the deep moans round with many voices

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Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fiction
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FANFICTION:

General Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by other people and corporations. I make no money from this borrowing of intellectual property, and intend no copyright or trademark infringement.

Organization: This list is organized primarily by fandom; within each fandom, it's arranged first by associated story cycles and then by writing date. Word counts and writing dates are approximations.

Content/Warning Policy: 1) I am not consistent about warnings! I use them when I remember, for a few relatively broad categories of potentially problematic content, but if something is off-page, non-explicit, or generally backgrounded, I probably won't think to note it in the metadata. Read at your own risk! 2) The things I try to warn for are explicit sex, rape, murder, torture, cannibalism, incest, depression/suicide, familial dysfunction, and occasionally also societal dysfunction (aka dystopia). Sometimes I just slap a general content warning on all my fic for a given fandom and don't label each individual fic. I also don't generally warn for violence, unless the violence in a fic is dramatically out-of-step with the violence in its source canon. 3) I don't use any content rating system unless I'm posting to a site or community that requires or encourages ratings, because I find movie-style ratings counter-intuitive when applied to written fiction, and not particularly useful for anything other than denoting the presence of explicit sex, which I already note in the metadata.

Quality Rating System: I've marked my favorite stories with asterisks, on a scale of 1 to 4. The more asterisks, the more I like the story. This doesn't necessarily mean that stories without asterisks are bad, just that I don't like them as much. Also, I am not claiming to be an arbiter of taste; you may love stories I dislike, and vice versa. I am just providing a heads-up about the ones that I think are best written and/or most interesting.

Where To Read: What I post on my journal tends to be the equivalent of a beta draft. If I have cross-posted a story literally anywhere else (except Tumblr; fic content there is just a mirror of fic content here), read the version that isn't on my journal. Versions on AO3 are definitive. If there is no AO3 version, read the ff.net version. If there is no ff.net version, read the FictionAlley version (only applicable for HP fic). Failing that, read the journal version, because that's the only one there is.

Harry Potter Fanfiction

Naruto Fanfiction

Angel Sanctuary Fanfiction

Chronicles of Narnia Fanfiction

Homestuck Fanfiction

MCU fanfic (assorted)

Minor Fandom Fanfiction
(currently includes BtVS/A:tS, The Dark Is Rising, the Darkangel trilogy, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, FF7: Mercverse AU, Inception, and Star Trek: AOS)

Miscellaneous Fanfiction
(Currently includes: American Gods, An Ash-Blonde Witch, Arthurian Mythology, Batman, the Bible, the Black Jewels series, the Bourne trilogy, Charlotte's Web, Code Geass, Death Note, Discworld, Doctor Who, Girl Genius, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Glee, Gormenghast, Hamilton, Hexwood, The Homeward Bounders, Howl's Moving Castle, Labyrinth, Lord of the Rings, Lucifer (comics), Mad Max: Fury Road, Merlin, the Oz books, Ranma 1/2, Rise of the Guardians, Sailor Moon, Saiyuki, Seaward, Shakespeare, Star Wars, Tam Lin (Pamela Dean), Vorkosigan Saga, White Collar, Wolf Hall, X-Men, and Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Crossover Fanfiction
(I do not cross-list crossovers and fusions under their component fandoms; this is the only place to find them. Currently includes: the Anita Blake series, ASoIaF, Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Black Jewels series, BtVS, Cardcaptor Sakura, Chronicles of Narnia, the Darkangel trilogy, The Dark Is Rising, Discworld, Doctor Who, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Ender's Game, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter, Hikaru no Go, Homestuck, Inception, the Indiana Jones movies, Leverage, Lucifer (comics), MCU (various), Merlin, Naruto, the Oz books, Sandman, Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek: AOS, Vorkosigan Saga, Welcome to Night Vale, and a couple other things that only appear in memes rather than actual fic.)

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ORIGINAL FICTION:

These stories are all mine! *grin* I use the same warning policy and quality rating system as for my fanfiction.

All Original Fiction

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My various bingo cards: Cotton Candy Bingo, Round One (blackout!); Cotton Candy Bingo, Round Two (blackout!); Genprompt Bingo, Round 12 (blackout!); Genprompt Bingo, Round 15; Ladies Bingo; Daredevil Bingo; Domestic AU Prompt List

1. I am moderately peeved. See, I was hit by an idea last night and wrote another piece of "An Ounce of Prevention" -- yes, against my better judgment it seems to have become a WIP -- but I can't post it because my latest transfer disk has gone kerflooey.

Electronic media degeneration is such a pain.

Anyway, I am determined that this story, at least, will not have any sort of update schedule. I will write it when I damn well feel like it, and no oftener than that.

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2. I've worked out an amusing way to decide what to write during NaNo. I'm going to buy two 6-sided dice, which lets me roll eleven potential numbers (2-12), and I've assigned ten stories a number, with the final one being 'choice.' Probabilities are weighted so the more important stories are more likely to come up: ie, "Beauty" is 7, because I really need that done by Thanksgiving, whereas "Harvest," an Ekanu story, is 2, because that has no time-pressure at all.

My dad suggested this method, when I told him about my subverted version of NaNo. He's not much use at emotional stuff, but he does have a lot of nifty ideas!

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3. ( I've been rereading Death Note... )

This story is a combination of two things. One is the ever-popular question of how Raito ended up as the sort of person who'd use the Death Note. The other is a character study of his mother, Yagami Sachiko. (Cross-posted here on ff.net, and here on AO3.)

( Hindsight )

I've used 'Raito' instead of 'Light' for two reasons. First, it just sounds better in my head. Second, if I used 'Light,' I think it would be serious overkill on the symbolism. But I could be persuaded to change, especially since 'Light' is the official English transcription of his name. Should I?

My friend Cat once remarked that almost without fail, her favorite character in any story will either die, turn out to be secretly evil, or both. Occasionally she's very lucky and they turn out to be secretly reformed villains instead, but that's about the only break in the pattern.

I can't pick 'em like she can (we don't share precognition over our telepathic link) but I do have a worrying tendency to cheer for the villains and sociopathic types, so long as they're well written. It's like watching fire -- hypnotizing. There's just something about an itelligent, semi-rational person setting out to achieve terrible goals, and making it work, at least up to a point. You ride along with them and release all the impulses you'd never act on in real life.

I also love reading stories in which people have battles of wits, or carry out complicated plans. I'm no good at writing that sort of thing, but I love to read it. (This is not to be confused with mysteries. I like to know what's going on and to watch it unfold. I like watching the clockwork move.)

I think one of the main things I don't like about Harry Potter is that Voldemort is, bluntly, batshit insane and kind of stupid because of it. Oh, it works within JKR's world, but that's not how I like my villains. In Naruto, I find Akatsuki and Kabuto much more interesting than Orochimaru, because Orochimaru is a monomaniac without much subtlety, whereas Kabuto has something ticking away behind his eyes, and Akatsuki is clearly working on a plan at least a decade in preparation. Granted, individually they may be a disappointment, but as a group they have something going for them.

I'm not at all surprised that I am in love with Death Note. Yagami Raito is everything I like reading about -- rational, intelligent, persuasive, gifted at reading and manipulating people, willing to risk it all on slim chances when he has to, composed in a crisis -- and for all that he's a serial killer with a god complex and sociopathic tendencies, he does have reasons for what he does, and on a certain level, it's hard to argue with his logic.

(The fact that Takeshi Obata draws him fairly hot doesn't hurt, either.)

And in L, he has such a wonderful opponent! Those two were made for each other. (Well, of course they were -- they're fictional, and Tsugami Ohba wrote them that way. But still.) As for the new arc, well, ( spoilers )

I am totally not surprised that most fanfic for this series seems to be Raito/L slash. I don't think I could write that -- their minds are too much part of it, and I'm not a schemer on that level -- but oh, when you do it right...!

Actually, I have a sudden urge to write a character study piece for Misa, mostly because I really itch to get my fingers into her mind and explain her the way she isn't really explained in canon. The information is there, but the writer isn't doing anything with it. I want to pull pieces together and try to figure out how she ended up the way she did, and why she's as obsessive as Raito and L. (Actually, all the main characters in this series, with the exception of Yagami Souichiro, are obsessive. I wonder what that says about Tsugami Ohba?)

Hmm. *wanders off, contemplating*