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When I started watching Sharpe, back in December 2020, I wrote a few fics that I called "transcript fics", because they literally started with an exact transcript of everything I saw on the screen - every movement, every facial expression - together with all of the dialogue. I then made my story around the transcript by filling in what the ( Read more... )

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Title: Hanging Barabbas
Fandom: Sharpe (TV)
Relationship: Sharpe/Harper
Rating: Teen and up; nothing explicit, canon levels of violence
One-shot, 1169 words

Summary: A name from the past trips Sharpe's defences.

Notes: Based on this clip from Sharpe's Peril. Also posted at AO3.

( Hanging Barabbas )

One of the consequences of lockdown has been that I ran out of new books to read months ago (I'm reliant on the - currently-closed - library as I can't afford to buy many nowadays). Another consequence has been the creeping insanity caused by never, ever having the house to myself as no-one is going out ( Read more... )

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Based on characters in the Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz.

( Of Things Done and Not Done )

It's not too late to petition the Governor of St Petersburg, asking him not to ratify their nasty new anti-gay legislation. Apparently the aim of the new law is to "improv[e] the moral image of St. Petersburg" so that it can become "the moral face of Europe". Personally, I think what they're doing is utterly immoral.

Thanks to hambelandjemima for bringing this ( Read more... )

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Author: DorsetGirl
Rating: White Cortina
Word Count: 330
A/N: No warnings. It struck me some time ago that even Sam’s “modern day” is now five years in the past. Many of the things we take for granted are after Sam’s time.

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Author: DorsetGirl
Fandom: Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz
Pairing: Alex/Yassen
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 850 words approx
Summary: Alex has a favourite memory of Yassen. No spoilers.
A/N: Set when Alex is nineteen, looking back to an occasion when he was sixteen. In other words, legal.

( Memory )

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Author: DorsetGirl
Fandom: Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz
Pairing: Alex/Yassen
Rating: No Warnings Required
Word Count: 700 words approx
A/N: Yassen faces a painful truth.

( It Started With a Kiss )

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..apart from the fact that they put on a brilliant show, have fulfilled 95% of my music-listening needs for the past eighteen months and I’d gladly have sex with at least two of them:

Any band whose lead singer can replace the words “So go do what you like / Make sure you do it right”

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“So go do what you like / I’m having sex with Mike [ ( Read more... )

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Title: Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Est
Author: DorsetGirl
Fandom: Life on Mars
Rating: White Cortina
Word Count: 240 approx
Pairing: Sam/Gene
Summary: Sam takes up Art
A/N: I had intended this fic for my occasional Topical and Seasonal Drabble Challenge (feel free to have a go, by the way), but I decided that rather than cut it down to 100 words I ( Read more... )