shallowness

On Sunday, I reposted With those lips (it'd be a waste) (Dark Angel. PG-13. Max, OC, Original Female Characters, Alec. Max/Alec. Words: 2,929. Summary: Girl talk. Flirtation. Realization. Response.)

I wrote this back when I was capable of writing fics above the 2,500 word mark, and it was first posted in May 2006. It was the next fic to be reposted (the old version is up on Livejournal, but this version can now also be found at AO3 and ff.net too. I went back to it that weekend my plans changed at the end of February. Apparently, I’d been editing it in September 2021, although when I read through it in February, that seemed to have involved introducing more punctuation errors. I think I set about editing more on this go around. My sense in doing so is that this fic says more about me then than I realised.

I’ve made a list of all my fics that are currently only available on my LJ or ff.net, so at least I know the scale of it. None of them are Dark Angel fics. I can’t promise to repost these fics any faster than I have done. I know I ought to try importing again (I don’t think I did back when I started on Dreamwidth) because there are reviews and meta that probably only exist there, but I haven’t minded editing old fics before reposting them, it’s just everything else that goes along with that and the time and energy for it. On the other hand, I’m not really writing fic now.

Well, I wrote a three-sentence fill. Original, OFC/OMC, fluff. Ice-cream melt But there isn’t a sff twist or anything to it.

Then I watched the BAFTAs ( Read more... )

And then, during the week, while watching The Ipcress File (I’ll get to that) I saw that Sanditon is coming back…to Britbox. Oh, ITV etc, that’s not enough to make me subscribe to it. I wonder if it was only after Bridgerton that they got the second series.

[Edited for typos 26/12/24.]

Title: In Good Company
Rating: G
Show: Dark Angel
Genre: Friendship. Gen.
Characters: Joshua, Alec, Max.
Type: Double drabble.
First posted: April 2006
Summary: Josh's thoughts about living with Alec.

Notes: Set around 'Hello, Goodbye', spoilers for that episode. With thanks to FridayAngel for the beta.

Disclaimers: The characters aren't mine, don't sue.

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Via smallhobbit:

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Title: Unknown
Fandom: Dark Angel
Rating: PG
Characters: Max, Logan, Joshua
Genre: General. Angst. Drama
Type: Double drabble.
First posted: March 2006

Summary: “What is that?” Matt Sung asked.
Notes: Thanks to FridayAngel, once again! Missing scene from ‘Radar Love.’

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Apparently some people find round-up posts like this obnoxious. May I suggest scrolling or not clicking? For my part, yes, it's self-promotion, just in case, but it's also a chance to write a little about the writing process or what the fics mean to me. Anyway, if you're interested, over the past week and a half I've reposted the following:

No friend to those with noses (Dark Angel) G. Joshua, Alec. 488 words.
First posted: Late December 2005. Summary: A smelly cat is no friend to those with noses; Joshua has a snout.

A clear view (Dark Angel) PG. Alec, Max, Mole, Dalton (Max/Alec implied). 880 words.
First posted: January 2006. Summary: Alec rescues Dalton, Max is furious at how he did it and Terminal City gets entertained for free.

Days, weeks, months and years (ER) PG. Haleh, Neela and Ray. First posted: February 2006. Two post ‘Dream House’ 12.06 drabbles.

Yesterday, I crossposted: Epicinium (Smallville) Teen. Lois, Chloe, Clark, Gabe, Lana. 2,682 words. Coda for 4.8 ‘Spell’.
Summary: The aftermath of the eighteenth birthday party that Lois and Chloe don’t remember.

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I don't know if I'll be able to continue reposting fic as regularly, although given that I'm only up to the start of 2006 and only started Dreamwidth in 2009, I don't want to stop again.

Title: No friend to those with noses
Fandom: Dark Angel
Rating: G.
Characters: Joshua, Alec.
Word Count: 488.
First posted: Late December 2005.
Summary: A smelly cat is no friend to those with noses; Joshua has a snout.

Notes: Written for Roonblah, who wanted funny DA fic. This loosely takes place around ‘Hello, Goodbye’. The title is taken from Pheobe’s song ‘Smelly Cat’ from Friends. With big thanks to lusmeilti for the beta, all idiocies are mine.

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Feedback is always received with wide-open arms.

Title: Retrieval
Fandom: Dark Angel
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Max/Alec, past Jondy/Alec
Word Count: 3,103.
First posted: December 2005
Summary: Max didn't think; Alec is trying to protect himself.

Author's Notes: 'She Ain't Heavy' ended slightly differently. AU from that point on. With thanks to izabelevans, lusmeilti and FridayAngel for their betaing, all idiocies are my own.

Disclaimer: These characters are not mine, and I make no profit from this fiction.

( Retrieval: shallowness )

Fic that was first posted between July and October 2005 now available here and at AO3.

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Title: Unlike any other
Fandom: Dark Angel
Rating: PG
Pairing: Alec/OFC
Word count: 836.
First posted: August 2005

Summary: Alec knows exactly how to deploy the killer line.

Notes: Written for savage_midnight as part of the sentence for a pairing meme, who asked for Alec fic and for him to be paired with anybody. This is partly inspired by the film The Island and is set at some point in late s2. Big thanks to izabelevans and lusmeitli for the beta.

Disclaimer: These characters are not mine and I make no profit from this piece of fanfiction.

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On Saturday night, I caught up with a B99 episode: 2.22 Det. Dave Majors
( it was a good one )

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I read Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It’s much, much better than her Beauty, another retelling of the fairy tale which it turns out was her first novel and, I’m glad, not the first book of hers that I read. I love the writing, the fantasy setting with its own rules of magic that the reader discovers alongside Beauty (whom I should have found more annoying than I did, considering her traits). I especially liked what McKinley did with Beauty’s older sisters. Recommended if you’re in a mood for a fairy tale retelling in a fantasy setting.

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Sorry for the old fic spam on Dreamwidth (and AO3) but it occurred to me on Thursday night that now was a good time to repost old fic. (That’s old fic that’s a decade old. Yikes.) Trying to work out what I was thinking in terms of formatting, titles and archiving a decade ago was a faff initially. I revised one and did a little more to another than correct typos. I was so prolific in 2005 and steeped in Dark Angel fandom, more so than I’ve ever been in the one fandom since as both a reader and writer, but since then I’ve been more multi-fannish and even then, alongside the DA fic, there were Harry Potter ficlets. Um, I may repost more fic over the next few days (but then again, I might not. I intended to post this yesterday.)

The starry dividers are a homage to the fact that I used them in fic in 2005, or at least the fic that were longer than vignettes.

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