For a trope prompt request, [personal profile] skygiants asked me for a soulmate AU with George Orwell. Normally, I don't much care for soulmate AUs, because for me more often than not they take half the fun out of the ostensible ship. But in this case, Eileen O'Shaughnessy was an incredible woman in her own right, who died tragically during a hysterectomy, and it's not too much of a stretch to rewrite their first meeting as soulmate RPF -- of the kind where your soulmate's life flashes before your eyes the first time you touch.

if that is granted, all else follows )

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Title: Redefining Reality
Fandom: To Aru Kagaku no Railgun | A Certain Scientific Railgun
Rating: G
Summary: The thing about Personal Reality, Ruiko knows, is that it means something different to everyone. Finding her own definition of it is not quite as simple as everyone else would have her believe. But she'll find it, no matter what it takes.
Notes: Written for [archiveofourown.org profile] Starrie_Wolf for Yuletide 2016. (Also on AO3.) Spoilers for the first full season of the Railgun anime. Additional notes are at the end.

Redefining Reality )

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Title: Take Off Your Shoes, Make Yourself at Home
Fandom: Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE! | Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
Rating: G
Summary: It's the first time that Atsushi has been over to Kinshirou's house since their falling-out. Naturally, Kinshirou is going to an extra effort to make his old friend feel at home, and he might even succeed at it. (If he doesn't give himself a nervous breakdown in the process, that is.)
Notes: Written for [tumblr.com profile] lidoxia for the 2016 Starlit Skies Boueibu Christmas Exchange. This story incorporates a few points from the Student Council manga, specifically the combined trip for CoCoKaRa curry from the bonus manga chapter. I couldn't quite make the boys kiss or confess in this one, Lidoxia, but I hope this gives them a push in the right direction! (Also on AO3.)

Take Off Your Shoes, Make Yourself at Home )

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Title: Season's Greetings (Three Months Late)
Fandom: Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE! | Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
Rating: G
Summary: When Goura finds a forgotten bag of Christmas presents stuffed at the back of a kitchen cupboard, Yumoto briefly panics before deciding that it's better late than never for the student council members to receive them. He'll simply have to act fast, that's all -- before the graduation ceremony begins.
Notes: Written for the Boueibu Christmas Festival Free-for-All, Round 2, for [personal profile] mystofthestars's gift prompt for the Student Council to receive something wrapped in Christmas gift-wrap -- except that now it's spring from the Defense Club. (I'm breaking my own promise to myself to not write graduation-fic on the hopes that we might have a canon OAV or manga chapter about it someday, but the prompt and the idea that came out of it was too cute to resist.) (Also on AO3.)

Season's Greetings (Three Months Late) )

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Title: Ghosts on a Late Autumn Night
Fandom: Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE! | Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
Rating: G
Relationship: Kinugawa Atsushi & Kusatsu Kinshirou
Summary: One moonlit night in late autumn, at a small shrine halfway up a steep hill, two small boys had been frightened by a ghostly presence. Almost ten years later, the boys have returned to the same shrine, where they will find that the ghosts of their past may well be more than just the memories they have brought with them.
Notes: Written as an extra trick/treat for [archiveofourown.org profile] Allekha for Trick or Treat 2016. Set shortly after the end of Season 1, before the Student Council leaves to study abroad. (Also on AO3.)

Ghosts on a Late Autumn Night )

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Title: Curiosity Had Nothing to Do With It
Fandom: Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu LOVE! | Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!
Rating: G
Relationship: Kinugawa Atsushi & Kusatsu Kinshirou & Yufuin En. (On the gen side of Kinatsuen, because one of them is a cat and this is not that kind of fic.)
Summary: A glitch in Wombat's highly advanced scientific technology grants En's idle wish for a cat. The cat in question is not very happy about it.
Notes: Written for the Boueibu Christmas Festival Free-for-All, Round 1. Set between seasons 1 and 2, and inspired by the comic anthology chapter in which Wombat's technology misfires spectacularly when he gets sick. (Also on AO3.)

Curiosity Had Nothing to Do With It )

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Title: Helix, Unfurled
Fandom: Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners
Rating: 12/PG
Summary: In the aftermath of the confrontation at the Ogawa apartment complex, three survivors leave the battlefield relatively unscathed. In Touko's mind, this should feel like more of an achievement than it actually does.
Notes: Written as an extra treat for [archiveofourown.org profile] failsafe for Trick or Treat 2016. Contains major spoilers for Mujun Rasen | Paradox Spiral, and some foreshadowing for Satsujin Kousatsu (Go) | A Study in Murder - Part II. (Also on AO3.)

Helix, Unfurled )

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[personal profile] silveraspen suggested Utena fic to the prompt the first time that Mikage met Anthy (in the Black Rose cycle). So with a hefty dose of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets to set the mood, I came up with this particular encounter. Set between episodes 13 and 14, and with implied spoilers for the entire Black Rose arc....

neither budding nor fading )

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[personal profile] ceitfianna suggested Hetalia fic to the prompt Switzerland and either the hidden bunkers or internal language issues. So I thought of a steel door I'd seen in the side of a mountain, and the fact that Liechtenstein likely returned to her own house after the end of World War II....

The Fortress on the Rhine )

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[personal profile] ashkitty suggested Dark Is Rising fic to the prompt The time Bran got involved with Cymdeithas yr Iaith. This is definitely set in the Eirias Triad universe, in the very early 1980s, not long after the events of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau. In which one of Cymdeithas yr Iaith's most promising young leaders is planning a protest over Westminster's foot-dragging approach to Welsh-language television broadcasting....

Lighting Up the Airwaves )

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Title: The (Wrong) Color of Money
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: G
Summary: America has a little cash problem. Switzerland can only help so much.
Notes: Technically, this story takes place a few years earlier than the present day, since printing technologies have improved a bit since then...but it's still topical, even now. (Also on AO3.)

The (Wrong) Color of Money )

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Title: Local Knowledge
Fandom: Ghostbusters (2016)
Rating: G
Summary: Something strange is brewing in the nation's capital, and Patty calls on a contact from her network of historians to help pinpoint the source.
Notes: Having at last had a chance to see Ghostbusters recently, I posted the following on Twitter: So I finally saw Ghostbusters, and now I want all the fic about Patty and her personal network of local historians and museum staff. She gets full access to their resources and invites to special events. They keep the GB on speed dial for troubleshooting purposes. Win-win.

[personal profile] skygiants promptly replied: I want you to write yourself a self-insert fic about this.

Now, I don't consider myself to be a true local historian, but when it comes to Cold War and nuclear history, there's one very local tale that immediately came to mind. So here's the hastily written, blatant author self-insert flashfic that spilled forth, totally not meant to be taken seriously by anyone, including the author.

Local Knowledge )

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Title: Closed Hands, Open Hearts
Fandom: 咲 -Saki-
Rating: G
Summary: Hisa wants to become stronger, so she sets herself up to play against the three people who can give her the kind of challenge she needs. (Even if it's a bit more of a challenge than she thought it would be.)
Notes: Written for [archiveofourown.org profile] maat_seshat for Parallels 2016. (Also on AO3.) Set during the combined schools training camp (manga volumes 7 and 8), particularly between chapters 62 and 63. All other notes are at the end.

Closed Hands, Open Hearts )

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With my permission, [livejournal.com profile] creepy_pillow (Пеле) has translated my Hetalia fic A Brand Plucked Out of the Burning into Russian and has posted it here at Ficbook.net.

My Russian knowledge is quite limited, but from what I can tell it looks to be a very fine translation, and I'm supremely impressed by and grateful for the time and effort taken over it. Большо́е спаси́бо!
Title: Water Offerings
Fandom: Gakkou Gurashi! | School-Live!
Rating: T
Summary: In any survival situation, the importance of water cannot be underestimated.
Notes: Written for [archiveofourown.org profile] ried for Yuletide 2015. (Also on AO3.) Spoilers for the series in general, at least through EP 10. All notes are at the end.


Water Offerings )

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Title: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Fandom: Dai Mahou Touge | Magical Witch Punie-chan
Rating: T
Summary: Anego cuts class for a quiet smoke, and runs into Punie's creepy little mascot. At least he's got a match or two to share...and a useful perspective on life with a murderous magical princess.
Notes: Lots of underage smoking in this one, as well as my attempts to approximate the Japanese equivalent of rough language. A brief note at the end.

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em )

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Title: Mirror Therapy
Fandom: Kara no Kyoukai | The Garden of Sinners
Rating: U/G
Summary: Touko pulls an all-nighter to repair Shiki's damaged left arm after the first battle with Fujou Kirie. In the quiet of her workroom, late at night, she takes the time to reassess one of her other, more personal projects.
Notes: Written for [archiveofourown.org profile] Tren for Parallels. (Also on AO3.) Set during Fukan Fuukei | Overlooking View. Contains major spoilers for Mujun Rasen | Paradox Spiral. All other notes are at the end.

Mirror Therapy )

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Title: Cold Reading
Fandom: Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto
Rating: U/G
Summary: Midnight Flight's performance of On the Eve of Legend opens in less than two weeks, but Takuto is still struggling with his part. Wako and Sugata offer to help him with his lines, only to find that they're not quite as confident in their roles as they thought they were, either.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for [archiveofourown.org profile] Nonesane for Yuletide 2014. (Also on AO3.) Spoilers for much of the series, up through and including the performance of On the Eve of Legend in EP 22. All other notes are at the end.

Cold Reading )

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Title: Never Too Much, Never Too Little
Fandom: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away
Rating: U
Summary: For Chihiro, it's a struggle to find her footing in the real world after her time in the bathhouse. There's more than one way back to solid ground, though -- it's just a question of learning how to fall, and how to land.
Notes: Written for [personal profile] genarti for Parallels 2014. (Also available at AO3.) All notes are at the end.

Never Too Much, Never Too Little )

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Title: Hostage Negotiations (A Place of Greater Safety Remix)
Fandom: Hetalia
Rating: U
Pairings: Background France/Austria, background one-sided Austria/Liechtenstein
Summary: France's latest prisoner of war isn't likely to escape, but the Helvetic Republic has been ordered to guard her, and so he will.
Notes: This story is a remix of [personal profile] sirvalkyrie's Ransom, written for Remix Redux 11. The pairings of the original story aren't really central to the plot of this remix, so even though I have marked them here I regret that those who were hoping for rarepair fic might be disappointed. But the existence of France/Austria and Austria/Liechtenstein (the latter more of a young girl's crush) shaped my original conception of this remix, so I have marked them here accordingly. Historical and other notes are at the end. (Also available at AO3.)

Hostage Negotiations (A Place of Greater Safety Remix) )

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