A fine meme stolen from shananaginWhen you see this, post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

I actually have a ton of WIPs, mostly because I tend to jot down every great dialogue exchange or idea that I get, but not all of them end up becoming a real WIP or full-fledged fic. I also occasionally will write something that I think sounds wonderful, but it ends up being scrapped in favor of something better or the story changes so that it no longer fits, and I save these little discarded paragraphs, too. So I'm actually not including these random snippets here -- only those things that can actually be considered a work-in-progress with a solid idea behind them (in other words, something that I do intend to finish in some form or fashion at some point).

( In an alternate universe, there was murder (the killing kind) and slash (the gay kind)! )

( Responsible boyfriends provide the condoms! )
( Hal: your ex is on to you. )
( Guy is a good tipper )( Mike and Teddy, sittin' in a tree )( Kyle's passionate man-love for Hal, and also Oompa Loompas )

 

( Skeets: not a doorknob or a metal kazoo )( Guy and Kyle pick out curtains )( Bea/Guy and angry sex )( Joe Gardner is a bad bad man. )

( Breaking up with Ollie )

 There are more than this, but I think I better stop there for now. That's a lot of stuff. If there's anything in particular that really interests you, or if you have any cool ideas for them, please tell me. I really need to start paring down the WIP pile.

Title: Apologies
Author: Duskdog
Characters/Pairing: Booster, Tora, sort-of Ted
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,074
Continuity: During Booster's time with the Conglomerate
Summary: Ted and Booster are sorry, but they're both too stubborn to say so. This is why they're lucky that Tora is around.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Ted is devious, isn't he?

 

( Booster looked at the phone, wondering for the fiftieth time if he should break down and call Ted. )

Title: Wemonade, Pees
Author:   duskdog717
Characters/Pairing: Booster/Ted, Kyle, Connor, Guy/Tora, Bea, Bruce, Dick, Ollie, Hal, Barry, Wally, Roy. Others mentioned in passing.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 7,041
Continuity: Let's call it the Cootieverse. Still an AU of adorable proportions. It can stand alone, but it's better if you read Cooties, first.
Summary: When Bruce Wayne gets a Power Wheels for his birthday, every kid in the neighborhood has but one ambition: to get a Brucemobile of their very own! But Mike and Teddy's lemonade stand idea isn't netting them the cash that they were hoping for.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em. Power Wheels belong to Fisher-Price, I believe, but these are little kids and keep in mind that when they say "Power Wheels" they're talking about any little-kid battery-powered car without regard to the actual brand.
Author's Notes/Warnings: I hadn't intended on writing anything else in the same vein as Cooties, but this happened. Somehow. Mike and Teddy demand to be written. Obviously, some family relationships are altered/odd so that they make more sense in a universe where everyone is a little kid. Roy and Connor are now Ollie's little brothers (apparently with different daddies -- Ollie's mom is kind of a slut I guess), and Dick, Jason, and Tim are Bruce's cousins who live with him. Wally and Bart are Barry's little brothers.

 

( The news spread through the school like wildfire, and jealousy blossomed in dozens of innocent little hearts almost overnight: Bruce Wayne had gotten a Power Wheels car for his birthday. )

 Title: Holding Hands
Author: Duskdog
Claim: Guy Gardner
Characters/Pairing: Guy/Mary Marvel, Ralph, Sue, Max, L-Ron, Bea, unrequited Booster/Ted
Rating: R
Word Count: 2,919
Prompt: Defy Authority (T12; P08)
Continuity: I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League!
Summary: Now that Guy and Mary's secret is out, it's time for Guy to face his feelings and lay it all on the table. That is, if the Superbuddies don't kill him, first.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Sixth in a (my God, still unnamed?!) series, after A Bad Desire, A Position of Trust, One Red Rose, One Last Lie, and Alone in the Dark. There's a lot of moral ambiguity here, and the goal was for the Superbuddies' individual reactions to reflect that. I don't think this is a relationship that can be viewed completely in black and white, and I don't think that the questions raised here really have any truly right answers. For those of you keeping track, I think there's going to be one more story in this series, because Bea still needs to be dealt with. There will also be a Boostle side-story, for reasons you'll pick up in this one (one thing that never set well with me about the Superbuddies was that Ted and Booster were at odds, and those issues remained unresolved at the end of I Can't Believe). After that, I may do a second series from Mary's point of view, because she still has a lot of loose ends to deal with, and because I've become more and more interested in what must be going through the head of a girl who's convinced that she's in love with a man like Guy, who has to be more than twice her age at this point.

Still taking suggestions for a series name. I've gotten some good ones so far; I just can't decide, but it's painfully obvious that I need one.

 

( None of them have the power to make Mary leave his side at the hospital, so they stop trying before the whole thing turns into a circus. )

 Title: A Possible Future of the Justice League That Only You (Maxwell Lord) Can Prevent!
Characters/Pairing: Boostle, Max, general JLI
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,069
Continuity: JLI
Summary: Max Lord regrets letting Ted and Booster have action figures.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: doctorvrequested Boostle, prompt "It seemed like a good idea at the time", with optional exasperated J'onn. I had intended on doing something slashier (with optional J'onn), but this happened instead. I'll come up with a better one for you laters, I promise.

 

( The only thing that Max Lord regretted about setting up the Justice League International action figure deal was that said Justice League got a free case of the toys from the first production run. )

 Title: Cooties
Author: Duskdog
Claim: Guy Gardner
Characters/Pairing: Using the word "pairings" very, very loosely here: Guy/Tora, Booster/Beetle, Ralph/Sue, Hal/Carol, Ollie/Dinah, Barry/Iris, Scott/Barda, Bea, Wally, Bruce
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,832
Prompt: Sick (T09; P35)
Continuity: An AU of adorable proportions.
Summary: First-grader Guy Gardner is facing the biggest crisis of his whole life: a girl likes him and probably wants to give him cooties.
Disclaimer: DC owns 'em.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Partially inspired by the astronomical cute factor of Jeff Smith's Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil, even though there's not actually any Marvels to be found in this one. Also, Brucie Wayne says: First-graders are a cowardly and superstitious lot.

 

( It started, as many of the biggest first grader problems do, with a single whisper being passed down the lunch line. )

 Title: Red, Pink, Blue, and Gold
Characters/Pairing: Booster/Beetle, Guy/Tora, Bea
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,321
Continuity: JLI
Summary: Booster's latest marketing scheme: kids' valentines!
Disclaimer: DC owns these guys. May they all be allowed to remain not-dead forever.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For labuenaventura, part of a fic/art trade in which she drew me this beautiful Guy/Mary. I actually had two ideas for her, one serious and one silly -- this is the sillier of the two, with the serious one forthcoming. Also: I would buy these.

 

( If there were two things Booster loved, it was making money, and seeing really good pictures of himself plastered all over the place. )