I wrote this as a commentfic for monanotlisa but I know there's a few other Orphan Black fans around so I thought I'd post it here and on AO3. Short fic, Cosima-centric.

( The Myth of Fingerprints )

Dear Rarewomen Author!

You may have noticed that a lot of my requests involve "this character is great, but you can write worldbuilding with OFCs or other female characters if you want!" I am completely serious about this: while it obviously needs to fit the rules of the fest, I am up for whatever you want to write about women in these fandoms. I love genfic, femslash and female-centric het; I have no diehard OTPs that you can't split up; my headcanon is highly adaptable due to years of being in comics fandom where everything is contradictory and you have to make sense of it on your own.

Things I particularly like: teamwork, enemies forced to work together, twists on what we think we saw in canon, adventure, casefile fic, dramatic confrontations, worldbuilding, adding backstory to existing canon, dramatic femslash romance, dramatic femslash enemies, competence and women in charge of their own lives. Feel free to write something else entirely: this list is just here to give you a starting point if you want it. Crossovers with other fandoms I know are great! If you're not sure, please check with my partner st_aurafina. AUs in fantasy, superhero or SF settings are awesome, but I'm not fond of "fantastical canon in a mundane setting" AUs.

I do have a few things that I'd rather not read. I don't like adult/child, adult/teen or power differential sex (e.g. boss/worker or teacher/student). Some of these characters have rape or sexual abuse in their backstories and it's fine to have that in the fic, but I'd rather not have rape or sexual abuse (canon or otherwise) described in great detail. I have phobias of zombies, apocalypse and post-apocalypse fics, and house fires, so please don't include those.

Title: To End All Wars
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Written for: yuletide
Recipient's name: oliviacirce
Rating: Teen
Pairing/Characters: H.G. Wells/Irene Frederic, William Wolcott
Word Count: 5000
Notes: Thanks to st_aurafina for a sterling beta job. oliviacirce's prompts led me towards writing in WWI, and when I read that the phrase "the war to end all wars" was actually coined by H.G. Wells, I knew what era I needed to write this.

Summary: Paris, 1920. H.G. Wells is unexpectedly awoken to assist in a Warehouse emergency: new Caretaker Irene Frederic is missing.

( To End All Wars )

To End All Wars on AO3

Title: Make It Happen
Fandom: Alias(TV)/Sarah Connor Chronicles
Written for: fandom_stocking
Recipient's name: a_q
Rating: Teen
Pairing/Characters: Sydney Bristow, Sarah Connor, Cameron
Word Count: 1664
Notes: Thanks to st_aurafina for betaing. Content warning for violence.

Summary: Sydney Bristow and Sarah Connor collide on a mission.

( Make It Happen )

Also at AO3

Title: Sway My Way
Fandom: Elementary
Written for: fandom_stocking
Recipient's name: scintilla10
Rating: Teen
Pairing/Characters: Carrie Dwyer, Joan Watson
Word Count: 2800
Notes: Thanks to st_aurafina for betaing and scintilla10 for requesting this for Yuletide AND for fandom_stocking so I had time to finish it!

Summary: A history of Carrie and Joan, and maybe a future, too.

( Sway My Way )

Sway My Way on AO3

With 1 hour and 33 minutes to go, that's the closest I've ever cut it! But not only did I get the word count, I managed to actually finish the story.

I wrote an adventure story set in late Edo Period Japan, with some slight historical alterations like a small number of female samurai (or, in the case of one of my characters, female ronin). It was a lot of fun, my hands are exhausted, and since we had the first extremely hot day of summer yesterday (even though it's not summer) my entire body has the twitches, which really didn't help with the sitting still and concentrating aspects of writing. Still, I think I'll write historical again, because the research is so much fun!

Now, on to Yuletide!

Hello, lovely author! Thank you for writing a fic for me! I've written a fair bit here, but it's all guidelines - if there's a story you really want to tell that doesn't fit the details in this letter, I trust you to write it in a way that's right for the story. If you've signed up for one of my other fandoms but are having doubts, the total canon for Problems is less than 4 minutes long and can be found online here. In every fandom, I've chosen my very favourite characters as a starting point, but please don't feel obliged to write all (or indeed any) of them if you have a different idea.

Things I like in fic: all characters having agency and purpose: everyone should be a character in their own right. I love plotty genfic, but also fic about relationships (any gender/s) that anchor or propel the plot. Fic that looks at the underpinnings of the fictional universe, including fic about OCs or very minor characters in that universe, is always a favourite of mine. I like historical and local detail, but I'm not going to cry if something is changed in service of the story!

Things I don't like in fic: sexy rape, sexy or "necessary" torture, incest, adult/child or teacher/student sexual relationships (even when the student is an adult). Plots that would be easily resolved if two people just talked to each other for five minutes are not my favourites. BDSM is not my thing at all, and I don't like it when characters are embarrassed or humiliated. I also have a phobia of zombies and of apocalyptic fic (rebuilding far, far in the future is okay), so please don't write me either of those.

( Specific Fandoms - Captain Britain and MI:13, Montmaray Journals - Michelle Cooper, Problems (music video) - Salmonella Dub, Adaptation - Malinda Lo )

I saw this meme posted by amadi and torachan, among others, and the national differences are really fascinating, so I thought I'd post too.

( Domesticity )

I haven't posted for a while due to, firstly, yet another run with depression, then, as I came out of that, a co-worker's mother had to have major surgery so I was filling in for my co-worker several days a week as well as doing my own job. This is fine - she has filled in for me when I've been getting treatment - but has left me with little brain. So I've been keeping up with all of you, but not in the mood for posting. I've hardly even read any Avengers fic, but, perhaps foolishly, signed up for an Avengers fest.

Also, I went to the supermarket yesterday and saw the following sight:

( Photo behind cut, worksafe )