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Beyond the rain
Summary: Someplace where there isn’t any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a place?
Prompt: medea_aries: What if, in Ruat Caelum, when Lex sends the message about being kidnapped by the Justice League, Batman does go ahead and handles it himself?
Warning: character death; otherwise PG. 
Clark/Lex.

( I can cause accidents, too )

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Florid
For the Turn Left meme, jackycomelately said: “In Incarnadine, if Jonathan had been the one to drive Lex home (and hopefully comfort him).” I’m also calling this for “relative values” for bingo, because Lex deserves to be part of somebody’s family. PG in itself, but it’s about the aftermath of Red K exposure; Red K makes Clark horny and Lex has a nonstandard definition of “consent,” so there you are.

( father knows best )

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( Felix! Mildmay! Vampires! Anticlimax! )

Variations on a Fugue:
Fox was the one who couldn't remember, and Dana got her memories back. (For hulamoth , and also—because that’s how I roll—satisfying my amnesia clichefic prompt.)
PG, A (if you don’t remember, A is for Angst)

( Under an assumed identity )

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Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Fay chose silver glitter instead of gold") or big (e.g. "and then Rose was arrested instead of Jack") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.

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Schadenfreude, with wit: “Last month, Nevada Sen. John Ensign had to resign his Republican leadership post to spend more time with his sex scandal…. Like Sanford, Palin snuck away to visit a distant land and fell in love with a siren she cannot bring home or leave behind. Her fatal attraction was the national spotlight.”

Further on Palin, did she seriously say that she didn’t want to be lame duck because it’s not enough fun for her (or, generously, for the state)? She does know that term limits mean that lame duckishness is a feature of the system, right? Who’s supposed to be running the show in such circumstances? I am baffled.

( Steve Almond on everything and Mary Roach on sex )

My very first Smallville story, The Presence of Fire, is up at the Audio archive, courtesy of cathexys.

( Jim Butcher and Ilona Andrews, heir to Laurell Hamilton )

Quotes for my commonplace book:

Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein, So schlag' ich Dir den Schädel ein. (If you don't want to be my brother, then I'll smash your skull in.)

“We fed the heart on fantasy; the heart grew brutal on the fare.” Wm. Butler Yeats

"Torture, from Latin torquere, to twist. What visual instruction in etymology! ... Whoever was tortured, stays tortured. Torture is ineradicably burned into him, even when no clinically objective traces can be detected." Jean Améry, At the Mind's Limit: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities

Ex Machina
Immediately post-S4, PG, gen. Oh, Dean. Oh, Sam. Oh, stand back. I’ll do it. (Note: If you remember this summary from where I got it, I will write just about any prompt for you.)

( It is obvious that the solutions of plots too should come about as a result of the plot itself, and not from a contrivance ... )

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I find myself wanting to reread a short J2 Pern AU featuring Jensen’s dragon’s first mating flight that I read a while back—not the big dragonrider AU I found when I asked Google, but a different one more plainly set in Pern. Anybody remember this?

My SV bodyswap story, Switch: A Comedy of Terrors, is now available as a podfic read by pennyplainknits, also zipped. By the way, I love the whole podfic enterprise; I can’t do it myself because I am a creature of the written word (seriously; I am very little fun at parties), but I’m always thrilled if anyone wants to make podfics of my stories. All I’d like is a link when you’re done!
( Books on fan films and on Farscape )

Rough and undistinguished on my bones
Summary: Post S4, God’s sick tigers need a pause to lick their wounds. Mildly Castiel/Dean/Sam, at least at hurt/comfort levels. PG. (Title etc. from Stevie Smith.)
Cliche prompt: Illness

(  (O God I was so beautiful when I was well) )

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Part 2

( over the moon )

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Part 1

( wrapped around your finger )

Part 3

Summary: To save Lois's life, Clark makes a bargain with Lex. Complications ensue.
Clark/Lex, R for sexual situations and Lex being a big jerk; also (mainly offscreen) violence. If you think things like mating bonds pose issues of consent, then there are definitely issues of consent here, though not exactly mating bonds. Well, Lex in himself is a walking issue of consent, isn't he?

I should probably mention that I'm ignoring much of anything past S5.

Written for mahaliem in the livelongnmarry auction. Thanks to Mary Ellen Curtin, geekturnedvamp , Gin, and Moselle Green for beta, especially ME's point about what always happens to Lex in my stories.

Read the whole thing here.

( Marry me a little ... )


Part 2

Note: of tangential relevance at best to the general warnings discussion. Rather than engaging with the dos/don’ts, I’m talking here about the meaning I give to particular terms, mainly “dub-con” or dubious consent. I’m interested in others’ definitions and usages, but it is unlikely I will stop enjoying dub-con in fanfic and I value having a way to distinguish a dub-con story from a story in which either the character or the author defines what happened as rape.

( pleasure and pain are hard to talk about! )

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Paradise by the Dashboard Light
SPN
PG-13 for dirty talk, gen (Note: I am beginning to think that we have made a collective mistake in this whole “gen” idea. What I mean here is: sex is acknowledged, but not recounted, and nobody here is in an active sexual/romantic relationship, even though this is both a clichefic and by me. I know, I know!)
Summary: It’s not exactly a bun in the oven. Set in some halcyon time when angels and apocalypses are not pressing problems.
Prompt: There’s a poll at the end for you to help me decide which cliche bingo prompt I should count for this one.

( Baby, let me sleep on it )
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(When You Wake) You’re Still in a Dream
SPN/My Bloody Valentine crossover
PG-13 (not like the movie), Gen, set sometime after SPN S4’s repercussions have faded a bit.
For the cliche bingo prompt “doppelgangers,” naturally.

( History catches up with him in Iowa )

Five Guns Dean Winchester Used to Have
Summary: Every gun makes its own tune.
PG, gen

( leave it to me to take a cliche challenge and write a ton of gen; I am the imp of the perverse )

Chuck versus the Left Turn at Albequerque
This is my first entry in cliché bingo. You’ll see.
PG, gen-ish.

( “Stay still, you big baby,” Ellie said, her tone as worried as her words were sharp. )

It only took six months longer than promised, but I have a rough draft of mahaliem 's SV story for livelongnmarry.  20,000 words, Clark/Lex, forced to marry (sort of).  Anyone interested in betaing?

Also, Sarah Connor fans: bop_radar  has a fantastic new vid about fighting metal, and whether flesh can do it.

1. It makes me sad that among Wolfram Alpha's easter eggs is not "how old Cary Grant?" Google, by contrast, gets the answer right off.

2. Rewatching Serenity, I noticed three instances where extradiegetic titles turned into diegetic images--the Universal logo/Earth-that-Was, the movie title/the side of Serenity, and Haven/the entrance to Haven. I'm used to extradiegetic music moving into (or out of) the diegesis, but is it common for images to do this? This made me think about the extent to which, as one of the articles I recently read argues, the fact that we can now treat film pretty much the way we treat sound in terms of mixing, manipulation, etc. is affecting editors' and directors' sense of possibility for images.

3. Fellow parents! You know how in Dora the Explorer there’s always that creepy moment where Dora turns to the screen and waits unblinkingly for the audience to answer her question “What did you like best?” (My kids never answer; does anyone?) Z. suggests it would be engagingly disturbing to edit together ten or twelve of those moments, and I heartily agree. Maybe with the following quotes integrated in:
( In Dora's case )