Time Stamp Meme!

[idyll]

I did this meme around the same time last year, and I think I want to make it a yearly tradition because it's a really cool way to end the fic-year. Last year I came through for all but one request (which is still in my pending folder because I will not give up), and some were small pieces while others were full out fics.

Give me one of my own

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[amand_r]

This fic. I need me some 110 words of Ronon/Simon three and a half years in the future.

[luciamad]

Seconding that. Entirely.

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[idyll]

On Persephone they hear the rumors about a small group of Satedans on a planet in the outer rim. Simon settles his recent medical purchases into the mule and doesn't look at either Mal or Ronon. Jayne, on the other hand, tries to lay odds with Zoe about who will win the inevitable battle of wills between the two.

When they get back to Serenity Ronon stares at Mal, arms crossed over his chest, and doesn't say a word. In the last few years Ronon has followed Mal almost without question, has been a good and loyal soldier even when he thought Mal's plans were not at all viable. Given how rare that is on this ship, even Simon knows that Mal owes Ronon something in return.

After a long silence Mal finally thins his lip and gives in ungraciously. He points a finger at Ronon and narrows his eyes. "Volunteers only. Anything happens, it's on you, dong ma?"

*

River refuses to navigate a course.

It's Simon's second clue that he will not like the outcome of whatever reunion takes place.

The first, of course, is that there will actually

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[idyll]

The only one who is surprised that Tyre, Rakai, and Ara were conspiring with the Alliance is Ronon. Simon doesn't think that the others expected it, but they are all jaded and suspicious enough--and lack the history with the trio that Ronon has--that the betrayal is not something they'd thought to be inconceivable.

Inara comes to Simon in the common area and sits across from him. "I thought you should know that Ronon has taken his belongings your old visitor's quarters."

Simon closes the book he's been pretending to read and sighs. "I see."

"Ronon's loss is on a scale that only a few people can comprehend," Inara says delicately. "It's only natural--"

"I know."

Inara studies him shrewdly, then nods and rises to her feet with painstakingly learned but seemingly effortless fluidity.

*

Simon would like to hold on to his anger and hurt, to cling to it righteously, but it's impossible to do so. There was a time when Simon would have taken River and left Serenity--and everyone on her--without a backward glance or second thought.

[lillian13]

"Rotational Invariance", either while John and Rodney are stuck on Earth ("Return"), or after declassification...

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[idyll]

Okay, here we go! Sorry for the delay

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[idyll]

They go to a drive-in movie that night and park John's SUV ass-first in a spot, then open the back hatch and perch there. Rodney is at the concession stand, probably demanding more butter on his popcorn.

Fred's feet dangle above the ground, and her knee is pressed against John's.

"What is it you do out there in L.A.?" John asks.

Fred does him the courtesy of not responding with whatever job title she's hiding behind this month. She turns too-knowing and overtired eyes on John. "What is it you do for the government?"

They stare each other down for long moments with matching narrow-eyed gazes before both of their expressions slip into arched-brow deflection. They say, simultaneously, "You'd never believe me."

*

Rodney leaves the next day. After a very pointed clearing of the throat from Fred, not to mention a significant look, John and Rodney both promise to keep in touch. John watches Rodney ride off in a government issue sedan and decides that, while he might not feel good to be stuck on Earth instead of free on Atlantis, he

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[lillian13]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

This is great--John and Fred work so well together like this.

The Fred/Rodney battle made me weirdly happy. (And now I'm craving chicken and biscuits!)

This was excellent. Thanks so much!

Now I want Fred to meet Cam and watch them try to out-Southern each other.

[x__kes__x]

heee! Not a Pretty Girl. The Famous Last Words video shoot.

[idyll]

It's so fucking ridiculous. Bob knows it even as she keeps playing through the heat and the pain. She should get up and have someone get a doctor or something. Because, really, it hurts. A lot. She knows there's something seriously bad happening to her skin, and she knows she's being stupid, but she doesn't stop playing

[idyll]

Awww, honey! thank you. :)

[go_gentle]

Not a Pretty Girl, what being a tech was like for girl!Bob.

[idyll]

I.

Being a female sound tech in the scene fucking sucks at first. No, really, it does. For a lot of reasons.

Bob discovers very quickly that most people are douchebags. Guys will take one look at her and reach for their zippers, women will call her a slut and a whore because she's always hanging out with men, and the worst of the lot will pretend they never did any of that and then come up to Bob with big fake smiles when they want something from her.

II.

Dating within the scene is a messy thing for Bob. A lot of guys have a hard time dealing with the fact that Bob's job, and really her life, involves being around a lot of other men. There's jealousy, possessiveness, and other shitty behavior

[go_gentle]

Oh, this is just perfect - even better than I could have imagined when I gave you the prompt. I love how strong she is, to make it through all that and to keep going with it. And that fifth section? Just. It's so real, and so sad, and so sad because it's so real. I love love love all of this. Thank you so much!

[idyll]

You know, I wrote this and read it over and was trying to figure out if it was...over the top. But then I thought of my own years just doing the bar thing and realized, yeah, this is just kind of how it is. Even the fifth section.

Thanks for the prompt, and I'm glad you liked this!

[rilee16]

Girl!Bob (whom I adore). Was wondering if you'd be inspired to do something with this:

Time period: the new album after The Black Parade has come out, with enough promotion along with it that somehow Girl!Bob, being a "Girl!Drummer in a band full of boys!!1" keeps catching the eyes of, and being drooled over by, the feminist magazines. I'm not sure whether she'd be amused, offended for her bandmates, or feel violated by some of the journalists.

[idyll]

Hmm, let me think on this a bit. That's really not something I want to tackle in, like, 300 words but it could work into something longer. Hmmmmm.