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FIC: Bonus Round (2/3)

2012-04-25T04:58:54Z

Title: Bonus Round (2/3)
Fandom: 咲-Saki/Ouran High School Host Club
Rating: U
Summary: Fresh from their prefectural-level victory, the five ladies of the Ryuumonbuchi High School Mahjong Club have arrived in Tokyo to compete in the national championships. But before they make their debut on the national stage, an afternoon of unparalleled delights awaits them -- courtesy of the Ouran High School Host Club.
Disclaimer: All characters are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: This story mostly follows anime continuity for both series, with a few references to the manga. Set pre-series for 咲-Saki (during the flashback shown in EP 20), between EP 14 and 15 for Ouran.

For those who may not have seen 咲-Saki, the Ryuumonbuchi girls are one of the teams that the main characters compete against in the prefectural tournament -- this story is set one year before the start of the manga and anime storyline. In this picture, starting from the top and going clockwise, are Ryuumonbuchi Touka, Kunihiro Hajime, Amae Koromo, Inoue Jun, and Sawamura Tomoki.

Per Japanese convention, all names are given in the FamilyName FirstName order.

( Part II )

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FIC: Bonus Round (1/3)

2012-04-25T04:54:43Z

Title: Bonus Round (1/3)
Fandom: 咲-Saki/Ouran High School Host Club
Rating: U
Summary: Fresh from their prefectural-level victory, the five ladies of the Ryuumonbuchi High School Mahjong Club have arrived in Tokyo to compete in the national championships. But before they make their debut on the national stage, an afternoon of unparalleled delights awaits them -- courtesy of the Ouran High School Host Club.
Disclaimer: All characters are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: This story mostly follows anime continuity for both series, with a few references to the manga. Set pre-series for 咲-Saki (during the flashback shown in EP 20), between EP 14 and 15 for Ouran.

For those who may not have seen 咲-Saki, the Ryuumonbuchi girls are one of the teams that the main characters compete against in the prefectural tournament -- this story is set one year before the start of the manga and anime storyline. In this picture, starting from the top and going clockwise, are Ryuumonbuchi Touka, Kunihiro Hajime, Amae Koromo, Inoue Jun, and Sawamura Tomoki.

Per Japanese convention, all names are given in the FamilyName FirstName order.

( Part I )

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FIC: At Sixes and Sevens (The Trojan Horse Variation)

2012-04-16T00:39:48Z

Title: At Sixes and Sevens (The Trojan Horse Variation)
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: 12/PG
Summary: England would have it be known that his application to join the European Economic Community is not an act of desperation. France would have it be known that England isn't fooling anyone but himself. (Implied France/England)
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: This story is a remix of zalia's Between Scylla and Charybdis, written for Remix Redux 10. Historical and other notes are at the end. (Also available at AO3.)

( At Sixes and Sevens (The Trojan Horse Variation) )

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FIC: Ever Closer Union

2012-01-23T01:43:03Z

Title: Ever Closer Union
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: U
Summary: Sealand's latest brilliant plan to be recognised as a nation involves making a bid for membership in an international organisation. Finding the right one to join, however, is a lot harder than he'd expected.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: The blame for this piece rests entirely on the shoulders of daegaer, courtesy of this drabble. Historical and other notes are at the end. (Also available at AO3.)

( Ever Closer Union )

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FIC: The Monster at the End of This Book

2011-12-20T02:51:19Z

Title: The Monster at the End of This Book
Fandom: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: 'Even when I ask about him, all that anyone will ever say is that he is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, the Prince of Silence, the Foe of Speech. But they will not tell me what he is like, or what he can do, or how he will react to those who try to stop him. How can we spy on him if we don't know the first thing about him?'
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: A missing scene that takes place shortly before the Plentimaw Fishes find that they cannot go on any further, and Haroun and the others leave them behind to continue their journey towards the Old Zone.

( The Monster at the End of This Book )

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FIC: Twentieth Century Blues

2011-11-14T16:05:17Z

Title: Twentieth Century Blues
Fandom: Capital Scandal (경성스캔들, Gyeongseong Scandal)
Rating: 12/PG
Originally posted: 12 November 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: On nights like these, Cha Song Joo thinks of Russia.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for skygiants for the dark_agenda 2011 Kaleidoscope fanworks challenge. This story takes place shortly before the start of the series; full notes are at the end.

( Twentieth Century Blues )

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FIC: A Brand Plucked Out of the Burning

2011-05-04T04:08:03Z

Title: A Brand Plucked Out of the Burning
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: 15/R (highlight for full warning: graphic description of death by hanging)
Originally posted: 25 March-1 May 2011
Summary: After a long absence from the New World, England travels into the northern reaches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in search of young America -- and discovers the horrific lengths to which fear of witchcraft has driven some of his colonists.
Notes: Written for a Hetalia anon-meme request about colonial!America being caught up in the Salem witch trials. This story is set about two decades before the Salem outbreak, but draws upon records of related witchcraft accusations and trials from colonial Massachusetts and Connecticut. (From a purely physical appearance, America looks to be about 9 or 10 years of age at the time of this incident.) Full historical notes are at the end.

( A Brand Plucked Out of the Burning )

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FICLET: Pas d'argent, pas de Suisse

2011-04-29T23:42:49Z

A brief character study, written for a Hetalia anon-meme prompt in which the nations hold down outside jobs because they have to -- or because they want to.

( Pas d'argent, pas de Suisse (written 28 April 2011) )

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FICLET: Guerrilla Warfare

2011-03-14T03:38:59Z

ashkitty requested a short Eirias Triad piece in response to the result of the 2011 Wales referendum, and this article in particular provided a gem of an idea, which turned into a rather fluffy ficlet.

( Guerrilla Warfare )

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FIC: In Hell, the Simultaneous Translators Are Swiss

2011-03-01T15:28:12Z

Title: In Hell, the Simultaneous Translators Are Swiss
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: U
Originally posted: 24-28 February 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: The nations have lost their ability to communicate with each other in any language other than their official languages. Canada and Switzerland, as nations with multiple official languages, have been pressed into service as simultaneous translators for EU meetings. But how will they react when a desperate Italy begs for help to convey a message that he can no longer say on his own? (Germany/Italy, implied France/England)
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for a Hetalia anon-meme prompt in which the nations are suddenly confronted with language barriers that prevent them from communicating with each other. (Heaven help me, I've written serious 'ship-fic for the first time.) All notes -- in this case, primarily linguistic notes -- are at the end.

( In Hell, the Simultaneous Translators Are Swiss )

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FIC: Ostpolitik

2011-02-12T19:31:23Z

Title: Ostpolitik
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: 15/PG-13 (language)
Originally posted: 6-11 February 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: At a wake for his old boss Willy Brandt, a heavily inebriated Germany starts to recount some of the political jokes that his boss was known to tell. Prussia, however, doesn't see much to laugh about.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for a Hetalia anon-meme request about a very drunk Germany making East German jokes in the presence of a very unamused Prussia (who spent the Cold War as the personification of East Germany). Historical and other notes are at the end.

( Ostpolitik )

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FIC: Marignano

2011-01-28T07:06:25Z

Title: Marignano
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: 12/PG (brief combat violence)
Originally posted: 14-27 January 2011 (also available at AO3)
Summary: The ways of warfare are changing at the dawn of the sixteenth century, and the Swiss Confederacy is not pleased to discover that his tried-and-true tactics are less effective than they once were.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for a Hetalia anon-meme request about the origins of the cross-shaped scar that Switzerland has on his left shoulder (as seen in this fan-coloured image). It gave me an excuse to do some research that I've been eyeing for a while -- I am by no means a military historian, especially of this period, but the challenge of writing something a bit out of my comfort zone was too good to pass up. Additional historical notes are at the end.

( Marignano )

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FIC: Frontispiece

2010-12-25T16:19:36Z

Title: Frontispiece
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2010 (also available at AO3)
Summary: It began, as it ended, with a book and an outstretched hand.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: This story is an expansion of a short piece I wrote several years ago, a scene that I have always wanted to flesh out beyond the 100-word limit imposed by a drabble. It is really only the prelude to a much longer story, one that I hope to write out fully one day, but for now I hope this will suffice.

A note of caution: This story describes an incident of corporal punishment of a child -- not in particularly graphic detail, but enough to require a brief warning all the same.

( Frontispiece )

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FICLET: Let Nothing You Dismay

2010-12-24T02:31:55Z

Written for a Hetalia anon-meme as a response to the prompt: Each year since 1947, a Christmas tree has been given to the people of London from the people of Norway in gratitude for Britain's support for Norway during World War II.

( Let Nothing You Dismay (written 23-24 December 2010) )

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FIC: Reservoirs

2010-12-18T04:28:24Z

Title: Reservoirs
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2009 (also available at AO3)
Summary: Friendships, like reservoirs, are often shaped by what lies well below the surface. But even after thirty years of friendship, Will Stanton is not entirely prepared to find some unexpected depths.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Like any good piece of political fiction, this story has its origins in a kernel of truth. On 19 October 2005, the Liverpool City Council did in fact issue an apology for the flooding of the Tryweryn valley, an act that was instrumental in building support for Plaid Cymru as a Welsh nationalist political party and for Welsh devolution in general. I hope that I have changed or obscured sufficient details -- including Bran's constituency and ministerial office -- to avoid giving any offence. Any factual errors in this fictional world, however inadvertently introduced, are entirely my own.

( Reservoirs )

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FIC: Absent Soul

2010-12-18T04:00:38Z

Title: Absent Soul
Fandom: Cambridge Spies
Rating: 15/PG-13 (canonical and noncanonical m/m relationships)
Originally posted: Yuletide 2008 (also available at AO3)
Summary: Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. -- attributed to Xenophon. Anthony Blunt, Julian Bell, and Guy Burgess, in various permutations.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: The title of this story is the title of the poem quoted within the text – 'Alma ausente' ('Absent Soul'), written by the Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) as part of his 'Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías'. Lorca was arrested and executed by the Falangists in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. His poetry and dramatic writings, many of which had strong political, social, and homoerotic themes, were banned in Franco's Spain for nearly two decades after his death.

I owe a good deal to Miranda Carter's excellent and invaluable biography Anthony Blunt: His Lives for a few choice details about the relationship between Blunt and Julian Bell, as well as for general historical information on the Cambridge spies.

( Absent Soul )

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FIC: A Matter of Finesse

2010-12-18T03:45:31Z

Title: A Matter of Finesse
Fandom: House of Cards
Rating: 12/PG (implied noncanonical m/m relationship)
Originally posted: Yuletide 2007 (also available at AO3)
Summary: In March 1979, Conservative Party whip Francis Urquhart is about to engineer the downfall of the Labour Government -- and he has no intention of letting an overeager young policy researcher muck things up. Pre-canon, implied (but only implied) Francis Urquhart/Tim Stamper.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: The initial framing idea for 'A Matter of Finesse' is heavily based on the actual series of events that led up to the 1979 General Election, in which Jim Callaghan's Labour Government was turned out of office and replaced by a Conservative Government under Margaret Thatcher. As a result, the events of this story take place approximately 11 years before the events of House of Cards. With a few minor adjustments to compensate for the fictional nature of the series, all of the parliamentary procedures and other political aspects of this story -- including the arcane legal and constitutional regulations of life and death in the Palace of Westminster -- are quite true and accurate.

( A Matter of Finesse )

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FICLET: Passed Pawns

2010-12-14T05:21:34Z

A certain incredibly awesome thing was written for me, based on the characters of Merriman Lyon and Kaylee Frye from the Milliways RPG community. I do not consider this response to be anywhere near as awesome as the original thing -- but it is a response nonetheless.

( Chess Metaphors: Passed Pawns (written 25 July 2006) )

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FIC: Harry Potter and the Smurfy Guest

2010-12-03T06:03:19Z

Title: Harry Potter and the Smurfy Guest
Fandom: Harry Potter/The Smurfs crossover
Rating: U
Originally posted: 2 October 2005
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Summary: A special visitor to Professor Slughorn's Potions class provides Harry and his friends with an unorthodox assignment.
Notes: This story was written solely because of a story title given to me by a friend during a writing challenge in March 2004. It took more than a year for me to come up with an appropriate response -- if this response can be considered 'appropriate'. Set during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

( Harry Potter and the Smurfy Guest )

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DRABBLE: Untitled Harry Potter/Yes Minister drabble

2010-09-28T14:46:55Z

An untitled crossover drabbble, written on 16 July 2005. Something of a response to both May 2005 General Election and the opening chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in which the Muggle Prime Minister makes a brief appearance. (You can't tell me that as Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey wouldn't know all about the wizarding world....)

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'Humphrey, what's the meaning of this?'

A long-suffering sigh, quickly suppressed. 'The meaning of what, Prime Minister?'

'Look.' Hacker all but flung a thick folder across the Cabinet table, forcing Bernard to dive after it to keep the papers within from flying every which way. 'I've had the figures checked and rechecked, grilled anyone remotely responsible for resource allocation, and somehow no-one in this entire Government can account for this budget discrepancy of nearly ten million pounds!'

'Not pounds, Prime Minister.'

Hacker blinked. '...what?'

'Not pounds, Prime Minister.' The Cabinet Secretary's smile could have been painted by da Vinci. 'Galleons.'

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FIC: Hope and Glory

2010-09-28T14:44:56Z

Title: Hope and Glory
Fandom: Harry Potter/The Dark Is Rising
Rating: U
Originally posted: 25 March 2004
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Summary: Oxford, 1941: A likely meeting in an unlikely place.
Notes: Originally written for agonistes, who requested a meeting between Merriman Lyon and Albus Dumbledore -- 'preferably silly', as she said. I attempted to write silly, but did not exactly succeed...yet I rather like how it turned out.

( Hope and Glory )

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FICLETS: Untitled Dark Is Rising Pieces, Part 1

2010-09-28T14:43:50Z

A collection of untitled shorter pieces.

( Merriman Lyon corrects an undergraduate's essay. (Comment-fic, written 25 April 2007) )

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( Bran Davies receives a unexpected gift from a devoted constituent. (Ficlet, written 28 October 2008) )

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FIC: Diwrnod i'r Bren

2010-09-27T18:24:23Z

Title: Diwrnod i'r Bren (A Memorable Day)
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: 26 May 2005
Summary: The State Opening of Parliament has a particular meaning to one of the newest members of the House of Lords -- or so he seems to suggest.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Set sometime in the not-overly-distant future, and the third (and final) part of the Eirias Triad. More cultural notes are available at the end of the story.

( Diwrnod i'r Bren )

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FIC: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

2010-09-27T18:23:38Z

Title: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (The Land of My Fathers)
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: 18 January 2005
Summary: While visiting Bran at university, Will finds that his old friend has taken an active interest in many things political.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: This story is the result of an attempt to put a sudden mental image into words: Bran and Will, sitting together (awkwardly) in a cramped dormitory room that is awash in political campaign literature. Set in the early 1980s, and the second part of the Eirias Triad.

( Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau )

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FIC: Tân

2010-09-27T18:23:15Z

Title: Tân (Fire)
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: 12/PG (for subject matter and the vaguest of vague hints at potential noncanonical m/m relationship)
Originally posted: 14 October 2004
Summary: Bran Davies liked to play with matches.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Originally, this was planned as a 100-word response to the darkisrising100 challenge about 'bad habits'. Somehow it became 750 words and turned into something very different altogether, and eventually became the first story in the Eirias Triad.

( Tân )

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