Andraste

Carried Too Far (6400 words) by Andraste
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), Doctor Who (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ian Chesterton/Barbara Wright, Third Doctor/The Master (Delgado), Amy Pond/Rory Williams
Characters: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Third Doctor, The Master, Jo Grant, Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Fifth Doctor, Vislor Turlough, Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane, Eighth Doctor, Izzy Sinclair, Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness, Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Rory Williams, Clara Oswin Oswald, Twelfth Doctor
Additional Tags: Huddling For Warmth, Drunkenness, Prison, Trapped In Elevator, Mistaken for Being in a Relationship, Sexual Slavery, Aliens Made Them Do It, Amnesia, Telepathic Bond, Fake Marriage, Bodyswap, Sex Pollen
Summary:

Forced intimacy clichés are no match for the Doctor. (Most of the time.)

If some bits of this look familiar, it's because I posted sections of it here before! In, uh, 2009. (Look sometimes it takes me a while OK.)

Look an actual fanfic, that I am posting. As part of a series I last added to four years ago. Nobody faint!

You don't need to read the previous installments of Our Better Angels to understand this one. But if you were going to read a Doctor Who daemonverse AU anyway, you probably might as well?

Sea Legs (1991 words) by Andraste
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Eleventh Doctor/River Song
Characters: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons
Series: Part 3 of Our Better Angels

Summary:

All daemons settle eventually. A Pond family portrait.

I started writing this as a Treat for Yuletide 2013. It, uh, took a while to get finished.

RPF is not generally my thing, but I make an exception for stories about the MythBusters fighting zombies, exploring space ... or, apparently, defeating aliens with giant robots.

Why We Can Never Have Anything Nice (2456 words) by Andraste
Fandom: MythBusters RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Mecha
Summary:

Grant Imahara saves the world just like his friends. It's just that his saving mostly involves a socket wrench.

It is the time on Yuletide when we all take off our Santa disguises and tell everyone what we wrote. But first: I got three lovely gift stories this year, two from my assigned writer and a treat!

Snickfic wrote me TWO Saga stories about Lying Cat, Lying to a Lying Cat and Not A Hound. If you have the same reaction to Saga and Lying Cat that I do ("IT'S THE GREATEST COMIC EVER! SHE'S A KITTY!") then you really need to read both of these. Together, they provide both a beginning and an ending for her story. And until it gets jossed, that is so my headcanon for where Lying Cat will end up.

On top of that, I got a The Secret World treat story The Wrong Place, Wrong Time Girl from Moontyger! It captures the atmosphere of the game remarkably well, and it was great to see Marianne's story expanded beyond the confines of Solomon Island and her protective suit.

(If I sound more squeeful about my gifts than my treat, it's not because I didn't love the treat just as much, but because I suffer from the effect described in this handy graph.)

Writing-wise, it turned out to be an angsty, slashy Christmas for me. (Entirely by accident - I was working on a few other treats, but didn't get them finished in time. I guess that's what New Year's Resolutions are for.)

This was my assigned story:

Phil and the Yellow Dwarf (1480 words) by Andraste
Fandom: George and the Red Giant
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Phil Beard/George Newbould
Summary: Phil and George meet again under a different sun.

If you are wondering what George and the Red Giant is, it is a gloriously weird audio play in which Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas play two contemporary Americans who find themselves on a strange world under a giant red sun. Where they are also trapped in the bodies of giant flying lemurs. And it only gets weirder and better from there.

(When I googled to find that link, I found that my story is now the fifth link down. Which I guess just goes to show that the source is indeed obscure. And makes me hope that Peter Jurasik and the people at Seeing Ear Theatre don't go around googling their old projects. Not that the slash would surprise them in this case.)

And then I wrote this treat:

White Devil (1215 words) by Andraste
Fandom: Tintin (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Chang Chong-Chen/Tintin
Summary: Tintin takes a wrong turn on the way down the mountain. (Or: a missing scene from Tintin in Tibet.)

Tintin/Chang is one of my childhood OTPs, and I've been meaning to write something about them ever since I started writing fanfiction. It only took thirteen years.


There is a long story about how I wrote my assignment (seriously, it may be longer than the fic) but I think I'll save that for another day. So, in summary: I got delightful presents, wrote about characters I've been meaning to get to for more than a decade, and produced fanfic about a source that nobody has ever written about before. Definitely a good Yuletide!

So I've been meaning to write something for who-at-50 all year, and I finally did! Even if it's just a ficlet. Hooray?

Summary: Every journey starts somewhere. This one begins with an unlocked door.

Rating: G

Word Count: 500-ish

( It shouldn't have been unlocked. )

A few weeks ago, I saw a prompt on the Les Miserables kink meme: Do you know what this meme needs? Frottage. Any/Any, clothes on, accidental, intercrural, ANYTHING, I just need me some non-penetrative sexy times.

I thought 'hey, I could write a quick fill for that!' And then I wrote this. Great Maker. This ridiculous story is the second-longest thing I have ever posted. I think this is what happens when you let your inner fifteen-year-old fangirl become your co-writer.

Summary: Javert lives and learns. A post-Seine AU.

Pairing: Javert/Valjean

Word Count: 6,730

Continuity: This is stage musical fic where the point of AU divergence involves something that only happens in the Brick. Has some other things borrowed from the Brick, and at least one point of characterisation stolen from the 2012 movie. *waves hands*

Contains: Discussion of a canon suicide that does not work out the same way in this universe, hurt/comfort, pining, angst, fluff, dangerous quantities of clichés, passive-aggressive notes, awkward old French virgins. Some frottage. Eventually. Dammit.

( But mostly pining. )

... aaaaaaaaand insomnia is the perfect excuse to write another thing for Porn Battle before the deadline. At least I have used the time productively, if not wisely. (I am going to blame G'Kar for my sleeplessness and he can blame me for his.)

Contents: Alas, not actually very porny. There are tentacles, though, so if that is not your cup of brivari you should probably go elsewhere.

Pairing: Londo/G'Kar

Summary: G'Kar's dreams about Londo are not the same as Londo's dreams about him.

Continuity: Set at some indeterminate point in Season One.

( Read on ... )

My longest Yuletide Madness story. And, in fact, the longest thing I wrote for Yuletide this year. (There was just no way that Documentation was going to be longer than it was, given the format.)

On Christmas Eve, I sat down and watched Singin' In The Rain, because what better way to celebrate than to sit down to the greatest musical ever brought to screen? (Especially since I'd done my annual rewatch of Die Hard the night before.) I had vague plans to maybe write a drabble or something for Yuletide Madness. On Christmas night, I sat down to put a few thoughts to keyboard and when I looked up there were five hundred words on the screen. I wrote and posted the whole thing over the course of about four hours, which would have been great if it hadn't resulted in my being awake until THREE IN THE GODDAMN MORNING.

A lot of people responded to this with 'your Cosmo voice is great!' which is just as well since I cannot get him to shut up. I think there may be more stories from me in this fandom eventually, since I have spent the time since Christmas telling certain imaginary people that my kitchen table is not an appropriate location for tap-dancing.

Anyway, I've loved this film since I was about nine. Don/Kathy/Cosmo was my OT3 long before I knew what an OT3 was. I think it shows.

Summary: By the time The Duelling Cavalier was previewed, Cosmo and Kathy were the best of friends. This is how.

Contains: Nothing more salacious than the film, really.

Relationships: If these three had Facebook, there would be liberal use of the 'it's complicated' option.

( Fic below cut. )

So, the veil of Yuletide anonymity has been withdrawn, and I can now reveal the things I wrote! My main story and the Madness treats can be seen on my works page at the AO3, but I will be posting them individually here over the next few days. (I like having a complete set of my work online in two different places, because I'm paranoid that way. Also, posting on my own journal gives me a chance to ramble a bit about how and why I wrote what I did.)

Anyway, for my main story this year I was assigned Dollhouse. This is a show about which I have many feelings, but I'd never written anything in the fandom before, so I was pleased to have a reason to do so.

Many of my Dollhouse-Related Feelings are Topher Brink Feelings so when I read my recipient's letter:

Topher, for me, is the best part of Dollhouse. I love that man's brain. Topher being Topher is all I really want-- a little bit of why he's that way would rock my socks.

... I was delighted. And then, briefly, panicked, because how was I going to get Topher to introspect? Then I started thinking about the 'why he's that way' part of the request and how Topher got to where he is and what people would think of him in two hundred years, and, well, the story just happened.

People seem to have liked what I wrote, since this went over bigger than anything I've ever written for Yuletide before. And it turned out to be a good Yuletide for my Topher Brink Feelings, as I also received a story about him!

Summary: Excerpts from 'Destroyer and Saviour: A Selection of Primary Sources Concerning Christopher Brink'.

Contains: Nothing more disturbing than what was on the show.

( Read on. )

Rating: Pure fluff that's E for Everyone.

Characters: Leliana, Morrigan, Shale, a hapless salesman.

Summary: "I keep telling you, there's nothing wrong with my shoes."

( Double drabble below the cut ... )