rose_griffes

Run, Climb (1123 words) by rose_griffes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Taga & Jemboc
Characters: Taga (Andor), Jemboc (Andor)
Additional Tags: post-episode, prison break - Freeform, survival on the run, grief
Summary: Somehow they manage to stick together.

Rewatching the prison break episode, I was struck by how Jemboc (older black man) and Taga (light-skinned young black man who knows sign language) stayed together, checking on each other as they're climbing upward within the prison facility. And then we don't see them again! It's distressing! So, y'know... fic.

TMFU exchange reveals: I wrote Waverly fic, and it's still in progress, although the stopping point isn't exactly a dramatic cliffhanger. So frustrating when writing inspiration doesn't cooperate with, er, deadlines and so forth.

Pack up All My Cares and Woes (2175 words) by rose_griffes
Chapters: 1/2
Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gaby Teller & Alexander Waverly, Illya Kuryakin & Alexander Waverly
Characters: Alexander Waverly, Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin
Additional Tags: Truth Serum, (well not exactly but close enough), endless exasperation with a slightly incapacitated boss, background Gaby Teller/Illya Kuryakin, (it's implied not explicit)
Summary: He remembers what drinking feels like, and opium. This is something different.

I made waffles this morning, having been gifted with a waffle maker for Christmas. Tasty!

( year in fandom meme thingy )

I saw that Sonic the Hedgehog movie. A good friend of mine has a nine-year-old son who was SO EXCITED about seeing it, so we did. Not as bad as it might have been, in spite of me definitely NOT being part of the target audience. I'm surprised there was any scenery left for background shots, given how much of it Jim Carrey was chewing. And not in a fun way, to be honest. I wouldn't say he was a weak link in this film, but the 'humor' in his over-the-top mannerisms was often very annoying rather than funny.

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The AO3 fic app controversy is winding down. Fanlore has a summary post. Having locked all of my fic there (while lacking some of the information) to 'visible only with a login', I'm debating if I'll keep it that way. Whatever I decide: I do still have multiple links for y'all to create your own account there.

Speaking of fanfic: here's a link to a comment fic I wrote for The Witcher: Yennefer and Ciri, first meeting. (I don't know book or video game canon, so this was just me making something up.)

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Currently reading a mystery novel centered around a young black man in Houston, Texas in the 1980s. Lots of flashbacks to 1970s violence directed at black empowerment groups, and a current-day crime that he's investigating, but it's almost certainly going to bring trouble back into his life... Black Water Rising by Attica Locke. I may put it on pause for a bit; it's mentally heavy, although the prose is fantastic.

Ooh, I just looked up the author. Ms. Locke used to write for the show Empire--mostly for Cookie Lyon. Huh. The book I'm reading by her was her first novel, published in 2009.

TV: I finished season two of Unforgotten, and I am disgruntled. Not by the season storyline, or any of the acting; nope, what has me currently blue is that they introduced a hint at a romantic pairing and then snatched it away again, and I WOULD HAVE LOVED IT.

Anyway: in spite of my shipper woes, it was a very solid season, continuing in the show's general theme of what happens in the past does NOT just stay there; it haunts us. Content warning: season two delves into cases of child sexual abuse that happened decades earlier. There's not a visual depiction of it, but it does get discussed more than once.

Amazon Prime has three seasons available. It looks like a fourth season should get broadcast sometime this year, although I don't know how long it will take to show up on Prime; it's a British series that eventually gets re-broadcast on PBS here in the US.

I haven't had a paid dreamwidth account in a very long time. But apparently at some point I did, given the inactive icons I have uploaded. And now I'm tempted to do that again, because OBVIOUSLY I need some userpics for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. And other, more current fannish loves. (Finn from Star Wars! Baby vampire Amy from The Passage! And so many more!)

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In the meantime, here's the fic I've written since The Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic exchange in December.

Yellow, Red (1417 words) by rose_griffes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Illya Kuryakin/Gaby Teller
Characters: Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin
Additional Tags: Cunnilingus, hiding from your own feeling, Established Relationship
Summary: A sort of New Year's celebration...

FUNdamentals (1119 words) by rose_griffes
Chapters: 1/2
Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Illya Kuryakin/Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin & Napoleon Solo & Gaby Teller
Characters: Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin, Napoleon Solo
Additional Tags: Unrequited Crush, Mutual Pining, Cooking
Series: Part 2 of 5 times Gaby and Illya surprised each other - and one time Solo surprised them both
Summary: A continuation from a prompt: Gaby or Illya surprising each other.

Yep, still doing the hyper-focus on that one film.

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But other things are good as well. The Passage may or may not be one of those things, but it's super enjoyable, and the momentum has really built in the last few episodes. Next week is a two-hour season finale, so this would be a good time to start watching: in time to see the finale with the live audience. (Or the next day. Which is what I do, on hulu.)

I finished the thing! And had it beta-read! And posted it!

Coming Through in Waves (2473 words) by rose_griffes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Finn/Rey (Star Wars)
Characters: Finn (Star Wars), Rey (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: accidentally acting out your trauma on others, Comfort, Nightmares, mentions of force ghost Luke Skywalker
Summary:

Finn has nightmares. Rey just wants to help.

Oops. Very silly Man from U.N.C.L.E. fanfic with a Frisbee game, two chapters, starting here. It is done. But... there's going to be a second fic to go with it; a sappy follow-up story to contrast the rampant silliness. We'll see.

Chapter 3 of my Gaby genfic 'Birthday Girl' is also done.

So I haven't been watching much TV or reading any books; instead I've been brainjacked by the writing muse. I have more ideas! And I want to finish the Gaby genfic, but I keep getting sidetracked!

title: Tomorrow Was Made for Some
fandom: Person of Interest
summary: Reese and Carter are unprepared to navigate the turbulence in their tentative relationship through a year of shocks and challenges. At critical moments, when things seem about to flame out, Fusco, Shaw, and Finch provide crucial assistance.
(shorter summary: mostly not-sappy pregnancy fic)

characters & pairings: Joss Carter/John Reese, Harold Finch, Lionel Fusco, Sameen Shaw, Taylor Carter, original characters
rating and contents: M
word count: around 38K

Note 1 blacktop50 did most of the heavy lifting on this co-written story.

Note 2: AU from just after 2X22

on AO3 (complete at 13 chapters) or on FF.net (will be updated regularly)

May post a link soon to my thoughts about collaborating on this story.

I wrote a thing. A last-minute thing. It's a gift fic for eyesofwitt on Tumblr. (I volunteered to pinch-hit, forgetting that I had work-related stuff to do in the evening Monday. But I got it posted late last night, so it's all good.)

title: and the world will be better for this
characters: John Reese, Joss Carter, many references to Harold Finch (no pairings)
rating/contents: eh, I'm gonna say it's G-rated; there are a few (very few) bad words
summary: episode insert for 2.12. "Prisoner's Dilemma," Reese's POV
word count: around 2500
Thanks to Karen for checking this for the usual stuff

on AO3 or on ff.net

More references to Don Quixote; the title is a line from the main song in "Man of La Mancha."

Okay, here's the meme about TV shows I watched (or didn't watch) in 2012: ( back here )

Since I only have one more fanfic I'm going to write this year--at least, that's all I have planned--here's my version of the fanfic meme. In 2012 I wrote fifteen stories in three fandoms. Person of Interest was the main fandom, but I also wrote a crossover with Doctor Who and one final Battlestar Galactica fic (a remix). This isn't counting tiny fics posted in the comments or on Tumblr. Total word count is around 71,000 75,000. That's more than the three previous years combined, I believe.

( fic-writing meme, using my own categories )

My mostly-complete fic index, which you can use to find stories I wrote and then leave extravagant praise on them.

I'm reposting some tiny fic from Tumblr, written from requests. First up, something from BSG. I know, I was shocked at writing it as well. The prompt asked for Kara and Jean, which is like dangling catnip in front of a cat. ( Kara Thrace and Jean Barolay, bonding )

Person of Interest, Carter POV about Fusco and the other 'boys' ( sideways from the prompt, but oh well )

Another for PoI, Zoe Morgan interacting with Carter. ( this is NOT a bonding moment )

As for other stuff written lately, I posted chapter eight of "Nowhere Left to Run" just over a week ago. Currently about halfway through with chapter nine, and I need to get that finished this week. (I keep getting more ideas for what to do in chapter ten, which is great... but I sorta need to get nine done? Like, soonish? Okay, muse?)