Hello, lovely rarewomen writer!

Thank you so much for writing one of these characters! All of them are crying out for more fic and I'm extremely excited about this ficathon. I've written several of these characters before, but don't worry: I'm a comics fan of long standing so I don't get terrifically attached to any particular version of canon (or my own head-canon), and love seeing different interpretations, from canon-compliant to radically different. AUs - whether of the "turning point in canon went differently" or the "everyone is a space pirate and a vampire" variety - are also very welcome but I would prefer it if the characters with superpowers kept their powers, please. Basically, anything that expands or deepens the fictional universe of any of these women would be gleefully received.

I love gen, femslash and female-centered het and would be delighted with whatever you choose to write.

Fandoms: X-Men First Class, DC Comics, Captain Britain and MI-13
( Request details under the cut )

1. help_mindanao is a (so far) fairly small fan auction aimed at helping people affected by the floods in Mindanao in December. More than 1000 people are dead or still missing and more than 100,000 people have been displaced. It's also the one year anniversary of the massive Queensland floods - which extended right down into Victoria, flooded a number of towns near mine and briefly cut off my town - so I thought I would offer a box of Australian lollies and biscuits, including Tim Tams. I will post it anywhere in the world at my expense. I'm perfectly happy to cater to allergies or just plain dislikes - bidding starts at $10, donated to any charity that's working in Mindanao. There's a good list on the auction site.

2. The first gen iPod Nano was recalled late last year because of overheating and/or exploding batteries. I had one of these iPods, which I hadn't used in ages, and I sent it in. Today, a tiny, brand new current-generation touchscreen iPod Nano arrived - less than half the size of the one it replaced - and I'm not going to use it. Would any Australians flisters/circlers like it? It's this one in black. Don't be shy - it's not being put to any use here! Leave a comment or PM me! ETA: Claimed!

Written for snowynight for Fandom Stocking. 600 words.

( Holiday Wishes and Christmas Stitches )

For medie at Fandom Stocking. Drabble.

Hundreds and Thousands

Irene will meet Raven in an elevator in New York City; she'll meet Raven on her birthday in Salzburg. She'll meet Raven two weeks earlier in a dirty café in Sydney; she'll meets her four years later when Raven is an orderly at a hospital while Irene's ankle is broken.

Twice, she'll never meet Raven at all.

When the timelines finally settle and a moustachioed Raven asks her to dance at a charity ball in Bonn, Irene smiles so hard that even the cool, controlled Raven catches her expression. Both women laugh as they waltz for the very first time.

Written for zellieh for Fandom Stocking. 900 words.

( A Breeze in a Musizi Tree )

Title: Je vois ma vie en rose
Author: lilacsigil for xmenbigbang
Artist: lunatique
Verse: X-Men First Class, full cast gendershift
Word Count: 80,000
Rating: Adult
Characters/Pairings: Erika/Charlotte, Raven/Harriet and ensemble
Warnings: Non-spoiler warnings: violence on a level with the movie; mentions of rape, sexual assault and torture; period misogyny, racism, homophobia and transphobia; eugenics; Holocaust imagery. Spoiler warnings: Forced pregnancy and birth, medical torture and murder of an infant (highlight to read).
Author's Notes: A massive thank you to st_aurafina for betaing this enormous fic.

Summary: "Je vois la vie en rose" is a full-cast gender change. Canon male characters become female, and canon female characters become male or genderqueer. The only exceptions are real people and background military/government characters.

The CIA's Marcus MacTaggert attempts to recruit newly-graduated Doctor Charlotte Xavier and her sibling Raven to assist in the capture of suspected Communist Sabrina Shaw and her unusual associates. Thrilled at the thought finding of more mutants, Charlotte and Raven agree, but are soon put off by the CIA's misogynist attitude and decide to track down these other mutants by themselves. They do find more mutants, but not the ones they were expecting: ferociously determined Nazi-hunter Erika Lehnsherr and overqualified, underworked CIA analyst Doctor Harriet McCoy are just two of the many mutants out there.

Charlotte starts to build a community of mutants but Raven finds that many of them can't even accept themselves, let alone someone who doesn't belong within familiar definitions of gender. Erika's determination to kill Shaw, Shaw's quest to recruit more mutants, and world-threatening political brinkmanship collide with deadly consequences: Charlotte, Raven and Erika must decide what kind of world it is that they want to create.

Link to fic master post: Fic Master Post on LJ, Fic on AO3
Link to art master post: Art Master Post (coming soon!)
Link to fanmix: Fanmix: Underneath the Roaring Sky by st_aurafina

To Chapter One

Please note: this chapter has a specific trigger warning for rape, sexual assault and torture; eugenics; Holocaust imagery; forced pregnancy and birth, medical torture and murder of an infant (highlight to read potentially spoilery warnings).

( Je vois la vie en rose, Chapter 6: Radiation )