There were good parts of 2012, but it was also a very rough year for a lot of us. People lost friends, family members, jobs. People struggled to get through challenging times while feeling overwhelmed and overstretched. People experienced trauma that left lives irrevocably changed ( Read more... )

Summary: Sid's fast, faster than he's ever been before. He's finally, finally at one hundred percent again. He's at what should be the prime of his career. And there's no hockey.

Notes: For dine, who asked for "something with Sid."

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( through to the other side )

Part One - Story on AO3

( Part Two )

Summary: Molly knows the sex was never really about her. She makes the choice to keep the baby anyway. She's not, to her surprise, alone in raising her son.

Notes: Title from Florence and The Machine's "Between Two Lungs."

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( the breath that passed from you to me )

Summary: Gabe and Victoria are drunk when they get married, and they aren't in love, but they make it work anyway.

Notes: In case it's not obvious from context, I wrote this two or three years ago, before Gabe and Bianca broke up and before Victoria started tweeting pictures of her professionally done nails. Consider it to take place within that ( Read more... )

I've been replied to by an author, a dancer in a reality show, and a costume designer on Twitter before, but today it was John Rogers acknowledging that his show's pairings really are Nate/Sophie and Eliot/Parker/Hardison:


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Summary: Amelia is Jeff's daughter, but Mike's in this with him.

Notes: I originally started writing this for lakeeffectgirl's birthday, and then realized it was too large a story for that. I did email her bits and pieces of how the story would go, but at this point, it's going to be not!fic forever.

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( The Most Important Things )

For today, have three of my favorite holiday songs. First, Dido's "Christmas Day":

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Next, The Lonely Island featuring Justin Timberlake, "Dick In A Box," which only gets funnier over time:

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Thirdly, the Muppets Chickens' rendition of "Joy to the World":

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Summary: "It's like you got us a child," Donna says. "A cockblocking genius child."

Notes: Once upon a time, I wanted a story where Donna and Harvey were married (and poly).

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( Hard Work )

Summary: She and Bob have been friends for a good long while now, and nothing's happened. Maybe they're just not cut out to be two. The two of them and Spencer could make a good, strong triad, and she at least wants the chance to try.

Notes: I started writing this as a cheering up snippet for icanbreakthesky with the idea that five things she liked were cupcakes ( Read more... )