The Tradëscan Codex

For booster17, who wanted Lilah on her knees, any pairing. Rated R for dystopian evil.

( On Her Knees )

Y'know, you can still sign up for a ficlet here.

January

Sinister Simulacra [Wesley/Fred, PG]
Wesley, Fred, and Dawn resolve a dangling plotline. (For winter_of_wes.)

Permutations [River, Dawn, brief Simon/Kaylee, PG-13]
There are only so many stories. (For FemGen.)

A Watcher's Work [Dawn, PG-13]
A Watcher's work is to do what needs to be done. (Ficlet.)

Taking Care of Business [Dru/Darla, R]
Dru and Darla deliver a message to Lilah in the way only vampires can. (For femslash_minis.)

Dear My Ideal Audience [Joss/River/wisdomeagle]
Joss made River insane. Now she is turning the tables. RPF and metafic, plus slashing the slasher to boot. (For a meme in Ari's LJ.)

February

The Fairest of Them All [Lilah/River, NC-17]
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. (For femslash_minis.)

Je me souviens [Zoe/Wash, Mal&Kaylee, G]
Remembering the beginnings. (For the fluffathon.)

A Chondrichthyes out of Hydroxylic Acid [Dawn/Saffron, R]
Every new experience, no matter how extraordinary, is an opportunity. (For femslash_minis.)

March

Fetch a Pail of Water [Jenny/Drusilla, PG]
Jenny Calendar exited her shower to the sound of a woman singing. (For femslash_minis.)

Best Friends Forever (Devon Days Remix) [Willow/Xander, PG]
There is a wisdom hidden in the innocence of the young. (For remixredux.)

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Conclusion? I haven't written fic that wasn't for a ficathon in a very, very long time. (Once finals are over, I'm spending the entire week before graduation working on To Live in Hearts. I want that fic finished.) Also, I've already posted as much fic so far in April as I did in the entire month of March. And I still have CYA and femslash_minis due this weekend, when I'll be off meditating in a monastery.

Title: The Fairest of Them All
Fandoms: Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Serenity
Pairing: Lilah/River
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Mirror, mirror, on the wall. For wisdomeagle in the femslash_minis Lilah round.

Listen to me read this story!

( The Fairest of Them All )

Title: Sinister Simulacra (3/3)
Characters: Wesley/Fred, Dawn
Timeline/Continuity: Set between “Smile Time” and “A Hole in the World.”
Rating: PG
Summary: Wesley, Fred, and Dawn resolve some forgotten plotlines.

Previous parts are here and here.

( Sinister Simulacra, 3/3 )

My first fic of 2006....

Title: Sinister Simulacra (1/3)
Characters: Wesley/Fred, Dawn
Timeline/Continuity: Set between “Smile Time” and “A Hole in the World.”
Summary: Wesley, Fred, and Dawn resolve some forgotten plotlines.

( Sinister Simulacra, 1/3 )

Title: School of Lost Souls
Fandoms: Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Serenity
Pairing: Fred/River, implied Fred/River/Harmony.
Rating: NC-17 for mature themes and sexual situations. Some BDSM, maybe.
Timeline/Spoilers: Takes place a couple years before “Serenity”; spoilers for both parts of “Serenity” and oblique spoilers for “A Hole in the World.” Arguably some very slight spoilers for Serenity and “The River Tam Sessions.”
Summary: Knowledge without a soul can be a dangerous thing.
Author’s Notes: For the Fred round of femslash_minis. voleuse wanted dreams, mathematics, and tacos. She also wanted no noncon or graphic violence, and while I did everything possible to make it clear that River was consenting here, both the power relations and the age difference between Fred and River do admittedly serve to problematize consent. Sorry. The italicized passages are from Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess. The other people quoted in this story include Orwell, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and JFK (misquoting Dante).

( School of Lost Souls )

Title: Socratic Dialogue I
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Lydia Chalmers/Reginald Kilroy (OMC)
Summary: Lydia Chalmers compares notes with a young Watcher-in-Training. Part of The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers for fanfic100. Prompt is #089, "Work."

( Socratic Dialogue I )

Go to The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers masterlist.

Title: The Parting of the Ways
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Drusilla, Spike, Darla
Rating: PG
Timeline/Spoilers: Around 1903, after the events shown in the "Darla" flashbacks. No real spoilers, but foreshadowing for "Angel" and "The Trial."
Wordcount: 300+
Summary: Darla leaves Dru and Spike to fend for themselves.
Author's notes: Part of Windows of My Soul: A fanfic100 Drusilla Project. The prompt is #003, "Ends."

( The Parting of the Ways )

Title: The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers
Fandom: Buffy/Angel

Yes, that's right. I picked Lydia Chalmers as my character for the fanfic100. Minor character love ahoy. I've already linked to the stories about Lydia already posted to my LJ. Now I plan on cannibalizing my Drusilla WIP Windows of My Soul (which honestly is in need of a major restructuring before I post it to LJ anyway) to yield a few more fics. And then I'll write a lot more.

( The Watcher's Diary of Lydia Chalmers )

Title: The Box of Yfrak
Fandom: Buffy/Angel/RPS
Characters: Ethan, Wesley, Illyria, Faith, Angel.
Timeline/Continuity: "Not Fade Away" AU.
Warning: Pretentious metafic; RPS crossover

For the Missing Stories Unficathon. The original challenge was Faith and Illyria meet up after Not Fade Away, which—honestly? Sounds like a perfect summary of my story “Funeral,” which is without a doubt the best-received fic that I’ve ever written. The twist, insofar as I understand it, was that I was supposed to add a series of elements including Angel, the quote below, a music box, and a mention of the episode “Chosen.” Also, the song “End the World” by Cold, of which I had never heard before this, but fits this. I finally ended up with this, which is total and utter crackfic. (I wish I could produce deep, complex, rich, aestheticly satisfying fic, but being at school again kind of destroys that possibility.)

"When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them."
- Eliphas Levi
( The Box of Yfrak )