"Five Things" Comment Fic Offer
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halfamoonIf you name a prompt and a female character from one of my fandoms (please see below), I'll try to write one-sentence-style comment fic for them. I won't promise to write every prompt, but I'll try to do as many as I can.
Example prompt: Farscape, Aeryn Sun, five times Aeryn got drunk and maudlin
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin), A:tS, BSG (new), BtVS, Doctor Who (mostly nu Who), Farscape, Firefly, Heroes (Season 1 &2), Jane Austen, Life on Mars, LOTR, Mad Men (seasons 1 & 2), Merlin (season 1), Slings & Arrows, the Swordspoint trilogy (Ellen Kushner), Torchwood (season 2 & CoE), T:SCC, Veronica Mars (mostly season 1), the Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
ETA: Castle, Star Trek: AOS, Tamora Pierce's Tortall novels (preferably SotL or Immortals), the Téméraire series (Naomi Novik)
Example prompt: Farscape, Aeryn Sun, five times Aeryn got drunk and maudlin
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin), A:tS, BSG (new), BtVS, Doctor Who (mostly nu Who), Farscape, Firefly, Heroes (Season 1 &2), Jane Austen, Life on Mars, LOTR, Mad Men (seasons 1 & 2), Merlin (season 1), Slings & Arrows, the Swordspoint trilogy (Ellen Kushner), Torchwood (season 2 & CoE), T:SCC, Veronica Mars (mostly season 1), the Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
ETA: Castle, Star Trek: AOS, Tamora Pierce's Tortall novels (preferably SotL or Immortals), the Téméraire series (Naomi Novik)
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 09:52 pm (UTC)2. When she is in her fourteenth year and her first moon blood is upon her, she watches the dark red drops trickle into the golden curls between her legs. She thinks of sharing this with her brother later because twins share everything (don't they?), and there's a curious warmth pooling in her belly.
3. Robert loves burying his sweaty face in her loosened braids after spilling his seed in her cunt or on her thighs. She takes great pleasure in 'accidentally' singeing her hair on the next convenient occasion, even if he backhands her for this in a drunken stupour and the gold on her temple is flecked with blood.
4. Jeoffrey grabs her hair every time she nurses him, and when his tiny fist tugs at the strands, Cersei's throat tightens, and her chest aches so hard that it might burst.
5. The septa lets some dirty sparrows into her cell, who shave her head to rid her of the "earthly beauty that made her a temptress, a wanton, and corrupted her sevenfold soul." Cersei spits at those pious fools and laughs hysterically when the blonde locks start piling up on the cold stone floor.
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 09:21 pm (UTC)2. Dawn refuses to talk to her for three days when she leaves L.A. and returns to Sunnydale; in the sulky silence, Buffy hears 'I love you' over and over again.
3. Dawn becomes her only reason for putting up a brave front and taking care of Mom after the hospital; for getting up every morning after the funeral; for not crawling back into her own grave after the resurrection.
4. She would never be wacky or bored enough to study cuneiform writing on her own: After all, what are dorky little sisters for?
5. On the day the first of the newly recruited Slayers dies, Dawn puts her arms around her sister, whispering into her neck, "It is not your fault. It never is."
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:14 pm (UTC)Doctor Who, Martha Jones, five times Martha changed her hairstyle
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Date: 2010-02-01 09:34 pm (UTC)2. During her first night onboard the TARDIS, she spends far too much time in front of an old-fashioned dressing table that seems to have appeared out of nowhere: Looking forward to all of time and space curiously feels like playing "let's pretend" and dress-up as a child.
3. One definite perk of being stuck in 1969 is experimenting with afros and updos.
4. During the year-that-never-was, Martha gathers her hair in a tight bun or ponytail: Anything else would feel far too ... frivolous right now.
5. Tom loved her hair, he always said so, and she hacks it off in a fit of blind rage after his death. When she gets married to Mickey, it's grown long enough for her mother and sister to fuss over bridal curls to go with her wedding gown.
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 11:55 pm (UTC)2. When Johnson calls her, she is almost surprised that Alice doesn't hang up as soon as she recognizes Johnson's voice. Almost. Alice is an insatiably curious woman -- a trait she must have inherited from her father. "Jack Harkness is gone," Johnson tells her, matter-of-fact, "I thought you might want to know." "And you are still here," Alice says, just as calm and collected, and there's a loud click on the other end of the line.
3. When she accidentally runs into Alice on the London-Cardiff express train, Johnson nearly spills hot coffee all over her brand-new leather jacket. If Carter has been stalking her, intel hasn't caught on yet and security must be slipping -- for a split second, increasingly harebrained assassination scenarios crowd her mind.
Alice merely nods at her, an ironic smile curling her mouth, as though she had just read Johnson's thoughts.
"You're not worth the effort," she says and vanishes into a nearby compartment.
4. Sometimes, Alce phones her in the middle of the night. She never says a single word: There are just a few laboured breaths, and she always ends the call when she starts sobbing. Johnson always replies the same: "I am sorry for what I did to you, but I won't lie: I would do it again."
5. On the fifth anniversary of Steven's death, Johnson takes a bunch of brightly coloured summer flowers to his grave. She must be getting all soft and sentimental in her old age, although her view of the 456 crisis hasn't changed a bit. She would do it all over again, and Alice must see this grim determination reflected in her eyes. And yet, she takes the flowers, gingerly placing them on her son's tomb. "Thank you," she whispers and leaves.
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 10:05 pm (UTC)2. How to bar any further discussion with a cold stare and a polite smile, decorative yet deadly.
3. It's not necessarily a bad thing if some conservative Vor lords still consider her to be a scheming adulteress involved in her first husband's murder. Such a reputation may actually have ... certain advantages in Barrayaran high society.
4. How to use the results of Betan scientific surveys to expand the variety of flora available for her horticultural designs.
5. That there is really no age when we stop growing, provided there is room enough for us to stretch, up to the skies and to the stars.
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:38 pm (UTC)LOTR, Eowyn, five choices she never regretted
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Date: 2010-02-01 09:09 pm (UTC)2. She could pretend not to mind Grima's courtship, could play along in a more subtle bid for power, and yet her stubborn pride does not give her leave to bow before him.
3. She never apologizes for the harsh words meant for Aragorn at Dunhallow nor for any other time when the White Lady of Ithilien speaks her mind before the King.
4. It is her who introduces her brother to the Lady Lothiriel and who negotiates the terms of their betrothal, Dol Amroth and Rohan bound in kinship once again.
5. Even ten years after their handfasting, her husband wakes her with a kiss every morning, and she can't regret saying yes when her heart was overflowing with sunlight.
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 08:59 pm (UTC)2. She would never have thought that an elegant lady like 'Nara would wolf down three of her cupcakes in a row, let alone lick the crumbs from Kaylee's lips.
3. Baking in the ship's small kitchen is difficult enough -- and it certainly ain't any easier when River's freaking out over the bright blue icing on the cakes.
4. She wishes she had any words of comfort for poor Zoë 'cause decorating a cake sure as hell won't make this better.
5. Whenever and wherever they sit down for tea and cupcakes and lit candles in the kitchen, Kaylee is right home.
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Date: 2010-02-01 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 11:26 pm (UTC)2. Whenever someone threatens to take Gregor from the Regent Consort's household, she hugs her foster son a little tighter afterwards. They already got his mother, she thinks, and they'll get him soon enough.
3. Her husband's wardrobe contains only three civilian attires, but at least two dozen uniforms, and sometimes, she wants to burn them all.
4. Given the disastrous beginnings of the Koudelkas' courtship, Cordelia wishes, not for the first time, that they'd simply allow her to drag their entire giggle of blonde daughters along to Beta Colony and be done with sex ed embarrassments forever.
5. Her son's spine is fragile enough -- it shouldn't bend or crack or, God forbid, break under the immeasurable weight of his silly, misguided, oh-so-Barrayaran sense of honour.
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Date: 2010-02-01 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 11:11 pm (UTC)2. That awful, overpriced package holiday to Egypt was the furthest that she ever got from home; however, whenever she falls asleep in front of the telly after a particularly stressful day at the office, she dreams of alien sands and frozen seas and endless light.
3. Gramps' hands are always shaking when she brings him a mug of hot tea and snatches his telescope, and Donna wonders whether Wilf is ageing faster all of a sudden.
4. Sometimes, she can't suppress the urge to work her way through Agatha Christie's mystery novels, and she couldn't even say why.
5. When she listens closely, to her head and to her heart, she can hear a soft tune, melancholy and mournful on one day, upbeat and unending on the next; she must be going bloody mad, but Donna just knows that it's the pulse of the universe, and it keeps singing in her soul.
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Date: 2010-02-01 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 10:23 pm (UTC)2. Even before the cereal commercial, she was offered a bit part in a local soap opera, but the shooting schedule collided with the casting for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and she didn't even hesitate for a single second.
3. She steadfastly refuses to play the sexy sidekick chick in one of Jack's action flicks. They'll always have Hamlet, and that's enough.
4. However, she does regret opting out of that sci-fi show at the last minute. She's sure that her husband -- former Wookie underpants nerd that he is -- would have gotten a kick out of seeing her run through endless studio corridors, blazing laser cannon in hand.
5. Her agent can't understand why she, Kate McNeil, former rom-com star turned character actress, Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee, turns down a role in a prestigious Henry James adaptation to recite Elizabethan poetry at some funeral service in provincial Canada. On the plane from LA, she flips open her edition of Shakespeare's sonnets at no. 71, thinks Geoffrey and can't read one word through her hot tears.
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Date: 2010-02-01 10:19 pm (UTC)Veronica Mars, friendship
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Date: 2010-02-01 10:42 pm (UTC)2. Meg, sweet, kind, supportive Meg, whose boyfriend she 'stole' and whose death she should have shared, is the second -- another dead girl, abused, broken, discarded on the wayside.
3. It takes her years to learn how to treat Wallace as an actual best friend, not just as someone whom she assigned that role in her life and whose lines and actions she can control as she pleases.
4. She has no qualms about sucking up to Gia in order poke around her father's metaphorical closets and dust off all skeletons she's gonna find there. Justice must be served.
5. Mac is the first person Veronica calls when she opens her own P.I. agency. "So, which gizmos do you need, Mr Bond?" Mac asks, "and what are you willing to pay if you want to fight crime?" She has always understood Veronica perfectly.
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Date: 2010-02-01 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-02 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 05:34 am (UTC)2. She does live for flying, though; for the rush and the exhilaration that fill her until she thinks she might burst; for the easy, almost effortless sense of control that she bought herself with endless training; for losing all earth-bound limitations in the skies.
3. She lives for her body, too. Sometimes, it's indeed all about the obvious gratifications of testing her arms' strength in a brawl; of letting smoke and cheap ambrosia burn on her tongue and down her throat; of coming down from the third orgasm in a row. But there are other moments when Kara simply delights in being alive, in feeling the blood pound in her veins and seeing her own chest rise and fall, rise and fall, with every breath she takes.
4. She lives for the gods. As simple as that. Doesn't mean that she sacrifices on their altars every morning or that she'll drone on and on about the Sacred Scrolls or that she's joined some frakking mystery cultists babbling about the frenzy of bakkheia and a map to the Elysian Fields. She belongs to the Lords of Kobol, however, and she never forgets it.
5. No one would even believe her if she told them, but Kara Thrace lives for harmony: those moments of clarity when everything falls into place, when cacophony turns into music, when she's at peace with herself and the world.
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Date: 2010-02-02 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 04:49 am (UTC)2. She feels a certain guilty relief when Riley dies, a small glimpse of the overwhelming burden that gets lifted when Cameron loses her chip. She wishes that her son could see that emotional attachments are to be avoided at all costs. Nobody knows this better than Sarah herself.
3. Every time Savannah cries for her mommy, Sarah locks herself into the bathroom for a minute to splash her burning face with cold water. Apparently, metal made a better mother than she does. The irony isn't lost on her.
4. When she occasionally agrees to join Ellison -- no, Richard now -- in Bible study and prayer, it's not because she's found faith or was born again or accepts Jesus Christ as her personal savior. She prefers to think about a young girl in one of Galilee's desert towns, confused and frightened by the messenger's announcement, who was still strong (or stupid) enough to praise the deity that made her his vessel.
5. She chooses to ignore the lump in her left breast, the way it hardens and grows under her nipple, painless and deadly. She nurses this child with her flesh and blood and prays for deliverance before the Judgment.
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Date: 2010-02-02 06:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 05:11 am (UTC)2. Every time Nathan talks about realpolitik and tactics and compromise, Angela bites her lip to suppress a smile: She compromised herself a long, long time ago; selling a spin to the media is nothing in comparison to selling your soul.
3. She cries when she hears about Peter's "dreams" of flying. Her gentle, caring little boy, always her favorite, will soon awaken, and his empathy will spill itself like blood.
4. Angela clearly remembers every night when they were little and would crawl under the covers with her to escape some nightmare about the monsters under the bed. She was tempted to tell them that nightmares were real and the only monster was in the bed, but they were just kids and wouldn't have understood.
5. There are no black shadowmen and no white knights. There is just her and Arthur, Daniel and Kaito and Bob, and together, they will paint the world gray in order to save it.
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