Oh wow...I see I haven't posted since the middle of March. I knew it had been a while, but I didn't realize it had been that long. Oops. It's been a busy spring, I guess.

In the meantime, the rarelywritten archive went live yesterday, and I got the most lovely Imperial Radch fic from teaotter. It's a beautifully written piece that manages to be both a slice-of-life glimpse of the world aboard Mercy of Kalr and take on some of the bigger existential questions of the novels.

whatever a sun will always sing (1107 words) by Teaotter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kalr Five & Mercy of Kalr
Characters: Kalr Five, Mercy of Kalr
Summary:

Old dreams, new opportunities: Kalr Five has a choice to make.

I wrote two fics for the challenge, my assignment and a pinch hit. My assignment was an Imperial Radch fic for teaotter, which means we wrote for each other--something that's never happened to me before.

Benefit (2308 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Seivarden Vendaai, Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq
Additional Tags: Pining, Masks, Post-Book(s)
Summary:

“How can it be, that you, who’ve worn so many faces, should remain always the same, while I, who’ve had the same face for a thousand years, have changed so much that I am unrecognizable to myself?”

And then I picked up a Cabin Pressure pinch hit, because Cabin Pressure pinch hits are the best. I had a great time writing this one.

The Loophole (2210 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cabin Pressure
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, Douglas Richardson, Arthur Shappey, Snoopadoop
Additional Tags: Origin Story
Summary:

Every dog has an origin story.

Okay, hope everyone's doing well out there in DW/LJ-land. More soon, I hope!

Over a month ago, I expressed a desire to write some shameless h/c, and d_generate_girl suggested I write some for Peaky Blinders. Many weeks later, I ended up this, which is h/c of a kind, but also one of the grimmest things I've ever written. Sorry?

Many thanks to d_generate_girl, though, for beta'ing, and helping me out with it enormously!

Five Fevers (3723 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Peaky Blinders (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: May Carleton/Thomas Shelby, Grace Burgess/Tommy Shelby
Characters: Tommy Shelby, Polly Gray, John Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Ada Shelby, Freddie Thorne, May Carleton
Additional Tags: Fever, Hurt/Comfort, War
Summary:

Penicillin wasn't discovered until 1928.

Here's the fic I wrote for crossovering. It was hard as hell to write, and I'm not sure it was worth it. But I've now posted more Sherlock fic to AO3 than SPN fic, so there's that.

A Study in Madder (6974 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Merlin (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Anthea (Sherlock), Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gaius (Merlin), Uther Pendragon (Merlin)
Additional Tags: Episode: s01e01 A Study in Pink, but in Camelot
Summary:

When John Watson returned to Camelot after a long absence, he made three vows.

The first of these, to turn his face from violence, he broke almost immediately. Mere days after re-entering the kingdom, he found himself standing once more over a dead body.

Huh. AO3 tells me I've posted five fics so far this month. This can only mean one thing: I have been avoiding work!

Anyway, for the record, for purimgifts this year, I wrote two Sleepy Hollow fics (my first in the fandom) and one Sherlock fic. The rules of the exchange are that the stories need to be under 1,000 words, and, in honor of the holiday, must concern either 1)a Jewish character, 2) a female character, or 3) characters defeating an Evil Vizier. I like it best when I get matched so that I can write about Jewish characters, but I enjoy writing about ladies, too, as I did this year.

Household Pests (945 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Morstan, John Watson
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Summary:

On Tuesday, there were three.

No Wilderness with You (970 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sleepy Hollow (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ichabod Crane & Abbie Mills
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 2, Grooming, Hair Brushing
Summary:

Ichabod gets ectoplasm in his hair. Abbie helps him get it out.

Passages (343 words) by ariadnes_string
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sleepy Hollow (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abbie Mills & Jenny Mills
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 3, Character Study
Summary:

Sometimes Jenny dreams she’s on a ship.

This year, I received a fascinating XMFC story, In Which Meir Kahane Gave Magneto a Bloody Nose (with parts 2 and 3). Two of my favorite things about XMFC are its exploration of Erik's uneasy relationship to his Jewish identity/heritage, and the way it maps mutant politics onto other issues of the twentieth century: this story does both!

nb: my other two March fics are a Rivers of London story and another Sherlock story, this one Sherlock/Mary.

I am off for work travel tomorrow, and won't really be back until 3/30. See y'all next month!

Posting my intoabar fic before I take off for a week. The prompt was "James Hathaway walks into a bar and meets...the Pirate Captain."

Thanks to everyone for the help and encouragement with this! And apologies for the cheapness of some of the shots.

Title: Pirates! In an Adventure with an Ex-Seminarian
Fandoms: Lewis and Pirates!In an Adventure with Scientists
Rating: g, gen
Word count: 1,903
Spoilers: mild spoilers for the entire run of Lewis, sorry
Disclaimer: not mine, no profit.

Summary: What if Hathaway had joined the Pirate Crew instead of Oxford CID?

Pirates! In an Adventure with an Ex-Seminarian

This was written for the hc_bingo April challenge: to write crossover fic for at least one of four given prompts. My prompts were burns, torture, motion sickness and accidental soul-bonding. All four made their way into the fic, though the soul-bonding is canonical and happens off stage.

Title: A Piece of Preserve Ginger
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie films)/ Ripper Street
Rating: PG
Spoilers: none for Sherlock Holmes; for 1x05 and 1x08 of Ripper Street.
Disclaimer: not mine, no profit.
Beta: garry_owen

Summary: Three times John Watson and Bennet Drake crossed paths.

A Piece of Preserved Ginger

Title: Phantaguesia
Rating: PG (with violent combat imagery), gen
Genre: h/c
Warnings: This is a fic about PTSD and triggers. If you'd like to know what the triggers are before reading, the warning is in the end notes on AO3.
Spoilers: none, set during S1
Word count: ~4.5K
Disclaimer: Neither these characters nor these stories are mine. Further references in the end notes on AO3.

a/n: for the "PTSD" square on my hc_bingo card.
a/n: thank you to garryowen for the beta. all remaining mistakes my own.
a/n: further notes with the fic.

Summary: Some things take a while to go away.

Phantaguesia (link goes to AO3)

Title: Out of Nine Lives I've Spent Seven
Fandom: Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol
Rating: PG (minor language), gen.
Warnings: none
Word Count: ~9.2K
Disclaimer: not mine, no profit.

a/n: originally written for this prompt at the ghotocol_kink meme and posted anonymously over there. I've cleaned it up some and fixed at least one glaring continuity error.
a/n: title from The Band, "The State I'm In."

Summary: Ethan had five or six hours before the poison kicked in. Plenty of time to complete the mission, right?

Out of Nine Lives I've Spent Seven

(nb: link goes to AO3 b/c it was too long for a single LJ post)

It's been an exhausting week and next week promises to be no better. But I wanted to write something--so here, have some h/c, inspired by rabidchild67's lovely piece of OT3, Lullaby. It's an episode tag for "Game Ogre."

Title: Comfrey and Lavender
Rating: PG
Pairings: none, but pre-OT3 if you're so inclined
Warnings: spoilers for "Game Ogre."
Word count: ~2.2K
Disclaimer: not mine, no profit.

Summary: She opens the door, though Monroe really wouldn’t have blamed her if she hadn’t.

Comfrey and Lavender (link goes to AO3)

Re-posting the xover_exchange fic I've been whining about. I don't like it as much as the stabs I made at the same xover here and here. But, unlike those ficlets, it has a plot of sorts :)

Title: Eight million stories out there and they’re naked
Fandoms: Hawaii Five-O, White Collar
Characters: Kono, Chin-Ho Kelly, Danny, Steve, Peter, Neal, Diana, Jones.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Word count: ~8K
Spoilers: none (pre-S3 for White Collar, pre-S2 for Hawaii Five-O)
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: White Collar and Hawaii-Five O belong to their respective creators.
a/n: written for jedibuttercup for xover_exchange 2011.
a/n: title from Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind”
a/n: many thanks to norbelulah for the beta and to the xover_exchange mods for their patience!

Summary: “We were supposed to go spear fishing this morning,” Chin said. “Steve never showed. Not answering his phone, either. Car’s in the driveway but there’s no one home.”

( eight million stories out there and they’re naked )