"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

"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

"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

"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

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

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

  Canon - movie-verse
  For - [for] nevacaruso and cahalith, by LJ ficlet request

"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 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

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

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

  Canon - movie-verse
  For - neotoma, by LJ ficlet request

"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 series
  For - the body-snatchers challenge on utenadrabble

"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

"Trying to keep the most idiotic scientists I've ever met--right, well, second most idiotic, nobody can quite top Big D--from creating a miniature black hole in the core, that's what."

   [ Jack finds the Doctor, again, and it's pretty much the usual ]

  For - taffimai, by LJ ficlet request