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My Yuletide contribution this year. I'm still not totally happy with the tenses. I think one of things I want to work on this year is my writing *skills* - not writing more, we know how that would end, but the art of writing itself. Hmm.

The title came from the dream that I had after getting the assignment. I just couldn't shake an image of Jimmy Dugan handling a baseball, tracing his fingers over the stitches.

Anyway. Yuletide!

TITLE: One Hundred and Eight Stitches
FANDOM: A League of Their Own (1992)
RATING: PG-13
PAIRING: Dottie/Jimmy
SUMMARY: Jimmy, reluctant, and Dottie, uncertain, and what holds it all together.

Written for elegantstupidity 

AO3 link

Hello Yuletide Author! Here's a few things to get you started if you're wondering what I might like in a story.

I love character-driven stories, missing scenes, in-universe AUs like different meet-cutes or paths not taken, angst with happy endings. I like gen pieces as much as romance. I'm more into het pairings in the fandoms I've chosen. Prefer stories that aren't heavy on the sex. Unrequited love, especially when the principals both know about it, can really be fun, too. In each of my requested fandoms, I'm totally cool with other canon characters and especially with worldbuilding where it fits.

My DNWs are non-canonical character death, fridging, graphic sex or violence (canon-typical violence in sci-fi or fantasy requests is okay), non-canonical or real-life politics, and modern/soul-mark/coffee shop/high school/university/pregnancy AU.

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TITLE: Sorrows the Worlds Know Not
FANDOM: Star Wars
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: Leia, in mourning, and Amilyn, having fled, meet and grow up, and resist.

Written for the 2019 May the 4th Be With You exchange, for ljparis .

On AO3 or below the cut.

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Super excited about this exchange (as I am about them all, really). It isn't very often that there are opportunities for gen fic in this manner.

So, dear author, here are some things you should know generally, and then under the cut are some fandom-specific thoughts.

I like world-building, stories that take place in unexpected places or that include some detail about surroundings. I like character-driven stories, ones that include backstory or off-screen speculation and events. I'm fond of secondary and minor characters, their perspectives on the bigger events. I like main characters, too, and getting different viewpoints from them. Angst is my cup of tea, though not sexual violence of any kind.   Non-canonical character death is okay if it furthers your story.  Seeing as how this is a gen exchange, and some of my requests are more traditionally shippy, I need to clarify that I really enjoy friendship stories or stories that deal with non-romantic aspects of a relationship that may BE romantic later. Team-building is awesome, partnerships between people who aren't very connected in canon or have very little screentime otherwise.

Okay, on to the fandoms.

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The Exchange at Fic Corner is a gift exchange for fic based on children's and YA books and short stories from picture books to edgy teen novels.  They are holding sign-ups for this exchange right now, due to end on Wednesday.  Would really love to see wider participation on this one!  Assignments are due August 21.

TITLE: A Thing of Beauty
FANDOM: Harry Potter
CHARACTERS: Hermione Granger, Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, Hermione's Parents
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: If Hermione was successful in nothing else, she at least saved one beautiful thing during the war.

For pauraque, filling a prompt from a prior post pleading for such. I haven't written Hermione ever, Harry Potter at all in ages, and I didn't reread anything before writing. So....thanks, Google? :-)

Here under the cut, or on AO3.

( She was the cleverest witch of their generation )

I didn't add this to my sign-up in time, but I'll link it on the DW page for the challenge.

First, thanks for offering in one of these fandoms, and thanks in advance for taking the time to create something!  You're awesome just for that, truly.

Generally, things you should know about my likes/dislikes: I prefer angst over fluff, I like happy endings that come after struggle or discord, I love character studies and backstories. I love minor characters in fic, the chance to flesh out what we don't see on the page or screen. Not into pregnancy AU, high school or university AU, or modern AU. While I love angst, I don't love trauma, especially of the sexual variety. Not into threesome pairings in any of my requested fandoms and prefer femslash if any slash (though not graphic).

Specifics: 

AUSTEN Jane - Works - Gen in the male friendships listed: Wentworth and Harville (would LOVE an adventure-on-the-high-seas, bonding over age and situation, etc.  Harville finding out the details of how Anne broke it off with Frederick, but set against a broader story) and Darcy and Bingley (Bingley being generally wiser and more mature than he's usually depicted, origin tale for his friendship with Darcy, gentlemen-about-town stories, etc).  For Elinor/Colonel Brandon, I'd love to see them end up together from the get-go, not because of Marianne's later death or betrayal, something sweet but not cloying.  Wouldn't mind seeing Elinor and Brandon meeting up with Darcy and Elizabeth somehow, Lizzie and Elinor becoming confidantes in some way.  For Elizabeth/Darcy on their own, I love canon-divergent stories about how they got together, such as they realized their feelings sooner, took action sooner, Lizzie says yes the first time, or things took longer, they met in a different situation, etc.  Sky's the limit, right?  :-)

Dawson's Creek - Well, I sail on the good 'ship Joey/Pacey, but I love the barely-requited high school feel of Joey/Dawson.  Play on my heartstrings with bittersweet teenage goodness!  Prefer Joey's POV for this, especially at the latest part of their relationship, maybe even during a time later when they are about to try again and Joey's most in the throes of nostalgia.  Alternately, friendship stories about the three of them are awesome.  Of the three, if it's a solo tale, Pacey would be most interesting to me.  

Possession - A.S. Byatt - Hmm.  I love Christabel/Randolph so much, and I think the thing I want most is for it to work out for them somehow.  To keep from handing out too much collateral damage (poor Blanche!), why not have them meet younger?  Different circumstances?  Maybe their love remains unrequited and on the page, maybe they are discovered and there's a scandal but all ends well, who knows.  Another thought - May Bailey discovers her parentage after all, because SHE finds the letters.  How would that go?  When would it happen, and if Randolph still lives, would she seek him out?  So much possibility!

First couple of drabbles (both Firefly) are here.

I'm not limiting myself to word count, but everything will be a minimum of 100 words.

This is just the XF ones. I think I've got 2 or 3 to go, West Wing and Buffy. Look for them probably tomorrow night or Tuesday.

Here we go!

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Title: White-Armed Persephone (The I Am 83429 Remix)
Author: maidenjedi
Summary: She ate pomegranate seeds, and returned to the underworld for a season every year.
Rating: R
Fandom: The West Wing
Warnings: References to kidnapping and non-sexual assault
Spoilers: Through "Jefferson Lives"
Title, Author and URL of original story: "Janus" by sangerin: http://sangerin.livejournal.com/324694.html

Written for remixredux08


( White-Armed Persephone (The I Am 83429 Remix) )