"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

"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

"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

"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 ]

"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 ]

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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