Beyond the Roundels

So fandom_stocking went live and I will need to share with you presently the contents of mine, because it was glorious!

But I also managed to write four things, as well as making some icon sets for various people, and here are my efforts in the meantime, plus at long last, my belated AU Meme fill for Servalan:

One Night Stand (3759 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Silver/Steel (S&S), Silver (S&S)/Everyone, Copper & Silver (S&S)
Characters: Silver (S&S), Steel (S&S), Ruby (S&S), Lead (S&S), Cerium (S&S), Jet (S&S), Copper (S&S), Mercury (S&S), Emerald (S&S), Sapphire (S&S)
Additional Tags: Community: fandom_stocking, Elemental Weirdness, 20th Century, Pre-Canon
Summary: There’s an odd little break-to-be that means a yearly appointment to keep. As far as Silver’s concerned, it’s a date.


A Cold Day in Autumn (1050 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor/Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart/Liz Shaw
Characters: Third Doctor, Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Additional Tags: 4 Things, Dubious Consent, one particular alien told them to do it, Crack, Humor, For Science!
Summary: Funnily enough, there's always only this one way of saving the world...


another spark for the fire (790 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Barry Allen/Caitlin Snow
Characters: Barry Allen, Caitlin Snow, Killer Frost
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Multiverse, 4 Things, Vignette
Summary: Whether or not they’re together here, there’s a multiverse of possibilities out there.


Confectionary Crimes (904 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones & William E. Simms
Characters: Adam Adamant, Georgina Jones, William E. Simms
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Humor, Cake
Summary: One of these cakes is primed and ready to blow...


AU Meme: Servalan (988 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kerr Avon/Servalan
Characters: Servalan (Blake's 7), Travis (Blake's 7), Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Kasabi (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Memes, Ficlet, Dark, Villains, Alternate Universe - His Dark Materials Fusion, Harm to Daemons
Summary: 9 AU scenarios for Servalan written for a Dreamwidth meme.

I didn't complete my assignment, so I have no main fic in the collection, but, once I'd put the poor malformed thing down and admitted defeat, I went back to some treats I'd had vague ideas for already:

arrows to the heart (1102 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margaret Beaufort & Henry VII of England
Characters: Margaret Beaufort
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, 5 Times, Mother-Son Relationship, The Wars of the Roses
Summary: She sends him arrows, always.

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Served Cold (3402 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Dark, Revenge, Vampires, Blood, Yuletide Treat, Crueltide, Major Character Undeath, Rocks Fall Everyone Dies, Mentions of Mina/Lucy
Summary: Mina’s one remaining desire is simple: she wants revenge.

I'm never less anonymous than when writing for Dracula (TV 1968), but one of calliopes_pen's prompts, about the Harkers getting revenge on Van Helsing, matched something I'd already come up with. (A five times fic about Mina, which actually I might type up as well anyway, since this adaptation of the end segment wound up very different to the original.) And, er, what the tags say, really!


Of Human Bondage (or Five Times Adam and His Friends Found Themselves All Tied Up) (2486 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones & William E. Simms
Characters: Adam Adamant, William E. Simms, Georgina Jones, Louise (Adam Adamant Lives), Other(s)
Additional Tags: Victorian, 5 Times, Yuletide Treat, Humor, Bondage, 1960s, Hijinks & Shenanigans
Summary: In Adam’s line of work, getting tied up is practically a daily occurrence.

I'd also wanted to do two AAL! stories (the other one being Liadt's prompt about Adam's house), but that was over-ambitious, but at the eleventh hour before I left for home, I managed to finish this, which was pure frivolous fun and I enjoyed coming up with the canon-typical ridiculous scenarios and also dropping rl historical figures into them too just because I could. (I'm sorry, Liadt! One day!)


(With many thanks to persiflage_1 who never even blinks regardless of what I ask her to beta, or when, or how fast and who went through all three of them to catch any typos and moments of ME-incoherency. <3 <3 <3)


And, as I've said, my gifts were pretty fab all round and at least now I know who to thank! And I may be able to write a couple NYRs too, which would be great. And next year I will be v v careful about what I sign up for. (The thing about book fandoms is that in most cases, I still find reading hard work, so canon review exhausted me and squashed any hope of fic before I'd started, especially once life also took a hand. Whoops.)

And so my treats. I wrote the first for calliopes_pen, chiefly in a hopeless attempt to remain anonymous, so that she might at least wonder which one was me. (I had vague plans for a rather different one, but I got seized by this idea while reading through her likes in the letter):

Influence (1368 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abraham Van Helsing & John Seward, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, John Seward/Lucy Weston, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Mina Harker/Lucy Weston
Characters: Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Implied/Referenced Mind Control, Dark
Summary: Some personalities are magnetic, they exert an irresistible pull on others.


Then there were two prompts in particular that jumped out at me this year, the first being Wasuremono's great prompt about Miss Marple being a goddess, the genius loci of St Mary Mead, which I obviously had to write:

The Spirit of St Mary Mead (4005 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Griselda Clement, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Historical, Multi-Era, Roman Britain, English Civil War, 18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Misses Clause Challenge, Miss Marple is a Goddess
Summary: St Mary Mead has had an unusual guardian down through all these centuries.


The second was for moemachina, about Feste & Olivia from Twelfth Night. As I've loved Feste since I did the play for A-Levels mumble years ago, I couldn't resist. I had an idea, but then remembered that writing Shakespeare fic is TERRIFYING. So I watched BBC TN twice in a row, found some 16th C jokes and riddles on the internet, built my fic around those and then went for it. And then typed it up while mentally going LALALA not writing Shakespeare etc. Happily, it seems to have got some really lovely comments, so I clearly didn't mess it up too badly.

movements of the mind (1892 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Feste & Olivia (Twelfth Night)
Characters: Feste (Twelfth Night), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Friendship, Backstory, Jesters, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary: ”Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged.”


That done, I decided to write a couple of treats for Madness if I could, but the Adam Adamant Lives! fic for Liadt grew large enough for the main collection, even if it was probably too frivolous for Yuletide (and I don't think Liadt was fooled by my anonymity for a minute, either):

Battered and Bruised (1812 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones
Characters: Adam Adamant, Georgina Jones, William E. Simms
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Cake Fic Meme, Cake, Humor, Hijinks & Shenanigans, I was going to label this crack, and then thought soberly about canon, and didn't
Summary: Mr Adamant suffers a truly traumatic incident at a village gala. Unfortunately for him, Georgie is on hand to help...


And lastly, this tiny bit of post-canon for Gerry and Sandra from New Tricks, for Dynapink:

Vintage (532 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: New Tricks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sandra Pullman & Gerry Standing
Characters: Sandra Pullman, Gerry Standing
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Ficlet, Yuletide Treat
Summary: "You look as if you've seen a ghost..."

With many thanks to Pers who patiently beta-ed all three full treats and a second beta of my long assignment! (Those who have been around these parts a while: I think you can probably already guess which one got the influential rec. Oh, yes. It is my fate, my doom, my only claim to fame. :lol:)

Despite my radio silence, I have continued to progress quite nicely over the last week & even survived an out-patient trip back to the hospital without being too exhausted afterwards. However, I've still been not so able to comment and interact here yet, but that should start to return to normal this week, too, I hope. In the meantime, I slowly made an icon or two each day, so now I have another set to post! (I don't know what to do next, though. I am working my way through this list and am not having any immediate thoughts for Set 8 and onwards. Feel free to give me suggestions, which I may take up or ignore as I feel led. ;-p)

Anyway, when you run out of AAL! eps because of cruel burnination, what else do you do to keep cheerful but icon it?

Teaser:



( Being expressly fobidden, sir, is something Miss Jones does not understand )

Credits: Screencaps my own; textures by imemime_art, tiger_tyger & midnight_road. The usual rules apply - want, take, have, credit, and no hotlinking. Comments & feedback = ♥

So, as I said, I made an Adam Adamant Lives! vid, and I chose the most obvious song, because how could I not?

Have You Met Miss Jones?
Adam Adamant Lives! Adam & Georgie vid: "We'll keep on meeting till we die, Miss Jones and I!" (2.36 mins.) Not particularly spoilery, just for fun.

( Cut for embed & Lyrics )