clair_de_lune has always been a bit of a fandom hero as far as I'm concerned, and this month is no exception.
Prison Break turned ten years old on 28th August, and she has come up with a cracking idea to have a little celebration of the show that so many of us once loved so much.
Given that a revival of the show is now actually on the cards, what better way to dip our collective toes (whether we have eight or ten, it matters no) into the old familiar waters than to relive some of the glory days. Click on the link below, and you'll read all the details.
Go forth and spam your favourite social media at will, my fellow erstwhile PB fans. Oh, and to inspire you, here is one of the most ridiculous photos I have of the castever. Come on. Do it for Went's terrible hat. You know you want to!
Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian "Hook" Jones (aka Captain Swan) Rating: M Genre: Angst, romance, UST, humour, smut Summary: "You’ll look for any excuse to use that thing, won’t you?" (Basically, Emma does not think that there is something weirdly sexy about that hook. Not at all. Nope.) Note: So I watched 318 again (yah for holidays!) and decided I was tired of angst and it was time for some smut. The plot insisted on creeping in, though, so I’m not sure what to call this. Smangst? Smuffy angst? Sexy angsty times? Either way, please have at it.
Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian "Hook" Jones (aka Captain Swan) Rating: M for Mild Sexy Times Genre: Angst, romance, UST, humour Summary: When she gets the first text from an amused/annoyed store owner one Saturday morning, she thinks nothing of it. He’s done stranger things, after all. But after the second and third message from different sources, she thinks maybe it’s time to investigate. Note: For scribblecat, who gave me the prompt of: 'Killian feels bad about some past conduct and makes a list of apologies he needs to make to people in town aka my name is earl. Emma helps him to remember the good things he's done too'.
Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian "Hook" Jones (aka Captain Swan) Rating: S for a bit of salty language Genre: Humour, romance, UST Summary:The thing is, there are only so many times you can be told something’s true before you start believing it yourself. Especially if you’ve known it was true all along. Note:Prompt: Fic based on I Wont Say I'm In Love from Hercules maybe everybody getting on Emma's case and her denying then confessing. (Okay, I’ll admit it. I have never seen Hercules. But now, thanks to my anon prompter, I have watched this song many times on youtube. Ha! I had to tweak the timeline a little (okay, so a lot, and then leave out a heap of stuff because SPOILERS) but I really hope they like it. P.S. I’ve slipped in a few of the song lyrics as dialogue here and there, so obviously they don’t belong to me either!) Title is courtesy of The Go-Gos.
Title: A Time and a Place Fandom:Once Upon a Time Pairing:Emma Swan/Killian "Hook" Jones (aka Captain Swan) Rating:M for mild secy times Genre:UST, romance, wee bit of humour Summary:There’s a time and a place for everything, but when you’re the Savior, it seems finding both those things at the same time can prove more than a little challenging. But Hook isn’t the only one who loves a challenge. Note:scribblecat has been at me to write a Captain Swan story that involves laughter, the leather coat and cold night air that makes your breath come in little while clouds. Took me a while, Sez, but here you go, my darling. It’s actually a continuation of There’s a First Time (for everything) and I hope it pleases you.
Title: Team Bonding Fandom:Once Upon a Time Pairing:Emma Swan/Killian "Hook" Jones (aka Captain Swan) Rating:S for slightly saucy Genre:AU, UST, lawyer!AU Summary:There's team bonding, and then there's team bonding. Note:This is for hookslovelyswan, who gave me the delightful prompt of: AU story where Killian and Emma are playing laser tag or some competitive sport together, end up trapped together briefly, and share an unexpected kiss.
Title: The Honey Trap Fandom:Once Upon a Time Pairing:Emma Swan/Killian "Hook" Jones (aka Captain Swan) Rating:PG-13 Genre:AU, fluff Summary:She notices him long before the Frisbee lands in her lap. Note:Written for a tumblr prompt, which asked for Killian using his nephew to get women, but it doesn't work on Emma.
Title: New York State of Mind (1/1) Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: UST, Angst, Romance. You know how it goes. Characters: Emma Swan, Killian Jones/Captain Hook Pairing: Emma/Hook Rating: PG-13 Summary:He stares at his brimming glass, wondering how much he will have to drink in order to forget that Emma has left him alone while she attends to another man, a man she’s allowed to love her for the last eight months. A man whom, in her own words, she cares too much about. (I know that many people have already written wonderful post 312 stories set right after the Monkeygate scene, but this has been bashing around in my head since yesterday so it had to come out. If I’ve duplicated anyone else’s tale, I am truly sorry. Thank you, Billy Joel, for the loan of the title.)
Title: Q and A (1/1) Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: Smut, Fluff, UST, Angst Characters: Emma Swan, Killian Jones/Captain Hook Pairing: Emma/Hook Rating: R Summary:She's allowed to ask him as many questions as she likes. He's an open book as far as she's concerned, he tells her. There's just one catch. After she's done, he's allowed to ask her one question. Only one, but she must answer truthfully. What could possibly go wrong? Written for rumsy4 on tumblr for the Captain Swan Secret Shipmates (aka how to survive the hiatus without going crazy).
Title: There's a First Time (for everything) Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: Smut, Fluff, UST Characters: Emma Swan, Killian Jones/Captain Hook Pairing: Emma/Hook Rating: R Summary:The first time she kisses him, it’s in Neverland. The second time she kisses him, it’s in New York. The third time she kisses him, it’s in Storybrooke. Every single time, it means something. By the fourth time, it means everything. Author's note: No Spoilers past 3x11.
Title: Souvenir Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: Gen, angst, family bonding Characters: Emma Swan, Mary Margaret/Snow, Mr Gold, mention of Graham Humbert Pairing: Implied/past Emma/Graham Rating: G Summary:It's hard to explain, the things we choose to hold onto, the things we choose to let go. Perhaps the best explanation is that there really is none to be had. Emma and Mary Margaret finally talk about Graham. (spoilers for 107, mention of character death) Author's note: The wonderful show deals with so many characters and plotlines, it's inevitable that certain things go unseen and unexplained. I find myself thinking about many of these things, and rather than go round the twist thinking about them, I decided to start writing about them. This is a personal head canon and all concrit is happily accepted.
Title: Spice up Your Life (one-shot) Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: UST, humour, fluff Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian "Captain Hook" Jones Rating: M for Mild sexy times Summary: In hindsight, maybe she should have warned him. Then again, she thinks, this is the most fun she’s had in days, so maybe not. Author's note: I don't know what this is, to be honest. I was cooking Mexican food on the weekend and had a sudden mental picture of "Hook vs The Hot Pepper" and it kind of snowballed from there. It's set vaguely in Season Three (with no Big Bads currently chasing them).
Title: Six Impossible Things (Before Breakfast) Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: Angst, UST, missing scene, Emma POV Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian "Captain Hook" Jones Rating:M (some salty language and mild sexy times) Summary: Once upon a time (the time she usually thinks of as Before Henry), Emma Swan had a basic grasp of fairy tale lore. She knew the basics, as much as any child shunted through the foster system can know them, and it seems to her that every single day of her life now (otherwise known as After Henry) brings a new way to debunk every single story she thinks she knows. (spoilers for 2.05, 2.06, 3.05, 3.10 and 3.11) Author's note: This is a companion piece to "The Long Game", because I simply couldn't help myself. It contains spoilers for the above episodes and dialogue that was certainly not written by me.The title and theme was inspired by, of course, "Into the Looking Glass".
Title: The Long Game Fandom: Once Upon a Time Genre: Angst, UST, missing scene Pairing: Emma Swan/Killian "Captain Hook" Jones Rating:M (some salty language and mild sexy times) Summary: “I’m in this for the long haul,” he tells Baelfire, and he means it. There are days – like today – when he feels like he has been waiting for Emma Swan for a very, very long time. (spoilers for 2.05, 3.05 and 3.10) Author's note: Well, I succumbed to a new OTP. *facepalms*
Title: An Enduring Tradition Fandom: Sleepy Hollow (TV) Pairing:Ichabod Crane/Abbie Mills Rating: G Genre: Mild UST, expanded canon Summary: It seems the male of the species hasn’t changed that much in two hundred and fifty years, after all. (Spoilers and dialogue from 1.10 "The Golem")
Well, you know how it goes. scribblecat draws a thing and asks me to write a thing to match her thing, and I can never resist. So here is our joint toe-tipping into the Sleepy Hollow fandom, and just for a change, it's pron. LOL.
Title:Seeing (isn't always believing) Fandom:Sleepy Hollow (TV) Pairing:Ichabod Crane/Abbie Mills Rating:NC-17 (only just, though) Genre:PWP, smut. 353 words of sex, basically. Spoilers:Nope. Just sex. Summary:There is more than one way to be proven wrong. Author's Note:scribblecat's lovely NSFW artwork is HERE.
Hello to my fellow Prison Break fen (and everyone else who might like to read along).
Over the course of the last few weeks, I have been discussing www.prisonbreakfic.net with elizabethb in a friends-locked post on her LJ. I've let her know that I'll be putting a post here, letting people know what she's told me, because so many people who have a vested interest in the future of that site can't participate in the conversation we've been having. Given the LJ messages I've gotten, a lot of people are in the dark as much as I was about what was going on with the site.
I welcome your input of all shapes and sizes, but please be polite and try to be as constructive as possible. I have invited elizabethb to come here and read everyone's posts. Having said that, please don't feel as though you can't be open and honest about the subject. :)
Basically, the site was taken down due to lack of funds - not sure when, but it was before the end of March. elizabethb put a note on the site itself before she took it down, telling authors that if they wanted back-up copies of their stories, she would send them to them. I missed that note, and I suspect a whole lot of other people did too.
In the interests of full disclosure, I will tell you all that I was angry when I discovered all this, and not just because I have over 150 stories on that site. I was angry because that site is basically the written history of the Prison Break fandom and to find out that it was just GONE, well, I admit that I was quite open about my feelings when I approached Elizabeth. I said my piece, then asked if the site and the stories are gone forever.
She said no, it's closed down but not forever, and that she has been trying to find a free hosting space for it. RL (and health issues) has been keeping her busy so it would be a few weeks before she could organise anything.
I pointed out that several people in the fandom had contributed (some of them very generously) via Paypal to the cause of keeping the site open, and they deserved to know what was going on. I also suggested that if keeping the site running was a continued financial stressor, Elizabeth should consider passing ownership of the site over to someone else, and that there would be no shortage of people willing to help her out with that.
So, there is it. I know that many of you have been feeling frustrated by the site's constant disappearances, especially this last one, so now is time to make your feelings heard. Tell me your thoughts? Suggestions?
Since Prison Break ended (I *still* haven't watched all of the Final Break), I haven't found anything else that makes go quite the same level of fangirl crazy. I haven't been actively looking, to be fair, but I fell into PB accidentally when my husband decided to watch it, so accidentally is how most of these things happen, right?
Anyway, although there's nothing that is making me want to write fic or buy multiple posters, there are a few shows that I just love. And here they are.
I'm not even checking the date of my last LJ post, because that would be too depressing. Because then I might think that it's been far too long and I'm so far out of the LJ loop that there's no coming back, and that would make me sad. So, ignoring the date of my last LJ post, I really just want to say hi, hello, hey to my LJ friends.
I haven't forgotten about you. Any of you. I just haven't been in the right headspace for a long time. RL has thrown many a curve ball over the last two years and my ability to chat and write and basically interact with people in a fandom space went flying out the window, much to my disappointment. Many's the time I've sat here at my computer, mouse hovering over 'post new entry', only to realise that I really didn't have anything to say. Besides the fact that I had nothing to say, of course. LOL.
This isn't going to be a long post. Baby steps, you see, but when it comes down to it, I really don't want the LJ part of my life to vanish. I know that tumblr has taken over so much of the fannish audience, but LJ is still so very special to me.
I have been feeling especially nostalgic this week. I spent a few hours uploading my Prison Break stories to "An Archive of Our Own" from LJ (as pbfic.com is still kaput) and reading through my PB posts on LJ was quite the journey into the past of a very passionate fangirl. Despite how it all ended and how the real canon still makes me RAGE, I miss that passion a lot.
And I miss of all you, too. I miss how abuzz with glee and despair and gossip and squee LJ used to be. I don't think I will ever get that back, but I can definitely kickstart things by coming out of self-imposed exile, that's for sure.
Seven years ago, on August 29th, the very first episode of Prison Break aired on TV. Now, we have a quiet - a very, very quiet - fandom, but isn't a birthday the best time to celebrate? (That question is rhetorical; the answer is yes *g*)
In order to do so, you're cordially invited to post in uncuffmybrother anything Prison Break-ish, let's say for seven days between August 29th and September 4th. Anything. It can be a fic or a drabble, a rec, a prompt, a pic, a picspam, a rant, fond memories, a 'top' of anything from favorite characters to favorite episodes to favorite snarky Kellerman's quotes. Anything Prison Break-ish is fair game.
Prison Break is seven year-old: if you manage to include in your contribution the number seven, you'll get a virtual origami crane. Seven favorite scenes, seven favorite fics, seven favorite minor characters, seven ways for Michael to visit the infirmary, seven places our heroes visited after the end of the show (non-epilogue compliant FTW!!), seven times Michael tried to tell something to Lincoln, the seventh birthday of Michael Jr., the seventh anniversary of Michael and Sara's wedding, seven times Sucre called Michael Papi...
Post your contribution directly in the comm or link to a post in your personal journal. (If you link to an entry in your personal LJ, please do not friend-lock it ;))
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clair_de_lune has always been a bit of a fandom hero as far as I'm concerned, and this month is no exception. 
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