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Irregular Homecomings by startabby
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
30 Jun 2018
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After a decade of recovery away, politics and societal pressure combine to return ‘the-boy-who-lived’ to British soil. How will Dumbledore, Voldemort, and British Wizarding society deal with a Harry (and Sirius) who is confident, has strong international allies, and is unwilling to put up with their bullshit?
In other words, my Goblet of Fire rewrite within the Obscure Guardian setting.
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- Part 3 of Obscure Guardian
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Obscure Guardian - The Appendices by startabby
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
30 Jun 2018
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A collection of information about the world of Obscure Guardian.
All the extra bits designed to help readers understand/clarify the deviations from canon. Not necessary to read, but helpful if you are like me and want to know details that sometimes get left out of the stories.Series
- Part 4 of Obscure Guardian
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Evil Author Day Snippets by startabby
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Eureka (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey, Stargate - All Media Types, Teen Wolf (TV), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
15 Feb 2018
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While I'm still new to actually writing fanfiction, a while back I ran across a fic tagged Evil Author Day. Upon some digging, I learned that it's basically a tradition (I believe started by Keira Marcos?) of posting snippets from unfinished works every year on or around February 15th. There is no guarantee that the snippets will ever turn into published works, but it's still a fun chance for authors to show off.
I decided this year to post a few of my own, especially as I've started actually putting some of my finished works up on the site. Each chapter is a different snippet, which come from a variety of fandoms I've been experimenting with writing in.
I've tried to indicate in the notes some idea of where the snippets fit into larger works. If any of them ever end up published in finished works, I'll indicate as appropriate.
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A Tale of Two Letters by startabby
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
22 Oct 2017
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It’s that time of year, the time when potential students are formally invited to attend school in the upcoming term.
What happens when the time comes for Harry’s Hogwarts letter to be sent out?Series
- Part 2 of Obscure Guardian
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Even the cleverest Wizard can get outflanked by something... Otherworldly
The Big Short Challenge Prompt: Original Female Character
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- Part 7 of The Big Short Stories
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Obscure Guardian by startabby
Fandom: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Jun 2018
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This series started from a simple idea that has become a popular theme since the release of the new Fantastic Beasts film.
Specifically, what if the Dursleys' abuse (which everyone agrees is canon, at least to some extent) led to Harry becoming an Obscurial. Given that jumping off point, I decided to explore the consequences of this notion. In this case, things kick off well before Harry reaches Hogwarts age with the emergence of the Obscurus in Part 1.Part 1: Unexpected Consequences is complete. It covers Harry and Sirius' initial reunion in 1985.
Part 2: A Tale of Two Letters is complete. It takes place six year later, in the summer of 1991, and covers the Hogwarts invitations and the realizations that come in the aftermath of those letters' delivery.
Part 3: Irregular Homecomings is complete. It takes place starting in the summer of 1994, and is the events of Goblet of Fire in this universe.
Part 4: Appendices are reference notes for the series. Each chapter is independent, and chapters are posting periodically.
- Words:
- 131,457
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 171
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The Big Short Stories by startabby
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Chicago (2002), Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stargate SG-1, Teen Wolf (TV), The Incredible Hulk (2008)
22 Oct 2017
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The Big Short Challenge on Rough Trade (http://www.roughtrade.org/)'s forum, has two versions.
The first, Variations on a Theme, is a 500-1000 word story given a one word prompt.
The second, Variations on a Character, is a 1000-2000 word story given a character prompt.
This series includes the various shorts that I've written in response to some of the prompts.- Words:
- 9,259
- Works:
- 8
- Bookmarks:
- 3
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Freeing the Outer Rim by jedipati
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
19 Apr 2016
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The rumors spread throughout the Outer Rim. Never openly, never where just anyone could hear… but they spread. Secretly, slowly, they spread. And changes were coming. Slaver’s ships were disappearing, lost without a trace in the darkness of deep space. Without a trace, save for the slaves turning up unharmed and free all over the galaxy. Slaves were disappearing from planets, again turning up free and safe on other planets. Masters were dying, often in accidents, sometimes by murder.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 726
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 34
- Kudos:
- 586
- Bookmarks:
- 114
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Bookmarked by startabby
03 Jun 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
A rather simple little one shot in form, it is powerful in its simplicity, despite having almost no true dialog.
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A woman’s honour is different than a man’s; men seek to cleanse their honour with blood, while any woman can tell you that it’s hard work that removes stains.
A kunoichi’s heart is strong and enduring; it bruises where a shinobi’s breaks.
Hatake Sakumo was a woman, not a man; her daughter Kakashi is the Silver Wolf, the legacy of the White Fang.Bookmarked by startabby
03 Apr 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
A rather lovely alternate universe version of Naruto, in which the Hatake family (Sakumo and Kakashi) are female instead of male and many things are better in Konoha because of that one fact. Some tragedies are still unavoidable, so it's not completely fluff, but it's still a lovely version of Konoha set chronologically before the canon events.
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The Kin Series by LitGal
Fandom: Angel - Fandom, Angel: the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sentinel
27 Jul 2017
- Words:
- 500,107
- Works:
- 3
- Bookmarks:
- 379
Bookmarked by startabby
25 Mar 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
Epic Buffy Alternate Universe centered around the pairing of Angel/Xander starting from the very beginning of the show. There is a mild crossover with the Sentinel that gradually becomes more significant especially in the third part.
Some of the pairings become quite curious as the series progresses, including multi polyamorous relationships. -
The Body Electric by Jade_Dragoness
Fandom: Marvel (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (2012)
27 Sep 2013
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AU, wherein the rumors of Coulson being a robot, technically an android, prove to be true.
- Words:
- 45,864
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- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 325
Bookmarked by startabby
24 Mar 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
Intriguing story about an android Coulson, which takes place mostly before or early on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka pre-Avengers).
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No species is all good or all evil. The tok'ra like to believe they are the "good" side of the onac race--the symbiotes who developed into the goa'uld. However, the tok'ra never mention Shamash or Samas, the ancient Sumerian god who was really one of the early queens. She (or really Samas prefers to be called a he) remembers the onac before the corruption of Ra, and he tried to lead his people back to a life in the water. He failed. However, thousands of years later, one gunnery sergeant on a suicide mission stumbled into a South American river, and Samas found he had another chance. The SGC and later Atlantis gave Samas a chance to save his people and make a few changes for the better in this universe. Samas once allowed Ra to take everything away from him. This time Samas is going to make sure his people are strong enough to stand up to any enemy. And to serve that end, he's going to make sure that those that he trusts--Tony, John, Rodney, Teyla, Ronon, Elizabeth, Major Teldy, Radek, Miko, Kyli and others--have the power to combat anyone who tries to take Atlantis from them.
- Words:
- 475,400
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 750
Bookmarked by startabby
24 Mar 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
Epic series that is a cross-over between Stargate and NCIS. It is mainly a Stargate story with the inclusion of a few NCIS characters (Gibbs, Tony, and later Abby), with the first story set during late SG-1 (season 7/8?) and the rest matched to Atlantis.
Note that the Gibbs/Tony romance is featured heavily throughout, with other pairings (homosexual or not) coming in later. The series is marked as incomplete, but as far as I can tell, that's only so the author has leeway to go back and add new stories in the universe if desired not because the main storyline isn't complete.