not today or tomorrow

Title: Something's Gotta Give
Rating: G
AO3: Link
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (Courier Six, Dean Domino)
Wordcount: 315
Summary: Hard times and slow resentments in the Sierra Madre.
Remarks: There is just something uniquely maddening about desperately scrounging in every trash can for enough cigarettes to trade in for stimpaks so you can continue dragging your small frame, low END ass through a toxic hellpit in hardcore mode, only to turn around and see your companion having a casual smoke. Sir. C'mon.

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( the ghoul sat and smoked Larkin's survival )

Title: Stand Upon the Threshold
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: Widdershins (Jack O'Malley, Heinrich Wolfe)
Wordcount: 3,472
Summary: Mal brings Wolfe to the Place Between Worlds.
Remarks: Whoops, decided not to take that Widdershins WIP into the new year after all! One day I will figure out how to write fics that aren't just two people yak yak yakkety-yakking at each other, haha.

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( the place between worlds )

Title: Noblesse Oblige
Rating: PG
Series: Destiny (Rezyl Azzir, Jaren Ward)
Wordcount: 2,198
Summary: The first time Dredgen Yor killed Jaren Ward, it was honestly just a misunderstanding.
Tags: Canon-Typical Violence 
Remarks: This fic is a triumph in terms of finishing old drafts (I think it's been sitting around since 2015) and choosing completion over perfection. It's otherwise a bit of a messy fic - the ending is much too abrupt, but I had to admit I'd lost interest in delving into the conversation it needed to close it out properly, and was not likely to become interested again. Some fun turns of phrase, though, and worth writing the part I still wanted to capture.

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Title: Linear Regression
Rating: G
Series: Infinity Train (Amelia Hughes, Hazel)
Wordcount: 1,157
Summary: Amelia told the anomaly to hold its breath for as long as it could, and it did. She ordered it to breathe deeply in and out while she monitored the beat of the pulse at its wrist, and it obeyed. She asked it to stick out its tongue, and Hazel rocked back on the tree stump, poked a fat pink tongue out at her, and blew a messy raspberry.
Tags: Season 3 Spoilers, Amelia Is Bad At Children But She's Trying
Remarks: Speculative voice-testing as much as anything. I think about these two a lot.

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Title: The Gold Man Problem
AO3: Link
Rating: PG
Series: Moon Knight (MCU) (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, Bertrand Crawley)
Wordcount: 1,845
Summary: Steven realises he and Marc have a mutual friend. He's not best pleased about it.
Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Post-Canon
Remarks: If I was a hardcore Moon Knight comics fan I'd probably be grumbly about the sidelining of pretty much the entire canon cast, but since I'm not I just get to use my vague knowledge as fanfic fuel instead!

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Title: A Millstone Hung
Link: AO3
Rating: G
Series: Pillars of Eternity (Sagani, The Watcher, Vela)
Wordcount: 2,556
Summary: Sagani helps the Watcher grapple with the fallout from her decision in Sacrificial Bloodlines.
Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Referenced Past Child Death, Soul Ancestor Problems, Late Game Spoilers
Remarks: A certain cameo in Deadfire kickstarted this fic, and half a year later I've managed to tie it off. It's been long enough since I played PoE that my memories of the actual quest are pretty rough, but hopefully I haven't skewed too far from any facts! It was fun trying to capture Neus' inherent eerieness in combination with her more sweet-natured personality (itself under siege by this point in the game).

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Title: Crossroads
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: The Riders Series (Tara Chang)
Wordcount: 1,060
Summary: There's a choice to be made, but Tara's not sure she's ready to make it.
Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Post-Canon, Grief
Remarks: I had a devil of a time settling on the conclusion to this one, and in a way that struggle became the conclusion. Call it the wordy version of a sketch - rough in places but holding enough character on its own to get the ol' one-two-yeet.

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( she'd come to tarmin lean and wary )

Title: The Rabbit and the Pointed Gun
AO3: Link
Rating: PG
Series: Destiny (Shin Malphur, Jaren's Ghost)
Wordcount: 3,932
Summary: The City falls. Shin does some teetering of his own.
Remarks: A very belated cross-posting! Honestly, I like this one better in pieces than as a whole - canon changed on me in the middle of writing it, and I don't think I quite rose to the challenge of guiding it to a different ending than the one I'd planned. There is still satisfaction to be had in completing it, and in covering some scenes long-imagined. And in learning. Always learning.

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Title: Trouble That Does Not Search Words
Rating: G
Series: The Riders Series (Carlo Goss, Danny Fisher)
Wordcount: 3,538
Summary: Early into their partnership, Carlo finds himself in a precarious position when Danny is injured.
Remarks: One of my writing goals this year was apparently to finish another Finisterre fic, and upon seeing that I thought: aw, surely I can turn that scene I've been sitting on for like two years now into something, just a nice little 400-700 word scribble as an end of year salute. So I re-read the duology... and then proceeded to write this ambient-centric monstrosity instead, mostly on GoogleDrive and mostly on my phone, for reasons beyond my ken. Still, delighted to have it done! I will carry my torch for telepathic alien horses into the dark.

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Title: Blind Spot
Rating: G
Series: Fallout: New Vegas (original characters)
Wordcount: 664
Summary: Larkin/Vivian, whumptober prompt - friendly fire

( larkin likes the sawn-off )

Title: The Winding Path
Rating: G
Series: Bungie's Destiny (Shin Malphur, Jaren's Ghost)
Wordcount: 1186
Summary: In their pulling together of Dredgen Yor's history, the Shadows passed through Palamon. Shin notices.

( the circle of broken canopy stands out )