Beyond the Roundels

It's taken me nearly 24 hours to realise that when I posted this fill for the last prompt of no_true_pair's mini-round yesterday, I crossposted it everywhere but here.

one here will constant be (851 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Pilgrim (Radio)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Death (Discworld) & William Palmer (Pilgrim)
Characters: Death (Discworld), William Palmer (Pilgrim)
Additional Tags: Community: no_true_pair, Crossover, Ficlet, Immortality, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: 100fandoms, Community: allbingo, Original Character Death(s)
Summary: Death meets a conundrum.

It wasn't a great week, but one very good thing is that at last summer is getting to the more manageable period (barring any further little heat spikes), and from now on I'm more likely than not to be able to get at my room in the evenings, which makes a big difference. So, on Friday evening I finally typed up my overdue intoabar fic! Yesterday, I inevitably had a headache largely due to typing up said fic when summer has rendered me unused to such things, plus Thursday's little bout of icon-wrestling, but the fic is now edited and posted, and it's still only the 3rd most obscure of the 3 things I have posted on AO3 this year, lol.

(I feel it should work okay as an Outsider POV for S&S, because it would make no more or less sense than most S&S, and I avoided any spoilers for the film. But, yes, I know, I have achieved new heights of obscure crossovers no one wanted, go me. ;-p)

These Old Familiar Things (1489 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire & Steel (TV), Dean Spanley (Movie 2008)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Henslowe Fisk, Steel (Sapphire & Steel), Sapphire (Sapphire & Steel)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Community: intoabar, Post-Canon, POV Outsider, Edwardian Period
Summary: Henslowe Fisk has another odd encounter in a bar.

Also written for genprompt_bingo, 100fandoms & 51pluscrossoverfandoms, because I like to make fic work for its keep.

A 500 Prompts fic I started typing up quite a few months ago and finally finished yesterday - for a prompt left by jjpor many moons ago . Also for genprompt_bingo, allbingo & 100ships.

Double or Nothing (1796 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Characters: Ben Jackson (Doctor Who), Polly Wright, Second Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: 100ships, Community: allbingo, Alien Planet, Hurt/Comfort, Injury, Doppelganger
Summary: Ben walks straight into trouble - and it looks just like Polly.


I got very bad at actually going through with writing ficlets for anything I was writing/watching just to get me going (and achieve more 100fandoms), and I've vowed to be better, so have a random flash fic for what turns out to be still my fave of the Heyer detectives (out of the ones I've re-read lately):

Wedding of the Year (366 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: No Wind of Blame - Georgette Heyer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hugh Dering/Vicky Fanshawe
Characters: Hugh Dering, Vicky Fanshawe
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Post-Canon, Weddings, Fluff, 1930s, Community: allbingo
Summary: Vicky, of course, has the perfect performance planned for the big day.

(I should check my notebook for whatever other random and deeply obscure first-in-the-fandom stuff is lurking in there, really.)

I did manage to finish my first fic for no_true_pair! It is for Miss Scarlet and the Duke and Craddock and Co, though no real canon knowledge is needed for either, just two detectives running into each other, which must happen a lot in London at that end of the century. (17 years before canon for Charles, about mid s1 for Eliza, because that's where I've got to. Hopefully I didn't make too many silly errors!)

Also for 100fandoms and my allbingo card.

Midnight on Wardour Street (1117 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Scarlet and the Duke (TV 2020), Craddock and Co (Radio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charles Craddock & Eliza Scarlet
Characters: Eliza Scarlet, Charles Craddock
Additional Tags: Community: no_true_pair, Community: 100fandoms, Detectives, Victorian, Pre-Canon, (for Craddock & Co), 1880s, Community: allbingo, Crossover
Summary: Eliza is caught out revisiting the scene of the crime at an ungodly hour of the night...

\o/

I had a blood test yesterday, so I had to go out and therefore am too tired to anything, but also I thought it was safe to watch the last bit of Forsyte Saga segments that I was watching, but apparently the 1960s Forsyte Saga is never a safe thing to watch, because somehow I have committed fic with my sole bit of remaining brain anyway. (I am failing steadily while i post this, but the fic was ok i think, how does that work?)

In revenge I made it fit possibly more ongoing Bingo and prompt table squares than any other fic I've written.

(I am at least mildly amused that my reaction, creatively, is exactly the same as when I watched it the first time: I wrote the only Fleur/Michael fic in the world and then made Fleur/Jon graphics, and the only difference this time is that I hadn't watched enough of it to do Fleur/Michael so I did Anne/Jon instead. The visuals are pretty with Fleur/Jon, but it's not a ship that ought to sail anywhere, certainly not the second time around.)

Red Sky in the Morning (1316 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Forsyte Saga - All Media Types, The Forsyte Saga (TV 1967)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anne Wilmot Forsyte/Jon Forsyte, Fleur Forsyte/Jon Forsyte, Fleur Forsyte/Michael Mont
Characters: Anne Wilmot Forsyte, Jon Forsyte, Michael Mont
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Angst, Pining, Emotional Hurt, Community: hc_bingo, Whumptober, Community: genprompt_bingo, Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Complicated Relationships, Episode: An Afternoon At Ascot, fears of infidelity
Summary: Maybe there’s a terrible storm on its way to tear them all apart, maybe it’ll all blow over before it comes to that. It’s the worst kind of waiting.

Hello, hello, here's another ficlet for what I happened to be reading/watching/otherwise consuming (that I've been doing sometimes to kickstart me writing again). This one is for a very obscure 1980s standalone fantasy novel, the main other of Louise Cooper's books that I've retained a fondness for - it always felt like there was a lot left to be played with in the setting of Haven, and all its had eroded away from it, but I don't think it's connected to any of her other books or anything.

Anyway, a coda for 100fandoms prompt #25 salt:

Saltwater Echoes (631 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mirage - Louise Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: DiMag/Simorh (Mirage)
Characters: DiMag (Mirage), Simorh (Mirage), Gamora (Mirage)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Coda, Loss, Grief/Mourning, Community: 100fandoms, Ficlet
Summary: Salt is for healing as well as for bitterness.

(I don't imagine it'd make much sense without having read the book, and I'm the only person I've ever met who's read it, so, lol, but nevertheless I always thought there SHOULD be fic, so I can feel accomplished, I suppose!)

As I said, I did some rewatching of Five, and then tried to write this for Whumptober prompt 19 "Bleeding" even if I didn't manage to actually type it up fully till now. I am a bit shocked at myself that I couldn't get it to double up for any of my bingos! (I mean, I suppose I could have claimed it for the hc_bingo wild card square, but that seemed a bit pointless.)

Bleeding Out (2377 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fifth Doctor & Tegan Jovanka
Characters: Tegan Jovanka, Fifth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Blood, Gunshot Wounds, Whumptober 2021, Historical
Summary: The Doctor gets shot and there's nobody on hand to help but Tegan.

Like anything Five/Tegan I write, I do not know whether to label it with the ship or not, so I settled for not. (I tag it gen, whispering intently, "It's a lie!" lol.) I'm not sure it's come out as I wanted, but never mind. I'm in a place where I rearrange all my words in the wrong places, but I still want to write and here is a thing, which is a thing, and I love them very much anyway, whatever way you look at them.


Also I was trying recently to do a writing exercise as a thing to stop me having long periods where I don't write at all (which is fine in some ways, but then, because of the ME, it's very hard to work my way back in or not to immediately overdo it again when I do feel better), so made myself write a drabble or ficlet about anything, like the last thing I watched/read or whatever. But I liked this little one for Hammer's Vampire Circus (what I had just watched that day) enough to type it up for 100ships and 100fandoms. (It was a weird one! I kept changing my mind about it. It's got some interesting things, but it's also kind of like Vampire Gary Glitter child molestation at the same time and idk about that, really.) This ficlet brought to you chiefly by the fact that I always like Adrienne Corri and that my chiefly-DW-based experience of Laurence Payne had not at all led me to expect that he would be really quite sad and pretty in a Hammer film. But he was, and they were a thing together, sort of.

Old Haunts (425 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vampire Circus (1972)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Albert Mueller/Anna Mueller (Vampire Circus)
Characters: Albert Mueller (Vampire Circus), Anna Mueller (Vampire Circus)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Missing Scene, Vampires, Community: 100fandoms, community: 100ships, Hammer Horror Universe
Summary: The ghost of Anna Mueller is in this room, even if she doesn’t know it.

I was rereading Louise Cooper's Indigo Saga over December, and wrote this for 100fandoms and genprompt_bingo.

Elegy for the Living (1300 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Indigo Series - Louise Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Grimya & Indigo (Indigo)
Characters: Anghara Kaligsdaughter | Indigo, Grimya (Indigo), Luk Copperguild, Phereniq (Indigo), Modesty Brabazon, Reif Bray, Ancestral Lady (Indigo)
Additional Tags: Community: 100fandoms, Community: genprompt_bingo, Post-Canon, Grief/Mourning, Aftermath
Summary: Indigo may have more friends left in the world than she often dares to believe.

The other Whumptober fic I wrote (over 3 weeks ago!) needed much less editing than I thought, so here it is. \o/

Brief Candles (1058 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Daisy Dalrymple - Carola Dunn
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daisy Dalrymple/Alec Fletcher
Characters: Daisy Dalrymple, Alec Fletcher
Additional Tags: Blood, Blood Loss, Murder, Hurt/Comfort, Whumptober 2020, Community: 100fandoms, Community: hc_bingo, 500 prompts, 1920s
Summary: "You couldn't have lost this much blood. You'd be dead..."

Also for hc_bingo square "Blood loss", 100fandoms prompt #20 (discover) and for delacourtings in the 500 Prompts meme: #186 nothing could bleed that much - Alec/Daisy.

Fic! Not for Whumptober, though, as I found this in my drafts from a couple of weeks ago, and it needed far less editing than I had thought. It fills a few prompts for different tables, but was first and foremost written for Meneleth in the 500 prompts meme, from the prompt: "In the still of the night - Twelfth Doctor & Brother Cadfael."

in the still of the night (1330 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Cadfael Chronicles - Ellis Peters
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Brother Cadfael
Additional Tags: Crossover, Injury, Post-Episode: s09e12 Hell Bent, community: 51pluscrossoverfandoms, Community: 100fandoms, Community: hc_bingo, Community: allbingo, 500 prompts
Summary: The Doctor finds balm for his wounds in an unexpected place.

Since I wound up getting tied up by my overlong Chocolate Box treat during most of halfamoon, I'm doing some belated catch-up, especially since I intended to double up these with my allbingo February table (which is working!) as well as 100_women. I wrote two ficlets yesterday, but only one got to posting stage, and I was going to post them both together here, but never mind, here's the first:

You Made No Impression (458 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spooks | MI-5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ruth Evershed, Harry Pearce
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Spies & Secret Agents, References to Canonical Character Death, Community: 100_women, Community: 100fandoms, Community: halfamoon, Community: allbingo
Summary: Ruth stays in the shadows. She likes it that way.


Or, in short, I still love Ruth Evershed so much, people.

(Also for 100fandoms and 100_women. \o/)

Written for dbskyler in the 500 Prompts Meme and for 100fandoms prompt #17 "wreck".

False Alarm (1135 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eleventh Doctor, Kathryn Janeway
Additional Tags: Crossover, Humor, 500 prompts, Community: 100fandoms
Summary: “There was a big yellow button. Who can resist a big yellow button?”

Another 500 Prompts ficlet, also for 100fandoms prompt #29 "mask."

Painted Smiles (829 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Servalan (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: 500 prompts, community: 100fandoms, Ficlet, 5 Times, Villains
Summary: Five times Servalan smiled and someone died.