lilacsigil

This was my assigned story for xmmficathon. The concept of the Sylvia Plath poem and Phoenix had been tied together in my head since I first read the poem and the comic around the same time, back in high school, 1992, so it was quite a relief to finally sort it all out in a story. Even if it did make me cry hysterically.

Title: Conversations with Lady Lazarus
Recipient: Kira (crimson_keys)
Rating: PG for character death (in canon)
Characters: Charles, Jean, Erik, Scott, Ororo
Character/pairing request: Charles
Specific request: knowing he was about to die and
failing in his attempt to save Jean (during the events
of the third movie)

Quotations are from Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath

( Conversations with Lady Lazarus )

Title: Resistance
Fandom: Young Avengers
Rating: G
Thank you to sionnain for a fast and furious Ameri-picking beta!

( Resistance )

st_aurafina and I have been in a bit of a creative slump, writing-wise, though we did make some great art-quilts, and planned a project for 2007. To get the writing mojo working in time for yuletide, we had a drabble-a-thon over the last few days. We selected 20 words from an old encyclopedia (via the 10th-word-on-the-page technique), and 20 characters we find interesting and both know. Then we pulled out the D&D dice and randomly assigned ourselves a word and a character each, then got to work, ten times over. It's an ex-drabble-ganza!

Spoilers only where indicated - most of the drabbles are not issue/episode/novel specific. All rated G, all gen, all 100 words except for two that just wouldn't be cut down that far.

( Early: Lisa Cuddy (House) )
( Long: Mundungus Fletcher (Harry Potter) )

( Mathematics: Inara Serra (Firefly) )
( Great: Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) )

( Emperor: Barbara Gordon (DC) )
( Habit: Mickey Smith (Doctor Who, spoilers for first three episodes of Ninth Doctor only) )

( Relative: Iron Man (Marvel) )
( Publish: Psylocke (X-Men) )

( Order: Emma Frost (X-Men) )
( Soon: Hiro Nakamura (Heroes: Spoilers up to Episode 9) )

(Continued from Part One)

( Part Two )

Now that hp_lovebirds, a Harry Potter femslash exchange, has posted its masterlist, I can reveal that I wrote this fic, Sanctuary, as a pinch hit. I'm reposting here in my quest to have all my fic in one place. Also in my quest for more Malory Towers-style Hogwarts stories, with girls crushing on each other. Since Millicent Bulstrode is in this fic, the crushing may yet become literal.

Title: Sanctuary
Author: lilacsigil
Recipient's name: inell
Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Millicent, Hermione & Ginny friendship, Trio friendship
Rating: PG (mild violence)
Summary: Millicent is paying a lot of attention to Hermione – of the bad kind.
Notes: Set in Fifth Year. Pinch hit for hp_lovebirds.

( Sanctuary )

The Needle and the Damage Done
(Three things that might have happened to Mystique)

Mystique, gen.
Lots of spoilers for X3
Wordcount: 1600

( 1. Masks )
( 2. Sacrifice )
( 3. Freedom )

coffeeandink and other intelligent people are discussing the implications of a self-declared crackfic MPREG crossover fanfic being longlisted for the James Tiptree Awards. Of course, the link I followed was to this.

nihilistic_kid is running the following:

The James TipMe Flash Fan Fiction Good Taste Memorial Award is looking for your submissions. Post an original piece of fanfiction in the comments that

a) is 250 words or less

b) features a dude from a novel and one from a TV show

c) with one guy making the other pregnant (or trying to)

d) remains unfinished

Here's my entry, featuring Doctor Who (I pictured the fourth, but it's up to you), Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. It contains all of a,b,c and d above, though no actual mention of genitalia, and thus should not be read by anyone sane. This fic also explains why I don't read fics where the Doctor sleeps with his human companions.

( Doctor Doctor! )

The remixes are revealed. I was assigned mofic, which was a big challenge because she writes multiple novel-length movieverse fics, all in one long series. It centres around a rather tumultuous Scott/Logan relationship, but travels from the ethics of adoption to PTSD to international espionage to the challenges of mentoring troubled students. Her canvas is enormous, and it was very difficult to snip out a section small enough to remix.

In the end, I chose this chapter from Canadian Nights, called The Demon Lover because it was a very intense chapter and something of a turning point in Scott and Logan's trust issues. Even so, I had to leave out the last few paragraphs that tied into the bigger plot. The remix was an easy choice, because Logan's thoughts are so impenetrable to Scott at this point in time, and Scott is carefully assessing him by his actions. I wanted to swing the POV around to show Logan unable to think coherently, and yet hanging on to someone that all his senses tell him he can trust, hence "Scents and Sensuality" remix. It's here. And now I can friend her without spoiling the remix! Yay!

Thank you to scoured for an lucid and understanding beta. Your help shaped this pile of words into something coherent of which I could feel proud.


In other news, today is the first anniversary of having access to broadband. st_aurafina and I had it connected on the first day it was available, and despite it being far from what citizens of other nations call fast, it has been a lifeline from the Land of Cows (at about 14.4-30.2 kbps) to the Land of Geeks. We can download music. Buy books. Make icons. See other people's icons before the entire page of text has been read. See animations. Watch trailers. It's bloody great.

( The Demon Lover )
Edit: Oh yes, and daylight savings is over! My lost hour has returned. Life could not be better.

Rumplestiltskin is my Name
by lilacsigil
for thetreacletart
saeva's HP gen ficathon
Thank you to st_aurafina for a full week of beta-reading AND cups of tea!
Summary: Tom Riddle should be careful as he makes friends on his journey from Diagon Alley to Hogwarts.
( Rumplestiltskin is my Name )