[Fic] Three Sentence Ficathon Fills, part 3 - various fandoms

Here are six more fills from the current Three Sentence Ficathon, aka "My god, it's full of semicolons!" One of them is five sentences, but shush, at least I'm trying. (Two are also strict-form drabbles, because I just like drabbles, okay.)

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12. For jjhunter: Charlotte's Web, Charlotte A. Cavatica, PWC (penmanship to webmanship conversion), written 2/16/15.

( Needs Must )

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13. For samueljames: White Collar, El/Neal/Peter, Neal wants to submit but a previous Dom(me) ignored his safeword so he is understandably nervous, written 2/18/15.

( Twice Shy )

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14. For rthstewart: Narnia/LotR, Galadriel, Jadis, the price of peace, written 2/20/15.

( Negative Example )

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15. For snickfic: BtVS, Faith/Giles, daggers and sheaths, written 2/21/15.

( Missed Connections )

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16. For alexseanchai: Sailor Moon Classic, Chibiusa, crown, written 2/21/15.

( Rosebuds While Ye May )

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17. For isabelquinn: Narnia, any, Bism, written 2/21/15.

( Further Down and Further In )

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I have one more (much longer) fill that I'm going to post separately because of Reasons. Technically it should be #15, but I'm calling it #18 to keep this post's numbering internally consistent.

[Fic] "Following the Girl" -- Guardians of the Galaxy/Star Trek: AOS

Summary: "Let me make sure I've got this straight: your universe-jumping doohickey just happened to activate at the same moment Gamora caught the Tesseract, and that means she got zapped to wherever your lost crewmember is, and you wound up here instead?"

The leader of the teleporting trio -- blond, younger than Peter, suspiciously human looking for someone with that kind of technology -- glanced around at the rest of the Guardians, shrugged, and shoved his own mini-blaster back into its holster. "Yeah, pretty much."

Note: This ficlet was written on 2/21/15 for samparker, in response to the Three Sentence Ficathon prompt: Guardians Of The Galaxy/Star Trek: AOS, Peter/Jim, sarcastic boys with a soft side. It ended up as a companion piece to Rattle the Cage, a ficlet wherein Natasha Romanova discovers Gaila imprisoned in a HYDRA lab. I went this route because it let me set up a scenario for filling samparker's Gamora/Gaila prompt, and I am a semi-compulsive organizer of fictional worlds.

[ETA: The slightly revised final version is now up on AO3!]

( Following the Girl )

And now, onward to Gaila and Gamora! *writes busily*

[Rec] other people's fills for my prompts

I feel I should draw attention to the wonderful fills that have been written for my prompts, over at the Three Sentence Ficathon. So!

Homestuck, Terezi, unusual dragon hoards, filled by yabumi

Narnia, any, Mirror Universe, filled by a lovely anon

any, any, "It seemed like a good idea at the time.", filled three times, OMG
---filled for the Darkangel Trilogy, by minutia_r
---filled for Chronicles of Narnia, by a lovely anon
---filled for Star Wars, by syrena_of_the_lake

A little dialogue-only continuation to my own MCU fill (Come In, She Said), by transposable_element

Naruto, Haruno Sakura, all medicines are poisons, filled by a lovely anon

Harry Potter, Ginny/Harry/Ron/Hermione, sedoretu, filled by angenoir

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I made three other prompts that are as yet unfilled. If you have any interest in Homestuck or The Dark Is Rising, why not consider writing a little something for one of them?

Homestuck, PM, delivering mail to Felt Mansion

The Dark Is Rising, Jane Drew, the Lost Land

The Dark Is Rising, Bran/Jane/Will, king, queen, and wizard

3 things: gendered deodorant; church fire alarms; and brownies

Random post is random!

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1. Today is my second day of using men's antiperspirant/deodorant instead of women's stuff. I mean, when you can get a stick/tube that contains half again as much product for only two thirds of the price, why NOT switch to dude-branded stuff? Plus it's easier to avoid those annoying ~spring/powder/fresh~ scents that have infested women's deodorants to the point where I can't find unscented lady-branded products anymore.

(I already get enough residual scent from my shampoo and conditioner. I do not need more scents that will almost certainly clash with them.)

This was a natural second step since I'd already switched to dude-branded razors, as of not quite a year ago. The price differential there is even more ridiculous, and you can still get them with aloe or Vitamin E goop if you want. The only appreciable difference is that dude-branded razors are forest green instead of pink/gold/aqua, and the handle shape is strictly functional instead of ~attractively curved~ or whatever. I think the marketing gimmick is that the fancy handles "fit better into a woman's hand" or something, which is bullshit if you ask me.

Anyway, the dude-branded deodorant is working just fine -- in fact, it's working better than women's Secret and Dove brand deodorants have ever worked for me -- so any marketing hooey about "pH balanced for a woman" and related nonsense can bite my ass.

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2. Today I had a small adventure at church! One of the RE workshops this month is candlemaking, and the beeswax melted faster than the DRE expected, thereby setting off the fire alarms when it started to scorch and smoke in the pot. So Joan and I evacuated the kids in the library and huddled in the neighboring building's parking lot for a while, until the owner of the William Henry Miller Inn (a bed and breakfast across the street from my church) offered to let us sit in her parlor while the fire department verified that the church was safe.

There was a lingering smell of burnt wax all through the RE classrooms once we were allowed back into the church -- a bit like honey, a bit like roasted marshmallows, and a bit like a campfire -- but we were able to safely return to the library. The service itself got moved from the sanctuary to the second floor of the annex, and understandably ran over its scheduled end time.

So that was my morning. :-)

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3. Note to self: when a brownie mix says it should be baked in an 8 x 8 pan -- or a 9 x 9 pan at the outside -- do not bake the brownies in a 9 x 13 pan. They will come out very flat and weird, even if you cut the baking time by twenty minutes.

I have a second box of this particular mix. I think I will try cooking it in my big glass 8 x 7 baking dish. That may produce equally weird results, but at least they'll be weird in a new and exciting direction! *wry*