#hp/ncis

[vervainium]

i desperately want mutuals. please PLEASE interact with me, i love webweaving and i love existing and i love to be funny and i love to conversatie and ect ect. PLEASE.

[gryffindorhealer]

Posting Friday!

It's Friday! Chapter 16 of Mystic Dream, Act 3 Scene 2: And Dancing - Tuesday 15 January 2019 19:31 is up.

Here's a teaser:

Bishop watched Duke, the lead guitarist change his electric guitar for an acoustic. As the applause died down and all the dancers in the center of the hall turned back to the stage, he began playing a series of mournful notes. Bishop’s attention snapped to the Potters when Ginny stepped closer to Harry, resting her head on his chest.

‘A tango,’ gasped Patil, and Bishop nodded.

‘Sorry, we aren’t going to try that. I can’t tango for the life of me,’ she replied, keeping Patil in her arms and beginning a slow dance anyway, staying close to the Potters but continuing to turn her partner around to watch the crowd. A few other couples also began to tango. Most simply swayed in time to the music’s beat. 

‘Now they’re making love in public,’ Torres’ voice cracked in their ears after the Potters paused for their leg flicks, Ginny’s left leg flashing out through the slit in her gown. ‘Damn, she’s got legs!’

Bishop caught a glimpse of Gibbs, frowning on the sideline, nodding quickly at Harry, and Harry’s nod in reply.

‘Torres, eyes on the crowd. This will be their last dance before a break.’ Gibbs' voice in her ear made her resume scanning the crowd.

Edit to add, apparently it’s also Fanfic Friday and I’m supposed to promote a fic of mine.

looks up

Here it is!

[xemily-similex]

my mom has decided to write fanfics, I don’t know whether to be more proud or disturbed

[vermont-writes-fanfic]

This is a list of things I will write for:

Criminal Minds

Bungo Stray Dogs

Harry Potter

Marvel

DC

Supernatural

BNHA

Law & Order: SVU

NCIS

Detroit Become Human

God of War

Youtubers

My own OC's

Resident Evil 8

The Addams Family

Hellsing

John Wick

Cuphead & Mugman Franchise

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Undertale

Spy x Family

Naruto

Creepypasta

Chicago PD

Hunter x Hunter

Genshin

Honkai Starrail

Demon Slayer

Ask for anything else, I can't remeber right now lol

[reyofluke-ocs]

NCIS Plotbunny OCs (in memory of David McCallum)

Amelia "Amy" Gibbs

EMT/Paramedic

FC: Alexis Bledel

LI: tbd

Twin sister of Kelly who survives. Goes into paramedic field as a result. Very close to Gibbs and the rest of the team.

Justice Juliet Shepard "JJ"

Tbd

FC: Sophie Skelton

Daughter of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Jenny Shepard; knows her dad was a brief thing with her mom but doesn't realize who he is until her mom becomes head of NCIS.

[catmomjudy]

For the Record

I’ve said before that I’ve generally been a multi-shipper in the fandoms I’ve read in the past (Merlin, HP, NCIS, SGA, Teen Wolf mostly). And, if I find an author I really like, I’ll read any ship they write about even if it’s one I don’t normally read—because then it’s about a good author writing consistently good stories, so I’m willing to risk it.

I predominantly ship Buddie. I think most everyone in this fandom has shipped Buddie at some point, really, which is why the sudden divide is so brain-boggling (as is the sudden Eddie-hate, which just appalls me).

I’ve drifted away from Buck/Tommy fic this summer and back towards Buddie simply because it resonates with me more. My attitude towards BT as an end-state for Buck is just kind of “Meh.” I don’t hate it; I’m not against it; but :::Big Shrug::: And a lot of the BT fic being posted is “fluff”/“slice of life” (which I don’t normally read no matter what the pairing/not pairing) or radically AU (which I may come back to if it’s well-rated, but, again, not my first choice for a pairing I’m not really that into).

🤷🏻‍♀️

As I said above, if a favorite author puts out a BT fic, I’m going to read it. If someone posts something to Tumblr that’s amazing BT art, or a particularly well-put-together edit, or says something that re-emphasizes canon lore because people are misinterpreting it…well, I’ll probably reblog it.

So, this blog is pro-Buddie, but it’s not anti-BT, either. I mostly share Buddie content (and my cats and knitting/crocheting), but that doesn’t mean there won’t be occasional high-quality BT content.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, November 2

BUFFY: Now, this guy shows up two days ago, right? Right around the same time my bestest new little sister makes the scene. GILES: You think he and Faith are connected? BUFFY: Giles, there are two things that I don't believe in: coincidence and leprechauns. GILES: Well, Buffy, it's entirely possible that they both arrived here by chance simultaneously. BUFFY: Okay, but I was right about the leprechauns, right?

~~BtVS 3x03 “Faith, Hope, & Trick”~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Beware of Boys (Spike, Dawn, PG-13) by veronyxk84

An embarrassing run (Fred Burkle, ensemble, T) by Bl4ckHunter

Come and Get Me (Spike/Fred, E) by Kittenwritings

Nocturne (Buffy/Angel, E) by missfiggy

Fuzzy Feelings (Buffy/Angel, G) by fatalfae

[Chaptered Fiction]

Potential Friend: Season Two, Chapter 2/22 (Jesse, ensemble, Amy/Jesse, canon relationships, T) by srmcd1

[Ukrainian language] Forward to Time Past//Вперед у час минулий, Chapter 63/67 (Buffy/Spike, E) translation by Uraniya

Dawn Rising, Chapter 69/? (Ensemble, LotR xover, T) by Luna_delCielo

Back to the Beginning, Chapter 3/? (Angel/Cordelia, G) by imaginationofadreamer

The Slayer Chronicles: Shadows of the Hellmouth, Chapter 9/9 (Xander/OC, ensemble, not rated) by Ellen2054

Whoa! Not What I Expected! 2, Chapter 2/3 (Xander, NCIS + The Sentinel xover, G) by danu40k

Buffy s7 Missing Scenes, Chapter 3/? (Ensemble, T) by Oliver (TaruUchiha)

Soul Mate Magic, Chapter 16/20 (Giles/OC, M) by Emma_M_Black

Death's Champions, Chapter 32/? (Faith, HP xover, M) by Khatix

You're a Beautiful Person, Chapter 2/? (Willow/Tara, M) by firagasauce

The Night We Met, Chapter 4/? (Spike/OC, M) by TheSadPoet

Time to Heal (5) (Buffy/Spike, not rated) by spuffybaby

Retribution, Chapter 13 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Polarchica516

Giving In, Chapter 6 (Giles/Willow, M) by toboeokami

An Accidental Executioner in Sunnydale, Chapter 29 (Xander, ensemble, M) by schumacherjennifer39

Truth and Consequences, Chapter 28 (Buffy/Spike, R) by JamesMFan

Slayer's Soulmate, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by vampirische liebe

Little Light, Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Melme1325

Rebehold the Stars (Love from the Other Side of the Apocalypse), Chapter 19 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Asokatanos

Incarnate, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Sigyn

Breaking the Code, Chapter 6 (Buffy, Dawn, Star Wars xover, FR7) by Buffyworldbuilder

Indecent Proposal, Chapter 26 (Buffy/William/Xander, E) by harrisxander2

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Reciprocity Spike has bad day (Spike, worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Artwork: [Drawing of Spike] (worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Gifset: buffy & giles per episode - Revelations (3.07) (worksafe) by buffygiles

Artwork: here is a spike screencap redraw . my favorite look-his 70’s era (worksafe) by blue-star-charmer-art

Gifset: Every Tara look: S5E02 Real Me (worksafe) by lovebvffys

Gifset: Cordelia Chase + Outfits (Season 1) (worksafe) by clarkgriffon

Artwork: The Master from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season One (worksafe) by nightheartcomics

Artwork: Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1 Ep1 “Welcome to the Hellmouth” (Buffy, worksafe) by nightheartcomics

Artwork: Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer S2 Ep17 “Passion” (worksafe) by nightheartcomics

Gifset: Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by theveryunlikelywonderland

Gifset: Buffy Meme: [4/10 Scenes] 5x22 The Gift (worksafe) by lovebvffys

Collage: Collage #222 (Buffy, Giles, worksafe) by thedecadentraven

Gifset: HalloweenHex 2024 - day 5 * a prophecy (btvs x 4.10) (Buffy, worksafe) by witchesnet

Fanvid: Back to Life (Buffy/Spike, R) by EverythingElse

Crafts: [Fan-made Scythe from an old re-design] (worksafe) by MoonSpider

Artwork: Grounded (Buffy/Angel, G) by MamaBewear

[Reviews & Recaps]

Angel 2x1 & 2x2 REACTION | "Judgement" & "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" by The Horror Bandwagon

Rewatching after many years! by theSunandtheMoon23

PODCAST: His Twin Rod (S5E3) by It Stakes Two

[Recs & In Search Of]

ISO: [Good fanfics to read - multifandom and BtVS/Bangel] requested by murdercrowsblog

Rec: Fuzzy Feelings by fatalfae (Buffy/Angel, G) recced by iwillrememberyoumarathon

[Fandom Discussions]

Anyone else just want a buffy the vampire slayer and angel investigations prequel series where it’s just about the fanged four by captaincake13

Rewatching season 1 of Angel and I forgot how charming Angel found Wesley by thequeenofsastiel

this right here, this episode [Lover's Walk], this is the funniest relationship that has ever existed in btvs To Me anyway by tenderjock

spike is like a cat leaving dead things on buffy’s doorstep and buffy is a dog person by uss-genderprise

i think s7 is the worst by a significant margin but it’s still a season of buffy! so the worst of a brilliant amazing life changing thing is still pretty damn awesome by bidet-of-evil

Not sure how unpopular a take this is but I really like Principal Snyder. He is genuinely one of my favorite minor characters on the show by coraniaid

The Real Hero of "Gone" - Doris Kroeger by Nikkolas

Episode battle : Wild at Heart vs Into the Woods by Stoney

Would you have liked to have seen Darla become a hero? by GlitterViking1

Andy Hallet/Lorne appreciation post by moses616

Have you ever had a dream involving BtVS? by InterestingCloud369

What is an episode that you like that fans seem to dislike by Scaredcat26

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

CONVENTION: James Marsters & Juliet Landau to Attend Hellmouth Con in Los Angeles, CA 14-15 June 2025 via dontkillspike

CONVENTION: James Marsters to Attend FAN EXPO New Orleans 10-12 January via dontkillspike

CONVENTION: James Marsters' Adelaide Supanova Expo schedule via dontkillspike

PUBLICATION: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amber Benson Tackles Series Trivia for Tubi by bleedingcool.com

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[lokidokieokie]

Fic Recs

Hello, I’m alive!

Before we get to the fics, I’d just like to apologise for being extremely lazy and not doing anything with my tumblr account for the past two weeks. 

Fabulous authors have been out here producing impeccable content, so I am going to correct my issue and give you all the amazing fics that you may have missed out on :)

Loki Laufeyson

What About the Plans We Made? by @wheredafandomat 

Captain’s Orders by @lokisgoodgirl

Thirty Seconds by @muddyorbsblr

My Best Friend by @vbecker10 part 1 linked

Not What it Looks Like by @wheredafandomat 

Swipe by @theaudacitytowrite part 1 linked

What He Doesn’t Know by @michelleleewise 

Practice Makes Perfect by @simplyholl masterlist linked

Bonded by @michelleleewise 

Sing Me To Sleep by @holdmytesseract 

Choices by @mochie85 

Cum Fly with Me by @wheredafandomat 

Captain’s Orders: New Depths by @lokisgoodgirl

Restraint by @coldnique 

The Selection by @lady-rose-moon masterlist linked

You Are My Queen by @vbecker10 

Claw and Order by @michelleleewise 

Something Real by @ladylovesloki masterlist linked

Relinquish the Crown: Obsessions & Fantasies by @muddyorbsblr 

Hot & Bothered by @lokisgoodgirl

Hail, Commander by @lokisgoodgirl

The Chambermaid by @wheredafandomat 

Little Joys by @lovelysizzlingbluebird 

Small Talks by @lovelysizzlingbluebird 

Big Misunderstandings by @lovelysizzlingbluebird 

Her Romeo by @michelleleewise part 1 linked

Drugs of Love, Love of Drugs by @pics-and-fanfics masterlist linked

Hot & Bothered: Snack Shack by @lokisgoodgirl

Asgard, Land of... Aphrodisiacs? by @thomase1​ 

I Need You Tonight by @wheredafandomat​ 

A Helping Hand by @peachyjinx​ 

Summoned by @muddyorbsblr​ part 1 linked

Magnus Martinsson

Hypotheticals & Distractions by @muddyorbsblr 

Maintain Our Cover by @muddyorbsblr 

Jonathan Pine

Paris by @muddyorbsblr 

Duty of Care by @muddyorbsblr 

James Conrad

Keep Me Safe by @muddyorbsblr 

Will Ransome

Measurements by @muddyorbsblr 

Confess Your Sins by @holymultiplefandomsbatman

Tom Hiddleston

Birthday Boy by @simping-for-marvel 

Doctor Stephen Strange

Only You by @make-me-imagine 

Attention by @futureplayboibunnie 

Sherlock Holmes

A Queen for a Mindpalace by @strangelockd 

Stolen Love by @ncis-cm-hp-sherlock-imagines 

Sleepless Nights by @strrvnge 

Bucky Barnes

In A Year’s Time by @mysecretlittlelibrary 

Betting by @traitorjoelite 

To Let You Win by @delaber 

Blooming Rage by @tee-swizzle 

Cupcake by @demonsandmischief 

Daddy’s Home by @starshipsofstarlord 

Baby Fever by @suitk0via 

Six Days by @tmpestuous 

One Step at a Time by @tmpestuous 

Nothing Breaks like a Heart by @buckybabesonly 

Protector by @buckybabesonly

My Girl by @girl-next-door-writes

Dumb Dumb by @nicestgirlonline 

For You Always by @jobean12-blog 

Make Me Forget by @povlvr 

Flirting and Football by @lovelybarnes 

Dog Tags by @lovelybarnes 

It Was Supposed to be a Confession Potion! by @buckylattes 

False God by @notafunkiller 

Metal Arms and Short Skirts by @buckyarchives part 1 linked

Keep Me Alive by @freyjhasdesiredreality

You’re a Masterpiece by @wndalovebot 

You Had One Job by @buckyalpine 

Secret Girlfriend by @jenwritesstories 

Right a Wrong by @starks-hero part 1 linked

Where Dreams Go to Die by @insomniumstella masterlist linked

It’s Just a Kiss by @witchywithwhiskey 

Wordpeddler by @heli0s-writes​ 

Unconventional Methods by @marvelouslizzie​ part 1 linked

[fandomtravelers]

Found family dynamics in shows

Okay I'm a sucker for found family dynamics in shows so I'm going to list all the found family or platonic relationships I know of. In TV shows/series. Just because :) ALSO please add if you know more, because I'm probably missing a whole lot. I JUST WANT MORE.

Here are the ones me and my friends know or have found (some might be father daughter centric and they're all from very random fandoms so excuse that) :

1. Kakashi & Team 7 (Naruto)

2. Anakin & Ahsoka & Obiwan (Clone wars. I know the whole star wars universe too, but I'm focusing on clone wars)

3. Kate Bishop & Clint Barton (Hawkeye)

4. Farah Dowling & Bloom (Fate : Winx)

4. Charming & Emma (Once Upon A Time)

5. Bay Kennish & Daphne Vasquez (Switched at Birth)

6. Cirilla & Geralt (The Witcher)

7. Calliope & Augie (tidelanders)

8. Byakuya & Rukia (Bleach)

9. Sara & Danny (Witchblade)

10. Georgia & Rube (Dead like me)

11. Silco & Jinx, Vander & Vi (Arcane)

12. Andrè & Jane (Painkiller Jane)

13. Jamie & Jonas & Jay (Bionic woman)

14. Dr. Tom & Erica (Being Erica)

15. The pines family (Gravity falls)

16. Tom & Cassie (the inbetween)

17. The Gaang & Team Avatar (Avatar the last Airbender & Legend of korra)

18. Kara & Clark (Supergirl & superman/batman apocalypse)

19. Charlie & Miles matheson (revolution)

20. Arthur & Joan & Auggie & Annie (Covert affairs)

21. Khlyen & Dutch (Killjoys)

22. Guerrero & Ames (Human Target)

23. Adam & Emma (Mutant X)

24. Nolan & Emily "Amanda" (Revenge)

25. Voight & his whole team (Chicago P. D.)

26. Elena & Jeremy (Bitten)

27. Jinggang & Chu hun (double world)

28. Hannibal & Abigail (Hannibal)

29. Dream & Death (The sandman)

30. Jiwoo & Mujin (My name)

31. Buffy & Giles (BTVS)

32. Benedict & his kids (Mysterious Benedict society)

33. The cullen family (twilight)

34. Elijah & Yo Han (the devil's judge)

35. Magnus & Clary (Shadow hunters)

36. Gu xiang & Wen Kexing (Word of honor (Cdrama))

37. Optimus & the human kids (Transformers prime)

38. Mildred & her teachers (Mainly miss hardbroom)

39. Dylan & Lizzie (instinct)

40. Marina & Arturo (A private affair)

41. Moiraine & Lan (Wheel of time)

42. the BAU team (Criminal minds)

43. The SVU team (Law & Order : SVU)

44. Ellie & Joel (TLOU)

45. Barbara & the batfam (Batgirl, batman comics)

46. Carmen & Shadow San (Carmen sandiego)

47. Nile & the rest of the old guard (the old guard)

48. Nick Fury & Maria Hill (secret invasion)

49. Jordan & Garrett (crossing Jordan)

50. America chavez & Doctor strange (Multiverse of Madness)

51. The Eternals (Eternals)

52. Enola & Sherlock (Enola Holmes)

53. NCIS team/family (NCIS)

54. Aizawa & his kids (BNHA)

55. Abigail & Ichabod (Sleepy Hollow)

56. Carol & Kamala (The Marvels)

57. Gojo & his students (JJK)

58. The golden trio (HP)

59. Ryan & Max (The following)

60. ICC team (crossing lines)

[triscribe]

WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @crystalshard, which may prove to be a miscalculation, 'cause boy-howdy do I have a lot of works in progress...

Rules: In a new post, list the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

/cracks knuckles

Star Wars: -Fulcrum & Family, the new Tano & Twins re-write -Dreamwalkers Luke and Leia -History Reversed with sequel trilogy Ahsoka, Luke, Ezra and students dropped back in the Clone Wars -Birds Fly sequel Can We Start Over, Bly's pov -Something Big is Happening (Misc/Understudies crossover) -Clone Wars Cass (DC/Batman crossover)

Marvel -The Big One (5+1 Spidey saves Morgan, Pepper meets Doc Strange, Another Chance conclusion with Wanda) -Kids Club, post-Civil War kidnapping fixit -MCU Miles Morales, title tbd -Spider Assassins AU, multi-continuity-combination -X-Fire, Laura/Wolverine, Gabby/Honeybadger, and Rachel/Phoenix -Heroes of Tomorrow re-write with way more kids from different superhero groups/families

DC -Pantheon AU -the revised Alf-verse (22 Bat-grandkids and counting) -Rotten Luck re-vamp (Young Justice season one Team in the Justice League Unlimited universe) -Continuations: The Batman "seasons six and seven" if I ever get around to re-writing the early stuff (my very first fan fic ever, I've improved a lot since those high school days) -Teen Titans meet Robin's horde of younger siblings (original cartoon) -Battorian AU (Diana is human, Clark's a demigod, Bruce came from another planet) -Mandalorian/Star Wars AU (Mando Alfred adopts orphaned Bruce. This is the Way.)

HP -Pair of Potters sequel, year two for Heather, official year one for Harry, the beginning of a long headache for Dumbledore -Founder Foundlings, reincarnation fic -Cheers to the Wish, more Guardian Ghosts Lily and James -Philosopher's Mirror, canon-divergence of the unintended resurrection variety -the third effing chapter of Muggle is as Muggle Does -Thief!Harry AU, my all-out middle finger to the Author Who Shall Not Be Named

Transformers -Terratron AU (Bee meets Dragonfly, Elita makes Artemis, Bee and Fly stumble across Megatron and Rion, Prowl and Beats, Beats finds Jazz, accidental babysitter Serrate, Hornet and her big race, etc etc) -Hard Facts and Simple Truths, humanformers AU -TFAnimated swapped 'verse, with Elita Prime and her team of spacebridge technicians: Arcee, Ironhide, Wasp, and Jazz -G1 sparkling-Starlane AU -TFPrime crossover with Hot Wheels: Battle Force Five

Atla -follow-up to A Small Condition, aka the "Monk Gyatso goes into the iceberg with Aang and Zuko assumes *he* is the Avatar" AU -continuation of Ursa leaving royal life and stumbling across a dying dragon who entrusts her with a baby and two unhatched eggs -Avatar!Yue learns airbending from Aang's grandkids and that whole big mess of world-altering changes

My Hero Academia -Doubles AU (finishing Brand New Day and getting a move on with Double Take as a canon re-write with Pro Hero Shimura Tenko) -continuation for Great Beasts of the Mountain -third chapter of Instinct, my first A/B/O attempt -more next generation fluff, the Archive and Guardian saga

Misc -Sea Beast fic where Crow gets injured, suffers total amnesia, the doctor who patches him up sends for Jacob, and there's a very awkward dance between them and Maisie and Blue as the old man slowly gets his memories back -The Faceless Wolf, a mildly (make that incredibly) ambitious Game of Thrones canon-divergence attempt -Jamie Reagan and the Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day, a Blue Bloods whump idea I've had rattling around for a while -Milo and Claggor Survived AU from LoL Arcane -Grandboss Gibbs, a bittersweet NCIS fic that would, in my opinion, have been a better end to the series than trying to go on without the main character of the show -Storm Hawks past-and-present-collide idea with some previous generation OCs -Edge Chronicles TWIG GETS TO MEET HIS MOTHER DAGNABIT -may as well throw in what will be my second self-published book, Trials of Youth, because the current draft is definitely a work in progress

Aaand we'll call that good. Now to see if I get any nibbles...

(I know the game says tag a person for each WIP but I don't think I've got that many writing acquaintances on here, so instead I've got one person per fandom grouping)

@wafflesrisa @eirianerisdar @jinxquickfoot @theredscreech @resamille @tarisilmarwen @icarussmicarus @gallusrostromegalus

[reidshearts]

-‘๑’-favourite stories

more here!!

FLUFF

these fics @borntobewondering

partners in crime - luke castellan @mischiefmoons

a kiss - , remus lupin @forourmoons

single dad! jess mariano series - @teddypickerry

prettiest girl at hogwarts , remus lupin @kitkathockey

the wrong reid , spencer reid- @thyme-in-a-bubble

patch me up? always , spencer reid- @weird-is-life

hot , remus lupin- @forourmoons

perfect present , singledad! steve harrinton @magicchai

the y/n l/n? , spencer reid- @radiant-reid

coffee lover , remus lupin - @masivechaos

whispers of the wind , neteyam - @amberlills

‘cause i love you two , spencer reid @ddejavvu

pedro pascal x actress! reader @papipascalforme-hello

we cant be friends (wait for your love) - aaron hotchner @cerisereids

ANGST

kiss of life - luke castellan @sunsburns

out of time , platonic bau team @ncis-cm-hp-sherlock-imagines

my love , luke castellan @7s3ven

lovelorn , luke castellan @lixzey

[gryffindorhealer]

Why a Sneak Peek?

One of the things I've seen other writers do is post Sneak Peaks. I've not done that, partially because I've not been on Tumblr long, partially because I'm pants at self-promotion, and partially because I lean hard towards not showing work until it's done. That said… However I know Breanie ( @breaniebree ) through a couple writer/fan groups on Discord. While she worked on A Second Chance (go read, fabulous work, eh) she started asking me questions related to injuries, health care, and such. Because the Healer in my name is for real; I am a Registered Nurse. Breanie sort of introduced me to Sam ( @seriouslysam8 ). Another really good writer, you need to go read Brumous, Bete Noire, and Backstabber. Particularly if you love angst. Yes. The inevitable took place then, Sam asked a few questions about injuries and first aid, specifying magic couldn't be used. And honestly, I really enjoyed reading the chapter in Brumous where the answers showed up. Nicely done! Then I started thinking about something I need for my WiP, Mystic Dream. The Potter's (Ginny and Harry) are away on a trip, bit of a busman's holiday because Harry is attending an international law enforcement conference (with of course a secret magical group of sessions), while Ginny is interviewing some American magical athletes for a book she's working on. And things happen. For a part of this, because the Potters have been here (this particular place in the US) before, I placed one of their favorite places to eat, a pizzaria. They don't get to eat there often, but for two reasons this is one of their top faves. And I needed a name, and didn't want to use O Sole Mio because I'd used that in Proposals already. Did I mention I like puns? And after a convo with Sam I looked at her name. And I asked her a question. And she said Yes, Sure. This leads to why I'm posting, for the first time maybe ever (there might be some one-liners in response to ask memes, I'm not counting those), a Sneak Peek. Quick summary, how to surprise other characters and help develop one of the major charactgers by using one of Major Character's know skills…

Harry nodded, punching buttons on his phone. ‘Wait,’ Gibbs commanded. Harry looked up.

‘We need to do this, now,’ he said, as Gibbs looked at the notepad on Kasie’s counter.

‘Yes, we do,’ Gibbs flipped his phone open, fingers punching numbers. ‘But they know your Great Britain number, they’ll know it’s you calling.’ He held out his phone. ‘Use mine.’

Ginny took Gibbs’ phone before Harry could. ‘They also know your voice, Harry. “I’ve seen your face before.” They won’t know mine.’

‘They threatened you, Ginny,’ Gibbs said. ‘They know you as well.’

Ginny smiled, winking at Harry, who matched her mischievous grin.

‘Not when she speaks, they won’t,’ he said.

Gibbs looked between them both, Bishop’s brow furrowed, her frown growing deeper when she saw Patil smirk as well. Patil caught her eye, raising her own eyebrows. Then Gibbs nodded.

‘Nobody else make a noise. At all. Kasie, record the call. McGee, are you ready?’

McGee nodded. Kasie’s eyes widened as she quickly prepared a microphone, anticipating what was coming. Gibbs nodded to Ginny.

Ginny pushed the dial and speakerphone buttons, and a ringtone filled the room. Once. Twice. Thrice. Four– ‘Hello.’ The same gravelly voice.

‘Yeah, this is Eljay with Seriously, Sam 8Pizza,’ Ginny said, ‘and I’m trying to deliver the Super Supreme you ordered. Having trouble finding your place, it doesn’t want to come up on my MappApp. I’m at Tennessee and E Street Northeast. Could you give me directions?’

Bishop’s jaw dropped when Gibb’s voice came out of Ginny Potter’s mouth. She glanced quickly around the room, Kasie and Torres both wearing surprised faces as well, McGee focused on the workstation where he worked to triangulate the call. Patil smirked at her. Gibbs and Potter simply focused on the phone in Ginny’s hand. Those three knew, she thought. They knew!

Silence stretched a few beats before the gravelly voice spoke again. ‘I didn’t order a pizza.’

‘Oh, come on, man! Says right here on the slip, Super Supreme, Nony Mousse, but then the damn slip got wet and the ink smeared. It looks like one something something maybe six E Street Northeast, but they said they didn’t order pizza either. Seriously, it’s getting close to being a free pizza for you because I can’t find your place. Just give me directions, please.’

Silence again, seconds feeling like hours. Then a laugh like gravel on steel. ‘Too bad for you then, I guess you get a pizza for lunch.’

[not-poignant]

Ooh, cool! Thank you so much for the long reply! A lot of this was genuinely completely new to me -- I'd never known there were ongoing discussions that early, but of course it makes complete sense there were, both on LJ and predating it. I think it also goes to show how well we could self-segregate on LJ, I think moreso than we can now.

I think, in retrospect, that a lot of my experiences with 2000s fandom can be summed up with, 'I was a teenager' and thus wanted to be 'cool'. There was a lot of 'not like other girls'-ism going on in those sporking and Mary Sue comms, and I always just assumed we were all teenagers -- it certainly felt that way. The few people I've kept in touch with from those days have largely grown out of it, though it doesn't surprise to hear there were (and probably still are) grown adults who shit on others' fanfics.

(As an addendum, I could add that slashfic and that sort of 'canon non-compliance' was completely okay in the fandom spaces I ran in back then, but people would get very upset about extremely arbitrary things-- 'transfer students' in HP, changing characters' ages, making up a minor oc side character for plot purposes because all ocs were apparently bad (and especially if female), etc. It was strange which hairs people decided to split.)

Anyway! Thank you VERY much for such a long and in-depth reply! It's cool to see how these things have changed and developed, and I'm glad to see my experience wasn't emblematic of fandom as a whole.

Thanks for such a thought-provoking question! It really got me thinking about how Livejournal was really excellent at creating different sort of pockets of experiences, and in a while is really reflective as proto-social media of like, the big echo chambers we have happening now all across social media! That's really interesting to think about.

For me, it's funny, most of the fandom folks I knew were all older than me, many were in their 40s and 50s while I was in my 20s. Very few teens comparatively were attracted to certain fandoms like The X-Files and NCIS some of the other spaces I was in, so while there were definitely teens, it was like... a different feeling. Like, even these days I find it fascinating how there are 'younger' fandoms (in terms of how many younger folk are in it) and 'older' fandoms.

And yeah you're so right about people getting upset about arbitrary things! And also that um, 'not like other girls' which now itself is kind of mocked by fandom, so things really did come full circle on that front where now it's not cool to be one of the people who says that x.x

Honestly it's hard to be a teenager on the internet! All the things that play out like... all the dynamics, a lot just play out online instead, and they still exist. A person still wants to be cool and accepted and liked (and that's not age specific, like, most of us want a degree of at least some of these lol), and cliques can form very quickly. I remember how bad it felt back then even in my 20s when I got unfriended by a mutual who I thought was a really good friend, that stuff was devastating!

"making up a minor oc side character for plot purposes because all ocs were apparently bad"

Ahaha this is one of the reasons I still sometimes have like apologetic tones in some of my comments about the amount of OCs I add, because yeah that was really disapproved of! I remember that and I still have like... shades of that at times. I'm mostly over it now, but oof I remember the first time I did it and I was like 'is this okay *chews on fingernails* I bet people will hate this because of it.' (And then that turned into Fae Tales so).

The Mary Sue stuff was really aggressively unpacked, like in very popular kind of fandom-friendly journalism spaces at the time, I mean that's how we ended up with the journalism site 'The Mary Sue' in the first place. People really took a stand on that one. In a way, we were all kind of looking at our own attitudes, like, *why* is it bad to do this, or *what* does it mean that a girl feels like they can't be like other girls - is that internalised misogyny (and sometimes it was), and I miss that kind of meta discussion because I do feel it happens a little less now.

There was a time when I didn't like Mary Sues, no one did, though I think that was before I found my first meta community where it was like 'oh people are talking about EVERYTHING I thought was like universally accepted in fandom.' Though we never got that far on how racist fandom could be, which is still an issue, but one that does get talked about (it would just be nice if AO3 talked about it too).

I sadly think a lot of people in their 40s and 50s can act a lot like teenagers in fandom spaces sometimes, some of the antis in like teenage spaces today are like 40s kind of 'guiding them along' this path of moral puritanical righteousness and almost role-modelling how to bully others. And some of the folks running public Sporking blogs were like... older folks who fostered connections to younger folk.

LJ was wild tbh :D

Anyway, it's so interesting to think of all the different pockets we ended up in. I'm sure there's like countless more that we both have no experience of, where someone else would be like 'oh I was in LJ fandom what's a Mary Sue?' and that would be entirely legitimate too. Sometimes it's easy (I fall into this trap) to think of historical fandom as being one thing instead of like a thousand things. So yeah, this was cool! Thank you :D

[esoterium]

top 100 characters statistical "which character" is similar to yours personality quiz

**picking five characters i know to add to the list while i take a couple!!*

Nomi Marks (Sense8): 83%

Marianne (Portrait of a Lady): 83%

Inej Ghafa (Shadow and Bone): 83%

Salvatore Romano (Mad Men): 82%

F o x M u l d e r  (T h e X - F i l e s): 82%

Torvi (Vikings): 82%

Baby (Baby Driver): 82%

Ally Maine (A Star Is Born): 82%

Marie Kreutz (The Bourne Identity): 81%

Riley Blue (Sense8): 81%

Elisa Esposito (The Shape of Water): 81%

Buck Vu (The OA): 81%

Alice Cullen (Twilight): 80%

Abby Sciuto (NCIS): 80%

Ben Hargreeves (TUA): 80%

Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption): 80%

Floki (Vikings): 80%

Rogue (X-Men): 80%

Amanita Caplan (Sense8): 80%

Juliana Crain (The Man in the HC): 80%

Ola Nyman (Sex Ed): 80%

Willow Rosenberg (Buffy): 79%

Neo (The Matrix): 79%

Ariadne (Inception): 79%

Guinan (Star Trek: TNG): 79%

W i l l G r a h a m  (H a n n i b a l): 79%

Bonnie Bennett (TVD): 79%

Monica Dutton (Yellowstone): 79%

Sam Button (The Perks): 79%

Frenchie (The Boys): 79%

Robin Buckley (ST): 79%

Marianne Sheridan (Normal People): 79%

W a n d a M a x i m o f f  (WandaVision): 79%

Violet Parr (The Incredibles): 79%

Luna Lovegood (HP): 78%

Nymphadora Tonks (HP): 78%

Trinity (The Matrix): 78%

Jasper Hale (Twilight): 78%

Toni Topaz (Riverdale): 78%

Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife): 78%

Han Lue (Fast & Furious): 78%

Amélie Poulain (Amélie): 78%

Maeve Wiley (Sex Education): 78%

Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman): 78%

River Tam (Firefly): 77%

Omar Little (The Wire): 77%

Morpheus (The Matrix): 77%

William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us): 77%

Jonah Byrde (Ozark): 77%

Chris Washington (Get Out): 77%

Lane Kim (Gilmore Girls): 77%

Céline (Before Sunrise): 77%

Ada Shelby (Peaky Blinders): 77%

Jonathan Byers (ST): 77%

Benjamin Button (TCCBB): 77%

Heloise (Portrait of a Lady): 77%

Lily Iglehart (Sex Ed): 77%

Naomi Nagata (The Expanse): 77%

Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter): 77%

Remus Lupin (HP): 76%

Maeve Millay (Westworld): 76%

Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1): 76%

Rosalind Walker (CAOS): 76%

Storm (X-Men): 76%

Hernando Fuentes (Sense8): 76%

Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting): 76%

Mozzie (White Collar): 76%

Kinsey Locke (Locke & Key): 76%

J o h n W i c k  (John Wick): 76%

Ekko (Arcane): 76%

Albus Dumbledore (HP): 75%

Inara Serra (Firefly): 75%

D'Angelo Barksdale (The Wire): 75%

Janis Ian (Mean Girls): 75%

Damian Leigh (Mean Girls): 75%

Dom Cobb (Inception): 75%

Michael Scofield (Prison Break): 75%

Jughead Jones (Riverdale): 75%

Darlene (Mr. Robot): 75%

Wyldstyle (The Lego Movie): 75%

Nairobi (Money Heist): 75%

Penelope (The Odyssey): 75%

Aunt Polly (Peaky Blinders): 75%

Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds): 75%

Joyce Byers (ST): 75%

Will Byers (ST): 75%

Angela Montenegro (Bones): 75%

Maleficent (Maleficent): 75%

Kang Sae-byeok (Squid Game): 75%

Jules Vaughn (Euphoria): 75%

Viktor (Arcane): 75%

Suzuha Amane (Steins;Gate): 75%

Natalie (Yellowjackets): 75%

Jyn Erso (Rogue One): 75%

S i r i u s B l a c k  (HP): 74%

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride & Prejudice): 74%

Black Widow (MCU): 74%

Paul Smecker (Boondock Saints): 74%

Ciri (The Witcher): 74%

Kurt Hummel (Glee): 73%

[catmomjudy]

🤔

So, here’s the deal.

My favorite 9-1-1 ship is Buddie. Why? Because while I can imagine Buck with any number of other people (and I’m talking about existing characters, not some Natalisol brought in at the 11th hour), I really can’t imagine Eddie with anyone but Buck.

I can imagine Eddie thriving as a single and telling off Tia Pepa and finding a hobby while sharing his kid with Buck and whoever Buck ends up with before I can imagine him with any random character. The showrunners would have to make a concerted effort to develop a character and make me like them (neutral pronoun intended) before I’d like them with Eddie.

And, while I tend to post about Buddie, I’m hiding from my students’ end-of-semester papers by reading all the great Buck/Tommy fic out there. I’ve also been known to enjoy Buck/Lou (Ransone) and Buck/S4 Taylor (I.e. as she was characterized before the S5 mid-season break), plus the rare Buck/Josh. And I’m not against poly, either. I’ve read that, too. Buck is really the LBD of the 9-1-1 fandom, just as Tony tends to be for NCIS, and Harry for HP.

Hell, if he wasn’t too old at this point, I’d ship Buck with NCIS Tony. Now that would be hot.

🔥

🫡

[stridermagic]

My fics!

New Year, belated new status post

I am tentatively going to try to make 2024 the year where I finish some old fics.

I am also working on a lot of new soulmate HP crossover fics.

Edward Cullen(Twilight) -- don't ask

Carlisle Cullen(Twilight)

Tony DiNozzo(NCIS)

Homelander(The Boys) -- this is still cooking; haven't picked out the soulmate trope yet

I am also working on a 5+1 fic with Cole and hopefully plan on finishing it before posting it. (can you tell I've been watching Charmed?)

I need to rework the intro to my Harry/Loki 5+1 fic but that shouldn't take too long.

I have a Harrie/Jax story that is demanding to be written where SAMCRO is a werewolf pack.

I'm planning a Harry/Olivia Benson blind date one shot.

Anyway, that's the plan for 2024.

(Also...I may or may not be planning for kinktober 2024. I'll keep you guys posted)