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[brain dump] death & the maiden 2: it came from the refrigerator

2024-10-21T17:12:57Z

So like I mentioned in the last post I'm working on another little poetry chapbook full of poems about dead women but this time specifically comics focused JUST so I can name it it came from the refrigerator. And I needed to throw up a little post mostly for myself to vent / dump about it as I'm writing because it's just clogging up my Tumblr and also not that interesting lol.

So the list of featured women is:

Alex DeWitt
Jean Grey (+ Maddy Pryor)
Kara Zor El
Gwen Stacy
Donna Troy
Elektra Natchios
Sue Dibney
Gert Yorkes
Tara Markov
Kamala Khan
Lian Harper
Mariko Yoshida
Bobbi Morse

I may write a second Steph poem to round out the DC side since there's an extra marvel gal on there.

Basically going to use this post / the comment threads to draft some things, complain, keep track of who's been covered and update as I actually put the chapbook together. It'll be on my ko-fi eventually, I might try to comish someone for a cover.

If you have any girls you think I've missed or comics women you wanna talk about do let me know! Idk if anyone would be remotely interested in watching me redraft poems and throw tantrums when I don't think they're working but I'm gonna post through it anyway lol. Enjoy?

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[ficathon] what the id wants 2: electric boogaloo

2023-01-09T20:01:33Z

Hey. Do you feel depressed? Do you have writers block? Are you looking for a way to just loosen the tension in your chest and shoulders and soul in general? If you answered yes to the previous questions, you might be me. I've been feeling very stuck and bored and in need of an outlet, and after a handful of aborted starts at the end of last year I think the weight and exhaustion from editing you make yourself another is FINALLY passing and I'm ready to write some nonsense again. So let's have a free-for-all. Let's go for as long as we have steam (or, at the latest, until femfeb). Let's get real indulgent with it.

As I said in the original ficathon: This is for all those fics you've always wanted to read (or write) but just never found. Maybe the fandom is obscure or it never fit the theme of other ficathons. Maybe it's about a minor character no one loves like you do. Maybe you only thought about it a minute ago. What I'm saying is, the theme here is anything goes. Indulge yourself.

rules!
1. all fandoms/characters/whatevers are up for grabs
2. prompt as many things as you want, but make a separate comment for each prompt. the more, the better.
3. when you make a fill, please leave a comment here (link, title, warnings, fandom, rating)
4. feedback is ambrosia, but you knew that
5. anonymous posting is on
6. This is a free-for-all with some limits, that is to say; homophobia, transphobia, racism etc will be screened, flagged and deleted. Let's keep it comfy
7. Have FUN

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[update] death & the maiden

2022-08-19T12:49:53Z

I Can't believe I forgot to talk about this here but... well, I wrote a book. Actually, I wrote two books, a book of short stories which I put together over 5 years and is still going through the editorial process to make it perfect and polished and beautiful, and a little book of pop culture inspired poems, written during a difficult stage of editing, over a 2 week period in April. And that latter book, written in a state of delirium, is already out in the world. Which is absolute MADNESS, frankly.

Death & The Maiden is a love letter to pop culture's dead girls, from Moulin Rouge to Buffy, Bojack Horseman to Batman, 16 poems for 16 dead girls, because we know those are who I tend to love best. If you're interested at all, you can buy a physical copy here, and if you do, please do say something nice on GoodReads about it!

I've been feeling unbearably SEEN since it came out, even though these are mostly impersonal poems --- they're fanworks, they're a melding of what I do here and my "real world" writing career, and it's such a weird liminal space to be in. The short story collection, when it releases, will feel like letting people look at my organs, I feel like, because those stories are so unbearbly personal and part of me, but this, in a way, is almost more exposing? It's a look at what I love, and have been doing online since I was a teenager; getting too attached to doomed girls in fiction. What a strange world.

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Femslash Find-It Post

2022-02-18T12:42:35Z

Hi Hi I am late but whatever I'm here I'm doing this let's see if I can pick my muse up from the floor. For elasticella 's femslash find-it event

'22 Prompts

fireworks	shadow
champagne	yearning
chocolate	death
mirror	shower
stockings	doppelganger
coffin	solitaire
contempt	fairy
stuck	rain
bloom	praise
quarry	red
3+ person ship	new ship

[ficathon] fem feb 2022

2022-01-31T20:03:38Z

~~How has it possibly been a year since fem feb 2021? jesus~~

I'm a day early, which is a first lol. don't expect it again.

Also! The always dreamy elasticella is also running a femslash event this month that's a little more structured than this one, so please do play around at both, combine prompts, share the love! I know I will be <3

rules! (shamelessly stolen from kwritten , slightly adapted)

1. Any fandom is welcome, as usual. This ficathon is lady-focused, and this one is also focusing on wlw, so please no m/m prompts. Transphobia will NOT be tolerated.

2. Prompt as much as you wish, but make a separate comment for each prompt. The more prompts, the better, trust me.

3. When you fill a prompt, please leave a comment here (link, title, warnings, prompt). Art, fic, fill with whatever. Multiple fills encouraged!

4. Feedback is much appreciated, but you knew that already.

5. Have fun!

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[prompt table] femslashficlets florence + the machine

2021-12-03T14:54:42Z

this is to both a) hold myself accountable and b) to maybe take some pairing prompts for each lyric, because I want to write but I'm always better if I am beholden to someone else

from femslashficlets

1.	She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
2.	This is a gift, it comes with a price
3.	Sweeter than heaven and hotter than hell
4.	~~And a falling star fell from your heart~~
5.	'Cause I am done with my graceless heart, so tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
6.	You can choose what stays and what fades away
7.	~~And all this devotion was rushing over me~~
8.	We are shining and we will never be afraid again
9.	Suddenly I'm overcome, dissolving like the setting sun
10.	A different kind of a danger in the daylight
~~11.~~	~~Oh, the heart, it hides such unimaginable things~~
12.	We never found the answer but we knew one thing
~~13.~~	'~~Cause she's just like the weather, can't hold her together~~
14.	This is a song for a scribbled out name, and my love keeps writing again and again
~~15.~~	~~Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks, and the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts~~
16.	No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
~~17.~~	~~It talks in tongues and quiet sighs~~
~~18.~~	~~Love sticks, sweat drips, break the lock if it don't fit~~
19.	My held breath fills the room with love
20.	Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart

Completed fics:
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Comment below if you have any requests! Will cross them off and update this post as I power through them

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[ficathon] Amore! A polyamory mini-ficathon

2021-07-15T13:39:06Z

I'm hoping to run this for a couple of weeks / to the end of the month. No pressure, just something fun & easy to carry me through because this month has been hectic as all hell, lol.

rules! (shamelessly stolen from kwritten , slightly adapted)

1. Any fandom is welcome, as usual! You can interpret polyamory to mean threesomes/foursomes/moresomes, or as one character with multiple partners, or any other way you feel is applicable
2.Homophobia/transphobia/racism/ableism/any of that bullshit will NOT be tolerated

3. Prompt as much as you wish, but make a separate comment for each prompt. The more prompts, the better, trust me.

4. When you fill a prompt, please leave a comment here (link, title, warnings, prompt). Art, fic, fill with whatever. Multiple fills encouraged!

5. Feedback is much appreciated, but you knew that already.

6. Have fun!

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[masterlist] femfeb 2021

2021-03-01T13:30:28Z

And we're done!

There were some really beautiful things written this femfeb and I'm really grateful that so many of you showed up and joined in with the world in the state it is currently in. Thank you for being here, you beautiful people!

n/a: okay this post keeeeps glitching and erasing whole lines and reassigning fics to other people? dw? whats going on?

Without further ado:

this year I devour | caos | sabrina/prudence/agatha/dorcas | mature | by clockwork_hart1

perpetual motion | trc/dreamer trilogy | jordan/orla, hennessy/helen | teen | by clockwork_hart1

to avoid death, marry the hangman | greek myth | cassandra/clytemnestra (bg cassandra/agamemnon, clytemnestra/agamemnon) | mature: murder, referenced rape | by lackadaisicalnereid

I exist! I exist! I exist! | euphoria | jules/rue | teen | by clockwork_hart1

hunger makes me | caos | sabrina/agatha, sabrina/agatha/ofc | teen | by clockwork_hart1

who will i be? | btvs | buffy/anne | pg | by kwritten

war council | btvs/tvd, bonnie/buffy | gen | by kwritten

[ficathon] femfeb 2021

2021-01-30T19:00:50Z

Hello. It's 2021. Let's go lesbians.

rules! (shamelessly stolen from kwritten, slightly adapted)

1. Any fandom is welcome, as usual. This ficathon (like all my ficathons) is lady-focused, and this one is also focusing on wlw, so please no m/m prompts. Transphobia will NOT be tolerated. If anyone clowns on Jules I WILL fight.

2. Prompt as much as you wish, but make a separate comment for each prompt. The more prompts, the better, trust me.

3. When you fill a prompt, please leave a comment here (link, title, warnings, prompt). Art, fic, fill with whatever. Multiple fills encouraged!

4. Feedback is much appreciated, but you knew that already.

5. Have fun!

tumblr post here

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[placeholder post] Femfeb? Anyone? Bueller?

2021-01-29T15:30:56Z

HELLO! IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SINCE I LOGGED INTO DW!

I am DETERMINED to write some stuff for femfeb and I've been craving a kind of free for all ficathon all year, because, well, what else is there to do & if anyone else is already throwing one, amazing & i'm gonna come along! But I'm probably gonna throw something together this weekend, if anyone wants to play?

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[master list] femfeb 2020

2020-03-03T22:25:18Z

Can you believe it's march lol what happened?

Femfeb came and also went and now it's march and I guess we all just have to get on with our lives again. I wrote some things! Which would never have happened had the dreamy and wonderful elasticella not hosted her femfeb frenzy event. I met my fair goal of 4 fics and stopped juuuuuuust shy of my fancy goal of 8, though not for lack of trying. I have some truly bizarre half-started fics in my gdocs that refused to coalesce, the bastards. Anyway, I had an absolute blast writing these and getting all up in fandom's grill again after a while away and I still have some leftover hunger pangs from it all, I suppose, so there's a distinct possibility, being as it is my famed Birth Month that I'll throw together a small ficathon sometime soon-ish (I'm debating themes in my head, because I've always wanted to throw a sitcom ficathon but also I've been having aaaaaaallllll the gossip girl feels at the tail end of this month for no apparent reason so?)

Anyway, here's some stuff I wrote in a haze this month, all can be found in a collection on ao3 here

something in your throat that wants to get out | wicdiv | luci/laura/sakhmet, laura/sakhmet | mature | for lackadaisicalnereid |
locking out the thought is how we get by when we get it wrong

smile like the sun | freaks and geeks | lindsay/kim | teen | for elasticella | The Grateful Dead Tour

tearing all the walls down | brooklyn 99 | amy/rosa | mature | for lackadaisicalnereid | Her eyes shine, chaos curling cruelly around her mouth. "Do you dare?" / Amy slowly picks up a card. "Who do you think you're playing with, ma'am?"

she deals in superstitions | scooby doo / sabrina the teenage witch | daphne/sabrina | g | for kwritten | "Sorry about your superhero cape."

I could drink a case of you | it's always sunny in philadelphia | dee/the waitress | explicit | I'll keep you warm and won't ask you where you've been

sign my death with your teeth | the vampire diaries | bonnie/Katherine | teen | for lackadaisicalnereid | hades and persephone, the mystic falls remix

hide your fires | killing eve | eve/villanelle | for isolde_thelady | this is a play and we're both chewing the scenery

Well, there's your lot, thanks for playing etc. I'd like to tag this post properly when I'm not doing it all from my phone lol

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[ficathon] oh nostalgia

2019-08-28T16:09:15Z

Endings, beginnings, etc.

(I promised to do a ficathon for summer, and then I got busy and also sick and forgot, so here, in the dying embers of august, I'm yearning for fandom and community and sometimes it's just like. god, remember 2014? remember when we all just cried about TVD and GG and the Annie/Abed of it all and held hands and the world wasn't Actively burning before our very eyes?)

So I guess the theme is nostalgia, or whatever kind of fics you remember really yearning for before we moved on and apart, or anything you wanted out of a show that it never gave you, or just a show/pairing/plot/person you still have emotions for even if it feels like you're the only one still holding the I ♥ YOU placard in the rain. Or just. Whatever. I'm not going to enforce anything, I was just overcome with wistfulness this overwarm morning.

Rules! shamlessly stolen from kwritten , slightly adapted

1. Any fandom is welcome, as usual.

2. Prompt as much as you wish, but make a separate comment for each prompt. The more prompts, the better, trust me.

3. When you fill a prompt, please leave a comment here (link, title, warnings, prompt). Art, fic, fill with whatever. Multiple fills encouraged!

4. Feedback is much appreciated, but you knew that already.

5. Have fun!

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[ficathon] fem feb 2019

2019-02-01T15:20:15Z

I'm late but not as late as usual, so that should count for something. Also I hummed and hawed about whether to host this on lj or dw (and discounted cross posting immediately bc I know I would just confuse myself) and settled on experimenting with dw for now, since I've never done a ficathon here before, and if it falls apart then I'll haul myself back to lj next time.

rules! (shamelessly stolen from kwritten , slightly adapted)

1. Any fandom is welcome, as usual. This ficathon (like all my ficathons) is lady-focused, and this one is also focusing on wlw, so please no m/m prompts

I have decided for now that rule 63 is okay - IF one person in the pairing is canonically female (so f!bellamy blake/raven is fine) and trans prompts are also totally fine - PLEASE no transphobia or trans-phobic plotlines.

2. Prompt as much as you wish, but make a separate comment for each prompt. The more prompts, the better, trust me.

3. When you fill a prompt, please leave a comment here (link, title, warnings, prompt). Art, fic, fill with whatever. Multiple fills encouraged!

4. Feedback is much appreciated, but you knew that already.

5. Have fun!

tumblr post may be forthcoming

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fem feb!

2018-02-06T22:51:33Z

Hi y'all.... I know I'm never here, and I know that everyone's done with lj for good reasons, but i'm hosting a fem feb ficathon over there bc I know my mainstays are still primarily at home there. If you want to play, please come play with us! and hopefully I'll back everything up to this journal afterwards! all rules are in the main post but its mainly an anything goes kind of thing except for, obviously, the femslash taking precedence.

if you join, have fun with it, we always do

[click here!]

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Fic: Gifts From Those Departed

2014-01-20T18:42:34Z

Title: Gifts from Those Departed
Summary: Dawn wonders who she is during the summer after Buffy's death
Rating: Teen
Disclaimer: Something or other

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Fic: All That I've Got

2013-11-17T18:30:10Z

Title: All That I've Got
Summary: Caroline tries to bowl away her pain
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Vampire Diaries belongs to the CW and LJ Smith and all those people that aren't me.

Originally posted here

A/N: It's a little… Literal. And I'm determined to slip in some Elena friendship, because the lack of hugs in S5, Ep1 pissed me off so much. So this is set in a special place in my head cannon, because it never would have fit in ep1 or 2 or between them in S5, but that's where it goes.

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Fic: Corruption's Only A Sin When It Doesn't Get Finished

2013-11-10T17:27:03Z

Title: Corruption's Only A Sin When It Doesn't Get Finished
Rating: NC-17
Summary: "You think just because you waltz in here all sexified in those Manolo Blahniks I'll fall at your feet?" For the Fifth Annual Femslash Kink Meme on dreamwidth - Cordy/Lilah, shoes.
Distribution: Feel free, as long as my name remains on it
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the words and I gain no profit. Characters belong to The Boss and co. (M.E.), and thank God they do, or I would have nothing to dream about

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Fic: Lover, I Think We're Falling

2013-11-03T16:55:05Z

Title: Lover, I Think We're Falling
Summary: An AU of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered". Angelus gives Buffy a Valentines gift that doesn't lack poetry
Rating: NC-17 (Non-con Warnings)
Disclaimer: I own everything, EVERYTHING in the universe. Including you, reader. So you can't argue, I'll just have you executed. Nah, A Joss-shaped guy (my master) owns the characters, I'm just playing puppet master whilst he's out, 'kay?
Distribution: You could do me the courtesy of telling me first, but have at it...

Originally posted here

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Fic: Wild Soul, I Cling To Thee

2013-11-03T16:38:35Z

Title: Wild Soul, I Cling To Thee
Summary: Buffy reflects on her and Spike, through their first and last meetings (companion piece to "Burn, Blur and Bury Me")
Prompt: Werewolf Blood - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: Teen

Originally posted here

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Fic: Fuelling Fire

2013-11-03T16:21:42Z

Title: Fuelling Fire
Summary: Season Six, Spike's inner thoughts when he's with Buffy (Companion piece to "Drowning Lessons")
Prompt: Lead - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: R

Originally posted here

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Fic: Drowning Lessons

2013-11-03T16:17:05Z

Title: Drowning Lessons
Summary: Season Six, Buffy's inner monologue as she gives herself to Spike (Companion piece to "Fuelling Fire")
Prompt: Lead - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: R

Originally posted here

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Fic: Unknowing; Known

2013-11-03T16:11:19Z

Title: Unknowing; Known
Summary: He doesn't know... During "The Gift"
Prompt: Funeral Bell - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: PG

Originally posted here

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Fic: Of A Christmas Rose and Mistletoe

2013-11-03T16:04:26Z

Title: Of A Christmas Rose and Mistletoe
Summary: It's Christmas in Sunnydale and Spike's taking advantage
Prompt: Black Hellebore - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: PG

Originally posted here

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Fic: A Little Bit Of Foresight

2013-10-30T22:55:50Z

Title: A Little Bit of Foresight
Summary: Who knew Spike could make such accurate predictions? Certainly not him. (during "Something Blue")
Prompt: Owl Blood - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: PG

Originally posted here

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Fic: Sacrifice

2013-10-30T22:46:34Z

Title: Sacrifice
Summary: Sacrifices must be made on the path to shadow
Prompt: Eye of Newt - For SB Fag Ends Witches Brew Halloween Challenge 2013
Rating: PG

Originally posted here

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