As of January 2010, this journal is archive-only. All entries except for fanfiction have been locked.

If you are looking for a particular story, please consult the "fic" tag or the tag for the individual fandom.

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So, despite my fannish absenteeism, I have acquired a new fandom: True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries. And despite myself, I ended up pounding out like, 11k worth of fic over the last three days.

It's way too long for one LJ post and I don't feel like breaking it up into multiples, so I'm linking to my ff.net account instead. Not my primary account, but the one that hosts my HP badfic. Let that be a warning to you.

We Who Are Alive and Remain
by Branwyn

fandom: True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries
pairing: Eric/Sookie
rating: M
warnings: no idea, honestly.
notes: book canon. Seriously, seriously book canon, like, if you've never read the books, you're not even going to recognize Eric, cause he's a totally different character. I can never keep the book titles straight, but it's set after book five and before...book eight, I think?

summary: Sookie loses control of her telepathy. Since there isn't a single vampire she knows who wouldn't kill her if word got out she could read vampire minds, she's basically waiting to die.

here

PS: For some reason, only the dropdown menu on chapter one links to the epilogue at the moment. I don't know why. So if you get to the end of six and can't find the ending, just backbutton.

In January, I retired this journal (and my involvement in fandom) because I made a committment--a New Year's resolution, in fact--to write a new draft of my novel from start to finish. I started the novel in 2006, when I was still unemployed, living with my parents, and had no prospects of anything but a short, miserable life smoking myself to death in my parents' backyard.

So, even though it's 4 am and none of you are awake and I'm too tired to say this properly, I wanted to tell that a few minutes ago I finished the novel, two months before my self-imposed deadline. For a long time, I never really expected I would get to this point. I suspected I didn't have it in me to ever finish anything that mattered. But then it happened, so I guess I do.

I wouldn't have been able to write it if I hadn't finally, two years ago, risen out of the mire and found a job that suited me and an apartment away from my parents. And I would never have done that if, through this journal, I hadn't found a community of people who buoyed me through the isolation and self-loathing of pretty much my entire early twenties.

A number of you followed me over to bnharrison, my writing journal, and I continue to be grateful for your support there. Some of you didn't, which I understand, so I wanted to tell you that I miss you and think of you often, and consider you to have played a part in the general not-suckiness of my life as it is now.

I'm taking a break to let the novel percolate before revisions, and while I know that there may never be a time in my life when I will have room to participate in fandom the way I used to, I do have some fic that, after two years, still seems to want to be written. So I may be posting some stories in the near future. Harry Potter, it turns out, is the one fandom I seem destined never to leave quite behind.

Anyway, I just wanted to share the news. I hope you're well.

Never Entirely Free
by Branwyn

fandom: HP
pairing: Sirius Black/Rose Potter
notes: Part of my girl!Harry AU; set during Girl in the War, five months before Twelve Hundred Hours
rating: a hard R, I'd say. If you want to get an idea what to expect, see the Year Five section of "Girl in the War".
warnings: no actual sex, but themes of dubcon, indecent liberties with a minor, and the confused, burbling morass of teenage female sexuality that is the main character.

summary: Every relationship in Rose's life is more complicated than it ought to be.

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( here )

A Spark in Drought
by Branwyn

fandom: Mary Russell
pairing: Russell/Mahmoud
setting: Justice Hall
notes: Sequel to my other R/M story, "A Thousand Times"

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...I wanted only to die, moon-dark, blessed,

Poised beneath the driest arrows of my suffering,
Far from the flocks of burning, singing gulls,
Face to face with the God of my childhood.

Noelle Kocot

( here )

So I sort of stopped writing fic like a year ago, but a few weeks ago The Language of Bees came out and jump started my old passion for the Russell/Holmes books by Laurie R. King, and the next thing you know lizbee wanted a story, and I wrote it.


A Thousand Times
by Branwyn

fandom: Mary Russell
pairing: Russell/Mahmoud
spoilers: BEEK and OJER. AU that takes place in the Palestine adventure in 1919.
warnings: character death and torture
notes: lizbee made me do it.


Come, come, whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

Rumi


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( They bury Holmes at night. )

one of these mornings
by Branwyn

fandom: Doctor Who
spoilers: through "Journey's End"
rating: PG
notes: Gratuitous 4x13-compliant fixit fic, with added baby. Not Doctor/Donna, exactly, but definitely DoctorDonna. Thanks to prof_pangaea for hand holding and idea-wrangling.

summary: Donna comes back to herself.

( cut. )

him in the clouds
by Branwyn

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fandom: Doctor Who
rating: R (I really mean that)
summary: Jenny is looking for her father.
pairing: Master/Jenny, Master/Doctor
warning: there's no actual sex in the story, but there are incest themes.

notes: bit_of_muslin and angevin2 kindly did not disown me when I made them read pieces of this, and, as usual, lizbee validated my id.

lizbee: [upon reading the final draft] Okay, that works. It totally works.
cesario: But I'm totally going to hell, right?
lizbee: Yes. You really are.

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( She was never a child. )

Twelve Hundred Hours
by Branwyn

fandom: HP
notes: part of my girl!Harry series. Prequel to Girl In the War. 5514 words.
pairing: heavy Rose/Snape UST, mentions of James/Sirius


summary: Sometimes Rose thinks her relationship with Snape is a lot more complicated than her relationship with any of her teachers ought to be.

Silence, and stealth of days! 'tis now
Since thou art gone,
Twelve hundred hours, and not a brow
But clouds hang on.

Henry Vaughan

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A Moment's Grace
by Branwyn

Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Two, Martha, Sally Sparrow
Spoilers: just before 3x13 "Last of the Time Lords"
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: On the eve of her return to England, a weary Martha Jones meets an old friend for the first time.
Author’s notes: Blame doyle_sb4 for this. She sent me a DVD of "The Mind Robber", which made me fall in love with Two. And violetisblue wrote some meta on Martha that made me see he was just her type.

Thanks to rj_anderson, lizbee, and biichan for betas and hand-holding.

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