screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: that heart whose fervour was all thine
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Warnings: post-film; the aftermath of mind control
Pairings: Loki/Clint
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: second



(  In your dreams, you’re drowning in blue, mouth open and eyes wide. )




Title: I don’t want your crown
Fandom: Norse mythology
Disclaimer: I’m pretty sure the characters are public domain now. Either way, I didn’t think them up. Title from Florence and the Machine.
Warnings: violence
Pairings: Loki/Sigyn
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 365
Point of view: third
Prompt: norse mythology, odin/loki, see, I've come to burn your kingdom down.

( I don’t want your money. I don’t want your crown. See, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down... And no rivers, and no lakes, can put the fire out. )




Title: shall I bring you the sound of poisons?
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AUish for Hawkeye’s backstory; darkish characterization
Pairings: implied Coulson/Clint
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 810
Point of view: second


(  This is how you kill: easily. )

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Title: I was thinking of a son
Fandom: Glee/Avengers movieverse(Norse mythology)
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AU; future!fic; mentions of bullying
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PGish
Wordcount: 440
Point of view: third
Note: Part of this ‘verse.



(  Something about Kurt had always struck Quinn as off. )

So, now there's a hurricane headed this way. Fuckin' A.

We haven't had one since Gustav in 2008, which knocked the power out for a week in most of the state. I remember driving through the city at night and the whole thing was dark. Frickin’ creepy, dudes.

And Isaac may make landfall on the anniversary of Katrina... no, that's not ominous at all.

It’s been a good four years. I really hope the thing just blows itself out in the Gulf.

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Title: I was thinking of a son
Fandom: Glee/Avengers movieverse/Norse mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic; AU; violence
Pairings: Blaine/Kurt
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1075
Point of view: third
Notes: apparently this never got posted here. Oops. Part of this ‘verse.
More notes: I started three new parts of this ‘verse today, which is why I noticed I’d failed to post this. Rewatching season 3 of Glee makes me want to write Kurt as Loki’s son and fucking shit up. *shrugs*


(  Blaine was snatched from his art history class by a group of gunmen who kept calling him <i>Stark’s kid</i>, so it hit the internet way before anyone thought to call Kurt. )

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Title: Whose is the face in the mask?
Fandom: The Dark Knight Trilogy
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Phantom of the Opera
Warnings: implied bad things happening to children
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "I didn't grow bitter, I just grew up."


(  John used to make up stories about Bruce Wayne. )



Title: the birds take back their language
Fandom: Push movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Margaret Atwood
Warnings: mild language
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 355
Point of view: third
Prompt: Push, Nick, It hadn't been his fight, but they brought the war to him and now he was in it to win.


(  Those first few weeks after escaping, he doesn't sleep. )




Title: You know what lies are for
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: post-film
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 420
Point of view: third
Prompt: The Avengers, Loki, "All of this was a test to see if you are ready."


( You are no king, my brother. )



Title: all the trembling bells of you were mine
Fandom: Psych
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: mentions of violence; depressing stuff
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, here's to the night we felt alive

(  Gus sleeps in the chair next to Shawn's bed for the six weeks it takes Shawn to wake up. )




Title: I've lived in this place and I know all the faces
Fandom: Political Animals
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from "I'm Movin' On" by Rascal Flatts.
Warnings: drug addiction/abuse; mentions of failed suicide attempts; mild language
Pairings: mentions of TJ/Sean Reeves
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 645
Point of view: third
Prompt: Political Animals, TJ, Scared and alone


( They mean me no harm, but it’s time that I faced it… they’ll never allow me to change. )

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Why is that no fics I've read have ever mentioned that the Warriors 3 + Sif committed treason? And Heimdallr?

Fact: Odin (the king, even if he is a douchebag, and a dude all of the aforementioned jerkasses are supposedly loyal to) banished Thor for being a war-mongering, easily-angered, going-to-get-everyone-killed idiot. Yes? King banishes prince, takes his magic (mostly), and tosses him down to Earth to prove himself.

Fact: Odin then falls into the most helpfully timed healing sleep ever and for some reason his wife doesn't take over for a few days. Okay.

Fact: Odin has a second son and he takes over. Makes sense because there’s an heir and a spare, right? Heir’s out of town so spare steps up.

Fact: So now we have an Acting King, who, while he may not want to be king, he is not, at least, easily angered. Like, he didn't actually want to go to Jotunheimr, and he almost got them out of there without fighting - except, oh, right. Thor decided to start a war. Which he got banished for.

Fact: Warriors 3 + Sif don't like Loki. For some reason, neither does Heimdallr. So what do they do? They decide to ignore not only Loki's commandments, but also Odin's - that dude they all claim to be loyal to. You know why the Destroyer showed up in New Mexico? Because the king had traitors he needed to deal with, and they happened to be on a planet that didn't have a treaty with Asgard. And if all the humans would’ve stayed out of the way, a few buildings might have gotten singed, but we’re a hardy people. We can deal with that.

So. No fic I've seen has mentioned the treachery, and how that might have added to everything else Loki was dealing with. Why? Because he’s “the villain”? He was following the king’s rules and keeping the banished guy banished because – as evidenced by Thor on Jotunheimr, he wasn’t ready to be king.

Yes, Loki’s my favorite. Yes, I mentioned the above in one of my fics, and a prompt I left in the kinkmeme. But I can’t recall any other fic about it.

It just makes me mad. *sigh*

Have commas, periods, and hyphens always been counted in the word-counting software? Because that throws off pretty much everything I've ever written.

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Pick any passage of 500 words or fewer from something I've written, and leave it in a comment here. Then ask a question about it - what I was thinking, why that's the plot twist I chose, what I think might happen later, how I could've totally changed it up... anything you want to know.

So, along with everything else I'm working on and failing to finish, I started something new today. An Avengers/Norse myth crossover where Rhodey (Tony's best friend) is Sleipnir, Happy (Tony Stark's bodyguard) is Fenrir, Tony himself is Jörmungandr, Pepper is Hela, and either Bryce Larkin or Eames is Vali, and Neal Caffrey is Nari (I'm waiting to hear back from the prompter for those last two).

Now. My questions are these:

Should I just find two Marvel canon characters to be Vali&Nari? Because it's already intricate enough and I don't want to worry about other canons, too?

What color is Fenrir's fur? I think I want him to be a black wolf.

Should Hela be the goddess of the dead, or should I just ignore that part? Maybe she's turned her back on everything but her family.

Also, I think I've decided that Loki is mother of them all, instead of just Sleipnir.

And I'm either changing or ignoring certain parts of the Iron Man movies, so that it fits into the whole 'some of the characters are mythological figures' thing better. Should I mention within the narrative itself whenever that happens (somehow) or just assume the reader is clever enough to figure that out?

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Title: Child, from this world now you will draw your breath
Fandom: Avengers movieverse/Norse mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Betsy Sholl
Warnings: … yeah. Improperly marked dialogue due to stylistic choices. Symbolism. Bullshittery. Character death, after a fashion. Suicide by way of mythological figures, too. Mentions of Odin’s A+ parenting.
Pairings: um. Yggdrasil/Jörmungandr?
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 490
Point of view: third


(  A hero is merely the monster of someone else’s story. )