It took me long enough to get my hpcon_envy fics done, but done and posted they are. Probably just about in time for the next round for Dragon Con. *rolls eyes @ self* Also, these were meant to be drabbles. Only one came close, and one got completely away from me and threatened to keep going. Oops?

Title: First Steps
Recipient: bambu345
Fandom(s): Vorkosigan
Rating: G
Word Count: 121
Prompt: Perhaps the moment before Cordelia sees Aral after having escaped her own planet? She's left everything for him, but hasn't seen him yet after having made such an enormous, bridge-burning choice.
A/N: Once I revisited this bit of canon, I realized I had to go a tad earlier, as we actually do get Cordelia's interior monologue as she goes from meeting Count Piotr to finding Aral. Hope this suits.

Title: Anything but Routine
Recipient: morethansirius
Fandom(s): In order of appearance: Torchwood, Harry Potter, Doctor Who
Rating: G
Word Count: 1452
Prompt: I would love to see what happens when Doctor Ten, Captain Jack and Unspeakable Snape all arrive to investigate the same crime scene/alien phenomenon/magical occurrence.
A/N: Set just before “Reset” for Torchwood, between the “Voyage of the Damned” & “Partners in Crime” for Doctor Who, and way after Deathly Hallows for the Potterverse.

Title: Everything Hasn't Changed Yet
Recipient: orlando_switch
Fandom(s): Harry Potter, Torchwood
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Prompt: The post Voldemort era leaves Lucius disillusioned and (according to Jason Isaac) emasculated - and therefore in dire need to regain his self-confidence/masculinity/virility and a new perspective at the world. Unfortunately, everyone in his own world is too busy building up their life to offer him a helping hand. I'd like to see an encounter between him and captain Jack, a man who has seen it all, done it all but never lost his touch to celebrate life.
A/N: Sometime in 1999, well after Deathly Hallows and before Jack assumes control of Torchwood 3.

( Cut for Miracle Day spoilers. Is anyone still avoiding those? Very much a classic series question though. )

Nothing to do with the fic I'm writing, btw. (Dear Attention John Hart, you are not invited. This fic is annoying me enough without your help. Besides, you got yourself a cameo in last year's wintercompanion summer/holiday fest. No love, author.) Which I need to get back to. Just a random thought.

ETA: In other news, the 506 words I wrote last week? Are gone. Since when do I ever close a document without saving? Since when does Open Office not offer to recover something if the computer did a restart or something with an unsaved document open? Argh!!!!

It's not what I'm meant to be writing, but in hopes of getting things moving in the writing department, I played a bit over at tw100 and ended up with a three-drabble series.

Titles: Dressed for the Occasion. Not., Life Is a ..., and Heard It All
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto/Jack
Challenge: Unloved Prompts, All Hallows, Cabaret, Cookbooks
Rating: G (How is it that I keep writing G-rated TW fic? Must up the innuendo.)
Notes: While not a crossover, there is a Buffy reference in the first one.

I may yet try to do more with the "unloved prompts" that continues this tale. It's kind of fun trying to stitch them together like this.

Title: The Wilde Job
Prompt: #13 - The objective of the Leverage team's latest caper turns out to be an alien artifact that Torchwood is after, so both groups join forces.
Summary: A Torchwood cold case becomes the Leverage team's new case. A con within a con ensues.
Word Count: ~2700
Pairings/Characters: Full Torchwood and Leverage teams with canon pairings/tensions, past Jack/historical figure, and a hint of past Jack/Sophie
Crossover With: Leverage
Rating/Warnings: PG13/None
Contains: Graphic abuse of series timelines and the odd bit of swearing.
A/N: Thanks to angela_snape and jooles34 for beta-reading on incredibly short notice. This went a bit afield of the original prompt, but I hope it serves and, in its timey-wimey way, still fits.

There's a ton of other great stories over there, crossovers with Sherlock, Primeval, Criminal Minds, The Adventures of Jules Verne, and probably others I've forgotten. Go, read, enjoy! Just, for anything rated higher than PG13, you'll have to join the comm, as those stories are locked.

The fandom_stocking stockings have gone live, and I received lots of lovely stocking-stuffers. There are cheery holiday wish macros, an SS/HG icon by kerravonsen, and four lovely fics:

A Glimpse of the Future by wendymr (DW, 9/Rose/Jack, rated T)

Steel by philomytha (Vorkosigan, Simon Illyan and Alys Vorpatril, rated G)

Patient, Kind, and Varied by sahiya (DW, Eleven/River/Rose/Jack and various combinations thereof, rated M)

Untitled TW/SJA crossover by fififolle (TW/SJA, Owen and Clyde, rated G)

I've already said it there, but thanks to all the lovely gifters, and also thanks to medie and all the volunteers that make the fun that is fandom_stocking happen! Last night was hell on wheels at work, so coming home to all these awesome gifts was just so perfect. Please go check out the cool icon and/or the great fics and leave them some love too.

I also had fun writing a few stocking-stuffers, though not as many as I'd set out to do. There's at least one that may yet happen if I can dig myself out of the clueless-Yank hole I dug myself into. *crosses fingers*

Try, Try Again for ariestess (Leverage, Sophie/Parker, rated G)

Switch for wendymr (DW, 9/Rose/Jack, rated G)

Foreign Influence for philomytha (Vorkosigan, Gregor/Laisa, rated G)

Ulterior Motive for yamx (DW, pre-9/Rose/Jack, rated G)

Living Well for joking (DW, Jenny/Vastra, G)

A Night to Forget for sahiya (DW, Eleventy and Jack and Rose, rated G)

Yes, I never got out of G territory, even with Jack. Go figure. LOL

Title: Damsel in Distress
Author: clare009
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Nine/Rose Nine/River Eleven/River
Spoilers: Up through "Let's Kill Hitler"
Summary: River has finally found the Doctor again.

This was a really fun read. And now I must race out the door to do a mandatory training on my day off.

Finished Cryoburn the other night. Even knowing a particular character development was destined to be coming up, even seeing all the foreshadowing for exactly what it was, that was quite the gut-punch. No wonder I put off reading it. ( Cut for a spoiler that really isn't a spoiler, since Bujold had said all along that the next book would contain this particular element. )

Also, an epilogue composed of self-contained, exactly 100 word drabbles? With a definition for the unfamiliar of what a drabble is? Stroke of genius. Admittedly, if someone did that in fandom, as we're so accustomed to drabbles and drabble-series, it might not have gone over quite as well. But it was such a surprise and the format worked so well for what she was doing that I just loved it.

In other news, orientation at work proceeds apace. I definitely prefer working the floor to supervising, despite the fact I'm basically just pushing pills. I apparently have two more weeks of orientation scheduled, plus the iv certification class that hasn't been scheduled yet. But I'm definitely feeling more confident about it all.

The 3rd annual wintercompanion Summer/Holiday fest has started with a lovely bit of Jack/Nine hurt/comfort. I'm looking forward to seeing them all. Very cool approach they took with the prompts, too, using the "psychic password" format we encountered in "The Doctor's Wife" of a color, a number, an emotion, and an aroma. Very effective and evocative, and the prompts are open for people to write/draw/create other things throughout the month, which should lead to seeing some intriguing variety on how people run with them.

I think I'm about over my "What the hell was I thinking?" attack re: my femslash11 assignment and have moved into research mode, which is a very good thing.

And now, time to run around and do stuff to get ready for this weekend's Anadikia retreat. Coming up with appropriate offerings has been rather challenging. (I got it into my head that I needed special liquor offerings for each of the Temple patrons. Ginger liqueur for Zeus and Oracle of the Sun Shiraz for Apollon were easy enough to find. I'd wanted retsina for Pan, but nobody around here even knows what it is, much less carries it, including the place Tim found it a year or so ago. So I went with Bully Hill wine that has a goat for a logo. *facepalm*)

Have a great weekend all! Don't break the intarwebz while I'm gone!

If anyone else who participated in the Whipped Cream Day mini-ficathon uses An Archive of Our Own, there is now a collection for those fics, which you can either post to or, if your fic is already up on AO3, I think you can edit to associate with the collection if you want.

Also, since fandom_stocking had an AO3 collection, I've uploaded the various things I wrote there.

• No Idea (Doctor Who, Nine/Jack, NC-17) written for arenee1999


• Genius (BtFS, Willow/Tara, G) written for cornerofmadness


• Beautiful (Firefly, River/Kaylee, Kaylee/Inara, PG) written for recrudescence


• Safe (Black Jewels, Jaenelle/Karla, PG-13) written for not_from_stars


• Possibilities (Harry Potter, Neville/Luna, G) written for haro


• Handmade (Harry Potter, Snape/Hermione, G) written for libco


• Make the Best of It (Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, G) written for baranyadi


• Picnic (Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, G) written for haro


• Tea and Company (Doctor Who/Torchwood, Martha/Jack, NC-17) written for nelliewu


• Point of View (BtVS, Giles/Anya, G) written for libco


• Key (Doctor Who, Nine/Rose/Jack, PG-13) written for canaana


• Stories (Firefly/Doctor Who, River Tam & River Song plus Serenity crew, G) written for sentientcitizen


• The Present (Charmed, Piper/Leo, Phoebe, G) written for supernaturalhel


• Solstice (BtVS, Willow/Tara, PG) written for clocketpatch


• Mistletoe (BtVS, Giles/Anya, G) written for philomytha


• Faces of River Song (Doctor Who, River Song, G) montage created for alt_universe_me

Whew! That's more than I realized. And at some point, I need to upload the rest, just to have everything in one place. At some point.

Now to tend to various fandom responsibilities I've let slide. Meep!

Title: A River by Any Other Name Would Play a Different Song
Author: firefly124
Fandom: Doctor Who
Prompter: silvia_elisa
Prompt: Jack raising River. Baptised with a perfect name.
Rating/warning: G, kidfic
Word Count: 580
Summary: Jack should’ve known she was going to be a handful.
A/N: Written for the spoiler_song One Night of Writing. Huge thanks to alt_universe_me, elfwreck/elf, and queenortart for lightning beta-reading and Brit-picking! Also thanks to huskyfriends for the bizarre chat that led to part of River's heritage. Happy New Year, all!

( A River by Any Other Name Would Play a Different Song )

Title: Greater Love
Author: sahiya
Fandoms: Doctor Who (spoilers for "The Beast Below")
Characters/Rating: Liz X/Jack Harkness, PG
Summary: Liz could not remember a time without the Captain.
Why you should read it: Because it's Liz X/Jack! Which will make no sense at all if you've not seen the ep. (I considered using an LJ-cut on the pairing and summary, then figured that while, ok, a bit spoilery, but not really as it won't make any sense.) Also, it makes perfect sense through a couple of layers of characterization. And now I want more of this pairing, as I imagine you will as well. So, if you go read and enjoy, please join me in egging sahiya on leave feedback.

It seems the last couple of fic recs I've done have used this icon, though they don't quite fit. Clearly, I need to seek out another Jack icon.