jedibuttercup

Title: I With Thee Have Fixed My Lot
Author: jedibuttercup
Fandom: Ready or Not (2019)
Rating: M; Grace/Daniel, past Grace/Alex
Warnings/Notes: For the 2024 iddyiddybangbang. Begun for a NYR request for Othalla, finished for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang 2024. (In which Grace knew what she was getting into with the Le Domases, and she's come to ruin them.) Titled from a line in Paradise Lost.

Summary: Forget justice for Uncle Charlie; Grace was furious enough now to want justice for herself, and every other Le Domas spouse betrayed to their deaths over the years. If she could somehow choose to exempt any of them from whatever justice fucking up their ritual would deliver, Alex would not be that one. (Daniel, though; he was another story entirely.) 14,800 words

( I With Thee Have Fixed My Lot ) (or read at AO3)

PG-13; Mission Impossible 2 tag; Ethan Hunt/Nyah Nordoff-Hall, 10,600 words.

"Let's get lost," Ethan murmured, smiling at her from inches away.
Nothing could have appealed to Nyah more in that moment.

At the Lowest Point

(For avocadomoon in fffx)

In 2023, as in 2022, I had three goals: sign up for getyourwordsout again, complete the Triple Crown, and clear off some more of those old request lists and WIPs.

Well, I sort of succeeded? Even if my wordcount went down by quite a bit. There were a few reasons for that, including RL busy-ness and Twisting the Hellmouth deciding to move the August crossover challenge off Livejournal to an inconvenient message board; but also, several of my exchange recipients did not respond to the fic I had written for them. (I love all the rest of you who read and comment, but when I'm writing for somebody specific, getting radio silence from them, for whatever reason, always lets the air out of my balloon a little). I did, however, fill a twelve-year-old prompt off a request list, and revisit some old series that had been languishing for awhile. Still no BAH update; but that thing's kind of a white whale at this point, I'm going to have to clear months off my writing schedule when I finally gird myself to tackle it, I think.

Goals for 2024: Once again, I'm going to sign up for getyourwordsout, complete the exchange Triple Crown, and maybe avoid signing up for quite so many littler exchanges in order to clear time for those lingering WIPs!

( On to the list of fic! )

T; Mansfield Park (Book); Fanny Price/Henry Crawford, 1600 words. Divergence AU.

Henry Crawford was perhaps not already so reformed as to pass up a tempting invitation in favour of a distant duty; but Fanny Price's influence over him had already left such a mark as to alter the course of events exceedingly.

The Completion of Their Happiness

(For ChronicBookworm in yuletide)

[Past: 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23]

As usual, I rounded all TV episodes (whether live or DVD) up to the nearest half-hour mark and all movies to two hours total, then added in repeats. I saw only four movies in theater during 2023; at home, I indulged in a lot of reality TV, streaming, and comfort rewatches (many of them for my 'I own it, but I haven't seen it since I started logging; should I still keep it?' project).

I also dove head-first into documentaries and Reel Rock, which probably influenced the year's total significantly - it came to 1055.5 total hours of on-screen entertainment (2.89 hrs/day), a definite jump from 2022's 940 hours (2.58 hrs/day).

Historically, since I started tracking, my average ranged between 1.62 hours/day and 2.52 hours/day until 2020, but roughly two hours/day was the sweet spot. It's fluctuated higher since, though not as dramatically as my book count; I'm not predicting this year will be any different, given it's another Olympics year!

( Bookmark Post: TV and Movies Watched in 2024 )

M; Expendables 3 post-movie; Lee Christmas/Barney Ross, 6100 words. Tropey get-together.

Waking up was the most disorienting experience of his life. Of course, that wasn't saying much, since at the moment it was the only experience of his life that he could recall.

Mutually Assured Absurdity

(For chantefable in ficinabox)

T; Leverage; Parker/Hardison/Eliot, 1200 words. Post-S5-ish, established relationship.

"Really, Hardison?" Eliot said, throwing an exasperated look at the unapologetic hacker. "What's the excuse this time?"

The Only One Bed Job

(For DotyTakeThisDown in trickortreatex)

M/E; Bloodshot (2020), 1400 words. Post-canon; Ray Garrison/KT/Wilfred Wigans.

Probably the strangest thing about their whole situation is how deeply weird Ray doesn't find it.

( Riding Into the Sunset )

(x-posted at launchtheship and on AO3)

PG-13; Fast & Furious. 5800 words. Letty/Dom, Brian/Vince; 4th of Much Ado About Racing.

When Letty woke in the morning to an empty bed and the cross necklace wound around a fat stack of cash on the nightstand, she knew they still had a long way to go.

( Alarums and Excursions  )

(x-posted at AO3)

PG-13; Firefly/Pirates of the Caribbean, gen; 1200 words. Set during "Out of Gas".

Spacers were, by and large, a superstitious bunch. And though Mal had largely given up his faith with all his hopes and dreams at the end of the war, he wasn't entirely immune.

( That Dark Abyss )

(x-posted at AO3)