Before I post a fic based on it, let me talk for a moment about BBC's show, Robin Hood, the one with Richard Armitage. I should mention I never saw the third season, where he got even hotter.




The short version is, I think this was an awful show. The only reason I kept watching it was Guy of Gisborne. My interest in Guy had a lot to do with Richard Armitage being hot--more to do with it than I really like to admit. However, some part of my interest in Guy had to do with sheer incredulity that anyone could like him at all, and my conclusion that the show wanted us to be attracted to him despite our better judgments.( BBC's Robin Hood's Guy of Gisborne, Richard Armitage )

A while ago now, I wrote Go Your Own Way, Bruce Wayne/Jim Gordon (okay okay, Bats/Commish) fic set in Nolan's movieverse. Sure I wanted to write porn, and yet my number one motivation seemed to be this: I wanted Gordon to drink shitty coffee. I wanted him to go to shitty diners with crabby waitstaff and sticky tables and have a little paunch. I wanted him to wear ratty sweats and buy cheap cigarettes and have to adjust the antennae on his tv. I want him to drink out of the bottle and put it back in the fridge, to eat out of a box almost every night, and to utterly fail at being a father. I wanted him to have drawings by his kids that he never really looks at stuffed in a drawer somewhere, and like a shirt that Babs gave to him that says, "best dad ever" and it has a hole in it.

I wanted to write all of this, and I wanted none of it to change. I wanted it to just go on and on and never have Gordon think about it and just have him live this sad sad life and work on Christmas, and not be happy but not too bent out of shape about it either, because this is what you do. You trim your mustache and you rarely buy new clothes and when some rich amazingly gorgeous playboy keeps showing up at your door you sort of shrug and start keeping condoms around the apartment, and you fuck him because who wouldn't, but sometimes strange things happen to you like Batman, and Batman is the best and worst thing that ever happened to you, and sometimes when you come you think of him but none of it is actually real or matters very much, because this is just your life.

Why does that story appeal to me? It's not even a story. And now it's happening again, I want to write it again, but now with more X-Files and Assistant Director Skinner. Oh, and no porn. Because after that thing with the hooker he figures it's not worth the bother. And what he really wants he can't have. And Mulder and Scully keep happening and happening with their aliens and their lying for each other and their sitting across from him tight-lipped giving him nothing, and he would give them everything except never to their faces, and meanwhile, all his shirts are perfectly pressed, and he always tried to do his job. This is what comes from being bald and middle-aged and a middle man and a bureaucrat and impotent and divorced and an ex-marine who used to believe in things but now only believes in people who believe in things.

Why do I want the things I want? Tell me this and win one hundred points!

Title: The Way Down
Rating: this chapter, pg
Length: this chapter, 9K, 70K overall
Warnings: later, there is sex, but not much violence.
Characters: Harry/Draco, past Harry/Ginny
Epilogue: not epilogue compliant
Summary: Malfoy’s all, “Come out of there,” the way you say to a cat who is badly behaved. And Harry’s all like, “No, what, I’m a hermit! And I have a chest-monster! And I am crazy magically powerful!” and Malfoy’s all, “We all have problems, bub.” (thoughtfully) “You are crazy though. I’ll give you that.”
A/N: -Thanks to kjp_013 for the super quick beta.

-This is now finished. The hope is to post once a week. Hopefully.

-Constructive criticism is more than welcome.

Go to: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9

( Chapter 6 )

Go to: Chapter 7

Guys, I've always wanted to do this. So I did it.


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Welcome to the

Same Name Multi-Fandom Comment Fic Meme

(where Wolverine and Logan Echolls at last find true love--together!)


How this works:

• Prompt two characters from any two canons that have at least one name in common. It's okay if the spelling are different, as long as they are pronounced the same. Your prompt can include further details, or just the two names.
• Prompts and fills can be gen or slash or het, porny or not, go wild.
• Prompts can include more than two people of the same name; e.g. three people named "Arthur" in three different fandoms is perfectly acceptable.
• The names must be the same due to coincidence. E.g. Sarah Connor from Terminator and Connor from Angel is okay; John Connor from Terminator 2 and Sarah Connor from Sarah Connor Chronicles is not
• Any canons are allowed
• Any rating is allowed; be sure to mark warnings if necessary
• To fill a prompt, reply to the prompt comment entry with the word "FILLED" at the beginning of the comment title
• If your fic is long, place the additional parts as replies to the previous parts.
• Don't be an asshat
• Have fun!
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Fills so far:

I wrote this article about The Wire, the HBO tv series. It's not like I got paid or anything, but it's the first meta I've written that I've put under my own name (so, if you go read it or something, don't link it back to this journal...).

The idea was housemate, Mr. Daroga's, and he did the artwork. The article is written as if The Wire is a Victorian novel written by a contemporary of Charles Dickens.

I'm inordinately happy with this for several reasons. The first is that I write a lot of meta, some of which is stuff I really want to talk about, and I just don't get that much traffic on it. There are many reasons for this, but one is that I rarely think about hooking people. Honestly, if I encountered my own meta, I probably wouldn't get to the end of it. It's all brain food and no gut food which makes it hard to focus on it. Mr. D's whole idea was a hook, and I ended up being able to say the things I want in an interesting way.

Another reason is I don't write academically enough to get published in academic journals. I don't want to. I sort of hate academic journals; I hate that writing style. And yet my writing tends to be a little too academic for most people (myself included!) just looking for something interesting to read. This article was a really cool way to write academically without having to be academic, and that was just fun.

Plus, there is art that goes with it!

Where do these things come from? From wishing I could make Drusilla and Bellatrix hanging out work, timing-wise.

Title: Call Me Crazy
Word count: 129
Characters: Luna, Bellatrix, Ginny

They call me crazy; they call me Luna
Ticking bomb they call me; they call me moon
Knees a-clatter; whatcha gonna do now
Thestrals? Bones are nothing new.

They called her bell; a clanging
Sound. Hold her up; you can hear the—
See what she sold, but she shore didn’t miss her
Clapper did she, that bell? How’s tricks?

This one now, is just like gin. Oh the
Nerve of that one; they call her friend
Woman, wife. Should she write it down dear
Diary? “I’m grown up.” Never gonna win.

They call me ducky; that’s a certain kind of bird
They don’t call me sound or woman wife. They
Call me shell because each of us are empty.
They say I'm Lovegood, but I only
Loved well.

Title: The Long Way
Rating: PG-13?
Word Count: around 400
Warnings: Er. Meta?
Summary: Er. More meta? Trying to get Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy together is like trying to get toothpaste back into the tube: it doesn’t fit and it’s messy when you try.
A/N: This was another fic I did for ldws. The prompt was "Unctuous Unction." I made some minor edits from the original version.

( The Long Way )

Title: The Way Down
Rating: this chapter, pg
Length: this chapter, 6.5K, 70K overall
Warnings: later, there is sex, but not much violence.
Characters: Harry/Draco, past Harry/Ginny
Epilogue: not epilogue compliant
Summary: Malfoy’s all, “Come out of there,” the way you say to a cat who is badly behaved. And Harry’s all like, “No, what, I’m a hermit! And I have a chest-monster! And I am crazy magically powerful!” and Malfoy’s all, “We all have problems, bub.” (thoughtfully) “You are crazy though. I’ll give you that.”
A/N: -Thanks to lusiology and fat_teaspoon, who both gave this a look-see.

-This is now finished. The hope is to post once a week. Hopefully.

-Sorry for the long delay in posting. I had some trouble arranging to get a beta. Thanks again to the lovely fat_teaspoon!

-Constructive criticism is more than welcome.

Go to: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9

( The Way Down, chapter 4 )

Go to: Chapter 5

Title: Sick of Shadows
Rating: this chapter PG, overall NC-17 for explicit sex
Length: this chapter 10 K, overall probably 110 K. 80 K written so far
Characters: Margaret Hale/John Thornton
Summary: this is one of those, "they had to get married" things
A/N: thank you to kleindog at C-19 for the initial beta a year ago; thank you to hl for the recent beta, and for being extraordinary and amazing

Constructive criticism is welcome.

Go to: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9? | Chapter 10? | Chapter 11? | Chapter 12?


( Sick of Shadows )

Go to: chapter two

The story Sex, Lies, and Veritaserum is now unlocked.

If you didn't see it the first time around, it's Harry/Draco, and a bunch of dirty fantasies with maybe a little meta about what we do with dirty fantasies. What I do is post them on the internet for anyone who's legal and interested!