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Title: The Affair of the Missing Meteorite
Genre: Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures
Rating: PG-13
Character(s): Eighth Doctor, etc.
Words: 1454
Notes: Written for lsellersfic in this year's Eighth Doctor Adventures ficathon on henriettastreet. The prompt was: Lots of the twentieth century wasn't covered by the "caught on Earth" arc. In particular what was the Doctor up to between the end of the first world war and the start of the second? Inquiring minds want to know.

This story is set between Casualties of War and events of the early 1930s as mentioned in Eater of Wasps and The Year of Intelligent Tigers, I intend it to be closer to the latter than the former.
Special thanks goes to w0rdinista for a last minute read through.

( The sun shone brightly  )

Title: An Education
Genre: Witch Hunter Robin
Rating: PG-13
Character(s): Amon, Robin
Words: 732
Notes: Written for athousandwinds as a Treat in the 2008 yuletide challenge. It kind of felt good to shake the rust off and finish one of my 'in progress' works that had been hanging around my hard drive forever and a day. :)

( Amon wasn't especially good at forced inactivity. )

Title: Beyond the Darkest Hour, Just Behind the Dawn
Author: MsCongeniality
Genre: Samurai Champloo
Character(s): Mugen (Sara)
Words: 1,126
Notes: This was written for in_the_blue in the 2008 yuletide challenge. I had beta support and helpful commentary from telophase and w0rdinista. The title is taken from the song 'No Regrets', lyrics by Tom Rush.

( Mugen slipped off his geta. )

Some really last minute recs before the reveal covering stories with titles beginning with the letters L and M.

( 4 Recs in 4 Fandoms )

My second rec post covering stories with titles beginning with the letters C - K.

I admit it, I wanted to get this in before the reveal...hopefully there's still more to come from me, though.

( 27 Recs in 21 Fandoms )

This year, I decided to read alphabetically by title rather than by fandom so that I wouldn't burn out on any one fandom as I went along. It's working out well, but thus far I've only made it to the Bs. :)

( 22 Recs in 21 Fandoms )

Title: A Very Merry
Author: MsCongeniality
Genre: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones
Words: 395 for the Doctor's rambling
Notes: A quick bit of fluff written as a birthday present for marag and initially posted for her in happybdaymara. Set during Blink.

( Doctor? )

Title: Intersections
Author: MsCongeniality
Genre: Doctor Who
Rating: PG-13 for drugs and alcohol
Character(s): Eighth Doctor, OCs and one Real Person I'd rather people infer than identify directly.
Words: 2,178
Notes: Written for drox as part of the Eighth Doctor Adventures ficathon on henriettastreet. She wanted 'Amnesiac!Eight in an exciting adventure with hallucinogenic substances' possibly involving the free-love sixties. What we have is...erm, not precisely an exciting adventure, but more of an almost-fairy tale set during Unnatural History but basically about Amnesiac!Eight in the free-love sixties. Hallucinogens are involved, though in perhaps a more oblique fashion than initially desired. Inspirations for this story included Harry Chapin, Investigation Discovery, and Aldous Huxley (don't ask). I apologize for the delay, but life (a.k.a. work deadlines and nasty colds) broadsided me for a bit. Extra credit and a side helping of love go to marag for last minute read-throughs before posting.

( It was a slow afternoon, slower than usual, and the tables that had held the lunch rush were now neatly aligned and set. )

Title: Christmas Ravelry
Author: MsCongeniality
Genre: Pushing Daisies
Character(s): The Narrator, Emerson Cod, Grandmother Cod
Words: 796
Notes: This was a 'treat' written for firstgold as part of the yuletide 2007 challenge and has been archived there as well. I tried to keep it simple and use the Narrator's voice to tell the whole story. I need to give special thanks to athenejen and nekare for grammar and canon betas as well as purpleallison for knitting advice. This story wouldn't be half as good without their efforts.


( Emerson Cod was a complex man. )

Title: Cyberbird: Cuckoo Flies the Nest
Author: MsCongeniality
Genre: Ghost in the Shell: StandAlone Complex
Character(s): Motoko Kusanagi
Words: 1,197
Notes: This was written for toxictattoo as part of the yuletide 2007 challenge and has been archived there as well. This wasn't my first choice of story to write, but it was my final and best. I need to thank bzarcher, lostindreams25, and zurizip for support and helpful commentary and john_h_holliday (aka Denzil) for a last minute grammar beta. This story wouldn't be nearly as good without their support and advice.

( The school was quiet. )

Is it me, or do these keep getting smaller and smaller? Hopefully Part 5 tomorrow will do me justice, I just wanted to get one more post in before the reveal.

( 8 Stories in 5 Fandoms )

I've finally (almost) made it to the middle of the alphabet! Yay!

( 17 Stories in 11 Fandoms )

I'm sorry, did I say three or four posts? I may have been overly optimistic. I'm not even through the Fs yet, Fairy Tales (trad) has defeated me by sheer numbers. Here are the rest of my recommendations to date:

( 26 Fics in 6 Fandoms )

Last year I did two recommendation posts, but with the sheer bounty of this year's yuletide I suspect I'm going to have more on the order of three or four posts. This generally covers fics from fandoms beginning with the letters A-D but there's a few in there I haven't gotten to yet and I also felt like reading some Elizabeth fic last night...


( 28 Recommendations in 14 Fandoms )

Title: Prelude : The First Big
Genre: The Big O
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Roger Smith, Dan Dastun
Words: 2,616
Notes: This was started for the yuletide challenge last winter. Unfortunately, the aftermath of my surgery meant that I was too unrelentingly sick to get it completed and I defaulted so my recipient would have a story ready and waiting for them. Then began a nine month long bout of writer's block. I had the first half pretty well set and I would pull out the creased pages, reading it over and over and making repeated notes, but I had NO idea what the next sentence was going to be and I couldn't coax it out of my subconscious. Finally, at the absolute last minute, the next sentence just came to me out of the blue about 3 days ago. I wrote the second half of the story in approximately 48 hours and spent today getting the story read through by the lovely and talented therhoda and learan to whom I owe much thanks. I have archived this as a New Year's Resolution story just in time for the archive to close and ensured that I will be eligible to yuletide along with all the other cool kids again this year. Yay!


( Paradigm City; some call it a city of amnesia. )

Title: Storming the Bastille
Genre: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Characters: Martha, OC
Words: 1100
Notes: This story was written for the telling_a_story challenge, intended to fill in Martha Jones' missing year. The chosen date was 14, July and it was originally posted at the challenge community. By the very terms of the challenge, there are minor spoilers for Sound of Drums and Last of the Timelords. Thanks to marag for a last minute beta-read and to tradigirl for some information about Paris and the French in general. Martha Jones and the Toclafane are the intellectual property of the BBC and no rights should be implied other than theirs.

( The streets of Paris were quiet. )

Title: Tho' Much is Taken, Much Abides
Genre: Neverwhere
Rating: PG-13 for talk of killin's
Character: Richard Mayhew
Words: 500
Notes: A remix of 5 Times Richard Wished He'd Stayed in London Above written for remixthedrabble. There are aspects of it that I'm not entirely happy with, some of which I had control over, and some of which I didn't. I know there's an awkward transition I probably could have done something about if I wasn't being so strict on keeping my word count to a round number. At any rate, it is what it is and some of that is due to read throughs by marag and learan whose help was greatly appreciated.

The title comes from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses which just struck me as oddly appropriate.


( Five Times Richard Wished He'd Stayed in London Above (The Extended Remix)  )

(X-posted from the 'fanfic' filter on mscongeniality)

It's true, I have been busy lately, and all of my WIPs have been put on hold because my hard drive is currently in limbo, but even that is no excuse for my shocking inability to write...well, pretty much anything. So to spur myself on and hopefully inspire me to at least get something down on paper, I ask you, my friends, for help.

What I Will Do:
Provide you with a list of fandoms and characters that I believe myself capable of writing about.

What You Will Do:
Request fic in a particular fandom. Specifying characters is keen, prompts, subjects or suggestions are even better.

What You Will Recieve:
Most likely a fic varying in length from about 100-1,000 words. In some, rare, instances, you may receive an excuse instead but I do hope to get all of those finished eventually. Someday.

I make no promises about the quality of the fics offered or how timely a fashion they will arrive in, but I promise to try the best I can.

The List
Cowboy Bebop
Doctor Who (please not One, Three or Seven)
Fruits Basket
Genshiken
InuYasha
Max Headroom
PetShop of Horrors
Samurai Champloo
Victorian Romance Emma
Witch Hunter Robin

If there's another fandom that's not on the list, but that you know I'm familiar with, you can try asking for it but I'm not feeling as confident about some things right now. Also, one final plea: please don't ask me for slash. The only fandom up there I really see it for is PSoH and even then I don't trust myself to write it as more than implied.

Title: Sunset
Genre: Doctor Who
Rating: PG
Character: Fitz Kreiner
Words: 100
Notes: This was written for the drabble challenge that has been making the rounds. So so glad that something has finally managed to break my month of writer's block. Hopefully this is the first of many steps in the right direction.

Write a drabble (100 words exactly) based on your current default icon. No changing it! Just write it as it comes; no beta-reading or mulling over. Any fandom or no fandom at all.

( Fitz glanced at the console )

Title: Quiet Companionship
Author: MsCongeniality
Genre: Samurai Champloo
Character(s): Fuu/Jin
Words: 420
Notes: This was written as a stocking stuffer for w0rdinista in the 2006 yuletide challenge. It was done very quickly, and there are some aspects I'm definitely not happy with, but I figured I'd post it here, as-is. (At least for now.)


( Fuu poked at the fire with a long stick )