screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: untitled
Fandom: Glee
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of character death; very sad; mourning
Pairings: Rachel/Finn
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 110
Point of view: third
Prompt: Glee, Rachel/Finn, Presence.



( When she can't sleep, she traces the ink of his name with a fingertip, remembering. )




Title: faded stone
Original, PG, 285 words
Warnings: mentions of spousal abuse, murder
Prompt: Author's choice, the names on the gravestones eventually fade

(  She stands in silence for a few moments, eyes following the words engraved on the stone. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Death, he has already been there for the end of so many worlds, so what is one more, really?



( All worlds end, just as all worlds, once, began. )



Title: evolution
Fandom: Harry Potter
Warnings: mentions of character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 52
Point of view: third
Prompt: Harry Potter, any, Hedwig


( Hedwig. )



Title: the slow waking of sleeping giants
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; mentions of destruction
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 180
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, a friendship so strong that when one is seriously hurt/in danger, the other completely loses it


( They take Joe.  )

Sometimes, I worry that I’m not as good a writer as I think I am. Maybe I’m arrogant; maybe I’m confused. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m like those people let through American Idol because they’re horrible singers.

You think those people hear what we hear? For them, that’s their normal. For me, my writing is.

But how do I know I’m good? Maybe I’m just delusional. I mean, I can tell I’ve gotten better over the years; anyone could see that. The stuff I wrote in 8th grade doesn’t hold a candle to what I write now. But better does not mean good.

I don’t know what I’m looking for here. I’ve just been in state of mild panic over the past month or so – I’m presenting at a conference for the first time, about my thesis, and I don’t know at all what I’m doing. And it got me to wondering – am I as good as I think I am?

Because I love to write. I love the worldbuilding, and searching for the perfect word, and rousing emotion. For me, that best feeling in the world is finishing a poem. And I still of myself as poet above all else.

So, I guess… I have to believe I’m as good as I think I am. Because if I’m not, I don’t have anything else.

Title: The past is now another land
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Aida
Warnings: violence; lack of morals; talk of death; character death; future!AU;
Pairings: implied Derek/Stiles; Allison/Scott
Ratings: PG13
Wordcount: 2565
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, Is this the place we used to love?



( They come back to Beacon Hills at the height of summer, on the hottest day of the year. )

Title: There's trees in the desert since you moved out
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: the ones you don't recognize are mine; lyrics from Zager and Evans; title from BtVS
Warnings: cannibalism, violence, aftermath of multiple plagues; very pre- and then a little post-series
Pairings: none
Rating: Rish?
Wordcount: 1190
Point of view: third
Note: I chose the names for a reason, but I shan't tell unless asked. *shrugs*
Prompt: author's choice, author's choice,

"What do they do with the old where you come from?"

"We put them on thrones and call them gods."



( Only gods and the sacred animals survive pestilence. )

Is there anyone out there willing to read over everything I have of the Merlin at Hogwarts story and tell me where I lost the plot? Because I honestly have no idea and it's tormenting me. I don't even know what the plot is.

Title: Gorgomon
Fandom: Bones
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU (that could secretly be canon, you never know); mentions of violence/death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 430
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any + any, one of them is pretending to be a monster and the other is pretending not to be.



(  The apprentice is expendable. )



Title: those who wander
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Tolkien
Warnings: future!fic. ish. AUish? Look, it's really frickin' weird, okay?
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 550
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, Renewed shall be the blade that was broken / the crownless again shall be king


(  Since the invention of the sword, Methos has never used another's. )




Title: fire in the blood
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; idea and a line from 'The True Story Here' by Seanan McGuire.
Warnings: future!fic; magic!Stiles; mentions of violence
Pairings: implied Derek/Stiles
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, Stiles, Roar

(  Blood burns like fire, he tells the wolf, and it always burns through. )




Title: give us a kiss
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish, maybe? Let's say Methos never put Kronos in the well
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos/Kronos, flirting



( Methos glances up at him through his eyelashes, tilting his head to the side. )


Title: A morning breaks without bread or fresh-poured milk
Fandom: White Collar
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: AU; implied violence/bad things
Pairings: Peter/Elizabeth
Rating: PG13ish
Wordcount: 630
Point of view: third
Prompt: White Collar, Neal, he waits for the day he's free again. Peter thinks he has figured Neal out, but predators can be very patient.

( When Peter finally signals him, Neal carefully closes the magazine and sets it aside, flips his hat on, and saunters up the stairs. )

Does anyone remember my Merlin-reincarnated-at-Hogwarts story? I've been working on it again. I wrote myself into a corner for a few months, then wrote myself out of it and into another, then wrote myself out of that one - and now I have no idea what's going on. I just wanted Merlin to kill Umbridge, okay? And now I have Hogwarts herself killing Ms. Professor Carrow, and the house elves are about to have an insurrection, because while original!flavor Merlin didn't set them free, raised-as-a-modern-day-muggle-in-Britain!flavor Merlin doesn't like slavery all that much. *sigh* (Also, house elves originated in Ancient Rome. And have clans. And some of them are happy with the system, and some of them aren't, and while Emrys doesn't care about humans on the whole all that much, some things are just wrong, okay? And he's got the power. So why the fuck not, you know? His moral system is essentially what his parents and Arthur think might be wrong, and his parents are muggles in modern-day Britain, and Arthur's family doesn't keep house elves, except for the ones his dad pays to work at his book shop. *hands*)

I have no idea what's going on, but this 'verse is just so much fun.

I'm at about 7300 words for Year 2 and the only thing I know for sure is that Emrys won't be killing Voldemort because Voldemort never makes it personal.

( my collection of little dudes (+ Bacon & a penguin). )

little dudes + Bacon (and a penguin)

( Gravy & Mashed Potatoes (guess which is which) )

Gravy & Mashed Potatoes

( Mr. Badass Waistcoat, James Dean, a minion, The Most Dangerous Animal in Africa, an elephant, Mike, a hedgehog, and Pooh Bear )

Mr. Badass Waistcoat, James Dean, a minion, The Most Dangerous Animal in Africa, an elephant, Mike, a hedgehog, and Pooh Bear

Does anyone else want a fic in which Sweets and Shawn met way pre-series and traveled across the US together, where they killed three people just to see if they could?

I may have, um, gotten very detailed while telling the story to myself.