Book of Gramarye

Fandom: Princess Tutu
Rating: G
Summary: While cleaning the practice rooms at the end of the day, Ahiru comes upon Rue preparing her pointe shoes for the week to come.
Notes: Set relatively early in canon, around the events of EP 7. Warning for minor injury towards the end of the story. Written for kangoo for Yuletide 2023. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

( To Dream Upon Paper and Silk )

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Title: Print on Demand
Fandom: Toshokan Sensou
Rating: G
Summary: When a local middle school's literature club is devastated by the Media Improvement Committee's decision to block all access to a certain original-fiction-writing website, the staff of the Musashino First Library take it as a prime opportunity to introduce the students to the traditional handicraft of Japanese book-binding -- and the modern history of samizdat publishing.
Notes: This story is set, for the most part, in the November and December that mark the intervening weeks between the end of the Toshokan Sensou novel and the early portions of Toshokan Nairan -- after the battle for the Museum of Information History, around the time when Iku's parents arrive for their visit. Any inadvertent timeline errors are, of course, my own. Written for Griddlebone for Yuletide 2021. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

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Title: First Strike Capabilities
Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Rating: T
Summary: The first time Homura set foot on the grounds of JGSDF Camp Mitakihara, she had no idea what she was doing. The second time, she came with a list.
Notes: Written for partiallight as an extra treat for Trick or Treat 2020. One of Homura's many pre-canon time loops. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

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Title: Late Afternoon at SeaTac Coffee
Fandom: Microsoft Office Danshi
Rating: G
Summary: 'I'm gonna quit and go work in a coffee shop.'
'You can't even keep track of half of the tasks you're supposed to do at this job. What makes you think that you'd be better off in a coffee shop?'
(or, Microsoft Word daydreams about alternate employment, and Microsoft Excel gets dragged along for the ride)
Notes: Written as a Yuletide Madness treat for marmolita for Yuletide 2019, based on the Microsoft Office Danshi character designs by rainbow-taishi. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

( Late Afternoon at SeaTac Coffee )

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Title: The Greater Hell Safety First Committee
Fandom: 鬼灯の冷徹 | Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Rating: T
Summary: At the personal request of Lord Hoozuki, Hell's hottest idol duo, Maki-Miki, are asked to star in a public service campaign promoting health and safety in the workplace. With all of the possible accidents that can befall a Hell minion -- tripping over discarded entrails, slipping on spilled blood, cutting oneself on an improperly sharpened glaive -- it's difficult to know where to begin. Thankfully, Hoozuki is willing to provide on-the-spot guidance himself to ensure that the campaign gets off the ground smoothly...for the most part.
Notes: Written for Starrie_Wolf for Parallels 2019. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

( The Greater Hell Safety First Committee )

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Title: Can I Destroy The Earth? 2.XX: Love Is a Limited Edition Collector's Item!
Fandom: Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE! | Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
Rating: G
Summary: When the Battle Lovers complain about the impracticality and visibility of their combat uniforms, Wombat tries to placate them by offering them another piece of highly advanced scientific technology: a transformation pen that will allow them to disguise themselves as anyone they wish. Meanwhile, Caerula Adamas have identified their next potential monster, only to discover that it may have been unwise to target someone who has an earnest desire for dark power -- and a will of his own when it comes to wielding it.

[NOTE: On the advice of UCHYUU TV's legal counsel, this episode from season 2 of Can I Destroy the Earth? was withdrawn before airing and never shown on live intergalactic broadcast.]

Notes: This story originally began as a concept for a scene in which Wombat gives the Battle Lovers a thinly veiled rip-off of Sailor Moon's Disguise Pen, only for them to be thoroughly weirded out and disgusted by it...and the plot then proceeded to balloon out of my control into a full-length episode fic. I regret everything and nothing about this silly story, which takes place in early to mid-S1 canon (before the beach episode).

In the opening of the first chapter of the Student Council manga, Kinshirou orders the Figure Fan Club to be disbanded, ostensibly for lack of members. Neither of the Figure Fan Club characters are named or given any real personality, but the ones in this story are based off of the manga illustrations -- as is Ota's slight stammer and his habit of using otaku-ish netspeak like 'lol' and 'srsly' in actual conversation. (Also on AO3.)


( Can I Destroy The Earth? 2.XX: Love Is a Limited Edition Collector's Item! )

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Title: Write Your Name a Thousand Times (And Maybe I'll Remember Why)
Fandom: 鬼灯の冷徹 | Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Rating: G
Relationship: Hoozuki and Hakutaku
Summary: On the morning of New Year's Day in Japanese Hell, after a long night of year-ending drunken revelry, Hakutaku blearily opens his eyes to discover that he's written Hoozuki's name in bright red paint on every possible available surface in Mortal Hell -- and has absolutely no memory of why he might have done so.
Notes: Written for Healiel for Yuletide 2017. (Also on AO3.) All notes are at the end of the fic!

( Write Your Name a Thousand Times (And Maybe I'll Remember Why) )

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Title: A Sunset Romance
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: G
Relationship: Merriman Lyon & Miss Greythorne (or perhaps Merriman Lyon/Miss Greythorne)
Summary: At the end of the summer season in Trewissick, the Professor has returned to stay at the Grey House. This time, however, he has brought a lady with him...and from the look of things, their relationship goes beyond anything that might be interpreted as mere friendship.
Notes: An expanded version of a trope prompt ficlet, courtesy of the ever-delightful rymenhild, who requested fake dating, Merriman Lyon. Once I stopped giggling at the prompt, I started to see how it might actually work! So continuing my original response, here is a few thousand words of Merriman and Miss Greythorne fake dating, set in the autumn between the events of Over Sea, Under Stone and The Dark Is Rising. (Also on AO3.)

( A Sunset Romance )

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Title: Tsukumogami (The Subtle Knife Remix)
Fandom: Joker Game
Rating: 12
Summary: The men of the D Agency have learned that every last fragment of their identities is disposable, including their souls. But are true monsters made, or born? [Alternative Universe - Daemon AU]
Notes: This story is a remix of makiyakinabe's tools of the trade, written for Remix Revival 2017. (Also on AO3.)
The first section of this work contains a heavy fixation on knives and cutting (in a magical and not necessarily literal self-harming sense) which may affect those who are sensitive to such things. Reader discretion is advised. Additional notes are at the end.

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For a trope prompt request, karanguni asked me for an immortality AU. I suppose that being post-canon, this Mononoke-hime ficlet doesn't entirely count as an AU. However, restoring the Shishigami's head like that must have had some lasting effect on both Ashitaka and San, though for Ashitaka the change would be more noticeable.

( Adagio of Life and Death )

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