The Very Unofficial Hookerverse Epilogue
Feb. 6th, 2008 07:16 pmTitle: I Let My Oars Fall Into The Water
Pairing: Sam/various, Sam/Gene
Rating: Hard R / Brown Cortina
Wordcount: 4,401 (It, er, got away from me)
Warnings: Um, you've read the Hookerverse right? Unbetaed due to sheer shame, I apologize for any mistakes in advance.
Disclaimer: LoM belongs to Kudos and the BBC. The venerable magnum opus that is the Hookerverse is the wicked, beautiful child of
darthfi and
m31andy, who are also the suitable address for any complaints. The title comes from Jennifer Michael Hecht's poem 'September.'
A/N: Feeling quite heartbroken by the demise of the much beloved Hookerverse, I seem to have accidentally written this 'epilogue'. I'm not much for AU's, never have been. And so I was caught completely off guard by how quickly I fell for this 'verse, for a concept that should never have survived beyond a few cracktastic ficlets. But then it went and sunk its nails into my heart with its brilliant execution and consistency and (don't smack me) vision. And then all of a sudden it was over and, well, this happened.
As I'm typing this out I still don't really believe that I'll be able to muster up the bravado to post this, but if you're reading this I guess I have. And now I need a drink. And for nobody to look at me for a while. For the record - this is the perfect ending for this series as far as I’m concerned.
( I Let My Oars Fall Into The Water )
Pairing: Sam/various, Sam/Gene
Rating: Hard R / Brown Cortina
Wordcount: 4,401 (It, er, got away from me)
Warnings: Um, you've read the Hookerverse right? Unbetaed due to sheer shame, I apologize for any mistakes in advance.
Disclaimer: LoM belongs to Kudos and the BBC. The venerable magnum opus that is the Hookerverse is the wicked, beautiful child of
A/N: Feeling quite heartbroken by the demise of the much beloved Hookerverse, I seem to have accidentally written this 'epilogue'. I'm not much for AU's, never have been. And so I was caught completely off guard by how quickly I fell for this 'verse, for a concept that should never have survived beyond a few cracktastic ficlets. But then it went and sunk its nails into my heart with its brilliant execution and consistency and (don't smack me) vision. And then all of a sudden it was over and, well, this happened.
As I'm typing this out I still don't really believe that I'll be able to muster up the bravado to post this, but if you're reading this I guess I have. And now I need a drink. And for nobody to look at me for a while. For the record - this is the perfect ending for this series as far as I’m concerned.
( I Let My Oars Fall Into The Water )
Ficathons should come with Xanax…
Sep. 6th, 2007 05:24 pmYou know, I always forget how much I hate posting fic. I'm actually physically nauseous the entire day, develop a frighteningly dependent relationship with my inbox and proceed to kindle a deep burning hatred for almost every word posted.
Why do we put ourselves through this crap? And the thing is that I truly do enjoy the actual writing process – no matter how much it makes me want to jab something long and pointy into my brain and keeps me up at night and induces a legitimately worrisome caffeine problem. I mean, why else would anyone do this? But the posting… and I don't have psychosomatic reactions to bloody anything so why this? Bleh.
And yet, and yet - "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." – Gloria Steinem
Why do we put ourselves through this crap? And the thing is that I truly do enjoy the actual writing process – no matter how much it makes me want to jab something long and pointy into my brain and keeps me up at night and induces a legitimately worrisome caffeine problem. I mean, why else would anyone do this? But the posting… and I don't have psychosomatic reactions to bloody anything so why this? Bleh.
And yet, and yet - "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." – Gloria Steinem
Title: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners
Fandom: Life on Mars
Pairing: Sam/Gene, The Test Card Girl
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: You not see show, you not read fic
Words: 2,457
Disclaimer: Life on Mars belongs to Kudos and the BBC. Title and epigraph come of course from John Donne's Holy Sonnets VII and X, respectively.
A/N: For the 07' Life on Mars ficathon, written for
m31andy who wanted the Test Card Girl, motivations and 'I never said it would be easy.' This is a sort of a splicing of two requests, sorry, I'm horrid at following instructions. God knows I’m usually nervous enough about the writing itself but then there was that whole added factor of writing for Andy… and, well, she and Fi renewed my interest in this fandom so... well, I hope you like it.
( At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners )
Fandom: Life on Mars
Pairing: Sam/Gene, The Test Card Girl
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: You not see show, you not read fic
Words: 2,457
Disclaimer: Life on Mars belongs to Kudos and the BBC. Title and epigraph come of course from John Donne's Holy Sonnets VII and X, respectively.
A/N: For the 07' Life on Mars ficathon, written for
( At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners )
Life on Mars Finale Rant
Apr. 14th, 2007 03:22 amYeesh, it's been such a long time since I did a public post, this feels kind of weird.
Tuesday was the hardest, Tuesday was so many different shades of terrible all at once. I knew everyone was seeing it, everyone already knew what I could not.
I was thankful for every work shift I had this week as it spared me from staring numbly at my laptop, counting blue torrent lines.
Dawn broke this morning during my night shift and I was sitting with my feet on the desk, grateful that I live in the Middle East (and that doesn't happen often) because it means I still get to smoke indoors. I don't remember who wrote a fic that had Sam as an ex-smoker who got tired of 'shivering in doorways' but that thought frightened me as much as it had Gene I suppose.
And I couldn’t get rid of that lump in my throat at the idea of coming home to see it. And the thing is.... this finale isn't like other finales. This could end everything. And not in that stupid - oh, this is how the canon says it ends. But really honestly change everything, every single fic ever written may be reduced to ashes, there may be nothing to write about in the future because none of them may have ever existed in the first place.
But it is actually the idea of fic, and the desire to read everything that had been written since the finale, that compelled me to stop behaving like a child and sit down with a bowl, comfort cereal, milk, a full pack of Luckies and an almost full bottle of Diet Coke. And press play.
( The obligatory finale rant o' death, careful all ye' who enter )
Tuesday was the hardest, Tuesday was so many different shades of terrible all at once. I knew everyone was seeing it, everyone already knew what I could not.
I was thankful for every work shift I had this week as it spared me from staring numbly at my laptop, counting blue torrent lines.
Dawn broke this morning during my night shift and I was sitting with my feet on the desk, grateful that I live in the Middle East (and that doesn't happen often) because it means I still get to smoke indoors. I don't remember who wrote a fic that had Sam as an ex-smoker who got tired of 'shivering in doorways' but that thought frightened me as much as it had Gene I suppose.
And I couldn’t get rid of that lump in my throat at the idea of coming home to see it. And the thing is.... this finale isn't like other finales. This could end everything. And not in that stupid - oh, this is how the canon says it ends. But really honestly change everything, every single fic ever written may be reduced to ashes, there may be nothing to write about in the future because none of them may have ever existed in the first place.
But it is actually the idea of fic, and the desire to read everything that had been written since the finale, that compelled me to stop behaving like a child and sit down with a bowl, comfort cereal, milk, a full pack of Luckies and an almost full bottle of Diet Coke. And press play.
( The obligatory finale rant o' death, careful all ye' who enter )
Big Damn Tables...
Mar. 18th, 2007 01:47 amWell, it would appear that I've now officially gone insane.
Here be my tables: I'm doing to following -
- Friends: Joey/Chandler for
fanfic100
- Band of Brothers: General Series for
alphabetasoup
- The Weasly Family for
drabbles100
- Jurassic Park: Alan Grant/Billy Brennan for
1sentence
Yikes indeed. Well, here are my nifty (big damn) tables, I hope they'll fill up nicely.
Hang on for the ride kids!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
( Joey/Chandler Table )
( Band of Brothers Table )
( The Weasly Family Table )
( Jurassic Park III - Alan/Billy Table )
Here be my tables: I'm doing to following -
- Friends: Joey/Chandler for
- Band of Brothers: General Series for
- The Weasly Family for
- Jurassic Park: Alan Grant/Billy Brennan for
Yikes indeed. Well, here are my nifty (big damn) tables, I hope they'll fill up nicely.
Hang on for the ride kids!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
( Joey/Chandler Table )
( Band of Brothers Table )
( The Weasly Family Table )
( Jurassic Park III - Alan/Billy Table )
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Sam/Jed
Aug. 11th, 2006 01:14 amTitle: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters: Sam Seaborn, Jed Bartlet (a little Toby and Leo for flavor.)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Almost all episode-related, from pre S1 to mid-S3 (specifically the ITSOTG flashbacks, Proportional Response, ITSOTG, Galileo, The Drop In, SGTE SGTJ, The Fall's Gonna Kill You, Two Cathedrals, Manchester, H. Con-172 and Hartsfield's Landing (refrences to Ellie, The Two Bartlets and Night Five)
Words: 3,665
Warnings: For the most part it's tilt-your-head-and-squint slash but some of its proper m/m so if that ain't your cuppa tea… Though I assume that most of the aforementioned non-cuppa people are still banging their fists against their Lance Bass posters screaming WHY GOD WHY?????!!!!!
Written for
black_eyedgirl for the Sam round of
tww_minis. Request was Jed (not necessarily romantically) and an explanation of how Jed got from not knowing Sam's name in the flashbacks to "you're going to be President someday" in Hartsfield's Landing. No uber-angst and no death-fic.
A/N: I begin by apologizing profusely for being a whopping 13 days late with this. I then beg the jury's mercy as I honestly didn't know they'd start a frickin' actual war when I signed up. I thank the nice Hezbollah dudes for only 4 sirens today and le' military for letting me come home for a bit.
This is un-betaed, all mistakes and conflicting tenses are mine, again I apologize for rushing this.
I know you've all geared up for Andy and I can't wait to read everyone's challenges, maybe by the next round we will know better and more peaceful days.
The title comes of course from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming'.
( Slouching Towards Bethlehem )
Fandom: The West Wing
Characters: Sam Seaborn, Jed Bartlet (a little Toby and Leo for flavor.)
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Almost all episode-related, from pre S1 to mid-S3 (specifically the ITSOTG flashbacks, Proportional Response, ITSOTG, Galileo, The Drop In, SGTE SGTJ, The Fall's Gonna Kill You, Two Cathedrals, Manchester, H. Con-172 and Hartsfield's Landing (refrences to Ellie, The Two Bartlets and Night Five)
Words: 3,665
Warnings: For the most part it's tilt-your-head-and-squint slash but some of its proper m/m so if that ain't your cuppa tea… Though I assume that most of the aforementioned non-cuppa people are still banging their fists against their Lance Bass posters screaming WHY GOD WHY?????!!!!!
Written for
A/N: I begin by apologizing profusely for being a whopping 13 days late with this. I then beg the jury's mercy as I honestly didn't know they'd start a frickin' actual war when I signed up. I thank the nice Hezbollah dudes for only 4 sirens today and le' military for letting me come home for a bit.
This is un-betaed, all mistakes and conflicting tenses are mine, again I apologize for rushing this.
I know you've all geared up for Andy and I can't wait to read everyone's challenges, maybe by the next round we will know better and more peaceful days.
The title comes of course from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming'.
( Slouching Towards Bethlehem )
JP III, Alan/Billy for
1sentence
Feb. 21st, 2006 09:32 am50 themes for
1sentence
Fandom: Jurassic Park III
Pairing: Dr. Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13 for mild+ sexual references
Disclaimer: The characters and franchise all belong to the mighty Universal™ studios and Amblin™ entertainment. Me not own. Glad do not own. Could not have made such a gay film on my own if I tried.
The general title belongs to John Denver (I'm willing to bet that Alan has a secret tape of the Rocky Mountain collection stashed in the pickup somewhere…)
A/N: Set before, during and after the film so some bits may refer to whatever is canon at the time (basically the parts where Billy is still presumed dead). Before/after bits may be vaguely AUish but then everything in this fandom is anyways.
I re-watched the movie a few times while doing this, one of those times with my brother who usually always rolls his eyes at my slashy references but after watching it again had to agree to the age old saying - 'Don't see the slash? That's like not noticing the dinosaurs..."
( Jurassic Park III, Alan/Billy for 1sentence )
Fandom: Jurassic Park III
Pairing: Dr. Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13 for mild+ sexual references
Disclaimer: The characters and franchise all belong to the mighty Universal™ studios and Amblin™ entertainment. Me not own. Glad do not own. Could not have made such a gay film on my own if I tried.
The general title belongs to John Denver (I'm willing to bet that Alan has a secret tape of the Rocky Mountain collection stashed in the pickup somewhere…)
A/N: Set before, during and after the film so some bits may refer to whatever is canon at the time (basically the parts where Billy is still presumed dead). Before/after bits may be vaguely AUish but then everything in this fandom is anyways.
I re-watched the movie a few times while doing this, one of those times with my brother who usually always rolls his eyes at my slashy references but after watching it again had to agree to the age old saying - 'Don't see the slash? That's like not noticing the dinosaurs..."
( Jurassic Park III, Alan/Billy for 1sentence )
Title: Cat's in the Cradle
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing and Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #024, Family
Word Count: 426
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and creators Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun.
Author's Notes: Chandler and his father at the wedding. For
fanfic100 of course.
( Cat's in the Cradle )
Title: Borders
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing and Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #041, Shapes
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and creators Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun.
Author's Notes: Chandler drabble. The first I've ever managed to bring down to the proper 100 words. A second slightly longer fic will follow in a few hours. Just trying to grease the wheels a bit for the larger fics that are lying half finished all over my room. For
fanfic100 of course.
( Borders )
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing and Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #024, Family
Word Count: 426
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and creators Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun.
Author's Notes: Chandler and his father at the wedding. For
( Cat's in the Cradle )
Title: Borders
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing and Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #041, Shapes
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and creators Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun.
Author's Notes: Chandler drabble. The first I've ever managed to bring down to the proper 100 words. A second slightly longer fic will follow in a few hours. Just trying to grease the wheels a bit for the larger fics that are lying half finished all over my room. For
( Borders )
(no subject)
Dec. 14th, 2005 12:41 amWrote me some pundit slash.
Yep.
Definitely going to hell.
But at least it'll be that special hell.
They seem to post their stuff directly at the comm over at
tds_rps so who am I to question tradition.
Link at the bottom.
Title: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Author:
jamie_dakin
Pairing: Jon/Anderson (implied Jon/Stephen)
Rating: NC-17 (eek?)
Summery: Set post Katrina. Anderson comes home. Cue angst, sex and internal ramblings.
Warnings: This isn’t an AU and Jon is most definitely married here. If that ain’t your cuppa, don’t read.
A/N: I sent
pomegranate_red (who was kind enough to agree to beta this before it ever really existed) all these random words and she sent it back as fic. Thanks so much for your patience and honesty.
Disclaimer: Any similarity between the fictional version of the person portrayed here and the actual person is purely coincidental. This is a work of fiction. This is not an attempt to defame the character of said person on the basis of libel, as the work is FICTIONAL (and NOT an intently false statement created with the express purpose of misleading others about the actual character of said person).
Any mention of 'The Daily Show', 'Viacom', any associated entites, or any copywrited material pertaining therein is reasonably protected by the Fair Use Rule of the United States Copyright Act of 1976, and is not intended to infringe upon any copywrited material.
‘Porcelina of the Vast Oceans’ is of course from the Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” album. If you don’t already own it then what are doing here reading RPS and not at your local record store?
There's no rain the day Anderson comes home to New York... (links back to
tds_rps [LiveJournal])
Yep.
Definitely going to hell.
But at least it'll be that special hell.
They seem to post their stuff directly at the comm over at
Link at the bottom.
Title: Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Author:
Pairing: Jon/Anderson (implied Jon/Stephen)
Rating: NC-17 (eek?)
Summery: Set post Katrina. Anderson comes home. Cue angst, sex and internal ramblings.
Warnings: This isn’t an AU and Jon is most definitely married here. If that ain’t your cuppa, don’t read.
A/N: I sent
Disclaimer: Any similarity between the fictional version of the person portrayed here and the actual person is purely coincidental. This is a work of fiction. This is not an attempt to defame the character of said person on the basis of libel, as the work is FICTIONAL (and NOT an intently false statement created with the express purpose of misleading others about the actual character of said person).
Any mention of 'The Daily Show', 'Viacom', any associated entites, or any copywrited material pertaining therein is reasonably protected by the Fair Use Rule of the United States Copyright Act of 1976, and is not intended to infringe upon any copywrited material.
‘Porcelina of the Vast Oceans’ is of course from the Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” album. If you don’t already own it then what are doing here reading RPS and not at your local record store?
There's no rain the day Anderson comes home to New York... (links back to
Of the Spotless Mind
Dec. 7th, 2005 04:30 pmTitle: Of the Spotless Mind
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing/Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #029, Birth
Word Count: 1766
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun. The title comes of course from "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope. Hey, I see a bandwagon - I jump.
Author's Notes: Chandler and the twins post-series. This is what he's giving up Joey for. For the madness that is
fanfic100.
Joey/Chandler prompt table...
( Of the Spotless Mind )
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing/Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #029, Birth
Word Count: 1766
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun. The title comes of course from "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope. Hey, I see a bandwagon - I jump.
Author's Notes: Chandler and the twins post-series. This is what he's giving up Joey for. For the madness that is
Joey/Chandler prompt table...
( Of the Spotless Mind )
(no subject)
Nov. 18th, 2005 12:36 amTitle: Third Circle of the Rain
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing and Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #081, How?
Word Count: 568
Rating: er, PG-13ish
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and creators Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun. The title is from Dante's Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 7-12.
Author's Notes: First fic written for
fanfic100, set after the move-in but before the wedding. Angst with a little h/c. Here's to 99 more...
My prompt table - to the prompt table...
( Third Circle of the Rain )
Fandom: Friends
Characters: Chandler Bing and Joey Tribianni
Prompt: #081, How?
Word Count: 568
Rating: er, PG-13ish
Disclaimer: "Friends" is owned by NBC and creators Bright, Kauffman and Crane. No profit, no sue, just fun. The title is from Dante's Inferno, Canto VI, Lines 7-12.
Author's Notes: First fic written for
My prompt table - to the prompt table...
( Third Circle of the Rain )
Harry/Draco, for Ronnie
Nov. 7th, 2005 06:21 pmTitle: Whispers Of A Ewer To The River
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Draco (always a first time for everything...)
Rating: um, barely PG, I did try
A/N: From the
israeli_slasher ICon challenge, for
_bane who wanted Harry/Draco and a menorah. Sorry it took a bit, real life and whatnot... Ronnie dear, I've barely even read Harry/Draco before, much less written it, so I really hope that this is alright.
Set during the second war with a mostly redeemed!Draco (which I once swore never to touch with a ten foot pole but now find oddly interesting).
Disclaimer: ridiculously not mine. All JKR's.
( Whispers Of A Ewer To The River )
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Draco (always a first time for everything...)
Rating: um, barely PG, I did try
A/N: From the
Set during the second war with a mostly redeemed!Draco (which I once swore never to touch with a ten foot pole but now find oddly interesting).
Disclaimer: ridiculously not mine. All JKR's.
( Whispers Of A Ewer To The River )
Title: Spectrum
Author:
jamie_dakin
Fandom: Ocean’s 11 (and 12).
Pairing: Rusty/Danny, Rusty/Linus
Rating: PG (PG-13 if you live in Iran).
A/N: For contrelamontre’s “Gay On The Range” challenge. Inspired by this cover Done in 53 minutes. I tried, I tried. xposted to
oceanfic
Disclaimer: Don’t own. Wouldn’t be able to pick from between them if I did. Don’t sue.
( <i>And if Danny is big studio Hollywood then Linus is independent European. Because when Rusty thinks of Linus he thinks of subtitles. )
Author:
Fandom: Ocean’s 11 (and 12).
Pairing: Rusty/Danny, Rusty/Linus
Rating: PG (PG-13 if you live in Iran).
A/N: For contrelamontre’s “Gay On The Range” challenge. Inspired by this cover Done in 53 minutes. I tried, I tried. xposted to
Disclaimer: Don’t own. Wouldn’t be able to pick from between them if I did. Don’t sue.
( <i>And if Danny is big studio Hollywood then Linus is independent European. Because when Rusty thinks of Linus he thinks of subtitles. )
Parker Lewis slash
Dec. 26th, 2004 03:15 amParker Lewis was one of my favorite shows growing up.
Granted, they were re-runs and I was about 6 when they originally aired, but still.
Parker and Mikey. Well you see the thing is that I literally have no control over my slashing mechanism.
One day I turned it on too fast and apparently broke the switch.
So, um, here's the result.
Rating: R
Author:
leli_008
Fandom: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
Pairing: Parker/Mikey
Summary: It’s a buds thing.
Feedback: My drug of choice.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Never happened. FICTION.
( Not A Problem. Parker/Mikey )
p.s. Happy respective holidays everyone!
sorry if I don't respond to comments, army all week you know...
Granted, they were re-runs and I was about 6 when they originally aired, but still.
Parker and Mikey. Well you see the thing is that I literally have no control over my slashing mechanism.
One day I turned it on too fast and apparently broke the switch.
So, um, here's the result.
Rating: R
Author:
Fandom: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
Pairing: Parker/Mikey
Summary: It’s a buds thing.
Feedback: My drug of choice.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Never happened. FICTION.
( Not A Problem. Parker/Mikey )
p.s. Happy respective holidays everyone!
sorry if I don't respond to comments, army all week you know...
Gymnopedie No. 1 (Frasier/Niles)
May. 27th, 2004 01:34 amTitle: Gymnopedie No.1
Author:
leli_008
Rating: R for m/m, mature themes and angst
Pairing: Frasier/Niles (oh shut up already...)
Summary:Sometimes life isn't perfect. Sometimes it doesn't need to be. Frasier thinks about his relationship with Niles. Frasier/Niles. WARNING - contains slash and mature themes.
( Gymnopedie No.1 )
Author:
Rating: R for m/m, mature themes and angst
Pairing: Frasier/Niles (oh shut up already...)
Summary:Sometimes life isn't perfect. Sometimes it doesn't need to be. Frasier thinks about his relationship with Niles. Frasier/Niles. WARNING - contains slash and mature themes.
( Gymnopedie No.1 )