Hermosa is back in his own home, but confined to the building…blocked from talking to his fugitive spouse…and dealing with the world’s worst babysitter.
Labyrinth (1986) | Jareth/Sarah | T | Anthropomorphism
Sarah is studying at university in Australia. She tells a story to a friend from her residence hall about an anthropomorphic personification she once met. pairing:jareth_sarah,series:labyrinth,fic:chaptered
Labyrinth | Jareth/Sarah, Sarah/OCs, ensemble | T | Unlock This Door!
“That can’t be a hollow promise, Sarah. You actually have to mean it. You are exchanging proffered friendship to me for your brother’s freedom.” fic:chaptered,series:temeraire,pairing:jareth_sarah,pairing:sarah_others
Labyrinth | Jareth, Sarah, Worms | T | Formal Separates #2
It was worth a shot. Maybe one of the instrument cases had a hidden panel. She ran to the nearest wall and started pressing various parts, frantically scrabbling at the paneling. Nothing. She turned to the next wall and though better of it. Well, we can rule out that one over there; there’s only hallway behind it……of course! series:labyrinth,genfic,fic:one-shot
Labyrinth (1986) | Jareth/Sarah | T | Fading
There is a forfeit to be paid when you offer yourself to another. He is paying that forfeit now: a slow decay into nothing, a rest he’s at first so ready for. She doesn’t need him to fade the way she used, and when he sees her again after so long, he doesn’t particularly want to. But villains, he knows, aren’t here to get what they want. Villains are here to die. series:labyrinth,pairing:jareth_sarah,fic:chaptered
And where there are goblins, there are Goblin Kings. genfic,fic:one-shot,crossover,series:labyrinth,series:harry potter
The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, ART, OCs | T | about what
redacted note: The SecUnit and Archambeau are still unaccounted for. I don’t think they ever will be, so let’s preemptively put this report in the folder of useless reports. trope:outsider.pov,series:murderbot diaries,fic:one-shot,genfic,kink:identity porn
The Murderbot Diaries | Gurathin | T | Inventory
Gurathin had put off watching Bharadwaj’s documentary, but when he finds it playing on the transit ring, he can’t look away. series:murderbot diaries,genfic,fic:one-shot
The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, ART, Mensah, PresAux | T | Stupid Unreliable Magic
Murderbot has never had a soulbond, (~can~ never have a soulbond. The feature that prevents it is not so easily hacked as a Governor Module.) and it really wishes everyone would stop talking about them, because it doesn’t want them and it’s not interested at all, thankyouverymuch. pairing:art_murderbot,series:murderbot diaries,pairing:mensah_murderbot,kink:soulbond,fic:one-shot
The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, Mensah, Gurathin | T | Neurofeedback
“Constructs have coding so deep and fundamental, that I think it must be similar to what humans call instinct. And the company had gone in that deep when fucking me over, just to be thorough. I’ve spent months trying to unfuck my brain, in between everything else, and I’m beginning to think it’s just not possible.” genfic,series:murderbot diaries,fic:one-shot,trope:hurt-comfort,trope:trauma
The Murderbot Diaries | ART, Gurathin, Murderbot, Ratthi, Pin-Lee | T | Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Gurathin had been typically quiet in the meetings. The many meetings. Gurathin was always quiet. But he’d requested all the available footage and transcripts they had, especially the ones of Amena’s conversations. And he’d spoken to her. That should have alerted him. That wasn’t like Gurathin. genfic,fic:one-shot,series:murderbot diaries
I gave New Computer another update — this time making a point of backing up a bunch of stuff, just in case I had to do another reinstall from scratch.
Not only did the process go fine, the camera works again!
(This update was only released a couple weeks ago, and the camera-breaking update was a couple months ago, so it’s not like I could’ve just done that from the start. Someone on the development end had to fix what they broke.)
…so, ah, fingers crossed that it’ll fix the other weird problem, where the computer spontaneously decides it wants to reboot into a diagnostic scan. Which always finds no problems, just like all the previous scans.
Plot twist: I paid more attention to when these happen, and the last 3 times were on Thursday afternoon. So this past Thursday morning, I shut down the computer completely, then headed out to work.
I get home, and it’s on this screen again. Something in here didn’t just reboot the OS, it autonomously powered the machine on.
I mean. What even does that?
The camera-fixing update was later that evening, so I guess we’ll find out “did it also fix the spontaneous diagnostics?” next Thursday.
Had an extensive dream that was an AU of The Secret Garden, but Mary Lennox was a tween necromancer, Gideon the Ninth style.
…and now that I think about it, the parallels are there? Not to Harrow, I mean to Gideon’s backstory of “was a small child when a fatal affliction swept through the whole group around her, later retrieved after being discovered surrounded by bodies.”
Maybe I’ll request it for Yuletide, or something.
It’s that magical time of year when I put Kickstarter logos in all my social-media icons, re-re-proofread all my ad copy, and anxiously look up how much it costs to ship a 5-pound box to Germany.
Please click that link and hit the “Notify me on launch” button, if you haven’t already!
And folks, I am so close to the weight where, if someone wants All The Leif & Thorn Books, the cheapest method is to pack them in a Flat Rate box. 4 books isn’t quite there — but at 5 books the flat rate is cheaper, and at 6 it’ll be much cheaper, and once we get up to 9 it’ll be astronomically cheaper.
…when we get to 10, they won’t all fit in a single box. But that’s a future problem.
(Not that I’m going to do this, but: there would be something really satisfying about drawing enough to fill 9 books, and then stopping the comic, just so it’s a perfect fit for the boxes.)
This was a spectacularly bad idea, but not entirely for the reasons you’d assume. series:puella magi madoka magica,genfic,fic:one-shot,trope:apocalypse
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | holy quintet | G | The Quad
“I don’t know. One day, they just started getting all touchy, and started calling me their e-lane.’ It’s weird.” genfic,series:puella magi madoka magica,crackfic,fic:one-shot
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Homura/Madoka | G | A Red Umbrella
Homura has been looping time for the past year, and she’s exhausted. She’s so exhausted she hasn’t even noticed that Madoka is in love with her and being really obvious about it. series:puella magi madoka magica,fic:chaptered,pairing:homura_madoka,yuri,trope:timetravel
Monstrous Regiment | Maladict/Polly | T | The Yunk and the Restless
Polly spends the night in a nest of vampires. It involves questionable accents, even more questionable nightclothes, and a certain amount of confusion over quite how she ended up classified as Maladicta’s ‘yunk lady’. pairing:polly_mal,series:discworld,yuri,fic:one-shot,trope:vampires
original | T | Unknown Number
– Ok you’re saying that you’re me
– From another timeline
– contacting me by fucking TEXT MESSAGE fic:socialmedia,genfic,original,trope:genderplay
Aladdin | Aladdin/Jasmine, Rajah | G | The Tigers Have Spoken
Rajah plants himself in the middle of the doorway. He is a solid barrier, but he is also ready to move, should the boy decide to try any of his idiot cleverness. He knows the boy can tell. series:aladdin,pairing:aladdin_jasmine,trope:outsider.pov,fic:one-shot
The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, PresAUX | T | choiceless hope in grief
SecUnits are pre-programmed to die fifty years after initial activation. Murderbot doesn’t know that its humans want to celebrate its birthday, and said humans do not expect it to suddenly shut down. series:murderbot diaries,genfic,trope:hurt-comfort,fic:one-shot
The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, daemon, team | G | Sense of Self
Humans and augmented humans tend to assume that constructs have daemons because we straddle the line between true sentience and a bunch of pre-programmed subroutines mindlessly following orders (not that humans are as clearly on one side of that line as they like to think), but it has nothing to do with intelligence levels. It’s just that we have a lot of organic parts mostly made from human genetic material, and where you have life composed of human DNA, you eventually get a daemon. series:his dark materials,series:murderbot diaries,genfic,fic:one-shot
We are in the midst of organizing you a team, and have acquired a test subject of special interest. series:murderbot diaries,fic:chaptered,trope:hurt-comfort,trope:trauma,genfic
The Murderbot Diaries | Murderbot, Mensah, Amena, Three | G | Memory
“All I’m saying is, Aoide is making some choices that you would never consider making for yourself, and maybe you find it difficult to be supportive. But that doesn’t make those choices wrong. And I think you would make it happy by showing a little interest.” series:murderbot diaries,genfic,fic:one-shot,trope:kidfic
That is probably not a very good thing, considering its function is to protect their lives at every cost. But they simply do not strike it as very nice people. series:murderbot diaries,genfic,fic:one-shot
The Murderbot Diaries | Three, Amena, Ratthi, kids | G | Three Hugs for Three
Why didn’t you send me back to Barish-Estranza? Or just leave me on the planet? What should I be doing? Why do you trust me enough to sit here this close to me? Why did you come in here? Why did SecUnit tag you ‘my human friend’ in the files it sent me? And why did you just call me friend? genfic,series:murderbot diaries,fic:one-shot,fic:five times,trope:outsider.pov
Humanist+Humorist 