swim through the fires to stay in this world

...and I am disliking Nate/Sophie more and more and more.

On the plus side, it's helping me be less impatient for Hardison/Parker because fuck knows, I have zero confidence that the writers will write that pairing well, now.

(Side note: wasn't episode 4x04 the WORST EPISODE EVER? The writing was terrible and every actor except Aldis Hodge was totally phoning it in, and even Hodge couldn't save most of those terrible, terrible scenes.)

Alice In Wonderland:

Inept Translations (Alice)

Avatar:

The Nature of Fire (Katara/Zuko)

Black Lagoon:

Making Good Choices (Rock/Revy)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer:

Belief (Anya)

Burn Notice:

Shotgun (Michael/Fi)

The Black Jewels Trilogy:

That Teenage Feeling (Saetan/Silvia)

Castle:

I Wouldn't Stop For Red Lights (Beckett, Alexis)

Community:

In The Blazing Offense (Jeff/Annie)
B– (Annie)
Campfire (Jeff/Annie)
Your Wake-Up Call Is Too Old For You (Jeff/Annie)
We Crashed Her Party (Britta, Abed, Troy)
History Of Film 201 (Annie/Abed)
Bad Metaphors (Jeff/Annie)
Leaving Home (Britta)
One Man Leaves (Jeff/Annie)

Criminal Minds:

Armor (JJ, Emily, Penelope)

Doctor Who:

Purple Toast (Amy/Doctor)
What Dreams May Come (Amy)

The Fall of Ile-Rien:

Progeny (Tremaine Ilias)

Glee:

Dramatic Irony Sucks (Jesse/Rachel)
Ain't Too Proud To Plead (Jesse/Rachel)
A High-Toned Woman Will Make You Walk The Line (Jesse/Rachel)
Life After High School (Rachel)

Harry Potter:

Wake-Up Call (Hermione/Ron)
Dreams (Luna)
Unspoken (Neville/Ginny)

How I Met Your Mother:

Moving Sideways (Ted/Robin)

The Hunger Games:

Adjusting (Katniss)
Once We Were Warriors (Haymitch/Johanna)
Peeta, After (Peeta/Katniss)

Iron Man:

High Voltage (Pepper/Tony)

Legend of the Seeker:

Different Names For The Same Thing (Kahlan/Richard)
Seahawk (Cara)
Fecundity (Kahlan, Cara)
Blessings (Richard/Kahlan)
Warmth (Richard/Kahlan)

Leverage:

First Time Diving Off A Building (Parker)

Nikita:

White Noise (Thom/Alex)

The Old Kingdom Trilogy:

First Time (Sabriel/Touchstone)

Percy Jackson & The Olympians:

Fragile Tough Girl (Luke, Annabeth, Percy)

The Queen's Thief series:

Everybody Rolls With Their Finger's Crossed (Attolia)

Questionable Content:

Heaven In A Cup (Faye/Angus)

The Sarah Conner Chronicles:

Baby, Baby, Ain't It True I'm Immortal When I'm With You (Sarah Conner/Derek Reese)

True Blood:

Starvation (Jessica/Hoyt)
Drink Up Baby (Tommy/Jessica)
You're An Animal, Too (Jessica/Tommy)
A Dead Girl's Guide To Dating A Shifter (Jessica/Tommy)

The Vampire Diaries:

Love Is A Blood-Sport (Damon/Elena)
Your Childhood Home Is Just Powder-White Bone (Elena/Damon)
Smashed (Damon/Elena)
The Most Joyless Time Of Year (Damon/Elena)
The Only Shape I'll Pray To (Damon/Elena, Damon/Katherine)
Another Flashing Chance (Damon/Elena)
21st (Damon/Elena)
Get Thee Behind Me, Temptation (Elena/Damon)
You Take The High Road (Pearl, Katherine)
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Caroline, Damon)
If Amber From Teen Mom Can Get A New Boyfriend So Can I (Caroline/Tyler)
Debatably First Date (Tyler/Caroline)

Multi-Fandom:

Text From Last Night Ficlets (Community, Glee, HIMYM and The Vampire Diaries)

 Here are the multi-fandom drabbles that you guys requested in this post.

Fragile Tough Girl, Luke/Annabeth, (for blackestfaery )

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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Caroline/Damon, (for stainofmylove )

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You Take The High Road, Pearl & Katherine, (for natural_blue_26 )


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Life After High School, Rachel Berry, (for natural_blue_26 )

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Leaving Home, Britta, (for obsessive0514 )

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First Time Diving Off A Building, Parker, (for 25lively )

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Adjusting, Katniss, (for iki_teru )

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One Man Leaves, Jeff/Annie, (for crackers4jenn )


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Once We Were Warriors, Haymitch/Johanna, (for electrumqueen )

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If Amber from Teen Mom can get a new boyfriend, so can I, Caroline/Tyler, (for plural_entity )

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Leverage's finale was ridiculously underwhelming. Like, it would have made for a subpar episode in the middle of the season but it's almost laughable how inept it was as the last episode viewers get for the next six months or whatever.

Day 01 - What is your current favourite ship
Day 02 - What was your very first ship?
Day 03 - A pairing that needs to happen now?
Day 04 - The pairing with the most chemistry?
Day 05 - The pairing with the least chemistry?

Day 06 - The best kiss?

The last 30 day meme asked this question too and the next one asked as well, so I'm quite deliberately using different kisses each time, simply because there are so many good ones.

For this meme, I went with Logan and Veronica's first kiss. There is so much to love about this kiss. How Veronica leans up first, how Logan pulls her against him to deepen it, etc. I could write paragraphs on their body language and what that says about where they are in their relationship, but I'll let the clip speak for itself:



Day 07 - The most heartbreaking scene?

Soul lets Maka drop and then talks about how Blair would be a better mistress in the pilot of Soul Eater (skip to 16:03). Also, this is the whole episode, so if haven't watched this show yet, here is a great way to start):

Soul Eater, episode one.

I was already shipping them from the opening credits and this rejection was brutal, tying, as it did, into all Maka's insecurities about her body and her beliefs about men based on her issues with her father. It's like the triple-punch of heartbreak.

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[Poll #1592508]

Right now, I have too fantastic (and extensive) comment memes in open windows. So to keep track of the fics that I want to be able to easily re-read, I'm going to be compiling links for my favorites. Which means that my lucky flist gets quick access to some of the best. (FYI, if you visit this post in a week, there will be more fics than there are now.)

Animorphs:

There Is No Such Thing As Neutral (Rachel)
We Happy Few (Rachel)

Anne Of Green Gables:

Fairy Princess

Atonement:

My Hand Is Growing Weak (Briony)

Avatar:

As To Matters Of Dress (Sokka/Suki)

Batman:

Lick Your Eyes & Then Mine (Catwoman/Batman)

Beauty & The Beast:

Hold Me Down (Belle/Beast)
Learning Humanity (Belle/Beast)

Being Human:

You Said Your Soul Would Linger On (Annie)

Bones

One Year Later (Brennan)
Turn Around Again (Angela)
Bones Break (Brennan)
Trust Not The Coyote (Caroline)
Conceptual Art Is Bullshit (Angela)
A Reasonable Explanation (Brennan)
Spent So Long Waiting Here (Booth/Brennan)

Buffyverse:

American Girls (Buffy)
Plans (Faith)
Tired Of Being Cautious (Fred)
Travel It All (Faith)
Razor's Edge (Buffy)
But You've Got The Headstone All Ready (Buffy)
There Is No Prince (Buffy/Giles)

Casino Royale:

Juggernaut Heart (Vesper)

Castle:

Takedown (Beckett/Demming)

Carmen Sandiego:

The Catch Is You Stay & See What Becomes Of Us (Carmen/Waldo)

Castle:

Fatherhood (Alexis)
The Magnificent Seven (Martha)

Community:

Do Not Go Gentle (Annie)
It's My Heart, Not Me, Who Cannot Drive (Britta, Jaye)
Take The Wheel (Britta)
On Hiatus (Britta)
My Smile Can Distract You (Annie)
Like A Child (Annie)
With The Lights Out It's Less Dangerous (Annie/Jeff)
Come A Little Bit Closer (Jeff/Annie)
Hey, Hey, You, You (Annie/Jeff)
TV Marathon (Jeff, Abed, Jeff/Annie)
In Limbo Part One and Part Two (Britta)
Sawdust (Britta/Abed)
This Could Be A Brand New Start (Britta)
Temporary (Jeff/Annie)

Criminal Minds:

Close To Home (JJ)
They Are My Own (Haley)
My Heart Has Lost It's Wind Now (Emily)
When It Doesn't Rain It Pours (Emily)
Self-Esteem Is Good For You (Garcia)
I'll Sing You All The Lullabies (They Never Sung For Me) (Elle)
Wrong Number (Garcia/Morgan)
Friday Night Goddess (Garcia, Reid)

Dark Angel:

The Tenderest Touch Leaves The Darkest Marks (Max)
Songs For Fighters (Max/Alec)

Dexter:

A Lion-Hearted Fucking Woman (Deb)
After The Deluge (Deb)

Doctor Who

I Think To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure (Amy)
Climbing Back (Rose)
These Accidents of Faith and Nature (Amy)
Too Much Like A Fairy Tale (Amy)
The Good Wife (Martha)
We'll Be Their Storybook Heroes (Sally Sparrow)
Got A Sky Full of Stars (And Nothing Else) (Amelia Pond)
No Hero In Her Sky (Amelia)
First Run (River Song)
Lionesses (River Son/Liz X)

Dollhouse:

Painting The World You Want To See (Priya)

Dracula:

Phantom (Mina/Dracula)
Firefly:

Your Absence Has Gone Through Me (Inara/Nandi)
Meta (River)
Wolves (Zoe, Kaylee, River)

Fullmetal Alchemist:

Steadily (Riza)
There Goes My Gun (Riza & Rebecca)

Gilmore Girls:

A Perfect Haircut Every Day (Lane)

Glee:

Waegukin (Tina)
Inscrutable (Tina/Mike)
As If You'd Just Woke Up (Rachel/Jesse)
Fathers and Mothers (Rachel)
Linear Progression (Shelby)
Sweep The Room With A Glance (Emma)

The Good Wife

I Lost My Teeth On The Edge Of A Glass (Kalinda)
Something To Think About (Kalinda)

Gossip Girl:

Wants (Blair)
Snapshot of the Artist (Vanessa)
You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girl)
Everything Marissa Cooper Could Have Been (Serena, Summer)

Harry Potter:

On the Nature Of Hatred & It's Uses (Hermione)
Human Behavior (Bellatrix)
When Choice Means Leaving Everything Behind (Hermione)
No Take-Backs (Narcissa)
You Counting On My Failure Make Me Live (Lily/James)
It's Not A Joke (Tonks)
Blow Me Blue-Bell Bubbles (Alice)

Hercules:

Heart & Heaven (Meg)

How I Met Your Mother:

That Girl (Robin/Ted)

The Hunger Games:

REBELLION (KATNISS)

Trust (Rue)
Rise & Fall (Prim)

In Plain Sight

The Art Of Ninja Origami (Mary/Marshall)
Hard Hats (Mary & Eleanor)
Ice Cream (Mary/Marshall)

Iron Man:

The Sea Makes Your Eyes Strange (Natasha Romanova)
Dust Out The Demons (Tony/Pepper)
Fast, Thorough, & Sharp As A Tack (Pepper/Tony)
Brutality (Tony, Emma Frost, Pepper)

Labyrinth:

Missed You All Along (Sarah)
Dreams (Sarah)

Legally Blonde:

Sugar, We're Going Down (Elle)

Legend of the Seeker:

Immune To Pathos (Cara)
It Feels Like Being Broken (Cara/Kahlan)
Dress Code (Kahlan/Cara)
Contrast (Cara/Kahlan)
Life Comes With A Rush (Cara/Kahlan)
Been A Long Road To Get Here (Kahlan)
Where Goodness Used To Be (Cara)
A Friendly Assist (Cara/Kahlan)

Leverage:

I've Looked At Love (Sophie)
Kisses (Parker)
A Lie Will-Told Is Immortal (Sophie)
Translations For Broken & Breaking Out (Parker, Nate)

Life:

Pretty As A Diagram (Reese)

Merlin:

Under The Greenwood Tree (Morgana/Merlin)
Pennies In A Jar (Morgana)

Mulan:

My Story Is Not Like Yours (Mulan)

Mythology:

We Laugh Indoors (Lilith)
She Doesn't Wanna Be (Just A Little Light Turning The Key) (Lilith)

Narnia:

One of those Mink-Coated Ladies (Susan)
The Story Of An Umbrella (Susan)
Just Like The Edge Of The World (Lucy)

The OC:

Houses Out Of Cardboard Boxes (Julie)

Pirates Of The Caribean:

O The Blood And The Treasure And Losing It All (Elizabeth/Will)

Practical Magic:

Fine As A Bridesmaid (Gillian)

Push:

Drove Like Bandits On The Freeway (Nick/Cassie)
Seeing (Cassie/Nick)

Sunshine:

Story (Constance/Sunshine)

SG-1:
What I've Found (Vala)
Conflicting Mission Reports (Vala & Teyla)
5 Times Vala Threw Daniel A Birthday Party When It Wasn't His Birthday (Vala/Daniel)

Sherlock Holmes:

Play The Cards With Spades To Start (Irene)
"Damnation!" (Mary)

Star Trek:

Many Worlds (Naomi, Seven of Nine)
Lethal Poison Through The System (Uhura)
Maybe You Could've Been Something I'd Be Good At (Uhura/Gaila)

Speak:

I Cast My Face Towards The Pavement (Melinda)

Supernatural

And I Don't Owe You A Damn (Bela)
Money (Bela)
An Endangered Species (Ellen, Jo)
Ongoing Arguments (Anna, Castiel)
Fractured (Jo)
Better Find Your Ticket (Bela)
Hurricane (Bela)

Tortall:

Light Is Less (Alanna)
Risk-Taking (Alanna)

True Bood:

Lay Down Your Burden (Jessica)
Language (Jessica)
In The End I Possess My Birthplace (Tara)
Looking For Her Ordinary World (Jessica)
Remember Me When Noses Start To Bleed (Pam/Eric)
I Used To Be A Bad Girl Too (Faith/Jessica)
When Life Gives You Lemons (Tara/Franklin)

The Vampire Diaries:

Roaring Twenties (Anna)
Child Of Mine (Pearl, Anna)
Take The Safety Off (Bonnie)
Old Relations (Bonnie/Elena)
Evolution Is Corruption (Damon/Elena)

Veronica Mars:

Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics (Veronica)
Leave The Light On (Veronica/Logan)

Wimbleton:

That's How You Know (Lizzie)

White Collar:

Put Another Dime In (Diana)

Normally these shipping memes are kind of 'well, duh' but since I've recently gotten into new fandoms and have not been writing fic... I think my flist will find, if not suprising answers, answers they've haven't heard before.

Six ships you are into right now:

o1. Adelle/Dominic (Dollhouse)
o2. Kahlan/Richard (Legend of the Seeker)
o3. Will/Emma (Glee)
o4. Victor/Sierra (Dollhouse)
o5. Ried/JJ (Criminal Minds
o6. Kantiss/Peeta (The Hunger Games)

three ships you liked but don't like/aren't a rabid fangirl for anymore:

Which totally does not mean I ship these characters with anyone else, ever. I'm just not actively reading them atm.

o7. Kakashi/Sakura (Naruto)
o8. Angela/Hodgins (Bones)
o9. Sarah/Chuck (Chuck)

four ships you never liked

1o. Will/Terri (Glee)
11. Cara/Richard (Legend of the Seeker)
12. Parker/Eliot (Leverage)
13. Kaylee/Mal (Firefly)

two ships you're curious about, but don't actually ship

14. Kahlan/Cara (Legend of the Seeker)
15. Rachel/Puck (Glee)

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Avatar:

Unless Death Do Us Part (Azula, Ty Lee, Mai)
Voltage (Azula)
Wall-Flamer (Zuko)
Enemy Mine (Azula, Sokka)
There Are Women I've Been (Katara)
10 Genres For Zuko/Katara
Healer's Hands (Katara)
B is for Break (Katara/Zuko)
C is for Contact (Katara/Zuko)
K is for Knead (Toph)
L is for Lightning (Zuko/Katara)
M is for Mother (Zuko/Katara)
N is for Never (Zuko/Katara)
S is for Stalemate (Suki/Zuko)
W is for Wet (Katara/Toph)
X is for Xenophobia (Toph, Katara/Zuko)
Little Blind Girl (Toph)
The Longest Night (Katara/Zuko)

Black Lagoon:

G is for Grimy (Rock/Revy)
Holi Festival (Rock/Revy)
In Which Revy's Panties Are Mislaid (Rock/Revy)

Bleach:

Nurse (Ishida/Orihime)

Burn Notice:

Patience Is A Virtue Other People Have (Fiona/Michael)

Doctor Who:

Y is for Yearning (Ten/Rose)

Harry Potter:

10 HP Ficlets

How I Met Your Mother

Mail (Robin/Barney)

Iron Man:

Just Like The Other 365 (Tony/Pepper)

Legend Of The Seeker:

Under The Roses (Deena/Rahl)

Leverage:

D is for Detonation (Parker)
Theft (Parker/Hardison)

Naruto:

Anko/Iruka Snippet
Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty (Kakashi/Sakura)
Life Has The Face Of A Morbid Game (Sakura/Sai)
It's Hard To Stop The Wanting (Kakashi/Sakura)
Stupid Thing (Sai/Sakura)
Daughters (Tsunade)
Blood Runs Crazy (gen)
Interstate Love Song (Sakura, Naruto/Hinata)
On The Nature Of Illusions (Kurenai/Itachi)
Anatomy Fail (Sai/Sakura)
Smoke, Baby, Smoke (Anko/Itachi)
Schoolgirl Kink (Kakashi/Sakura)
Bad Ideas (Takes One & Two) (Kakashi/Sakura)
Not About Love (Kakashi/Sakura)
Silk-Tie Kink (Kakashi/Sakura)
Rain Will Flow Clear (Konan/Nagato/Yahiko)
You Know I'm No Good (Ino/Sakura)
10 Genres for Sai/Sakura
10 Genres For Kakashi/Sakura
10 Genres For Ino/Sakura
You Choke Behind A Smile (Kakashi/Sakura)
When I Had To Play Your Angel (Gaara/Hinata/Naruto)
Appropriate Library Behavior (Sakura/Sai)
Dreaming In Color (Sai/Sakura)
Marks (Kisame/Karin)
Headed For The Wall (Ino/Kankuro) 
Failing At Time Management (Kakashi/Sakura)
Dangers of the Genjutsu Type (Sakura/Sasuke)
Not The Average Girl Next Door (Ino/Shikamaru)
10 Genres for Gaara/Sakura
Obsequence (Takes Many Forms Remix) (Kakashi/Sakura)
E is for Exam (Itachi/Sakura)
F is for Footwork (Sakura/Kakashi)
H is for Hang (Anko/Iruka)
I is for Ire (Sakura/Kakashi)
J is for Jackass (Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji)
O is for Ossuary (Naruto/Sakura)
P is for Press (Sakura/Sai)
Q is for Quality (Hanabi, Neji)
Q is for Quandary (Anko/Itachi)
R is for Reciprocity: Take 1 (Sakura/Itachi) Take 2 (Sakura vs Zetsu)
V is for Vex (Hanabi/Konohamaru)
Z is for Zealous (Sakura/Kakashi)
Dirty Little Secret (Itachi/Sakura)
Sage Advice (Kakashi, Sai/Sakura)
Wrong (Sakura/Sai)
The Proper Way To Say Goodbye (Anko/Iruka)
Hokage-chan (Kakashi/Sakura)
I Wanna Do Bad Things To You (Kiba/Hinata)
Sharpen Your Tongue (Kabuto/Hinata)
Candy-Flavored Girl (Yamato/Sakura)
Empty Spaces (Neji/Hinata)
Familial Bonds (Sakura/Sai)

Soul Eater:

Tell Her You're Searching For Her Soul (Soul/Maka)
A is for Anesthesia (Marie/Stein)
Y is for Yours (Soul/Maka)
Play It Again, Sam (Soul/Maka)
10 Soul Eater Ficlets
The Scent Of Camellias (Tsubaki/Mifune)
The Failure of Metaphor (Soul/Maka)
Thou Shalt Not Suffer (Angela)
Private Celebrations (Maka/Soul) 

Star Trek:

Late Night Study Sessions (Uhura)
Slutty Carnivorous Plants (Kirk & Spock)
First Kiss (Chekov)
Retail Therapy (Uhura & Gaila)
Like An Earth Woman (Gaila/Kirk)
A Language For Every Star (Uhura)
Puppy-Dog Look (Bones & Chekov)
5 Men That Uhura Doesn't Sleep With & The One That She Does

Tramps Like Us:

Walkies (Sumire/Momo)

Troubleshooters Series

An Unexpected Souvenir

Random:

Only Mostly Dead (Bleach, Naruto, Avatar)

 Adelle/Topher

How do you people fail to see the epic fucked up maternal dynamic these to have going on? Why must you try to add sexy fun times? IT JUST DOES NOT WORK. 

Eliot/Hardison/Parker

Since I have a complex and detailing understanding of the average slash fangirl's mind (even if sometimes I wish to god I didn't) I utterly understand why Hardison/Eliot is so popular. I am also fully onboard the Parker/Hardison they-are-so-adorable-and-awesome-and-bond-over-their-foster-care-childhoods-and-should-have-milk-chocolate-safe-cracking-geek-babies train.

*deep breath*

However, JUST BECAUSE THER ARE TWO AWESOME HARDISON SHIPS* DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD SMUSH THEM TOGETHER, EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU WRITE A LEVERAGE FANFIC.

Seriously, people.

And stop with the freaking stealth Eliot/Hardison/Parker, where it looks like a gen/canon caper fic BUT IN REALITY is a cleverly disguised romance fic about Eliot joining Hardison and Eliot for sexyfuntimes.


*Of course, personally, I think there is ONE awesome Hardison ship and one slash ship I'm not interested in, but go with me for arguments sake.