shallowness

As with last year, I won’t be doing the writing meme separately, because once again the only fanfiction that I posted in 2025 were three-sentence ficathon fills, all ten of them coming to a total of 1,108 words (which would make a respectable-for-me word count for one fic once upon a time.) Four were original works, two were from Mansfield Park, one the 2007 Persuasion adaptation, one Harry Potter, one St. Trinian’s and one for Wicked – Part 1. They can be found here. I don’t think I really wrote much else fictionwise over the year, perhaps some other drafts for the three-sentence ficathon, and some editing. Let’s hope 3SF inspires something and, ideally, something I watch or read sparks a fic.

I reposted seven fics (all ficlets), five of which are in the same collection, and there are still fics that need to be reposted here and at AO3.

My version of the fandom meme

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I have managed to repost more fic here and at AO3 over recent days, and to update the text on LJ and ff.net where necessary.

What agents do Jake 2.0, G. 228 words. Jake Foley. Vague spoilers for ‘The Ultimate Human Upgrade’. Summary: Jake's clearance was low, now it's high, really high. (June 2006)

How to hurt Mr Invulnerable Sky High, G. Will Stronghold, (Layla Williams/Warren Peace). Post-movie double drabble. Summary: Mr Invulnerable? Will Stronghold’s not that guy. (June 2006)

A flyer expects Sky High, PG-13. Josie Stronghold (Josie Stronghold/Steve Stronghold). Pre-movie, 1,576 words. Summary: She literally floated through her pregnancy. (July 2016.)

Parallax Firefly/Harry Potter, PG. Jayne, Luna, River. Spoilers up to 'Objects in Space' and for HBP. 432 words. Summary: Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a background due to a change in observer position. [Wikipedia] (September 2006)

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I’ll try to do this disc by disc, after this post, but a guest asked a question about the characters’ choices at the end of this ep in response to my fic about it, and this seemed like a good opportunity to get my thoughts about Walter and Paige at the end of this episode down.

‘Satellite of Love’

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Waige meta

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As of 4 August 2019:

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I posted two X-Men: Dark Phoenix ficlets over the weekend. One was ‘broken promise’ a Scott POV prompt fill responding to the events of the movie, and the other was ‘The Most Dangerous Player on the Tour’, a tennis AU take on the events of the movie. Jean being the player in question. This is what happens when I go to see X-Men Dark Phoenix on the closing weekend of the French Open. I’ve started many tennis AUs in my time, but never posted any before. I suspect no actual newspaper would publish anything like that, but it was fun translating characters and their mutations into the world of tennis.

I saw that people were doing a first lines meme just as I was about to post the above – dilemma! What do you do? I swept through my first lines of the last 10 fics on AO3. Some I liked more than others. I was chuffed that they were all from 2019.

Fine. I’ll do the last lines meme.

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It's an appropriate day to do some shipposting, right?

Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne AKA Catwoman/Batman (most iterations of Batman, but most recently Gotham).

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Phew. If I do more shipposting, it's likely to be less extensive.

For maximum stun effect, Portishead’s cover of S.O.S. (yes, the ABBA song) probably needs to be heard straight after watching the weird, sporadically brilliant High Rise. But if you’d like to hear an eerie, powerful take on the song, click on.

And now for something chirpier! Maybe.

I posted #blessed (enough to set the phone aside) yesterday. Mary Poppins Returns. Teen. Jane Banks/Jack. 456 words. Because I am that person who came out of Mary Poppins Returns with an idea for a modern day AU ficlet!?!?

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The fics

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