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I wrote a story: Five Brains Olivia Moore Never Ate (5621 words) by rivkat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: iZombie (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ravi Chakrabarti, Liv Moore, Clive Babineaux
Additional Tags: five things, Friendship, profound bonds, Vampires
Summary:

Set during the first season, more or less. Liv and Ravi go through a lot together, but the together makes the lot worthwhile. Warning: offscreen animal death. (And people death, see premise of show.)



And I got a story! Laugh with Me, Buddy (2567 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: iZombie (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: implied Major Lilywhite/Liv Moore, Ravi Chakrabarti/Peyton Charles
Characters: Ravi Chakrabarti, Major Lilywhite, Liv Moore
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

“Remind we why we can’t be on lawyer brains for this?” Liv asked. It came out slightly muffled, considering she still had half her face pressed against a flat surface. “Or politician brains? Ambassador brains, debutante brains, any brains but our own?”

“Ethical integrity,” Major supplied, and shrugged at the petulant frown Liv flashed in response. “Hey, it wasn’t my idea. I was all about ceding the moral high ground on this one, but Mayor Charles and our collective counsel were pretty insistent we not do anything to ‘preemptively alienate our human audience.’” He put the last part in finger quotes.


Very nice character voices, especially the sweet bro interaction between Major and Ravi (and Ravi’s equally awesome outfit) and the history between Liv and Major. Ignores S5 because why would you pay attention to that if you didn’t have to?

Also:
The Rock Star Reunion Irrelevancy (2163 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Middleman (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Middleman & Wendy Watson
Characters: Wendy Watson, The Middleman
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Humor
Summary:

Strange things are afoot at the Osbourne Arena.



Each hair band joke is better than the next. Sweet child o’ mine, Dubbie!

rivkat: Chloe: Here to cheer on a mission from God (chloe cheers)
( Dec. 26th, 2012 09:28 am)
Political Animals: Please come back, show! It is like The West Wing if Aaron Sorkin/the writers had known how to write for more women than C.J. (unfortunately it is like that down to implausible thriller twist at season’s end, but you can’t have everything, and you can have Sigourney Weaver, so).

In Ascension, By Descent (14742 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Political Animals
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Underage
Relationships: Thomas "T. J." Hammond/Original Male Character(s), Douglas Hammond/Original Female Character(s), Thomas "T.J." Hammond/Original Female Character(s), Douglas Hammond/Anne Ogami
Characters: Douglas Hammond, Thomas "T. J." Hammond, Bud Hammond, Elaine Barrish, Margaret Barrish, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Mallory
Summary:

The pattern of Doug and T.J.'s lives were set even before they set foot in the White House. Somewhere along the way, things changed.

This Yuletide story does a great job of bringing backstory to the brothers’ complicated relationship. “T.J. gets it. He can be the queer son, but not the screw-up. He doesn't get to be both.”  The "underage" is not explicit; the most explicit bit is canonical.

The Mirrorverse Doppelganger Visitation (9522 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Middleman (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Tyler Ford/Wendy Watson, The Middleman/Lacey Thornfield
Characters: Wendy Watson, Lacey Thornfield, The Middleman, Tyler Ford
Summary:

"What a crazy, random happenstance."

Someone from the mirror universe drops in for a visit. “Friendship is Magic, Dubbie!” This fandom is the gift that keeps on giving; this story feels very much like a filmed episode.

Cartes Postales (21631 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Blossom Culp Series - Richard Peck
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Blossom Culp/Alexander Armsworth
Characters: Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth
Summary:

Alexander discovers that not all postcards are meant to be mailed, and Blossom acknowledges that some curses may be averted but others only embraced.

Blossom Culp! I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed her until I read this novella with its happily ever after.
My Yuletide story was Anna to the Infinite Power, Divergence to Infinity.

A couple of other things:

Mutant Rights, Marvel arguing that X-Men are monsters and not humans for tax purposes.

Sweet Eureka episodic goodness, Pterosaurs for All.

Haven, Duke Ex Machina, equally sweet in its own way.

The Middleman, The Infernal Celibacy Rededication. Roxy Wasserman! The Booty Chest!

Fannish freecycle: I now have an extra copy of The Hunger Games. Comment or email me at rivkat at gmail if you want it.  Ties broken by randomness.
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Dec. 27th, 2009 08:30 pm)
I am slowly uploading all my old stories to the A03. As a nonuser of ff.net, I’ve already found an advantage of the Archive, which is more comments on my rare fandom stories. I presume people are taking the Yuletide opportunity to browse all the stories in their selected fandoms. I myself have barely started to browse the archive, except that I clicked on the fandom tag for Fringe and found 130 stories!

Selected recs:

Fringe, Help Wanted: Why does Astrid put up with her job? Because she does good and she’s good at it. You should listen to her, as Walter has already learned.

Better Off Ted, Mental Unwellness and the Myth of the Veridian Unicorn, in case you have a between-episode craving. I could hear everyone delivering their lines! Though I suspect the actual show will not incorporate Phil/Lem slash quite so explicitly.

Odyssey 5, The Random Frantic Actions that We Take, Kurt/Neil: brought the characters right back, including Kurt’s arrogance and Neil’s frustration with being a teen again.

Y: The Last Man, T is for Transcend: just because all the XYs died doesn’t mean all the men did. This story is my canon now.

The Middleman, The Mirrorball Malefaction Misapprehension: as with many of these, the beauty is in the voices, absolutely credible. The author had me at “Heart of glass!”
1. My own website won’t recognize my login! This makes me worry. The CMS is nice in many ways, but I am starting to realize how vulnerable I am now that I rely on something beyond the hand-coded html I can make myself.

2. I’ve been using this free file-hosting service Dropbox, and I think it’s great for document management—I keep all my works in progress, as well as other stuff including teaching materials, in my Dropbox folder. That means I can access them on all my computers and on my iPhone and have changes automatically updated across all my devices. It’s good for joint writing projects for the same reason. You get 2 gigs free, [ETA: I've maxed out on free space, so I'm not asking anyone else to sign up via me any more.  I still recommend the service though]. I’ve been using the service for nearly a year, I’m highly satisfied, and I only get email from them when I’m near to filling my space. So anyone interested in trying the service/helping a girl out, I encourage you to check it out.

3. I’m also on Google Wave now, though I still don’t know what it’s for. I’m rivkat and if you want an invite or if you want to connect there, let me know!

4 etc. Realms of Fantasy has made its Feb. 2010 issue available as a free download on its website. Aside from the skeevy naked-girl art from Frank Wu, I found the stories largely entertaining; Harlan Ellison, Leah Bobet, Euan Harvey, Aliette de Bodard, and Ann Leckie are the authors represented.

Middleman, Wild Cards, original slash, urban fantasy )
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