Exploding Poohsticks

Nineveh-uk, a rustle in the branches mentioned it being your birthday. I fear that St. George/Charles remains beyond me, but hope Ivan/Jerry will do as a token offering.

Title: Running, They Never Run From It Away (pace Donne)
Pairing: Ivan Vorpatril/the 17th Duke of Denver (Viscount St. George in Wimsey canon)
Rating: G
Words: 178
Premise: I don't subscribe to the apocrypha that St. George bought it in WWII. At any rate, imagine both lads in their late 30s, a friendship developing over periodic hops in space/time by Lord Vorpatril...


Ivan Vorpatril allowed himself to shiver once the door closed behind his companion's visitors. When Jerry raised an eyebrow at him, he said, "Your uncle's manservant. He reminds me a little too much of my cousin Gregor."

"Oh? Does this Gregor mercilessly drench you in a cold, silent shower of you can do better than thises every time he sets eyes on you?" The words were as light as spun sugar, and as brittle as candy glass.

"He doesn't bother with the you can do betters," Ivan said, his shoulders still hunched up. "These days, he just sends me onto the next 'little job' he needs done before I even get out a 'hello.'"

Jerry sidled over to Ivan's chair, casually seating himself on one of the antique armrests. "Saying 'no' isn't an option?"

Ivan said, helplessly, "It was what I was born to do."

Jerry glanced at the coat of arms on the firescreen, the familiar cat and three mice courant forever mocking him. He placed his hands on Ivan's shoulders as he murmured, "I really do understand."

You deserve so much more, but this is all the fic my brain is willing to yield right now:

Their lives on the farm were peaceful, for the most part, although both men remained in fighting trim well into old age. Their superlative fitness was in part due to Lupin's inability to resist teasing his partner on occasion, resulting in few-holds-barred duels until they were both exhausted. Lupin never did find out why, during Snape's turns to milk the Guernseys, the word "cow-ward" was such a trigger.

*grins* *HUGS* *flees barrage of pumpkin seeds*

You can blame my commenters (specifically dru and meretricula) for these. (That, and it's easier to nosh on leftover crabcakes indoors, where the sand is not... [/last true day of vacation, wah])

Title: Sisterhood
Fandom: Tennis RPF (Mirka and Xisca)
Prompted by: meretricula's "wish for fic where [Mirka, Xisca, et al] are all BFFs and hang out at tournaments and talk trash about their respective husbands and boyfriends." And a fresh upswing in Rafa-proposing-to-Xisca rumors all over the tennisphere.
Useful background info: Mirka's parents are jewelers.
Wordcount: 200

( Are you sure? I didn't want to get married when I was your age )

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Title: Furthermore
Fandoms: Harry Potter and Tennis RPF (with a nod to Prince of Tennis)
Characters: Hooch and Snape/Lupin
Prompted by: drusilla rain's request for "crack-fic involving Remus, puppies, that pic and Snape"
Side info: Juan Carlos Ferrero's nicknames include "Juanqui" and "Mosquito"
Wordcount: 400

( Hooch had seen Snape speechless before, but she never would have bet on a litter of puppies producing that effect. )

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Title: In the Present
Fandom: Tennis RPF
Pairings: Juan Martin del Potro/Juan Monaco; background Nole/Rafa
Prompted by: meretricula's wishlist
Warning: outright fluff
Side note: I actually looked at everyone's tournament schedule to confirm that all four of them plan to play in Beijing. For a double drabble. Is it any wonder why it takes me so freakin' long to finish fics? [/rolls eyes at self]
Wordcount: 200

( We are not waiting until Sunday to eat this. )

Title: Not Yet Cooked
Author: bronze_ribbons
Fandom: Tennis RPF
Characters: Roger, Mirka, Rafa
Wordcount: 617
Disclaimer: Fic is fictional. No malice intended, no profit expected.
Rating: worksafe
Notes: Originally posted to LJ's fedal_slash comm (locked). I'm essentially on a hiatus from fic-writing until mid-February, but it would appear that I had some USO angst to get out of my system.

( When Roger arrives at his suite in Genova, there is a beribboned basket overflowing with pasta sitting on the coffee table. )

So, so tired, and yet more middle-of-the-night bug-chasing anticipated. On the plus side, having to be on standby online all damned day resulted in some catching up via e-mail (which in turn resulted in some rearranging of my language-study plans -- it turns out I'll be attending a wedding in Israel this fall, so Hebrew just leapfrogged over Mandarin. I'm loving the library's Pimsleur CD series, by the way...) and the writing of a New Year's Resolution fic:

Title: Deserving
Fandom: Haru wo Daiteita
Characters: Yoshizumi, Iwaki, and Katou
Rating: PG
Summary: "What the hell am I in the middle of now?" Yoshizumi doesn't know what to think when he lands a starring role opposite Katou's Iwaki.
Wordcount: 1054
Written for: glass-icarus, who had specified that "possessiveness is a giant thing for me; thus, obviously, when I mentioned Yoshizumi, I didn't mean a threesome. :P Katou and Iwaki being sweet are fabulous, Yoshizumi calling them out on it is also fabulous, Yoshizumi poking fun at them or talking to them about their relationship (in passing or not), any combination of the three of them bonding over acting..."
Link: http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/87/deserving.html
(I'll repost in this journal in a couple days or so - the file's on another machine)

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( twenty first lines meme: arguably spoilers for FAKE and Haru below the cut )

Patterns? Um... That I tend to write longer sentences than most of you is probably not news (*waves at westernredcedar, who wrangled with this firsthand when she recorded "The Hounding of the Baskervilles"*). That I often start out stories with characters in media thinkety is likewise Not A Revelation. Beyond that... aaah. At the moment I wouldn't be able to recognize a Fibonacci sequence if it smacked me with a slide rule. I think it's time to go check on my cauldron of tomato stew and then either kick a sonnet closer to shape or succumb to another two-hour catnap.

The squee: emungere was playing the write-the-next-five-lines meme at her journal, and humored my request for a glimpse of Dee and Berkeley at the U.S. Open.

The drabble:

( 100 words, Roger/Rafa, Dee/Ryo, worksafe )

Nerve is less pinched, thank goodness. Was up almost all night writing. Am supposed to be whaling through something else right now. Bunnies are scary, especially when they look like this:

( kinda scary photo prompt from a member of LJ:fedal-slash under this cut )

Which led to this:

Title: Cover
Author: bronze_ribbons
Pairing: Roger Federer/Rafael Nadal
Words: 400
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Real names, fictional people.

( Roger almost didn't recognize himself )

Title: It's Okay
Author: bronze_ribbons (mechaieh at Yuletide and Skyehawke)
Rating: G
Disclaimer: My fics are fictional, even when I use the names of real people.
Wordcount: 100 + 100 + 100
Note: Inspired by reports of Roger's 10-second chat with Rafa: "...I asked him how his knee was. He was like, 'it's okay'. So I kind of knew it wasn't great, because he's very honest to me." ...and a fedal-slash comm discussion (locked) about the languages the guys (don't) speak.
Another note: I know, I know, I keep getting ambushed by these bunnies. If I had any sense I'd make myself stay away from Wimbledon coverage, but the sheer amount of snark and woobiedom and headcasery (among the players, the journos, and the fans), it's like 1980s General Hospital, there's all sorts of doom hovering around the horizon and there's no telling what's going to happen next. And that's just in canon...


( Roger fully intends to learn Spanish someday... )

Title: Private Feelings
Pairings: background Roger/Rafa; octopus/Rafa
Rating: It's not really explicit, but there's definitely tentacle sex, y'know?
Disclaimer: Fic is fictional, even when I use the names of real people.
Wordcount: 500 even
Summary: Curiosity doesn't kill Andy Roddick, but...
Note: I blame meretricula. (Quote: "You know what tennis fandom needs? moar tentacles!" I hate my brain.)

( Andy privately wonders if he's going to end up feeling like a third wheel all week )

Title: Interrobang
Fandom: RPF – Tennis
Rating: PG
Fest: New Year Resolutions 2009 Challenge at Yuletide. For beth666ann, who requested Rafael Nadal/Roger Federer: "Anything, from sex, romance, to friendship--I am a big fan of character development. Also, I'd enjoy an AU if you felt like it."
Disclaimer: My fics are fictional, even when the characters share the same names as real people. No malice intended, no profit expected.
Lagniappe: A kind and generous anon is making a contribution to charity for each NYR fic posted this summer. In response to this story, she or he has made a donation to a public school seeking to purchase tennis rackets and balls for its "Geeks and Games" club.
Summary: Detective Federer likes being the guy with the answers. Detective Nadal likes being a question mark.

( Roger Federer isn't shy about being the top detective in his precinct. )

Title: Not As Dumb, part 3 of 6
Rating: M. I've deferred the explicit smut to part 4, but this one has a bit of skin, some kissing, and a lot of cussing. And handcuffs.
Wordcount: ~ 4,200 this part; 13,100 total so far, with at least three more chapters ahead.
Warnings: issues of consent, privacy, quality of life, and handling of bodily waste. (Put bluntly, this chapter includes discussions of rape, aging, and suicide/mercy killing. So sexy, I know, but the characters insisted; please know your triggers and boundaries before proceeding further.)
Notes: Ryo and Dee belong to Sanami Matoh. Their beliefs and opinions do not always correspond to mine. Written for LJ:springkink.


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Part 3

( Ack! What the FUCK!? )

Title: Professionals
Characters: Sawa Nagisa is Youka Nitta's. The inspectors and Kohaku are mine. The American in the second drabble is Sanami Matoh's.
Rating: G
Notes: Two 100-word drabbles. They are prequels to the ficlet I am currently working on for the Embracing Spring fest (caveat: if the plot gets any more out of control, I will table it for later and come up with something simpler and fluffier for the fest). There is in fact a travel advisory currently in effect regarding Roppongi bars. Originally written for youka_nitta's current drabble prompt, "Business," for which I also wrote "Fountains of Opportunity".
Summary: There has been an epidemic of drinks being spiked in Roppongi. Some of the patrons are professionally interested in the situation.

( As Assistant Inspector Akatsu led away the perpetrator... )

Title: Some Glimpses of More Than Anything
Fandom: FAKE
Pairing: Dee Laytner/Ryo Maclean
Challenge: 1 sentence (50 prompts, 1 sentence per prompt)
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: up to light R in a couple of spots

( After the aborted test drive... )

Title: Not a Floating Spar
Author: bronze_ribbons
Fandom: FAKE
Characters: Diana and Carol
Timeline: After Like, Like, Love
Words: 130
Rating: G
Note: One last post for halfamoon 2009. Title from Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Title: Developing
Fandom: FAKE
Characters: Ryo thinking about his Aunt Elena
Rating: G
Word count: 100 words
Notes: Takes place after the series. Direct references to the Ryo "side story" published a couple years ago as extra chapters in the Japanese reissues (scanlations here - listed as "FAKE extra ch 4" and "ch 5"). Written for halfamoon 2009, day 11.

( Ryo and his Aunt Elena seldom talk about the summer he was eighteen... )

Title: When Damsels Grow up
Fandom: FAKE
Character: Carol
Rating: PG (references to violence)
Timeline: After Like, Like, Love.
Words: 100. Written for day 8 of halfamoon 2009.


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Title: Emiry Nightingale
Fandom: FAKE
Character: Emiry
Rating: G
Timeline: spoilers through Book 4
Words: 100
Note: Written for halfamoon 2009, day 4.

( Before she became a nurse, Emiry had made her living as a contralto. )

Title: Any Direction in High Heels
Fandom: FAKE
Character: Diana Spacey
Rating: G
Spoilers: takes place after Like, Like, Love
Words: 218
Note: Written for day 3 of halfamoon 2009, a multi-fandom fest celebrating female characters (no minimum length or posting requirements; recs, icons, and other forms of fan participation welcome; info/rules here).

( Diana hasn't forgotten how Ryo said he'd be 'rooting for her'... )

Title: Indispensable
Fandom: Haru wo Daiteita (Embracing Love)
Fest: halfamoon 2009, day 2
Character: Shimizu
Words: 300
Rating: G

( One of the things Shimizu enjoys the most about being the manager of a movie star is getting to visit foreign countries. )

Banner by livia penn. Click for info about the halfamoon 2009 femfic fest.

Title: Bonsai
Fandom: Haru wo Daiteita (Embracing Love)
Character: Shimizu
Words: 100
Challenge: halfamoon 2009, day 1

( spoilers through chapter 49 )