"There's a war on, and she has the link to give away his location to his enemies in her boot, and she's pressed to his chest like he's the only thing in the world, kissing him hard with his hands in her hair, hard and hungry. Last meal."

  [ Steve and Sharon, at war ]

  Canon - between the panels in Captain America #22
  For - kink_bingo, filling the rough sex square

"Would you like a blindfold, Mr. Tucker?"

  [ Shou Tucker, in the Fifth Lab, in search of the Gate ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 37
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants
  For - Demidevi's Gen & Squick Contest; winner in both categories
  Ref. - author's notes

"Let's say for now that I'm an acquaintance of SHIELD. Captain Jack Harkness is the name. Came all the way from England to do my little scan."

  [ Tony Stark gets a lot of unexpected visitors these days ]

  Spoilers - vague for Doctor Who 3.12

"It was like some lovely game of make-believe, as he strode across the entrance hall, except only one of them knew they were playing."

  [ Lucius and Molly; two very different eighteen-year-olds, one Christmas Eve, one bottle of wine ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  Beta - Kechara
  For - the Restricted Section's Slashers Do Het challenge

"All of which goes to say, I met somebody just now who has exactly this same problem. Not the brother. The memory. The elevator. Pink-haired creep, butterflies, revolution, the lot. And here I thought I was eight years out of this shit."

  [ eight years after the revolution, Kozue takes Shiori for a ride ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the bukkake square

"His father's best sword hangs over the mantle; it is a long, razor sharp, perfectly balanced katana, sheathed in deep greenish black and accented in patina bronze."

  [ Vicious: a creation myth for a character too inscrutable to have a story ]

"He was exempt from normality, entitled to his weirdness, and it felt so good she couldn't possibly argue, and could only feel a little guilty about it."

  [ Naru, after the series, with rarehet ]

  Spoilers - through end of series
  Canon - taking the specials as canon

"For the first few months he lives far away from the cities, for fear of discovery. In the countryside of Callisto the snow lies fluffy and a handspan or more deep, and it has its own profound silence and its own soft roar of sound, and he understands."

  [ Gren's story, in sound ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 13

"Sloth reaches round, slides two damp fingers along her collarbone, slick over her skin, to circle the ouroborus high on her chest, red stamp on white skin."

  [ Lust is forgetting her nature ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the mirrors square

"The easiest way to destroy an enemy is to destroy those he depends upon."

  [ Archer and Kimberly, messing with Mustang and Havoc ]

  For - hallidae, by LJ ficlet request

"Kimberly, it turned out, was a strange drunk, a ranting drunk, hunched over the table in the empty cantina muttering under his breath..."

  [ Mustang and Kimberly, one dark night in Ishbal ]

  Spoilers - general series backstory

"By the Maker... I thought everything was burnt. Goodness knows, I might have kept something elsewhere than the library--a work in progress, maybe, a failed age..."

  [ Atrus gives his new apprentice a task both useful and educational ]

  Canon - written before Myst IV in attempt to reconcile continuity issues
  For - Sepdet, in a way; the title is a tribute
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"It would figure, Ed thought, that he'd lose his virginity in the middle of a half-Ishbalan array for the Stone, to an ancient homunculus, still bloodstained and stinking from a pitched battle, with dead bodies in the corner of the room."

  [ Ed and Greed do weird sex alchemy ]

  Spoilers - through e. 34
  Canon - AU from ep. 34
  For - lykomancer, by LJ ficlet request

"Why are you crying, little brother? She tried to kill you. She didn't even go limp when she died. You're lucky I could do that. I saved you."

  [ seven stories in one, or one story in seven, of Sirrus and Achenar ]

  Spoilers - Myst
  Canon - written before realMYST, Uru, Myst IV and V
  Beta - Dester'edra
  For - Aitrus5, by dedication
  Ref. - author's notes

"They kissed only once. She tasted like ashes and brine."

  [ Roy and Sloth, though he did not know it ]

  For - forgottenlover, by LJ ficlet request

"Roy leaned back against the headboard with a deep sigh at the beautiful, hard, flailing naked boy in his bed"

  [ my take on the old 'fighting over who's on top' spiel ]

"Except this time his helmet's off, and Steve's naked, and Jan isn't buzzing up over him, Thor isn't looming at the foot of it, and he's pretty sure they'll be fighting in about five minutes."

  [ gratuitous Civil War fix-it ]

  Spoilers - Civil War
  Canon - AU from beginning of Secret Invasion
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants

"He cannot taste anything in his mouth, but he rinses with souring wine anyway, obsessively, until even the twisting chaos of his subconscious could not pretend it was there--ashes and blood. Was that what they'd tasted, all those women?"

  [ Damien and Tarrant, en route to the new continent, in dreams ]

"Cranking the barred iron gate takes all the strength in his narrow back, one long strain with the mask clinging tight about his mouth as he sucks air."

  [ Lucius, in Azkaban, has a visitor ]

  For - Cassie, who wanted Lucius in a straitjacket

"Touching. Brushing up against the surface of each other's minds, like skin against skin. Letting the fuzzy parts go together."

  [ Jack and Rose, with background Nine: a lesson in telepathy ]

"I am the fragmented self, spread across years and continents"

  [ a thought experiment: who is enough like Anthy to serve her purpose? ]

  Spoilers - through end of series
  Ref. - author's notes

"He has a terrifying amount of control over my body. It took him weeks to insinuate himself, to force my surrender into a habit."

  [ a brief look at Quirrell ]

  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"Oh, come off it. If I were swinging the other way tonight, what would you have done, thrown Cooper at me?"

  [ Jack's got a lot to make up to Detective Swanson, and thus ensues random smut ]

"The locket's hinge is broken and the painting is empty. Tom Marvolo Riddle throws it into the lake without a backwards glance as he leaves Hogwarts."

  [ Tom, finding inspiration of sorts in Dumbledore ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6

"Quarter past midnight as the two boys laze about; the old cat sleeps in the corner; Gellert leans against the inlaid coffee table in his thin white under-robe, spinning his wand slowly in one hand and smiling."

  [ Albus, Gellert, and magic tricks, during that summer together ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7

"For any number, divided by a solitary one, remains itself."

  [ a hexadrabble on Nemuro and the hundred boys ]

  Ref. - author's notes

"Sunday: you are playing out the conversation that will never happen."

  [ Percy, being hypothetical ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  For - Cedar, for her birthday

"It would be cruel, he thought, to speak when she couldn't. No words, no reasoning, no hesitation."

  [ Scar and Roze; my first het PWP ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 39

"This is the time of the uncanny, the inverted. The time of impossible things."

  [ in the time of the Black Rose, Touga wants Juri ]

  For - seitokaichou, during a challenge on utenadrabble

"Angels that are forced from heaven have to become demons. Isn't that right, Spike?"

  [ an experiment in explaining that line ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 5

"He's a brand spanking new universal constant!"

  [ the Doctor (Tenth), the Master (Simm), and Jack (there can be only one!) play some games; pure smut ]

  Spoilers - characterization (sortof) in ep. 3.11 - 3.13
  Canon - takes place in slashfic la-la-land outside of continuity

"Wordlessly, Auron unhooked the bottle again, uncapped it, held it out to the boy. Tidus looked down at it for a long, long time before he took it."

  [ Tidus has emo at Auron ]

  Spoilers - through Zanarkand
  For - bard_linn, by LJ ficlet request

"Of course I know he plans to be an Auror--everybody knows. He wants to walk up to evil, stare it in the face, and beat it into submission. But he will never defeat me."

  [ Tom Riddle and Alastor Moody do the Gryff/Slyth thing; unfinished WIP ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6 and not retconned
  Beta - Minerva McTabby

"People become prefects here because they're ruthless, or blue-blooded, or have simply mastered the subtle art of making people both love and fear you, which is something Cornelius has never gotten the hang of."

  [ Tom provides counsel in a most Slytherin manner ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  Beta - Minerva McTabby
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"Auron gritted his teeth, hard, and pried his bottle out of Jecht's hand--and he was far gone not to protest, too far gone."

  [ preslash on the pilgramage ]

  For - delerone, by LJ ficlet request

"Sometimes, even, they both dared to strip away their gloves."

  [ Roy is never without an Elric ]

  Spoilers - through end of series
  Canon - movie canon included only from common knowledge, as I have not seen it
  For - devils_devotion, by LJ ficlet request

"A fight with long wooden objects should be conducted solely with long wooden objects, that it should."

  [ Hiten Mitsurugi tends to drive you a little crazy, umbrella drops and all ]

"I mean--it's big. Bigger than you can possibly imagine. What we're making..."

  [ Obadiah Stane, and Howard Stark, and the Manhattan Project ]

  For - nevacaruso and cahalith, by LJ ficlet request

"His Master is a virgin; or rather, the human boy who is becoming himself and his Master is a virgin; and he does not want to die like this."

  [ fifteen varied ficlets covering every possible combination of Endymion and the Shitennou, and a few others ]

  Spoilers - through end of series
  Canon - taking the specials as canon
  Ref. - author's notes

"You come with a kiss, go for days, come back all needy and looking like you've been starved, you sure they're treating you right, Gwen, I think you should talk to whoever does the personnel over there..."

  [ Gwen, very lost ]

  Spoilers - through season 1
  Canon - written before season 2 aired
  Beta - Lily
  For - the June challenge, runes, on dwliterotica
  Ref. - author's notes

"He didn't mind it; he loved it, loved losing control and himself and everything to the boy--and, now, to Havoc, whom Ed had dragged into all this."

  [ Roy has fun ]

  For - subtle_dusk, by LJ ficlet request

"Magic runs in wizarding veins. It is not a mere by-product; it suffuses a wizard's life, plays a role in everything he does, from the mundane to the sublime, from the pedantic to the erotic."

  [ Snape/Harry surreality ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5 and assuming Snarry-tinted lenses
  For - Icarus' ficdrive for Cybele

"Okay, how about what happens if Doom invades while we're hippying about off-grid?"

  [ Steve and Tony go camping, and bears are the greatest threat facing America ]

  Canon - New Avengers, pre-Extremis
  Beta - Tavella

"His mother drops by for afternoon tea and asks him why that awful girl is still here, and Tom snarls that she's his wife, and doesn't answer when she asks why."

  [ Merope, sometime in 1926 ]

"Half the apple pie was still on a cracked plate on the window sill, covered with a bowl so it didn't go stale before tomorrow, because it was all he had in the house."

  [ Hughes and Roy, fighting pain ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 25
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"Spike, breathing curls of gray-white, brushed Vicious' hair away to bare his face and ran a thumb down the narrow scars that creased their ways out from his eyes."

  [ the Russian kind, of course: a six-bullet slice of Spike and Vicious, before the Bebop, before Julia, with weaponsex ]

  Spoilers - slight for ep. 26
  Beta - Switchknife

"When she looks back at Jack, for a moment, he's still watching her, and there's something like need in his eyes, and for a moment she's happy, really happy."

  [ one big mess of Suzie and Gwen and Jack and Owen ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 8

"This was his life, in five digits and a silver palm."

  [ Peter and his hand ]

  Canon - written before bk. 5
  Beta - Ayla Pascal

"The Doctor only looks at his face to clean it, flaking dirt off with his fingertips as the soap cuts through it, no reaction at all when it stings in his eyes and he flinches."

  [ the stranger the man, the stranger the ways of mourning ]

  Spoilers - through 3.13

"They weren't supposed to do it, but they did."

  [ a brief glimpse of a different Rose ]

  Canon - AU from before beginning of series

"But the enigma of Fullmetal was enticing, entrancing, tempting--and Ed himself had no idea of it."

  [ a hypothetically longer series of random Roy/Ed smut ]

  Canon - takes place in slashfic la-la-land outside of continuity

"Envy stood barenaked in the window like the pillar of salt..."

  [ abstract Envy/Roy ]

  For - morningxstorm, by LJ ficlet request
  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"There is a part of me, a terribly small part of me, that loves to see you in pain."

  [ Mikage, on Mamiya ]

  Ref. - recording (by myself)

"They walk on. Gellert kicks stones with his pointed German shoes; Albus is chewing on a blade of grass. The sun is blood-red between the hills."

  [ concerning the fear of death ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7

"There's a chain of leaves round her neck, green and black, dangling from a golden vine."

  [ years after Ohtori, two of the Black Roses find each other ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 20
  For - shellsong, by LJ ficlet request

"Sleep was falling, was hanging, was chains hand-carved over mindless years and locked around his own wrists, was a linking book swallowed by acid-green fire, was ten thousand days alone in a prison written with words of madness on howling wind..."

  [ Atrus angst in the wake of Revelation ]

  Spoilers - for Myst IV

"When you talk to snakes, everything comes in long stripes, and everybody stares at you as the little scaly garter winds around your wrist and flicks its tongue and murmurs about how blades of grass go this way and that..."

  [ Tom at ten, the crazy boy ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6
  Beta - Dester'edra

"The priest could not rid himself of the fear that the boy was going to kill himself."

  [ an ordeal in the lost years of the Dark Lord ]

  Beta - strange fire

"I think we have a new favorite word, dear."

  [ of course Tony Stark had a lab bench when he was two ]

  For - neotoma, by LJ ficlet request

"But then Steve pounces and brings him down to grappling, and it's all muscle and grip, and Tony doesn't stand a damn chance."

  [ Steve discovers a few things during a spar ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the bondage: held down square

"You don't go calling out a Queen of the Hellfire Club unless you know exactly, exactly what you're asking for."

  [ Tony Stark takes his war angst to Emma Frost ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the silence square

"Go teach your children, eat your candy, preen your bird and bury me. But we were brilliant together, Albus, and not even you can change history."

  [ a correspondence between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants
  For - Blogathon 2007, to benefit Heifer Project International
  Ref. - author's notes - art by Black Adder

"Pride hadn't moved--he liked to freeze after a decisive blow, sometimes too still to be human, perfect deadly sculpture of a man."

  [ homunculi playing in the parlor ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 40
  For - mikkeneko, by LJ ficlet request

"Cold Juri she still was, cold and uncertain, because none of his touches had ever stirred her; something wa