Labor Day Meme: Stories That Never Were

[browngirl]

From petronelle, who filled this in glorious manner. Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Feel free to try any fandom you have reason to think I know, but if I don't at all know the fandom I'll have to say so.

Comments

[eudaimon.livejournal.com]

"As We Used to Say to The Ones Left Behind" - Pike/Kirk - the angry desk sex, man. I wish I ould write something that HOT and PAINFUL at the same time.

[droolfangrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh man...um... There was this weird story you wrote. You used Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth ( http://home.earthlink.net/~rkkman/frames/summaries/SPB.htm ) as the jumping point and it just got stranger after that, but you know how I am about crack fic.

I think the title was something like "oh it's you again"

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Looking at "Unbuttoning thee after supper" now, I can see a lot of the underlying themes that go into much of your work that I love. Hal reminds me of your Jim Kirk.

Falstaff is a bit of a departure from everyone you normally write, though, isn't he.

[lindmere.livejournal.com]

This is a belated thank-you for "In the Bleak Midwinter." I don't read much Sulu/Chekhov, but sending them off to visit Chekhov's parents in Siberia in January was a brilliant idea, and I since I know many Californians I can tell you that's just how Sulu would have reacted. The Doctor Zhivago references were subtle but interesting, and I've never seen wolves used in quite that way in a slash fic, but it worked. Please tell me you're writing a sequel where Sulu does join the Walrus Club and Chekhov convinces him to wear the furry hat (preferably in bed).

[possibly-thrice.livejournal.com]

One of my favorites of yours (or at least, yours that don't involve Pike ;D): "Softly, Softly, Under These Nervous Stars" - Spock/Uhura/Kirk. I rarely outright adore stories where Kirk brings home his lover(s) to see his mother and stepfather, but yours, as ever, was an exception: every detail was glorious, and the conversations between Uhura and Frank, Spock and Winona, running as they did in gorgeous parallel, just stole my heart and hung it somewhere too warm to stand.

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll come out and say it: my favourite part of "To Sleep In Time" was not any of the Robins, or Bruce, or Babs, but Cass. I mean, there was no doubt that any of the others was going to be priceless in Gotham-gone-fairy-tale, but who'd have thunk Cass would work so well? And the Queen of Fables setting her throne in Arkham still occasionally pops up in my nightmares.

[emmademarais.livejournal.com]

I admit, you slayed me with your Don/Charlie epic shame fic, 'Silent As Snow'. It was like 2005 all over again, but fresh and new, you know? I rediscovered what I craved about their fucked up love for each other and the visceral physical *need* they had for each other.

When Charlie finally confesses his feelings to Don? OMG that *broke* me. His heartfelt and heartbreaking monologue - and the fact that he wouldn't let Don get a word in until all the he'd been holding in for decades spilled out - just made me hurt so much inside for him.

We need more beautiful aching broken loving fic like that. /vehement nodding/

[lazar-grrl.livejournal.com]

I always had a soft spot in my heart for your "Conjugate, Not Conjugal" series, perhaps especially since Pike/Gaila was not exactly a widespread pairing. What I've always liked best about it was the depiction of two very strong people who have each been through a lot, but don't need someone constantly by their side to complete them (and never to save them). They are both unconventional and independent, and find a way make that work within a relationship (for a given value of relationship), even if others might not understand. On a less cerebral note, the last bonus scene with Number One managed to be brain-meltingly hot without feeling sleazy or exploitative.

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

The portrait of Babs working in the library in "Clue" was nearly more interesting in itself than for the solution to the mystery. The solution was, however, intriguingly innovative.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

I loved "A God For a Night," the one where Theseus and a time-traveling Kirk took shelter from the crazed Maeneds together. So intriguing, particularly the way you had Theseus and Medea fighting over Kirk (well, parts of him anyway).

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Your story, "429," made me laugh so hard I think the neighbors heard me. I love the idea of reboot Kirk doing his level best to sleep with every one of the 430 people aboard the ship because it will help him "get to know them" and I love it even more that we find out about his increasingly unsuccessful attempts to seduce the kid from Logistics through a conversation between McCoy and the bridge crew.

[melissima.livejournal.com]

Remember Matrix Games? That Charlie/Amita fic where they're both totally thinking about Don. I loved how she expected Charlie to be angry and he was, but not the way she thought - what was that line from Charlie's thoughts--It was something like not begrudging her lust for someone he wanted for himself? /fans self/ Anyway.

The way you write Amita makes me jealous. I wish I could do a better job of sounding like a mathematician when I write from her (or Charlie's, for that matter) POV.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

What the hey, I'll do my own meme.

"Set the Battlements on Fire" was appropriately hot, but what made it worth reading was the way it answered the question of how those two got together in the first place.

[lomedet.livejournal.com]

It feels weird to think back so far in time (and far back in fandom evolution/migration), but the story of yours that first made me sit up and take notice of your writing was "Great Princes' Favourites".

Your take on Tim-as-the-object-of-almost-everyone's-desire was simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, and watching him pull through to figuring out the distinctions between what he needed, what he wanted, and what he could live with was one of the truest character moments I've ever seen.

[dreamflower]

Your beautiful drabble of the moment when Pippin catches Pervinca's eye after his return home, and his realization that his family, his sisters, did not come through the Troubles unscathed, his feeling of failure that makes him think of Frodo-- and then the end with his cheerfully cheeky last line-- an attempt to cheer Pervinca up and lighten the moment in true hobbit fashion, well it just brought tears to my eyes.

I know you wrote it for Dana, but it felt like you wrote it for me.

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

I LOVED your fic 'Twice in a Blue Moon'. I don't usually expect to see gen from you but I always love the gen tidbits in your non-gen fic. Loved the ST fake science bits - those always made me so happy about TNG, not that that's here or there, and the action writing could have come out of - no, scratch that. It was way better than the sort of action writing we usually see. More "Moria bridge scene of Fellowship of the Ring" than "shootout of the week". Fantastic.

Sequel?

[miss-bonesmccoy.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you're still doing this, but here goes. My favorite story of yours was "I'm dead, Jim" about how Bones dies and Jim is very sad. My favorite part after the gut-wrenching death scene is when Spock sleeps with Jim shortly after and Jim keeps getting choked up and calling for his Bones.