my stuff

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Hey, it’s Age of Ultron fic! Featuring the most minor of minor characters, naturally. And spoiler-tagged to heck.

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My Hero, By Lila Barton

We are not allowed to write this essay about a family member and I think that is stupid because my dad is an actual hero and my mom looks after me and my brother and my baby brother which I think is good. [Lila, it is not nice to call anything stupid – Mrs A] Anyway I decided to write this essay about my aunt. She is not my real aunt, although I have a real aunt who lives in Canada, she is my dads best friend. She is also my moms best friend. When Mom thought her baby was going to be a girl she was going to name it Natasha but it turned out to be a boy so she called it Nathaniel. I like my new brother a lot but he doesn’t do much. Mr Rogers (not that Mr Rogers) came with Auntie Natasha and gave him a bunch of toys and I thought that was silly because he won’t play with them. When I said that Mom told me to show some respect but Mr Rogers just laughed and said I had a healthy attytude [attitude – Mrs A] to grown ups and that was nice.

Auntie Nat brings people to the farm a lot to talk with Mom and Dad. Sometimes she brings Mr Wilson and he is my favorite because he always has sweets and he plays video games with me and Cooper and I think he lets us win which is good because Cooper gets mad when he loses. Anyway one time Auntie Nat came she had another lady with her, who had brown hair and a red jacket, I didn’t know who she was but when she saw the baby she started crying and crying and crying and Mom and Dad and Auntie Nat were nice to her until she stopped crying and she had dinner with us and she left.

Mom says she is the sister of the man who died saving Dad. I forgot to mention that happened. Anyway that was sad but Auntie Nat was nice.

Another thing I remembered just now is when Jessica made fun of me for not having Dad at the father’s day show and we had that fight and Mom had to go to the principal’s office but she had to work and Dad was in England I think because of Thor so Auntie Nat went to see the principal and [this sentence is way too long, Lila – Mrs A] he was really scared of her and she told him Jessica was bullying me and everything was all right. Then she took me to get ice cream and she said that though getting back at people who hurt you feels good it‘s not good and she quoted lots of Star Wars at me and I laughed.

Also she was at the Battle of New York and saved a lot of people. [Maybe this should have been in your opening sentence – Mrs A] She has super abbilitys [abilities – Mrs A] and can kill monsters and robots. That is very good. Mommy says some bad things happened to Auntie Nat in her life and she is honest about them even to newspapers and I think that is good too because people should always tell the truth. But she is mostly my hero because she is nice to me and my brothers and lots of other people and she did not have to be because lots of people who have bad stuff happen are not nice. But she is. That is my essay. Signed Lila Nicole Barton aged 6

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                and in the end, I’ll be what I will be

a Simon Petrikov fanmix, with cover art by tablart

so cold – breaking benjamin
lose your soul – dead man’s bones
scared of myself – simon dawes
the sound of silence – simon and garfunkel
i can’t change it – frankie miller
frozen – within temptation
devil – the servant
the man who would be king – the libertines
who’s gonna save my soul – gnarls barkley
gollum’s song – emilia torrini

listen on 8tracks

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Ten years ago to the day, I started writing a Doctor Who fanfic called Turn of the Earth. I even made a whole lot of graphics/covers/etc for it, as fanfic writers did back then. You can see one up there; sadly it’s easily the best of the bunch.

Turn of the Earth was a gloriously jumbled affair about Mickey Smith and the briefly mentioned (in Boomtown) new girlfriend of his: Trisha Delaney. This fic was running concurrent to the actual series, so as Mickey got drawn further and further into the Doctor’s world, Trisha (who wasn’t even introduced til Part 3) took over as protagonist.

I loved Trisha so much. Russell T Davies, the writer of Boomtown, didn’t really have a lot to say about her. Just a brief description via Rose: “She’s nice. She’s a bit…big.” Mickey’s reaction was “She lost weight!” so I wondered if he actually liked this Trisha, and I decided he did. But what was she like? Why did she lose weight? What did she think of Rose? Did she feel like a rebound? And so on.

I don’t suppose Trisha meant more than a throwaway line to Russell T Davies, a quick plot device to show how far apart Rose and Mickey had grown (there’s even a cut line from The Parting of the Ways where Rose asks “How’s Trisha?” and Mickey says “Don’t care”) but once I started writing her, she meant the world to me. So did the people around her: Shareen Costello (another throwaway name you might remember from the series), her father, her mother, her brothers, her neighbours, and of course Mickey and Jackie. I wanted the Powell Estate and the people there to have lives, because (fairly or unfairly) I never really got the feeling Russell T Davies thought much of it or them.

I don’t know if I did or didn’t manage it, but I did give at least Trisha and Shareen lives, I think. They saw the world end – the Battle of Canary Wharf affected everyone, after all – but they survived. And they built a friendship that I think is actually the heart of the entire story, even though that wasn’t the intention at the beginning.

Stories about the people left behind on Earth while the adventure carries on someplace else are my favourite stories. (That’s probably why I latched onto Mickey so hard to begin with.) What does it mean, to be involved in the story, but have no control over it? Even now, watching the current series of Doctor Who, I wonder about Trisha and what she’s doing while the Cybermen invade, the dead rise, monsters stalk the street and so on. Canonically, Clara Oswald lives on the Powell Estate now. In my head, her and Trisha have met at least once, and liked each other. Shareen, who became a journalist in my story, has interviewed her at least once regarding UNIT. And they all lived happily ever after. No, they really did.

Turn of the Earth is on AO3 now (although obviously if you clicked the other link you’ll have seen that.) I thought it deserved to be there with my other ‘good’ fic. It didn’t even need much editing, to my surprise. Seventeen-year-old me apparently knew what she was doing. The only thing I took out was any reference at all to Trisha’s weight as a negative.

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we are never, ever, ever getting back together!
A short and sweet (okay, maybe not sweet) Bubbline fanmix

1. I’m Just Your Problem (Elena Íviel Berciano and Nicole Vaquerano, Adventure Time cover)
2. Trouble (Natalia Kills)
3. Rebel Girl (Bikini Kill)
4. Bubblegum Bitch (Marina and the Diamonds)
5. Simple and Clean (Utada Hikaru)
6. Starring Role (Marina and the Diamonds)
7. Cherry Bomb (The Runaways)
8. Dancing With Myself (The Donnas)
9. We Are Complicated (Taylor Swift/Avril Lavigne)

WHEN YOU SEE THIS, SHARE 3 RANDOM LINES FROM 3 WIPS.

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1. Holmes smiled in that infuriating, though affectionate, way of his. “Ah, Watson, You need to polish up on your French. Grantaire – or grand R; capital R. An approprate moniker. And a clever man to adopt it. I do not think drink dulled his wits much, Léa.”

2. “Well, you were the one who shot me,” said the Master, in the manner of a petulant child. “You were a very very NAUGHTY girl, Lucy.” She said ‘naughty’ as if she was spitting out a tasty sweet.

3. “All my thoughts of war and glory, and I never considered the grief of my brother, or my uncle, or any of those who may have loved me,” Eowyn said. “It feels almost like a punishment now, that I feel what they might have felt, had I fallen. Alas for my uncle! And alas for the uncle my children will not know.”

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Goblin Songs -a mix for the Osborns and their family curse

[Meds – Placebo]  [Getting Away With Murder – Papa Roach]  [Haemoglobin – Placebo]  [Turn Around -They Might Be Giants]  [Lullaby – Editors]  [Devils – The 69 Eyes]  [No Son Of Mine – Genesis]  [Here It Comes Again – Korn]  [Scary Monsters and Super Creeps – David Bowie]  [I Can’t Decide – Scissor Sisters]  [Pity The Child – Chess]  [Hello My Treacherous Friends – OK Go]  [You Are A Runner And I Am My Father’s Son – Wolf Parade]  [Prodigal – Porcupine Tree]  [Only Human – Tides Of Man]  [That’s My Boy – VAST]  [Nightmare Part II – The Zutons]  [If I Had A Heart – Fever Ray]

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thank god I’m pretty – emilie autumn

I’m blessed with the ability to rend a grown man tongue-tied
which only means that when it’s dark outside
I have to run and hide can’t look behind me

starring role – marina and the diamonds

it almost feels like a joke to play out the part
when you are not the starring role in someone else’s heart

dancing with myself – the donnas

if I had the chance I’d ask the world to dance

superman’s dead – our lady peace

you’re happy cos you smile, but how much can you fake

king of the world – first aid kit

that I would be so blinded, turn a deaf ear
and my fake laugh would suddenly sound sincere

hear me – kelly clarkson

and baby I’ve fought for all that I’ve got

you’re not alone – marie miller

if there’s anything I’d say
I’ll tell you right now
you’re not alone

catch me when I fall – ashlee simpson

when the show is over and it’s empty everywhere
it’s hard to face going back alone

falling – florence and the machine

fallen out of taxis, out of windows too
fell in your opinion when I fell in love with you

I’m through with love – ella fitzgerald

I mean to care for no-one

girls like you – the naked and famous

how could you dance if no-one was watching
and you couldn’t even get off the floor?

[listen on 8tracks]

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evayna: (fic writing thing) Grantaire had a tendency to sprawl across his chair and onto the floor like drizzle on a cake, so it was just a matter of time before someone tripped over him. 

Grantaire had never seen Enjolras do something as human and normal as fall over (he was, however, absolutely alone in that) so he just snorted and stayed where he was. Enjolras afforded him no more than a dirty look. Bossuet poked him with his foot.

“My guests are leaving their unwanted items on the floor again, I see,” Madame Hucheloup said. She had a broom in her hand, and she made a gesture as if she was going to place it squarely on his face.

[for the five-more-sentences-of-fanfic meme!]

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THE CLARAFIC IS FINALLY DONE

Title: Ghosts
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Clara Oswald
Also starring: Danny Pink, the Maitlands, Courtney Woods, Kate Stewart, Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, the Child
Summary: The ghosts, dead and living, that haunt Clara Oswald.

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