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Title: say again your last
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: G
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ensemble
Pairings: John/Rodney
Word Count: ~1,800
Warnings: None
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff and Humor, Just Married, Name Changes

Summary: John is sewing one of Rodney’s MCKAY nameplates onto the sleeve of his uniform jacket before he thinks, okay, maybe this has gone too far.

For romancingmcshep

I can't believe I finally finished this!! I know it's less than 2k but this fic has plagued my brain and my WIP folder for probably at least 2 years.

Title: Picture Perfect
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Characters: Alec Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Isabelle Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Ragnor Fell
Pairings: Magnus/Alec
Word Count: 3300
Warnings: None
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Texting, Sexting, about sexting but really texting?, Ragnor Fell Lives, Magnus Bane & Ragnor Fell Friendship

Summary:
Magnus’s phone pings and he glances down. 💘 Alexander 💘 his notification tells him.

Magnus opens the text and chokes. Noticeably. Half the table turns to look at him.

Title: bound in obedience
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Characters: Alec Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Isabelle Lightwood, Jace Wayland
Pairings: Magnus/Alec
Word Count: 2600
Warnings: None
Tags: Developing Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Ella Enchanted Fusion, Curse of Obedience, Consent Issues

Summary:
Clave vs. Lightwood, 1996
...For the crimes committed by Robert Lightwood and Maryse Trueblood Lightwood under the auspices of the Circle, they are hereby sentenced to forty years of service in exile and their heir to the next generation shall be bound in obedience. Such is the will of the Angel, so shall it be.



I don't usually post chaptered fic or WIPs but I'm like 10k into this so I'm trying it! Chapter 1 of 5-ish probably.

Title: with every inch of my heart
Fandom: The Old Guard
Characters: Nicky, Joe, Nile, Andy, Booker
Pairings: Joe/Nicky
Word Count: 8300
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Misunderstandings, Communication Failure, Breaking Up & Making Up, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Mutual Pining, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Non-Linear Narrative

Summary: The apology in Nile’s eyes tells Nicky he’s let his expression slip in a way he hasn’t in centuries, his whole broken heart on display.

Or: the one where Nicky has a Michelangelo painting and also 500 years of angst over a misunderstanding with Joe



This is just...a lot of angst. Like everything I manage to write lately apparently.

Title: you're a dream to me
Fandom: The Old Guard
Characters: Nile, Joe, Nicky, Andy, Booker
Pairings: Joe/Nicky
Word Count: 4500
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Tags: Not Really Character Death, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, References to suicide attempts, POV Alternating, Rescue

Summary: When Nile dreams, sometimes she’s in the dark with Quynh. And sometimes she’s in a white room, Joe’s name and Ave Marias falling off her lips.

Or: the AU where Nicky was also captured at some point in history and then the team rescues him

Title: tears from heaven
Fandom: Shadowhunters
Characters: Magnus Bane, Alec Lightwood, Catarina Loss, Lorenzo Rey
Pairings: Magnus/Alec
Word Count: 2800
Warnings: None
Tags: Established Relationship, Fluff and Humor

Summary: Nephilim tears are a highly prized potions ingredient. Magnus would like his colleagues to stop making his husband cry.



The first of my 4 random WIPs in this fandom to be completed! I think I like it best because it's more my usual fluffy crack humor and the others are more angsty. It only took 3 days to write, which it's not a very long fic but that's still basically lightspeed for me.

Posted this over on romancingmcshep a couple days ago but forgot to put it here. There's both a fic and a vid which I don't think I made super clear, especially since they have the same name, whoops. The vid I made really quickly! The fic I scrapped like 3 times but I mostly pulled it together in the end.

Title: Antarctic Drift
Rating: T
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing: John/Rodney
Word count: 3600
Warnings: None
Summary: Atlantis Prime is the best Jaeger ever built. Of course it is, Rodney built it himself. Too bad he can’t find anyone Drift compatible to pilot it with him.

Fic Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22728796
Vid Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22728880

Password: drift

Title: Extension
Rating: T
Fandom: Batman, DCU, Young Justice
Characters: Tim Drake, Conner Kent, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd
Pairings: Tim/Kon
Word Count: 5961
Warnings: None
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Batfamily Feels, Tim Drake-centric
Summary: Tim’s going to need to learn to be less conspicuous about this hopeless crush he’s developed; he lives with an entire family of detectives. (Or: Tim has a crush on Conner and everyone has something to say about it.)

Part 3 of Surveillance.

Title: Surveillance
Rating: T
Fandom: Batman, DCU, Young Justice
Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Lex Luthor, Selina Kyle
Word Count: 7037
Warnings: None
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jason Never Dies, Civilian Tim, Found Family, Batfamily Feels, Tim Drake-centric
Summary: Tim knows antagonizing Lex Luthor wasn’t exactly his safest move but the point is really driven home by the bullet to the shoulder. (Or: The AU where Jason never died and Tim is a civilian who contributes to crime fighting by taking surveillance photos and leaving them on the desktop of the Batcomputer.)


My longest running wip, finally complete!! I really think this has been in progress over a decade because I remember copying it over from back when I used MS Word and also writing it in various homes and airports. Hopefully it's not super uneven due to that but I don't think my writing style has changed hugely. Except I did manage to flesh it out a bit more which is my continuing struggle. I really wanted to hit 10,000 words but I'm just not good at longfic and I decided that was arbitrary. Maybe there will be a sequel because I do want to write more about Tim settling into the Batfam and joining Young Justice.

Also, I would like to take a moment to beg DC for my Tim Drake movie/TV series (I will take anything at this point, please, he's always skipped and he's my favorite) and to reprint the Red Robin trades now that I could afford them.

I keep seeing this on my reading list and I love stats so here's mine.

List your top fanworks on AO3 for every year, sorted by kudos.

( 2009 - 2019 )

Trends:
- Started on an upward trend in kudos, now on a downward trend but it always depends on what the current popular fandoms are
- 90% of things I write are based on prompts I find
- Puns or a few words that encapsulate the fic for titles, then song lyrics
- About half gen focus, half ship focus
- Default writing is present tense, occasional swap to past tense for no known reason