"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

"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

"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 ]

"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 ]

"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 ]

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 ]

"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

"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

"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

"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