Beyond the Roundels

I just put four more of the Kiss Prompt Meme ficlets over on AO3:

Turn Back the Clock (189 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Silver (S&S)
Characters: Sapphire (S&S), Silver (S&S)
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Tumblr Prompt, Flash Fic, Elemental Weirdness, Kissing, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Time Runs Out
Summary: Silver/Sapphire, kiss because's time's run out.


Made of Secrets (272 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spooks | MI-5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ruth Evershed/Harry Pearce
Characters: Ruth Evershed, Harry Pearce
Additional Tags: Tumblr Prompt, Flash Fic, Ficlet, Spies & Secret Agents, Secret Relationship, Kissing, Vignette
Summary: Ruth/Harry, kiss in secrecy.


False Is True (294 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sixth Doctor/Charley Pollard
Characters: Charley Pollard, Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Flash Fic, Ficlet, Tumblr Prompt, Kissing, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Humor
Summary: Six/Charley, kiss as a lie.


Tears, Ghosts, and Hope (111 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Twelfth Doctor/River Song
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Data Ghost River Song
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Flash Fic, Prompt Fill, Missing Scene, Episode: s10e12 The Doctor Falls, Regeneration (Doctor Who), Death, Ghosts, Kissing, Vignette
Summary: River Song/Twelfth Doctor, kiss on a falling tear.

I don't seem to have been writing much lately, so I did what I usually do in these circumstances: the poetry meme!

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.

2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)

3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.

4: Bravo! Have a cookie.

*noms virtual cookie*

(These are all only 50 words, so I don't think they're really spoilery unless you know stuff already, they're just probably incomprehensible, but possibly for DW S10, Ripper Street S5 and Spooks S10. Ish. I did cheat, because I didn't want a comma, but at least I managed alphabetical order, and my brain also did not explode.)

( Results under here: B7, Department S, Doctor Who, Ripper Street, Spooks )

I've managed a few of the AU Meme ficlets so far (and a few still yet to come). I have been posting them to AO3 & of course in the comments, but in the absence of other things going on, I thought I might as well round them up here, too:

( Liz Shaw )

( Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon )

( Nine & Rose )


( Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones )

( Harry Pearce/Ruth Evershed )

( Leela )

( Roderick Alleyn )

1. I had a bad few days for various reasons, and, as ever, I tend to slip up on LJ when that happens. I'm caught up again, but apologies if I missed things. Today feels a little better at least! (Nothing terrible happened, but I went very low & technology failed on me at some points - if anyone knows of a good alternative to the VLC-player that isn't either madly fiddly & thus slow or also affected by this aspect ratio bug re. screencaps, I would be happy to hear about it. The only reason I have VLC Player is for screencapping. I do have another program that does it, but it's fiddly & stupid in many ways so I only use it when I'm forced. Also my little TV/DVD player broke yesterday, which is almost in the terrible category. I feel ridiculous that one person should need two TVs, but getting rid of the proper one downstairs would be silly & unhelpful and I can't quite get by yet without my little one to hand for the lowest days when downstairs is too much to handle. :-/)


2. Naturally, in the middle of this (well, prior to the TV-demise), I applied my usual solution of watching old TV with favourite actors and reached the episode of Hadleigh that starred James Maxwell. Hadleigh is not a show that goes in for villains, but they made an exception for James Maxwell. However, it was a nice role and nobody attached anything to his face whatsoever, so overall that was a win. I'll do a picspam and waffle more about that sometime. (Obviously I braved my annoying program to cap that one. But. Argh.) (I was meant to be watching the previous episode, but it was by the same person who kept writing about people wanting to impregnate everybody in Survivors and I promised myself that if he wrote one word about pregnancy, I was skipping to James Maxwell. I thought that was a joke, but the episode was about someone thinking she was pregnant. Dear God, all these 70s writers with weird obsessions that people keep letting them write...! /o\ I skipped to James Maxwell and was very happy to do so. Even if he was villainous.)


3. Anyway, nice things! Remix Redux went live this morning last night* & I had the lovely surprise of discovering that someone had remixed my Spooks ficlet where Ruth and Harry live happily ever after running a bookshop in Devon. So now there is more Ruth/Harry/Bookshop/can't stop being spies ever fic in the world & I rec it heartily to anyone who knows Spooks:

All Russians are Spies (The Retirement Remix) (1278 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spooks | MI-5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ruth Evershed/Harry Pearce
Characters: Ruth Evershed, Harry Pearce
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, bookshops
Summary:

Ruth's happy, running a second hand bookshop in Devon. Harry, however, is bored.

(I've read/looked at a few other fics, too, and I think I might have guessed at least three authors in the process, but I have some reading to do later on when I might be properly awake. Remix Madness won't go live until probably actually tomorrow for me).


4. Working on an hc_bingo square still, though! Should be done soon! (I mean, that square, not the card, or even a row yet, obv.)


* It was this morning for me!

The last few! Probably less exciting, because they mostly turned out quite sensible and I, er, might have sneakily ducked a low-flying prompt or two, but here goes...

( More fic I would never write except I did )

For persiflage_1, who gave me the prompt Spooks: Harry/Ruth - As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods.
They kill us for their sport. (King Lear, Act IV, Scene 1) I apologise for lack of actual Ruth, but this was immediately where my mind went.

Title: the only way to go on (is to go on)
Author: thisbluespirit
Rating: PG
Word Count: 394
Characters/Pairings: Harry Pearce (Ruth/Harry)
Notes/Warnings: Spoilers for 10.06
Summary: Where there’s life there’s… duty.

( the only way to go on )

I printed the other fic off and the problem became instantly obvious and fixable. So: Harry, Ruth, late night on the Grid, towards the end of S4. (All ages, 533 words, no spoilers)

It's still not very good, but happy birthday again, nonetheless! (And I finally managed to write Harry/Ruth!)

( After the end of the day )