon and Brit-picked by the marvelous brutti_ma_buoni. Any remaining mistakes are mine, all mine!

Y’all, I am ridiculous. I never meant to write Downton Abbey fic at all, but since I did write this I ended up wanting to write ALL MY FEELINGS about the show, which of course means that the story in which Matthew gets knocked up is mostly about Mary and Lavinia.

Why can I not write all these serious thoughts in a serious story, instead of one founded on crack? /o\

( 'I'm not pregnant.” Lavinia stumbled over the last word. 'I’m not. Matthew is.' )

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I asked ghostyouknow27 for questions a while back, and she answered me with CRACK.

( So, have some crack. )

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Per the original plan, today is the deadline for the Het Mpreg Ficathon. I've gone ahead and collected links to the fics posted so far.

However, if you're working on something and haven't finished yet, please drop a line whenever you do and I'll be happy to add it to the list! There will be no deadline shaming here. (Not least because yours truly has a near-complete draft of her fic, but won't be ready to post it for another couple of days.)

MASTERLIST (by date of posting)
Checkup (and on AO3), by shinysylver - Smallville/DCU - Clark/Lois + Bruce - PG - 700 words
Summary: An ultrasound shows Clark and Lois their child for the first time.

One of Your Everyday Miracles, by brutti_ma_buoni - Firefly - Wash/Zoe + ensemble - PG - 2300 words
Prompt: In the future, it's possible for men to carry the babies. Wash and Zoe decide that Wash's job is safer than Zoe, so he'll be the one to carry their child.

Diaspores (and on AO3), by ghostfic - SPN - Sam/Jo-ish - R - 8000 words (was WIP; now complete)
Summary: The one in which Sam is pregnant with Jo's plant baby.

For Keeps, by gryfndor_godess - BtVS - Spike/Buffy - PG-13 - WIP; 6900 words this chapter
Summary: When unknown demons attack Spike in autumn 2019 and infect him with what seems to be a parasite, all Slayer and Watcher hands are on deck to try to get it out of him. But what if the “parasite” could be something more?


Rather Less Yielding Than a Dream (and on AO3), by snickfic - Downton Abbey - Mary, Matthew/Lavinia - PG - 6700 words
Summary: In which Matthew turns up in the family way, Lavinia is his wife, and Mary is the glue that holds everything together.

A Kick From the Inside, by lusciousxander - BtVS - Xander, Buffy, Willow, Joyce - 9 chapters / 32k words
Summary: Something weird is going on with Xander. He's been throwing up a lot and there are some changes in... his body. He sure as hell hopes it's not what he's thinking.

NOT MY SHIPCOMMENTFICATHON

Prompt any ship you like; write ships that you don't ship (however you define "not shipping"). There are not nearly enough BtVS/Ats prompts there yet. Nor SPN prompts.

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1. Yummy meta by amonitrate about Dean's grab for "normal life" in S6. This is the same fan who wrote the "class representation in SPN" meta that I liked so much, and I really like what she says here RE Dean and Lisa and Dean's reasons for his actions there.

2. Sky of a Tree Called Life, by RaceUlfson. Fullmetal Alchemist post-series WIP focusing on Roy Mustang and the Elric brothers, although it looks to include cameos from practically everyone. No pairing listed, as of now. It's mpreg, which is how I found it, but mpreg is the plot, not the point. It's what I guess I'd call a full-bodied fic: it has tons of character moments and banter and worldbuilding details large and small. It has everything, and do you know how rare that is to find in a fic?

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Title: Pretend We Can't Tell the Difference
Fandom: Supernatural RPF
Characters: Gen, Julie
Words / Rating : 740 words / PG-13 (for a teensy bit of language)
Summary: Gen figured no one would notice she was an alpha on a mixed beta/omega overnight trip. Someone does.

A/N: You know that thing that happens when you have three different big important projects with deadlines and several more without deadlines, so you write something that has nothing to with any of them? Yeah.

This fic is solely an excuse to integrate this adorable set photo of Genevieve and Julie into my alpha/beta/omega 'verse. (Previous parts of verse here.)

( 'You aren't supposed to be here.' )

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