Title: gingersweet
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General
Words: 442
Summary: Guybrush plunders a different sort of golden, sparkling treasure.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply; Fluff, Romance, This fic is rated H for Herman Toothrot-ting Fluff
Notes: Be warned that this is incredibly cheesy and pretty much sickly sweet fluff. I am not responsible for your dentist bills.
gingersweet on AO3
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General
Words: 442
Summary: Guybrush plunders a different sort of golden, sparkling treasure.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply; Fluff, Romance, This fic is rated H for Herman Toothrot-ting Fluff
Notes: Be warned that this is incredibly cheesy and pretty much sickly sweet fluff. I am not responsible for your dentist bills.
gingersweet on AO3
Title: Pewter and Silver
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine although mostly just Guybrush mumbling to himself
Rating: Teen
Words: 305
Summary: From this prompt: Write a paragraph in which a character's emotion is expressed in the description of a color. They can be attracted to the color while shopping or have a negative reaction to it based on a memory or you can choose your own scenario. I think this kinda colored outside the lines (ha ha) on that, but wotthehell, archy.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: Melancholy, Alcohol
Pewter and Silver
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine although mostly just Guybrush mumbling to himself
Rating: Teen
Words: 305
Summary: From this prompt: Write a paragraph in which a character's emotion is expressed in the description of a color. They can be attracted to the color while shopping or have a negative reaction to it based on a memory or you can choose your own scenario. I think this kinda colored outside the lines (ha ha) on that, but wotthehell, archy.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: Melancholy, Alcohol
Pewter and Silver
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Dec. 28th, 2025 10:57 pmgodDAMNIT I wish there was anywhere I could safely share some bits of MI fanfic that anyone would maybe interested and not just unfollow me for even the sin of complaining that I feel alone and unwanted (as I am sure y'all are about to do who even saw this in the first place).
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Nov. 19th, 2025 11:40 pmIt is most unsatisfactory that I as the author have to come up with the actual complete and correct backstory that the characters only know parts of so that those revealed parts will be consistent with one another and action related to them will make sense. Most unsatisfactory indeed.
ABC Fic Title Meme
Oct. 30th, 2025 03:46 pm(via ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
delphi, here)
Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
(I assume that the intent was also that "An" should not count, even though it doesn't say so, although that turned out to be irrelevant for me.)
Drabbles are marked with an asterisk. I've only ever written for two fandoms, so there was no question of trying for breadth asdelphi did, but I've tried to tilt this away from Harry Potter (the first fandom, up through 2011) as much as possible, and within that to go for a little variety. (I tend to get fixed on a particular character or ship or two and do little or nothing but that! Although that said, the Monkey Island drabbles that range further afield were done for a Thanksgiving week smut-drabble challenge last year, so I was doing all kinds of random things I usually wouldn't.)
A - all blue and honey gold (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
B - Bottled (Harry Potter, Severus/Harry)
C - Cold Hands, Warm Hearts (Harry Potter, Severus/Aurora Sinistra)
D - Dress-Up (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
E - Electric* (Monkey Island, Guybrush, LeChuck; warning: torture, unwanted sexual response)
F - First Time's the Charm (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
G -
H - Heavy Wizardry (Harry Potter, gen)
I - Inspiration* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
L - Lilies are Red, Roses are Blue (Harry Potter, Severus/Lily)
M - Make Believe (Harry Potter, Severus & Lily friendship)
N - Night Music* (Monkey Island, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey)
O - Oil Slick* (Monkey Island, LeChuck/Largo)
P - Precision (Harry Potter, gen)
Q -
R - Really?* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
S - Starshine* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
T - Thirty-Three and a Third (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine/OMC)
U -
V -
W - We Now Join Monkey Island 2, Already in Progress (Monkey Island, gen)
X -
Y -
Z -
17/26, from a total count of 90 (I think) including three ineligible "untitled"s, one that started with 20 ("20 Random Facts About..."), and 9 that were in a collection of the "Five Things" format, so they also all started with a number. (That makes 77 instead of 90 if you just discounted all those.) I had 5 starting with "A" and 14 starting with "The", so that really took a chunk out of it.
delphi, here)Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
(I assume that the intent was also that "An" should not count, even though it doesn't say so, although that turned out to be irrelevant for me.)
Drabbles are marked with an asterisk. I've only ever written for two fandoms, so there was no question of trying for breadth as
delphi did, but I've tried to tilt this away from Harry Potter (the first fandom, up through 2011) as much as possible, and within that to go for a little variety. (I tend to get fixed on a particular character or ship or two and do little or nothing but that! Although that said, the Monkey Island drabbles that range further afield were done for a Thanksgiving week smut-drabble challenge last year, so I was doing all kinds of random things I usually wouldn't.)A - all blue and honey gold (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
B - Bottled (Harry Potter, Severus/Harry)
C - Cold Hands, Warm Hearts (Harry Potter, Severus/Aurora Sinistra)
D - Dress-Up (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
E - Electric* (Monkey Island, Guybrush, LeChuck; warning: torture, unwanted sexual response)
F - First Time's the Charm (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
G -
H - Heavy Wizardry (Harry Potter, gen)
I - Inspiration* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
L - Lilies are Red, Roses are Blue (Harry Potter, Severus/Lily)
M - Make Believe (Harry Potter, Severus & Lily friendship)
N - Night Music* (Monkey Island, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey)
O - Oil Slick* (Monkey Island, LeChuck/Largo)
P - Precision (Harry Potter, gen)
Q -
R - Really?* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
S - Starshine* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
T - Thirty-Three and a Third (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine/OMC)
U -
V -
W - We Now Join Monkey Island 2, Already in Progress (Monkey Island, gen)
X -
Y -
Z -
17/26, from a total count of 90 (I think) including three ineligible "untitled"s, one that started with 20 ("20 Random Facts About..."), and 9 that were in a collection of the "Five Things" format, so they also all started with a number. (That makes 77 instead of 90 if you just discounted all those.) I had 5 starting with "A" and 14 starting with "The", so that really took a chunk out of it.
fic recs: MST3K, HHG, Rocky Horror
Oct. 28th, 2025 09:55 pmRoll Opening Credits by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sleepymarvel
Fandom: MST3K
Characters: Joel, Crow, Tom, GPC
Rating: General
Words: 2238
Author's summary: Joel's first moments on the satellite and the five stages of grief.
Author's notes: Takes place during the first few weeks Joel is in space.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Five Stages of Grief, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study
My comment: "I like the device of the stages of grief. Neat idea."
Quote:
Joel sits on the floor in the center of the bridge and decides he won't cooperate. He'll wait until everything returns to normal. He'll wait till Dr. Forrester explains exactly what's going on. There has to be an explanation.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Transexual, Transylvania byatrovel
Fandom: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Frank N. Furter/Everyone, Frank N. Furter/Arthur Dent
Rating: Teen
Words: 2523
Author's summary: Arthur Dent meets an alien he can actually sort of relate to.
Author's notes: i doubt this appeals to anyone except myself. it doesn’t really matter though, because myself is who i wrote it for. (also i haven’t brushed up on my h2g2 knowledge in quite a while so apologies for any inaccuracies or mischaracterization! frank on the other hand i have no excuse for i’m just not that great at writing him i think)
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Post Rocky Horror-Canon, Except Frank didn’t die, Crack Crossover, Crack Treated Seriously, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, but only kind of, Unexpected Bonding, I don’t know what this is, Frank is Zaphod’s ex-situationship, Bisexual Freak Ford Prefect, Frank just went back to Transexual instead of being killed
My comment: "Neat concept. I quite like it. From what I remember of Rocky Horror, I think you nailed Frank's tone of speaking, like that he made Arthur's name sound "thick and sticky"."
Quote:
Arthur perked up, not unlike a dog upon hearing the front door opening. “I’m sorry, did you say Earth?”
“Yes.” Frank looked at him. “Tiny blue-green planet. Fun little people with all these silly rules. Fascinating culture, really, because it’s ridiculous how-“
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On the 125th Story byRandom_Guise
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Arthur, Benjy Mouse, Frankie Mouse
Rating: General
Words: 2439
Author's summary: Arthur Dent has another encounter with Benjy and Frankie Mouse shortly after arriving with his group at Milliways. I don't own these characters, and even if I did I would still follow good advice and Don't Panic. Written as my 125th story (at the time).
Author's notes: For my 125th story, a tale that ends up ON the 125th story, with a few stops at earlier stories along the way. The building has a bit of inspiration from the Heinlein story "...and He Built a Crooked House".
Author's warnings: None
My comment: "Good one, very Adamsesque tone!"
Quote:
"That's the easy part. We've brought you to a special building; you're in the basement of a building 125 stories tall" Benjy explained. "Actually, none of the floors exist together but thanks to an extension into the fourth spacial dimension…"
"…it's amazing what you save on property tax by doing it that way…" Frankie interjected.
Fandom: MST3K
Characters: Joel, Crow, Tom, GPC
Rating: General
Words: 2238
Author's summary: Joel's first moments on the satellite and the five stages of grief.
Author's notes: Takes place during the first few weeks Joel is in space.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Five Stages of Grief, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study
My comment: "I like the device of the stages of grief. Neat idea."
Quote:
Joel sits on the floor in the center of the bridge and decides he won't cooperate. He'll wait until everything returns to normal. He'll wait till Dr. Forrester explains exactly what's going on. There has to be an explanation.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Transexual, Transylvania by
Fandom: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Frank N. Furter/Everyone, Frank N. Furter/Arthur Dent
Rating: Teen
Words: 2523
Author's summary: Arthur Dent meets an alien he can actually sort of relate to.
Author's notes: i doubt this appeals to anyone except myself. it doesn’t really matter though, because myself is who i wrote it for. (also i haven’t brushed up on my h2g2 knowledge in quite a while so apologies for any inaccuracies or mischaracterization! frank on the other hand i have no excuse for i’m just not that great at writing him i think)
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Post Rocky Horror-Canon, Except Frank didn’t die, Crack Crossover, Crack Treated Seriously, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, but only kind of, Unexpected Bonding, I don’t know what this is, Frank is Zaphod’s ex-situationship, Bisexual Freak Ford Prefect, Frank just went back to Transexual instead of being killed
My comment: "Neat concept. I quite like it. From what I remember of Rocky Horror, I think you nailed Frank's tone of speaking, like that he made Arthur's name sound "thick and sticky"."
Quote:
Arthur perked up, not unlike a dog upon hearing the front door opening. “I’m sorry, did you say Earth?”
“Yes.” Frank looked at him. “Tiny blue-green planet. Fun little people with all these silly rules. Fascinating culture, really, because it’s ridiculous how-“
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On the 125th Story by
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Arthur, Benjy Mouse, Frankie Mouse
Rating: General
Words: 2439
Author's summary: Arthur Dent has another encounter with Benjy and Frankie Mouse shortly after arriving with his group at Milliways. I don't own these characters, and even if I did I would still follow good advice and Don't Panic. Written as my 125th story (at the time).
Author's notes: For my 125th story, a tale that ends up ON the 125th story, with a few stops at earlier stories along the way. The building has a bit of inspiration from the Heinlein story "...and He Built a Crooked House".
Author's warnings: None
My comment: "Good one, very Adamsesque tone!"
Quote:
"That's the easy part. We've brought you to a special building; you're in the basement of a building 125 stories tall" Benjy explained. "Actually, none of the floors exist together but thanks to an extension into the fourth spacial dimension…"
"…it's amazing what you save on property tax by doing it that way…" Frankie interjected.
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Oct. 13th, 2025 04:15 pmAlas, no Monkey Island in this year's tagset for Yuletide. Nor Takin' Over the Asylum, either, although I didn't really expect that to show up.
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Sep. 29th, 2025 03:58 pmMystery Science Theater 3000 - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).(https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/126646.html)
Hmmmm that's certainly, ah, mysterious! Wonder what was so irregular about the nomination that this didn't just get the usual 1-2 lines describing the issue ("can we combine these nominations?" "we couldn't find a character by that name. did you mean x?" "we don't approve All Media Types. pick one")...
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Sep. 15th, 2025 04:43 pmCrossing fingers that someone nominates Monkey Island for Yuletide this year (not a shoo-in but isn't totally unthinkable and has happened before) and that someone actually fulfills a request for it (much less likely, unfortunately).
Monkey Island community
Jul. 16th, 2025 02:46 pmOh, uh, did I mention I made a community for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
monkeyisland? I was a little surprised there wasn't a now-dead one hanging around from Ye Aulden Days of Dreamwidth of 2009-2010, since there was a fair amount of buzz in the fandom at that time about the release of Tales of Monkey Island and the special editions of Secret and Revenge. I actually had to submit a support ticket to be able to create it because the names monkeyisland, monkey_island, and all the variations with the underscore in silly spots (m_onkeyisland, etc.) were "reserved for administrative use" -- which turned out to mean "specifically blocked as account names because of some kind of prior problem with spambots"? I dunno who bothers to use the word "monkey" or "island" in such things, but whatever. (Maybe they meant those dang ugly-ape NFTs?) I don't know how long the block had been in effect although I would be surprised if it went as far back as ~2010.
Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate asweareloonies, where there were never more members than I could count on one hand, I was the only person who ever posted, and I spent a lot of time updating recs lists for no one, but for now I'm rowing the boat myself, as it were.
eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):
There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)
monkeyisland? I was a little surprised there wasn't a now-dead one hanging around from Ye Aulden Days of Dreamwidth of 2009-2010, since there was a fair amount of buzz in the fandom at that time about the release of Tales of Monkey Island and the special editions of Secret and Revenge. I actually had to submit a support ticket to be able to create it because the names monkeyisland, monkey_island, and all the variations with the underscore in silly spots (m_onkeyisland, etc.) were "reserved for administrative use" -- which turned out to mean "specifically blocked as account names because of some kind of prior problem with spambots"? I dunno who bothers to use the word "monkey" or "island" in such things, but whatever. (Maybe they meant those dang ugly-ape NFTs?) I don't know how long the block had been in effect although I would be surprised if it went as far back as ~2010. Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate as
weareloonies, where there were never more members than I could count on one hand, I was the only person who ever posted, and I spent a lot of time updating recs lists for no one, but for now I'm rowing the boat myself, as it were.eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):
There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)
fic: The Night After (Monkey Island, G)
Jul. 6th, 2025 10:19 pmTitle: The Night After
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: Guybrush, OCs
Rating: General
Words: 2685
Summary: Set immediately after the end of The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush learns that the story of his exploits just might be an interesting tale to tell.
Notes: From this prompt: Your character is in a cafe and overhears a conversation. How does it make them feel? Does it change the way they think about something? Write that scene. I think this kinda went out of bounds from that? And certainly it didn't take me a day to write this as a warmup in the way it's intended, lol. Try more like several weeks. But whatever.
The Night After
Fandom: Monkey Island
Characters: Guybrush, OCs
Rating: General
Words: 2685
Summary: Set immediately after the end of The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush learns that the story of his exploits just might be an interesting tale to tell.
Notes: From this prompt: Your character is in a cafe and overhears a conversation. How does it make them feel? Does it change the way they think about something? Write that scene. I think this kinda went out of bounds from that? And certainly it didn't take me a day to write this as a warmup in the way it's intended, lol. Try more like several weeks. But whatever.
The Night After
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Jun. 21st, 2025 02:41 pmTFW in the course of an archaeological dig on LiveJournal you seem to have found yourself, except Norwegian, and wonder whyyyy you never crossed paths back in the day. Other than that I am not into The Mighty Boosh and not really into Red Dwarf slash (just the show in general)... bah! just look at that fannish interests list! even "purple hair" and about my same age!
(kahvi here is an RP journal and not the same person. Well, I assume not the same person.)
eta:kahvi seems to be the same person, though, judging by the list of fandoms their works belong to, and is even likely to be still active (last posted December 2024).
(
kahvi here is an RP journal and not the same person. Well, I assume not the same person.)eta:
Two Discworld fic recs
Jun. 6th, 2025 12:49 pmAnd There Will Be A Reckoning by (Anonymous)
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Tiffany Aching, Granny Weatherwax
Rating: General
Words: 1420
Author's summary: It was the sort of cold where - if you were out in it for too long - you went right around in a circle and started to feel warm again.
Author's warnings: Chose Not To Use
Additional tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, In that it is the apocalypse and most people are dead by this point (Fic was written for Apocalyptothon 2014)
Quote:
She was distracted from these thoughts by a "Caw!" from high above. She had barely seen the raven before her hands were out in front of her.
"Thunder on my right hand. Lightning in my left hand. Heat above me. Frost below me."
As she stole its heat, a curl of warmth sprang up inside her chest.
The raven fell dead from the sky. She never saw where it landed.
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The Case of the Vanishing Vampire by (Anonymous)
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Reg Shoe, Visit, Vimes, Vetinari, Carrot, Angua, Cheery Littlebottom, William de Worde, Otto von Chriek, Rufus Drumknott, Death, George Pony
Rating: Teen
Words: 19,552
Author's summary: Reg and Visit are drawn into a mystery at the heart of Ankh Morpork's undead community. Why would a lifelong black-ribboner suddenly try to kill his landlady? And why have his ashes mysteriously disappeared? With the rest of the Watch focused on a threat to the new underground rail network, Reg and Visit will need to work together to solve the case, because if the two of them can't manage to put aside their differences, somebody's going to get away with murder...
Author's notes:
Q. Why is this fic like the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms?
A. They were both supported by hippos.
This fic is dedicated to the good people of #Yuletide: Doranwen and Fran who dropped ropes when I fell into my own plotholes, SteelNeko who came up with one of the OCs, Kurushi who agreed to beta-read despite an impossibly tight deadline and TL whose gentle command of "This is never going to be finished on time, you need to start writing an alternate fic NOW" is the only reason I'm not perma-banned from Yuletide.
But most of all it's dedicated to my recipient, who has the patience of the saint and whose prompt basically amounted to "One's an evangelist, the other's a zombie; together THEY FIGHT CRIME!" which is clearly the most awesome prompt in the history of Yuletide.
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Complete, Action/Adventure, Bechdel Test Pass, Blood, Canon Compliant, Case Fic, Crimes, Drama, Friendship, Gen Fic, Gift Fic, Humor, Minor Canonical Character(s), Mystery, Mystery Stories, Past Tense, Photography, Police, Politics, Post-Canon, Prompt Fic, Religions, Teamwork, They Fight Crime!, Trains, Yuletide, Vampires, Whodunnit, Zombies, #Yulechat Challenge 2010
My comment: (Chapter 5) "I don't suppose the dwarf symbol for "mine" resembles a circle with a horizontal line through it, by any chance?"
(Chapter 8) "Kinda love that Visit now basically has one of those things you get by laying a penny on a railroad track. (Don't do this, kids.)"
Quote:
'We're in the middle of a heatwave and Detritus has never been particularly swayed by debate even when his brain's at a reasonable temperature.'
'Yes, but we can't just walk away.'
'No.'
'Oh.'
'Yeah.'
'Stoneface is going to go absolutely Bursar.'
'Well, if you want to let a murderer get away because you were afraid of getting in trouble.'
'Oh shut up.'
'No, you shut up.'
'No, you shut up.'
The two corporals turned to Detritus and smiled.
"Fair enough, Sarge. Can you just move to one side for a minute so we can turn the cart around?"
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Tiffany Aching, Granny Weatherwax
Rating: General
Words: 1420
Author's summary: It was the sort of cold where - if you were out in it for too long - you went right around in a circle and started to feel warm again.
Author's warnings: Chose Not To Use
Additional tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, In that it is the apocalypse and most people are dead by this point (Fic was written for Apocalyptothon 2014)
Quote:
She was distracted from these thoughts by a "Caw!" from high above. She had barely seen the raven before her hands were out in front of her.
"Thunder on my right hand. Lightning in my left hand. Heat above me. Frost below me."
As she stole its heat, a curl of warmth sprang up inside her chest.
The raven fell dead from the sky. She never saw where it landed.
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The Case of the Vanishing Vampire by (Anonymous)
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Reg Shoe, Visit, Vimes, Vetinari, Carrot, Angua, Cheery Littlebottom, William de Worde, Otto von Chriek, Rufus Drumknott, Death, George Pony
Rating: Teen
Words: 19,552
Author's summary: Reg and Visit are drawn into a mystery at the heart of Ankh Morpork's undead community. Why would a lifelong black-ribboner suddenly try to kill his landlady? And why have his ashes mysteriously disappeared? With the rest of the Watch focused on a threat to the new underground rail network, Reg and Visit will need to work together to solve the case, because if the two of them can't manage to put aside their differences, somebody's going to get away with murder...
Author's notes:
Q. Why is this fic like the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms?
A. They were both supported by hippos.
This fic is dedicated to the good people of #Yuletide: Doranwen and Fran who dropped ropes when I fell into my own plotholes, SteelNeko who came up with one of the OCs, Kurushi who agreed to beta-read despite an impossibly tight deadline and TL whose gentle command of "This is never going to be finished on time, you need to start writing an alternate fic NOW" is the only reason I'm not perma-banned from Yuletide.
But most of all it's dedicated to my recipient, who has the patience of the saint and whose prompt basically amounted to "One's an evangelist, the other's a zombie; together THEY FIGHT CRIME!" which is clearly the most awesome prompt in the history of Yuletide.
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Complete, Action/Adventure, Bechdel Test Pass, Blood, Canon Compliant, Case Fic, Crimes, Drama, Friendship, Gen Fic, Gift Fic, Humor, Minor Canonical Character(s), Mystery, Mystery Stories, Past Tense, Photography, Police, Politics, Post-Canon, Prompt Fic, Religions, Teamwork, They Fight Crime!, Trains, Yuletide, Vampires, Whodunnit, Zombies, #Yulechat Challenge 2010
My comment: (Chapter 5) "I don't suppose the dwarf symbol for "mine" resembles a circle with a horizontal line through it, by any chance?"
(Chapter 8) "Kinda love that Visit now basically has one of those things you get by laying a penny on a railroad track. (Don't do this, kids.)"
Quote:
'We're in the middle of a heatwave and Detritus has never been particularly swayed by debate even when his brain's at a reasonable temperature.'
'Yes, but we can't just walk away.'
'No.'
'Oh.'
'Yeah.'
'Stoneface is going to go absolutely Bursar.'
'Well, if you want to let a murderer get away because you were afraid of getting in trouble.'
'Oh shut up.'
'No, you shut up.'
'No, you shut up.'
The two corporals turned to Detritus and smiled.
"Fair enough, Sarge. Can you just move to one side for a minute so we can turn the cart around?"
(no subject)
Jun. 2nd, 2025 11:39 amOh my god you guys. This person seriously needs to chill.
As you can see, these are reviews (comments) left on Summer Shade. That fic is 17 years old at this point, and clearly says right at the top in the author's note:
1. It was written for a Severus/Lily-specific exchange (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
less_for_you).
2. Gives the prompt I was trying to fulfill, which includes "what-if scenario".
3. Acknowledges that it presupposes an AU from canon.
And they go and lead off with "I don't think the premise is realistic". LMAO. I think you have come to the wrong place, buddy. They then go on for almost 2500 words (half the length of the fic itself!) about how James abused Severus (as if I didn't know) and Lily was an awful friend ("sociopathically sadistic monster", even, as you can see in the screenshot). Are they seriously still doing this kind of Snape discourse out there in the world? Crikey. I don't think I'm even going to read all this screed, much less approve the guest reviews.
As you can see, these are reviews (comments) left on Summer Shade. That fic is 17 years old at this point, and clearly says right at the top in the author's note:
1. It was written for a Severus/Lily-specific exchange (
less_for_you).2. Gives the prompt I was trying to fulfill, which includes "what-if scenario".
3. Acknowledges that it presupposes an AU from canon.
And they go and lead off with "I don't think the premise is realistic". LMAO. I think you have come to the wrong place, buddy. They then go on for almost 2500 words (half the length of the fic itself!) about how James abused Severus (as if I didn't know) and Lily was an awful friend ("sociopathically sadistic monster", even, as you can see in the screenshot). Are they seriously still doing this kind of Snape discourse out there in the world? Crikey. I don't think I'm even going to read all this screed, much less approve the guest reviews.
fic: sweet chocolate (Guybrush/Elaine, G)
Apr. 16th, 2025 12:33 pmTitle: sweet chocolate
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General
Words: 222
Summary: Guybrush eschews the straightforward way in favor of the silly (but in this case, sweet) way, as usual.
Additional Tags: Fluff, Kissing
Notes: From OTP Prompt #7 by![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
dont-call-my-name-alejandro. Yeah, this is weightless saccharine fluff. Nobody send me their dentist bill. 😂 I've just been struggling to come up with anything lately and was looking for prompt lists.
sweet chocolate
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General
Words: 222
Summary: Guybrush eschews the straightforward way in favor of the silly (but in this case, sweet) way, as usual.
Additional Tags: Fluff, Kissing
Notes: From OTP Prompt #7 by
sweet chocolate
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Mar. 19th, 2025 01:49 pmI closed down ![[deviantart.com profile]](https://i.deviantart.net/icons/favicon.png)
spinners--end for new submissions about six months ago, but Veronika-Art has just left a comment on the last group post to inform that SempraSeverus has died. Probably a name that most any Snape fan (especially from the fandom's heyday) would know. 😥
spinners--end for new submissions about six months ago, but Veronika-Art has just left a comment on the last group post to inform that SempraSeverus has died. Probably a name that most any Snape fan (especially from the fandom's heyday) would know. 😥Title: Dress-Up
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: Explicit
Words: 7812
Summary: What Guybrush was doing here was plain enough: he was after her piece of the map to Big Whoop. But as much as she would have liked to boot him out and go back to her pleasant day of keeping aloof from the insipid party downstairs, she couldn't in good conscience let it go at that without trying to find out exactly what he'd been up to.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: Game: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991), Vaginal Sex, Crossdressing, crossdressing as per canon, that is Guybrush in the dress in the scene in which that actually occurs, abuse of semicolons
Notes: This was a personal challenge to me from someone who shall remain anonymous: When Guybrush is at the Mardi Gras party in the costume dress, could I manage to make that seem sexy? Whether I've succeeded is perhaps another question 😅 as that's not really the sort of thing I would usually focus on as a positive in itself.
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: Explicit
Words: 7812
Summary: What Guybrush was doing here was plain enough: he was after her piece of the map to Big Whoop. But as much as she would have liked to boot him out and go back to her pleasant day of keeping aloof from the insipid party downstairs, she couldn't in good conscience let it go at that without trying to find out exactly what he'd been up to.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: Game: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991), Vaginal Sex, Crossdressing, crossdressing as per canon, that is Guybrush in the dress in the scene in which that actually occurs, abuse of semicolons
Notes: This was a personal challenge to me from someone who shall remain anonymous: When Guybrush is at the Mardi Gras party in the costume dress, could I manage to make that seem sexy? Whether I've succeeded is perhaps another question 😅 as that's not really the sort of thing I would usually focus on as a positive in itself.