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Labyrinth participation canceled at last moment. So not going into it.

The upside of this is that I might actually be human again soon.

In the meantime, have (if you so want) random FFX femmeslash.

(For some reason, this time around with the FFX fandom squee, it has been all femmeslash and het. Feeling the Auron/Lulu love, and let's not even get into the multiple rarefemmeslash pairings I've been pelted with. WTF, fandom squee?)

Sending, for lack of a better name: Yuna/Yunalesca, Yuna/Tidus, spoilers for X and X-2, PG at the most.

( (fiiiiic) )

AD/GG. No sex, just talking and kinky undertones. Despite the lack of Tom, this grew out of variously cycling contemplation of Tom's fear of death and comparing his psychology with others.

( Are you afraid of Death? )

...with Deathly Hallows spoilers. Even the pairing has Deathly Hallows spoilers. AD/GG, shall we say?

It was not easy to attempt to write in this fandom again after so long. Really hard, actually, especially since my style, especially my smut style, has mutated tremendously since I last tried my hand at young!Albus pastfic. But I kinda had to try after all the hot slashiness. If I actually beat the fandom to this pairing, I am going to wet myself. o.O

( Just a brief and contextless scene )

Spoilerz! Not much in the way of porn, despite nudity. Angst though.

( The stranger the man, the stranger the ways of mourning. )

Fic for dwliterotica June Challenge!

Title: Need (Illegitimate)
Author: wired_lizard
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Gwen/Rhys, Gwen/Owen, Gwen/Ianto
Warnings: light BDSM, surprise buttsex, angst
Spoilers: Torchwood season 1
Summary: While Nauthiz has been associated with the myth of Frey and Gerd, the Norse word from which it is named, naudh, means needfire, flame kindled with a fire-bore; it is a self-generated flame, requiring tremendous internal energy to overcome the frictions of life; Jack's gone, and everything's going to hell.
Notes: Runic research in Edred Thorsson and Diana L. Paxson. Inscription from a Norwegian alphabet poem. Analysis of foot massages in relation to jealousy from Quentin Tarantino. Beta by mllelaurel.

( Her phone is full of messages from Tosh, asking where she was, we need a hand, Gwen, you're good with the paperwork. )

Or canon reference. Or much of anything except throwing three characters in a room together and seeing what happens. No particular spoilers for Utopia/Sound of Drums other than a particular character's existence. I don't normally write outside of canon, but I needed to get this out of my system, as the last few eps have been killing me with the kinky subtext.

The Jack in my head is quite insistent that this whole mess going on between his Doctor and Mr. Spoiler is clearly one big screwy love-hate psycho-ex thing, and has set himself on getting them to shag-and-get-it-over-with-already. (And I write to indulge him due to random insomnia.) And being Jack, if throwing himself into said shagging will help either party...

...why is this character insisting upon first person? Aiiii! Haven't done in ages!

( A Brief Lecture On the Appeal of Constants (aka Mr. Spoiler does kinky math porn) )

Here is a long ramble, which I shall cut, about metadata for fic headers for this newest attempt to reboot my personal fic site. (Ha-ha, I said 'fic' twice.) Much more about the concept of 'what would you like to know about this story before deciding whether to read it?' than it is about actual fic, for those of you leery of the latter.

( Library cards )

I AM GETTING MANIC. You couldn't tell? ^^;;

( Those pesky subject/content tags... )

Oh holy fuck this is getting long.

Really what this boils down to is this:

I know I read pretty indiscriminately, if I know the writer's good, or it's a character/pairing that interests me, or whatever. I either ignore most warnings and ratings or take them as good signs. And sometimes I think that, ideally, reading fic on the internet would be like picking up a book--you don't know, opening, say, a Random Fantasy novel, whether it's going to have a sex scene, or a random lesbian couple floating about in the background, or a disembowling. Or, as Rusty keeps liking to prove, you don't know when you turn on the telly whether there's going to be random tentacular mpreg, or even just really pretty boykissing. There are some things I see people warning for--bad language, for example--that I just don't bother with at all. But it is a convention, and there are definitely, for some people, some things which they don't want looming up in their face if they click on a random link.

IMHO? I think the simple action of making most of the standard warnings linkable tags transforms them a little. There could be that little tag in the bottom left saying "m/m," sure. If it's there in the summary in all caps blazing away, it looks silly, it's obtrusive, it's got this subtext of "ohmigawd, guys, watch out for the boykissing!" (To which a hell of a lot of us say, "and we care why, exactly?" or "bring it on, bitch!") But if it's there in the corner, you can ignore it if you don't care, or you can look for it if you do. Or if you care in the other way, if you suddenly have a burning urge to pull up all the other fic with "m/m," you can do that to. This is why I keep calling them tags and not warnings; making them immediately clickable allows a positive reaction as well as a neutral or negative reaction.

OHMIGAWD, GUYS, WATCH OUT FOR THE GIRLRAMBLING.

But this has been interesting me all day!

What do you like to know before you read a fic?

Ohhhhh god oh god oh god. That was...both painful in the extreme and almost flowed.

While rewatching "They Keep Killing Suzie" on my getting-to-know-Torchwood-stupid-well quest, had a horrible realization, spawned out of my ever-growing interpretation of Gwen and something Suzie said.

Thus fic. Closest to stream-of-consciousness I've done in a while. Have to go with NC-17 for the rating for one bit of Owen-shagging. Making some extremely unpleasant--though obvious--assumptions about Suzie's father, so warnings for abuse subtext. Also assuming that Suzie knew about Jack's, ah, condition; some of her actions make more sense to me that way, even though she talks like she doesn't. (I hardly believe a word that comes out of that woman's mouth anyway.)

But--dragged myself through writing it, and on my general theory that anything this painful must be good somehow, I must inflict it upon all of you!

( When she looks back at Jack, for a moment, he's still watching her, and there's something like need in his eyes, and for a moment she's happy, really happy, all she wants. )

So when I was initially watching the series with Cyn, we skipped three episodes: Random Shoes, because it's apparently horrible, Small Worlds, because she deemed it mostly pointless, and Countrycide, because she deemed it also pointless and too randomly violent.

Of those, I have still not successfully seen Small Worlds (twice now I have started watching it while Cyn was away, and she's walked in at exactly the same point, about three minutes in. Ah well. At least I got to see naked Jack multiple times), and still not even attempted to see Random Shoes (I will at some point, esp. if I decide to write more Torchwood fic; after all, I have in the past voluntarily rewatched Threshold for fic writing purposes, when I realized I needed to know second-season Voyager inside out).

But last night I decided I was in the mood for something randomly violent, and watched Countrycide. And to my surprise, I actually quite liked it.

( Long, mostly character-spelunking, contains inevitable spoilers and cannibalism. )

*pants* Um, that was long. I mean, it took me three hours to write that post. o.O

Okay, in conclusion, the more I interpret these characters, the more I like them. And I need to go do some more work on the Jack/Ianto that this episode, for whatever reason, made me desperate to write.

(((A bunny that started on the train as an intellectual exercise and wouldn't stop. Semi-unedited train porn weirdness. (Wrote part of this with a Dalek in my lap.) Hopefully not as sucky as my last attempt at Whofic. Didn't actually even expect it to porn, but...)))

Fuzzy, Doctor Who, smutty. A lesson in telepathy. Jack/Rose, background Jack/Rose/Ninth.

( You're...chocolate. How are you chocolate? )