[ATLA/Korra] what her heart sounds like (Toph gen)

Title: what her heart sounds like
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra
Length: 361 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Avatar: The Last Airbender. Toph Bei Fong, "That looks more like a potato."
Pairing: Toph gen with Katara/Aang
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "A potato, though?" Aang is saying in that wheedling voice he uses when Toph isn't appreciating something as much as he thinks she should be. Fortunately Zuko interrupts the probable lecture on the beauty of human life.

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[Legend of Korra] talking themselves red (Ming-Hua/P'li)

Title: talking themselves red
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 655 words
Prompt: LOK, Ming-Hua/P'li, modern AU.
Pairing: Ming-Hua/P'li established
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "I won't be able to get a job that doesn't matter, you mean," P'li says. The tattoo on her forehead is still bright red and new. She has her hair slicked back with bobby pins and has, Ming-Hua suspects, been ignoring the possibility of pain medication in order to suffer for her art, or something. "Why would I want to work in a coffeeshop or a clothing store? I would rather starve."

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[Elementary] in her postscript (Joan/Moriarty)

Title: in her postscript
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 100 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Joan/Moriarty, work of art
Pairing: slight Joan/Moriarty
Other: Set post S2.

Excerpt: Moriarty sends Joan sketches from prison.

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[Elementary] art is the struggle to understand (Joan/Moriarty)

Title: art is the struggle to understand
Fandom: Elementary
Length: 100 words
Prompt: comment_fic: Elementary, Joan/Moriarty, work of art
Pairing: Joan/Moriarty
Other: Set post S2.

Excerpt: She knows every inch of Joan's face now, from her high hairline to her sculpted cheekbones. She would feel better if she could get the eyes quite right.

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[Avatar: The Last Airbender] the esthetic of lostness (Sokka/Suki)

Title: the esthetic of lostness
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Length: 701 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: A:TLA, Suki, the South Pole
Pairing: Suki/Sokka, Katara/Aang
Other: n/a

Excerpt: It's not that she expects Sokka to revert to the sexist jerk he was when she met him, expecting her to be at home while he provides. It's more that she isn't sure if she can carve out a life here when the whole wide world is waiting. And she doesn't know if he would be willing to leave, or if she could ask him to. He always speaks of his home in the same way Suki speaks of Kyoshi -- there is nowhere like it, and even when she goes away, her feet always know the way back.

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[Being Human (UK)] the night's innumerable children (Mitchell/Annie)

Title: the night's innumerable children
Fandom: Being Human (UK)
Length: 478 words
Prompt: The Could-Have-Beens AU Comment Ficathon: Being Human, Annie Sawyer - Annie is the vampire in the house. (Mix and match George, Nina, and Mitchell however you like)
Pairing: Mitchell/Annie
Other: PG for general creepiness.

Excerpt: She counts each day she's been clean on a kitten calendar she has tacked up in her bedroom and she goes to AA meetings every Thursday. Mitchell is more than half in love with her right from the start. She promises to help him find the man who killed him so he can rest.

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[Legend of Korra] the soul seeks faintly for its shore (Lin/Kya II)

Title: the soul seeks faintly for its shore
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 3786 words
Pairing: Lin/Kya II
Prompt: Written for Aiffe for femslashex; also archived here
Other: Written post S3, AU to S4.

Excerpt: It's been a long time since Lin has spent time with Kya, and she didn't realize how much she missed it. Lin meets with Kya for dinner a couple times a week. It's just a small addition to her comfortable routine. They walk through the streets together afterwards, most days. Kya notices things that Lin has never seen. Lin sees her past here, the criminal enterprises she has raided and the citizens she has helped. Kya buys flowers at a ridiculous mark-up from the street children and makes Lin take them home, telling her that she got her sense of style from her mother and needs more greenery in her house, less rock and metal. Sometimes Lin remembers to water them.

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[Orange Is The New Black] love is a thing that can never go wrong (Big Boo/OFCs)

Title: love is a thing that can never go wrong
Fandom: Orange Is The New Black
Length: 913 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Orange Is The New Black, Big Boo (+ or /any), puppy love
Pairing: Boo/various OFCs
Other: n/a

Excerpt: Boo falls in love with Katherine right away. At almost eighteen she is amazingly worldly, and Boo likes the taste of her tattoos, the soft sleekness of her skin. She gets out two months after Boo goes in.

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[Avatar: The Last Airbender] all traces of reality (Iroh and Toph gen)

Title: all traces of reality
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Length: 981 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh and Toph, painting by feel
Pairing: Iroh and Toph gen
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "I'll think about it," Toph says. They move on to talking about other things, but the next time she comes to visit she brings her own canvas, newly purchased in the market. From the way she purses her lips, he thinks the seller might have been a bit rude when selling a canvas to a blind woman, but he is sure the merchant learned an important lesson that day about judging others.

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[Doctor Who] only who is left (Martha gen)

Title: only who is left
Fandom: Doctor Who
Length: 686 words
Prompt: MARTHA JONES APPRECIATION DAY, 9/25/14 (I wrote this and then forgot to post it on the right date)
Pairing: Martha gen; Martha/Tom
Other: Set post S3. Some PSTD themes.

Excerpt: How Martha came to join UNIT. When she meets Tom again, for the first time, she thinks it will help. He doesn't remember anything from that time, isn't steeped in terror and loss, doesn't have nightmares about deaths and deaths and deaths. He had been a good man, during the Year that Never Was, and he is a good man now. She could love him again.

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[Legend of Korra] nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself (Korra gen)

Title: nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself
Fandom: Legend of Korra
Length: 826 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Legend of Korra, Korra, sometimes she wonders what advice she could possibly give the next Avatar
Pairing: Korra gen
Other: Set directly post S3; written before the start of S4.

Excerpt: Korra has a lot of time now for thinking, since her body isn't listening to her. Her thoughts fill up her skull until she can almost feel actual pressure in her temples. The headaches are nearly blinding and she has them all the time. It's a side-effect of the poison, Katara tells her, but she is a little more thorough the next time she checks on Korra.

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[Chrestomanci] being born slowly (Christopher/Millie)

Title: being born slowly
Fandom: Chrestomanci Chronicles
Length: 1234 words
Prompt: Yuletide NYR for blueyeti: kinky Goddess sex with all the extra arms; also archived here.
Pairing: Christopher/Millie
Other: PWP; NC-17 for sex.

Excerpt: "It's been a while since I've tried to do this," Millie said, a bit uncertainly. She stood in the bathroom doorway and looked at her husband, sprawled out on the bed with his head propped in his hands. He was studying her like an artist studied a subject, his eyes roaming over her, enjoying the way her hips curved in the light of the moon. He'd loosened his cravat.

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[Star Trek: TNG] although Data offers to officiate, they marry in the vineyard (Crusher/Picard)

Title: although Data offers to officiate, they marry in the vineyard
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Length: 375 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Star Trek: TNG, Picard/Crusher, married
Pairing: Beverly Crusher/Jean-Luc Picard
Other: n/a

Excerpt: "What? Really?" Wesley leans in close to the screen as if checking the connection. She laughs. Her heart feels light. She's been floating ever since Jean-Luc asked her. She'd expected him to ask -- they'd had plenty of previous discussion of the matter -- but it is still astonishing to have the ring on her finger. (His grandmother's, once, rose-gold and simple. He says it sets off her hair.)

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[Madoka Magica/Sailor Moon] a world possibly not born (Homura gen)

Title: a world possibly not born
Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Sailor Moon
Length 128 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Sailor Moon, any, what if the Puella Magi and the Sailor Scouts existed in the same universe?
Pairing: Homura gen
Other: PG for creepy.

Excerpt: They have died so many times for their princess, and they will die again. They rise like zombies and they fall like mountains and they get up again, again.

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[Magic Knight Rayearth] it is not even past (Fuu/Ferio)

Title: it is not even past
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth
Length: 457 words
Prompt: fic_promptly: Magic Knight Rayearth, Fuu/Ferio, memories
Pairing: Fuu/Ferio
Other: Post-series.

Excerpt: Ferio takes a long look around them before sitting down beside her again. His hand is on his sword. Dreams become reality here, sometimes. But hers will never happen again. It is the one thing she can guarantee.

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