matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Chobits_Freya)
2011-08-29 01:07 am

"fic_promptly" Challenge fics

So, all this week, I have been pecking away at fics to reply to some lonely prompts in need of ficcing. Don't hold it against them that they were posted in Dreamwidth, they still gave me some inspiration to kickstart my brain after it got itself into another rut (and I archived the fics to [livejournal.com profile] mtxref_fic:


Torchwood, author's choice, why do the Weevils only come out at night? http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/31935.html?thread=1369535&format=light#cmt1369535

Yami no Matsuei, Tsuzuki/Hisoka, fleeting beauty http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/58444.html?thread=2672204&format=light#cmt2672204

Firefly, River, It's always night in space. http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/31935.html?thread=1368255&format=light#cmt1368255

any, any, two characters played by the same actor are related (Inception/Shutter Island) http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/62609.html?thread=2943121&format=light#cmt2943121

Author's choice, author's choice, Mpreg. (Yami no Matsuei, Tsuzuki/Muraki) http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/62609.html?thread=2951313&format=light#cmt2951313

author's choice, author's choice, when duty contradicts desire (Torchwood: Children of Earth) http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/62609.html?thread=2956689&format=light#cmt2956689

Any, any, it's always your favorite sins that do you in. (Yami no Matsuei, Muraki/Tsuzuki) http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/64913.html?thread=3099025&format=light#cmt3099025

Author's choice, author's choice, mission report (Yami no Matsuei, mild Tatsumi/Tsuzuki) http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/55150.html?thread=2425966&format=light#cmt2425966

Author's choice, author's choice, fucked up pairing (Yami no Matsuei, unrequited Satomi/Muraki) http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/62609.html?thread=2953361&format=light#cmt2953361

Sandman, Death, five forms she has taken http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/70207.html?thread=3498559&format=light#cmt3498559

Princess Tutu, Ahiru, what she used to daydream about http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/64166.html?thread=3048102&format=light#cmt3048102

Yami no Matsuei, Tsuzuki/Hisoka, the fragrance of a cup of tea http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/45684.html?thread=1989236&format=light#cmt1989236

Gankutsuou, Mercedes, on display http://fic-promptly.dreamwidth.org/28806.html?thread=1287302&format=light#cmt1287302
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Birthday Cake)
2011-06-13 12:09 am

[livejournal.com profile] comment_fic Challenge Weekend: Birthday Edition

A baker's dozen of fics for you: I would have had one more, but I ran out of energy:

Watership Down, Bigwig, licking his wounds http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/191294.html?thread=41208638#t41208638

Author's choice, any (+ or / any), "Caught between fire and flood, he ran back and forth, uncertain of whether to burn or drown." http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/214698.html?thread=45448618#t50635946 (Gormenghast)

Norse mythology, Tyr and puppy!Fenris, playing fetch with a pup the size of a carthorse meant finding interesting things to throw http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/167252.html?thread=36419924#t50636116

Any, any, "Why do all the things I talk to not exist? Why?" http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/219891.html?thread=46216691#t50636531 (Black Jewel Trilogy)

Author's choice, author's choice, discovering Robot Unicorn Attack http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/150708.html?thread=31907252#t31907252 (Death Note)

Firefly, companions-in-training; they all saw Inara running away from the Operative in the Training House with her dashing pirate lover. http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/238407.html?thread=48831047#t50637895

Firefly, Mal, Yearning for something more http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/228939.html?thread=47579211#t50638155

Dracula ; Jonathan/any ; Jonathan did some things while trapped in Dracula's castle that he will never tell Mina about http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/225762.html?thread=47179234#t47179234

Inception, pre-Arthur/Eames, "Eames, this my point man, Arthur." http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/252458.html?thread=50388778#t50388778

Supernatural, Sam & Dean, "A good salad is not one part lettuce and nine parts toppings!" http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/252350.html?thread=50372030#t50372030

Any, any, friends discover he/she has a secret genetic engineering lab in the basement... and what he/she has been creating there http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/157153.html?thread=33929441#t33929441 (YnM)

Supernatural/Twilight, Edward & Castiel, confusion. http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/145653.html?thread=30998517#t30998517

Author's Choice, Author's Choice, "What sort of topping do you prefer?" "Oh, I dunno... Rough, yet giving and just a tiny bit sadistic. Would I be bound?" "Not that sort of topping!" http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/252350.html?thread=50367934#t50367934 (YnM)
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-06-11 02:21 am

[Inception] "Right-Hand Man" (PG-13)

Author's Note: Written for [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic's "Inception, pre-Arthur/Eames, "Eames, this my point man, Arthur.""

Read more... )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception glass)
2011-05-09 02:49 am

[livejournal.com profile] comment_fic entries

I have three more in draft, which have yet to be typed, but didn't due to not feeling well (female stuff) and also today was Mother's Day. But here are the four that I posted:


Supernatural, Sam & Dean, they hunt Bunnicula. http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/244019.html?thread=49485363#t49611571

Inception, Arthur/Eames + author's choice, snowball fight http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/236142.html?thread=48551790#t48551790

Author's choice, Author's choice, comforting someone who's eaten too much candy (Yami no Matsuei, mild Hisoka/Tsuzuki) http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/210522.html?thread=44841306#t44841306

The Mentalist, Patrick Jane + Any, nobody knows who he really is or rather what. http://comment-fic.livejournal.com/218459.html?thread=46034523#t46034523
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-05-07 07:30 pm
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[Inception] "Snow-nanigans" (PG)

Author's Note: Written for "Inception, Arthur/Eames + author's choice, snowball fight"

Read more... )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Diary)
2011-04-30 11:34 am

Stray [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic entries

Some of these have been fairly recent, others were older and I somehow neglected to link them here sooner. But here they are, for your reading pleasure!

Inception, Ariadne/Arthur, his vacation wardrobe is... a revelation http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/25873.html

Supernatural; Vampire Alpha/Dean; he's gorged himself on too much blood, but Father is there to soothe him. http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/22556.html

any but Supernatural, any, someone walked over my grave (Yami no Matsuei, mild Tsuzuki/Hisoka and mild Muraki/Tsuzuki) http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/23291.html

Inception, Ariadne/Arthur, his projections are nice to her http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/21672.html

Firefly, River, Trying on a brown coat http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/11726.html

Firefly/any, Mal + any, "Would you mind telling me what you're doing on my gorram ship?" (Crossover with Gormenghast, featuring Titus) http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/9594.html
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-04-25 06:34 pm
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[Inception] (PG)

Author's Note: Written for [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic's "Inception, Ariadne/Arthur, his vacation wardrobe is... a revelation"

Read more... )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-04-20 09:08 pm

[livejournal.com profile] drabbles20in20 FIC: Themes Part One: Interpretive

Since there's four blocks of prompts for the [livejournal.com profile] drabbles20in20, I've broken them up into four entries to make it easier for linking and posting purposes. Pardon the f-list spamming!

mirror )

minor )

mimic )

minute )

middle )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-04-08 05:53 pm

[Inception] "Faces of the Subconscious" (PG)

Author's Note: Written for "Inception, Ariadne/Arthur, his projections are nice to her" on [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic. I was in the mood for writing some cute fluff, and this prompt was just what I was looking for.

Read more... )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-04-06 03:42 pm

[[livejournal.com profile] help_japan/[livejournal.com profile] love_bingo FIC] "F

This began life as [livejournal.com profile] help_japan fic, for [livejournal.com profile] lady_neferankh, and then I realized it worked for one of the [livejournal.com profile] love_bingo, since i had a fellow literally falling in love. I'd written a rather dark fic for this pairing, but this time, I thought I'd write something from a more innocent time in Dom and Mal's past.

Pairing: Dom Cobb/Mallorie Miles
Prompt: "When I fall in love"
Word count: 556

He bolted down a hallway, though he knew it ended in a large window that opened onto dead air, ten stories up )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Hellsing vs Twilight)
2011-03-28 10:46 am

[livejournal.com profile] comment_fic entries

Another weekend's worth! and I'm very surprised and proud at how well these came out, since I was feeling oddly tired all weekend. If anyone wants to adopt any of these and donate USD$5 to help the relief effort in Japan, feel free to do so: just send me the screencaps as a PM

Author's choice; author's choice; I'm drunk And right now I'm so in love with you http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/206450.html?thread=44052082#t44052082 (Yami no Matsuei, Muraki/Tsuzuki)

Egyptian Mythology, Thoth & Anubis, Thoth isn't fond of modern day communication methods - like texting http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/218459.html?thread=46004827#t46004827

Inception, Any, The ___ Job http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/234908.html?thread=48393116#t48393116

Yami no Matsuei, Hisoka, coming too close to a fellow rape victim http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/121336.html?thread=26210552#t26210552

American Gods, Shadow, monkey suit http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/85371.html?thread=19457147#t19457147

Supernatural/Death Note, Tessa + Ryuk, they've known each other a long time. http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/185552.html?thread=39829712#t39829712

Narnia; Caspian/Edmund; A snowball is a handy thing for when your companion is sinking into dark thoughts http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/188010.html?thread=40452714#t40452714

Twilight/Inception, Cullens, They wake up to find their lives as vampires was a dream-experiment gone horribly wrong. http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/233483.html?thread=48182539#t48182539

Any, any, "...two paths diverged..." http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/206660.html?thread=44114500#t44114500 (Gormenghast)

SPN, Girl!Dean/Castiel -- After making one too many sexist comments, a witch turns Dean into a girl as payback. And the only way to turn Dean back into a man is for him to have sex as a woman. Cue Castiel to the rescue. http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/235134.html?thread=48405886#t48405886

Castle, Castle/Beckett, They discover the Nikki Heat fandom...and keep coming back http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/231182.html?thread=47820302#t47820302

Author's choice, any,
"Well I am Death, none can excel,
I'll open the door to heaven or hell."
~ O' Death, Jen Titus http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/208578.html?thread=44620226#t44620226 (Yami no Matsuei, evol!Tsuzuki/Muraki)
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Default)
2011-03-27 04:44 pm

[Inception/Twilight] "...And Then She Woke Up..." (PG)

Author's Note: Written for [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic's "Twilight/Inception, Cullens, They wake up to find their lives as vampires was a dream-experiment gone horribly wrong."

A dream... She'd dreamed she had a boyfriend...  )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-02-26 05:57 pm
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"Inception" ficlet/craziness

Not sure if this is enough to qualify as a ficlet, and I mostly re-purposed some dialogue from an episode of "Red vs. Blue" in its creation, but I thought I'd toss this up here:

Cut for craziness and mild language )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-02-26 02:33 am
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"Which Inception Character are You?" Quzzage

I've done a few different ones, and I seem to go back and forth between getting Cobb or Ariadne as a result. Not surprising, as I relate to them the most, and I feel the most confident writing them.

Cut to save flists )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Inception totem)
2011-02-19 03:57 am

[[livejournal.com profile] love_bingo FIC] "Creation Mated to Destruction" (Inception, PG-

I wrote this fic in two legs, and while it spun itself out easily, it was hard to get the words onto the paper, due to the tremendous amount of weirdness involved. It's a different kind of Inception fic than I'm accustomed to writing, mostly because I'm writing from Mal's POV, and while I enjoyed the challenge that it offered, being insider her head was extremely uncomfortable, not a place I'm likely to revisit any time soon. I also wrote this on the supposition that Mal is quite literally haunting Cobb's mind, like a ghost...

Word Count: 843
Prompt: "Adultery"
Characters: Cobb, Mal, Ariadne; mild Mal/Cobb and alleged Cobb/Ariadne
WARNING: Violence, thematic material, general weirdness, obsessive behavior/stalking

Whether he slept or whether he was awake, Mal was always there... )
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Yami no Matsuei/Descendants of Darkness)
2011-02-18 10:36 am

"First came the Yaoi Fangurlz, then came the Word Salad..."

I've been getting a LOT of weird spam lately (and I may have to activate the thing that would require people to respond to a CAPTCHA widget before posting a comment: sorry, people, I didn't disable non-friend commenting because I cross-post fics to various comms). Most of it has been the usual Trying To Sell Stuff postings, but then I get these two in response to some Yami no Matsuei fics I'd posted on [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic. It appears to be someone attempting to RP with me, but they appear to have been high or drunk, given the word salad quality. I've gotten some irritating comments from yaoi fangurlz who whined about pairings or my fade-to-blacks, but these are ridiculous. Here are the comments in their entirety, including subject lines:

New comment "Re: Yami no Matsuei, Muraki/Tsuzuki" on an entry in [info]comment_fic.
kanoto I love you tsuzuki you now putict you baby dont for get that talking to you and I wont let you for get bout me.


New comment "muraki " on an entry in [info]comment_fic.
want me its me karoto tsuzuki big brother to lil baby tsuzuki.



Also, went to the Salem, NH B&N: picked up a few new journals (I seem to go through about one every four to six months, depending on how much writing I'm doing: I've just about used up the one I was using to draft [livejournal.com profile] carpe_ho_ras posts/jot down ideas for future posts/etc, and one journal I was using for miscellaneous fanfics, mostly [livejournal.com profile] story_lottery and [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic), Vol. 4 of "Black Butler", and after Much Rummaging Around, Max Brooks's "World War Z". Also got some cafe writing in: I got most of my next [livejournal.com profile] love_bingo fic done, this one being an Inception fic written from shade!Mal's POV, if she were tailing Cobb and Ariadne somewhat obsessively during one of Ariadne's training sessions (and there's a teeny part of me that suspects Cobb may have been literally haunted by Mal: hauntings often happen when a person's spirit is unwilling or unable to let go of a place where they lived during life, and I suspect that could have happened to Mrs. Cobb after her death...). No, this is not a Cobb/Ariadne fic: I don't see anything more than a mentor/student relationship between them
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Book-canon!Steerpike)
2011-02-17 11:43 am

The Gormenghast Continuum Strikes in "Dark City" (In which there is intertextuality all over)

Watched the director's cut version of "Dark City" on DVD last night (very nice disk: it's got it's own all new sets of behind the scenes material, thus it isn't a copy paste of the original disk), and I must say, I like this version a lot better than the original. They removed the irritating opening expository voice-over, which the studio execs made Alex Proyas add. And they also removed the over-dub on Jennifer Connelly singing. Plus some scenes are a little longer and more interesting now.

But... I noticed that this weird little phenomena that I call the Gormenghast Continuum has struck. It seems that a certain book by Mervyn Peake has this weird ability to trigger inter-textual links with everything that it comes in contact with:

Mr. Book, the semi-Alpha among the Strangers, is played by Ian Richardson, who also played Earl Sepulchrave in the BBC miniseries of the bricks. That alone is creepy, when you take Mr. Book's name into consideration of Sepulchrave's pet obsession.... There's more...

According to Alex Proyas in one of the behind the scenes documentaries, the release date of "Dark City" got pushed up because of "a little movie called Titanic". Now... Leonardo Di Caprio famously starred in "Titanic", and also played the lead in "Inception"; also, Christopher Nolan has pointed to "Dark City" as one of the forebears and inspirations for "Inception" (both share bendy urban landscapes as well as "what is real?" notions).