Well... I'm jealous of those of you who get to attend the NYCC because it's supposed to be just bursting with Green Lantern goodness this year. I'm a con-sketch junkie, and I want a Pat Gleason Guy Gardner and an Ivan Reis Sinestro so bad that I can taste them. (If anyone's wondering, they taste like paper, ink, and my disappointed tears.) I'm hoping I'll get to hit up another con with both of them attending later in the year. If there's any sweet, free GL convention swag to be had up there, someone hook me up?
Obviously my muses have been fairly dead for the past month. I'm less than ten prompts from finishing my Guy Gardner claim, but Guy apparently isn't speaking to me right now. I have a lot of half-formed ideas for Guy, Hal/Kyle, and Booster, as well as some more dystopian Elseworld, Cootieverse, and Justice Kitties stuff, but nothing's quite coming together. And yes, more Sinestro, but I'm trying to go easy on that lest I drive my entire readership away, or blind them completely.
So until my muses allow me to write again, have a meme blatantly stolen from
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poisonivory: comment with one of my fics (all conveniently found on this very blog) and I'll attempt a movie-style commentary. Or alternatively, because I know a lot of my fics are really long, you could just ask me something specific about them that you've always wanted to know. Hows, whys, "WTF were you thinking", that sort of thing. Hell, ask me anything you want. I think there's another meme floating around about things/parts of fics that never quite made it into the final product? That's fair game, too. Sure, why not.
I'm hoping revisiting some old stuff will get my juices flowing for new stuff.
Title: Prophecies
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Abin Sur/Sinestro
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 493
Summary: What Abin Sur says: "War! Destruction! Doom!" What Sinestro hears: "Blah, blah, blah."
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: When Abin heard the prophecy about the final fate of the Corps, I find it hard to believe that Sinestro's evil role as the greatest traitor of all time wasn't mentioned. So why was it Sinestro he warned, and Sinestro's name on his lips as he died? Well, I'm sure there are plenty of reasons, but this is fanfic, and in fanfic, the answer is always "Because of the gay." Duh. :)
- Music:"I'm No Angel" - Greg Allman
Title: Pyrrhic Victory
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Iolande/Soranik, Kyle/Soranik
Rating: G
Word Count: 396
Summary: Iolande wanted Kyle out of Soranik's life. She got her wish.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Spoilers for Green Lantern Corps #32.
Title: Meticulous
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Hal/Sinestro, implied Abin Sur/Sinestro
Rating: R
Word Count: 1699
Summary: Sinestro pays attention to Every. Little. Detail.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Warning you now for: completely made-up facts about Korugarian physiology (come on, it's not like Geoff Johns is going to tell me this stuff!), weird implications about Sinestro's sexual habits, and, well... naked Sinestro. Even so, it's not intended to be porn so much as a Sinestro character study. In my mind, he's OCPD, among other things. Luckily this is not nearly as non-con as it initially appears. (And I had to seriously fight the urge to have Kyle walk in on this just for the lolz.)
Dear Person Who Outbid Me Within Five Seconds of the Auction Ending on the Custom Heroclix Crucified Sinestro:
My rage for you burns like the heat of a thousand bloody suns. It was Sinestro. On the Red Lantern Symbol Cross. Crucified. It was beautiful. And you took it away from me. At the very last second.
Atrocitus is a fool, soon to be deposed. When I take over, my Red Lantern Corps will hunt you down, and my rage will burn you from the inside out. And then, perhaps, I will allow the Hate-Wieners to feast on your remains and digest you -- while you still live.
Sincerely,
Red Lantern Duskdog (I used to be a Blue Lantern, you know. You converted me. Thanks. Thanks a lot.)
Whew. Okay, I feel better now. Sometimes a little rant is all it takes, isn't it? Seriously, I hope the person who won this is a really big fan, because I am kind of crushing on really appreciating Sinestro right now. The customizer has some other really nice figures up, and I really hope he/she does another one like this one. I'd pay... lots. On the bright side, I won a Blue Lantern!
- Location:Ysmault, Planet of Hate
- Mood:
enraged - Music:HATEY MUSIC
Title: Like Home
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Eddie, Jaime
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,381
Summary: Red Devil sleeps over at Blue Beetle's house.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Time for me to speak sacrilege: I... like the current Titans better than the old Titans and Young Justice. I love Jaime. I love Eddie. I love M'gann. I love Rose as Ravager. I even like Amy and hope she sticks around. I didn't like Cassie through YJ and her earlier Titans appearances, and I wanted to punch her in her stupid whiny face after Kon's death, but she's finally growing on me now. I'm neutral on Tim (even though I like him better than I like the other Robins, he has seriously grated on my nerves ever since Kon died and unlike Cassie has yet to stop annoying me). I still miss Bart, and I'm sad that Kon never got to finish developing into the stellar character that he was still in the process of growing into, but... well, I'm really enjoying Teen Titans now for the first time in ages. Team Red and Blue is a big part of that. They're turning into the new Blue and Gold! (Seriously, have you read the newest Teen Titans? I'm trying very hard not to take certain comments in that issue as subtext.)
Title: About the Journey
Author: Duskdog
Claim: Guy Gardner
Characters/Pairing: Guy/Kyle
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 979
Prompt: Bite (T13; P01)
Summary: Guy and Kyle's honeymoon involves a lot of fur. And teeth. And claws. What, you expected it to be normal?
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Yeah, I'm still convinced they'd get married. And then stuff like this would happen. The Wacky Adventures of Married Guy and Kyle: A Comic Book for the 21st Century. I'd buy it.
I don't read a lot of Marvel comics anymore now that the Avengers are nothing like they used to be (both the team in general and the characters themselves specifically). I'm been keeping track of Thor, which is quite a nice book with wonderful art. And while I only vaguely kept track of the Secret Invasion thing, I did buy every single issue of Secret Invasion: Inhumans because I happen to have a weird love affair with that wacky royal family of theirs.
But this is not a post about Inhumans. No. This is a post about something far more important, something the Inhumans reminded me of.
( I love your pumpkin hair, Guy. )
Title: Home for Christmas
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Guy/Tora, John, Hal, the Guardians, the Gardnerspawn
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,559
Prompt: Special Prompt #2 -Holiday Miracle
Summary: Guy's kids are ready to celebrate Christmas. Only Guy is stuck two-thousand, five-hundred and seventy-three space sectors away.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em. The Gardnerspawn are mine. (Owning them is like owning ferrets.)
Author's Notes/Warnings: Christmas fluff is good for the soul. For the DCU Free For All Winter Holiday Challenge.
Title: Fly Away
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Bea/Oberon, Scott
Rating: R (Mature themes, but nothing explicit)
Word Count: 2,736
Continuity: Elseworld prequel -- roughly six months before Diamond In the Rough
Summary: Oberon is just a step away from freedom. But it’s the hardest step to take.
Disclaimer: DC owns ‘em.
Author’s Notes/Warnings: Bea/Oberon is probably the least-written canon pairing in the DCU. (In fact, I’ve never seen it. Ever.) I’m actually a little bit sorry that my first attempt at tackling them is in an Elseworld where the relationship is so twisted and violent.
The Rules:
-Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
-If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
-Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
-Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
-If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call. There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
( Clubbin' Baby Toras under the cut )
Title: The Blood of Gods and Kings
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Tora, Bea, Ted, Guy, L-Ron, Queen Olaf (flashback only)
Rating: R
Word Count: 5,473
Continuity: Elseworld. Flashbacks take place sixteen, twelve, eight, and four years ago respectively. The "present-day" sections of the story take place directly after Diamond in the Rough.
Summary: Tora's story. Tora sleeps, Bea makes a deal with Mad Doc Kord, Guy notices… things.
Disclaimer: DC owns ‘em.
Author’s Notes/Warnings: Nothing explicit, but there are definitely some mature themes here (slavery, rape, war, etc.).
Special notes on Norse mythology/Tora's spirituality, because this will come up again: Given the culture she grew up in, it's likely that Tora was named in honor of Thor, Norse god of thunder. He's generally regarded as a loud, brash redhead (hmm...), but he was also viewed as a protector and is a very important god to Tora's people. It's worth noting that when slaves die, they go to Thor's hall, Bilskirnir. Vali, who gets one tiny mention here, is a Norse god of vengeance.
- Music:Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Title: Diamond in the Rough
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Bea, Guy, Tora
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,934
Continuity: Unnamed Elseworlds. Takes place at roughly the same time as Mad Doc Kord.
Summary: Lord Maxwell’s Knights put down a slave rebellion and find something special hidden in the slave yard.
Disclaimer: DC owns ‘em.
Author’s Notes/Warnings: It is possible that Bea is crazier than Mad Doc Kord. Guy, whipped? Possibly. Also, a few of the minor characters mentioned in passing here will show up again eventually and have greater roles to play. I pledge to craft a universe with more Oberon in it. For Great Justice.
Title: Mad Doc Kord
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Ted, Max
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,000 exactly!
Continuity: Unnamed Elseworlds
Summary: Lord Maxwell gets an upgrade.
Disclaimer: DC owns ‘em.
Author’s Notes/Warnings: Background info on this Elseworld coming sometime later today or tomorrow, probably. I have plans.
Title: Snowed In
Author: Duskdog
Claim: Guy Gardner
Characters/Pairing: Bea/Guy, Peggy Louise Gardner
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1390
Prompt: Cabin Fever (T7; P39)
Continuity: After the end of Guy Gardner: Warrior and JLA v.2, but before GL: Rebirth.
Summary: It's like a plot for a horror movie: Guy and Bea are snowed in at Warriors... with Guy's mom.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Now I desperately want to contrive a reason for Guy and Bea to have a bastard fire-baby.
Title: The Rest of the Way Home
Author: Duskdog
Claim: Guy Gardner
Characters/Pairing: Guy/Kyle
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1791
Prompt: Exhaustion (T7; P28)
Summary: Like feathers in a hurricane: two Green Lanterns caught in a supernova.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For
tazer_alex: angsty Lantern-love. I have no idea where this came from. This is why Guy/Kyle works for me more and more the more I think about it: there would be massive amounts of sappy loving devotion and much shouting and saving each other from doom. Guy would defend Kyle's honor at the big karate tournament. Kyle would draw Guy wearing his ring. Wearing only his ring. And then Celine Dion would sing their theme song. (Also: Now I am in need of a Guy/Kyle icon. You see how this is just a vicious endless cycle?)( He wanted to wear that dumb sweater that Kyle had gotten him for Christmas. )
Title: Mouse
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Bea, Booster, Guy, J'onn, Ted, Tora
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,337
Summary: One mouse is all it takes.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For
madripoor_rose. If you haven't read A Wicker Basket and Pets, this won't make much sense.( When a Justice Kitty loves you, it leaves dead mice in your bed. )
Also! I can't believe that I completely forgot to pimp these! I looked at them a couple of weeks ago, got distracted by dogs, and then completely forgot to share and rave over their awesomeness!
ladytalon1 drew Cootieverse Guy Gardner in all his first-grade glory. Check out the black and white and color versions! That's pretty much exactly like I imagine him in the Cootieverse, little band-aid on his abused little face and all. I love these so much.
Whosoever can produce one or more nice Bea/Tora icons for me gets a drabble of some sort. I need to practice my drabbling skillz anyway.
Whosoever can produce a Bea/Guy/Tora icon wins the internet (and also probably something longer than a drabble).
I can see it in your eyes now. You all think I can't write anything that's less than 700 words, don't you?
...You're probably right. But that just means that my pathetic inability to be concise in my fic is your gain!
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Bea/Tora, Booster, Guy, Ted
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 748
Prompt: Men
Summary: Tora likes her men bad and beefy. Bea notices these things and puts her knowledge to use.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For the Cold Snap: Winter '08 Porn Battle on
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femslash_today(and also posted in the comments to that post). Also, this is one of two Bea/Tora prompts (thank you museofspeed), but there's no limit to how many people can tackle each prompt, so I'm just going to nudge everyone in that direction with a giant Hint Hammer. I'm not the only person who writes Bea/Tora, am I? ( The joys of bisexuality below the cut )
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