"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
  Canon - Iron Man movie-verse

"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 ]

  Beta - Kechara
  For - the Restricted Section's Slashers Do Het challenge

"Every sight here will be imprinted upon his mind forever, along with the slowly rising conviction that he is not human. More like a vision than a dream, a single flash of divine and painful clarity that will be an unspoken birthing and apotheosis for the rest of his life."

   [ 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

"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)

"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 ]

"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 experience: who is enough like Anthy to serve her purpose? ]

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

"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 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

"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

"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

"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)

"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 ]

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Yuna blinks, eyes watering, at the haze of pyreflies, and lets go of her, and steps away. Tidus is holding out her staff, not quite looking at her; she takes it, runs fingers over the worn painted wood, and, at last, begins to dance."

   [ three years after defeating Sin, Yuna lays the dead to rest ]

  Spoilers - through end of game

"All he had to do was snap his fingers. Again. Again in this endless night of terror."

   [ Roy, meeting Lust ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 15
  For - mattador, by LJ ficlet request