Title: ain't givin' in till I get enough
Fandom: Yuri on Ice
Rating: Teen
Length: 1K
Relationship: Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Author notes: To fandom_empire bingo prompt 'Perspective' and ficlet_zone prompt Garth Brooks songs, as well as to fan_flashworks prompt 'Doubt'. The song not identified in the story or summary is "Blind Ambition" from the Yu-Gi-Oh! the Movie: Pyramid of Light soundtrack; Bakura Ryou is not in the movie, and Sailor Mercury is from a different anime franchise entirely. Also Wiktionary assures me си́ний is slang for drunk, as well as meaning indigo and other dark blues, and голубо́й is the polite slang for gay, as well as meaning azure and other light blues. 😸 And while both fics ought to stand alone just fine, "here like fire burning / o tremble not" takes place during the last scene break and may be helpful context for the last scene.
Content notes: It's not underage alcohol consumption by Japanese or Russian standards, but it is by US standards and the character who's twenty and drunk (and gay) is in the US at the time?
Summary:

Viktor Nikiforov 2014–15 Competition Programs

• SP: "Katie Wants A Fast One", Steve Wariner ft. Garth Brooks
• FS: "Standing Outside the Fire", Garth Brooks
• EX: "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", Whitney Houston

Theme: Desire

('The River' is too sad and lonely a song for Viktor to want to skate to, however much it resonates. 'Where Your Road Leads' by Trisha Yearwood is not sad, exactly, but the problem is it's not lonely. There is probably a copyright issue with using the lyrics he transcribed from that video clip as his theme for the season, but fortunately there is a much more concise way to put it.)

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( The Japanese skater uses a step sequence for warm-up that is not exactly Viktor's from his first senior exhibition program, but it's close. )

Title: square modified brilliant
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen
Length: 1.8K
Pairing: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Content notes: Implicit offscreen underage sexual activity.
Summary: A year after Monarque's defeat, Ladybug and Chat Noir are getting married. (Nobody mention the part where they're not yet old enough to get married.)


( square modified brilliant cut diamond = princess cut diamond )

Title: cut and color, carat and stick
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen
Length: 1.8K
Characters: Adrien (as Catwalker)/Marinette (as Marino)
Content notes: Time to play games with gender presentation!
Author notes: Also for a prompt for mlwritersguild.
Summary: The fun thing about masquerades is it's unclear who isn't a stranger.


( So shine bright, tonight, you and I / We're beautiful, like diamonds in the sky )

Title: land of—? home of—?
Fandom: Original
Rating: General
Length: ~200 words
Content notes: US history and politics. Also wordplay.
Author notes: the specific flag I'm envisioning is one I saw earlier today. (it's in front of a sports bar.)
Summary: The US Flag Code also forbids such things as bumper stickers with US flag backgrounds and the text 'all gave some, some gave all'.


( Betsy Ross might cry )

Title: Quis Custōdiet Ipsōs Custōdēs?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Mature
Length: 1.7K
Content notes: Major character death.
Author notes: The mourning, after.
Summary: An art installation in several pieces rings the fountain in the center of Place des Vosges, just west of the statue The Heroes of Paris, installed a few years earlier.

( who guards the guardians? )

Title: dance beat into shape
Rating: General
Length: 100
Author notes: Ovid's Amores 1.1 moved into my head in high school Latin and still ain't left.
Summary: The limits of the art form are the art form.

( a walking stick is not a great chasing hammer )

Title: (mis)Matched
Fandom: Original
Rating: General
Length: 240 words
Content notes: Choose Not To Warn
Author notes: #alexseanchai's parents' a+ parenting
Summary: Socks.

( Story )

Title: my heart is true as steel
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen
Length: ~300 words
Content notes: Choose Not To Warn
Author notes: Assume spoilers for all of S3 aired to date.
Summary: Agreste men love most dangerously. —This is false: is false: is false—


( my heart is true as steel )

Title: Familial Trust
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Rating: Teen
Length: 4K
Content notes: amnesia, homophobia
Author notes: I think this stands alone—but it's an installment in my Yu-Gi-Oh! genderswap 'verse that's several months further along than the last thing I posted and a lot of the canon timeline didn't, ah, quite go canonically. For instance, there's a lot more modern-day magic...
Summary: There are reasons Mutou Yuuki doesn't trust her parents.


( 'Jackass,' Jounouchi said, laughing and shoving Honda, who shoved back, companionable if irritated. Honda opened their mouth to retort, and in the back of Jounouchi’s head, Yuuki-chan screamed. )

Title: Bleed
Fandom: original
Rating: Mature
Length: 150 words, 30 lines
Content notes: self-harm
Author notes: On the origin of this metaphor.
Summary: "You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed."

( poem )

Title: Outside Looking In
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Rating: T
Length: 3K
Content notes: kidnapping, offscreen attempted sexual assault
Author notes: This is set in my Yu-Gi-Oh! genderswap 'verse. It is not necessarily canon for that 'verse.
Summary: Yuuki's father has something somebody wants—but they don't know anything about Yuuki.


( 'Mutou-san,' said Caroline, 'I think you'd better take this video call.' )

Title: Artisanry
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Rating: G
Length: 1000 words
Content notes: Always-a-cis-girl!Yuugi.
Author notes: Call this an outtake from my queer_bigbang.
Summary: Yuuki has a surprise for her other self.

( trust in the heart of the cards )

Title: memory and use of that sweet song of love
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Length: 270 words
Content notes: Referenced character death.
Author notes: Title and cut text from Dante's Purgatorio, Canto II, Cary translation.
Summary: If Dean had met Emma in purgatory before he met Benny...


( love that discourses in my thoughts )

Title: More Than Three Wishes
Fandom: Supernatural
Song: "Roses For No Reason" by Three of Hearts
Rating: PG
Length: 48 sec
Content notes: None.
Vidder notes: Sorry about the cropping, I haven't figured out how to fix the frame size without starting a whole new project.
Summary: Bela's just not that kind of girl.

( Embed )

Title: Fair's Fair
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG
Length: 730 words
Content notes: Character death.
Author notes: Hopefully-standalone follow-up to Hamburger Rolls, which takes place after 7x23 "Survival of the Fittest".
Summary: Five people Sam and Dean once saved who find a way to return the favor, and how they got in position to be of assistance.

( five? try five cubed. )

Title: Optimism
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: 124 words
Summary: Sam's an optimist at heart.

( an optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. a pessimist fears this is so. )

Title: Trustworthiness
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: G
Length: 62 words
Content notes: Referenced canonical character death.
Summary: Five lessons Anael learned from her family.

( half accidental, half painful instrumental )

Title: The Dark Shines Around You Liars
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: 380 words
Content notes: Canonical character death.
Summary: Five lives Sam and Jess never lived.

( I feel the pain of compromise )