Title: Thick-Skinned
Author: aces
Rating: G
Warnings: um, spoilery for “Flowers for Hobbes,” but if you haven’t seen *that* ep by now…
Prompt from the hot_donuts ficathon: Bobby & or / any, cooking
Word count: approx. 1900 words
Summary: “I mean, you went from you to Super-Genius you to you again, all in a couple days. There’s bound to be some kind of existential whiplash with all that, I figure.”
A/N: Thanks to jenlev for looking this over and making some suggestions. You’re a savior as always!

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Title: Choose Your Own Theft
Author: aces
Fandom, characters: Leverage and...a bunch of other fandoms. Ahem.
Rating, warnings: All ages; not really spoilery for anything
Word count: approx. 2500 words
Summary: A study in the power of objects. No, really.
A/N: This all started with a comment I made in lyssie’s LJ a while back. I’d say it was all her fault, but I was the one who made the comment, so.

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Title: a pleasant road
Author: aces
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rating: PG for language
Warnings: Spoilery for Continuum, including the fanon bits regarding what Colonel Mitchell did for ten years.
Word count: Approx. 2300 words
A/N: What can I say? I really like road trip fic these days. Title shamelessly swiped via Bartlett’s (I learned from Darien Fawkes), “I do not ask, O lord, that life may be / a pleasant road”—Adelaide Proctor
Summary: He would’ve taken Teal’c, he knew. If he’d had the chance.

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Title: Even the Smallest Ripple
Fandom: Oh gods, oh gods, Doctor Who Middle Skool era and RPF
Warnings: An abundance of useless historical trivia and lolz at senatorial candidates?
Word count: approx 2400 words
A/N: Thanks to nonelvis for looking at this a while back [ETA: and to kindkit for a Britpick!].
Summary: It wasn’t a fine day for politics, but stumping was stumping, and Americans had always loved their politics.

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Speech texts came from http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=26&subjectID=2.

Title: Somebody Else’s Conventional
Author: aces
Warnings: It’s ridiculously Hollywood Blockbuster Summer Romance. I honestly don’t know what came over me.
Rating: PG, mostly for adult language
Word count: around 7500 words
A/N: Second fic for livii for the EDA ficathon on henriettastreet, from the Fitz/Anji possibly-post-Time-War prompt. Er, basically ignores Timeless, so consider it a slight AU.

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Title: Three Time Travelers in a Boat
Author: aces
Warnings: This is so fluffy you might find yourself floating away from your computer screen.
Rating: G
Word count: approx. 2400 words
Prompt: for livii, from the prompt for getting some proper time off and having some fun.
A/N: I know there’s more involved than just rowing. This is a special planet where the normal rules of boating don’t apply, alright? Also, I make no claim to even begin to be as awesome as Jerome K. Jerome. I just really, really couldn’t resist the title. (And there is no dog. K9 did not feel obliged to come along.)


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Oh my electronic gods, I signed up for two stories with lgbtfest in two fandoms I've never written before. EEEEEEEEK. What the hell was I thinking again?

Aaaand I got started on the fic prompts I asked for, um, days ago. Ficlets, not drabbles.

( MUNCLE, Mr Waverly and Daylight Savings Time, from periwinkle27 )

( Reginald Hill books, Edgar Wield and his motorcycle, from kindkit )

And I shall get back to the other prompts! I have ideas percolating! They're just taking longer. And I suddenly have no time due to all the ficathons I signed up for. (Seriously, what was I thinking.)

I was thinking the other day that I've always watched procedural dramas/mysteries on television, but the--rules? tropes? better word that I'm currently blanking on?--have changed somewhat in the past couple decades. It used to be all gifted amateurs detecting things, like Murder She Wrote or Diagnosis Murder; now it's all authority figures working things out, typically with forensic science (or other branches of the maths & sciences) like NCIS or Numb3rs. Is it just *my* tastes have changed and I didn't notice the authority-figure shows back in the '80s and early '90s, or have television shows cycled through one phase to another again?

ETA: Has anyone watched Castle? It's actually kinda awesome.

Title: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Fandom/Characters: SG-1, old school style
Word count: Approximately 1500 words, minus all the quoting
Summary: It’s like that line in Star Trek VI: You’ve never read Shakespeare until you’ve read it in the original Klingon.
A/N: This was supposed to be for troyswann's birthday, only I didn’t like what I had written in time, and then I went and saw Comedy of Errors and horrible, horrible inspiration struck. And since it's the last day of February, er, jenlev, katie_m, oceana_, settai, and of course troyswann--happy birthday?

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I was going to wait till both holiday exchanges I was involved with made their reveals, but Down the Chimney (muncle) has a couple latecomers waiting, and I'm impatient. So here is the fic what I wrote in 2008:

( By month because I'm curious like that )

And now for a related fic meme I've seen around my flist:

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That was my fannish year, which seems to have gone much better than my RL year. But 2009 is not allowed to be a Fuck-Up Year, and I refuse to make any resolutions about it. Resolutions are for people who think they have the possibility of certainties.

And now I must go clean off my kitchen table as I have a friend coming this weekend YAAAAY.

Title: Not the Bahamas, But Close Enough
Rating: G
Summary: “And how often do you invite yourself to move into other men’s apartments?” Early days for Don and Timmy.
A/N: Written for Queue in Yuletide 08.

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And it has been good.

I also have solstice fic. (I’m in the mood to give blanket fic presents this year, what can I say?)

Title: Light the Candle
Fandom: Stargate SG-1 (10th season)
Rating: G
Word count: approx. 900 words
A/N: Please do not leave unattended candles lit in your home. *takes off Smoky the Bear hat*

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Title: These Days
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Theta, Koschei, Eight, Fitz, Anji
Word count: Approx. 2500
Summary: Flowers and hermits and picnics, oh my.
A/N: It's, like, a Christmas present. Or something.

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Title: to travel hopefully
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rating: G
Spoilers: Only very general spoilers for seasons 9 and 10 and for characters’ backstory.
Prompt from the galpalficathon: “Because we've earned a vacation.”
A/N: Title comes from R. L. Stevenson (“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive”). Particular thanks to jenlev for betaing for me, and to members of my flist for discussing Cameron Mitchell’s musical tastes with me (a vital plot point to the story, I will have you know) and other minor character details. Any mistakes and inconsistencies that remain are all mine.
Summary: “You’re going to Thelma and Louise it with an alien chick across the American Southwest for a weekend?”

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Title: chemistry
Author: aces
Rating: PG
Warnings: Only spoilery if you haven’t seen the latest series. Or know nothing about Peter Davison’s era as the Doctor.
Word count: Approx. 5,100 words
Summary: Doing domestic doesn’t exactly involve a lot of running.
Notes: Written for doyle_sb4 for the dw_femslash ficathon, who requested adventure and/or humor. I failed spectacularly at adventure and fear I also missed out on the humor. I’m sorry?

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Yeah, I mentioned this probably a year ago or something, and some people asked for commentary on "And I Will No Other to Follow Me Where I'm Going," and I finally deliver. I have become a queen of procrastination. Sorry about that.

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It's David McCallum all day, every day around here, apparently. I watched some NCIS over the weekend; I'm trying to finish a rewatch of all of Sapphire & Steel so I can send the DVDs home with my dad when he visits in a couple days; and I randomly just started watching the second season of Man from UNCLE. Huh.

Other than that, I have a ficlet. It's Doctor Who, but it does not in any way involve Fitz. Maybe I'm learning to wean myself away? I just need to write old school SG-1 fic or something. Oy.

Title: Air to Breathe
Characters: Five, Tegan
Word count: around 850
A/N: zauberer_sirin wrote up a Five/Tegan post for who_otp's rare ship months including a fanmix with the song "An End has a Start" by the Editors. The song inspired this.

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So settiai posted her Fitz/Eight rare ship post on who_otp today, and I remembered that I had a mostly-finished fic kicking about on my laptop. So here it is.

Title: Dissonant
Author: aces
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Eight, Fitz, Karl
Rating: G
Word count: approx. 2,000
A/N: First section takes place during Year of Intelligent Tigers. It’s been a couple years since I read it last & I don’t have my copy on me, so, uh, if things are a little off? That would be why. Inspired in part by brewsternorth’s ficlet "Overtures," here.

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I do this thing where, before I go on a trip, I have to obsessively wrap stuff up. even if I'm only going to be gone a couple days. No, it doesn't matter. MUST ORGANIZE NOW!

So here's a fic.

Title: The Not So Unlikely Saga of Fitz Kreiner
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing(s): Fitz/Susan; Fitz/Jack; Fitz/Benny; Fitz/Hex; Fitz/Donna
Rating: PG
Warnings (if applicable): Some swearing, mostly in the Fitz/Benny & Fitz/Jack sections (is anyone surprised?)
Prompt from the churchontime community: 5 companions that Fitz Kreiner nearly married (okay, I cheated a little on one, but I COULDN’T RESIST)
Author's Notes: I actually now want to continue the Fitz/Jack storyline. Possibly also the Fitz/Benny storyline, come to think of it. SEND HELP.


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One of these days I shall surprise everyone, myself included, and write fic again that is not in any way related to Doctor Who. Really. Scout's honor.

Title: The Unwritten History of the Time War
Author: aces
Rating/warnings: Swearing; war; despair. But not always.
Approx. word count: 6650 words
For kindkit for the EDA ficathon, whose prompt was “Fitz, Nine (slash or gen). After the Time War and his regeneration, the Doctor comes back for Fitz. Whether this is a happy reunion or a sad one is entirely up to the writer.”
A/N: Fitz sings “Greenback Dollar,” perhaps best known as sung by the Kingston Trio.
Special thanks to lcsbanana for betaing for me—you rock! (I totally chickened out on one of your suggestions, so if it ends up sucking, it's all my fault.)
Summary: All these things are true.

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Title: 50 Ways to Propose Marriage to Your Non-Lover
Author: aces
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairings: oh gods, do I have to? It’ll be almost as long as the fic!
Rating: G
Word count: Around 2000
Warnings: Eight on constant sugar high. BEWARE.
Prompt, from churchontime: Eight decides getting married might be quite fun.
A/N: I apologize to Paul Simon for my atrocious abuse of his song title. I also apologize for the K9 bit to all of you reading this. Sorry about that.

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