"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

"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

"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

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

  [ Percy, being hypothetical ]

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Cold Juri she still was, cold and uncertain, because none of his touches had ever stirred her; something was missing, something had not yet awoken."

  [ an exercise in imagination - what happens if you remove one character from canon? ]

  Canon - AU from before beginning of series
  For - the body-snatchers challenge on utenadrabble

"Miki was still for one frozen moment, as if a red rose had fallen from nowhere upon the keys, then lifted his head to see Touga standing in the corner."

  [ in which Touga takes Miki to Akio ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 31
  Beta - WhiteOwl