FIC: "The Werewolf Wears Louboutin." Once Upon a Time. Emma/Ruby. PG-13.

Title: "The Werewolf Wears Louboutin"
Pairing: Emma/Ruby
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Author: Barbara savageseraph
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don’t pretend to own the characters or the world. I just amuse themselves with them for fun, not profit.
Summary: Emma wet her lips, let her gaze move over Ruby one more time. Just to be sure she had a good handle on the situation of course.

( The Werewolf Wears Louboutin )

FIC: "Payment and Penance." Once Upon a Time. Gold/August. NC-17.

Title: "Payment and Penance"
Pairing: Gold/August
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Author: Barbara savageseraph
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I don’t pretend to own the characters or the world. I just amuse themselves with them for fun, not profit.
Summary: Mr. Gold’s assistance always comes with a price.

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Fics and Storms and Rants, Oh My...

Phew. I finished my last two fics for the onceuponaland Prompted Bang and posted links to them to the comm. In a fit of fannish ambition, I also uploaded them to the AO3, finished an icon challenge, and finished a puzzle challenge. I guess the fact that the fics turned out to be 400+ words each when they only had to be 200 words was ambitious too.

The crackfic really hurt my brain to make. I'm not sure that it's legitimately crackfic, but it's humorous and a bit absurd, so I guess it will do. In penance for my fic sins, I wrote something decidedly darker for my last prompt.

Yet again, we had thunderstorms. They aren't the day-long kind, just waves of weather passing through on their way to somewhere else.

I also read more of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Diana and Matthew went BACK to yoga class. She made him dinner, and despite being a vampire, dinner was not serving herself up on a silver platter. She had a quarrel with her busybody aunt witches about getting caught up with a vampire and having to rely on him instead of her own powers for protection. Diana strongly objected the aunties' characterization, even though it's totally true and she seems to need a vampire escort to keep other supernaturals from talking to her in a public place. Also, when Matthew warns her that vampires and possessive and protective, she admits to wanting protection.

I'm sort of starting to hate her.

I'm also developing the sneaking realization that this is TWILIGHT for adults starring a marginally more-grown-up-than-Bella Mary Sue. Diana is beautiful (according to Matthew) with arresting and unusual features, yet she seems unaware of her good looks. She's athletically fit, running and rowing all the time to work off an excess of adrenaline, but she never does anything physically taxing. She's a brilliant academic whose work took her discipline by storm, but whenever we see her try to work, she fumbles about.

And what about Matthew? Well, he is about to walk about in daylight, and while he doesn't sparkle, he seems to almost glow from the inside. He can eat real food (with some limitations), doesn't have to survive on human blood, and is mainstreamed into his academic community. Like "Dianella," Matthedward" is strikingly handsome, physically amped up, and a brilliant scientist.

Why am I still reading this book? My curiosity about Ashmole 872 is being eroded by the plot, and I keep finding myself thinking, "For the love of god, just call the book back out of the stacks and read it properly this time! Why are you running around angsting about it? Do something!"

/rantypants

So... How was everyone else's Saturday?

Fan Art and Tragedy...

Fans make things, and in the wake of the Colorado shootings, some have already posted art. Links to the full slide show here. A few images below.