Astro City fanfiction, Winged Victory

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Title: Safe Spaces
Fandom: Astro City
Pairing/Characters: gen; Winged Victory
Rating: PG
Summary: Winged Victory does her best to inspire women, but sometimes it seems like the whole world is arrayed against her.
Disclaimer: Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson and Alex Ross own Astro City.
Author's Notes: As far as I know, there is no Astro City fandom.  Astro City is probably one of the best comics titles of the last twenty years, but it is little and has a sporadic release schedule, and so does not perhaps receive as much attention as it deserves.  Astro City is one of my safe spaces in literature and comics, and I hope I can share it both with people who already know the title and those for whom this is their first encounter.
Word Count: 1,400

For Astro City newbies: All you need to know in order to read this story is that Winged Victory is a superhero whose powers originate from her mission to inspire agency and self-determination in women.

A fire.  There had been a fire at one of the other Women’s Centers, the one in Bakerville.

fic: modern grrrl

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modern grrrl
bandslash, Jamia Nestor/Amanda Palmer, riot grrrl AU
PG-13, ~4000 words, thanks to neverneverfic and secrethappiness for the beta.
This came both from the riot grrrl conversation I had with kylieq and this comic for the Unofficial XKCD Challenge. All song titles are listed at the end of the fic.

Posted as a part of 14valentines for [Day 3] Women and Health

( The first time Jamia hears “Rebel Girl,” it’s 1997 and she’s seventeen and sitting in her friend Sammy’s basement, listening to a mix tape that he just got in the mail from one of his friends from Boston. )

A sestina celebrating Kaylee Frye

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Many thanks to bironic for beta!

Kaylee Frye
gen (no spoilers)
290 words
a sestina

Kaylee's always been good with her hands.
From the first time she touched an engine
she knew how to make it run true...

Hands: A Kaylee Sestina

Tomoe Marguerite fanart

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I don't have much patience/time for writing, but my friend told me about this challenge so I thought I'd do some quick digital paintings of girls from my favorite anime series.

Hopefully 2 or 3 more along the way. Looking around at what's been posted, I don't see any characters I recognize, but then again, I don't watch TV. XD;


BY THE WAY. Clicking this is the equivalent of having Tomoe stomp repeatedly on your puny dialup connection. Oh, come on. You know you love it when she does that, you sicko.




I took the liberty of giving Tomoe a new outfit, because I HATE that stupid maid thing she wears in the series. If you're interested in this character, check out her wiki page.

( PICSPAM and a Youtube Vid )

Five Things Tsunade Didn't Save (And One She Did): Naruto

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Title: Five Things Tsunade Didn't Save (And One She Did)
Fandom: Naruto
Character: Tsunade
Rating: G
Spoilers: None if you know who Tsunade is.
Words: 1350

Note 1: I spaced out and posted this under the wrong LJ. My fic LJ is edonohana, which has more Naruto fic in the memories.

Note 2: A gift for rilina_fic. Apparently prompted by a post she'd made hoping for Tsunade fic, I dreamed the title but no story to go with it. She suggested that I write it anyway, so I did. Enjoy!

( There was a time when Tsunade was proud of her scars. )

Stargate: Atlantis drabble, Teyla

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Title: Thread Unbroken
Author: julii_wolfe 
Fandom: Stargate:Atlantis
Characters: Teyla/Kanaan
Rating: g
Warnings: Spoilers for Season 4 and 5 of SGA
Author's Notes: I'm hoping that the misspells are actually just things that my word processor doesn't know about. 
Summary: Teyla and her family and Athosian Tradition.

Link to my lj and story: julii-wolfe.livejournal.com/83310.html

( Thread Unbroken )

Two fics: Well, Finally (Angel, Harmony) and Kùaxìng (Firefly, Inara)

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I'm writing for 14valentines, but they work here. Thanks!

Title: Well, Finally
Author: amand_r
Fandom: Angel
Characters: Harmony
Warnings: Harmony? God love her, but sometimes dumb as a fricking post.
Author's Notes: Almost all of the typos (misspellings) are completely intentional. I know the difference between Voila and Viola. Really.
Summary: Back when she had been human, she'd never really stopped to think about what time of day it was. Now it was like, she had even less time in the day than she did before. Like, she had forever but that forever was chopped up into part free-time, and part 'oh no, going outside causes incurable burning cancer or something.'

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Title: Kùaxìng
Author: amand_r
Fandom: Firefly
Characters: Inara, other peoples
Warnings: Uh. NC-17 for strap-on sex. Also crossdressing/transgender issues. Yeah.
Author's Notes: Never wrote 'strap-on' sex before. Never wrote geisha painting before.
Summary: There are flounces and silk and a few ties and buttons. There are necklaces and flowers in hair. There are a few more stolen kisses, anywhere but on the mouth, really, Xian-li's hands, her shoulder, the innocuous clavicle, the bend of the elbow, and then finally, when they are powdered and gleaming and their every movement produces the rustle of taffeta and the low groan sound of tight fabric being forced to move with their every breath, Inara offers Xian-li her hand, and they step from the shuttle to the darkness, where the private courier is waiting to take them to the hotel.

FICLET: Any Direction in High Heels (FAKE, Diana Spacey)

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Title: Any Direction in High Heels
Fandom: FAKE
Character: Diana Spacey
Rating: G
Spoilers: takes place after Like, Like, Love
Words: 218

( Diana hasn't forgotten how Ryo said he'd be 'rooting for her'... )

Who Tries, Does & Who Wills, Can [Pern]

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While these stories are set in the same alternate universe (one where the battle between Wirenth and Pridith was narrowly averted) they can be read independently.

Who Tries, Does

Fandom: The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Rating: teen
Characters/Ships: F'nor/Brekke (& Canth/Wirenth, I suppose)
Summary: What if Canth and F'nor had reached Wirenth before Prideth?
A/N: 1,675 words. The link goes to the Yuletide website. (This was written as a New Years Resolution.)

( If he thought himself a match for the bronzes, let him prove it! )


Who Wills, Can

Fandom: The Dragonriders of Pern
Rating: teen+
Characters/Ship: Kylara/...various
Summary: Kylara continues to make trouble.
A/N: 3,713 words. Regarding spellings: In my copy of Dragonquest, Kylara's dragon's name is spelled Prideth. In my copy of Dragonflight, it's Pridith. I think the DQ spelling is more widespread, but, for aesthetic purposes, I prefer Pridith, so that's how I've spelled it here. Heh. Like Kylara, I do as I please. The link will take you to my journal.

( "What have you brought upon me and my Hold?" )

Women of Stargate SG-1 icons

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Teasers:
  

Found here @ krissie678 . Please make any comments there. Thank you.

Women of Doctor Who celebration post

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( Come on in and share the Doctor Who love )

The Last Morning of The World, Fiction, The X Files, Teena Mulder

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TITLE: The Last Morning of The World
AUTHOR: memories_child
FANDOM: The X Files
SPOILERS: Paper Clip/Demons
RATING: PG
CHARACTER/PAIRING: Teena Mulder
WORD COUNT: 416
DISCLAIMER: The X Files et all belong to The Syndicate Chris Carter and co. No infringement is intended. Please don’t abduct sue me.
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( The dawn sky, when she wakes, is the colour of the end of the world. )

10 Merlin Icons (Gwen & Morgana)

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Sample: .

(ladies of the glade)

Comments loved, credit appreciated, sharing please. Thank you. Enjoy.

fic: Winners And Survivors, SGA, Teyla

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TITLE: Winners And Survivors
AUTHOR: Tielan
SUMMARY: During a set of war-games, Teyla finds herself having to play the hero.
CATEGORY: Drama, action-adventure, humour
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Stargate Atlantis and Teyla aren't mine, and I'm making no money from this writing.
NOTES: Written for the 2006 femgenficathon, because I love Teyla and there just weren't enough action-oriented stories around her.

There are no winners, only survivors.

Women of NCIS Icons

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A preview:

and

Women of NCIS icons.

fic: conformity (sarah connor chronicles)

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Title: Conformity
Fandom: Sarah Conner Chronicles
Character/Pairing: Sarah, Cameron
Rating: G

Summary: Machines should be the enemy.

conformity

Outfits to Inspire

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Years of Television Fashion
(and the Women Behind Them)
in almost some form of sequential order
WARNING! Image heavy! Longwinded and self-indulgent commentary!



( Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. Coco Chanel. )