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Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a video arranging photographs by the Cassini spacecraft into views of what flying towards/by Saturn would look like. It's stunning and inspiring.

Meanwhile, I do so love memes, not least at moments right now when I'm afflicted with Writer's Slowdown or something. I got this from the incomparable igrockspock: Ask me about a pairing (or character) I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or what they order from the Chinese place down the street, etc, etc.
ETA sharpestscalpel wrote an absolutely gorgeous ficlet about Gaila taking McCoy flying, and Gaila and her life.

Oh, it is being such a Monday over here. Please help distract me with this meme, which I snagged from magickalmolly:

1.) Comment with any character you know I've written.
2.) Receive three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc.
3.) Profit!

(Right now I'd settle for nonprofit...)

Title: Light, Inaccessible: Five [Possibly Six] Things Steph Did After She Died
Fandom: DC Comics
Rating: As it is: PG. As it would have been: R
Pairings: Steph/Jason, Steph/Cass/Tim, Steph/Cass, Steph/life
Notes: Not much point in writing this if she's not dead.

( Dead Kid Club, Tell Me A Secret, White And Shining Feather, Eyes To See That Can, I've Travelled Memories, & Filled With A Clear Light )

Title: Birdwatching: Five Things That Never Happened To The Robins
Fandom: DC Comics
Rating: As it is: N/A. As it would have been: R
Characters: Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, and Carrie, in assorted pairings.
Note: At the end is an awesome poem which sageness gave me, which would have been the title source.

( 'If she knew I were watching she'd kick my ass.' )

So, recently petronelle decided, on hradzka's advice (which should have been warning enough), to play a game of "Never Have I Ever Written". ( the rules, for later rounds )

I was going to write a list of all the ficlets people wrote that I loved, but, well, that was *all* of them. But I thought for archival purposes I'd make a pile of the ones I wrote, in all their typed-directly-into-the-comment-box scruffiness.

( Concerning Bart using his powers for sex; PG-13ish )

( On the subject of three special little words; PGish )

( Dick and Tim, Birdboys; PG )

( On the novelty of sex in a bed; R )

( A man matched with his mentor's lover; PG )

( Upon the subject of sex toys; PG-13 at most )

( Last but not least, NC-17 femslash )

I wrote these all into comment boxes, and have resisted the urge to edit since, and argh. But anyway. Let me post them before something else prevents me from doing so. And you should click through and find the links to these memes on people's journals, and read the spectacular results from others.

For glossing: In a Gotham minute, PG. ( One minute, everything's normal. )

For petronelle, Batman needs a Robin. PG. ( The only good thing about being Batman is getting to work with Robin a lot.  )


For sister_wolf: Interspecies relations. PG-13. ( Wally looked at the alien octopus.  )


For jubilancy: The Top Ten story I've been wanting to write since I read the graphic novel. PG-13. ( Glenn was dancing faster than light, hearing faster than sound, and he could see the stitching in everyone's costumes.  )


For miakun: Odd and even Robins. PG. (  'What was that?'  )


Bonus for petronelle: Robin and her Batman. Probably a sequel to the second. R. (  'Whoa,' Steph says.  )

Ganked from sister_wolf

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

My stories are all listed in my Memories, and my comics stories are organized with tags. (Despite the userpic, tho, any story is eligible, even my oldest LOTR ones.)

Like sister_wolf, I'm setting a cap on replies: mine is 6. I'll do more after that if my fingers and wits hold out.

I posted all but two of these as replies, so here's a separate list of them, and the two extras. If you asked for one, I wrote it, so if you didn't get the comment notification now you can find it.

( Lord of the Rings-verse )

( DC Comics-verse )

( Other (Firefly, Star Wars, Bujold, and Doctor Who) and Mixed-Universe )

( Over-Long Five Things #1: Five Things That Happened To The Batkids in the Bulls-and-Birds Universe, for Katarik )

( Over-Long Five Things #2: Five Kisses for Steph, for Danachan )

( A bonus: Five Things I Know Better Than To Do )

This is my other story for crackformary, and I wrote it because I've been in love with Mary's Gold-verse ever since I first read it, because brown_betty wrote a story in it too, and because Mary keeps coming up with wonderful, shareable AUs, as any fan of Pretty Good Year knows.

And because I've fallen hopelessly in love with Robins.

Title: A Heart In Port
Fandom: DCU (AU: "Gold-verse" from "Five things that never happened to the Robins" by monkeycrackmary)
Summary: You may have to do some things alone, but your family will be waiting when you return.
Characters: Dick, Jason, Tim, and Steph.
Rating: PG
Dedication: To monkeycrackmary for, among many other things, writing AUs which draw others in to want to inhabit them.
Beta reader who deserves all gratitude: petronelle, who looked this over at a moment's notice.

( It's time to be back. )

So, I finally finished all the ficlets, and here they are. First, the ones posted as comments:
( DC Comics Ficlets )

( Other ficlets: Bujold's Nexus-verse and LOTR )

And now, the ones that didn't fit. All DC Comics AUs.
( Merfilly's ficlet. Slade/Dick. PG-13 )

( And a ficlet for Petronelle. Bruce/Dick. PG-15. )

( And a ficlet for Brown Betty. Dick, Steph, several pairings, PG-13. )