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

Once more, for comment_fic. Somewhat bizarre -_-;

Title: Reason and Rime
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Continuity: Runs through DMC and AWE, with a ... slightly different take on James
Characters/Pairings: Joshamee Gibbs, James Norrington
Summary: All the time, that voyage to Isla Cruces, Joshamee had known there was something ... wrong ... with the ex-Commodore
Wordcount: 586
Prompt: Norrington, the albatross about his neck
Notes: Knowing the plot of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner will help a lot
Disclaimer: Not mine

Yes, I'm spending a lot of time on comment_fic lately. *smiles sheepishly* I'm very flighty at the minute, and short prompts are doing me good, I think. Heh. And today, I'm too sore to be up to much. Anyway. Today's theme is 42 words, as in ficlets of that length. So far:

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 ...

Hopping around fandoms a bit. And this one ... I swear, it wasn't meant to go all ghost-story on me. But ... *shrugs helplessly*

Title: Thunder and Lightning
Rating: PG-13
Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean (post-AWE)
Characters/Pairings: Jack Sparrow/James Norrington (sort of)
Summary: The man came to him out of a storm
Wordcount: 959
Warnings/Notes: For porridgebird
Disclaimer: Not mine

Last of those I guaranteed. Phew! Hope nobody minds, but I think I'll wait until I get internet back before I try post any of the others.

Title:  Freedom
Rating:  PG-13
Fandom:  Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy
Continuity:  Post-AWE (I know, I know, but it fit)
Characters/Pairings:  Jack/James
Summary:  Heaven is everything a man wants it to be, isn't it?
Wordcount: 2380
Notes:  for porridgebird 
Disclaimer:  I own nothing

Because Norrington is on my brain of late.

Title: Of Using and Being Used
Rating:  R
Continuity:  Goes AU from the start of Dead Man's Chest
Characters/Pairings:  James Norrington, Anamaria, James/Anamaria
Summary:  She's taken him, and she doesn't mean to let him go. Anamaria finds James in Tortuga.
Wordcount:  1368
Warnings:  non-con, though off-camera
Disclaimer:  Not mine