For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

From today's comment_fic theme:

Harry Potter, Hermione, Badass:

Knowledge is power, and she's well-armed.

Rivers of London, Peter/Nightingale, Touch:

A vestigial echo, prodded to life.

MCU, Tony/Loki, Smirk:

Are losers supposed to look smug?

New Tricks, Strickland, Liar:

Lies of omission, sometimes necessary evils.

Once Upon A Time, Rumpelstiltskin, Royal:

Synonymous with 'demanding brat'. Trust him.

Greek Mythology, Eumenides, Kind Ones:

They cleanse. There is nothing kinder.

Pacific Rim/Cthulhu Mythos, Kaiju, Cthulhu Lies Sleeping:

Not all kaiju broke surface unscathed.

MCU, Tony Stark, Technology:

Shouldn't go boom. Well. Not always.

Discworld, Igor, Secondhand:

"Got a nithe, frethh one, Mathter."

Author's choice, Author's choice, Dark:

Blinded by light, in darkness heal.

Author's choice (Dresden Files), Author's choie, Apex Predator:

One word, ladies and gents. Sue.

Author's choice, Author's choice, Ties

Necktie: a garrotte waiting to happen.

New Tricks, Gerry Standing, Dirty House

Last man standing, for a reason.

Musketeers 2014, Aramis/Queen Anne, Forbidden:

Worse than affairs. Well nigh treason.

Author's choice (Dexter's Lab), Author's Choice, Repetition:

"Omelette du fromage. Omelette du fromage ..."

Don't Look Under The Bed, Frannie, Mysterious Things You Find Under The Bed:

Gym socks, boogeymen, and hell dimensions.

Author's choice (Greek Myth), Author's choice (Pandora), Hope:

At the bottom of the box ...

5 ficlets for franavu. Um. The third ficlet references the Librarian from Discworld, and the fourth and fifth ficlets refer to the events of my story Drumbeat in Tribute.

Title: Impromptu Zoology
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Dresden Files (between Changes and Cold Days)
Characters/Pairings: Waldo Butters, Molly Carpenter, Harry Dresden, John Marcone, Nathan Hendricks.
Summary: Shark, Zebra, Orang-utan, Meerket, Jaguar. The zoology of survival, in a world of monsters.
Wordcount: 962
Warnings/Notes: I haven't read Cold Days just yet. Timeline might be a little confused
Disclaimer: Not mine

Again, just putting them here as they're finished. 5 sentence(-ish) ficlets apiece:

Dynamist (Miles Vorkosigan, Vorkosigan saga). For the prompts: Honour, Backwards, Adventure, Gold, Lightning. (I've only read two books, accuracy questionable)

Chiaroscuro (Harry Dresden and John Marcone, Dresden Files). For the prompts: Moonlight, Starlight, Sunlight, Candlelight, Streetlight. (Thematic, I rather enjoyed these ones)

Ragged Edges (Loki and Tony Stark, Avengers movieverse). For the prompts: Free fall, Scars, Frost, Dance, Future. (Edged and glittery, for some reason)

Men To Gods Shall Speak (Phil Coulson, Avengers movieverse). For the prompts: Trust, Faith, Loyalty, Honour, Belief. (Phil wanted to speak tonight, apparently)

Sparks in the Circuits (JARVIS, Avengers movieverse). For the prompts: Honour, Transient, Beauty, Dragons, Battle. (Not even remotely sentence fics. Lets all pretend JARVIS isn't my runaway favourite, yes?)

For margi_lynn.

Title: Scraps of Cloth
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Dresden Files
Characters/Pairings: Harry Dresden, John Marcone. Harry/John
Summary: Faith and lost illusions
Wordcount: 1380
Warnings/Notes: For the prompt, Harry/Marcone, fabric. Vaguely established-relationship. Late books, but I'm not sure of the precise era. Possibly future!fic. Spoilers only for Death Masks, really
Disclaimer: Not mine

I was idly thinking about Highlander/Dresden Files crossovers, since apparently I'm in the mood to cross Methos into the Dresden Files universe. I've done Methos meets Michael Carpenter, Methos and The Archive across the aeons, and now Methos trolling the White Council, and I was idly wondering who else I'd like to see him encounter in the DF 'verse. *grins faintly*

The first two thoughts that popped into my head were him meeting:
a) Butters, because Methos dealing with Butters' resigned "For gods sake, I've had enough damned necromancy, can't you people pick a different morgue?" would be hilarious, and they could probably have some interesting discussions on medicine for the fantastic
and b) Murphy and Kincaid, because Methos on holiday in Hawaii finding himself in the middle of whatever made a romantic getaway between Murph and the Hellhould 'interesting' would, again, be damned funny (and kinda awesome).

The one I wouldn't want him to meet is Morgan, because that would end badly for him. Morgan is his equal in combat pragmatism (the man nuked a skinwalker when it became apparent that he couldn't beat it the old-fashioned way), his superior in power and range (got within yards of the Red King, was willing and possibly able to take on a zombie T-rex), and has exactly the kind of rigid morality to make any honest interaction between them fraught with danger. Of course, Methos could always lie to him, but generally speaking Morgan is exactly the kind of trouble Methos goes out of his way to avoid borrowing.

But, anyway! While I'm busy thinking of crossover encounters, why not a quick meme:

Give me two characters from different fandoms you know I'm familiar with, and I'll give you a dialogue happening between the two of them. Without justifying how the crossover would work, how their worlds clashed, or how they could even meet each other. Just a silly crossover conversation with no backstory, for fun.

I've got some down, and about as much again to go, but I figured I'd link them here as they're done. Outlines (not fic) of fandom AUs as follows:

The Magnificent Avengers, an Avengers Western AU (Bruce).

Morte d'Arlecchino, a Dresden Files Commedia dell'arte AU (!).

Cryogeist, an Avengers cyberpunk dystopian AU (Steve).

Tyger Tyger, an Avengers Regency/Gothic AU (plus some minor thoughts in a GO/X-men crossover).

The Golden Age, an Avengers Mythology AU (global, not greek - russian, vodun, greek, norse, germanic and arthurian, primarily).

Avengers Infiltration Force, an Avengers heist/IMF/spy AU (everybody, but I'm liking Phil).

Do Androids Dream, an Avengers AU where Tony was Howard's 'greatest creation' in more than one sense, and Nick Fury knew.

Meme still open, I'm just adding these as they're finished.

5 Tony & Bruce ficlets (Avengers movieverse), for oneiriad. Bruce thinks Tony is mildly insane, I think.

5 John Marcone +/ Harry Dresden ficlets (Dresden Files), for marbleglove. John is a scary man, just so's you know.

5 Aziraphale/Crowley ficlets (Good Omens), for nihstel. Slightly more ... sensual? ... than my usual, I think. Heh.

5 Natasha & Bruce ficlets (Avengers movieverse), for sablin27. I, ah, have some small issues with them as a pairing, to warn.

5 Clint Barton ficlets (Avengers movieverse), for moonaft. Clint is my shakiest Avenger, to warn. *sheepish*

Taking this one out of order. It just showed up quicker. *shrugs* And, again, more fic than ficlet. I'm bad at this whole 'short story' thing, aren't I?

Title: Wheel'n'Deal
Rating: PG-13
Fandoms: Dresden Files, Good Omens
Characters/Pairings: Harry Dresden, Crowley, random cultists. Background Aziraphale/Crowley
Summary: I was having a bad day. The kind that starts with a baseball bat to the head, and ends with a really smug demon helping you out of a circle
Wordcount: 2755
Warnings/Notes: Set somewhere around Death Masks for DF, I think. Post book for GO
Prompt: For subsequent, who wanted Harry and Crowley, meetings
Disclaimer: Not mine

Read through Ghost Story again, and caught a little something that I only half picked up on the first time around. Just a tiny, random thing, but I'm just kinda chuffed that I actually got it. Heh.



It does make me wonder about Cas, though. And Aziraphale for that matter. Though I suppose neither Good Omens nor Supernatural put the same stress on the power of names that Dresden Files does, so it could be that. Still. Something to ponder.

There are too many Johns and Jameses in Fictionland! *grumps*

I only find this annoying, of course, because fanfic has hardwired my brain to hear certain names and go "Oh! Such and such a character! Yay!", even when we're talking about the butcher down the street. *grins sheepishly* But I hear John, or James, and suddenly there's about five or six characters waving their hands, and I get a little confused.

James is, by far, the worst, I think. James Norrington, James Watson, James West, James Tiberus Kirk ... But John is pretty bad too. John Druitt, John Watson, John Marcone ...

Okay, fair enough, two of those Jameses (? - what is the appropriate plural of 'James'?) mostly go by Jim, and the first I will ever and always think of as 'Jamie', because Sparrington has rotted my brain. John Watson is only a problem if we're dealing with Sherlock (BBC), because usually he's just 'Watson', and John Marcone is Gentleman Johnny if he's anybody (on a side note, I would love to see Gentleman Johnny meet Johnny Druitt, because that would be awesome, and also terrifying). But! Too many Js!

And lets not even get started on the Jacks. *grumps* And all of them, for some strange reason, are Captain Jacks. Aubrey, Sparrow, Harkness ...

One of these days I'm going to see Jack/James, and wonder what the hell Watson is doing letting those rum-soaked fingers anywhere near his mechanism, or James/John, and wonder how Druitt managed to time-travel to the 23rd century just in time to enter a ham-to-ham contest with Kirk (or how Watson ended up in Chicago, and how the dear detective is going to talk his way out of this criminal's clutches), or go somewhere into the strange, strange place that is Holmes canon crossed with Sanctuary, and my brain is, basically, going to break.

Or we could just do a James/Jamie/Jim/Jim/John/Johnny/Gentleman Johnny/Captain Jack/Captain Jack/Cap'n Jack crossover of DOOM, and have the universe collapse. What a way to go, right?

*groans* There are too many Js in fictionland. And a surprising number of them have rank. *grins* Thank Heavens there are only so many Nikolas and Artemuses and Stephens to go with them. Heh.

This piece of insanity brought to you by a very fried brain ...