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

There are moments when I realise that the continuum between fanfic, AU and original story can be very, very short when it comes to my writing. It makes me wonder somewhat about my writing impulses.

There are several original worlds/storylines that I basically run as comfort stories in my head. I mean, when I'm walking or thinking or somewhere without access to external stories, or when I'm lying abed trying to sleep and kind of failing at it, or just when I want to ramble around in some world that isn't this one, I tend to grab around among the stories in my head until I find one that feels good right now, and let it run awhile.

I'm mentioning this now because I was running one earlier, and tracing it back through earlier iterations out of curiosity's sake, and abruptly remembered that that story had initially started out as a fandom AU. It'd been more or less morphed beyond all recognition by the present iteration, but it had actually started as a mental fanfic.

And there are a couple of those, now that I'm remembering them. I tend to write AUs at the drop of a hat, and to imagine AUs for half the bloody canons I've ever seen/read, and some of the ones I don't end up actually writing as fanfic have a tendency to shift on me. Just as an illustration, a couple of the ones I actually ended up writing fragments of in their orig-fic forms:

I know I owe people other fic, I haven't forgotten that. But this has been sitting on my laptop in various stages of completion for about two months now, and it finally spilled out tonight, so I'm posting it before it changes its mind -_-; Prequel to Enemy Mine, the apocalyptic GO space AU.

Title: A Slow Insurrection
Rating: R
Fandom: Good Omens, Christian Myth
Characters/Pairings: Crowley, Aziraphale (Azra), Lucifer, Gabriel, Azazel, Michael, Jesus, Judas, Adam Young. Aziraphale/Crowley
Summary: Six moments in a galactic war of biblical proportions and the slow insurrection that is seeded through them, as an angel and a demon struggle to make sense of a universe at war and their places in it.
Wordcount: 7028
Warnings/Notes: Backstory for Enemy Mine. AU, blasphemy, violence, civil war, genocide, dystopia, apocalypse, first contact, planetary destruction, exile, all the good stuff
Disclaimer: Really not mine

Wheel'n'Deal. The Dresden Files/Good Omens prompt fic that got slightly out of hand on me -_-;

For today's theme on comment_fic:

Good Omens - Wacky Races (Aziraphale & Crowley):

The angel was a miracle driver. Quite literally, actually. The second time the gearbox had dropped off to lie forlorn in the middle of the road like something out of a cartoon, Crowley had insisted. There was only so much he'd see done to a fine car before he snapped.


Avengers - Zodiac (Tony, Bruce, Ensemble):

"So why's the guy who looks like me the paranoid, nervous wreck, and Bruce's doppleganger is the wise, cool cop?"

Tony was considering huffing at the suddenly expressionless faces, putting Zodiac away, when Bruce looked over with a rueful smile.

"It had to be true in some universe, didn't it?"


Captain America - Loyalty (Steve/Bucky):

The place is going up like a firework display, and honestly he can't even really be sure this suddenly perfect Steve isn't some kind of hallucination, but ... hallucination or not, Steve came for him, and he's never left Steve behind in his life, and he damn well isn't starting now.

OR

It's not Captain America he's following, because he doesn't know who the hell that guy is. But the guy who got himself outnumbered and shot at and blown up, the familiar idiot who'd die for you just because you needed him to ... Yeah. That's the idiot he's following.


Person of Interest - Eggs Benedict (Finch/Reese):

It wasn't the food. Past a certain point in your career as an operative, and definitely past a point as a drunkard, you stopped caring so much about what things tasted like. But this ... This was confidence and acceptance and trust, and it was the best thing he'd ever tasted.


Frankenstein - Remorse (Creature/Frankenstein):

Strange, the monster thought. Had Frankenstein always been so frail? So shrunken, so wounded and craven and fragile? Was it only in death, this visage of weakness? Or perhaps ... was it only in death, that eyes could see clear?

"I mourn you," he whispered, pierced remorse. "And shall follow hence."


Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes - Sacrificial (Bruce Banner):

He sacrificed his freedom (his body, his will, his life), to save the lives that stood to be lost if he didn't. Sometimes he wonders, in the endless empty echo-chamber at the heart of the Hulk, if the life he sacrificed wasn't given a little more literally than he'd thought.

Added to as they're completed (meme still open):

5 Thor/Jane ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Star, Bridgebuilder, Distance, Tacos, Sketching (I've never written this pair before)

5 Tony Stark ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Success, Pride, Time, Family, Future (Slightly longer than they should be)

5 Crowley ficlets (Good Omens): for the prompts Martini, Blog, Babylonia, Future, Duck (... I love Australia. And sci-fi)

5 Tony/Loki ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Adroit, Aeneous, Gracile, Incipient, Selcouth (some violence, and a mention of Hel)

5 Loki & Dummy (& Tony) ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Peace, War, Love, Marshmallows, Barbecue (serious fluff and mild violence warnings on these)

5 Fury & Coulson ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Expectations, Presentations, Trust, Friendship, Humour (went a little long - turns out I like this pair)

5 Pepper & JARVIS ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Concern, Adept, Spectrum, Silence, Metal (... they break my heart, a little, these two)

5 Fury & Tony ficlets (Avengers movieverse): for the prompts Genius, Genuine, Concern, Heart-stopping, Mesmerising (went a little long again, Nick seems to do that to me)

For comment_fic. Um. Dark like a very dark thing. Do not piss War off, ladies and gentlemen. Title, by the by, is from the play by William Congreve. For, yes, exactly the lines you're thinking of.

Title: The Mourning Bride
Rating: R
Fandoms: Avengers movieverse, Good Omens
Characters/Pairings: Thor, War, mention of Odin, Loki, Jane, Heaven Hell. Thor/War, Thor/Jane (hinted Odin/War, too)
Summary: "In my youth I courted War." And now, Thor, she's about to court you back
Wordcount: 678
Warnings/Notes: It's War, yes? Also Thor, and Odin, and Loki, and implications for most of the plots of Thor and Avengers. Dark like a very dark thing
Disclaimer: Not mine, either of them

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*

One more for comment_fic's Lovecraft theme, before I go to bed. A rare, forbidden book, in the same universe as Aziraphale ...

Title: Dead Tomes
Rating: PG-13?
Fandom: Good Omens, Cthulhu mythos
Prompt: Author's choice, discovering a peculiar book
Wordcount: 540

From shadadukal

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3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.



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For sablin27. From Shadow Play, a very dark Good Omens/Supernatural crossover. Um. I ... am not particularly coherant, about this one. It ... came from too far down. *shrugs uneasily*