Dai, Cousins!

Gravitation

2012-03-12T18:57:00Z

Posted by: rusting-roses.livejournal.com

Title: Gravitation
Author: rusting_roses
Recipient: lectin_gaezat
Rating: PG-13
Warning: sexual themes
Word Count: ~3000
Beta: phoenix_laugh wrangled everything into shape, as usual.
Summary: Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~ Albert Einstein
Notes: For lectin_gaezat for the dai_stiho Friend/Ship Valentine's Day exchange. I hope you enjoy it!

[LJ] | [DW] | [AO3]

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Worldgates, The TARDIS, and Cheesecake

2012-03-05T15:41:00Z

Posted by: lectin-gaezat.livejournal.com

Title: Worldgates, The TARDIS, and Cheesecake
Author: lectin_gaezat
Recipient: teacup_of_doom (dasflkjzdflkvcx I AM SO SORRY I AM LATE.)
Rating: G
Beta: None save my poor soul.
Characters/Pairings: Sker'ret&Carmela, Tom&/Carl, 9!Doc&/Rose
Warnings: Other than I might have totally messed up a crossover, well. I have nothing.
Wordcount: ~2100
Summary: What other reason do I have for this fic except an excuse for my feelings for the amazingness that is Season 1 New Who (I just finished it, I apologise if I didn't use everyone's favourite Doctor.). Crossings-centric, Carmela is a BAMF, and some things just happen.

I need to apologise here for being late. I had a super crazy schedule that threw everything into whack, and I cannot and will not stop apologising to the lovely mods of this comm and my recipient, Teacup. >.> I might have turned this fic upside down and inside out, and ended up mining too many pieces of coal instead of a lovely diamond of a fic for you. For which I apologise.

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( There aren't many things Carmela should be surprised about. )

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Fic: Day One, Tom/Carl, PG

2012-02-29T23:30:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

Title: Day One

Author: readingredhead

Recipient: rusting_roses

Beta: araine

Characters/Pairing: Tom/Carl

Warnings: N/A

Word Count: ~1350

Summary: They are Advisories now, and life goes on.

Notes: This originated as a response to a bittersweet prompt, which it doesn’t entirely answer, but I figure the world needs more Tom/Carl (and also more whipped cream) and I also figured rusting_roses would not mind too much!

( Read on LJ )

Read on AO3

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Every Boy Needs a Dog (and Vice-Versa)

2012-02-29T23:14:00Z

Posted by: teacup-of-doom.livejournal.com

Title: Every Boy Needs a Dog (and Vice-Versa)
Author: teacup_of_doom
Rating: G
Warnings: Excessive Cuteness
Word Count: 3,327
Beta: phoenix_laugh May she live long and prosper.
Summary: Every boy needs a dog. Every dog needs a boy. Kit and Ponch - best friends, now and always.
Notes: For araine in the dai_stiho Fic Exchange

Every Boy Needs a Dog (and Vice-Versa)

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Yellow Spandex and Other Life Choices

2012-02-29T16:33:00Z

Posted by: rusting-roses.livejournal.com

Title: Yellow Spandex and Other Life Choices
Author: rusting_roses
Recipient: readingredhead
Beta: phoenix_laugh
Characters/Pairing: Carmela, Nita, Diarine (background Nita/Kit)
Warnings: language, sexual themes
Word Count: ~4400
Summary: Carmela, Dairine and Nita have a girls night together. Mutant love, yellow spandex, Stryker on Pluto, curled hair and bacon are all absolutely valid topics for commentary.
Notes: for the prompt Dairine&Nita&Carmela; "girls' night out" had been Carmela's idea -- whether it was a good idea remained to be seen (feel free to include any other ladies in the outing, human or not!). Sorry, I appear to have gotten some meta in this fic (I hope you don't mind) but hey, it's not a bad thing to be mutant and proud ;)

[LJ] | [DW] | [AO3]

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fic: o death do not feel like the victor (one's champion, lone power, gen-ish, pg)

2012-02-14T17:11:00Z

Posted by: araine.livejournal.com

Title: o death do not feel like the victor
Author: araine
Recipient: paxpinnae
Beta: readingredhead
Characters/Pairing: One's Champion, Lone Power
Word Count: 1098
Summary: The One's Champion and the Lone Power dance through Time and Death.
Notes: Going to go ahead and start this posting off, because I've been itching to get to this! (Dear mods: I hope everything is tagged and formatted correctly, if not please tell me!) Title is from Noah and the Whale's Hold My Hand As I'm Lowered. I'm sorry to my recipient-- this is probably not nearly as shippy as you wanted it, and it leans towards the confusing. I hope that you enjoy it anyways, my own pretensions aside. My thanks to the amazing readingredhead, who is the best beta I could ever ask for. She reminds me that maybe I shouldn't write things in three tenses!

Read also at AO3 here.

( In the time before Death, the One has no need of a Champion. )

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Valentine Day Friend/Ship Exchange

2012-02-12T12:41:00Z

Posted by: rusting-roses.livejournal.com

I just wanted to give you the heads up for how I'd like everyone to do their headers:

Title:
Author:
Recipient:
Beta:
Characters/Pairing:
Warnings:
Word Count:
Summary:
Notes: (if any)

General reminders: Post your fic between the Tuesday February 14th and Wednesday February 29th, please. Yes, you must have your fic betaed before you post; if you don't have one, please comment on this post. If you'd like to offer your beta services, please also feel free to comment on this post. Also, if you need to drop out for any reason, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let readingredhead or me know as soon as possible so we can get a pinch hitter. Thank you so much for participating!

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Sign-ups closed; assignments emailed!

2012-01-15T20:17:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

If you haven't received an assignment email, please let me know so I can make sure something hasn't gone horribly wrong; otherwise, go forth and write!

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Sign-ups closing at midnight EST!

2012-01-14T18:36:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

This will be your final reminder: go sign up!

It might be more accurate to say that sign-ups will not be officially closed until tomorrow ~10am EST, when I am awake to start working on assignments, but don't wait too long, banking on the chances that I will oversleep my alarm, etc. -- you might miss out!

I'll put up a post tomorrow to let you know when sign-ups have been completed and when assignments have been sent out. In the meantime: did I mention you ought to sign up? :)

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Friend/Ship Exchange sign-up deadline extended!

2012-01-13T11:41:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

We're extending the sign-up deadline for our Friend/Ship exchange by 24 hours, since I previously forgot to cross-post information about sign-ups to myriadwords... *headdesk* The new deadline is midnight EST on Saturday January 14 (that's tomorrow!). Assignments will still be sent out via email by midnight EST on Sunday.

As usual, if you have any questions, please comment and either rusting_roses or I will get back to you as soon as we can!

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Friend/Ship Exchange 2012 Sign-Up Post

2012-01-09T23:03:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

So you want to sign up for dai_stiho's first Friend/Ship exchange? You've come to the right place!

In the spirit of the Young Wizards books, this exchange isn't just focused on romantic pairings -- we want to celebrate the friendships and familial relationships that are so important in these books just as much as any romantic relationships that are present. As Roshaun so aptly puts it in Wizards at War, “For so high and honorable an estate, ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.” What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than to write -- and read! -- fic that focuses on the complex relationships between these characters we know and love?

The Rules

In case anyone hasn't participated in an exchange before, the idea is simple: you write a story for someone, and you receive a story from someone else! You'll receive a set of friend/ships and prompts to work from based on the friend/ships you offered to write.

To sign up for this exchange, you just need to leave a comment on this post in the following format:

LJ Name:
Email:
Requests:
1.
2.
3.
Offers:
1.
2.
3.
More information (optional):

You must request three friend/ship pairings and leave short prompts for each, and offer at least three friend/ship pairings that you would be willing to write. In order to save time and space, in this challenge a slash (/) between character names will be used to designate a romantic pairing, an ampersand (&) will be used to designate a friendship pairing, and both used together (&/) will designate that the requester is fine with gen or ship fic for the pairing.

Here's what my sign-up looks like (rusting_roses and I will be writing for each other, as well as pinch-hitting):

LJ Name: readingredhead
Email: readingredhead07@yahoo.com
Requests:
1. Dairine&/Carmela; tired of being on the outside
2. Nita&Ronan; Kit's busy with something or other and Nita finds herself taking his place and helping Ronan out on an assignment.
3. Lone Power&/One's Champion; "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint -- it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly...timey wimey...stuff." Their relationship only makes sense out-of-order.
Offers: any (I will write any pairing, gen or ship fic!)
More information (optional): my Tumblr (http://linguaphile.tumblr.com/), especially my most recent Yuletide Letter (http://linguaphile.tumblr.com/post/12901282554/yuletide-letter)

A quick note about offers: It is perfectly okay to offer more than three friend/ships, to offer a pairing as friends only or as ship only (to be designated by & and or /), to offer to write any friend/ship pairings, and to offer to write "any pairing except x/y" (ex. "any pairing except Nita/Ronan," etc.). It is also okay to request and offer multi pairings (ex. Kit&Ronan&Darryl), but for the sake of matching please only request one multi pairing per sign-up and please limit the pairing to three characters!

The "more information" section is an opportunity for you to tell your writer what specific things you like or don't like in fic, if you have any triggers your writer should avoid, etc. -- essentially to provide general information beyond the pairings and short prompts. This can either be a sentence or two written in the sign-up, or links to journal posts or other sites where you may have already discussed some of your fic preferences (if you do include links to journal posts, please ensure those posts are not friends-locked!). Note that although we ask you to provide prompts and allow you to provide further information, as a writer your only requirement is to produce a story of over 1000 words about the friend/ship pairing requested; writing to the prompt is lovely, but if you just can't make it work for you, it's not required.

All comments will be screened (we wouldn't want to give away who requested/offered what!), but you will receive an email once your sign-up has been added to our sign-up list to confirm that we've got you down for the challenge.

The Timeline

Sign-ups are open now (!) and will run until midnight EST on Saturday, January 14. As soon as sign-ups close, rusting_roses and I will start matching writers with their recipients and emailing out assignments; these should all be sent by the end of the day Sunday, January 15.

Once you receive your assignment, it's time to start writing! Unlike the previous challenge, there won't be assigned due dates; we just ask that these fics be posted sometime between Valentine's Day on February 14th and the last day of the month, February 29th. As the posting window gets closer, we'll post more information about betas, pinch-hitters, and protocol for defaulting, so keep watching this comm!

As always, feel free to comment with any questions, or get in touch with me or rusting_roses directly! Looking forward to seeing your requests!

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Friend/Ship Valentine's Day Exchange

2012-01-06T16:58:00Z

Posted by: rusting-roses.livejournal.com

Hello everyone! I know that Yuletide is just wrapping up, and I know that people are still recovering from the winter holidays, but I'm posting today to see who is interested in doing a Valentine's Day Friend/Ship Exchange! I hope there are lots of you out there who want to join me in celebrating the characters and relationships that we adore so much.

In the spirit of the Young Wizards books, this exchange isn't just to focus on a certain pairing—we want to celebrate the friendships and familial relationships that are so important in these books just as much as any romantic relationships that are present. As things stand now, we will open this comm on Monday the 9th for sign-ups and sign-ups will run until Friday the 13th. readingredhead and I will match everyone up over the weekend and send sign-ups out (hopefully) by Monday the 16th.

Instead of having the mods post the fics on the comm secretly, we're planning on allowing everyone to post to their own journal, so long as they are cross-posted here to let their recipient know that the fic is up. Unlike the previous challenge, there won't be assigned due dates; we just ask that these fics be posted sometime between Valentine's Day on February 14th and the last day of February (the 29th—yay leap years!). We're also planning on having a 1000 word minimum, as before.

Comments? Questions? Concerns? Feel free to just drop a comment; readingredhead or I will respond as quickly as we can. Check back on Monday to see a complete rules/faq/sign-up post. We hope to see lots of people join us for this exchange!

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Prompt Fest 2011: Filled Prompts Master Post

2011-07-16T16:21:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

Thanks to everyone who participated in this first of many Young Wizards fic challenges on this comm! This post lists all the stories that were written for this challenge, organized by prompt. If for some reason you've been left off the list, or if you want to add information to your story's listing here (like a summary if yours was originally the same as the prompt), please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can.

1. Any non-wizard who knows about wizardry; assisting from the sidelines

On the Corner of Irrationality and Insight by objectsinmotion
Rating: PG
Word count: 1185
Pairing: Nita/Kit (background)
Summary: Sometimes it takes somebody outside the problem to see the solution.

2. Nita's college roommates get used to the weird people who seem to appear in their room out of nowhere (and occasionally injured).

So Your Roommate is a Wizard by phoenix_laugh
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5890
Pairings: Nita/Kit, Dairine/Roshaun
Summary: Jess isn't sure what's going on with her roommate, but it's been an odd semester. Excerpts from the journal of Jessica Schultz.

4. Carmela: Her parents dealt with wizardry pretty well, and they dealt with her intergalactic chocolate smuggling pretty well, so you would think coming out as queer wouldn't be a big deal, right?

The Missing Word (or, The Language of Sex) by rusting_roses
Rating: PG-13
Warning: language, sexual themes
Word Count: 10200
Pairing: gen, though could technically be seen as Carmela/Sker'ret, Carmela/Mamvish and Carmela/Dairine
Summary: For Carmela, language is a gift, but she's quickly finding that sometimes, there are no words for the more indefinable parts of life.

8. Dairine finally meets Darth Vader.

Not Here, Not Today by indy1776
Rating: G
Word count: 1209

9. Nita: Shades of grey

Shades of Grey by shadowsinfire
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1200
Summary: A nightmare prompts Nita to wonder how a wizard should deal with the lives they've taken.

14. The Lone Power: playing by the rules

To the Stars by ladylunas
Rating: PG
Word count: 2800
Pairing: mild OFC/OFC
Summary: When humanity goes to the stars, the Lone Power is there to hinder it. It is up to one wizard to make a choice that will change everything. For Caitlin, there is no choice.

17. Three encounters in a café

Three Encounters in a Café by readingredhead
Rating: G
Word Count: 1600
Summary: The Lone Power walks into a café. Thrice.

24. Wizardry from the view of and outsider.

All the Strangeness in the Air by teacup_of_doom
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1917
Summary: A police officer is sent to investigate some strange reports coming from the local middle school. Set during SYWTBAW.

28. Darryl: What kind of wizardries does Darryl do? What's a typical job for him?

Familiar Stars by araine
Rating: PG
Word count: 1230
Summary: There’s a clearing that Darryl likes, not far from Niagara. The trees open up in a pattern that looks like a lopsided diamond, and unless it’s high noon the sun shines through the foliage to tint everything green and soft gold.

30. Nita/Kit: After certain events at the end of A Wizard of Mars, they find themselves having to take a look at their new relationship.

A Wizard's Romance by lyras
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 3000
Pairing: Nita/Kit

31. Nita/Kit: The college years. How does it effect their relationship?

Verse, So Barren of New Pride by araine
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 14,500
Pairings: Nita/Kit, implied Dairine/Roshaun
Summary: Sometimes, people fall apart from each other; how they fit back together is the hard part.

33. Carl telling Tom about Nita's role as the Silent Lord during Deep Wizardry

Hard Truths by lectin_gaezat
Rating: PG
Word count: 1500

34. Tom/Carl: Nita/Kit and/or Dairine/Roshaun: Going to the seniors for relationship advice.

This (is How it Works) by rusting_roses
Rating: PG-13
Warning: language, sexual themes
Word Count: 6000
Pairing: Tom/Carl, background Nita/Kit and Dairine/Roshaun
Summary: Five times that Tom and Carl were asked for advice, and one time when they weren't. The trials and tribulations of relationships amongst wizards.

35. Tom/Carl: What's it like mentoring all these kids and knowing that they face such danger?

Mountain High, River Low by teacup_of_doom
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 13,958
Pairings: Tom/Carl
Summary: Tom and Carl watching and mentoring Nita and Kit through So You Want To Be A Wizard, Deep Wizardry, Wizards at War, and the day the kids go off to college.

41. Nelaid/Miril: With the apparent death of Roshaun, Wellakh is changing—and so is Dairine.

Ladies of the Lands of the Sun by readingredhead
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 14500
Pairing: background Nelaid/Miril and Kit/Nita, semi-sort-of-implied Dairine/Roshaun
Summary: In the summer following Roshaun’s disappearance, Dairine spends more and more time on Wellakh, while Miril struggles to control the political unrest that’s forcing her to remember some parts of her past she would rather forget.

45. A lot of missing kids go missing on Ordeals. A law enforcement team (crossover of your choice or OC) discovers a pattern.

The Lost, Forgotten, and Still Not Home by objectsinmotion
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 8000
Summary: One hot summer afternoon, Alexis Castle takes the Wizard’s Oath. Now she’s missing, and her father is frantic. But she’s not the only one who’s disappeared…

48. This statement from shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com as an AU, thanks to the Lone Power's interference in the timeline: "Rome went on to conquer other territories and planets."

A Battle of Seers by animus_wyrmis
Rating: PG
Word count: 1100
Summary: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sybil journey into the Underworld. Things go a little differently.

49. Doctor Who Crossover: While researching ways people can "cheat" death, Dairine stumbles across information on Time Lords and recognizes The Man in the Bar. She decides to go find him.

Best Friends, Not Forgotten by indy1776
Rating: G
Word count: 1749

52. Doctor Who Crossover: Carmela takes lunch/tea/whatever with a time traveling alien.

Snack Time by phoenix_laugh
Rating: G
Word Count: 1860
Summary: Carmela spends a pleasant half-hour talking over a snack with a stranger.

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Young Wizards Fic: Mountain High, River Low

2011-07-15T21:28:00Z

Posted by: teacup-of-doom.livejournal.com

Title: Mountain High, River Low
Author: teacup_of_doom
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 13,958
Pairings: Tom/Carl
Prompt: 35. What's it like mentoring all these kids and knowing that they face such danger?
Summary: Tom and Carl watching and mentoring Nita and Kit through So You Want To Be A Wizard, Deep Wizardry, Wizards at War, and the day the kids go off to college. Written for the dai_stiho
Notes: Very many thanks to rusting_roses and phoenix_laugh for a great deal of encouragement in writing both my of my fics, and for being my betas! I couldn't have done it without you! Thank you also to hollow_echos for helping me post!

[Click here to read the story on my journal!]

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Young Wizards Fic: All the Strangeness in the Air

2011-07-14T20:38:00Z

Posted by: teacup-of-doom.livejournal.com

Title: All the Strangeness in the Air
Author: teacup_of_doom
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,917
Pairings: None
Prompt: 24. Wizardry from the view of and outsider.
Summary: A police officer is sent to investigate some strange reports coming from the local middle school. Set during SYWTBAW. Written for the dai_stiho
Notes: Very many thanks to rusting_roses and phoenix_laugh for a great deal of encouragement in writing both my of my fics, and for being my betas! I couldn't have done it without you!

Click here to read this fic at my LJ

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Fic: So Your Roommate is a Wizard (Nita/Kit, Roshaun/Dairine, PG)

2011-07-14T17:47:00Z

Posted by: phoenix-laugh.livejournal.com

Title: So Your Roommate is a Wizard
Author: phoenix_laugh
Pairings: Nita/Kit, Dairine/Roshaun
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~5890
Prompt: 2. Nita's college roommates get used to the weird people who seem to appear in their room out of nowhere (and occasionally injured).
Summary: Jess isn't sure what's going on with her roommate, but it's been an odd semester. Excerpts from the journal of Jessica Schultz.
Notes: Canon-compatible through Wizard of Mars. Thanks to the wonderful rusting_roses for beta-reading. For the dai_stiho challenge.

Click here to read the fic at my LJ

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Verse, So Barren of New Pride (Nita/Kit, PG-13), Part 2

2011-07-13T23:01:00Z

Posted by: araine.livejournal.com

Title: Verse, So Barren of New Pride
Author: araine
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 4,500
Pairings: Nita/Kit, implied Dairine/Roshaun
Prompt: 31. The college years. How does it effect their relationship?
Summary: Sometimes, people fall apart from each other; how they fit back together is the hard part.
Notes: Thank you, thank you, thank you, readingredhead , for putting up with my complete and total inability to commit to a deadline and betaing this at the last minute. The title is from a Shakespeare sonnet (Number 76, to be precise). Of the sonnets featured in this fic, the first is Shakespeare (Sonnet 14). The second is, uhh, mine. It seems I'm just over the limit, so this will be continued in a second part.

Part 1

( And yet methinks I have astronomy )

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Verse, So Barren of New Pride (Nita/Kit, PG-13), Part 1

2011-07-13T22:58:00Z

( Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck )Part 2

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This (is How it Works)

2011-07-13T20:35:00Z

Posted by: rusting-roses.livejournal.com

Title: This (is How it Works)
Author: rusting_roses
Rating: PG-13
Warning: language, sexual themes
Word Count: ~6000
Pairing: Tom/Carl, background Nita/Kit and Dairine/Roshaun
Summary: Five times that Tom and Carl were asked for advice, and one time when they weren't. The trials and tribulations of relationships amongst wizards.
Notes: For the dai_stiho prompt: 34. Nita/Kit and/or Dairine/Roshaun: Going to the seniors for relationship advice.

This (is How it Works)

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Fic: Ladies of the Lands of the Sun, Part 2/2 (PG-13)

2011-07-13T16:59:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

Title: Ladies of the Lands of the Sun
Author: readingredhead
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 14,500
Pairings: background Nelaid/Miril and Kit/Nita, semi-sort-of-implied Dairine/Roshaun
Prompt: 41. Nelaid/Miril: With the apparent death of Roshaun, Wellakh is changing—and so is Dairine.
Summary: In the summer following Roshaun’s disappearance, Dairine spends more and more time on Wellakh, while Miril struggles to control the political unrest that’s forcing her to remember some parts of her past she would rather forget.
Notes: Great and bountiful thanks are due to araine, who, in addition to acting as a beta for this story and responding to my frantic “this isn’t working!” emails with cool logic and common sense, has severely influenced my Wellakh-related headcanon with her YW forums post on Wellakhit society (as has input from the forums members who responded to this post). Without her, this story would have foundered and died long ago.

Part 1

( Part 2 )

Or, read the whole thing on Archive of Our Own.

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Fic: Ladies of the Lands of the Sun, Part 1/2 (PG-13)

2011-07-13T16:54:00Z

Posted by: readingredhead.livejournal.com

Title: Ladies of the Lands of the Sun
Author: readingredhead
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 14,500
Pairings: background Nelaid/Miril and Kit/Nita, semi-sort-of-implied Dairine/Roshaun
Prompt: 41. Nelaid/Miril: With the apparent death of Roshaun, Wellakh is changing—and so is Dairine.
Summary: In the summer following Roshaun’s disappearance, Dairine spends more and more time on Wellakh, while Miril struggles to control the political unrest that’s forcing her to remember some parts of her past she would rather forget.
Notes: Great and bountiful thanks are due to araine, who, in addition to acting as a beta for this story and responding to my frantic “this isn’t working!” emails with cool logic and common sense, has severely influenced my Wellakh-related headcanon with her YW forums post on Wellakhit society (as has input from the forums members who responded to this post). Without her, this story would have foundered and died long ago.

Apparently this story is too large for a single post (eek!) so here's Part 1...

( In the hot months, when even the old and powerful climate wizardries surrounding the palace had trouble balancing out the daytime heat and the nighttime chill, Miril dreamed of her childhood. )

...and here's Part 2!

Or, read the whole thing on Archive of Our Own.

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The Missing Word (or, The Language of Sex)

2011-07-11T22:29:00Z

Posted by: rusting-roses.livejournal.com

Title: The Missing Word (or, The Language of Sex)
Author: rusting_roses
Rating: PG-13
Warning: language, sexual themes
Word Count: ~10200
Pairing: gen, though could technically be seen as Carmela/Sker'ret, Carmela/Mamvish and Carmela/Dairine
Beta: Thank you so very, very much, phoenix_laugh!
Summary: For Carmela, language is a gift, but she's quickly finding that sometimes, there are no words for the more indefinable parts of life.
Notes: For the dai_stiho prompt: 4. Carmela: Her parents dealt with wizardry pretty well, and they dealt with her intergalactic chocolate smuggling pretty well, so you would think coming out as queer wouldn't be a big deal, right?

The Missing Word (or, The Language of Sex)

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Fic: Best Friends, Not Forgotten (gen, General)

2011-07-11T18:58:00Z

Posted by: independence1776

Title: Best Friends, Not Forgotten

Author: indy1776

Rating: General

Word count: 1749

Prompt and Summary: prompt: 49. Doctor Who Crossover: While researching ways people can "cheat" death, Dairine stumbles across information on Time Lords and recognizes The Man in the Bar. She decides to go find him.

Warnings: None

Notes: Many, many thanks to my betas shadowsinfire and ladyelleth! For Dairine, it's set before Wizards of Mars, though there are minor spoilers for it. For the Doctor, it's set between “The Big Bang” and “A Christmas Carol”, but there are no spoilers save for “The Eleventh Hour” and Ten-era events.

Dairine looked at Spot's screen, slowly scrolling through the display.

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Fic: Hard Truths (PG)

2011-07-10T09:45:00Z

Posted by: lectin-gaezat.livejournal.com

Title: Hard Truth
Author: lectin_gaezat
Rating: G
Word Count: 1492
Prompt: 33. Carl telling Tom about Nita's role as the Silent Lord during Deep Wizardry
Summary: See Prompt Above.
Notes: This was set in Deep Wizardy, and I'm not too sure if I got all the details absolutely perfect... but -shrugs- I think I can live with this. This is my first fanfiction, so any crit is welcome. Edit: Finally resolved the issues with the page breaks. Thanks objectsinmotion for your help. :)

( Hard Truths )

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Fic: Castle/Young Wizards Crossover: The Lost, Forgotten, and Still Not Home (Nita/Kit, PG-13)

2011-07-10T09:09:00Z

Posted by: objectsinmotion.livejournal.com

Title: The Lost, Forgotten, and Still Not Home
Author: objectsinmotion
Pairing(s) (if applicable): Nita/Kit background
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 7927
Prompt: A lot of missing kids go missing on Ordeals. A law enforcement team (crossover of your choice or OC) discovers a pattern.
Summary: One hot summer afternoon, Alexis Castle takes the Wizard’s Oath. Now she’s missing, and her father is frantic. But she’s not the only one who’s disappeared…
Warnings (if applicable): Vague spoilers for all YW books and the Season 3 finale of Castle.
Notes: A portion of the first section comes directly from So You Want to Be a Wizard. Beta’d by the fabulous rukbat3, who tried to save me from my love of commas. Story is also available at Archive of Our Own.

This is, in essence, the short version of a much longer story. I restrained myself, otherwise I wouldn’t be done until September. Eventually, I will go back and write the longer version.

( The summer was hot, and it was only going to get hotter. )

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